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Here it was accordingly, and a rich pavilion was put up at one end of the compound, within which the distinguished visitor was installe", and, this done, the Brahraans entered the temple and carue out bearing the wonder-working image of Siva, whic'i was hailed with acclamations while it was being reverently deposited in the pavilion by the side of Brahma. And then, as the gods would necessarily have many things to say to one another, the hangings were drawn, and the priests made a ring round the pavilion, and stood guarding it from vulgar curiosity. At last the gods had had sufficient time to exchange views, and it was time to gratify them with the ministrations of the dancing girls, before the united idols were placed upon the chariot and carried home together in pomp. So the tom-toms were rattled and thumped with fervor, and the torches made the compound light as day. as the dancing girls, in robes of purple and orange and green, edged with glittering silver tissue, prepared to go through their dreamy and deliberate evolutions, accompanied by chants like the cry of the midnight cat. and Ram Chunga gave the signal for the hangings to be drawn back. A universal shriek marked their withdrawal, as the torchlight shed its fierce glare upon the interior. Ram Chnnga grew green, and his teeth chattered, as well they might; even Acharya Chick, as ho gazed from afar, could hardly trust his eyesight. For the sacred idol of Brahma was oroken into a dozen pieces; his arms were planted, witn consiaeraDie taste and fancy, in various corners of the floor; and worse still, the hardly-won idol of Siva was in the same plight, its fragments arranged in a pyramid upon the principal throne, upon the very summit of which squatted, with a bland smile on its smug features, the despised image of Chalanka, the least and lowest of the Jain tirthankars. The haughty Ham Chunga, savagely acccpting his defeat, wrapped his shawl about him and made his way through the shivering dancing girls and awcstruck villagers, out of the precincts of the temple where he had been so signally discomfited. The Jains, realizing that their "ugly duckling" of an idol had proved more than a match for the chief personages of the Hindoo mythology, now ventured boldly forth and carried Clialanka's image with rejoicing into the idol chamber, where they were joined by Acharya Chick. "Henceforth," cried Murli Dass. trumphantly, hcur reverence is due to Chalanka alone; he has delivered us?he has shown himself mighter than the gods of old; mightier than the blessed tirthankars! Tell us, oh, Father, is it not so?" Acharya Chick looked at the idol with an uncontrollable feeling of repulsion. "It is even so," he said. | "and may he prove himself as benevolent as he is mighty." * * * 3 * * * From that hour the fame of Chalanka was established, and spreading further with every day. The other tirthankars were entirely discarded by the JaiDs of the locality, who transferred their entire homage vo the last translated saint. Thus, for some years, shrine and Idol flourished, and the village found spiritual and commercial benefit from the circumstance, until the bad times came when Tippoo Sahib took it into his ill-regulated head to force the Mussulman faith indiscriminately upon all his subjects. Temples of various denominations were wantonly destroyed, and the idols buried by their custodians until brighter days should dawn; and possibly some such fate as this befeil the shrine of Chalanka, for no record of it is to be found later than the fall of Seringapatam and the annexation of Mysore by Great Britain. Scene, London. Time. 19th Century. CHAPTER I. Sol*-Restraint. T love not less though less the show appear, Thai love is merchandized whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish everywhere. There are parts of London which never seem to have been thoroughly assimilated. Any one who is at all familiar with the metropolis will be able to recall at least one neighborhood of this kind. Ill UJ1U Ul tllV qUieit-SL K?'l IIIOM UJlImpeaciiable roads in St. John's Wood there is a little two-storied house, or rather cottage, with an acacia in front, and at the back a long outbuilding whose big north light proclaims its use. It was. in fact, at the time of which I am writing, the studio of a young painter who was already beginning to be known in art circles, ajfci who was at work there on the particular afternoon in early spring with which the narrative opens. llonald Cainpic-m was too fond of somewhat daring experiments to have (Iliite guinea tne connueure ui me i British art patron, and. so far. such praise as had been accorded hini was greatly ia excess of the solid pud- I ding. K<? was not strictly a handsome Juan his face had a Dower AiaW' \l/ vf> UKIaW'v)) M I Al'V/^/'-l'-tKOVi/vVvlAj/^iViOv'/^/J/vtxlAtAl/vlAWi 1 i?? <(/<>.