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fl A J[ ATI Jk ^ Mil I By Anna Katharine Green, j C0rtR1GHT,.1890, BY f. CHAPTER XXXXIII. Continued. -* - ?*i.:u ),* Hilary came imo uie ruum wum- w was talking, and the arrangements for the evening's ceremony were discussed. Pew. if any. of thoir friends were expected to be present, and the only bridal celebration which they decided to allow themselves was a linksupper to precede their departure cn the midnight train. The plan war. to spend the honeymoon among the Connecticut hills. When this was settled, and all the words said which seemed to be necessary, Mr. Degraw prepared to leave. As lie did so. he cast cne look at Jenny. She at cccc came to his eide. "I have not forgotten," she Paid. "The ceremony is set for eight. You will see me a half-hour before. And. darling," she had never addressed him Jby a word of endearment before, "will you sliow me one last invcr.' i nave my carriage yet. and it is my pleasure , tbat you come to our bridal in it. Do you object? It is the last time it "will be used in my service."' "No. Jenny. I "will ride in it if you bo desire." "Do; it will be at the studio at seven. Eenjamin will drive you; trust him." She seemed about to say more, but though he waited with a smile, r.o further word escapcd her lips. She looked so stiancel.v. so very strangely. that he liesitated to leave her. and came back more than once to kiss her lips, her brow or her cheeks. But she did not speak, and when he went away at last, he was conscious of a chilling sensation about the heart, which all the growing sunshine of a glorious September day failed to dispel. And yet it was but three hours to bis bridal, and Jenny Rogers had looked as beautiful as he hnd ever seen her! *;rr CHArTER XLIV. "V jexnt's marriage?and aftsr. It was seven o'clock. The hour at which Jenny had promised to send the carriage for the intended bridegroom. Hamilton Degraw, "who bad spent the last half-hour of waiting in eager contemplation of the picture in -which he had perpetuated her beauty at its sweetest and most unconscious moment, rose joyfully as he heard tlie clock strike, and with a lover's alacrity prepared to go belcw. When he found himself in the carriage and riding swiftly up-town, be was too busy calculating how he would arrange the dainty home with which he intended to surprise his bride some day, to spare one moment for a less pleasing occupation; nor did be rote for several minutes tbat the carriage. Instead of taking a direct route for Miss Aspinwali's bouse, was coursing rapidly through an avenue leading In quite a different direction. But when be did awake to this fact he was certainly startled. Leaning out of the window be bailed the man on the box. "Benjamin!" he called, "how's this? Here we are in Lexington avenue when we ought to he driving straight to Miss AspinwalFs." But Benjamin paid no heed, rather drove faster, and before Mr. Degraw could subdue his surprise sufficiently to hail him again they had turned a corner and entered upon a street so associated with the memories in which ue xiau jusi uuvu juuuijjmjj ioai ue lfii dazed by a coincidence that bad the effect of throwing him again into drcain^ land. But in another moment he managed to shout once more to the unheeding coachman: "Where are you going?" But he did not expect any reply. He knew himself whither they were bound, and when a minute later the horses slackened their pace and the carriage came to a standstill he did not need to look up at the row of brown houses before him, with their quaint fronts and pillared balconies, to know they were before the strange and dilapidated ?trnr>tnro in tfhif'li hp li.ifl first ?pPn tho signorina, anil where fcbe bad wakened to life and love. "Miss Rogers is here. sir. waiting for you," announced the coacuman us be opened tlie door. Mr. Degraw nodded and hastened to alight. It was doubtless one of her whims to make the explanation which she had promised him in this place of their first meeting. It was a strange, almost uncanny notion, but it was like her to conceive it, and he knew no other course for himself than to accept the situation with good grace. Toiling Benjamin that lie would seon return with Miss Iiogeis be rati no the steps. Put before be could ring the bell the door opened, just as it had on a previous occasion, and he perceived before biin in the dismal hall the deaf and dumb girl, standing in her old attitude, and pointing silently up the stairs. It was not an agreenblc sight 1 o hiin, but he laughed off the unpleasant sensation it caused, and followed, without demur, the guidance of her finger. Arrived at the second story he found it as dim and as dark as of old. No one stirring, r.o sound to break the chilling silence. But he cared not for this. In another moment he would see his bride find all would be brightness and cheer again. Passing straight on to rhe room w liiirii nail >vuh.ului.'u iiiiii uciuiv; lit: went iu without knocking. It "was empty and unfurnished, but he knew by the light which shone around the door-jamb communicating with the back room that he should not tind this equally barren or unoccupied. Yet. when he stood before it. he experienced a moment's hesitation, fancying that he heard a voice speaking somewhere. But another look behind him assured him that ho was alone, and conquering whatever agitation this imagined utterance of his name had caused him he thrust out his hand ivith the quick appeal of "Jenny!" and violently Dulled ouen the door. ' . .c_, _ - . ; ..." l..--; L,\j. _ , per p iLIONS. JL OBfFT BONNER'S SONS. Jj " She was there, but not as lie bad expected to see ber? in some sweet attitude of eager waiting?but lying outstretched and cold upon ber snowy cor.