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? ? IT* /T | UN int c &? A NARRATIVE By SEWARD jg{ ^ rC0PT3!C^IT ip?- ST CHAPTER V. [continued. ] TVhen the two Chinamen reached the ledge leading around the edge oi the inlet to the pit, the girl gave a quick movement and wrenched herself away from them. Sbe woulc have plunged into the sea had thej not canght her quickly. She screamed and seemed to be beside herself. ] ' caught sight of her face, and in spite of her disheveled hair and tearstained features, I saw at a glance that she wa3 very beautiful. My first impulse was to discover myself and rush to her assistance. But upon reflection I decided that it would be an unwise move. Even though she were to be murdered ] could not help her. I would simply meet with a similar fate for interfering. These men were armed. It will be remembered that I was without coat or shoes. I bad no weapons of any kind. I would be a forlorn antagonist for half a dozen armed men. When -the uniformed mandarin reached tho well aud had gone down a few stops, he discovered the open j?? A T "No/I fntirtrl i*liA wav UUUi . iluuuugu a. UU? y to open the doors iu the mysterious island, I did not know how to close tbem. The big Chinaman made a great ado aad gave some sharp commands. There were evident preparations for a fight. He went down into the cavern with his sword drawn. They remained inside about half an hour. My position on the rock began to get wearisome, but the sailors on the yacht were very watchful, and I dared not move about. An uglylooking fellow sat in the bow with a rifle across his knee. There was little chance for speculation as to my probable fate if that fellow discovered me. After a half hour, I again heard voices in the w all. The big Chinaman and his servants appeared. 1 heard the great rock swing back into place. The girl was not with them. W there was. indeed, a real motive for remaining undiscovered. Mj heart even made too much noise in beating. I ilmost held my breath, so great was my fear of being discovered. The visitors descended the companion-ladder. It was taken down from the iron rings. Poles were put out, and the yacht pushed out of the atone gate. The sails were raised, and the vessel moved quickly away in the direction whence she had come. I remained concealed for what seemed to me an interminable time. I did not dare move from my hidingplace until the yacht had got far enough away to preclude discovery. I followed the vessel with anathemas for going so slowly. At last I could venture forth. I leaped from the ledge into the pit and ran down the stone steps. I knelt down and touched the hidden spring. Again the mysterious island was ma on 1-1 T Atlterftd. It was vycucu i/w wvi w*?v? * - ? ? ? bat short work for me to get to the garden, and here I looked for the girl that I knew must be inside the island somewhere. She was not in the garden. I went into the temple. She was not there. But in the treasure-room I found her. Sh? was kneeling on the floor by a large divan. Her face was buried in her hands. She was weeping; she was also praying. She Beeined to be in a delirium of grief and fear. I approached her softly. She could not hear my footsteps on the thick rugs. Bending over her, I touched hex lightly on the shoulder. With a scream of horror she jumped to her feet and bounded away from me. . "You need not fear me," I said, ^ill help you if I can, but I wil do yiu no harm." "Sou!" she cried in a hoarse voice. "And who are yon that you are hen alive and yet will help me?" "Why, I don't see anything remark able about that. I couldn't help yoi if I were dead." "No. But don't you understand' None can live here save those who art familiars of Cha Fong; and his friend: would not help me." "I do not know Cha Fong," I re plied. "I have never seen him, un less he is the amiable person with th< big sword who brought you here." Her face grew pale. She tremble' violently. "Ye3. that is he?that is Cha Fong,' she said. "And -what is He going to uo win you?" I asked. A look of misery came into her face and she sobbed convulsively. "The worst he can do. He 6ays am to be his wife." "Well, now, look here," I said witl authority. "Cheer up and come si here and tell me your story, and I wil teil you mine. It may give you mor confidence if I tell \ou mine first." She came and sat down near me and her tearful face, pale and beauti fal, rested upon her hand as I toll :her the story of my mishaps and th chance that brought me here. Sh listened intently, often with wonde "in her eyes. When I had finished sh . had become more calm and was abl to talk connectedly. "Now," I said, "tell me your storj and let us see if there is any way on of this scrape." She shook her head sadly. 