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Itioldenhu %^n^y I A aA /,*^i S( m " .v / . C*rjn?bt 1M by Bo CHAPTER XIII. UWKXST. The conflicting emotion* aroused by the perusal of my ancestor's Record, bat more particularly. 1 think, by tbe keen hope of tbe existence of tbe treasure where it had been stored by Roger True man, and tbe possibilities Which its recovery and possession presented to my mind, were beyond tbe strength of my nature to endure. Tbe volatile fell from uiv bands to the floor, and I Involuntarily rested against the side of the carriage, while a feeling of deadlj raininess cauie over me. though I did not lose consciousness. Without doubt my aspect presented all the signs of sudden illness, or the coatedj which immediately ensued could not he accounted for. "Janet." screamed, the old lady, "the flask, the flask.' Don't you see the gentleman has fainted? Quick! What a stupid girl you are!" and the uext moment that awful gorgon had me fixed in a corner, where she franti' cally endeavoured to thrust the neck f her nauseous flask into my mouth. I offered what resistance 1 could, but my efforts were as nothing opposed to the strength of my tormeutor, who persisted In her purpose, her tongue running with great volubility while she saturated my shirt front with , brandy. "This is wbat come# oi reauIng novel*. God bless as all. look at |' tbe sixe of that one! How tbaukful 1 , am that I never allowed my sainted , (William to see any sacb devices of Batan! Janet, throw that borrid book oat of the wendow." , The natural hesitation of tbe young lady addressed to desl in sucb sumnary fashion with another person's , property averted the threatened calutn- ( tty and afforded me an opportunity , to grasp my volume, fear of its loss | having inspired me with strength for ; the effort. , "Well. well, keep It if you must," ( the old lady continued; "but it would , have been no great loss ouy way; you , could have got another at the next j station. All novels are alike; though, j I must say, that is an estra large on?. \ ,A w " ^ooil luir vnrti i) Hvm 1 m H, 14 uij |#w? * ?v ?? ? f be would be Just about your age. and. oil, bow like you be was! E verybody mid what a sweet face my William bad?Just like a girl's. He was a good boy." Here the old lady, being overcome witb emotion, resumed ber seat, by wbicb circumstance I was enabled to breatbe once more, having learned tbat It is neither pleasant nor judicious when in a fainting condition to be projected against a fat individual enveloped in a vast quantity of crape. Tbe collapse of my fellow-passenger was tbe signal for my recovery. It was with much satisfaction tbat I perceived we had nearly arrived at Cambridge, where 1 was to change trains. It had transpired in some remarks to her maid tbat my tron -leaome fellow-passenger was al?o MUg to Bury St. Edmund's; but 1 resolved to void her companionship for the second part of my journey by taking a cat In a smoking compartment; and with my precious volume safely stowed In my bag. on the handle of .Which 1 kept my hand. I sat looking nt of tbe window ready to alight the asoment we entered the station. Tbe old lady must have divined my attention to flee from ber at the earliest possible moment, Tor. though she did not cease to talk, she now assumed a somewhat quieter manner, confining ber remarks to what sbe was pleased to consider m? wonderful resemblance to ber deal 607 in heaven, aud inviting 1 me to visit her at my earliest convenience that she might have the | ?pleasure of gaslng on my features, to which end she presented me with | ber card? - : MRS. ANDREW BUTTERWELL. : : Kingstborpe Grange. : : Chevington. : : Bury St. Edmund's. : I took the card and. having glanced j at it. put it in my pocket, at the same time resolving to most carefully avoid Chevington and its neighborhood. The short journey from Cambridge to Bury passed without Incident. 1 tried bard to dispassionately consider tbe facts which ciy ancestor's Record bad so opportunely revealed?to digest them and to weigh the chances tor and against the treasure having been long ago found and appropriated; but my mental balance was too greatly disturbed for the task, and besides, thoughts of the living treasure which I might fearlessly claim were I but possessed of those ?oug immured Veuc twu wtxjuijb uuuuutu lunuociicB uuu prevented ate resolving upon any defl ite plan of action. At laat. after what ^emed an interm nabie period. tbe train steamed iutj Bury itatiou. and. pale, nervous und agitated, carrying y bag (which 1 would net trust to a porter), 1 ran down the steps into the courtyard. My father was waiting for iue with the dogcart, aud i observed with satisfaction that he was unaccompanied by a servant. My father greeted me with cordiality. and in less time than it takes to tell 1 was seated at his side and we were speeding towards Holdeuhurst as fast as our bay mare could trot MI thought it was best that you should come home," said be, "if only for a day Of course, tbe place would be safe enough with old John; but you know I nerer fancied leaving it unless you were at home, and just now there re a desen or more strangers at the HalL It is a strange piece of business, this affair of your Aunt Annie. 1 have telegraphed to your grandfather that 1 will do all I can to find out where his daughter is. though, so far - as 1 can perceive at present that will ha rtrr little. Annie ill the last girl in . tbt world I should bare expccted to I Noorf. b- ?T H-TER BLOOMFIELD ?e*t Bourn1* Bom. prr in that way; she was always such & loving child. I would no more have believed that she had a thought hidden rroni her father than I would at this moment believe such a thing of you." At this re mark I winced, yet foolishly held my peace as to what I bad so lately read, and which now engrossed all my thoughts. To be wise ft?r the event is tbe oualitv of mod ?ju prophets?of dispensers of generalities and copy-book wisdom, whom [ have no desire to imitate. I know oot bow it was. I suppose I am by nature secretive, or that at the time some ill-deflned idea suggested itself to my mind that I should best serve my interest by carefully reserving to myself the information I bad ac[iuin?d; though I have never at any time regarded my father's Interest as sther than identical with my own, nor did I conceal my information as part >f a determined policy. That my reticence was a grave error I now know. Elad I at once imparted my discovery to him who by nature and statute law had the greatest right to know of it. I bad spared myself mncb misery and the British public had not been afflicted with these memoirs. "Even if you cannot suggest any Lbiug for u? to do iu tbe matter." Mild my father, continuing. "It Is well tbat you have returned borne. When two persons discuss a case some practicable notion will often occur to one of them which solitary contemplation fails to produce. You have read your grand father's letter?" "Yes; 1 have read grandfather's letter." I replied. "Well, and what la ycur opinion?