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U A-MATI - X X TT "*S ?L J By Anna Katharine Green, J m. COPYRIGHT, 1690, BY B CHAPTER XXXVII. Continued. wns sorclv beset: the heart which bad been> torn and trampled upon by another felt a throb of life at the prospect held forth to her by this good man. Here was refuge, liere was solace, here was balm for her braised pride. He was honorable, too, and of a distinguished presence. He would guard her honor, and he would not ask her to give up her millions for a whim, only to scorn her when she bad shown herself willing to make the sacrifice. Smiling upoD him with a certain wistful grace, she asked if he would take her without explanation. For reply, he drew her to bis heart, and when the little clock on the parlor mantel struck 11 o'clock that night, it sounded in the ears of a solemnly engaged couple. "When he bad been gone a little .while Clairette, her maid, entered. "I beg your pardon," said Clairette. 4,but a gentleman called while you were talking with Mr. Degraw. I could not let him in because you had forbidden it. but I thought if you knew his name " She thrust another card tinder her mistress' eyes. Jenny read it, and then read it again. Hamilton DegTaw? Hamilton Degraw? Who was he? Not ' A1 - " " 1\?~> r} Hie geMiieuaaii iu >? jlkjlu out aiuu. jum engaged herself! Ob, no! Ob, no! Who, then? Not the artist? He bad not come and gone -while she bartered Iber life away for a comforting word? Yes, yes. the face of the girl told her what this miserable card failed to do. He had been here and she A wild scream went up from her lips, and she lay, in the next moment, senseless and Inert upon the floor. I'; P.: # CHAPTER XXXVIII. JEANNETTE AND "VIRGINIA. Jenny Rogers realized all that she tad jeopardized by her sudden engagement, but was not disposed to submit to the consequences of her folly without a struggle. Since the artist still loved her, she would meet that love and hail the return, whatever it might might cost the man who had taken advantage of her momentary weakness to bind her to himself. To break away from the man who held her troth, that she might fly to the man who held helheart, was all her hope, all her purpose To insure fulfillment to this hop? and to make certainty of this purpose, she sat down after breakfast to write her betrothed a letter. But when she came to take the pen In her band, she trembled. Ab, this was not so easy a task after all! If she had recoiled at times from giving up the millions that had come to her in so wonderful a way, how much more reason had 6he for recoiling from an net hnt not nnlr mpfint flip saprifire of her fortune, but the betrayal of a secret L- that invof ?d her honor and every claim to happiness "which she possessed. I do not think she could have proceeded -with her confessions if Clairette had not brought her at this critical moment a letter, -which pave her the impetus necessary to carry through her project. It was from the artist and ran thus: "My Best Beloved?You have refused to see me. . Is this because I have come too late? Darling, I had my excuses. I -will explain them to you if you will give me the opportunity. Do not judge me 'without knowing the farts for -whatever indifference I mav have shown you, I here avow that my heart has been beating with yours throb for throb, ever since the moment you drew my eyes to yours, and made me see that you were willing to give up all the world for the devotion t>f your artist lover. "HAMILTON DEGRAW." fe* I : Such words, coming at this moment, made her path plain before her, or so the desperate child thought. A fiery ardor of devotion awoke within her, and though her trembliug was not lessened and her cheeks took on the hue of fear, she seized the empty sheets before her, and transcribed the burning words which she knew would effectually sever all connection between herself and her true-hearted benefactor. It was noon when her letter was completed, and her feverish eyes and pallid lips evinced what the task had been to her. But she gave no evidences of flinching, and folded up the letter and addressed it to Hamilton Degraw, Esq.. with unyielding determination. Only when it came to her taking from a certain secret drawer the deed and various papers upon which her fortune depended, did she show any signs of weakening. And then, not because of any secret longings toward the wealth represented by these various documents, but because she did not feel quite assured that she had said all that was necessary, in her long but not exhaustive letter. She had told her secret and repudiated the Delancy legacy, but she had not named her successor. Should she? Had she tLe right? No; but it would be so pleasant to think that the dear little school teacher who had every virtue and every charm save that of an tinhnltinsr gait, should reap the benefits that were no longer liers. As she thought of it. she took a resolution. She -would visit this lady and see for herself if she was worthy o' this good fortune. This resolve once taken, she locked np the letter and tiie deed together, md donned her simplest street garments. Her first move was to consult a directory. It was a successful one. for almost at first view she lighted upon the address she sought under the name of "Rogers. .Teannette; teacher,"' and, elated with her anticipations, she betook herself to the street and num-' Der nameu, use a lt-iuiue niuuuu ?i BaschKI. ' She, was fortunate in finding the jrouns schoolteacher at' Borne. Slie was . ? fc- i rER P -LIONS. Jl | Author of "The Forsaken J OBERT BONNCR'6 SONS. ? 