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fTHE <PUL<PIT. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY ' ~ bfw IIR NFHFMIAH BOYNTON. Subject: The Meaning of Christian Service Brooklyn, N. Y ? A large audience greeted the Rev. Dr. Nebemiah Boynton, the pastor-elect of the Clinton Avenue Congregationnlist Church. Sunday morning, to hear his first sermon in i his new pulpit. The subject of the sermon was: "Christian Service." The test was from Mark x:43-44: "Whosoever would become great among you. shall be your minister; and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all." Dr. Boynton said: ; Jesus never questioned the proposi'' tion that it was a fine thing to be great. He had no small jealousies fo / nurse. But He continually emphasized the declaration that it was a finer thing to be first, and, to His thinking, greatness and primacy were not synonymous terms. *'* - r if i* i C TA+ 0.15T IXLi UllI I'llillJS.t liiijjiiou il jo ws. vMv,rf to indicate the distinction in the text between the "minister," who aspires to be great, and the "servant of all," who becomes frst: it is the difference between the mere waiter, who serves with one eye 0:1 your need, the other on your tip. and the bodyguard, who has committed himself unreservedly to your interests and who is happy alike in life or death if only, like the Japanese. he can have the honor of serving the Emperor. ' So Christian service is the first thing In the, world; it is greater than the great thing. The outstanding charecteristic of our age has been and is the realization that the universe is one; it is God's worJd, it is Christ's world; that the spirit is one: it is God's spirit, it is Christ's spirit: that the Christian service means nothing less or more than taking Christ's spirit out to Christ's . world and installing it. All that is involved in this mighty conception we do not yet comprehend, for "the new flpp stands as vet. half built against fthe sky," but it is easy enough to see jtbat the struggle of the day in presence of the mighty and impressive [changes which are transforming modern life is to match the growing world and the widening universe, with a genuine. circumferential Christian spirit, putting the noblest Christian science in play "far as the course is found." Beyond this, it is equally evident that the supreme challenge to the church is to accept and to appropriate, faithfully and fearlessly, all revelations and revisions, which the many sided truth of the unity of God's universe illumines and installs, for the church will have lost her mission and'her influence when she is content to be a camp follower trailing along in the rear of the advancing legions of the Lord of Hosts. The peril of small conceptions of the ^superiority of Christian service is many times most imminent where His presence is le/ist suspected. A brave and aspiring spirit will pray most earnestly for deliverance from this pestilence that walketh in darkness and destruction that wasteth at noonday. One's spiritual ability is bounded by his horizon and his service is intimately related to his sight. The soul ,which has settled into the comfortable conceit that the faith has once for all been delivered to the saints, that spiritual ministry for to-day is but a reproduction of the type and method of yesterday, may indeed be contented /with its conclusion, but its ability to minister effectively to the present day kingdom of God is shorn of adequacy. Little conceptions make little Christians; large conceptions make large Christians. Dr. Peabody is voicing a ringing truth when he declares that a H + hnrncr nf mnflorn f^hriQtonilnm 6'V?> is in residence in the belief that life is a ship composed of watertight compartments, in one of which we work, in another study, in another fjlay and in another worship. The great inclusion of life, the permeating power of the divine spirit, the wideness of God's mercy, the depth of His love, the breadth of His interest, the inevitableness of His will, the absoluteness of His law, these furnish a perspective for an attentive spirit, in the vision of which the meager and petty are "fcverlooked and the promised "wondrous things of Thy law" gleam and glisten like the flash of the harbor light against the blackness of the ni?ht! Christian service needs the snap and stimulus of the great idea of the unity of God's world to get it in possession of its comprehensive chance, so that while we feel a kindling sympathy with the wide visicned martyr, praying as the flames licked bis feet, "Lord, open Thou the King of England's I eyes," it is in order for us to pray ror ourselves the heroic petition, "Consider and hear me. O Lord, my God; lighten mine eyes." If, however, the time of Christian service is related to small conceptions, the prerogative of Christian service Is certainly to introduce the same to great and masterful ones, and to teach it to find its choicer fellowship as it dow-its mightier inspirations here. ^Pilate's question. "What is truth?" is pertinent to-day. Is it a mere cunning assembling and formulation of facts? There it is a cold, inert, useless thing. Is it a glowing faith, a vital, personal, absolute experience? There it is warm rith a divine fire and instinct with a glowing anticipation. .Henry Drummond marked that