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'I HE I From th., clatter of the :inotype machine What a world of worthy matter we ce glean! From the merry Yuletide story To the battle sotg of g:orv; From the hymn of joy and gladness To ti e tale ,f woe and sadness. In the ch:tter. catter, clatter, in the nevi ceasing chatter, In the chatter of the linotype mach:ne! Hear the rattle! Hear the rattle, rattle, rattle, Like the musketry of battle. As it tells of surging thousands on tl frozen Asian sands As it tells of shrapnels' shrieking, As it tells of camps' dire reeking, As it speaks of warring columns in ti Oriental lands. Thundering louder, louder, louder, Till you seem to smell the powder. Seem to see the soldiers flying, Falling wounded, bleeding. dying Begging for a cup of water All is told-the cheers. the slaughter, In the rattle of the linotype machine. Then the singing! Then the gentle. gentle singing Of the little children bringing Gifts to many hungry humans in the gru some lanes and ways! In the offa!-crowded centers, Where no sunlight ever enters. Where little ones are born in vice, an - vicious end their days. We can hear the childish singing From the pure hearts blithly springin; As the matrices are dropping from tl s.otted machine, Like the sound of water failing Like a feathered songster's calling Is the singing of the linotype machime. Then the laughter! Then the dear. contagious ;aughter, .As the matrices drop faster. Outwitting By Heb ,XJC. ARRY Ellen Hosmei Marry a perfect begga: - M 0 Why, Herbert de Lisl are you a fool, or craz; or what, that you dare 1 talk to me about that girl'" And old Ralph de Lisle brought hi tlinched 1ist down on the marble-to table beside which he was sitting wit an energetic movement quite unusui to him, while his low brow contracte and his spare. bloodless face gre' purple with rage. "Then you wcil not consent?" said hi calmly. "Never!" and the old, white-inire father fairly roared the word. "Hav I toiled and economized all these yeai to see my mcney thrown away on pauper? We shall see about that, si: I always said you had not a partie! of the de Lisle pride.~ You are Randa all over. There's your mother, nos I've no doubt she would rejoice to se you tied for life to that girl. I cot sidered my promise to her dying fathe fulfilled when I brought her home t feed and clothe her, and it was no pla ,of mine that she should be educate :and taught to fill a daughter's place i the family, where, by rights, she shoul have been only a menial. Still, I di 2mot object as I should, and'now the ut :grateful mni wants to step in as th future Mistress de Lisle, does she Away from me! and remember,' Isabe ~-.- Deaver is the woman you are t snarry; and mind, too, that you hav iiothing more to say to that baby-face .crcature of my bounty." ,i Herbert moved toward the door i scornful silence, which but aggrav'ate the old man the more. Springing to his feet, he exclaimes ~ehemently: --I shall watch you, sir. There mus be no more billing and cooing, I ca tell yeu that. If you but so much t speak again to that girl, I will cut yo off with a dollar:" For a moment an angry tide swel .across the face of the younger i. Li-sle. When 1$passed, his face we a trifle pakt. th'an 'efore, and his lij .were slightly compressed, but thei was a mocking gleam of mischief in h eyes as he answered:' "Father. I shall marry Ellen yet, at with your full permission." The old man was more than ever el raged, and his voice sounded hollo and sepulchral, and every word he u1 tered was cut off with a pugilistic ge ture of his clenched fist.. "When I give my consent to. yol marriage with Ellen Hosmer I sha be either an idiot or a lunatic, and sl shall be at once installed mistress a de Lisle Hall." Ralph de Lisle was not to be hoo winked by any pretty devices of tI young man or his mother. He f< lowed Herbert about the house til his shadow. Mrs. de Lisle was vexe her son was angry. "As old as I am," he muttered "nearly thirty-to be followed abol like a baby that's in danger of tur bling into the fire " Ellen grew m~orbidly sensitive und this constant espionage, and wou run away whenever she saw Herbe appIroachling., If M1rs. de Lisle t'.ok Ellen und. her wjng for a walk, and glanced ca ually on departing at her son, the o man understood p)erfectly~ well that tI ghm ec "mne:at something."' and He( bert was kept as closely uinder