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4 AM ATT I By Ansa Katharine Green, J COPYRIGHT, inO, ?V ROI CHAPTER XXIV. I Continued. I He was still puzzling over tbis mat- ^ Iter, and "wondering if the scene be- 1 tween Mr. <3rycc and his prototype was c Ho be heightened by tbe entrance of *' this pair, when the fir6t of the two J darted out of the house more rapidly 1 than he had entered it, and hastened at * (full speed down the street just as the Whistle of an approaching train was heard. He was followed, but not im- t mediately, by the second person, who, I (hearing the train blowing off steam at 1 the station, rusbed after bim down the street with all the determination of an 1 ardent pursuer, while from the great t front door through which tbe two had come rushing there now issued a half * dozen or more curious Individuals, anx- c ious to know tbe termination of an en- i counter which had evidently aroused 1 their ereatest wonder. | While he "was noting these persons i tand "wondering what was taking place 1 at the station where the pursued and i pursuer were likely to come up, the art- I ist felt a hand on his shoulder and heard whispered very quietly into his ear: t "I should like you to hear Mr. De- 3 graw's story. It is a very curious one." i With a start he turned toward the de- t itective, and blindly obedient to the 1 signal which he gave rose and followed i Tiim -intn hniise. As he did SO he t ? sufficiently subdued the fresh excite- i <ment "which Mr. Gryce's summons had 1 (occasioned to remark: 1 "These people are watching a chase. Mr. Degraw's valet just put in an ap- s pearance here, bat he "was followed by a man, isjio evidently frightened bim e 80 that he ran out of the house again, i JThe other one started in pursuit, and s (the two are now racing down the street i jtoward the station." t i "Is that so? Well, Byrd is a lively j tone. We can safely leave him to his own devices. Come!" And he led the c Way up stairs into a large and comfort- t ably furnished room, probably the best c Iiahpa offnr/lo/? f lYTiiAlJU LUC UVUOC Uliviuvw. % Mr. Degraw, of Cleveland, "was tawaiting them, standing in the middle of the room, and -what astpunded the artist was not only the e.ase and dignity with which his namesake and rival greeted his appearance', but the undoubted respect shown him by the detective, "who first bowed and then observed mildly: "There is no need of an introduction here, I believe. Gentleman of equal etation understand each other. BeI sides, I believe you have already met to-day." ' The artist, thrilled as -well ns dazed, for the other was looking at him with etrange and unexpected benignity, bowed, wondering if he was in a-dream .while the gentleman from. Cleveland pushed forward chairs with such an air of hospitality that it was easy to see that Mr. Gryce had not yet re veaiea ms uusmebs tu uim, <ji mat ju j revealing it be had fo^nd the tables so 1 completely turned upon him that there f ;was no longer question of arrest or i even suspicion. ' i That the latter 'was the real case the i artist soon inferred from what the -de- i tective now said to him: i t "I have brought you here," he calm- t ly remarked, "with the consent of this t gentleman, -who has some strange rev- * -elations to make to us. Though the ? Interviews "which you have hitherto tad together have not been marked by t the most pleasant understanding he is i eo convinced by certain revelations twhich I have made to him tliat you T iad ample excuse for your disgust, ? that he is disposed to regard you rather ( in the ligl?t of a fellow-sufferer than in f liiill UJL till iUlCUUUUUi tUCUJjr, lUC Oiili" Jlarity of names having led to a 6imi- t larity of experience, both having been c arrested on a charge which in both in- 1 stances was a. mistake deeply to be re- 3 gretted by the Inspector and myself." c "Then," began the artist, thrown en- i tirely off his balance by this sudden 'j and unlooked for issue to a mysterious -y affair, "you have heard of a third Hamilton Degraw, or found Indisputable evidence?" here he glanced at the table j on which various documents lay scattered?"that this second holder of the r name is not the gentleman who has lately made himself so inimical to girls i &; * named Jenny Rogers." ' t "On the contrary," broke in the ? other, "I am unfortunately that very y person. But my interest in these girls t had Its cause in motives so different t from those naturally ascribed to me by c the police that I think I should rather e oe regaraea wua sympamy man wuu g distrust. Sliall I tell you my story?" "Certainly," responded the artist, his r more generous instincts coming to the c surface. "Certainly, I shall be very j glad to hear our name completely ex onerated from all suspicion of evil." j And yet he could not forbear thinking 1 that whatever tale the other might tell < he could never explain away all the j doubtful circumstances that surround- j ?d him with an atmosphere of crime? the box of poisoned bonbons, for instance, and -wondered why a man of t Mr. Gryce's perspicacity and well known discretion should be so easily 3 iturned from a suspicion so well mviiinflpd in comDromisinfr f?r>ts Rnt _ then the artist forgot that Mr. Gryce j ? was not the other's rival in matters that ever affect the judgment and ? ' harden the prejudices. If he had he t might have doubted his own clearness i, cf vision. t "It is a long story," the stranger ob- E served, "and I shall begin at the beginning. Had I known that by telling r it sooner I should have saved others j from consequences I now tremble to ? think of, I should certainly not have * retained my secret so long, as my only \ ^rish has been to do my duty, disa greeable as I have sometimes found it, < and difficult beyond anything I have j ?yer before undertaken. j "I am ii native of Cleveland, a bache- , lor and a roan of means. I board at a ?lnb bonse and I bare hot. a responsi- , tfitltj is tlie worli, gave suota as every i ii,K ' ILIONS. Jl AoUior of "The Forulten I Inn," Etc. | ICNT BONNER'S SOW. M nan owes to himself and to 6ociety. 