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~ OOpyrijrb^ 1W. bT U*i CHAPTER XXX. |? Continued. Thither Constance and I at once re- ' paired without waiting to hear auy- 1 thing more the clerk had to tell. There 1 In a private room we found uncle Sam. f attended by his wife and Dr. Herr- 1 mann. The two latter were making 1 preparations to take (heir patient to I his home, for which purpose a carriage 1 waited at the door. My uncle, who f was lying on a couch, appeared very 1 depressed, and ihe expression of his 1 eyes struck me as peculiar?quite an- > like anything I had observed before 1 He took not the least notice of Connie 1 or me, but turned bis face to the 1 wall soon after we entered the room. [ > and pressed his hand to his forehead as < tf ?n naln. I seized the opportunity 1 while Connie was quietly conferring with her sister to ask Dr. Herrmann what he thought of the case. "Mr. Truman has always overworked himself.** said the doctor, "and there is some danger of brain trouble consequent on the bad news he has received; but it may very likely be avoided with care and quietude. He Is a man of Immense vitality.** At the moment of our arrival at the hotel preparations were in progress for getting my uncle back fo his own house. This was not easy to do. as be could not be got even for one moment to speak or think of anything but the news from Paris, nnd be seemed to retent the presence of anybody except his wife, though he did not so express himself. However. Dr. Hermann and 1 with some difficulty succeeded in inducing him to enter the carriage and v" Wast Tlitrf-r-fnnrth street, accompanied by bis wife and ^ doctor, Constance and I returning by t another way. ' As soon as ancle Sam arrived borne t be was pat to bed in a darkened room t and Ice was applied to li.'a bead, the t patient submitting to these unpleasant t preparations without making the least a protest?an additional proof. If any t were needed, of bow completely his mind was absorbed in palnfnl contem- y plntion of the tragedy which be had t so much feared. t After Dr. Herrmann had departed t sunt Gertrude took me aside. "I fear t your uncle 1s down for a serious ill- a Bess." she said. "I am told be must c be kept very quiet, and to ensure that I will nurse him myself. But be t wearies me and distresses himself by f begging without cessation that I will s go to Paris snd take charge of?of that o English woman's son, and bring bim x here. I would not hesitate to do so I If my husband were well; but I dare b not. I will not, leave bim in his present a state. WUl you help me?" c "This appeal, the purport of which I f could not misinterpret, alarmed me e greatly. "I would gladly go to any c part of the world on your business," e I answered quickly, "if only it lay m p my power to do so; and, apart from c my lore for Constance, I can think of a nothing more gratifying than doing t anything to oblige you or uncle Sam. 1! bat I have sworn an oath that I will t never again leave your sister until she t to my wife, and she Is pledged to mc in r equal terms." 1 e Aunt Gertrude smiled fdlntly. "I have already telegraphed to three of c our friends in Paris." she said, "urg- ( log them to discover and protect the 1 child at any cos*, and to let us know as i aoon as possible that this has been p done; but I have not yet received any f replies." I "You have not allowed sufficient time. ? It is barely two hoars since yon were t summoned to Mills Building." n "I have already asured your nncle that if the child can be found I will t adopt It as my own. and that assurance has rallied him more than any- "# thing else that nas been said or done. If only I could show him a telegram, j proving that tbe child is now in good t hands, I think he wocld soon be him- ? self again/' t "I believe you will receive such a f telegram some time to-day." t "We will hope so," said aunt Ger- i trade quietly. And having uttered ] these words she returned to her bus- i baud's room, and I sougnt Constance. < CHAPTER XXXI. , AT nawroRT. , i - Uncle Sam rapidly became worse nf- I ter be returned home, and soou his con- i dition excited the utmost alarm. Two 1 renowned physicians exerted their < skill for the benefit of tbe patleut. who < was never left without the attendance of one or other of them. He was said j to be suffering from phrcnitic meningi- i tic. induced by too prolouged tension i of tbe faculties?an inflated way of de- ' scribing the simple fact that his mind I had temporarily succumbed under the < anxiety and grief to which It had been subjected. v For many weeks arnt Gertrude i nursed her husband with r.ntlring de- < votion, and in her anxiety that nothing should be neglected or i;l done she did much work that might well have been left to other hands. My marriage with Constance was Indefinitely i>ostpoi:cd. and no thought given to auy matter tout the present condition or tne pattern, for whom even bis physicians acknowledged they feared the worst i Mrs. Fisk, wife of my uucle's confl dcntial secretary, was indu'-ed by auut I Gertrude to undertake a Journey to | Paris for tbe purpose of brlngiuz to New York the boy whose wel- < fare seemed more thau a!! else to enipse my uuele's lucid inomeui*. Meanwhile telegrams arrived assuring us that tbe child was well aud in good bands, which assurances were duly conveyed to the patient, on wboiu they I appeared to hare a bcneflclal effect. I Week after week passed away, and ' rt'l' tbe patient hovered uncertainly i kttrtw life and death, Mrs. Fisk i csti ilHalTj i=- i?r] iLTEK BLOOMFIELO IET X". IXXXft't SOU* " ? * - vV/\flr w!| K hor I aieiy reiurm-u iu iViU ...>u .... nfant charge, a handsome, bright-eyed, nteiiigent boy of exceeding vivacity, lappily ignorant of bis mot her'k fate tnd bin father's danger. The little itranger. instead of being regarded a* in unwelcome addition to my uncle's family, as might not unreasonably lave been expected, was received by tunt Gertrude with the tenderest condderction, and everything needful for lis 'well-being was provided. By sunlry apparently trivial but really profoundly significant words and acts innt Gertrude soon showed that the lewcomcr had found a place no less in ler heart than In her house. Though ny uncle was informed of the arrival >f the boy the doctors for the present orbade the child being presented to heir patient The nature of my un>le'n business was such that it neces larilj came to a standstill as rood as lis direction of it ceased?a direction vhich hitherto he bad never failed to xercise. personally when in New York vlty, and telegraphically when absent herefrom. Mr. Fisk was regular in lis attendance every morning at my incle's house, and never failed to re>ort the patient's condition to a host of lis inquiring friends. And thus November and the greater >art of December passed away, the tpirits of the little household in East rbirty-fourth street being raised one lay only to be dashed the next, accordng to the changeable condition of the >atient. whose malady once or twice ouched a point of extreme danger. But .