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If LUKE II THE ft UMBBVBBBBOBnHBnHBKBni 11 By Prof. Wrti. Henry Pe S | Author of the "The Stone-Cuttei II of Lisbon," Etc. CHAPTER XXIX 3 Continued. j "Will this persuade you?" said Hammond, showing a well filled purse. All- 3 day shook his head. There were too many witnesses. "Since gold fails," said Hammond, i "will this persuade you, Tom Allday?" * Hammond drew a pistol and cocking ? It levelled it right between Allday's i eyes. The cowardly wretch trembled, a"hdhis knees bent under him. All fear of the future -fled before the imminent pern ui tue prcseuu "To 6ave?to save my life I must!" ( he stammered. * Hammond was enraged at this unex- 1 pected hesitation, and slapping All- J day's face smartly he cried: * "Begin! We are wasting time!" At that moment John Marks entered ' the crimson chamber, and after him 1 came Charles Hummond. "My son! In New York!" exclaimed 1 Hammond, starting back. "John * Marks, you are a traitor." 1 He raised his pistol, for he was des* s perate, when Charles sprang before 1 the weapon, exclaiming: 1 "Wait! Let John Marks speak!" ' "I told you," said Marks, in a clear, i ttrone voice, "that Harriet Foss had S ceased to exist. In one sense she did; for at 12 o'clock to-day she became the -wife of this young man." "The wife of my son!" cried Hamanond, staring wildly. "My wife," said Charles boldly. "This morning I learned that Mme. Burr, the woman I loved, was in town. I eluded the vigilance of Mr. Marks and Bought her. I found her at the Astor House. I did not believe what you had aid against her character. I asked tier to become my wife. She is my Wife." "Infatuated fool!" cried Hammond. "I will disinherit you!" Charles smiled scornfully and said: ' "I am rich in my wife. Behold her!" !As he spoke a lady of splendid figure, trat deeply veiled, entered the'crimson chamber from the ante-room, where, *ui men, sue naa remained^ aner 101- ( lowing Marks so far. "I was Harriet Foss!" said she, unfiling and displaying a most lovely iace, upon which the passage of more than forty years had left no disfiguring marks. "Ah! my heart!" shrieked Nancy Harker, sinking upon her knees In terror. Hammond was too much aghast to ?peak. Everything around him seemed reeling. He staggered back until the I' iwrali upheld him. "And my promise is redeemed," said John Marks esultingly. "For I show you the body of Harriet ^oss." "You come for vengeance, Harriet Foss!" said Hammond, recovering and matching for a chance to escape, and to avenge, too. "My husband," said Harriet, placing her hand in that of Charles, "has per- 1 suaded me to leave my sister's wrongs to the justice of heaven. I firmly believe you and your sister murdered ( my sister, but I have not sought ven- 1 geance, as you have been led to sup- t pose. Mr. Marks has deceived you for ( purposes of his own. It is at bis ear- * nest desire that I am here. I believe Mr. Marks has depicted me to you as ^ a tigress. He has told you I even dis- 3 guised myself in this city to trace you out. I have done nothing of tie kind. 1 Mr. Marks had his reasons for deceiving you. I met him on the steamer in t coming to this country. He recognized me first. He had learned :2 England 5 that I loved Cbarles and that Charles < loved me. He built a plot upon that knowledge. He knew Charles was to i marry me after obtaining the consent f of his father. He suspected you to be ( Boland Dunn before he came to New 1 Sork; I did not." "Ah! you did not?" said Hammond. 1 "I did not," continued.Harriet. "I : Aid not suspect tbat Cbarles was the ; eon of Roland Dunn when I married 1 him. Charles came to me and be- i bought me to marry him. It is true I am much older than he, but he loves ] me and I love him. He is my hus- ( iband; I shall be his devoted wife. As to wealth, I have more than enough. As to vengeance, I leave that to heav?n." "May its bitterest curse cling to you Troth!" cried Hammond. "By what right do you curse me?" "demanded Charles. "John Marks, peak." "Luke Hammond," said Marks, "you tempted me to do a crime. You offered me as a reward a son?a son 1 -had supposed dead. I told you many tales to increase my importance in your eyes at first, afterwards I told you more to achieve the solution of n suspicion. You curse that young man! He is not your son!" "Ah!" screamed Nancy, and would have fled from the room, but her limbs were powerless. "Charles not my son!" said Hamxoond. "No! You sought to trick me," cried Marks. "I owe you no good will. *Twas you who committed the burglary for which I suffered so many years. We are even now. You have a brave plot going on here. I shall not interfere. Charles is my son. Ask his mother there. You would like to eee yours? See hia portrait!" John Marks tossed the picture of the Idiot upon the floor. Hammond raised it, stared at it, let It fall, and leaning towards Nancy Har ker, ns he knelt in pallid terror, said in > m voice ll?te a hiss: "Nancy Marker, uiy heart is turning to gall! Say Johu Marks lies!" "Ah, Roland, forgive me!" cried **ancy. "For what? Tell me for what?" said Sgf, 5^v: VMMOND, *1 j USER.. I ck, I Copyright 1896, | |jj I by Sobui Boknkb'b Sokb. I B $ <AU rights reserved.) /In Elammond. "Tell me that John Marks les! Tell me that, Nancy Harker. Let fortune, liberty?life?all go to ruin?but tell me that John Marks ies!" "I cannot! 'Tis your son who is the diot," said Nancy. "Traitoress!" cried Hammond, and is quick as lightning he shot a ball nto his sister's breast. "At them, Daniel!" he continued. 