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Si t ? tv/? v v LUIYH, Mi I THE J I By Prof, Wm. Henry Pe P | Author of the "The Stone-Cyttc ? I of Lisbon," Etc. CHAPTER XX. JOHN MASKS TELLS A SECRET. Midnight found Hammond in a fever of impatience. For nearly an hour he had been counting the minutes, and when the little bronze clock struck twelve he sprang up, saying: " 'Tis time! And with all his faults, John Marks was ever a man of his 'word to me." As he spoke he heard his fierce dogs bay loudly for a moment, and then as suddenly cease. "They are coming! I shall see my son! My Charles!" exclaimed Luke, more excited than he had been for many a long year. He was wicked, fierce and cruel, but be adored his son. Soon a tapping at the door and he sprang to open it He opened it with a jerk. A tall, handsome youth, of twenty-four years, leaped into his arms, crying: "Dear father!" "My boy! My darling boy!" ex< claimed Hammond, and then fattier and son were silent with emotion, as they gazed upon each other. Stephen entered in his sneaking way, and then came in Marks, 'with his long, sweeping stride. His clear, deep voice called for Hammond's attention. "You, Hammond," 6aid Marks, "now feel that joy that I hope to feel. You are embracing your only child." "Ha! John Marks, are you there?" eald Luke, extending his purse as If for reward. Marks put the offer aside. He eemed to spurn it. "Keep your gold, sir," said he, sternly. "I serv? for a higher reward than that. I have something now to live for. A hope. Its realization shall make John Marks a better man." "Earn it, then," 6aid Hammond, coldly; for the changed tone of Marks pleased him not at all. Then addressing Charles, he 6aid: "You look well, my son. Tou wrote that you were in ill health, and intended to try a voyage before the mast. You have stood it well." v "Henceforth a life on the sea shall be mine," said Charles. The little hell over the desk tinkled merrily. "Ah! what's that?" asked Charles. "We have a sick friend In the house," said Hammond; and he continued to Stephen: "Go, attend the call." Stephen grinned and hurried away. Considerable conversation upon various matters not pertinent to our story followed between father and son, during which Marks smoked his cigar in RiJpnr**' vet ns Hammond ever and anon glanced towards him, there was an expression on the dark features of Marks that made Hammond feel uneasy. 'Twas too soon to unfold all to Charles, jet haste was important. "It is late, my son," said Luke, at length, "and you must be tired. Suppose you retire to the apartment I have prepared for you." "But this mystery," said Charfes. "Mr. Marks has been talking mystery to me all day. And " "You shall soon know all, my boy. In the meantime I wish a little private conversation with Mr. Marks." "Ah! Then I'm off at once," said Charles. "But you have never asked a word after your handsome cousin, Kate," said Luke. Charles turned very red, and John Marks puffed at his cigar until it was ' aglow. ."Is she very handsome, father.'" "Very?and charming. But you shall see her to-morrow, my soil, and judge for yourself." "Time enough," said Charles, carelessly. "But I am more anxious to - hear about the mystery, father." "Yes, yes! you shall hear all about It, my son," said Hammond, lighting a lamp. "And now, my dear boy, follow me." "Good-night, Mr. Marks," said Charles, extending his hand to Marks. Marks grasped it warmly and the next moment was alone in the library. He laughed a low, dry laugh as the father and son departed, and muttered, as he lighted another cigar: "Now there'll be a blow-up! And I have that to tell Luke Hammond which will make him stare. If he plays me false about my son " His face grew darker, and his white teeth gleamed beneath his heavy mustache, as he said: "Luke Hammond shall lose his son, or his sou shall lose Luke Hammond. But I suspect." Hammond soon returned, and locking the door, said: "And now, John Marks, begin at the beginning." "Xo. Do you tell me about that 'sick -friend,'" said Marks. "By Jove! I will not open my sack until you do yours." "I am ready now to do it," said Luke; and then rapidly told of his two prisoners in the eastern wing. Marks smiled darkly as he listened. "Always a cunning dare-devil," said Marks. "But how did you deceive Henry El^iu's wife?" "I will tell you of that to-morrow," said Hammond. "Time flies?'tis nearly one, you see; and I wish to hear of Harriot Foss." "Ob, you'll bear enough of her." eaid Marks. "Well. Stephen aud I left here last night after or near midnight It was blowing a gale, and we had hard work to find a boat and crew to take us down the bay. At daylight we were on the bark Gleaner. You own her?don't you?" , "Yes?or rather it belongs .? Henry Big in's property." said J'.v^moud. _ Well." resumed ,Marl:s "83 soci! a; fss. " V-v-Vv. . . t.l J / \MMOND, || AISEK. _J1 ?a??OEUMI !?????AH LVW! VV \V VV I jck, Copyright 1S96, Q by Robi*t Bonneb'b Soju. g g (4Z2 rlght? TaervtdL) ij ^ 3G53POG3E IK ^ I got aboard I roused up Charles, who bad been on watch that night, and was then asleep in the forecastle, like any common tar. A prime lad 1s Charles. He must have inherited all his goodness from his mother?not from you. I gave him your letter, and from his surprise I saw at once that you were much mistaken in him." "How! What!" 4,Yes, your son Is a clear-heart. 