4-liinlr tlioro said X UU ll\J U 1UIU? W ? "bat it is some relief to find a friend I am au English girl. My name i Grace Arnold. My rather is Job Arnold, a merchant of Hong Kong My schooldays were spent in England my mother died there. After he death, not more than half a year age I came to Hong Kong to my fatuei There I met many of the most impoi tant residents, natire and European .j\moDg those that I saw occasional! f HINA SEA I _ - jjpK OF ADVENTURE. ^ k XVr. HOPKINS; Robeet Bosses'* Soxs.) was Cha Fong. I bated him and feared him. He has a very bad name. ^ He is regarded as the most cruel and . heartless of all the -wealthy young ' men of China, none of whom are free " from crime. I hacl been 111 tne naoit I of going horseback-riding, accompan. ied by two Chinese servants. YesterI day, -while riding in the suburbs, I was seized, bound aud thrown into a carriage. I was taken to the coast and put aboard that yacht. I was , shut up in a stateroom alone, and remained alone there all night. In the morning we set sail i'or this place. When I was bound again and taken on . deck, what was my surprise to learn that my captor *.vas Cha Fong. I knew then the fate that was in store ' for me. 7. tried to wrench myself away from, the men who carried me and throw myself into the sea. The fact that I am safe and unharmed this minute is due to Cha Fong's discovery that someone had been here. He was much enraged, and after a short search, he sailed away to meet some one?I judged from his talk?someone who shared with him the secrets of the island, and whom he suspects of coming here without his permission, and leaving the island open. He speaks English very well. I think I recognize the place as the Island or the Temple of Su Foo. It is spoken of in hushed whispers by the European residents of Hong Kong, but no -- ? ? ? ? -Jwiin V*a Irnnn?a oTl native ever uuuno iut?? thing about it. There is an order called Su Foo, the god of which is an idol. This idol must receive, at stated intervals, a sacrifice in the shape of a young woman, who is put to death in its arms, after becoming the bride of tho priest of the order." "Then this Cha Fong is, no doubt, a priest of Su Foo, and you are an intended sacrifice for that huge idol in the temple?" "I fear so," she replied, sobbing again. "I would rather you would kill me now, before Cha Fong returns." "No,"I said: that does not seem to be necessary. Of.course, there is no positive proof that Cha Fong is the murderous villain we think he is, except the fact that he abducted you." "But that is a plain enough fact," she said. "Very true. Grant, then, that the worst is true. Your plight and the temple here seem to indicate the truth of the rumors about Cha Fong and the Su Foo. Now, putting the crimes of the one and the exactions of the other together, we have a combination that is decidedly against us." Miss Arnold turned very white and j leaned against the back of her chair for support. "Then," I continued, hastily, "as everything seems to point to murderous purposes on the part of those who have us in their power, our predicament provides ample warrant for- any act on our part toward the salvation of ourselves. What I am getting at, Miss Arnold, is this: You want me to kill you to prevent your falling again into the hands of Cha Fong. My own way to prevent that would be to kill Cha Fong." My lovely fellow-prisoner gasped at the audacious suggestion. "But he is armed?he ha3 armed men with him. What can we do?we [ two unfortunates?" She was very pale. [ "I wish there was some liquor of , some kind here," I said. "I am afraid you will faint." | She smiled in rather a deprecatory way. 1 "I am not going to faint," she re: plied: "but if you waut liquor, I saw Cha Fong drinking some that he got in there." She poiuted to the alcove where stood the bed. 1 "Iu there!" I exclaimed. "Why, I i thoroughly searched that place, but could find nothing in the way of li, quor." 1 "Nevertheless, when Chu Fong and his two companions were looking for you, or for whomsoever the intruder 5 here might be, I saw them with bottles and glasses. That was before the - cords that bound me were 'cut, so I i could not get a good look at them." "Now that is very strange," I said; ? "yet it is quite possible that there is s a part of this infernal place that I nave 3 not seen. I will look again, and, perhaps, we may find something more to - our advantage. Even a good club - would be of service. I could creep up a behind Cha Fong and knock him down. I suppose I might cut one in the gar1 den with my pocket-knife?a piece of palm-tree would answer. But I'll look " for that liquor first." I went behind the bronze screen l and searched high and low for some kind of receptacle that looked as if , it might hold liquor. I saw nothing. I was about to give up the search, I when, as I was turning to leave the apartment, I accidentally kicked up a i large, heavv rug that was spread ou t the floor. Under it I saw a panel in 1 the floor in which was fastened an e iron ring. I took hold of the ring and pulled. It took all mv strength to , move the panel, but at last it came up. - I found au opening iu the floor about j 3 three feet square. There were some e steps leading downward. e I uttered a shout of joy and called. r AL13S Arnoiu. sue camu running j e toward me. e *'I have found something," I said, "but whether it is a cellar or a storehouse, I can't tell. I am going .t down." I descended the steps. Tho place in which I now founfl 1, myself was but dimly lighted. There [. had been no attempt at ornamentas tiou; it was simply a huge cavern in n the rock. This cavern was strewn with various kinds of