'They hold our lives in their hands! rhey are two only!" Mle nictnl r>i'nrkf>r1 acnln and John Marks staggered back wounded, but Irawing his pistol; and then, with i crash, James Green leaped through :he skylight, and fell upon the bed, crushing it to the floor, but on his feet n a second. As Greene fell, Elgin sprang at Danel, and prostrated him with a blow from his iron rod. Hammond stared in perfect horror for a moment at the pale and angry face of the young carpenter, whom je thought he had murdered, and then shrieking in terror of he knew not ;vhat, rushed at the door, got out, and 3ed along the hall pursued by James Greene and John Marks, the latter carrying a lantern he had snatched from Stephen when coming into the house. "If I can reach the street," thought Hammond, as he fled, "I may escape, rhere is a way through the old store oom?the farther door enters into an )ld cellar and that has a window openng into the back street." He fled to the trap that led into the aasement of the other house, and aughed to think that life and liberty ivould still be his. His momentary :error at the Eudden appearance of lames Greene had passed away. "He managed to escape," thought rlammond, as he groped his way In )itchy darkness. "The noises old Fan leard were the efforts of James Greene :o escape. Spirits! Ghosts! Nonsense!" He reached the old store-room, rushed n, and was bruised by the "barrels and joxes old Fan had piled over the traploor. Swearing fiercely, Hammond bejan to clamber over the great heap. 3e was at its top when the trap-door, io longer sustained by the strong bolt, ind unable to uphold his -weight, added o that of the Boxes, gave way, and ie felt himself sinking downward with he rubbish. "Ah! The trap! The trap has [alien?" he shrieked, and struggling to scape, \jv-r-, But he "was fast jammed in the heap; ind as he plunged, raved and fought, lie mass sank down at once, and let lirn fall feet foremost iuto the deep, lark well. He sank into the mud, ioze and slime up to his chin; and he well above his head, and around lim, was filled with empty boxes and sarrels, through which his sirfieks, urses and groans resounded hour after lour, for his pursuers thought he had ;scaped. Shall we linger upon this awful loathV Shall we speak of his impotent lattling with four-footed, sharpoothcd, ravenous foes?the avengers )f his dead wives, of his mother, of his :atber, and of his sister? No. We have seen the last of Roland Dunn; or, as we have known-him, Luke Hammond. Nancy Harker died the same night, of nternal hemorrhage. And so tbe prediction of the dream of liese two evil ones was fulfilled: "Beware of Harriet Foss! When she shall meet ye, and ye shall know eacli jtlier, ye die!" Before the dawn of day, Kate Elgin ecovered from tbe effects of the drug >he had swallowed, and was looked in he embrace of her brave and worthy over, and of her now happy father. Mr. Allday made his escape during :he tumult, but was dreadfully torn md bitten by the savage dogs in the i*ard before he gained the street. What became of him afterwards we know lot. Daniel and Stephen also escaped, as [lenry Elgin wished the affair to he L-oneealed, and for that reason never ippeared in New York after his deliverance, but settled in the West with Liis daughter and son-in-law, James Greene, where all of them now live in perfect earthly happiness. Charles and Harriet, with Johi Marks, returned to England, where John Marks reformed, and emulated the virtues of his son, until bis peaceful death a few years ago. THE END. Earth's Disturbance*. Mother earth lias evidently started in this year to break all records during historic times of gigantic destructive disturbances. For the first half of the year we have to charge her uuusual restlesstt. IfK A Q f 1/1A ../tlnnnln "uu io,juv uvea uuuu^u iuiuujv, eruptions and earthquakes. Her tornadoes have hurled 465 human beings out of existence, and cyclones have added 240 more to the list, while other storms in great numbers, but of less dignity In name, have placed 720 lo the direct accouut of violent winds. Floods have swept 345 persons from life, tidal waves have drowned 110 and waterspouts have destroyed 15. To all of this we must add 283 lives charged to the destructive fore? of avalanches and snow slides, and we have a total of 51,078; an astounding mortality from tbesc tierce agencies of destruction in one-half of a year. Worldly Wimlorn. Fromptness Is often a mistake. If you do not believe it, recall the fate of the early worm. Many men have succeeded because tliev hesitated at the light time.?New York News. * A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLEI "THE J?Y OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE." The Kev. I)r. Georgp I). AdnniF ?oll? c the Spiritual Uplifting Which Abiilf With Th?se Who Walk Constantly Wit <i?(l?PleHHtirc in Christian Suflering. Kf.wYorkCitv.?When Rev.Dr. Geo JJ Adams, the new pastor of the First #af tist Church, Lee avenue and Keap streel prcached his first sermon as pastor of th church, he selected for his text: Hebrew xii: 1 and 2: "Therefore, let us also, seem we are compassed about with so great cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weigh and the sin which is admired by many am let us run with patience the race that i 6et before us, looking unto .Tesus, the an thor and perfecter of our faith; who, fo the joy that was before Him. endured th cross, despised the shame and hath sa down at tne right hand of the throne o God" (N. V.), and said: A very casual observer could easily tel that many Christians have lost the jov c the Christian service which they once nad It takes no scholar, nor, indeed, a critic, o Christian life or human living to soe tha manv, who one day rejoiced with "ue spea^able joy" in the service of Jesu Christ, are to-day indifferent. Indeed, w ourselves find some times, when to come t the house of God is a burden, and we dra a weary body'or reluctant soul into th presence of the Almighty and try to woi shin Him in the "beauty of holiness." W - * i U find again ana again, it we buuuiu iouu> the inclination of our -hearts and mind that we should stay at home. But thos are new experiences comparatively. One we could give up any pleasure for ar. hou with God, and when to have ?.een in Hi presence and feel that He was hearing us to enjoy the touch of kindred spirits; t have enjoyed the song and the prayer ani the service, out of God's heart, would hav been better to us than riches and mor precious than fine gold. But that is gone We find ourselves sometimes coming b( c-.use we think we ought; doing this o that service because it is customary; entei ing into this form or that because it is habit to do so, and in the saner -.oment of our conscience we come sometimes t say: "Why is this so?" Has God changed Has the power of the old gospel to all( viate human life of its brudens and suffei ings gone? Is there less of power and eff cacy in the saving grace of Jesus Chris now than once? After all, is God's servic really and truly at bottom nothing but drudgery? Or, has something taken plac with us? Have we left behind 6omethin vtp nnfo Had and have we passed beyon that moment of exultant spirit when in th presence of Jesus our heart bounded wit the joy of a new faith an'd the experienc of salvation? Well, we are perfectly sur GoJ has not changed. We are perfectl eure Jesus is "the same, yesterday, to-da and forever." We have not a doubt tha