(^i, just as be bad seen ber montiis before. only tben tbe candles burning at her bead and at ber feet shone upon btauty that would reawaken to life. j iKJU -a ^tul l Vit'&ULLU ,iu imvu tibcuu Mill; love and Lope and fenr. Now all was ended. The beautiful, the {rifted, the beloved wouid rouse t> life no more. Jenny Rogers was dead, and on ber bosom, amid blossoms so "white that they must Lave been destined for ber bridal, lay the letter! Hamilton Pegraw bad r.o very distinct thoughts as be flung himself at the side of bis bride. an*i laid his bead upon tlie pulseless heart. She had killed herself, but be could not guess why and he had neither the courage nor tbe self-possession to open those tell-tale pages that rustled upon tbe silent bosom. It was enough that his hones bad perished, that his darling lay dead, and that never again in all the days to come would be meet tbe tender glance of, her eye or tbe wistful-smile of ber mouth. Tears bad risen to bis eyes four months ago at the sight of these waxen foMnrtc these RPeminelv Dulst'less AVUIU4VM. k**V'"' " O V ? / hands; bat lie could net weep cow. Grief Lad gone too deep: Lis soul was lost too darkly in the shadows of this loss. He buried his face anid the drapery that enshrouded her, and tried to kiss her heart. ' Ah, darling: darling! darling!" went up from his lips; "whatever thou hast done I forgive thee." And the row of lights burned on, and an hour dragged itself heavily by, before another sob disturbed the solemn silence, and then it uid not come from him. From whom, then? He did not know. Starting up, he looked about him. What angel of consolation was this "* " 1 - - -1 - - ? > 1 T"I !1? i n rrt standing ucsiut* ujiu.' miuij, m of white. Hilary, with tears flowing down her cheeks and with her arms outstretched toward him. Ah, this is joy; this can make him weep. Hilary loved her. Hilary can understand his loss. Reaching out his hand, he drew Jenny's friend toward him, an J together they mingled their tears over the pulseless hosom that once responded to their mutual affection. "Hilary, do you understand it?" he finally forced himself to ask. rising up to look again upon the peaceful, almost smiling face of his perished bride. Hilary shook her nead. "No," she whispered, pointing to the letter he had not found strength to touch. "There lies uer secret.' He was overwhelmed with grief, and it was Hilary who raised the letter and placed it unopened in his hand. "Read it!'' she entreated; "there may be comfort there if not here." I give you Jenny's letter. Contrary to what he had expected, it was not the one addressed to his rival, but a new one, which she had written to himself. "Beloved: You have come! You have.seen your bride, and now I give you?not the letter you returned to me ?but this long one, written almost with my blcod. which will tell you all you ought to know, and tell it in less chilling language than that with which 1 addressed your generous rival. "I cannot marry you! Do you ask me why? Because I wish to retain your love, and this would be jeopardized by my life, as it will not be by my death. For I know your artist soul. I know that when you see me lying amid tiin flowers, as on that nirbt when you first gave lr.e your love, you will forget that I Lave deceived you, aDd by tbat deception awakened in your breast a passion I was not worthy to evoke. You will forget, and I shall rest in peace, happy not to have met your look of reproach, or lived to experience the withdrawal of that trust which was my glory and my shame. "I have deceived you. I am Siguorina Yalui and I am Jenny Rogers, but I am not the innocent-hearted girl I have always appeared to be. The millions which I received did not come to me unexpectedly. 1 intrigued for them and obtained them through the arts and by the contrivance of the very beings you thought to be my enemies. .UOLlieiU JUIU il.C fUriUoUW, U1 >1 uuui you Lave so ol'lcn told rut? to beware. "They were my allies?I must say it, for detection is on my track, and you will Lear tlie trutL from others. if not from me. They were my allies, hut I was never with them in any harmful schemes, and was, I swear to you. only the tool employed by tLem 10 obtain control over Mr. Delancy's fortune. "She was the woman wLo starved and ill-treated this gentleman in his final days. You have suspected this, and suspected, also, that she overheard, in her sly way, the bequest he made to Mr. Degraw and its strange conditions. But what yo'i cannot sus * -n-nmnn -rrm enw tvith [Jftl JS lUUb UiJV jvv- ...... me in my room in street was not the arch-conspirator who formulated this plot, but her sister. Annetta, a person of more sinister appearance than she, but of less calculation and but little resolve. 'How tiio Cleveland hag came to know Montelli a ad take him into her plans I have never heard. Neither have I ever been sure what the real name of this man was. That he was no Italian* I am sure; for though he disguised himself as such, he afterward showed that he could speak English without an accent. Was he Engli.sh, then? I think so; the former valet of some rich nan. probably. As tc his connec tion TV" 1111 LliCf JL UilU^UL'dt, 1 U1J1?V tliat when she carte to New York and started upon the scheme of supplying Mr. Degraw with an heiress who should share with her the wealth to be received, Montelli was at her side, and that it was at his instigation she apm proached the woman whom I once!' heard Mr. Byrd characterize as the i least respectable of my name. I was I then hiding my heart in heart-breaking , despondency over my failure at the | opera house, knowing none of these three conspirators, and only desirous j of preserving myself from the mockery '' and jeers which I imagined would fol- 1 low my appearance in any crowd. I j was wretched, but I was not wicked. My ambition was foiled, but I never j thought cf resorting to false methods j in order to insure the wealth and po- J sition I imagined myself 10 have lost, j upon the fatal day when these two ; (lemons called upon me. and. with a j skill and suavity you would little ex-1 pect from them, made mo understand j that an immense fortune was going \ begging, which i. if I would lend my- j self to their guidance, might easily < acquire, owing to my name and what j they termed my beauty. "The other Jenny Rogers to whom , they had already spoken had been a ; failure; she had tried her wile$ upon i Mr. Degraw, but witn so little effect j that he would not even Jock at her; j and they all saw that if success were i to be reaped by them it must le I through some innocent young girl who j would arouse not only the admiration ! of this good man. but his pity. This j they explained to me. and also told j 1 j \ Imf 1 me COW mey uaa iiearu uy imiuuvc mm my real name was Jenny Rogers, and that I had a history which, if known, could not but arouse commiseration Furthermore, they encouraged me by saying that all which was required of me was to go through a certain little farce easy enough lor one who had been trained for the stage, adding that success would be sure to follow, as I | had the requisite beauty and grace, j and only needed to attract his at ten-1 ticn to my misfortunes to awaken an ' interest which would be sure to eventuate in my being made the inheritor of these tempting millions. 