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ji ? j? " LI A M Z\T1 I By Afioa Katharine Green, J COPYRIGHT. 1890, BY RC CHAPTER XXX, | Continued. "We do,'' "was Mr. DegraVs earnest I reply; "net only to express our pleasure at your providential escape, but for J another purpose, which, if unexpected to you, "will, I hope, relieve you from all further danger of any such scenes as startled you and the rest of this house last night. You have never been able to conjecture, I dare say, .why you and others of your name have been subjected to perils and distresses of no ordinary nature?" "No." she rejoined, glancing askance x\t the artist. "I have recognized the fact, but not attempted to account foist. Can it be that you can tell me?" "I certainly can. Miss Rogers. It is ibecause a -wicked -woman and a still more wicked man have banded together to prevent the consummation of a certain act by which a great property Is to be handed over to the young girl who is fortunate enough to fulfill in her own person certain definite conditions. One of these conditions is that she shall have been chirstened by the name of 'Jenny Rogers.' " "Ah!" she exclaimed, shrinking back In surprise and possible dismay. "That ^ 5s my name, but you do not mean?you cannot mean " He interrupted ber with a smile. "Pardon me," said he, "but I do. [When I told you that you need not consider yourself in any further danger of personal -violence from these persons I meant that you were the chosen one among these girls, r.ud that you are no longer simply a possible .heiress to this money, but its real possessor. There is. therefore, no longer any motive remaining for inflicting Injury upon you, since your death would no longer benefit these conspirators, but your heirs. Do you understand me, Miss Rogers?" "Understand?" she murmured. "You overwhelm me. I the possessor of money? Whose money? And what have I done to earn it, and what is exported of me in return for it?" "Nothing is expected of you," gravely returned Mr. Degraw. "It is yoursjwItt fhrmio-Vi th*? whim nf .a man now dead. Will you hear bis story? It may help you to realize why I should be the chosen medium of his generosity." "I should be glad,*' flic responded, "but everything swims before me. I have never had anything pleasant happen to me before, and this is pleasant, isnt it?" Her child-like loot, hor utter amaze and -winning helplessness told upon 'two. hearts there "with almost equal power, but the artist sat silent, though he could not forbear letting his heart speak- through his eyes. The other 6poke, but his tone was studiously Jy friendly rather than lover-like. ' "Yes," he replied, "it is pleasant, because, though I have the honor to hand you this deed, by means of which, the moment it is signed you will be made ihe owner of thre^ million dollars' worth of property, there is nothing in this bequest, nor in your acceptance of it, which should cause a blush to rise to your cheek or to mine. It is simply a gift made by a childless man 1o the woman who bears the name and possesses -some of the characteristics of the being he most loved." "Oh," she crifd, with a flushing cheek, "will not some one call Hilary ? 1 do not know how to bear such good fortune alone. Three millions! Why. it is incredible! I almost refuse to believe it." "Perhaps this gentleman will help you to do so," he smiled, indicating the stranger who Lad accompanied him. "Tlij^ is Mr. Walden, Miss Rogers. He is a lawyer, and will explain to you tbe technicalities of this matter." She bowed abstractedly. Siie was looking at the deed which had been banded to her, and scarcely seemed to bear this introduction. "But this immense gift is um:lc out! in your name," she declared. "How is that? You are not the donor of this 1 vast amount of money 1" He smiled reassuringly, but to his rivai's watchful eyes there was sadness in his smile, as there were evidences of growing discouragement; in his whole manner. "No," he assured her, "I am not the <?onor; the gift is made through me. Tout not by me. Let me t?ll you ray etory before we go any further. Miss Aspinwall can hear it later; you alone are conccrned in it now." And drawing her to a seat he took his place by her side and began his relation in language similar to that Tvhich he had employed in making his disclosures to the detective the night before. She listened with wide open eyes, that over and anon filled with tears. oL' which duc fctuivu uuLuiiov.iuud, ?tim Jiv; had finished her bead sank in thoughtful reverie on ber breast and remained in this position bo long that Mr. Pe#jraw made a gesture to the lawyer which caused him to quietly leave tue room. As soon ag the door bad closed upon him the former ventured to take her hand and say, -with visible emotion : "I sought yon out in the first place, ' ' Miss Rogers, solely for the purpose which is revealed by this story I have just related. But in studying you character I have learned to love you, and only refrain from making you the proposals which lie near to mv heart from an instinct of honor which forbids me to share the fortune which was intrusted to me to place where my judgment directed." , Startled and touched in ber deepest sensibilities she cast one wild look ne jitnu nor. xes, ine artist lino 1101 jsvith the lawyer; lie was standing where she hJK last seen liiiu, In the deep recess of lie window. "Oil!" slie 5 emonstrated, "wo are pot alone." Rat this Mr. Degraw knew as well j as f*he did. 1 know it," he calmly rejoined. "I j #rged Mr. Degraw to aceempany me. I 'ER * ^: T THATQ I i 1 i 1 W I I 1 -W B I I Author of "The Forsaken J 5DCRT BONNER'S SONS. J6 bccause I wished him to be a witness to your decision. My devotion and this money cannot go together. Miss Rogers, but if you tell me to tear up this deed " His voice sank, his large and strong frame trembled. The artist saw it and trembled, too. Would she he proof against such passion? Would his own lore or even this great amount of money serve to blind her to the noble and elevated qualities of this man? Yes, for the confusion which overwhelms her is not that of