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. / ..THE GREAT UNSATISFIED. f The men who are not satisfied Are they who set the pace The men who do not meet defeat With calm, contented face; The men who labor on and on, With minds and fingers skilled They are the great unsatisfied Who plan, and fight, and build. The men who are not satisfied They are the ones who lead; ' They force humanity ahead By strident word and deed; They bring, us out of.bygone ways; They guide us through the dark To where some man, unsatisfied, Has set E. shining mark. The men who are not satisfied They, gird the world with wires; They belt the land with rails of steel, And piere the air with spires; They loose the leash of sweet content Witi which mankind is tied. We'll never pay the debt we owe The men unsatisfied. .-W. D. Nesbit, in Baltimore American. T'S. queer how some of these bright est, best college fellows fail to "land" when the real struggle be gins. Take Ingham. for :'nstance; he was the star of every year from freshman to graduating, a football hero and a man among the many men of his year. And yet when he left college and started in "on his own hook," so to speak, he didn't seem to be appre ciated. His mother said he was too modest; his father said he was a dreamer, and Marie Franz, who had worshiped him at school, said: "Give him time; he's a bit slow, but he'll get there." She went to Chicago to study music the same week that 8aw Ingham In stalled as a clerk In the Bank of Cres ton. A clerkship in a country bank Isn't calculated to emblazon the genius of any man, but the job looked alluring to Ingham, who was poor, and he took it because he loved his mother and wanted to nurture her old age. He wrote queer, rambling letters to Marie every week and in answer got words of cheer, praise and enconragement. She told him that Chicago was "the place," and that half the successful men might go to school to him with profit. When Ingham's mother died he had a few hundre;1 dollars saved up and the funeral e::penses left him enough to pay his way to the city. It took him three weeks to find employment, and then he was a bit ashamed o: his posi tion. Bill clerk in a soap factory is not the situation calculated to thrill the vanity of a college graduate, but Ingham could have borne his humilia tion better if a visit to Marie had not "WHAT ARE YOU GOIN~G TO DO, ,TOE?" sHE ASKED. been a necessity to his life. Hie con cealied frozi her the fact of his pres ence 1:ntil he had found work, and then. with a swelling heart and a sense of hia degradation he called at her ad dress in Woodlawn. He found her a woman and remnem bered her as a co-ed. She was glad to see him, and therefore lie was sorry he bad come. Hie intended to bare his confidence to the girl who had been his chum at college, but to the radiant woman whom he saw and who called him "Joe' wi-:h an odd mixture of fa miliarity and reserve, he could say nothing at all. So he sat dull and hec tic while she chattered away about her suacesses, her hopes, her friends, memories. Then: "What are you going to do-Joe?" she asked. "I don't know exactly," lhe said, flushing with the memory of' his soap factory. "You know, Miss Franz, ,I-" "Miss F'ranz'" she ejaculated; "since when, pray? Here I am calling you Joe and you come back with 'Miss F'ranz.' Now, don't do that, Joe." "Well, then, Marie," he resumed, the pallor of hope whitening his good face; "well, you know I haven't much choice. It's a case of work with me. I haven't a sou, you know, and what ever I do-at first, anyway-must be for the money there is In it. I've got a place--" "Good for you." she laughed. "Good boy. And you just came. I told you It was orly a question of nerve." "I think I have that." he was say ing, but she rattled ahead: "Look at Charley Hiughes. lie's here, already a rising-some say a br!l llant-young lawyer. Why, you al ways excelled him at college, didn't you, Joe? Of course, he's a lovely fel low- (Ingham winced again) and I like him ever so much, but the point is, he's no smarter than you, is he?" "Why, I didn't know Hughes was here," said the diffident Joe, his .gorge r'isingat,the.tiought that perhaps Ma rie' had already seen so much of his old classmate that her interest in him self was secondary; "do you see much "Yes; we're great friends, ypu know; that 1s4Vell he calls abbit twice a weda i t bMe hn'yes tdled lookiag at the clock. Then she ro sumed: "By the way, can't you come out to our Browning Club meet Thursday. Char-Mr. Hughes is to be there. and1 you ought to begin to 'mix' a little, as they call it. He's going to give a read ing of some sort. You and I can go--" "Will you go with me?" Joe was U alert now. "Yen may be scre I will." So they agreed to go to the Browning symposium, and Ingham went home with a new hope and an indomitable t determination in his guileless