'I listened. It all seemed very simple. and not at all wicked. I had merely to swallow a small powder, which would throw me into a deathlike repose, and. when I awoke, as they promised I should do while Mr. Degraw was in the room, feign surprise and indignation at not having been allowed to die, as my misfortunes had made me desire. The rest would come naturally, and when I was estab lished in my new weaitn. i was to g.ve them each a hundred thousand dollars as their share in the great uuderiakin.?. "Do you wonder that a motherless, friendless, disappointed child was tempted by this glowing prospcct, and lent herself to a chance which seemed without risk, and was calculated to ' bring her everything? ''The other woman of my name did i not obtrude herself upon me. nor did J Montelli make himself disagreeable ; by visiting me again. The Portuguese, on the contrary, came and took up her abode with me, making herself, bowever, as little obnoxious as possible, for she seemed to recognize from the first that I was not like herself. *nd must be held and cherished apart, in order that I might preserve the almost childish ignorance which was. as they ] openly acknowledged, the one characnnnn irllifh tllPV mOSt relied I ICAJOUV. Uj/uu ? v to win the fastidious Mr. Degraw. This j was iu the last of April, and he had already seen and disdainfully passed by several girls of ray name. The < little school-teacher had been interviewed and the Detroit miss followed and remarked; but I knew nothing of this. Nor did I know until after I had become irrecoverably involved in the scheme, that Montelli. as I must call him. had pledged himself to rid the city of such of my name as seemed to attract Mr. Degraw's attention. All this was withheld from me. and being young. I doubted nothing, but went on my way. serenely waiting for the hour J when these two schemers should de- ) cide that it was time for me to enter I upon our premeditated farce. To be continued. In the Eyes of Their Servant?. A great many people live to please j their servants. They save and pinch I in order that they may spread themselves before butler, maid and cook. ! And, poor fools, they do not perceive j that butler, maid and cook thoroughly j understand the situation. But. serious- ! iy, trained servants are marvelous j critics. There is a family in our j swellest avenue who will admit that they also are qualified teachers. Good manners are acquired by children in imitation of well-bred parents: they are acquired by scrub adults through social attrition. Mr. and Mrs. V.. who came here from the West three years ago with barrels of mined money. ; very wisely leaned upon their servants j for that education i) good behavior | or etiquette which had beoD denied j them in the long period of '.heir poverty. TJae butler they engaged was formerly in the home of an epicure of great wealth. They paid bim $7000 a I year and a commission on the menu. J One maid was tempted from a leader j of the Four Hundred, another was im- j ported from Taris, where she bad attended the Countess Q. Fabulous wages were paid. The l'ootm:m came from a fashionable club, receiving three times his former wages. From these people the Westerners learned "manners." And they are to-day better behaved j than many animals in the social men-1 agerie who were bore in the purple.? > New York Press. H.vsterJa In Do;?. Nerr^s are the disease of the present i day amonj human beings, but I did; not know till recently that hysteria is j also a malady of dogs. A friend of J mine owned u dog which suddenly one j day was seized with an attack of j nerves. Since then it has been very i ill. wandering incessantly round and J round the room, refusing food, but still rcecfcjnizing its owner. Another little j dog suffered from liysteria in eonse-! quence of fripbt from railway travel- i ing and it really seems as though civil- j ization. jn rendering dogs more delicate and more smeeptible. had done them a distinct physical injury. ? London , Graphic. " Itfen of Nature.' Gustave Xagel. the German "child of nature." wlio scorns such trifles as i shirts and trousers, eats only fruit and j lives in the woods, has attracted a num. . ber of adherents to his cause. A "So- i ciety of Men of Nature" is to be formed 1 by those who regard our civilization ( as too advanced. A SERMON FOE SUNDAY j AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE ^ REV. A. B. KINSOLVINC, D. D. Subject: rresnmptnons Sins?The Commonest Sin Amone Men is Sacrificing the Interests of the Spirltnal and Eternal to the Carnal aiul Temporal. Brooklyx, N. Y.?Dr. Arthur E. Kineolving, rector of Christ Church, preached an excellent sermon Sunday morning, on "Presumptuous Sins." The two texts were from Matthew iv: 5 and C: "Then the devil taketh him into the holy city and he set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto Him, if Thou art the Son of Cod cast Thyself down, for it is written. He shall give His angels charge concerning Thee; and on their hands they shall hear Tnee up, lest haply Thou dash Thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, "Again it is written, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God;" and Psalms xix: 13: "Keep hack Thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me; then shall I he upright and innocent from the great transgression." Dr. Kinsolving said: In pursuing our purpose of trying to in4f/Iin lifo r\f IVia T.Tp. ( tci pici/ tiixr uu jv;iuui^ mv v* sus and to read its lessons for ourselves, we preached last Sunday the tempted Jeeus. We found in the narrative of the temptation a record of just a mental and spiritual struggle as we should have exSected Him to go through at this stage of [is career. It is impossible to suppose that He could ha\*e decided instantaneously and without long meditation and conflict upon the plan of His life as the "sent