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! The outlires of the "aeronef' designed
by Sautos-Dumont, in
which the Brazilian has circled the
Eiffel Tower, are shown in the accompanying
cuts, from the New York
Tribune. To the Tribune's Paris corsespondent
be said:
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Inferring that I profess to have solved
the problem. The only thing I have
accomplished in fifteen years of experimenting,
during which I have
.wrecked four aeronefs, is to be able
With tolerable certainty, in fine
weather and with a mild breeze, to
' atart from a given point and navigate
through the air in any direction?right
or left, up or down. To anything more
than this I have no pretensions. We
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are at the beginning of the problem,
iwhich, however, I am absolutely confident
will some day be solved on the
lines I have oeen patiently following."
A Huge Kudder.
! The New York Herald gives this
picture of a rudder, or. rather, the
frame for a rudder, recently made
lor a new ocean steamship. The picture
will give you some idea of the
giant dimensions to which ocean greyhounds
have grown.
The two men standing beside the
rudder frame look like mere pygmies.
The slightest turn of such a giant
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rudder as this deflects thousands of
tons of water when the ship is running
rapidly, and. like the tail of a fish. It
keeps her direction under constant
control.
Beyond Words.
' "Words cannot express my disgust,"
Baid the deaf and dumb man as he
twiddled his fingers meaningly.?New
lYork Commercial Advertiser.
Germany and Holland are planning
to lay a new cable to connect with the
(Dutch Bast Indies.
A SAFETY LADDER FOR CHIMNEYS.
Prevents Man From Being Blown From
HI a Footing.
Anyone vrho has ever noticed the
construction of one of the very high
chimneys sometimes seen {Peering
over an industrial plant of some sort
could not help but to imagine himself
In Hia rinolflnn nf tha wwlftlinn whrt
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must at more or less frequent intervals
climb up and down its preclptious side,
clinging to the tiny iron projections
placed for his accommodation. In
the construction of a chimney now
being erected at Syracuse for the
Solvay Process Company, a new idea
In the erection cf the ladder is being
>ntll;ncs of the Santoa-Dttmoht.ATfr
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into effect, as shown in the accompanying
cut William B. Cogswell,
the vice-president and chief engineer
of the company, Is in a measure responsible
for th$ innovation, or at
least for its introduction, into this
country. He was traveling abroad a
short time ago, and while passing
through a part of Germany noticed
this style of ladder construction, and
at once recognized the merits of it
and made a note for future reference.
The idea is for the man to get
inside of this ladder, where he is
much more secure than in the more
exposed position outside of an ordin
ary ladder. The wind is often very
strong in such an elevated place, and
a greater effort is required to hold on
than to climb aloft.
In making an ascent of a tall chimney
the man can at any time rest himself
completely by standing with both
feet and his elbows upon the rungs
of the ladder at the same time, or
he can put his arms over the rungs
at any time, or if he likes can have
a piece of plank thirty inches long with
him, which he can put across one of
Jl 8AJFETT CHIMNEY LADDER.
tlie rungs and stand upon, thus making
himself perfectly secure while
working.
While at Syracuse the ladder is applied
to a brick chimnej*. there is no
reason why similar ladders should not
be applied to steel plate chimneys,
water works' standpipes oY any other
lofty structures to which ladders arc
attached.
Telltale Lines.
We cannot keep the wrinkles away
from our own faces save by sweetness
and serenity, but othe~s can help to do
it for us. Here is what a writer in
Temple Bar says of a woman who has
grown prematurely old:
Her life arouses my pity. I watch
the lines in her face. They are deepening
rapidly. Thy two near the
mouth I call "brother lines," the
spendthrift, selfish brother.
The wavy lines drawu perpendicularly
across her forehead are querulous
sister, and all that fixed network
about the eyes is reading witn a
bad light" to somebody.
These telltale wrinkles could have
been prevented if everybody had been
as eager in welldoing, as unselfish and
loving, as the woman who wears
them.
Sulphur in Rus.?ia.
One of the richest sulphur deposits
in the world has lately been discovered
in Trans-Caspia. Russia. The
geological formation is very similar
to that in which the Sicilian deposits
occur. It is only in recent years that
sulphur has been found in Russia.
Mistaken Hilarity.
"The drama," said Mr. Stormlngton
Barnes, "is not receiving the serious
consideration mat it once enjoyed.
"People want to laugh nowadays."
"Yes?and usually at the time when
j you are most desirous that they shaU
' not."?Washington Stat
DE. TALMAGES SEEMON
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: A Joy Inspiring: Religion?Solomon'*
Wisdom?Sweet Spices of Christianity
? It Counteracts A11 Trouble ?
No Dolorous Music Needed.
I Copyright 1901.1
Washington, D. C.?In this discourse
Dr. Talmage corrects some of the false
notions about religion, and represents it
aa hpiniy iov insnirinz instead of dolorous;
text, if Chronicles is, 9, "Of spices great
abundance; neither was there any such
spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King
Solomon." \
What is that building out yonder, glittering
in the sun? Have you not heard?
