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r r THE SEASOSJ'S NE > m,M ? i .1^ j New York City.?The dress that is made in cuirass, or jersey, style is -j such a pretty and becoming one that ^ea Its favor is constantly increasing. ton; This model can be made simple or coru flressy as it is treated in one way or another. In this case a pretty lent< checked wool material is trimmed prel with heavy lace and silk banding and | ful irorn with chemisette of dotted net, T Dut with the trimming portions It i mitted the dress becomes the simple I ove i p^in one shown in the small view, ver Cashmere and henrietta, chiffon an< ? J _ 1 ? xV. J + V? /-* enrf r yruaueiuiu cinu iiiaici iaia vjl. iuc ovi v are much liked for immediate wear, for and mothers who are beginning to tw< think ahead for the future will be an glad to know that the same model an( promises to be a great favorite made inc from linen and materials of the sort. The dress is made with the jersey portion and skirt. The jersey portion consists of fronts, side-fronts, backs i and side-backs. The skirt is straight and laid in backward-turning pleats ! and the trimming portions, when used, are arranged on indicated lines. The chemisette is faced onto the dress itself, which can be cut away beneath if a transparent effect is desired. The quantity of material required i for the sixteen-year size is seven and three-quarter yards twenty-four or twenty-seven, six yards thirty-two or I four and three-eighth yards fortyfour inches wide, with three-quarter yard eighteen and five and a half yards of banding for the trimming portions, three-eighth yard eighteen for the chemisette and two and a half S yards of ribbon six inches wide for the sash. Two Stockings. A startling innovation is tae wearing of two pairs of stockings at once ?both of the cobweb variety?and the inner showing through the outer, se^ The inner stocking is of vivid hue, se\ and shining through one of dull color foi gives a curious affffTnJeterro'nate ef- fift te at. er - - ? A Fine Art. ( his year the use of the button has < ime a fine art. For coats the but- ] 5 are almost always large and > iparatively few of them are used. 1 Beads or Tinsel. ( lancing slippers, whether of patent 1 her or of velvet, now have several 1 ips over the instep, each decor- * I in some manner with beads or . el. Beautiful Scarfs. "1 Iany beautiful scarfs, lined with j , are draped loosely about the ulders and knotted below the ] ct- fmm which hane: two irregular | i s near the hem of the gown. From the Color Box. lave you seen the shade known as J red?" It is one of the popular >rs so far in small things. It is at best in millinery. It is a curious e between raspberry and tomato. ;re is another hue verging on red rant. It is rich and delicious, it if you are a dark-eyed brunette, s "old red," on the other hand, is re effective on a decided blond, the d with no red in her hair. Seven Gored Skirt. 'he plain seven gored skirt is al's a satisfactory one. It never s out of style, it is very generally Dining and in every way satisfacf. This one is adapted to every ;erial that is used for women's ts, for it can be made plain or imed or can be treated in any way J i t may be liked. In the illustrai, however, one of the new diagonserges is finished with a stitched 1. The skirt can be made in the ?th illustrated, shorter or in the tty round length that is so gracefor indoor wear. 'he skirt is made in seven gores. ? fitted with perfect smoothness r the hips and can be laid in in ted pleats at tbe back or cut ofl , 1 finished in habit style as liked, rhe quantity of material required ' the medium size is ten yards ?nty-four or twenty-seven, six and 1 eighth yards forty-four or foui , 1 three-quarter yards fifty-two j hes wide if there is figure or nap; | I; ?en yards twenty-four or twenty en, three and a half yards fortyir or three and a quarter yards :y-two inches wide if there is neithfisure nor nan. THE PULPIT. SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON B7 THE REV. C. B. ETSLER. Theme: Seeking God's Kingdom. x" tt t? ~ nv.,, SrUUMJU, i>. X. 111 llic U11UI L1L Ul he Good Tidings the pastor, the Rev. Clarence Bartlett Etsler, prej.ched Sunday on "Seeking God's Kingdom." HEe said: In bygone years, when people went lpon the theory that man is inherenty depraved and that his natural alegiance while on earth is to the sovireignty of the devil, in those days, vhen one talked about seeking God's