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fcm SHARK
I He Will Alw
From a Splasl
B FOOR little flabby two
to foot shark that I saw cast
m Zl O up on one of the Jersey
*--*- & beaches the other day
brought a lot of shark
g? memories back to me."
Haid a youngish middle-aged man who
Bias put in a number of cruises, boy
Hind man, in the navy. "I had quite a
Hew shark experiences when I was on
Hhe old line of Government packets,
Hnd I found them out. I'm just as
Hnuch afraid, of a sea tiger now as
Hou'd be of a ship's kitten lapping conHensed
milk out of a wardroom saucer
Hn the galley deck, only, of course, I'd
Ho a lot more moving when a shark
Hvas around and looking me over than
^ would in the presence of the kitten.
([ "The first time a shark ever got gay
tvith me was when I was a tike of u
prentice on the old Swatara, down in
he harbor of Mazatlan. Mexico. I was
i starboard side cleaner, and one afernoon
was cocked in a swing, swab)ing
paint, and with ray bare feet
langing not above a twelfth of a fathim
from the water.
"Ail of a sudden I noticed a little
;littering. goggle-eyed and snout-nosed
Ish a-rubberlng around a lot in the
Ittle space of water directly below
rhere my feet were swinging. He
5oked so perky and impudent that I
ras for throwing a cake of salt-water
oap at him, but then I got to figuring
hat the cat could look at the kind and
hat it wasn't doing me any harm to
lave this little fish watch me polish off
ay cleaning station, and so 1 let him
[>ok, and presently I became so busy
a trying to light a furtive cigarette
rithout the officer of the deck spotting
ae that I forgot about the little snoutlosed
fish.
"Presently an old bo'sun's mate
ralked over to the starboard rail and
joked down at me.
" 'Hey, you cub; he callcf. down to
le a minute after lit had taken his
osition at the starboard rail, 'you'd
etter be gittin' them tootsies o' yourn
ome few away from th' water's edge
you don't want to go shy a pair o'
eet for the balance o' the cruise. See
hat pilot fish a lookin' at you an*
eckonin' his big shark mate down
elow ?'
"This old bo'sun's mate was a great
tringer to the 'prentices, and I was
o sure that he was stringing me then
hat I barely looked up at him. It was
good thing that I didn't look up just
ien?I'd probably be in the Snug Haror.
with two wooden legs now, if I
ad looked up at him just at that in
II "For. continuing to look down as I
porked, I saw something wliitey-gray
[wishing to the surface of the blue
rater?something about twenty foot
bng, and the for-ard ten foot of it,
is it seemed to me, all teeth, rows and
lows of them?and then I pot busy.
I *' 'Shin up. you whelp!' the old
[o-sun's mate bawled at me through
pe funnel that he made of his hands,
Ind just as I grabbed the port rcpe
bringing the bo'sun's chair and started
p go hand over hand up to the rail,
pere was a shower of salt water that
lounded like the breaking of a water
pout just below me?and I had my
rst close view of a belly-up ma neater.
| "He shot up above half a fathom
.bove the water for me. but I already
lad a hold on the rail: and he missed
e by quite a stretch. But as long
s I was a side cleaner I never
wabbed paint from a bo'sun's chair
fter that with bare feet. My bare
eet had been the bait for that big
hark, guided by his Jittle pal, the
Hot fish.
"About three years after that I got
rvrr>a mftfa chart orillpfltinn !lt PUOOte.
I Tahiti. A gang of seamen gunners?
I was just out of my apprenticeship
pen?one clay got permission of the
Ifficer of the deck to take a beach
Iwim. So we lowered away the long
poat, sped her to the coral beach,
[tripped and went in in the buff, about
[ighteen of us.
"It was very hot and gummy weather,
.and so we were not thinking about
[harks, although a thousand of theui
[ssembled about the ship every time
pe cook dumped a bucket of galley
refuse through the swill tube. Anykow,
we were all pretty young. In
Lddition to being young I was chestier
han I've ever been since, particularly
because there wasn't a man or bay on
iioard the old hooker that could teach
ne anything about swimming. That's
low it came that, as soon as we
umped into the water on the Papete
>each that day, I proceeded to outiwim
all the rest, just to show 'em.
"I didn't turn to look back until I
ras about 300 yards from the beach.
Che only reason why I turned around
hen was because I heard a lot of noise
rom the beach.
"When I turned, I saw about a hunroil
nnkivl nntivps Jllld nil of the
iroung fellows from our ship lined up
In the beach at tlie edge of the water,
umping up and down and waving
heir arms at me and yelling with all
peir might. But something else that
saw was a lot more important to me,
pout a million huge, wet and shiny
hark fins between me and the beach.
