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V i J u Am ati Jy/MIL |8j Anna Katharine Green, J COPYRIGHT, 1890, BY R< CHAPTER XXIV, Continued. : " 'Tell your friend to stay,' he pleaded in the lawyer's ear, but not so low I could not hear him. 'He makes me think of the brother I lost years ago? brother I loved. I cannot bear to feee him go away. He makes me remember the days of my youth.' " 'He is only going for a physician^ i Tou need a stimulant and whatever help a practitioner can give you. He Will not be absent long. There must be a doctor in the neighborhood.' " 'Yes. ves. across the street, but I k do not like him, he Is stern and un' feeling. Let another one come; but don't let this gentleman go for one, I should hate to die before he comes back.' "Touched by this mark of feeling In toy behalf, I started quickly for the door. " 'I will not be gone ten minutes,' I declared, and was rewarded by a smile, the sweetness of which I have not yet forgotten. "When I returned with the eminent physician, Doctor Dowife, I noticed that the countenance of both the sick man and the lawyer wore a changed air. The former was excited, even more than -when I left him, while the latter cast upon me very peculiar looks. As the doctor moved toward the bed, I asked the meaning of these looks, -whereupon my friend whispered: " 'He has been asking the longest string o.f questions about you. He wanted to know how you lived, what were your characteristics, and whether you had a name for uprightness and honor, We have talked of nothing else mU/ia hnrA V\nnr\ rrr\nn UUC JVUiOCii. OIUV.C JVU Uft*C uccu and I shonld certainly think he contemplated leaving you a legacy if he had not shown such satisfaction at hearing you had a fine fortune of your own.' " 'Bah!' was all my reply to this; but I began to feel uncomfortable and (wish I had not been tempted to accompany my friend. ? " 'He must make some sort-of a will or there will be an eadJefisS litigation,' the lawyer now remarlsed. *1' wish he had relatives. What is a man to do \vith a fortune who owns no human tie and has no, time left in which to make one.' | " 'There are the charities.' I "The lawyer shrugged his shoulders. Evidently he was not of a decidedly philanthropic turn. t "At this point the doctor joined us. 1 "'Well?' asked the lawyer, with some anxiety. " 'He has only about two hours to live.'" CHAPTER XXV. ' - ? I THE SURPRISES OF AN H0TJB. ^ j- "At this verdict of the ?doctor," repumed Mr. Degraw, of Cleveland, "an raBk (exclamation of sympathy left our lips. Only two hours in which to enjoy the possession of a fortune, after years of SttM^ftwearing penury and want! Only two HfigSRhours in which to gauge his new reMBH^BBponsibllitles, and determine upon whom SEgSSHor what he would lay this burden of HXKHjwealth otherwise useless to him. It Sura^EBeemed like mockery, and it awoke in Sfl^Ane a feeling almost akin to fear. SBE^Hu'hough I laughed at .the surmises of S$8jEBhe lawyer, I knew ;tbat the mind of man fhno /I ni TTATI iri^A Q nfinn of TWBraj^BUV UJtlU) iUUO V?4* I ?uw/ ?AN*WAA MV S^Bg weakest ebb and under the pressure SHfrcKf death, would be and must be necesjaOBMjWLrilv influenced by the. minds of gSERBHose about him, and 'I refused such g&NBlflBponsibility, and longed to escape gSgrareBom the scene and Its possible conIgSraNXquences. "But when I turned to look at the SggnKlylng man, I felt that it would be fiNNffiHbruelty for me to leave one who manljKjgS^wfestly clung to me with such desperate and unreasoning persistence. He sBSK would not, in all probability, refuse my request If I entreated permission to P*.".. go; would not, perhaps, lift his hand to stop me if be saw me turn again to wara ice aoor, out i snou-iu never lorget his look for all that, or feel comfortable at its remembrance. What-r ever the result might be I must linger till he himself said good-bye, for since we could not give him the peaceful and comfortable surroundings which he craved, we must at least grant him the sympathy and interest which might serve to make him forget his surroundings. "I had bought a great bunch of white roses while I was out, and these I now brought forward and placed on his? breast,- with the remark that I thought be would like something beautiful to look at. "Instantly the tears welled in his eyes, and he moved his hands feebly and buried them among the blossoms. " 'My mother's garden used to be famous for its roses,' said he. 'Frank \and I used to pelt each other with thpm. You could not have broueht me \ anything that -would make me happier ^than these.' **His nfeasure was gratifying, and yet as if I had done something:^. **&|ray of influencing his "Mrr^wragK^IW^ntly agreed with my feelinf^S^fe^.letter, for he gave me a queecv-Swl^^p^^ again ap"f'l am sorry to tronblfcy$fl#/he 20w said, addressing the dyin^xM$i3ftyt as a lawyer and a citize^i?OTl^5t tocumbent upon me to suggeetti^ttvybu should make a will, Mr. Deiancy.. If vou do not. there will be morOTrotng iing and litigation after your"death than before it, and this, I have no doubt, you wish to avoid.' " 'Yes, yes.' "'Shall I listen to your wishes, then? Have you decided to what friend or friends you would like to leave this ' money ?' j '* 'I hare decided,' said the sick man. 1 wish it all to go to one person.' J " 'No matter how large tbe sum may I ber , ; ' / ::-k i- v v. 'ER - P .LIONS. Jl L U I Author of "The Forsaken 1' \ Ina," Etc. J ISERT BONNER'S SONS. J ' "'No matter how large the sum is; the larger the better, I say. Ah! this is a delight after years of rain desire and want.' "The lawyer drew up a small table, placed upon it writing materials, and began to fill in the draft of a will which he had brought with him. While he was doing this I talked with ?the Ar\*\kf\T? on/1 lonf cn/?V? QCoicffl T1f>0 fl C "WJ1C ^UULlV/1, auu itij C ouvu uwuiuvuuvv mm i. ?w necessary to make the dying man comfortable and keep up his strength. When it came time /or him to name the person to whom he wished to leave his money I withdrew as far from him as possible, but the room was too small for me to escape hearing the eager whisper that left Mr. Delancy's lips, even if the words had not been the familiar ones: " 'Hamilton Degraw.' -v " 'You wish?'the lawyer stammered, as much taken back as I was myself. " 'To leave all my property, real and personal, to this gentleman, whose name you say is Hamilton Degraw.' " 'But,' I now cried, with an embarrassment easily to be understood; 'I am a stranger to you; as much of a stranger as either of these gentlemen. I pray you to reconsider this matter. I do not need your wealth. Besides?' I " 'Tlnn't waata nrorlrmc mnmontR ' he entreated, "with a burst of his ominous cough. 