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"the sple! TEE ADVENTURES By ARTHUR T. Iff CHATTER XIV. (Continued.) I stood by the house door shouting these questions to the men inside, when a hand was laid on my arm. and there in the shadow waited Billy ? ?/* - * 1> ? ovi'rtlifr nni'intic +TV!?ll:]p UlUlS^ll, WUU ?l vwnvv.*, in his eye. He put a finger up ami signed that 1 should follow. We passed round the outbuildings where, three Lours before, Matt. Soarnes and I had hid together. I was minded to stop and pull on my boots, that were hid here, but (and this was afterward the saving of me), on second thoughts let them lie, and followed Billy. He now led me out by the postern gate. "Saw one stealing hither?an' followed. A man wi' a limp foot?went over the side like a cat." As fast as I could tug, I hauled up the rope. Nearly sixty feet came up before I reached the end?a thick, twisted knot. I rove a long noose, pulled is over my head and shoulders, and made Billy uuderstand he was to lower me. "Sit i' the noose, lau, an nom rouuu the knot. For sign to hoist again, tug the rope hard. I can hold." He paid it out carefully while I stepped to the edge. With the noose around my loins I thrust myself gently over, and in a trice hung swaying. Down I swayed (Billy letting out the rope very steady), and at last swung myself inward to tbe ledge, gained a footing, and took a glance round before slipping off the rope. I stood on a shelf of sandy rock that wound round the cliff some way to my left, and then, as I thought, broke sharply away. I slipped off the rope and left it to dangle, while 1 crept forward to explore, keeping well against the rock and planting my feet with great caution. I believe I was twenty minutes taking as many steps, when at tlie point where the ledge broke off I saw the ends of an iron ladder sticking up, and close beside it a great hole in the rock, which till now the curve of the cliff bad hid. The ladder no doubt stood on a second shelf below. I heard the sound of a footstep and faced round. Before mc, not sis paccs off, stood Hannibal Tingcomb. He was issuing from the hole with a sack on his shoulder, and sneaking to descend the steps, when he threw a glance behind?and saw me! Neither spoke. With a face gray as ashes he turned very slowly, until in the unnatural light we looked straight into each other's eyes. Then, letting slip the sack, he flung his arms up, ran a pace or two toward me, and tumbled on his face in a fit. His left shoulder hung over the verge; his legs slipped. In a trice he was hanging by his arms, his old, distorted face turned up, ar.d a froth about his lips. I made a step to save him, and then jumped back flattening myself against the rock. The ledge was breaking! I saw a seam gape at my feet. I saw it widen and spread to right and left. I heard a ripping, rending noise ?a rush of stones and earth; and. clawing the air, with a wild screech. Master Tingcomb pitched backward, head over heels, into space. Then followed silence; then a horrible splash as he struck the water, far below; then again a slipping and trickling, as more of the ledge broke away ?at. first a pebble or two sliding?a dribble of earth?next, a crash and a cloud of dust. A last stone ran loose and dropped. I shut my eyes and shouted. There ;was no answer. I screamed again and again. The rock flung my voice seaward. Across the summit vaulted above, there drifted a puff of brown smoke. No one heard. A while of weakness followed. My brain reeled; my fingers dug into the rock behiud 1 ill they bled. I bent forward?forward over the heaving mist through which the sea crawled like a snake. It beckoned mc down, that crawling water." "Shall I jump?" thought 1, "or bid? here till help comes?" 'Twas a giddy, awful leap. But the black horror was at my heels now. In a minute more 'twould have me; and then my fall was certain. I bent my knees, and, leaving my hold of the rock, sprang forward?out over the sea. I saw it twinkle, fathoms below. My right hand touched?grasped the rope: then my left, as I swung far out upon it. I slipped an inch?three inchesheld. swaying wildly. My foot was in the noose. I heard a shout above, and as I dropped to a sitting posture the rope began to rise. "Quick! Oh, Billy, pull quick!" He could cot hear, yet tugged like a Trojan. "Now here's a time to keep a mar BittinT' he shouted, as he caught mj hand and pulled me full length on tin turf. "Why, lad?hast seen a ghost?' There was no answer. The blacl 1 1 1 rx4- lr.r-4 DOITOr IlilU UVtrimtvcu uic <11 juai. * * * * They carried me to a shed in th< great court of Gleys and set uio 01 straw, and there, till far into the after noon, I lay betwixt swooning ani trembling, while Delia bathed my hea< in water from the sen. for no othe was to be had. And about 4 in th< afternoon the horror left me, so tha I sat up and told my story prett; steadily. "What cf the House?" I asked whei the tale was done and a compan; sent to search the east cliff from th beach. "All perished," said Delia, and thei smiling, "I am as houseless as evei Jack." "And *iave the same cood friends. "That's true. But listen?for whil you have lain here Billy and I hav put 01 r heads together. He is bousv for Brest, he says, and uas agreed t \ I ? I NtDID SPUR"! OF JACK MARVEL. QtlLLER COCCH." r . taue mo and such poor chattels as are saved to Brittany, where I know my mother's kind will have a welcome for | me until these troubles be passed. Al- j ready the half of my goods is aboard tlu Godsend, and a letter to Sir Bevill begging him to appoint an honest man as my steward. "What think you of the planV" "It seems a good plan," I answered slowly; "the England that now is is no place for a woman. When do you sail?" "As soon as you are recovered, Jack." "Then that's now." I got on my feet and drew on my boots (that Matt Soames had found in the laurel bushes and brought).. My knees trembled a bit, "but nothing to matter. "Art looking downcast. Jack." Said I: "How else should I look, n>o+ oin lr>?A thpp in mi hour or more?'" She made no reply to this, but turned away to give au order to the sailors. * * * ? * The sun was setting as Delia and 1 stood on the beach, beside the boat that was to take her from me. Aboard the Godsend I could hear the anchor lifting. and the men singing, as, holding Molly's bridle, I held out my hand to the dear maid who with me had shared so many a peril. "Is there any more to come?" she asked. "No," said I, and God knows my heart was heavy; "nothing to come but 'farewell!'" She laid her small hand in my big palm, and, glancing up, said very pretty and demure: "And shall I leave my best? Wilt not come, too, dear Jack?" "Delia!" I stammered. "What is this? I thought you loved me not." " a *-?