1 am not even engaged in business. rVhen, therefore, a lawyer friend of nine stopped his boggy one day at our lub house, and, beckoning to me, said: with m? nrWl spe a curious 8icht.' : had no motive for refusing him, and mmediately jumped fnto the buggy ind took my seat at his side. " 'What sight? I asked. *' 4I am on my -way to a dying man o tell him that he has fallen heir to a arge fortune. Do you think It "will nake him take up bis bed and walk?' " 'Such miracles have happened,' I eturned. 'Who is this man and' how )ig is the fortune? " 'The former question I cannot answer; I have only his name and adIress to go by; the latter I will reserve eplying to till we have seen whether ie is still living when we get there. It vould be something like the irony of Uie tw JJUU mat -Utr uicaiusu ast before touching a dollar of this noney -which he has been so long exacting.' ' 'Does it come from a relative?' " 'No. A law case has just been setled which has been dragging on for rears. No one anticipated a decision n his favor, least of all himself, and hough, in one minute it has raised lim from the condition of a pauper nto that of a man of wealth, I fear he result has come too late to do him nuch good. But we will soon see, for lere we are in Sheriff street, where he s said to live.' "I was interested by this time, as we ire in all human dramas, and was glad vhen we drew up before a small, oneitory wooden structure of mean but lot uncleanly aspect, to hear, through in open window, the sound of a rackng cough, vhich seemed to assure us hat the sufferer still lived, even if hi6 >rospect of living long was small. "We were met at the door by a peuliar looking "woman of foreign aspect o whom I at once took an invincible lislike. But I had not long in which o indulge this feeling, for at the first ntimation of the lawyer's desires she lung open the door of the sick room md we passed in. "A remarkable face greeted up, a lungry face, staring from rags of bed;lothes that could not disguise by their ;qualor the fact that this man, perishng in penury and neglect, "was a man )f mind and once the possessor of posiive beauty. He was no longer young, jut beneath the death-damps that al eady bedewed his forehead one could liscern intimations of a character of io mean stamp. A fitting inheritor of i great fortune, but oh, how sad that t should have come too late! "The friend at my side advanced into he desolate, and miserably appointed oom. I ifoHowed him, shutting the loor behind toe. The man on the bed jpened his eyes still wider, and his toce took on a strangely eager look. Bad he seen no kindly faces for days? tVas his hunger one of the soul? I bejan to feel a strange stirring at my leart-strings, and forgot the wretchedless of the surroundings in my yearnng pity for the man himself. MeannKiln Viir* wnc nrtf nnnn TU11C, JUAO Qil^iiUVU HUO UAtU, liUl UJ^Vii he lawyer, but upon myself, and beween the coughs that constantly disurbed him', I saw something like a smile of welcome stir his feeble lips md irradiate his feverish eyes. 44 'Are you Michael Delancy?" asked he lawyer, speaking in a kind but jusiness-like tone. 4' 'I am,' issued faintly from the ?ick nan's, mouth. 'Michael Delancy, once i#gentleman and a student, but now lying in loneliness and rags, a poor, orsaken and utterly friendless wretch.' 44 'No, no,' cried the lawyer, striving o encourage the poor man, who, inleed, looked as If he had not many lours to live. 'JTou have friends and rou are not poor. Though comfort :omeg late, it comes surely. We are iere to make your last days cheerful. f not to provide you -with a cure that vill yet make you a well man.' 41 'I do not understand,' his gesture :eemed to say. 'I am very sick; nothng will ever bring me cure but death.' " 'Can anything bring you happiiess?' I asked. 44 'Oh,' he sighed, 'I should like to die n the face of some one's smile and ;indly look. I have lain here months ind not a gentle word have I heard. Fhe very doctor they bring in now and hen is harsh and gruff. I am not used o roughness, as I am not used to disirder. I should like to breathe in a weet atmosphere, and feel my light jo out in a place of peace and beauty.' "'You shall! That you shall!' cried ay lawyer-friend, with the impetuosity >f which his long experience had not ret robbed Him. "If you are strong >nough you shall be moved at once. Nothing that money can provide to aake you comfortable shall be lacking. 3heer up, my friend! We have come ate, but we liave come "with a pur?ose.' " 'May I ask,' the sick man inquired, vith a feebleness -which proved that he excitement of the moment was veakening him, 'who you are and why rou are so kind?' "He addressed himself to me, but it vas naturally my friend who cnswered lim. " 'I am Israel Cutting, of the law irra of McDonald & Cutting. This genleman is Mr. Degraw If we seem .ind it is because your condition seems o call for any honest man's sympathy ind consideration.' " 'But the money ? you spoke of noney. I have not any. I cannot even >ay for my?my ' A cough cut him short. " 'We do not always know what we lave.' observed the lawver. auietly. Sometimes, when we think ourselves juite poor providence pours an unexpected fortune into our laps. You need not worry about money; you have yiough.' "I thought the man would rise up out rf his bed in the sudden eagerness which seized him. ' .' . v-."'.' J-. V -- * ... / : : ; I \j 44 *A3i! "what is thlsf he cried. 'What. do you mean by "fortune"?"unexpected fortune"?"fortune poured into one's laD?" Is there money for me? Real money? Not charitable bounty, but money that is mine through law and justice? Has the case been decided?' "We did not answer; we did not dare to, lest he should fall dead before our eyes. We only smiled, but with great encouragement, and, as I hope, with great sympathy. " 'Ah!' he murmured, after a moment of silent survey, 'you look as if I had not guessed amiss. It has come, then; come, after years of hopeless waiting? come to pay for my burial, after having failed, to provide me with medicines and care.' " 'But we will have no burial now,' exclaimed my friend. 'Such an event should inspire you with new life.' " 'Too late! too late!' sighed the other, and his arms, which had been lifted in thankfulness to heaven, slow ]y dropped, "while his head settled duck, and only his eyes showed the triumph which this.sudden knowledge of riches had awakened within him. 'You are not deceiving me? he now said. 