'You are a stranger, but you have a face like my brother Frank. He,was the most loyal soul alive, and so I believe are you. And that is what I want; loyalty and truth in my heir. They will both be needed, I forewarn you. Write down the name,' he now commanded the lawyer, 'and be sure you make the will legal or I will rise from my grave to reproach you.' "There was no use in trying further discussion. He was in full possession of his faculties, as even the doctor was ready to swear, but he was growing very weak, and opposition robbed him of even the slight remains of strength which were still left him. Mr. Cutting, who was pale as the paper on which he wrote, put down my name, as requested, and then, asking the doctor to call in his man from the buggy before the door he put the pen in the dying man's fingers and watched him breathlessly, as we all did?I no more than the rest?while he scrawled those few lines which In one moment raised me from a gentleman of respectable means into a man of fortune. "The sigh of relief which followed the completion of his signature came from his breast, not mine. I was in a daze, and realized little of the Importance of the moment I did not even fully comprehend the looks of pardonable astonishment and good-natured sympathy that passed between the two professionals present, or notice when or how the witnesses affixed their Tinmen thta mnst hnrripd ?nd TP markable of wills. I was only conscious of a great oppression, as if a burden under -which I felt unable to stagger had just fallen upon my shoulders, and was greatly relieved when the sick man called me by name and said'" 'Now I am going to tell you what I wish you to do with this money if these gentlemen will only leave us alone.' "The lawyer, who had just stepped fnrwrtrH fn nflfpr mo hie hnnrl in rnn gratulation, stopped and looked as if he did not know -whether to continue this ceremony or not. But -when he observed my relieved countenance he grew Quite cheerful, and warmly wringing my hand whispered: " 'It is a matter of three million, Degraw; so be careful what you promise.' "I stared; I could not take to the figures at first, but when I did I felt actually chilled as if a dash of cold water had been thrown upon me. Three million! I hardily dared to look the reckless giver of this fortune in the eye. Three million! And two hours before I had neither heard his name nor be mine. 'What mystery!' thought I; 'I hope he "will tell Hie what he "wants me to do with all this money.' "The two gentlemen had by *his time -withdrawn into the hall, the doctor whispering as he passed me: " 'Raise your voice if you see him going, mere js noming more we can do-for him now but close his eyes.' "A task which it seemed for the moment as it we should not be called upon to perform, for when I turned toward him he already lay like one in his last rest, saTe that his hands still moved among the blossoms I had given him. But when he felt me near he raised his heavy eyelids and beamed upon me with an inexplicable smile that was at once sad and searching. " 'Will it be a great disappointment to you to lose the use of the money I have just put into your hands?' "My cheeks flushed; it was a little hard to see the prospect of so much wealth dissolve into nothing, with a suddenness equal to its coming, but my tone, I am sure, showed no real regret as I answered: " 'It is your wealth, and I have nol the shadow -of a claim upon it. What ever you wish me to do with it I will do; that you may rely upon.' " 'Even if it involves trouble and sacrifice?' " 'Most decidedly.' " 'Ah, providence is kind to send mc just the man I need in my extremity. Receive my thanks, and forgive mc that I seemed to give you personally what I only meant to give you in trust sfor another. Why I felt it necessary to. do this you will understand -when 1 tell you that my real heir is as yet a pereonvunknown?a person for -whom 1 have notstime to seek, and for whom " l t. ^ you yourselfmussi-iow* aa &wuu us uy portunity offers.' " 'But ' X " 'I will tell yoxKexactly what she must be. She must youn?, beautiful, charming and coodXSbe most be ! a resident of New Yor^ 1^1 she must 1 f * 1 *> I X < I * \ ^ ' ' r>~ m hareuft>r her name th? simple one of Jenny Rogers. That is all I ask. Whe* you find such a girl, and have studied hnv nkovanf/tw ?n/mir*v\ frt tnattt 4viot ehn U^A ViittiaV.lCl cuuuj^u iU JauvTT IUO v cue; will do me credit as my heir, then I ask you to hand over to her, by deed of gift, all the fortune "which for eo many years has been -without benefit to man or woman.' "I Etood aghast. What sort of a proposition was this! Was not the man in sound mind, after all? Some girl, any girl, who bore a certain name and fulfilled certain conditions, was to reap tne Denent or tnree minion dollars, and I "was to be the man to c-boose this girl! "He saw my perplexity aDd shook his head in seeming trouble. " 'You shrink from the ta6k!' he exclaimed. 