/! crv /li/1 T Tor>lr nml thinkinc? so, found I loved thee better than ever. Fie on thee, now! May not a | maid change her mind without being forced to such unseemly , brazen words?" And she heaved a mock sigb. But as I stood and held that little hand, I seemed across the very mist of happiness to read a sentence writ- j ten, and spoke it, perforce and slow, as with another man's mouth: "Delia, you only have I loved, and will love! Blithe would I be to live with you, and to serve you would blithely die. In sorrow, then, call for me, or in trust abide me. But go with you now?I may not." She lifted her eyes, and looked fuil into mine. And then, as a tear started: "Bet tbou'lt come for me ere long, Jack? Else I am.sure to blame some other woman. Stay"? She drew off her ring, and slipped it on my little finger. "There's my token! Now give me one to weep and be glnd over." Hnvine no trinkets, I gave my glove; and she kissed it twice, and put it in her bosoru. "I have no need of this ring," said I, "for look!" and I drew forth the lock I had cut from her dear head, that morning among the alders by Kennet side, and worn ever since over my heart. "Wilt marry no man till 1' come?" "Now, that's too hard a promise," said she, laughing, and shaking ber ctirls. "Too hard!" "Why, of course. Listen, sweetheart ?a true woman will not change her mind; but, oh! she dearly loves to bt) able to! So, bating this, here's ray band upon it?now, Ge, Jack! and be* fore all these mariners!?well, then if tbou must" I watchcd her standing in the stern and waving, till she was under the Godsend's side: then turned, and, mounting Molly, rode inland to the wars. m-iE END.} "Worthy to Receive Tension. A certain charitable organization In tlie city bad a request the other day from a young Italian threatened with consumption who wanted help to get back to Italy in the hope of saving his life. An agent was sent to investigate, and, as usual, asked the young man's mother for a list of the members of tbe family. The blanks furnished for this formality have nine spaces left for , children. The agent filled up one blank and still the list went on. She filled two blanks without a word, the list of children stopping at eighteen. When she turned in her report it embraced the following official recommendation: "That the hoy be sent to Italy, and (bat the mother be recommended to President Roosevelt for a pension."? New York Times. " Memorable Epochs'. A man of eighty-odd years died las* week, leaving written on a small sheet of paper the following: "Personal > memoirs. At tne age or xuiny i gave up dancing; at forty, my endeavors i to please the fair sex; at fifty, my re' gard for public opinion; at sixty, the ; trouble of thinking, and I have now ' become a true sage, or an egotist, : which is the same thing. I have never meddled in any marriages or scandals; I have never recommended a ? cook or a physician; consequently I ! have never attempted the life of anj . one." Broail-Gnngo Bridges. * The officials of India have had unr der consideration the advisability ol 0 arranging that all girders of large * bridges on meter-gauge railways r should be designed to carry five feet six inch gauge loads. It is found that n the general dimensions of large girders y for the two gauges and of the masonry e which carries ttiein are nearly identical, and that the additional cost ol n providing the heavier girder would *? rarely be excessive, and in all cases would bear but a small proportion tc the cost fo the whole bridge. e Mexico now has fiO.OOO American re3 il itients and 5o-u.000.u00 American o money. , I if A SEtiMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE REV. A. B- KINSOLVING. Subject: "The I>cht to Caesar ana to God"?We Must Not l'ermit the, "Hug:? Mundane Mnchine" to IJnii Over Our Soule. fSouthampton, L. L?Dr. A. B. Kinsolving, rector of Christ Church, Clinton street, Brooklyn, preachc-d here Sunday j morning in St. Andrew's Dune Church. His subject was "Our Debt to Caesar and Our Debt to God." 1J is text was chosen from St. Matthew xxii:21: "Render tlurefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things which are God's." Dr. Kinsclvir.g said: Were ever words more palpabiy just and fair? Could any statement be more calmly self-evidencing? Could any disentanglement of t!/e provinces of God and Caesar be more distinct, or any declaration cf our respective duty be more lucid? Men have always been confusing these two things? their debt to Caesar and their debt to God ?mixing up in some clumsy fashion the one with the other, fancying that when they have discharged one they have done the other also, finding the one to conflict with the other through some misunderstanding of the dignity aad weight of the respective obligations. And not only in private life, but in the history of peoples and States what confusion, what blundering has there been! Look how the cruel Roman empire tried through years to crush out the life of the Christian martyrs for simply doing their duty to God. and then in turn, when the empire had been conquered by the church and the papacy was seated upon its throne and had erected its palatial Vatican amid I the ruins of the ola order, see how the | haughty earthly embodiment of the heav! enl.v autocracy sought to bring low and i make subservient the things of Caesar! ! You are familiar, doubtless, with the way | the saying was brought about. A party of ioung Pharisees?the old hacks had recentl'? iniriDfl Tvifli if HH1W HI wmuo.u:!