'I have really won the case?' "Mr. Cutting bowed, and showed him some documents which be drew out of his pocket The 6ick man looked at them, smiled proudly, and seemed for a minute to regain a certain strength.. " 'I knew the money ought to be mine,' said he, 'but I never expected a jury would agree with me. Ah, if I had only two days before me, or one day, I would ' "The lawyer interrupted him. " 'Have you any relatives?' he asked. "The sick man shook his head. ** 'I have neither kith nor kin,' he answered. 'I have not even so much - - - A ? US U. UUUB1U ILL ILIJS ITUilU. " 'Is it possible!' exclaimed the lawyer; 'whom is this money going to?' " 'How much is it?* asked Mr. Delancy. ' " 'Oh, a large sum, hundreds of thousands.' "The sick man uttered an exclamation, then looked slowly and with an expressive comment round the room that would not have been considered a decent home for an ordinary hodcarrier. " 'And I owe for this!' he exclaimed. 'May I ask,' here he turned with strange persistency to me, 'that one of you gentlemen will be good enough to pay the woman who rents me this room all that I owe her? I should like to see it done with my own eyes. Perhaps 6he will swear at me less and let me have a cup of tea that is not stone cold.' "The lawyer sprang to the door with alacrity, v As he did so we heard a bustling sound without, but when he had reached the hall, he found no one and had to call again and again before the horrid old woman, who seemed to be the sole owner and inhabitant of this establishment, appeared. " 'What does this gentleman owe you?' was the lawyer's bTusque interrogatory as her wicked face showed itself inside the door. "She stammered, seemed at a loss to mention the sum, and finally said: " 'A hundred dollars.' " 'No, no,' came from the bed. But the lawyer, with a wave of his hand, calmed the man behind and intimidated the woman before him. " 'A hundred dollars!' he repeated, -Ior a room wunout a carpei, a ueu without sheets, a plate without food! If you get ten,, you ivill do well. Iam a lawyer, -woman, and I have seen the like of you before. Where are thli gentleman's clothes? And Hie watch that used to hang in that case, and the books that used to He on that shelf?' " 'Gone,' she cried; 'he pawned them.' "'And gave you the money! It id not ten dollars you want, but a month in the penitentiary. You have been paid for all he has had from you, over and over, and now you owe him. Give us the hundred dollars you ask. It would not buy the' books you have stolen from him.' "Her face, which was as brown as old parchment, took on a livid hue. She slunk back and disappeared from sight, and the lawyer, with a quiet chuckle, flung a silver piece after her and shut the door. ' " 'Excuse me,' said he, 'but I cannot see even a rich man robbed.' jLuen, oDservicg now paie me sica man was becoming, he grew suddenly alarmed, and whispered for me to go for the nearest doctor, as he really feared that Mr. Delancy -would not live long enough to make his will. "But when I started to go, the sick njan showed so much distress, that 1 paused astonished. .? To be continued. The American Male. The historic glory of the Matanzas mule furnished an ample vindication of the warlike qualities of his race, and now, in the face of a Western judge who recently handed down a decision impugning the character of the American mule, the Bureau of Animal Indus* try is sounding the praises of this animal. Recently the foreign demand for tho Amapi^an mnlo Tina hoAn cn < rroat that the bureau has interested itself in the matter. It does not seek to discourage exportation, but to encourage farmers to go more thoroughly into the raising of mules. Ten years ago the number of mules exported from the United States "was only 1965, and their value $138,591. From that small beginning the traffic grew. It did not take the American mule long in the countries in which he was tried to demonstrate his sturdy worth, so that the exportation now is running from 30,000 to 40,000 a year, the average value ranging from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000. The Government scientists who have been collecting data on this topic are proud of the fact that the foreign trade of the United States in mules is exclusively an export trade. The mule, as America knows him, tireless in peace and not readily bluffed in war, cannot be imported. America is his present habitat, and hither come the nations seeking his help in theii campaigns. Primarily it lias been the mule's stoical service in battle that has raised his reputation and his market value. In addition, it has been found by the foreign nations that the animal in peace "was equally indispensable, and consequently the American mule is being installed not only in the military reservations of all Europe, but also in the countless avenues of industry.? New York Tribune. i .. :, .. A SERMON FOB SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED .TTHE CHRISTIAN'S MISSION." The Rev. T. J. ViHers, One of the Most Popular Clergymen ia Indiana, Delivers a Strong Sermon, the Theme of nnicu is JLvanKeiiBiu, INDIANAPOLIS Ind.?The Rev. Thomas J. Villers, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of this city, preached Sunday morning a strong,-sermon, the theme oi which was evangelism. His subject, was "The Christian's Mission to the World." The text was chosen from John xvii:18: "As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I sent them into the-world." Mr. Villers said: Ihc farewell discourses to the disciples were ended. Gethsemane with its mental anguish and bloody sweat was but a alep in the distance. The shadows flung from the cross were deepening and darkening. Jesus knew that before another sun should set His work on earth would be done. In 7se last moments He betook Himself to prayer. Dying words are undying words. We embalm them in fragrant memories. With eyes uplifted toward the Father, the divine Suppliant first reviewed His own ministry. I have glorified Thee on the eai*tb; *1 have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do." Then His mind turned toward "His disciples; He prayed for them, declaring their mission to be a Anntinnafinn nf Him own. This thought He emphasized before His death, on the"earthward side of Calvarv, while standing in the deep shade and gloom. "As