the old gospel will save men to-day, an. when we come to think of it after all i not the matter of being 6aved a subject c just as much joy in the twentieth centui* as in the first century? Has there bee: any change in the attitude of the gospel We are bound to confess 'here has bee none, and if that is true, then the troubl is with us. Somewhere we have lost some thing, and I am looking into faces thi morning that know better than I do, i their experience, that that something i the priceless treasure of Christian hope Now. to get that back. When I was bov I wept when first I saw the wrinkle coming on my mother's face. I wante her to remain always young, and there ar thousands df Christian hearts, some repr< fiented here, doubtless, that have wept a the loss of their Christian experience?it i dead, joy is gone. Oh, what would we giv to get it back! I am persuaded that w would give a great deal to get it back, bu T nm mnrp fViorniichlv nersuaded that th way to get it back is to get into the att tude of life that makes it constant. Th beat thing i6 not to get back the Christia; experience of years ago. but to get into th attitude of life that makes that expcrienc perennial. I am going, therefore, to discuss th sources of joy. The thing that most lie behind that experience and the first thin that confronts the Christian in the mat ter is duty. We do not like that wor duty. We associate -with "he word dut} sacrifice, and are surprised when we fin that it is in itself a term of freeiorr When I say to you, "I want you tD d your duty," you say. "Don't talk to m about duty; I don't like that word." Tha is largely because the word has com: to yo to mean a matter of bondage, when in'rt ality it ought to mean a matter of frecdon: Why it was duty " ehind the text: "Let u: therefore, seeing we are compassed abou with so great a cloud of witnesses lay asid every weight and the sin which is admire bv many (or so delight in? ome special si of the age. I suppose) and let us run wit I)atience the race that is set before uf ooking unto Jesus, the author and perfeel er of our faith, who, for the joy that wa set before Him, endured the cross, d< spised the shame, and hath sat down at th right hand of the throne of Gad." Tha is duty. In the light with which Jesus d< spisea me cross ivc uu^u. uui. w oiup m< reason about duty. I \vant you to notic that duty is an ethical term, not a leca There is a kind of doctrine abroad to-aa which is called the ethical religious idea, do not mean that at all. Duty is ethica not legal. Duty resides in the recesses c a man's character, not in the external let islation concerning him. I am a mor? being, therefore I ought. A dog or horse can never be called upon because c oughtness?they are not moral beings. The are within the restrictions of a master an that is legal. There is something in ma that is an oughtness. "I ought, therefor I must." Because I am a moral being ought, therefore duty is ethical. Many man fulfills the lav/ and breaks every po; sible moral duty. The saloonkeeper i keeping the letter of the law, but he i doing an immoral thing. It is not a matte of legality or politics, but of moral oughi ness. Until that moral oughtness is obeyc I am in bondage, but when 1 obey th ? "'-I T i rv\ fro n T nnacn JllUltll UUgllLllCQO J. UI1I 111.V. A through a great sewing machine works i Belvidere, 111., and saw the machine ealle the automatic screw. The ordinary m; chine knows more than a lot of men. Me can't do a thing a* you tell them to. Yo set a man on a job of work and he wi change the way oi doing it just as sure .1 he lives?that is, if he is an American. ] he is a Chinaman or a Russian he won' That is why corporations hire that kind c man, because he will do no more nor le.? than he is told. But you tell an America to do a thing precisely in a certain wa.v he won't do it; you can't hire him to do i But a macb'nc will. You say that is ri strictcd. No, it is not. It will take tli pig iron and turn it out perfect screws a small as a piece in your watch, and do i all day long. That is liberty. The iro was restricted in the pig iron, it is at lil erty in the screw shape because it is doin its intended work, and man is at libert only when he is doing his God-intende service. Morally speaking, duty is elhioa then. I do my dutv before God, not b cause I must, but oecause I ought. I ai less a man and less free when I refuse t do a thing I was made to do. The chic end of man, says the catechism, is to wo; ship God and enjoy Him. Exactly. ? that duty is a part of joy in service. Selfishness is incompatible with service The servant is not the servant when thinl ing more of the wage than the busines You cannot serve and be selfish. The si of this age is selfishness, my friends, am thankful that I live in the age of eld trieity, wireless telegraphy and automi biles, but let me tell you, the 6in of th ??e is pure, unadulterated selfishness. Te thousand people to-day in this great cit are seeking absolutely their own se'lis pleasure, and when seff dethrones God an enthrones itself the sin of all sin in th age is committed. "Son, give me thir heart.*' "No," you say, "you cannot La\ I it; it is mine. 1 am going to keep m heart to myself." l was reminded ns came down froin Bingliamton through tb mountains on Saturday ? I love thoi mountains. (I have been hungry out o the Western plain* to see a hill. Yo would be surprised to see what ihey rail hill out there. Why, an lrishman'with wheelbarrow could build a bigger mountai in a day than some of those mountains I looked over those mountains and ifinen bered an experience some years ago in tli Adirondacks. We started out early or morning to climb a mountain. The valle was fufi of light, and as we looked bac from the top of one of the foothills in tt v#lley at our feet the beautiful verdui eeemed to throw back tb* beauties ol ti * r T sunlight. Then we entered a fog, wber? , we could not see more than five or six feet away. Where was the heanty gone? Our attention became riveted upon our efforts 3 to climb_ out of the fog. Presently we emerged from it and were on the mountain top. My. what a scene! There lay the valley at our fpet. like an extensive world; if towns, rivers and railways?the great Vals lev of the Mohawk. True, it was nearly -.- a ? l-.i. ...? ...? 1OU IIIUCS illlill, UUb ?C "Clt luunuij; au ?t. That was like the Christian experience. When you came to the seat that day you >. were on the foothill. You forgot all be* >- cause .Jesu* was everything and you saw the little landscape. You thought. "The e Christian life is beautiful. 