- jwwx-. : 6orne Herodians or Jewish nationalists to j put to Jesus a catch question to ensnare Him. "Master," said they with feigned earnestness, "we know that Thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, i neither rarest Thou for any man, for Thou regardcst not the person of men. Tell us. ! therefore: What thinkest Thou? Is it j lawful to pay this distasteful Roman poll tax or no?" J If He had answered "Yes" He would have been at once discredited as the Messiah?King of Israel. If "no" it would : have been treason and rebellion against 1 Rome. So instead of falling into the trap 1 Bet for Him, with a complete, a diviae | grasp of the whole situation, He declares a | principle which is the key to this wnole i complexitv in life wherever it may possibly i bccur. "Why tempst Me, ye hypocrites? Show Me the tribute money. Whose image fs this stamped on your current coin? j jCaesar's. Very well. Then what is Caet1 "ar's give back to Caesar, and what is Jod's to God." | . The impression it produced' at the mohient was profound. "When they had heard these words they marveled and left Him and went their way." He had lifted 41 rtf fko imrnc.. diate and passing circumstances into the region of largest and widest statesmanship, fcnd all the centuries of human history that have rolled by since have not exhausted its ! wisdom. "Render therefore unto Caesar the things 1 hat are Caesar's." Not a great deal of lime, I take it, needs to be spent in enforcing this behest. It marks the sanity, the wnolesomeness of Christ's religion. It is no star-gazing cult. The charge against it of inveterate other worldliness is a libel. Christianity has always taught man to do Iioblv, patiently, heroically his full duty to the State, to rulers, to society. We are part of a social system which has already taken shape. We are in debt to it in many ways. 4'V\ e pass its coins freely; we enjoy its endowments." Its image and superscription are on us: We belong of right to our age; our era of civilization, our nation, State, city, community. All that is aroun-d us is but the providential setting and environment of our lives. It is never perfect. There is, and for great while to come is likely to be a vast deal that is faulty about it. But we have no charter from Christ to be hopelessly sour in our attributes toward it. Wc are to trust, you and I, the upward growth, the slow and painful evolution of human civilization. We are to believe that at the heart of the movement there are deep-hidden, interior principles which, in co-operation with those special and powerful incentives which God brings to bear from above, are steadily bringing the kingdom of Caesar to some better fulfillment of itself. So then, even when we see things in the nation, the municipality, the neighborhood, go wrong; even when we see tyranny ana corruption and abuses, we are not permitted to turn away in despair and disgust. We have no riirht to stand aloof as if our hands would be contaminated by any contact with it. Our duty is to go bravely in and try to discharge our duty to the civil and sccular powers, respecting the moral worth of the things of Laesar, ana connuenuy trusting irtitn aiui God and humanity for the dawning of the brighter day. We are set as Christians not to build ?i dazzling visible church _/>f God upon the ruins of the dynasties .'".u governments of earth, a?; was dreamed bv the medieval popes and doctors. No, but rather is our book to infuse into organized lam an society the healthful spirit of the kingdom of Jesus Christ, and meanwhile, as Christ's words here clcar'v teach us, to keep the two spheres distinct. And on the came principle preeisclv 1 think cur Lord would have us deal with entire honesty with the facts of science. To presune to use religious authority to dci y the ascertained and verified conclusions of a genuine science?as was done, for instance, in the case of Galileo, and has citcn been urged since, is to break Christ's command. Natural ccicnce must proceed along its own distinct and separate lines. It cannot go out of its sphere to teach the world religion. Its function is to search out and interpret material facts. But in its own proper sphere we must respect it. Wc owe it the tribute of our sincerity. Wo must render to Caesar the things that arc Caesar's, and there will be no sort of peril to us if we are at pains at tlie .same time to "render to God the things that are God's." Iv.it is it in the point that I have been tirring that most men fail nowadays? Is it here that we need to throw our einpha? *t.:? A.? ti.om not certain forces in the realm of Caesar which of themselves exact the payment of what is due there? Docs not this tribute get itself paid in as do the State taxes by a sort of self-acting process, so that in a rcugh way it has to be forthcoming? Is not the real trouble now that we are in so many cases surrendering to Caesar more and more cf the things which belong to Cod? "It towers oyer us," some one has said, "this world movement of modern civiliza! tion, with its immense volume and weight cf hitman interests, human growths, human skill and art and industry. It makes , itself more and more felt as the one over| powering, ruling fact. It fills the scene. | Whore is there any room for the things of God? Where can the spirit move and ; breathe? Where has the sou! fled?" Because of the pressure upon their lives of ; the world of Caesar, because of the strong ; currents that sweep them alon?, soul and bodv, our debts to God too often go un ; ? You know how it is without my attempting to describe it in detail. Industry, with its iron necessities, grips a man: he flings i himself with good American pluck and puri po?c into the thing before him, and by j and by the very headway of success, the i very stress of competition, is found to be j using up all his strength. Soon his prayers j get thinner and poorer; he has scarce time j for them and feels less and sess need for | them. When his days and nights at the j ollice are through with, he recuperates his I tired energies at the club, where he cah j still with the waning nerve power talk over tiic coutsc of tiie market?or else he goes out of town to get the relaxation which will enable him to keep his place in Caesar's kingdom. lie does not mean at first to renounce his obligation to Ciod. For some time i?; pays it in the worth-ess currency of good ! int?Ptieii3 and good-humored "po'.ogies. i'y | nnd by even these arc omitted, and he and Lis ir'ends begin to justify the dereliction to God on the score of the increasing TT claims of Caesar. This laxity on the part of men and women to-day i: giving