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ifPl <e. / \ avx Xx > r /aTrVi^^irilii If I ISfcRMON ffiULIUUrti ,A Subject: Cloi Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at th Irving Square Presbyterian Churc on the theme, "Clothed With Christ, the Rev. Ira Weramell Hendersor pastor, took as his text Romans 13:1 and 14:8: "Put ye on the Lor Jesus Christ. For whether we liv< we live unto the Lord, and whethe we die, we die unto the Lord; whetl: er we live therefore, or die, we ar ) the Lord's." He said: The need to-day in the church c our Lord and Saviour is for men an women who are truly Christ's. Th call of God and of the world about u J- * --,1 -nmon -nrV, r> 4 lb 1UI~ iUCU nuu 1U1 kuujcu ?. uu . life and unto death are the Lord'i High in His Heaven the Fathe yearns in the deepest recesses of Hi . heart for human souls who will serv ! the Master tirelessly and with a liv ing faith. The world looks towari the servants of Jehovah for leader ship and light. Whichever way w may turn our eyes, we may discer: the pleading, beckoning hands o Jesus and of men who want salva tlon. Do we listen but a moment w may catch the cry of a sin-sick worl and may hear the call of God. E? .. loved, God desires and man needs strong, full-blooded, sanctified host t live and to preach the true Chris life. The consummation of the King dom and the coming of the Chris depend largely upon the activity o tis who are called Christians. Th measure of our fullness of life withii Christ Jesus will be the measure o our lasting- influence with men, o our favor in the sight of God, of th amount of Heaven's Happiness tna shall fill our hearts. The way unt 'righteousness and peace and joy' is through thorough-going unioi within the Christ. He is the mediato of .our sure salvation. < He is th leader who can bring us'perfect lov and who is worthy of our aid Within Him and clothed with th power that He gives we may fea naught but God. Without Him al is vanity. Are you weary? Put 01 Christ. Are you sad or sick or di you wish the richest joy? Turn t J$sus. He is the healer of the who! world's ills. He is the Saviour whi can really give salvation. The burden of our text is a call fo the strict and whole-hearted alle giance of the individual man am Christian to ,Jesus Christ. "Put y on the Lord Jesus," says Saint Paul and the implication is that we are t< dwell wholly within the Christ. Th call is for men and for women wh< will be clothed upon with Jesu Christ?not merely once but contin ually?unto the attainment of th perfect likeness ',of* our Lord. Now the text brings us face to faa 1?do we think a moment?with thesi two separate and distinct truths. Th first is that it is the duty of ever; man to enter into the Christ life The second is that having enterei Into that life we must progress to ward Christlikeness. That is to say we must grow continually towari spiritual maturity and toward th< feerfectness of character which shouh accept the Lord as Saviour, for Hi power to save is a fact proven am attested by a long line of human ex fcerience. We Christians ought t< grow into new and richer graces, fo thus only do we evidence our love fo that Master whom we serve. The duty which we have predicate* to be obligatory upon every man i not less a need. The man who neg lects to obey the call of Christ fo entire yielding of self up to God destroys for himself the greates blessing which, in ltfe, may be at tainedf and which God proffers t humaU kind. Cnly as we accept th Christ as our Saviour and our Frieni are we surest of life eternal and o fellowship with the Father here Convinced of the awfulness of oil own sin, as. every normal, right minded man must be, it is clearly a much a necessity as an obligation fo each of us to seek and to sieze tha * certain cleansing from the stains o an evil life which God has sent u through His Son, our Elder Brothei Desiring, as we all do, the highes happiness for self, it is hard to un derstand why men refuse the Goe pel. Hoping, as each of us shouli hope, for the accomplishment of th greatest usefulness in the world, it i difficult to believe that men can, d liberately aird willfully, disdain t accept that Heaven-born power whic can make us most worth while. Pui ity, happiness, success: All three ca be had at the hands of God Himsel If men will but heed the Gospel c His Son. Wise is the sinning sou who believes. For he who love Christ, lives best. If the need of the man who is fa av.