1 am full of s joy." And .1 few weeks passed and you g said. "But to live as a Cshirtian is not so a easy; I do not see the joy. The little valt ley. where is it? What a tremendous rl thing it is to he climbing up to God." And s the cloud settles and you get to be selfish. 1- But if you persevered and climbed upr ward you have come to the mountain peak, e Experience, and you feel that all your t powers and love "ought to be settled on f one effort to climb still further and further in the vision of the Eternal. 1 won|j der if some of us are not still in the cloud, because we have lost the joy of service. 1 Suffering is only incident to service. I | am perfectly aware, when I ask you to ent ter with greater zeal in the service of God that I am asking you to suffer. You will g not be killed, or asked to move out of the e United States or persecuted because you 0 are a Christian, but you will have to suf? fer, and when you suffer you will begin to | e enjoy. No man laughs so heartily as the .. man who weeps most bitterly. No laugh- ! e ter rings so in heaven as that which comes v through the tears down here. JJy suffering s I mean you will be asked to endure the e cross. Jesus endured the cross. Mow, e right here let me say that suffering is not r service. Some one says: "See here, do you s mean to say that when I suffer for .Tesus Christ that is not service?" That is exacto ly what I mean to say. God has no pleasj ure in your pain, but if your service for e Him demands it, and you bear it heroice ally, He has pleasure in the attitude of > your life. Jesus Christ endured the cross. [I Why? Because it was incident to the work r of saving this race. Somebody will call .. me heretic, but I am not. I believe, and a you believe, that Jesus Christ came to this s world to save this race. I believe and you 0 believe that without Christ there is no sal- j v vation. The key note of all my ministry >1 shall ever be that Jesus is the ?vine Son I -r /-t_ j Tt IT- . ? ?L J:..:? w | .. <JI VJUU. ii xie is uvi. uivjiic ici ur. v/m [. preaching. sell our property and bp infit dels. If Jesus is a mere man let us all quit e business. I may be an old fogy, but as a long as this tongue preaches tne gospel e Jesus Christ will be the divine Christ in K my message. Do I mean that Jesus came ? to His cross by accident? Not at all. He e saw the cross standing at the end of His h mission, and for the joy that was set bee fore Him endured and came to save this e race, and that meant the bearing of a cross y and He bore it. But the real mission was v the saving of the race, not the bearing of t the cross. His mission was to save men. d "God so loved the world that He gave His g only begotten Son that whosover believeth ,{ in Him might not perish, but have ever- j y lasting life." When the cross stood in the n wav of the perfection of salvation Jesus ? endured it divinely, heroically and unflinch? inglv died upon it to save us. Suffering is e incident to service, and when I call you to serve God you will have your cross. The s men you work with will say you are too n much of a crank and a fanatic. It will hurt 9 and pain and go deep, and you will flinch. , Sometimes vou will try to apologize for " 1- --J w;n ^ UCIIJ^ a tMlliA auu lauauv., auu jvu nii? g thank God there is something you can end dure. It is part of servic^ and behind the e suffering come6 a joy, deep and profound, when you are true. Yes, you will have t; shame to bear. too. Two or three young 9 ladies where I have been holding meetings e lately and baDtizing some have said, "1 do e not like to think of getting up before all X those people and being baptized." I wone der if we are going into the joy of fulfilling [. God's command. If we are we have got to e endure 6ome of that shame He endured. n" Let me tell you if you had administered e baptism and you saw as a minister sees in e the face of the believer buried out of sight j and raised to resurrection of newness of life?if you saw what he sees just once you would drop your quibbling now. Shame on us if we cannot bear in the twentieth cen" tury light of Christian truth all that fol* j lowing Jesus demands of us. A writer in r the British Weekly in an articte entitled j "Beating to Windward," says sailing against the wind by steam power was op' posing one for re to another, and was simDiy a matter of victory for the stronger ? force, but to sail to windward in a bailing . vessel was a matter of skill for here "forces that oppose are not opposed but used." Brethren, we must "beat to wind' ward." < Christian living that meet with no i opposition is not Christian living at all. If you are beating to windward for Jesus this j world will onpose vou. It is a matter of u -i -ii a? j_i... 41 jpj Sl'l'lt tUCII, LLi lilhi; iui t,co u& | suffering and sin and use them to advance ' , vour life in the kingdom of heaven. When i[ I beein to sacrifice I begin to enjov. Beg loved, if you would have the joy of Christian service you must have the heart of ! e Christian sacrifice. t !- The Last Sabbath. When that last Sabbath comes?the Sab bath of all creation?the heart, wearied ; with its tumultuous beatings, shall have Y rest; the soul, fevered with its anxieties, . shall enjoy poace. The sun of the Sabbath A will never set or hide its splendors in a ' cloud. The flowers that jrrow in its light \ will never fade. Our earthly Sabbaths are l' but dim reflections of the heavenlv Sab^ bath, cast down upon the earth, dimmed by the transit of their rays from so great j a height and so distant a world. The fairest landscapes, or .combinations of scenery ? upon earth, are but the outskirts of the I paradise of God, fore-earnests and intimaj: tions of that which lies beyond them, and the happiest Sabbath-heart, whose very . pulse is a Sabbath bell, hears but a very inIs adequate echo of the chimes and hannonics of that Sabbath, that rest, where we :r "rest not day and night." in which the j song is never new, and yet ever sung.? g Cumming. The Likeness of Christ. d Dr. Lyman Abbott says: "The artist -i?j. _i- l:? "rtl 4-Vvn nnrfrnifc l* SI&IK15 U.L llih ruoci *???. j'v. ? n of one before him; and I go and look at it, u and scow] and shru^ my shoulders and II say:''It is not like him; I can see the ghost is of an appearance looking out through the If lustreless eyes and the untrue features, t. but it is not my friend.' And the artist >f says: 