Some of them weren't more than ten
rards from me. The fins were moving
-lowly on the surface of the water.
"I could see my pipe out in plain
:iew then. I stopped anil trod water
ind nervously slapped the surface of
he water with my hands. I noticed
hat when I slapped the water paricularly
hard the sharks that were
learest to me sort of edged back and
ircled at a greater distance from me.
>o I kspe on slapping the water.
"The sharks were waiting for me to
ht tired, that's all. They knew that
' wouldn't start back right through
hem, and they knew, too, that I
ouldn't swim right ahead a few thouand
knots to the Carolines or the
Marquesas or the Fijis, and so they
vere content to take it easy, each
[guring on getting what was coming
o him when the moment arrived.
"Forty natives put out after me in
ne of those sixty-foot long and twopot
wide canoes with the outrigger arangement
familiar in the South Seas,
nd in the bow of the canoe and directag
them -was an old lime-juicor of a
A COWARDJr
ays Sheer Off Ipj
ling Swimmer. ^
1 T1
~ | Vrit
quartermaster from a British trading j ev0|
schooner in the harbor. j *ect'
" 'Splash, han' keep a-splashing, blest ! "svili
y'r blazin' lieyeballs f'r a Yankee pup- '
heejit!' bawled the old lime-juicer at ^
i^e as the canoe approached where I ! one
was in the middle of the semi-circle 1Jer'
of waiting sharks, and with that I be- tlu'?
gan to slap and kick the water like a j Icur*
sea skate fquled in the mudliook ; *wc
chains.
' I was a lot rattled; but as the canoe ;'
approached I noticed that all of the lfory
natives that weren't helping to pull the inal
canoe were leaning over the side and :
slapping and churning tho water with . *ias
all their might and main and making | UCV(
all of the noise out of their counten- j
ances that they knew how to. That
settled it. The sharks dispersed like ' ?n*s
a bunch of stampeded mountain goats ; 1?ni
and I was hauled into the canoe and !
bawled at by the old lime-juicer for ; it: 15
my bloomink Yankee heejiocy until
we pulled up on the beach. j 1S ^
"That was when I first found out by I ouc
actual experience, what every deepgoing
sailor in the South Seas knows, i
that the shark is the worst coward [ ^Ior
that swims and that he is twenty times j "
more afraid of a splashing human be- Sl
ing in the water than a water moccasin j 1,lS
is of a howling small boy in an inland *-lu
creek."?Washington Star. -^e
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AMERICAN FURNITURE IN BRITAIN that
and
Sound ScoldJnc For the Naughty Yankees ' oliai
"Who Invade Them. ' Japii
The presumption cf America in sup- js (]
posing that the Old Country is to come I Lon
to her for furniture is amazing. It is I -will
also, to those learned in furniture, '< 0alh
rather amusing. , facj
I 1.110 Simple reUSUIl 15 lliitt .iiuuilian I exc*(
furniture is not good enough. It runs 1 an t
too much on the lines of what trade
journals on the other side poetically ! pi
term "very attractive lines in mission : oC
fitments"?gaunt, ungainly designs J tow
worked out by machine in cheap ; Mor
woods. j to !l
Perhaps the idea that England is a ^ cl
dumping ground where rubbish may otlic
be shot is not yet eliminated from the fciste
American mind. And yet several ex- ' 'soli<
periments of that kind have ended. J and
sadly. A good many years ago cheap , stre
American cycles were almost hurled in j But
our faces. Now one of the rarest birds j" now
on an English highway is a cycle made j the
anywhere but in England. v i was
Another attempt of a less serious loos
character was made a little while ago I bodi
with bedroom suits. They were not j rod;
particularly cheap, but to quote an ex- < thro
pert., "the design was bad, the work ! has
was bad. the effect was tawdry." and .v.nki
the American-made bedroom suit is Pele
not in demand. : tion
Of course England does import furni- |
ture from America. Of the ?700,000 '
($3,500,0001 worth of cabinet-ware I
which came from abroad in 1003 Amer- j en
ica sent a larger part than any other j
country??230,000 ($1,230,000) worth, j . n
1 onto
America and France are indeed the j
only countries which send us as muck | L .
as ?100.000 ($300,000) in the year. J ^
But those figures represent goods of '
a totally different kind. The French j cc"
furniture is highly finished, elaborate
work; the American cheap and machine .. \ '
made. In one solitary "lino" can the 1 ^
Americans claim the bulk of the Eng- 55"
lish trade. The roll-top desk was orig- .
inally an American invention, and for j ?
some years an American monopoly, j .
