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. ... * fjHoldenhu { <v}.T "copyright NK, W B?? CHAPTER XXIII. Continued. Once or twice in oar upward pro- ' greet toward the bouse did we torn to i look at the scene below, which waa aa beautiful aa mind can conceive. The top terrace reached, we lingered for several minutes, and I expressed my < admiration without reserve. Ml in always much era titled. I am < wire, when an Enfl'shman admire* < American scenery," laid Mrs. Van 1 Rensselaer. "Some parts of yoar 1 Thames, I think, are very charming j and peaceful, bnt none so bold as this. : My friend, Mr. Dennis O'Connor, has 1 brought an English gentleman with i him to-day, who had a great desire to ee the river from this point, whose < praise Is as unqualified as yours," and ! the speaker pointed with her fan to 1 the lower veranda, -where sat Mr. DenBis O'Connor and Mr. Evan Price, the j latter pnfflng a cigarette and watching as with intense Interest 1 This little incident, which not many 1 hours before would have greatly dls- : turbtd me. added to my gratification. ' ? Now. I thought, will 1 demonstrate to ' ay rival that his suit Is hopeless, and ' compel him to retire from the field. 1 ''Connie." I whispered, "my own lit- 1 tie wife that is to be, do you see who 1 la sitting taerer* "Tea,' dear." abe answered softly. | 1 "He will find an opportnnlty to talk with yon to-day. I am aare. Ton will 1 know what to tell him?" "Trust me.** said my faithful Constance. returning the pressure of my 1 fend. . "I will,- I responded. 1 Never shall I forget the dellghta of that long autumnal day. It la true 1 ^ waa aometimes obliged to surrender ?n; Constance her friends, but for the moat part I contrived to keep her to myself, and waa surprised to observe that beyond a formal bow of recognition when we first entered tbe house Mr. Evan Price Ignored ns both. I suspected thit that transformed cleric was reserving what lie bad to say until be perceived an entirely favorable opportunity, and acquainted Constance with my suspicion, who agreed with me. These remarks were In KIma iVMcvlat# Mam wKam i uiauc 1^ IUC UIUC UIUT* IU(| ?w*Uf " MV#V the greater number of Mrs. Van Renss, elaer's guests bad assembled Just as evening was closing In. "If you leave the drawing room by tbe door.** said Constance, "and re- 1 turn again at once by tbe veranda, you can sit at that small table at tbe back of that bamboo screen. From where Mr. Price Is now sitting he can i see your departure but not your return. If he comes to me you will hear our conversation and can reappear to Interrupt it at any moment you please. Give me this opportunity, dear Ernest, to set your mind at rest once for ever 1 as to whether I care anything for Mr. Price or not" ' . "My dearest Connie.'* I exclaimed > fervently. "I don't doubt your faithfulness tbe least In the world: nothing : you can say or do can Increase my per- 1 feet trust in you. But I will do as you si|ggest.M ] And the next minute I rose from my eat and walked away. To carry out : the plan proposed by Miss Marsb oe- 1 copied more time than we supposed it 1 . would. In the first place. It was neces- 1 sary for me to pasa along three sides i of the Rensselaer Mansion, which was ' of treat extent, in Itself tbe work of at I least Ave minutes, but I failed to ac- 1 complisb It In less than double that 1 tlmfl in eonseonence of meetine mv I act and Mrs. Van Benseelaer. \rlio 1 detained me with questions. However. 1 I escaped from these ladles as soon as I decently could, and re-entering the drawing room from the veranda took op my position as arranged. Mr. Evan Price was already at the side of my Constance. The expression of his face betrayed the earnestness of his pur pose, and be spoke so low that though I waa less than three feet distant from him. it was with some difficulty that 1 could make oat all he said. MI cannot conceive why it Is." he was saying, "that you should refuse to ac cept this ring. The stone is a beautiful one; I selected it with great care myself, and drew the design for the mounting of it The mere acceptance ct the ring will not Imply that you are < In any way engaged to me. You will ] only confer upon me a favor for which I shall always remain grateful. Let us | agree, that the gift signifies nothing; < only accept it. 1 beg of you." "I really cannot accept it I told you I could not before you bad it made." answered Constance firmly. "Why has this change come over < you?" he asked. "No change has come over me." replied Constance warmly. "All I ever i waa to you. that I am now." "1 think you were more kindly dls?wi?ml toward m> when wa vam fallnar passengers on the Etrurla, and I am mire you did not avoid me so carefully before tbe advent of that English country boy as you have done since." "My recollection does not agree irith Jours, Mr. Price. If It is your pleatinre fU> construe ordinary American courtesy into tbe sort of kindness to which you attach a special meaning, I am not iresponslble for that I regret, but can not help it Aa for the English connfey boy yon speak of, I must really ask yon either to not refer to my future bnsband. or to employ a leas offensive leacription of him." "Impossible!** exclaimed Mr. Price; are not mad!** "O dear no." replied Miss Marsh very eoolly; "I believe not Are you. sir?" "I am heartily sorry for yon." said Mr. Price, closing the hand upon which he had been exhibiting a very fine ring, anil replacing that bauble In bis pocket. "I should have thought that u Truman would have been sufflelent for your family. If not for all ' America. If yon knew all I could tall ritiiHaBl f <?T .LTEH BLOOM FIELD > ui B?mi Son yon. your plan for your future life would differ very widely from that which you have adopted, even If I were till excluded from It" "If my sister's husband were here I hare no doubt he would be able to effectually reply to your Insult" said Miss Marsh Indignantly. "I have Insulted nobody," protested Mr. Price. "What I hare said is true, ind so is what I am going to say. The English country boy who has been youi companion to-day Is unworthy of your band. He Is what I called him?an English country boy. without fortune, experience, or, so far as I have ob served, talent, ue oeiong to a ramiiy which has enjoyed exceptional social idvantages for more than 900 years, jret In