his e. as a cat ever kept tihe prey she lit doon:ed for her din net. But after at time Mrs. de Lisle d sisted from her strange maneuvre Herbert gave up all attempts to co verse privately with Ellen, and b gan absenting himself from the hou. for wvhole days at a time. Not long after this, Ralph de Lisle oft-repeatted assertion that Eilen w: tickle and volatile seemed to me with corroboration, for a new woot who came in the loose garb of a sailc and who constantly wore a broa brimmed hat, seemed to have cot pletely turned the young girl's head. Ho'v or whence he came Ralph d not know. His wife assured him th the sailor had b)eeni properly introduct by a mutual friend, and he was t< rejoiced at the turn affairs had takt to ask many questions. How ghi the old man felt that his son stay< away from home so much. He w uneasy every time he saw the sailom broad hat overshadowing Ellen's I Vle sundown in the garden, lest He ~bert should return and impede il progress of this, to him at least, d sirable courtship. trac e.sar devotion to Ellen hecar ,INOTYPE. Faster, faster, ever faster, like a pelting a summer rain! Merry words, in leaden matter, Speak to us above the clatter Laugh away our morbid fancies and the demon darts of pain. Speak not of fair Luna's phases, r But of daffodils and daisies; Of some happy situation, of some mirth provoking scene, Till our hearts cast out the hateful And we're truly, truly grateful For the laughter of the linotype machine. e Then the dirges! Then the solemn, mournful dirges, As the plunger deftly merges In the molten, unskimmed metal in the e superheated pot! Lo! it tells in sombre measure Of the fleeting lifh of treasure, Tells of visions of that land the joy of which man knoweth not. Who has passed thro' death's dark portal, Who must stand before his Maker with a soul uncouthly mean. His had been a record gory, And we marvel at the story In the dirges of the linotype machine. From the clatter of the linotype machine, What a wor:d of worthy matter we can :lean! As the skillful operator. d With a mystic sort of ease, Nimbly passes o'er the keyboard, With its symbol-written keys: How the matrices come dropping, .e And the spacebands, never stopping, Like a scented summer shower In a leafy elfin bower Oh, the mighty. mighty power in the lino type machine! And what thoughts we gain each hour From the clatter. clatter. clatter, From the never-ceasing chatter, From the chatter of the linotype machine! -Sunlocks. in the Bowler. Irk a Fatherl mna Dixon. C more and more apparent, and Herbert absented himself more than ever, and , made no attempt to regain Ellen's wandering affections when he w-is at o home. Mrs. de Lisle watched the progress s of the sailor's love-making complacent p ly, and the old man was perfectly de ti lighted both with Ellen and her suitor, Il and began contemplating purchasing a d certain cozy cottage he knew of as a v bridal gift to his ward. Ralph de Lisle was seated in his li brary one evening, thinking delighted ly how, with Ellen married, it would d be an easy thing to bring about the e much-desired match between Herbert s and Isabel Denver. when a servant en a tered to say that Miss Ellen's beau wanted to see him. e The sailor entered and bowed awk l wardly enough to the dignitled man ; who rose to receive him. The broad e brimmed hat, which not one of the t- family had yet seen him repiove, kept r its place even in the auguAt presence o of Ralph de Lisle, who wondered men a -tally whether he wore it in bed, and I concluded that custom on shipboard a must have been the constant wearing I of his hat a habit with the sailor. I "You ward, Miss Ellen, is very beau ttiful and good," began the young mhan, e stammeringly, and no doubt blushing ? ly, though little of his whiskered face I was visible. 