Thou dast sent Me into the world, even so have 1 aiso sent them into the world." The same thought emerged with Him from the tomb, and dropped from His lips on the heavenward 6ide of the cross, while standing in the light reflected from the crown. "Then s.ud Jesus to them again, Peace be with you- as My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you." Thus with the emphasis of repetition our Lord announces the Christian's mission to the world. Jesus is called the apostle of our confession. He is God's sent one, whom we confess. He repeatedly laid emphasis on this fact, declaring Himself to be the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world. In John's Gospel alone He speaks ol Himself thirty-six times as being sent of God. He was sent to preach good tidings to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Having finished the work which God gave Him to do, He formed a new apostolate, dignifying all disciples as His apostles: for wJiile His commission "even scsend I you" may have primary .reference to the twelve, it applies with equal force to all who have obtained a like precious fai.L. God sent Him; He sends us. In the Acts we read that when Stephen suffered martyrdom there arose that day a great persecution against the church at Jerusalem. And they were all scatter <d timniiKniit thp rpflrionR of Judea and Sa maria, except the twelve. They, therefore, that were scattered abroad ? not the twelve, for they Btayed at Jerusalem, but the laymen, the rank and file of the church ?they that were scattered abroad went about preaching the word. Do you plead your iack of eloquence, affirming that you are slow of speech and of a slow tongue? Listen! The gospel is good newr and good news does not need ornamenting, it needs telling. Listen! One night at Corinth, after a day of depressing toil, when there had been little to cheer Paul's soul, Jesus appeared to him in a vision, saying: "Be not afraid, but speak." The word which Christ used is significant. It is not the term for a formal set discourse. It suggests the simplest fom of human language. It means merely to talk. Our Lord did not want Paul to suearcoat his message with poetic, rhetorical descriptions of the glory of Corinth's two seas, flecked with white sails from many landsdid not want him to wax eloquent ami<! that pageant of islands and mountains and groves of cypress and pine bathed in the 'low of Grecian sunsets. Jesus wanted Paul just to talk the gospel. At the apostle's feet lay the blue waters of the Aegean. Jesus did not want i'aul to pre pare learned disquisitions, whose profundity would eaual the unplumbed sea, like the preacher who was sajd to be invisible six aays in the week and incomprehensible. ; on the seventh. Christ only wanted Paul to talk the gospel. In the distance j gleamed the snowy summit of Helicon, whose muses had inspired Iiesiod and his tchool of writers. Jesus did not want Paul, < with a head as cold and a vocabuiary. as ] icy as Helioon'6 summit, to show the rhetoric loving Corinthians that he was as cultured as themselves. He wanted Paul just to talk the gospel. Towering within sight ( stood two-peaked Parnassi: ?, whose side poets had climbed for inspiration. Jesus did not want Paul to give the impression that his inspiration had been kindled on Parnassus, lest, coming with the enticing words ol man's wisdom his message should b? made of none effect. He anted Paul ; limply to talk the gospel. O beloved, this is what the church and the \70rld need to-day?not more clergymen to expound the gospel, out more men and women to talk tne gospel: talk it in the home, talk it in the office, talk it in the Bhop, talk it in the factory, talk it in the J store, talk it on the farm, talk it on the streets, talk it on the trains?talk it everywhere. Suppose people call us babblers. ; That is what the Athenians called Paul. Jesus says: "Be not afraid; keep talking." ' Suppose they say that our spccch is con- I tomntihle. That is what the Corinthians said of Paul. Jesus 6ays: "Be not afraid; keep talking." Suppose they affirm that the old gospel will not do in these modern days, that it must be refined and intellectualized, trimmed and lopped und polished and perfumed. Jesus says: "Be not afraid; . keep talking." It is profoundly significant that when the ( Holy Ghost came on this day of Pentecost He appeared in the shape of a tongue, , which sat not only on the twelve, but on J each member of the church, and when that , tongue of fire touched them they began to : speak as ttie/ Spirit gave them utterance. , It is by the tongues of God's peojbjfev>that ( His gospel must be published. We may ( try to excuse our silence by sayipg that ! actions speak, louder than words,, .and so , if our life is right, speech is unnecessary. ( It is true that the life may be eloquent, and ought to be. It is true that words , without works are like faith without works < ?dead. But no excuse that we can frame , will satisfy Christ for our dumbness. More J than once He healed men who were pos- i sessed by dumb devils, and it must grieve , Him that so many of His people in our day are similarly afflicted. My brother, it' ( you have a dumb spirit, let Christ cast it out, that the string of your tongue being , loosed, you may speak the reconciliating , word. A commercial traveler recency stood in my study and gave me a chaDter in his his- ] tory. Ten years ago he had fallen so low through sin that he was utterly forsaken, j cast out even by his own wife. One night he wandered into a Chicago mission, where j he heard someHhing about the love of God. He went back every night for a week and ! listened. Chords that were broken began 1 to vibrate once more. On the seventh night, after the' mission service, Le groped hi- way through the darkness to an o!d board fence near the house where his wife lived, and there behind that fence threw < himself down, hoping that when morning f dawned he might peep through the cracks, i and see at the window yonder his little i child, whom he Avas no longer permitted t to visit. As the eastern sky began to f fli.ek witW Tiromisp of the dawn, wearv and 1 hungry antf lonely and heart-sick, he "crept ud to the feet of Jesus. "And preatly to my surprise,"' he said. "Christ didn't scold me. He knew I'd beeti sco'.ded