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THE HAVEN OF DREAMS. ' itit s. bock ix rmwkoo nrm-octa*. IWken the weary da> with it* toil ia o'er 'And darknena brood* over earth once more. fffe gladly tlm through the gate* of nijht. And .% ! for a mistical shore. 1b the *oft-winijod ?h.iK<>p of sleep we glide Ccr a wlent m with a rhythmic tide. (That lull* to reu each throbbing woe Our aching heart* may hide. And though i'rom atar no beacon gleam*. Nor mariner'* star *he<U its gutdihg beams. 3Tet ever the unseen ?!up* go by. Seeking the haven of dream*. !And when we've entered that' haven fair. The wonder* untoM tn?t await ua there! Back n the meidows of childhood we roam. Basking aiun in tuc bveiight of home. The dear one* we've !o?t are with u* oncc h1am. Jut as we knew thorn and loved thorn ot yore; And none ever doubt- all i* not aa it ?ee:n? ,While we linger entranced in thr haven of dream i 80 ; aeemeth to me '.hat nomc ahadowy night .When death dratra the curtain well alip out of night. And ?il n * ?hallop l'ke that we call uleep. To a TO^derful land where no even ever weep. And the haven o: dream* lieth white. His Dream Wife HE?the man of this little incldent, that took place one afternoon this week In one of h- nfflno hllild. lags down town?was a young lawyer f considerable practice and some inherited wealth. She?the woman who held the strong. shapely hand of the man?wys a manicure girl. The warm rays of the sunshine that filtered through the window glass in the young iwoman's daintily furnhhed "manicure parlor" seemed to smile kindly oq the pair. She was a pretty girl with nat-l ural light colored hair and ngate blue yea. There was an admiriug gaze in tlu? Ttinnr Uwwr's eves as he watched her polishing his tbumb nail. After a few moments' silence the jsirl ceased Work, looked up and inquired: "Haw is your wife to-day?" With a sudden start which Indicated that his thought* had been wandering the young man said: "Ah; oh. yea? my wife, she Is about the sa me, you know." "I i,m glad/' responded the girl, "for yon said she was well when you trere here yesterday." "Wis It only yesterday that I was fcere 'ast?" Inquired the lawyer. "It was. and you w^e here the day before that and the day before, and In fact every day for two weeks." she aid with a smile. Re leaned back in his chair and gazed: Into the attractive upturned face of tlie girl and remarked: "It's so pleas in t here, you know: just to rest and chat with you ? and ? and ? have you Hold my band." "Don"! say such things to me.** said the girl as she brushed from ^r face a tray strand of her golden hair. "Remember your wife?she might not like It" "Thafa true." responded the young fellow, with a aish. "but let us forget her." "You must not." said the girl, "for I have always admired you for the way you spoke of your wife. I hate men Who abuse their wires to other women. I have always thought that no matter how disagreeable a man's wife might be nothing could justify him in gossiping about her faults." "Do many meu do that?" Inquired the young fellow. "I know they sometimes tell their lawyers about their domestic troubles, but " "Ob. yes." said the girl. "that's one of the most disagreeable features about a manicure girl's life?at least. I find it BO ? men come to us with their troubles. Men sit here by the hour and tell me what disagreeable creatures their wive* are: it often seems to me mat no man loves his wife. They nil peem to tell the same story?of a sodden Infatuation, a hasty marriage and then disappointments and quarrels." "It's simply awful, is It not?" Inquired the Interested listener. "Yes. It Is. There wa? a tlmo when, like every other girl. I suppose. I thought of marrying, but two years of manicuring men's linger nails has made me fearful of marriage. I could not bear to think that my husband Would abuse me to other women." "I don't think that any man would peak unkindly of you?even though rOU Were hiS Wif*." Mil) tha ?nnnrr lawyer, as be looked full into the upturned face of the girl. 8he blushed. shook her head and aid: "That's the way at! ra<>n talk?so I have been told?I?efore uiarriajjp." "I am certain 1 newr could were foa my wife." remarked the young fellow with a tender tone of voiee. "Don't you think ynu had better go now." said the srirl. "Your wife will expect you hom?* to dinner." "My wife will not be kept waiting? the never dine* with me. She?well? be is a ntost disajtreeuhle person." "Don't: please go." pleaded the drl. "yon know you always told me before how much you loved and admired your Urifc. I loved to sit and listen to your description of your happy home?your domestic wife. 1 know you said *he wan uot pretty, but you told me she was dainty and refined looking: that nu?r was so senile auu considerate: that be did not rare for society, exccpt >rhen you went with h-?r. Ob. I know ho must be lovely; I wish I could see her and tell ber bow nobly you have talked about her. She is nil that I would try to be to a husltand I loved." 8be suddenly ceased talking and sat With her bands clasped and ber face upturns! The young lowyer arose, walked to the window and looked out. After a few minute* of silence be again faced the girl and said: "Yes. that's all true. I did say those things, but tiiat was the story of a dream wife, an ideal, not the reality." "Then you were lying all the time?" gasped the girl. "No. not that." was the response. "I Was just painting my dream hi words .?you know that there is nothing so happy as dreaming, and I have been dreaming some years about a wife?the kind I would like " ^ "Bat," exclaimed the girl with a ocr. I Hy, turn nnin - -rrr plexrd expre?