1 ushered into the parlor. In a few min utes, that seemed long to the impatienl visitor, a light and almost bounding I step was beard in the ban ana tne aooi opened, and a pretty, bright and archly i smiling girl stood before her. "I wish to see Miss Jenny Rogers," she explained. "I am Jenny Rogers." Our Jenny faltered back astonished, then burst out with the irrepressible exclamation: "But she is lame! I was told that she limped fearfully, while you " The young girl before her broke forth in a merry laugh. * * * 1 Ttmfi "un, i nave ueeii iuujc, uut. lam ouut I Lad an operation performed npon my ankle, and it cured me entirely, and now I can even pirouette?see!" And the pay young tiling took a whirl through the room, pausing suddenly, however, to exclaim, with irresistible demureness: "Pardon me; I am forgetting my manners." The signorina?we must call her so again for the nonce?experienced a strange sensation. Not lame, this girl! Then it was surely God's providence | that hd her here. How strange it all was! The mistake of considering permanent a defect that was only temporary had turned Mr. Degraw's attention from this blooming girl. "You must wonder who I am and what my errand is. Well, I have no errand; I only wanted to know you? perhaps because of your name, which is identical with my own." " 'Jeannette Rogers?'" " 'Virginia Rogers;' but we are both called 'Jenny'?at least I am." "Ah! how curious!?to meet one of my own name, I mean. And you are so"?"beautiful," she wanted to say, but lacked the courage. The signorina smiled. Somehow her heart felt quite light. "Oh, I like you," she impetuously ?'T fool 00 if "nro rroro nlfl ^A\.iUiUiVU> A AW1 MO il uv " v? v w ? friends. Have you never experienced any unpleasantness from the possession of this name? You know, I suppose, tbat it has been much in the papers of late; that unusual prosperity as well as adversity has been the portion of some who have held it, and that it is a doubtful blessing to be called 'Jenny Rogers' just now." "I know that a promising singer of tbat name has lately become the owner of a large fortune. Is that the doubtful blessing you allude to?" jl ij t? aivuuco.? ui u^i iuuik wiiujvu the innocence of her heart, hut the signorina lost her voice all the same and hesitated some minutes before remarking: "I have the money, yet I am ready to part with it. It is not always an uumitigated joy to hold it. But, money of itself is good, do you not think so. too, Jeanuette?" "I do, Virginia, so good that I can never have enough of it," she laughed. "It is not that I am mercenary," she protested, "but that my pay is so small and our wants so large. I should like " She paused, while n flush dyed her earnest young face. "I forgot." she resumed, "that you were not ?- ?v? V /in ii? jJUUl LUJ3C11. JLUU V_Ui_LLiUC UUUV1stand " "But I can," broke in the signorina eagerly. "And I am as poor as yourself?or soon will be?for I sball bave nothing -while you?" "You will have nothing?" Nothing but what a kind husband '/rtll give me, but that is everything, is it not?" "I do not know," retorted the other, quaintly. "Some day I may be able to answer when I have graduated in other lore tnan that we learn out of books." "I have graduated." whispered the signorina. Then, suddenly: "I am the singer you alluded to! Will you be my friend?" "I. your menu:' criea tne otner. "Will you be mine?" "Will I not?" exclaimed the signorina. And the two girls glided into each other's arms, impelled by an attraction tbat was almost irresistible. When the signorina went away she wore almost a joyous look, and the first task to which she turned her attention upon reaching her home was to take out her letter to Mr. Degraw and inclose in it the following note: "If you have any hesitancy as to where to place the large fortune thus thrown back upon your hands, let me suggest that you remember the little school teacher, who is no longer lame, and who, as you must recognize, is as WU1C.JJJ lip X U1XJ UU\>Ul UiJ', ?IliU. u& utruutiful as any one who bears tbe_name of 'Rogers.'" * ; OEAPTER XXXIX. ANOTHER TURN OF THE WJ1EET-. Miss Jeannette Rogers, accompanied by Mrs. Dutton, called on Hamilton Degraw at his studio to give him her reply to his note in person. He greeted her joyously, but perhaps his eyes more than his words spoke his erect ing. Ho directed her attention to one of his pictures, which he called "Love's Reality." and taking advantage of Mrs. Dutton's considerate preoccupation with the sketches she saw everywhere displayed, he tenderly asked Jcannette. "Can you guess who was aij model for that?" Jenny's eyes met his. and h^ thought he never saw her look more glowing. "May I guess that it is your future wife?" she whispered. V.'ith difficulty he suppressed the impulse to c-lasp her then and there to his heart. But he pressed her hand, which had somehow stolen toward his own, and his face told all the rest. "Oli. my darling!" lie breathed. "Would we were alone for one short minute!" "We are." she laughed. "Mrs. Button is very short-sighted, and so deaf when she thinks it best to be that she cannot really be looked upon as un intruder. We can talk unrestrainedly i and that is a great privilege, for we f have much to say to each other, have we not?" "Much; we have to plan for a lifetime," he declared. "And you have to explain why you left me for three days hovering between hope and,despair." His face fell; a shadow flitted dark and threatening across his satisfaction. He sighed and reluctantly admitted that he had relied upon the judgment of a friend who had conceived an inexplicable distrust of her. She felt as if an axe had been laid at the root of her happiness. She falteringly asked who was this person, and when he answered "Mr. Byrd," her eyes looked wild and her speech sounded thick. ; She pressed for an explanation of this ; man's distrust. Her lover replied that he did not know. He only told her why he had not gone to her after her loving revelation at Miss Aspinwall's ' reception. "I yielded to his earnest entreaties." he said. "Mr. Byrd asked me to wait a wppk until hp could substantiate his ( doubts. I see now that I did wrong. I should have trusted you implicitly. I ; withheld myself from you for three days. Then my love triumphed. I went to him and told him I could not and would not believe that you were not all your sweet face promised, and pave as an argument in your favor the fact that you were ready to give up your great fortune to. please my whim. He was overwhelmed, and confessed that he had a total misconception of your character. This was at 8 o'clock, Jenny. At 9.30 I was at your house. There were lights in the parlor, but I was not admitted." "It was through a mistake," she murmured, with lowered head and brow turned away. "I " Ana tnere sne paused. How could she go further? How explain this situation? Besides, she felt weak