But a desk is now being produced in j ^oin'
England which in price competes with i m 1
the American-made article and in qual- ! ^
.. .. ... I torn
ity, according to experts m tne reran j
trade, i.s distinctly superior. \ ?a'V
For the plain fact is thai the English j 1^'
cabinet-maker has no competitors. .
Even the finest French work, which 110 jj
doubt comes nearest, is a bad second.
In "finish" the Frenchman can hold his ;
own. but in the actual cabinet-making, : a J?*
the putting'together of the article, he j . .
leaves much to be desired. The Ger- J '
man workmanship is not bad, but the we|s
design is heavy and clumsy. j ? ..
Omitting cheap machine-made furni- ; r
ture?the only class apparently within j .
American ken?the 'bulk of it is not .
made in factories at all. London is j ..
the centre of the trade, and Shoreditch j
and Bethnal-greeu are its sancta sane- j ^ ^
torum. The best furniture-making is
a home industry. A man, his wife and
family, with perhaps one or two work- , .
, . 4, ... . doul
men. work together 011 their own ac- ^
count, and the Inr^e retail houses deal , '
directly with these "garret masters," 1 J1
?London Telegraph.
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The Klooil ot Wen an<l Apes.
An interesting departure from the j
usual methods of studying the simil- T1
arity between man and the other pri- , and
mates iias been made by Professor j my
Uhlenmuth, a noted German anthro- ; day
pologist. who has recently carried on j thai
a series of interesting observations 011 1 you
tlip blood of men, apes and monkeys, i that
Between the blood of the first two able
there are many points of similarity and tion
evidences of a distinct relationship, for
but the blood of monkeys can readily mec
be distinguished from that of men., j ones
The difference is more or less marked, j tow;
according to the species, the greatest thai
resemblance being seen in the case of ?is
the gorilla and the least with the le- pap<
murs. a small species about the size of nati
a oat and having a face somewhat j impi
like a fox. A singular fact is that. ! serv
judged by the blood, there is less evi- | by 1
donee of relationship found in the j the
American families of apes than in \ fort
those of the Old World.?Harper's ; tain
Weekly. I Indi
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I'n an<l Down.
44 4
The following telephone conversa- ,
tion. recently heard between a woman
whose home is in the suburbs and a* . j
business acquaintance of her husband. ,l
illustrates some of the curiosities of Son'
, ever
our language:
Business Acquaintance?"Good morn-' ^
ing, Mrs. . I'd like to speak to Mr.
for a moment." j d
Mrs. ."I'm sorry, Mr. , but my
husband isn't down yet." . .
B. A. (inquiringly)?"Isn't down yet?'' rpj^
Mrs ."I mean he isn't up yet. I'm' ghj_
letting him r'eep late this morning; hej . u
was so down last evening after his of- j V)
fice troubles that be was ready to give
up. He says he'll be down as soon as ^ll0
he gets up."?Harper's Weekly. lute
I
:ie botanical papers report that De
>s, the great Dutch experimental
utionist, has by long continued seion
produced a variety of clover
ch has normally four leaves.
ithin half an hour of the death of
of a pair of twin boys at LeicesEnglnnd,
the other one died,
>ugh, the doctor said, a certain
ous sympathy which exists been
twins.
ic South McAIcstor (Indian Terri)
News relates that a negro crimin
the Choctaw Nation was so
ly scared by being arrested that he
turned an ashen gray, and has
?r recovered his proper color.
i English watchmaker has just
bed making a tiny watch in the
a of a shirt stud. Its dial is tweeenths
of an inch in diameter, and
i to be worn with two other studs
turning the upper stud the watch
round, while by turning the lower
the hands are adjusted.
ofessor Elrod of the University of
itana gives a striking description
ie treasure that his State possesses
upphires. The only systematic minfor
these precious stones in the
ted States is done in Montana,
annual output amounts to 450,000
>00,000 carets, including the stones
: are.suitable for cutting as gems
those that are only useful for medical
purposes. It is said that the
ilaries in Helena do finer work than
one on the stones that are sent to
don to be cut. Ferliaps somebody
suggest that Montana should be
?d the "Gem State," in view of the
. that her output of precious stones
^eds the production in that line of
he rest of the United States.
ofessor Angelo Heilprin's opinion
the nature of the extraordinary
er that rose out of the cratcr of
it Pelee in Martinique a year ago,
hoio-iit <->f 1000 feet, has undergone
Liange. At first he thought, liko
r geologists, that the tower cond
of extremely viscious lava, which
lificd immediately on its intrijsion,
thus rose vertically under the
ss of the volcanic forces beneath,
a later critical Examination, he
says, forces strongly upon him
impression that the great pinnacle
the ancient core of the volcano,
pned from its moorings, and lifted
ily outward. This lifting of "giant
: masses or mountain ewes"
ugh the crater axis of a volcano
not been heretofore an entirely
nown phenomenon, although
e's tower is the grandest cxhibiof
the kind on record.