* *? ? nnnr nnnrnnr-h of Christmas. lb IUU UVH? ? vben New York City lay covered with i thick mantle of snow and the sky vas none the less clear because the emperature was extremely cold and cicles of prodigious length depended rom parapet, and casement, the palent took a very decided turn for the otter. He talked less and more raionully. and was generally calmer, ind be slept better and partook of ore nourishment. Though my uncle's medical advisers vere not. at the first appearance of hese signs, assured they portended a avorable issue, tbey did not hesitate o recognize in the good symptoms, afer they bad endured for some day? unlisted, the beginning of complcu reovery. And so, indeed. It appeared. By the aiddle of January uncle Sam bad so ar recovered that he was permitted to It by the fire in his room, and there ne day he dispassionately discussed nth me the tragedy which to quote lis own words, bad "thrown him off lis balancc." His wife's loving care >f the boy familiarly known as "the ardlnal" occasioned bim much satisaction, which be gratefully acknowldged in various way. and it is to that ircumstance I have always attributed, aore than to all else besides, his comilete recovery. Jit this Juncture "the ordinal" was tali en every morning by unt Gertrude into tbe patient's room, rherc he was permitted to frisk about ike a spaniel at his father's feet, and lis gambols and his pertinent replies o questions which be could not possl ly understand amused and delighted verybody present. In the early stages of the patient's onvalescence it was customary for 'onnie and me to read to him in turn, rhe reading was always selected by tncle Sam, and consisted for the most tart of the daily papers and current Iction. One day I ventured to inquire ' u~ " ?? tn 1'vton tn Rome lit i UC TTVUIU V??v ?w ? rature of a higher standard?a choice vork by one of the great poets, for instance. "Xo. no," said uncle Sam. "not for he world. I like poetry too well." I confessed my inability to underitand this reply. "Poets." remarked uncle Sara, "are a >itiable handful of creatures. Their livine gifts are compensated by pow?rle8fjess to cope with the manifold reacheries of mankind, and consequent itarration and misery, and though by tome strange accident one of the tribe lot long ago slipped into the House of Lords, that was a blunder whitb will lot be repeated; the majority gravitate luite naturally to the workhouse. I ove poetry, but can never read it withiut my heart aching for me poor wretch who expended his brain power in profltlessly weaving it Xo, no, Ernest: open the Trumpeter and tell me tvhether the Rothschilds have succeeded in floating that loan for the Au.?Lrian Government." Slowly but surely the patient regained strength, but February was almost spent before the doctors would sanction his removal to Xewport. Xot until after he was able to go about the bouse unaided did the permanent i-haages wrought in him by the illness through which he bad passed become fully apparent, and then it was seen that bis once light brown hair had become almost entirely grey, that there were lines in his face which had not been observed before liis illness, and that bit* step was a trifle slower una less elastic than of old. I thought bis cheerfulness and his frank cynicism bad e?eai?ed unaffected until be surprised uie one morning by informing his friend. Mr. Rosenberg, in my presence. ihut it was his Intention as soon as be returned from Newport to close bis speculative business affairs, and derote bis remaining days to safeguarding such dollars as be bad already acquired. leaving tbe pursuit of wealth to younger or more ardent spirits. By tbe opeuing of March uncle Sam's family?in whic h, of course. I Include myself, for long l>eforc this time I was regarded by everybody as belonging thereto?were comfortably settled In It if* rilla at Newport. Rhode I*lan1L (There it wok thought the ocean breezes and continued withdrawal from business cares might restore him to bis for mer condition of mental and physical vigor. Chatham Villa is one of the numer- j ous artistic summer bouses which abound in the southern portion of j Khode Island, and stands in extensive pleasure grounds overlooking Surragnu sett Bay. As yet the weather was very cold for living in such au open situation. but the sky was almost always dear and bright, and scarcely a day of the seven weeks that we remained on the Island passed without Constance and me, thickly clad with furs, taking an invigorating walk, in which exercises we were sometimes accompanied by uncle and aunt, the former of whom woold jo'ut cuj where the 8000 British troops and their Hessian mercenaries were quartern! during the American Revolution, nud the wastes ? !>?? nnpi? flourished the line iroveK which they cut down for fuel: and he would sometimes further describe how my country men had destroyed nearly 500 of fhe houses and all the shipping then harbored there. Although, all things considered. I must always look back upon my first sojourn at Newport with mu^h gratification?indeed It could hardly be otherwise, for I enjoyed the nlmof t uninterrupted company of Constance while I waR there?I was rejoiced as the period fixed for our stay drew towards Its close, and that for the best of all possible reasons. Before leaving New York It had been | arranged that Constance nnd I were to J be married at a Presbyterian cbnrch on Fifth avenue the first day of May, and we were to return to the city one week prior to that event. In accordance with the wish of everybody concerned, the ceremony was to be of the simplest possible character, and an hour after its accomplishment we were to leave for Saratoga, where a suite of i