day ^itb a red letter when he ceased to Ignore truth as mere prepositional wisiom and began to realize it as per I^eptive wisdom. He declares tiiat ne sad almost finished his college course >efore he had any other conception of Christ than that He was a theological onscience in the interests of the Trinty. But the day came when the eyes >f his understanding were opened, and le came to know Christ. Isot as abitract but as concrete truth. Not as elated to life philosophically by a ;eries of dreary propositions, but as mplanted in his o',vn life vitality by a lersonal friendship, which deepened vitb every trial, widened with every xperience and heightened with every Itspiration. men ue was recognizing ruth as a spirit that Drummond began hose tireless, fearless, splendid serrices which made more than one dis riminating observer declare him the owering and outstanding Christian of lis generation. Nor will the Christian service which ncarnates the truth be long beyond the luickenlng influences of sympathy. No nan liveth unto himself and when the can tries to he always makes a sorry ob of his life. "I want to have somehing to do with the material world." xclaimed Hawthorne, when by the ang and brilliant cultivation of his imlin horrnn ir\ t'nol hie lGftln firm "V. V" S^Broii) humanity. "There is nothing so ffiBorrible," he wrote to Longfellow, "in laBhis world as to have no share in its B^fcys and sorrows." The reason why ft^Hhe fingers of much that is called Chrisrjp^Han service are all thumbs is because BS^while much is given, little is shared! Sg^Bympatby always has something to dipnHide. not merely something to do. ^Hjhe boy Ficbte had a strucele in conscience between his school books and his fairy stories. It was a great day for him! Any boy's first struggle is! But the man in tbe boy won the fight and in order to establish himself bevond tbe possibility of a lapse, he threw his book of fairy stories into the brook. His father, a precise, unimaginative, dutiful soul, saw the beautiful book floating away and proceeded to thrash his conquering boy for his wanton destruction. That is about all many fathers appear to know bow to do effectively! What a wonder he did not spoil his boy! What a boon a bit of appreciation, of sympathy would have been to the suffering but victorious lad. He needed bread and his obtuse father gave him a stone! The father could do what he thought was his duty, but he had nothing to share with his boy. He was a monumental parental failure! Large Christian service is always in quest of the joint of sympathy: it makes its alliance with what is, helping it to what it ought to be, and avoids the folly of inverting the divine order! This type of helpfulness may be meager in its ability to do, but is forever finding to its unspeakable joy that it has a boundless store to divide! Sharing sympathy is an infinitely more royal privilege than donating cast off clothing, or stale food, for "if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, but hath not love it-profiteth me nothing!" Sympathy as an elective of Christian service forever pushes a soul on toward democracy. Surely one may confess with Lowell that while bis tastes are with the aristocrats, his convictions are with the people and yet, like Low" * ^ r.A ell. Be iorever more auu xuuie pusucu into the very heart of humanity and glory in the push, tooT The preacher who confessed to a friend that he loved to preach and who was met by the stinging, searching question, "Do you love the men to whom you preach as well as you love to preach?" felt the thrust of the sword between the joints of his harness, which sent him to his study to fall upon his knees and passionately pray that he might be delivered from his temptation to love his sermons better than he did souls, preaching better than persons. The appeal of humanity must outstrip that of homiIetic6. Christian service to-day must be immersed in the democratic spirit; its mission is to humanity?humanity as represented by Ellis Island, also by Clinton avenue; by Greater New York, also by the lumber camps of Michigan, Every man is a son of God. Every woman is a daughter of God. Go, find your man, and by the shining truth Id your soul, by the sympathy in youi heart, by the humanity in your outstretched hand, make him believe that you seek not his, but him. This?this alone?is Christian service' Christian service after this fashion becomes at once an interpreter. It makes a Gibraltar out of a disadvantageous position; it transforms an ordinary, commonplace ability into a shining angel of privilege and achievement Everything counts: all things work together. Because the world is one and the kingdom one , nothing is lost, nothing trivial, nothing inconsequential! It makes a man grow tall and strong and confident to really believe the constanl assurance of Christian service, that All men ignored in me This wa6 I worth to God Whose wheel the pitcher shaped. it is to such service, broad, true, sympathetic, humanitarian, Christian, that we commit ourselves to-day; it is in such service tbat we expect to find our privilege and joy, and from such service tbat we hope to demonstrate the reasonableness of our united endeavor. Mute Testimonies. A little daughter of the tenements, whose mother was done at last with the