heart. They were In the west-bound cars, t radiant, expectant and happy, going to the club, and sure of the old camera derie, when Ingham, seeking for a t topic, said: "By the way, Miss Marie-" "Just Marie will do," she corrected. "All right, Marie; but talking of Hughes-y'ou said he was on to-night's program-do you remember the medal t, he got for that essay junior year?" f "Yes, indeed; it was about woman, a wasn't it?" n "Well, yes: about mothers-the title r was 'The Christian Mother.' How did a you like that?" "It was grand! Don't you remember b how everybody carried on over it? I Why, I never did take any Interest In It Char-Mr. Hughes - till he delivered ti that oration. Don't you know how r mamma cried over it? It was a glor- p ious thing! I never suspected he had 1f so much soul, did you?" a "Well, he never had, as a matter of a fact," whispered Joe Ingham, handing I the conductor a dime. "Fact is, I wrote f that oration myself, wrote it for him t because he was eaten up with a desire t to get a medal. You know he never had much ability, and his father was everlastingly nagging him to distin guish himself. He did distinguish him self that night-with my oration. I 1 don't begrudge him the honor, but he never Wiowed; me any gratitude. On the contrary, he always boasted that no man of '99 could have written such a masterpiece." "Why, Joe," said Marie, coming a closer, and with .: face drawn and her eyes abroad. "Joe, you don't mean it? Why, it wasn't honest; it was a fraud; surely Charley Hughes wouldn't r have stooped-" "Oh! It was all right to palm off the' oration, Marie, but it was the way he acted afterward that hurt me. You know the last time he was at Creston he never so much as called to see me." And little Marie, wondering and flut tered, waited till they were off the car before she said: r "Joe, I'm sorry I didn't know you and Mr. Hughes were on bad terms. I've promised to let him escort me 't home to-night, and-" t "Why didn't he take you to the en tertainment also"' Mr. Ingham w.. nettled. usy upper ~e. But I 'told him I'd go to ~ith him afterward and-and-1 n ,ded." "Not at all. Marie," he idpoldly, * "Go ahead. I'm accustomed to getting left." And poor Marie was most unhappy when they entered the crowded hall. The usher could not find two chairs to. gether for them, so Marie sat in the front row and Joe Ingham, in a sullen mood, sat three rows behind her. When the time came for Charles Hughes to appear the chairman of the meeting4a stepped forward and said: "The next number on the program Is a paper by Mr. Charles Hughes, the1 eminent youn.g lawyer. Is Mr.-Hughes In the house?"t There was a bustle about the doors and directly Mr. Hughes-"Stupidity"1 Hughes, as the college boys used to call him, entered and rushed forward2 with a great show of bustle. He mounted the stage, took a sip of water and said: "Ladles and gentlemen of the Brown ing Club, friends and fellow citizens: I have been so busy with numerous new and old law oases within the past few days that I'ie been unable to pre are a set address. However, In a few moments of leisure this afternoon I dashid off a little paper, entitled 'The 1 Christnal Mother.' " At the words Marie Franz looked around and her blue eyes blazed when Joe Ingham smiled a knowing smile. Then Mr. Hughes, "the eminent young lawyer," launched Into the resonant and rounded periods of his "dashed-off" i address. Joe and Marie met in the crush at the door when the show was over. Mr. Hughes was yet the lion of the dissolv ing audience. Women were weeping as they shook his hand. "Well, good-night, Marie," said Joe with a quizzical look in his eyes. "Was it your oration?" she whis pered, locking resentfully at the crowd about Hughes. "Word for word," ar.swered Joe. "Let's go home, Joe, dear," she mur mured. And when the orator of the evening came for the praise that was to be the breath of his nostrils the hall was very empty.-Joh2n Fl. Raftery, in the Chicago Record-Herald. E Knew it Was Sarah. An old man would not believe he could hear his wife talk at a distance of five miles by telephone. His "bet ter half" was in a country shop several inles away, where there was a tele phone, and the skeptic also was in t. place where there was a similar Instru ment. On being told how to operate it, he walked boldly up and shouted, "Hulloa,. Sarah!" At that instint lightning struck the telephone wire and knocedthe man down. As he scram ble~t. his feet he ekeltedly cried Agricultural To Prevent Soft-Shelled Eggs. If soft-shelled eggs appear in the oultry house during the winter the roper thing to do is to cut down the eed-the morning feed, not the one rhich is given in the afternoon. Soft helled eggs are almost positive proof . lat the hens are too fat, and the best ray to get rid 9f the fat is to make he hens work it off in the scratching laterial. - For the