'Wait! when I have finished the >s picture, and put the purpose?the soul? n into it, then judge, not before.' So Christ '5 sits for His portrait, and God takes me for t- a canvas, and paints, and ever and anon I - grow foolish enough to look at myself, and i? shake my head in despair, and say, 'That Is will never be a portrait, and then I coma it back to His promise: "You shall be satis11 fied when you awake in His likeness,' and 3" I am satisfied beforehand in this hope that G He gives me." y Deepest Calm au<l Courage. b- Phillins Brooks, speaking of those lives ti from which we derive the most real cour0 age and helpfulness, said: "It is the lives jf like the stars, which simply pour down on f- us the calm light of their bright and faithio fill being, up to which we look and out of which we gather the ueepest calm and s. courage. No man or woman of the huini blest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure s. and good without the world being better n for it; without somebody being helped and 1 comforted by the very existence of that c- goodness." 3 ie What We Can Give. One of the bravest things in the world is t to give to others out of one's deepest pov. erty, whatever that may be?cheer out of sorrow, hope out of disappointment, help out of weariness, courage out of defeat, the ,? precious mite out of the slender store. It " is a brave thing to (to mis, ana yet not 01 . ten an unrewarded thing. \\ c do not ' know that the recording angel keeps any special account of such herob benevoiences, but surely they do not escape the loving u cognizance of God.?Wellspring. True Courage. n The world and the church need to-day ). men of true courage, men who dare to have i- the courage of their conviction; men who le are not afraid to do what is right; men ie who will 6tand up for the right. We have y too many cowards in the church, and they k are a reproach to Christianity. The world ie despises a cowardly Christian and God has e no use for such.?The Rev. Dr. Hoiderby, ie Atlanta, Ga. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. A Lesson in Economic*? "What Moncj Spent For Liquor Given in Ketnrn, anil How the Total Abstainer in the Bet Strictly speaking, there are three parties concerned in every honest transaction: 1. The seller. 2. The buyer. 3. The community generally. The business which benefits all these parties is based upon sound and fair principles. The business which gives profit ana gain to one party, and fleeces either of the other two parties, is a swindle. Apply this test to the liquor traffic and what is the result? Suppose two men, A and B. each having $1000, the result of their savings or earnings or of somebody else's savings aDd earnings. A enters a career of idlness and debauch and spends his money for rum. The following is the result: No. 1.?The rum seller gets the $1000 and makes a profit. No. 2.?The buyer has parted with his $1000 and got ? nothing ? plus impaired health, ruined character, degraded life and perniipM a cuiuiijcli rtxuru. No. 3.?The community is impoverished by the amount of waste of wealth of one of its members?plus ,the poverty, disorder, accident, crime, etc., which attends his drinking and the consequent taxation involved. B spends his money in building a house with the following results: , No. 1 ? The seller or builder gets the SIOOO, and makes a profit on the transaction. No. 2.?The bu>'er has parted with his $1000, but has now a house?an equivalent to the value of the money, plus the comfort, increased advantages, social standing and credit which attends a property owner. No. 3.?The community is enriched by the amount of $1000 wisely spent by one of its members, together with the pronortion of taxes which such property will pay. Every citizen is interested in every new building, and in every investment, no matter who is the owner or investor.?National Advocate. 60,000 Boy Victims Yearly. The ravages of rum and its effect on tht> youth of the nation were graphically described by the Rev. Dr. W. F. Wilson, of Hamilton, Ont., in an address delivered before the twentv-first International Christian Endeavor Convention at Denver. Dr. Wilson said that the relative amount of liquor consumed yearly by the great nations of the world was jr ranee first, Italy next, then Germany and Austria. The United Stat'.-s stood fifteenth.on the list, yet the drink bill of the United States last year was $1,500,000,000. The continued prosperity of even this great and growing, republic was imperiled, BaidJDr. Wi'eon. "Ihe saioon everywnere is a curse; in London, Paris, Berlin, Glasgow, Boston, Washington, Toronto and Denver, it is the same," ne continued. "It is the Gibraltar nf greed, the Jericho of lust and crime, the slaughter house of character and health; it is the sewer pipe of misery and despair; a mighty tyrant, a menace to freedom, purity ina prosperity; the Birthplace of paupers and criminals, the very fountain head of blasphemy, brutality and anarchy. "In his father's saloon the slayer of President McKinley was schooled in lawlessness 3.nd crime, and from a saloon he went forth to commit one of the foulest crimes that ever disgraced t-e name of man: "Sixty thousand boys in this republic every year become moderate drinkers and sixtv thousand moderate drinkers become confirmed drunkards, and sixty thousand confirmed drunkards pass into a state of hopeless despair. "Oh. for a few big men like Neal Dow, John B. Gough, Sir William Lawson and others?men who sec things to be done and do them; formers of character rather than reformers of abuses; patriotic men. enthuiiiastic spirits, pure and courageous like the late Sheriff Pearson, of Portland, or Polk, r>f St. Louis: Parkhurst, of New York, and Sheldon, of Kansas." n ^ ?~?