work and worry that had killed her, was left at fourteen years of age with four younger ones to mother and nurse. And, faithful to her trust, she scrubbed and washed and cooked and mended, until the slender shoulders bent and the thin face grew white, and almost before anyone noticed much the little broken life lay waiting for release. "I haven't been able to do anything," she whispered to her favorite girl friend, who lived just around the corner. "I couldn't go to school because of the work, or to Sunday-school because it took all father could spare to keep the others in clothes. When the minister came to see me, he said I'd soon see Jesus, but I'm afraid I haven't done anything good, and 1 don't know anything to say to Him." "And you needn't try to say anything." said the other, "not a single word," kissing the pitiful little face. "When you see Him look at you, you just show Him your hands." Just na We Are. We have read of an artist who saw in the streets of Rome a beggar so utterly abject and forlorn that he hired nirttnra o c? a UIJLU LU OIL J.V1 UiO uw u beggar. The next day lie came to him, quite transformed. He had hired the clothes of a companion, in which tc have his portrait taken. The artist did not recognize him; and on learning that he was the beggar he had hired, he said: "No! I hired a beggar, and him just as he was, or not at all." Christ, for a different reason, founded on tbe very constitution of our nature, wants us just as we are, without any effort at self-transformation, that the new creation may be "to the praise ot the glory of His grace."' Good Habits Early Acquired. Does it pay to teach children habits of devotion? Let this extract from a private letter, written by a young fel low who is doing brilliant post-grad uate work in one of our universities hearten the parents who may be dis couraged or doubtful concerning th( expediency of such training. Hf writes: "I think what a dear, gooc mother you are every night when ] go to bed, and I've not forgotten the old custom of praying for you Whether it is psychological or other wise, it is pretty well implanted in me by heredity and custom, and I guess it is a mighty good thing it is!" "Day Unto Day L'ttereth Speech." Upon some quiet evening, as the curtain of night falls silently around us, we mark the stars becoming visible in increasing numbers until the sky is gemmed with points of light. And as the wondrous thought comes to us thai these points of light are worlds, many of tbem larger than the earth on whicL we live, an awe steals over us?an awe, but not a dread. No! for as we look on the fresh evidence of God's majesty in creation, words, familiar words, rise to our lips: "The heavens declare the glory of God. and the tlrmaruent snoweth His handiwork."?Rev. F. W. Newman. iXlie Sabbath ??fienlial. At a service held by the departmenl of religion at the World's Fair on a Sunday in September a Chicago Jewisfc rabbi made this statement: "The Sab bath is, and has been, the working man's salvation. We may differ on the manner of its observance, but its essential importance and its Divine mission in the universal scheme of things cannot be ignored." New York City. ? Late spring and j early summer always bring a demand for pretty dresses suited to commencement day, and here is one that is charming in the extreme, yet quite simple. In the illustration it is shown with the half low neck and elbow sleeves that are so pretty and so fashionable, but it can be made high and with long sleeves if preferred. It would be effective made Jrom albatross, voile or any similar material, oo iiiiicfro+o/j ie nf -whifp orcraiidie UUl, a O iUUO V* M ?.VUf v. .. ... with bandings and frills of embroidery, while other similar materials also can be utilized. The dress is an exceptionally graceful one, and is adapted to general wear as well as to the special occasions mentioned. The waist is full below the shallow yoke, while the bertha, supported by the puffed sleeves, gives breadth to the figure. The skirt is made in three pieces, the front gore, with circular side and back portions that are shirred at tbeir upper edges. I A Late Design i I For a girl of twelve years of age will be required six yards twenty-seven, I Ave and a half yards thirty-two or four yards forty-four inches "wide, with ten i yards or emDroiaery ana eieven yurus 1 of insertion to trim as illustrated. _____ For the Young Folks. Pretty blouse waists, simply made, [ are among the latest models for the school girls, many of them made of I plain ^material, worn with plaid skirts, , or vie? versa. Straps on the shoulder seams give a pretty effect. Russian | dresses are still holding their own in ' popularity, being suited to many fabrics, and especially wash materials. The long-waisted effect given by the , belt being pushed down and held in i place by straps is very desirable. Many combinations are seen. ! Renovated Gowns, Shirred bands of taffeta, velvet or ' eofin rihhnn nnil hrnirl nf fill kinds nre ; extremely popular, niul, thanks to their kindly aid, it is possible to renovate a > last year's gown. If tJbe skirt be nar. row, then the seams toward the front can be opened, panels of velvet, silk or J of another material with lines of braid 1 may be inserted, and the required width may thus be obtained quite