1 mean, he has never done anything to fce ashamed of. We nave. First, I told him we must leave the bark. I spoke with the captain, and as Charles was a privileged character on board, he was allowed to go with me in my boat. At 12 o eiocu we lauueu xjtai the Battery, and whom should I see disguised as an old applewoman but our dangerous friend, Harriet Foss." "And why?what " "Wait! you are stammering," continued Marks. "I saw her, and knew her at sight. But she did not know me. I was disguised as a sailor, for I was wide awake. You see she must have had spies out last night; and they, I think, told her that during the storm a boat bad put off for the bark Gleaner. So she was on the watch." "On the watch for whom?for what?" asked Hammond. "For you, Luke Hammond. No doubt she imagined that a loving father would hasten to meet his son. Or. maybe, she thought you had suspected 1 XT/vrrr Vnnlf nr mot mp litri picociltc 1U i.TC?r iVia, VA * *-v, and would go to warn Charles. Anyway, she was near the boat when it landed, and came right down as If eager to sell apples. I saw that she recognized Charles and failed to know me. Evidently* she sought for some one who was not in the boat. Stephen secured a hack and we made for the next clothing 6tore, where we changed our garments wholly. We left the store from the rear, where another carriage took us up." "And why the precaution?" asked Luke. "Because the apple woman, that Is, Harriet Foss, had hired a hack, and I saw her following us," said Marks. "For a small sum the storekeeper procured wigs and false beards for us. "I had much trouble in persuading Charles to follow my advice; and only by telling him that his father's fortune and life were in danger could I have succeeded. We reached the Metropolitan Hotel, and took rooms under assumed names. Stephen acted as our servant, but unfortunately a servant of the hotel recognized him and greeted him with: 'Ha, Stephen! Is that you? Are you with Mr. Lube Hammond no more? When did you leave him?' and forty other questions the rascal rattled out, -while Stephen was near us. That instant I saw a porter prick up his ears and look sharply at us. I kept my eyes on bim and soon saw him slip away, after speaking privately with one of his fellows. Then I knew wo were watched. That Harriet Foss is a regular female Vldoeq! I was afraid to loo*o thfl hntol rim-rim* riflvlipht:. lest WP might be tracked. So at night we. first went to the theatre, where I hoped to find a chance to slip off. But I am sure two men kept their eyes on us." "Was Stephen with you?" asked Luke. "Yes;. I was afraid to let hitn stay. He has a weakness?he drinks whenever he can get a chance. Suppose Harriet Foss had got hold of my friend Stephen in his cups!" said Marks, with a whistle. "After the theatre we returned to the hotel?and by my life! the men I feared were there as socn as we were! Harriet Foss has as many spies as a despot. Just before midnight?about half-past 11?we pretended to retire, locked our doors and extinguished our lights. I saw nothing suspicious in the hall when I looked from my room, except a sleepy chambermaid dozing near a window. But that was enough for me. We made our exit by a rear door into another room, fortunately unoccupied. Out of that passeu iluu uuuiuci uj kwiugiug ,v>u me shutters outside, like thleve3 or burglars. It put me in mind of old times! Stephen and I "were old hands at such tricks, and as Charles was just from before the mast he was as active as a cat Well, we got away by the rear of the hotel and reached here. I think, unwatched. Now what are you going to do?' "You must earn your son, John Marks," said Luke. "That is, put an end to Harriet Foss." said Marks. "I'll think about that. But what was your plan to deceive her?" "To get some one to personate me," said Hammond; "to let Charles return to the hptel as secretly as possible, and to-morrow sutfer him to introduce Harriet Foss to the pretended Luke Hamao lite fClm nrill nnf fin/1 "ivuvi ao Alio idiuei. .'wc ?t 141 ?ivi u??\? her sister's husband, be deceived, and seek for her vengeance elsewhere." Marks shook his head, and said*. "You cannot deceive her. She has been told that, if you are not the man she seeks, you resemble him very much. She will seek for that resemblance, and not finding it in the fictitious father of Charles, will instantly suspect some trick. Besides, Charles will not consent to the deceit." "I will command him! I will tell him he must! to save his father from total ruin, if not from death," said Luke. "Well, if he consents he will not be able to do it so as to deceive Harriet Foss," said Marks. "And, by the way. I must tell you also that Charles will never marry Catharine Elgin. lie al ready loves." "Ah!" f?ald Hammond. "Yes. Aud he is younj;. enthusiastic, romantic, in fact," said .Mnrks. "lu time you misht cornmt j'-K, but now i ! he Is too honorable. You hav> made n ' great mlBtake In having him reared away from you." "1 have?I have," said Hammond. I " 'Tis the fault of my sister?of Nancy Harker. I will iell you that the mother of Charles, my second wife, died one year after I married her?died in giving him birth. I cared little for the mother, but I loved my boy. At that time, my sister, Nancy Harker, who had fled to America with me, and aided me in passing myself off as the genuine Luke Hammond, took charge of Charles, a mere infant, and I did not see him for three or four years. When I saw him again he was running about and playing with your son." "My son! Ah?go on," said Marks. "Your son was some two or three years older than mine, but being first cousins, they resembled each other very much. My sister persuaded me to have the lads educated in Europe?I think she desired to have them reared as what squeamish people call 'honorable. honest men.' " "Well, that was green in Nancy," said Marks. "Still she was always flisrhtv and took aueer notions. I am very glad now that she persuaded you to have the lads educated away from you. But what became of Harker, whom she married?" "Harker was killed in a duel, one month after my sister married him," said Luke. "And you have never seen Charles since he was three or four years old?" asked Marks. "Never," replied Hammond. "I became immersed in speculation for many years, and only heard from the lads by letters from Nancy and Charles. After a time I conceived the plan of marrying Charles to Catharine Elgin, and since then have thought more of my boy than ever." "And where is my soil now?" demanded Marks, eagerly. "I do not know," said Hammond. "What! are you trifling with me, j Hammond?" said Marks. "No. I am not. Nancy Harker knows where fie is," said i^use. Marks closed his eyes in deep thought for a few moments and then said: "Where has Nancy Harker been during these long years?" "Sometimes in America, sometimes in Europe. But never known as my sister, and never known out of this house as Nancy Harker," said Hammond. "Harriet Foss must have learned all this from Charles," said Marks. "No. My letters have always forbidden him to answer any questions about me or about himself," 6aid Hammond. "For the last four years he has been traveling