TAXINC MEN'S APPETITES.
Eat Much More Tlian Women and
Are Charged More.
a small West Side restaurant that
rs to persons on economy bent
bill of fare is headed by this notr<mlar
dinner?Men, twenty-live
s; women, fifteen cents."
low is this?" asked, a chance cuser
belonging to tho sex most heavaxed.
"You charge us fellows ten
s more than you do the women,
it have we done that we should
;o discriminated againstV"
'ou eat more," was the plain reiler.
"It doesn't cost nearly so
h to feed women as men, but wo
the first concern in this part of
a that has been brave enough to
so in plain print. Many foreign
lurants have recognized that fact
have regulated their charges acingly.
Boarding houses, too, are
acquainted with the masculine
?tite, and satisfy its longings at
emium.
[owever, if the male border is subto
excessive charges, he always
the satisfaction of knowing he
his money's worth. Waiters in
itutions of that kind are required
eport in the kitchen whether an
r is for a 'lady' or 'gentleman,' and
cook dishes up in proportion to
capacity of the diner.
ome cheap restaurants have adoptlie
plan of serving 'ladylike' pors
at rock bottom prices, thereby enig
the man with an appetite to
jle up 011 his order and preserve
ir ratio between the cost of men's
women's meals. But we like our
better. It gives everybody a fails'
and preveut3 confusion.''?New
x Tress.
"Wide Field For Weeklies.
ie day of the weekly literary liome
farm paper has just begun, and in
opinion there never was a better
for the right kind of weekly papers
i to-day. In saying this I wish
to remember that the weekly paper
comes to the family filled with
editorials and feature articles, ficnnd
poetry, and lias departments
the women, for the farmer, for the
hanic, and especially for the little
a paper that is clean and leans
iird a higher ideal in journalism
idoes the present sensational daily
the one I refer to. . . . These
?rs will always be factors in our
onal growth. No matter how many
rovements- are made in the mail
ice, they occupy a place not filled
the average daily, and the better
weekly is made along the lines set
ti the more certain it is to maina
high place.?W. T. Moore of the
anapolis Sentinel.
Hungry Dog*.
Llaska dogs are getting the worst
.11 1 K.wl norltf
lutfj jjiin aiiicv itixs tuuj
5 in tliat country," said Itobert Pas1,
who recently returned from Daw*
"They are eating anything and
ything they can find now, when
w months ago they were living on
best of dog bacon, an inferior prodthat
was shipped north just for
feeding.
'ou see. this packers' strike was
nning to be felt even by the dogs,
dog bacon that was formerly
ped to Alaska for feeding the pups
:ow in general use, and the dogs
6 to take the best they can get. I'
3s those doss up there are glad it is
end of the strike."?Seattle Pestllicencer.
New York City.?Full waists that are
j shirred and draped to form soft and
j graceful folds are among the latest
| features of fashion and are exceedingly
DBAPED "WAIST.
i attractive in the many pliable niatej
rials of the season. This one is peculiarly
smart and includes a point
I at the front and the new sleeves,
j shirred to form two lenptthwise puffs
! above the elbows. The mr.terial chosen
j for the model is willow green mcssa!
line satin with cream colored lace for
! chemisette and cuffs, banding and
bows of darker velvet, but there are
many wool as well, as silk materials
j that can be treated in tlio same manner
| with equal success, and, when liked,
A LATE DESIGN
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i the deep cuffs can be omitted and the
sleeves made iu three-quarter length.
The waist Is made with the litted
11-1 ?Ul-l, <>,,11 fVnnta on/I
UUlilg, ULL ?UlL'li iuc 1UII iiwwto w?v%
1 backs are arranged, and is Jnished at
j the neck with a roll-over collar under
which the chemisette is attached. The
sleeves are made over fitted linings,
; which are faced to form cuffs, and are
full above the elbows, finished with
: circular frills below which fall over tlie
i gathered ones of the lace. The closing
:3 made invisibly at the centre front.
The quantity of material required for
! the medium size is four and three|
fourth yards twenty-one inches wide,
j four and one-half yards twenty-seven
j inches wide, or two and three-fourth
I yards forty-four inches wide, with
i seven-eighth yard of all-over lace,
i three-fourth yards of bias velvet and
] two and one-half yards of lace to make
; as illustrated.
Very I'.-tftclnntlng, This.
! ' Absolutely fascinating is a big hat
! of the time of the Restoration. To say.
| that it is fascinating is also to say
that it is of the second period of the
Restoration, about 1SH0.
At the right the brim is very broad
and flaring. At the left it is less so.