~t ll< Mr uj o iw o?tc iucui The Union Signal gives some information regarding the working of the Iowa law for the detention of inebriates in State hospitals. The measure has been in force now nine months. In one Hospital alone 150 Bach cases have been admitted. After a Mrefal study of these cases Dr. Applegate, the superintendent, officially affirms that '"inebriety threatens to be one of the -no?t serious menaces accompanying twentieth century civilization. No d^ease seems to be more common, and it renuires only a little investigation to prove that there are but few families in which some member is not a victim." In 125 of these cases inebriate tendencies from one or both parents are clearly ahown. but in only twenty-one was the inebriety on the maternal "side, and of the 150 patients only six were women. One hundred and thirtv-seven were Americanborn?a fact we shall do well to ponder. Dr. Applegate dwells upon the justice of the law and UDon the necessity for State treatment. "What better use," he asks, "could a State make of its liquor revenue than to pay it back to the heartbroken wives anil worse than fatherless children by giving them a well husband and a sane father?" Jt-'rom a doctor's standpoint tne question is a pertinent, one. The standpoint of the State, however, is, or should be, prevention rather than cure. If the saloon revenue goes back to the drunkard and the drunkard's family, what has the State gained? What it loses in the process of maWng a drunkard and then trying to make him over into a sober man. who can compute? The hospital authorities admit that the term of commitment?thirty days?is too short a time in which to eradicate the disease of alcoholism. A lifetime would be too short to effect a cnre if the patient must go out to face the open saloon.? Union Signal. It* Kftcct on Poirerity. The influence of strong drink in afflicting posterity is summed up in the following manner by Kraft Ebbing, one of the chief medical authorities of Germany: First Generation?Moral depravity, alcoholic excess. Second Generation?Drink mania, attacks of in?anitv, general insanity, paralysis. Third Generation?Hypochondria, melancholia, apathv and tendency to murder. Fourth Generation ? Imbecility, idiocy and extinction of the race. Dr. Kbbine has likewise made a comparison of ten families of drunkards and ten temperate families with the following results: The direct progeny of the drunkards amounted to fifty-seven; twenty-five died of insr~?ient vitality in their first year, six wer?- idiots, five dwarfed, five had hydrocephalus, hairlip and clubfoot. Of the temperate families there were sixty-one children: five died of insufficient vitality, four had curable nervous affections, two had congenital defects, and 81.9 per cent, were fcour.d in mind and body. Better Sure Than Sorry. So said: The gardener as he covered his flower beds in case of frost. The farmer as he carted home his harvest before the storm came on. The wise school boy as he did his sume over again in case they were wrong. The traveler who went to the station five minutes too soon instead of rushing in too late. The caotain who got his rcmnass adjusted before he sailed from the harbor. The wise bov or girl who took the pledge ?-ah1/J Knn>in fn li]'P stfPtir Ill m*L' hjl > nwuiu ?v ?...~ drink. A T>l*courarlns l'ro?pect. Dr. Houston. in ihe last report oi tiu Royal Edinburgh Asylum. says: "The cans* of insanity for Ihe past year which stood the highest in the list was intern yerancf from drink. Twenty-eight per cent, of all admissions were due to alcohol. It is a end and discouraging prospect that this most preventable cause of disease should continue to increase." HI? Fortune For Kmn. .Tames E. Horton. of No. 358 West Sixteenth Htreet. in the ordinary course of business got hold of a dollar bill on the back of which is vritten: "This is the last dollar of a fortune spent for rum. John Debold. Galveston. Texas."?Victor Smith, in New York Press. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL 1 FNTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS F FOR AUCUST 16. Subject: Saul Trie# to Kill Davldt 1 Sait?. xvlll., 5-1G?Golden Text, P*a. xl., 1? Memory Versee. 12-14? Commentary oil tlie Day's Lesson. I. David's promotion (v. 5). 5. "David went out." After bis victory over Goliath David was appointed to some post of command and went out on military expeditions. ''Wisely." This word combines the ideas of prudence and consequent success. "Set him over," etc. This is probably the same appointment as that referred to in v. 13. David was not made the leading officer over all the host, for Abner held that position (chap. 17:55), but Saul gave him some principal command in the army and made him captain of a regiment. "Was accepted." The elevation pf the shepherd boy was in the hearts of the common people, and no doubt the sentiment of the nation at this time had had some influence on Saul in his promotion oi David. "Saul's servants." Even the courtiers, who were the most likely to be dis- . pleased with this new favorite, were glad * i to receive the youthful conqueror and ? recognize his authority. II. David's victory celebrated (vs. 6-9). 6. "Was returned." There has evidently been a digression in the narrative (vs. 1-5) i "to relate the circumstances of David's permanent reception into Saul's service. J the commencement of the friendship be*ween him and Jonathan, and his ultimate , promotion and success." The narrative now goes back to the welcome which David v received when the army returned in tri- * umpli from the successful completion of the Philistine war. This ver3e should be read ' in connection with chap. 17:54; J though some time may have elapsed, during which the army was occupied in fo!* . lowing up its first success. "Women came 1 out." It was the principal business of certain women to celebrate victories, sing at funerals, etc. "Of all the cities." They came together from all the neighboring cities. '"Singing and dancing." This is a | characteristic trait of Oriental manners, f On the return of friends long absent, and ' i particularly on the return of a victorious t I army, bands of women and children issue J from the towns and villages to form a | c | triumphal procession, to celebrate the victory with dancing, music and songs, in 3 honor of the generals who have earned 1 the highest distinction by feats of gal- 1 lantry. The Hebrew women, therefore, 1 were merely paymg the ' customary con- < gratulations to David as the deliverer of 1 their country. "Tabrets?timbrels." That > is, the hand-drum, an instrument still 1 used by the Arabs, and described as a j hoop over which a piece of parchment is j drawn. Sometimes pieces of brass are 1 fixed in it to make a jingling. It is beaten } 1 with the fingers. The instrument must j | have been similar to the modern tam- I bourine. f 7. "Sang one to another." They sang < alternately. Some of the women began ] . the song with, "Saul hath slain his thou- sands," and another company answered, t . "And David his ten thousands." Thi9 t j was a neat poetic parallelism. The en- > I thusiastic throng intimate that David's I triumph was of more importance than all 1 ! of Saul's victories." In this they com- 1 mitted a grave indiscretion: they praised i I a subject at the expense of their sovereign. 