It is in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
King Solomon has just taken to it his
bride, the Princess of Egypt. You see the
pillars of the portico ana a great tower,
adorned with 1000 shields of gold, hung
on the outside of the tower, 500 of the
shields of gold manufactured at Solomon's
order; 500 were captured by David, his
father, in battle. See how they blaze in
the noonday sun!
Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his
throne, between twelve lions in statuary,
and sits down on the back of the golden
bull, the head of the huge beast turned toward
the people. The family and the attendants
of the kinz are so many that the
caterers of the pjuace have to provide
every day 100, sheep and thirteen oxen,
besides the birds and the venison. I hear
the stamping, and pawing of 4000 fine
horses in the royal stables. There were
important officials who had charge of the
work of gathering the straw and the bar*
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an early riser, tradition savs, and used to
take a ride out at daybreak, and when in
his white apparel, behind the swiftest
horses of all the realm and followed by
mounted archers in purple, as the cavalcade
dashed through the streets of Jerusalem
I suppose it was something worth
getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to
look at.
Solomon was not like some of the kings
of the present day?crowned imbecility.
All the splendors of his palace and retinue
were eclipsed by his intellectual power.
Why, he seemed to know everything. He
was the first great naturalist the world
ever saw. Peacocks from India strutted
the basaltic walk, and apes chattered in
the trees, and deer stalked the parks, and
there were aquariums with foreign fish
and aviaries with foreign birds, and tradition
says these birds were so < well tamed
that Solomon mifcht walk clear across the
city under the shadow of their wings as
they hovered and flitted about him.
More than this, he had a great reputation
for the conumdrums ana riddles that
he made and guessed. He and King Hiram,
his neighbor, used to sit by the hour
and ask riddles, each one paying in money
if he could not answer or guess the riddle.
The Solomonic navy visited all the world,
and the sailors, of course, talked about
the riddles and enigmas that he made and
solved, and the news spread until Queen
Balkis, away off south, heard of if, and
sent messengers with a few riddles that
she would like to have Solomon solve and
a few puzzles, that she would like to have
him find out. She sent, among other
things, to King Solomon a diamond with
aknlo on small t-.hftfc a needle could not Den
etrate it, asking him to thread that diamond.
And Solomon took a -worm and
put it at the opening in the diamond, and
the worm crawled through, leaving the
thread in the diamond. The queen also
sent a goblet to Solomon, asking him to
fill it with water that did not pour from
the sky and that did not rush out from
the earth, and immediately Solomon put
a slave on the back of a swift horse and
galloped him around and around the park
until the horse was nigh exhausted, and
from the perspiration of the horse the
goblet was filled. She also sent to Kinjj
Solomon 500 boys in girls' dress and 500
girls in boys' dress, wondering if he would
be acute enoueh to find out the deception.
Immediately Solomon, when he saw them
wash their "faces, knew from the way they
applied the water that it was all a cheat.
Queen Balkis was so pleased with the
acuteness of Solomon that she said. "I'll
just go and see him for myself." Yonder
it comes?the cavalcade?horses and dromedaries,
cnariots and charioteers, jingling
harness and clattering hoofs and blazing
shields and flying ensigns and clapping
cymbals. The placc is saturated with the
perfume. She brings cinnanon and saffron
and calamus and frankincense and all
manner of sweet spices. As the retinue
sweeps through the eate the armed guard
inhales the aroma. "Halt!" cries the charioteers
as the wheels grind the gravel in
front of the pillared portico of the king.
Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere bewitched
with perfume. As the dromedaries
are driven uo to the kind's store
houses and the bundles of camphor are
unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon and
the boxes of spices are opened the purveyors
of the palace discover what my text
announces: "Of spices, great abundance.
Neither was there any such snice as the
Queen of Sheba pave to King Solomon."
Well, my friends, you know that all theologians
agree in making Solomon a type
of Christ, and in making the Queen of
Sheba a type of every truth seeker, and I
will take the responsibility of saying that
all the spikenard and cassia and frankincense
which the Queen of Sheba brought
to King Solomon is mightily suggestive of
the street spices of our holy religion.
Christianity is not a collection of sharp
technicalities and angular facts and chronological
tables and dry statistics.
Our religion is compared to frankincense
and to cassia, but never to nightshade.
It is a bundle cf myrrh. It is a dash of
holy light. It is a sparkle of cool fountains.
It is an opening of opaline gates.
It is a collection of spices. Would Godthat
we were as wise in taking spiccs to
our divine King as Queen Balkis was wise
in taking the spices to the earthly Solomon.
The fact is that the duties and cares of
this life, ooming to us from time to time,
are stupid often and inane and intolerable.
Here &rz men who have been battering,
climbing, pounding, hammering for twenty
years, forty years, fifty years. One great,
long drudgery has their life been, their
laces anxious, tneir ieennsts cenumDea,
their days monotonous. What is necessary
to brighten up that man's life and to
sweeten that acid disposition and to put
sparkle into the man's spirits? The spicery
of our holy religion. Why. if between
the losses of life there dashed the gleam
cf an eternal gain, if between the betrayals
of life there came the gleam of the undying
friendship of Christ, if in dull times
in business we found ministering spirits
flying to and fro in our office and store
and shop, everyday life, instead of being
a stupid monotone, would bo a glorious inspiration,
penduluming between calm satisfaction
and high rapture.