back to God the things that are God's is simply *~~~ . npaliing in view of God's 'inrivalled gifts j IN"T and blessings to us. If it be true that "to whom much is given of him shall much be required," and that judgment will ever begin at the house of God with the privileged. what is to be said when we all stand, ?ul) as stand we shall, before the Son of Man? e cannot serve God and mammon." Christ .Te-us does not oiock the way of j ! our paying our just debt to Caesar, but j ]le does warn us with the utmost plain- ' ' ness not to give Caesar everything. j -V II we allow "the huge mundane machine" j to run over our souls, like some car of j ' Juggernaut, crushing out our religious free- j dem and initiative, we .shai! be horribly | ,t flattened in our manhood, our sympathies, | v our ideals, our conceptions of life. The j R". results may not appear fully for a while. ! ? but in the end there will be experienced | "% . an impoverishment, an atrophy, a sinister. .1 maimed and crippled growth which will i . make us#unfit lor our citizenship in the | ' higher kingdom here or there. St. Paul, i 1 in beginning liis Epistle to the Romans? i i that is, to the people who then lived at j the capital city of Caesar's realm?accounts ; in the following words for the sin and ! .. misery, the failure and decadence of heath- j q endoiii: He tells them that "when they 1 ?; knew God, they glorified Him not as God, J .. , neither were thankful. Professing them- j selves to be wise, they became foo'.s. They j J changed His truth into a lie, and wor- j shiped and served the creature more than j ' the Creator, who is blessed forever." It : was an awful blunder. Xo greater could be ; {Sfi made by any man or people. They made j A"! the world they lived in their goa, their ! only god, and worshiped and served it i with their whole hearts. They worshiped i " power, k;. wledee, pleasure, wealth, force, j passion, art. They lived for these things j ? , until they fancied that these were the ; only things to live for. We know the re- j J suit. As they rejected Him. so God re- 1 . "5* jected them. As a punishment He gave j them over to moral corruption, to an 1 abandoned mir.d, to a festering decadence, j "And men crowded around and strove j for place and food, and the strong beat ; ^ down the weak, and the rich were gorged ( Jars and the poor were sent empty away, and strife and cruelty filled the earth with j fy3" ? - ? . . . 1 ; 11 m violence." That was Happening ac tne . :r~ very moment Christ spoke these tremen- j *P.a dons words: "Bender to God the things , which are God's." This is the sort of B heathenism which exists everywhere on 1 ll this earth where it is not persistently i P.,0 kept down by the spirit of Jesus Christ, i "To God the things that are God's!" "To j God the things that are God's!" Let that i cry haunt you until it compels you to pay I tlt your debt. l--.ve the courage to look 011 the one hand at what you are giving to the j P world represented by Caesar, and on the other at what you are actually giving to P.L. God. Is God missing His rights? Is your | duty to Him threatened by the power ; 1 and pomp of this massive earth? Ah! the* ! c?" be all the more careful that your debt to | P . heaven is paid. By the blood of the Cruci- J*11.8 lied, give back to God what really belongs J Pr.u to Him! Your soul, your heart, your con- | BTTf victions. your spiritual reality, your eternal j being?all these to God, for they are His. r Believe Him when He tells you that all , .0f else that we see and handle is but a shadow I lea that passeth away. Aye, trust Him when j Jr. . He pledges you His help whenever you t inc einccrely want to follow Him, and prom- ' * ise^ never to leave you to struggle on by j >aD yotfrsslf. Through Him who condescended j f"1to make His home in our hearts, who by ! S? His spirit "helpeth our infirmities," let us 1 make such offering to God as yet we can. ! .P; Give God, through Jesus_ Christ, your I Saviour, first of all yourself. He will ac- j ' cept nothing in the stead of you. Do not | I16; clutch the portion of goods that fallcth to | JC1 you and try to have them all to yourself i in some far country, where you shall never | P* hear the Father's voice or see His face; | j?n| but whatever you do have from Him, j jim whether more or less, try to enjoy it as a i \"e child in your Father's house, under the 5101 constant benediction of His smile. In the il:.1 - < . - ? i ?i. ! mic tace 01 tins iremenuous pressure 01 uuu, ; , which bears do\Vn so J.eavily upon every : |V*% soul, resolve manfully that you will not j yield; that the great and first command- ' H?.ai ment of Christ. "Thou sha'.t love the Lord j }\\r< thy God,' shall be kept. "Render unto I S , Caesar the things that are Caesar'?, and j unto Go.1 the things that are God's." i e^e b | sun I Th< Gems of Thought. ; ?,jC( There is nothing in life which has not j Th< its lesson for us, or its sift.?Buskin. | by Great ideas travel slowly, and, for a | JTw time, noiselessly, as the gods, whose feet j was were shod with wool.?James A. Garfield, j cy God reads our characters in our prayers, j '/ar What we love best, what we covet most, j was that gives the key to our hearts.?T. L. : by Cuyler. # { rati The good things that we have missed eve in this world sometimes make us sad; but turi the sad things that we have missed should j ftlo mitigate our sorrow and give us a spirit rra of praise.?United Presbyterian. j fles On. the littleness of the live? that we j 1 are living! Oh, the way in which we fail |0), to comprehend, or, when we do compre j 3? hend, deny to ourselves the bigness of that j tvoi thing which it is to be a man, to be a ' lioi child of God!?Phillips Brooks. > I toil A religion that stays in the clouds is oi tesl no u5C to anybody. Religion must be peo definite, practical, useful?a binding ruie ten of daily life?or else it is as much a mock ery as the gilded prayer wheel of the Budd* ; pea hist.?l'hiladelphia Young Teople. (th i Kis A Safe Knle. ' has It Is a rale rule to lay down that wnere i tf'il Scripture is silent we have no right to J"* speak; and where God has drawn a veil, i 'l!tr it is presumptuous for us to intrude. But tl,e this cuts both ways. A Gospel preachei w'}1 has 110 authority to depict details as to I1.1'" future