*av from God is great to put o Christ, the obligation of the Chris tian to be continuously clothed upo by Christ is just as real. We mus ever be renewing that spiritual lif with which the Christ in our firs acceptance of Him hath clothed us The Christ life permits neither stand s-Lills nor retrogression. We must b on the move and that always aheac To stand still is to stagnate. W must push on. Desire for furthe and grander attainment in the God blessed life should always consum us as with a fire. Our facultie should b"> concentrated not upon pref ent success but upon future accoir 1 plishment. Self-survey is a goo thing if so be it lead not to self-satis faction. That self-survey, moreovej , is most profitable which takes stoc of mistake? and which incites t further and . finer effort. ? Belief o Christ is not merely assent to a faci but the consecration of the soul t a life of service for His sake. Mer belief may gain us Heaven, but w must labor would we grow in grac< Many of us who would be ashame to be rated as "just passed" in th records of this life's victories, seei to ba verv well satisfied to slide int Heaven with Nbut small margin t spare. The best of our love and ou work is none too good f?r God. Th apostle was right when in the word of the text he advised us unreserved ]y to put 0:1 Jesus Christ. Thus onl can we become the children of Go v/hom we should be?for the fullnes of the Christ is perfection. And now that we have considere thus briefly the reasons why all me should serve God and all Christian should be re-clothed day by day wit Christ, let us also reflect what is th nature of this life wherewith we ar clothed by Christ. What does th apostle mean when he urges us t put on Jesus? What sort of me will we be? Well, to be sure the first answe will be that the nature of that spii itual life wherewith we are to be re clothed or clothed upon, as the cas V . .v.v V- / . . riPAW.'/i ENDtRg^, J THE: f-MnPO^UIVK^c:* Lhed With Clirist. e may be, is essentially Christly. The h apostle advises us to be Christlike when he points us to Jesus. Necesi, sarily and logically, therefore, we will 4 be men who act and live like Jesus d Christ* The hymn which ruus, "Jesus i, Christ is my all and in all," states the r situation perfectly. Self is glorified i- through the losing of self in the e Saviour. To put on Jesus Christ and to be >f clothed upon by Him is to be saved, d to grow from grace unto grace, to be e one of that strong, full-blooded, sancs tified host who, under God, live and u preach the Christ life. You will no' tice I say live and preach, for the r only preaching that is of value or s that, in the long run. will count for e anything very much, is the preaching that flows rich and full and free out d of a life that is consistent, that rings true; out of a heart rich with experie ence of the glorious joys and possibil o ities of the life within Jesus. Ana f as with the preaching, so also with - all the ^neans by which God's Gospel e is mediated to men. The only testid monv which secures results is that - which springs from a trusted source, a The only word which will strike home o is that which has behind it a convic>t tion and an assurance that is born of experimental knowledge. To preach t Christ with power we must be acf counted sincere and sure. e The Christ man will be a strong ti man. That is to say, he will be full f of force. He may be warped and f drawn physically, as one mighty mese senger. of God whom I know, but his t heart is pure, and his mind is clean, 0 and his soul looks out toward Heaven " through windows thatare not dimmed a by sin. r The man who is clothed by and e with Jesus is a full-blooded man. e His heart beats powerfully, his eye 1. is clear, his head works quick, e his hand is ready and h's step r is firm when sin is to be met 1 and battled to the death. Without a a quiver, a quaver, or even the slight3 est fear will he fight against the o wrong. To be sure, he may not be e blue-blooded, as the social standards o of our day set the term. He may quail to force the unjust combat. He r may refuse to pick a quarrel merely ' in order to despoil a people. But 3 there, there where the fight is hottest e and sin is strongest entrenched; there 1> where the odds are against him and o it seems his God must fail; there, on e the Lord's own side, will you find o the man who is clothed upon with s Christ. But, above all, the man who puts e on Christ continually is sanctified. TJT^ ViMvinr in VinlinDCQ nc IS UCIUf, f/tx 4.WVIWVL *4* e He is in process of attainment in 9 growth in godliness. Sanctification is e not only perfectness, but the process y and way to holiness entire. The aim ' of the man who is serving is , jr the i goal. His hand is ever iii the hand - of God. He never lets policy give the sidetrack to principle. With him 3 truth has the right of way and the e clear road always. His motives are i above suspicion. If he falls in the s race he is still undaunted. For him, i to be well up at the end, is ambition's - hope. To keep the faith is his en3 deavor. "For Christ and the world" r is his motto. r Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and be ye clothed progressively with 1 Him. Thus shall ye learn the highs est service, thus shall ye enter into - knowledge of the finest life, r ? Nourishing the Soul. * Why should not everybody, espejT cially every church member, belong to the Sunday-school? asks the editor j of the Observer. Surely no one can f lay claim to sufficient knowledge of tuc JDiuit;. Hiveu IUC must otuuiauj' '' men of the age are constantly studying the Old Book, and are ever find~ ing something new in it. In spite of the sensation produced by recent t works of fiction, the Bible is more { discussed to-day than any other book, and the interest