all that time no one member of It baa distinguished himself in any ivalk of life. 8uch social position as las has be<?n theirs is now on the wane. Fhe 8qulre of Holdenhnrst has scarce* ly yet reached middle age. and a long time must prohahly elapse before jroong Ernest succeeds to bis estate? i poor property, worth, perhaps, some tlx or seven hundred a year at most decreasing in value every year, and perhaps soon to be confiscated by tbe revolutionary legislation which now prevails in England." "I know nothing of all thla, and am Dot much Interested in it but my sister's husband Is a Truman, and tbe people here do not account him a dull man." "That is true, I admit Still, if your ister were aa free aa you are now, I have that in my pocket which would prevent her marrying him." "Indeed!" exclaimed Miss Marsh, "that la more Interesting than credible." "Still, It Is true." persisted Mr. Price. "No family was ever more glaringly misnamed thau that of Hoidenhurst? It has never produced a true man, and the one clever member of it your brother-in-law, counteracts his ability by his falsity. His faithlessness to his wife, to whose father was due lila first step toward tbe great success he has achieved, is deplorable. The letter I have in my pocket reveals a state of affairs which In this country would enable your sister to obtain a divorce from her husband. Will you read It?" "I take no Interest in it, I assure you. My sister is happy, and has no wish for a divorce, but even were that not bo. It wouia Dot oe niv aaair. "Accepting as final jour rejection of my snit, my last request?made to you in the hope that you will pause and reflect before you change your own fair name for the tarnished name of Truman?is that you will read this letter. It reached me this morning from the Rev. Mr. Fuller, rector of Hoidenhurst Major. It Is very brief, and will not engage your attention for more than two or three minutes. Surely, Miss Marsh, you will do so much to oblige i bitterly disappointed man." "Very well. I will read It since you so greatly wish it," and extending her delicate little band, my Constance took from Mr. Price a letter which he pleadingly extended toward her. The first part of this colloquy greatly inflamed that consciousness of victory which had possessed me ever since Constance Marsh bad declared herself mine. Mr. Price's tirade against my Family, and particularly .his animndrersions on myself, amused me. But it wiiii nlalnlv annarent that the peru tal by Constance of a letter from tbe Rev. Mr. Fuller, detailing tbe circumstance of my uncle 8am's connection with Annie Wolsey, might be fraught crith very serious consequences to several persons. I resolved to Interrupt tbe reading, and returned to my Constance as speedily as I could, tbis time tiappily without delay, but when I reached the other side of the screen I found that Constance bad risen from tier seat, and that Mr. Price was walking away from her. a malicious leer upon his face as be replaced a letter in Ills pocketbook. "Well, darling Connie," I said. "1 tiave beard nearly all. You are a brave, faithful little woman. But wby are jrou so pale? Thank God. tbe worst that envious wretch can say or do is powerless tu num u?. "Ob. Ernest, dear, if only I was sure of that! Ten minutes ago I was happy: now I am very wretched." "Why, what has happened?" I asked in alarm, and with dismal forebodings of the mischief my enemy had sown. Bat at that moment the electric light was turned on. streams of people began to pour Into the drawing room from the terrace, and a German professor took his seat at the piano. I sought to lead my prize out of the throng to some obscure nook, where, secure from interruption she could relate to me the couients of the letter which she had just read, and we could together discuss its Import, but failed to find an opportunity to do so. Aunt Gertrude, Mrs. Van Rensselaer and Mr. Rosenberg now appearing, the latter began to rally me upon my monopoly of Miss Marsh. "It is not fair, you Tanman w nol/l that rvuntlo. AUUIV, MJT. Aiuiuaut o?r? ?MM V man. "There Is, I am sare, at least one other gentleman present who la partial to the company of Miss March, and there are of course many others betides. Aa in most assembles there are more ladles present here than gentlemen. Will yon permit me to introduce you to some of tbem? I shall be be very pleased to do so." "Perhaps you. had better go with him a little while." whispered Conatance: "I feel rather better now, Ernest, dear, and will tell you all as we go home." I turned, bowed to my future wife and accompanied Mr. Rosenberg to a distant part of the room. 1 am sorry that your uncle could not make It convenient to come here to day," said Mr. Rosenberg, "and so if Mrs. Van Rensselaer. He works toe hard, and allows himself too llttl* r? # taxation. Did 70a liuow the late Mr. ? Van Rensselaer? No? He was a man somewhat like your uncle, and so wa* Mr. Marsh. I have often thought that * If each of those three could have lived for a hundred yeai*. and the? had worked together, they would have t owned North America between them. Your uncle's skill in bargaiulng Is something marvellous?I would give a cool million to have his power for six months, and yet be dollars In pocket, b Do you see that gray-bearded old man over in that corner by the side of the b young lady in blue? That is Angus [ C Mackenzie, the petroleum king, one of . V the richest men in the United States, 1 ' When he came from Aberdeen forty j tl years ago he wasn't worth ten dollars, j " and your ancle says his success has j ? been due to a porridge-built constitu- tl tlon. Allow me to Introduce you to ? Miss Mackenzie." ^ The young lady in blue rose and was [ h; Introduced to me in formal terms. gi "And so ye're the nephew of Samuel . Truman?" crooned Mr. Mackenzie, ? who deemed very old and decrepit. < "Well, well; It's a pity such a clever V1 > man should be without a son o' his * verra own, but dollars won't get every- h tjlng, and a nephew's no' a distant relation. If 8am is as fortunate in his ! * nephew as ye're In your uncle, he's j done vrell." * fi I did not care to enter into conversa- * tlon with this old Scotsman, whose ? garrulous tendency was evident. Mr. j v. Rosenberg perceived the state of the ; )< case and hurried me away. Although J not so deeply anxious