punishment which the Word of God uces not reveal; hut, on the othei 61 f*' hand, no teacher can be held guiltless of * the sinner's fate who holds out hopes ^*1 which Scripture does not even suggest. Man is not more sympathetic than God. : c}1' But He who "willeth not the death of a J;',11 sinner" must demand that he should *v "turn from his wickedness" in order to ' vlC "live." The wicked must "forsake his tl0' way," and the unrighteous man his ant' thoughts" before the Lord can "have the mercy upon him" or "our God abundant- l,ro ly pardon." This is the supreme question < er,c the soealled evangelical churches and thcii UF,C ministers have to lace.?Loudon Chris- ;J,ar dan. i I the The rower of a True Life. j.the What I wanted, and what I have been j endeavoring to ask for the poor African, j has been the good offices of Christians, : ever since Livingstone taught me during j J"? those four months 1 was with him. In .'878 ] f" I went to him as prejudiced as the bit- e terest atheist in London. I was there j1)0' away from a worldly world. I saw this \ ..V"' solitary old man there, and asked myself, j ' "Why on earth does he stop here?" j 'tc, For months after we met, I found my- | self listening to him and wondering at the j Vf.1 old man and carrying out all that was said i }L ' in the Bible. Little by little his svmpa- j 'l? thics for others became cont-igious. Mine | " his nietv. his centle- | n ness, his zeal, his earnestness, and how I quietly he went about his business, I was ! converted by him, although he had not ! I tried to do it.?Henry M. Stanley. i its j a v Suffering is Opportunity. im? There is no time in life when oppcturv ity. the chance to be and to do, gathers s< ! ?VS richly about the soul as when it has tc ; j suffer. 'J hen everything depends ot^ ' ls. whether the man turns to the lower or the j c higher helps. ]l' he resorts to mere expedi- I R181 ents and tricks, the opportunity is lost. . c lie comes out no richer or greater; nay, he I JJJ . comes out harrier, poorer and smaller lor i ;y~ his pain. But it he turns to God. the hour I of suffering is I lie turning point of his life. I ?Phillips Brooks. I A The Need of God. ! a The thought of God, the sense of an im- j Y., mediate relation of the spirit of man to the tlia Eternal and the Infinite, are easily (lis- trif placed from men's minds by undue admira- the tion for the achievements of a culture the based on material progress, and supplying ven every need of human nature except the very deepest?the need of God.?J. Skinnef' i A When Small Things Heroine Great. I and The smallest things become great when n,es I God requires them of us; they are small j Th< i only in themselves; they are always great i 8U'I when tluv arc done for God. and when j fig'1 they serve to unite us with ilim eternally. ' enc' ?Fcnelon. | the IE SUNDAY SCHOOL 'ERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 21. ijcct: Elijah on Mount Cannel, 'i Kl?)c?f xvlli,, 30-40?Golden Text, I King*, xvlli., 21?Memory Vert.es, 3039?Commentary on the JJaj's Leaton, Elijah's sacrifice prepared (vs. 30-35) "Come near." He will have them eye nesses of all he does, and witnesses to it God will do. Jesus did nothing in orner, so neither the servants of God d do anything in secret. "Repaired the r." Built in Israel's earlier and hap* r days, but thrown down by Jezebel s tnjah restored and consecrated anew, lint to builders of sanctuaries. A type ;he certain restoration of the true and downfall of the false. 31. "Twelve les." This was an act showing that twelve tribes were ready one people had one God in common. So God's i church is one. "Israel * * ,* thy ne." Israel signifies a prince who pres with God. There are two records of bestowal of this name on Jacob. See 1. 32: 2S; 35: 2-10. 2. "In the name," etc. By the authorand for the glory of Jehovah. "A ich." To catch the water poured over sacrifice, and intensify the effect of : solemn object lesson. "Measures of i." The seah is estimated as contain irom one ana a naii iu mraj guuuus. ?re is a difference of opinion as to the 1 of the trench. There would be no essity for a large trench, and it is dly probable that it was as deep as the isure that held three gallons, as some m to think. Terry is probably nearer rect in supposing the whole trench :1 three gallons. 5. "Wood in order." He obeyed all the mctions of the law with respect to the Ting of a burnt sacrifice (Iiev. 1: G-8). thus publicly taught that the ordiices of the law were binding upon the igdom of Israel. "Barrels." Common i still used in the East for carrying wacontaining from three to five gallons jce. 34. "Second * * * third e." To prevent any kind of suspicion t there was fire concealed under th? ir. Close by the place of sacrifice, ded by a noble old tree, is a large, nat1 cistern of sweet water, which the pie say is never exhausted. Terry and ers think it more likely that the water i brought from the "brook Kishon, ?re Elijah slew the false prophets. [. Fire from heaven (vs. 3G-38). 36. t the time." About 3 o'clock p. m. The phet waited for the usual hour for the ning sacrifice, thus directing the minds the people to the worship of Jehovah, le prophet." But here he performed duties of the priest. While the priest Id not of right be a prophet, the prot could, by virtue of his direct comsion and his higher function, act as a ;st. "Came near." He expected an an r by tire, yet came near to the altar h boldness, and feared not that tire, braham, Isaac." Words first used by 1 at the burning bush, when He reled Himself in flaming fire (Exod. 3: 16). "Known." That thou art God. > honor of God is his ruling passion, the rce and end of all his zeal. "Thy sert." That he, Elijah, was not their en*, as Ahab had announced him to be, Jehovah's servant. "At thy word." it his words and works were no; of iself. but of God. 1. "Turned their heart back again." t end of a controversy is never the e establishment of truth, but the com sion of the people. Stern and relentas Elijah had been, his heart was full God's yearning tenderness, and he ;ed for their salvation. We are sorr.ees called to preach bitter things, but end of our ministry should be converi, not condemnation. 