At the front it is yet narrower, while
at the back it is quite narrow. It is
beautifully colored with a delicately
rosy fawn silk, the brim being faced
with a rosy castor miroir velvet. This
x-olvnl- cli.tflns fitmns)- tn "n I dp 11 hrOWll.
and will go beautifully with the beaver
fur which is to he revived. At the left
side of the erown is a bunch of loops
in satiny apricot ribbon, the ribbon being
drawn through a cut steel buckle
at the centre, from which a magnificent
paradise plume in the brownish
shade sweeps over the right side.
More loops of the ribbon are under the
brim at the right side.
This upward tilt to the right seems
very unnatural, and ifs a question if
the mode be widely adopted. It was
not last year, though a number of
models were displayed.
That New Shade of liland.
Tucking and smocking, not alone in
small sections, but in whole pieces,
large enough to make a waist, or at
least a girdle effect; are being shown
in gowns for reception and evening
wear this season. Another kind of
ornament is the blond lace, which simply
defies description. It's neither
cream, nor pure white, nor yellow,
nor any particular shade, but blond,
and the most popular trimming shown
fnr tho fnll upnson. Without n broad I
girdle no reception gown i3 complete.
These may be of the same material
and shade as the gown or of bright
ribbons, with long streamers, or bows
at the back?New York Press.
The Knotted Stock.
A pretty stock of white crepe lias .
the long front tab tied up into little
bows down its length.
Blonde or Shirt Waist.
Plain shirt waists always are in demand
and always All, a need. This
one shows the new sleeves, that are
full at the shoulders, and includes a
wide box pleat at the centre front.
The model Is made of Russian blue
Sicilian mohair, stitched with corticelli
silk, and is worn with a belt and tie
of bla^k taffeta. All waisting materials
are, however, equally appropriate,
the many mercerized cottons as well
as wool ana silk.
BY MAY MANTON.
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The waist consists of the fitted lin- 1
ing, which is optional, fronts and back, j
The back is plain rcross the shoulders, j;
drawn dowii in gathers at the waist
line, but the fronts are gathered at
their upper edpes, also, so forming
becoming folds. The sleeves are in ^
shirt style, gathered Into straight cuffs, j
and at the neck is a regulation stock. '
The quantity of material required for j
the medium size is three and three- <
fourth yards twenty-one inches wide, i
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BLOUSE OR SHIRT WAIST.
three and one-half yards twenty-seven \
inches wide, or two yards forty-ltur *
inches wide. )
A SERMON FOB SUNDAY [?.
>- ? wh:
jr>STRONC,ftDISCOURSE ENTITLED, * 1
ffCOMFORTINC CERTAINTIES."^ 7or
: the
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The Rev. Dr. I?obert Bruce Hulty Talk ar0
on the "Words Addressed to Nlcodemus gcr
?The Person That the Verities of Our ' we
Precious Faith Cluster About. moi
Brooklyn, N. Y.?Sunday morning the *!L
Rev. Dr. Robert Bruce Hull, pastor of .
Greenwood Baptist Church, preached on
"Comforting Certainties." The text was ..
from John iii: 11: "We speak that we do ..
know." Dr. Hull said in the course of his
aermon: > t
These words were addressed to Nicode- .
mus. He was un earnest, honest, yet timid iinquirer
after truth. He had come to >
Jesus under cover of the darkness. As an .
official of the Jewish Sanhedrim, he did ,,
not dare to be seen talking with tne Naza- - ,
rene Teacher. Yet he is convinced in his
own mind that Jesus is a prophet and "
that, too, a prophet sent of God. This j*?
mucn he confesses to the Christ. Then be- j
gins the wonderfully instructive interview
from which the text is taken. This interview
is evidently only an outline, but the
outline is marvelously suggeitive. Nicodemus
was a good man. He was a religious
man. He conformed to all the religious 5?.'
forms and ceremonies of his nation.. His
outward deportment was blameless and
his standing in the community was honor- r
able. But ne was not a spiritual man. He
??? -Ai rtn 11 +A.rlnv Q PATI
WOO IIU U VV uai ?C nyu.u Vttti vu viu; V- vwM
verted man. To him Jesus thrice used the
solemn double "Amen, amen, I say unto EH11
thee." -Th'
Nicodemus could not understand what ?e|
Jesus meant by being born again. He was JJ"
unable to see what that new spiritual life Ara
was of which he himself was lacking. Then ca?
it is that the third double amen of Jesus m?'
introduces the words of the text: "Verily, wtT
verily, I say unto thee, we speak that we
do know and testify that we have seen." 5?