dngdom, it meant that a man should shut out the sunshine and enjoymenl :rom his days; that he should crucify lis nature upon the cross of self-deaial and that through a sad and dole:ul earthly life he should look forvard with patient longing for the lingdom that he must seek in some :uture world. When man complained of earthly wardship and sought religion's help, ;he church said, in substance to him, 'Yes, we know it's hard living in this ivorld, but what can you expect; mau s naturally a fallen, degenerate crea;ure, the devil is his spiritual advisei md his man of business; but nevei nind, grin and bear it, for you will lr<nor/1nrn whan VA11 H i Q QtlH iilV-I UUU O nillgUUUt TT44W4* JVM V.^v. ;here the devil will be shut out." Such a philosophy and such a reigion was but a cowardly subterfuge whereby an easy escape was afforded !rom the necessity for working out a solution for the hard problems of this ife. Thank God, the liberal church has ;ut loose from dogmatic tradition and s teaching a religion not of mysti:ism and of theory, but a religion oi jresent helpfulness and of commoi sense. We do not believe in a fallen race CVe believe in a rising race. We dc lot believe in original and inherent ?in, nor that every man that's born s born first into the kingdom of the levil. And this we believe is the first stej n seeking God's good kingdom; the ecognition that every child that's )orn is God's and not the devil's; the jood tidings that every soul has withn itself the spark of divinity and nol he flame of hell. It's true that some of us are borr with heritage of- sin and with birthnarks of imperfection, but the good idings of great joy is this: Thai whatsoever sins of the fathers maj lave set the children's teeth on edge ;hose children have another heritage :rom their perfect heavenly Father? i heritage that can overcome the inired sin; that can round out in perfect growth all human imperfection He who would seek God's kingdon :alks not of original sin; he publishjth good tidings of ultimate perfec iion. What does it mean for us. thii seeking for God's kingdom? We rise with the new day and the sun shinf! arightly through the! windows. "Oh.' says one, "the harsh light hurts m3 eyes," or, if it's a woman of on< kind, she says, "It will fade my car pet," and the shades are quickli Jrawn and the gloom of a sepulchn ensues. Is that seeking of God's kingdom' Another throws wide the windows o his house and soul and drinks in th< life sustaining oxygen, basks in th< blessed warmth of nature's medicine and sings an unconscious song o praise to his maker and his life keep sr. , He is seeking God's kingdom. Anc then at the breakfast table one takei his place with no word of greetinj and devours his food in silence, sav< for a muffled complaint that the toas Is scorched or the coffee cold. Th< other, the sunshine fellow, comes ii with the glow of the sun's radianc< still upon him, and the room seem! brighter for his coming. He has i Joke and a smile for all, even for th< fellow with the chronic grouch Which one, think you, is getting near er to the kingdom? And then they are out upon th< way to business. The car is crowded and when the conductor gets to ou: friend, the grouch, he looks straigh at the conductor, but makes no mov< to get a nickel, and then through al the remainder of the trip he shrink and starts whenever he's spoken t< and wonders if he has been spotted Finally, he slips into a seat, and al though a woman stands beside hin With a child in her arms, he feigni [Mense interest in the paper he hai afted from the seat. Is he getting very near to God'i kingdom? The other traveler help: fcn old man board the car and cheer! the withered, friendless heart with i pood-will smile. He hoars with un M #0 tf ei siaixuiii^ cai iuc luuuaciui & uu "Step lively," and sees with under Itunding eye the same conductor ver: gently shove into the car an over burdened daughter of poverty, as sh< )i turn supports her feeble mother fie hears with understanding ear, a: fbe conductor comes down hard upoi Jhe ignorance of some poor foreignei hts he asks directions, and he see: with understanding eye as that sam< conductor sneaks up a little later anc gives the bewildered foreigner gruff though kindly, instructions how t( find his way. He hears and sees un derstaadingly, I say, for he is an op timist, and he is seeking for God'! kingdom, although he may know i not. He is looking for the good ii men because he