0' Old Ralph rubbed his hands together e gleefully, and determined to help the I embarrassed lover. "That's a fact," said he; "she is a handsome, and a better girl never lived. I You wish my consent to marry her ?" The sailor hung his head. I, "Yes, if you please." "She's the same as a daughter to us, t you see, and we shall miss her terribly. a But her happiness is the main thing. s If the dear girl layes you, and wishes u to marry you, I haven't the least ob jection. Sailors are good, whole-souled it fellows, I know, and you'll be kind to eour dorling." s "I'll try my best to make her happy,' s5 said the lover,*in a mumbling tone; 'C "but I'm not a sailor, as these clothes s make you think. I got them under price, so I bought them. I am poor, d and have to economize. But I amc young and strong, and will take care 1- that your ward does not lack for the a comforts of life." Then, after a short t pause, he added: "I feared you might s withhold your consent on account of my poverty." ir "Poverty: Nonsense!" said old Ralph, 11 magnanimously. "Not consent be C cause you are poor? Why, riches f should never be.weighed against the -heart and its affections; and if you are I- not a sailor, as we supposed, you are I a noble fellow, 1. am sure; and let you - be who you will, I believe you are :e worthy to be Ellen's husband, and you I; shall have her, too, since you are both agreed, in spite of poverty or any - thing else. So you see, I have great it confidence in you." 1"H'm!" muttered the young man, and with a repetition of his awkward r obeisance, he left the room. d Ralph de Lisle, through his wife, t supplied Ellen's purse handsomely for the purchase of her wedding trousseau, r but as she was to marry a poor mar s- she p)referred not to sperid money s< d foolishly, she said. So her bridal dress i was simply a white mull, and very ~- sweet and pretty she looked, as will C her eyes e'ast down and her cheeks red .d der than the reddest rose, she stood in the great drawing-room of de Lisli e- Hall in the presence of a very few s.friends of her own and tire family's, i- who were met to witness the marriage. e- The bridegroom gave her loving te glances from under the inevitable broad-brimmed hat, which he shocke' ' Ralph de Lisle by actually getting mar ts ed in. t "It's the most outlandish thing r. ever heard of. and some one ought tc r, tell him," muttered old Ralph, as th< 1- ceremony was about to be performed i- "but if Mrs. (Ie Lisle and EP -n car stand it, I'm sure I can 1,at he don'1 id go to the table with that thing on hi. it head, if I have to knock it off with mn: dcane. I'll teach the ignoramus a littli > decorum." m The words wer;e pronounced whic] td made Ellen Mrs. Somebody-old Ralpi a neither knew nor cared what her nev i name might be as long as she was "s well out of the way of his son. t- As the little company were abou1 r- being led to the dining-room to partakt le of the wedding dinner. Ralph steppei e- up to the groom and said, as politel: as his rising cholor would let him: e "ou, ...m oblien me, sir, a nd bhst I trifle more respect on your bride and the company present, if you remove your hat." "Certainly, sir. What a forgetful fellow I am, and what a boor they must all think me," returned the new made husband. in a tone which startled Ralph strangely. In a trice the great, unsightly hat was off, and the beard which had com pletely concealed the lower part of the quandom sailor's face was gone, and Ralph de Lisle looked into the pro vokingly calm face of his son. Before the old man, in his amazement and chagrin, could utter a word, Herbert had taken him by the arm and drawn him aside. "Now, father," said he, with comical p gravity, "don't say a word that will a make it unpleasant for my wife in her i new capacity as my wife. You know ti I married her with your consent, and besides you know that 'riches should never be weighed against the heart is and its affections.' "t Ralph de Lisle came near choking at first with rage and disappointment, and , we are very sure that the quantity of s good things provided for the wedding d feast was not much diminished or their p quality appreciated by the gloomy-vis aged "head of the house," but he fol owed his son's advice and sald nothing, .l and soon learned to listen to his wife's s oft-repeated rehearsal of the old adage, "What can't be cured must be en dured." with something like acquies cence in the decrees of Hymen. In a short time he became more than a reconciled to his son's choice, and when it he heard of the marriage of Isabel Den ver he went so far as to say that he n actually felt sorry for her husband, as Isabel was such a Tartar, and in no b way comparable to Ellen, his son's tl wife.