rooms bad been engaged for me at the (Jrand Union Hotel. Preoccupied as 1 was with the anticipation of my approaching happiness, I could never forget my father, and in my more reflective moments was disturbed at hearing no news of bim. either directly or Indirectly, but I could not think of any better way or nmenain? the unfortunate rupture between us tbnn tbat which Constance had proposed?a plnn not yet practicable. Increasing my already great impatience with tbe slow-moving hours. Tbe eve of our return to New York at length arrived. April was drawing to iti? close, and tbe weather was so genial tbat we sat with comfort in a group by tbe opened glass doors which lead on to the veranda that overlooks tbe bay. Uncle Sam and I were smoking. a habit which by lone use our respect! te ladies had grown to tolerate J at all sorts of unseasonable times and places. Aunt Gertrude was engaged working a monogram iu silken characters on a strange-looking purse of line network which she bad designed for her sister, while tbe latter nestled at my side wistfully turning over an album of photographs. "The cardinal" ! ' * ' *? nff tn hoil hv biS UUU JUKI WTU VHIIIVU v.. nurse, after amusing us for tea minutes by an exhibition of bis precocity, his customary evening privilege. Uncle Sain was in high spirits, and snore like his former self than at any time 1 since his illness. After intently observing his wife's work for some minutes (my aunt bad completed the C nud was now outlining a T. not nn M?. he suddenly exclaimed: "Ernest, you are a lucky do?," to which inelegant assertion I signified my assent, at the same time taking Connie's hand in mine. "Scores of English lords, heavily weighted with titles and debts, sigh in vain for an achievement such as yours." continued uncle Sam. "What a pity it Is that man, always quick to perceive his misfortunes, is so fre- i quently bliAd to the good things which fall to his share!" flint %*.-ill npver be my case," I ob- I served. To be continued. Improved Trolley ifeail Service. The originator of street railway mail service, wbicli has done so much to expedite tbe local delivery of mail, bai amplified bis original plan of special mall cars so as to embrace every street car. This system is said to be in actual successful sen-ice in Grand Rapids. Eacb street car running in tbe direction of tbe postottice or sub-stations is to contain a mail box. In wbicb letters may be dropped. All collectors of street boxes deposit their mall in tbe most convenient car box. continuous collections tbus being made all day long, as tbe long triv to tbe central or sub-station is not accessary. Tbe gradual arrival in a swady stream of j all mall at tbe sorting and distributing i centres is a great improvement, re- 1 sultiug lu simplifying tb* work and la greater expedition. | tTuhlBetoo'i Viattr TOondrra. Tbe first Iceboat to make its appear* j ante on tbe Potomac Ice In several j years was seen on tbe basin between tbe bathing beach and the long bridge yeslefday evening. Tbe craft sailed on and o(T the wind and made fast speed. A number of tbe skaters in the basin are usiug the breexes as motive power, j "*** * ? ?1 witlt I l:ey uave pruviueu lucuimm large, kite-shaped sails, ami. attaching them tu one ana ho as to present a fair service to the wind, they glide about the basin with no effort at all. and at a high rate of speed.?Washington Star. I Ilrrw b tbe llrnl Thing. A prominent colonial planter, well bred affectionate, excellent character, healthy, good, tall, fine lookiug, broad instruction, honorific grades, highei t Nnropeali standing, owning un developed properties or immeuxo nu.iu, wishes KiM'frijr marriage with wealthy, inilejMMident young lady or widow, loving 11 Hil ambitious, willing to become ini 11ioii.iire by investing a moderate starling capital in her husband's estnies; strictly confidential; state particulars - New York Herald. The innuuscripts of the fifth and - ..Uk I "twelfth ceiUUrie* arc wnucu nnu black ink. which has not xliowti the least niirii:. of fading or ^iteration. North America was first discovered bjr Sebastian Cabot, a Venetian, in the service of Kncland. in 1497. A woman's stationery does not always Indicate her station In life. . A SERMON FOR SUNDAY ^ AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED UPPER AND NETHER SPRINGS." nu H?t. Dr. J. Wllbw CkapiMM Cm aa Old ThImmiI Story u a rtnllal to IllulnM lb* flniit Blctilan xtm 1!*Mlvt From Oar Heavenly Father. N*w York Citt.?The following *cr. men it one of a scries prepared come time [ tine* by the Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. | (he distinguished evangelist. It is entitled | "The Upper and the Nether Springs," and I was preached from the text "And he gave j her the upper springs and the nether I springs." Joshua sr.: 10. i Half way between Hebron and Becmhe; ba there once stood the ancient city of I Debir. It was the city of brains and books i and the centre of intellectual culture of the I oldec days. At the same point now may ! be seen a rude assemblage of stone hovels, many of which are half standing, but the others are entirely broken down. One of the names given to this city, I being translated, meant the City of ttrooks, I or of learning?what Athens was to (Irecce the city of Debir was to Southern Palestine. It was supposed that dl the records of antiquity ot the nation were stored there, ft was, indeed, a famous place. Caleb, the sort of Hezron, of the tribe of Judab, t aa very anxious to secure posses ion of the city. It is this lact wmcn gives rise to the text. Ilis name is very familiar to us. He was one of the twelve spies sent by Moses over into Canaan, and he and Joshua were the only two born in Egypt who were given the privilege of entering Canaan, with the possible exception of the I^evitcs, and that, not only because thev had brought a truthful report of the land they had explored, but were also willing to take God at His word, and put all their trui>t in Him. Forty-five years after, when the wanderings were over, Caleb applied to Joshua for the share of the land which had been promised him, and among other portions there was granted to him Debir, the city of learning. It was still, however, the stronghold of the giants of Canaan, and must be caniurea 10 dc powcucu. Caleb then made the proposition that be would give bit daughter Achsah in marriage to any