as I bad been e. before my Constance bad given me ber h hand. I was much concerned in the un- d expected event which had acquainted >}, her with a matter I had hoped she j c< might never bear of. and could not ' Jj, ?J A. A-U. ?IM I T DHUg myKil lO UK UJUCU imnrn <u I 0, the va rious persons to whom Mr. Ro- j n sen berg Introduced me. Indeed, that j y. gentleman noticed my abstraction and Jj remarked upon It, but readily accepted , ^ my-excuse (a very real and true one) : a that I found the new scenes among j ? , which I was cast, the presence of so ? many strangers, and the manners and ? customs of American society, in such ! ? . violent contrast with my surroundings ? in an English village, that I was con- ; t, I fused by the change, but that I hoped o to be quite at my ease after a little j more experience of these things. Mr. j t Rosenberg then proposed that we i c should take a seat near to the piano, i as Miss Inez Junrrez, who had a fine | " voice, was about to sing. I gladly ; h agreed. The natural gift and the skill ? of Miss Juarrez were evidently known , J , to the company present, for no sooner 0 was It whispered that she was about t to sing than a wide semicircle of ad- * miring listeners was quickly formed * In front ol' the piano, and among the t , foremost I observed my Constance i . seated between ber sister and Mrs. I ^ Vun Rensselaer. Sbe still appeared 1 v unusually pale, but when sbe pereelred , )i me ber cbeek slightly flushed, ber eye , v brightened, and sbe bestowed on me a j1 glance wbicb caused my beart to flut- : n ter. and all care and anxiety to depart i ? from me. }] Miss Inez Juarrez bad a full, rieb : p soprano voice, wbicb sbe controlled j r witb admirable art. Her song was j c simple enough from a musician's point ; i of view?the work probably of some t South American composer unknown to i jj fame?but it was aH highly impassioned i , as the words to which it was wedded i h ?words In the Guaranl dialect, the j s language of the Paraguayan people, i ? This song made a great Impression ^ upon me. I a As the last plaintive note of the sing- ' j1 er ceased to vibrate I narrowly ob- I served aunt .Gertrude, who bad been ; ]j nn nftpntive listener, but I failed to [ ? detect In the expression of ber face ; J any sign which could be Interpreted j h as a silent recognition on her part of a a parallel between the fable of tb? verses and her own circumstances. On the contrary, being asked by Mrs. Van n Rensselaer to sing, sbe readily com- P plied, and charmed everybody present ? by her skillful rendering of an Italian c romance. I Not so her sister, my Constance. For her the Paraguayan song seemed r to have some special and painful mean- C ing; she became paler than before and * with difficulty concealed her agitntiou. n To be continued. . a t Tramp* on the Can. e The box car in often entered bj c springing the door off its iron wuy at t the side opposite the seal. A party go- i * ing one way will do this for a party j f< going the opposite direction, and then, I ? when all are in, springing the door j t< back again. Since everything exter- I h nally is in the best of order, long trips j ? may be made in this maimer without ti disturbance or interruption. c Now and then the prisoner is ex- . posed to danger of starvation. A case ? of this kind has been related to me, t! where only the accidental visit of a *' train band saved a man from death. ? The brakeman inspected the intruder's m tiaru.ru and flmllnir Hint thev showed i ti rMI'v' " ? ? m * ? him to be in good standing In bis union, " took blni out, fed bim up, and then re- b placed bim?to finish bis journey in n peace. Tbe hero of tbe incident Is a a printer, who bas been leading a settled life now for thirteen or fourteen years, b But be says be still feels a longing to u be off again whenever spring comes. * A railway accident, whether by n water or fire, is a very serious affair v to passengers of this sort. You have * doubtless read more than once, as I have, of tramps drowned like rats, 3 or burned or crushed to death while |j stealing rides in this fashion. Riding f. the trucks is done In various ways, fi A locomotive engineer of my acquaint- j1 ance bas shown me the precise spot tj from wbicb be bas taken out two n men at one time. It was on tbe rear n 'ruck of the tender. They were rest- ? ing. face downward, on the truck ? beam.'with Just eleven incbeii of ver- f< ' tical space for their bodies, by actual ? measurement.?'The Independent. n y I ns Ufa ration of Kftllwajr Sritew*. tl The tirst railway systems in tha * world were inaugurated in tbc follow- a > ing years, says tbc Mechanical Eugi- t\ ! neer: England, September 27. 1825; ? i Austria, September 30, 1828; France, w October 2.1828; America. I>ecember 20, n ' 1820; Belgium, May 3. 1835; Germany, b i December 7, 1835; Russia. April 4, l' 1838; Italy, September 4.1839. ?| Depth of tho li|ilih Channel. , i The English Channel Is nowhere j* i more than !XX) feet deep; the Irish S?a ? la 2180 feet deep. n L SERMON FOR SUNDAY N ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED "A THREE-FOLD CORD." h? Rpr. Dr. .T. Wllbar Chapman Points Oat Why Keen Seemingly l'nf?rtnB?U Mortal* Have Better lleaioni For Thanksgiving Than For Faaltflndlng. New York City?The Rev. Dr. J. Wilur Chapman has furnished to the press a tost striking and popular sermon which > intended for all tnofe who would rise to etter things. It is entitled "A Three-Fold ord," and was preached from the text, "A uce-foM cord is not tiuickly broken." Ec leniastcs 4: 12. Did you ever stop to think how many lings you have in your life for which vou ughl to be grateful to God? Doubt 1cm >me of my readers mav pause and say "1 ave very little for which I need to be (lankful,' and then, as a matter of fact, e have had more of jov than of sorrow, tore days of sunshine than of storm, and we were honest we should be obliged to ty that there i* more reason for thanksiving than fault6nding. An old friend of mine, blind from his irth. told me that he had never seen the in rise and had never looked upon his in'a face, and th?n he said to me, "Have ou ever thanked u'od for your eye sight," nd I never had up to that time. In the ity of Hartford, going through an insane ospita! with the attending physician, I topped with him at the door of a room here a young