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A Blues ^i'romanc By Miss Ann: CHAPTER XIII. | Continued. "You would find it hard enough work to parse a sentence of mine. Now, Aunt Theodora really does write the most beautiful letter, without even making a rough copy first. Every sentiment correctly expressed, every 1WU1U? "Mrs. Chester, are you about to propose that Miss Theodora should become my correspondent instead of yourself?" "Correspondent! Oh, Sir John, you know that I never could be that. Of course, if I promised it, I will write to you once " "A formal note, hoping that I had a prosperous journey, informing me that the weather is hot, or cool, that the harvest prospects continue good, that the Misses Vansittart desire their kind regards, and that Paul remembers me, not quite as vividly, on the whole, as , he remembers the burnt almonds of ; Cousin Felix. I understand." "Paul will be made to remember you :while my life lasts," says Daphne, seriously. "As for letter writing?why, ' I might not write to people for a dozen 1 ?twenty years, but I should think of 1 them the same in my heart." "Have I the good fortune to be in- 1 in +hof 1-mnnv floss nf n@Q- 1 ^luutu *** v,~? ? ? pie?1- i "Yon know you hare. You know," ; right bravely, without hesitation, she gets the words out, "that I shall think iwarmly of you, and of Miss Hardcas- ( tie, both now and in the long future years to come, after your marriage." For a minute or more Severne walks grimly on in silence. At last: "It ia easy for you to speak calmly," he exclaims, a vibration of sudden ardor in his voice. "Easy for you, who feel nothing, to talk about the 'long future years' in which my life is to be made 1 rwretched. Nay, Mrs. Chester"?for 1 ehe has stopped, turned away from ' him; has raised her hands in mute deprecation oT the avowals she cannot cscape?'"it Is too late in the day for you to refuse to listen to me. You cannot be ignorant, you cannot affect to be ignorant that?I love you? As well my crime, if crime it be, should be acknowledged in plain speech before we bid each other good-by." Easy for her who feels nothing! And all the time Daphne's breast is swell- ' lng to agony; all the time, were sacri- ' fice of self the only thing needed, she iwould go to the other end of the world 1 to love, to serve him, nay, to minister 1 to hi9 merest whim or caprice. She dare not trust herself to speak; what speech of hers but must inevitably 1 turn into a confession? And, moved : by a quick impulse, Severne takes her hand, draws her toward him, and sees iier face. i Her face is wet with tears. r "Mrs. Chester?Daphne! Tell me ' that you are not indifferent?that it causes you just one brief pang to bid 1 me good-by forever?" And though still no actual word, no. nor even a quiver of the lip, betrays onAfhni* mlrinfo hoc nASSPfl UU1, UCiVl C auviuti uiiuuwv ? fcy Sir John Severne guesses her secret. It Is a secret, the barest possibility of whose existence he had never, up to the present moment, reckoned on. That his own heart should be irrevocably given to a woman so sweet and lovable; that her face, after pursuing him during every moment of his waking hours, should render his pillow eleepless; finally, the brief madness of ?n explanation and a parting lived ( through, that he should work destiny marry Miss Hatj 3ove out of his existen; . T1Meo. 1 to DaDhne from the Prosaic J ?ntK !-u'e age, as men, wedded < pains oj^ do look tQ the Rebecca of ^e:r youth! All this vista of personal 1 loss and disappointment has, during 1 the last few days, grown gradually 1 clearer and clearer before Severne's 1 vision. That he should have won love ' in return, that the richest cup human 1 lips can taste should be held out to < him, might he drink thereof, of > Daphne's hands?of this contingency, 1 being in very truth no coxcomb, he had 1 never dreamed. ' "I don't think, remembering your engagement, you should have spoken to 1 me like this." ' Her face is white, her breast heaves 1 convulsively, and forgetting every 1 thing but that she is in pain, and that tie is the author of her pain, Severne 1 clasps her in a wild embrace. "My engagement," he repeats, with growing agitation. "A careless promise made years ago between a boy and a girl ignorant of love and of them- J selves! Would you let this weigh against the happiness or misery of all , our lives?" "I would have you keep faith with 1 Miss Hardcastle, let it cost what it might," she answers him simply. "Of course, I will speak to Miss ' Hardeastle to-night. I will give her back her freedom?a gift you may be ' sure that she will joyfully accept. 1 Daphne," his voice sinking to a low and pleading whisper, "you will love me, you will be my wife? 'I will' are 1 not such desperately hard words to pronounce. Pronnounce them, and let ' me know as much of heaven as a man can know this side of death." But, by this time, Daphne Chester's self-possession has come back to her. She realizes upon the brink of what an abyss she has momentarily stood. "If Miss Hardeastle wishes your en gagement broken off, she would herself be the first to speak. I have seen enough of her to be sure of that. As to her taking back her freedom?what iwoman would say 'no' to such a galling' offer? You talk of happiness. Could it ever, do you suppose, be built on dishonor, true happiness on falsehood? Why, if I were to listen to you now. you, a boy carried away by a week's romantic fancy, do you believe, ia the aftortiiue, you would not despise me, as I should deserve to be desnispri? No Ycu are savins you TOCKING; ! !E | REALITY. ' * t( 1 w IE ED WARDS J p' w know not what, and I?I am to blame Q for letting such language be possible." t^ "And you think that speaking the tl truth is 'falsehood/ keeping to the mis- n: erable letter of a promise 'honor,' no matter whether the spirit of the prom- tl ise be broken or not?" sj "I think I would much sooner die tv than come between you and what you lj owe to Miss Hardcastle." So she cries, I in broken accents, and still wich firm- t< ness that he cannot choose but respect, n "Long ago I had my share of hope and j*outh, short