appreciation, and when she speaks it is with a sob of fear and depreciation. "Oh!" she cries, "in what a position you have placed me!" : The hand which held hers softly opened. "No/' was the kindly rejoinder. "A word from me will summon back Mr. Walden. I expected to have to utter it. T only wished to be perfectly frank with you, and to make one attempt to gain the happiness which it is every : man's rigiit xo eujuv. x uavc uui. ucu* etited by my effort, but I hope I have i not lost your esteem." i "Ob, no," she cried, breaking down, i "if I only felt?as?as " * "I understand," he assured her ; 'Do not distress yourself. See! I have i summoned the lawyer; he is coming back." i And almost before her tears were i dry or her trembling ceased Mr. WaJ- ; den was in the room, and the papers ! were duly signed' and the Signorina Valdi, who a moment before owned i nothing save what was contained in her small trunk, stood up before these ! three men the undisputed possessor of ; millions. Then, indeed, a marked change < passed over her. From impressing the beholder with her delicacy she seemed ! suddenly to have acquired breadth and ; height. Even her beauty took on dignity h<>r Rtpn character. She was I not less .admirable thus, but she lost some of the touching grace "which had i won her the love of these two strong : hearts. I > The artist, who "was "watching her 1 with bated breath, now came forward with his congratulations. She received ' him with a smile that seemed to tell < her heart's story, but the next moment ; a certain air of coquettish independ- i ence took the place of her first eager delight, and the sight made him with- < draw again and take his stand by Mr. < Degrnw. * "Hilary! Who will tell Hilary?" the signorina now cried. "A sight of her ' dear face might persuade me that this 1 is not all a dream." Instantly, the Cleveland gentleman, i with rare tact and generosity, declared < that he would go for Miss Aspinwall. and taking the lawyer by the arm < dre-w him out, leaving the field to his 1 rival. The artist at once sprang forward, nnrl rlasnpd the new-made heiress bv i the hand. "Sigiiorina!" he exclaimed, "one word ' before your prosperity is known to the world. I love you; you know that. 1 and I have already laid my heart at ] your feet. Hut you were not the mis- ] tress of millions then, and knew no J more than I of the good fortune which 1 awaited you. So do not feel that I < hold you as hound to me in the slight- ' est degree, because of any expression : of regard that may have escaped you. Love that might have moved you then may not move you now, and though 1 ' prize yon always, and ever the same, i whether you be rich or whether you ] be poor, I feed that it is only honorable ' in me to await a reply to my suit until ! you have become accustomed to your wealth, and learned the necessities of 1 your now position. If in six months i from now you still Temeniber the art- ' ist, Hamilton Degraw " "Ah!" she interrupted, with a naivette charmingly in keeping with her i Mushes, "I cannot wait six months. I have no home, no adviser, no protector. I should make a thousand mistakes. < Iio&ides, why not be altogether happy i since fate has given us the opporiu-' i nily." Was it possible? What man could icsist such an appeal? He gazed upon her with rapture, he covered her hands with kisses; he all but took her j I in liis arms, but did not accept the . troth she proltVrcd him. "I cannot," lie cried. "It would be j like taking advantage of your inexpe- ? vienee. Wait three months, darling, ; and if thou?" The entrance of Miss Aspinwail interrupted him. He drew back, but his face betrayed a joy which the noble woman who entered could not mistake. ( "Pardon me," she exclaimed, and , would have withdrawn, but the fcignorina held out her arms. "No," she whispered, "since Mr. Desraw refuses to take mo in his charge . I must look to you for that guidance which niy new difficulties imperatively , demand. See here, Hilary." and she placed before her the documents which i had made such a change in her posi- 1 tion. CHAPTER XXXI. v FINAL WORDS. It was not long before Miss A spinwall's house was the scene of lively congratulations and prolonged festiv- j ?ty. Such scou fortune coming to oue i of Its inmates was certainly a cans? for much rejoicing, and as most of the youthful, guests who indulged in it were members of wealthy and influential families there was but little .leal ousy mixed with the universal delight. That is, r.o jealousy as regarded her millions: I will not say as much concerning her beauty or her power over the hearts of men. Her two declared lovers did not make themselves greatly conspicuous. Mr. 1 Degraw, of Cleveland, already betrayed 1 j evidences of wishing to depart, while the nrtist, although partaking 111 her 1 happiness and pride, was seen hut lit- 1 tie" by her side. Did her riches awe him. o- -"as she In one of her coquet- 1 Ish moods which* at oncc invited and epelled a lover's attentions. ' Those iround her could not determine. Hilary, "whe was somewhat pale but tery sympathetic, dirt not enlighten ' A.* Ml. - 3er guests concerning tuis mauw. sue tvas bent upon showing her regard t<j the donor of the Delancy millions, perhaps in secrct remorse over the grave loubts "with which she bad hitherto regarded him. She read the disappointment "which mingled with bis relief. and managed to infuse into her bearing that gentle respect which is the surest balm for such a wound as that under -which he secretly labored. Vet no one could eTcr accuse Hilary of coquetry, however much he might attribute it to her less canuid but more fascinating friend. But was Jenny Rogers a coquette? We, who have partially sounded her nature and circumstances, do not think sc. nor do her glances on this important day betoken that she is playing with the artist or even thinking too much of her newly acquired wealth. Ae cif-e in ln-r <il<1 nlnee on the window seat, almost buried under the flowers "which have heen thrown at her feet by her merry companions:, she seems to us the embodiment of womanly sweetness and beauty. She