How any woman Keeps house without
the religion of Christ to help her is a
mystery to me. To have to spend the
greater part of rne's life, oa many women
do, in planning for the meals, an J stitching
garments that will soon be rent again,
and deploring breakages, and supervising
tardy subordinates, arid driving off dust
that soon again will settle, and doing the
same thing day in and day out and year
in and vear out until the hair silvers, and
the back stoops, and the spectacles crawl
to the eyes, and the grave breaks open
under the thin so'.e of the shoe?oh, it is
a long monotony,! But when Christ comes
' j the drawing room, and comes to the
kitchen, and comes to the nursery, and
comes to the d%velling, then how cheery
becomes all womanly duties! She is never
alone now. Martha gets through fretting
and joins Mary at the feet of Jesus. Ail
day lone peoor^h is happy because she can
help Lapidoth; Hannah, because she can
mike a coat for young Samuel; Miriam,
because she can watch her infant bro'.'nor;
Rachel, because she can help her father
water the stoclt; the widow of Sarepta, be
cause ine cruse ot on is neing repienisne;].
0 woman, having i:i your pantry a ne.*t
of boxes containing all kinds of condiments,
why have you not tried in your
heart and (ire the spicery of our h">ly religion?
"Martha, Martha, th^u art careful
ahd troubled about many things, but one
thing is needful, and M ry hath chosen
taat good part which shall not be taken
away from her."
1 must confess that a rrcat deal of the
religion of this day is utterly incipid
There is nothing piquant or elevating
about it. Men and women go around
humming psalms in a tanner key and cultivating
melancholy, and their worship
has ia it more sighs than raptures. We
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do not douht their piety. Oh, no! But
they are sitting at a feast where the cook
has forgotten to season the food. Everything
is flat in their experience and in
their conversation. Emancipated from sin
and death and hell and on their way to a
magnificent heaven, they act as though
they were trudging on toward an everlasting
Botany Bay. Religion does not seem
to agree with them. It seems to catch in
the windpipe and become a tight strangulation
instead of an exhilaration. All the
infidel books that have been written, from
Voltaire down to Herbert Spencer, have
not done so much damage to our Christianity
as lugubrious Christians.
Who wants a religion woven out of the
shadows of the night? Why go growling
on your way to celestial enthronement:
Come out A that cave and sit down in the
warm Jjjjht of the Sun of Righteousness.
Away with your odes to melancholy and
HerveyVMeditations Among the Tombs!"
I have to say also that we need to put
more spice and enlivenment in our religious
teaching, whether it be in the prayer
meeting or in the Sunday-school or in the
church. We ministers need more fresh
air and sunshine in our lungs and our
heart and our head. Do you wonder that
the world is so far from being converted
when you find so little vivacity in the pulEit
and in the pew? We want, like the
.ord, to plant in our sermons and exhortations
more lilies of the field. We want
fewer rhetorical elaborations and fewer
sesquipedalian words, and when we talk
about shadows we do not want to say
adumbration, and when we mean queerness
we do not want to talk about idiosynnraaina
or if a stitch in the back we do
not want to talk about lumbago, but, in
the plain vernacular of the great masses,
preach that gospel which proposes to
make all men happy, honest, victorious and
free. In other words, we want more cinnamon
and less gristle. Let this be so in
all the different departments of work to
which the Lord calls us.
Let us be plain. Let us be earnest. Let
us be common sensical. When we talk
to the people in a vernacular they can understand,
they will be very glad to come
and receive the truth we present. Would
to God that Queen Ballcis would drive her
spice laden dromedaries into all our sermons
and prayer meeting exhortations.
More than that, we want more life and
spice in our Christian work. The poor do
not want so much to be groaned over as
sung to. With the bread and medicines
and garments you give them let there be
an accompaniment of smiles and brisk encouragement.
Do not stand and talk to
them about the wretchedness of their
abode and the hunger of their looks and
the hardness of their lot. Ah, they know
it better than you- can tell them! Show
them the bright side of the thing, if there
be any bright side. Tell them good time3
will come: tell them that for the children
of God there is immortal rescue. Wake
them up out of their stolidity by an insDirinc
laueh. and while you send in help,
like the Queen of Sheba, also send in
the spices. There are two ways of meeting
the poor. One is to come into their house
with a nose elevated in disgust, as much
as to say: "I don't see how you live here
in this neighborhood. It actually makes
me sick. There is that bundle. Tate it,
you poor, miserable wretch, and make
the most of it."
I promise a high spiritual blessing to
anv one who will sing in church and who
will sing so heartily that the people all
around cannot help but sing. Wake up,
all the churches from Bangor to San
Francisco and across Christendom! It
is not a matter of preference; it is a matter
of religious duty. Oh, for fifty times
more volume of sound than has yet rolled
up from our churches! German chorals
in German cathedrals surpass us, and yet
Geroany has received nothing at the hands
cf God compared with America. And ought
tiie acclaim in. Germany be louder than
tjat of America? Soft, long drawn out
music is appropriate for the drawing
room and appropriate for the concert,
but St. John gives an idea of the sonorous
and resonant congregational singing appropriate
for churches when in listening
to the temple service of heaven he says:
"I heard a great voice, as the voice or a
great multitude and as the voice of many
waters and as the voice of mighty thunderings.