though it was. I have f< nothing to look to now but my duty, s] If I was a girl, unversed in suffering, a selfish through ignorance, there might ti be excuse for me. There is a time of e: life, come by it as we may. But I fi have done with all that. Sir John, I C shall think of you, till my last hour, as c< my friend." y "For Paul's sake! I know." li "Not only for Paul's sake, but for y your own. You will let me have your y forgiveness, will you not, full and en- ti tire?" "Forgiveness between you and me? ^ Oh, Mrs. Chester," he exclaims pas- a sionately. "Now, on this last night ^ that we shall be together give me a c< moment's taste?well, I won't say of lappiness, but of what happiness miffht ^ have been! Tell me, if I had been froe, that you would not have rejected me! f< Let me have one?only one?kiss from E your lips." For a moment she remains cold as a the moonlight in which she stands. Then, suddenly, she takes the young a man's hand, lifts and kisses it. t( "When you saved Paul, I gave you many kisses, without your asking for them," she says gravely. "Now that Ci you ask, I give you oaly one. That is P how life's favors come to us." ^ And Severne interprets her kiss ^ aright; he interprets it as the very a sign and seal of a parting that shall be t( anal- z CHAPTER XIV. ^ Sand-Eeling?Part II. Meanwhile a second love-scene Is ^ being played out between widely dif- a ferent actors, with widely different re. suits. "We were interrupted the other day, ? my dear Clfm," begins Cousin Felix, coolly possessing himself of Miss Hard- ? castle's hand and drawing it within his own?"interrupted at a :>oint of s some interest to me, at all events. J am contemplating marriage." "Your taste inclining toward Lady e Lydia, if she had no Mr. Jorningham, c or toward Mrs. de Mauley, if she had no debts!" ? "And I have been seriously reviewing the subject from another point of view than that of mere personal lilt- J. ing. Such a woman as Lady Lydia Jorningham, however unencumbered, a would not suit me for a .wife, nor Mrs. de Mauley either." "No?" *< ?? fl "Mrs. de Mauley sings?false, they tell me. habituallv: half a note sharp ' in her correctest moments. But this is " beside the question. False or true, she _ sings. Women who sing naturally require musical mornings, full dress eoncerts, and a friend of the soul who 1 plays the violoncello. I could not stand * musical mornings, lull dress concerts, and a friend of the sou! who plav^J ^ ^ violoncello." # li "You would be je*' .uS otJoxir ^f8 ni talents. As ^ - confess openly." "Your '-Perience tells y?u tbat 1 am ti ? - rerociously jealous temperament, E loes it not?" z Miss Hardcastle blushes, but, hap- p pily, the state of the atmosphere and tl tiis own preoccupied mind serve to conleal the weakness from Cousin Felix. "Then Lady Lydia?I mention her as the type of a class?is horribly nn- ^ punctual. Six days out of seven, with ^ i wife as giddy as Lady Lydia, you s1 would have your fish overbroiled. Of course, she does this very well for a man like Jorningham. Jorningham is a rich fellow, and can keep a chef, an artist, equal to all emergencies. -It would never suit me. For genteel desh'tntinn tho rinmnstip virfrnps nrp a vitnl condition of existence." ? Mr. Broughton enunciates this senti- ^ ment with solemn distinctness, like one iisburdening his conscience of some g ill-important and slowly-arrived-at ' iogma. "You agree with- me, I am sure, Clementina. For a r-auper like myself, t] the domestic virtues are indispensable." I "I hope you will meet with them," ^ says Miss Hardcastle, with rather a g, forced cheerfulness. "The domestic virtues, beauty, wealth, youth, and a widowhood are not qualifications com- c: bined, to be met with every day, and ^ in the crowded highways of life." "In the crowded highways, no," he replies. "For the precise reason I am endeavoring to make my selection, to t( find my paragon, in one of the very q quiet, untrodden by-paths that lie around Fief-de-la-Beine." a The hand that rests upon his arm a trembles, despite all Clementina's B1 trained habits of self-control. a Mr. Broughton proceeds, with equan- 0 imity: _ c] "As for wealth, I resign it. My oi tastes, as you know, are anti-British, p Spartan-like in their primitive frugal- T iiy. A theatre stall in the winter " fi "A theatre stall! At Fief-de-la- w Keine, I hope?" ir "A run to Monte Carlo in the spring. An \nck in cnmmo*? Wifh clmnlft ** " i\-U 1U CUUiiU^.. 11 11U WiUl^JV pleasures like these I have been contented, even as a bachelor. Married to c< a pretty, gentle woman who adored me ir ?such a woman, say, as Daphne?I e: could be satisfied with life. We would g< take a farmhouse?all chintz, and con- c< tentment, and low-raftered ceilings s< ?by the sea; live upon mutton chops, pi grow our own roses, and " r< "I don't know whether yon are aware c; of it, Mr. Broughton, but the whole of si this time, and while you have been in- w tent upon your own wise talk, my feet m rive got wet through. Are expeditions a t this barbarous description sot up " *ith an ulterior view of pleasure, 1 onder?" ?| Miss Hardcastle's tone is acrimonus?so acrimonious that Felix Brough)n allows her hand to slip away "oru beneath his arm, and putting up Ti is eyeglass, looks placidly around him i the mooulicht. It is evident that they have wandered )lerably far from the track in which aey were directed to keep. Low, sea- to reed covered rocks, interspersed with pi ools, hem them in on three sides, -gj, hile to regain the firm, white sands of G iuerr.ee Bay a currr-nt of fresh water, venty feet wide, at least, and more lan ankle deep in shallowest part, ta lust bo forded. be "I shall not turn back, If you moan lat? I am wearied to death already." ^ lys Clementina?it must be rllcwed ?j ith more unreason than she ordinarir displays in the conduct of life. "And ** will not wade through any more wa;r. I am wet through as it is. So luch for the delights of the country." tl To these observations Mr. Brougbton tr jr a minute or more offers no re ponse. Then, letting fall his eyeglass m nd folding his arms with the resigna- w on of a man