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THE PULPIT. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY I THE REV. F. F. SHANNON. j ^-QDjeci: xne Auousanuiom .nan, Brooklyn. N. Y.?Sunday morning, in Grace M. E. Church, the pastor, tht Rev. Frederick F. Shanuon. had lot Lis subject "The Thousandfold Man.' The test was from Joshua xxiiitlO "One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the Lord your God, He it is that fighteth for you, as He spake untc you." Mr. Shannon said: World building is not so interesting as man building. Some philosophers held that tasks are interesting in proportion as they are difficult to perform, If this be good logic, then swinging worlds into space must take secondary rank to building a mau in time. We have no intimation that God had any trouble stringing planets along th? path of His power. Yet the centuries unite in the verdict that God has had much trouble in producing the divine style of manhood. Therefore, it is safe to conclude that God never undertook a vaster plan than to build a man. Worlds play out His purposes in the harmony of gravitation.- They spell out His plans in the law of obedience. But man ofttimes thwarts those purposes and destroys those plans by setting his own will over against the will of God. Thus he wanders, a kind of lost human ploiad, through the space called time, always and ever coming to himself, but never wholly arrived. l'et man is God's human worldgreater than any star-world twinkling in space, because he thinks, loves, feels and wills. Now, some men exercise these functions more largely ' than their fellows. Then we label tl>em tvith thnt mwipr.t <1p<rrpf> pnllpfl Wk greatness. After conferring the dejsB gree, we spend the rest of our lives H musing over what such men did when IH they got together. They may have gel been great thinkers, great fighters, IS great talkers, great writers, or great iB friends. But in the last analysis, the H greatness men adore is the adoration Ml great men have given to God. This is gB why we never tire of studyjijg the KM friendship of Moses and Joshua."' 'IJhey am are two links in the golden chain H which moors this old world to. the throne oT God. Napoleon said that hisSB tory is a fable about which meu are agreed. Rather say history is a stream 3 flowing out from the Eternal Heart. Sitting along its shores, like deathless I: sentinels, are the men God raised up 1 for handing His name and truth down the ages. Our text asks for a consideration of the thousandfold man, and the reason for his multiplied power. "One man of you shall chase a thousand!" More startling words could hardly knock at the door of the human intellect. They are too vast in their outranging meaning to be easily comprehended. Naturally enough, the mind asks for a second consideration of them. But a second reading fails to rob them of their significance. Really big things don't grow -less on second sight. Like St. Peter's, \heir bigness only helps the mind expand to a more capable appreciation of their true dimensions. It is so with men. and it is so with the great objects in nature. Just so a great sentence like this, pregnant with large thought, is not stripped of its treasure by a second or third reading. It is a thought centre round which the mind may revolve with increasing profit. Strictly speaking, then, what is mnnnf Kr rv.on A ?1, uicaiit u?> uuc luuu L'uu9iu^ a iuuuduuu . Does it mean that one man, by his physical prowess, can drive a thousand men before him? You wonder at the folly of such a question. Still some people -re so fond of measuring life and men by the yardstick of physical bulk that its absurdity may mock them into a better view. Physical things never did run smoothly on a spiritual track; and they never will, because it is impossible. The thousandfold man, according to Joshua, is the man in league with God. housing God's purposes and co-operating with God's plans, awaitiug God's signals and answering God's voices, watching God's strides in history and hearing f^Arl'e /lrnnncul in nrnl/loti nnnr?_ bers, from "the harp of God's eternal years." He is the man with his feet on .he earth, his head among the stars, and his heart located in heaven, because heaven is located in his heart. He is the son of yesterday, the mau 3f to-day. the heif of to-morrow?grateful for yesterday's goodness, inspired by to-day's blessings, and rejoicing in to-morrow's hopes. And he is all this because he is in league with God, and knows it; because tie is in love with God. and feels it; because he is living in obedience to God. and wills it. Moreover, the thousandfold man is the man God waits for. It has ever been "one man of you" who has opened the largest doors of opportunity and achievement in the history of the world. One man and God?they are absolutely unconquerable. (jSrasninc I the tangled threads of history, they have tied them into one solid knot of divine purpose. And that purpose for ever stands the pledge of a better world and a nobler race. Do you .wonder that even God can afford to wait for such a man? Then let your wonder give away before this mighty fact: God has to wait, so