one who was able to take the city, and one Othniel, who had been much of a warrior, for he had delivered the children of Israel from the King of Mesopotamia, marched against Debir. After a great struggle the gates were broken down, the giants were captnrcd or driven awav. and the City of Books lay at the feet of the conoueror. When the victory was won Caleb was as pood as his word, and his daughter was given in marriage to the soldier. With her he sIsd gave as an inheritance. a peculiar piece of property, known as "The South Land," valuable for some reasons, hut it was mountainous and sloped southward toward the deserts of Arabia, the hot winds of which again and again swept across it. Before Achsah left her futher'a house she besought him for his blessing. The south land was not enough. -t- u -1-- u? ?:?. nnr) ne WUUIU aiwi nafC a|'i m^a UI ...m Caleb responded at once, and gave her more than she had asked, for we read in the text: "He gave her the upper springs and the nether springs." From an exceedingly fertile territory the land was clioien. It contained no lets than fourteen sprins*. The valley wan beautiful, for look w!iich way you would you could sec them qushin? forth. Their presence in the field meant i not only a blessing for the field in which I they were found, but for all the country | around them. | I find in this beautiful story a good illustration of all that we receive from our Father. AH that has been bestoved upon us is associated with victory, and that was won by Him whose name was called in the prophets the Conqueror. It was lor Him a tierce struggle, but He tame off more than conqueror. Then, alter that. He was called the bridegroom of the church, which is to j be His bride, nnd with Him we have reI cexved not only the gift of salvation, but in i H;?n tt-0 in i?.?n h!f?ij(?r! with all eniritual | blessings. Paul Riven ua this wfien he | writes to the Ephcsians. "Messed be the t ; God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. | who hftth blessed ut with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." I. God start* Hii rhildren in this world as Caleb started hi* daughter, with an inheritance. No one is so poor but God has given him something. Some have taken the inheritance and treated it as the man with the five talents, i they have- gained other five also: other* ' like the man with one talent, have wrupix-d I it in a napkin, and so they leave the world as poor as when they ent?red it. God has been very good to us. He has given us this world with all its beauty, its green pasture*, its etiil waters, its rivers and its seas, it* starry canopv stretching out above. The world is filled with forces of all kinds, I but man has seemed to gain control over them, until to-day he stands himself like conquerer in this midst of them all. But the inheritance is letter than that. He has given us all the faculties of mind nd all the powers of body. The mind, the heart, the bands, the feet?no one is sent into the world a pauper. God has thus placed a fortune in the grasp of every child of His. It is ?uch a great thins to hare a nffnd, for with it man is nble to search the deen things of God and really take hold of the thought of the Eternal. The science of geometnr wai worked out from a few simple principles l?y Euclid and Arehimedc*. by pure reasoning out of their minds, and on the sands of the floor of the room where they were studying Archimedes traced the curves in which, according to science, the heavenly bodies must move. And long after, when the telescope was invented, the Galileos and the Newtons beheld with reverent wonder that the heavenly bodies were sweeping along in the sam^ curves described so lonij ago by the sreat Mathematician. It is, indeed, a i wonderful thine to have a mind. But if these things which I have mentioned as our natural inheritance are all what we posse*?, then, with the success that m.iv be pained by means of them we may still be of all men the most miserable. For they are like the south land of Achaah, they stretch off toward the deserts of sorrow and care and darknos, and the !?ot winds of despair come sweeping oast us ana in and again. The most miserable reople in the world, sooner or later, arc those who have just the world and nothing e!*e. Men are born unto trouble as the sparks fly npward, and this south land of the world is a poor portion. Tt is beautiful: it is the handiwork of Hod. But we murt have more than that i< the soul be satisfied. "The stars arc beautiful, but they Kur no light into the midnight of a >ubled soul. The flowers arc sweet, but they notir no balm into the wounded heart." There are times when the hungrv. thirsty, fevered soul must have what the natural inheritance can not give, and God has made provision for that. Man sighs with groanings which can not be ntti-red for the infinite. Tf you j>ut a seashcll to your car yoa will find in it reminiscenccs of its original home. the roar of the sea. the tvail of the wind, the groan of the dying wave, all discernible therein. It has the witness in itself that it belongs to the mighty deep. And if you listen attentively to your own heart you will find., constant proofs of its destined abode. The signs, the yearnings, the dream*, the tears, the sadness, the music, nil testify that we are made for (Sod. and that only God can satisfy our wants. And God knew this, and so, as well as giving us the south land He has also given us the springs of water from which we may drink and be satisfied. God pitv the man who has failed to accept the proffered gift. II. The springs of water were given to Achsah because of her marriage with Othuiel. am) they are a perfect illustration of that which romes to us liecausc of our union with the Son of (Jo-!. The springs were a free gift, and so is the nether spring of the goapet, which has come to us. "Fur br grace are ye saved through faith, and tnat not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." And never a ipring bursting from the plains of Gcrar, or from the mountain* of Lebanon, or from the valley* of Canaan, perforin aucb & mission a* this nether spring of the gospel which is the gift of our God. We have seen the fields in the time of a drought looking parched and appsrcntly dead and worthless, and then suddenly, almost in the night, the meadows were clothed with green, and the grain lifted up its head rejoicing, all because the rain bad fallen. But in this nether sprins of the gospel there is a more marvelous power tun that?be who comes to drink of its water* goes away with new life, an his whole nature is changed. Tbe at cients believed in tbe existence of a sprin in which, if a person bathed, he won! renew bis youth and live forever. W have found that spring to-day in tbe tex for "Tbe gift of God is eternal life." "Th Bible is all a sparkle with wells an springs, rivers and Mas. Tbey toss up thei brightness from almost every chapter. An water is many times the type'or figure < that which enlivens, beautifies ana giv< new life." ?.