-New York Weekkye 1: IE TIFIC NPVST1\l d The University of Washington pro poses to establish a permanent marine station at a point to be decided on, at Puget Sound. During the present sum- t mer a temporary station was estab- t lished at Friday Harbor, in charge of Professor Trevor Kincaid and Dr. T. C. b Frye. ei The Westinghouse-Parsons 00 horse- b power steam turbine engine at the p World's Fair ran from June 20 to De- t ce:aber 2 without once stopping. at a speed of 3600 revolutions a minute. Whei taken down the engine showed s n. signs of wear from this remarkable performance. Dr. Charles Waldstein gave a lecture a recently at thd Royal Academy. says Nature, of London, on Herculaneum and the proposed international excav" tion. Mr. Waldstein remarked that 1) from Herculaneum many beautiful t works might be expected. The city and district of Herculaneum were overwhelmed with volcanic material. but this is not tle impenetrably hard c lava commonly supposed. Geologists 0 have shown that, apart from actual b contact with air, the material is per fetly friable and manageable for thet U excavator. Among the most interesting ethno- 11 logic exhibitions at the St. Louis World's Fair was a group of pygmies from the Wissmann Falls region of the Congo Free State. Although they do ~ not look as small as the imaginations of many readers of books of African travel have perhaps pictured them. yet they plainly belong to a diminutive race of mankind. A wvriter in Science, comparing the various measurementse of these pygmies, and others allied to I them, arrives at the conclusion that the r average height of these small men ist a little more than four feet, eight inches, or about one foot less than that of the normal man. Attacks of fits ma appear but a few times in a long life, or they may num ber hundreds and even thousands in 1 twenty-four hours. There are four chiPf forms, viz.: (1) a sudden severe tit, with loss of consciousness and mus cular control; (2) a mild fit, with par- h tial unconsciousness; (3m a spasm in a sngle leg or arm or group of muscles, and (4) a temporary blank in the mem ory. Feeb'e-nbindedness usually fo1-t lows epilepsy, instantly developing ins fully twenty per cent. of the cases. Considering the oft-:claimed relation- - ship between .genius and epilepsy, Dr. | W. P. Spratling, a specialist in epil- t epsy, contends that the \disease always t impairs the mental powers, and that y Caesar, Napoleon, Mohammed, Swe denborg and other great epileptics must have become affected when their ~ strength was on the 'wane. ,< Actual Cost of Protection. t "Would you be willing to pay some thing to know of a sure plan for cir cumventing a robber when lhe comes into your place of business late at night and tries to hold you up?" asked a manl in a suit of faded black, who had stepped ipto a north side drug store. "Sure," said the druggist, staring at him wvith good bumored incrLedulvy. "Well, I have devised a method that can't possibly fail. I'll tell you all of it but one particular, and it it looks promising you pay me a dollar, and I'll give you the whole scheme. If it doesn't look all right you can say so, and save your dollar. There will be no harm done. Does that sound fair?" "Yes: go ahead." The caller whispered in his ear for the next two or three minutes. "That's all but the final and most important part of it," he said. "Is it worth a dollar to know the rest?" "Yes; here's your money." the Jrug Igist responded, handing it over and listening 'with entire satisfaction to the unfolding of the whole plot. What was this man's device for out witting the murderous thug who boldly invades your store or office and robs Iyou while you wait? This is the question you ask, per haps. Dear friend, don't you see that to give it away in the public prints would Inot only forewarn the hold-up men,1 and thus defeat the ends of justice, Ibut would be taking the bread out of the mouth of a man in a suit of fadedi black who is trying to earn an honest iing2-hicngo Tribun% is &C The King's Business Urgent. E are ambassadors of a great people. We are here as ambass:l- ' dors of the great king, and n that king is none other n than the common plain peo- v !o of these United States, and in this d Lanner of securing continuous lines of V aproved interstate highways we af- - l rm that the king's business demands b aste. The day of parleying and temporizing past, and those in authority who at mmpt to thwart the will of the people who are indifferent to this great roject of road improvement will be r rept from power with the bosom of a struction in the hands of an outraged r eople as effectively as did the Master t ,hen He