knows it is there. "As a man thinketh in his hear eo is he," and whether we shall b< conlrr rc fnr f- nrTe If incr* a m /-\ f frnf) or servants of the kingdom of th( devil depends upon our purity o heart. The kingdom within determines th< kingdom without; if the kingdon within be the kingdom of truth, o purity, of unselfish kindness, then w< will find heaven without seeking ver: far. We sometimes talk about seek ing God's kingdom as though it mus come through some mighty upheava of nature or through some revolution God doesn't work that way. Super stitious persons have arisen at va rio\;s times and have proclaimed th< coming of God's kingdom, but : short time since a sect in New Eng land predicted the end of the work and the ushering in of heaven. Anc now they are probably figuring ou some future date for the coming o God's kingdom with the crash o thunder and the rending of the earth God doesn't work that way. "Ant another parable spake Jesus untc them. The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven which a woman took am hid in three measures of meal, til the whole was leavened." Could an: type make plainer to us the process tor the realization of God's kingdon on ti-e earth; like leaveu within th< dough, working silently and slow growing gradually from one little germ until the whole mass is aliv< and rising. Could any parable b< more realistic? God's spirit dwelling In every man, but a little spark of dl vine fire enfolded in the infant; creeping through the human heart silently but surely, making the life action , blossom in unselfish deeds, in purity and worth. Yes, indeed, God's kingdom is ve?y near to us, it's in us and about us, and we can find it right speedily if we ^ut fix our eyes upon the eternal cr/iorf rinn'f innt fnr the romine of His kingdom in violent upheaval nor ! in disorderly shouting of false prophets. Don't expect the leaven to be 1 untrue to its very nature. Don't look ' for evidences that God's righteousness has, oh! so much of sin to still ; overcome in life. Fix your eyes upon Jesus, fix your eyes upon the evi dences within yourself, evidences all about you, evidences that God's spirit , is living in all life, evidences that the ( leaven Is fulfilling its mission, evi[ dences that His eternal truth is ; marching on. This world of ours is not so bad, if we don't fix our whole attention on . the badness and refuse to recognize the silent working of the leaven of i eternal goodness that permeates it > all. Seeking God's kingdom or seeking the kingdom of the devil has been ' exemplified for us in the present po, litical campaign. Mud-slinging and , the kind of argument expected at a ! reunion of the Kilkenny cats has i seemed to be the policy of some, with the result that up-State citizens be lieye New York is worse than Sodom and Gomorrah, that hungry beasts of [ prey roam through the streets and [ that the only safety for a stranger is to tightly grasp his bank roll in one - hand and his watch within the other > when he is welcomed to our city. [ And yet how much of truth there is i in the lurid exaggerations of ou s cities' sinfulness may be gauged, per naps, Dy tne uniioriany oi uumpn i ments paid to us by our host of visit [ ors during the late celebration. Yel. low journalism is always looking for ! the spots and blemishes: it refuses to l recognize the good and by perverse suggestions hampers more than any , other element the working of the i leaven of God's eternal righteousness. ; The kingdom of the living God i must come first of all in individual > hearts, for there the leaven has been placed by God. His kingdom will not ( come in any outward way until the } inward man is pure. j Don't wait and pray for the last | trump on earth, don't wait and pray _ for a final judgment day. God's . trump is sounding in your heart and your judgment days are with you j every day. Look for God's kingdom in your own heart and seek to mani[ fest it in your little duties every day. t Seek to attune your soul to the divine r melodies of goods that are echoing all around you. Open your eyes to the | good within yourself, and that you 'm find in fellow-men. Shut out from [ your soul the discordant clangor and | refuse to share the discord selfish hearts have brought on earth. Fi* [ your eyes upon Jesus and feel the leaven in your inmost heart. How to find God's kingdom? It's a plain and direct road. Simply pub3 lish peace and bring good tidings; ala ways and