and shaken. That any man should have distrusted her and made her lover share her doubts, if only for a few days, was terrible to her. She did not know how to bide her agitation, nor how to keep back her tears. "I love you so," he said, forgetting Mrs. Dutton's presence, which, indeed, oid not obtrude itself, "and my trust is so completely restored! I can never doubt you again, nor will I ever in the future listen to any one's words against you. Jenny, Jenny! my queen! my life! Look around, give me your hand, breathe sweet forgiveness, and forget " At this Juncture Miss Aspinwnll entered, and great was her astonishment at the scene before her. T\flAr?nTTT! TcnnTr! T ili/l Tint iUl. JL/c^iau . uvxjuj . * vw think to find you here together," she ejaculated, "with a pointed look. Jenny seized hold of a small table near her to steady herself, and oast an entreating glance upon her friend. That friend did not see it, or failed to understand it. "I have just come from nn interview with Mr. Degraw, of Cleveland, whom I met unexpectedly at Tiffany's this morning," Miss Aspinwall continued. "He told me you had engaged yourself to him, Jenny, and I came here." Her full, cweet look at the artist told why. But nobody saw that look. He and Jenny were both absorbed in the one wild glance each had cast upon the other at the utterance of these fatal words. "What facts are these?" exclaimed the artist, after one terrible moment "You have engaged yourself to my rival, and now come here " T net ftvnloin " "? n t *>7*rVl Ofl V/U, X V.UU ?%| - ?- - "X' * Jenny. "I can explain it. He came when I thought myself deserted, offered his hand without conditions, and ?and?I listened to him." "And are you solemnly engaged to marry him?" 6temly continued her lover. "Not now, not now; I wrote to him to-day, after I heard from you. I could not keep my word to him when I j found that you still loved me, and I told him " "What?" She did hot answer. She was paying like a reed. ."What, Miss Rogers?"-' "Ah!" Her cry rose from <i wounded heart. She turned and fled toward Mrs. Dutton. "Take me home!" she cried, then suddenly tottered and j turned upon them with a drawn and i frightened face. "I have no home," she moaned, "I sent the deed with my jener; x uuve -ueiuitrr uumc ui iiivuuo- I This was too much for Hilary and j too much for him. They both sprang j and caught the unhappy girl in their arms. "You sent him a letter and the deed?" he repeated, but this time in gentle tones., "What did he reply?" To be continued. ' i The Dnet of Cities. As we approach the great centres o 1 1 population, says La Nature, the quan- j tity ol' dust held in suspension by the J air increases enormously. According ' to Sir James Cricliton-Browne, the air j of London contains 150,000 proportional J parts of dust to Paris's 210,000, while j in Argyleshire, Scotland, there are only | 200. The air of cities is impregnated j with dust and filth. To combat their j deleterious effects the streets should j be freely ventilated and watered. Wind > and rain are the great destroyers 01 ; dust. The substances designated as "vari- i able" in the composition of the atmos- j phwo, says in comment the Sanitarian, , are but feebly suggestive. From the j fields the wind lifts the debris of vege- I tation?pollen, seeds, spores of fungi ' and bacteria; the dust of the soil? | silica, silicate of aluminum, carbonate ; and phosphate of lime and peroxide of iron. In and proceeding from volcanic regions fine particles of carbon and dried mud are taken up and wafted hundreds or even thousands of miles, j In and round about cities and towns : tne finely ground dust of the pave inents, fragments of 6traw, hair, stable j ?- ? ? -1 - V OriAf ?ni. 1 uiinjure, ueuns ui jubcvis, suui, vi? | xhelia from floor sweepings or shaken j from rugs, carpets and bedding, to- i gether with gases and other volatile : emanations from factories, rendering | establishments, abattoirs, tan-yards : and compost heaps of all sorts, though | not of the air are in it, in so much as ! to be in some degree almost every* j where present. King Edn-ar;l'* Gift to >Tone1ik. It is reported from Jibuti! that King Edward's gift of six pedigree cattle and six pedigree dogs for Menelik appeals | to the Abyssiniansj as a testimony of j 1 the frieudsliip of Great Britaio, ' ; A SERMON FOR SUiND j ADISCOURSE'ENTITLED "CHRtSTI OUTSIDE THE CHURCH" The Rev. Robert MncDonald Expr the View Thiit to Be a Bellevi i unriRi ig not umerent rroin cei Believer Sn Man. Erooklytj, N. Y?"Christians ou the Church" -was the subject of the mon Sunday morning by the Rev. R< Mac-Donald, pastor of the Washington nue Baptist Church. It was the first series of five sermons. The text was John x: 36: "Other sheep I have w : are not of this fold." Mr. MacDc i sajd: . So important and many sided a su' | as this must be looked at from more ! one view point. Numberless are the < j tions to be considered. Numberless I opinions favorable and unfavorable, and false, to be confirmed in these ' mons or repudiated. Numberless the I pie interested in so practical and pen i a question, some of whom love the ch | better than life; others of whom hate j cnurcn more man any oiner iiibiih in existence; some who trace their loi aspirations, their deepest motives, holiest desires back to her as a fond n er who lives to nourish her children her own rich life; others who have i received the least benefit therefrom which they are conscious and boldlj ].sert that little benefit to humanity j emerged from her portals. Some go si I as to make the church synonymous j Christ's kingdom, and maintain tha j be a member of the one is to be a mei i of the other, and consequently yield t< j a fanatical reverence. Others swing j to the other extreme and consider j church nothing better than the pre j of a jealous rivalry for pre-eminence j other institutions of earth, else the prossion in wood and stone of overwro j sensibilities. Therefore, the monumei ! a most irrational superstition. WhiL j innumerable many identify themsi j with the church because they believe : j be a beneficent ' institution ordaine* i God. without which the world woul< morally and spiritually impoverished, through -which the spirit is working the