in Europe and Asia." "'And my son?" said Marks. "Nancy says your son was not with him; nor have tbey been together for years," replied Hammond. "Charles would not recognize Nancy Harker now. for he has not seen her since he was a boy. Charles was reared by an English clergyman, to whom I have always sent funds and advice. Do you know I was afraid that terrible woman, Harriet Foss, might learn who he was, and take vengeance on my son. As for myself, I can defend myself. You 6hall learn more hereafter. And now tell me who my son loves, and how you found it out." "Why, Charles is an impulsive fellow," said Marks; "as unsuspecting as a giri, and just as talkative He looks twenty-four or six years of age at ona minute, and less than twenty the next But he has made a tremendous mistake." "A tremendous mistake!" said Hammond. "Yes. He has fallen desperately in love with a woman at least twenty years older than himself." "My life!" exclaimed Luke. "Who is she?' "A very handsome and fascinating I cai/J TWnrtc niiffinc flll'imislv ? " *- = - I "You know that when young men do take a passion for women older than themselves they go mad about it." "True! How unfortunate!" 6aid' Hammond. "But who is she? and J where did he meet her'/" "He met her in England," said , Marks. "She was known as Madame Burr, a rich widow. Charles told me he adored her, and I think he does. I've seen her." "Ah?you have seen her?" "Yes; and she is one of the most | charming women in America," said ] Marks. "In America! Is 6he in America?" I "Yes?ahe is now in New York," said Marks. To be continued. The Peach Crop. I ' ^ - _ i-t._ II. fi ? U. "several years ago uie iuwure ui we Delaware peach crop used to mean an awful lot to us," said a wholesale produce merchant. "It meant practically that our early supply was cut off, for Maryland was not then competing so much with Delaware, and, anyway, the failure of oue crop would virtually mean the failure of the other, j both being very mucb in the same belt. Conditions are such now that we can j get aloug very well without the Dela-: ware crop, since Georgia has come to ' th#> front as a peach-raising State, and the Georgia peaches Inst pretty well ' up to the time the Jersey shipments j commence. Delaware, according to statistics compiled last year, now oc- [ [ cupics fourth place in the peach-growing States of the East Georgia iB j first, with 7,000,000 fruit-bearing trees; i Maryland is next, with 4.015,000 trees;1 New Jersey next, with 2,700,000 and ! Delaware Is fourth, with 2,400,000."? j Philadelphia Record. " Volcunltli." This is the latest fashionable disease. The atmosphere is charged with the ' dust from West India eruptions; the , sulphurous particles get in the lungs ' and affect the blood. The symptoms | are extreme lassitude, constant drowsi- I no? mifi indisnositiou. The onlv rem- I edy thus far indicated by leading physicians, is change of air, an immediate departure for Europe, the country or the seaside. I have known the same disease to prevail in other years, when there was no volcanic eruptions, but then it was called spring fever.?New York Town Topics. Love's young dream has often been j transformed into a nightmare by $ hatch of biscuits. A. SERMON FOR SUNDAY j 6 AN INTERESTING DISCOURSE EY t j DR. LYMAN A3B0TT. j t Subject: Th? Secret of Christianity?Not f Fine Window* an?l Music. But Making l the World Wi?er and Better?A Chris- j tian's Dnty Sommed Up in One taw. p I New York City.?At the Church of the 1 Pilgrims. Brooklyn. Dr. Lyman Abbott < preached Sundav morning on "The Serret ' i of Christianity." He took for his t^ext J j Luke ii: 11: "Unto you is norn, cms r.aj, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord." and said: j In the Anelo-Saxon version of the >'ew ! Testament the word "Saviour" is ren| dered for the Angio-%xon word "helper." | You know also that the word "Christ" is , I not. a proner name. but. a title equivalent j to "The Messiah"?the Lord. I Every great movement has at the hearf, ' of it some secret, which if we can discover 1 1 it. will disclose to us the secret of that ] j great movement. What is the secret at ' j tjie heart of Christianity, which has made , it the great power that it is? In asking ' j you to consider this nuestion you will un- .! j derstand, of course, that I am not under- 1 I taking in half an hour to answer the entire I question; I am only going to try in that ' i half hour to indicate the essence of Chrisj tianitv-"-the secret of its vitality. The I Jewish neople were in more than one sense J ! "a peculiar peonle." Among other things ! It-- a.:, f * in inis: j.nai iticir mtcs .?*? ?? ... ward the future. All other nations look ' backward for their golden ape. hut these "peculiar people" looked forward for theirs. I They believed that a time wag comine , j when there would he peace instead of war j and for themselves prosperity instead of i universal povertv. They believed that this ' I great time would come through their own ' nation and that Jerusalem would become ' the ho'v city and the mistress.of the world. ; And their nrophets even pointed forward ; to this divine consolation, and they indi- j cated that it would come throurh some deI liverer. Sometimes they reearded the na- j i tion itself as that deliverer: sometimes a 1 I succession of nrophets: sometimes sinele 1 j prophet; sometimes a single man. as a king j c prince. as a teacher, as a priest, as a i "Man of Sorrows, and acquainted with 1 grief." However different of incongruous ' or inconsistent those prophesies might be, they pointed the minds of the neople forward to a ereat deliverv and delivered. So j the shepherds perfectly well understood the angels when they said: "The deliverer . has come: the helper is here. Yon will find Him cradled in the manger." When Jesus beean His ministry His first sermon, of ' which we have a jrecord. wa<? Breached in ' I the synagogue at iNazarem. ne weni into I- the svnagogue, a roll was open before Him and H? read one of the prophecies of the ; great deh'verer who was coming and then said: "This dav is this Scrinture fulfilled in your ears. I have come. I am '.hat deliverer." Having begun His minish-y in this ' way He went out to be a hel^ r and fed the hungry, taught the ignorant and