*lon on her flashed face. ! "you have a wife." I "She** a nightmare." r??torte<l the young fellow, "not a wife." "Please go." urged the girl. "It'a I cowardly to sp<\ik noof a woman and that woman your wife. I am disappointed in you?more than I can tell." "Let me tell you of uiy nightmare wife." pleaded the young lawyer as he stood directly in front of the chair in which the girl was seated. "I admit that I loved her very much, that our courtship was happy, romantic and all that. She was an ideal wife for a few weeks, then all changed. To | my faults she was always unkind. She became cold and indifferent to my desires and fancies. She was cross and . freifnl. She became rareles* In her [ personal appearance except when she j expected friends. She quarrelled with I the servants, she neglected the bojse " "Don't tell ae any mare." pleaded toe giri. "Just a little more." urged the young fellow. "When I sometimes?not often?came lium*? a little under the genfie Influence of something stronger than water, my nightmare wife did not wait until the next morning, when I had recovered, to scold me. but talked at me when I wanted sieop and began again at breakfast." "Was that so bad?" inquired the girl. "That was the very worst of it; a man with a bad head can't stand a , scolding. A wife?a loving, gentle, j sensible wife?would wait until after j the head had resumed its normal shape and then do her scolding." "I think you are right." said the girl, with a smile. "Do you mean that?*' inquired the ; man. "I il?- T tnnn' *-on nrr* rlirfct " "I thought that I hnt! nut made & | mistake in you?I have been studying j you for many days and I am a good judge of character." "I am air fully sorry you have such a wife. I loved the wife yon first told me about. Why did you do that?" "Because I wanted to draw you out I and study you. I pictured my dream wife and now I have tuld you of my nightmare wife." "Which is the real one you have?" eagerly inquired the manicure girl. "Whether I have the dream wife I , think depends on you." said the young j lawyer, as he leaned over the girl'a chair and gazed Into her face. "I don t understand you. retorted j the girl. "I havp neither a dream wife nor a nightmare wife, except in fancy, but I want you to be my wife ? my ideal wife." Silence reigned supreme for a few seconds and with the glory of the setting sun full on her pretty face the girl softly said: "I understand, and I will try."?New York Suu. Par* Suollcht and Air. We have often heard of "Sunny Italy." or the "clear light" of Egypt, says the Desert, but. believe me. there is no sunlight there compared with that which falls upon the upper peaks of the Sierra Madrc or the uninhabitable wastes of the Colorado desert. Pure suulight requires for its existence pure air. and the Old World has little of It left. When you are in Rome again and stand upon that bill where all good Romanists go at sunset, look out r.nd see how dense is the atmosphere between you ami St. Peter's dome. That same thick air is all orer Europe, all around the Mediterranean, even over in Mesopotamia and by the hanki of the Ganges. It has been j breathed and burned and battle smoked j for 10.000 years. Ride up aud over the ' high tablelands of Montana?one can j still ride there for days without seeing a trace of humanity?and how clear ! and scentless, how absolutely intangl- I ble that sky blown, gunshot atmos- : phere: You breathe it without feeling it. you see through it a hundred miles. ' and the picture Is not blurred by It. ; Once more ride over the enchanted mesas of Arizona at sunrlae or sunset, with the ragged mountains of Mexico In tllo vnnth nf "rtli nml thn tirnL-on spurs of the great Sierra round about you. and all the glory of the Old shell b as nothing to the gold and purple and burning crimson of this New World. | I Imperial Gallantry. Hovr the pleasant eccentricities of one gep- at ion witl persist in breaking om in rother, defying time and ridi* cule and the change of manners. It was the pl.-iful way of Frederick the Oreat when be came acrona a buxom wench to marry her forthwith to the tallest of his grenadiers, aud It stands to the credit of his intuition that these marriage* rarely proved a failure. Now. either in emulation of his great predecessor or elso because be cannot ueip it. ijt* naiser nag jusi uau a similar atta- ic of gallantry ? gallantry. ( mark you. on a truly imperial scale. He was visiting Crefeld lately, that busy towu of silks and velvets on the lower Ituine. ami learned from the pretty girl inhabitants that all thoy wanted iu the tror'.d was a handful of lieutenants to dauce with them. Hey. presto! tin? autocratic mandate ha.* gone forth thj.t C'refeld is to have Its garrison iu ?he shape of a crack hussar regiment, and the burgomaster is busy preparing it accommodationThat regimen? is lucky if it is not christened in future Fraunhusaren. or worst of all. Tanswehr.?Pall Mall Ga-^ xette. " ? __________________ j The Sea Trout. The earnest of salt water fish, attcv the striped bass, is the weaktisb or sea.' trout. The aport of angling for theml is generally enhanced because, feeding as they generally do near the surface.! it is possible to fish for them with light? tackle. The best places to find them In the vicinity of New York are Ja* maiea Bay. the southwestern sliore o(| Stnien Island and the month of the* Shrewsbury River. While they have becu caught weighing upward of twenty pounds, a six or ten |M>nnder is ft good size and the average will only run from one to two and a half. Ther<? is never any doubt when a weaktish bites, lie does not nibble around the hook, bpt takes the !>ait at one fair swoop nnd then starts oft with it like a limited express with time to make up. He Is a shy tlsh and the man who uses a small line, light lenders and suells to his hool:. and keeps quiet while halting is the one who is apt to hare the best luck.?Couutrr Life in Amerti-a. A SERMON FOR SUNDAY 11 AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED ] 'THE DEVIL." J f fb* Rfw. itr. J. Wllbar Chapmn Tr?t? Forbidden <#bj?rt In Novel M?nn?r J ?Why Mm Ar* l)l<piM?<i to Laugh mt tb? Prised of Dsrkao**. N*w York Citt.?The following read*- i 6le and helpful wrmon ia by the Rcr. Dr. I J. Wilbur Chapman, the beat known evan- I geliat in the country and one of the most I popular pulpit orator* of New York. It I t* entitled "The Devil." and wa* preached 1 from the text "And the Lord ?aid unto ( Satan, Whence comeat thou? Then Satan J anawered the Lord and <uid. From going to i a >k* u?r?v, nni? from walking u?