-\?'1> '< <>>?<><(> vt)w\t/?tKUw 1 ,N IDOL 11 /^/vl/\l>\U\l/\!/v1/^<t/CVvt/vl/\UvlyvlAl/\tAtAVv^\|A|/ J C ANSTEY. and attractiveness of its own, and his figure would have appeared to advantage in one of the becoming painting suits in which many less wellfavored men indulge, but while he was not of the order of squalid geniuses, there were no more traces of an eye to effect in his dress than in his studio. So much engrossed was he that he did not look around when the door which communicated with the house opened, and an elderly man with a cross-grained walnut-colored face made his appearance. "Mister Babcock to see you. sir," he announced, with a certain grim relish, as he stood at the top of the short flight of steps. Campion muttered something which did not sound like delight. "Hang it, Bales, couldn't you tell him I was busy?" he said. "Just precisely what I did tell him," said Bales, with an injured air; "but it wasn't no use; he's comin' in. he is?wants to see you on important business, 'cordin' to him." As he spoke he stood aside to make way for the visitor, who seemed to have no misgivings as to his welcome. "Well, my dear fellow, how are you? Hard at it, as usual, I see. Never saw such a fellow," he began, in the tone of one who rallies another upon a rather ridiculous foible. "I thought I'd drop in and look you up?fcan't stop long. I wanted to see you about a little matter of mine " And be glanced at the model with a meaning which Campion affected not to understand, for he continued nainf "Well " hp sniri "von won't mind my going on? I can listen and work too." "Oh, I'll wait till we are alone. I'm not in such n hurry as all that. I can take a look around till you're ready/' said Babcock cheerfully. He had come upon a large easel and canvas which had been rolled into a corner, and which he now wheeled out to the light. "I thought I recognized her," he cried. "Miss Elsworth, by Jove?little Sybil!" "It is Miss Elsworth," said Campion, rather coldly. "What of it?" "What astonishes me is that Sybil should never have breathed a word about it to me?we've always been such particular chums that it is odd ?she always carries all her little troubles to me." "Perhaps this was too big to carry," said Campion. "Oh, ah/' said Babcock, perfectly unabashed, "that reminds me, I pleased our dear Mrs. Staniland immensely the other day, brought a chela to see her I had met out at Bombay when I was over there. You know what a chela is? sort of budding Buddhist, sucking Mahatma. Calls himself Axel Nebelsen, Norwegian or Swede or something, I fancy. Went out to India on some scientific expedition, and turned Theosophist. Now he's over here, dining out and advertising the religion. It hasn't been started long, but it's pushing its way, don't you know. And the women run after him a good deal, queerlooking chap, talks till all's blue? ever meet him?" "Never," said Campion, "What does he do?" "Mild miracles?sort of parlor prophet, don't you know. Goes out to dinner and pecks a little rice all the time, and then has a trance upstairs over his teacup. Says he sees everybody with an aura about him, so have I?after dinner. And he's learning to manage his astral body, but he daren't let it outside the door yet. I think he's a bit of a humbug myself, but he amuses me." So Babcock rattled on, not much caring whether he was listened to or not, until he ran down, and Campion hoped he was going in earnest. Campion looked at him; he was not distinguished or impressive looking. He was short, with dark hair parted in the middle, a pale, rather flabby face, a loose mouth; he had done nothing so far except talk, and was never likelv to do more: but for all that, Lionel Babcock was a personage in his way; if he bored most men. women found him both instructive and amusing; he was fluent and self-assured; he was particularly weloff. When he had gone Campion broke into a laugh, which was rather savage than amused. Then he went to the portrait and studied it. "Was that ass right?" he was thinking; "does that look on her face mean? boredom? Isn't there a touch of something like sufferance on her lips? It didn't strike me so while I was painting her, and yet?and yet?confound Babcock!" He wheeled the big easel back into the corner again, and returning to his classical picture touched in some details from the