girl frantically said, "Docir, I must have a breath of fresh air, for am being consumed with an7 inward re." The doctor gently closed the door nd said, "This has been her mania for a ear," and then we entered a room where i close confinement was kept a man who as reckoned one of the most brilliant rarnalists in the city, who said, "These alia are coming nearer together, and the oor and ceiling are every day approaching ich other, and my enemies nave kept me ere until my life is to be crushed out." I oubt not but that he suffered as much aa : it were an honest fact. I turned away -om the hospital with a heavy heart, but indemned, too. because np to that time I ad never thanked God for my reason, here are so manr things for which we light to be grateful, but most of all to my lind there is cause for gratitude in the ay God baa sought for the lost world ever ince men have begun to wander from [im. Adim no sooner sins than God seeks im in the garden and criea out, "Where rt thon?" God will not unlock the fountin* of the deep and bring the flood until e sends Noah for 120 years as the preach* r of righteousness to warn the people, nor rill He let Sodom be destrovea until the nrfel visitors take hold of Lot and drag im forth from the city, and also strive in very way to bring the inhabitants forth o a place of safety. Every representative f a father in the Old Testament is a nicure of God. Jacob's concern for his cnilren: David, who stops and criea. "Oh, LbsaiOm." are but hints as to God's conern for His own lost children, and He is 9 every way seeking them and calling pon tbem to return. In the Old Testasent He gives the law that they may beold His nrecepts written upon tables of tone, and when men trill not heed His rritten word He opens the windows of leaven and with an angel choir sends His nlv Son and locates the place of His birth iv the star of Bethlehem, and leads the nepherds to adore Him with sounds of ngels' mu?ic, and this Son of God. Jesus f Nazareth, went up and down the land eaching and preaching, but most of all livng in orrirthat men might one day hrough Him come back to the Father. .i 1 J i vnen me worm oceanic y*u ^kuicu m rickrdne** that they would not have Him ive in their presence because their live* IT ere a condemnation in themselves He aade His way to Calvary and died upon be cross. the just for the unjust, that He night bring us to God, and when He had *en crucified, placed in the tomb and iad risen He dwelt with them at .Terusapm until they should be endowed with rower from on high. They kept His comsand*, and when the fulness of. time hnd orne with a rushing sound as of a mighty rind the Holy Ghost came upon them, 'hey were immediately changed men; they egan to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. From that lay to this the Ho'y Ghost has been in the rorld, and so that half the trinity of God as been all but repelled in the interests of inful man. The God of law. the God of race, the God of power. This three-fold ision we have had of tne Divine One and a every disposition He is seeking. This is most solemn subject, because we are livng in the dispensation of the Holy Ghost, he last cord as it were of the trinity. When the Octire went down on the Engish coast, oue bov. Stewart Holland, by iame, became a hero because while the *ssengen were Iran nc ana ine omer seasen and officer* were otherwise engaged ie broke into the powder magazine and gain and again fired off the xhip'a cannon hat he night arouse the life savers and ft them know of the perilous condition of he ship and her crew. It would seem to ?c that this in the time when those who ireach the gospel ought simply to stand nd cry*aloud. "Flee from the wrath to ome, flee from the wrath to come." beause we are in the dispensation of the loly Ghost. I. This is a ?o!emn subject because of the ecu'iiar kind of sin which may drive away iod'a spirit. In the Old Testament the in of the_ people was largely idolatry, "hey woaiu nos have God rule over them, nd so they bowed down to gods of wood nd stone. That is not ^our particular rouble to-dav. In the New Testament nvy and jealousy hounded Christ to the row; men feared Him and because they rere iealous of Him they hated Him, hut hat is not our special sin to-day. The in of this present day sc?ms to be indiftrcnee, and it is a dangerous sin because I will drive from our presence the Holy >ne of God who pleads and waits for us 9 turn. Every time one say* no to Christ e is in danger of saving it for the la?t ? " I? U- 1...? ime. ana every time m- *.i?? uc i>ut ardens bis henrt the more, until at last he very pleadings of God Himself be[>me of no effect. In the day* when the plagre swept over <ondon and funeral proees<ions by the e?re wended their wav to the grave, and here was scarcely a home that wa* not Duelled with death, ministers, indeed, reached as dying men to dying men. they ried aloud and spared not. Old time eemed to ray to them. "Strike now." and he anjrel death seemed to say "if you do ot strike I will." These demands to-day re almost as serious. Men's hearts are ecoming hardened, their wil'n more and lore stubborn. It is the time to cry loud with no uncertain tone. II. A three-fold cord is not quickly broken, ut there is one way to break it easily: ntwist the cord and break the strands enarateJy. and if you are bound as a risoner you can easily go free. The rettesentative of the Godhead >n the wor'd D-day is the Holv Ghost. We may ?in gainst God, the Father, and there is foriveness. A father in the South sent his son 'orth to college, and when he graduated e came back rot only with his diploma, ut with the habit of intemperance ?o istehed upon him that he disgraced his ither's name and broke his mother's eart. ar.fl still his tat iter iovea mm. .nac !r* went front bad to worse until one day bey met on the street. and when the son lade a request of the father which wu ot (granted he struck him in the f.irc. The Id father staggered, then stepped into his trraige and drove home. He made hit av out to the family burying ground and II down upon his knees and shrieked gain and a<rain, and when the sm came ack he said to him. You have diszraccd le and broken my heart and I have loved ou; now you must go awav, and he urned and walked from his father's hou?e n outcast. A human father can do this: lod has not