** "I think be has acted unwisely In making such long journeys to find bis ilaugbter, more especially with such slender means as bis. If lie did not know at all what had become of her, [ could better understand bis doing so; but according to Annie's own letters, as grandfather describes them, she lias gone off of ber own free will, and repents ber act only so far as ber present position prevents ber seeing ber leather. Suppose Annie's address Is discovered, and grandfather visits ber and learns all ber circumstances. Jepend upon it bis gratification will iDd tbere; baring oeen nearuess >Qoagb to voluntarily abandon ber rather, she would hardly be likely to ;ive up whoever she is with and return to Holdenburst. or to some employment in London. That yon may gather from ber protest that she is Kindly treated. I do not tbink so well itf her as you and grandfather do." "Why, Ernest, my boy, you begin to reason like your uncle, and are rather uncharitable; but I fear you ire right." "I am not in the least uncharitable," [ retorted warmly. "On the contrary, [ regret what has happened as much perhaps as you do; but my sympathy Is more with grandfather than with \nnle. Although 1 see but little use in the inquiry he has asked you to make, I was in the act of starting for Richmond to investigate the clue lie gave when the Rev. Evan Price brought me your message, and 1 at jnce came here Instead. Don't think I'm indifferent to what concerns jou to much." "My dear boy. why asure me of what [ know so well?" asked tnis best of fathers. "Your prompt return is sufBcient proof of that." As this parental commendation was uttered we passed through my father's gates, and the next minute alighted at the porch of Holdenhurst Hall, where old John Btood at the open door to receive us. I had bem absent from my birthplace only one ween, but the changes, which had been made in that brief period astonished me. The entire Hall wa? encoopassed with an intricate network of scaffolding, and our beautiful lawn, disfigured by planks, ladders, and piles of slate and white hewn stone laid about in confusion. Many of tbe upper windows bad be?n taken out, tbe vacant cpaces presenting a prim, inhospitable aspect. Tbougbts of tbe enhanced grandeur of tbe place a few months bence failed to dispel tbe cbilllng depression that came over me as I noticed tbese changes, and I entered my old home witb sadder and stranger feelings than I bad ever before experienced. My discomfort was increased when I saw tbe interior. All tbe pictures and armor bad been removed froul tbe hall and staircase, and wbile part of tbe oak walls remained darkened by tbe centuries part bad been scraped and polished and looked like tbe library walls of a Kensington mansion built yesterday. In nearly all tbe rooms tbe furniture was displaced and mucb of it covered up. ? lllro Innlr nt tho place?" askod my father with a faint smile. The disconsolate expression of my face which prompted this query was a sufficient answer to it. 1 do not remember having ever before having been so profoundly miserable as when we wundered together from room to room and along the gloomy corridors surveying the confusion which everywhere prevailed. "Come, don't be so melancholy about it." urged my father: "in seven or eight weeks at most the Hall will be thoroughly restored and cleaned, and the architect your uncle has engaged assures me that the renovation shall be affivliiil in fliw moat fnnaprrnllrt> man. ner possible. the nutiquity of the place being In no way damaged." I observed that I hoped it might be so. "There it no doubt of it." continued my fa.ther. "Have you seen the church? No! It is at present withoui a roof, and the pulpit has been moved from the north to the south side. Where the altar was the new organ hi to be On Sunday Mr. Fuller it to preach tn Johnson's ban near tbo watermill." "Haven't these changes been made eery quickly 7" "Indeed, they have; bat yoa are not acquainted with half of them yet. Yesterday a celebrated srborculturist from Kew was here and weot over the estate. marking trees wblcb-be considers too old either for use or ornament; they are to come down and more than two thousand new trees are to be planted. I am told that your uncle had to pay a fee of ?25 for bis services." "Shall we dine now?" I asked, abruptly changing the subject, though 1 never felt less inclined to eat in m> life. What I had seen and heard made me feel sick at heart and I would have welcomed almost anything to divert ? *? u woo anil my miDU, JJCl JiUMrj ao K nan ? wearied with strong and varying emotions. "Of course; yoo have bad a long journey," said my father, looking at bis watcb. "It is not yet seven o'clock, but I will order something to be served at once." small room wblcb overlooked tbe garden bad not oh y?t been interfered witb, and tbere we sat down to a hastily improvised dinner. Old Jobn waited at table as usual, but made one or two awkward blunders, and st-meed so strange in bis manners that I took tbe first opportunity tbat presented itself of remarking upon it "You see, be Is over sixty," urged bis employer, "and we must not expect much from him now. The alterations going on here, and tbe presence of so many strangers, ha* so disorganized him that he has been almost beside I himself for the last few days; on