redemption of humanity, in whicl vine strength can be had for the ill life. I desire that our starting point in t discussions should be in favor of relij j toleration. As love is the centre of j Christian system, so must it be the m< | in every church claiming to be a Chrii I chruch. As Christ our Master was t I ant of and charitable toward those were not numbered among the tv disciples and forty apostles, so musl as His followers be tolerant in thoi word, act, to those not of our number, outside our communion. There is gr< need of toleration to-day than at any I vious period of the world's history. I church of to-day is more advanced I the church of yesterday. Its intelhc | is greater: its light clearer; its aft with the Holy Spirit more personal hold upon the cross of Christ, that pi of redemptive love, sacrificing itself J unto death, stronger. The church of ! twentieth century ougnt to De, ana er I upon ub if it is not, more spiritual ! the church of the thirteenth centurj | even than the church of the ninete [ century. j But not only in view of our sup ; spiritual enlightenment, also in vie\ | our peculiarly complex state of li ! should we he tolerant. It is the aa i differentiation and of classification. E | significant fact of life has been force 1 submit to division and subdivision to amazing extent. Look, for instance education. Trace It through the mo university curriculum. Contrast it the most comprehensive collegiate ins tion of a century ago. You are < whelmed with the multitudinous de] ments, and subdepartments and bran of instruction, and professional chairs these necessary, you say, to educate youth. To adequately impart knowl< to meet the ever increasing intellectua mand? Yes. The renaissance that ci A?ao f\( *lnfal1o< ! XiUrupC JlUJIi J I/O uni XV Ckftv-D V/* <tiw.*v< i slumber has not yet spent its force. A j ure the term, medicine, or surgery with I imposing stature of the general pr j tioner of twenty years ago. The eta I is no longer imposing. The specialie j a single bodily Junction is more impc j now. And for the human body the i j of the one has been divided into the I of the hundreds and each unit in the | aggregate is more authoritative than one. The term philosophy no longer j ognizes the old vague divisions of n j and intellectual. Each division has ! differentiated, and each differentiation | gests to the mind content and compre ; siveness, richer and more compact | the original classification from whic sprang. Metaphysics, theism, ideal empricism, economics, sociology, psy ! ogy, biology, and many more are the t< now familiar to our thought. And | vast the field of consciousness coverei any one of these significant terms. nomics, a very moaern xerm ior huh postulates for us; the land question; tenement house problem, the theor wealth, industrial organization, all sc istic and communistic relation. The 6ame in jurisprudence, in comna and trade, in everything of worth, difference between the big departi Btore and the little trader illustrates idea. Yet how surprised we are thai Bhould have wandered religiously afield from the primitive apostolic cht with our highly differentiated credal ritual expressions, our numerous eccle tical orders, our multiplicity of or| zation. Bless you, it only shows we alive and growing and anxious to a the gospel of Jesus to all sorts and c< tions of men. The worldly minded c ttyat denominationalism is distracting sigh for a Christian unity that will e low up all religious divisions. But, be me, aenominationalism makes more the glory of Christianity than for shame. The only shame about it a that denominationalism at times nurt a spirit of Phariseeism that sees no in any other division of the Christian tnan lis own. it nas oeen ooiy u years since the medical students of ! vard fellowshipped the aspirant for v< inary honors. The term "horse doc was the term of salutation. The veti ary student, as the student of dentil was occupied with such inferior sul matter. Yea, but necessary subject : ter. So of the Aneelican churches and non-conformists 01 England. The on poor stuff to the other, tolerated onl the point of taxation to support t schools. Similar intolerance was felt word the great Booth movement in A ica by all the churches, because that m ment ignored their cut and dried ec iastical methods and brought into ri sition the public square and the sec hall if by any means they might save s the churches could not reach. The t intolerance is now characterizing us ward that growing, so called, Chris f-i i. 117! ...ill ocience movement, outu win wc bcc "powers for good" that are ordainei God? When will we believe that any n: ment, however erroneous in nine points of test, if adapted in its twenl point unto the blessing of men, is wo of our tolerance, even our sympathetii gard. Even religious bodies quarrel an themselves in defining orthodoxy, and noniinational respectability, instead praying together for the salvation of world. No wonder Christians outside church pass bv on the other side of j __i /~>1?:.i: ^ roaa "YVI1CU v_>m icuaus nioiuc buc wu forget the purpose of their existence, thumbscrew, rack, fagot and stake looked back upon as relics of a barl ege, but their spirit still lives. Every of the leading denominations have wi ten years either persecuted, else mac very unpleasant for some intrepid thi who saw more clearly and spoke i fearlessly than the rank and hie. Methodist Church in our leading New land city is to-day exalting the spiri the Pharisees instead of the spirit of Wesleys in trying to excommunicate leading scholar, just as fresbyterianis few years ago in persecuting its i scholar went back dangerously near standard of 350 years ago, raised b: illustrious ancestor, John Calvin, wh 1553 burned Servetus at the stake in eva for doubting the equality of the eoji? oi "the Trinity and the validit A V infant baptism. Christ dealt more loving-a-J ly with hcretice. To Thomas He uuveiled Mis side and loved him into the necessary belief. Phariseeism, on the other hand, IANS crucified Christ and stoned Stephen to death. Loving as brethren those within the church; tolerant as Christians toward those without is the ideal that should rule. How refreshing to reflect upon such a eases