38. "Fire, fell." iid not burst out from the altar. This ht still, notwithstanding the water, e offered some ground for suspicion t fire had been concealed, after the incr of the heathen, under the altar. i converted apostate Israel. The Holy DSt converted many in the apostle's . That same fire, invisible to immortal 3, works as remarkably to-day. "Conied." The ?rocess is remarkable. 1. i fire came dewn from heaven. 2. The es of sacrifice were first consumed. 3. i wood next, to show that it was not the wood that the flesh was burnt. 4. e've stones were consumed, to show it > n? common fire, but one whose agennothing could resist. 5. The dust, the tli of which the altar was constructed, i burnt. 6. The water in the trench was, the action of the tire, entirely evaposd. 7. The action of this fire was in ry cqse downward, c?ntrary to the nas ?f all earthly and material fire, ses' altar and Solomon's were conseted by the fire from heaven; this was treyed. H. Tiie decision of the people (vs. 39, ). "Fell on their faces.'' In reverent ship and awe at the divine manifestai. they fell en their faces and with one :e declared. "Jehovah. He is God." The : was convincing and would help the pie to stand against Jezebel and her ible persecutions. 40. "Prophets of il." There were 4."0 of them. It aprs that the 400 prophets of Asherah e giove) were not presant. "Brook hon." This brook flows along the very e of Carmel on the side towards the . Here Si^era was overthrown by Ba(Judg. 4: 7). "Slew them." We can dly suppose that Elijah himself put m'to death. He is only said to do that ich he caused the people to do. The ?sts of Baal hardened their hearts, pered in their rebellion, refused submisi and were destroyed. V. Elijah's praver and the answer (vs. 6). I. "Eat and drink." During the ex>it cf?nis nt the dav there had been no e or inclination to partake of food. Inin da nee of rain." Faith in God was foundation for this positive dcc'arat from the prophet. 42. Both Ahab I Elijah returned to the top of Carmel, one to eat and the other to pray. The phet withdrew himself from the prese of the King and cast himself down nx the earth before the Lord. See nes 5: 17. 43. "Said to his servant." idition tells us that this servant was widow's son whom he had raised from dead (chapter 17: 23). Elijah told liis rant to look towards the sea. for from t direction the storm would come. The rant looked and said, "There is noth* ." Then Elijah said, "Go again seven es." 44. At last, at the seventh time, reported a cloud like a man's hand, inirliutely the prophet sent to Ahab to ten home lest the rain stop him. 4f>. hab * * * went to Jezreel." JezI became one of the most famous of the al residences. It did not supersede nana, but here Ahab built a palace aptcr 21: 1). and it was his summer ne. 46. "Kan before Ahab." The spirit the Lord was on Elijah and he \v*s gi< supernatural strength. Eyes and Mouth, Yet No Head. iOwcr Allowav Creek, N. J., noted foi many curious freaks, has now produced wonderful creature, whether fish or an il no one seems to know. It was cap ed at the bridge near Canton by Har Smith. It is without head or tail, yd :an swim at great speed. Although it without a head, it lias two piercing s, a mouth and teeth. None ol thf eatorial artists has been aoie Co name curious object. It will be preserved alcohol, and Game Warden Davis wili lude it in his collection in the Jersej ilding, at the St. Louis Fair. A Good Old Clock. i grandfather's clock was brought to vatchmaker's shop, in I'eterstown, N. a few weeks ago for repairs, the first t have been made on it since some ling ones in 1778, which were due to raid of the Indians under Brant and Tory Butler at Cherry Valley, iu Noiiber of that year. Gull vs. Fox. ,n extraordinary fight between a fox [ a large black headed gull was witsed near a village on the Norfolk coast, i fox, a tine specimen, came across the I with a fish in its mouth. A fierce it for the prey ensued, but the combat led in the fox leaving the gull victor ou iield of battle. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTL'NC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE CF INTEMPERANCE. | Th* Dancer Slew*!?Plea to Yonncr Man lioorl lo Heed tbe Danger That I.itrki j in th<* TntnSicatint; Cup?Not One liefleoinioa; Quality in the Saloon. _ H?re arc some facts to show that strong I 'link is the cause of so much ruin. No | I ".."inn can link any business with drinking . | ard make fi success of it. Sooner or later j ' hf- r:;ll see his ruin, disgrace anrl downfall, j How many a drinking man who rloes not j stop to think of the awful ruin before him , sorsn finds himself penniless and friend- { Ics. Even liiose who stood with him at | the bar. drinking the belongings of a J imaging wife and little ones, now tnrn I | from him. These are not single cases, but I i thousands bear out the statement. Ninej ty per cent, of ali the destitution is caused | by strong drink alone. When a young i man starts he never knows from the be- j sinning where the end will be. It is not enough for a man to say he ; | cannot slop drinking. It is only the devil j ; that urges on. Stand firm and proclaim ! j your determination. Grip your appetite j ' f>c ? Iav/m* n /-I cn on*t f rnl vmir ! i life. Do not let evil men who insist on j your drinking entice von. Let every man { fully study the c-vil and know for himself the depravity that comes from such * I course. Instead of feeding and clothing J j it demonizes. It robs its victim of intel- I leot and respect of self and friends. ^ It ruins morally, socially and financially. I Stop! Look! Listen. Think of the danger i signal and promise Clod and man to go no j further. It will make you a better man, ! a better citizen, a better husband to vour j wife and father to your children. How i j many are tramping out their life upon a j j railroad track who might be riding in a ! parlor car had they left drink out of their j i lives? Liquor has started many a man 011 j the tramp, or in other words, given him I a '"tie pass," and he is r.ow a homeless wanderer because of this besetting sin. j Some are ready to excuse the saloon, but* 1 : I should like any one to stand up and i point out a single redeeming quality. Would you look for the evil? You have , not far to go. It is the feeder of divorce ! courts and an incentive to murder, prison | and the gallows. When the poor victim