material, looki; ins like packages taken from wrecks r or, perhaps, stolen along the coast. i V*rtll nnnn roll r>f flip finpsf silk and \ linsn was piled up on one side. Case3 - of the choicest pottery stood nni. packed, many of the delicate pieses y broken. Otlisr things were there in. plenty, but I did not take time to ex' amine tbem. 1 found two tnxngs One would of itself have repaid m< for the search, for it was what I hac come after. I found liquors, winei and cordials, in bottles and casks But the other discovery meant much more to me than the liquor. It meant perhaps, rescue?life. It was a larg< cabinet, in which were various weapons of war and of the chase Guns, pistols, knives were packec away in good order. This was, n< doubt, Cha Fong's armory. Miss Arnold's astonishment was sc great that I laughed at her wide opened eyes when she saw me emerg< from the hole in the floor, carrying ? bottle of wine, a Martini-Henry rifle an English navy revolver, a lonj hunting-knife and a bag of car tridges. "I am well fixed, you see," I said, laughing, as I deposited my spoils on the floor. "Now, then," I said. "I am going to get ready to meet Mr. Cha Fong. Do you know what time he intends tc return?" "Not accurately. But he expected to be back to-night, for he said, when he cut the cords that bound me helpless: 'Now you can walk, but you cannot escape from here. You will be my bride to-night.' " "Ah, exactly! Now what kind of n bridesmaid do you think this will make?" I asked, caressing the rifle. "I would turn it against myself, if ] thought you could not conquer," sh< said. "I am not afraid to die." "Well, I doubt if there is a Sn Foe wedding here to-night," I said grim lv. "And as for killing yourself, don'l think of it. At any rate, don't do i' till I am dead and all hope is lost When we get ready for business, yot take the pistol, which I will load foi you, and go down into that chambei under the floor. I will replace th< rug so no one can tell it had beei moved. Then I 3hall get inside o that idol in the temple, and await de velopments. Whatever seems best tc do I shall do. If, after a long enougl time, I do not come and let you out by a great effort you can push up tha< trap-door. If Cha Fong is still mas ter of the situation, you must try t< shoot him. If you don't succeed ii that?why " "I understand," she said, in a low voice. I loaded the pistol, which was five' barreled, of large caliber, and also the rifle, which was a repeater. Miss Arnold sat and watched me ir silence. Now and then a tear woulc show itself in her eye, but she brushed it away. She was trying to be brave, poor giri, with horrors before her oj which she could only imagine the extent. T V-.1 _-A i.^1,7 ?.T,ir T V>bi3 1 UttU liUil IU1U UC1 UUJ A M?w left America. We had had but little time for talking; and when I explained my presence in the island I began mj story from the accident on board the City of Rio de Janiero. So when ] had loaded the firearms I told her the story of Annie Ralston. She listened eagerly with clasped hands and pale face. "3he is my sister in misfortune," 6he said, when I had finished. "There is no doubt that Annie Ralston is the victim of another Cha Fong?or per haps the same. I know that the St Foo has agents in all parts of th< world, to choose and obtain the mosi beautiful girls for sacrifices to the idol." "No so much to the idol as to hii worshipers, I fancy," I said. "M] own impression is that the sacifice t< the idol is nothing more than a plai to get rid of their victims. If don< under the cover of religious fanatic ism it would no doubt be more diffi cult to obtain proof of the actual mur derers or the co-operation of the Gov eminent in bringing about their pun ishment." "Perhaps so," she said simply. "If my friends, Ralston and Langs ton, have succeeded in getting on land they probably met the Ketoto at Shang hai or will meet her to-day, in whicl ca3e Annie is safe. We have onh ourselves to think of?and that seemi to be about enough just now. W< had better eat some of that idol'i rice," I said after a pause. "You: prospective husband and executionei may drop in any minute, and we wan to be ready for him. I am hungry and a hungry man is not a goo< fighter. In that re3pecthe is differen from a hungry bear." "I am ready to follow your direc tions," said Miss Arnold. "Have you a watch?" I asked. "Yes. You may take it." She pulled from the bosom of he dress a pretty little jeweled watch am banded it to me. [to de continued. ] IIott to Write Comfortably. The height of the chair you sit 01 while writing and that of the deal you write at are matters of some im portance, says Publicity. Every per son who writes habitually ought t have a chair specially made to suit hi or her height, aud the seat of th chair should be exactly one-quarter o your height from the floor. Thus, i you are six feet high, the chair-sea should be eighteen inches. The widt of the seat should exactly equal it height and it should slope backwan three-quarters of an inch to the foot The back should be a trifle higher tha: the seat and sloped slightly, not to much. Finally, your desk should b two-thirds as high again as the seat o your chair. Thus, if your chair-sea is twenty-four inches, the desk should lio frvrtw inplipcj in lipinrhfc When V01 have attended to all these little de j tails, you can sit and write all da, | without feeling backache. Side Lights on History. 