forever bring good tidings, ' and if you can't bring tidings that are F good then keep quiet till you can. r Refuse to publish discord and strife , and hatred. Refuse to muck-rake or * bring up the ghosts of outgrown er~ rors that clog the wheels of eternal , progress toward perfect righteousness, Ah! but somewill say, "Your dream } of perfect righteousness on earth is ? but a dream, I fear It can't come , true." Even so when our ancestors I clothed in skinswereroaming through ' the forest aisles, perhaps some one ol I them was blessed with glorious visions of days when they would no more rend and tear each other. And , undoubtedly all his fellows said, "It's but a dream. We shall always be r governed by the law of tooth and I claw." But God's leaven worked in T quietness and power until at last men 5 walked at peace among the race, for' ever emancipated from their brute a ancestry. And shall it not be so with ' us? Although we refrain from phy* sical violence to each other, yet we s war and scheme in milder ways. But ' who shall deny the power of the for* ever working leaven of . God's truth to work for us emancipation even a from the necessity for competition in ' our race? Who shall deny the saving 1 power of the immortal spirit of the [ Christ? "For as in Adam all die, ^ even so in Christ shall all be made : alive." "For He must reign till He * hath put all enemies under His feet." ? "And when all things shall be subdued unto Him, then shall the Son * also Himself be subject unto Him " that put all things under Him, that Z God may be all in all." 3 1 A Prayer. s O Lord, our light and our salva- j s tion, we praise Thee for Thy great i 3 loving kindness to all Thy children of ; i earth. Thou art our refuge and 1 - strength and cur present help in ! , every trouble. Weary and wayworn, - carrying burdens Thou hast offered to y bear, we come to Thee and find rest - unto our souls. Grant unto us the inj ward comfort of Thy shielding pres. ence, and walk and talk with us as s we journey onward and upward. Prel serve within us the Cliristly ideal. r drawing us ever closer into eternal 3 completeness and unity with Thee. ; Give us grace to so serve out our day 1 of life that at eventide we shall hear , Thy welcome call and enter with joy ) into the heavenly rest and the glories - prepared through Christ Thy Son. Beginning the Day With God. j My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning t will I direct my prayer unto Thee, a and will look up.?Ps. 5:3. \ The morning prayer chimes in with ; the joy of creation, with the quick j> world as it awakes and sings. It ought to bind itself up with the rising of the sun, the opening of the ' flowers, the divine service of the * birds. The voice of the world is I prayer, and our morning worship ' should be in tune with its ordered f *ymn of praise. But in joy we ~ should recall our weakness, and ask J His presence Who is strength and ntinn cn tiinf inv riipv he united to watchfulness by humility. Such a prayer is the guard of life.?Rev. Stafford A. Brooke. The Supremo Attainment. To love God with all the heart and soul and mind and strength is tc make God's welfare, that is, the : progress and prosperity of His work in the world, one's supreme desire. As to love one's nefghbor as one's self is the secret of social order, so ti love God with all the heart and soul and mind and strength is the secret of all high, holy and joyous living. A Practical Religion. Jesus became a man of the world, and was familiar with the lowly , tilings 01 ilie ill oraer uku ne migiit ; show to the world that nil men could i carry their religion to their work, ) their pleasure, their relations with j one another and their material activ ity.?Bishop Henry Warren. The Sunday=School INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR FEBRUARY 20. I Subject: The Golden Rule?Temperance Lesson, Matt. 7:1-12 ?Commit Verses 7. 