is of the intensest . kind. Such a book ought to be studi ied regularly by every person. Wfc _ are convinced that by joining the Sunday-school and making use of the ? best helps in Bible study, the best results can be secured. Good helps s are cheap, for one thing. Then the study of certain portions of the Bible every week will tend to regular and h systematic habits of nourishing the soul with the very food that it most q need3.?Ram's Horn, f ,f Fellowship. ,1 "He who has a pure heart wilj s never cease to pray, and he who will be constant in prayer shall know r what it is to have a pure heart." No ? man can talk with the Master and sit for long at His feet without approxiq mating in thought to Him. Our com,t panionship will give us much of the 'e sweetness, the strength and the mast;t ery that marked His life and minis1 try. In His presence we dare not be unclean or untrue, p I. A Little Girl and a Talent. g Do not fail to remember that any r ability to do is the talent that we [_ must use for Jesus. A little girl went e with her mother and older sister to ,s see a poor sick woman.. When she came home her father said. "What did my little girl do for the sick j lady?" "I just smiled and patted lier hand." That was a very little talent, ' you may think, but the little girl was ^ faithful. o n Make Us Strong in Trial. t, We remember the temptations that o are before us, when passion from e within is allied with opportunity P ft'Am wiflinnt onrl +V*?af n-ft li o trr? pa J. often therein gone astray, and we d pray Thee that the spirit of religion e may be so strong within us that it n shall enable us to overcome evil, and o prove ourselves stronger for every 0 trial. Amen.?Theodore Parker, r e One Great. Omission. 1 Q . If we had prayed more we need not have worked so hard. We have too little praying, face to face with God every day. Looking back at the end ;s I suspect there will be great grief for our sins of omission?omission to d get from God what wc might have n had by praying.?Andrew A. Bonner, is ' . k. Best Environment. e _ ... ... irue religion comes not by vioi lence, but chiefly, I think, from bein^ brought up with good men. reverencing their ways and words. ? S. R. Crockett. T .. Meaning of Watching and Praying. >. The call to watch and pray means e more than watching your neighbor. The Birth of" Thirty-six Thousam i The Norwegian sculptor, Stepha years to the making of his colbss necessitated the use ot 36,000 pound shows the sculptor at work in the ya liagen. COUNTESS CARLISLE. ??? New World Head of the Women's Temperance Union. To be known as Mrs. Rosalind Carlisle, instead of "My Lady," is the desire of the democratic Countess of Carlisle, who has recently been elected World W. C. T. U. President. Only the united protests and appeals of her entire family and consideration for their wishes have kept her from, long ago, abrogating the titles which are hers by both birth and marriage. The Countess was Lady Rosalind Frances Stanley, youngest daughter of Baron Stanley, of Adderley, before her marriage to the Earl of Carlisle, forty years ago. She has always been simnlo onrl una in mannpr anil style and the soul of kindliness and charity. She goes about among her tenants much as the late Queen Victoria did when on her visits to her favorite home, at Balmoral Castle, Scotland. The people are all known to her by name and all respect and love her. The cares of a large family and households seems to have strengthened and developed Lady Carlisle's natural administrative genius. While Bhe is known in England as a woman of most pronouncedly radical views on all subjects, she is respected as a splendid type of English womanhood. Her success in reclaiming several thousand acres of barren lands on ( the l^g family estate of Castle Harvard, at York, has attracted the at- j ention of scientific agriculturists. Lady Carlisle began her public life i A FAMOUS WOMAN? In the interests of woman's enfranchisement, of which she is a pioneer advocate. She has no neutral tints, but is straight-hued in all her efforts. The extermination of the liquor traffic is her ideal. The accompanying portrait shows Automatic Mixer. Everybody has watched an attendant at a refreshment counter mix a concoction by violently shaking the mntontc in (wn classes. and it takes w IIMM Mixes the Contents. Mother Earth." d Pounds of Marble. I v" VW.