'Admit him," said Frederick Will iam of Prussia. With a low bow the lackey with drew. He returned presently with a mai nearly eight feet high, whom theroya agents had picked up somewhere ii Ireland and secured for the King' guards by the promise of a larg bounty, "What does he cost?" inquired th King. "Thirteen hundred pounds, yon majesty," replied tue attendant. ilHe comes high," murmured Fred erick William, gazing admiringly a the giant, "but I must have him!" And the phrase passed into the cur rent a'ang of the day.?Chicago Tri bua3, ;l[ THE REA New York City (Special).?White point d'esprit is here stylishly trimmed with narrow satin ribbon,, lace edging and insertion, ribbon of suitable width forming the belt and YOKE WAIST AMD GORED SKIP.T. 1 " f | bows at the.shoulders. The yoke and f sleeves are formed with rows of the 3 insertion put together with frizzed 'koU'iT i-iUVinn on/1 +V10 otondincr foliar ] UUUJ HUM VMV vv..m. I f is made over a stiff foundation in the . same attractive manner, stylish ) pointed portions flaring behind the ] ears. The graceful bertha is shaped in pretty equal points at the lower t edge, and trimmed with the edging, . insertion and lace to correspond, and ) the sleeve is finished with a flaring 1 cuff. The skirt has five gores that are r smoothly adjusted over the hips, the ) l B0X-FLEA.1 5 ' ! fulness in tbe back being laid in - ! pleats that meet over tbe placket in - ! centre, or tbe fulness may be col | lected in gathers, if bo preferred. - i Two narrow lace and ribbon edged i frills of the point d'esprit form the j pretty foot trimming, the ribbon j edged insertion being applied on the , j pointed outline, giving an overskirt - i effect. The mode is stylish and suit1 j able for foulard, Iudia and taffeta j ! silk, cashmere, veiling, challie, pers j cale, organdie, lawn, gingham, dimity 3 ! or auy fashionable soft wool or cottou s I fabric. Plain or rucbed ribbon, r 1 braid, gimp, insertion and edging of c I lace or embroidery may be chosen for t j garniture. , To make this waist for a miss of 1 j fourteen years will require one and t j one-half yards of material thirty inches wide. To make the skirt will require four yards of thirty-six or ! three yards of forty-four-inch material. Walat of White Ferttlan Lawn. , White Persian lawn and fine embroidered insertion form the fashion: able shirt waist shown in the large 1 engraving, with which is worn a j regulation white linen collar and a j tie bow of wedgewood blue satin. Rows 1 1 of insertion are stitched on smoothly between the box-pleats, the material " j being cut away from underneath. The '* ! pleats meet at the shoulder seams, 0 ; under-arm seams completing the 8 j simple adjustment. The fulness at ? j the waist line is regulated by gathers f ! between the box-pleats, and the frouts * j puff out just a little above the belt. . | The shirt waiet sleeves in newest j shaping are decorated near the top ^ with cross strips of insertion. d The straight cuffs may be made plain or trimmed with insertion, Q as shown. The belt of white kid is 0 closed with a gilt clasp in front. For ? satin, silk, taffeta, cashmere or other * fine woolen goods, this style is de| I sirable, as well as for pique, lawu, dimity, gingham or other wash fabrics. 11 j To make this waist for a woman of ! medium size will require three and J | one-half yards of material thirty inches j wide. Trimming For IJ'.uek Hats. Many of the new black hats are trimmed partly with wide black edging. One in rice straw has two rows of this lace plaited on to the npper a side of the brim. It has one of the ,1 new high stiaight ccowus, about q which is folded a broad band of black s velvet fastened by a jet slide; sure mounting this, rising still higher than the crown, is a large bunch of globua lar roses in several shades of pink. Hats of cream lace on a foundation of r wired tulle will be very fashionable this season. Their effect is improved |. by sewing thereon rows of fancy Tust can braid with an interval of an inch between each braid. A very stylish hat of this sort has for trimming merely a large dull gold buckle securing the foot oi a fan-shaped aigrette of LM | FASHION. | ^swzzo ^a9 J\?)J ?s <a }A<? ?A<P 9 t'Z(p yXfc %C<p %i(o9,s6 %(= 3)?