'You cannot understand -why I impose upon you the burden of such a responsibility. But whom shall I ask to bear It If not you? I have not a friend; I am dying, and my only hope of peace lies in the thought that this wealth, which has come so late, shall adorn the life and elicit the gratitude of some one bearing the name that is so dear to me.' 41 'It is the name, then,' I cried, 'which is of importance. You do not care so much for her station in life, though, of course, this must be rt* spectable.' " 'I only'care that she shall be lo?ely to look at, pure of soul and kind:y in spirit. I had rather she were no* otherwise favored by fortune. I should like to have her raised suddenly into prosperity. If she is the girl I see in my mind's eye, she will not be spoiled by it.' " 'But "Jenny Rogers!" It-is a common name; I shall run across a dczen or more in a great city nue wew lorjr/ " 'You will know my heiress when you see her; real worth always shows in the face. Besides, you will have ample opportunity to choose among them. I give you a year, Mr. Degraw, and as this understanding between us is secret no one need ever know the reason of your Interest In these girls till you see fit to make the deed I request. Oh, It is a drqam of mine! -May I hope to see it fulfilled?' "I felt like saying 'No;' I felt like tearing up the will he had just signed, and so shirk a task that at this moment seemed too bizarre for any quiet man's performance. But the expression of his eyes stopped me. I could not refuse what was so dear to this dying man. Though trouble and annoyance must follow, I resolved to make the promise which would send him out of the world in peace. " 'I will do what you wish,' I declared. 'I will visit New York, make the acquaintance of such girls as are known to bear this name, and when I have found one that in my judgment is worthy to become the possessor of three million I will make your fortune over to her. Is that all you require?' " 'Yes, yes, but three million!' " 'That is the amount, I am told.' "A radiant delight overspread his pallid countenance. ( " 'Ah, it will make a queen of the girl you choose. In my grave I shall feel her pleasure. Though I could not do this for thee, sweet Jenny,' he exclaimed, lifting one arm to heaven with an energy that surprised me, 'I can, at least, do it for one who shall mirror thy rare nature and bear thy beloved name!' "This look and the accompanying gesture were a revelation. " 'It is, then, for the sake of a Jenny Rogers you once knew that you desire this disposition of your money?' I ventured, anxious to learn if the cause which influenced him to this action was a natural one. I -* " * ?- i - J tAV. if "'xes, yes," oe cneu. uu, n. mj strength would only last till I could tell you of her gentle beauty, her heavenly pity, the sweetness of her looks and the comfort of her words to me in the days when I was such an invalid that I could not answer her back or even smile when she handed me in a flower at my broken window! To be continued. Originated From Accident!. It is curious to note that many things which have turned out most useful discoveries for man, having great influence upon tho lives and destinies of mankind, owe their beginning to 6ome slight accident. It is said that the art of printing took its origin from some rude impressions taken (for the amusement of children) from letters curved on the bark of a beech tree. Gunpowder was discovered from the falling of a spark on some materials mixed in mortar. The stupendous results of the steam engine may all be traced to the boy who sat watching the steam which came from the nose of a teakettle. Electricity was discovered by a person observing that a piece of rubbed glass attracted 6maH bits of paper. Pendulum clocks were invented after Galileo stood observing the lamp in a church swinging to and fro. The telescope we owe to some children of a spectacle maker placing two or more pairs of spectacles before each other, and looking through them at the distant sky. Their idea was followed up by olikT heads. Qnenclied. ?The young man was orating in oratund. His genuflections were things to hear. His impassioned gestures clearly proved tnat ne was wen up in physical culture. Whenever be paused for breath he congratulated himself , that he was doing this thing in style. . "Light of my eyes," he concluded, and then stood, so. "Oh, come off the perch/' she said, I in a rasping and strident voice. The young man did immediately . come off the perch -with an admirable ' promptitude. 1 It will be seen that she didn't care to be the light of his eyes. Therefore, adroitly did she thus turn off the gas. ?New York Sun. , Manufacturing Butterflies. Collectors of butterflies have discovered a worse ill than the "breaking on the wheel" of their favoiytes. Men with much ingenuity and no conscience make butterflies to order. That is to say. they take the common"nnni ? ? ??> AAw 1? ! m ATTfit* TT7 5 f ll Q , t'SL ftptrUAIUCiJ, > CiaCCl UJlXt UW& Hivu u : thin paste, and then so deftly apply delicate metallic powders of various colors that the mother of that same common or garden butterfly would not know it from a real and wonderful red admiral or other choice specimen. There is a great flutter among the museums and private collections.?Lon? don Express. 7 ' , Y t _ * < A SERMON FOR SUNDA1 AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLE "BREAD UPON THE WATERS." The Rev. Edward Nile* Declares Thai tl Opinion of the TZorldly Economist ] Not a Supreme Court Whose Decision Are Binding on the Christian. Brooklyn. N. Y.?Sunday morning, i Ue White Cnurch (Bushwick Avenue R formed) the pastor, Rev. Edward Nile preached on "Bread Upon the Waters The text was from Ecclesiastes xi: i "Cast thy bread upon the waters, for the shalt find it after many days." Mr. Nil* said: The book of Ecclesiastes is the life r view of the wisest and richest man of h day. Every statement has been tested. A young man might have said the san thing with equal eloquence and convi tion, but the impression on the mind < the elderly reader would be, ''Yes, his ai vice is all very well in theory, but win does he know about life?" The words of the aged Solomon are ope to no such criticism. Our text is the nr of the bhort, pithy sentences with whit the teachings of his wonderful career a summed up. In thought he goes back to the ear days of his reign, Then his country w; insignificant. Jerusalem itself was a t oneer city only thirty-three years old. H people bore something of the same rel tion to the surrounding nations as did tl Boers of a dozen years ago to the Eur pean countries. They were strong, reli ious self contained, with few extremes < poverty or wealth, who had partially ei slaved, partially exterminated, the ori inal inhabitants of the land. Yet, th< were mostly isolated on thefir plantatioi and lacked the polish of refinement