healed the sick and di?nensed the gospel of hope. Once John the "Baptist, perplexed to know 1 if this was the Messiah, for things went on ] much the sam* and no great thing seemed to be ac<-omnli?hed. sent Him a message saying: "4rt Thou the Messiah?" and Christ said to the messengers. "Wait here. ! see what you will ?ee. and then go and tell your master." The waited and saw, and th^n Christ told them: "Go your way and tell John what things ve have seen and heard: how that the blind M>e. the lame 1 walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead arp raised, to the poor the gospel is "reached." No man can undertake to help hie fellow j men really sincerely, on a large scale, without coming in contact with men who do I not want the help, those who are making something out of the misfortunes of their fellow mpn. Christ oame in contact with such, and thev leagued themselves together i to destrr.v Him. He was arrested and i brought before the Jewish t.rbunal and ' | asked, "Are lou the Messiah?" And un- | I der a solemn oath He said. "I am." Pilate ; ! said. "Are You a king?" He said. "I am." To both the Jewish tribunal and the Roj man He said. "I am," and for that He waa condemned to die and for it He died. When Hp died the hopes of His disciples i dissipated. They said. "We thought He was to he the preat deliverer, hut evidently He was not." Rumors nf His ascension began to circulate, and. little by little they r became convinced, and then they said. "Ah. He is the deliverer, after al'." If you will turn to the Book of Acts and read one of the sermon's there you will see that was the burden of all the apostolic ministry. No new theo1oprv. ethic or law. Their messages wpre all the same: "The deliverer is come. He is here: the deliverance baa be- , gun. , In the first century rule was by abso!bte j despotism. Gradually government has been i transformed, until now it is completely es- i tablished. and there is no government in ] Europe west of Russia that does not at ] least recognize the fact that government is j not for the government, but for the gov- , erned. All industry was servile. Half the , | Roman population were slaves, and the ] I other half were on the edge of f-imine and ; | only kept alive by the krgess of others. ] j Wherever Christianity has gone the chain l has dropped from the slave and labor has < heen emancipated. There were no schools < I in Rome and none among the Jews, except y I those connected with the synagogue, but ^ wherever Christianity has gone it has es- ^ I tablished schools and wealth has been dif- f [ fused among the people. This is called an i i ape of concentrated wealth. That is not so. ? ! Thpre neveY* was an art* and that-, is Pane cially true of America, when wealth was ! more distributed. Th*re .".re charities | everywhere. The church has also changed the conception of punishment, so that punishment has become reformatory. The object of the old paean religion was. not to heln man; it was to appease the wrath of God or to purchase the favor of a corruptible God. Christianity has altered all that with various degrees of success. The church of Christ is engaged in the worlc of lifting the burdens of men. in inspiring them with couraee and nobler purno*es. Christianity is not a mere sum of doctrines." a new method of worship or a new law of morals. It is a great historical movement. Flowing down through the centuries with ' ever widening and decosning current, blessing every land it has touched and carrving with it some measure of helpfulness, Christianity has done, through the centuries, what Christ did in those four short yearsit has helped the helpless, fed the hungry, taught the ignorant, given courage to the despairing and biOught glad tidings to the Door. The secret of Christianity, then, is helpfulness. This it is that distinguishes the theology of the Christian religion from the theology of all other religions. It is a new doctrine respecting God?not absolutely so. but still new contrasted with the ' teachings of other religions. Everywhere ( on the globe men believe in the aid of God and in the power of God. The distinction between the Jewish religion and Paganism was not that one called God Jehovah and the other Baal. It wa3 that one worshiped justice and the other j power. The message of the Pagan religion y was of an omnipotent power back of the affairs of nature and life. The message of .Tn/lnicm Mno fUn#- ?a o rirrhfpmia and demands righteousnes of His children. Still we need to understand that God expects righteousness from us, and nothing a less will satisfy Him. In later .tiulaism 't* there came the greater message. No longer God as a powerful, just God. but God as n j God who will help you to he righteous. The message of the later prophet was mercy. Mercv. go back to Homer, Confucius. Seneca. Marcus Aurelius; do you find {j it there? No. Some time ago I made that statement and a professor said to me: ^ "Are you quite sure of that?" I said: "J am not sure, but you are a student of the ? Orient and T wisn yfu would look it up and tell me if T am wrontr." Three weeks , after J received a letter, saying: "The only revelation of the mercv of God in the old Hindoo religion is this: '0. Verui:a, art To-day in my country home they are suffering from drought, and vet. if 1 were to go on the hillside and run a tube down o little A way into the ground, I should strike a ir spring ftill of water. So God is lull of c< mercy. This is the revelation of the New ai testament, and whatever your troubles, sorrows, sins, you can go to Him and fini) His loving kindness and tender mercy. You don't find that in any other religion. f! thou not also merciful?'" Put that along- \) Bide "what can separate man from the love b< of Hod." The distinct characteristic ot 'f Christianity is '.his mercifulness of God. js A man falls into a pit and cannot pet out. oi p~ocpnt!y Confucian comes along and says, A "My dear fellotv, 1 r.m sorry yon have fa I It en down there. If you could only get * >ut Confucius would show you how to walk J i* that you would keep out." Then a Brah- i nin sees him and says, "I am sorry, but f here is no help for you; you never can get F rnt. The only chance for you is to tall nto an eternal sleep and forget your