> I and down in it." Job 1: ?. Thia is a forbidden subject. We generally speak of him who is the subject of my t sermon with a smile, and yet it is .1 sub- j ject with which one ought certainly to be j perfectly familiar. We have all had some experience with him who is the author of our distress, and who is responsible for every cloud though it be no latter than a man's hand that has cast itself upon the sly of our life, and yet I doubt not that there are very msny of us that could not give a very accurate explanation of our views. There are very many who scout the idea of a personal devil at all. and this view is much more general than we think. I can quite understand how it should be so, for Satan's mooter stroke of policy is to direct our minds from inquiry concerning his true character and the methods by which he governs his kinzdom. Sometimes for the unregenerate he employs the veh;rle of darkness that he may blind the minds of tho?e who do not believe lest the light ot' the Gospel of the glory of Christ a should dawn upon them and they should believe. "In whom the f!od of thin n*or!d bath blinded the mind* of them which believe not. Ie?t the light of the gloriou* (.nopel of Christ, who in the imaae of fJod. should shine unto them." 2 Corinthian* I 4: 4. And sometime* to those who do be- t licve he transforms himself into an anzel t of light that he may delude them by his < snares. "And no marvel; for Satan him- ? elf is transformed into an angel of light." i 2 Corinthian* 11: 14. I The late Dr. .Tames H. Brooks, of St. Louis, one of the greatest Bible teachers in oar country, said that it used to be his i custom in bis family worship to read the New Testament through consecutively un- i til be came to Revelation, and then be would always turn back to Matthew and ] read again to the Revelation, and then back to Matthew once more, until one day fitting alone in his study he began to question himself as to why this was hi* habit, j and it occurred to him as he read the Rev- I elation through that it must be becau?e I this is the onlv book in the New Testa- c mcnt which tells of the doom of Satan, s and it is quite easy to understand why he ? would turn the mind away from that book > which tells of his defeat. 1 "Men don't believe in a devil now, As their father* used to do; ' They've forced the door of the broadest J creed, i?. 1-4. I.:. | .... i k . f lo in nm lurm pann uu<miHu.i There isn't a print of hi* cloven foot, Or a fiery dart from hi* bow, c To be found in earth or air to-day, c For the world has voted no. "But who is mixing the falsi draught a That paUie* heart and brain, h And load* the bier of each passing rear t With ten hundred thousand slain? I Who blight* the bloom of the land to-day a With the fiery breath of hell? c If the devil ign't, and never wa*. t Won't somebody riae and tell? r "Who clogs the atepa of the toiling aaint And dig* the pita for his feet? Who sows the tare* in the field* of time, * Wherever God *ow* His wheat? The devil is voted not to be. And. of course, the thin* is true; But who i* doing the kind of work Th* tfovil alone should do? ? ~ t "We are told he doe* not go around 1 Like a roaring lion now; h But whom shall we hold responsible i For the everlasting row r, To be heard in home, in church and state, * To the earth's remotest bound, s If the devil, by a unanimous vote, Is nowhere to be found? I "Won't somebody step to the front forth- . with. And make his bow, and show fl How the fraud* and crime* of a single day j Spring up? We want to know. E The devil is fairly voted out, And of course the devil's gone, ,| But simple folks would like to know Who carries his business on." j, Men are disposed to laugh about the 1 devil, but one might aj well jest concern* ing a cunning foe who continually tracks b his step* and waits to thrust his knife into s his heart; just as well j<Mt about the one r who is a vile s'anderer, and who wait* to * blaat his reputation and cover his good k name with infamy. " The other day in Brooklyn a woman I threw herself out of the window of a five- f story building to escape the brutal tor- i * ? ? \ 1 1 Ot. I.IA ? cure* ot oer arunxen nusoanu. one ir? her little bov motherless anil worse than * fatherless That husband was in the clutch ? of the one of whom 1 apeak at this time. ' Would you make light of auch a foe as ? this. The opening chapters of Genesis (fire us a picture of a happy pair in Eden, peace, purity, perfection and beauty every- * where prevailed. God looked upon it and <j aid that it was very good, when suddenly J all was changed. There is a marvelous ? transformation; sin appears; the curse is ' everywhere; trouble begins and rolls bish t like the mighty waves of the sea. until tnc J world is engulfed in the blackness of the t darkness of despair. No wonder that we feel like crying out again *nd again in the J words of the text. And the Lord said ' unto Satan, Whence coin est thou? Then t Satan ansmered the Lord and said, From n going to and fro in the earth, and from 1 walking up and down in it." It is of such 1 an adversary that I speak, and he is not a S subject for jesting. 1 have fat the past a ten years been laboring in the interests of 4 men, but somehow during the past three * months they have been upon me as a upc J I 1 - -a. A iL ?_ II ~iai nur<ien. t nave imiciit-tj iu mcir nran i breaking cries and tlicir sobs of despair, r tnd it is with the memory of these tear* ' that have run like rivers, and the cry of ? many a man who feels himself to be lost c as he said. "Is there any hope." that 1 0 bring to my readers this message. a The devil is certainly not a myth. 1 1 shall give his name* in a little while and r call your attention to the fact that they I re all found in the New Testament, so this is not an Old Testament delusion car- ' ried down to th? present lime, as some ? would have us believe, for almost all the information concerning him we are de- ' pendent upon the New Testament Scrip- [ ...i f i r?i.j 'r i. >? J. luroi. AIIC Vl'l IC^ldUiCiH in nuaii^n^ ai~ lent. I call your attention to this fact that 1 if you read in the Old Testament the ac- J count of the temptation and fall in Kden, 1 then the trouble of Job, then th? number- " ins of Israel by Duvid, and finally the vis- 1 ion of Joshua, the high prie.it, and Satan J1 contending with him, you have the four ' place.