ar culture which orlly comes with long se tlement of a country and contact witn tl great world. Solomon recalled how ardently he hf entered into the work of putting his su jecta abreast of the times. He had wi ened the borders of the land until th< reached the lied sea. mere a aocKvai was established, a fleet of ships was Dili and launched, marking the first ventur of the Jews in commerce. Human nature being the same in s ages, we can be sure tliat many a Jewii fogy remonstrated. "What, take bar earned money, the result of eo much toil : the fields, ana put it in these tubs, to j on no one knows where, to return no oi knows when, if ever? Young King, don be so foolish as to throw away our mon< on the sea." The day when these ships sailed off ; search of trade and profit \Vas likely mat the occasion of great pageant by the Go ernment to counteract these grumbling but as week after week went by ar month followed month, nothing was heai of those much discussed ships. The wis acres>, became all the wiser, shook the heads more knowingly and croaked mo: disconsolately. The time came, howeve when off in the dim distance the watchi by the sea discerned a white speck upt the water. Looking more intently, 1 saw here a ship, there another ana b hind still more. When near enough 1 be hailed all were found to be well. The venture to countries before unknown ht leen crowned with success. As the crewf with their rich burdei wended their way overland to Jerusale the rumors of the profit of over $11,000,0 from the single voyage preceded them, can imagine the smile of the aged Solomc as he recollected the consternation t) ; ews caused to ,the conservative croaker So evident were the benefits derlv< from the policy of putting out money fi long periods because of tne good retun in the end, that a ship building fev< Eeized the nation. Three year voyag were undertaken and prospered, until fl ?[uaint, primitive Jewish community w; airly gorged with wealth. Silver was i 6tones in the streets of the Capital Cit magnificent palaces and other public buil ings were erectcd where the rude huts h? ' tood. Palestine ceased to become tl contempt of all countries. Distinguish* royal visitors traveled over water and de ert to see the grandeur with their ow eves, to find that it was more remarkab than depicted in even the most glowii stories. Such was the mental vision thi came before the reminiscent writers i Ecclesiastes. The cause was for that tr !y phenomenal industrial revolution he pi into the precept of our text, "Cast tl bread, or thy capital, upon the waters, I: vest it in some enterprise that does n'< brine in an immediate result; it shall r turn unto you as it did unto me, infinit ly multiplied, even thopgh it may be aft< m-ny days." It is another way of sayin "Nothing venture, nothing have." Of course, Solomon ran many risks. H fleet might have been shipwrecked, h crews destroyed by the savages visite tney were in danger of losing their w? forever in thoee uncharted seas; yet, ? though his eyes were wide open to tl chance of loss, he didn't hesitate to act. The rule of greater economy propoun ed in the advice, "Cast thy bread upon tl waters, for thou shalt find it after mai days," is good for our own age. Thoi who are content to do as did their fathe may make a living. That is all. The shif less young man whbtJives* from hand ' ' mouth, satisfied if he barely meets h bills, we regard as only less than crir jnal. The father, with a family loolcii * / ? liitn for cnnnnrt. who tacitlv assurw that lie is to be well and keep bis poeitic indefinitely, who lays up nothing in tl bank, makes no investment, ;oins no fr ternal order, pays no insurance, has mo: ready money than he who is looking f( the return after many days of the su stance he is now casting upon the water Which one is wise? The over $200,000,(J we annually spend on life insurance pr miums shows how thoroughly belief ; Solomon's precept has taken hold of tl American people. Men without the yeast of imaginatk never rise in the business world. A sho time ago a salesman in one of the lari notion houses, after telling me of tl prestige held oy his firm ten vears ag taid: "Now, I want to leave. They don 6eem to know how to accommodate ther selves to changed conditions. They refu to spend money unless they can see coming back, and our trade is simply ru ning away from us to other firms who a these years nave been working for tl future." "Providence" comes from pro, befcri video, to look. Looking before you. It the bane of the poor that in some casi they cannot, in many cases they will n< do so. They buy their coal by the buck instead of the ton, and pay over twice i much for it in consequence. In the sur mer, when it is cheap, they fail to pr 6erve fruit for the winter, when it will ac 80 much to the taste of a meal. It is peculiariy difficult for a child 1 grasp this idea of foresight. He does ni 6ee any use in learning the o'd arithmcti The boys are out on the street. A iootha game is in progress. A. walk can be ha in the park, a bicycle ride. Are these be efits to be thrown away, so real, so paten for the sake of abstract knowledge thi older persons tell him may prove belpf years and years from now? Is it not marvel that the present being so vital, tl future so intangible, such a large propo tion of our boys and giris are persuade to study as much as they do? Those who are far sighted in their bus ness are ofi:an singularly near sighted whe caring for the best interests of their chi dren. Only at one stage of their lives ."a thfy go to school. Take a boy of any ta ent early away from his books ana pi him to earning the very little that he ca make. The probabilities are tbat he wi remain a small wage earner for life, tin him more opportunities, casting yo< money away for the time being in his ed ration and when you are in real need tl likelihood is that he can return it to yc with large interest. The long, long hours, patiently spent i helping the little ones understand grei moral and religious truth, represent ' < muc:? time gone from you with no imm diate, possibly no ultimate, advantage I your&elf, but the return will be in tl character of him you have been training. The agony of prayers for wayward son straying daughters, indifferent friends ai all heard, and will be answered if we ke? on casting our heart aches, our time an our longings upon the apparently unheei ing waters. How many are the temptations to di couragement experienced bv the Christia worker. The Sunday-school teacher com* home tired out by the seemingly unsn cessful attempt to impress or even interei those whom she lias been teaching. . i ? " - - i, ' . 