Hallelujah, for the Lord God
omnipotent reignethl,"
Join with me in a crusade, giving me.not
only your hearts, but the mighty uplifting
of your voices, and I believe we can,
through Christ's grace, sing 5000 souls
into the kingdom of Christ. An argument
they can laugh at, a sermon they may talk
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to God is resistible. Would that Queen
Balkio would drive all her spice laden
dromedaries into our church music. "Neither
was any such spice as the Queen of
Sheba gave King Solomon."
Now, I want to impress you with the
fact that religion is sweetness and perfume
and spikenard and saffron and cinnamon
and cassia and frankincense and all
sweet spices together. "Oh," you say, "I
have not looked at it as such. I thought
it was a nuisance. It had for me a repulsion.
I held my breath as though it
were a malodor. I have been appalled at
its advance. I have said, if I have any religion
at all, I want to nave just as little
of it as is possible to get through with."
Oh, what a mistake you have made, my
brother! The religion of Christ is a present
and everlasting redolence. It counteracts
all trouble. Just put it on the
stand beside the pillow of sickness. It
catches in the curtains and perfumes the
stifling air. It sweetens the cup of bitter
medicine and throws a glow on the gloom
of the turned lattice. It is a balm for the
aching side and a soft bandage for the
temple stung with pain. It lifted Samuel
Kutherford into a revelry of spiritual delight
while he was in physical agonies. It
helped Richard Baxter until, in the midst
of such a complication of diseases as per.
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naps no omer man ever suuncu, uc mv?
"The Saint's Everlasting Rest." And it
poured light upon John Bunyan's dungeon,
the light of the shining gate of the shining
city. And it is good for rheumatism
and for neuralgia ana for low spirits and
for consumption. It is the catholicon for
all disorders. Yea, it will heal all your
sorrows.
Why did you look bo sad this morning
when you came in? Alas, for the loneliness
and the heartbreak and the load that
is never lifted from your soul! Some of
you go about feeling like Macaulay when
he wrote, "If I had another month of
such days as I have been spending, I
would be impatient to get down into my
little narrow crib in tne ground, like a
weary factory child." And there have
been times in your life when you wished
you could get out of this life. You have
said, "Oh, how sweet to my lips would be
the dust of the valley!" and wished you
could pull ov.;r you in your last slumber
the coverlet of green grass and daisies.
[ see all around about me widowhood
and orphanage and childlessness, sadness,
disappointment, perplexity. If I could
ask all those in any audience who have
felt no sorrow and been buffeted by no
disappointment?if I could ask all such
to rise, how many would rise? Not one.
A widowed mother, with her little child,
went West, hoping to get better wage3
there, and she was taken sick and died.
The overseer of the poor got her body and
put it in a box and put it in a wagon and
started down the street toward the cemetery
at full trot. The little child, the only
child, ran after it thj-ough the streets,
bareheaded, crying: "Bring me back my [
mother! Bring me back my mother!
And it was saia that as the people looked
on and saw her crying after that which
lay in the bos in the wagon, all she loved
011 earth?it is said the whole village was
in tears. And that is what a great many
of you are doing?chasing the dead. Dear
Lord, is there no appeasement for all this
?o:-row that I see about me? Yes, the
Untight of resurrection and reunion far
beyond this scene of struggle and tears
" l.'iicy shall hunger no more, neither thirst
any more, neither shall the sun light on
them nor any hea*, for the Lamb which
in in the midst of the throne shall lead
them to living fountains of water, and
God shall wipe away all tears from theii
eyes." Across the couciies of your sick
and across the graves of your dead I fling
this shower of sweet spices. Queen Iialkis.
driving up to the pillared portico of the
house of ccdar, carried no such pungency
~' no ovlvilfia tn.r?!iv frnm thfl
Lord's garden. It is peace. It is sweetness.
It is comfort. It is infinite satisfaction,
this gospel I commend to you.
May God grant that through your own
practical experience you may find that religion's
ways are ways of pleasantness and
that all her paths are paths of peace; that
it is perfume now and perfume forever.
And there was an abundance of spice;
"neither was there any such spice as the
Queea of Shcba gave to King Solomon."
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THE GREAT DESTBOTER I
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOin I
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Drink and American Womanhood ? In- }
ebrtety Is Upon the Increase Among
the Fair Sex, Especially In High Soclety?A
Traffic That Debases.
We fancy that we hear the chorus of in- j
dignation that would have sounded from
end to end of the country had the New '
Voice?"the prohibition sheet"?ventured
to make the assertion that drunkenness is
upon the increase among American worn- ,
en, and especially American society women.
The New Voice has not made such a ,
charge. At this moment we do riot recall
that the matter has been referred to in
these columns, at least not recently. The '
charge has been made by people who are
not prohibitionists, has been emphasized '
in publications that are not prohibition
publications, and has been testified to by
numbers of reputable physicians who, in (
their practice, have met with the results
of the growing inebriety among American 1
women.