prepared for every exig- Jj* ncy of feminine caprice: "As you re- ^ use decisively to turn back, my dear in ilementina," he remarks, "three other re surses remain open to you. Either ^ ou will wade through the water that CI es before us, or you will let me carry n; ou across it, or you will remain where ef ou are and be drowned by the rising de. This much is certain." aj "Let you carry me across! As Jf you v? *ould be guilty of such an exertion for ^ ny one but the pretty, gentle woman ho adores you, the paragon who is to G, invert you from Monte Carlo to mut- it - - - 4-1. m chops?Daphne! I am sure ir i aid hat was wisest," she adds, petulantly, ]a I should just wait quietly where I am w )r the tide to drown me, as Victor m [ugo's man did in the novel." p< 11( "Had Victor Hugo's man to carry sl ny one?" asks Cousin Felix, with in- j ni jrest. "You know I never read novels n< t first hand. Had Victor Hugo's man ^ ) carry any one, and was she heavy?" fu "You had better get ashore with as fc ttle inconvenience to yourself as you I *a an, Mr. Broughton. Mrs. Chester will | robably have reached home by this j me, and may be feeling anxious about i OI ou. And perhaps you would kindly b< esire Sir John Severne to come down > my assistance?" "I lifted you once, I remember, at the h< oologlcal, to see the bears, and you tc rere no weight to speak of. But that st ras a great many years ago. However, e, ! I find you beyond my strength I can p; ut set you down again half way P' cross. Come, child." ^ Miss Hardcastle's statue is calcu- m ited at five feet. He lifts her with j is bout as much ease as a child would J>? ft a kitten, and ere she can remon- q trate walks manfully forward. When m aey have reachcd the middle of the ta tream Mr. Broughton stops. "I had no idea it would be so pleas nt," he remarks, looking somewhat j ai arnestly at the delicate pale face so w >? J.- 1-1- 11.. ?_?i ra lose lu jjis ill iue ujuumi&iit.. i "What is pleasant?" she asks, ungra[ously. "Walking through muddy wa- p< jr in thin boots?" vi "No, carrying people?I mean carry)g you! Clem, that time I spoke of, at ; st ie Zoological, you put your arms m round my neck. Do you recollect?" n? "I recollect nothing at all about it, jH tr; I believe the whole story to be a ction." ?] "And when I gave you a shilling's lo rorth of buns for the bears'you kissed d: ie?on my honor you did! I wish n? here were bears to get buns for th Uementina." , V1 "I wish you wouM >"xVe S??dness * ) set me do*-"* a once? Broughon." . of ?Lni the stream?" sii "Upon the other side, of course. And CI 'ould you please not look at me so ard, if you can help it? It makes me ^ ervous." rj, "If we could imagine, Just for the an me being, and until we catch up with aphne and Sir John, that it was the ag oological and ten years ago, 'Cousin di elix,' you would say, 'I love you a ca lousand times better than any other S] erson in the world.'" re Miss Hardcastle turns her face away be lamlv. She knows that the blood a\ lust have forsaken it; that, though er voice may be under command, jn :ill her lips are trembling at every idle A ord Felix Broughton utters, m To be Continued. ^ *. -a*1 ca Preciocg Stones Scarce. tr The United States can supply all the , rants of its people for coal, iron, cop- j,? er, petroleum, and all the useful min- ha rals; gold and silver are also found ce 1 generous quantities; but of precious pr tones the diamond, the ruby, the emraid, the topaz, etc., it has practically pa one, except what it has bought ex broad. In 1002 we paid $25,000,000 ) foreign countries for precious stones et: liat we imported, while during that va ear precious stones of the value ol ?<( nly $338,000 were found within out orders. These were principally ^ ipphires from Montana, turquoises j rorn New Mexico, Arizona, Nevaan nd California, and tourmalines and T brysoprases from California.?Na? onal Geographic Magazine. Baked Mad a; a Food. w< th Consumption of earth as food is salu w > be common not only iu China, New j in aledonia and New Guinea, but in the j ovi [alay Archipelago as well. In Java j re^ nd Sumatra the clay used undergoes ]i0 preliminary preparation for con- tri amption, being mixed with water, rp. alo uced to a paste, and the sand and ther hard substances removed. Tu-^ v-ir lay is then formed into small cakes Co r tablets about as thick as a lead J?' encil and baked in an iron saucepan. [ ^ he Javanese frequently eat small j ftn< gures roughly modelled from clay I 'hich resemble tbe animals trrned out 1 our pastry shops.?Chicago Tribune, t ite Caution and Counsel. ?iv Boastfulness or flippancy is not sue* [Jj" ?ssful advertising for a printer. Claim. ig everything is not convincing and ble Kcessive volubility fatigues. Get a ?ai Dod point and talk to it with modest lt" jnfideuce and the logic of common jnse. And don't forget the period in he unctuation, knowing when you have tvr sached it and stop there. This will irry your reader with ycu over a lort journey and lie will part company tlx itli you reluctantly and be glad to ne; icet you again.?Progressive Printer, JJ?1 . SERMON FOR SUNDAY NJ ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED,' i ' IMUTATORS OF COD." I I lie IUst. Dr. John Rcld Answers tha i Somowliat Narrow Criticism That Christianity U Narrow in Its Spirit and Contracting: In Its Effect. Brooklyn; N. Y.?Dr. Johif Reid, pas- j T of the Memorial Presbyterian Church, j eached an eloquent sermon Sunday j orning. His text was taken from Ephe- j ins v:l: "Be ye therefore followers ol i od, as dear children." Dr. Reid said: The Revised Version gives a better and j ronger translation: "Be ye therefore imi tors of God. as beloved children." Imi- I tors, as children. Being children of God, ! ? ve imitators of God. Truth is practically always achievement, ' iperstructure, the keystone, a Inst stroke, i here are what the metaphysicians call i mmediate truth." that is, truth in con- i ?ction with which our knowledge is intui- j re, and where it comes in as the direct id undeniable testimony of the senses, ! it as a genera] thing, acquired truth is j le result of work done, the issue