-* where Satan is definitely mentioned and hi* work particularly described. The : evidences of hi* existence arc everywhere to be seen in the Old Testament, hut thes? are not in direct statements. This doea away with the position of many people * who are disposed to say a good deal about the Satan myth, which had its rise in the ( Infancy of our race, when the human miml 1 was exceedingly childish and credulous, j The devil is the author of evil, the fount- ' ain of weakness, the adversary of the j truth, the corrupter of the world. He ' planteth snares, soweth error, nourishcth ' contention, di*turl>eth peace and scatter- 1 e*.h affliction. I am sure there is never ' greater glee tn hell than when a church ' tiuarrel is engendered, nor when peace is driven away from heart and home in the ( face of a ?torm of contention. This is a word picturc of him, but we must have ' more. It u quite plain that Satan bad some ' connection with tiie earth before tyan ap- ! pearcd. He is now supposed to be a fal fen an?v!. if this supposition is true then the New Testament references would 1 seem to indicate that pride and envy were the causc of his fall. When (iod said, "Let us make man. and let hira have dominion over everything that we have 1 made," the envy began, and as another has i suggested this seems to be the true fact < fc- 11" - 1 csu * A when ire notic? the derfl'a position fa tl? temptation of Cbtiat. Matthew 4: 84, 'Again the devil taketh Him no into ai xcecdingly hi(h mountain, and ahoweth Him all the kingdom* of the world, and the {lory of them, and with unto Him, All rh?*ae thing* will 1 give Thee if Thou wilt Fall down and worship me." It ia aa if ba were making one U.tt great effort to overthrow the Mauler and rule th? world. Certain direct statement* are made concerning him by our Master. No stronger jne can be found than that which ia recorded in John 8: 44, "Ye are of jrour Father. the devil, and the lusU oJ vour Father ye will do. He waa a murderer From the beginning, and abode not in the truth, becauae there ia no truth io him. tVhen he apcaketh a lie he speaketh of hia iwn; for he ia a liar and the father of it.*' n- - i?-C- t..m mil in the intereata of ne is a icrnuw tu^t ? ? ill young men who desire to be true and ike Christ I lift up my voice against him. II. The Rer. W. G. Moorhead, D. D., has riven us a list of his name* as recorded in :hc New Testament Scripture*. This lift s as follows: Abaddoa?Revelation 9: 11. Act-user?Revelation 12: 10. Adversary?1 Peter 5: 8. Angel of the Abyss?Revelation 9: 11. Apollyon?Revelation 9: 11. Re*!K#bub?Mark 3: 22. Belial?2 Corinthians 0: 15. Devil?Mntthcw 4: 1. Dragon?Revelation 20: 2. Great Red Dragon?Revelation 12: X Evil One?Matthew 13: 19. Enemy?Matthew 13: 39. Father of Lies?John 8: 44. God of This World?2 Corinthians I: 4. Liar?John 8: 44. Murderer?John 8: 44. Prince of Devils?Mark 3: 22. Princp of This World?John 3: 21. Prince of the Power of the Air?Ephelians 2: 2. Satan, .Serpent?2 Corinthians 11: 3. Strong One?Luke il: 21. c---? ' '" I Wnflrinj?Kn'iMiani 2: 2. '-I'UI' "I >7 Tempter?1 Theasabma.n S: 5. Notorious criminal have * certain Dirtier of alianet Ly which they are known to heir partner* in crime, i'hey hear c*rain name* became thcv have committed ertain thinga, ho all t'ie*- r.aire* m*an lomething; ax they are a:>p;ied to the ieril each name m ds<eriptivc of hia di?>o*ition. enerfry ind power. He in Apollyon because he ii * destroyer. He i* Abaddon because he if destruction t*?lf. Tlie Man Murderer becauae he is the aaia?sin of the Race. Th* Great Hed Dragon because of hit )!ondthirstine*s. The Serpent because of hia craftiness. The Tempter because he ia a deceivjr. Some yean aeo m the city of I'hiiadel hia there stood outiil:- or one of the sacon* a woman clad in fa**, who once had ired in one of the !*>? homss in that ity. She had a lit'.ie oacv m nrr arm* nd an older child ?rui timing at hot ikirta. Sbe rapped upon the door and vhen it wu open?H *he ?*id. *'I want my .usband." The "ms-bnnJ win called out. ie bad once bee"! of irr<nt reputation, a ran of real talent, had provided for hi* iifc and children .til tint money cauJd >uy, and, now he is whom of everything '\vept the merest ?"moImce of manhoon. 'What do you want?" he said, with at >&th, and she answ?red. "I wnnt-yoo to ( me home; the children have had nothing o tat and they are erring, and I want ou." and the man who bad sworn to love ind care for her drew back his fiat and truck her. The baby fell from her arms, he elder child ran shrieking froin her side, s he not a destroyer with such a picture in vour mind, and this is but one it the multitude. Hi* names jre enough o terrify us. so that we would, while we r.av, escape from sin in. His Persona'.itv. I know it is true that 'ery many people scout the idea of a perona! devil, but the following statement las been made by a most distinguished Jible scholar, namely, "Kverv attitude, quality, action, walk and sign which can inlicate personality has been predicated of he devil and cannot be explained awiv. [tie argument that would rob the devil of lis personality would rob Cod of His, and f as men say. these attributes simply ne?n the principle of evil then on the itnc cround of interpretation the Bible nay mean anything or nothing." IV. Just ? word or two about hij work. He icgins in a very slow way and hii influnee is most insidious. As a fisherman, when he bos a greet nan in bis hook, let* out the line, n that the ish may swallow down the hook, and be nore surely caught, even so the devil, rhen he ha* a poor itinner upon hi* hook, loes not, at the first, trrat him roughly, tut strctche* out his rod, line and all, that le may make the surer of him, and bold lim the faster. Not long ago in the Tombs a man who isd been a brilliant lawyer awoke from a tupor of davs, anil shaking the door demanded of those who came t? answer hie timmons why he wa* thrre. They toM lim on the charge of murder. "For God's ake," he said, " do not send the word tome; at leant, do not let my wife know, or it will kill her," and they told him that t was his wife he had killed. I have rritten these few words concerning one rho can take a man with brightest future *'1 ramtHhnn an/I mil'# Kim t nurdcrer of hU own home's joy. This is lis work. V. His Doom. He mav be overcome in the Jew Testament. We read, "Resist the levil and he will lire from you." Jestu lid this and when the devil tempted Him le said, "It is written," and then. "It ia rritU-n again." There is but one weapon hat can tnnkc him afraid, and that is the word of the Spirit, which is the sword of ?od. There is a legend of Luther that during erious illness the evi! one seemed to enter lis sick room, and looking at him with a riumphant smile unrolled a vast roll which as* t%<^ t UA ic kiiiicu iu 111^ alius. ?i? uic u^uu hrcw one end of it on the floor and it inwound itself with the impetus he had riven it Luther'* eye* were fixed on it, nd to his consternation he read there he long and fearful record of hi* own in*, clearly and distinctly enumerated, rhat atout heart quailed before tlut ;h**tly roll. Suddenly it flashed into hii nmd that there was something not writen there. He said aloud. "One thing you lave forgotten: the rest ia all true, but ine thing you have forgotten. 