Lamentable as the state of affairs is, it
is nothing other than might have been |
expected and confidently prophesied, and
perhaps is no more menacing to the welfare
of the nation than has been the similar
appalling inebriety of the American
men for half a century past.
We look upon it as inevitable that if
the American people will continue to sus- 1
tain the saloon, and the saloon system,
and the saloon's standard of morals, they
must pay the full price therefor. No peo- ;
pie have ever succeeded for any considerable
length of time in keeping any marked <
difference between the moral character of
their men and of their women. Debauchery
begins with the men of any nation, '
but it reaches the womanhood of the nation
soener or later with infallible cer- <
tainty. The Rome of Nero and the France
of Louis XV. and the full fruit of the Anglo-Saxon
surrender to vice in the court !
of Charles II. are illustrations in point. .
The American people for almost half a !
century have been fostering an organized
institution which we call the liquor traffic
with full knowledge that it debauches and
debases everything that it touches. We
know, and have known for years, that it
takes of the brightest and best and cleanest
aod purest of our boys, and transforms
them into loathsome beasts without the 1
beast's excuse for bestiality. We have
let that vile traffic extend itself till it '
touches practically every avenue of our 1
national life, domestic, social, business *
and political. We have granted every ]
new demand that it made for furtiher sur- '
renders of the national virtue. We have '
expected our women to submit to the de- j
bauchery and butchery of their sons. We
have bidden our maidens take uncom- I
plainingly diseased and besotted youths j
for husbands. As & people we have denounced
as fanatics and cranks all who j
have opposed or protested against the
domination of the traffic. Ana now, for- ^
sooth, shall we wake up with a start and
hold up our hands in horror because the
same fiend that has devoured our men ia '
reaching out after our women?
The New Voice would welcome a cru- !
sade to save the womanhood of America ]
from the drink curse, but such a crusade
must mean a real determined effort to !
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drink curse, for in this age of the world
no people c^n build a zenana wall arcwnd
its womanhood.?The New Voice.
Alcohol and Hospitals.
Some years ago Dr. N. S. Davis, of Chicago,
suggested that there might be found
a close relationship between tne mortality
and the spirit bills of large hospitals. A
committee has been looking up this matter.
and, while not ready to make a formal
report, have already found some startling
facta which indicate that the connection
is very close, and no doubt the death
rates rise and fall with the amount of .
spirits used. In one metropolitan hospital,
where the physicians prescribe spirits
freely as tonics and stimulants in all cases, '
the mortality was from three to five per ?
cent, greater than in another hospital of 1
like character whose spirit bills were half 1
as much. In one hospital, typhoid fever 1
and pneumonia were treated very largely 1
with spirits. The mortality was greater c
than in private practice, although tne con- '
ditions for treatment were more favorable. *
One of the visiting physicians became con- '
vinced that the free use of alcohol was a *
large factor in these fatal cases and gave [
up its use. The results were so startling 1
that he has become an anti-alcoholic aa- j
locate. Several hospitals which. received J
soldiers after the late war had widely dif- J
fering statistical results, which, in a large '
degree seemed to be due to the treatment. '
There is a growing sentiment that the
iree use ui aii'uuui aa a Btiuiuiaui 10 ?
most disastrous remedy, although the hos- {
nitals are very slow to adopt this view. ;
We hope to publish some figures which j
will bring out these facts more clearly in
*he future.?Journal of Inebriety.
No Denunciation Strong: Enough.
In the cities of Switzerland every tenth
man dies from drink either directly or indirectly.
These are not all carried off by
specific alcoholic diseases. Quite frequently
it is some other sickness that would i
not have resulted in death if alcohol had j
not diminished the power of resisting dia- i
2ase. Any w6und, or any contagious dis- 1
ease, consumption among others, develops t
more seriously and with more danger in 1
an organism weakened by alcohol. The (
statistics of English life insurance socie- c
ties clearly demonstrate that. They have i
there millions of total abstainers, people f
who never touch a drop of alcoholic i
liquors. Many insurance societies give c
them a reduction of premium because they t
have discovered that the death rate among 1
total abstainers is one-fourth less than t
that of moderate drinkers of the same age. >
Considering all of these facts we are
obliged to agree with Dr. Max Gruber,
professor of hygiene in the University of
Vienna, who has often declared in public: (
"We cannot think evil enough of alcohol; <
even moderate quantities ox it are always f
an injury."
False Idea of Liberty.
Liberty to get drunk cannot be regarded
as one of the fundamental rights of
humanity. Since the Legislature has decided
to limit the freedom of the individual
to ruin himself by closing gambling
dens and suirounding the sale of poisons i
with complicated measures, it surely will
also be permitted to extend precautionary
measures to the sale of this poison which
ruins a thousand more victims than any
other.
The Young Victims.
The majority of people dying comparatively
young of paralysis of the heart are
victims of intoxicating drinks, and their
dangerous condition never became apparent
until it was too lute for medical
science to be of any help. The disease begins
with difficulty of breathing under any
severe physical exertion and terminates
with dropsy of the entire body.
The Crusade in Brief.
The demand for temperate men and abstainers
is more imperative every year.
In Munich, every sixteenth man dies of
what is called "beer heart," according tc
the testimony frotn the dissecting rooms
of the hospitals.