smiles, but who could not smilp wiien suddenly raised to a kingdom? Yes. md she utters mockeries at times, but it is not in scorn of any irue expression of feelinp, but only in disdain of the nearly fulsome adulation with which she is now and then addressed. She is clad in a soft clinging robe o? pure white silk without any other ornament than the lace at her ihroat, but she never looked more beautiful, nor appeared more brilliant, and to line pair of eyes, at least, never seemed more alive with love and fcUing. These pyes were those of Hilary, who. in the joy she thus saw revealed before her read the finaj words 01 ner own nope. Another person perceived the s'ignorin.i's burning beauty, and resisted it ns lone: as he could, but finally submitted to its cliarms and passed quickly to lier side. "Come." lie entreated. "I must have a few words with you before we enter upon our three months of separation. Leave this crowd who have worshiped you long enough, and if you must be half covered with flowers we will walk on the porch where the vines hang thickest, and I will shake down rose leaves enough to make a carpet for rour feet." "I care not for Toses," she said, and stood up at his side, a rose herself. But when they had withdrawn into the porch it was not of !ov<> he spoke, nor was it flowers he offered hpr. He had a fear to express and snade haste to utter it. "Signorina," said he?"pardon me, I will not call you by that name when I ?an acquire tne right to use a dearer? you have never told me why you so suddenly left the house in street." Taken aback, for she bad expected different words from these. Miss Rogers looked at him with searching and slightly troubled eyes and murmured: "Why do you ask me that now? I was not thinking of anything like that." "Because you are lost in ihe pleasures of the present, while I am concerned with the dangers of the past. Why did you fly from home in those Jays; was/it because you feared Monlelli more than you trusted me?" Her head' fell, she nodded a quick ycy. and then as he still stood waiting exclaimed"He was a bad man. I dared not linger another day where he could visit me. One glimpse of his f.ioe had Itpen cnoueh to thoroughly alarm me. [ fled and buried myself in as obscure a place as I could find. The Portuguese uccompauied me, but I soon came to tear her also. You had sown the sml of distrust in my heart, and I grew 10 be afraid of every one. So 1 ran away igain and came here." "Alone?" "Alone. I knew that Hilary' Aspinwall had a country sent in this town, find I hoped she wou^d see and iaU<: pity on me. You will not tell her that I calculated upon her friendship to such an extent, will you?" "Oh, no," he answered, smiiing. for lier look was quite piteous in its shame ind entreaty. "But Miss A spin wall would understand. She rs so truly womanly " "I know, I Know, but I have some pride and I acted as if the meeting ivere a surprise." "1 see. >> en, jl will keep juur ? uuuJence. only you must tell me one thing more. Did you ever suspect that Morilelii was not really an Italian''" To be continued. Foretold the Civil War. Mrs. Lafayette S. Foster, a weilijnown figure in Washington life in the stirring times previous to the Civil War, died suddenly a short time ago at the family mansion at Norwich, Conn. She was born In Northampton, Mass., nnd was in her eightieth year. Mrs. Foster married Senator Foster ol Connecticut in 18G0. A striking personal beauty and her foretelling of approaching public evcuts gave her great prominence. One of the reminiscences of her long life I which will remain is her prophecy of the opening of the Civil War,, which was given at a dinner in New York when Mr. Seward entertained some po litical friends. She was one of the first Colonial Dames of the United States. Her husband was Vice-President of the United States during Johnson's administration. At liis death in Norwich ISSt), he bequeathed $00,000 to Yale, subject to a life income to his widow, t'his bequest, by the terms of the will, is for the purpose of establishing a professorship of English common law. The family mansion, valued at $25,000, is bequeathed to the Norwich Free Academy. Why Dead Iliver. The western branch of ;he Kcnncbcc .has been given the name Dead River, because in 177"> it was full of urowned soldiers. So one may read, but there is not a syllable of truth in it; and the next picture conjured up by the name, a doleful Styx, turbid and miasmatic, is equally false. The plain fact is that the river flows for a long distance through meauows, and unless the water is high, it scarcely seems to move at all. That is why it lias been called dead. Nothing gloomy belongs io the name. A delectable and captivating stream is Dc\;d River.?The Century. A SERMON-FOB SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED VITAL UNION WITH CHRIST.". , The Kev. C. T>. Case, Ph. D.. Telle Hotv the 8on of Go?l Within l:s Become* the Source of Divine Companion?hi|?, And of Power For Achievement. Brooklyn. N. Y.?The Rev. C. D. Case. Ph. D., pastor of the First BapUst Church, Montdair, N. J., recently preached the lollowing Brilliant sermon, wmcn ne entitled "Vital Union With Christ." The text was chosen from Galatians ii:20: "I am crucified with Christ and 1 no longer live, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself to die for rae." Dr. Case said: The highest conception of the Christian life which this generation seems to have accepted is to be found in the words, "Follow Me," as uttered by Christ. It is thoroughly Biblical. Jesus suys to Philip, at the beginning of His ministry, "Follow Me;" He tells the four on the sands of Galilee, ' Conic ye after Me;" He commands the taxgatherer in his office, "Follow Me;"' He presents the same standard to the rich young man who loved his money better than life, "Follow Me." Now the resurrection has passed and what shall be the new conception for the disciples of the new life? It i6 still the same, and Christ proclaims to the same disciplcs at the same place on Galilee, "Follow thou Me." The grand and infinitely simple way of .nf tVit? Phvictian lifp hart