morning feed no Iore than one handful of wheat n hens should be given as long ft-shelled eggs are found in ests. Farm Implement Makers.' It is certainly, ' great conplimen > inventive genius and to the manU acturers of farm implements to be ble to say truthfully that the improve lent in agricultural implements as ow manufactured has reduced the verage time in the production of a. ushel of corn from four and a . ours to forty-one minutes, and t as reduced the cost of labor fro birty-five and three-fourth cents n and one-half cents a bushel. A eduction in the time and expense of roducing wheat, oats and the other, arm products has been accomplished lso by the wonderful improvements lade In farm implements. This- has een done since 1850, in the face of the act that labor on the farm during hat period has advanced at least forty o fifty per cent. Ensilage or Boots. The cost of growing corn -cutting it ud putting -it in the silo, -has been ariously reported at almost. all figures om $1 to $3 per ton. We do not doubt at that It has been done for the malfer- sum when' the land' has bee>t lade rich and well cultivated, and the lost modern improvements were at and to do the work, but we think fair average would be nearer ouble that with the ordinary farmer, ven in a favorable season. But there re not many who would like to grow oots for feeding to stock at that price. ,ertainly we know of none who would are to sell them at that price, and ew would care to grow them at $4 ton if they could grow other crops nd find a ready cash market for them. ,s regards the value of them, an. .4'er ge of the various roots show that the ame amount of each fed with equal ations of hay and grain resulted a ttle in favor of the roots, but this was zore than offset by the twoifacts bat the roots cannot be kept in as ood condition for late spring ot sum ier feeding as can the ensilage, and hat there is more apt to be a p from droll; edmany to bleethat g nsilage to feed In the summer en astures are growing poorer Is 31 nost as much importance, and e ay more, than having it in the. -American Cultivator. Keeping Eggs For Winter U There are several methods of. - ng eggs for winter use. The b One a to dip each egg in melted p fin; thien it- coagulates on the gaiface xamine carefully and pour a little itra paraffin on the spots imperfectly overed. When the air is entirely ex luded from the egg it will keep a long mie if put away In a cool, d.-y place. 'ack In a nice wooden box two or biree layers deep, small end down. If >araffin is not at hand, good melted eef drippings or lard may t.e used in tead, and with this you can feel ure of your eggs for two months or nore, if they are kept in a cool place, vhere the fat will not turn rancid. rhe grease fills the pores and shuts ut the air, and thus keeps the egg rom disintegrating. Another excellent way to pack eggs or winter use is to press them, small nd down, in a bed of common salt, not rock salt). When one layer is >laced, fill in all around carefully with :he salt and place in a second layer ,f eggs and so continue until the box a full. Press the salt lightly but irmly in place, so that all air Is ex ,luded, and they will be good for two >r three months. To choose a fresh egg hold It up to :he light; the white should be clear id the yolk distinct. An egg that is lot good will have a clouded appear tuce. Another thing: The white will >erfectly fill the shell if an egg Is resh; as the egg ages, the albumen brinks. It will be necessary to in pect each egg, holding it between your ~yes and a lamp, candle or gas jet, be ore packing it for future use.-Chi ~ago Record-Herald. Raising Calves by Hand. To one who has had experience in ~aising calves by hand, the matter eems simple enough, but to the inex Jerlenced a little Information may not e out of place, as mistakes are lia le to be made that lead to serious ie sults. It is really better for the calf f it Is allowed to remain for three lays, or even a week with its mother, as it gets a better start that way, al though this may cause a little more rouble in teaching it to drink. At first, iew milk must be given, and fed direct from the cow, If possible; if not, warm the milk before feeding, as It must ever be given cold. Be gentle In tandling the calf, it can be managed nuch easier. I Nold its head down to te milk, p1 4eIe hand in milk and In iert the fln In calf's mouth until itgets a of the milk andin a ay or two will learn to'drink with Deed all mitt that enq be spared, ad sate. .change frtease -a1k to milk gradually. A spoon ful meal added to the milk is be , and if any symptoms of s cur, a spoonful of flour, or an eg in the milk may be given. In skimmed milk it is well to nch of soda frequently, to p estion. Dry meal or bran m In a few weeks give the c flean hay, or even straw. b der is better when one has i d corn, either ground or be fed night and morn about four months of age Va y be substituted for milk. If 'efuses to drink water when it is leave th, water in the pen or and when it becomes very thirsty if will drink.