studies he had made for them, but after a while he stopped with an impatient sigh. "No good," he muttered, "I may as well stop work for to-day?the light's getting bad, too. I'll go and get some calling over; no, I'm hanged if I do, I'll turn into the park. And presently he was crossing one of the canal bridges iu the direction of the park. And. as it happened, Fate was kind to him for this once; for while he was inside the radius of erchantment, he saw a dainty figure coming tnward him frnm nnp nf The hriflETPS. and the figure was that of the enchantress. As she came nearer there was the least little dimple in her cheek; she recognized him evidently, she stopped and held out her hand, and even called him by his Christian name. Even that dull and unpleasant type of person, the "most ordinary observer." would have instantly suspected, from the manner of both, that they were on terms of some intima, cy; and so they were, for they were ?Dgaged. CHArTER n. I A Remonstrance. There's a present for j'ou, sir! Yes, thanks to her thrift, My pet lias heen able to huv me a gift. ?London Lyrics. Ronald Campion had indeed succeeded in winning Mrs. Staniland's Ovi>ii i?,,t tho olrlpr larlv had not as yet been consulted, and it was by no means likely that the engagement would meet with her approval. It had gone on for more than a month now. this most unsatisfactory of engagements. They saw one another but seldom?indeed for part of the time she had been away at Eastbourne. She wrote, and her letters were gay and affectionate; but when he met her again she gave no sign by her manner of greeting him that he was more to her than others were. It is true there were others present at the time, and true that she contrived to reassure him before he left by some apparently careless speech, to which her eyes and voice gave a sweet and special meaning; but, for all that, the strain was telling on his self-respect, and he chafed under his false position more and more. What he suffered under Babcock's reference to Sybil will after this explanation be readily imagined; and now that by a happy accident he had met her, he felt the time had come to speak plainly. She was the first who spoke. "I thought this was one of the things we agreed we wouldn't do?" she observed, though with no very great show of displeasure. "I didn't know I should have the luck to meet you just now," he said, "and you must let me speak to you Sybil?there is something I want to say." She arched her pretty eyebrows. "Something serious?" she inquired. "Yes, rather." "Then suppose we find a seat somewhere? I can be so much more serious sitting down." They found a sheltered bench near the water's edge, where the wavelets were lapping half-heartedly. "Now tell me all about it," she said, looking distractedly lovely as she settledherself comfortably to listen. "It's simply this, Sybil?I can't stand this secrecy any longer." "Oh, Ronald! but why? where would be the fun if everybody knew?" "After all, Sybil, one doesn't?at least I didn't?get engaged for the fun of the thing; and if! had, I've had very little of it." "You might be serious without being disagreable." "Is it disagreeable to object to have to play an underhand part?" "Very, because, don't you see, papa knows all about it?he must have had your letter a fortnight ago." "But your aunt doesn't?you know how much she has done for me; I never ought to have kept this from her." "Ah! but you coudn't help yourself, you see!" cried Sybil gayly; "it was my secret as well a6 yours, and you were bound to keep it as long as I wished it kept." "And why were you so anxious to have it kept?" She was looking at him with meditative eyes. "Will you have a lot of little reasons, or one big one?" she asked. "I should very much prefer the real one," he said, rather grimly. "Well," said Sybil, "the real one was; I'd set my heart on having my portrait at the Grosvenor this year." "I don't see ttie connection; 11 an goes well, it must be there now. Sir C has seen it, and I only want one more sitting to finish it." "And we're coming for that to-morrow. Yes, but you foolish Ronald, if you had told Aunt Hillary when you wanted to, do you suppose you would ever have had the chance of finishing it in time? Why, I should never have been allowed to come near the studio, till we knew what papa thought of you?and perhaps not then?all these weeks quite wasted! So that by that little stratagem of mine (for you might have known, if you hadn't been a goose, I never meant all I said), just by that stratagem I've saved you a whole year of "fame?because I have quite made up my mind that fViot rnrtrait ie fointr tn makp vnn famous. And, naturally," she added, with a little laugh at her own vanity. 