7 whole church year passes and^-what has L been accomplished? In the eyes of the worldly economist, such wearing and tearing labor is very foolish. According to hia D method of computation nothing pays save what brings in material profits. Such like conception merits Solomon's characterira- . tion, "All this is vanity and striving after wind." :e The opinion of the worldly economist is Is not a supreme court whose decisions are is binding on the Christian.' Nothing done for others is ever lost. If performed for God and humanity with faith in results D the reward will be inevitable. e' Better men and purer women are the | certain products of every teacher's spirit- _ : ( ual venture, in casting her bread upon the ' l: waters, for the return it may sometime bring. _ 23 It-is ant to be a far cry to the manifes- J tation of results. The many dayB of our ?* text may mean never on this corner of the 18 universe, so far as the pocketbook, the _ standing in the community, the tangible ' ie influence upon others is concerned. Yet even so. j. "Ours is the gracious service whence ^ Comes, day by day, the recompense; The hope, the trust, the purpose staid, >n The fountain and the noonday shade! And were this life the utmost span, h The only end and aim of man, [e Better the toil of fields like these Than waking dreams and slothful ease." t ly Though the recipients be unworthy of ? is our charity, unappreciative of the value P >i- we attach to time, abuse our benevolence, '' is the money we give, the hours we use. the ? a- thoughts we devote to them prove to ub [' ie who have tried it that ?" "What we spent, we had. ? uri. _i. j u vv nab >ye savcu, wc iubw. j g ?* What we gave, we have." The bread, we have cast upon the waters t returns to us in a different form, but in so f satisfactory a way as to make it cur one d j regret that we failed to invest more after e * the same fashion. The more money we i; ' give away the less remains in our bank ac- i< count, the more sunshine is in our faces t . and hearts. The more intelligence we scat- x ter abroad the more we glean for our- a ?* selves. The more prayers we offer up for c others, the better we know how to pray t ;J(ifor our own needs. The more our hearts D ? sympathize with the pains of others the lareer will our hearts become. < t cs The more we disregard the worldly wise c ,, rule of selfishness the greater is our true j prosperity. Says John G. Holland: ,j. "Give and spend, k in And be sure that God will send, e r0 ' For only in giving and spending, t ,e Do you fulfill the object of His sending." i ,'t Now we enjoy the interest. The time ' ' ?? it- 'J ??l C ;y W]jj De wnen uiv aixiueu punctual vi um courageous investment in stock will finally t in come to maturity. In th^t great day we e ]e shall find that every cup ot cold water, t v- every old coat, every piece of bread, every e p. kind word, every call on the sick, if im- 8 id pelled by love, was done only incidentally ^ rd to the unworthy and really to the Al? 10 e- Worthy. We shall hear the voice of our 1 ir belovea Master say, "Inasmuch as ye have c re done it unto one of these My brethren, c r, even these least, ye have done it unto Me. " er Then will the truth of the old Turkish r >n proverb be manifest: "What yon give in le charity in this world you take with you f e- after death. Do good. Throw it into the x to water. If the fish does not know it, God ? ir does." t id ? George Mailer's Prayer Hcnrd, a as Mr. George Muller, founder of the Or- x m phan Homes in Bristol, England, institu- " DO tions that have been for many years the c I greatest monuments of modern times to d >n a prayer answering God, gives in that most p valuable and instructive book, "A Narra- v ? tive of Some of the Lord's Dealings with t ;d George Muller," a remarkable answer to 8 or prayer. The incident was reeorded No- "V as vember 21, 1833, and is a? follows: t er "Never were we so rcduced in funds ns d es to-day. There was not a single half-penny n ie ;?* Vian/i Tiofjpopn the matrons of the three n *8 houses. Nevertheless, there was a good r as dinner, and by managing so as to help one ij y> another with oread, etc., there was a pro3- a d* pcct of getting over this day also; but for n 1(1 none of the bouses nad we the prospect of being able to take in bread. When I r left the brethren and sisters at 1 o'clock, p B* after. prayer, I told them that we mmfc a r.n wait for helD, and see how the Lord would h le deliver us this time. I was sure of help, h 'S bue we were indeed straitened. When I t H came to Kingsdown, I felt that I needed ft 01 more exercise, being very cold;, wherefore ? u" I went not the nearest way Thome, but h " round by Clarence Place. fi "About twenty yards from my house 1 a "V met a brother who walked back with me, o 01 and after a little conversation gave me I ?10 to be handed over to the brethren, f ~~ the deacons, towards providing the poor e " ' T-1._1.fi A ???? ofrtfh. +J * saints witn coais, umiiKtm auu ? ??... h! ing; also ?5 for the Orphans, and ?3 for n g the other objects of the Scriptural Know!