- ' HfcLTSfi; >riV5- I ^ 1i' I ii Sindling, has already devoted eight al statue, "Mother Earth," which has s of Carrara marble. Our photograph .rd of the Sculpture Gallery at Copeiy the Countess of Carlisle as she appears at the present time. The picture, however, does not do her jus-!1 tice. She has the rosy complexion oi! the British matron and the genial smile and kindly look of the optimist and humanitarian. Although her figure approaches embonpiolnt, she carries herself with dignity and is a fine-looking woman. Lady Carlisle is about sixty years of age and at the height of her powers. Handy Egg Rack. The accompanying photograph showns an egg rack which I find of great convenience, as it enables the family to know on just what day the It? J&G RACK if p^n ^ ( F" 1JZDHS5DAY ! Cgj-Jg- .s.'f >7*/}> ^J^lU?inmiL>> ! Lgr: gBgP^W?'' V WWy I f am^V i , SATURDAY eggs on hand were laid, writes D. H. Buell in Suburban Life. The idea was brought to my mind while getting a lot of eggs daily, as we occasionally had a spoiled one COUNTESS on the table, due to the fact that all of the eggs, as fast as collected, were placed in an egg basket, there being no way of telling the oldest eggs from those just laid. The rack is very simple, and anj man handy with tools can make it. considerable exertion, too. To save all this wasted energy, a St. Loui* man has invented a mixer that is tho acme of simplicity and usefulness. The Illustration shows a box of any suitable shape, one side of which ia open. In each end of the box is an eve. whirh onnner-fs with rnfl snrlncq attached to brackets. These brackets are strongly, braced to insure rigidity. The two springs are of different strength, the upper spring being stronger than the lower one, for the purpose of counterbalancing the weight of the bot. A receptacle containing the liquids to be agitated is placed in the box, and by imparting a downward pressure with the hand it is caused to vibrate vertically. How long it will keep in motion the inventor does not state, but if strong springs are used the time should be sufficient for mixing the contents thoroughly.?Philadelphia Record. Leeds, England, has 5000 girls in it public elementary schools under (systematic instruction in the art of swimming, and 550 of them hold certificates as exDert swimmers The Benefits of Travel. Travel broadens a man?sometimes, when the engineer goes by the red target or the operator is taking forty winks, he finds himself broadened out over half an acre of landscape.. Travel shows a man the resources of his country?he may look from the ^ar window ana estimate tne minions of feet of lumber required for pickle ids. and corset billboards. Travel teaches a man to respect his fellow-citizens?In fact, at the end of his trip he will have learned to jSjfp^pERS ft /$b Personal knowledge 1L !Jjr this competitive age a^c possessor in the front ra \Mtff A vast fund of personai ki Wjjr highest excellence in any field o {fij A Knowledge of Foi m edge of Products are all < ij when a true and wholescma rei (y of Figs and Elixir of Senna, r oa ethical product which hs? met s Jw gives universal satisfaction, becai V Known Quality, Kn Aft Parts aod has won the valuat Ha world, who know of their own p jl and best of family laxatives, for \S This valuable remedy hai under the name of?Syrup of ff\ wide accep tance as the most e> laxative principles, obtained fron and the Well Informed o adopted the more elabon Elixir of Senna? as but doubtless it will name of?Syrup o effects, alwa name of the I LOUISVILLE^, KY ^ PUTNAM Color more gooJa brighter and faster colors Uiun any c flyeanj garment without ripping apart Write tar CHANGES IN MEN'S FASHIONS. Who Invents the Newest Cut in Clothes? Where do men's fashions in wearing apparel originate? An effort to solve this mysterious problem is made in a recent issue of Men's Wear, published in London. The idea that men of high social status influence fashion is, according to the expert journal, a fallacious one. "The aristocracy?both the older and younger sections thereof?are stated to be, as a class, extremely conservative in their attitude toward dress, and move but little from one year to another. They buy .good stuff, and often, but will tolerate no experiment. "Rather is it the smart military man, and the sporting individual, who is the willing exponent of ideas (which may be his own or another's), and leaves his mark often upon the styles which find more general acceptation in the West End, and which are handed down to the wider circle of city and provincial wearers. "Among them new ideas receive consideration, and the sartorial artist enjoys an enlarged scope. "Dotted about in thoroughfares such as Grafton street and Brook street are many tailors whose shops would scarcely be suspected as being connected with tailoring, and which give the impression of small offices of a semi-private nature. "Their clients are young officers in the guards, wealthy sportsmen, and similar men of considerable position, and with a certain liking for consplcuity. "Here, it may be taken for granted, many important sartorial plots are hatched, and it is the tailor, and not the customer, who plays the leading part." Electricity and Plants. Summarizing the progress that has -mar??> -?t-? olonfrn-/"?ii1tnro "R Tnllra dorf, a German, finds it fairly well proven that electricity is essential to the growth of vegetation, although the important part played is not yet : understood. ' Professor Lemstrom has found that plants soo? died under a wire cage, ' which excluded atmospheric electric- I ity, whilo freely admitting air, heat 1 and ligh/',. In Spitzbergen and Finnish Lapland large crops are always connectod with the early appearance 1 of the Northern Lights, and in the < experiments that have been made? 1 so far on a small scale?the yield of < many plants has been increased by ' an artificial supply of electricity and wator. 