hpen lost. He was the true Christian who believed what the church told him and accepted its appointed means of grace. But now after those v-enluries Christendom has recovered this idea and made it the very centre and core of the Christian life. Mr. Henry Richards, on the Congo, reads to the natives the words of Christ. "Give to him that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again," and then proceeds to practice them, with the result that the natives first beg and then return and then ask for the way of life. Mr. W. T. Stead, while in his London jail, wonders what he shall write to the girl whom he has succeeded in placing in a Christian home, and at last, by a flash of insight, writes her, "Be a Christ." Charles M. Sheldon presents as the ideal of every life, to act as Christ would act if He were here in our place. What is the trouble with this conception? This, that it represent^ the statics but not the dynamics of the Christian life. It tells us what, to be like, but does'not tell us how we shall become like our ideal. Kant thought that the same man who of deliberate choice accented evil could with the same deliberate choice and by simple will accept good when he saw it. This is a fine philosophy, but a poor religion. It does not explain Gough, McAuley, Hadley. It gives us the ideal, but not tlie power to embody the ideal. Listen to this statement and see if you can find a better one to express this idea of following Christ: "Religion cannot be 6aid to have made a bad choice in pitching upon this, man as the ideal representative and guide of humanity; nor even now would it be easy even for an unbeliever to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the -abstract into the concrete than to endeavor so to live that Christ could approve of our life;'.' And yet it was no less a person than J. S. Mill, an unbeliever, who wrote this. The text of the morning presents the needed complementary conception. He who is presented as an objective ideal becomes a subjective presence and rower. He who said, "As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I sent them into the world," says with the "Go," the "Lo, I am with you all the days." The Bible represents this union in different ways. Now it is that of the foundation and the /superstructure signifying support; now the body and head, meaning direction; now of the husband and wife, representing union; now of the vine and branch, signifying the communication of life; and finally, most tenderly and mysteriously, of the relation between the Father and Son. In whatever way it is spoken of it is evidently an essential phase of the Christian life. Dr. A. J. Gordon once saw what he called a parable of nature up in a part of New England where he spent his summer holidays. It was an example of natural grafting. Two little saplings grew up sid^ by side. Through the action of the winJ the bark of each became wounded, the sap began to mingle and at last on a still day tney were firmly compacted. Then the stronger began to absorb the life of the weaker. It grew larger and larger while the other grew smaller and smaller; then began to wither and decline till finally it dropped awr.y and disappeared. Now. there are two trunks at the bottom and only one at the top. Death has taken away the one; life has triumphed in the other. The illustration thus given by Dr. Gordon only fails in not giving sufficient importance to the words "I live" of the text. The religious life is not*self-immola ;nrt hiif c?lf-rf>n]iz.ition. It is not absOITD tion. but amplification. Without thinking for the present'of the unvarying ^condition of this life, "crucifixion with Christ," or the motive of such living, "Christ loved us and died for us," or the means of such living, "faith in the Son of God," let us think more at length ef the single sublime thought, our union with Christ and its bearings upon the different phases ox the Christian life. This we must for the present emphasize if we are to have a pure evangelical Christianity which shall move the world. First, note that Christ within ub is the eource of true divine companionship. The appearance of Christ after the resurrection had two definite purposes. The first was to convince the disciples that Christ was truly alive, or, in other words, to connect the past Christ with the present Christ. The angels had assured them that Jesus would go into Galilee there to meet them. As soon as faith had accepted these words of both Christ and the angels the disciples would leave Jerusalem; but this did not take place until after a week. The second definite object of Christ's appearances was to teach the disciples the spiritual nature of the kingdom, or, in other words, to connect the present Christ with the future Christ. Among such teachings arc the words, "Follow Me," spoken to the seven in Galilee: the promise to all, "Lo. I am with you all the days." ? 1 iL- ~ .1 f lmir cliAnlrl r>nfc ana uie cumuiaim mm, depart from Jerusalem, but "wait for the promise of the Father, which, He said, yc nave heard of Me." A glance back into the fourteenth chapter of .Tohn shows what this promise was. The sixteenth verse says: "I will pray the Father apd He shall pivc you another comforter, that He may abide with you forever." But of whose presence is the Spirit the embodiment? The eighteenth verse says: "I will not leave yon comfortless; I will come to you." Then the twentieth assures the disciples: "-At that day ve shall l;now that i am in-My Father, and ye in Me and I in you." Thus Christ's objective companionship becomes a subjective fellowship. How closely can two people, heart to heart, be together? There is always the veil of the flesh between. All we can do is to interpret looks, words, and sometimes our judgment is wrons; even on those nearest to us. We all walk a solitary way. Few reach that beautiful companionship reorcsented by Browning in "By the Fireside:" "When, if I but think deep enough, 1'ou are wont to answer, prompt as rhyme; A_?l ?tw7 Yi'itllAllf ToVtllff ^IIIU yv U, IUU, 1*11*4 IWtUVMV .VMM4. Response your soul seeks many a time. Piercing