->!omon, refreshed by the story c he "./en, exclaim*, "As cold water to at. ??? ! - -? */! nntrs (mm a fj llllt Sljr WUI, Ml 19 HV > ? cointry." Trainh, speaking of tlie blessei nfM of the children of God, writes, "The nil ill xprins a* willows from the watc co.irses." The prophet, glowing with tli t'c night of the miuenium, *ny*. "Strcan tth.-il! break forth from the desert." The mission of water in thia world is I b'ess and satisfy, refresh and help. "Bi nil the waters that ever leaped in the to r-nts, or foamed in the cascade, or fell i t!:e summer shower, or hung in the mori i .g dew. have given no such comfort to tl roubled heart, no such rest and relresl ment to the sin-sick soul, as that whic i.iav be drawn by you and by me from tl nether spring of the gospel." It is a good type of illustration of tt gospel because of its brightness. Yet hei it tails of giving us perfect description < idea, for wnere can you find such brigh nn>< as gleams in this nether spring? "David, unable to put it into word plays it on bis harp. Christopher Wrei unable to put it into language, springs in the arches of St. Paul's. Banyan, fai ing to present it in ordinaiy story, put in the form of allegory, which lives on t day with constantly increasing pnwe Handel, with ordinary music unable < roach the height and sonnd the depth i (he theme, thrills us with his oratoro O. the gladness. the brightness. tlie ;oy m uttcrable in that life which i? h'd wil Christ in God. And thia I may drink 1 as I come to the nether apringa. There is no life on earth no happy i the Christian's. Take the bumble*t_ebt of God you know, and whv shouldn't ) be happy? According to the Bible he all the time under the shadow of God wings. If he walks the angels bear him Q| if be sleeps they let down ladders from tl skies, up and down which the angels < to and fro. bringing down blessings < God. and bcarins awav his heavy burden Why. to get within the door of the kin dom. to have a place, not the nearest, bt on the very outer circle, to bear the lowe title of all the redeemed, to be the weak* child of all the family of God. to be tl dimmest jewel in His crown of rejoicin to be the least. r?a. le?? than lca?t of i - ... I l?.L 1- A! _ 1 tJie Mints m a noo^ wmcn Bei# mc nca a-singing. All this 1 find and more, thousand times more, as I stoop and drir at the nether springs. But lierc in a greater changc for {he sii fnl soul who will come to the nethi spring. Here came Newton, and left b hind nim his sins which were as scarle Here came Bunyan, eursing with cvei step until lewd people rebuked him. an he went away, so chinned that he gave I the world the book that elands in tne est mation of some next to the Bible for swee new and power. Here came Magdalen ar the Philippian jailor, Zacchaeus, and tl poor trembling thief on the cross, and thi drank of the waters r.nd stand to-day i the company of the redeemed. It is a marvelous spring of which I spea! I recall the fact that when the Master m; the man who was blind from his birth Ji anointed his eyes with clar and spittle an then told him to go wash in the pool i Siloim; and when he had washed he can seeing. I imagine that first of all he ?a the face of the Master Himself. This the power of the uether spring of the go pel. The touch of its waters will cause tl scale? to drop from our eyes, and we sba be able to see thp wondroas things writU in the book of God. and not only so, bi we shall have given unto us the vision < the face of the Master Himself. It is ni strain? that we are unable, in our sinf condition, to see Ihinjjs an they are in tl kingdom of God, for v*e are blind. But you will only comc with vour blindness I the nether spring you shall go away r joieing. It is like the pool of Bethesd It has hcalins power, and we are not onl raved from the guilt of sin, but we ma likewise be saved from its power. Tl only difference is that in the pool the sic people mu?t wait until the waters ni troub'ed before they may step in and I healed, while in this nether spring the wa era ore always ready. This is no new id( so to represent the gospel of Christ, for read in the gospel of John these wordi "llut whosoverer shall drink of the wat< that I shall give him shall never thirs Hut the water I shall give him shall be i him n well of water, springing up inl everlasting life.' And in the .Apocalypj these words are found: "I am the Alpi and Omega, the beginning and the end. &iil give unto him that is athirat, of ti fountain of th?? water of life freely." thirsty souls, come and drink! I know what springs of water have dor for the world. Found in Gerar by Isaa they make the field fruitful in abundanc iJuriling forth in Lebanon, they send the waters down the mountain side, and i they go through the vallev they make the very synonym of fruitlulncss. C!o*el akin to that i? what the nether spring < the gospel does for u*. No one knows th fulness of his own being until be is tillc with the influence and power of the gospe You walk, in the month of January, ov< (he most ten 'e p.ace in a miu ur uuuuK the forest, 2nd you will sec the illustratin of what man in in hi* natural state. Th earth is full of root* and the tree* are fu of buds, nil of which arc closely bandage so that they can not expand, but when tli spring time come* the roots in the 2ari commence to push forward sod the bud on the trees begin to unfold, and in a ver little time all nature is rejoicing. What marvelous change, simply because the roo! have been warmed by the sun and kiase by the light! and yet it is not worthy t be compared with a change which mijfli i e wrought in you, if you will but comc t the nether spring and drink of its lifc-gii ing waters, for there you will meet Hii who has said: "I am come that voti migli