- t j8 edge Institution. The brother had called " j twice while I was gone to the Orphan b ,y Houses, and had I now been one-half min- b ute later. I should have missed hira. But ie the Lord knew our need, and therefore ji allowed me to meet him. I sent off the y, j ?5 immediately to the matrons." a: ie I iy Better Than We Know How. I; ae Doing as well as we know how is or- ^ rs dinarily considered a pretty,xreditable per- * t- form an ce. One who can honestly say that P to he has done as well as he knows how ? i6 k'likely to t/ake credit to himself for hig; * n- doing; and, in passing judgment on ig other for his conduct, we are inclined to es commend him if he, or if we, can say that >n he has done as well as he knoWfc how. Yet ie just here is a common mistake of man- I a- kind. All of us ought to do better than b re we know how. Doing only as well as we t j>r know how may be a lack and a failure on t b- our part. tl s. Doing better than one knows how, do- a DO ing better than one's best, iB the duty and ji ;c- the practical attainment of everv person if m who wants to fill his place in the world d and to he'p his fellows as he should. One who expects to be limited, in hi? work a >n on,} ;n his endeavors, by the that he a rt lias done, or by the beet that others have i r ?e done, or by what he can do, is practically y ie without the noblest ambition, and certain- p o> ]y without the highest aspiration?. To 1 be stopped by the thought of the imposn* sible is to be held withm the .bounds of | the ordinary and the commonplace. ^ All substantial progress is by doing better than one knows how. Every great a llJ explorer and discoverer and inventor and V( ie pioneer and master missionary, in all :[! lands and on all seas and in all the ape?, _ ?? has secured to the world and to his fel- *1 lows results and advantages of priceless L'? value, and has proved himself a benefac- t] tor of his race, because he was not limited * et bv precedents and possibilities, but war : 18 determined to do better than his best, . n" better than he knew how. l e- n I Strength For To-Day. to God promises us strength to enable us at to do our present duty. If we believe | u( c< that, and act accordingly, we shall never, ilj never fail. "As thy days, so shall thy l id strength be." That is the promise?a i n. promise that never fails. Yesterday has t, gone, not to return. To-morrow has not !? it come to us, and it may never come. Touj day is our day, and it is the only portion a of time that is. Men who regret that they ie did not do their work of yesterday, lose r- tbeir present time because they are not ;d giving 'their whole strength to it. Men who fear that they will not be able to do P' si- to-morrow's work are losing to-day, and m are not getting ready for to-morrow. (Jod a' ij- does not promise strength for yesterdav ? in i hich is gone, nor for to-morrow, which * il- may never come, but for to-day which is " it here. Let lis therefore trust, and use P n while we have it, God's promised strength w ill for to-day. "Sufficient unto the day is w ,-e the evil (and the good) thereof."?Sunday jr School Times. n- e< " " "W /?..AAA 99 gf ]! " waceroru?av?. >u The lesson "grace for grace" io that one | " grace is given instead of another* We in cannot live to-day on the strength of yesit terday's food; each day has a portion o' so its own. Yesterday's sunshine will not j ( e- light the earth to-day, but there is other ^ :o sunshine ready each new morning. When ^ le you were in sorrow a while ago God came to all. and it is very certain that the only s, safe way bv which we can learn to comre manu is to begin by learning to obey.? sp Sir Edwin Arnold. , ,*1 ? be j. Early Morning Meditation. Gi For my part, I should try to secure s- some part of every day for meditation, n above all in the early morning and the ;b open air; but how that time was to be e- improved I should leave to circumstance jt ana the inspiration of the hour.?R. L. c-, A Stevenson. j ^ How Little We Know. How little we know, As onward we go, Vhat is laid to our charge in God's book. The kind words unsaid, The hearts that have bled, [lie duties we often forsook. How little we know Of the care and the woe ft*; ?^ ?u?vu iu 11 yccs ui uui aucuub. The harsh heartless wordThat our dearest ones heard? Vhoee influence never more ends. ?Alice May Douglas. Impressions of God. It would be difficult to find a better ilhisration of the popular conception of what eligion ought to be than is afforded by a rief story in the humorous department of i widely read magazine. According to one >f its contributors the "godmother" of 4 ittle eight-year-old girl had given to her 8 a birthday present a Bible. And not ong after the aonor found the child read11 g "some passages in the Old Testament irhich were full of hell fire and the wratb if God." We are next told how the little ;irl gravely closed the book, and said she Milieved she would not readm it any more, *ecause heretofore she "had, had a very avorable impreqpion of God." The writer loes not attempt to add a moral. He eem8 to think the Jesson is quite evident; n, which opinion, gays the Chicago Interor. we agree with him, but to us the story ells something of which neither the writer tor the editor had an inkling. Contributor nd editor impliedly agree that religion ught to be rather a pleasant "impression" han such ascertainable knowledge aa night embrace painful fact. This joke concocter?we will go no furher than that appellative in intimating iur "subjective" doubt of the veracity of lis story?might be brought to book very orcibly on his ignorance of Scripture. Haa le known the Bible thoroughly well him* elf he would not have attributed the doc_ it ./? If j. _ xl_ _ AU rme 01 hcii nrc tu tuc vm jLCDvamcuby a truth, the sane, solemn warning to trhich this coarse phrase is applied belong* listinctively to tne New Testament?to he teachings o? Jesus. But for the presnt we care only to discuss his apt hint at he popular preference in religion. The rea? on why so many people shut up the Bibl? ,nd stop going to church i* because they could rather cherish a dreamy "impresion" of God than to have the spintuaj lature so far waked to truth that it will ry out for a Ruler and Father who shall orrespond to their needi. The Bible hai i-.disagreeable way of forcing upon itf eaders clear-cut conviotions or right and rrong, of duty and:?h,'of the nature of reedom and tne attributes of deity, wfiilt nost people prefer an "impression which hall leave them free to believe anything hat will not disturb their peace. If religon comes to them it must come voiceless ,nd impersonal as the perfume of a rose, tot as a prophet with his intolerable 'Thus saith the Lord." Religion is welome if it be represented by a jeweled winlow and a "Te Deum" of some great