of God." Clearly He had a plan and adhered to it throughout life. We remarked upon the deep interest that each one of us lias in the moral struggle and victory of Jesus, and how just in proportion as we are led by the Holy Spirit to lofty and noble ideals of life, we are conscious of these subtle earthly lures which would deflect us from our truest paths. We spoke of the fatalistic non-resistance to temptation so much in vogue nowadays as something not worth while, because in a world where the frailty of man is exposed to such overwhelming allurements of world, flesh and devil, it is certain beforehand that a vast percentage of men and women will fall. The Maker of men and not the victims of sin is the most responsible, so this school teaches, and by such doctrines the person assailed is induced to yield without a struggle. Jesus' conflict and victory teach us that this is a libel upon God. Through a putting forth of such strength as we have, + o -nravprfnl rlpftirP tft JlTlfl do what is right, our vision is cleared and our wills gcow strong, and while God can never entirely shelter us from temptation He can and does defend us in temptation, and with every solicitation to wrongdoing show us the way of escape. Then -we tried to learn the lesson of Christ's first temptation. The question which first confronted Him as our representative was the old and ever-pressing question of daily bread. The tempter proceeds upon the assumption that all man needs for his sustenance is food for the physical life. You have a right to this, ne says, on any terms, and there is nothing else to be considered by comparison with this. So make provision for yourself anrl the body's bread first. "You are to feed' the hungry; feed first yourself." "If Thou art the eon of God. command that these stones be made loaves?and then You may live to execute Your Father's business." The answer of .Tesus came from a Man gaunt and weary by long fasting and days of conflict. "The physical life is not man's only life, and I will not act as if it were," He says, "by exempting Myself from privations which I have come to share with My brethren. If I am hungrv. that lies within the will of God for Me, and I choose hunger in that will, rather than satisfaction outside of and 'aeainst that will. I will not hurt or kill My moral or spiritual life as the filial, dependent and ooedient Child of God by providing on guilty_terms for the feeding of My bodily life. .For if. through pnvauon, tne ooany wrapping of life should perish there would still be left My essential manhood and My eternal relationship with the Father. Therefore I choose the obedient and dependent life, and will trust the care and wisdom of My Father unto the end." Jesus there enunciated a philosophy of life which is as sane as it is lofty and spiritual. Perhaps the commonest sin among men is sacrificing the interests of the spiritual and eternal to the carnal and temporal. All about us they are prone to live as if man did live by bread alone, and where this is true they will have bread on any terms, and getting it becomes the consuming passion of life. By choosing, instead, the hunger that resulted from dwelling in the will of God, rather than the passing gratification gotten at the price of disobedience, our Master won for us the Ereat initial victory over temptation, and y His spirit and example has been leading millions to victory along the same path ever since. In the second temptation?I take the order given in St. Matthew as the natural order?the point of attack has changed. The tempter had sought to overthrow the obedience of Christ by an assault unon His physical appetites and faith in His Father's care. He had overcome the temptation through the strength of His trust in God. So now the attack is made upon Him through that very trust. _ An unswerving loyalty and confidence in the will of God has been discovered. That loving trust it was which_ made Him choose to suffer the pangs of hunger, rather than arbitrarily terminate them by a miracle wrought for Himself. Ah. then, here is His strength, so near by there must lurk His weakness! "Then," we read, "the devil taketh Iiim into the holy city and setteth Him upon that corner of the wing of the temple which overlooks from its dizzy height the priests' court below., where the thousands of Jewish pilgrims have gathered from all over the world. 'If Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down.' That will be an ideal and perfect test of your filial relation and your Father's care for You. Descend, heavenborne, into the midst of priests and people, win instantly the acclamation and popular welcome which You will else have to V.. 1 fail. conquer uy IU.IJ; jcmo ui PUUCIII^ U..U ure. What worship and honor and homage will he Yours! How quickly You wiJI stand at the head of believing Israel! Surely, there is nothing to fear, for it is written, 'He shall give His angejs charge concerning Thee; and on their hands they sha'l bear Thee up, lest, haply, Thou dash Thy foot against a stone.' " The very choice of the location of the temptation attests the subtlety of the tempter.. He is taken to the Holy City and to a pinnacle, or wing, of the temple. Think what must have been Jesus' sacred love for Jerusalem and how naturally and deeply His mind would have been influenced by the surroundings. All the passionate religious patriotism of His nature, all His deepest springs of feeling would be touched by the sacred associations 01 tne Holy City. "Beautiful for elevation, the joy of the whole earth, the city of the great king, whither the tribes of the Lord go up year by year for worship." How precious were its sights: "As the mountains lie around about Jerusalem, so encanipeth the Lord about them that love Him." "If 1 forget thee, 0, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its cunning." If for a devout Jew there was a spot on earth which warranted the most unconditioned trust, it was the temple of Jehovah in the first religious capital of the world. Here it was, while His soul was vibrating with a triumphant sense of trust won by overcoming the hrst temptation, that the insidious attack is made whose effort was to betray Him into presumption. All the wonderful past dealing of Liccl witix jus covenant peopte wumu si.uiu Dut in memory; all the wealth of tenderness over hopes and promises sorely and long deferred, and now on the eve of fulfillment?a tenderness which afterward tame out in words wet with tears, when lie cried: "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how jftcn would I have gathered thy children 'I - -- - t.? K? ,1 LOgeuier as a ucu tauitltui 4|c* under her wings, bnt ye would not." It was in the heart of JI is own Jerusalem, ind .roin the summit of His Father's house i that Ho was tempted by His cunning and ; ivily adversary to commit the plausible sin. Beside the influence of the sacred tlace and associations. the voice of tiie * tempter appealed to something r.ot less sacred?to the written word of God?ap guarantee of truth and action. The Jr? nun to ?s>rinfiirp to his DUr UCVJi, lUl', *.??.