mis>rv." Next comes a Mohammedan, who invs. "I am so sorry to see you there, but j l^llah is just, and you deserve it. He is | iot merciful, and vou will never get out." | Last comes a Christian, who says, "J my- I ielf have been down there. I tumbled down I ;here once. I know just how you can get j >ut." And he gets a rope and puils the |* nan out of the hole and puts his feet upon i rock. That is the difference between the Christian and the paean religions. The Christian religion is the only religion in the world that offers to help men out of :he burden of their sins and the consciences of t'neir misery. But, 0. the pity >f it. men don't want, it. Napoleon said, 'Scratch a Russian, and you will tind a Tartar."' Scratch a Christian and you will ind a pagan. It seems to me that ChrisJan congregations are full of paganism. I receive letters every week from men and Yom^n who never vet have learned that if they have made a blunder or committed a ?in. and perhaps involved others in peril because of their mistake. God can take care jf it all. and they can trust Him to help, f only they will turn from their evil ways. Helpfulness is the secret of Christian theDlogv. So it is the secret of our Christian ritual. It is at the heart of all worship. We come to church, not driven by fear or compelled by custom, and not by conviction. Why? Not to be entertained by an unusing lecture. Then, why? At the heart jf it all is this: Some sense of the truth of that message that God is love and that, somehow' or other, we are dependent on His love and have had something from His love, and we want to give Him someHiin<T in return. I do not sav that is true jf all, but still if it were not for the sense of the love of God and the desire to be thankful the church would close its doors and the chimes cease to riner. What is ^he Roman Catholic service? First confession find then absolution. The same tiling of J the Episcopal service, and of the C'ongre- < Rational. We don't go into the confession* < al; we don't stand ud. as a priest pro- < nounces an absolution, but D. L. Moody as i truly preached absolution as anv Oatho'.ic j i priest or Episcopalian rector. Jf you want ' ? to know what men believe, don't go to the . 1 creeds or catechism. Go to the hymn 1 books. They express our faith anu real ex- | i perience; they are our creed, sung over j < and over and over again. And what does ' < the hymn book say? i "Love divine, all love excelling." "Thanks . i be to God who giveth us the victory." < Imagine, this Sabbath morning, a citizen of Mars cominz down and entering differ- j 1 ent churches. He would go into a Catholic j < church and see the altar and the candles ! 1 and the robed priest and the incense, and < he would say, "What are you doing here?" j 1 The answer would be: "We are here to ! worship the Lamb who hath.redeemed us." < I In the Episcopal church he would see no 1 candles and incense, and would again ask , < ??iflo4lAn TVio f?nawor? wnnlH VlP! ilI have come to praise the Lord Christ, who , ? hath redeemed us." In the Congregation- j * a], Baptist or Presbyterian church he would j see no altar or candles or vested priests, i f "What are yon doing here?" he asks, and I J the reply is: "We have come here to sing I ] the praise of the Man of God who hath re- j j deemed us." And in the Quaker meeting j house he would see no choir or preacher 01 t service and hear no singing, but they j ' would all be sitting sti" dning nothing?ab- j 1 solutely nothing. .And their reply to the i ?ame question would be: "We are giving our J nraise to Christ, who hatb redeemed us by j < His blood. We cannot find any utterance j 1 which will express our gratitude, and we | 1 are simplv speaking in the silence of our j < iiearts." He would go back and say: "They j < were all drawn together by a sense oj j 1 God's Jove that had given His Son for theii j < -1L. | t?nA )V,0| J J redemption. ji js me i??c ui v*wu w.?. , makes us one, and only that. I was once . in a Catholic church in Paris and after j watching the service for a time I walked around behind the altar and found there a I service of deaf and dumb people. The ser- | irice was the same at heart; the love of God 1 inspiring the thanks of men. I remember an old English divine begin nin? his sermon: "T can do all things " ind then saving. ''That I denv. But let ue see, what is this: 'through Him that j strengthened me.' Ah, that is anothei j :hing; that I can do." It was a quaint way I Df putting it, but it made the text stick in j mv mind, and I have never forgotten it j This is the secret of the power of Christian- | itv. Yon will find men say: "Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy J >trength," is the summary of Christianity, j That is a jnistake. Christ gave that ae the summary of the Jewish law. When \sked, "What is the chief end of the Jew- j sh law?" He said, "Ihou shalt love the I Lord thy God * * * and thy neighbor as iivself," but when He was about to die He eft as a legacy to His disciples this: "A lew commandment give I unto you; that ire love one^ another as I have loved you." flow did He love u?Y tie laid aown ms ife for us. That is Christianity. Judiasm t s justice; Christianity is sacrifice. What ^ nakes a Christian nation? Not a creed written in a constitution, not an estab- j ished church, an orean or music. What vill make America a Christian nation? We C ia\*e about us denendent and inferior races. e Loving our neighbor and the Filipino and ' ;he necTo and making them men?nothing c >lse will make ns a Christian nation. And 'f ,vhat makes a Christian church? Not fine windows and music, but makine the world t viser and better. What would Christ do or your employes and servants? Helpful- o less and service is Christianity; the heart c tnd the centre and circumference of it. c Ml Christian theology is summed up in: t 'Cod so loved the world that He gave His >nly begotten Son." and all Christian ritual C n the Psalm: "Blessing and honor and i< rlory and power to Him that sitteth upon a he throne and that hath redeemed us." c yi Christian nower is summed uo in: "] n an do all things through Him that n trengthened me." and all Christian duty is c ummed up in the one law: "Love oue an- ! t, ither as I have loved