'The blood if Jesus Christ Hi* Son clcauseth us from ill sin.' " A* he said this the "Accruer of he brethren" and his heavv roll of "lanentation and mourning and woe" disap>oared together. If you would know hi* final doom you lave but to turn to Revelation the 20th hapter and read the first three verne*. 'And i mw an angel come down from iraven. having the key of the bottomless tit and a great chain in hi* hand. And he aid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, vhich is the devil and Satan, and bound ?im a thousand years. And cast him into he bottomless pit, and shut liirn up, and ;et a >*eal upon iiini that he should deceive he nitions no more till the thousand years ihitu'd be fulfilled, and after that be must >c loosed a attic season." From such a foe as this may Cod deliver is now. Gad's Wbltrncii. n n Ts %r 4-ii. 4.L: . I.'a&i. : : uev. r. n. -lirycr iciis inn nine incilent, which occurred during hi* ministry: '"Once, when I vu paying parochial rails, I drop|K*d in on a waiherworuan tvho had ju*t got out a line of clothes. 1 ongratulated my friend because they ooked no white. So, very much encourigcd hv her pastor's kind words, she asked ?im to have a cup of tea. and we sat lown. Whilst we were taking the tea the <ky clouded and there was a snowstorm, ind a? I came out the white snow lay :verywh?'re, and I si id to her: " "Your washing does not look quite so :!can as it did." " *Ah," she said, "the washing is right pnough, but what can stand against God Vlmiffhtv's whiteV "So you may think that you are clean, because you have never seen God. When >ou a e C?od. your holiest day will seem ta be imperfect; you will abhor yourself, ?nd repent i:t dint and anlies, and you mil need to say: 'Forgive tae my debU u I forgive my debtor*.' " One hundr**d and seventy-two species oj blind creatures are known to science, an< many more arc constwtlv being du?co* sred in great caves. ' . ... - ' . .... ?* -' ? ^>*-' j'. ^ , v-j vv*,v -- - |[tHE religious life .'i I HEADING FOR THE QUIET HOUR | WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF. . N?: Dwell D??p?With the Brnklai of th* fobbtlh Bbi Com* t Docllno l? th* Joy of Attvadlnc Divine Worship -r**tl*( of th* Qalat Lord'* D*j. Tw_n n m> mill ?n th* IntiNlrothl divine; In the depth* of God's love there is pesce. Dwell deep, hour by hoar, where God's fulness is thine; From all care, in the depths, is release. Dwell deep, far below the wild rage of the gale, Far beneath the onrush of the wave, i Dwell deep, in the calm, where no bloat can assail. From all strife, in the depths, He doth ave. Dwell deep, where no foeman can ever draw nigh. Far removed from all danger and fear; Dwell deep in His love; to thy safe refuge fy, I Where His hand wipes awsy every tear. Dwell deep, O my soul; in the depth*, deeper yet, Where with thee He communeth alone. Dwell deep; all thy pain and thy angui?h forget? In the love-rest He give* to "His Own." ?Ernest G. wellesley-Wesley. Delight In God's Boom. It has gone oat of fashion to take delight in God's house. The good old days orthe quiet, sacred Sabbath, whereon all go to worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, are cone. Wc hear tales of our grandmothers, whose pure eyes are lit with a holy peace, sitting through long services, where sermon and prayer were deep and hard to be understood; we listen to the story of how our grandfathers, for love of God, went armed to church and took turns pacing up and down in front of the primitive building that their worship might ncrt be interrupted by visits from savages, and we admire them as a simple folk with no higher social privileges than to gather in a log house ej^ry little while ana have a doll sermon ftad to them. They were brave, certainly, and the tenacity with which they held to I their reliffious views and left aU else in life for toe privilege of serving God in what seemed to them the right way, wu beautiful. But we of this more enlightened age?why, we could not take the time for such long services! There is too much a-doing now. The world has waked up. We must have our sermons all frills and furbelows, or we care nothing for them. What would they have thought, in the days of the Puritans, of the efforts of the present day to attract an audience? People went to church then from pure love of it, because it was God'a house, the place where .hey were always sure of meeting Him, their Father's home, their home. Just as the birds of the air seek their little nests for comfort and rest and refreshment, even so they sought the altars of God their Father, and felt it their home. And the Sabbath was their free day in which thev could all meet as one great family. With the breaking of the''Babbath has come the decline in the delight j in God's house. For how can one delight in a thing for which one has no time or thouzht? Still stands this solemn, impassioned psalm, like a bit of ancient curio, striking a strange note, scarce heard amid the work-a-day world's rushing on. In these times of buying and selling and getting gain, ot pleasuring ana leaning, or siuay and research. of building up new theories I for a everything under heaven, even the dear old Bible, what time have we for j entireent, and toward a house, a particular building? Is not Clod everywhere? Worship in His house is but a form. Tha old dispensation is done away with. Ah! But God established those forms, and for the purpose of