long as the world remains constituted as it is, for a man to come forward and say, "Here am 1?use me." God answers back. "I have to use you, because I haven't anything else to use." When a man comes out like that from the littleness of self into the largeness of God, that moment he stands forth in God's universe a thousandfold man! Chasing a thousand becomes the business oi Inis lire. cnasing n tnousanci temptations. chasing a thousand sins, chasing a thousand civic wrongs, chasing a thousand social evils! But does he stop there? Never! Chasing a thousand lost men toward God. chasing them into fellowship with Jesus Christ, chasing them up from their haunts of sin toward the splendor touched peaks or a pure and radiant manhood! That is the mission of the thousandfold man. And in these days the mission is crying as with the lips of God. Where is the man? Furthermore, if history teaches one lesson it is this?God has His waits and pauses. And for what? Why, for some man to lay hold of His purposes and carry them out. God has been waiting, and still waits, for men i r\ tha ovorv/lor irnlk'c nf lifA tn I true to Him. (3. men, that means you and that means me! God calls a few men to carry on great reforms. He calls all men to carry on a reform within 'their own lives. And it is the mar who will do this in God's way. and in the spirit of Jesus Christ, that becomes the thousandfold man. He is the determining factor in this world's progress toward universal righteousness. He holds the balance of powei which wiD usher in the millennial [lawn. Gone forever the man fearing spirit. Gone forever that stolid iDdifTerence. Gone forever that fast shul pocketbook. He lives for God. He talks for G?cL He gives for God. L'. '"consider, also, one of the two reasons for the multiplied power of the thoumnn' "TTVir th#> T.nrd VOur God. He it in that fighteth for you." Any man is braver for the battle if he knows that God is his champion. He may have been ready to show the white flag, leave the field in defeat, steal away in disgrace. Then let him l lay vital hold of the truth that God is , fighting for him. Instantly every in! gredient of cowardice will vanish from > his nature. Something akin to omni. potence begins to play along the nerve | of his arm. The soul's battlesongs of . victory began to swell the rising har\ monies in his heart. Championed by God. he knows that, though the worlds , may fall, he shall not meet with de! feat. Camping along thr path of his ' destiny is the Sleepless General, who holas the stars in His hand, and the 1 interests of His child in His heart. ' What magnificent music for the roul , to hear, as we go out to life's battle: "For the Lord your God, He it is that , figbteth for you." Let us give the trutn its proper setting in our lives. We hear so much ; o fmen fighting God's battles. And we rejoice that this is so. But let not the lesser truth obscure the greater?that God is fighting our battles. And do we not sometimes get so busy fighting God's battles that we rorget that God is fighting our battles, which is of much more importance. It may be that God could get along without our reinforcements, after all. But if God's troops fail to come up, a spiritual Waterloo awaits us for certain. Let us make room for this neglected truth in our creed. It will make us better soldiers of the cross. It is one of tbi silent forces which builds the thou sandfold man. But some man says, "How does Goi fight for me?. I want to know." God is not in the habit of doing things ai man does them. Therefore, it is safe to conclude that God does not fight foi us after the manner of men. Hii methods are not man's methods, and His weapons are not carnal weapons Briefly, here are a few battlefields where God has fought for you: On the Judean plains shepherds are watching their flocks by night. Suddenly the heavens are musical with choirs of singing angels. Then one nnf mlilon ctor oo if /Iriron nllt r.4 gicai ^ViUCU OkUl, UO 14 V**ATW? v?v its course by the finger of God to signal the shepherds, trembles above the manger. Coming to the spot, they find the babe wrapped in swadling clothes. That was the beginning of God's greatest battle for you?and the battlefield was a manger! But that Babe increased in stature and wisdom. He reached the highest type of manhood known to man or God. Great as a teacher. He was greater as a man. Great as a man, He was greater as a God, for in Him the fullness of Godhead made its home. For the first time, man was taught by a Life how to live his own life. God fought for you in the incarnation of His Son. God fought for you in the mysterious agony of Gethseaiane. God fought for you in the blood-red suffering of Calvary. God fought for you in the darkness of the tomb. God fought for you on Mount Olivet, when Christ was taken up, the glory of His ascending body throwing a shining splendor over the track yours will go. In countless ways, the Lord your God, He it is that figbteth for you! He fights for you in the blessings He rains upon you day by day. In your home, in your business, in your society, in every privilege you enjoy, God fights for you. God's battlefields