you." > I y Ol) an Neceinary a? Steam. .Worry kills ten persons where work kills [ tne. It is friction, not motion, which vears out machinery, whether it be in the i c phere of animate or of inanimate nature. ? Co'avoid or to diminish friction is to in- | xease and improve the efficiency of the 1 jj iest machine that is set to any good work. )il on the running gear is quite as imporant as steam in the boiler, whether it be in a railway locomotive or on the brain hat directs or performs work for God and 1 or God's dear ones. It is in view of this h ruth that Cardinal Newman says, "Not G nan's manifold labors, but his manifold G ares, hinder the presence of God " The ti nachinery which God has given man to o ise in His service is sufficient under God n or whatever He would have that man do. ^ ^he cares with which man needlessly bur G ens himself ar<? the retarding and wasteful ti riction with which man lessens his power is or good and which tend neither to man's ci ooa nor to God's glory. The oil of restful o ave in God is the needed aid of man's si ihysical, mental and spiritual machinery. V ;et us, then, keep our soul's machinerv tl ell oiled. b< Better and Better Before U*. God'3 best gifts are always before us, ever behind. Pleasures of memory are jj. ometimes uengiurui, dui pleasures 01 nui>e 0: re ever yet richer and brighter, especially 0 the eye and thought of faith. Says one f God's dear ones, referring to a fresh R Jessing from (?od: "This sudden coming of long expected blessing is the sweetest c; hing that ever came into my life. How oocf God is, and how tenderly He leads j, s! He changes always a great good into a reater. I have been happy all along, but c( ow (since this experience) my heart keeps nging: )? 'Best. peace, and life, the flowers of fade- li less bloom, b The Saviour gives us not beyond the tomb, But here and now, on earth, some glimpse is given Of joys winch wait us through the gates of heaven.'" ind thus it ever is in youth, in maturity, G< 1 age and yet beyond?the best is yet to :>me. Lcf us "ook forward and upward- ^ ud ever hope and trust and praise. 'r co The CoodneiH of God. ,c' Which of us dares to say that he, in od's sight, deserves more than he gets, riiieh of lis, tlien, can say that Uod is rMtrwl ffivo mnra thnn II* flnPR. . he truth taught all through the Gospei to throw ourselves not upon the justice ? : God, but upon His mercy, His goodness. P? nd coodness is free. Jt is spontaneous. fu , flows from (JoJ.?The Kev. Dr. Alsop. tfl ' : . . * ? * i [BE RELWIOCS LIFE J IEADINC -FOR THE QUIET HOUR. WrltN Inc. SOUL INVITeS IfSbLr. j I Poem: Thins;* That Abide ? Reasoning With One 'Who riionght Elutelf Un- , worthy to Connect Rlmielf With the Church Me Regularly Attended. In the bitter waves of woe, Beaten and tossed about By the sullen winds that blow From the desolate shores of doubt. When the anchors that faith had cast Are dragging in the gale, I am auietly holding fast To the thiings that cannot fail I know that right is right, That it is not good to lie j That love is better than spite. And a neighbor than a spy. I know that passion needs ?. TRe leash of sober mind: I know that generous deeds Some reward will find; That the rulers must obey, That the givers shall increase; That duty lights the way For the beautiful feet of peace. And fierce though the fiends may^fight, ' And long though the angels hide, | I know that truth and rifrbt - Have the universe on their side; And that somewhere beyond the stars Is a love that is better than fate. When the night unlocks her bars, I shall see Him and I will wait. ?Washington Gladden. How to Deal 'With Doubt*. Among the mistaken ideas in the commulity as to the significance of the act of :onnecting one's self with a Christian :hurch is the thought that it indicates that me has made progress in character and veJl doing, and desires to testify to that act before his fellows. Of course this is i very different doubt from the doubt as :o whether one has been "horn again," hut' ;his is quite as real a question and almost is common as the other. Underneath this :rror there is, of course, a mistaken view )f the nature and object of the church itself, but how to correct this mistaken view nust be decided differently in different :ases. A Christian worker who had for some - 1 i. t V* .1 J 1 t 3 ,IIiic uetrn iiuseiii/ irom nis oia nome iouna in returning to it that a near neighbor of lis had just connected himself with the :hurch. Glad to learn this fact he went to ;hat neighbor and said to him heartily: "I'm very glad to know that you have taken the step of connecting yourself with ;he church, and I want to congratulate you >n it.(' _ To his surprise the new communicant said, with a show of modesty and yet with i somewhat confident air: "Well, I thought the matter over for some time before taking that step. I know ['m not as good as I ought to be, but I'm setter than the average, so I decided to loin the church." His surprised friend thought it not best :o say anything more in the line of congratllation. Nor did he think that the church fvas to be particularly congratulated on its lew member. Later on he found that other nen than that neighbor had that..standard jf fitness for church membership. Some ire modest in their doubtine, honestly ;hinking themselves unworthy to be :ounted with the Christian host. Others lesire to live as well as they can outside of -T. _ _1 1_ /Jl * ? V " 3 J 1 I ;ne caurcn ioiu wiidoui oeing juagea oy &urch standards of conduct. Yet others igain, iike the person instanced, have only i doubt as to their relative goodness, and >ettle it by themselves in a self-confident nood. A churchgoer, who desired to be right ind to do right, when urged to connect limself with the church, expressed the rear that he was not good enough. This leemingly was bis sincere feeling. For >ears he waited outside in the. hope that le would grow better. Appeals from his riands for another course were of no avail, rhen he was taken seriously ill, and he yas brought to face death. As he prayed or recovery, and as he was prayed for, he ;eemed to have a different view of Christ, md when he was restored to health he was dad to think of his Saviour to whom he >ught to show gratitude. When his pastor irged