8. GOLDEN TEXT. ? "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets." Matt. 7:12. TIME.?Midsummer A. D. 28. PLACE.?Horns of Hattin. EXPOSITION.?I. The Sin and Folly of Judging Others, 1-5. Judging is God's work, not ours (Ro. 14: 2-4, 10-13; 1 Cor. 4:3-5; Jas. 4:11, 12). We are neither called nor competent to sit in judgment upon others. If we attempt it we shall reap exactly what we sow, we "shall be judged." We shall be judged by God (Jas. 2: 12, 13), by other men (context) and condemned by ourselves, in the very judgment we visit upon others (Ro. 2:1). Of course, it is not meant that we shall abstain from all estimates of others (see v. 6). It does not mean we shall not be ready to condemn others even when appearances are against them (1 Cor. 13:5, 7, R. V.); and when for purposes of deciding what to do we must form an adverse opinion, even then we must not regard that opinion as infallible, irrevocable or final, but leave the final and decis ive judgment with Him to wnom it belongs, God. The practice of judging one another is rending the church of Christ. If we w'.ll not judge others we "shall not be judged" (Luke 6:37). In our giving also, as well as in our judging we shall reap just what we sow (Luke 6:38). Men will give to us as we give to others, and so will God (Phil. 4:19; 2 Cor. 9:6). Generosity pays. When we measure out to others, we are really measuring to ourselves. Most men are sharpsighted to see a mote in another's eye, but pass unnoticed a beam in their own. Jesus meets this strange injustice with a startling "why?" There is no clearer proof of our selfishness than that we judge others by such different standards from those by which we judge ourselves. One great reason of our harsh judgment of others fs that we fancy that it covers up or atones for our own faults to discover faults in others. It does not (Ro. 2:1, 2, 21; 14:12). Jesus calls the one so blind to his own faults and so open-eyed to the faults of others, by no soft name, "hypocrite." That is just what he is. II. The Folly of Feeding Hogs Pearls, 6. There is" a proper sphere for exercising our powers of discrimination. When we give out truth we should seek to give it to those who will appreciate it, and should suit our message to our audience. A dog loves his vomit and a hog wallowing in the mire (2 Pet. 2:22). When we find men wedded to their filth, it is DOtn vain ana dangerous lu vast tiio pearls of God's holy truth before them. We should turn from them. But it Is well to note that verse G is preceded by verses 1-5, and not to judge too hastily that another is a dog or a hog. III. The Wisdom of Prayer, 7-12. Jesus begins His stirring words on prayer with three commands, each of which i3 accompanied with a corresponding promise. Remarkably brief are the commands, remarkably expressive are the promises. The enjoyment of the promises is condiItioned upon obedience to the commands. Command one, "Ask." What love on God's part to command us to pray as if we were conferring a favor on Him by doing it. Surely if we don't obey, it is a grjevous sin and insult to Him. If we do, what then? "It shall be given you." It is the easiest thing in the world to get things; just "ask" for them (Jas. 4:2; cti. 21:22; Jno. 4:10; 14:13, 14; 15:7; 1 Jno. 3:22). We ought always to be at this (Luke 18:1-8). But earnest asking does not stop with asking, it also seeks and knocks, and it finds and has the door opened to it. Jesus puts the power of prayer very strongly, "every one that asketh receiveth." Note that He does not say that every one who asks gets everything he asks, but "every one that asketh receivetn." mere is a way 01 asiuug that getf the very thing asked every time (Jno. 15:7; 1 Jno. 3:22; 5:14, 15; Jno. 14:13, 14), but in everyone's prayer there is power, and every real prayer effects something. And there | is power in seeking and knocking. Some men never find anything of any worth, for they do not really seek. No door of marvelous opportunity opens to some men because they have not the faith and earnestness to knock. Jesus' argument to prove God's readiness to answer prayer is beautiful and absolutely conclusive. To sum it up in four words, God is a Father. How the scientifice and metaphysical and theological objections to God's answering prayer disappear before that conception of God. Jesus founds His "Golden Rule" of life upon this conception of God. He begins it with "therefore."