easily. Although the newest models of skirts are much fuller around the nips, there are two or three exceedingly i attractive designs with comparatively i little fulness, the latter being given by i the sweeping flounce. A last year's ; plain skirt may be renovated and made up to date by pleats narrow at the top 1 j and gradually widening out towards ! ibe foot, and with narrow side pleats ' i Between and above the side-pleating . | oands of braiil.?Harper's Eazar. A Siinnle Hi\f. If a bat of more simple character is .equired, two broad couteaux prettily curved are substituted for the ostrich ^ plume. Carlier rather fancies this sort of featber and also what are termed mepbisto plumes?that is to say, a pair of narrow quills sloping out right and left, such as were worn some aeatons back. These she places in front, fixed in the centre of a rosette. Kobe Gowns. Sowns of heavy guipure lace are : handsome and substantial. Many robe ' gowns are to be had, and while quite expensive, are not nearly as costly as J when made at the dressmaker's. A good model had a triple skirt with the ' upper flounce drawn smoothly over the hips. | A Wee Maosrrejror. As quaint and pretty as possible is a j new hat called trie wee iuiu:gi cgui. It's a mere scrap of headgear, of the shape so familiar on the Scotch laddie. This means that it is long, narrow, inclined to be dented lengthwise, and follows the shape of tbe head with a downward droop at tbe back. It is suited for wear with a low coiffure. A Very Effective Tnrbau. Another very effective little turban was in rough gray straw, brilliantly finished, with small disks of bright red straw applied over the entirt surface. The turban was trimmed on one side with a knot of gray velvet, a short curling gray ostrich feather and an aigrette. A Good Model. This is a good model for a linen suit. Developed in blue, pink, chalk white or brown linen, with plain straps, it would be charming to wear with thin, white linen blouses in hot weather. The style is decidedly youthful and should not be attempted-by women with mature figures. The Latest Shirt Waist. , The fashionable shirt waist is made of linen preferably. After that Madras, dimity and lawn. Very few if any colored shirt waists will be worn, unless in wash silk or pongee. The best models are severe, with jileats all the way down, and are not allowed to blouse the least bit. Fancy Shirred Eton. The shirred Eton is one of the beet liked of the season for the fashionable soft materials, and is a'ways graceful and attractive worn by the women to whom it is suited. This one includes the new belt, which is shaped to give the waistcoat effect, and is exceptionally desirable. In the case of the modby May Manton. el the materia? Is pearl gray' cliiffon veiling, with banding that shows bits of Oriental embroidery, the color contrast being a most effective one. It is, however, adapted to almost all seasonable materials, while the possibilities of variation are very nearly numberless. In this instance the belt is of taffeta in the same shade, but it can be of any contrasting material and the trimming any banding applied, either after-the manner suggested or on straight lines as may be liked. The sleeves are the new ones that are full, gathered into puffs and finished wltb becoming cuffs at the wrists. . The Eton is made with fronts dnd back only, shirred at the shoulders and again above the belt, and is arranged over a plain lining and joined to the belt. The sleeves also are held in position by plain linings, to which the sliirrings are attached. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four and three quarter yards twenty-one, three and i three-quarter yards twenty-seven or ' two and a half yards forty:four inche? . I wldo. * I Railroad* and Frocreii, In his testimony before the Senate Committee on Interetate Commerce at Washington on May 4, Professor Hugo R. Meyer, of Chicago University, an ?xpert on railroad management, made :his statement: "Let us look at what might have happened if we 'had heeded the protests )f the farmers of New York and Ohio ind Pennsylvania (in the seventies tvhen grain from the West began pouring to the Atlantic, seaboard) and acted upon the doctrine which the Interstate Commerce Commission has enunciated time and again, that no man may be 3eprived of the advantages accruing to him by virtue of his geographical position. We could not have west of the Mississippi a population of millions of people who are prosperous and a/e ETeat consumers. We never should bave seen the years when we built 10,000 and 12,000 miles of railway, for there would have been no farmers west of the Mississippi River who could have used the land that would have been opened up by the building of those railways. And, if we had not Been the years when we could build 10,000 and 12,000 miles of railway a year, we should not have to-day, easl of the Mississippi, a steel and iron producing centre which is at once thf marvel and the despair of Europe, be> cause we could not have built up a steel and iron industry if there ha<3 been no market for its product. "We could not have in New En# land a great boot and shoe industry ,we could not have in New England s great cotton milling industry; we could not have spread throughout New Yori and Pennsylvania and