In this utterance Jesus uses the word ?oe
"we," not simply as the plural of majesty, h0E
but connecting Himself with all Hi3. discipies,
so that it is perfectly proper and 'j?1
right for us to-day to use His words and P"?
say: "We speak that we do know." Chris- "ea
tians are competent witnesses to the cer- can
tainties of religion. While in a sense it .say
may be said that "the Bible and the Bible j?1"
alone is the religion of Protestants," yet. in
the fuller sense our religion is a life. tfu'
Christ is Christianity. His life in Himself re"
and in His disciples is the spirit and the a
power of true religion. We have something
more than opinion; something better than
creeds; -we have as one of the eternal veri- in
ties Jesus Christ as the manifestation of P
God. It has been well said that "Christ
either deceived mankind by conscious
' J ? ti- tr: it J?l..A*.
Irauu or ne wua mmdcu uciuucu anu uw- ^
ceived, or He was divine. There is no getting
out of this trilemma. It is inexor- ?
able." He stood before the men who knew
Him best and said: "He that hath seen Me .
hath seen the Father." and again declared 1
to them: "I and My Father are one." This
was tremendous assumption and awful cial
blasphemy if it was not the truth. That Tit
is the truth the course of time and the vin
course of Christianity both abundantly de- ,1
dare. cioi
The verities of our precious faith cluster J
about a person. This person was God, sail
manifest in the flesh, and for all the cen- .1
turies since Bethlehem the noblest, wisest vir
and holiest have bowed before Him, rever- A
ently exclaiming, "My Lord and my God!" mei
It matters not from what point we view A
Him, Jesus stands before the world as of ]
more than man. It is said of a safe and 1
perfect arch that it must meet two require- figi
ments. Its feet must not slip and its mid- 1
die must not bend. Jesus Christ is the arcb the
connecting humanity and divinity. The C
weight of the centuries of Christianity rest wis
on that arch and they rest there safely, for 1
"Jesus is God; there never was a time
when He was not; t.
Boundless, eternal, merciful, the word, *
the Eire begot;
Backward our thoughts through ages r
stretch, onward through realms of j
bliss,
For there are two eternities and both
alike are His."
Another of the certainties is that the I
Christian life is a divine life. This was a son
new thought to Nicodemus. It is a new anc
it n j?,. T?. Ti.oa a :?
I/Iiuuguu LU Xliaiijr wuaj . J.U t? uo uuu ? y>ib
figure of speech, but a plain statement of infl
fact, when Jesus insisted that it was neces- I
sary to be born again in ?rder to enter it f
heaven. Those of Nicodemus' time would bee
have said it was necessary to reform, to ado
deal honestly, to behave kindly, to live up* sioi
rightly. So many say to-day, and if by all the
this they mean uprightness in its perfect trai
form they are right. But no man has ever cloi
liVed who nas been thus upright. "All 1
have sinned and come short of the glory of mai
God." The history of mankind shows that a t
we must not seek holiness in order to God, but
but God in order to holiness. Christ must ecsl
come into the soul of man with His divine fu],
life, and then, and not till then, are we in un9
harmony with the divine holiness. _ 1
When that life comes in then there is mir
manifested the "expulsive power of a new tiai
affection," better still, the expulsive power spe
of a new life. Nothing less than life can ma]
account for the change in men. Nothing trai
but life can exert the power which the cen- blei
turies of Christianity have manifested. In 1
physics we affirm confidently that every ef- Chi
xect must have an adequate cause. This a c'
also is true in the realm of spirituality. If p0r
persecutors are changed into preachers, if any
those once thoroughly depraved have been mai
molded into recognized saints, if the dregs
of society have been transformed into unparalleled
martyrs for the truth, if common u
people' have been fashioned into those of
whom the world was not worthy?we ask for(
what cause or what power is adenuate for "uc
such marvelous alterations. ' We know the
these changes. It is folly to say we do not ecc<
know the power. acc(
Twice each day our city is washed by a STt'3
mighty ebb and flow of tides that sweep in
ana out,' despite all the winds that blow. 3'n;
Your child recognizes the fact, but he is
puzzled to think that the pale, silent moon, T
serene amid the clouds, is the cause of buil
those resistless floods. The child is puz- roc'
Bled, but when your philosopher explains Pen
to you that the moon does this by attrac- J?p<
tion of gravitation, and you ask him to ex
plain to you this attraction of gravitation, "Cl
then he. too, is puzzled. Yet he knows the ^or
power, knows it so well he can measure it ?{ia'
and use it. So, too, with Christianity, and ?*ie
its power. We can recognize its force and
use it, but its secret is the sccret of life. RCV
Like all force, in its origin it is a mystery.