I has spent his last dollar, will the saloon j stand up for him? Is he welconir. then, ; to the old haunts? No, no, when ihere is ! no prospect of pay there is no proper of ' drink. I am glad to see officials o! rail| roads take a decided stand against eraI ploying men who use liquor in any fnrm, j not that railroad men use it more than ithprs hut this attitude blesses mankind ill the confidence which it gives ana tho ! =:campie which it seta. Then take heed. The red light warns. Be wise. Beware of the danger signal!? J. E. Dovell, in Evangelical Herald. ? The Voice of Science. Alcohol vitiates the blood, inflames thfc i stomach, overtaxes the' heart, destroys the | kidneys, hardens the liver and softens the ; brain.?Norma Karr, M. D. Alcohol is a noison. It kills in large doses, and half kills in smaller ones. It | produces insanity, delirium, fits. It poiI <ons the blood and wastes the man.?rro| tossor James Miller. M. D. An experience of more than twenty I years?sometimes under exceptionally try| mg circumstances?has proved to me that J the daily use of alcohol, even in small I quantities, is prejudicial in cold climates. [ -Dr. R.ae, Arctic Expedition. How I wish that the truth?that alcohol j is not a food, not a sustainer of the living i energies, and that all habu-producing drugs and drinks subvert the integrity of ! the human nervous system?could be en| graved upon the hearts and lives of every I man, woman and child in our land.?Cor; ielia A. Greene. M. D. i The beer drinker may be the picture of : | jealth, but in reality he is most incapa- | ' jle of resisting disease. A slight injury, evere cold, or shock to the body or mir.d j : #ill commonly promote acute disease end- j j ng fatally. Compared with inebriates ! , tvho use different forms of alcohol, he is | | nore generally diseased.?Scientific Amer- ! can. T.essnns Fro in EcTPt. The Junior Missionary Magazine gives j :he following interesting account of a i jirls' entertainment in Zagazing, Egypt: ! The girls of this school gave an enter .ainment during the summer, which was :he first ever given bv them. They gave i Bible exercise, whicli consisted of a list | >f verses of Scripture repeated in concert, i Among the texts repeated was, Who hath i tvoe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath eon;entions? Who hath complaining? Who ! nath wounds without cause? Who hath | redness of eyes? They that tarry long at the wine. They that go to seek out mixed wine. i Look thou not upon wine when it is red. when it s^arkleth in the cup. ! When it goeth down smoothly. , At last it biteth like a serpent. : And stingeth . ?te an adder. A young man in the aitdiencr. who was I [ in .the habit of using strong drink, was [ j heard to say. '"Well. I have taken my last j ! drink." And so strange as it may seem I ! the despised womanhood of Egypt have j I heen the means, perhaps, of bringing the i j <oul of this young man from darkness into ! | light. It is incidents of such a character j that strengthen and encourage our misi Nonaries in their work. Yes. it is true. | "The entrance of Thy Word giveth light." j ' Drltilc, Crime and Pauperism. i The statistics obtained from the replies | of over 1000 prison governors in ti;c Unit| ed States to a circular letter addressed to j I hem. H!id a summary shows that the gen- ( eral average of 909 replies received from i j the license States gives the proportion of j i crime clue to drink at no less than seven- j ! ly-two per cent.; the average from 108 of- ! liciais in prohibition States gives the per- i , rentage at thirty-seven. A considerable | ! nnmJwr of the latter were "boot-leggers," j I in jail tor selling whisky. Out of the I I 1017 jailers, only 181 placed their estimate I l below twenty-five per cent., and fifty-five i per cent, of these were empty jails in pro- j j hibition territory. The relation of drink j I to pauperism iy much the same as that of | ! drink to crime. Of 73,045 paupers in all \ : alms houses of the country, 37.234 arc j i there through drink. Xvil Effects of Alcohol. i A recent official report shows that mort ' | alcohol per capita is consumed in France I than in any other country. Last, year the | j French drank 4.S1 gallons of alcohol per j j head, as against 2.44 in Germany. 2.35 in I Great Kritain, 3.30 in Switzerland and 1.37 j in the United States. In France there is a I ! saloon to every eighty-three persons, or j j 4S4.55G saloons in the whole country It is j j shown, also, that the evil effects of drinki ing are due not to adulteration, as is so I ! commonly affirmed, but to the alcohol con' sumed. The Crusade ill Brief. A spfcial commission, appointed by the ! Emperor, reports that intoxicating liquors cost Germany last year 8750,000,000, or onej eighth of all the population earns. In Nova Scotia, through the operation i ; of the Scott act. and a rigid provincial li- j ' nrwails in ?ivf,.r?n ! ; ceil Si* liiw. |?n/i.v.. -- ? . | out of the eighteen counties in the provJ inee. Lieutcnant-Oencral Nelson A. Miles has | I Issued, at Washington, a document giving i i Lis utterances at various times regarding ! ) the army canteen. It is published in pam- i i ph'et form and will be sent to any who ap- j j ply. inclosing stamp. A movement inaugurated hv physicians i is now on foot for the adoption of the j ! educational method against drink. Jn Kansas the annual consumption of j ! liquors per capita is less than two gallons, j I as against nineteen in the country as a i : whole. An anti-treating movement is making j considerable headway in Montreal, Que| bee. Members of the League pledge | themselves not to accept from nor offer I to others intoxicating liquors in any publie bar, hotel, or club. j By a decree of divorce granted recently to Mrs. Daisy Hayes, of Kansas City, Mo., .lames A. Hayes, the defendant, is restrained from visiting the-r two children within forty-eight hours after he has taken a drink of lifjuor or beer. llreevKfi^ 3grgj=>-Ma The Secret of Abiding Peace. BY A. L. WABINQ. My heart is resting, 0 my God, I "will give thanks and sing; Mv heart is at the secret source Of every precious thing; Now the frail vessel Thou hast maJft No hand but Thine shall fill; For the waters of this world have fail< And I am thirsty still. I thir3t for springs of heavenly