teaching His own the way to Him. Alexander MacLaren says: "So long as spirit is tied to body the most spiritual worship will be tied to form." And it is no more unlikelr that we shall wander from our God than it was ; that the thoughtless children of the wil- J I dernens should. True, we have made God's house more j j and more beautiful as time has passed on. I It is as lovely now .is our own homes, and { j quite M comfortable, but is not this done | 1 ^1.. e ..it;,) > rt~ Iia^cij IIUIII vciii^iims. w wc uvauui/ it because w* love it. and lore our God, or ; because it {irn u* pain to be environed i even for the nhort time each week that 1 we are detained in a church by anything j ugly or nut of harmony? But is it then possible for a busy man i or woman, filled with life and happiness j and laden with the joyous cares of this ; earth, to love the church where the sermon is ill prepared, or poorly delivered, or monotonously commonplace? Truly, yes. Because it is God's house. God is never ill prepared to meet you, nor monotonously comonplace. lie loves you. He is God! I* it not enough? Go I there to look into His face. "It is He I that hath made you and not yourself." j He knoweth what you need. The way to love God's house m given in this nuni dredth nsxlm "Kucer into His courts with thanksgiving." not with criticism in your heart. Count your blessing! while you sing His pr*<<*. Acknowledge His part in your life. Hi* over-all-ne*#. Bless His name." Then will His house truly become to you the house of pravcr, the gate of heaven, your home. Then you can sing with all your heart: I love Thy church, O God! Beyond my highest joy I prize ber heavenly ways. Her sweet communion, solemn vorr* Her hymns of love and praise. Without Equal. Be certain of this, that no misery can be equal to that which a man feels who is conscious that he has proved unequal to his part, who ha* deserted the post his captain set him. and who. when men said, I "Such and such a one is there on guard, there is no need to take further heed.' has left his watch or nuiiileri before the focman. to the !;>**. perhaps the total ruin, of the causc he bad made hia choice. ?J. H. Shorthouse Oar Real PoumiIom. Time, ntudy. sairilice? these are th? coin with which we buy our real possessions. They are exchangeable nowhere. God give* away nothing except on the most positive conditions. The disposition . to receive can never be absent. An arbi- I trary salvation is imposible. There must | always be an open door, a dustiest win dow ?something through which the light may come.?Presbyterian. Just ami Fair. You will not l>e sorry for hearing befor* judging, for thinkm* before speaking, for holding an angry tongue, for stopping the ear to a talebearer, for disbelieving most of the ill reports, lor being kind to the diatrcsscd, for bein^ kind toward every uouy, ior uomg 700a 10 an men, lor asking pardon for all wrong*, for speaking evil of no one. for being courteous to all. All ConHdeac*. Wben faith in the authority of Scrip- 1 ture ia destroyed it takes with it all con- 1 fidence in Methodism.?The llcv. W. T. Euster. Evanston. 111. Many HulMInc* In Rrookljrn. There are in t!ie borough of Brooklyn I 20,00() apartment or tenement houses (less than half the number of New York), 11 ,IW>J ' store*, lU.lKW stable*. 5000 factories, 541 ho- j tehi or hotcl-*aloon?, 315 schools, 540 churches, 90 theatre*, 91 lodging liuu^", 215 clubs, 40 station house*. 120 engine houses. 153 hospitals ami asylums ami l.'XW . warehouses. ISeconl ol a Sea Captain. Captain K. W. Fuller, of Boston, h:w tailed uiorc than G.?0."00 mites ami has passed around Cape Horn twenty two j tinica. 'the sabbath school I INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS t FOR OCTOBER 26. I OabjMt: Jotkik Mil Ctlrb, Jeah. *1*., i 5-13 ? Ooldea T*l(, Josh sir., I*? j Memory Vtm*. 11-14 ? Cemm?Bl?fj ; am tk? Wijr'l Lttton. | Explanatory. The period of conquest i from the taking of Jericho until the time of our proaent loaaon, when the people ' were gathered at Gilgal to divide the land, : waa about aiz year*. The question u often i urged. On what principle can the right{ cousneni of Uod in exterminating the Canaanites be vindicated? They were destroyed for their excease*, wiliul, habitual and incurable wickedness. Lev. 18 : 24-30. I Their abominable cuatoma ahuw that the groaseat vice* had become inherent in their national character. In the destruction of the L'anaanites by God'a people the naJ tioni were convinced, not only of the ?u; nreme power of the God of larael, but alao ' of 'His'utter abhorrence of the abomina! tioas for which they were destroyed. V'ic? I is infectious. If any of these idolatrous I tribes were spared they would taint the Hebrews. Moreover this growing corrup1 tion might have polluted the whole anc>ent | world. i The cause of the defeat of Ai, and the ! terrible punishment meted out upon Arhan ! for his sin, should be dwelt upon. The i defeat taught tbe Israelites the necestity ! of strict obedience to God. After tbe I talcing of Ai comes the story of the Gibconites. which is followed by the conquest of | southern Palestine. Then we have an acI count of the conquest in the north wnere j the armies ot the kings were defeatel at the waters of Merom. Finally, after a?out six years of war, the land was so far subj dued that it could be dirided among the I different tribes. "Divided the land." fhev agreed upon tbe portion to be given each I tribe. 0. "Children of Jud&h." Judah wait the I fourth son of Jacob. "In Gilgal." This J was the first place where the Israelites | camped after crossing the Jordan into Canaan. "Thou knowest," etc. "Caleb was of the tribe of Judah, and was appointed to assist in making tbe division of the land. Lest he might be charged with trying to choose the best for himself, j he brought others of his brethren when he I cimi. hefnr* .Inihua that t l?i?v miffkt h? witnesses to his justice. . Caleb had been one of the spies to (6 under Moats' direction to spy out the land. He gave a faithful report, and had faith in God, and God promised him the land which he traversed in his warcb. Deut?l: 36. Joshua was acquainted with thia fact, and Caleb quotes that fact to him before the witnesses, that it might stand as his motive in making hi? plea for a certain portion. Caleb came with his request before the lots were cant for the land. The promise of God was sufficient and Caleb would show that it would be in vain and needless to try bv lot to fix upon his portion in Canaan. All the people seemed to fully consent that Hebron was the land intended for Caleb." "Concerning me and thee." Joshua wax the only other spy that waa faithful and believing, and both were permitted to enter Canaan. 