1 IL is supposed that electricity stim- < ulates the sap exchange of plants, while Lemstrom has shown that it J greatly magnifies capillary power, ? thus probably enabling the plants to E take in more food from the ground. * ?Philadelphia Ledger. 1 1 The St. Paul Board of Education t has approved the suggestion of Su- y perintendent Heeter in favor of cor- a poral punishment to be administered c only by the principal of the school, 1 after permission in writing has been > obtained from parent or guardian. s *&?&&&& raise his hat to any man in uniform. Travel develops the brain?even one week of solving time-tables fits a man to tackle fifteen puzzles and how-old-is-Ann. propositions with a confident smile.?Chicago Post. Where the Fish Came From. Mauy people, not without educa Hon and a general knowledge of natural history, are mystified by the presence of fish in inclosed waters. For many years there was openmouthed wonder over the perch, i brean) nnd crayfish found in the J tST^lue OF onal Knowi i is the winning factor in the culminating I when of ample character it placcs its nks or 11 informed of the World. nowledge is really essential to the achieveir f h:u!ian effort. Knowledge of Functions and )f the utmost value and in questions of life , medy rs desired it should be remembered I manufactured by the California Fig Syrup vith the approval of thfc most eminent phy use it is a remedy of own Excellence and Known Coi le patronage of millions of the Well Inforn ersonal knowledge and from actual use that i which no extravagant or unreasonable claims 5 been long and favorably known Figs?and has attained to world:cellent family laxative. As its pure 1 Senna, are well known to physicians f the world to be the best we have ite name of?Syrup of Figs and more fully descriptive of the remedy, .t\Tj always be called for by the shorter 'Ml f Figs?and to get its beneficial jljj ys note, when purchasing the full W i Company?California Fig Syrup n ? .1 f t 1 ff/ ted on the tront or every package, mi i Iiether you call for?Syrup of Figs jSj J -or by the full name?Syrup of IV I Figs and Elixir of Senna. / a U.S.A. LONDON.ENGLAND. , ~F A DELE the* dya. one lOo. package colors all fibers. ftiaj ly Mb booJUe^-How to Dve. Bleach Ml* CoLora. Ea "Orchestra" and "Noist," In Shakespeare's time no musical dictionary could have distinguished between "orchestra" and "band," for the simple reason that neither word was then English in a musical sense. urcnesira uiu nui umvc uciui^ eighteenth century and even "band" not until the latter half of the seventeenth, when Charles II. had a "band of violins," in imitation, probably, of Louis XIV's "bande." The old English word for a band of music was "noise." "See if thou canst find out Sneak's noise; Misstress Tearsheet would fain hear some music," says one drawer to the other at the Boar's Head Tavern; and just so Ben Jonson has "a noise of fiddlers," and "a noise of trumpets." The old word is wanted for many a gathering of musicians outside this writer's flat. ?London Chronicle. Crows Stop a Railroad Train. The Journal des Debats says that crows stood so thickly on the main line between Paris and Strasburg the other day and that such a slaughter was caused by a freight train plowing through them that the train itself was stopped and that a passenger train behind was therefore held up for some time. These birds, it seems, collect in great numbers at this time of the year in the district in question?betweenLiverdun and Frouard, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle. 'They alighted on the track on account of scraps of food thrown from a dining car and did not move when the freight train arrived.?From the European Edition of the New York Herald. DREADED TO EAT A Quaker Couple's Experience. How many persons dread to eat their meals, although actually hungry nearly all the time! Nature never intended this should be so, for we are given a thing called appetite that should guide us as to what the system needs at any time and can digest. But we get in a hurry, swallow our food very much as we shovel coal Into the furnace, and our sense of appetite becomes unnatural and perverted. Then we eat the wrong kind of food or eat too much, and there you are?indigestion and its accom panying miseries. A Phila. lady said the other day: "My husband and I have been sick and nervous for 15 or 20 years from Irlnking coffee ? feverish, indiges:ion, totally unfit, a good part of the :ime, for work or pleasure. We actjally dreaded to eat our meals. "We tried doctors and patent medcines that counted up into hundreds )f dollars, with little if any benefit. "Accidentally, a small package of Postum came into my hands. I made some according to directions, with ;urprising results. We both liked it md have not used any coffee since. "The dull feeling after meals has oft us and we feel better every way. ?Ve are so well satisfied with Postum hat we recommend it to our friends /ho have been made sick and nervous md miserable by coffee. 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