him to come into the church, as one vho desired to evidence his thankfulness md trust, he came forward as a loving, rusting follower of Christ. It were better . :o come just as he was than to wait outlide indefinitely to grow better. A man of upright walk in life persistentv refrained from connecting himself with rusted Christ as his Saviour, and that he rould shew to the world that he was doing his without being a member of any church, kt this a friend said to him: "Do you expect Christ to save you?" "-Assuredly I do." "Yet you persist in refusing to confess Christ before men, as He has particularly njoined it noon you to do. Is that fair? fesus savs, 'Every one therefore who shall onfess Me before men, him will I also coneas before My Father who is in heaven.' iret you say you are not willing to be with ho?e who confess Christ before men." "Oh! I am readv to be known as a lover if Christ, but I don't want to be in the hurch where men claim to be better than ither men. I will try to be as good as hev are without saying so." "You apparently mistake the idea of Christ's church, to besiin with. The church 3 not an exhibition hall, where good men nd women show themselves off. The hurch is a hospital where are those who eed and want to be saved by Christ. Yet, s I understand you, you ar<: willing to be ounted as one wh.o needs the hospital or he Grc?t. Physician, but vou want to stand ff outside and prove that you can cure ourself. Is that making an honest show?" "I dor.'t want to have it look that way." "I shouldn't think you would." So another man concluded to join the hurch?not because he thought he was as ood as the average, but because he felt har. he needed hospital treatment as much s the average church member.?The Sun* ay-School Times. xnc xwo bo?pcif. Two gospels lie side by side in the New 'estament. There is the gospel of being elped, and the gospel of being helpful, rood tidings of God's mercy upon us, rod's salvation brought to us, and good idingy of how we can 6how mercy unto thcrs, and bring the message of salvation ear to thorn. Hcside the parable of the 'rodigal Son stands the parable of the Jood Samaritan. Beside the blessed inviitions stand the beatitudes cn service. It i all one gospel of Jesus Christ, but it omes as two messages unto us. We have nlv half the joy and blessing if we stop hort after hearing the first glad word. Ve have the full message when we hear ] lie lips that whispered Come unto Me" i lying also "Go ye' into all the world. t Horn ttlagtr. God did not design the church to be a ' lere lying-in hospital, but a recruiting < ffiee for God's soldiers. 1 The Great Physician never lacks paen^e. and lie knows that the bitterest 1 icdicir.c often cures the Quickest. 1 Christ spnke no special beatitudes to the i in tains of industry. The bright preacher does not always sake the shilling church. The money seeking church is not con?rncd with "man-saving. ^f.in n>>nr?rtf /In irifKftllf n I Vlfi miiaf ' live a backbone, but that is only a part of ( im. Jf he is all backbone we should call 1 im a post; with 110 backbone, a jelly fish. ' { 1 The Antartic Expedition. ; According to a cablegram from Captain 1 >lbeek, of the Morning, the relief ship of i e Discovery, now ice-bound in the Ant- 1 ctic, the trans-shipment of provisions I om his ship to the Discovery nad to be nducted on sledges over eight miles of e, it not being possible to bring the ships ;arer together than this. The unexpected ] ilure of the provisions on board the Dis- ] very has not yet been explained, but it , clear that the latter will require still an- ^ ner supply in oruer tu iuuijj4cic mc I hich she set out to accomplish. This will ( obablv require $50,000 or $60,000 more 1 !an has been allowed for the expenses of ( e expedition. ( < r THE SUNDAY SCHOOL || - ?. . . p^aii r*r\mmcwtc *^SBm liN I L4NA I IUNAL LC03VIV wwmn>b?lw FOR JUNE 21. * ?ubfect: Pnnl's Charge to Timothy. 2 "Mm, , . y.'jwi HI., 14 to 1t? 8?Golden Text, 3 Tim, lv., 8?SI?>inory Vef?e?, 14-16?Com- %'% meutary on the Dtiy'a Leison. v '7j$i Timothy exhorted to remain firm in the .jS? Scriptures (vs. 14-17). 14. "But abide thou." In the first part of the chapter tbe - #0 apostle has been speaking of the terrible. \ 30 apostasy that was to take place both in .-'m;? practice and in doctrine, and now he warn* Timothv against this and urges him to re- | mam nrm in ni8 eariy inuiuug m ? "" -'.'SSS Scriptures. "Things?learned." He had ^ learned them not only from his grand- . mother Lois and mother Eunice, but from ' Paul, through long companionship with him. t 15. "From a babe." From his infancy,! or the period of his earliest recollection. ' ' It is impossible to begin too early to teach ^ the children the truths of God's word. v "The holy Scriptures." That is, the Old Testament, for the New Testament wa* Uy not then written. "Wise." Wise in seekins: and obtaining salvation and in leading ,?; others to obtain it. "Through faith," etc. $& ' The O'd Testament Scriptures, which Timothy learned in hia godly home, by ?t? t.voes, history, prophecy and symbols^ 'v?.u pointed to Christ. The way of salvation by the Scriptures, for Timothy and all - gt. men, is faith in the Saviour whom the yfo Scriptures reveal. 16. "By inspiration." The reference |j here is to the Old Testament Scriptures. The proofs are found in its history, mira- ~*l t ies, prophecy, diversity with unity, preservation and its effects. "Doctrine. The truths and precepts of revealed religion. To teach the will of God. and to point ont Jesus Christ till He should come. All the fcreat and important doctrines of "religion , , necessary to be known in order to salvation are there taught, and that more clearly and fully than elsewhere, and with an au- , thority and influence to be found in no V.ffajjn other writings. "For reproof." 'Here meaning not only the rebuke of conduct, but also the refuation of error. "Correction." Correcting false notions and mistaken views; amendment in the deport- ^ ment. "Instruction in righteousness. Training, or building op. in tms principle. 17. "Man of God." The Christian minister. Timothy, as pastor in Ephesus, ?pecially meant. It means, also, all person* "w* who are "zealous of good works" "May . : ' be' perfect." May possess a gill-orbed, symmetrical Christian character (Eph. 4: . 