-Ella L. Layson, in e Epitomist. Shirgles a e iails I Ish to say just a word on the sub 3 of shingling. Farmers and stock from the nature of their occupa require, large, commodious sheds, pens, coops, etc. All e buildings must be covered with e cheap, effective, water-tight ma and wooden shingles, taking country as a whole and conditions t..generally prevail, are esteemed osr practicable for the purpose. The cedar shingles are the most eco omical in the end, as they can be laid fa*er and are far more certain o make a tight roof than the cheaper es containing knots that are most stu1o give trouble, sooner or later. Buy the grade marked "Extras," and do. not begrudge the "extra" cost. 'Now comes a very vital point, name ly. the kind of nail to be used to fasten the shingles. This matter has received very sure and practical demonstration In'this section of the country. Never use a wire nail of any description. Be sure to employ a cut nail every time. Furthermore, use an iron cut nail of pfoper size; not a steel cut nail. The wire nail will not stand the moisture conditionsgwbich.prevail on a roof. It is MvlkiI, rapidly corrodes under damp ness, and very often will drop shingles that have been laid less than five years, shingles that have not seen one-third their period of usefulness. This makes it very expensive, and I know of many losses of this kind that are to be traced to the use of the wire nail. The steel cut nail, while vastly better for the purpose than the wire, is very inferior to the iron nail. Steel cor rodea much faster than iron. This has been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt in the case of steam boiler tubes, as well as with roof coverings. I myself recently was working on an old roof, removing old shingles that had been laid thirty years, and replac ing them with new ones. This roof was shingled with the old-fashioned iron nail, and this nail was tough and strong, necessitating much effort in taking off the old shingles. This matter of shingle nails is no wire ~advocated but a short time since in a certain newspaper article, whcre as I positively know that to use a wire nail In sh'ngling will Invariably result in financial loss.-M. Sumner Perkins, in the Country Gentleman., Contrivance For Handling Straw. When straw is stacked outside the barn and some of it is wanted in the stable for feeding or bedding. purposes the usual plan is to carry in a little at a time on a fork or in a rope or strap sling. This in the use of a fork is anything but a speedy operation, next to impossible on a windy day, and with a sling a very unpleasant job in cold weather. Procure first somne light laths, say three-quarters by twvo Inches, and make an almost squasre frame, using eleven of the lath pieces as if making a box with one corner left out. On the inside of this frame, at the desired height nail two heaviler and longer pieces for handles. A. couple of three by one inch boards, proper length and with one end narrowed down to 'rAW LxD HAY DAnnZow fitthe bands, will answer for the handle pieces. On the botto:n of the framn' nal laths or boards, letting the two nearest the centre project about six it.ches in front. These should be a littli! heavier than the othias, to pre vent springing. Between the project ing ends place a small wooden wheelI six or eight inches in diameter. This wheel may be a circular piece cut from a one or one and a half inch board, and have a light Iron band fitted on to keep it from splitting, or be a wheel f:om an old barrow or something sim ilar. -A light wire spoke wheel from a toys wagon is excellent for the pur pose. The axle on which the wheel re voves Is attached to the under side of jhe projecting pieces of the frame liy a staple driven over it into each piece. The two rear upright pieces of the frame extend down level with the lower rim of the wheel to act as feet Put braces across the front (as indicated by dotted lines) to strengthen the frame and hold in the straw. Other light strips may be tacked on the sides of the frame to serve the same pur pose. If the contrivance in made of the right material, it will combine strength with .lightness and be very durable. If made only two and one-half by three by tour feet. It wi!l hold a eaheable qaatn ot. -taar and be teiund a ON PRACTICAL PIETY REV. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Argues That We Cannot Neglect Our Religious Duties and Prosper in Our Business. WAsIrncGTON, D. C.