'I should like to be a little famous too!" "If that is all," said Campion, "now the portrait is safe, you can't object to my speaking out." "But I do!" 6he said; "don't tell Aunt Hilary yet. Ronald." To be Continued. A Tuckahor. A citizen of Douglas Co'jnty brought to the office of an Ava paper what is said to be called by the Indians a tuckahoe. It was turned up by the plow. It is a singular vegetable substance, seldom found except in the southern lowlands of the United States. It grows under the ground and sometimes attains the size and somewhat the appearance of q lrtcif of liroarl nnrl is nffen railed "Indian loaf." or "Indian bread." It is said that its methods of growth and reproduction are unknown. it having neither root, branch nor cellular structure, for which reason it has been considered as a secondary product, caused by the degeneration of the tissues of some flowering plant. It was eaten by the Indians and considered by them a very dainty dish.?From the Mount Vernon Fountain and Journal. Homeless Dogs. One result of the new act requiring every dog to wear a collar with its owner's name and address seems to be a promise of a great increase in the number of lost dogs which find their way to the Battersea Home. More than 0000 dogs had been admitted to the home. ? Country Gentleman. AJ1 the Vowels. "Abstemious" and "facetious" are the only woids in English having the vowels in their order.?Pittsburg Dispatch. Often in France a man servant is employed to do housework which in l Air.' v!ra generally is regarded as i woman's work. New York City.?In this day j over waists and of similar effe< I the gulmpo makes an all Imports feature of the wardrobe. Here one, that while it gives an exceedlr ly dressy effect, calls for the smalh possible quantity of all-over lace other material of a similar sort a: which allows a choice of plain frilled sleeves, In elbow or fi length. In the Illustration It Is ma of lawn with the yoke of all ov lace and the sleeves of lace edgi to match, but tucking or lace edgl; joined one 3trip to another, or, : deed, any pretty material that m be liked can be used for the yo with the sleeves of frills as iRustrat or of the material lace edged, or ma plain with cuffs. For the foundath lawn and silk both are correct. The guimpe is made with front a backs. It is faced to form a yol I which can be made on either rou j or square outline, and is finished j the lower edge with a basque portl j which does away with fulness ov j ^ i illf \ , the hips. When frilled sleeves : I used the frills are arranged o: puff foundations and are finish with bands at their lower edges. 1 long sleeves, however, are made o1 fitted linings, which are faced form the cuffs. j The quantity of material used i the medium size is three yards twi ty-onej or twenty-four, two and oi half yards thirty-two or one and o; half yards forty-four inches w: ; with five-eight yard all-over lace, fc ; and three-quarter yards ,of lace f inches wide for sleeve. Trousseau Gowns. "Trousseau gowns are lovel than ever," says the fashion editor The Woman's Home Companion, "I as they have increased in beau they have lessened in numDer. v? few brides of to-day, no matter h fashionable they may be, order trousseau consisting of a great nu ber of costumes. The reason for t' is that fashions change so that It necessary every little while to hav< new-style gown if one is to keep p? with tho capricious modes. Velvet Embossed Ribbons. Velvet embossed ribbons in wi widths aro the best possible oho for rearranging a damaged gov and give the speediest results, le: lug no trace of tl"> former costun oi New Collar Pins. :ts Little Jeweled pins and collar seta are now shown on the counters in *9 endless profusion, ig ;st or Every Day Blouses. ad For shirtwaists and everyday or blouses, cashmere, nun's veilings and all fine cloth will be good. de er Scarlet and Black. ng Scarlet black hose have an ankl? ng decoration of large red polka dots, embroidered in groups of three. These are to radiate on feet in shiny black patent leather slippers finished with a big rosette of scarlet chiffon. Ribbon as Trimming. Ribbon always has been a popular trimming, and as it lends itself to such original ideas, it will no doubt be used in great quantities on hats this season. Apropos of ribbon, notning is pretLit:! uuu mc UCn shaded Liberty silk ribbon which is j twelve inches wide. Plain Blouse or Guimpe. The plain guimpe is a favorite one ^ for heavy lace, embroidery and maj? terials of the