pagsage 0f Scripture as that which stands Br in at the bead of this sermon. It is a plea br ? for religious toleration and sets before u? a standard of religious liberty it would be tside we" to ^ve "P to' aIC 80 'nc''ne<* to become narrowed in our views of truth; i i we are so prone to live under the shelter Ave_ of some creed that the vistas of truth of a strobing ahead of us everywhere become from narrowed and hidden, and before we aTe hieh aware ^ peculiar dogma we cherish ' ij or the certain fact we advocatc is magnified into identification with the truth itThere is at least danger here. Thus, tifian ^ow needful t0 be olten carnea out mio lues- ^road ^e Gospel opens up. Look the at scene revealed here. Jesus is havtriip inS another of His oft-recurring talks with ser- P^arisee8' but, as of old. they do not ? * understand Him. He is a fanatic, or at jonal kes*? a "'"^born Partisan, who, while proh fessing to lead tnem into larger freedom, , t. seems only to break up their honored inition stitutions. So this peculiar saying falia ILrR from His lips. As Hp speaks how precious their 0U^00^- -There He leads His follow;?.i ers through the old loved fields, out under the blue sky. their life and His identified, icver bound together by a common fidelity of i of ^ru^- even ^is freedom seems nar'* * row in view of what is yet to come. These ever are s^eeP> He says, and for them I lay far down ]VIy life; but aJso other sheep I have LU which are not of this fold, and as we conWlth * nt rr!,,. . A ieiIipi;iLt' fcUC WUIUO, HIC liuiu Ul vui .???nber '8 ^tended, the fields through which her ^ey paj88 '"den. the visible horizon that clear hemmed us 'n lifts, the blue dome of the 5? heavens expands until we see all truth duct fiOU'8 everywhere, known by many a different name, coming in as the sheep fold opens to receive them. And we turn ht our BteP8 homeward, resolving in future to it of more tolerant f?r the Master's sake, e an A few weeks ago an attendant upon our elves church, a lover of truth, a believer in it to Christ, but who had never made an open 1 0f profession of religion, asked me what I j be thought constituted a Christian, and if I and did not think it meant to be a church for member, and a Baptist Church member. It ! <ji- was that earnest question that called forth [a 0f these sermons. What constitutes a Christian? No progress can-be made in our disuntil 11?& oothlo 4lint. miPAhinn. Tir'it VjQCO V^UDOIVJI UUVI1 nv ??w ?j ? .? rio to be a communicant of any church? Is it the to subscribe to any creed? A hundred times no! All trustworthy sources make it v?7? to be a believer in Christ. What do oler- you m an by belief in Christ? Well, what ? do you mean when you tell a person you reive believe in him, that you believe he is a we citizen, a faithful husband, a loving iffbt *ather? You may h'"*ve in him as all and ^at' ye' no^ wi'l' 0 tru8t him with >ater a dollar out of your i.ght, or open your nre- home to him as a frieud. You honor him The n0^ m0Bt unless willing to trust him with than money uncounted, your good name, the enee very sccret3 ?f your heart. A belief that initv ^oes not exPres8 itself in confidence does ite n?t count for much.4 All else is cold, imower Personal opinion. You must not offer even Christ less than you would your friend. A . belief in the historic Christ only never saved a soul, any more tnan a oenei jn lame 0aegar or Luther or Washington, even *Dan though you believe Him as more than a r' teacher 6ent from God, more than a proeDtn phet, even the very Savioip of the world. Just as friendship is more.'than an intellecerior tual opinion, even a possession of the life. . of Just as love, the divine essential in all iving true living, without much society, is a ;e of self-centred, self-circumferenced conglomIvery eration, and the home a den. denying its d to own existence, is virtue of the heart ina an stead of a secretion of the brain; so religat ion has its abiding place in the heart, else dern nowhere in the life at all. with To be a believer in Christ then is no ititu- different than to be a believer in man. jver- Tell him whom you profess to call your part- friend you believe in him. When you mil iches not confide in him, when in perplexity you . All geek another's counsel, and in sorrow anthe other's sympathy, ana you have insulted :dge, faith, and friendship has become in your 1 de- hand nn emntv name. If vou believe in a Billed man trust Jiim as all men demand you :tual should. You say you love? Show it by leas- loving and manifesting the sglf-denial love i the demands, else your profession is a soundacti jng brass, an empty name, a dastardly afiture fair. Do you believe in Christ? Show it by >sjnK a ]0ving trust. Othenvise, you believe only intellectually, and that means you do not want to have much to do with Him. It means self first and always. And if the perchance you start to follow Him from so superficial a motive be not surprised if the loral ?r8t; time jjjB demands conflict with your been plans you turn traitor and swear you never knew the man. The test is. My ^en' sheep hear My voice and I know them and they follow Me. That is the test?to hear |? His voice and follow Him. : lism, Now, what is the purpose of a church, chol- an(i jj0W far does church membership erms constitute a Christian? Church membernow 8hip constitutes a Christian just so far aa i by a Christian constitutes a church member. ^co" No church, whatever its name and influence ence, has of itself pow^r to make a man the |n Christian, unless the Roman Church, and V . ?f that is only in its own estimation. We >ciaJ- fa]j jnto one or the other of two errors: Either of thinking of Christianity as an ablerce straction, or as a fact identical with an orThe ganization of earth, when it ia grander nent than both. There is no Christianity apart the from the life of its founder. It ia not to t we he born in a Christian community. It is far not to be swayed by religious excitement, irch, Then there is the other mistake of makand jng the visible church identical with the sias- reality. Indeed, symbols are important, jam- We can never tell how much satisfaction are the religious devotee receives" from the picPPjy ture of the Virgin or the image of