its line flesh stuff. Then it is that Christ Himself comes closer than breathing, nearer than bands or feet, comes into the innermost recesses of our nature for sympathy and communion with the human heart. Christ within us is also the source of power. Christ does not give as power by making mere machines oi us. We are the clay in the potter's hands, but we are something more. God docs not want us to be slaves, but freemen; not subjects, but sons. An equally false way of considering the help that we receive from God is that we are to do all that we can with our natural or redeemed powers, and then let God do the rest. So the longer we ,ive, the stronger wc are and the less we need Ocd'6 interposition. Every time God heip? us, we ire less of a man or woman, and the stronger we grow the more independent, and the kse we need iaitb. The end of it all would A be absolute-independence of'Goi. Surtly, this >8 not Good's idea. The true way of looking upon our relation to Christ ig that His presence -within our heart by faith gives u? energy to achieve, not bv enslaving, but by enfranchising the will, invig?rating it., energizing it, vitalizing it. until with Augustine we can say: We will, but God works the willing: we work, but Gcd works the working." Philinnianc 5- 12 13. has often been mis nndc-stood. It says: "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both, to will and do of His good pleasure." To "work out" does not mean lo work .'nto outward expression whSt God puts within us, but as it literally means, to "'achieve" for salvation is an achievement as well as being at the same time a gift. Nor does it mean that we are to work in Paul's absence. The possibility of working out our salvation rests upon the fact that God is within, so that we can will and do of Hjs good pleasure. Thus, will i6 not an instrument which we.can turn from side to side, and which when necessary God can use- it is ourselves acting. That which God does is not our act unless God works through our wills. The possibilities of such an empowered life are divine. We need not be perfectionists and still believe as we ought that Christ's grace is sufficient for us. Many Sretend to believe it, and do not live it. hey worry, they fret, they give up. The most of us seem to think that the normal Christian life is to rise and fall like the tides. Yet Paul says: "There hath no temptation befallen you but such as is common to man; but God ie faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with tne temptation also make a way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it." Christ within also makes a!l living- sa i -v ,?-w7? ert/i /luiici/\?o nmnno CrCU. VV<? UdVC inauc nun v*a y jolv?w i.Mv..0 objects. We have divided space into holy and unholy, and declared tnat God co.uld be found only in certain places, which had been consecrated. We have divided time into holy and secular." declaring Wiat we would serve God on the Sabbath and conduct our business and amusements as we pleased the rest of the week. We have divided money into two parts. We have said that the giving of the one-tenth, or onetwentieth to God, justified us in the claim of unlimited freedom in the disposition of the rest. We have divided up persons, and put a certain class of people called priests, ministers, missionaries, upon pedestals. declaring that the standard of conduct for them differed from the standard for others, and that their work was especially religious. All .wrong. All space is holy, and the green grass may be tne chancel carpet andthe trees the massive pillars and the sky the dome, if below there is a heart praying in spirit and truth. All time :s sacrea. Tim A/fnnrlnv ?hnnlrl be as much devoted to God's service as Sunday, and the office and the store should be as much shrines of devotion as the closet. All money is sacred, and the money spent upon the necessaries of life, upon business and pleasure should be spent with equal cousciousness as upon the church. All Christians have Christ within them, and they should aim to objectify His life. There is nothing we need to-day quite as much as the C'hristianization of the secular life. Then at last, the Christ within is the source of final holiness. Christ at last is to present us holy and unblamable, and irreprovable in His sight. Sin does two things for us, separates us from God and dis jrts our r.aturc. When we are forgiven we are restored to the divine fellowship. But what about the effects of sin upon our nature? See the scars upon the tree -nd.what the life of the tree dees for it. Listen to what Paul says: "I am perplexed" until Christ be formed within you." As Christ had His Bofh.-itiora TTia "Nazareth. His Olivet, SO does He again in His reincarnation have HiB Bethlehem, His Nazareth, His Olivet. Who knows why one plant grows into the geranium, and tne other into the rose? The type is something more than the ideal presented for the imitation of the plant. It is an informing life. I think it was the last thing that Dr. A. S. Gumbert 'wrote for the Examiner: "Among the Dutch the rose was sometimes cultivated by planting an inferior rose close to a rose of superior variety. The rose of inferior quality wrs carefully watchftd and anthers removed to avoid self-pollenization; the object being that it should be pollenized by the superior rose. Gradually the rose thus treated took upon itself the characteristics 6f the superior life of its companion." So, our lives are pollenized as it were by Eis righteousness. Thus Christ within becomes to us the source of divine companionship, of power for achievement, of the exaltation of conduct, of final holiness. He who wishes to plant hope within his own heart of such prospects, should begin and never cease exercising faith in Him who ]ovcd ue and gave Himself to die for us. Sentence Serusont, Tmth abhors triclu. Love needs no label. The uprignt go right up. Helpfulness is happiness. Strength has little need of sty>. Information precedes reformation. He makes no mark who has no aim. The future holds no failures to the eye of faith. Fast living makes fast links in the devil's chain. God measures by motive?;' men. by mistakes. God never forgets the man who forgets himself. A man's prospects depend on the things he respects. There is good in ail to the man who is altogether good. It takes many new beginnings to make a glorious ending. A mau is not a saint because he can tell tlifi difference between a good sermon and a poor one. The square man is never looking for a crooked opening. Loyalty to the lessons of the last year leads to success in the new. God knows the way to your door if you know the way to His poor. Take stock of your mercies and you will find your miseries have taken'ffight.?Chicago Tribune. Overcoming Worry. I believe a little true philosophy and reasoning can go a great way in overcoming worry. 