have life, and that you might have it mor abundantly." HI. I wish I might be able to mal: plain to you all that there is so muc more to the Christian life than simp! beinu sived. That is only the beginninf The whole experience stretches away fr??r that point, and gets brighter and hrightr as the days go by. With the hope that w might learn the lesson together to-day have brought before you these two spring! Whether the strict exegesis of the text wi allow the interpretation or not, I am ver sure that all will agree that it is n perfec illustration. To drink at the ne:he spring is salvation, but to drink at the u| her spring is a high privilege that is o fercd to every ehiia of God. 1 could brin so many parages of Scripture to yo which would serve as an illustration c what I mean. Take Ephesians i: 3 "Blessed be the God and Father of ou Lord Jesus Christ, who hath hlessed u with all spiritual blessings in Christ lesus. Or, Col. li: 12: "Buried with Him in haf tism, wh'Tein also vc arc risen with IJirr through the faith of the operition of God who hath raised Him from the dead." /*- i l.T "If vethen be rise with Christ, scvk those things which ar above, where Christ sitteth on the rich hand of (Sod. Set your affection on tiling above, not on things on the earth. For v arc dead, and your life is hid with Chris in Cod." Or. take Phil, iii: 20: "For ou conversation is in heaven, from whenc also we look for the Saviour, the i-or Jcxus Christ." I wouM that we might all drink at th n;i|?er spring. What peace would then til our hearts! When we drink at the l<nvc spring we come to be at peace with (Io<J hut when we 'earn to drink also at th upper spring we have the peace of Cod and there is a great difference bctweei the two. It is something like the dilTri ?-nre between n microscope and i te!e*copf With the firnt we can see thinpi near, an in a bulk not larger than a grain of sand ran find a thousand million nnimal<-.i!?? but with the latter I can see things afa off. I can actually study the Milky Waj which iii removed from ire thousands am thousandM of miles. At the nether spring first of all. I see myself and all my sinfu ness; then I see Christ in all Hi* rightcoui ness; then I hear Him My that thougl mv sins be like scarlet they shall be a unite at snow, and there at the ncthc spring I am made whole, but with the uf per spring it is different. Like the tele scope it is all about the things which ar above, and as I drink at its waters I fin< roy?elf being lifted above this world, an. mv conversation, not only, but my vcr; life, mav be is the heaveoltM. J THE RELIGIOUS LIFE fl HEADING FOR THE QUIF** HOUR WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF. d I ir Foam: A PnjthDt 1 Ulioeirtc* Otfcorsf d ?Bo Sara That Tou Prlvnd la Iodot>t> >f od to Tn For Good IniUtd of Po* * Efll-Dwi't Uf* to YoarsolC, . I know that I am blind: ' My wand'ring steps oft go astray, " As helpleiwly I seek the way ? Of troth and hope to find. ? I know that I am lame; ? So prone to stumble as I go; With many falls and progress slow " j I wit Thy grace to claim .f t Dull are my ears to bear The warnings of the still small voict _ That p'.ead? of me a better choicc j j. Than things I now hold dear. !* Hrlplca* I call on Thee: ,v Open my ears, O Lord, to hear, w Strengthen my feet, my footsteps chcer I And niake my blind eyes iff. |# | ? rrank Heard, id Kama Horn. : Jr i Uw Tonr IrIiiin For Good. t- I Doubtless in the great day when the I books arc opened we shall be amazed to g, j learn that tne weight of our influence did n. | not lie in the direction we had fancied, and it : perhaps prided ourselves it did. but in an i]. ! altogether different direction. If we could it but get this clearly into our consciousness o- . it would seem as though we would take r. ; more pains with what we are than with ' to what we say or seem. of | The little careless word when we are off guard may undo a lifetime of earnest, a. would-be helpfulness. The men who think >h more of th<* forms and ceremonies of life, in as did the discinles who bushed back Bar; timaeus, than of bringing a soul near to its is ' Master; the people who think more of Id their own danjeer in the battle than of win10 ninp the promised land for themselves and is their children, may write volumes on the 't ' subject of mission work for Christ, may [>; ' sneak movingly of courage in general, but ie if they fail at the unobtrusive test moment to they m?ght as well have kept still. of ! At certain nlaccs in the Alps travelers > s. arc warned to keep absolute silence u they g- pan; the great belts of ice and snow are at so evenly balanced on the mountain height* at : above that a shoot, the report of a gun, or fit even sometimes, in that unbroken solitude, le ' ouict as death, a word trembling: out into r. the air will cause sufficient jar to set in df , motion an avalanche. So. about u* all th? rt , while are souls tremblin* in the balance, a wavering hetween life and death. A word, ik ! a touch, will turn the current toward heav! en or on the downward wav. n. Sometime* it is hut a spirit of light and > rr subtle morUcrj that keep* a soul hack o. i from the Master's side, where is healing ! t. I and sight: sometimes it is but n lary indif, ferencc that carp* not to speak the little ,d wr>rd of encouragement. or to take the to side with the brave Calebs who stard > | alone and are willing to jjo on with the t. i Lord's work, and at our hesitation others 1(j . who were ready to join them fall back and are afraid. iy | It is a principle of eternal and universal ] in application that men, in their occupation, | j their speech. their manner, their verv in- : lc. nermost thoughts, do not live uoto them* | F>t | sc.ves. [e | We are built of two net* of nerves?af* id j frrcnt and efferent One is receiving and of one distributing. Now, onlv a* both work ic , perfectly is there life. Let the riving be w j lost?what is it? Paralysis?death. So if ig ' an/ man he trying to refuse his influence s- to the world or hi* fellow men, let hira l;eie ! ware; it cannot be done; it is death. A? J! Ion" as or? lives, out from his life (roes an >n influence, and that influence is either helpit j ins on or discouraging other*. of i It was a striking remark of a man on it his drath bed. "Ob, that my influence ul ! could be gathered up and buried with ie me." It could not be. It still survive* if