- Since God is our Father and gives good things? all good things, pre-eminently the Holy Spirit (Luke 11:13)?to them that ask, "therefore" everything we desire men to do to us we should do to others. This sums up the whole O. T. revelation of duty. The "(ioiaen Rule" requires not merely that we should not do to others what we would not have others do to us, that is negative (the Confucian Golden Rule); the Christian "Golden Rule" is positive and requires that we should do unto others a?l that we desire others to do to us. Saved Brother's Life. With his right foot nearly severed John Thomas, a woodchopper, was carried four miles on *he back of his brother Frank out o? the woods to the nearest telephone at night, and his life was saved. The brothers were chopping wood near Harry Payna Whitncv's game preserve near Pittsfield, Mass., when John's axe slipped and nearly cut off his foot. The snow drifts were from four to six feet deep, but Frank picked up his brother, who weighs 140 pounds, and olowed his way throusli the snow. Traction rresident Indicted. An indictment was returned against W. Kelsey Schoepf, head of the C'in- | cinnati Traction Company, charging failure to keen the temperature in I certain street cars up to the staudard of GO degrees Fahrenheit, as provided by statute. A fine of $100 to $000 i is provided for violation of the law. Drinks Three lints on Dare; Dies. At Shelburne Falls, N. Y., there were three pints of whisky at a party attended by Alexander Zelasky, and on a dare he drank the whole quan-I THE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK PROGRESS MADE BY CHAMPIONS FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON. Satan's Vicegerent?Earth's Greatest Curse. BY JOHN W. GOUGH. ft 1 mnaf foni>w Safari YV C 11115111 aiuivob ?wuvt' wmvmm seated upon his high and burning throne in Pandemonium, crowned with a circlet of everlasting fire, call- . Ing around him his satellites, to show J their respective claim for certain 11 privileges, by the power one possessed more than another to bring men to 1 that burning lake. We may Imagine Mammon, the meanest of all the gods, 1 standing up and saying, "Send me?I can send men from their homes across the burning desert, or the trackless ocean, to fight and dig in the earth : for yellow du3t, and so harden the heart that the cry of the widow and 1 the fatherless shall he unheard. I . will so stop up every avenue to hn- ' man affection that my victim shall stand as if made of the metal he ; loves, and when the cold fingers of death are feeling for his heart strings he shall clutch closer and closer to his heart the bag of yellow dust, ' which is the only god he ever worshiped." Belial, filthiest of all the gods, next proclaims his power. Then the Destroyer asserts his claim: he holds war, pestilence and famine in his hand, and makes men whose praae u snan oe 10 ueiaue uuu a image, rank themselves in hostile array, and hurry each other shrieking, unshrouded, into another world. While all is silent we may suppose a mighty rumbling sound, at which all hell quake's; and far In the distance is seen, borne upon the fiery tide, a monstrous being, bis bair-snakes all matted with blood,his face besmeared with gore, he rises half his length, and the waves dashing against his breast fall back in shower of fire. ' "Who art thou?" "I am an earthborn spirit. I heard your proclamation and come. Send me?me?I will turn the hand of the father against the mother, the mother against the child, the husband against the wife; the young man in the pride of manliness I will wrap in my cerement and wither him. That fair young girl I will make such a thing that the vilest wretch shall shrink from her in disgust. I will do more. I will do more. I will so deceive them that the mother shall know that I destroyed her first-born and yet give to me her second. The father shall know that I destroyed the pride of his hope, and ' yet lift the deadly draught to the lips of the second. Governors shall knew how I have sapped the root of States, and yet spread over me the robe of their protection. Legislators shall know the crime and misery I cause, but stili shield and encourage me. In heathen lands I shall be called fire water, spirit of the devil, but in Christendom men shall call me 'a good creature of God.' " All hell resounds with a shout, and Satan exclaims?"Come up hither, and take a seat on the throne till wo hear your name." As he mounts to the seat the spirit says aloud, "My name is Alcohol!" and'the name shall be shouted in every p^rt of hell, and the cry be raised, "Go forth, and the benison of the pit go with you." Have Had Their Work For Nothing. The following striking extract from the Liberal Advocate, organ of the liquor forces, published at Columbus. Ohio, in one of its issues, should certainly set those temperance people to thinking who imagine local option will settle the liquor question; "When all has been said and done, it will?it must?become apparent to mnof norrnro.minflpd of I CYCU IU9 