enough already. And He didn't give me nny adv'ce, either. I'd long ago had plenty of that. No," he added, with trembling . voice. "Jesus just loved me." And when the sun got above the horizon that morning a brighter light was lilling all the chamDers of his heart. He has a beautiful home now, and everywhere he goes is telling what a dear Saviour he has found. Are some of you out in the darkness?homesick and sin-sick? Creep up to the pierced feet. He'll not scold you. He'iJ not advise you. He'll just love you?love you out of your .shameful failure and los.?. into the glorious gain of His cross, out of earth's sorrows into His balm, out of life's etorm 1 and into His calm, out of distress to jubilant psalm. Children of God. apostles of Jesus, as love was the master passion of turn whom f the Father aent, bo must love be the roo- i Btraimnc motive of us whom the Son t r. . Beads. Humanity responds to the tooeh of love. Around on the sonny side of even the most frigid man there is always a dooi that opens to the pressure of a loving heart. "Thou hast loved my soul from the pit," esclaimed Hezekiah, as he looked back at his alarming illness; as if God, bending over His prostrate servant, bad used His great heart as a magnet to lilt the sufferer from the grave. lx>ve magnetized Hezekiah from death. Be ye, therefore, imitators of God, Paul urges, and walk in love even as Christ also loved you. As His sent ones, we are to go about loving people out of sin into forgiveness, out of unrest into peace. Constrained, impelled, urged on, held irresistibly to one aim by the love of Christ, we are sent to those yet in enmity against God, to love them into fellowship with Him. Continuing, as we do, Christ's mission, our parish i6 the world. As He was sent into the world, even so'has He also sent us. His comm?acTta.-RlBke disciples of all the nations has : never been repealed. Within every Christian church 1 wish there hung a chart, constructed on the ba sis of Acts i:8: "Ye shall be witnesses unto Me, both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the utlerinodt part of the earth." Four-concentric circles. A picture of the local church at the centre. The inner cirrie at the top, "In all Judea:" at the bottom, "State's Missions." The third circle at the top, "In Samaria:" at the bottom, "Home Missions." The outer circle at the top. "Onto the Uttermost Parts of the Earth;" at the bottom, "Foreign Missions." Across them all in the shape of a cross." "Preach the gospel to every creature:" "The Field ia the World." A sinful world,.-where men and women are dying without God and without hope. A sorrowful world, where bleeding hearts need bandaging,- where many a man never sees the stars flhine through his cypress trees. A covetous world, where greed supplants creed, where the book of truth and the bottles of hell are struggling for the supremacy; where, with eyes blinded by the god of this age. many are hastenins to become rich, falling into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. Into such a world are we sent, vet must we keep ourselves unspoiled '? ??i-i ? -r it irom tne woriu. XI10 npurc UI iuc eau Jesus immediately followed with His figure of the light. While mingling'with people, as salt is mixed with that which needs reservation, we must be as lights, above and shining down upon the world. Sometimes in the hoiy mount with the transfigured Christ, then down among the people with the demoniac boy; keeping close to the Master while keeping touch of the world; laying hold of sinful man with one hand and the sinless Man with the other, and bringing them face to face. It is profitable to note Christ's interpretation of His own mission, and to read oui mission in the light of that interpretation. Hear His words: "I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me. As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you. I came not to call the righteous, but sinner? tc repentance. As My Father hath sent Me, even sd send I you. The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many. As My Father hath sent Me, even qo send I you. The Son of man came to sei.'k and to save that which was lost. As Mv Father hath sent Me, even so send I you. He came to minister, and He ministered to all classes. He welcomed influential Nicodemus, and explained to him the Dew birth. He took eaual pains with the de spised woman of Samaria, and drew foi I er the living water. The two accounts are placed side by side.' During His life Uo Yv,;nn,la/4 niifli nnnr! in Hi* death He made His grave with the rich in ordei that He might save both. So is the wil' ol God in Christ Jesus concerning us. Wf are saved to serve. With hands full oJ helpful charity, with a word in season tc him that is weary, with a heart at leisure from itself to soothe and sympathize, wt are ajnt to bring ourselves into contact with humanity at the point of need. Ourselves, mark you, not merely our substance. The human soul is cavernous in its hunger, not lor things, but for folks, It is easier often to give money than self, It takes less prayer, and necessitates lesd nervous expenditure. Jesus touched men, and virtue went out of Him. Ho gave llis life. As a ransom that gift was unique in its value and effec;. As an offering for sin it can never be duplicated. Yet ma; we, in some true sense, give ourselves, as He gave Himself. We may present out bodies a living sacrifice. We may pour out our lives on tne altar of the church's faith, and count it a joy, as Paul did. We may imitate the devotion which burned in the bosom and blazed in the life of my revered teacher, Martin Brewer Anderson, who used to say: "It has been the purpose of my life to live as far as I might for othprs; like my divine Master, to give myself for them, and so far to renew in myself that perfect life." In view of our mighty mission, are we in weakness, and in fear and in much trembling? Let us be comforted by our Lord's intercessory prayer. He guarantees YVHpn Hp sneakfi ? I'umpicic C4uiymv<>Ki ,, _ of sending us into the world. His word means more than a mere sending. It implies an official, authoritative commission, together with the necessa-y equipment. As the.;;Father equipped Him for His ministry, so He tHoroughly furnishes us unto every good work. He was anointed with the Holy Ghost an l with power. Ye shall receive power, said He, when the Holy Ghost is come upon you, aud ye shall be My witnesses. For witness-bearing the arift of the Spirit is Resolutely essential. We must tarry until we are endued. We may be richly endowed without being endued at all. Once, we are tojd. it took one sermon to convert C000 souls; now it takes 3000 sermons to convert one ?.