are smokeless, but they are victorious! We discover tne second reason lor the multiplied power of the thousandfold man in the last clause of my text: "As He spake unto you." It is Joshua's way of telling us that God always keeps His engagements. "0," says some one, "he is talking about God's promises now?aud they are old." Yes, let us admit the promises are old. But in growing old they have kept their youth. What sturdy youngsters they are! We can't afford to rule them out on account of age. Most of the best things in this world are old. The sun is old, the stars are old, the ocean is old. the mountain is old, love is old, music is old, father Is old, mother is old, our dearest friends are old. But we are not ashamed of them on that account. So God's promises are old. But they have grown old so gracefully that we ought to be proud to,walk life's pathway, keeping step to their mighty music. What would we do without them? Certainly this world would be a very lonely place, if the old promises didn't now and then steal into our hearts and hush their fears. A man's spiritual exchequer is worth something when he knows it is backed by promises as changeless as God Himself. "I will never leave thee nor lorsake thee." That promise alone is enough to make a man a spiritual millionaire. But. remember there are over 33.000 in God's Word that sing the same tune. The thousandfold man makes much of the old promises, because they have made much of him. "It'? Me, Josol." At a religious meeting in the south of London a timid little girl wanted to come to Jesus, and she said to the gentleman conducting the meeting, "Will you pray for me in the morning, please? But do not mention my name." In the meeting when every head was bowed this gentleman prayed, "O Lord, there is a little girl who does not want her name known, but Thou dost know her; save her precious soul, Lord." There was a perfect silence, then away in the back of the meeting a lJ.ttle voice said, "Please, it's me, Jesus ?It's cie!" SermoDP.tte*God keeps a reward for the man who . who does right. It is a lopsided religion that leaves , the coachman at the curb. The best evidence of your own salvation is your interest in that of others. When God takes our hand He asks us to take the hand of another. There is no comfort in Repose when 1 its head is pillowed on an aching heart. The circumference of influence depends upon the man at the centre of the circle. By the prayerful study of the Scriptures comes the knowledge of the divine will. Many a parent has entered the gates . of pearl because the hand of a little child was on the latch.?United Pres, byterian. Constructive Aid Needed. > It requires very little ability, or none at all, to see flaws or to find fault. A t measure of knowledge and of power [ is essential to perceive what is com mendable or to build up what is of ? value. This is why there are so many ! more who are ready to point out mis takes in the Bible, or in a system of human government, or in the crude I efforts of a schoolboy, than there are : who can see and show the points worthiest of commendation in the : thing under examination. But an i ounce of coustructive aid is worth many tons of destructive criticism. ! New York City.?There is a peculiar ' charm and daintiness about the waist ! utilized for the finer cotton and linen I materials which are in no sense washa ' that allows of wenrincr with a chem J isette that is apparent at a glance and ! that is largely accountable for its | marked popularity. No model of the spring is better liked and none is better : suited to the fashionable soft materials, j The one illustrated is most graceful and ! attractive, and is adapted to many com| bination& As shown, the material is ; chiffon veiling, hydrangea blue in color, ' combined With cream lace over chiffon, but it would be equally effective made of any other soft wool, or from the many fashionable thin silks, either I with lace or contrasting silk for. the ! A LAI E DEJIQN B '! ' j chemisette and cuffb. Also it can be j ble, embroidery or lace, as preferred, S being used for chemisette and cuffs. The lining is smoothly fitted and i closes at the centre front. The ehemiI sette is arranged over it, and can be J rendered transparent by cutting away j beneath when that effect is desired. 1 ?x ii.?14J ^.?11 <NV?MMA/1 +s\ rrlrn I xne waist. iJS lull, aumm IU 6**^ the band effect. The sleeves are peculiarly graceful and shirred to form three puffs, but can be varied by being left without the shirrings, forming sini gle puffs. At the waist is a shaped belt. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is five and threefourth yards twenty-one, five yards twenty-seven, or three and one-fourth yards forty-four inches wide, with one and three-eighth yards of all-over lace, and five-eighth yard of silk for belt. "Alice Itlu#," Miss Roosevelt is credited with having fine taste in dress and an unerring a-rra. fr\y nnlnr nnrl it is nAw f?ivpn out that it was she who selected the color and quality of the inuch-talked-of inauguration gown worn by Mrs. Roosevelt. The story is this, says the Springfield ; Republican: During the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Miss Roosevelt visited ths American silk exhibit, and among the fabrics whic-li showed the best America could do she noted a peculiar shade of blue, -which pleased her so much that she begged a sample. To give samples was. of course, a thing not heard of. but the agents would not deny the daughter of the President. Mes. Roosevelt was equally well nlnneart aiiH r-linca it no tho rwlnr nf lti?r inauguration gown, eombini?g it with gold. Across the silk at regular intervals is a flight of birds done in one of the great Paterson mills, New Jersey, and the color has been named, in compliment to Miss Roosevelt, "Alice blue." and is to be the fashionable color of the season. It somewhat resembles I gobelin blue, but ia much ?after, inJ dining rather toward the gray blues. Lnoo Gowns. Among thejvery latest creations are . ' ' Jaca gowns trimmed with velvet. A model of heavy Irish lace has a skin trimmed with three rows of cords cov ered with emerald green velvet, head ing the lace flounce. On the bodice the velvet faces little revers that frame s chemisette of tucked white mull, and the cording is used again to trim th? big sleeves. The Kimono to-I>ate. Now, before the more important decisions are to be made, many a fair one is considering that humble garment, the wrapper. Very wonderful is the room gown attained by one fashionable. It is of pastel violet Oriental silk, embroidered all over with camelia sprays, and bordered with a plain band of deep violet silk. In cut it is a glori- I , neci K1UJU11U. J.UC ciuu^u ivu puLaci sleeves; are shirred on the shoulders quite up to the neck. There are clusters of tucks back and front and the garment trails. It is so ample as to lap over well at the front. With Stitched Pleats. Most of the shirt waists are furnished with stitched pleats running far out over the shoulders, to give the figure breadth. There is hardly a suggestion of h blouse effect at the waist. Sleeves are' usually full, with narrow cuff bands and often high, fitted cuffs. These are lovely in the thin lingerie blouses, ns they furnish a surface for exquisite embroideries and needlework. Blouse or Ahlrt VFalat. No matter how many fancy shirt waists a woman may have, she alwayi finds a place for an additional plain one, and this model*s so exceptionally attractive as to be sure of being included in the list. As illustrated the mar nar ndNTON. I terial is -white dotted Madras, but the ' waist is one well adapted to almost all waistings. and can be made up effectively in any of 'he cotton and linen materials ot The present season, in the wash flannels that are so popular for j, ; cooler days, and in the simpler silk j ; waistings. | ' The model is an eminently simple i ; one, and can be made either with or I ' without the applied yoke at tbe back. I ; The back is plain, simply drawn down I in gathers at the waist line, but the I fronts are laid in three narrow pleats I - *- 4-y-iwy. An flm TPHlCf 1 ' a l lUtr I up VI catu 1WU4 Ml WV, ??,Bv . line, but if prefeiTed they can be left free at the waist line and adjusted to suit tbe individual. The sleeves are 1 the favorite ones of tbe season that are in shirt wuist style, but fuli at the 1 shoulders, and finished with straight cuffs. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four yards twentyone, three and five-eighth yards twentyseven, or two and one-eighth yards for , ty^four inches wide. V- - ^S-#iT .Sj *>\:>v5! I TSHIIVGS^X bworth ggroittj Sawdust is now used by some Paris , estaurants, the Gauiois says, as a Iressing for cutlets instead of bread- . Tumbs. A sausage exhibition is announced to ake place in Berne, Switzerland. Over l800 kinds of sausages will be exhibted, the Fatherland contributing 1600 lifferent sorts. The Chinese are very fond of duck ind many dried duck are brought to his country from China. These ducks ire more sought after by the Chinese lere than our domestic ducks as they ire fed in the ponds near Pekin and ive on weeds that give them a peculiar iavor that the Chinese are very fond >f, but which the foreigner does not >eem to appreciate. In the immediate neighborhood of the ittle town of Klingmau, in Switzerand, a case was found containing an issortment of 829 gold coins. Most of ie coins are of the years from 1602 :o 1704. It is thought that the gold vas buried at the time of the Spanish war of succession. The gold value of :he coins is estimated at 35,000, and :he numismatic value at over 100,000 francs. i Common clear glass, left exposed in >ertain desert regions of the earth, soon changes greatly in appearance and acjuires color, sometimes rose purple and sometimes amethyst. This change has jeen attributed by some observers to ilkaline soils, but others maintain that mch changes occur where there is no ilkali, and that it must be due to the jreat activity of the actinic rays of ite sun where the atmosphere is very ilear. The two sides of a person's face are lever alike. The eyes are out of line n two cases out of five and one eye is stronger than the other in seven persons out of ten. The right ear is also, is a rule, higher than the left. Only )ne