1 do not mean a ileep and mysterious philosophy, but a simple application of common facts which appeal to intelligence. These facts are such as the following: "Worry can do no good. You cannot change things by being anxious. Worry unfits you l'or hard work, and hard work is the surest power to make wrong things right. It is foolish to waste time and strength in doing that which only leaves one less time and less strength." But there is also a sweeter philosophy which deals with principles of right and balance. It shows how things go crooked sometimes, that the final result may be more beautiful. It suggests how by some wisdom greater than ours wronprs, or apparent wrongs, are finally righted. It brings history and personal experience in array against a merely transient view of iife, and proves how in the large and long run the man who waits and trusts is the man who suoceeds.?Floyd Tompkins. Each D?y'? Living. Our life may be food to us, or may. if wu have it eo, be poison., but one or the other it must be. Whichever an-! whatever it is, beyond all doubt, it is eminently ro.il So merelv as the day and the night alternately follow one another, does every day when it passes into dawn, bear with it its own tale of the results which it has silently wrought u on each of us for evil rr for good. The day cf diligence, duty and devotion leaves it richer than it found ue, richer sometimes, and even commonly, in our circumstances; richer always in ourselves. A Year of Freedom. Let the new year be a year of freedom from sin, a year of service, a year of trust in God, and it will be a happy year from first to last. It may be the hardest year we have known, but it will be the happiest.?J. M. Buckley, D. D. Failure* and Successes. Knowing what we do now we could all improve upon the past. But to begin life as we first began it would be but to repeat the old failures and successes. Much good we have all left undone, and also mnoh evil. The latter we like "to thiuk pj, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL " INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR FEBRUARY 21. Subject: Jefln* and tbe Sabbath, Matt. xH., 1-13? Goldin Text, Matt, xtl., It ?Memory Veraen, 6-8?Commentary on the XJay's Lckhoii. T. Plucking corn on the Sabbath (vs. J-S.) 1. "At tbat time.'^ It may be wel> to note that there in a ainerence 01 opinion here as to time. Some think that Jeaus had attended the feast of the Passover just preceding this, but this is called in question by the best critics. "Through the corn." To an American reader the. word corn suggests the idea of Indian corn or maize, but the word in the text has reference to grain, fiuch as wheat, rye or barley. "Began to pluck." They rubbed it in their hands (Luke 61) to separate the grain from the chaff. This was allowable according to the law iDeut. 2S:25), but the Pharisees object to their doing it on the Sabbath day. The plucking and rubbing necessary for this purpose wwe considered by the Pharisees to be sufficiently near to reaping and threshing to constitute them secondary violations of the fourth commandment. 2. "Pharisees saw it." They were watching for an opportunity to catch Him. "Not Jawtui. i ins prohibition is a Jfnansaic rule not found in the Mosaic law. ]t was ft principle with the Pharisees to extend the provisions of the law and make minute regulations over and bayor.d what Moses commanded, in order to avoid the possibility of transgress)ion. 3. "Have ye not read."' To vindicate His disciples Christ referred the Pharisees to a similar case recorded in their own Scriptures .and with which they should have been familiar. "An hungered." Our Lord here is not arguing for an excuse to break the law. but for its true construction. The mere formality of a ritual of strict letter of a positive precept is to vield to the demands of the general good. The necessities of the disciples justified them in doing on the Sabbath what was otherwise unlawful. 4. "The house of God." The tabernacle. "Did eat." Ahimelech, the prieet at Nob, gave David and h'w companions five loaves of the shewbread <1 Sam. 21: 1-7). The law provided that twelve loaves of bread should be put in two piles upon the tabic in the sanctuary, to remain a week and ihen to be eaten by the priests only. David, fleeing from Saul, weary and hun- / gry, had eaten this bread contrary to the letter of the law. "Shewbread." "Literally, bread of setting forth, that is, bread that was set forth in the sanctuary. It was ajso canea conunuai Dreaa as neing set fort h perpetually before I he Lord, hence the Hebrew name, 'bread of the presence.' Twelve loaves or cakes were placed in two piles on the 'pure tabic' every Sabbath. On cach pile wa? put a golden cup of frankincense. See Ex. 25: 30: Lev. 24: 6-S." 5. "Profane the Sabbath.*' Jesus continued His argument by showinc that even the law under certain circumstances provided for the doing of that which had been expressly, forbidden in the law. On the Sabbath days as well as on other days the priests were engaged in killing, preparing and burning the sacrifices and in performing the whole temple service. It. was one of the sayings of the rabbins that there was no Sabbath-keeping in the temple. Thus, if all work on the Sabbath profaned the Sabbath, as the Pharisees maintained, the priests w^re guilty of continual profanation. "Blameless. Not merely does the sacred history relate exceptional instances of necessity, but the law itself ordains labor on the Sabbath as a duty. 6. "Greater than the temple." Inasmuch as the one who builded the house is greater tli.ni flip hmiKp. Ohrist refers herr to His own authority and power. The law-giver is greater than the law. Christ was greater than the temole because. 