13; James 1: 4; Col. 4: 12). "Thoroughly ''Vi'furnished.". Completely equipped /':v part of the Christian life, and for.-cveiy >> kind of Christian service (2 Tim. 2:.21). Paul's final charge (vs. 1-5). 1. "Lcharge thee." This is my dying request. '^Before.' God." This charge is put in a most solemn ': ' form. God and Christ were looking at J&J&L him. The quick and the dead." The idea 1 is tint Christ would be alike the Judge df . 1 all who were alive wheh He should come ... ] and of all who had died. "At His appearinc." When Christ comes the second time jjwj, He will judge the world and then entet^f^afr upon His completed kinedom, in which HjiT ^ people snau reijrn witn mm. / . . 2. "Preach the word." Proclaim, as a . ; :"Jnj herald, the glad tidings of salvation ab di?closed in the word of God. "Be instant." 'I Be constantly on duty; be urgent. "In L' seafcon, out of season." It is not meant that the urgency should be rude, or in any wise unfitting as to time and circumstance. Paul was alwavs courter-is: he timed and suited his words most wisely. "Reprove." - yl Or convince; show them their errors. "Re- , vj buke." Show them their sine. "Exhort." J Appeal to men. Show the truth as opposed ^ to their error, the riqht as opnosed to ' UW their sin. "Long suffering." Have patience and perseverance, for the work of bringing men to God is sometimes slowand.. discouraging. "Doctrine?teaching." The word doctrine here, and in other places in :r-?j the New Testament, does not mean a creed, but teaching the truth. 3. "Time will come." In the third and $[ fourth verses thn necessity is shown fot .. Ssfc this faithful ministry. It is one that baa .'^Bf always been in force, since human nature i? the same in all ages. "Not endure." They will not listen to healthful teaching mac IS caiciia IC'l 10 ICUU iue IIUUI an ay ; jjf;j from ein to holiness, but they procure A teachers who will flatter them while in ,f their'sins and carnal pleasures. "Itching 1 ears." It is the listeners who haye s-'i itching ears?ears which desire to 'heaij some pleasing thing, with no reference to . : ^ their vices. 4, 5. "Turn away." Because sound, and salutary teaching about their own errors - % and sins is abasing to the pride of men it ' ? will not be endured. Yet thtir.moral natures demand some opiate; hence they will resort to various so-called teachers in order to obtain rules of life that suit their native y tastes. "Watch." Be vigilant against error and against sin, and faithfuiin the performance of duty. "Endure afflictions." This verse sounds like a raview of Paul's life. He is charging Timothy to follow on in his footsteps. "Evangelist." Much the same as a preacher or missionary. In the \ apostolic age persons recognized as evangelists seem to have occupied a position be- , ; tween apostles and pastors, and to have stood in* a certain relation to the former with regard to the diffusion of the gospel and the planting of churches. "Full proof." ~..y: Leave nothing undone that it is possible iV to do for God. v'. i Paul's triumphal anticipation of martyr- . I dom (vs. 6-8). 0. "Ready to be offered." " "'i/, "I am already being offered."?R. V. The . I allusion here is to the custom which pre- i vailed among the heathen of pouring wine fl and oil on the head of a victim when it <a was about to be offered in sacrifice. The 1 apostle was in the condition of the victim 1 on whose head the wine and oil' had been ( already poured, and which was jupt about to be a sacrifice; it i8 that his death was about to occur. Probably there werq ' events occurring in Rome which made it morally certain that though he had once been acquitted he could not now escape. "Departure." The verb from which the noun translated "departure" is derived means in Greek to loosen again; to undo. . It is applied to the act of loosing or casting ^ off the fastenings of a ship preparatory to -fjm a departure. 7, 8. "The good fight.". Against Satan, sin and error. The'enemies and the armor are described in.'Epb. 6: 11-17. "Finished." Most men in his position would have * thought the greatest struggle just before them, but Paul counted death as nothing. "My course." He compares his Christian life to a race which is finished now that be sees the goal so near him. "Kept the faith." The truth of the gospel. Paul had _ not turned aside on any account,^or im bibed a single error. "A crown. won in the cause of righteousness. It was not the crown of ambition, or a crarland won in * the struggle for worldly distinction. Sep Tas. 1: 12: 1 Pet. 5: 4. "At that day." The day of judgment; the morning of the . veaurrsction. r tv FUlplnoi at the World'* fair. * j One of the exhibits at the St. Louis Ex- i position will be a Philippine colony, which f will consist of upward of 1000 persons, - f, showing every character of the life which ex- I ists in the islands, including native manu- ^ factures. mechanical and agricultural pursuits. This colony will be reproduced as it sxists on the native soil, and to make it Dsneeially realistic homes of the peasantry evH! be "transported from the Philippines :o the fair grounds and re-erected for habitation by the natives throughout the six months' duration of the exposition. A Laboratory Comet. Two experiments at Cornell University ecentiy produced a fairlv accurate imita;ion of a comet's tail by using the pressure )f light on extremely minute particles. A 1 jowuer consisting of emery and the spores I n puff-balls was put into a tube from r?J ivhich the air was exhausted as completely is possible. Then the rays from an arc ' ight were conccntratcd on the powder, tnd the lighter articles seemed to be oiown out, as if the light repelled them, which. according to the astronomers, is ' :he wav in which the sun actually produces ,he tail of a comet. A Boat on Wheela. , The Protector differs chiefly from the ^ FTrtllanH anH nthpr tvnea nf submarine soats in being able to run alone on wheels ^ jpon the floor of the ocean. Traveling on the bottom is declared to be the most sim- Kg >le, safe ar.d reliable method known to un- JB 3er-water navigation. There are two wheels fitted to the keel?one in advance )f the other. They are three feet in diam:ter with uine-inol? ;