<P 3)X<P ?)J<? ^ouuQWavuouuMu^u^aovuovtfoou^ououAou the lace placed slightly on one side o the high crown. Lace veils are to be preferred to tulle this year, and the new selections include veils of the most expensive kinds of lace, besides admirable imitations of the same. They aro often used to drape round the brims of hats?a style that will be affected by those who consider the lace over the face unbecoming. Long scarfs in net, with designs in Escurial, are now being converted into decorations for hats; one end lies along the brim, and the remainder of the scarf is worn twisted once round the throat. ?Millinery Trade Eeview. Fancies In Shirt-TFalsts. The really swell thing is the pnre white silk or satin shirt-waist made in tho greatest simplicity ot style, and is worn with a black skirt of net. White shirt-waists in cotton goods have the preference, many being of fine lawn, tucked all over in bias or straigbt-up-acd-down or round-andround tucks. The severe linen waist of white, with cuffs and collar, is worn with the tailor gown having a cutaway jacket in bolero style. Some of the new waists show a cut-away at the neck, having fancy collar and revers with which are worn fancy-colored or white chemisettes.?Woman'B Home Companion. Styles in Hair Dressing:. The Pompadour roll turned back entirely from the face certainly gives it a longer appearance, but this may be lessened by a few curling locks over the forehead, and by keeping the hair at the sides well puffed out. Hairdressers wave the long hair, which is turned back on ordinary curling-tongs, wrapping each small strand of hair several times around the tongs and finally combing it out very gently.? Ladies' Home Journal. Tl>? Latest Collar. BThe newest collar does not wish to be considered a collar at all. It is 'ED WAIST. simply a combination of the yoke, car. i iL. .1 _ -_.l 1 nvav rieu up to tue cum auu nimcu ui?. In the back its height is regulated only bj the hair. If that is dressed low the collar stops, but if the chignon is placed high it soars to the tops of the ears. MiiterlAl For Bathing Costnmef. Canotier is a weave of French dress goods much used for bathing and yachting costumes. Muitlin Goavus With Lacc Yokes. Muslin gowns have transparent yokes of heavy guipure lace. Ufteful nnd sr.yiuu Accessories. With a change in name from Spanish to French, these stylish accessories are agaiu on the top wave of fashion. Their utility in concealing the worst portion of half-worn silk blouses affords one good reason for their revived popularity. Elaborate decoration is their prominent characteristic when intended for dressy occasions, while for ordinary wear they may be quite plainly completed. No. 1 shows rich, dark-red broadcloth edged with a scroll design in black soutache braid. Stylish revers of white silk poplin roll back from the open fronts. The "jacquette" is shaped by shoulder and under-arm seams, which extend to form stylish epaulettes over the dress sleeves. No. 2 is of black guipure lace, which may be made with or without a white or colored satin lining. The rounded edges are fiuished with quillings of lace to match. Satin ribbon or mousseline may be used with becoming e fleet. Dressy "jacquettes" in either style may bo made from short lengths of brocade, velvet, silk or woolen fabrics, I erforated broadcloth being much used i i their consti-uction. Applique of L ee, embroidery or passementerie, / J=\ women's "JAfQl*ettes." all-over lace, braiding, spangleil net, frizzed ribbon or gimp "will inako pretty nmsuiDgp. To make either "jaequette" in tho medium size will require one yard of material twenty-two iuclies wide. V * . 1 } DB. TALMAGES SERMON, SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BYTHE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Moral Expansion"?Onr Duty to tbe Heathen* in the Plilllppine Islands ?Suggestions as to What We Should 08 Do For Their Religions Welfare. [Copyright. Louis Klopscb, 1899.] Washington, D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage steers clear of the political entanglements of our time and recommends that which will meet the approval of all who hope for tbe perpetuity of our republic and tbe welfare of other lands; text, Genesis xxviii., 14, "Thou Shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east." Since the Americano-Hispanic war Is concluded and the United 8tates Embassador Is on the way to Madrid and the Spanish JbLlluUSsnuur IS uu luc wny iu ??iiauiUKtuu the people of our country are divided into expansionists and anti-expansionists. From a different standpoint than that usually talten I discuss this all-absorbing theme. I leave the political aspect of this subject to statesmen and warriors and pray Almighty God that they may be enabled rightly to settle the question whether the islands in controversy shall be Anally annexed or held under protectorate or resigned to themselves, while 1 call attention to the fact that a campaign of moral and religious expansion ought to be immediately opened on widest and grandest scale. At the close of this war God has put into the bands of this country the key to the world's redemption. Heretofore the religious movement in pagan lands had to precede the educational. After in China and India and the islands of the 6ea the missionaries have labored over fifty or seventy-five years the printing press and the secular school came in. Now to better advantage than ever before religious and secular enlightenment may go side by side, and so the work be accomplished in short time and more thoroughly. Starting with the fact that in Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands at lea3t three-fourths of the people can neither read nor write, what an opportunity for school and printing press! Within five years every man in those islands may be taught to read uot only the Bible, but the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United 8tates and the