person in fifteen has perfect eyes, Jie largest percentage of defects prevailing among fair-haired people. The smallest interval of sound can be distinguished better with one ear than with both. The nails of two fingers aever grow with the same rapidity, that cf the middle finger growing the fastest, while that of the thumb grows slowest. In fifty-four cases out of 100 the left leg is Bhorter than the right. Fhe bones of an average human male jkeleton weigh twenty pounds; those of j i woman are six pounds lighter. THE STAGE GERMAN.' ITie Teutonic Comedian Rapidly Giving Place to Other Dialect*. Harris Morris, who was considered i tho original German dialect comedian, was only fifty years old when he died, but he lived long enough to outlive the rogue of that stage character. As a funmaker the stage German has lasted less than a generation. He first appeared in 1872. "He had his greatest popularity about the time that the Teutonic migration reached flood tide and began rapidly to recede. The old Germania with its farces of German-American life is no more, and the type persists only as a survival in serious playa like "The Music Master." The German dialect comedian with bis snoe Drusn musmcne, ms reu vest, lis pneumatic abdomen and his unman,ageable yodel embodies a view of the Teutonic character that goes back to American Revolutionary .times. He is ' an amiable Hessian. If there ever were thick-headed, stupidly jocular Germans i they disappeared from view about the | time of German unification; just a year i afterward thej reappeared in this country as a comedy type that libeled Teutonic intelligence as much as the stage Irishman libeled Celtic beauty. We are destined to go through these various exotic brands of humor in turn; the stage Hebrew has already taken his place beside the Irishman and the German, and some day we may find the stage Italian just as funny as his predecessors. But it will mark an advance from a colonial and transitional period when farcical humor is evoked, as George Ade evokes it, by depicting native, rather than trans* I planted, types.?New York Mail. The Matter With Smith. A man in Chicago has 500 cents r which he can't spend, can't sell, can't ; melt up, can't give away, and which 1 he can't even keep. At least if he doe* ( any of these things he is breaking the ; law, and he hasn't figured out the answer yet. He is proprietor of a num- j ber of penny-in-the-slot machines, and 1 the 500 pennies are the mutilated coin j that the machines have accepted in j six months without his consent. He : can't sell them for junk copper because j they are bad money, he can't pass them ! off as pennies for the reason that they I are bad pennies and that might cause ! him to pass some time in jail, and if j he keeps them he is liable lor carrying | bad money. This was the opinion of | the United States District Attorney, I and the Assistant United States At- j tornev-General, who was in Chicago I looking after the Beef Trust, tried bis ! hand at the puzzle without better re- j suits. Technically, the owner of the pennies, one Smith, violates the law whatever he does with them.?Springfield Republican. The Modern Jester. "A certain class of insane persons are remarkable for their wit and apt retorts," said Dr. George T. Winston, the criminologist. "The court fools whom monarchs and great nobles used to employ were all of this insane class. It would be possible now, if tlio court fool fashion were to be revived again, to get from our asylums excellent jesters. "I have in mind a young man in a r>?x? wnnM m.nto n ennd JDU31UII I CUCat ?? vum ?? ? jester for any monarch. This young man keeps his companions continually amused. The first time I saw him he Bat on the foor swearing bitterly, " 'Tut, tut,' said I. 'Don't swear.' " "Why not?' said he. " 'Because,' said I, 'you won't go to Deaven if you do.' " 'Oh,' said the young man disdainfully, '.I'm not going to try to so to beaven. There's more trying now lhan'll get ir..' "^Philadelphia JSuJJettn, r . v.- at;.* , ; " . 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In the year 1846 there were published in the United Kingdom 551 journals; of these 14 were issued daily ?12 in England and 2 in Ireland.?London Globe. Through an oversight in making transfer of some town property, Palo Alto, Cal., sold its county jail, and now has to pay rent to the purchaser. The worst insect-infested neighborhood in the world Is the coast of Borneo. N. Y.-16 FITS permanently cared. Nofits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Klioe's Great NerveRes(:orer,$2trialbottle and treatise free Dr. R. H. Rusk, Ltd.,931 ArohJ3t.,Phila., Pa. There are no less than 540 agricultural societies scattered over Servia. Mrs. "Winslow's Soothing 8yrup for children teething,soften the gums, reduces inflammation,allays pain,cures wind colic,25o.abottle. Asparagus is said to be the oldest plant need for food. PIso'b Cure for Consumption Is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.?N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. Immigration into Canada is increasing rapidly. 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