sort and this season is being made both with long and with short sleeves. This model is perfectly adapted to such material, while it can also be utilized for the blouse of silk and wool materials, Id addition to all of which it serves the very practical purpose of making a satisfactory foundation for tucked lingerie materials and the like. When used in this way the plain material can be elaborated to suit Individual taste before cutting, and the plain pattern can be laid on so proin_ viding the necessary guide as to ay shape. In this instance, however, ke embroidered filet net is used as a ,ed guimpe with long sleeves and the do lining is omitted. The long sleeves )n, are much liked just now for net and other thin materials and are very nd pretty beneath the short ones of ce, heavier material, but the full threend quarter sleeves -gathered into bands at can be substituted whenever preon ferred and both are equally correct. Tho hlmico pnrialsta of the fitted gj" X UV W4WUMV ire lining, which can be used or omitted rer as liked and is made with front and led backs, it can be adjusted by means 'he of a tape at the waist line as Muster trated or gathered and attached to to the lining when that is used. The quantity of material required for for the medium size Is three and 3n I ide seven-eigluli yards eighteen, three ict' and five-eighth yards twenty-two or l*ii I 4 r fwn JinH nnp.hnlf i*nrrtci 1V" j thirty-two or one and seven-eighth | yards forty-four inches wide. 11 Wt I ^un&dti-cJcftdof INTEPNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MAY 21. Subject: Jesus' Death and Burial, John 19:17-43?Golden Text, 1 Cor. 15:3?Commit Verses 39, 40?Commentary. TIME.?Wednesday, between the evenings. April 5, A. D. 30. PLACE. ?Golgotha. EXPOSITION.?T. "It is Finished," 28-30. What was finished? (1) His own sufferings were finished. From the beginning of His ministry | the shadow of tne cross darkened tne ! Saviour's life. Now it was all over. The dread and horror of all those years was over at last. Thank God! (2) The mission upon which the Father had sent Him into this world was finished. The Father had given Him a certain work to accomplish (John 5:36). It was His very meat to finish this work of the Father (Jno. 4:34). Now the death in which that work was to be completed was right at the door and in anticipation of it Jesus cried, "It is finished." (3) The prophecies concerning the sufferings of death of the Messiah (into which angels and the prophets themselves had desired to look, 1 Pet. 1:11-13) were finished. This is the Immediate thought of the context (vs. 28, 29). The Old Testament prophets, centuries .before, had set forth step by step the sufferings the coming Messiah would meet in redeeming His people. One by one Jesus had i fulfilled the details of thoseOld Testament prophecies. The last prediction of the long list of sufferings and dishonor which Jesus had doubtless often conned until they were indelibly printed upon His mind is fulfilled and with a cry of victory and relief He exclaims, "It is finished." (4) The work of atonement was finished. The curse of the broken law must be borne and Jesus had borne it (Gal. 3:13: 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Pet. 2:24). It is finished. There is nothing left for you or me to do to atone for sin. It is all done. "It is finished." Would that we might all believe it and not try to add anything to the finished work of Christ. (5) The Mosaic law, as far as its claims on the believer, are concerned, was finished (Rom. 10:4; Col. 2:14; Eph. 2:15, 16). Every claim of the Mosaic law was settled and the law itself done away by the death of Christ on the cross. (6) Satan's power was finished (Heb. 2:14. R. V.; Col. 2:15, R. V.; Jno. 12:31). The death of Christ on the cross was the death-knell to Satan's power. It seemed the moment of T\ OCjf ' If TIT Q CI Qaiaii O UllgliViCSb px vi.covf lb ttuo ouv moment of his utter defeat. "It is Qnished." II. "A Bone of Him Shall Not Be Broken," 31-37. It was "the Preparation," i. e., "the Preparation of the Passover," the day before the Passover began (v. 14: cf. ch. 18:28). The next day would be a Sabbath, not the weekly Sabbath, for the first day of the Passover was always a Sabbath with the Jews whatever day in the week it came (Lev. 23:7). This year it came on Thursday. The Passover Sabbath was a high day. The Jews would not endure the thought that their great day should be polluted by criminals hanging on a cross. They were not at all sensitive about its being polluted by their own, hands being stained with the murder af the Son of God. Jesus