biography of George Washington and of Abraham Lincoln. It seems to me that the Government of the United States ouerlit bv vote of Con gress afford common schools and printing presses to those benighted regions. Our Nationtl Legislature by one vote appropriated 850,000,000 to give bread and medicine to Cuba. Wby not by a similar generosity give $50,000,000 for feeding and healing the minds and souls of those ignorant and besotted archipelagoes. In the namo of God I nominate a school for every neighborhood of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. As soon as the gavel falls at 12 o'clock of next December 4 on the table of Senate and House of Representatives and the roll has been called and th? preliminaries observed let somo member of our National Legislature, with mind and soul and voice strong enough to be heard not only through those halls, but through Christendom, propose a measure for the mental and moral dlsenthrallment of the islands in controversy. What has made American civilization the highest civilization the world ha.<> ever seen? Next to the Bible and the church, Hchools, common school?, schools reaching from the Atlantlo to the Paciflo and from British America to- Gulf of Mexico. Five years under such educational advantage, and this whole subject that keeps out pubtic men agitated, some of them to frothing at the mouth, will settle itself. Give those Islands readers, spellers, arithmetics, histories, blackboards, maps, geographies, globes. Let the State Legislatures at their next meeting, some of them assembling in early autumn, take parts of those (stands under their especial educational patronage. What is needed is State and Nutlonal action in this matter of schools. fT?l 1 - t ~ I *1 luou ict iuo cuuuimi aasu^miiuua ui mo United States, as many of such organizations as tbere are States, resolve at the nest convocation to establish In every region of those Islands a printing press, supported by people of this country until It can become self-supportiag. Each of these State Editorial Associations sending out to those islands at least one editor and two reporters and enough typesetters, down will go the ignorance and superstition of those Islands as certainly as the Spanish fleet under Cervera sank under the pounding of our American battleships, and into their every port will go intelligence and love of free institutions as certainly as Into the harbor of Manila went Admiral Dewey on that famous night when be was not expected. Bog's printing pressl Nothing can stand before its bombardment. Editors of American newspapers and publishers of American books! Take the ordination for such a magnificent service. Eloquence on yonder Capiiol hill cannot meet the exigency. Epigrams of political plaCorms or in State Legislatures will not hasten the desired consummation one week or one hour or one moment. When Cubans and Porto Rican and Filipinos see the morning and evening newspapers thrown into the doorways and hawked aloug the streets of Havana and Santiago and Manila, those who cannot read by the force of curiosity will learn to read, so tliat tbey may know wnat lnrormatiou is being scattered, and that which maybe missionary effort at the start and carried on by Americans sent forth to do the work will soon be done by educated natives. Porto Ricans editors! Porto P.ican reporters! Porto Ricnn typesetters! Porto Rican publishers! It was a great mercy to take these islands from under the heels o( despotism, but it will be a mjghtier mercy to emancipate them from ignorance and degradation. The expansion of the knowledge and intellectual qualification of all those islandy regions is the desire of all intelligent Americans. Awake, all you schools and colleges and universities and printing presses, to your opportunity! Still further, here is a wide open door for Christianity. First of all, we have the attention of those people. The heathen nations are for the most part soporific. The American missionaries heretofore had great difficulty in getting heathendom to listen. They excited some comment by their attire, so different was the parting of the hair and the shape of the hat und the cut of the coat and the formation of the shoe of the evangelizers, but the questions constantly arose in regard to the missionary: "Who is he?" "Whit is he here for?" And then the Interrogator would relax Into the previous stupid indifference. But that condition of things ht*s passed. The guns of our American navy have awakened those populations. They do not usk who we are. ?Thev have found out. They are now listening to wbat American civilization and our Christian religiou have to say on any subject. Now is the time, while their ears aud eyes are wide open, to tell them of the rescuing and salvable and Inspiriting power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. The steam printing press which secular education plants there may be used and will be used to print religious newspapers and tracts and sermons and mighty discussions of questions temporal and eternal. The comfortable homes of those populations whan Christianized, standing side by side with tbo degraded huts of those who remain pagans will be revolutionary for