# 4-ww a pose. "If Thou be the Son of God, cast Thyself down; for it is written, 'He shall give His angels charge concerning Thee/ " etc. It was so written, and the words contained a precious promise, but here they only strengthened a suggestion to do a thing whicn was wrong. "Tt is written again." said Jesus, " 'Thou shalt not tempt or make trial of the Lord tby God.'" Oh, if in the history of the past, so disfigured by bitter contests for half truths, the wisdom of this, "It is written again," of Jesus had only been realized! How often have the advocates of a blanched Calvinism, or men who had become the ritualistic enthusiasts > for one particular mode of administering baptism, or with one misfit theory of the inspiration of the Bible?a theory, for example, which put *? ' ' -r.-i.1--_ ? l-:-U j 1 nrn?_ ine J300K OI il^SLIier, WlllUIi UUC3 nui> vuutaio the name of God, on an equal footing with St. John's Gospel, how often have such misguided people cried out, "Jt is written," as if that were the end of all controversy. Never can the true balance and proportion of life be discovered in this way. "Again it is written," is Jesus' formula. An isolated text does not settle the matter. Every false teacher who has divided the church has virtually done so by an "it is written." First, we must have recourse to the principles of sanity and common sense; find out if what we are tempted to do is in sincere accord with what God has taught us generally in His word and in common sense, and. then decide. For* Christ to have cast Himself from the wing of the temple into the abyss that yawned below would have been to tempt God. "We do not make experiments with those whom we absolutely trust." When a man begins by a prayer test, or any like thing, to make experiments with God, he snows that he lacks the subtle, spiritual quality called faith which is the only means by which he can reach God. Therefore, it is the habit of trust to calmly abide in God ?not trifle with cr put Him to the test. As long as Jems remained within the onVioTP nf the revealed will of His Father. He could trust Him. If He should break or contravene that will, then He should no longer feel He had a right to God's care. In other words, Jesus Christ, in His second temptation, flushed with a victory which must have given an impulse to faith in the Father's power and sufficiency, declares to usHhat it is necessary to have a care for ourselves as well as commit ourselves into the keeping of God. Because we are God's children we may not break the laws of the world to which we belong and expect Him to miraculously interiere to prevent the consequences. Contempt for nature and practical reason is a wretched policy to begin a religious life with. We live under physical law, under moral law, under spiritual law. To fancy lhat because we have come to feel the power of the spiritual and even the supernatural, we are at liberty to fly in the face of known physical laws, or sane and widely received moral laws, is fatal error, and for it men are always punished in the end. God is the source of all these laws and we tempt the Lord our God when we break them. We are not to rely, either, "too exclusively or presumptuously" upon the care of God. As far as our practical reason serves us, we must also take counsel of that, recocrnizinir that faith and self help, action and patience "meet in equilibrium" and complete each other. If Jesus, the exceptional and pre-eminent object of divine care, had yielded to this "Cast Thyslf down." He would first have broken away from us, His brethren, w!To live under moral and physical law. and second. He would have "substituted for a life environed by nature, guarded, guided, fed by it, participant in its forces because subject to its laws, a life divorced from nature, hostile to it, refusing to tempt God or to break away from our human lot and world, showed us the sanity and strength cf a genuine trust in God. It is not nervous, fanatical or presumptuous. "It neither courts nor shuns death." It is prudent, wary, will not overstep the limits of a sober faith, and yet, when the will of God clearly demands it in the path of dutv, it bravely faces death and dares all hell! My friends, the modern sin of presumption turns up under many forms. Now it appears in the guise of religious pride, in the purblind assumption of some ecclesiastical charlatan uttering with great swelling words of vanity some oracular opinion which he claims to be of equal aufnr?ritv with t ho ton rhi nrrc nf tho firm nf God. You havfc it in the vaticinations of the "mother" of Christian Science with the system's slavish literalism and preposterous overclaims. The contempt for the physical that the eystem breathes and breeds, the refusal to give medicincs out of those stores which God has laid up for us in leaf and plant and flower and mineral, and which millions of educated men have given their lives to make available, the willingness to cast themselves or a child over the precipice, claiming the sanction of certain Scriptures as their warrant for escaping destruction is, in the eyes of most men and woneen to-day, a sin of presumption. The system is against the corporate common 6ense of the race, against the proportion of faith; it discards doctrines like the blessed truths of Christ's deity and atonement, which have been held by the overwhelming majority of the members of the Christian church in every age Irom the beginning. "It is written, they cry. Yes, Christ teaches us to answer, and "again it i9 