was dead f.lready and His legs were not broken. By this seeming chance tne u. t. prophetic type of tne Pascal Lamb was literally and minutely fulfilled (v. 36). But the soldiers will make sure that Jesus is dead indeed, so a spear is thrust into His side. Jesus is "pierced" according to Scripture (Zech. 12:10). And then a notable thing comes to pass; forth from that pierced side flows blood and water, not blood only, but blood and water. John is impressed by the fact and records it, though in the state of scientific knowledge then existing h could scarcely have understood its full significance. That water mingled with the blood shows that Jesus died ! Df extravasation of the blood, i. e.. of a broken heart (cf. P3. 69:20). What broke that heart? Sin, youi sin and mine. The record of the fact, which of course could not have beeD fabricated by one who did not know Its significance, i3 one of the many I Incidental but conclusive proofs oI I j the genuineness of the story and one j 01 tne numerous maicauuns wai record here given is by an eye-witness of the facts recorded. Is there I any spiritual significance in the blood | and water coming out? Water came I forth from the rock smitten by Moses, j and we are told that "that rock was I Christ" (1 Cor. 10:4). It is from i the smitten rock, Christ, that.the livI ing water and atoning blood flow. I III. He Made His Grave With the 1 I Rich, ,38-42. Another Old Testament j I prophecy is fulfilled in the place ac<l J manner of Jesus' burial (v. 38; cf. i I Matt. 25:57-60; Is. 53:9). The death I if Jesus transformed Joseph and j tsicodemus from secret disciples into i j jpen ones. Their discipleship did not ! ! :ount for much until they become I jpen disciples. They had made feeble ; ! nrotests but were soon silenced | (chap. 7:50-52; Luke 23:50, 51 ). I Jnless they had come out openly the ! LiOrd would not have confessed them { ind they would not have been saved | (Matt. 10:32, 33; Rom. 10:9, 10). They did their best for Jesus. They j jmbalmed His body. But this was j unnecessary, for God promised hunireds of years before that He would lot suffer that body to see corrup- ! ion (Ps. 16:10). Can't See trie Stage. United States Senator Nixon's I opera house, which he presented to J i the city of Winnemucca, Nev., as a mark of appreciation of the friendship shown him by his former townspeople. must be practically recon- 1 structed. Not until the building was completed recently was it discovered that the gallery is so built that the 1 stage is invisible to more than half [ the audience. It must now be torn out and reconstructed, necessitating ' an additional expense of S20.000. London Ealing Peanuts. London has just discovered the peanut. Peatnut roasting machines i are now to be seen on the streets, and 1 the Cockney small boy lias a new and i delightful delicacy to spend his pennies on. Until now peanuts were not i to be had in England, where they I were only read of in the American > comic papers. To-day they are the latest development of the "Americanizing" of London. Australia Helps yurbee I'ark J'lan. Earl Grey, of Canada, receiver from Australia $250 toward the Quebec battlefield park project. : . ' .* 't ' ^yxn\dt& jfore&JKfi&sl TWO MISTAKES. "Your way fa dark," the angel said, "Because vou downward gaze; Look up! tne sun is overhead; Look up and learn to praise!" v I looked. I learned: Who looks above "" Will find in Heaven both Light and Love "Why upward gaze?" the angel said; "Have you not learned to know The Light of God shines overhead That men mav work below?" I learned: Who only looks above May miss below the work of Love. And thus I learned the lessons twain: The heart whose treasure is above Will gladly turn to earth again Because the heavens is Love. Yea, Love that framed the starry height Came down to earth and gave it Lieht. ?The Bishop of Ripon. Don't Grumble. * Beware of dogs.?Philippians 3:2. The Jews, as can be seen by numerous references In the Bible, did not like dogs. The ancient Greeks shared this abhorrence, though Homer is not unjust to these faithful companions of man, as can'be seen in his exquisite picture of a dog's devotion to his absent master in the seventeenth book of the OdysBey. St. Paul Is pouring the vitriol of his Barcasm upon those who would reduce Christianity to the limits of an ez> elusive sect, and we are doing no violenco to the thought of the apostle when we translate "Beware of dogs'* to "Beware of grumblers." Are grumbling and growling our dominant characteristics? If they are, then let us not be surprised if we find ourselves unpopu* lar. Our friends are