Friday 1 could scarcely make anything of bim. When tbe workmen ure goue we must hud tbe old man a cottage and a small pension. He has lived here since be was a boy. and has been a good and faitbrui servant." "That will be rather lonely for bim. wou't it? Fancy old John Adams, bachelor and ex-butler, who never had a thought that went beyond bis sideboard or the kitchen, living by himself in a cottage!" "It will be aa lonely for bim aa it has been for me the week that my boy was in London." agreed my goodnaiured father, and then reverted to me rase ui iu> uuiunumuc auwi <>? Die. 1 listened to bis opinions and conjectures with but feeble inte:*est, making pretence of so much .interest as decency required, while I debated with myself bow 1 might best go down into the crypt unobserved by my father or the servants. Very rarely was anybody out of bed ut Holdenhurst Hall at so late an hour as eleven in the evening; and I therefore determined, If I could only screw my courage up to the necessary pitch, to make a secret visit to the crypt at midnight. With this purpose in view I withdrew to my room as soon as possible, and having unpacked my bag wrote to Miss Marsh; but 1 was so unsettled and unnerved that 1 made three rough drafts of a short letter before 1 could express myself to my satisfaction. That task accomplished. 1 went into the garden, and thence wandered to the stables to fetch a lantern which hung behind one of the doors there?a ponderous structure of glass and metal, encasing an oil lamp, the whole depending on a huge ring; such a lantern as the watchmen of London carried In the time of the Georges. Having assured myself that it was provided with oil and a wick. I conveyed It to my room, and then returned to my father, who at once resumed tbe discussion of which I was so heartily weary. As with most matters which are much discussed, no decision was reached; and when at ten o'clock we separated for the night. I retired to my room in a strange condition of unrest, a prey to diversified emotions, Hope and Fear struggling for tbe mastery. To be continued. An Ezp?ulv? Education. ft Is suggested, and tbe suggestion seems eminently reasonable, that when England gets through practicing in South African she will have tbe ablest army In Europe; an army fit to be compared with Grant's In 1865. It Is the great drawback to tbe military art that a,nation can't learn u tnorouguiy without practice, and that usually, as the world is managed now. bj the time any generation in any nation becomes exceptionally proficient at fighting the chance to use its skill passes, not to return until its veterans are past the fighting age. Nothing but a rare com bination of circumstances can enable any modern nation to recover the value of the money and the lives it has invested in the making of an efficient army. The most profit that England can hope for from her 200,000 seasoned veterans is respectful treatment from her neighbors while she is nursing her wounds.?E. S. Martin, in liarper's Weekly. Iuctmm la Marrlacei. There has been a notable iucrease iu the number of marriages recorded in Chicago for this year over a similar period of last year. This has set spec ulatlve persons at work figuring out why this should be. and some of the conclusions are Interesting. It is noted unt the increase has been accompanied by a corresponding decrease in the number of young women seeking employment as stenographers and clerks, and certain club women infer from this that there in a growing tendency on the part of young women to give up business life for that of the home. Others hold that prosperity in tbt business world has enabled more young men to marry, and that this will account for the increase.?Chicago * vol. A Fvpttfi Craft. It wis probably known to neat ly every Roman citiren bow the mortar which cemented the s'.ones of theli 1 buildings was made?just as It It known to the majority of people thai i the principal ingredient of English mortar is street scrapings, but the > knowledge being general nobody wrote it down, and In time, as the Roman* I shifted their building upon slaves and ! foreigners, iue icv<|n* ui ium iuuimi [ was loat. 80 far it has Dot been dls I covered, tbougb tbe secret of it woold be immensely valuable, for tbe cemeut 1 outlasts tbe very stones wbicb it 1 Joins. DR. CHAPMAN'S SERMON A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR-EVANGELIST. iakjKt: Tl?e Ron* mt lb* LanUIf Oar Hearts Will Bat Stag Right Christ Will H?lp Da to Coaataract Oar Bias to Bin. New York Ciyt.?The Rev. Dr. J. Wilbui Chapman's aermona continue to excite tbe profoundeat interest and to give the greatest aatiafaction to that large number 9f American people who demand a striking diacourse for weekly reading. The popular pastorevangelist baa prepared tbe following sermon for the prexa. It ia entitled "The Song of tbe Lord," and ia preached from tbe text, "The aong of tbe Lord began alao." II. Chroniclea 29 : 27. The difference between the 28th and the 29th chapters of II. Chroniclea present* to oa an illuatration of that difference which we frequently see in tbe church aa she paaaes irom times of enthusiasm to days ?' <i?nrM?inn ii?l back again, and for which there Memo to be no human explanation. So also is it the picture of many families where the godly father has an anyodly son and an ungodly father a godiy ton, which is entirely contrary to the rules which in our own houoe we have determined should abound. So also is it a picture of many individuals who after weeks and months and even years are found regularly in the house of God the most devout of worshipers, and then suddenly stop unable al-nost to explain to themselves how they have lost interest and why their zeal is quenched. The wicked reign of Ahaz i ml the reign of his righteous son Hezekiah thus furnish us with practical illustration. I. Ahaz was the eleventh king of Judah, the son of Jotham. His example was holy and his reign was peaceful and prosperous. Not so of his son. He was a gros* idolator, actually sacrificed his children to the gods, remodeled the temple that it might be fit for idolatrous u>es and owned chariot horses that were dedicated to