7. ' Forty years old was I." "The whole circumstance was so clearly fixed in his mind that Caleb remember* hu age. and the place, so that he can refresh .Joshua's memory. They were the two oldest men in Israel at this time. A recollection of old times would cheer them, especially n ?w that the promises made to tbein were ready to be fulfilled." "Hoses," etc. Caleb manifested great respect for Moses. In hi* character Moses was "the man of God," in his occupation "the servant of the Lord." "In mine heart." He spoke hut honest opinion in the matter of which he was sent to search out. He was not influenced by fear or favor, but spoke the truth and that only. 8. "My brethren." Words of tendemoju l for his oM comrades. "Heart melt." The other ten spies, by their eyj] report of Canaan, influenced the people to rebel against going in to possess the land, m in?t fear caused their courage to fail, and thev turned again to wander in the wilderness. "Wholly followed the Lord." He had done hia duty and conitantly aimed at the glory of God. "Caleb is one of thtae men whom we meet with aeldom in Bible hiatory. but whenever we do meet them we are the better for the meeting. Bright and brave, strong, modest and cheerful, there is honc.Uy in his face, courage and decision in the very pose of his body, and the calm confidence of faith in his very look aad attitude." 9. ''Moses swears." Moses declared bv authority from God that Caleb shouti l? rewarded. Num. 14: 24; Dcut. 1: 35. 10. "Kept me alire." Caleb had not only been brought through the penU of the wilderness, but he had been preserved from death in this war of conquest, Length of veara only caused him to more deeply desire to be perfectly obedient. 11. "Yet I am as strong." Thougli eighty-five years old be felt as able to enter his possessions that God gave him as when the promise was first made God would not appoint him to a place and proU?d An an/I f linn rkanM t\t ills age. "All our times are in Hi* hand*. alS event* at His command." Wh.it though the sons of old Analc were tall, and giants iu strength! What though Hebron lav in a mountainous region, he could go gladly and confidently. 12. "(Jive me this mountain." "Though it was already his, by promise. he would recpect the position and authority of Toshua, and hare it granted him lawfully. I Though it was the most difficult to over- ! come, and be was old, yet he wu strong J in faith as well as strong physically. Th.? only equipment he needed was God's con- j tinued presence, which he believed would intiure rictory over giants and walled cities. Hi.* faith for the overthrow of those enemies had only waxed stronger since his first discovery of them, forty-five years before. His truthfulness, piety and faithfulness in former years had grown, so that I hi.-i relish was keen for the battle." 1.1. "Joihua blessed him." He not onlv admitted the claim, but. in a public and earnest manner, prayed for the *ivine blessing to assist the efforts of Caleb in driving out idolatrous occupant*. No doubt Joshua commended Caleb for his co'irAge and piety, and mentioned this ?mgular providence aa a reward for his devoted life. A Terrestrial Irtbtlf. Between Mount Kazbek and Ghimarai Khokh tn the Caucauaus a glacier defends into the narrow wedge-shaped valley of the (xhen.il l>nn, which after a course of about thirteen iniles joins the Ghizel Don, a tributary oi the Terek. Like most glacier* of the ('aucaxtis, the tJhenal Don has of late years reieded considerably, and soaio years ago copious springs of hot sulphur water wen* uncovered by this recession. About th<* middle of last Jttiy the whole end of the glacier broke off and slid down the valley. grinding down everything in its path. Thirlv-two lives were lost. Later another huge bl.x-k of ice broke off and followed the tirsl with terrible rapidity for over eight miles down the vallev Ttea Cable Laor tha World. According to information published by the United States Treasury Bureau ol Statistic* there are 1750 submarine tele graph lines in the world, the aggregate length of which is nearly 200.000 miles The number of messages annually trau* mitted over thene linea exceed* 6.000.000. Map* Ataikan I'arcfl Mall. The PoatofHce Department during tht winter months will not tramsmit nan el mail to twenty-nine po>totfice* in Alaska, thi.-vo inciuding Nome, St. Michael, Circle. Eagle, Fort Yukon, Rampart, Tauana. Teller and I'nalakleet. C?n|lit a Pare White Whale. The whaling bark I'latina, of New IScd ford, Maw.. ha* captured near Barbados a pure white whale, which made 100 barrel* ai oil. In hi* twenty-five year* of whaling Captain McKenzie write* that he ne\cr Infore saw a white whale. Valuo of Hrlrka !*n?l Tllr?. Th.- total value of the nuinttf.ieturv of bricks aud tile* in the United MaUm m 1900 w?< *7ti.:EM,S7l, aud ot pottery ?!'>, 768,670 i " ** TEE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTUNC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. * I Pom: B* Ye Sokw-Tka Aeries of JakM PeiyctratMl by tb? "Wkltky StftW liuOld uth? DUMraqrafHw to li> tract Murder aad IUMlt; Prom Orals. "Be ye sober!" if ye covet Healthy days and peaceful nights, Strong drink warpetn those who love it. Into sad and fearful sights. | "Be y<s nober!" cheeks pew hamrd. Eye* turn dim ?nd pulse tide blood J Runs too fast or crumbleth lsgnsrd When there's poison in the flood. I Shun the "dram" that can bat darkea. When it* vapor gleam haa fled, I Reason nay* and re intuit harken, | "Lessened drink brings doable bread." . Though your ruler* may neglect ye, "Be ye sober!" in your strength! I And they moat and shall respect ye And the light shall dawn at length. j Bat let none cry oat for freedom. With a loud and feverish breath; ! While they let a foal cap lead then ! To the slavery of death. -Eliza