written: Thou shalt nnt mnlfo iVip trial nf T.nrH t.hv Ond." You have it?one hesitates to allude in a Christian pulpit to the vulgar sect?in the sacrosanct polygamy of the Mormon, of which such an informing expose has been made by a Congressional committee during the past week. Not that the Mormon 13 the only adulterer; would God he were, but he is the only man now before the Christian public who claims a new revelation of later and higher authority than that made through the holy and sinless Jesus, expressly sanctionijg his lustful creed. "I as the chosen of God uava had a vision which uproots and supersedes the morality taught by the Lord Jesus Christ; I like Mohammed's about the family better than Christ's, therefore I hear my preference sanctioned by a voice from heaven. Henceforth my revelation shall put me above the law of the land. Outwardly I may have to comply, but I secretly will ignore it." There ! ^s not occurred in modern times a more pestiferous example roSfri/Mic hvnrtrriev anrl rlt?lnctrm! And when we remember that repeatedly in recent years emissaries from Utah have proclaimed this accursed system here in the East, chiefly anions simple minded rustics, and mountaineers, we realize the sin of permitting it thus iOng. This country can never endure part po!ygamist r.nd part monogamist. But. my friends, the capital sin of presumption is committed nearer at home than this. There is self satisfied credulity which makes men fancy that they can break .ill manner of spiritual laws, cast themselves down all sorts of religious precipices, take all kinds of risks i i the affairs of the soul at fc ..tan's dictation, and yet that somehow at the end they will come out without loss! It is not, too, the ignorant about God, but those who have had good opportunity to know Him aud obey Him who fall into this sin. Vi'hen any Christian man lets himself orf easily and airily from a plain duty to God, or does a sin against light, he nears the sin of presumption. When a man of the world deliberately violates the express will of God. our Saviour, year after year, relying upon some vague hope of deliverance lor which we have no divine warrant, he is approaching the sin of persumption. Brethren, our safety lies in learning the I* 11 1114 ir ?infl cimnli/'itv nf .Tocna Christ. "Keep back Thy servant also, from presumptuous sins; Jet them not have dominion over me; then shall I be upright and iunocent from the gi >at transgression." of a Cheerful Face. To wear a cheerful face when tin heart is aching is net deceit. When a good housekeeper cleans the front steps and poivh before she sets the house to rights, she does not mean to deceive passers-by; Khe merely shows some pride in her house, nnd some consideration for her neighbors. We conquer our heartaches more quickly when we begin by considering the friend* ivho are tear us.?Sunday-School Timea TIE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL 24. i Subject: The Mission of the hfventy, Lukt *., 1-10? Golden Text, Luke 2 ? Memory Verses, 1, 2?Commentary on j I the Day's Lenson. I. The seventy sent forth (vs. 1-3). 1. "After these Ibings.'" After Christ and His disciples made their final departure from Galilee. According to Andrews this took place early jn November. They are then supposed to have journeyed along the borders between Samaria and Galilee eastward to the River Jordan. They crossed over into i'erea and then turned south toward Jerusalem. "The Lord appointed." This appointment was temporary and not permanent like the appointment of the twelve apostles. "Seventy others" (R.'V.) The twelve apostles had been commissioned 1 and sent out about a year before this. As | the number of apostles had reference to I the number of the tribes ot Israel. so the seventy disciples sent out call to mind the number of e?ders who were chosen to assist Moses in governing the people. The number also corresponds to the number of members of the Sanhedrin. "And sent them." The chief purpose of this sending was net to train these messengers for a j later independent mission, but it was a ! new attempt to influence to decision at least a part of the people, and by word and deed to prepare the coming of the kingdom of God in the midst of them, i **Two and two."' The same manner in ! which He sent out the apostles. This was 1 done: 1. To teach them the necessity of | concord among the ministers of righteousness. 2. That in the mouth of two wit! nesses everything might be established. 3. | That they might comfort and support each other in their difficult labor. "Before His face." They were to visit those cities and I places that lie intended soon to visit. 2. "Harvest truly is great." The harj vest is plenteous, the grain is ripe and spoiling and must be garnered immediately or it will be lost. There was need for I such a mission as the district in Perea j had been little visited by Jesus. There I were multitudes who had not yet heard ! of the coming of "the kingdom of God." I "Laborers are few." True workers have I always been hard to find. This is the greatest calling in the world, and yet there i are so few wno are ready to make the ; cmnll temnorarv self-denial that is neces i sary in order to see success in Christian | work. "Pray ye therefore." They must | set out with prayer, and have a deep concern for precious souls. II. Various instructions given (vs. 4-11). j The instructions given them were distinct I from an'd yet similar to the instructions ! given the twelve apostles. The twelve had J greater authority to work miracles, and j they were to receive persecutions which j are not mentioned with reference to the i seventy. 4. "Carry neither purse, etc." Trust God for your support. The purse J was a small leather bag for carrying money. I The scrip was a traveling bag used for j carrying provisions when traveling. "Nor shoes." The shoes were made for use in the house. They did not need these; the sandals they were wearing would be sufj ficient. In fact, they were to take nothing not absolutely necessary for their jour ney. 6. "Son of peace." Any truly pioug man who is worthy of such a blessing. 