iUVUW mu? v ? | those long-whiskered bucolics that they have had their work for nothing, When .the campaign has been finished, the most they will be able to point tc , as a result of all the froth and furj of their fanatical campaign will be In the neighborhood of 2000 out ol 10,000 saloons In Ohio closed. The remaining 8000 will continue to dc business at the old stand. There are nine counties in Ohio which have voted wet. So it will be seen thai those who nave a j-iucas auu & r laun.lin?in which the arm of the fanatic is impotent, and there are others ol the remaining .two score or so which will remain wet. So it will be seeD that those who have a desire for alcoholic drinks or stimulants (especially by the aid of express companies) wil) .be able to procuro them." Converted. "When I took charge of the North Dakota Penitentiary I was not a Pro. hibitionist. But I want to say to you delegates of this congress that afte* being in office two years in a State where prohibition is in force, if I ha:J my say I would not only prohibit the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, ' but I would absolutely prohibit it? i importation into this country. I a$i ' convinced that ninety per cent, ol I the crime of this country*is due either | directly or indirectly to intoxicating liquor. * * * We have in out prohibition State of North Dakota j but 250 people in our penitentiary. I out of a population of GOO,000, and half the inmates are non-residents.| ?F. O. Hellstrom, Warden of the 1 North Dakota state j.-'enuenuai?, m an address before the Congress of the i American Prison Association, at ' Fargo, N. D., August 23, 1909. Parent of Crime. After fifteen years on the bench I believe that four-fifths of all crimes are the result, directly or indirectly, of the use of intoxicating liquors. Much of it is due to beer. It follows that three-fourths of the expense of the State for prosecution of criminals is attributable to the same cause.? ; Judge White, of Pittsburg. Temperancc Notes. ? I The Catholic Church is not dej pendent upon the saloon for its sup! port. As a matter of fact, the church I would be better off it tne saioou | never existed.?New World. If the saloon did help a community financially, we should close it up beca;i>;j it destroys character! Don't ssll character for coin?put roan, above the dollar. An epidemic of smallpox would help the business of the doctor and druggist.?SundaySchool Register. Memphis, Tenn.. bns been the I largest prohibition city in the world i since July 1. | State and National option is the - -.m ? ?-u ? T),.? i only option uiai win sansij mc j. iuI hibitionists. Give us this and a National Prohibition party behind it and we shall hear no more of prohibition cities returning to license.?J. G. Wooley. '"At the last meeting of the Brewers' Association just concluded in Milwaukee, they were torced to admit that the had saloon must go. I would be glad if they could show me a single good saloon."?Father Ward, of Beloit, Wis. ' H mre&Kia?i m ife-gk-Ms I MY THANKSGIVING. H [ have walked amid the shadows, H| Scarce could see the gleam of light .1 Shot across the path of darkness, HH In the gloom of sorrow's night. M But amid the tempest raging, U| Ever walked a Friend with me; OH God be praised, that Friend has ever flR Been the Alan of Galilee. HH [ have felt life's keen affliction* & I have walked bfcneath the rod, ' |H But He crowned the year witn gooano% And I've found new faith in God. H God be praised, for this Thanksgiving^ I And the lighthouse by the sea, With its gleam 'cross sorrow's waters, H And my Friend of Galilee. BB Life now means & larger service, > BH Else the sorrow ana the pain H9 Would have lost their deeper meaning, > HH And life's loss exceed its gain; So I come, this glad Thanksgiving, -j . H| From beneath the Mcloud ana sea. IB With a larger life and service HH For the Man of Galilee. And I bring, this ''glad Thanksgiving, H Love's sweet incense to His shrine, : + B And a life that says, while trusting, H "Not my will be done, but Thine.*. I Onward, forward, this my purpose, , gj nil jl reacn me narrow eea, ? And cross o'rf- to meet ray Brother? H Meet the Man of Galilee. H Trnst and Walt. 9 The Bible commands us to not onft '-rWm trust in God, but to -wait for Him to I do for ua what He has promised to jyM do. Tho trusting and the waiting I are linked together. A trusting which. is not accompanied by a willingness to . wait for God's time Of deliverlnig .ua ' from trouble, or for giving us what | we must Have as ft necessity, is aver?