<oul V the statement be true, the reason is clear. The Pentecostal messenger was Spiritfi!lea. We must tarry for the promise of the Father before we can carry th: gospel of che Son. Equipped with power, we are given n message. Jesus went about teaching and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. As the Father sent Him even so sends iie u*. When a man gets the tongue of fire his theme is not politics or sociology, not literature or science, not the popular topics of business or society, but the mighty works of God. Paul told Timothy that the Lime would come when men would not en dure Bound doctrine, but, naving iwrnuji ears, would heap to themselves teachers nfter their own lusts. If churches have itching ears they can always find teachers md preachers who are filling to Mcratch their ears. But ear-scratchers are not ambassadors. In our ministry of reconei.iation we have hut one message?th?; word sf reconciliation. God has committed it to us; or, as Paul says, God has deposited it in us; as if it is a sacred treasure which ive are to preserve carefully and bear faithfully to others. Parents and teachers and fellow workers jnto the kingdom of God, while continuing the mission of Jesus who came to seek and to save that which was lost, may G?d pivc pou and me the unspeakable joy not only if turning men and women from darkens to light, out also of leading many of the itt!e ones to Him who carries the Iambs n His bosom. JLet U8 ise TnaaKim* Let us be thankful that we arc a'ivc. Just to live is pood. There are doubtless some who find life bitter and sad, but ever, ivith most of these their dejection is only i n.atter of mood, which come- r.nd goes, md is only now and then present with its ;ioom. Let eveu such souls rejoice that, nowever dismal they may feel at timfcs. :hey are not always in the shadows. And ivhen it is light for them, as it is always 'or many of us, how good it is to be alive! Let us be tnankful for the world. It is lot a perfect world, but all that GoJ has rtade is very good. The only evil is of >ur introducing. And what men brought n can some day be cast out. What God hade, meaning it to endure, is all good, for all the beautv and goodness of God's ,vork in the world let ur be glad. Let us be thankful for what of God's ioi e we do not understand?for the sor nw and loss, for the flood and earthquake. or the pain and discipli . Some day w ;hall understand the meaning of it all, and je clad that it was as it was. Let us reoice in the thought now.?Christiau Enleavor. God's Purpose*. The 6urest method of arriving at a knowledge of God's eternal purpoios about is is to be found in the right use of the ire.ent moment.?=F. W. Faber. i . : *... ... ( * ' '' V - * t tore&KfiCst abrouife At Data. Gloriovs, golden dawn! From, the locked., chambers of the night thou (^most 4 | To waken sleepy earth. Speechless herald! Thou touchest lovI : IL. i? I.L.1. ?A ? J jiigij luc muuuuuu peaivs mat Jsianu immovable, And with thy warmth of splendor dost dissolve the mists of centuries From the eyes of ever-wakening truth. Golden, glorious dawn! The wheels of time that ever onward move, Carrying with them all of life's endeavor. Turn ever round, and in the gorgeous splendor of thy quickening power Upward epeed. { Autumn radianie in the valley resting! Borrowing from thy life to spread o'er nature's home, Rich covering of warmth and light, Herald of life.eternal! Thee we praise and in our praising Find God, and in His temple kneel. ?S. Mabel Cohen, i 1 " | Serving Christ at fifame. Charles Spurgeon once sajd: "When . home is ruled according to Goal's word, angels might be asked to stay a night with | us, and they would not find themselves , out of their element," and'it is a home of that kind that invites our attention toda.v. To serve Christ in the home ~ia a [ great thing, for if we serve Him there j Bervice outside will be natural and 6&sy I and no higher praise c&n be given .one than the praise of private virtue that is spoken [ of by those who know the home life, and especially when this praise comes irom I servants or others *ho come to know us just as we are, rather than aq we appear. [ in the home, as elsewhere, Christ is to be , served by obedience to parents, and the . child that does not do this is not serving . Christ, even though he may wear nice . clothes and go to church and take part in j meeting. Sometimes I have seen boys and . girls that did not obey and I always felt ! sorry for them. They are unhappy them, selves, .and- make others#unhappy, and usually grow up to be of little use. On the other hand, it is a beautiful sight to ee$ children render cheerful obedience to their parents. They are happy and make | others happy and grow ud to be useful , men and women. Will you serve Christ . by obedience to your parents? Christ is served in the home by symJ pathy, and in the home wnere He dwells we find -v. i "That sorrow flows from eye to eye And joy from heart to heart." ; In such a home there is kindness, and each one vies with the other in manifestations of tenderest sympathy. We serve Christ in the home by truth fulness. It is a bad thing for any one : to lie, and no liar can enter into the kingdom of God. I once knew a little girl that ' was in the habit of telling falsehoods and after she grew up. even her own mother Baid that she could never tell when her ! daughter was telling the truth. Juniors, * won't you pray for .aU.?uch that they may \ repent and ask Gbd to forgive them and i heln them. to be truthful? [ "Love is the .golden chain that binds" us ! to each other in our homes, and we should be tender and affectionate to each other, | or we will not serve our Master. To 1 serve Christ in our homes we must be like ! Him, "Kind to one another, tender ' heartea, forgiving each other" In such a house as this Christ finds a dwelling pl^ce. He is the head of such a house, the unseen guest