1. The temple exists but for Him. 2. It is but a place of assembly where men may meet with Him. 3. However splendid 'it is nothing except He be there. 4. However lowly the presence of the great King makes of it a heavenly palace. 7. "If ye had known." A knowledge of the true meaning of God's word will prevent rash judgment. Jesus here charges His critics with ignorance of their own prophets. "Mercy and not sacrifice." See 1 Kara. 15: 22; Hosea 6: fl. I desire mercy. I require mcrcy rather than sacrifice. J t"is a protest by the orophet against the unloving. insincere formalist of his day. 8. "Lord, even of the Sabbath." .Tesus now affirms Himself greater than the statute law of Moses; nay. He is greater than the Sabbath law established Dy God at, the creation. Thus does He maintain Hircse'f to be the incarnate Legislator of the world. II. Healing a witliered band on the Sabbath (vs. 9-13). 10. "Hand withered." A case of paralysis. Such diseases were considered incurable. "They a3ked Him." Mark and Luke mention some points omitted bv Matthew. Luke say.*, '"The scribes and Pharisees watched.Him whether He would heal on the Sabbath day, that ' they might find an accusation against Him." "Might accuse." Tbey did not doubt that He waa able to work a miracle; they expected it, but they intended to make out that His miracles were contrary to the divine law-and so immoral. They would then have some ground for saying that lie worked miracles by a diabolical power, which charge they did soon'begin to make. 11. "He said." Jesus then proceeded to answer them by drawing an argument from their own conduct. "If it fall." This was a self-evident proposition. Deeds of mercy and humanity die! not infringe on the Sabbath day. "Pit." Cisterns dug in the earth for the purpose of water, into which animals often fell. 12. "A man better than a sheep." Christ always put an enormous value on man. A man is of infinitely more consequence and value than a brute. It they would snow an act of kindness to a sheep would they not show mercy to a man"Uiu? i :iey arc taken on their own jmrumi and confuted on their own maxims and conduct." Thv truth implied in Christ's question is pre-eminently scriptural and Christian. Ir is not a discovery, hut u revelation. Notice a .series of points in respect of which a man is better tban a sheep: 1. His physical form and hearty. 2. He is emlo'ced with reason. 3. He i<> endowed with a moral nature. 4. llts capacity of progress. 5. His sni ritual nature and his capacity for knowing Cod. (>. Ho is possessed ol immortality. '"It is lawful." This was universally allowed by the Jews themselves. 13. ".Stretch forth.'' A remarkable command. The man rnijjht have rcaponed that his hand was withered and that he cou'd not obey, but being commanded it war his duty to make the effort; he did ho and was healed, l'aith disregards apparent, impossibilities where there is a command and promise of Cod. "Restored whole." A little before th's Christ had r'aimed divine authority; He now proves th.:\ fie possesses it. The?e two cas;es determine what may be done on the .Sabhaih. The one was a case of necessity, the oilier 01 merry. Threw Steer With Teeth. Bulldog Pickett, a hegro cowpnncbei from the Central Texas ranges, gave a i* inarkable exhibition at EI Paso, Texav He threw a wild steer with his teeth and held the animal on the ground after conquering hiin. Pickett rode out on a broncho to meet the steer. The 6teer wai extremely wild and had long, tapering horns. The negro sprang from bis horse to the back of the steer. Then he slid between the animal's horns. Holding a horn in each u&nd he sank his teeth deep in the steer's nose. He released his hold on the horns and lifted his head aloft. Then he slowly twisted the- steer's head with his teeth until he threw the animal to the ground and held him there while the crowd cheered. "Polyglot'' Guide Dear!. George Mcnchina, known as the "Poly1 . y, Jt.:t ... ,1... 11?:4_i W?ol.;..-+n? fioi ".Jliiue ill U1V UIUIIUI; III imniiiiijjK"'! >. C., is dead. lie had served is guide there for nearly twenty years. He carne from Walts and eould speak and write Prench, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, lie had committed to memory Dante's "Divine Comedy." ... Electrical Output of the Year. The output of electrical apparatus during 1903 is estimated at $158,650,000. '^j jfire&Jd&Simmortality. If there had been no message left, no scroll i Of faithful yellowed parchment to unroll j The life of Him who dwelt at Nazareth, 1 Who loved and died, and triumphed ovetf death? Should we be comfortless, and call this lifo A little space for ram and'fruitless s'trife, , For longings unfulfilled and grirrings sore. With lastly death s undoing,nothing more2 God's ways, we read, are past all finding out, Unsearchable: yet were there room W - doubt A life completing this, though tbere bad been No ancient record left on stone or skin? For scanning close love's eyes, we ne<dd \ must see -d^V ' Outshining from them?' Immortality" i ?Sunday-School Times. J " A Rate For Happiness. . Charles Kingslev. the famous preacher * and autlior, told bow to find true joy jig life, as follows: "Make a rule, and pray to God to beTp. you to keen it. never, if posaible, to lie * down at night without being able to say, 'I have made one human being ^at lea#t a little wiser or a little happier or a little better this day.' You will find it easier than you think, and pleasanter. Easier.' because if you wish to do God'B work God: will surely find you work to do; and pleasanter, because in return for the little trouble it may cost you or the little choking, of foolish, vulgar pride it may c6st you. :n i_. - -t J _ -t yuu win Dave d uwcc ui IJIJUU, a yuir.i