8, 9. "Verv wroth." Saul centered his ( ; thoughts on himself. This was the prin- i ; cipal cause of his trouble. He was al- 1 i ways ready to seek the ruin of any man 1 j by whom he imagined he_Vnight be injured. < "But the kingdom." The propnet naa ! distinctly told him in the> day of his sin I that the Lord had rent the kingdom from < him. and had given it to a neighbor that i was better than he (chap. 15:28). In David I Saul could read the marks of such a man. "Eyed David." Watched all his moveI ments with suspjpion and jealousy, which soon ripened into deadly hatred. III. Saul's attempt on David's life (vs. I 10, 11). Here commences the record of | those persecutions by which, during the | rest of Saul's lifetime, the conqueror of Goliath was continually harassed. It | forms a suggestive period of Israelitish history, and presents in striking contrast I the development of Saul's great wickedj ness on the one hand, *md of David's many excellences on the other. These persecutions. however, were a most useful discipI line for the psalmist king. 10. "EvH spirit." A demon like those I mentioned so frequently in the l>ew Testa, nient. "From God." Sent by permission | of God, as Satan in Job 2:7. "Came upon i Saul." He relapsed into a state of de moniac possession. See chap. 16:14. ! i'Propnesied." Rather, "raved." ? Saul's j condition is neither that of simple madness or of true prophecy. He is under , the control of a power higher than himJ self, but it is an evil power! Saul was at i I first inspired by the Holy Spirit of God, but now that spirit has left him and a i foul demon occupies his place, and, ac! cordingiy, instead of hallowed ecstasy, his ! religious exercises resemble the frantic" ! ravines of a madman. He utters impas 6ioneil cries, and perhaps falls prostrate on the floor and breathes forth his inner ravings like one holding communion with ' an unseen world. "As at other times." j See chap. 16:23. Also see R. V. There is a wonderful power in music to soothe a J troubled soul. "A javelin." The iavelin or speur was the emblem of regal authority. In ancient times kings used a spear inI stead of a diadem. They always had it s.t , : hand, and in ancient monuments they are < i always represented with it. j j 11. "Cast the javelin." Saul, now , thoroughly infuriated, determined to make 1 ! an end of the shepherd boy. After this j personal attack Saul never lost the idea ] that David was the' God-ordained king. ' This nurpose he resolved to defeat, and, accordingly, made several attempts on j David's fife. IV. David's further advancement (vs. , I 12-10). 12, 13. "Was afraid of David." j Saul bccame sensible that he was fighting ' against God: this caused terror and continued to disturb him more and more. "Because the Lord," etc. When God is , with us we are certain to succeed, but ' when the Lord forsakes a person he is equally certain to be defeated. The Chris- ? tian is mighty only "through God" (2 Cor2:10). "Captain.'' It is not certain that this was the frame appointment referred f to in v. 5. but it is quite likely that it was. ' 14-16. "Behaved," etc. David acted dis- ' rreetlv; he trusted to the divine guidance; ; I (jiOd Was wun film. uccauac ui i?iua cam | i ... stood in awe of him" (v. 15, R. V.). j j This is a stronger exnression than the one < f used in v. 12, and denotes primarily the T avoidance of the person feared. "All? 1 loved David." Saul made David captain 1 over a thousand partly to pet rid of him from his presence, and partly perhaps in the hone that he would lose his life in battle (vs. 17. 23); but the result was that J he became firmlv established in the affep- t tion of the people. i 1 Prussian State Railroads. j In 1901 there were 19,724 locomotives c running on the Prussian State railroads, i The passenger cars numbered 39,878. while the number of freight cars was 420,000. The receipts from the passenger service amounted to $136,000,000 and those from the freight traffic to $293,000,000. The numbei * of officials and workmen employed was r 546.211, and the salaries and wages paid ? these officials and workmen were $179,954,- ? ISO. The total mileage of the State rail * ways in Prussia was 26.241 miles. British Officers For Japan. An agreement has been arrived at by | which Great Britain sends a number of t army and navy officers to Japan and vice c versa, in order to allow those officers to get . acquainted with the methods of the two j respective countries. A number of British officers have already arrived in Japan, where they are to stay two years. Forty Japanese officers will soon leave for the | same purpose for England. t New Uniforms For Sweden. | * The Swedish Minister of War has de- V cidcd to introduce the khaki uniform for s the field artillery. Trials with the new * dress will first be made with two regi- j; ments. The uniform resembles very much r that of the British Colonial troops. Destruction of Sparrow*. During the last three months the Easton Sparrow Club in Essex, England, has deitroyed 7304 sparrows as being pests to the i farmer and gardener. 1 FHE RELIGIOUS LITE 1 IEADINC FOR THE QUIET HOUR J WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF; 'oem: A Vision and a Prayer, by S. A* jj Dyke ? what Christ Teaches About : ? ** ?- tk- frltlr Should B* ' ' 5f U uwgni? vuirre?auv <J Without Fault?Comment Charitably* i stand upon the cliffs at night, A And look afar upon the sea._ ' ^ 3eyond the beacon's guiding light, ? ^ Towards the haven yet to be. ! ?ee the silent ships pass on, With bending sail and pennon fair, ,4a Vith bounding hope as guerdon, With precious freight, with favoring &ilf V|g rhe darkling waters roll beneath, H ' M The twinkling stars gleam high above, % hid whispering winds with gentle breath*. Speak to my soul of life and love. ["his changeful life the rolling, deep. > * it. XL. if.Uf i.ny gaining iniiu ioc ucnuu "v.?fc? -;wf ily yearning Tieart the freighted sbi?, Thy star-lit throne the haven bright. ) God. who ever dost reveal, * To child-like heart through-mortal sight* .4 The things not seen but yet most real, Hear Thou my prayer to Thee thia night* 'f JVilt Thou not hear a cry to Thee, A humble cry in filial fear. * \ creature's cry that asks to see Thy grace anil glory n?w and here? ) Lord, do Thou direct my course, | In me reveal Thy only Son. J Jive.peace within midst billows strife, jj By me, oh, may Thy will be done. rhrough daylight clear, through midnight W, dark, By breezes fair, by tempest wild. )h guide Thee straight tne trembling bark*. * That bears to Thee Thy wandering child#.. ?Ram's darn. v/S On the Judging of Others. Did you ever notice two people talking or any length - of time and observe how nuch of the conversation is made up of eference to others, their acts and ways?" jg'; Vnd further, how much of that plentiful "< $ xiticism is adverse? Go hack over yesterday and trace, if ou can. the kind judgment you put upon ecord?either in your own mind or in the $3 ninds of others?concerning your felloir nen and women. Now the natural ten- Jii lency when you have done thi6 will be to ;/$$ it once defend yourself for.the judgments rou have made, and in many cases perhaps hey would seem justifiable?but think! c. \re you willing to be judged by the same ; udgment? To be measured witn the same '<3$ neasure with which you have condemned '??