of a bate which has been won. In other words, j uth has to conquer before it can com- i and. But in conflict or warfare of what- I iever kind, disguise is -ever a worse foe to eet than denial. and i suppose tnai hat is frequently affirmed is probably ue; namely, that the Christian religion is always suffered more from those who, imetimes intentionally and sometimes untentionally, have perverted and misrepnsented it, than it has.ever suffered from j lose who have even formally opposed it. i There, for instance, is the somewhat trite I iticism that Christianity as a scheme is j irrow in its spirit and contracting in its Feet: under it as a system men do not at.in the highest possible development, and, ! lerefore, they cannot display the fairest I id finest fiber of human character; it de- f slopes the passive and uninfluential, more ! tan the puissant and productive, elements : our nature: it keeps its hand on life's ;ake to check and hold in, rather than 1 life's throttle valve to open and let go; is in face a lion, but in heart a drer; the iou shalt nots outnumber the thou ohalts; lere is an unmistakable flavor of pusil? nimity, of cowardliness, of spiritlessness, hich nothing every wholly removes from any of its principles and professions; re:ntance, humbleness, meekness, forgivejss of injuries, relinquishment of rights, ibmission to what cannot be seen, acceptlce of what cannot be known?these are )t among the heroic virtues. All this has 'pn fnlf. nnd exnressed. not only by the iperficial and scoffing, but by the respect- j il and thoughtful. And certainly it is all I rceful. If it were true, it might be even tal. Yet from the beginning to end this whole iticism that Christianity is narrow in its Tirit and contracting in its effects moves 1 a misconception. Human life can never : bound by a lifeless process. It is of neissity^ linked to a living Person. And in hristianity, it is the Almighty God who the standard. Men are everywhere exerted and expected to ascertain His will, i keep His word, to lay hold of His rength. to walk in His light, and so to lorn His doctrine in all things. It is the :ample of God that is published as the lttern. It is the purity of God that is at forth as the test. It is the will of od that is prescribed as the law. It is le love of God that is presented as the otive power. It is the glory of God that pointed to as the end. It is the approition of God that i& urged as the inspiraon and the sweet reward. Likeness to odhood?that is Christianity's ideal of anhood; likeness; not simply a represenition, but a reproduction; an image; a keness which has its placp, not in a one;ss or identity of attributes, but in a one?ss or community of life. In Him we live id move and have our being, said Paul, ith all clearness and confidence. "For e to live is Christ," said the same great jostle to the Gentiles. Literally, for to j e, that is, in my case, in so far as I am i " Tr? mv I jrsonany concerned, me is? v/ur?i. V-V"-' ew and understanding of the term, life is it another name for Christ. Whatever life, or of time, or of talent, or of reneth I have, it is all His. "I }'ive- ye^ 3t I, but Christ liveth in me. That an's great endeavor was, as near as posble. to reproduce in his life the hfe of is Master. So her? his exhortation to all others: Be ye therefore imitators of Cod, as be* ved child**0*" We ^ave known chilren.^J'? were so impressed with the char jeristics of their fathers that we could :ver hear their form of expression or see leir modes of action without thinkinc of lose from whom their opinions and conict had received direction and form. We y, chips of the old block; the father res again in the son.' Just bo the true life the Christian is, potentially at least, mply a reproduction of the life of tlie irist. "Imitators, as children of God." Wbater the sentiments we may entertain re* rding the claims of aristocracy or the jhts of democracy, we all make much of tcestrv. The son of a lord may become a rd. The daughter of a queen is of the ood royal. Everywhere men believe in sociation. Family glory is a good introiction and a great help to any man who n lawfully point to it as his. The valid7 of that introduction is never ouesaned, the integrity of that help is never jected, except where the man himself :comes personally deficient or personly degenerate. For doubtless everywhere, hen it comes to the purely practical side things, "what is he?" is of far greater lportance than "whence did he come?" big fruit from a little tree is worth XI e?u C urc man u nuic iiuiu nuiu a ui^ lien it is fruit that the market is deanding. And what this intensely practi1 age demands is not so much ancestral ees as palatable fruit. I confess that sometimes I have found it ird to preserve the proprieties when I ive heard oeople boasting of ancestry. I ive sometimes wondered what the anstors would say if they suddenly saw the ogeny. Paternity is not always easily cognizable in posterity. Neither in ings material nor in things moral does ist possession ever pay for present povty. There must be some water in the iannel to make a river out of it, and it is ways the present water volume of the ream that determines the real water lue of the river. )h, East is East, and West is West, And never the twain shall meet, Dill Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, iVhen two strong men stand face to fc.ce, Though they come from the ends of the Earth." These arc strong lines of Kipling; brave jrds, wise and true. When it comes to e solemn strife and stress of life, "what" ;ig'ns more than "whence." "Every man his own saddle" and "every tub oa its n bottom." Nevertheless, all people arc disnosed in :ognize the possibility of hizh Iionor in notable descent. But admit this to be le, and it carries its own serious claim li, 1 l * L ~ .1 . _ r I iiig wiiii 11. it wiiH tut: uuscrvauon 01 8 of the ancients that th? burden of rernment is increased to princes by the tues of their immediate predecessors.' mmenting on the saying. Dr. Siimu?i Iinson, in one of his essay.-;, remarked it always dangerous to he placed in a state unavoidable comparison with excellence. 