7. "In the same house remain." Their stay was to be short. They were not to choose the best places and neglect the ; poor, and were not to spend time going' j from house to house in search of better I accommodations. "Is worthy." The one I who really labors is worthy of being supi ?i?,?. ^rnr,M nperl not exDect the j JJU11CU, UUV wvuvw j workers 4o feed them very long. I 8. "As are set before you." Probably Christ here refers to the traditions of the elders about their meat. They were extremely critical, and a dish of meat could hardly be set before them but there was some scruple concerning it. Christ would not have them regard those things, but I eat what was set before them. 9. Heal; J and say." Their mission was twofold: 1. I They were to gain the attention of the people by healing their bodies. 2. The important part of their work was to preach the gospel of the kingdom. 10. "Keceive you not." Do not receive you kindly and accept your message. "Go your ways." You nave no time to contend with them. Do not cast your "pearls (before swine." "Into the. streets." The i moat public place. Let every one see the | result of rejecting the truths concerning j the kingdom of God. 11. "Wipe on j against you." The Jews considered themselves defiled with the dust of heathen i countries, and the action here enjoined did not express anger, but a warning. It signified that these Jews were holy no longer, and was, in reality, placing them on a level with the heathen. "Be ye sure." The message was again to be repeated, if, perchance, some might hear at the last mo | ment. III. Impenitent cities upbraided (vs. 12I 16). 12. In that day." In the iudgment [ day. "Sodom." See Gen. 19. This was one of the "cities of the plain" that was destroyed by God with fire because of its J preat wickedness. It was situated in the fertile plain of Jordan, but its exact loca tion is not known. "Than for that city." ; Our Lord is here threatening the guilty in! habitants of the cities who reject His gos5el, and from His words we learn: 1. hat there is a future day in which the ! inhabitants of the earth are to stand beI fore the judgment seat of God and receive i their sentence. 2. The degree of punishj ment will be measured according to the ! privileges enjoyed and the guilt incurred, i 3. Acceptance of the message of God is l tfie only method of escape and the only I means of salvation. j 13. "Woe unto thee." "Alas for thee!" I This is <m exclamation of pity, and it is evident that our Lord used tne words in I this sense. "Chorazin."^ A town on the I northwest shore of the JSca ot uaiuee. irs j location is not definitely known, but it J was near Capernaum.^ "Bethsaida." On the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, | north of Capernaum. It was the birthj place of Philip, Andrew and Peter. I "Mightv works." The great miracles. A miracle is a sign, a wonder, and a mighty | deed (Acts 2: 22: 2 Cor. 12: 12; Heb. 2: 4.) 14. "More tolerable." The degree of i your misery will be greater than even that j of Tyre and Sidon. "At the judgment." j The final judgment. 15.s"E.\aIted to ! hfaven."' A Hebrew metaphor, expressive ! of the utmost prosperity, and the enjoyj ment of the greatest privileges. "Down to hell." Capernaum was to be brought down ' . to a state of utter ruin and deso'ation. I I This prediction was literally fulfilled soon j | after this in the wars between the Jews j and the Romans. 16. "Heareth: despis| eth." He that welcomes the apostles ar.d I Al * ho vnipp ftf j iibtens 10 mem i? n??.cinii^ i" -I Jesus Christ and of God Himself, whi.'e i the one who despiseth the apostles anil will not listen to the message they bring is really despising and rejecting .Tesus i Christ and God the Father who sent Him. I It was not lone before the seventy returned with joy because of their success, i Burled in His Own Coffin. j The funeral, unique from the fact that , the coffin was made by the man who was placed in it, and because the service was j arranged by the same man, of Dr. Jehu | Barr was held at Chicago, 111. The body ; was laid in a vault which he built in the 1 Oak Ridge Cemetery, and another coffin of his manufacture was used at his widow's | I funeral. Both coffins were painted blue, I I with red and white trimmings. Dr. Barr I ! was sixty-nine years old and an author and a follower of Robert G. Ingersoli'a j I atheistic teachings. In Barr's book, "The ! 1 Logical Eye WilT .See." were marked pas- < I tagee! Whicli, DV ur. mrr s direction, were read at tlie funeral. The pall bearers j ! whom he chose all wore badges made by the author. j Shivers Till He Adds Forty round*. I .After six months spent entirely in thi ! onen ftir at tlie State Sanitarium. W'hitf j Haven, Pa.. George Faeh, Jr., became j forty pounds heavier. He has been cure* I of consumption by sleeping with the ful j benefits of zero breezes on the eoldes! I days. i I I The Denver Makes 18.8 Knot?. On her trial trip the cruiser Denver ai? : j tained a speed of 18.8 knots and an aver-, ; age of somewhat more than the seventeen! ; ! kiots called for in the contract with the j 1 Government- - ? - " ? ? -- ? ' > :'k > v Alway? Near. | Whene'er my days are fair and bright i And o'er my life the sky is clear; 1 1^ think of Him to whom I owe Each hour of peace and pnre delight; ; And in my grateful heart I know That God is near. And when the 'days of brightness fade;} When my hours are sad and drear; 1 think of Him who watcheth o'er The humblest creature He hath made. And in mv heart I know once more ' That God is near. I . ".?!& With all my days so will it be, ! Whate'er they bring of hope or fear, Until at last shall come the day, | That sets my trusting spirit free; I, ! And then as ever will I pray That God is near. ?Mary Derereux* \ Advantages of Foresight. These three advantages accrue from th? ! i. i 1-. r-- 4.1. a .f i* ^uijjuoc tu xiiaac rcuuy iur iuc cuu ui mvi, First, it puts a man upon his mettle, stirn* ulates his activities, nourishes and fresh* ens them. Nothing .spurs a man to hid task like the consciousness of the brevit* of the time appointed. The corifractoreox* fers an injury who is told to take his owtf time. Contrariwise, the time limit for tha expiration of his work keeps him up to his best. Unfortunately many men feel thai; they do not know when their life is to end, and therefore assume that they have a. score of years, or thirty years, to complete their task. If every man bad a chart placed in his hands so that he knew jus^ now much