rennyson says: "T
"We have but faith we cannot know, " ,
.For knowledge is of things we see." as |
This is not quite true. Knowledge is of dee]
things we feel, as well as of things we see. reiy
Many things we know that we cannot see. whc
We never saw a pain, but we should call fect
liim a fool who should say we never felt or
knew a pain. We know the power of the
Christ life in the believer, because we have ^
felt it, and sometimes when this Christ life
in us has its perfect freedom we are able ?
to say with Paul: "I can do all things in (,erb
Christ who strengthened me." pau
This certainty concerning the power of aee
the Christ life can be attained by all who r
will fulfill the conditions. There must be ij?e'
i surrender to Christ and a trust in Christ.
iTou cannot have the sunbeam without the . ^
sun. You cannot have the power of Christ v*.
without the Christ Himself. The apostle says:
"Chris* is in you the hope of glory," f,
ind it is certainly true that Christ must
be in us the power for glory. Thus the .
centre of our certitude is Christ Himself. ,v
iVe know Him. We know His power. It
iias been exercised upon us and in us. Like
the once blind beggar, we exclaim: "One
thing I know, whereas, I was b'.ind, now X A
;ee. There was no note of uncertainty one
lbout this; there should be no note of un- wit!
:ertainty about our utterances concerning laid
>ur faith or concerning our own position, he e
But in this age of uoubt many Christians idol!
ire so frightened out of sanity that they for?
ire afraid to say even of the deepest ex- ther
seriences of the soul, "I know." Not so not
L'aul, facing death: "I know whom I have we '
relieved. JNot so jonn, tne oejovca dis- use.
jiple, declaring, "We lcno\v that we have forn
sassed from death unto life. We know The
that when Tie shall appear we shall be like hell
Him." It is not modesty, but lack of faith now
.vhich prompts Christians to say, "I hope and
[ am a Christian." When we have life we
enow it and should not be ashamed to say
;o. If we have not the life then by all the T1
mportance of eternity make sure of ob- the
:aining it. ,It is possible to have a living nink
ixperience of Jesus Christ. To have such cons
in experience that we may say: ''I live, in s;
,-ct not I, but Christ, jiveth in me." Be- and
,ief may be glorified into this exDerience if Pha'
_1
yield ourselves completely and unre- Hi
redly to Him who is able to "keep thati HgPSfi
ich we have committed to Him against
t day." T \ mS
'he effect of this certainty is in every;
f moft precious and helpful. Consider ^
a moment what this certitude means ia
presence of the awful calamity whicW ? 1
; summer sent a thrill of horro^
und the globe. True, indeed, is the
ipture declaration "if in this life only;
have hope in Christ we are of all men!
9t miserable." If death were the end 08
then we might well believe that cruelty;
in the throne of the universe. But*
Sgered as all are by the unutterable sor- *
r, yet God rules and overrules, andl
ugh we cannot see it now, yet in rtery
we shall know that the carelessness?;
worse?of man has bee-< overruled to
rnal good. Because we know that Goa
love, and because we know Jesus still ,
. a and is the same to-day as when Ho ^
d tears at the grave of Lazarus, we daro _
go into bereaved homes and speak o?
reunion at the right hard of the throna ?
Sod. I went over to the pier where lay s
ldreds of the unclaimed bodies, and I 1
' *- 3 J. !. 1 ?. a.f H J
aid not nave aarea to uu il, uu<, i,u?v ?. _
jht comfort some heartbroken one with! 1
assurance that God cared, God loved
I in eternity God would make this un- fe
akable sadness a source of perpetual yt
. Can I explain it? No! But I could
preach, I could not hold up my head
i Christian if I did not believe; yea, if I
not know, that somehow, some time*
curse shall be changed into a blessing.
is is the privilege of Christians to say: jj
n now: "We know that all things woric
ether for good to them that love God." i j
<Phy is it that all do not know these! ! '
tigs? Partly because of their conditionj
are are to-day those who "having eyea {
not, and having ears hear not." Thef
uence of training is not easily overcomej
lined only to consider as real that which! jf
. be analyzed by scientific implements,1 V
n refuse to admit the reality of thing? Hfl
ich they cannot weigh in their scaleti or HHSjH
isure by their rules. They are honesty HEffl
is the blind man honest who says color HEkK
a not exist. So is the deaf man
test whose soul cannot be moved b? the
cord of sweet sounds. It is not a ques- tSHsg
1 of honesty, but of fact. God is, even! HH
ugh the unbelieving eye may sweep the' 1BB16
vens with the telescope and assert ? flMB
not see God. But trusting hearts will
with ever increasing certitude: "E H
>w whom I believe." This gives us comt
in such a time as this. It is the only; JKI
og which can give comfort. So, breth-> I I
, let us place ourselves in the hands of H
oving God. Let us lean on the divine
v*er. Let us trust the divine wisdoms
; us assure ourselves of the divine home
those mansions which divine love hag
pared for us, and let us be confident HKHqe
- Han
"Trial works for ends
Too high for some to trace-* IBIWBMm
rr That oft in dark attire He sends H
fjf Some embassy of grace."