good. The Porto Rican and the Filipino will come out from tbis uncleuned and low roofed nnd uninviting kennel and say to his neighbor of beautiful household, "Why eaDuot I have things as you have them?" And wuen he finds that it 1;? the Bible, with its teachings on family life and personal purity and exulted principle, and the church of God that proposes the rectification of all evil nnd the Implantation of nil good, he will cry out, "Give me the Bible, and the church, and the earthly alleviations, and the eternal hope which have wrought forvou such transfiguration." Now, church of God, now, all Christian philanthropists, Is your opportunity. Nothing like it has occurred since Christ cume._ Perhaps there may be nothing like It till His secona coniiui;. xicro i? a uoiiuiteoess of aim that is most helpful aad inspiring. The millions of dollars Riven for the redemption of the world and the thousands of clorious missionaries who have gone forth amoDg barbaric nations were given and enlisted under a great and immeasurable idea. But when they come to add to the great and immeasurable idea the Idea of deflniteness we will Infinitely augment the work. More than three hundred million of heathen ir. India, more than three hundred million of people in China and more millions of heathens than can be guessed outside of those countries sometimes stflgper and coafound and defeat our ?v. -w vt-iiv J*".. . J." ... . .'. i.-rv' ' 3g faith. But here In these Islands of present controversy we can farm out the work among the churches and in Ave years, under the blessing of God, not only fit the people for the right of suffrage, but pre-r ?.! ,? onH hflRVfln. pare lUOLii IUI uBQiuiuvoo * ?? - ?? The difference between the general idea of the world's evangellzatlon nnd some particularized field of evangelization Is the difference between > the improvement of agriculture a mong all nations and the Improvement of seventyfive acres put under one's especial car? and Industry. By all means let the general work goon. But here Is the speclfl? fleld for religious concentration and development. This is not chimerical or im- ^ practical. I read this morning that tho American Missionary Association of the ; Congregational Church has already begun the work at San Juan, Ctuado and Albonlto, and all denominations of Christiana in six months will be la those islandy fields. and we nil need with our prayers ana * .* i* contributions to cheer them on to take for > God and righteousness those regions ' which our American navy has captured from 8panlsh perfidy. "4 It has been estimated that this AraericoSpanish war cost us 4300,000,000. It would not cost half of tbat to proclaim and earnr on and consummate a holy war tbat will rescue those archipelagoes from/ sntanlo domination. Who will volunteer? I beat the drum of a recruiting station. Who will ' . tjt enlist under the one sparred, blood striped ^^jjj banner of Immanuei? Cuba and Porto^^^H P.ico and the Philippines are stepping^^^M stones for our American Christianity tor^^^H cross over and take the round world for God. We need a new evangelical alliance organized for this one purpose. In all de- H nominations there are those with large enough hearts and who have beeD thoroughly enough converted to jolQ Id such an advanced movement?men who, putting aside all the minor differences of opinion, "believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, U and in Jesus Christ His only begotten V Son," and who would march shoulder to n shoulder in such a Gospel campaign. The 1 result would be that those Islands, after ' such a scene of gospellzatlon, would assort themselves into denominations to suit themselves, and some would be sprinkled in holy baptism and others would be Immersed in those warm rivers and some would worship in religious assemblage silent as the Quaker meeting bouse, and others would have as many jubilant ejaculations as a backwoods camp meeting, and some of those who preached would be gowned and snrplicea for the work, and others would stand In citizen's apparel or & in their shirtsleeves preaching that Gospel which is to save the world. t Mark you well that statesmanship, however grand it is, and wise men of the world, however noble, cannot do this work. Mere secular education does not mbrallze. 8ome of the most thoroughly educated men in all the world have been the worst men. Quicken a man's Intellect,while at theflauie time you do not make his mprals good, and you only augment his power for evil. Geography and mathematics and metaphysics And nhllosoDhv will never qualify a people to govern themselves. A corrupt printingpress is worse than no printing press at I all, but let loose an open Bible upon those i&lunds and let tbe apocalyptic angel once :3 fly over them, and yon will prepare tben> to become either colonies of tbe United States Government, or, as I hop* will be the ease, independent republics. God did not exhaust Himself when He built this nation. The islands will yet have their Thomos Jeffersons, qualified to write ,1 for them declarations of Independence; and George Washlngtons, capable of achieving . j their liberties; and Abraham Liocoins, strong enough to emancipate their serfdoms, and LongfellowB and Bryants, cap* able of putting their hills and their riversand their landscapes into poems; and the Bancrofts and Prescotts, to make their histories; and their Irvings, to write tbeii Sketch Books; and their Charles O'Conorr and Rufus Choates, to plead in their court- ' rooms; and their Daniel Websters and Joha . 