Ohio mauufac luring industries of the most diversified kinds, because those Industrie* would have no market among the farm ers west of the Mississippi River. "And, while the progress of this country, whiie the development of th< agricultural West of this country, <fic mean the impairment of the agricul tural value east of the Mississipp River that ran up into hundreds ol millions of dollars, it meant, incl dentally, the building up of grt'at man ufacturing industries that added t< the value of this land by thousands ol millions of dollars. And, gentlemen these things were not foreseen in th< seventies. The statesmen and the pub lie men of this country did not se< what part the agricultural develop ment of the West was going to play ii the industrial development of the East And, you may read the decisions ol the Interstate Commerce Commission from the first to the last, and what i! one of the greatest characteristics ol A1 rrViA nAnrJnrifi/1 In UJUtse utruifciuua; jljjc wuwuvu. ? ability to see the question in tbis larg< way. "The Interstate Commerce Commis sion never can see anything more thai that the farm land of some farmei is decreasing in value, or, that 8om< man, who has a flour mill with a pro duetion of fifty barrels a day, is beinf crowded out It never can see thai the destruction or impairment of farn values in this place means the building up of farm values in that place, ant that that suifting of values is a neces sary incident to the industrial and man ufacturing development of this coun try. And, if we shall give to the Inter state Commerce Commission power t< regulate rates, we shall no longer iiav< our rates regulated or the statesman like basis on which they have beer regulated in the past *)y the railwaj men, who really have oeen great states men; who really have teen great build ers of empires; who have had an im aeination that rivals the imaginatior of the greatest poet and of the great est inventor, and who have opera tec with a courage and daring that rivals the courage and daring of the greatest military general. But we shall hav( our rates regulated by a body of civi servants, bureaucrats, whose beset ting sin the world over, is that thej can never grasp a situation in a largt way and with the grasp of the slates man; that they never can see the fad that they are confronted with a ?mali evil; that that evil is relatively small and that it cannot be corrected excepl by the creation of evils and abuse; which are infinitely greater thai, th( one that is to be corrected." Kailroad Charges 6 2-13 Cents a Mile. A complaint has been filed with the Missouri Interstate Commerce Commission by the Railroad Commission ol Arkansas against the St. Louia and North Arkansas Railroad Company, alleging that the company charges unreasonable, excessive and illegal rates for tlie carrying of passengers over it? line, which extends from Seligman, Mo., to Leslie, Ark. The petition alleges that the passenger rate between Seligman, Mo., and Beaver, Ark., a distance of thirteen miles, is eighty cents, or 6 2-13 cents a mile.?New York World. Tbe Ketort Courteous. A Marblebead fisherman reports hearing, while out one day in the bay, this bit of repartee between Thomas Lawson and a young woman, evidently no respecter of persons. As Mr. Lawson, in a naphtha launch, passed the rowboat containing the girl she called out: "Hullo, Tom, how's copper?" Instantly came the retort: "First rate. WOW S urussj-?jdvdiuli uauiu. Tbe locomotives on the new fast expresses between Cologne and Berlin are built after an American pattern. The number of insane in London exceeds 20,000. N.Y.-21. FITS permanently cared. Noflts or nervousaessafter first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great KerveRestorer,i2trlalbottle and treatise free Dr. R. H. Klixe, Ltd.,931 Arch St., Phila., Pa. 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London'* Fires. ? , Some interesting information regarding the causes of London's fires was issued the other day by the officials of the London fire brigade. The cause of 3G7 of the 3G16 fires which occured last year were unknown. Among the reasons for the others were: Lights thrown down, 824: sparks from firegrates. 302; escapes of gas. 148; seek ing for an escape of gas, 33; children playing with fire, 196; lamps upset or exploding, 171; accidents with candles, 218; foul flues, 213. A "Playhonte" Moved Fllty Miles. " One of the longest distances that a house has' been moved is that which occurred recently, when a cottage was moved from Glen Cove to Bayport, a distance of fifty miles. The house was a log cabin and was built as a playhouse a number of years ago for a liti tie girl In Glen Cove, known as Miss i Perkins. The lady after some years married and became a Mrs. Post, and ; had taken up her residence in Bayport. | She wanted the log cabin and engaged [ a housemover to transfer it to her Bayport home, which place it reached with: out any incident of note.?South Side i Signal. In Canned Department. A New York woman tells of an experience which she had recently in one j of the large department stores. She I wrae looking for some house furnish. | Ings, and, walking up to one of the [ j floorwalkers, asked where she conld I j see the candelabra. 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