vet done it. We may sin gainst Him, but He will forgive us, and *c may sin against the Son of Man and [e has promised forgiveness. How men in do it ia something! cannot understand. One of the member* of my church told le that he had constructed many of the into manufacturing building* in Ireland, ut one day he saw that one building wan lit of line and stepping bark he called to f?e workmen who were working on a ?cafjlding to *tep aside that he might see 'here the difficulty was. One man lost his alance and started to fall, and said my riend. a man standing by my side, a orkman. ran with outstretched arms and ftught him. He broke his fall so that he ru scarcely injured it all. but bis own arms wore driven into their aocketa and his back was twisted out of shape. Ho never recovered, and was ever after that an object of pity as he made his way alone the streets. The man who had been savea gave half of all he had to the man who had saved him. His wages were always divided with the one who suffered for him, and we understand this as being right and true, but when Christ suffer* for u* we do naught but reject Him, yet in the facc of all this rejection God *ays, "I will forgive you." but if we sin against the Holy Ghost there is no hope. We may snap the two cords in the trinity, but when we snap the third by indifference and sin it is a dan-, gerous thing. In the days of the flood on the Ohio River at that point in the river where three bridges one after another span the river, when frequently men and women are won drifting upon rafts and striving frantically to be saved, ropes are let down from there bridges in order that they may attempt to catch them. If they miss the two bridges m?n stand upon the second bridge and shout after them as they go. ?" mnrt> hrirlffe. and as a x net c n ?'uv viiv _ rule it is their la*t chance. So it is with u*, except that the atatement of God's word is that if we sin against the Holy Ghost there is no forgiveness. Our refusal may one day be accepted. III. We arc not so familiar with. the Ho!r Ghost as with the Son of God and witn God Himself. . We have learned concerning Hia personality, we have had visions of His power, we read atories of Hia work, but it ought to be remembered that every impression we have toward good in theae days cornea from Him, for He talk* of the things of Christ and ahows them unto us. Sometimes His seeking* have l>ecn in trouble, always in a revival. He calls sometime* bv the ministry. There is a special call given to ua frequently in God's providences; generally through our friends who are Christians He speaks to us the things of God. One of my friends took a scat in a railway train next to a man, and in hia conversation learned that he had just become a Christian. He said that it was through a letter written him bv his mother. My friend asked to see the letter which would mean the conversion of a ??< li? finawereH. it ia not *o much in what she My*, but it is the trav the signs her name; you can see that her hand has trembled, and when I read it I said, if ahe diea no one elae will ever ask me to be a Christian again. This is true of the Holy Ghost. It we sin against Him there is no hope for us. A three-fold cord is not quickly broken, but we have, as it were, snapped two of the strands and the third is day by day swinging just to our hands. To say no oncc again may be to reiect Him forever. Scir-Snrrendar. There will come to every manly man tiroes in his life when he will see that there ia something which is legitimately his, something which he has a right to, something which nobody can blame him if he takes and enjoys to the fullest, and yet something by whose voluntary and uncompelled surrender he can help his fellow man and aid the work of Christ and make the world better. Then will come that man's trial. If he fails and cannot make the sacrifice, nobody will blame him; he will simply sink into the great multitude of honorable, respectable, selfindulgent people who take the comfortable thingi which everybody savs they are entitled to, and live their easy fife without a nuestion. But if he is of better stuff, and make* the renunciation of comfort for a higher work, then he goes up and stands humbly, but roallv. with Jesus Christ. He enters into the other range, that other sort of life where Jesiui Christ lived. He it perfectly satisfied with that higher life. He doe* not enw, he does not grudge, the -tt ?? i: i.~ k?. I.h rii induigcm liven n UIUI lie linn ? x. hind. He doe* not cQunt un what he hat lost; he does not ask whether he ij happier or less happy than he would have been if he had kept what everybody said he had a riaht to keep. It is not a question of happiness with him nt all, hut gradually, without his seeking it. he finds that the soul of the happiness which he has left behind him is in him still. Like fountains of sweet water in the sea it rises un and keep* him a living soul. He has left the world's pleasures and its privilege* onlv to draw nearer to its necessities, which arc its real life. So what he gave he keeps a thousand fold in this present time, ?nd eternity is still before him. in the end everlasting life.?Phillips Brooks. Sermons the Preacher's Deepest Thoughts "Almost no preacher to-day dwells exclusively upon sin, salvation and the relation of Christ to the sinner," says the Congregationalism of Boston and Chicago "Important as these themes are, other aspects of the mission of Christ in the world and of the purpose of Christianity are being brought to the front. We regard this as extremely desirable. Preaching i? something more than the reiteration ol traditional truths in conventional ecclesiastical language. A sermon is the embodiment of a man's deepest and most real thought, phrased in words which everybody can understand and addressed to the real needs of real people. Jesus Christ was a popular preacher. He emploved parables and talked about the lilies and the clouds, the barrel of meal and the play of little children, and weighed carefully all Hi* word* with a view to nuking the truth which filled and flooded His own soul plain, winsome and powerful in the eyes of others." God's Merer. The more we fear crosses the more reason we have to think that we need them. Let us not be discouraged when the hand of God layeth heavy woes upon us. We ought to judge of tne violence of our disease by the violence of the remedies which our spiritual physician prescribes for us. It is a great argument for our own wretchedness and of God's mercy that, notwithstanding the difficulty of our recovery He vouchsafes to undertake our cure. Let us. then, draw from our afflictions a source of love, of comfort and tmst in God. saving with Hi? apostle: "Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." "Blessed are thev that mourn, and sow in tears, because they shall reap with joy the harvest of eternal glory."