the son. Upon all of this the judgment of God falls, but because of it the condition of the people is something dreadful. He is an illustration of the power of ain. First, in its infatuation. We find him robbing the palace and plundering the temple, places which had always been sacred both to the 1.:-- ..J n?in!? hut which be nre nent# as dishonored in the 21st verse of tbe 28th chapter, to the king of Assyria, but somehow sin aeems always to present the sime sort of an infatuation to those who walk for any length of time in its way. Second, in its degradation. There could be no worse sin than that described in verses 24 and 25 of the 28th chapter, where Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, shut up the doors of the house, and in all the cities of Judah made high placet to burn incense to other gods. A picture very much like it is found in the 5th chapter of Daniel the 3d and 5th verses, where the temple vessels are taken by the king and used in midnight revelry, when suddenly the fingers of a man's hand are seen writing on tiie wall, "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wantinc." However, it is true that any man who uses his powers of body or of mind to sin is as defiantly sinful as was Ahaz the ftlUK. Tnird, in hi* death be ia a picture of the end of ain. He died when only thirty-sii years of age an untimely death, ana he sleeps in a diahonored crave, for they would not bury him in the tombs of the king*, a perfect illustration of the text, "Sin when it ia finished brings forth death." In the city of Paris in burning letters of fire a certain place of dangeroui sin greeted the passer-by with these words, all of them written in fire, "Nothing to pay," but he who enters in through the door will find that the wages of sin ii death. This has always been true. Hezekiah, the son of Ahaz, began to reign when he was twenty-five years old. In his parental heritage he had everything against him, but his mother's name vu Abizah, and she was the daughter ol Zechariah, a man who had understanding in the views of God. This is undoubtedly the secret of Hezekiah's goodness. Boyi frequently go right when their fathers arc wrong, but when the mother is wrong very rarely do they walk in the paths of recti' tude. The temple with which wc have to dc in the story of the text was built 480 yean after the children of Israel had turned from Egypt. It was the fourth year of the reign of Solomon, seven years of time wa? consumed in it* construction, and 183.601 Jews and strangers wrought in its building. According to the present valuation ol gold and silver it cost $1,710,000 in silver, 92,737,500 in gold, or a total of (4,447,500 Gold and silver and precious stone* made up its adornment, embroider)' work so lint that it seemed as if angel fingers must have worked it, and the service of the temple was almost too inspiring for description in human language. This temple is a type ol the New Testament temple which Paul dc scribes in I. Corinthians C: 19. "What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ft have of God, and ye are not your own?" n a sense every individual is a temple oi the Holy Ghost. There is also a sense in which a single church is that temple, but in a more literal interpretation it is the entire church which lorms the temple and we as living stones are built into it Which e*er one of these interpretation! we accept to-day we have the three fold vision of the Old Testament temple. Me fore us the outer court, the holy place and the holy of holies which corresponds tc the three fold nature of nan, spirit, soul and body. ii lit For sixteen year* there had been no sonj in the temple. This waa & great loaa, be cause the people had always been accus tomed -o aing from the time at creation when the morning start aang together and all the tons of God shouted for joy to th? marching through the Red Sea where tin sons of Israel were led bv Miriam in the singing, and the birth of the Saviour when the angels were the choir, the last suppei where the Lord Himself waa one of the singers, up to the new heaven and the new earth where they sing the new song the world has had much to do with music. Tin temple service when men lived iu right re lationa with God and the house wax clear was beautiful. Some l'salms were written in the temple in letter* of gold, and the people chmted them to the accompani ment of ttie consecrated instruments, the antiphonal choirs answered each other, at for example, in the 24th l'salm. one choii would say, "Lift up your heads. O y< Sites, even lift them up, ye everlasting oors, and the King of glory shall corot in,*' and the other choir would respond, "Who is this King of glory?" only to have the other singers repiy, "The Lord ol Hosts, lie is the King of glory." Hut foi sixteen year* there had been no song. First, why was this? 'lhe best explanation is given in the 28th chanter of 11, Chronicles, the 24th and 25th verses "And Ahaz gathered together the vesseli of the bouse of God. ana cut in nieces thi vessels of the house of God, and shut uj the doors of the bouse of the Lord, and he made b:m altar* in every corner ?>i Jerusalem. And in every several city ol Judah he made high places to hum in cense unto other sod* and provoked to an per the Lord God of hi* father*." Then is many a life to-day without a hour, am] to all Huch i pive my meMoge. The reasot for this i* found in the fact of am. We nil; in our outward act*, hut tiod can keep ui front that if wc will let Him and give the tong once more. We tin in our de ire*, but He can remove these desire* il we will but permit Him to do to, and oui affoctiona may l>e set on things above. W< am m our motives, but it we are Hi* then is a new pivot to our life, and the motivei which were most impure may become pure indeed. We have also a bias to *in whict comes to ui with our birth, but He car counteract it if we will give Him the righl to do so. If one could throw a stone uf high enough it would come to the plac< of equiuoise. where the law of gravitatior would be overcome by the hi^h law which puili upward, ana u u wt uiu uui vicn ourselves to Christ as we ought we woulc come to the place where