1 that the danger is always greater when t excellence * < consecrated by death.! ivilege of ancestry means responsibilityheirship. Duly and morally considered,? can never De lordsnip. it is essentially wardship. And "to whom much iB en, of him shall much be required," is ; law universally here applied. That it j principle underlying this whole matter, ildren of God. be imitators of God. No* isse oblige. Nobility imposes the obli* tion of nobleness. "Be ye therefore imtors of God. as beloved children." iVhence am I? It is the old question by j licli every man is confronted as soon as j begins to draw lines of distinction be- j cen himself and his surroundings. And re. as everywhere, no comment on the rks of God like the word of God. "In ; boginm'ngGodcreated theheavens and ? j earth." That sentence scatters dark- j !s and doubt. The world is not eterI: it had an actual and definite begin- J ig. Man is no| H'.p child of chance; he 1 uioaj *Jin2 a[qt!S8T3duii ub Xq sb 'a.in}bu jr quids pus [?moui ut pa^b-ivaas 'suoi^bjiui ssa[punoq jo auiaq *b -ujuaq uo puu qiu3 ao pafii^jfasqquv a'[9ui"aiq m*h;jvo 01 aodu q}auaa.u q?i|) 3u11j4 ^uiusjjo Aid. i3ao pun 'maoo 344 |[u a'dAO pug ajjjBj ai 13AO pUB 'JIB 3l{} JO [A\OJ 3t[4 JOAO yUB 'v aq; jo qsy aq} j.oa<j uoiujiwop a.\vq uiai jari?? '?jh luj}s'1'1!^ aatjisti{ aub jo aa.\ai qt'nav uoqiuouioan ou <si OJdt|} uioi|av ui \ Mod puu AqmuaZui aujAtp jo aoaidja^sci aqq?,,inos isiiiaq b auibooq ubui pub *aj jo q)?jaaq aqi sitajsou siq oqut poqiBjl paB puuoaU ai(i jo qsup aqj 10 ub pauijoj :a3buii uaio sijj ut iium "pa:)Ba. ??0 ?S? 'na^jjAV s; .ssaua>ji[ .tno j; jb 'aauaii ano'ui uiitu a>^ui sn 4*1,, *pii 'apoqu ub aq o^ aqo;3 aqj auii^siuji puc 2>ai^4y ui aoqB[ puv oaii} ipnui fua< pBq poy 4Bij^' Jaqjy -po*) ui .iai|;b,? v si til other animal orders, man is nt the hes ?rational. responsible. immortal. TTW nften we sppa'-- that word "immo fall" Man does not die? "There is no death. What seems so transition; This life of morfal breath If but a suburb of the life elvsian, Whose nortal wc - ill death." The rood which a man does lives fr ever. And the good man lives in it. A jrustinc in his confessions. Calvin in li vindication. Watts and Wesley in tl psalms and hymns and sniritual sones 1 which Christendom's praises are still r tuned. "Robert Eailces. the publisher, at Henry Duncan. the divine?the one st gathers the children and the other st guard* the treasures of the poor. Throng out all Germany, amid their res)'.ess liv and the many temptations of their rare hundreds of youn? journeymen meciiani who know not the name, still bless 1 hand of Clemens Perthes, the learned t? feasor of Bonn, because he laid the fot dations of the homes which open to th< their hospitable doors. Yonder at W mar, that "Necropolis of the poets Germany.*' and hard by the grave Goethe, who was the prince of them i is the resting place of one whose fame u different indeed from theirs, but on wh< tomb the enitanh runs: "Under this 1 den tree, freed from sin through .Te< Christ, lies John Fa'k. Let every strar child who visits this peaceful place d gcntlv prav for him. .And because cared for little children, receive him. Lord, Thy child, unto Thyself." "Gone forever! ever? No?for since < dvine race beean. Ever, ever, and for-evcr was the leadi light of man." now are we to explain this? What the philosophy of such power ovei the r; ages of time? My dear friends, we ouj to take some things out of the region sneculative or ecclesiastical doctrine, whi they seem sometimes to have been c signed. We cannot contemplate imm tality simply as a doctrine of the Bible, r. teaching of the church. It is more, is a vital power in the life. Given i Fatherhood of God and the immortality man is the demonstration of human life Do you seek the strongest and clear evidence of the existence of God? Y take it with vou wherever you go. ? ~1? *U..I. J <<TU? >uuiseu ttie mut rvi'jciitc, u* raent from design?" You have it in y< own body, the most wonderfully compl of all known organisms. "The argumi from being?" In the consciousness your own depcndcnce, you have a com tion not to be gainsayed of Him on wh you depend. Created as life is in God's age, man is an epitome of all God's ct tion. He is a duodecimo universe. 1 human soul is a mirror which reflects G It is true the image is marred and scured; there is but little of the intuit knowing; the traces of the inherent rig eousness are very feeble; the flow of essential holiness is torpid ar.d inertimage is a broken one; the picture is moving picture; the lines in it are i straight; they are vibratory?but the li ness is there. To be a man is to hi some perceptible trace in God. My * dear friends, however broken f marred the image may be in any, Christ able to restom jfc in all. And that veril] thc-ivhole aim of Christianity: to bring back to what God first intended us to Believers in Christ are in Him crea anew unto good' works and have renev in themselves the whole man after the : age of God in knowledge and righteousn and time holiness. God Dominates AIJ. As the mountain of Fujiyama domina the landscape in Japan, as the temple h of .Tprnsnlpm commanded the scene far around, so we believe God is to be exali in this vast community, so as to domin it all. The sense of God is not fading; is increasing. To Him we lift up our e; as unto the mountains. The church is nourish this consciousncss of God, and express it in lives of spiritual power. ( then, how one comes to love the chui when once her real mission is seen. 1 are set to invite the world to come to only true home. Wandering hearts, i easy consciences, troubled souls, come the home of homes, in God's great 1< and blessed service. Let the gates op wide, that the multitudes may press ii the home of their hearts. Oh, church God, let your faith be large and brig that 'the world may come home. Erect false barriers that God would disown n more and more become a home to the cl dren of men, through Je?us Christ, the ! viour. Tlie Christian'* Answer. This is the reply we Christians make those who say that religion is mythical a that it