him, working, and will work for centuries to ' to 'ome. He could not put forth his dying j e- : hand and arrest it. It was too late. He a. had put in motiou an agency he could not ly control. ly | Hugh Black aays: "It must always be a :e solemn things for a man to ask what he k has done with this dread power of injure j ence. For what has our friend to be in)e del ted to us?for good or for evil* Have t- j we put on his armor, and sent him out < ?a ; with courage and strength to the battle? I . Or have wc dragged him down from the i: , heights to which he once aspired? We :r arr? face to face here with the tragic possit. bill ties of human intercourse." in j A ship in a voyage under sunny skies !o end with favoring winds for days was sud'e denly plunged into a wall of fog. dense aa la gniolie or steam. The wind grew chill and j I picrcing in an hour. The mercury in the I ie thermometer shrank in the tube. The I 0 commander paced the bridge with anxious j eves. A lookout keen and quick wax kent. ' ie What did it all mean? Was it only the | c. fog? Every few minute* a nailer swung a ( t- leather bucket over the ship's side, and as . ir ft came up the officer on deck plunged a ! ?9 thermometer into it and earnestly scanned >t its reading. An iceberg lay off the weath- i X er bow! The most dreadful of all the i >' dreadful dangers of the sea. Now that { ie iceberg, if it had been of the thinking : d sort, may have said to himself. "I'll have 1 ? nothing to do with anybody; I don't care i f what people think of me. I don't bother I b anybody, and I won't let anv'oodt bother j n me. f'lT keep to myself/* *Ab. but there ; * was the trouble. It couldn't ke?p Vj it* , self. And no more can one of these moral 1 (I or social icebergs who drift to and fro ; ? upon the tide of everyday life. Silert. selI*1 * fish, unapproachable, thev pride them14 selves upon keeping aloof from every one. ? i They do business. it is true, they go into a ! company, but they are determined to live * to themselves. And yet thev do not. " Every one feels it when they enter a room. J ? I You can tell instinctively when vou come i it r :_/i I iriinin i:jc raiJK- ui uniucmx ?i nmu u w ? o?al iceherjr. The air in chill all about r" : them. The frost of their selfishness nip* " in it* bud the expression on the pnrt of other people of many a kindly word, and * makes and keens the other live*, that are | compelled by force of circumstances, to be e ! as barren and fruitless as their own.?Kew b | York Mail and Express. t. | Ktnntth of Pnrposa. n | Wc have often tried to be strong in our r : own resolution!, and have failed miaerably. ? Let us learn how to be strong in the Lord * 1 Jesus, who, as Man, proved Himself supe[j i rior to all the powers of Satan. On the JJ mountain of temptation, repeatedly T , throughout His mortal life, and notably , ! in the hour of the power of darkness, Sir i tan measured himself against the second r I M.in. but could find no res;>onsc in that clorious Christ-nature, and remember that * i herein we have not example only, but nowH : er. hoc* >-e that very nature, whicn is I; ! Jesus Christ Himself, is given to each of us. When, therefore, Satan temnts. meet |* ' him, not with vour own resolutions, but j v/ith the indwelling Jesu?; let Jesus do it i all; leave Him as your great h^art-champion |* ! to subdue Satan under your fee'; meet S.v !' ' tan in the power of the risen Saviour.?F. '? , L. Meyer. n ??? e t Nature. : For nature there are no evil atoms. * What seemeth evil she turns to^ rcmI. 11 Out of the blackest swamps che lift* the r I whitest, purest mist*, and distils those J . drops that break her sunbeams into the " i brislttne** of the rainbow. And .lingering | lon<* beside nature's transformations man e : learns the essential eoad hidden in the II heart of cvi), grow* "tender in hia judgr j nient of men called criminal: grows ?vmI, I ]iathetic toward luvial moveMent* that a ] seem to threaten every fonn of good, and I, ' with blinding tetrn of hope look* longn injly toward tho*e prodirn!* who hav# beeu wrecked by pa?*'on.?l!?v. Dr. iLllife Twin. v?t Horn in Sum* Tear. >, ! A difference of .ihout three hours in the r birth of *i*teri? ha* led to the stran?e filiation of twin? h.tvin? birthday* on difij fereut tiny* nn<l different yean. Mr. and Mr*. .John Stilt, of Chicago, are the parj. ent.? of the twin*. One of the twin* was i. horn at 1 p. m. on the last dav of Deh rerober. 1002. and about an hour a:id a s half after midnight the second child wax r born. Her birthday is therefore January 1, 190C. j Judicial Daflalllon of a Nnl?. j The Missouri Court of Ap[>cals has just <f decided that the mule w a "treachcrou* and vicious animal." THE SUNDAY SCHOOL ___? * INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR FEBRUARY I. JakjM: Put at Athena. A eta aril., S3 -34 >Aal4M Text. Acta nit. , Taiaaa, St. M-Coaasaatari oa Ifet Daj'a Lnwa. 1. Paul at Afbena (ra. 13-21). Aa u*oal, persecution aro^.- againat the n?w re.'igioa at Berea, and Paul, tearing Silaa and 'J im* otby (v. 14) to follow bin later, bsaUoad ?? K? HIM fit tk? fmoDi (itv of Athena, the capital of the intellectual M world, u Rome wu of the political ud 1 Jerusalem of the relifioua. While Paul waited for the coming of Silas and Timothy he employed his time in speaking im the synagogues to the Jews, and in tha market places to those whom he met. The leaders in philosophy and religion were attracted by Paul, and held conversation? with him about his religion. After discussing with these philosophers for a time thcr requested Paul to leare the curious and thronging crowdj of the market and address th?*m from the platform on thr summit of the bill, called Areopagus, or Mar's Hill, where were assembled the nob!e?t of Athens, the first politicians, the first orators, the first philosophers. II. Paul's address on Mar's Hill (vs. 29* 31). 22. "Paul stood." l'aul spoke in tbo open air. "Mar's Hill?the Arciyagua.'* This hill was to the wrst of the Acropolis and was the meeting place of the Athrmaa Council. To this hill of M*r? the philosophers led St. Paul, that be might mort conveniently sddress a larger audience.* "Ye men ot A then*." Ha was addressiu I men of high intellectual powers. Their. city was the most renowned in the world t? l-'i a ? 1 -I ?T lor lurmiiux, fuv mm piuiuvojjiiy. a uw ceive." Paul had observed the important w features of the city. "Too auperntitioua.