lie would over power the weakness of our nature, anc what we doubtless need is a song to-day It may be the old sons we used to sing. II is natural to everybody to sing, the plow boy as he follows his plow, the shepherc as he keep* his flock in the mountain*, thi sailor on the sea and the traveler on th< plain, tbey all ting. At a critical tnomtnl in the battle of Waterloo when the aoldkn were wavering Wellington found out it *M because the band had stopped. He ordered the munictani to play Again, and the effect was marvelous. If there would only be a on* in our souls to-dav and in the church there would be power.' A mother uw her child standing upon the edge of a precipice. She knew if she shouted she might startle the child so that he would fall, no nhe attracted hi* attention by a familiar song she sang. There are men and women standing on the very brink of perdition >day without hope, bat if the church were but singing her song as she ought the lost could be saved, and if one had a sone others would join with it. On the battlefield of Shiloh fainting and suffering a Christian soldier began to sing, "When 1 can read my title clear." In a few moments another soldier with weak voice joined in and then another until a score of voices were taking up the song. Oh. if we could but set on fire one church for Ood the whole city might soon be under the touch of His mighty life. Second, what did Hezekiah do? W# have only to read the story to find out. (1). He opened the doors, as indicated in the third verse. (2). The priests were santificd, the 15th V0PSP (3) They went into the inner part of the house and made it clean, the 16th verse. (4). They sanctified the entire house, the 17th verse. (5). They restored the vessels which had once l>een used in the temple. (6). "And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. Ai*l when the liurnt offering began the *ong of the Lord began again, also with the trumpets and with the instruments ordained by David, king of Israel. And all the congregation worshiped, and the singera sang and the trumpeters sounded, and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished." Third, *11 this ts typical. We have no song in the church to-day as once we had. I do not wish to be pessimistic in my view of the condition of things; it is my great desire to inspire the church with a new hope and a conception of better things, but no one is so blind to-day but what he can see that the church is without the old song she used to have, and toyond all question it is because the temple must needs V- .1 J -I U ka. UC I'iranKU. II BIIUUIU UUk wjv ? gin now? (1). It ought to begin with the priests themselves a* in the Old Testament story. Christian Evans tells of the time when one day riding through a wood be dismounted from his horee. hitched it to the tree and made his way into the darkening shadows and stayed upon his face before God for hours waiting for his special blessing or his special work, and when he returned to his horse and mounted it and the next day began his presetting service a revival wan started which swept the whole country. Maze spent a day and a night in a New York hotel asking for God's special blessing because he needed it. and at last must needs rise and say, "Oh, Lord, stay Thine hand I can hold no more." Murray i McCheynne was so filled with God that as he laid his hands upon a boy's head and I said, "I am very much concerned about ' your soul," the boy remenfbered it and when he forgot McCheynne's sermons he felt the touch of bis loving band upon his ' hpad. and it DUithed him into the kingdom. ' Is it not true that too many of ua in preaching have somehow become inculi cated with the gnirit of the world in tliia age of ssepticism; Is not the day upon ua ' when we ought to begin anew our ministry pledging ourselves to God that it shall be ! only such a ministry as He could approve > of. (2). And the inner part of the house I need* also to be cleansed. There is in 1 every church a circle into which God has > seemed to call certain persons. To these 1 1 now direct my message, to the-otticers of 1 the church of whatever name, to the Sun* 1 day-school tcachers and to those who have ' become spiritually minded is the searching 1 question, "Is thine heart right in the sight 1 of Uod?" In the 52d chapter of Isaiah > and the 21th verse the prophet says, "tie | ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord." ' God pity the man whose life is unclean, > while his office is one the angela might covet to fill. The searching power of God's ' word ought to touch the Sunday-school J teacher. One of Mr. Moody's teachers in Chicago was dying of consumption. He must leave his Western home and return to the home of his boyhood in the Kast, ' but before he would leave, entering a car| riago he drove to evcrv home and besought | the member* of his class to yield to God, ' and said Mr. Moody, "When the time | came for him to leave Chicago his whole class, every one of them saved, gathered : at the platform of the station to wave him a farewell, and they all sang, 'Blest be the 1 tie that binds our hearts in Christian ; love.' " In Galatians, the 6th chapter and ; the 1st ven?e, it is commanded. "*e which | are spiritual restore the wanderers in the | ipirit of meekness." and alas, it is true that ' men have wandered in multitudes from the 1 church, and we have done nothing to restrain them, let the work of cleansing go on. (3). The church as a whole ought to be ?? _;.v /' -.J I- v?1 ;_lL ,k? ?M I set ngliv Willi VIUU. Ill 4AVIIUI tUUj V??V uu chapter and the first seven vera??, we have r the picture of Joshua, the high priest, | standing before the ansel of tbe Lord. He was clothed with filthy garments, and ; the word of the Lord came saving, "l'ut off the filthy garment* and 1 will clothe thee ' with a change of raiment." These filthy | garments upon tbe high priest are like the I habits which cling to some of us. They , have sapped our spiritual life, and we are I powerless in the presence of the world. , We ought to nut them off and then put on I Christ, so that living among men we might win them to Him by the very way we live. This will not be easy, for the pic, ture of Joshua is with Satan resisting ) him. 1 doubt not he is resisting us now in the presence of God, doubtless calling , attention to the way we have sung our I hymns this morning and uttered our pray, ers, but this pictune in Zecbarah also tells us that Joshua, tbe high iiriest, had i a fair mitre set upon his ncaa, and the J hands showed that scrvicc was hard. That fair mitre is like the (./scent of the Holy , <>host, for which there is a great need today. Then lierekiah saw that the vessels of the temple vere restored. The church has had certain vewels committed to her, an. for example, the liible. We have ( picked it to pto-es until the faith of some ( nan been shaken. "Will you pray for a , theological student''" said a woman to me this week, w ho used to be one of the mo?t , consistent Christians I ever knew and one ( of the moot zealous. "He doubt.