com.Mil* hut Tint if in mean a decaJoeue Kra en on stone and a "Miserere" of contriion and supplication. So tens of thouands of immigrants crowd to our shore* yho have "a very favorable impression" hat liberty means doing as you please unler the protection of a Star-Spangled banier, buti who rebel when it is found to lean civil order backed up by a policelan'e club and a militiaman's bayonet. Ii a both church and state we had more fact nd less of vague impressions it would lean much for patriotism and piety, too. A man to be of much value to his age lust not be afraid of shattering the imressions of his fellows if they do not greA with the truth. John Knox made timself hated at the court of Scotland, but e saved his country frpm foreign dominaion. If John, the! Baptist had oowed beore the blast like a bulrush he would have aved his head. And if Jeqns Christ had een just a little more anxiots^to make a ivorable impression unon ruler and pries! nd rabble tnere would haveibeen no cross n Calvary. Men who expected to find Jim pliant found Him rigid. Men who hought to see Him complaisant discovred Him inflexible, and those who fiatered themselves that they were the pillars pon which Ijoth state and church rested /ere told that they were "vipers," and whited sepulchres full of dead men'* ones." He cared bttle for impressions, ut He cared much for truth. " i <?j if It may as wen ue iuiucdocu mpenitent transgressor of God's Ian fishes simply to retain a pleasant "impresion" of God be had better tfhut his Bible, tut if he wishes to know the truth about rod and to learn how, having sinned, to nd a full and ^ree aD" divine forgiveness, here is no ocher book which can take iti lace, and if he lose a childish impression f God he will have obtained a glorious nowledge of God?for. which all dreamj nd fancies form but a poor substitute. How to Get Help. God works through agencies, but it ii le that works. The physician does not Ij eal you; it is the divine power working | hrough all the agencies employed hew hat neals. I entreat all to lay hold oJ his great source of comfort and cheer; , nd if vou feel disheartened and gloomy, ist look up, for there is a great God Who i able to do for you all you need to hav< t one. If you can truly say: "Lord, I rant to be in the divine order; I want to ppropriate all that is good and sweet ( nd pure and beautiful in the way oi ight living," and lay hold of God thus, i ou may get all the help you can possibly ecover and use.?J. H. Kellogg. Nature's Mission. j What a holy thing it is, this nature love; 'hat a pure, sweet, religious thing** You 1 ronot put into a creed, or even into psalm; but it lifts you, somehow, until * * * ?- fZnrl ou leei mat you arc *?? uw? >. nd near to the heart of that which gives >y to immortal beings. I believe we lall never know, until it is revealed to a in the other life, how much the birds? 1 le innocent, pure singers of the air?have 1 one to lift humanity above its baser istinct, and make men more worthy to e called the sons of God.?James Buck' am. _ Be Humble. If inou desire the love of God and man, i e humble; for the proud heart, as it loves one but itselfe, so it is beloved of none, at by itselfe; the voice of humility is < od's musick, and the silence of humility f God's rhetorick. Humility enforces, j here neither vertue nor strength can | revaile, nor reason.?Francis Quarles, 1 Seeking the Best. We may, if we choose, make the worst ; one another. Everyone bias his weak oints; everyone has his faults; we may lake the worst of these; we may fix our itention constantly upon them. But we iay also make the best of one another. 7e may forgive even as we hope to be trgiven. We may put ourselves in the lace of others, and ask what we should ish to be done to us, and thought of us, ere we in their place. By loving whether is lovable in those around us life will ?come a pleasure instead of a pain, and irth will become like Heaven: and we lall become not unworthy followers of !im whose name is Love.?Dean Stanley* American Apples For Enrope. App'.e exports this season are a'most DOO.OOO barrels, the largest quantity ever ' toyvrs. Short cious ir. Engfo:id 'and all ( ev Europe are responsible for the unu- ' lal demand. Fastest Battleship Afloat. Speed trials of the Libertad, which hag en sold to Great Britain by the Chilean overnment, have resulted in an average , 20.3 knots an hour, thus showing that e is the fastest battleship afloat. j Trent h Imports Grow Greatly. iimwfa nF 7T".1 ?/?/? fnr r(in litcf'. I iveii months increased $51,303,200 and I e expertn e'ecror.scd Sr,521,100. _ I > t.. -. mEsw the domY scumm INTERNA-ntNkL LESSON COMMENT^^E JANUARY 10. JMH g?fcj?X?t: IrhePteachlng of John fhr^T IM ?9 ?w DAyy$b? I. A eftatt t-fepentance (vs. 1-4). "I*^R those day As." Che time is defined in Lnk< Bfl 3: 1. It time of moral dearth. AD Israel bioHAomc a barren wilderneeo. Hi The Rom^^Bmpcror waa deapotio* and cruel. He^^Band Pilate were little bet ter. The -^ sthood was filled with cor rupt men,^Hd even Caiaphas, the higb Bf pnest, wa^Koarse and brutal. Unwt^H such icade?Bthe people had sunk into I H very low degraded moral condi tioiai It had beenVonr liuHdred years since tbei bad heard pi ophetic warnings, wheneaa XH denly John appeared upon the flceoq "John the B iptist." So named by Mark 9 and Luke an 1 by Jnsephus, who mention* his preat ir ftpence and speaks of th? crowds that nocked to hear him preach) HE "Preaching." Heralding, a word snggert K in? the pr?cl imation ot a king. John waf a great refo -mer. "In the wilderness. "John preac led in the wild, thinly ioi habited regi< n lying west of \he Jordan and the Dea I Sea as far north as Enonj fl iwo-tniras on the way to the Sea of GaH lee, and on both sides of the lower Joi* dan." Mil 2. "Renen ; ye." Repentance includesj.^B 1. Conviction. 2. Contrition. 3. Cons fession. 