retreats into some sccret p's where no mere intellectuality can who follow it. It surely is mystical in these timate experiences of the soul, but does not comc forth again and move throu the activities ot human life, out in t open world a chastened, beautified a Christ-like spirit? This is our answ Conscious of sin and imperfections, this still our answer. Gcd is our home. S!ov we yield our stubborn natures to His cc stant pressure. His presence is our b< education. He is the great beautiiier human life. Differ as we may in our cree and philosophies, this is the issue of rel ion, this i3 the product of fellowship \vi Him, our Father, our God, our eternal r uge and home. ' An In\|ired#lvo Spectacle. When vou slop to consider what t church of God is. the spectacle of hu tlrcdfi of thousfrul*. even millions, of sot wending their '.vsy to the places of worsh throughout the land becomes imptess-'v \V!iy do they come? What is the perm nent element ;:i life that maintains t!i rast interest? Chr.necs occur anions n tions, institutions ri?e and fali, traditioi wax and wane, crceds are made and u made, and yet men continue to worship. Lend r sliojilo L,ifV. Be cor.lent to lead a pinu?le life why God has placed you. Be obedient; bei four little daily crosses?you need thcr ?nd God wives theiu to vou out of pui aiercy.?fc-nclcu. Ballad or Indolence. Some people, like the bee, we find ill toil all day with patient skill* win1Whe in^"strlou3 ant in mind,' Will labor up the steepest hill Some endlessly will grind a mill Or run a factory or steamer: Others a fallow field will till? Id ifther be an idle dreamerSome may be of a studious mind And all night loner, till morning chl At ponderous, musty tomes they'll grii Until from overwork they're ill; They 1.1 analyze a fish's gill, Or learn the habits of the lemur Or trace the platypus' bill? I'fl rather be an idle dreamer. Some think that in their souls enshrin< Fair genius sits, wlfh throb and thri O'er myriad pages closely lined, All feverishly they push a quill. I'd rather hear the woodbird's trill Or watch a lazy, floating streamer: Of all fair things, had I my will, I'd rather be an Idle dreamer. (L'Envoi.) Satan. I fear no mischief still, I fold my hands without a tremor; I've no ambitions to fulfill. I'd rather be an Wle dreamer. ?Metropolitan. Scheme Worked Like Ulaijlc. 'A Parisian journalist, Ernest Ultun. ha liscovored a new way of saving ereckerj tfe asked his servant it she did not kno-. hat a girl who broke two dozen dishe vould never got a husband, and the qua ion worked 'ike a charm. r f ; TIE SUNM^^^OI ]} !! international"lesson comment.; n for december 4. d ii j4 it} Subject: Hezekiali Reopen* the Temple, II 1U ; Chronicles, xxlx., 18.31?Golden Text, [i| I Samuel It., 30?Memory Verses, 22.i| 24?Commentary on the Day's Lesson. I. The temple cleansed (vs. 18, 19). 18. i '"Then." Hezekiah began the work of j * I cleansing the temple on the first day of | i ihe first month?the month Abib, or Ni* i san. This was the first New Year's Day j after he became king. The work occupied | i sixteen days (vs. 16, 17). As soon as the | j work was completed they reported the j ) fact to the king. "Cleansed all the house." j The accumulated filth of years was carried out and . cast in the Kidron Valley. The 1S altars were renewed, the lamps trimmed J and lighted, and the whole service set in motion. Compare the cleansing of the temj pie by Christ (Matt. 21:12; John 2:14). i The temple of our hearts and the temple ir* ?f the church are defiled by sinful habits \v | and customs, by errors of doctrine, by tvorldliness of Bpirit, by lusts of the fiesh, j by selfish ambition, by wrong temper, by 35 i sins of every kind. These not only defile ib j the temple, but keep others from worshipid j ing and loving God. "Altar of burnt offerill | ing." This was the great brazen altar ill j which stood in the priests' court in front h | of the temple proper. "Vessels thereof." el \ Its furniture consisted of a pan for ashes,. i shovels, basins for the blood, forks, fiesh? j hooks and censors. "Shrew bread table." . i This was in the sanctuary, or holy place, i on the right or north side of the room, "j The table was provided with dishes, spoons, I* j Hagons and bowls. j l?. "Uia cast away." Sec chap. 28:24. j j "Have we prepared." Ahaz had taken j away the "bases" or supports on which the , layers rested and had removed the molten 1 j sea from the twelve brazen oxen (compare ras | 2 Kings 16:17 with 1 Kings 7:23, 25, C8). ?8e j These had now been restored and everym* ! thing was in readiness for the proper wor,us i fhip of Jehovah. '.?.? j II. Many sacrifices offered (vs. 20-24). v'" I 20. "Rosje early." He was anxious to enJ? l ter upon the temple services with all possiu j ble dispatch. 21. "Seven bullocks, etc. J See Lev. 4. This was more than the law )ur > required. Ahaz had broken the covenant j and Hezekialvs sin-ofi'ering was intended ing to atone for the breach. Animals of the / | kinds used in sacrifice were offered by sevi3 j ans, that number indicating completeness, av- | In case of one particular sin of ignorance ;hfc | committed by the people there was but one of bullock to be offeree, .but here the sins ere | were many and presumptuous. "For the on- ] kingdom." The/priests were to offer sacrior I fices of atonement for the sins of the king or and the royal family. "The sanctuary. It ; For the sins of the priests and for the polthe j lution and desecration of the temple. of | "For Judah." For the neople who were j involved in the guilt of tlie national aposest i tasy. We should note with what empharou | sis it is stated in verse 24 that an atone'on ment and siti-oiferkig were made for "all gu- I Israel," as if at this new dedication of the 3Ui | temple they would obliterate the memory ete of old national strifes* and. divisions and *nt ! consecrate the whole nation as an unbrc* of ken community to God. ric- I 22. "Sprinkled it." The blood waa om sprinkled in accordance with the Jaw. See im. Lev. 1:5, etc. By the sprinkling of blood ea. an atonement was made for sins. The ?he blood was the life of the