the >ndi- Christ. The line between the symbol and laim the spirit may be less attenuated than we and think. More symbols may lead to more iwal- realities than we dream of. An object of lieve. sense may, however, oftener hinder acV31, cess to the spirit than be a viaduct thereits to. Many a person joins a church for the 11 is sake of being a church member rather than ures t0 be a better Christian. Many a person worships their church and minister rather fold than the Christ the church represents-and few the minister preaches. Being a good deHe1"" nominationalist is not necessarily being a eterj good Christian, although if wc are good tor Christians we ought to be denominationerin alists, and better denominationalists than stry, we are. Denominations give form and connect tent to Christianity which some souls mat- would never otherwise perceive. But on the the other hand, denominationalism should e is have no content to boa3t of except what y at the Gospel imparts. Don't think that to ;heir be a Methodist, Presbyterian or Baptist to- is equal to being a Christian. It may be mer- go. It may not be so. It depends whether love- your denomination intensifies or materialclcs izes Christianity. You may have the form ?qui- of godliness, but your very devotion to the rular form is a denial of the power thereof. I iome have in mind a member of a former same church who would sooner give up to- Christ than his immersion and comitian munion. His unspiritual life shows he the has done that very thing. He has peril of mitted these two sacred rites to steal away love- his Lord, and he knows not where they teen have laid him. Scriptural warrant for ectieth clesiastical forms is good. But no ecclesrtny iastical form should take the place of the i re- pure heart, the Christ spirit. Christianity is a Christ imparted divine 6tate of life, aong All within the charmcd circle, whether of [rde- my church or yours, or of neither mine nor of yours, are my brothers because also of the Christ. "Other sheep I have not of this the fold." Don't forget that. Christ said it. the Therefore, it must be true. There shall urch be one flock and one shepherd. Not one The fold, as it is translated. There may b? are many flocks in one fold. aaric By and by boundary lines will fade one away. We think then they will all be ithin Baptists. The Congregationalist thinks ie it thev will all be Con?rcgationalists. And nker the Methodist is sure they will all be nore Methodists. Ah, brother, better still, they The will all be Christians. And as some saint Eng- in glory ten thousand years asks, Who are it cf tliesc? as they all come trooping home like the tired children after the toils o? the dav are ; its ever, so some John will answer: "These im a are they who believed in the Lamb oi chief God which taketh away the sins of tks the world." Who knows, .Tesus Himself majp ? its *<iy, "These are they for whom I died, o in These? These? These are they who camt Gen- up through great tribulation and have per- washed their robes and made them white y of in the blood of the Lamb! : ;V :,. ?r ; ;" ..^v/v^ -A ' ' ' '. . V THE SUNDAY SCHOOLP * ? j INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS ? FOR APRIL 3. ' Snl)ject: Jesus Visit# Tyre bud Sidon, Mark I Til., 34-37?Golden Text, Heb. zl? 6? Memory Verses, 21-29 ? Commentary on the Day's Lesson. i T. A mother's plea (vs. 24-26). 24. ' i "From thence He arose." That is, after 1 delivering the discourses at Capernaum. I Edersheim thinks that Jesus and the , j twelve apostles went immediately to the j ' j north country, while others think there , was a short delay in, or near, Capernaum before starting out. "Borders of Tvre and Sidon." Tyre and Sidon were heathen cities on the east coast of the Mediterranean ' | Sea. Their religion was a base and corrupt- , ing nature worship. Beelzebub, the name adopted by the Jews as a name for Satan, was one of their deities, who was supposed to be the author of "all the pollutions of I juoi worsnip. into a nouse. in an . I probability the house of a Jew. Ederj 8heim thinks He must have tarried here i several days; the fact that He desired to ; be kept hid, but could not, would sugeest I this. "No man knew it." He judged it i ] proper to conceal Himself awhile from the Pharisees, who were plotting against Him. "Could not be hid." "It seems that He was personally known to many of this ; country, who nad seen and heard Him in Galilee/' 25. "Whose young daughter." The actual sufferings of the daughter were great, but the sufterinp which the mother endured by sympathy were still greater. Our sufferings for others are great in proporI tion to the amount of love we have for them. Hence, the , greatest sufferer on earth was Christ. "An unclean spirit." | Matthew says her daughter was grievi ously vexed with a devil." This was cerj tainly a sad case. Nothing can destroy , the peace of a home more than to have a 1 j daugnter possessed with Satanic influences. | The spirit that possessed this girl was an ! unclean?a vile spirit. "At ^His feet." Thia nf atw?p ahnwpH tho hiimilitv af tV?p woman; Bhe assumed the moat lowly attitude possible asshe appeals to His mercy. 26. "Woman was a Greek." By language. The Jews called those who were idolaters Greeks, or Gentiles. "A Syrophenician by nation. A Syrophenician. Phoenicia belonged to the Roman province of Syria. She was a Syrian, of Phoenicia. "Besought Him." Earnestly entreated Him. The case was an urgent one, and, on her knees, ... at His feet, she poured out her request. , | "Would cast forth." She believed He (., had power to do this. Matthew says she ;"cried unto Him saying, Have mercy on me, 0 Lord, Thou son of David." She pleaded,for mercy; she knew she could .make no claim upon Him in any other way. | ine woman recognized Jesus as tne Jew' ish Messiah; she called Him "Lord" and i "The son of David." "The devil, etc." Here is a plain, straightforward confession. There is no effort to cover up the family troubles, and gloss over matters, and make it appear that, after all, her daughter is "quite respectable." II. Faith triumphing (vs. 27-30). 27. "Jesus said." The woman's discouragements were great: 1. Her advantages had been small. She was a heathen woman, with but little means of even obtaining ; the light of the Hebrew Scriptures. 