^ji? poor kind of trusting. In all true trusting there Is an element of patience, and the stronger "V^H the trusting is, the more patient ls :. JlM the waiting. The weakness of mnclk. of our trdBtlng in God is that of lm-^f/M patience. We are apt to be in too n great a hurry for God to fulfil Hia , "> promise of help or deliverance. can trust for n short time with a feel-r " g lug of safety and satisfaction, and then, because the help does not come. '* to us as soon as we desired or ex- . I pected it, we allow impatience in rule ,'. fi us and make us miserable. W-a then ; fear that God has either forgotten us; 1 or else we will be left without Hi? | afd. His promise having failed. * I Isaiah gays: "I will truBt, and not afraid." While ne was trusting no^actm was not afraid that God would leav?/~^?8 him to trust in'vain; and so tie pa- I tlently waited for God to grant him ' 1 the needed deliverance or the necessary support. I Think of Abraham's long waiting I for God to give him the son of prom- . ;| ise. When God told him that He's a would give him a son he at once trust*j ed in that promise. The basis of hia 1 trusting was the revealed word of I God. He not only belioved that it .1 was God who made the promise, but ! he trusted in God's unchangeable .1 veracity, and also in His ability to do I just what He promised him. And he . ] continued to watt for the fulfillment . | of that promise; and he had to wait ] vastly longer than he at first had any j idea that it would be necessary fa* j him to wait. It seems that he got discouraged some of ^he time, and vj there Is nothing strange about thl* Vf-iij assumption; but he allowed nothhq^ to destroy Ms trusting, even, when 1 natural, conditions were hopeless. j And if we he very strong, in trusting j God we must be long patient in wait- . i ing for Him to deliver us In His own way.?C. H. Wetherbe, in the Examiner. A Daily Prayer. Teach ts, O Lord, to see thg brfght ' side of things that we may radfeta the sunshine. Save, us, we pray Thee, from pettyness and fault finding and self-seek", ing. And may our minds bo too big for prejudice and our hearts too large for hatred. Keep us, on the one nana, irom tne pride of pretense and on the other . L from self pity and moroseness. Help us that -we may be sweet. Guide ua ,- * that we may be glad. May we be charitable In thought . and generous in deed, white souled mk and helpful. g May We be straightforward and unafraid. Help ris to Iov3 and laugh and give A as we loved and gave and laughed itf childhcod. And so lead us that we may be mean to none of Thy children. Keef> us in the ways of temperance ?In our working, our resting. Help us that we may take the time to So ; i the things that we ought to do and that ws may not do the things we ought not to do. Forgive us our waywardness and .'.J forgetfulness and the deceit that is In J us and lead us into the serene and J blessed ways of peace. ? May that which is good in us be I made stronger and that which is bad in us made weaker. ^ ,1 And save us from 'pessimism and ' spitefulnsss and narrowness and haste of judgment. Look with tenderness upon those we love and divide, we pray, our happiness with them. May we forget those who hate us - v and cherish those who love us and O Lord, wo pray Thee? Make us very kind. Dumb Need. Need is- never so desperate as when it is uuiuu. u it> ucyci ow to the ey? of God, never so apparent to His pity as when shut up in the ?, soul of some speechless man. Centre of All Things. Jesus Christ is both the condemna- a tion of whai we are, and the promise i of what wo can be. He is the centre ^ of all things, and the final interpreta- ^ tlon of the universe. i Vitalized Truth. 1 New truth does not need the annl- J liilation of old truth. _ Better one g truth vitalized in your cnnstian ex- .m {ierience than whole systems of trutha vine: fallow in your brain. V Jealous A'ursc Ends Life. Because Arthur Poole, her hoy sweetheart, was paying attentions to a little girl with dresses to her shoetops and twenty-five years her junior, Mrs. Lillian A. Ashley, a trained nurse gi uieveiana, wno naa eiopea with Poole to Pittsburg, Pa., committed suicide by shooting. 5 Sewers Would Girdle Earth. i A bulletin issued by the Censua Bureau shows that, combined, the Jj sewers in the 157 largest cities of the United States would girdle the ey