A recent telegram from Warsaw indicates
that rigorous enactments against
drunkenness in .Russia have been brought
into operation.
A bill lias been introduced into the Ore- j
gon State Legislature making it a misde- ]
meanor for any person to treat another tc <
drink in any saloon or other public plact i
M-lipcp liniior is sn!<}
The drink evil in Vienna has become sc
great that the authorities have declared
an favor of closing ail brandy shops on
Sunday.
The frequenting of drink shops by chil 3j
dren, recklessly sent to them by parents, 3
means the creation of a future generation j,
of drunkards. f:
Nearly every patient taken to the Citj t<
Hospital prostrated by the heat is a n
steady drinker. The fact may well b< U
noted by young men whose habits ar? ?l
forming. il
A novel method of controlling the drink ''r
ing habit is being considered by the Ar
kansas Legislature. If a proposed measure
becomes law it will prohibit any pep
son from drinking whisky until he has ob
tained a $5 license from the County Clerk
of the county in which he resides. a
1 1 " J -r'v ' V*-4 .
A
SOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN
'REGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE '
WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS.
EVhat Are the Children Saying??Ex polltory
Preaching?Three Oreat Teachers
? Why Jesus Was Superior to Con
facias or Baddha.
[ hear the voices of children '
Calling from over the seas;
rhe wau of their pleading accent?
Comes borne upon every breeze.
Aiid what are the children saying,
Away in those heathen lands,
they plaintively lift their voices
And eagerly stretch their hands?
"Oh, Buddha is cold and distantHe
does not regard our tears;
We pray, but he never answers.
We call, but he never hears.
3h, Brahma in all the Shastera
No comforting word hag given,No
help in our earthly journey,
No promise nor hope for heaven.
Oh, vain is the Moslem prophet,
And bitter his creed of 'Fate,'
It lightens no ill to tell ua
That Allah is only great.
We have heard of a God whose mercj
Is tenderer far than these;
We are told of a binder Saviour
By Sahibs from over the seas
rhey tell ua that when you offer
Xour worship, lie always hears;
Our Brahma is deaf to pleadings,
Our Buddha is blind to tears!
We grope in the midst of darkness?
With none who can guide aright!
Dh. share with us, Christian children,
A spark of your living light!"
rhis, this is the plaintive burden
Borne hitherward on the breeze;
rhese, these are the words they are saying,
Those children beyond the seas!
?Margaret J. Preston,
Expository Preaching.
"The work of the preacher is the exlosition
of the oracles of God," says the
New York Observer (Pres.). "That ia
:acitly admitted by him when he etanda
with an open Bible before him, and be*
jins his discourse by reading, an extract
which he calls his text. Even'the expolition
of a text is not enough. Textual
preaching is of great service, and the
microscopic method of handling divine
truth has its own distinctive merits, but
both encourage the tendency to regard the
Bible as a book of isolated texts like a colection
of proverbs. Expository preaching
jives large views, grand conceptions, and
i grasp of the continuity of that Scripture
which cannot be broken. There are
ivelcome signs of the revival of expository
reaching in our pulpits, and the children ,
>f the Bible have done much to bring
ibout that consummation most devoutly
lo be desired. There is no originality like
the originality of the honest and careful
exegete. Nothing so well supports and
'reshens a prolonged ministry as expository
preaching. Dr. Joseph Parker, of
London, and Dr. Alexander Maclaren, of
Manchester, the two greatest luminaries
>f the English pulpit, are firsthand forenost
Bible expositors. 'Back) to the
Bibl^,' is the cry. of the children of the
Bible, weary of studies which concentrate
;heir strength on books about the Bible
ather than on the Book itself. The cry
is finding a response in many hearts, and
re trust ifc will gain in volume until
Christians in all parts of the land awake
;o the importance of surrendering thought
ind life to the message of the Word of
3od in all its full-orbed completeness."
-di
Three Great Teachers.
Living or speaking well and noblyxfor
:he life that is, is to be commended in
inyone, and to be commended by all. Yet
10 one can live or sDeak at the best and
loblest for the life that now is without a
ecognition of the life that is to come; for
i recognition of man's higher nature and
>f the future life marks man's superiority
ibove that which dies when, this life ends.
Confucius and Benjamin Franklin wrote
veil and nobly for man's present life,
[heir counsels mada^n impress on their
jeoples for their generation and for folowing
generations, but neither Confucius
lor Benjamin Franklin wrote in recogni;ion
of the life that is .to come; henc9
Uaii* (Tarn Koln f/1 fhflir fplloWfl
or the future life, or for man's highest
lature. Jesus Christ wrote better and
nore telling words for the life that is than
lid Franklin or Confucius, and in adlition
to this Hp speaks words concernng
the future life that have told, and
lo tell, and will continue to tell, on our
ace, for this feneration and for coming
fenerations. And this is one evidence
>f the superiority of Jesus Christ to all
vho ever spoke words for man's help.?
Sunday-school Times.
Sorrow'* Crown of Sorrow.