2. ; At first Jesus did not reply to her request IMatt. 16: 24). 3. The disciples beeought lim to send her away. 4. When Jesus did speak He peemed to repel her. The j soul, seeking salvation, frequently meets j these same tests, and manv become discouraged by them. The children." The Jews, j "First be filled." They are the favored people. The gospel was first to be offered to the Jews, ana to them our Lord's personal ministry on earth was chiefly re *j couo bviu uu uiab j-lid uicdit ings were for the lost of Israel (Matt.) "Not meet." It is not suitable?not the proper thing to do. "Children's bread." To take those blessings that belong to the Jews. "Unto the dogs." This was the se* i verest test of all. Tne Gentiles were considered by the Jewish people as no better than dogs, and Jesus only used a form of speech which was common; but it must ? have been very offensive to the heathen. Would this woman resent it? Would her pride at last be stirred? No. She "shrank and shriveled" into nothingness at His ; feet, and her faith still held on for the de- \ sired blessing. ' , 28. "Yes, Lord." "Truth. Lord" (Matt.) , It is all so. The Jews; toe favored ones ought to be blessed first. I. know 1 am a heathen, only a Qentile dog.- "Yet." Now follows (1) an answer to His argument against entertaining her petition, and (2) a most touching appeal to His clemency. . "The dogs; eat of the children's crumbs." I onlv ask such kindness as the dogs of any family enjoy. If I am a dog, give me 1 at least a dog's fare. _ i 29. "For this saying." Her faith had I triumphed. Jesus, said, "0 woman, great is thy faith" (Matt.) There are several ' other graces that snone bright in her: < wisdom, humility, meekness, patience, ' perseverance in prayer; but these were the 1 I product of ber faith, and therefore Chris* ( I commends that, because, of all graces, i faith honors Christ most; therefore, of all i j graces, Christ honors faith most. "Devil i j is gone." Now, at this very moment, thy ! request is granted. Though our Lord's t J mission wa6 to the .lost sheep of lprael, j J yet He always honored personal faith in 1 Himself, wherever found." "Persevering i faith and prayer are next to omnipotent, i j No person can thus pray and believe with- ] J out receiving all his soul requires. < I III. A man heaJed (vs. 31-37). 31._"De- ] j parting." Leaving the "borders" of Fhoe- | ; j nicia, Jesus made a circuit to the southeast. { He crossed the Jordan and sought sec.'u- , I sion in Decapolis, southeast of the Sea of | Galilee. 32. "One; deaf." The healing of j this man is related only by Mark. An | impediment." He was not a mute, but a j stammerer. "Beseech." Earnestly en- ' treat. This shows their faith in Christ's j ability. 33. "Took him aside." The man . would thus be more deeply impressed, and 3 ; a public healing would cause tne people to ( | come together in great crowds. "Put His I J I fingers, etc." Some external sign was | J J needed to show to others that the resu't I ' I really proceeded from Christ. He put His I | fingers into his ears to mark the ear-dnim j 5 j that was to be quickened; he spit and i ] j touched his tongue to show that its stif- j J j fened muscles must be lubricated into lim- i " berness; He looked up into heaven to show i ' ! that the source of power was God; He j ] ] spoke the word to mark that the effect ' ' I was instant in time upon the command, i J j 34. "Sighed." Christ's sympathies were I J touched, and He sighed when He saw the I 1 I suffering and sorrow around Him. "Eph- 3 {)hatha." The actual Avamie word used >v our Lord. 35. "Spake clain." When j (5hrist undertakes a case He alwavs does i in complete work. In verses 36 and 37 Jesus t I charged them to tell no man, but they pub- t ! iished it so much the more and w?re as- p j tonishcd beyond measure. i t ? | c The Mode] Fanner Found. : a J The United States Department of -A^I- j 1" | culture has run up against a practical J t i farmer who for the time being seems to i f , have called a halt on scientific agricultural j j exploitation. The farmer in question is ! j the Rev. J. D. Detrich. of Flourtown. on } i the edge of Philadelphia. Mr. Detrich j J twenty-one years ago came into possession j -y j of a worn-out farm of fifteen acres, which ^ ! then had two cows and a horse on it for I E ! which hay Jind to be boueht. Now by the y ] most strict nfanagement Mr. Detrich keeps j | two horses and from thirty to thirty-five ] ! head of eattie, and is making a large income from the place, feeding everything from the Droduce of the fifteen acres. | j JNew Specify of Sea Anima& j t ' The creation ot a new species un ,i ?m- . | Trial is the latest accomplishment o 1 Pro- ) v lessor Jacques Loeb, the v' yeiologist for- : c merly at the University . Chicago and j " ' now at tlie University ot California. The ! result was obtained by interbreeding sea- I j urchin and starfish in an alkaline solution j ! containing salts of sea water and 6odium ; I i hydrate. Under normal conditions the j a ! species will not amalgamate. An exposi- v j tion of the manner and methods of the i s j experiment has been published by Profes* j <j sor Loeb. J r " i i Antarctic Sen. The Scottish Antarctic expedition. which j ( J has arrived at Buenos Ayres, covered 4000 \ , j miles of previously unexplored sea and J found a new deep sea of 2o00 fathoms about j WOO miles southeast of the South Orkney j Islands, abounding with fish and crusta- ? J CGtLDS. ... .. ? - ?- . J J SHE GREAT DESTEOTES|| SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUlffl THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. 3H tfl ?oem: Dare to Annrcr "No"?A VbohS H ome L??son In the Form of a Cat** H eta i a in?The Saloon is th? Sternal FoW of Everything; Good. ; Bear a white, unsullied shield, lad. on ibm oaiuenia ui iuc, y SVaver never, howsoever sore may be th#|B Steadfast heart and stainless hand, la<L H many a subtle foe L H| Vou shall vanquish if youH only learn i4 answer No. j fl Let you/ life be i. nk and open as thi B summer skies; H| rake your pleasure, bat in measure rood-* erate and wise. H| [dlene8s looks like a siren?When eh* H| cometh bo, u Never flinch, lad, not an inch, lad, stao&jH] and answer No. <Kj Fou shall learn how sweet, thrice swee&H] er, after wo k is play: 1 <fl| But woes waits on him who ever treanH the primrose way. jl Pleasure wears a smiling face, lad, 'warffHg her crafty blow! B2 She can smile, and smiling unite thee-?