ui; temper, a cheerfulness and a hopefulness ' V about yourself and all around you, such as you never felt before; and, over and < above that,, if you look for a reward in tbe life to come, recollect this: What we have to hope for in the life to come is to enter into the joy of our Lord. . $ "And now did He fulfil that jov? By humbling Himself and taking the form of. . j a slave and coming, not to be ministered to. but to minister and to give His whole life, even unto the death upon the crow,- , a ransom for - many. Be sure that unless you take up His cross you will never share j an His footsteps'you will never reach tbe j. place where He is. If you wish to enter], into the joy of your Lord, be 6ure that His . joy is now,-as it was in the Judea of old, 1 A over every sinner that repenteth, every,, mourner that is comforted, every hungry mouth that is fed, every poor soul, sick or in prison, who is visited. " t . How Little! - ' , Speaking of the great number of opeii doors in foreign lands and the comparatively small efforts being put forth to "win, the world to Christ, George Darsie eavs:, j ' How little we have done, and are doing, compared with what we might do! )?e have sent out men, but we could have Bent, ten where we have sent one. We have! A given money to support and equip the workers, but it has often been a dime, rather than a dollar. The drink bill of the United States is $1,000,000,000 yearly, lie tobacco bill is $600,000,0^0. Its candy' bill is $75,000,000. Even its chewing gum bill is $25,000,000! But its bill for world-wide missions is a pitiful $5,000,000!" It ia time " for a great advance. The time is past when we should be satisfied with diggiiuj . . trenches, defending breastworks, or holding forte, in view of the open doors which beckon, of the success which has rewarded the efforts already made, of the nation* which sit in darkness, of the certainty of final victory, of the assurance of His ppeBence "Who has promised, 'Lo, L am with you alwav, even unto the end of the world.'"" v ;?V'-V v3 - 't ^ A Blexsed Secret. It is a blessed secret, this of living bf\ the day. Any one can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Any on? can do his wqjk, however hard, for one ? day. Any one can live sweetly, patiently,! lovingly and purely until the sun goes down. And this is all that life ever me<uis to us?just one little day. "Do to-day'e duty: tight to-day's temptations, and do not weaken and distract yourself by look-'' ing forward to things you cannot see, and ?:ould r.ot understand if you saw thein." God gives us nights to shut down the curtain of darkness on our little days. We, cannot see beyond. Short horizons make life easier, and give us one of the blessed secrets of brave, true, holy living. What was the secret of such'a one'spower? What had she done? Absolutely ' nothing; but radiant smiles, becoming good humor, the tact of divining what evertf one felt and every one wanted, told that she had got out of self and learned to. think of othei>.?F. W. Robertson. Keeping Friend*. Friendship is worth takine trouble about. It is one of the things about which we should remember the apostle's command, ?"-u r--L iL.i. ?l-.-.l. " TW/?n XIOIU JclSU tuai \> lUA,ix mo ^vuu? AMv*>?a?? said: "The only danger m friendship is that it will end." Correspondence and conversation and social courtesies are the ways in which we throw guards around our friendships lest they end. A man who loses a friend for want of a letter now and then is like the man who loses his mon^y for lack of a pocketbook. He is Iosir*' very precious tning for lack of a very little expense and trouble. How carefully Jesiu selected the close circle of His friends, and how watchfully He guarded their mutual friendship after He had selected them. The friend who sticketh closer than a brother is always one who has takeA some trouble in the matter of his friendships.: LH us be careful that we dp not go through life with holes in our pockets through which our friendships slip.?Sunday-School Times. Character. The best thing in' this world is a goo<l man. The tirsfc thing that a human being should recognize about himself is that his ' character is bis distinguishable feature. It is not the amount of money, the amount .,f nntiMM flirt amnnnf nf lirainfl that a man hat, but his character. Whatever fellow' men mav Bay, or do to the contrary, this is a fact, {hat what separates him from others and gives him his individuality, is hi(j coodness or lack of goodness, according to its degree. Money, power and braina have their place and exert an influence iu deciding a man's position and recognition, but the standard of ages, bv whica everyone in tried in character and in God's sight, which is the final and determined sight, men arc what they are :n wishes and purposes. It is not then too much to say that the supreme ambition of a person's life s? void bo to secure a worthy character. Your daiiy duties are part of your religious life just as much as your devotiaiua, -If. W. Beecher. * Her Cure For tlte Drink After a year's absence John Wiitberg, ? wcil-to-do German farmer, suddenly reappeared at Hayton, Wis., and ended the J- i1i?;mr>Mrancc. Uiytuviy vviiiv. n uuviiuwx* He declares he hns been kept a prisoner in his own home by his wife, who adopted this method as a last recourse to cute * him oi Hie era-, ing for driiik. He says he entirely cured. In a company of Chicago gentlemen, tlx; other week. a successful bank. r and capitalist declared that in his belief the time had come to prohibit the manufacture *nd tale of spirituous liquors. New Peril on Oa? Dollar Bill*. Dr. Otto Fiedler, the city chemist, c? Milwaukee, Wis., has made some startling discoveries while examining old paper, money. On one very much worn $1 bill be found more than 96,000,000 bacteria; on' another, ."54,000; on another, 6000, and on a new bill, which had been little used, 600 were found. Italian Colony For Alabama. (Seven thousand acres of land in Was7J? ington County, Alabama, thirty-five miles from Mobile,-have been purchased for co)t> uizatiOD purposes bF Italian farmers, j