It is not physical discomfort, not havng
little to lie on night after night, on a
ungle tour, or swimming rivers, or ahortless
of food?that is the poetry of mission
ife?but the hardship is having to look
ifter native churches and bear the
jurdens of native converts when one feels
;hat the circle of prayer at home is not
:omplete and that the tide of sympathy
s not flowing as it should. Never, until I
jot on Indian shores and had to do with
iative churches, did I know why Paul out
it the end of his list of agonies?after
;he stoning and the scourging, and that
ong scries of hardships?as - the heaviest
>f all, sorrow's crown of sorrow, "the care
>f all the churches."?Rev. G. 'W. Oliver.
Temptations.
Consider the temptations of the various
;emperaments and talents. The peril of
;he five-talent man is selfishness. WithfViA
Ano.folonf man
aucgiauic itvui v??t vuw vm.vU?
:ompels modesty within him. But the
lonor and allegiance given to the five-tal:nt
man nourishes pride and self-suffi:iency.
Because he rises above hia felows.
the great man thinks himself to be
mart from his fellows. He soon develops
:he sense of exclusiveness and counts
limself better than others. So he passes
inder the condemnation of the wise man.?
Rev. Dr. Hillis, Congregationalist, Brooklyn,
New York.
Living For Self.
The highest thought is living for God.
Vten in the world live for self. This is the
lim of all men horn in Adam. It may be
i very cultivated self, or a very low, mean
ielf. But man's centre is self. God's word
:omes and teaches us that the highest aim
n life is to !ivo for God. In order to live
for God something must happen in man. ,
We will call it faith, conversion, new ,
jirth, born again. These are Bible illua- i
trations. Tt means a change of centre.? |
Rev. James McFarland, Denver," Col. i
Purpose of Christianity. I
The purpose of Christianity was the destruction
of sin and the salvatibn of j
jeople from their sins. That it effects this 1
purpose is seen in the remarkable con- f
trast between the highest forma of heathenism
and the lowest forms of Chris- *
tianity.?Rev. Dr. George, Kansas City, I
VIo.
Personal Liberty.
There is no such thing as personal liberty
in the general acceptance of the term by '
orodigals and politicians. The only pos <
lihlo noi-JonM 1 is frmnrl in doina
right.?Rev. W. F. Crafts, Washington,
I), a
Filipino* Buy More .Jewelry. '
Jewelry and manufactures of gold and
ilver to the value of $223,413 were inv ]
orted into the Philippines during 1900 j
ceording to the Division of Insular Af- *
lire of the War Department at Washingan.
The imports of this sort for 1899
^ere valued at $44,9.'57. thus showing an
icrea3e of 398 per cent, for 1000. Goods '
f this character from the United States
lone were imported to the1 value of $8860
l 1900 and $2102 in 1S99.
France May Abolish the Duel.
The French Government is urged to <
bolish the duel.
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nnT SABBATH SCHOOL
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
* FOR AUGUST 25.
Subject: Abraham and Isaac, Gen. xxtf.*
1-14?Golden Text, Heb. xl? 17?Memory
Verges, 6-8?Commentary on th?
Day's Lesson.
1. "After these things." The things recorded
in the previous chapter regarding
Hagar and Ishmael and their banishment.
' DiH nrnvp AKraViam" fP V ^ "Vrtt- in>
cite to sin (jas. 1: 13), but try, prove.
give occasion for'^the development ot
faitl*." 1 Cor. 10: ?eb. 11: 17; James 1:
12. It is well to. see' that God confers a
signal honor upon us when He thus tests
our hearts. Tempting is for the sake of
leading men to evil; testing them is for the
purpose of making them better. The trials
of life are to prove what we are, to see if
we are fitted for larger things. "Here I
am." Ready at a moment's notice for
God's service.
2. "Thine only son." His onlv son by (.
Sarah, his legal wife. Had Abraham s
whole soul not been stayed simply on the
Lord he never could have yielded unhesitating
obedience to such a searching command.
Abraham desired earnestly to ba
let into the mystery of redemption, and
God let bim feel by experience what it
was to lose a beloved .son. "Land of Moriah."
A general phrase for the mountainous
district of Jerusalem. This Moriab
was the same site upon which Solomon
built the temple, and Calvary was near by,
"For a burnt offering." Abraham was living
amidst idolaters who sacrificed theii
first born to their idols, and "Abraham
nimseu raignc not nave Deen sure mat ns
ought not to offer as costly sacrifices as th?
heathen did; but God at this time taught
him and his descendants not to offer human
sacrifices, and yet they were to retain '
the spirit of sacrifice out of which they
grew.
3. "Rose up early." That there might
be no appearance of delay or reluctance on
his part he made every preparation for the
sacrifice before setting out?the materials,
the knife, the servants to convey them;
and he had the painful secret pent.up in
his bosom during the three days he was
journeying to Moriah. He murmured not,
nor took counsel with flesh and blood.
He waited not to consult with Sarah, nor
listen to the misgivings of his own mind. <
The command was clear and the obedience. ;
prompt. _ I - "ii
4. "The third day." Beer-sheba, Abraham's
present home, was a town on the
southern border of Palestine, forty-five
miles south of Jerusalem, and three days
was the usual time it would take them to
make the journey. In the three days'
journey there was time given for reflection:
thus the struggle of faith is not short and
momentary, but prolonged. As this sacrifice
was typical of that of Christ, so here
may be a reference to the third day oi
His resurrection. "Saw the plaoe." The
hill Moriah can be seen about three miles
distant by one coming from Beer-sheba.