time had been allowed him to work out his purposes, how would he he^n; to the line, insisting upon finishing thii | stint in one month, and a second stint in the next month. i We know that when Ajjricola crossed th? Aips inio uermany, luininng nis emperor* command, he kept his little handbag always packed, that every night he footed, up his accounts, so that he could close them upon a moment's notice and start aft \ once with his dispatches for Rome. Everjj \ prudent man ought to lay out his life upont that basis, and with reference to thorough-* " uess, accuracy and faithfulness to his work and his Master, be ready for the measeiM ger whose coming is always expected, likd the coming of a thief in the night. Bat this foresight of life's end is also a buttrete against temptation and safeguard against; evil. What student is not made more *ci curate for the reflection that the examiner;, may come at any hour? What soldier i* not the better prepared for remembering that any moment the trumpeter may call the charge? j , jy/ In those last days of the battle befortf Richmond General %rant sent word along ' the line that the next would be the ks| charge. The knowledge that the end waa approaching and that they must round out tiltir career as soldier3, was such a toniq unto men that they coiqpeted with each other for the most dangerous tasks and the ir.ost difficult places. When Paul realized that the time of his departure was at hand he nerved himself for one more letter, foe one more heroic deed, for one more act of < supreme self-sacrifice, and he hungered fot^ the most difficult place of service and sufi fering, as some brave youth desires withl i exceeding great desire to prove his affection to his beloved one. For all these rea* eons, therefore, Christ tried to incite menf to be ready for the end of the life career.?? N, D. Hillis, D. D. { . one Meaning or rain. | A few years ago a mother, carrying av lit* j tie deformed boy, entered tie Hospital foe j Sick Children. After a careful examine' ] tion the doctor told her that a cure was possible, but the treatment would be ex* :eedingly painful, and the child must be jiven up entirely to the care of the nurse and himself. Turning to the lad she said:i { "You will stay with the doctor and the taurse, won't you, Freddie?" 1 But he had heard the doctor's words and begged to be taken home. With ell ' i mother's skill she argued and coaxed, but : tithout avail. Freddie only tightened hie arms about her neck and begged to be | spared the ordeal. There were tears in th^ | mother's eyes and a sob in her heart as she I nlp.ifl mitt Viim tn filihmit. anH tnlrl him o the coming days when iie would be &B straight and strong as others. But it was useless to argue, for he did not want to bo' . healed at the price of so much pain. Thenf , the voice of the mother assumed a sterner tone, a tone which the child had never; 1 heard before. Firmly unclasping the fingers i that were locked about her neck, and lift* ! ing the tear-stained face from her breast*1 she said: , ' ' nr "Freddie, you must stay," and handing him to the nurse she turned and walked out of the room. In the next room she fell upon a couch and wept with a.bitter-', j ness that is known only to the mother's heart. i Go to that lad a few years hence when! he stands straight and strong among the i athletes and ask him if it was unkind of I her to leave him in the hands of the sur! geon and the nurse, and with eyes agio*; ! with love and a voice tremulous with gratj itude he will tell you that he thanks God for a mother who subjected him to a yean ! of oain to win for him a lifetime of pleaa-' ure. It is evfcn so that He who has for oa the heart of a father and a mother, too* permits sorrow to do its work of fitting up for the glory by and by. In all our afflictions He is afllicted, and if He is will* ing to bear pain for us we should not complain when He asks us to share it with ! Him.?W. W. Weeks, D. D., in Baptist i Union. PerJl of the Tongue. "Not that which entereth into the j mouth detileth the man; but tnat which ; proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth 1 the man." It makes a vital and an eternal difference to us how we express ourselves. A man is in greater danger of self-destruction by speaking than by eating. Formerly many French words were in common use by the Germans, but now; j the Emperor's influence is toward the t substitution of German terms for the i French?the idea being that, as the people speak, so they will become. This is sup- |H posed to beget a higher and more solid H[ patriotic or national spirit?as, other. Hi things being equal, it must. Statesmen I perceive this truth in the bottom principle I^E enunciated by Jesus, and thus apply it.^H But in our individual lives we often for? HQ get to act on it. It harms us to think HH evil; it harms us even more to eay what we think. It is for this reason that si lencc is so often golden. But it is also on ;!ie same general principle that it is worth B?! vlii'c to speak a pleasant word?if we can do no more.?Sunday-School Times. MB The Way to Lire. l.-v so to live in the light o: God's love'j^K that it becomes a second nature to y?u>B|B tolerate nothing adverse to it, be continu-^E ally striving to please i?ira in all things,^H take all that He sends patiently; resolve HE tirmly never to commit the smallest de-^H liberate fault, and if unhappily you are HE overtaken by any sin, humble yourself and rise up speedily. You will not be al-^H ways thinking of God consciously, but all^H your thoughts will be ruled by Him. His^H presence "ill cIicck useless or evil thouphts^H and your hear: will be perpetually fixed on 11 ini. ready lo do IlLs holy will.?Jean HE Nicolas Grcu. JgJj Whittled the Spinal Cord, 3BKj To save the life of Beryamin Johnson, $Hb barber, of New Orleans, La., who was shoi^H in a quarrel, Dr. Stephen \V. Stafford, ol^H the Charity Hospital, removed a part ot^H Johnson's spinal cord. The bullet was bedded in the vertebrae, causing total papHjS aiysis 01 tne legs. -iner me upcranonHB paralysis of the extremities was reduced, and now Johnson is able to move the limbf^H which had become numbed. Eliza, the Oldest Hen, is Dead. H9j Eliza, the oldest hen in New York Statej^H is dead at Middletown at the age of scvco^^B teen years. - "flfl