? Feneion. Confessing Wrong. One of the most difficult of all thing* Is for a man openly to confess that he has been wrong, and make just reparation for injury done, whether ignorantly or wilfully. It is such a rare thing to see that people are filled with astonishment when they find one so conscientious and honorable as to do it. and do it freely. One will say to another: "I could not have done that." or, "I would have died before 1 would have done that." They only show bv *uch remarks how much interior they ere. For there is nothing more honorable in God's sight than the confession, open, honest confession, of sin one to another and to the courts of God's house. It is the dogged persistence in a conscious wrong that Goa hates.?Christian Instructor. Nobler Things. The law of the earth life is fluctuation, change. Men change in their likes and dislikes. Children are interested in trinkets, toys and gewgaws, but when they be come men and women no more of these for them. Riches interest for a tune, but men either die or leave them, or they fail to give them comfort in old age. The soul demands something nobler, more endurinc than these. But, to love these temporal non-satisfying things is to become so at sorbed in them as to fail to consider the il terests which are eternal; and to li'e an. die thus loving, thus absorbed in the flesh ; life, js to pass naked, hopeless, unsaved j into Xhe eternal world. "Then whose nhall , thn?e thing* bp which thou nasiproviueu; ?Religious Telescope. Mother. God give us but one mother. Rcmemhw, ] she has borne for you that which 110 other human being has or can. Remember that in the natural course of events the grave *.vill in a few years, at most, close over her, leaving you behind. Remember that, when she is gone, you will think of her faults and her failings with pitiful tenderness, and want to cover them from all human eyes. And remember, also, that the deepest sting which sorrow has lor us is hidden in those soul-harrowing words, "if I oniy had!" or "had not!" It would be blessed to live, no matter what the provocation. so that, standing beside an open , grave those words could have no (ting for \u.?Mrs. G. R Alden. y THE GREAT DESTROYER ! | SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. | Alcohol Not > Medicine ? Dr. Kellogg ; Point* Out the Reaulta of Latett and | U?it Investigation*? Baneful Effect oi j Alcoholic Medication. At the meeting of the McHical Tempernn/>n .lnunAiBtiim nt Sin ?* t r?i?n l)r .T_ fl. I KelloM read a (taper entitled "The Banc1 ful Kffcct of Alcoholic Medication c* Shown bv Recent Kxperimental Observations." The basin of I)r. Kellogjr's paper ' was the fact* recently presented in the New Voice in the articlc. "Alcohol a* a ; Brain Killer." These fact* IV- Kellogg developed and demonstrated at lencth, ' citing the latent and best scientific author| ities, and arrived at conclusion)! which he expressed as follows: | "These observation* certainly hare a ' very practical hearing upon the question ' of alcoholic medication, ff it is true that | alcohol, even in small dose*. acts as an .in| aesthetic by crippling tJie neurons at the j centres of activity and control, it is very evident that no positive good can be exI pccted from it* use. T?e same influence i which, through paralysing the vaso-motor J centres results in dilatation of the nerij phcral vessels, thus lessening the work of i the heart, at the same time lower* vital I tor<e and lessens vital resistance and im[ pain every organic function through the { toxic influence of alcohol upon the ncu- t ! roas of the centre* which control the^e | j functions. Alcohol promotes sleep simply | I by cautfing retroaction of the neurons of ! the anterior lobes of the brain through it* i 1 toxic influence upon them, rather than by | removing the cause of the sleeplessness. which may be an excess of blood in the j brain >r irritability of the ccrebral cell*. "It iii true that alcohol lessens the wort j of the heart, but at the same time it diminishes the power of the heart to work, so that thin might easily be the source of more mischief than benefit. "Kleefeld's experiments show that the injurious effects of alcohol are immediate: that as soon as the poison enter* the blood it begins it* mischievous work upon the delicate protoplasmic Rtructure* of the body which are bathed by the blood and lymph. That mo*t baneful effect* are not immediately observed is due. as has been shown above, to the remarkable power of resistance of the neurons of the automatic centres, which yield only very slowly to the influence of alcohol, a fact which is equally true of other poisors as well. "Progressive medical men cannot close their *vca to the exncrimental fact* which scientific research has brought out and which speak in unmistakable terms of the toxicitv of alcohol and it* uselejsnes* in evcrv form and in all condition* to which j the human body is subject in health and disease. After eenturics of devotion to the use of this baneful arent, which perhaps ha* been more extensively employed than any other drug, the medical profession is at last coming to recognize that alcohol is not an elixir of life as supposed bv the ouacl:i*h Paracelsus, its promoter, but rather a death-dealing product of roicronic activity, differing in no essential particular from other torie substance* secreted or otherwise formed bv micro-ormnisms. Thev are s'owly learning that vital energy if to he derived only from food, and thut we can onlv aid nature in her work of cure, as well a* in the maintenance of normal life, hy th* employment of those nhvsioloyiral ngenU which promote vitil activity and increase vital resistance. Curative power is not to he found in champagne bott'es or brnndy flasks: hfalth-yivinjnowr is in the hodv itself, in the blood. in the ti??tie?. I Paid Dietl. the pupil of the grer.t Rokitanj sky. a half century ago: "Nature alone can | cur?