Short Meter Sermon*.
Tiere is no virtue without victory.
'here is no possession without appre*
'hat which can be defined cannot be dit
is always safe to suspect the suspi*
lo man was ever yet scared into being at
,'here arp few vices worse than vinegary
tues.
i smile will kill more microbes than an?
dicine.
i grain of appetite will outweigh a toil
reason. _
.'he world needs a friend more than U
ire in history.
.'he greedy eye always misses more thai*
generous one. '." w ' - -'^jS
Jourage is simply knowing when it
e to be afra'f5 _
lie best er jition of the Bible ia itd
_atan is always ia sympathy with the j C .
'-satisfied man.
"he sermon that earns most flattery may 4
1 fewest souls.
'eople who take their business to church'
lom take their religion to the store. -
Love as a Cosmetic.
,ove is the greatest beautifier. The rea^
is easy to see. Love itself is beautiful,*
1 if we give unselfish love a lodgment
h us it is constantly exerting a molding
uence upon us. . ..i'.. ?
iove always appears at its best. When
joes wooing it always chooses the most
oming attire and the most captivating
irnment. So love, when it gets posses-t
i of a human body, proceeds to mold!
face of that body into the most at:tive
form, for love always seeks to
;he itself in the most attractive garb.
hat is the explanation of the trarsfortion
that takes place in a woman who is
nother. She may be plain otherwise^
when she bends over her babe in art
easy of mother-love she becomes beautiAnd
in proportion as we give place to
elfish love do we become attractive.
here is no masseur like love to worK
acles in a homely face, says the Ohrisl
Endeavor World. There is no facia)
cialist who can begin to do as much to
Ice a plain young man or woman at:tive,
to overcome deformity or hide
nishes as the magician love can do. >
o hate is to become hateful. To love atf
ist loved is to become lovely. It is not
heap recipe, for such love costs in pro-;
tion to its depth and intensity. But;
' one that.is willing to pay the price ??
f be beautiful.
Boastful Building.
Blow, 0 winds! Eise, 0 ocean! Breaic
;h, ye elements and try ray work!"
h was the boastful inscription put upon
first Eddystone lighthouse built by the
jntric Winstanley. His challenge was
jpted, and one fearful night the sea
llowed up the tower and its builder,
he next one met a similar fate, the
icture and its builder, Rudyard, agaia
ishing together.
he third was erected by Smeaton, who
It it all of stone, making it a part of its
? foundation, so that the lighthouse
etrates it as a tree penetrates the soil,
in this lighthouse no vaunting inscripis
were placed, hut on the lowest course
e chiseled the words: "Except the
d build the house, they labor in vain:
t build it," and on the keystone, above
lantern, is the exclamation, "Laus
>!" That structure still stands, a
er-failing beacon light to storm-tossed
iners.
e who would build for eternity must
set about his task in any vainglorious,
[ -confident spirit. He must be careful
;o his .foundation, building firmly and
ily upon the rock. Christ Jesus, and
ing in trust and humility upon Him
i alone can enable one to reach a perresult.?Wellsprin;j.
Grace to Bear.
'lien Christ does not take away the
ig that is hard for us to bear, He gives
;race to keep it and to get on even betthan
if He had relieved us of it. To
1 He said: "My grace is sufucient for
That is, Paul would receive graca
i Christ, Christ's own strength in his
enough of it to meet all his need, so
; the suffering would be overbalanced
;he grace, and the hindrance overcome
the divine strength imparted. This
nise is for every Christian who has a
n of any kind which Christ does not
ove. While we must keep it we shall
helped to bear it, and it will be as
lgh we did not; have it.?Forward.
lilolf) Transformed.
missionary in Travancore, India, saw,
morning, a native coming to his house
i a heavy burden. On reaching it he
on the ground a sack. Unfastening it
mptied it of its contents?a number o?
3. "What have you brought these here
" asked the missionary; "I don't want
n." "You have taught us that we do
want them, sir," said the native, "but
think they might be put to some good
Could they not be melted down and*
led into a bell to call us to church?"
hint was taken; they were sent to a
founder and made into a bell, which
summons the native converts to praise
prayer.
Self Mastery.
ic greatest victory my soul can win is]
victory over self, the victor}* whichi
es one master 01 ins o?n ncm>,
cience. The victory which keeps usj
ympathy with liuman hopes and griefs'
loyal to the divine will.- -Rev. F. L.|
len. Worcester. Mass.
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