1 J. Crittendens, to move their Senates. " The day cometh?hear it all ye who have no hope for those islands of be-dwarfed j and diseased illiterates?the day cometh . when those regions will have a Christian civilization equal to that which this country now enjoys, while I hope by that time this country will be as superior to what it now Is as to-day Washington and New York ar9 better than Munlla and Santiago. Do you see in this process of gospellzed Intelligence those archipelagoes will ae a nation be protected from the two woe* propheclsed in regard to this country?the i one woe propheclsed by the expansionistsand the other woe propheclsed by tbe anti-expansionists? It Is said by those whe would have us take all we can lay our bands on as a nation that, unless we entei tbe door now open for the enlargement of our national domain, we will decline the mission which God in His providence ha* assigned us. But surely no woe will come upon us or upon them if we Christianize them as we now have the opportunity of doing. The political technicalities are nothing as compared witfr > the importance of this movement. I implore all political expansionists to augment us in this work of moral and religious expansion, for unless those islandsare moralised and elevated in intelligence and babits we do not want them, and their annexation would be political damnation. On the other hand, I implore all antlexpansionists to take a hand in tbe gospelization of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Island*. The only way to pro* pare them to take care of themselves is to give them the Ten Commandments that were published on Mount Sinai and let them hear the groan of sacrifice that waa breathed out on the heights of Golgotha. -J Wbat they most want is the Gospel, the pure Gospel, the omnipotent Gospel, the Gospel that helps heal the wounds of the body and irradiates the darkness of the mind and achieves the ransom of tbe soul. But on this platform the so called expansionists and so called anti-expansionist? will yet stand side by side. Though I am not a prophet or the son of a prophet, within five years, It this rellgio-educationai 4 work Is oroperly attended to, there will be a Cuban republic, a Porto Rican republic and a Philippine republic, one of them oo n large scale, but they will all have their / "?j schools and prlntincr presses and evangelical churches*their Presidents, their 8enate? and House of Representatives, their Mayors and their constabularies, and ns good order will be observed in their cities as now reigns on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington. or Brc dway, New York. Phrut has started for theconauest of the nations, and nothing on earth of iabell can stop It. The continents aro rapidly rollinginto His dominion, and why not these islands, which for the most part are only fragments broken off from continents, tht? Interval laud9 having been sunk by earthquakes, allowing the ocean to take mastery over them. Each mother continent has around it a whole family of little continents. If the continents are being so rapidly evangelized, why not the islands? If America, why not Cuba and the Bahamas? If A9la, whv not the Philippines and -i the Moluccas? If Europe, why not the Azores and the Orkneys? If Africa, why ' not Madagascar and St. Helena. The same power that broke tbem off the mainland can lift them Into evangelization. AN UP-TO-DATE CHURCH. Lobby Like a Theatre and Proccenlam Boxea t or me ueacoui. The new First Baptist Temple of Colum? bus, Ohio, which has just been dedicated Is oue ot the unique editlces In the West. Id style it Is a modified form of Gothic, without cupola, dome or steeple. Instead of euteriug the house of worjhip through a small vestibule, the visitor steps through the gorgeously carved Gothic portal into a long corridor, on either side of which are offices, lecture rooms, nursery, parlors and similar rooms accessory to modern churches. The corridor is wainscoted in white marble and has the appearance of a theatre lobby. At cither side, near the end of the lobby, beautifully carved stair- ' cases lead to the balcony above. From the wide aisle which runs around the rear of the room under tne circular balcony a good view is had of the commodious stage which the Baptist minister i? to use for his pulpit, and where are local ed the great organ and the seats lor thf choir. i The proscenium arch is elaborately deo^ oiated and lacks only the drop curtain and the flies to carry out the stage effect. On nither side of the stago pulpit are a serie* of boxes designed to be used for the deacons of the church instead of the traditional "amen corners." A ?our of the building will disclose every modern convenience, including electric lights, watei plumbing, a room for bicycles, cloak rooms, j library, Sunday-school xaou, kiteh-n and A lavatories. ? I j