* much of the Scripture, and an a consequence hi* , life is not only indifferent but inconsistent." The tune has come when the Bible , ought to be put in the church in the place it once occupied. | Preaching is another vmw! entrusted to f the church. An a matter of fact, do you believe that men would know they were lo?t from much oi the preaching they hear to-day. The time ha* come for the oldtime spirit of the church fathers to pre' vail i Music is still another vensel, and that > church is to be pitied, if not despised, i where the music in not in every way to the I praise of <Iod, rendered bv men and women j whose hearts have alreadv been yielded to [ God, but it was when the burnt offering was presented that the song began and there was this peculiar about the burnt offering, it watt all yielded and it was ail j consumed, an illustration of the fact that i when we are entirely surrendered to God, i when He rules in the ministry and controls t in everything in the church, when there is } no thought but for His glorv and no com* . petition but for His approval, then will the f song of the Lord begin once again. If you r will read the 30th chapter of II. Chronicles ? you will have the story of a great revival, where people from Dan to Meersheba came i to Jerusalem to *|>end seven days, and then * ? ' /if if VAII Will 9 Wtrncu K'VCII uu?r nui^vi t ??| U ;"... i read the 31?t chapter of II. Chronicle# you i will have the picture of the priettt# of 0od t going ut> and flown the land overthrowing i the idolatrous platen of wor*bip and set: ting up the altars once more. This is the i secret of purifying our cities and purifying I our land. Let the song of the Lord begin | once again. There in no more fitting done 1 to Hezekiah'tf life than the 21 vt verse of . the 31*t chapter of II. Chronicle*. "And | with every work that he began in the service of the house c?* (iod. and in the law, t and in the commandment*, to seek hi* (Jod. be did it with all his heart, and | prospered." ? Ninety per cent, of the 128.000.000 peopl# t of the Uuufian empire arc fcriuerx. THE BELIGIOUS LIFE 1 READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF. mat Ur r?ltb?Thra* Bible Stories Co*, actted With Gardcas Which Find m Echa la the Espcrieace of Every Boal ?The Joy of Ood'i Elect. Of creeds and form# the schoolmen talk I am not (killed to understand; I only know I daily walk Fart clinging to an Unseen Hand, And that a Presence, grand and sweet, Each morn and eve I go to meet. I know bat this?that "all the days" A Form Divine is hovering near? And when, at parting of the ways, I sometime* shrink, that every fear la stilled?I cannot tell thee how? And calm as a hushed child 1 bow. I will not argue with the wixe; How can l. knowing 'naught they mean. But all around my patnway lies A light beyond the mornirig** sheen! Content am I unlearned to be, WbUe Christ, God's Wisdom, dwells witV me. ?Elizabeth Fenner Baker. The Gardens. It is a pleasant thins to care for a (tar- ' den?to spend one's leisure in the cultiva- ; tion of flowers. And if you have no leisure j and your general lot is cast where the gar- I dens do not bloom, still in summer time I you sometimes sre their beauty; let them I remind you of three Bible stories connect- [ ed with gardens, which find an echo in the experience of every soul. I see in a garden salvation required. The Bible pictures a man andawoman trembling. fearful. There is a sound that is not the sound of tne wind nor of the murmuring tre*s?a movement that is not the stirring of the leave*: nay. oh trembling sinner. well mayest thou bide thy*?lf; this is the voice of the Lord. "The voice of the Lord shalceth the cedar-trees"?well may it shake thee! It apeak* the sentence of exile, condemnation, death. Go forth; human nature ia utterly fallen; we have no park of goodness feft whereby we may claim to enter into the preaence of the Lord. Ah. that curse of the race is on fell of us. All inherit sin; all are conscious of vileness within. You are kind, charitable, reaper table, you do your duty; but it matters not?the taint is on thee, the trail of the aerpent ia over it all: you need a Saviour! And you remember the day when first you realized it, and cried to God to reveal Hia Christ to your soul. Again, I look at a garden, and I see salvation being wrought out. It is night in a garden now. I'alc night has come, the trees cast long shadows, and the shrubs take fantastic shapes, and the night has many voices, but the birds and flowers are asleep and heed not the marvels of darkness; and not only the flowers, but there are weary men there, sleeping for sorrow. One onlv wakes, agonizes, cries out in anguish of spirit. Who is this? Oh. promised Seed, oh, Star of Jacob, oh. bringer of Thy people home, it is Thou! Thou, oh Saviour, ar; agonizing for the sins of roan. "Great High Priest, we view Thee stooping. _ With our names ufron Thy breast, In the garden, groaning. drooping, To the ground with horror pressed." He in sore amazed, for He sets the (iris of all Hi* children, thrir blackness, their ingratitude; He ia to bear it all, to bear all the punishment that they may go free. "If it be possible, let this cup pat* from Me." Nay. 0 Master, it is not pomdble; Thou must drain that cup to the very dress that I