* fl Ye arerreatly addicted to religions prac- fl tice. The expression used by tne apostW H was complimentary. Ye are "my ?cli giona." H 23. "Yonr devotions." See R. V. The j apostle had beheld their altan and works 5 of art consecrated to religion. "To an on* I known god." That no deity might punish them for neglecting bis worship, 'Ignoiv J antly worship." bee R. V. The aposttei fl does not intend to say that their worship; fl was of an ignorant character, bet that they ' fl offered it in ignorance. "Him declare I. 1 It waa death for any private person to I disturb the religion of the state by tbe in> 9 troduction of any foreign god that had nod 3 been publicly recognised. But how ndmir* fl ably does Paul avail himself of the in senption on the altar! Who could accueo fn him of introducing anything new when bo fl only expounded to the Athenian* the at- M tributes of the God whom they bad ignor* J antly worshiped? . fl 24. "God that hide." 1. He opposes* fl indirectly, their opiniona that there wero flu many gods. 2. He opposes tbe opinion fl that matter is eternal. 3. That all thine* fl are controlled by fate. 4. That the worw was formed by an accidental throng at V afnnta Anrl V#n? fk# f)fU?lril)M I his bearers. While Pan! respected tha i I rank and position which hia hearer* held \ 1 he was faithful in preaching unto them tha J truth. "Dwelleth not." A strong, deef- Jfl sive stroke against the whole system of flS Grecian idolatry. Eg 25. "With men's hands." The aposUa illustrates the character of the true God j still further by another contrast betweeqf Him and the deities of the heathen. God V is independent of His creature*. He need* nothing from them. The heathen consid* I ered it meritorious to bring costly gifts their idols, and even offerings of food an<B drink. "He giveth." He is the source, of H life and all things necessary to sustain H| life, therefore He cannot be dependent oor^H that life which He has created. 28. "One blood." God has made of oua'^fl ancestor, or one source, or one family, aMjl nations. This lajrs upon us the duty to;fl help all men, and to treat all men and lovinglr, even the lowest races of men^^H Greeks held that the "first men had sprna^^H up in Attica, like radishes;" that, like flow^H ere and trees, every nation was the proBE duct of its own sod, and that they winH the aristocracy, all others being narbaflEH i.inu. The whole human family, howevA different in complexion, customs and la^Bgj Onr, are brethren. "Hath determined^HQ s almichty hand is revealed in the' goS ernmcnt of the world, az rceil as in its crtHH ation. Sil 27. -\Shouia seek the Lord." The who?H| object of the diviue Providence, in Hi^HE dealings with nations and individuals, is bring them to a knowledge of the one God. "Not far." He is hard to Gnd; adH because He withdraws from us, bat MH cause we withdraw from Him. Our iniqn*-M ties separate us from Him (Isa. 50: 2;SB Bom. 10: 0-10). BE 29. "Offspring of God." By creation a^flS ter the image of God; by reaeneratM^Hj through the incarnate Son of God. "Ojfb|^| not." If we, intelligent, moral, nuoBHHR beings, are tbe ofonnnir of God, we ougbtHS not to think that tbe Divine One is like ftR dumb, dead, senseless idol. SH| 30. "Thin ignorance." See R. V. committed in ignorance are different fronk^H those committed against light and eoa-^Hj science. Men cannot plead ignoranc? whoH are living in the presence of an open Bibfefll "Overlooked." In the word "overlooked lie treasures of mercy for those who livedHB in the times of ignorance. BWM 31. "He will jud<re." Their thameteJM and deeds were to be examined, and ttfH reward or ptmishment Hue was to awarded by the .Tudpe. Paul's rcfei i ni^Ml was apt, since he was standing in tbe where judicial ?entences were r/ont isjuna announced. "In righteousness." Every dflSH cision will be absolutely right and corre^Hn There will be no briber)*, no covering uH| The righteousness of the judgment is makes it terrible to the conscience. OH III. Tbe effect of Pant's address (vs. HsN 34). 33. "Some mocked." Perhaps t^BH Epicureans, who believed that this l^HH was ail. "Others said." etc. Whether flH riously, or merely a courteoos refusal ufl hear anything further ia uncertain. safiH 33, 34. "Paul departed." His effort - - -- /-I t_ _ L.J rot provM ax raccemui <is am nan ouii^^h He soon left Athens for Corinth. "Cert^HH men ? bettered." Several ?ccepte<! truth, but the name* of only two are J MB! I... II ha BH lioncu. I/IUQ^BUU, * Ill v vrw doubt that thia man waa one of the jndjBMBj of thia great court, but whether tbep^^H dent or otherwise we cannot tell. So fluflN on waa a judge in the Arenpagua wbo^H|^R not borne the office of chief corerno^HKB the city, and none bore the office of in thin court who was not of the reputation among the people for gence and exemplary conduct. ' DanM^HHH| For what ahe waa noted ia not hnown.^B^H ahe muat have been a woman of influen^HRj Greater New Tork In 1990. At a acaaion of the American AMOciilBfflK for the Advancement of Science, at ington. I). C., K. L. Cartholl read a iflHj in which h<* eatinntcd tlint Greater ImU York in 1910 will hare a |m;iu^IioHhB 4,OiJ.OOO and in 1920 a population of 6HHH 250. Other ertiruatea were: PhiladnHB^H in 1910. 1.607,400, and in 1930. 2,002MB Great .-r Chicago in 1910, 2..T74,'!29, tiO^^BSH 193C. 3,475,209. jMgBBSI B?r? Pnnl Rrrrrn't Old Paul Revere'* oM li>mo, one of iritcturei -?l pre-revn!utinnarv mtei^HSSHH n - i.L. i^BKW i?o-ion. nr. s oem imii^.ii iiv iuiiu no d*. Jr.. a h';i! wUtr dealer. IBRH [>oxoj? to iircrfivf it. The hooM^^ffl^HH Xortl? in heart of filled North lvi.1. .mil inn built i^ESjUE/R Revere buvinp il lour ytv.ra UU>^HhR^HH KeynoMx mil i-l-' other* to awi?i ^^BhHEER re?torinc I lie l?rfore liani^BnH^^H over to th<- enri" of Hum<* p-ttriotic a^HHRM Monny in 0*?l flflnBH Fmnk MrCli;|ix. wl?o liven on a^BEHKaKfl *hi<h wore liirins tlx* i-.il War. mm i rock oil hi* |?n?;**rty. four if T/ookout, W. Va.. and found jld army canteen which nonUi^HGHSBHH money. T1i?* name "(JcorRe fourth Ohio," wa* found n il'i HflnuBB Oar 3llnl?t?r neeamu The Department of Stat:*. ton, ha* Im?cii iiifonned tli.it the Diplomatic Corp* in^^^B^IHH|fl have resulted in eievaunjc Similiter StreriJton to the of that body. It i* inidcrntor^HBBH^^UH the lirnt lime ,\ii American ccivcd that distinction at the