-In this discourse Dr. Talmage advocates the idea that the Christian religion is as good for this world as the next, and will help us to do any thing that ought to be done at all; I Tim othy iv, 8, "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come." There is a gloomy and passive way of waiting for events to come upon us, and there is a heroic way of going out to meet them, strong in God and fearing nothing. When the body of Catiline was found on the battlefield, it was found far in advance of all ais troops and among the enemy, and the best way is not for us to lie down and let the events of life trample over us, but to go forth in a Christian spirit deter mined to conquer. You are expecting pros perity, and I am determined, so far as I have anything to do with it, that you shall ot be disappointed, and, therefore, I pro pose, as God may help me, to project upon vour attention a new -element of success. You have in the business firm frugality, patience, industry, perseverance, economy -a very strong business firm--but there needs to be one member added, mightier than them all, and not a silent partner either, the one introduced by my text, "Godliness, which is profitable unto all things, having the promise of the life that aow is as well as of that which is to come." I suppose you are all willing to admit that godliness is important in its eternal relations, but perhaps some of you say, "All I want is an opportunity to say a prayer before I die, and all will be well." There are a great many people who sup pose that if they can finally get safely out of this world into a better world they will have exhausted the entire advantage of our holy religion. They talk as though re ligion were a mere nod of recognition which we are to give to the Lord Jesus on pur way to a heavenly mansion; as though It were an admission ticket, of no use ex cept to give in at the door of heaven. And there are thousands of people who have great admiration for a religion of the shroud and a religion of the coffin and a religion of the cemetery who have no '.p preciation of a religion for the. bank, for the farm, for the factory, for the ware house, for the jeweler's shop, for the office. Now, while I would not throw any slur on a post-mortem religion, I want to-day to eulogize an ante-mortem religion. A relig ion that is of no use to you while you live will be of no use to you when you die. "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is as well as of that which is to come." And I have always noticed that when grace is very low in a man's heart he talks a great deal in prayer meetings about deaths and about coffins and about graves and about churchyards. I have noticed that the healthy Christian, the man who is living 'iear to God and is on the straight road to heaven. is full of jubilant satisfaction and talks about the dutics of this life, under standing well that if God helps him to live right He will help him to die right. Now, in the first place, I remark that godliness i3 good for a man's physical health. I do not mean to say that it will restore a broken down constitution or drive rheumatism from the limbs or neura! gia from the temples or pleurisy from the side, but I do mean to say that it gives one such habits and puts one in such con dition as are most favorable for physical health. T3.s+_ elieve, and that I avow. unrest, dejection, are at war with every pulsation of the heart and with every res piraton of the lungs. They lower the vi tality and slacken the circulation, while exhilaration of spirit pours the very balm f heaven through all the currents of life. The sense of insecurity which sometimes hovers over an unregenerate man or pounces upon him with the blast of ten thousand trumpets of terror is most depl.et ing and most exhausting, while the feeling that all things are working together for o~r good now and for our everlasting we1 far u~ conducive to physical health.. You will observe that godliness induces indutry, which is the foundation of good heath. There is no law of hygiene that will keep a lazy man well. Pleurisy.will siab him, erysipclas will burn him, jaun dice will discolor him. gout will cripr.'e hi, and the intellirot physic:an .will not prescribe antiseptic or febrifuge or anodyne, but saws and hammers and ya.rdsticks and crocrhar3 and pick asc. There is r.o e-ich thing .as good poesical condition without positive workr osome kind, although you shou.d s.e on down of swan or ride in carriage 't softest upholstery o1- have on your table all the luxuries that were poured from the wine vats of Jepahan and Shiiraz. Our re ligion sv'y: "Away to the bank, away to. the field, aray to the shop, a.way to the factory! DJo somiethinig that will enhst ,a,1 the energies of your body, mind r.nd soul" "Diigent in basiness. fervent in spira. serving the Lord," while upon the bare beck of the idler and the drone comes down the sharp lash of the a-postle a, he says, "If any man will not work, neither shall he cat." Oh, how important is this day, when so muc is said about anatomy and phyal) log and