at every meal and the silent listener to every conversation.?J. C. B. | Stivers. , j Those Who Would Have Must Give. What would you think of a ror that , would say to itself, "I cannv, afford to give away to strangers all m., beauty and sweetness; I must keep it f<?r mvself. I will roll up my petals of beautv; I will withhold this fragrance for myself. J,t is wasieiui extravagance 10 give ineae imngs away." But behold, the moment it tries to store up, to withhold theon from others, they vanisn. The fragrance, the beauty, do not exist in the -unopened bud. It is only when the rose begins to open itself, to exhibit its petals, to give its secret, its life, to others, that the beauty and fragrance are developed. So selfishness defeats its own ends. He who refuses to give himself for others, who closes the petals of his helpfulness | and withholds the fragrance of nis sympathy and love, finds that he loses the very tmngs he hoped to gain. The very BDrings of his manhood dry up. His finer r.ature becomes petrified. He grows deaf to the cries of nelp from his feliowmen. His tears are dried up and he stares at misfortune without wincing. Refuse to open your purse, and soon yoa cannot open your sympathy. Refuse to love, and soon you lose the power to love. Your affections are paralyzed, your sympathy atrophied from disuse, and you become a moral cripple. But the moment you open wider tn? door of your narrow life, and, like th? rose, send out freely your fragrance and I beauty upon ey^ry passerby, whethei" peasant or millionaire, you begin to develop a marvelous power.?Success. God's Choice. ' V j When the choice lies between happiness and usefulness, God always chooses the latter for His children. This is the key to many a mystery. We seek joy, God seeks fruit. We pray for comfort, God sends tri(d. Not because He is unfeeling, but because He loves us too much to fjlease us by injuring us. The care-free ife is not the cared-for life. The crown shines brightest upon the forehead where pain has plowed her deepest furrow. That life is -the loveliest which has been chiseled - * .1 it- _t 1. i.?i | into Deauiy Dy ine snarpcat iuuj uj. dwirow. God is aiming at usefulness, not limited to earth, but reaching past all etars and compassing eternity. God has chosen us, and into Hie plan is woven both to-day and to-morrow and the eternal years; and He will not give us the happiness of to-day if that can only be purchased by the diminished happiness of to-morrow. The most useful men to-day are not our happiest men. Our sorrow may be our best helper as we set ourselves resolutely to our life's work. ?ZionV Herald. Practice Ground. Kindness, gentleness, consideration for all with whom our earthly lot is cast? these form the practice ground for the ultimate satisfaction of the communion of saints in Heaven. Gentle Speech. A single bitter word may disquiet an fomilv fnr a wholp dnv. One surlv glance casts a gloom over the household, while a smile of sunshine may light up the darkest and weariest hours. Like unexpected flowers which finring up along our footpain, full of freshness, fragrance an'd beauty, so kind words, and gentle acts, and sweet dispositions make glad the sacred spot called home. No matter how humble the abode, if it be sweetened with kindness and smiles the heart will turn longingly toward it from all the tumult of the world, and home, if it Be ever so humble, will be the 'Hearrst spot beneath the circuit of the sun. Knisia's Heonoinlc Condiiion. According to a confidential report presented to the Czar by the Controller of the State in 1902 the arrears in. annual payments by the peasants for the redemption of land distributed among them at the time of their emancipation has increased from 94,000,000 roubles in 1S97 to 121,300,000 last year. This bare fact is regarded as typical of the crushing burden under which the agricultural peasants are working, and is illustrative of the general Af + V?o /innnifnr Tiln onmA ciuuuiiJiv; ncucc ui Aug oc*ui\. report speaks most pessimistically of industrial conditions. Over 100,000,000 roubles had been loaned up to the beginning of this year by the state banks for the maintenance of unbound firms, particularly in the metal industry. s flbkbl TEE SUNDAY SCHOoiSj international lesson comment* H for january 3. h9 'v ^H33l /Subject- The Boyhood of Jesna, Luke 11* 40-52 ? Golden Text, Lake H?, c?~" Memory Verges, 49-51?Commentary' SH on the Day's Lesson. SB I. The growth and advancement ok Jeeus (vb. 40, 52). 40. "The child grew. ^H| From this verse and verse 52 we learn that Jesus had a human body and eoul? HP He was a.genuine boy and grew like otbei boys, but He wa<? sinless. Evil had n<> place in Him. "Strong in spirit." In mind, intellect and understanding. "Filled Witt flB 3 JJ "IT- ._! /? ? tviBuum. ne was cminenx. ior wjbuuuj- HKfg even when a child. "Grace of Gdd- fiBflj Grace commonly means favor. God war pleased with Hira and showed Hi? favoi. and blessed Him. 52. "Increased in wisdom and stature. In the perfection of Hie divine nature there could be no increase^ but this ie M spoken of His human nature. H II. Jesus in Jerusalem (v*. 41; . 42). 4h 8 "The Passover." There were three prin? M cipal feasts of the Jews. The Passover i? -gj April, the Pentecost near the first of JuBe, S and the feast of the Tabernacles in Octo- fl ber. All males over twelve years of age h were required to attend these feasts im* less they had a legitimate excuse. The w name expresses the design of the celebrA? tion. The destroying angel "passed over"1 the Hebrews. 42. "Twelve years old.''. At the age ol iweive a oewian Doy oecume "a aon 01 tae i law," and came under the obligation of 1 obeying all its precepts, including attend*" ance at the Passover. It was nrobable that " % this was the first time that Jesus had been m in Jerusalem at this feast. To a boy whe had never been outside the hills of Nazae aB reth, the journey to. .Jerusalem, the ap* pearance of the city at this time, filled, ae? ' cording to Josephus, with more than two tfl and a half millions of-people, a sight of H the temple, the preparations for the feast -jw and especially the feast itself, must have been on imposing .sight. n Illl Jesus lost (vs. 43-45). ."Had ful filied the days." Eight, days in all?One H the Passover, and seven the days- of un- ' ieavened bread.' "Tamed behind." Luke neither tells us that Jesus remained behind at Jerusalem unintentionally, no^ H that Joseph and Mary lost sight of Him BG through want of nccessary care. A circum- H stance' must have been omitted, and .we may safely suppose that Joseph and Mary *.. ' '-H joined their elder fellow-travelers in the persuasion that Jesus, who knew of the, .'