drove from the temple those F ho were profaning the holy piace, d the places that knew theni now all know them no more forever. h It has been said that the present Con r.ss is a "do nothing Congress." If is be so, we demand that this "do n thing Congress" awake from its leth- t' rgy and get its ear to the ground that v may hear the groaning of the land v nder the burdens of these barbarous s ud loads, which are compelling the t eople-the burden bearers-to make v ricks without straw, and then we ask em to look up that they will be wise ough to hear and heed the demand f the people and forthwith pass a b;ll n .eating a bureau of good roads in the g epartment of Agriculture carrying a n afficient appropriation so that those is ow in authority in the public roads iquiry office may be able to meet the ll emands of the people and build for iem with their aid and co-operation ntinuous lines of improved interstate ighways, that the vast capital in ested in agriculture may be relieved t the heavy burdens of transporta- tl on which now so heavily oppress it; 1, iat the rural districts may enjoy the c enefits of intercomnmunication. better s lucational. social and religious privi- t -es. in fact, every advantage :ind 0 lessing which continuous lines of im- c roved interstate highways would ring to these people, to all of which i iey are justly entitled. r If continuous lines of improved inter tate highways are to be constructed, f 'here shall the beginning be made? n [inafestly should it not be two great- s t cities of this continent, New York 2 nd Chicago, be first joined in this tie T at binds? d The greatest good to the greatest 1 umber is a principle we can never Ig- n ore, and since there is more traffic, n avel and communication between c uese two cities than betweer my other C o cities on this continent, it is mani st that this great highway-We will il it the king's highway-should first all be the one constructed. When thIs great highway shall have eon so constructed, it will stand urough the ages as an enduring montu uent to the cause of good roads, bring g renown to the great cities thus " aked together, and reflecting honor this great nation within whose do ai it was constructed. Who will say that this highway was ot in the mind of the aged Hebrew er. when, standing on Judea's hills, p oking with prophetic vision down 1 ie centuries, he exclaimed: "Prepare ethe way and make straight the high 'ay; let every valley be exalted and rery mountain and hill be made low: b t the crooked be made straight, the )ugh places smooth, and let a.highway ethere that the wayfaring man, b iough a fool, shall not err therein.'' From the securing of such conltinuious f iies of improved int'erstate highwa.ys I ec pledge our time, our means and the n est efforts at our command.-Froml a a tood Roads Convention speech, quoted the New York Tribune. ,' Progress or the Movement. Mr. Martin Dodge. the good roads ex ert of the Department of Agriculture, a reviewed the progress recently ade in the movement for better high ays, and the showing is a most satis- 2 ctory one- Maryland, the Virginias, e Carolinas and Alabama are the ( othern States that are making good ( rgress in the movement- Mr. Dodge xplans that the gt'owth of the rural roe delivery has forced attention to be farmers and county authorities to be imperative need of road improve-, ent, a need that has been felt for axy years, but which has been neg- , L'ed until supplying it was made one fthe requisites in the establishment he rural mail service. Deep inter-c ti is being sahecn in the question, now at it has been brought up in a businesst ay. and county and, State associations J re being formed in nearly every Stateq ahe Union for the consideration and doption of the best plans for road im -1 rovement. In this work the Federal overnent has taken an active inter ; and lent every assistance possible it ith te limited funds avaiab.l for the arpos. Experimients ha' e been com e ated and the results explained to the ocl and State associations. Trho de uartment has made a study of soil con-1 itions rainfall and other elements that nust be considered in diffeent locali- 1 is in the work of permanent road t nprrovement, and the demand from I .11 parts of the country for information f his character emphasizes the inter st in the subject. Several railroads a ave joined in the work by sending out pcial