may be pardoned and purified. Christian, has not the scene in tnat garden been often made precious to your soul? And hare you not known something of the anguish and amazement, as you nave seen and realized the sin within you?that sin which amazed the Christ? Have you not known the agony, too, as salvation was beinz wrought out in yoti. as you did not yet know that your calling and election was sure, as you cried for pardon/and it tru not yet vouchsafed to you? lie. the ) Sinless. entered into agony when He was accomplishing salvation for us; we. the sinful, must enter into agony, in a measare, when salvation was being accomplished in us. "His way was much rougher and darker than mine: Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?" I look at another garden, and I see salvation accomplished. It is the death-day of Jesus. In darkness and pain the Lord of Life has expired upon the cross. In the place wher? He was crucificd there i< a garden. and in the garden a sepulchcr; there, with weeping and mourning, pious bands have laid the bodv of Jesus to rest. I'alc and bathed in blood, wrapped in linen. in the darkness of the tomb in that garden-place, lies the body of the eternal Son of God. He has atoned for His people's sins now; they are all put away; they owed to God a debt of unimaginable magnitude. hut it is all paid now. paid to the utmost farthing?there is nothing for them to pav. No one can lav anything now to the charge of God's elect. It is finished; the little foi-k need rot fear?them is the kingdom of heaven. Christian, have you realized that that final joy, the joy of knowing that the atoning work was accomplished for you? that you are accepted in the Beloved?? The Rev. R. C. Fillingham, in "The Gospel in the Fields." Not According to Oar Des?rta. How grateful we should be that God doe* nnt ii? rillivr an individuals or as a nation, according to our deserts! How sadly we should (are if (Sod did so! God loved us while we were sinners, and sought to save u<). Our hope of salvation is that God wive* sinners, not that He saves Christian*. God does not low us because we are sinners, but God loves us in spite of the fact thi.t we are sinners. That is our hope. As a nation we have been prospered of God. not because we have dealt fcirly With other needy peoples, but in spite of the fact that we have ill-treated oth^r peoples or xaces. We have ill-treated the Indian!-. we have ill-treated the negroes, we have ill-treated the Chinese. We have a ad cecord in cur long course with other race*? which we call interior races. Yet God does not deal with us according to our dewert*. What a God we have, and what reason for rejoicing we have that <?o<: doe* not give us accoiding to our deserts! -Sunday-School Times. Those Less Fortunate. If our sincere desire be to advance the kingdom of righteousness upon the earth, ought we not to give ourselves more freely to share the culture and refinement* that have graced our liven with those let.* fottunare. and. above all, to exert all the influence in our power to win the nhallow ai.d elfish to a night r plane of living? Id the World to Come. When the soul nhall have understanding I to divcern all the Saviour's gifts, wisdom wherewith to estimate them. anil time in which to meditate upon them. t>uch ax the world to tunc will atftrd u?. we *hall then commune with Jesu? in a nearer manner than at present.? Episcopal Recorder. Ihr HmppImi People. Even in ordinary life the unselfish pco- I p!i. arc the happiest ?those who work to make other* happy and who forget themse*ve*. The dissatisfied people are those wlio are Keeking happinear for Lheiu?clve?. ?hit* ik'sant. _____ Snnry For ? N*tl???l Dltcb. A corp* r?f (Sovernment ?urvpvor? are making a preliminary survey lor a ancn 10 tarry water from I'Intte River to the jrre.it I'awnee renervoir in Colorado, which the Government will build. The cont of the ditch will In.1 fully $1,000,000. It will l>e eventv-fire mile* long. nx feet deep, fifty feet wide at the bottom and seventy-five feet wide at the top. The impression i* gained that the I'awnee ba*in ha? Iteeri practically derided upon a* the site for ?ne of the peat national reservoir*. C*ra?(lf Llbiary For Eafllih Town. Andrew Carnegie ha* given $15,000 for the foundation of a Irte^ library at Stour- I brit'je WorcejUrtluc, E;.gand. ? . THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 21. Tk? Death mt IImm, Dnt. xzxlTt 1.1*?Goldea Teat, Km. xxxliL, 11? Memory Thin, 5-7?Cecoineatary ? tb? Dty'i Iwimm, 1. "PUiiu of Moab." The level plain tut of the Jordan, where Imel waa encamped. "Nebo?Pitgah." Piagah waa a range of the mountain avatem eaat of the Dead Sea and Jordan; Xebo waa one of the aummita of thia range. "Of Uilead unto Dan." Thia waa the land on the eaat of the Jordan that waa to be peseeaaed br the tribea of Reuben and Gad and the half tribea of Manaaaeh. 2. "All Naphtali." Moaea alao viewed the land on the went of the Jordan. Napbtali waa to have a poeaeaaion on the northera border of Canaan, the poaaeaaiona of Ephraim and Manaaaeh were in the centre, while Judah waa to occupy the aouthem part of the land. In Chriat'a time the three grand divisions on tne west 01 ru<r tine were Galilee on the north, Ssmsria in the centre, and Judea on the south. "Unto the utmost sea." The Mediterraocia Sea. 3. "The aoutb." Probably referring to the region south of Canaan proper, toward the desert. "Vallev of Jericho. His view, was from tbe southern slopes of Lebanon southward, until h? eye rested upon tbe city immediately before him. "Zoar." Not definitely located, but probably oetr tbe southern extremity of the Dead Sea. 4. "Unto Abraham," etc. Gen. 12: 7; 26: 3, 4; 28: 13-15. "To see it." There ?u no miraculous power of vision imparted to Moses. That he should see all that is described is wh.it any man could do if he at* tained sufficient elevation. The atmosphere of that country is free from vapor, aud the sight is carried a long distance. He could not enter tbe promised land oa earth, but God gave him a vision of it* flories from Pisgan's top, showing him that e had accomplished hi* work, that his life had been successful. This scene has ever been a type of the visions of heaven, tbe earnests and foretastes, the heavenly experiences of tbe Christian's promised land, which God gives to His people. The setting day is radiant with cloud glories un seen even at noonday. Uod's word has open windows through which shine {limpse? of heaven and ideals of the lessed life. But these visions come after faithful service and tbe ripening of the character in love and trust. "8halt not go over." See Num. 20: 8-13. In Meribah when tbe people needed water the Lord told Moses to spe?)c to tbe rock, but instead of doing as directed be smote it twice. He also spoke unadvisedly with his lipa, calling the people "rebels," and be failed to acknowledge Gjd in tbe miracle. Tbe Lord immediately told Moses and Aaron that they would not be permitted to enter Canaan. 