5. "And worship. Perform a solemn ^
act of devotion which God requires.
"Come again to you." This may have
been an expression of faith that God .would >>
Ui'a oAn Airan if anfllflllw
I C31UIC LLITJ OUil vtcu i*vvw..v . v?v.
Heb. 11: 17-19. Thia reminds tu of our
Lord in Gethsemane; going into such an
agony. He would not admit others to go *
with Him.
0. "Laid it upon Isaac." Isaac carried
the wood for the burnt offering, so Christ
carried the tree whereon He died (John
19: 17); the binding: of Isaac was also
typical, for so Christ was bound. Matt.
27: 2. "Took the-ftfre." That is, carrying
in his hand the vessel containing the coali '
of fire. ej
7. "Where is the lamb?" The tenderness
of this scene is only to be surpassed
by those of Gethsemane and Calvary.
Nothing can be conceived more affectionate
and affecting.
8. "Will provide." The patriarch spoke
prophetically, and referred to that Lamb
of God who in the fulness of time should
take away the sin of' the world, and of '
whom Isaac was a most expressive type. \
The giving up by the father of his only
and well beloved son (v. 3: John 3: 10),
the ready submission of the son = (v. 9;
John 10: 15). th>earing of the instrument
of death by tn? victim (v. 0; John
19: 17), the violent difeath consented to (v.
10; John 19: 16), the deliverance from
death on the third day (vs. 4, 12; Matt.
20: 19), can not be mere accidental coincidences.
. '
9. "Bound Isaac, hia son." Had not
the patriarch been sustained by the full
consciousness of acting in obedience to
God's will, the effort must have been too
great for human endurance; and had not
Isaac, then probably twenty-five years of
aee, displayed equal faith in submitting,
tnis great trial could not have been goae
through.
10. "Stretched forth his hand." The
deed is virtually done when the will shows
firm determination. God who looketh upon
the heart regardeth the sacrifice as already
made. He will take the will for the deed,
but never the deed for the will.
11. "The angel of the Lord." The very
{>erson who was represented by this ofering;
the Lord Jesus, who calls Himself
Jehovah (v. 10), and on His own authority
renews the promises of the covenant. He
was ever the great Mediator between God
and man. "Called unto him." When we
cannot see on any, side, a way of escape,
then God comes and often shows us * .
wonderful deliverance.
12. "Lay not thine hand." The sacrifice
was virtually offered, the intention, the
mirnose to do it. was shown in all sincerity
and fulness. ''I know." The best evidence
of our fearing God i3 our being willing
to honor Him with that which is dearest
to us, and to part with all for Him.
"That thou fearest God." This was faith
in action. Paul says that Abraham was
accepted by faith, and James says he was
accepted by works of obedience, but these
are only two sides .of the same thing, for
not a single act of faith can be named but
what has in it the nature of obedience.
13. "Behold?a ram." Though Christ
was typified by Isaac, yet the offering of
him was suspended, and in the meantime
the sacrifice of beasts was accepted as a
pledge of that expiation for sin which
should be made in "the fulness of time;"
the great principle of tfie Mosaic economy
was the acceptance of animal sacrifices instead
of human.
14. "Jehovah-jireh." That is, "The
Lord will see, or provide." "It shall be
seen." The meaning is that this was the
spot of God's choice for the maniTestation * >
of His visible presence, where the sanctuary
should be erected and sacrifices offered.
After the ram had been offered
the angel of the Lord again called to
' *?-- ..w
Abraham ana renewed me tmcuum mm,
God had made with him. Abraham then
returned tn R<w-sh#?ha
Australia's Exposition.
It is proposed to hold an exhibition on
an extensive scale at Bendigo at the end
of this year, "under the auspices of the
Government of Victoria, to commemorate
the discover}' of gold in 1851 and the first
anniversary of the Australian Commonwealth.
Prominence will be given to gold
mining and other mineral resources and
phase* of mining in Victoria and other
States. Special buildings and courts will
be erected for the display of manufactures
and industries, wool, agriculture, dairying,
machinerv and so forth. The Benriigo
School of Mines will provide a model
laboratory for the exhibition, equipped
with furnaces and apparatus for metallurgical
and chemical work. There will b*
hve main divisions of the exhibits and
twenty-five sections, in which the applications
of science to mining and to tha
development of other natural resource*
will be well represent'1
Favors Superposed Turrets.
Rear-Admiral Bradford, of the NavaJ
Board of Construction, has submitted tc
secretary Long a minority report on the
jroposcd new battleships. The report
favors six and eight inch guns, instead ol
i seven-inch gun, in broadside batteries,
IS recommeiiueu uv luc majuraj icpviic
Rear-Admiral Bradford also argues for
the retention of the superposed turrets.
He cites the discussions leading up to the
idoption of plans for ships now building,
to show that the present majority plan u
not in line with the best judgment of na?
pal experts.
World'i Forest Area.
Fort j cover one-tenth of the land ol
the earth and one-quarter of Kurope'i
land surface. . '
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