tharapeuties ar.d scoie new styve o medicine is ever and anon springing upon the world, that you should under stand that the highest school of -medicine is the school of Chrisi. which declares that "godliness is profitable unto all things, havin the promise of the life that now is as wll as of that which is to come." So if you etart out two men in the world with eq'ual physical health, and then one of Ithem shall get the religion of Christ in his Iheart and the other thall not get it. the' one who becomes a son of the Lord Al mighty will live the longer. "With lon, life wil I satisfy him and show him My Again I re:nark that godlliness is good for the intLellect. I know some have suo posed that just as soon as a man enters into the Christian life his intellect goes into-a hedwarfing p)roces. So 'srfo that, religion will give r.cw brilliancy to he intellect, new st.'ength to the imagina tion, new force to the will and wider swing to all the intellectual faculties. Christianity is the great central tire at which philosophy has lighted its brightes. torch... Te religion of Christ is tho fountamn out of wihich learning has dip.d its e.ear est draft. The Helicon pouired forth no such inspiring waters as those which flow from under the throne of God e.ear as cry4?ai. ,eigion h'as guven new er.ergy to poes:' weeig in Dr. Young's "Night Thougats," r.eamng in Cowper's "Task." flaming .in Charles Wesley's hymns and rush:nz with rchangelic splendor through Milton's "Paradise Lost." The reliron of Christ has hung in studio and in gallery of art anid in Vatican the best pictures-Titian s As; sumption," Raphae.'s "Transfiguration, Riuben's "Descent From the Cross," Claude's "Burning Bush" and Ange.o's "Last~ Judgment." Religion has made the best music of the word-Haydn's ,"Crea tion," Jiandel's '"Messiah," Mozart' 'Re quiem." Is it possible that a religion which builds such indestructible monu mets, and which lifts its ensign on the 4hest promontoreis of worldly. powe~ nhave ay efect upon a mans's intelleet t evatios '.... auma oadEeas the beut mental discipline, better than belles lettres to purify the taste, better than mathemat ics to harness the mind to all intricacy and elaboration, better than logic to marshal the intellectual forces for onset and vic tory. Again I remark that. godliress is profit able for one's disposition. Lord Ashley, before he went into a great battle, was heard to offer this prayer: "O Lurd, I shall be very busy to-day! If I forget The:, for get me not." With such a Christian dispo sition as that a man is indep:ndent of all circumstances. Our piety will have a tinge cf our natural temperament. If a man be cross and sour and fretful naturally, after he becomes a. Christian he will always have to be arnet against the rebellion of those evil inclina tions. But religion has turned the wi:dest na tures. It has turned fretfulness into grat itude, despondency into good cheer, --nd those who were hard and ungover-iaole and uncompromising have been made pii able and conciliatory. Good resolution, reformatory effort, will not effect the change. It taL.s a mightier arm and a mightier hand to bend evil hab its than the hand that bent the bow of Ulysses, and it takes a stronger lasso than ever held the buffalo on the prairie. A manufacturer cares but very little for a stream that slowly runs through the meadow; but values a torrent that leaps from rock to rock and rush^s with mad energy through the valley and out toward the sea. Along that river you will find fluttering shuttles and grinding mill and flashing water wheel. And a nature the swiftest the most rugged and the most tremonfous-that is the nature that God turns into greatest usefulness. Religion will give an equipoise of spirit. It will keep you from ebullitions of tem per, and you know a great many fine busi nesses have been blown to atoms by had temper. It will keep you from worriment about frequent loss; it will keep you back from squandering and from dissipation; it will give you a kindness of spirit whicii will be easily distinguighed from that mer& store courtesy which shakes hands violent ly with you, asking about the health of your family, when there is no anxiety to know whether your child is well or sick, but the anxiety is to know how many dozen cambric pocket handkerchiefs yoz will take and pay cash down. It will pre pare you for the practical du.ies of, every day life. In New York City there was a merchant. hard in his dealings with his fellows, who had written over his banking house or his counting house room, "No compromise." Then when some merchant got in a 'criss and went down-no fault of his, but a con junction of evil circumstances-and all the other merchants were willing to conMorXt-.. mise-they would take seventy-live cents on the dollar or fifty cents or twenty cents -coming to this man last of all. he sa'd: "No compromise. I'll take 100 cents on the dollar, and I can afford to wait." Well. the wheel turned, and after awhile that man was in a crisis of business, and he sent out his agent to compromise. and the agent said to the merchants, "Will you take fifty cents on the dollar?" "No." "Will you take anything?" "We'l take 100 cents on the do!'r. No compromise." And the man who wrote that inscrintion nrer his counting house door died in dectitution. Oh, we want more bf the kiidne; of the gospel and the spir of love in our hi-:e's enterprises! How many young men have found in tl'e religion of Jesus Christ a pra:tical help? How many there are to-day who could tes tify out of their own experience that god liness is profitable for the life that now is! There were times in their business career when they went here for help and there for help and yonder for help and got no help until they knelt before the Lord cry ing for His deliverance, and the Lord res In a bank not far from New village bank-an officer coul!d not balance his accounts. He had-worked at them day after day, night after night, and he was sick nigh untodeaths aresult. He knew that he had not takren one farthing from that bank, but somehow, for some reason, insrutable then, the accounts would not balance. The time rolled on and the morn ing of the.day when the books should pass under the inspection of the other officers arrived, and he felt himself in awful peril, conscious of his own integrity, but unable to prove that integrity. That morning he went to the bank early, and he knelt down before God and told the whole story of mental anguish, and he said: "0 Lord. I have done ' ht, I have preserved my mn tegrity, but .ere I am a bout to be over thrown unless Thou shouldst come to ,wy rescue. Lord, deliver mc." And for one hour he continued the prayer betuge G.od. and then he arose and went to an o.d blot te that he had forgotten all abut. He opened it, and there lay a sheet of figures which he only needed to add to another 1ine of figureG-somec line cf figures he had fo:otten and knew not where he had laid tiee-and the accojnts i.e oa viced, an.d the Lord delivered him. You are an inu !e if yoa do rot believe it. Tfhe Lord de Mic:ed him. God answered his prayer, .as He will answer y.our prayer. ohi,mnsf ousieCss, in everyv crisis when you comue to. Now, if this be so, then I am pertad.ed, s you are, of the fact that the vast major ityof Christians do rnot inilv tost the value 0 their religion. They are :il:e a farmer ia Caifornia with 15,009 acres of good wheat land and culturing only a quarter of an acre. Why do you not go forth a,d .n.ke the religion of Jesus Christ a pract>-al affair every day of your business life a,d all this year, beginning-now, and to-morrow, morn ing putting into pw.ctical efice.t thr. holy religion and demonstrating that x-.irue5 is roitable here as well as herea(t'.r? How can' you. get along wi'hout this re ligion? Is your physical health ao goodI you do not want this divine tornic? Is your mzind so c:ear, so vast, so co:npre -ensive, that you do not want this div:ne m.ep;ra tion? Is yo-ur wor1ly bus'ss so thor oughly established that you have no use for ti'at religion which has been the help and deliverauce of tens of thoutsar.ds of men in cr.ses of wor:diy troub'e? A,d if what I have said is true then you see. :hat a fatal b:under it is when a rixa, a:Uourns to lie's expiration the uses of re.igion. A n,- nuwho postpones religion to sity years of age p,ets reli:rion fifty year.s too late. He may get into the kingdonm of God oy final repenare, b,t what can con-nen.'.te him for a whole lifetime una' evrted and un cmnfor;.edi? You wa,'t r-e.iion to-day ia tme trainin.g of that chi:4. You w'.z want re;on to-morrow in dea'ing with that customer. You wanted re igon y ,tcrday to aro your tempeWr- Is you ar S. o;1 enw to bent yor way. tihro~ mi me. oodt Can you, without byLn .u> d ma tIm flhily of Coa's ettr.-C he>'. go fOrth am the avau:t of a:1 hel.'s .w:, ers? Ca1you wr:k a:o-" arem tuise c-ru'nbine graves and amid thy'm iun't earthquakes? Can you. water op:d and mast 5hivered, outlive the gale? 0h, how many there have been who, postpo-nng the religion of Jesus Christ, have plunged into mistakes they could never correct. aethough they lived sixty years after. and like r.er pents crushed under cart wheela dragging their mauled bodies under the rocks to die. So these men have fallen under the wheel of awful calamity. while a vast multitude of others have taken the religion of .lesus Christ into everyday life, and. first, in practical business affairs, and, second, on the throne of heavenly triumph, have illus trated while angels looked on and a un verse approved, the glorious truth that "godliness is profitsble unto all things, higthe premise of the life whicha now to swl as ofthat wihk.i to enune." . 8 em as a msca