} lim? Perhaps even this you may say in js our righteous wrath you are willing to dof ^$3? jut think once more! Given that man's. V rurroundinj;8 and circumstances, his here* ULaiy icuucucici). uao ncaaucco&B, ui? ?v*m -^^BT jerament, and, above all, his temptations HI -leaving out,, of course, all advantages hat you have had and he has no??then, , i vould you be willing to be judged as severely as you have judged him? I And it may be true, if all truth were . ^ cnown, that he deserves such jndgmint; <&] jut even so, Christ says, that judgment is lot for us to give, but for Hint; There are two reasoins why this law of ;-n Christ's is right. The first is because it i? v*sl lot possible that we, po long as we dwejl I jDon this earth, should with our eatth'y > - jsM vision and understanding, know all the Jv lircumstances of any man's acts but our .% j >wn. There is one person whose judgment ' .-v9j jas been committed to our care if we' J ihoose to look into it, and that is our own. : T f rhere is no great danger that our judgcents of ourselves will be too severe. The second reason is that the' judge- I wniiliAM* n fanU Pan anv An* nf *>SMI luvniiu UC njbMVUV U luuiv* WUU mm+~j WWV - -<|W1 is aspire to that position? And if we needed any more of Christ'* / words upon this subject, after the lesson 'V-fij :hat we have before us, we have them in 'ffifi ;he chapter where the sinful woman wa? 51 brought to Him, ana He said to her ac- 4\ :users: "He that is without sin among you, et him first cast a stone at her." And yet to-day we cast our stones <as /-JEH S*yly as though they were not crushing ihe^life from some heart for whom Christ ||| But when you think of the long years. M )f careful training your parents gave you, )f your father's patience and your moth- "ri$ ;r's prayers, do you think it can be any >.W? greater in God's eyes than the way you :'c(M ose your temper every day? You spoke V'^jl roughly to your mother this morning, or to your friend. Wait until a day comes when you have not lost your temper, or 'Xk*yielded in the least to your besetting sin*,' before you presume to judge your neigh-* r>or. If this- rule were common among Christians it would make a vart difference- A not only in our conversations, but in our { feelings one toward another. Harsh judg- i ments, even though they may be tru?fc jften lead to misunderstandings and life- . ? ong estrangements between people who were meant to be a help to one another. TV*** io nnm trytr wVion WP fihftll hMW the right to judge; when we shall ait on / thrones and judge. But it is not yet. For \ n that day we shall be washed white Tom every spot and blemish. V; And it may be that just the beam that. rsi s in our own eyes is the very beam of not loving our neighbor. So. without love, low could we rightlj judge? For our judg- ^ nents differ vastly when the case is our jwn. It is the old story of "whose ox is fik ;ored." It is the love that Christ bears to ; "-M; souls and His knowledge of ttyeir tempta:ions that makes Him the righteous judge. \nd God has given judgment into His , lauds.?Grace Livingston Hill, in the New irork Mail and Express. "Mnrt Endure the Polidhlng." Tn speaking of God's plan for us and His i nethods of dealing with us, His children, ;he Rev. F. B. Meyer says: "None of us can tell for what God is .ft.' educating us. We fret and murmur at the larrow round and daily task of ordinary ife, not realizing that it is only thus that ve can be prepared for the high and holy jffice which awaits us. We must descend jefore we can ascend. We must take the a ria crucis (way of the cross) submissively 'M md patiently if we would tread the via * . ucis (way of light). We must endure the lolishing if we would be shafts in the miver of Emnlar.uel. God's will comes to hpp and me in dailv circumstances, in ittle things equally as in great; meet them J jravely; be at your best always, though jfl he occasion be one of the v?ry least; dig lify the smallest summons by the great" less of your response." ' 'C'v1 Joy of IVncf. Peace is accord with God. One who it variance with God's plans for him. and vith God's orderings of his surroundings, a at discord with all that is above him, - >.\ md with all that is about him. We can ive in constant warfare with our fellows, md our suDeriors. We can, if we will, be ine with Christ who is at the centre of the iniverse, and who is at peacc with all. The Law of Life. Every one who violates the Ir.w o. graviation as seen in nature, or anv other J utural law, must pay the penalty. So ' J very one who violates the law of life in J he spirit must suffer likewise.?The Rev. {r r. W. QuiiliaD, Episcopalian, Atlanta, Ga, Faith. Faith differs from knowledge, even from he dictates of reason. Sense and even eason are fallible. There is another way o receive knowledge. It is given to us irmly and verified by those who have been vitnesses.?The Rev. Father Bo&rdmcn, I. C., San Francisco, Cal. Negro Woman Bank President. A negro woman, Maggie L. Walker, has he distinction of bei.'ii; the first woman, v'hite or colored, ever elected president of J bank in Virginia. Site lias been chosen fi cud of the St. Luk<.''s Fenny Savings I 5ank, under the auspices of the order of 0 it. Luke, at Richmond. The institution i pens for business with $75,000 in deposits. I 'resident Walker is widely known, and Jg ar several years was a teacher in the pub ic schools at KactimouU. btie has the rc- gm pcct of both raceii. VawinatSou in flic <'liili|iiMiirii. 9 Compulsory raecnuR'.t m i? ii'iii}* on'.orccJ ii the Phili.prv.Gee.