beast, and it was od. I always supposed that life went to redeem oh. j life. 23. "Laid their hands." Imposition jve ! of hands signified that they offered the life ht- i of this animal as an atonement for their the j sins, and to redeem their lives from that the ; death which, through their sinfulness, they 3 a i deserved. not 24. "Burnt offering?sin offering." There ke- were many different kinds of offerings. lve j Dr. Clarke enumerates twenty-one. The burnt offering was wholly consumed. In m<J most of the other offerings the priest or t i9 ! the offerer, or both, had a share, but in the f ia ! whole burnt offering the entire victim was us i given to God. This was "a very expressive be. i type of the sacrifice of Christ, as nothing ted | less than his complete and full sacrifice /efj i coma make atonement for the sin of the im. ! world." The sin-offering signified that the csg i offerer acknowledged his guilt, and at the same time promised to return to God. III. The king and the people worship (vs. 25-30). 25. "Cymbal." A musical instrument consisting of two bread plates of J?9 brass, of a convex form, which being struck lU? together produce a shrill, piercing clangor. ,aI' They are still used by the Armenians, bed "Psalteries." The psaltery appears to have at.? been the name given to various large in" stiuments of the narp kind. "Harps." The V"?* harp is frequently mentioned in scripture. *c They were of various shapes and sizes. Josephus says they had ten strings. "Gaa." Referred to as David's seer in 2 Sam. 24:11. "Nathan." The prophet who V ? reproved David for his sin (2 Sam. 12:1)., lts 26. "Instruments of David." Moses had V1' not appointed any musical instruments to t0 be used in the divine worship. There was >ve nothing of the kind under the first taber'?n nacle. The trumpets or horns then used j were not for song or for praise, but were ,? used as we use bells, to give notice to the congregation of what they were called to n*j perform. But David introduced many instruments of music into God's worship, for 1 which he was solemnly reproved by the 5a* prophet Amos (chap. 6:1-6). Here, however, it is stated (v. 25) to have been the . commandment of the Lord. But the Syriac x. and Arabic give this a different turn. It j was by the commandment of the .Lord ice j tnac me invites siiouia praise the Lord, ]]y I and it was by the order of David that so j many instruments in the old dispensation was no doubt of human origin, and certain| ]y their use then can be no reason why j they should be used in Christian worship. n(j | The worship which God acceots to-day is er> i a spiritual worship. What He desires is jg ; heart worship, not beautiful melodies from .iy | organs and horns. 28. "The singers sang." Music has a j )gj. I mo3t humanizing effect. The cultivation j 0? j of the art has a favorable influence upon public morals. It furnishes a source of j?. pleasure in every family. It gives home a new attraction. It makes social intercourse ef. more cheerful. God's people are a .singing people, and the song service ought to be a part of all our religious worship. IV. The people bring their offerings (vs. . 31-36). A large number of sacrifices were brought by the people, so that it was imI1,'" possible for the priests to slay and flay all . ? the victims, and it became necessary for j ,'P <#fe Levites to assist. We are also in)" formed that the Levites were more upright : and prompt to purify themselves from past '** defilement than the priests. It is commona* ly supposed that the priests had been more i 1 implicated in the idolatrous practices of j n* Ahaz than the Levites, and therefore many of them were slow of heart to respond to Hezekiah's call to sanctify themselves. re Drew Hat Pin From Doj?. Hidden in the oesophagus of a Maltese ' terrier fifteen inches long, belonging to Miss Mabel Collier, of 2vew York City, Dr. George Bretherton, a veterainary surgeon, found a woman's hatpin seven and a half inches in length. The dog swallow*ed the knob of the pin first, saving itself in that way, the veterinary said, from puncturing its alimentary canal. For several days the dog had acted strangely, whining piteously. Miss Collier thought it was pining away and took her pet to the office of Dr. Bretherton. He placed the animal under I the influence of ether, and after an intrilate operation he drew forth the Din. The " iog stood "he operation well, and as soon 1(* is it was restored to consciousness Miss Collier took her pet away with her. Red Ttll>bon Identifies Brother*. Lawrence Lynch found a brother in St. jd Louis, Mo., whom he had not seen for "* forty-eight years. The brothers became separated when very young. Of late they have been corresponding, and decided to meet at the Fair. Each wore a red ribbon in his coat, by which they recognized each other. Big Deposit of Molybdenum. A large deposit of molybdenum, a rare mineral, worth ?65 per pound, has been discovered in the Maverick mine, on Badger Mountain, near Maniiou, Col. This mineral'heretofore has been found in quantity only in England. It is used chiefly in 3 hardening armor for battleships, v Italian "Restaurants In i,o3<lon. 3 Italian restaurant are multiplying i: London, Eng., with t:r.a::ing rapidity. A Prayer of the Hill Country. HB "And the strength of the hills is His alft^H Lift me, 0 Lord, above the level plain, H Beyond the cities where life throbs aan thrills, 9B And in the cool airs let mv spirit gain Ml The^stable strength ana courage of T^H They are Thy secret dwelling places. LoiSGB Like Thy majestic prophets, old a^K hoar, They stana assembled in divine accord, BB Thy sign of established power foreVi^Kg . more. Here peace finds refuge from ignoble war^H a - 4 t- .'il i._: M a. V..I1J ,11111 ItUUl, UiUIiipilUUl,, UUUUH iU BUVH| and rime, Near the broad highways of the.gre&tBM Above the tide line of the seas of time.Hi Lead rey ^rther. Lord, to peaks moH| Until the clouds like shining meadows l^H Where through the deeps of silence I mflR The thunder of Thy legions marching b^E ?Meredith Nicholson, in American CulBH Fall of Troubles. H Men and women must bend their