life? And here all day they rise; I seek the treasure of Thy love, And close at hand it lies; And a new song in my mouth To long-loved music set, Glory to Ihee for all the grace I have not tasted yet. Glory to Thee for strength withheld, For want and weakness known; And the fear that sends me to Thyself For what is most my own; I have a heritage of joy That yet I must not 6ee; But the Hand that bled to make it mil Is keeping it for me. My heart is resting, 0 my God,' My heart is in Thy care; I hear the voice of joy tyid health Resounding everywhere: "Thou art my portion, saitn my soul," Ten thousand voices say, And the muaic of their glad amea Will never die away. The Supreme Choice. BY WAYLAND HOYT, D.D., LL.D. But as for me and my house, we n Berve the Lord.?Joshua 24:15. This is his announcement of his suprei cLoice by Joshua. Nothing is more masterful in a man th his supreme, ultimate choice. "Search thou the master passion; the alone The wild are constant, and the cunni known." . . i Says the late great educator, Dr. Ma Hopkins: "As a river, if it be a river, spite back-water and eddies, mast fl< some whither, and as those eddies andt back-water are caused by the very cum they seem to contradict, so must there in man some current of affection, beari within its sweep all others, and tl would, if known, reconcile all seeming c< tradictions." "To know what the' preme object thus chosen and the mas passion is is the capital point in the m< difficult and valuable of all knowledge, t knowledge of ourselves. But while we i thus necessitated to choose, and to cho< an object of supreme affection, the cho itself is free. There is always an alter live." There are supreme choices and subs iary choices, but that which determin arranges, marshals the subsidiary choi it the supreme choice. This is the inexorable law for life?tl overarching every life, arranging it, mi aging it, shaping it, is its ultimate supre choice. And no more searching, decidii vital question can a man put himself ths in Jlt? ***?? Attm fimrowo | V V Jill L IS ix:ailj /XI j V>TH f3M^?viUv VUVMV And nowhere is this question as to preme choice so determining as in realm of morals a d religion. "Seek first the kingdom of God and His rig eousneas" is the great Master's annouri ment of what ought to be the supreme ligious choice for life. We are to s( these first?not fifth or fourth, or third, even second, but first. We are to say w Joshua, "As for me, I will serve ; Lord." Then, just as thai young fellow's preme choice as to business ruled his da and lesser choices in it, so the supreme ligious choice is to give rank and order all our lesser choices?those concern business, and everything else which < lives touch. What is it, to be a Christian? It is deliberately make this highest, nobl choice. It is to thus give God His right throne over mind, affection, will. It^ia repent of having failed to do it iii the pa to receive the forgiveness for our fail; from the atoning Christ, to give crown this loftiest choosing for the future. We jnav or we may not. We are free choose. But every life is necessarily f ure if its supreme and ruling choice be c other and less than God.?Phijadelp Public Ledger. The Uselesg Graduate. 'At the baccalaureate sen-ices of academic department of the New YoH University, otherwise University Collejfl the sermon was preached by the Rev. Ifl Charles E. Jefferson, pastor of the BrosH way Tabernacle, whose text was: "ThJ was a man there who had a witherH hand." Dr. Jefferson asserted that mafl a graduate, supposedly well trained, hH "a withered hand." H "For instance," he said, "he cannot h<H the ballot?he cannot wield the instrumeH of the American freeman in hewing tfl path lor American freedom. But he cfl tallc; yes, he is a great talker. He knoH every sore spot in our body politic, and can talk brilliantly and sarcastically abefl our National failings and shortcoming And he becomes very jocose in discuss* the efforts of tho?e who make some cff<H to belter the evil conditions he seea K "And no cannot hold the Bible orfl hymn book. He can read some epliemeM book, or a newspaper, crimsoned with s] and blackened with woe. But he caH hold the big book?that hook which lH imamrv more wonderful than Dante, dH losophy more rrofound than Plato. 21 can lie hold ?.n oar, not even in this age practical philanthropy. He cannot row < to the dangerous eddies, to the sp where men have been overcome by and are being drawn down by the unci tow of death. .No, his right hand is wi ered, anil he can on!y stand on the fih and make sarcastic remarks about fore missions, home missions and college set mente. "Such a man cannot honor scho< standing l'or years in the market pi; and doing no useful work?for bis ri| hand is withered. It is because of si men as he that we hear so many jokes po-called self-made men about coll graduates. "Now, it is possible to become so mi ievoted to matters cf technique that neglect other faculties of our nature a gethcr. It is because of such neglect t the evils have arisen which I have deavored to describe. And the cure those evils will be found in an honest fort to follow Jesus of Nazareth." Shameless no Well an Sliamefal. What can be more shameful than make the imperfection of our Christiai at home an excuse for not doing our w abroad? It is as shameless as it is sha ful. It pleads for indulgence on fround of its own neglect and sin. Ii ike a murderer of his father asking iiirl<rn h.ivp nitv iin his ornhanhooi S'iiiTlips Brooks. "Wherever God ia present man is p pe?:d. A elicnp religion never made a valu: character. yi Born Without Eyeti. Oculists of New York City are pua over the ease of the baby daughter oi and Mrs. George Weber, of 1045 East H street, who presents the unpreeeder l?: wit limit p I'UUUillUU U1 UC4IJ? aMcviutvv ? although otherwise perfectly formed healthy. When the baby was born Van CVden, who was in attendance, once discovered the child's deficiency, later the child was taken to the offie< Dr. Graef, a specialist, who, afttr ex ing her, declared lie could find not! suggesting an eye in either socket. < which was drawn a thin wall of flesh, a curtain. Behind this was a blank v The child was also taken to Dr. Kr.; another oculist, who declared the cas< \>e, as far as bis knowledge went, uni I ? ???