^B foil her with a No. JHj Li your irieria oe oravc uiu m*? in woe and weal? M Bind him to thy heart of hearts, lad. witaMH a chain of steel. But when comrades stoop to counsefJ^E aught that's mean or low;- ifl Aught that shuns the light of beavtrig^H dare to answer No. - \ -By Robert Richardson, 3M A. Timely Lesion. BH The Epworth League, Chicago, presen^Hj a timely lesson from the catacnism of thft^fl Great Reform, thus: 'Jma ^ What is the chief lawbreaker of th^M The Ralocn. 1 Where are the schemes hatched which promote the most dastardly foraijB of civic corruption? J^E In the saloon. H Where does the midnight assassin go nerve himself for his murderous mission?, To the saloon. JBH Where do the police ro in search of tUfH skulking thief, and murderer? V To the saloon. (H| What institution is hard by the brotheHH and the gambling hell? 4gt The saloon. % _ What lays its hands upon political paW^H ties and dictates who shall be nboguutedH and elected to office? * ^ The saloon. 1 What impoverished the American ljkpnMH ingman ana fills him with the spi?A discontent? ?.? The salOon.' 1 jQ What takes the bread from the mou?MM of starving children? The saloon. iX7Vio+ />WW with rtn refined voifliffl who once lived in affluence? The saloon. V What despoils young manhood and senoflH it reeling and tuning down the street? The eadoon. 4H What crowd* oar prisons to theirn^^H most limit? .Jiff The saloon. What peoples our madhouses with. pi&^H iable victims? -? , The saloon. K What drags from its throne of respeo^^n tabiBty and influence our best manhoodj^H and, smiting it with unspeakable physt^H cal, mental, and morafl deformities, sendflH it, despairing, over the precipice into horrors of an eternal doom? . jJH T>i? ?fll rvon.. yQM What is the arch despoil er of the lionM and the fruitful source of domestic, What is the eternal enemy of the ChqrcUB of Jesus Christ and the cmef impediment?! to every moral reform? The saloon. JJBB Should this institution be allowed live? Should it be authorized and proteefc^H td by lav?? Should the good citizenahip^B of the Republic not arise, and, as one man.^H ab^te the awful, blighting curse? ShouldSH not the whole damning cosiness be verized and trtfept down into hell frouyflH shirh it came? : vBH Blot out tliis curse! ? Deadly Draft la Wiliky. HI Br. B. H. Warren, State Pure' Food^D Commissioner of Pennsylvania, has madq^H ? startling discovery regarding the chealg^H grades of whisky sold all over the Staro^H In Altoona he said: "Most of the cheaft^H whisky sold in Pennsylvania, I have dis^H covered by analysis, is manufactured froimH wood alcohol and red or India pepper, theSH latter element raving the deadly dose tho^H desired 'snap.' I was astounded when the^H chemists informed me of their findings in number of cases, and immediately had ovq^H LOOO samples taken up over, the fitate^H Ninety-five per cent, of the eamples eo fai^H examined have shown the presence of wood^B alcohol jn poisonous quantities, along withJH the pepper. Some samples contained ar^H senic. turpentine and traces of prussidflH acid. ' Dr. Warren said he had instituted^H| proceedings in over 100 cases where thtflH leadly stuff had been sold, The total num^M ber, from present indications, will excced^H 1000, and may, before tne inve?ug?wiMi completed, reach 5000. "No wonder," sai<]^H the doctor, "that our asylums are An Illinois Garden Spot. ^ Edwards County, in Dlinois, is a ible garden spot. There is not a singly dM prisoner confined in the county jail,' nan9H has there been for several years. Thejfr^^H ih used exclusively as a shelter for traj= during the winter season. The coua$^H xlmshouse is without a single inmate. Circuit Court in that model county s^xlom^H lasts over two days, owing to the remark-^M ible absence of litigation. In the pa9t two^H v,QO Tint. Vuv>n a sincle crim^H ^ cai D UUUW uuw MV* ? ? __ w ^ inal case tried there, and but one jurjAH trial in all that time, and that was brought^H dv a man who sued his mother-in-law fozflB ilienating his wife's affections. The coun-^B ;y has not sent a prisoner to the peniten^^B tmy in thirty years, a record perhaps un-^B equaled. Reason why: In thirty year^^H ;here has been but one saloon in the coun^^H ;y, and that was operated but ? aingU^H rear. A New Departure. A Methodist Episcopal minister ia Borf^Hj on, Mass., has made a new departure in^H emperance effort. Those who sign th<am| >ledge he offers bind themselves not onljfMK o be total abstainers from intoxicants foi^H ine year, but to deposit with bim a smuing^^H . day?the price of four glasses of liquor-^^H le agreeing at the end of the year to urn the total amount save in the form olHfl uel and other provisions at the Srnskitrdt and Marriage; EQ Tn WaJdeck, Germany, there is a lan^^* vhich prohibits the marriage of any indi^^S -idual who has the habit of over-drinking^^B md once identified with tlie hebit, an ine^^H )riate must produce sufficient proof o^HI eformation to warrant bis receiving icense at any future time. MS Moro Vulnerable. tt 1 n-oll Irnnim to rictru uuun?-io U4v i*vm >?.? norc vulnerable to many diseases tbai^HS eniperate pdrsons. Of etery 100 alcoboH<^Hfl it tacked by pneumonia seventy will die^^H vhile of every non-alcoholics so attaeke<^^H mlv twenty-three will die, says a medica^H| utnonty. CUB Significant Item*. The following three items from Callen'^^M ndianapolis Standard, a liquor journ*l^H| ire eignificant as showing the aggre88iv^K| k-ork which is being carried on by the anti^^H aloon forces in Indiana: "Saloons ar^^H Iropping out in Kokomo like daisies by th^^M oadside. Connersvil'.e has hoisted th^H| ilack Hag of prohibition, ana no more sa^H| oons -s the war cry. Even Franklin ii^^H .gitating another attack of blind tigerisn^^H )r.e dose ought to be enough for a fev^Hj 'ears at least." Tn Maine. Kansas and North Dakot^^H hey have prohibition by State law, birty-eigbt othei' States they have it ocal option. -