bacflg and load up with the troubles of life. always was so and always, no d^ubt. w^B The last trouble we have on earth while we are getting out of it. If we d^H as we should we will have no more troub^H [f we die as we should not our troubles'wlW have only just begun. SB Why some of my readers should h&^H such terrible troubles I do not know. Pe^H haps some of them arc of the kind thdH have worried me?more in thought than Little troubles are sometimes a nuisanc^K Not large enough to weigh us down, bW just large enough to spoil the day ana as of sleep at night. me A few nights euice I was troubled abo^H almost notning, dux w woxua not leave d and -was strong enough to tosa me abo on my bed. But sleep had its way, ta the next morning I could not help smilii at myself for being so foolish as to let?u< a little bit of a thing trouble me. Bear your burdens as lightly as you ca Do not pet or hug them, but give them understand that you have something b? ter on hand than to be- a cultivator troubles. The truth is that many of onr troobl ire brought about by our own foolishnes A gentleman came to me with.his financi troubles, and was frank enough to ? that they vrcre the result of his havii spent of allowed his family to spend on 12000 a year, while his salary wpa ?146 The condition he found himself in wi that he had $800 worth of troubte durii the past year and had very little comfort Troubles brought about by sickness ei of a very serious kind and cannot be a wavs helped. The daughter of a friend of mine wi taken to a hospital in Nastau County. I ?., to be operated on for the third tin last week. As her father was relatina t me what'the young girlhad to gothrtfudW my heart ached for him and his who^K family, and especially for the yonng girl. H There arc troubles that make one fe<H that this is a hard world to liv* in. S|H far in life grace has been given me to BeaH ap under ail the ills of life that it has bee|H mv lot to encounter. H To do all you can to bear the burdens cl others is a good way to bear your own buiH dens easily. Take my word for it, for H have often found it to be so. gjB I met an old lady in a village where Hj once resided who was so troubled with th^l backache that she was going to help arS other old lady who was in the same cond^l tion. Her idea .was that while helpinM her friend in her troubles she would foiM Et her own. It is sometimes good policJH be your own doctor in this way. Troubles! Don't stop to count them, foH if you do they will grow about as fast il fou can enumerate them. SB The religion you profess is yours for thfl purpose of enabling you to beat down yon^l lorrows, no matter what they may be. must do your best and trust' the res^JM It is not pleasant to be poor: it na nofl shecrful to be sick, and there is no comH fort in being despised and unkindly treaC^f by others. But if ifc is your lot to be thufl ifflicted keep on thinking and hoping tliaH there will soon come a change for the betfl ! ier. If the change never comes you will b j 20 worse off for your thoughts. If we had no trouble in this world w< ; would be very loth to leave it. While mi3 looking at a dying man he sudden!; >pened his eyes and said, "George, I hav aad enough of the troubles of this life an< Jesus will soon take me home." "Soon' proved to be inside of ten minute*. Whei ;he doctor pronounced the good man dea< 3eorge softly responded "God is good." Surely none of you have forgotten tha there is a great burden bearer, who ia eve ! ready to help you in every time of needi not occasionally, but all the time.?Georg ; R. Scott, in Sabbath Reading. Tha Need and Supply of tbe Church. What Christ said to those men can b laid truthfully of any people in this day If we would do successful work for on Master, in a special line of work, makin the most of ourselves, let us remember tha when wc have done all we can there stO exists needs that only the spirit of Go< can supply. It is true that every Christian has the spirit of God. These men to whon Christ was speaking had known what i was to possess power. Tou remember theg were commissioned and sent out two b two into every city, and they came bac* rejoicing that even the demons had beei lubject to them, and rejoicing in possessior of power. What we need to-day is bold ness. Not a braggadocio spirit, but such i confidence in the Master, such a devotioi that they are not billing that any shoulc question whether they belong to Him Ol not. Sly dear brothers in Christ, if w< want this Central Baptist Church to be i power in this city, we need to be fillet with the spirit of God. Shall we seek unti we obtain it? Shall we hear the word: "I yc then, beiDg evil, know how to give gift unto your children, how much more, then will He give the Holy Spirit to them that ask it?" It is for this that I long. It ii for a people filled with the spirit of God. I will risk everything else in the way of difficulties if onc.-e we have Him. Shall w? seek Him until we obtain Him??From Sermon by the Rev. L. M. Gates. Try God's Way. After his "feeble fumbling" at jchemea for social betterment the Tiero ia Mrs Browning's "Aurora Leigh" is led to eay that at last he "Grew willing, having tried all other waysj To try just God's." Perhaps after a few more years of experiment in ender.vors to reach "the masses" bv caterins first of all to the needs ot adults our church will decide "to try just God's" way and begir. with the children.? Pilerrim Teacher. Seme of the clairvoyants in London can? up to $l(/0 a day. EtSi Hatched In a Bee Hive* A farmer iu Ohio is reported to liav< successfully practiced hatching chickens by the heat given off by a swarm of bees He says: "First you need an oat chafl hive. Then stretch a piece of cheesecloth above the bees and lay the eggs on it. Put a cushion on its side and top around the eggs. You can test the temperature i iou have a swarm of bees handy."?Henr] )ecker, Ashtabula County, Ohio. Eats Only Raw Poocl. Stewart McDougall. an aged and wealthy resident ol ilrookiyn, X. 1"., ,-:a'd he has not eaten a particle of cookfcd food in a year, and feels twenty years younger in conseaueorc. . \ \