4. Reformation, and leads to BH conversiop. John, Jesus, Peter and Pan! all preachedl repentance. "Kingdpm Heaven." Af Jesus is the Messiah, {hat is, Km the Anointed, the King, so His gospel iiHg a law and 1IL" dispensation a kingdom, The kingdom of Heaven and kingdom ot wj God in the ? ew Testament mean one and the Bame th; ng and generally have refer ence to the spiritual kinedom which ChrW Hfl seta up in the! hearts of His followers. "A1 KB hand." TheJjews expected a great national deliverer, Tjip meaning here id that coming of thf Messiah to begin Hie domiaflH ion on earth,lander the Christian economy^Hfl is at hand. 3. "Eeaiar." The Greek form for Isaialtfl0| The reference here is to Isaiah 40: 3-5; alflJHK see Luke 3: 4-6. "The Voice." The proph^^H ecy draws attention to the work rathe^HB than to the worker. The voice of pronhet was loud and distinct. "Prepar^HH ye." The idea is taken from the practice^^H of Eastern' iponarcb*. who, whenever they^H| took a journpv, sent harbingers before them^^B to prepare the way. The Jewish chnrciflaB WAD thp d?Mr.t onnn&irtr "Patln f?>ai?rkf This is figurative language.' The word^Hfl illustrate tie straightening force of tbJ^Mn gospel. There must be a thorough prepiHHl ar&tion befire God.ump-Kinar, will coruflBB to us. Tb**?^3fliHe ""must; be "broughlS^B low." ' The "drooped, dishonest Jife. ir>oflfl|flN be "straighiened." Let us remove the otflBBS structions <tf unbelief and carnal desires. HH 4. "Had! his raiment." etc. The a?| pearance of John was like that of thHEHH great prophst Rlijah in the popular rolncSBH He was cloibed in the coar*, rough clol^H^H called Backloth in the Scriptures. iHH Wafe cheap, but admirable for keeping the heatj ccld and rain. This mantle girded around him with a leather girdle oBH undressed tide. His food consisted locusts,. closly resembling our gra^shon^B^H pens, and o) wild honey. All this was natural as. Yell as simple mode of livinH^H in those dys in the wilderness. "Meat.lHgH| Food. "Loctst8.'' The law of Moses gavoflSB permission t cat Jocusts (Lev. 11: 21)^Hm John here represent* the symbols of th^HBfl renentance Ih tir^lhr according to an^^BH cient Cwston^^^Fhairor saekdothBSffl the fasting ^^^^^^olitude, were th^H^H ordinary deepest bumilU^|mH tion. HHB JnjB II. Many^^^^^k made (vs. 5, G)Hh "Went homes amflHKH went John wa^HRH preachingv^^^^^^Kr successful ant^^H| the heart o^^^^^^Htion was etirfedHHB L'ven Herq^^^^^^Rieard him gbdlv^^HI md "did 6: 20). "jU^^DB the regiop^^^^^Vds must have beei^HH enormous. very popular, bnt^Hflj Opuhli^^ the John 1: 9H^H|MHEhHm|^^H in. AHnMmHH 7'io)IHHHHHHH honor at DO seliis^^HBHHQ|Dnn^Mn for taHNfl^HHK^B9Bg9HN^H[ ing to ing but 'i^DBBH^HHKttgj^B|nHiH iratists. 9fBB^^S^^SS3Sx eral unwritten adhered to the wM^H|HflHBKXa^^ff9M refused to give mtfchweiRHHBKEBHHBB rhey did not believe in a tuture eels or spirits: "Said unto them." Tb^BBH three leading religious sects at that tim^HH were the Pharisees, Sadducees and EsHH penes, and he handled them with terribt^HSM seventy. He fame into the forest of "ba^^B IftWH, SOBQiUUT L'UOtv/iUD| ?WUM religious bigotries," licentiousness and iaHHj temperance, swinging bis gospel az ancfl^BH crying, "Reform! Repent! ye brood oHH npers." The reformer was thorougb^HS I'fiere< -wan no compromising with tb^HU worldly influences around him. "Genera^^Q tion of'vipers." ' Brood'' of vipers. denotes persons deceitful and malicioiu^^HH . 9. "Think not to say," etc. The naturaH^n impulse of the unregenerate heart is tflH seek out excuses and subterfuges whcfl the conscience is touched. John shattenHH| two common errors: The first, that bap^EHl tism would be sufficient to turn the wrat^HH of God away, and second, that bccaus^^^H they are children of Abraham, therefor^HH they are safe. "These stones." UndouDt^PH edly a reference to the calling of the Gen^Hn tiles. Out of these hard, unregeneraft^HH hearts God >is able to make hearts of fies^^H| aud children of Abraham. 10.^ "The a^^^H is laidi" "There is an allusion, here tflU a -woodman, who. having marked a tre^fl^H for excision, lays his ax at its roots, whili^^H he lays off his otiter garment, in order tha^^HB he may wield more powerful blows. Thc^MH Jewish nation is the tree, and the Roman^MH the ax, which,'by the just judgments o^^H| God, was speedily to cut it aown." HflHi IV. John points to Christ (vs. II, 11. "Unto repentance." John was a ro^Bnl pentance preacher. This was "a baptisn^^^H requiring and representing an inward spir^MH itual change." "He that cometh." Th?D preaching of John was preparing the mind^BH of the people Jor the coming of the siah, and they began to ask themselce^^^H whether he were the Christ. But John^^QI was not slow to undeceive them regardinj^MH himself. "Is mightier." John clearly outj^^H lined the work of the coming Messiah^VKg His Daptism will effect what mine is pow^BQR erless to do. "Not worthv." John Ehowj^^nH his greatness bv his self-abasement. 12x H "Whose fan." The fan, or the instrumen^^^f for the purging is the gospel. His church. Wheat." True believer^RSM ' Gamer." The kingdom of grace h<:flH ind of Heaven hereafter: "Unquenchabl^HH fire." Nothing will be able to extinguisifl^B the awful fires that will kindle aroun^|BH| the feet of the finally impenitent. Cannes of Scarlet Fewer. HE Dr. Frank Burr Mallorv, of the Harvarfl^BH Medical Sbhoo], has conducted an Ration a'ong original lines, and claims de^^BH litely to have determined the orjganii^HB^H vmen proauces scanei. icvci ""o-uunHnM Fh&t the disease is caused by animal and^KSj lot by vegetable organism is one of Matures of tlie discover}-. Another is th^HH| jimilarity of the i^erm to that which cange^MHa palaria. The disease has been studk^H^H 'ose-y bv physicians for years, owing to^H9 ts specially infectious character. Dr. Maiory says the efforts to discover the real^^^R :au6e failed because all went on the thco.j^^^H ,bat the disease liad a vegetable origin. jHHH To Live ori Vesuvius. M. Reuman. the French astronom^^Hfl loted for his studies of volcanic phenoHMsH ;na, although a very old man, has tak^^^^H ip his residence on Mount'Vesuvius in flHH lope that the..researches he is about to lertake will result in important discovc^R^Hj es. Blctrest Erid?e For Trolley The gorge bridge over the Cuya^HB^Hjj Falls in Ohio is the largest in America^H|8H iiee of electric lines. It is over 400 long and 110 feet in height. .BBH Gold the Congo State. It l'j reported that rich gold )ecn discovered is the Congo State. KH^^H