5. "Servant of tbe Lord." This is a title of great dignity; Moses had been eminently useful. It irii more his bonor to be tbe servant of the Lord than to be king of Jefchurun. No one can be called tbe servant of tbe Lord who does not conquer the world, who is not able to overcome all things. "Died." There is a mystery in connection with the death and burial of Moses; there are some who think be was immediately translated. "According to the word." Literally, at tbe mouth of Jehovah. Some of the rabbins interpret it, Bf a kins of Jehovah. Tbe Jerusalem Targum expressly explains it, according to tbe sentence of tbe dccree of Jehovah. Tbe greatest men are but instruments in uod'a bands, and He can lay them aside when ever He chooser None are indispensable with Him. This should, 1. Cause us to .see our own littleness. 2. Dispel our fears for the future of the church. I 6. "He buried him." That it, God buried him. This is an honor no human being eVer received besides him. From Jude 9 it appears that Michael, the archangel, was employed on this occasion, and that Satan disputed the matter with him. Why did the Lord bury Moses? It hardly seem* frobable that the object was to keep the sraelites from m&king his tomb an object . of idolatrous worship. The tomb of the patriarchs was known, and the bones of Joseph were then in camp on their way to burial, yet neither tombs nor bones were worshiped. The following view of Knrtx is worth considering: Jehovah did not intend to leave the body of Moses to corruption, but at the very time of bis burial communicated some virtue by His own hand which saved the body from corruption, and prepared for the patriarch a, transition into the same state of existence into which Enoch and Elijah were admitted without either death or burial. A? an example of justice Jehovah caused him to die before the people entered the land 'of rest and promise, but as an example of * grace He prepared him an entrance into another land of promise and rest. This view is also held bv the Homiletic Commentary, and by the Speaker's and Whedon's commentaries. 7- "An hundred and twenty."?The life of Moses was divided into three periods of forty year* etch. 1. He was in Egypt forty years, during which time he ?u trained, first in his own home, and afterward in the household of Pharaoh, h He was in Midian forty years, caring for the sheep of his father-in-law, in the very wilderness where he was to lead forth the children of Israel. 3. The first eighty vears of his life was only a preparation for his life work, which was the deliverance of Israel. For forty years he led the people of God in their wanderinzs. as they journeyed toward Canaan. "Not dim." Moses did not die of disease. He was young even in old age. 8. "Thirty days." The usual time of mourning for persons of position and eminence. See Num. 20: 29. 9. ".Spirit of wisdom." He possessed other gifts and graces also, but wisdom is mentioned as being most necessary for the government to which he was now called. "Laid hi* hand*." See Num. 27: 18-23. The Lord had directed Moses to invest Joshua with authority. In chapter 31: 7, 8. Moi.cs gives him a brief and impressive charge. "Harkened." They submitted themselves respectfully to Joshua, because 1 1 1 -.! K.t-. aa thoir l?ari#r hv uou riau ?ii|iuuiv?u uiim imt m%? .? the hand of Mo*e?. 1012. "Not?like unto Mo?m." Jo?hua wan tilled with the spirit of practical wisdom. but wan not like Moses, gifted with power to work signs and miracle*, to found a kingdom and create a nation. None, except Je*u*. equalled Moses in official dignity. holy character and intimate friendship with God . Moses knew fJod and freely and familiarly conversed with Him. In - ? : -u: I.-.?, cnatcvcr npni ?c view iui> ?nauiuiu?M man the eulogy pronounced in these inJ pi red verses will appear just. Death of a Famnai Thief-Taker. Polue Inspector Thoma* J. B*rO". wh<* for many years hail charge of the Ro#iie*' flallery. and who wan head of the Bertillon nvntom in l'olice Headouarters at Boston, Mass.. died suddenly the other day from heart d'oease. Inspector Barry *?? Mid to have known m?>re criminal* than almoat any other thief-taker in the I'nited State*. He had a remarkable memory, and wan ab!e to nlentifv. call by name and how the record of almost any man who ever had been before him on a previous occa ion, or ? ho?e picture he ever had seen Lurches!. the Assassin. Insane. Advice* from tieneva state that T^uf* rheti-. the murderer of the Kmpre** of Austria. hi* not only become insane, but 1* at the point of death. He has been extremely violent .unce hit incarceration, and two warders have been delegated to constantly watch him. Neither straitjacket* nor a V>r?>:ii! and water d:et sceni to have had auy effect on bis lierte temperament. RdmI*d Material* For If oine-Knllt Kbt|M A d?Th' of the Kti?*ian Minister of Marine ha* heen gazetted leouirinn the exclusive use of material* of Hu**ian origin m the construction of all Russian ship*, with the exception of vo*els l>uilt abroad. The decree may he modified iri the case of iii|>? which are to ply in foreign waters. " Amrrieaniiatlon of th? ITarid." The Lokalanzeiger. at Berlin, see* an evidence of fhe growing Amenc.-tnution of the world i* a plan to e*tah!i?h a po*tgraduate medical school at Frankfort after *ti American rood??l. \ ?>piv.i,e p"r.son liau g.vcn to found iins sdioo!.