only obeying the sound advice of St. Paul. Because? and it is said in all charity?grum- J biers are, if possible, to be severely let alone. It is absolutely necessary ' for our own peace of mind that we escape from the atmosphere of theif querulous complainings. No one can associate with those who are chronic grumblers, chronic fault finders, chronic sneerers and belittlers o) other men and women without ac> quiring some of their unhappy char acteristics. We can see this to per fection in Sheridan's wonderful comedy of "The School for Scandal," & young girl from the country quickly sinking to the level of My Lady Sneerwell or My Lady Backbite, & truly choice collection of growlerf who bark, snap and yelp against the reputation of every one of theU neighbors. What will save us from becoming chronic grumblers? Surely we hav? the answer in the prayer of the psalmist: "Create In me a clean heart and renew a right spirit wlthir me." Change my disposition, 0 God. so that I shall not grieve and wound my friends by sneers, inuendoes and petty cavilings, and grant that as long. h$ I live I may never De a growling and snarling dog, but a human soul that believes in sympathy, in kindness and In following closely the-footuteps of the Carpenter of Nazareth. One of the horrible ways of killingthe early Christians was to dres? them in the skins of wild animal*and then set a pack of savage dogf upon them to tear them in pieces Those hard old Romans loved to be ! hold human suffering in every conceivable form, and a lot of helplessmen and women worried to death or the sands of the arena was a rart spectacle to the mob of the imperial city, and also formed, no doubt, many a Jest to their masters as they rolled home in their chariots along the Applan Way. And yet, we are to-day very different in cruelty when we grumble anc' snarl all day long, poisoning the lives of those about us, breaking thei? hearts by our ill humor and drivingtbem at last to despair by our cbronk nagging? ? Rev. George Downing Sparks, Christ Church, West Islip, N. Y., in the Sunday Meraia. _ A Definition of Christianity. I Preaching recently at Oxford to ani audience largely composed of uni- I versity students, the Bishop of Lon- I don swept aside all considerations ot philosophic theories of the atonement and placed the way of salvation clear^^^H ly before his hearers. He said: "Christianity is net a story about good man named Jesus Christ, wh^HHB died on the cross. Christianity is belief in the sacrifice and outpouring of God Himself, or it is nothing thai concerns the world; and if once you , believe that tho eternal Son of God I emptied Himself of His glory, and I came down and poured out-His life, m and His blood, and His treasure od i this earth, for us men and our sal- H vation, then you will cry: Love sa H omo-rinc no Divine, demands my love. g my life, my all!"?London Christian. When the Stars Are Seen. " H They say that our most illurainat- I ing experiences are the aftermath? H of pain and sacrifice. In the night time all our world is dark, but the H firmament of myriad other worlds i? 39 in view. We see the light of other H worlds in the night of our pain. H The real distresses and darkness H are alone with those that wilt their H eyes on the shadowy earth. Do not look there when it is night. Look. H out to the shining skies for our light. H It is bright all around and above us. H We need only look. SB When the pain is upon us it is the 9 time really to rejoice. Our expanded X spirit dares rejoice. It is freed from H some confinement. It breathes a H larger space.?Washington Star. H nf T.ifp. ^ Life has no other utility or aim H than the throwing of ono's self heart- H ily into the supreme struggle. Noth- a ing is lost in it?grain of sand or SB cornerstone; all that man's effort brings to it finds by the eternal laws H its appointed place, goes to strength- H en either the bulwarks of evil or tho- H city of God. Woe to him who folds. jfl his hands because of his insignifi- H caDce: to do nothing is the very worst fashion of doing evil.?Charles Wasuer. |H One Thousand Foot SteanisJiips. W The new one thousand foot steam- Hi ship, the construction of which is to be commenced later in the year for the White Star Line, at Liverpool, BB England, will be named the Olympic. It is possible that two leviathans of this size will be built for the South- ?mB ?rn New York trade. M| Prince a Village Priest. HB At Hermannstadt. Hungary, Prince Wj Carl Egon of Hohenlohe has been in- |9 stalled as pastor. His Highness wasr SH previously attached to the Papal sBm Court in Rcmo r.s almoner. 9B I