trains, carrying expert road uniders and modern road making ma hiry, and constructing sections of noel roads at different points alonlg heir lines. Farmers have taken keen st interest in this work, and the of *orts of tile railroads are greatly ap reclated by the department. The nt' oads of the South, excepting easi :ial well kept turnpikes between itess:,d larger towns, have long been imost disgrace, retarding the devel ppmel of farms and plantations and buut doubling the natural cost of ranortig products of the farm to he arket. It is gratifying to know bt radical relief is promised. British officers can not take a course a ballooning unless they are "good aaors" and not over 100 pounds in POHTH LEAUE L[SSONS MARCH TWENTY-SIXTH. he V issionary Call.-Matt. 28. 19; Acts 1. 8; 1 Cor. 16. 9. The work of the church is not self xistence and perpetuation only, but orld-wide conquest. The early hurch so understood it, and in the rst century went out to the uttermost arts of the world as they knew It. he gospel belcags not to one race, or to any one nation, but to "all ations." In apostolic days they were ritnesses "in Jerusalem, in all Ju ea, in Samaria, and to the uttermost arts of the earth." The apostles terally and speedily obeyed the reat commission. The last selection as reference to the open doors of pportunity, which were never so sig ally inviting as to-day. The whole rorld is open now to the missionar s. Not only does the miss!rnary all come to us from the Word, but rovidence has opened every nation nd laid on the Protestant church th! ?sponsibility of going to the ends of ze earth as an evangel of Christ. ut as in Paul's day there are many adversaries." Opposing forces ce the church; but the promise of ictory is with us. Let us hear and ced the missionary call! Many In our modern churches have o vivid personal conception of the iissionary call. They do not believe at their duty is to eyangelize the rorld. They need missioiary con iction. Bishop McCabe always in' isted when missionary scretary at everyone needed a second con ersion, a conversion to missions. ot only are many unconvicted, but iany actually oppose the work of iissions. They need to study this reat commission. One imperative eed in church and in League is to et our people to really believe in the iissionary idea, to hear the miss nary call. There is a pressing duty to get nder the burden and to give some iirly creditable answer to this call. istead of giving a thoughtless dollar id imagining our duty dehe, we need give by tens and hundreds. In :ead of playing at missions we need get down to business and do some ing worthy of a great church of rge ability. We would not depre ate what the c;.urch is doiig, but trely we have not 't measured up opportunity and ability. Thousands our best young students need to e sent to the foreign field. Many hurches could support alone a mis onary in the field who are now giv ig only a few dollars. If we are to ally obey this call we must multi by the ten, twenty. a-d hundred )ld our offerings for missions. We iust push this work. Organize mis on study classes! Circulate mis onary libraries and literature! alk missions, think of missions, ream about them, get really 1n arnest, and then we hope to ieed e church to obey the great com tission. We trust that this lesson ay be a real inspiration to every hapter. Look at the open door onsider your duty. Do it quickly. CHRSIAN ENDERYOR OPICS. MARCH TWENTY-SIXTH. hristian Endeavor Comradeship With Other Churches at Home an.d with Distant Lands." Acts 17:24 28; ,John 17:20, 21. Scripture Verses.-Mal. 3:16; John 3:35; Acts 1:14; 2:1, 42; Gal. 6:10; :ph. 2:19; PhIl. 2:3-6; 1 Thess. 5: 1-13; 2 Thess. 1:3; 2 Peter 1:1, 2. Lesson Thoughts. t is an unnatural and an unfortu ate condition when there is lack of ppy comradeship and sympathetic ~llowship among members of one mily; but God "hath made of one lood all nations of men." What tie binds us more closely in mily fellowship than that of de iendence upon and love for a corn ion parentage. In God we all live d move and have our being. Selections. o distance breaks the ties of blood; Brothers are brothers evermore; or wrong, nor wrath of deadliest mood That magic may o'erpower. o is it with true Christian hearts; Their mutual share in Jesus' blood n everlasting bond imparts Of holiest brotherhood. might we all our lineage prove, We and forgive do good