-^Hl time and place of departure, was among H tae younger ones. The more Mary was accustomed to trust to His obedience and v wisdom, the less necessary would it be always co watch Him. .An involuntary mis- H| take, of whatever kind it might be, sep* flg arated the child from the parents. Jesus Hfl| was so intensely interested in the rabbis ERB that He failed to start with tjie'cara'van on the homeward journey. "Knew not of it." This shews the perfect confidence they , ^ had in the boy. He was probably a a far advanced in judgment as an ordinary A youth many years i?is senior. A 44. "In the company." Jesus had en* ' dently been allowed a more than usual amount of liberty of action, as a child, - Hi by parents who had never known. Sim to transgress their commandments or be guilty of a sinful or foolish deed. 45< Found Him not." They had probably left in the night to avoid the heat of the vflj day, and in the confusion Jesus is lost. 9 The boy had evidently been in company jfl with some of their friends, and the time ? of the departure of the caravan was thor* oushly understood. H rV. Jesus, found (v. 46). 40. "Aitet n three dayri?' An idiom for "on the third jfl day;" one day for their departure, one for. * their return and one for the search. H ''They found Him." Jerusalem was over crowded with millions of people packed into a small area, and they had none of M thf> fn whioS wp irmiM at nnM W tor assistance in searching for a lost child ' fl in a great city. "In the temple." Joseph and Mary evidently knew where they ffi would be most likely to find Him. Jesus' I was probably in one of the porches of the court of . the women, whore the school* B of the rabbis were held. "In the midst 9 of the doctors." Teachers of the law, B Jewish rabbis. "Asking them, question's." K X he questions were no doubt suggested I by their teaching. V H V. Jesus astonishing His hearers (vs. fl *7-50). 47. "Astonished." The^Gredc - s-fl word is very forcible. ' The impo<4>. isr ^ that they were in a transport of astonigh- ? ment, and struck with admiration. "At ^ Jfl His understanding." He brought with Hub-""" ffl a clear knowledge of God's word in which fl no doubt. He had been versed from earliest fears. They had never heard one so young, . ]fl nor indeed, their greatest doctors, talk - fl sense at the rate He did. 48. "Amazed.:r 'fl To see such honor given to their boy, and . v- fl to see such boldness in holding a ais<iusiion with these learned men. "Why," etc. This was the mildest sort of a re- >/. $ proof, and was probably given privately. "Thy father." This form of spt cb waa necessary for how else could she speak? She had probably never told her Son of the peculiar circumstances connected with His birth. "Soupht Thee Borrowing." Being not only troubled that we- had lofct Thee, but vexed at ourselves for not taking more care of Thee. The word here rendered sorrowing is expressive of great anguish. 49. "How is it that ye sought Me?" This is no reproachful question. It i? ' asked in all tne simplicity and boldness of holy childhood. lie is apparently astonished that He should, have been sought, or even thought of. anywhere else than in the only place which He felt to be properly His home. "Wist." Know. "About Mv Father's business." Sec R'. V. "In My Father's hou6e*' unnecessarily narrows the fulness of the expression. Better, in the things or affair/? of My Father, in that whicn belongs to His honor and glory. 50. "Understood not." They did not yet understand His mission. His first recorded utterance is too deep for them. Jesus was a mystery to His parents, and He has been a mystery to the world ever since. VI. Jesus subject to His parents (v. 51). 51. "Went down with thiem." If His heart drew Him to the temple, the voice, of duty called Him back to Galilee; . t and perfect even in childhood, He yielded implicit obedience to this voipe. "To Nazareth." Here He remained eighteen year* longer. These were years of growth and preparation for His great life work. "Whs subject unto them." There :s something wonderful beyond measure in the thoughfc^^-JM o: Him unto Whom all things are sul^?et submitting to earthly parents. No/such honor was ever done to angejp^S"iva8 now done to Joseph and Mary; Great r?en have learned first to obe^ That general could not eommandjywfmy if by most severe discipline hejsad not learned to obey, That college patient could not fill hig position if he /ad nut learned this lesson. It as a sign J not of abjectness, but of greatness, be subject to law. "In her heart." ^Expecting that hereafter they would breexplained to her and she would understand them fully. #/^Thy Bismarck Wu Dropped. ^ ? ond .'onca^iAnul wrflion Ol the reason for the Emperor's dismissal of the late Prince Bismarck from the Chancellorship of the empire in March, 1890. in printed by newspapers in (iermany. Th? story is that when Emperor William asked Prince Bismarck to explain why he was iiegotiaUng witii Dr. Windthorst, the Catholic leader, without consulting His Majesty, the ?'onvenation became hot. Prince Bismarck was no angry that he raised an inkstand against ni* imperial piaster. The story was lo'.d by Moritz ^2 Kgidy, who received it from the King cf ?Jjnnv < ; -vt7 Find* Kadlam in Utah Ore. Professor Alexander H. Phillips, cf Princeton University, has discovered radium in carnolite. an ore found in Utah an.d possibly in other of the Rocky Moun tarn etates. ile has louna on experimenting that from twenty-five pounds of carnolite a sample of radio active barium chloride can be obtained which will give about 1500 activity. ^ Destiny of Shamrock's Mast. The Hteel mast of the yacht Shamrock III., which was presented to Cape May by Captain Charles Barr, who bought the Shamrock, wUl be pl&ced in a public square dn New Cape May by the Pittsburg syndi- * ~~?- Ti. U .? 1K1 t VJALC. 1U1 ICU^bJJ Ui A<JO ittv "TV flat cars to carry it, , J