*: this is the highest law of practical i medicine and the one to wh'ch we must I adhere. Nature creates and maintains; j she must therefore be able to cure." Society Tipplers Denounced. In the course of his address to the delegates at the thirtv-third annual convention of tne Catholic Total Abstinence Union cf Connecticut the Rev. Walter .T. Shannon. President of the National Union, and retiring President of the State Union, had the following to say: | "The drinK evil, harmful as it is to its victim, is more disastrous in its effects on society. Scandal, infidelity, divorce, arc its fruits. It is working havoc to-day in the highest grade* of society, and, unfortunately. amon? those who by social position, education and refined association, ought to he the cream of the cream. No one who has any regard for truth can deny that there is to-day gross intemperance in high society and even among women of the ! hiclirst irradeg of societv. Intcmnerancc j among men in bad, among women it ij j worse, and among women of high social position it is one of the worst evil* that atj flict humanity. Its influence is far-reachI ing into all grades of society, blighting the giod that domestic life should bring to the i community and the nation and sowing the seeds of moral deformity and manifold iin| morality. The woman. oueen of the | domestic kingdom, should give character | and virtue to the family in the home. If ; she is a slave to intoxicants her realm is a j hotbed of disorder, vice and mi?ery, and ' the State infallibly reaps disastrous rei suits " The Kwlot's Brother. Did you you ever see a pig in an orchard with his wnole intellect bent on getting another apple into his stomach? His round, shrewd, greedy little eves scrutinize the earth in all directions. Mis ear twitclit* quickly to catch the sound of an ai>i)!e as it falls, and his fat bodv. with I amazing speed, obey* the message of the car and rushes to get the apple. Hut in all his wanderings through the orchard that pig never looks upward, never thinks of the source of the apples that fall i near him. His mind is never raised above I the around on which he walk*. The apIde.s on the low-hanging boughs almost ;rush again>t his bristles, but hi* eyes do I not see them. The pig's sight and mind and concen! tratcd attention are all turned downward. ! He is incapable of so much as an upward glance. And the pig. voted the lowest of the animals by public opinion's just decrcc. is tvnical of the man whom whisky is gradually depriving of his manhood, changing h:n into a swine or a swine's brother.? Nov Yoik American. Sumt Sound and Logical. The general asmnption is that men re* sort to alcoholic stimulation to make tln-in j feel happier than tkeir normal condition I would justify. Thev drink to 'rive away [ the "blues" and to induce a feeling of temporary mental elation. ^ If this feeling of mental buoyancy and cheerfulness ?an be ! induced by some other means than aleo| holic at' nulanti, it is c!car that the de-jr^ f ?r intoxicants will be lesse ned: This i< the argument < f Professor Guthrie, and >t scents sound and logical. Tho Crusade In Trlef. A man's thinking powers will be tn tn ver?e ratio to his drinking powers. I Physiological moderation then, from !ne i very nature of alcohol, i; practice.Iv im1 possible. The President of the Canadian Poroin-on AM iancc f;>r the Total Supproioti of tJ?e ! Liquor Trallie considers the inaugttra'. ?,! of a great pledgc-Mgnmg campaign roast important. (iood fun and good cookery?the < nc to oe-upy tl.e depressed man's mind anil the other to steji v his ncrv: ? might he made i to do a great deal toward suppressing the I liquor evil. The A:?ti-?a!oon Lngur of Pennsylvania [ is very active i.i law enforcement. It has recently employed detective* to ' alher evs dnuT (n ll!airsvil!e. Indiana, HjRjcr C*uy, balt.sburi; and other place*. The Supreme Council of the Kni^'u* oj Columbus. one of the Htronjtcst C'athoiie fraternal insurance societies in the country, ban reported adversely on the appeal of neventy hve liquor dealers who had been excelled irom local councils. At the seventh anniversary of ihe Temperance Association of the Flintshire CaN vinistic Methodist Monthly Meeting of Wales, held recently, the ?tatcment iva* ( made that seven yea;-* ago there wire only ( 54HM- pledged abstainers within the border* of the Monthly Meeting. Now thc:r uuni- , ber is 8997. i jfifll ji THE BELIGIOUS LIFE READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF. Totm : To*clajr?It U Our Doty In tbo Cliristiaa Life to Hear j'mlt?We NniI Worry About tho Results^ Look to . Your Knachn. ? i'o-day, at least, thon'rt here. I've journeyed many a year, Had tor thee many a fear, And many a hope most dear. ?%< ,.w | To day we greet at last. All yesterday* are past. Now, unveil thy face, Grant mc thy boom and grace. To-day, I sec thee same As days through which I came, Ihou'it soon be gone as they, l'he same rcturnies* way. To-day, oh, that I knew What with thee now to do! Thou'rt on my hands till night; God help me use thee right. ?Preston Gorney. ~ ~ i Fruitful or rrmum. Fruit is the oraanic result of the inner life of the tree, it is not tied on. Many a lazy tree might enjoy sending to the nearest market and buying a goodly supply of oranges or apple* aud having them last* ened on at the propter time for fruit to appear, without further trouble, while it used iti^ roots for legs and traveled about the earth during the delightful summer weather, only feeling down into the earth for a little nourishment occasionally when it could not live any longer without it. Bat a tree is not made that war. It must abide in one place. It must be one with the soil from which it seta its nourishment. Neither can its branches take a vacation. You cannot remove a branch from a tree and use it to-day to decorate your bouir, and put it back in place to-morrow to go on with its legitimate work of fruit-bearing. It must abide in the tree if it would bear fruit. It must lire through the long, cold winter with the tree and face the same blasts that beat upon the other branches. It must be there in the spring to drink the first sweet sap that the trunk * sends up to it, to catch toe first spark