Cook. | I The Whisky Devil's Ttry Good Jsks. You will remember the policeman who j killed his wife, and afterward aaid, fall of ICIIIU* m. < "It wu the devil'* joke. Whisky did it. ' She was the best woman that ever lived." i The devil's whisky jokes did not stop at ; thi* policeman'* crime, or begin with it j That series of iokes is as old as man's , discovery of the fact that it is poarible by fermentation to extract murder and insanity from grain. The Rev. Sam Small for many yearn has made a specialty of lecturing in tavar of temperance. j Recently he appeared in Vermont, eni d favored to apeak, collapsed on the platform and afterward confessed: J "I was drunk." This was considered an excellent joke by 1 many. It was thought' very funny and i amtuiing that a clergyman who had all his life been preaching against drink should xpoear drunk before a gathering of ton* porate, earnest men and women. It was a good joke?of the whisky devfl'a { kind. Rut in the humiliation of this unforfenrate man, and in the distress of hia audience, there was a lesson for a great many other men, as well as a good whisky dtr* i il's joke. In the plight of the drunken clergyntaa there was no reason for humiliation on thn j part of thooe who advocate temperance. rt. tk-M ia JnnKU nroof of I l/II kUV VVIIfcl IN I f ??? ? mm j the need of auch preaching aa theirs. If whiaky ia strong enough to win mch a victory?if whiaky can bring to good a joka ' to a aucceaaful climax?it anowa the power that roaidcs in whiaky and ita bold over i human being*. There have been few better whiaky jokes j than the collapae of the Rer. 8am Small ?there hare been no more powerful tea. perance aermon* than that same collapse ; of a man helpless to reaist when he knew ?o well the inevitable result ?New York v ! American and Journal. Brief Tralfa* A boat Alcohol. We tpi&t thua summarise the truth* about alcohol taken as a beverage im ! health, in varying quactitiea, from pnjrskh logical moderation to excesa: | 1. Alcohol ia a poisonoua drug, whose special action in the body is a brain cell - ?. . -l-_. : * I ? II- i. *|m? | puriiyiini, unirujmj mw wiia .. ?? inverse order of their development. 2. Alcohol disturbs the circulation, leading to a Iom of body temperature and an accumulation of waste product* in the blood, accompanied by great depression and muscular weakness. j 3. Alcohol tenda to produce in all, pro\ portionato to the auantity taken, cirrhotic I disease of all the tissues and organs of Um body. ! 4. Alcohol tenda to produce an irrasist1 ible craving for itaelf. I 5. Alcohol prwlinposes to all infections and many organic diseases. 6. Alcohol diminishes the (Chances of J recovery in those attacked with any dis' nm, other than those resulting from ite use. r > 7. Alcohol increases the sick rata and shortens life. 3. Alcohol predisposes to consumption and all tubercular diseases. 9. Alcohol increases lunacy and crime. 10. Alcohol is absolutely unnecessary to health. 11. Alcohol promotes hemorrhage and does not check it. 12. Alcohol adds no muscular strength to the body; at most it encourages ths expenditure of its force in the shortest possible time. If these are the true facta about alcohol taken as a beverage in health, ire are, as medical men, individually and collectively, in duty and in honor bound to make them known to the public, over whose health we pretend to preside. t A Pitiable Wrack. f j In Washington a dozen yearn ago there I lived a beautiful and spirited girl, the daughter of a distinguished soldier. Her ! wedding was a fashionable event. Everything seemed to give promise of a happy I life?a loving husband, fond parents, many , friends, money in plenty and an assured sociai position. On Tuesday last this girl was admitted to Beilevue Hospital, broken in health, enfeebled in mind, meanly clothed, her beauty gone, as pathetic a wreck aa ever drifted onto chanty's shore. In tb? intervening years the father died of a broken heart, the husband procured a divorce, friend after friend fell awav. The girl went upon the stage, and would have succeeded there but for one cause? the cause* that has ruined herself and ' -t- .L? spread jnti ana nn<i:ne immiK miw ?*uv loved and did their utmost to save her. Drink, of course?a passion for the poison which she could not. or wuuld not, resist. With intelligence to dmiersUnd perfectly the terrible consequences to herkelf of succumbing to the appetite, this woman yielded until it hai become a fiendish master, not to be disobeyed. For tha gratification of her appetite she hax paid with all that makes life worth living, and to-day is a broken and hopeless outcast, capable of suffering the keenest misery, but incapable of self-restraint when the drink devil tempts her. There is a temperance lemon for you. There is a warning to the young and heedles* and pleasflrelovuig who p'ay with this hell's fire, which can burn out everything that is manly in a man and womanly in a woman.?Editorial m the N'cw Y'ork Evening Journal. Tke Crusade la Brief. Tf you lift the veil where stronc drink i% misery of some kind if nure to Ik* on view. An athlete in perfest condition us made . . L 1 1? 1| iirunK ny au c^in-nic;jr n,.m. "Uivu... .. ?. cohol. It w the intention to drive out al! moderate drinker* from the Gcrinau railway crvice. 'Hie Ministerial Ajuoriitim of Avil.inil. Wiii.. eovj*ri?ing the hmil* of the ?isteen churehex <> the city, h.i* tj rn.iki? .1 imit?<l effort to 4U!t|>r?*s the tunning ?>f >m!-:oth other p!acc? of Interne** on Nurnlav. The Anti-Saloon League of Tmiuru ha* undertaken to e!o*e llK) *.ilo??n* in Indian* thi.- month by mean* oj r<'i;ion>:nnc?( u,f.?'n.it applicant* for lievn*e>>. M. IJc Tcra, genera! direrV.r of tho fterinan railroads, ha* announced 'hi* an embargo will be placed on all emplo*. e* on t!?e railroads who are not abstainer*. u*td all .oieh |K?r*ons will lie discharged at the earliest powib'c snon:c:it The Anti-Saloon I?eagne ??f Tennc**c? reports i St.ite meisiberihip >>[ ;?.tftNi. The je.idet? of the Kj;u- hive wured from the Internal Revenue t'ollivt-?r'? office ?tatregarding tin* holder* of Government licfiiite in sever.il "dry'' towns and promise t.? take action looking t<? the ?c.ijipres?<ioti of the holding ?a h liccnsc*. ????mmm