and love, y soft endearments in kind strife ghtening the load of daily life! -John Kelbe. One of the most beautiful things bout Frances Willard was her calm ray o~ ignoring differences of belief a all &hose that were working in any ray for the good of the world. When ome worker would differ from her e would say, "Never mind that, we a,n go a long way together." That rould be a good motto for all Chris ians for their relations with one an Men never can be joined in broth *rhood by good plans, nor can they e joined by a common gain they are eking; they can be joined togethe: nly by having some common object if admiration and affection. It ii hose that love God and wonder at is gracious ways that love one an ther.-Kingsley. Bishop H{mfrst suggests that thern an be true union only as each part hat enters into the union is at its best he ancehor is not held by the chain t by each link of the chain, and e anchor falls if a single link i: nperfect. An Office idyl. g a song of shorthand, A notebook full of "Di": 'our and twenty letters To be written by and by. Vhen the Girl is ready. And the keys begin to sing. Vhat a pretty pile of work She to the Man will bring. 'he Man is in his sanctum, Trying to make money; 'lking to a customer In tones as sweet' as honey. L'he Boy? Ah, he's a pirate, Out on the stormy sea, he Girl is busy with her worke As happy as can be. las for life's swift changes! The Man no sale could make, ?is heart is very heavy And his looks would make you quake rhe Boy has hid the story On which he fondly dotes, rhe Girl is on the verge of tears She cannot read her notes.Comri Tribune. _____ No man's back ever.breaks under tah urdens of othera. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL I INTERNAT'n1AL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH 26. teview of the Twelve Preceding Lessons For the First Quarter-.tad John vi. 33-51 - Golden rext, John xx., 31 Sunmmary. Lesson I. Topic: The wonderful divine Saviour. Place: Ephesus. iohn's gospel was written between 80 and 90 A. D. Jonn was the only apostle living it that time. He refers to Christ as the Word of God; all things were made by Him. He was the life and the light of men; reference is made to John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ: He was "not that light. but was sent to bear witness of that ight;" Jesus was the true light. I. Topic: ihe 'oeiiever's true attitude toward his Lord. P:ace: Bethabara. A crisis had arisen in .John's ministry; the Sanhedrin sent a deputation from Jerusa lem to ask John who he was; John said he was not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the pro phet about whom Moses had written, but he was merely a voice crying from the wil derness, " Make straight the way of the Lord." .John baptized with water; Christ would bapt:. with the Holy Spirit; John testified concerning Jesus and called Him the Lamb of God; John did not know Christ until the time of his baptism when the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove caine upon him, and the Father said, "This is 'My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." III. Topic: Jesus wins His first disci p:cs. Place: Bethabara. John pointed Jesus out to two disciples who followed Jesus; Jesus turned and said. ''What seek ve?" They asked Christ where He dwelt: 7esus said, "Come and see:" Andrew found his brother Simon and brought him to Jesus; it is supposed also that John found his brother James; Jesus found Philip: Philip found Nathanael; when Philip toid Nathanael that they had found the Mes siah. Nathanel raised an objection; Na thanael was soon convinced that Jesus was the Messiah. IV. Topic: Christ's first miracle. Place: Cana of Galilee. A wedding feast was be ing held: Christ's mother had been invited, and Christ and His disciples were invited; they needed wine at the feast; Christ's mother called His attention to the fact; He instructed the servants to fill six water pots with water: they were then told to draw out and bear to the governor of the feast; the governor praised the wine; in this miracle Christ showed forth His glory: the disciples believed that He was the Messiah. V. Topic: Gateways into the kingdom of God. Place: Jerusalem. Nicodemus came to Jesus :y night; the tubject of mir acles was introduced- Jesus said. "Ye must be born again;" 'icodemus failedtto understand: Christ brought an illustration of the -wind; also referred to the serpent Moses made in the wilderness; said that the Son of Man must be lifted up that whosoever believeth in Him should have eternal life. VI. Topic: Vital laws of spiritual work. Place: At Jacob's well in Samaria. Jesus goes through Samaria; stops at Jacob's well; meets a woman; asks a drink; she expresses surprise; Jesus speaks of the gift of God-living water; she desires it; Jesus asks her to call her husband; she says she has none; has had five; calls Jesus a pro phet: asks about place of worship; true worship must be in spirit and in truth. VII. Topic: Christ's power to restore to life. Place: Cana in Galilee. The Gali leans received Christ gladly. A nobleman of Canernaum heard that Jesus had come into Calilee and hastens to Him to en treat Him to come and heal his son; Jesus told him to return and that his son was healed; the man believed Christ's words; the son b n-torecover at the very hour Jesus had said, "Thy -on liveth." VIII. ' Topic: The Lordship of Jesus Christ. Place: Jesus went to Jerusalem to attend the feast of the Passover: Jesus saw an infirm man at the pool of Beth esda. who had been sick thirty-eight years; asked him if he desired to be made whole; the man replied that he had no one to put him into the pool; Jesus told him to rise, take up his bed and walk; the man did as he was commanded. IX. Topic: Jesus supplying human need. Place. Near Bethsaida on the northeast shore of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus and His disciples went into a desert place to be alone; great multitudes followed them; Jesus taught them and healed their sick; in the aftenoon the disciples suggested that the multitude should be sent away to buy food; Jesus decided to feed them there; a lad was found with five loaves and two fishes; five thousand men were fed besides women and children. X. Topic: Jesus proves Himself the God-Saviour. Place: Jerusalem. It was the last day of the feast of the Taberna cles; there was a great ceremony in con nection with bringing water from the pool of Siloam; near the close of the cere:ny Jesus cried. "If any man t:hirst, let hin come unto Me and drink;" He spahe of the gift of the Holy Spirit. XI. Topic: ~Chi-ist's teaching respecting sin. Place: Jerusalem. Jesus deliveredi four discourses during His stay in Jerusa lem at the time of the feast of the Taber nacles; this discourse was delivered in the court of the women, and may be divided into two parts: 1. Christ is the Son of God. 2. He has supreme authority even above Abraham. Those who accept Jesus Christ will know the truth, and the truth will make them free. The world-Saviour's doctrine respecting sin. 1. Sin leads to hypocrisy. deceives men, is slavery, is con trary to God. 2. It is cured by the word of Christ. by the truth of Christ, by the blood of Christ. XII. Topic: Jesus Christ the light of men. Place: Jerusalem. Jesus saw a blind man; the discipiles asked Christ who had sinned, this man or his parents; Jesus re plied that neither this man nor his par ents had sinned; makes clay of spittle; anoints the blind man's eyes; commands the man to go to the pool of Siloam and wash; he obeys; comes back seeing; his neighbors are stirred; he gives an account of his healing; is taken to the Pharisees; Jesus accused of desecrating the Sabbath. The -world-Saviour is the life and light of men. The lesson shows that light (I) is needed. (2) is offered. (3) is received by some, (4) is rejected by some. (5) should be clearly reflected by those who have it. - O Feeding Wild Animals Ofthe animals that we can coax about our houses the gray squirrels become most friendly. Put n11ts in convenient places* and they will make frequent trips for supplies, but only on comparatively mild days will they remain long outside their comfort able winter quarters, where they usually have plenty of food stored. In Central Park, New York, the gray squirrels have become so accustomed to being fed that they have, to a great extent, given up storing food and rely chiefly on what they can pick 'up each da.Rdsquirrels can be coaxed by means of food, but they are very questionable fellows; in fact the gen eral opinion is decidedly against them, owing to their partiality for eggs and young birds. Chipmunks hibernate in their underground homes, so we cannot count on them for win ter visitors. 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