of new life from the heart of the tree and carry it on to its fiber ends. It must spend its whole time in getting ready for and producing the fruit, which is the great and final purpose of its presence on the treel And should a branch with an eye to appearances work thriftily at the tasV of producing leaves alone, thinking to hid* the fact of little fruit by its luxuriant display of foliage, it finds out its mistake when the gardener comes by, for he prunes away tbia fine smart prodigy of green, thereby indicating to the branch that here is expected instead a rosy apple or a luscious pear. And a branch that will not take this bint is by and by cut off to make room for one that will. There is another thought in connection with thin rlna* relationship of the branch to the vine. If a branch has been partly torn away. or if it has been engrafted with the tree, it is most carefully bound to the main trunk and the edges where it is joined sealed with clay or wax that no foreign substance can get in and interfere with this close connection between tree and branch until '.he crowth is fully e?ub* lished. There is frequently much talk when a young Christian comes into the church and w united to Christ, aboits worldly amusements, whether he may or in ay not safely indulge in questionable things thereafter, and some say yes, and some nay no, and some will leave it to each individual to decide. Would it not be well to apply the gardener's rule here, and safe* lv seal the young Christian from anything which can come between him and Christ, until his growth is fully established, leaving the decision of sach nuestions for him _/ to take up later when he feels that Christ'*^ life is in his life, and that whatever influence may come about him, whatever ill winds may blow, or harmful substances fly about. nothing can enter between him and Christ, because his life is grown into hi? M i?te/s and become part of it. So many Christians never attain to a * ?J J: -t iL.i aliV. I rue unacrsiimimit u> mat. u.i.u^ ? >.*Christ that Hp Himself has said m tial to growth in the Christian life. Not that they are not united to Him; licking that they could not be Christians. But they often fail to understand the laws that govern the transmission of spiritual life, and thus fail to reach that fulneis of life which otherwise might be theirs. It i* evident that our duty in the Christian life is fruit-bearing, and that our business in the matter is to keep ourselves in such connection with Christ that our ftodfiven powers may fterform their functions, t is eoually true that we need not worry about the results, for He says it m He that has cho?en n? for tbis?great work, and H? ' will see it through. We have but to a<k "in Hi* name" and He will do it. Therefore. if your fruit does not abo-.tr.d, look to the end of your branch that licth next the vine, for it may be some enemy his stolen in and worn yorr bark awav until the san is being lost.?New York Mai! r.n-1 Express. The Joy of *ml?. The remedy for a joyous life is more Christianity, more faith and love and service. and not less. Seeking delight for itself is courting disappointment. When wc r.re wholly occupied with work or with companionship joy comes unsought. The happy Christians are intent upon the bu?inc?s oi their life for God, absorbed in the work their Father has given them, studious t> serve Christ in ministry to his breiii.Ten. instant in prayer, which is the medium and expression of their communion w.ta God. These things become the condition* of their joy. If yoa were to ask them whether they would not he happ'cr if they neglected service and abstained train prayer. they would look at you with the amaze* inent of the miser if vo? asked him wii?t!>er he would not be happier if he forco: hi* treasure*. The half-way hottses cf J:f? .to not the i>'ace? where joy ahidcii. Th.? theory of day off" happiness h fatal to Christian i;e?ce of heart. Our joy is joy in Gcd. We d-i not hold to Ili<n for security's *?ke, and find our hanpiness in occasional forgetting. Our faith is inore than a ir.eanj to happincM>?it i? our hupniness. To ?.trve ?: 4 - ? lio!f>tn)n/>Krf iri nn* V firiM HI Uifi-Itiruvi. * ?. ? ? ? ? . a rigorous tank lightened by occasional ho.'iday* when wc enjoy the respite of doin? what we like: it i<? it*e!f our joy in life, the thin? we like to do. More i* at sta'ce in this deep and lancing jov of (hr.s'ianathan their own content in life. It i* their bc*t te?timonv to the world for Cliri?t. Men will he little moved hv the prom:*" of ?ome dim and distant heavenly joy. 81:1 when they ?ee a present h-vipine**. in spit" of toil and sorrow, and because of fiith and praver. they will feel the now^r of God. Tlie re*t!c*? and unhappy life b^arx a false witne*< to the joy of service. When Me *111(1 our happiness in (Jod v.e shnll ;i!*o find nurcelve* endowed with powc o| d ! v rr.eti to Him.?I'on^re-^at!<?:*.i!i?'t. lite I'ntent lloar. - ... l ;m i; is a gvf.ii (iiiiik i" *! >? v.. _ the most favorable hour for i?|ku!i or lor S action, There art* moment* when we can Sj (jHin more by improving tlie present than B Me ran ever hope t? by waiting :or coming I precious hours, or by scckin;? to make pood JO past neglected hour*. In (todV service ft the accepted time ? ever now. We never I had an occasion >o preeiou* for right I thought or art ion ith the present time. If I we neglect thi?. it* like will never conic H again. H hat a blessing it i* to have s<? I ? ?? ? *i-~ li'iiir1 12ml Jii.!u TllUCfl piVUl "II llll 1-umM. . _ uo to tni(>rov?? rhe liour aright! And Clod 31 i* rcadv tu ij thin.?Sundav-Schoo! Timoa. H Tha Kiiitr of rreneh Pfifmt. 1 The interesting fact haa recently Wen H discovered that Kainer William i* in direct H descent from the ill-fated Coligny. who H \r:?a killer! hy the Due de Uui*e on the eve HN of St. Bartholomew. 1372. William I. of |fl Orange, nicknamed "the Silent," married [s a.? l>i? fourth wife in 1583, I/ouise. the only H child of Admiral Coligny. From this mar- I riage *;>rang Frederick Henry. I'rince of 9 N'a-sau, afterward I'rince of Oranee. He HM in hia turn left one *on. Prince William H If., who married a daughter of (*har!e* 1. IX [>f England. He had three daughter*, one g| ft* whom. Lnine Henriette, who became the B wife of the Great Klcrtor of liiandeuburg, SI the ancestor of William IL ?6