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J ^\lAl>^^i^Ont?^^/\j/^%iAi>\i?0>\ ^y^wyj\y*yw* | A FALLE 1 vJyv}<0>v^v^^\J/^!A5/\W/xVvWAt^iAwN>/Vl'VV\lAV\,/< !By FREDER THE PROLOGUE. Sccnr. India. Time, Eighteenth Century. In the cool of an early woru^ng more than a hundred years ago an eldeily priest "was Kitting under the Dilastered portiro of a little temple just outside ibe village of Chandragurry, in Southern Mysore. It war. the ordinary village of the place and period, fortified by a low mud wall, and consisted of lines of two-storied houses, gay with broad vertical stripes of red and white and roofed with tile or ragged Palmyra leaves. The temple was the private property of the old priest. Acl^arya Chick, who, though subject to the supervision and control of the head guru of the Jains, was free in most .respects to conduct his ministrations as he pleaded. vjniCK, However. Deing a good una earnest old man. with the simplicity of a child, was strictly conscientious jn the performance of his duties, took an honest pride in the appointments of his temple and derived no more than- a modest livelihood from his priestly calling. As he sat outside on the stone bench, where he was accustomed to collect his thoughts for the service which began the working day, he was troubled by doubts and perplexities which had only of late begun to assail "his tranquil faith. Quite recently he had been called upon to include a new saint in his + A/\T* ? V\ '3 i /V /\?* /* A f /?/*?*,??? ? j. aiiiuwu, auju iv uijc ui jjib cuu&tir vative instincts this was disturbing. It came about in this; wise. Some twenty years or so before a lad had Tun wild in the village bazaar; he was cf unknown parentage and adopted by one of the workers in brass who formed a section of the inhabitants and were Jains to a man. There was nothing, to an uninitiated eye, to distinguish him from other naked children, unless it was the superior force of will and ingenuity which procured him the leadership in all mischievous enterprises, until one day when the guru from the Jain headquarters at Belligola came over on his periodical visit of inspection and made a startling discovery. It was two thousand years* since the last tirthanker of the present era has passed away, and the first of the succeeding one was already considerably overdue. Now the guru had perceived that this cxpected tirthankar had actually taken lirt his mnrtxl hahitntinn in tVio body of this lad! There could be no possible mistake on this point, for the body bore every one of the mystic signs and marks which denoted his high mission. This revelation, as might be expected, made all the difference in the world to the youth's prospects. For he could not be left to develop unaided?since he might conceivably fail, and then all the business of iny carnating a tirtbankar would have to be gone through over aeain: he must be trained, and trained carefully. So they put him under fit teachers, and the mystic name of Chalanka Was conferred upon-" him, and he studied natural magic, in which he soon became a proficient, at the feet of an eminent yogi of great sanctity and uncleanliness. It was said, indeed, that Chalanka did not invariably make the highest use of his occult knowledge, and that his miracles to the end of his days rather resembled the more ill-natured kind of practical jokes; but these jjuiravies win nave mat tendency when the saint is enthusiatsie and young. Chalanka grew up strong, bold, by no means uncomely, and in time he passed his novitiate, becoming ayati ?r ascetic of the first class: he cut off his hair, wore robes of a tawny hue?which became much tawnier? and confined his personal luggage to a bundle of peacock's feathers and an earthern pot. Years.. went on and his wisdom was pronounced ripe for gathering; he had his remaining hairs plucked out by the roots; he unrobed at his simple meals, and disciples were told off to attend upon him, to hearken to his discourse and store them up for future transmission. Another period elapsed and Chalanka dismissed his grateful disciples and established himself in a sort of hermitage up among the rocks, where he was to remain for years, silent, in self-centered contemplation. He was not often to be seen there by the curious, for he possessed the power of making himself invisible. Sometimes at night in the thicket near the Brahman temple a shadowy form was seen gliding and prowling, the projection from the holy hermit 0who sat like stone ic the cell farabove amonsr ihp tiroes a fierce wild laugh rang out over the crags and cliffs, and those who heard knew then that Chalanka was in one of his holy frenzies, and would not have disturbed him lor their lives. And then !n the most unforeseen way?he died. They found his corpse lying stiff and frozen ai the foot of a precipice, which, had he been an ordinary person, it would have been said that he had fallen over. Now nobody h?d expected him to (lie for years to come, still less to (pp.se from existence with s-ith an entire absence of parade; but he was th<* first of the new era and consequently entitled to make his own precedents. He was obviously dead and the only thing to be done was to bnrn his body and cast the ashes into vn4 or Cbalanka's untimely .r.d bic*:^hi to ;hf surface a question '*hirh r?ary had secretly entertained in r.i> iifVtin?\ Was h<=, in sober \v nh. ni tuLriankar at all? Compared with j ik predecessors, h? 3id not s.iio'w u ! *> fe.' i/vl/vtulAl.- i' J>J?\*>4/;0\J>\1>j ,N IDOL. [I i; v'/?/ / v: \') \!/ vv\V !< v)/v'/<!At/vJyv)A0\Jy\J>\V vJ.'\f/\J/ ', | IC AMSTEY. Witoliitl I g*\-it. advantage: his lame was limit ?>d, his supernatural feats were cf < low and even pettifogging order, ani ho hail enriched the faith with n< ftvsb pieceptB of any value. And the head guru, to whom th< point was referred, not unnatural]; hacked his original opinion; Chalan ka was a genuine arhat. the first o a new order, and as such he was en titled to the reverence cl' all devoir Jains, and an image must conse ifii.Millv >ir> Ci->1 nn in tinnnr nnrl at;. signed ;i niche in the temple of hi! native village. The guru's decision was, of course final, Ibe idol-carver was set to worl and aocn produced a small, seatet image, which was as faithful a representation of the real Chalanka a! could be expected or desired. The new idol had only spent cn( night uuder the temple roof on th< morning which witnessed Acharyi Chick's perplexity beneath the portico?a perplexity of which it was th( unconscious cause.For the worthy Jain, though toe humhle-niinded to think of questioning even to himself the wisdom of hit superior, could not consider his latesi deity an acquisition. His little Pantheon had been quite large enougt before; he was? too old to relish having a new object of veneration thrusl upon hixn in this way. And so in apportioning the day's offerings on the previous evening b( had, without perhaps any conscious intention, reserved the least tempting fruits and the more faded flowers as the share of the new-comer; anc now he was not quite certain whethei he felt more self-jeprcach or repugnance as the time drew near when h? must again enter the inner shrine However; these unpleasant meditations of his were to receive as unpleasant an interruption. From his seat he could command a view of th< winding path which led up the knoll from the village gates, and now he saw advancing a tall and stately figure, in which his eyes were keei enough to recognize his bitterest enemy, Ram Chunga, the Brahman who nrpuulprl rwpr tho macci-uo tomnlo where Brahma and Siva and Parvati and Geneswara, their son, were worshiped. He thought he could guess the other's errand. It had come to Ram Chunga's ears that the Jain temple contained,' as such buildings frequently did. an exceedingly handsome image of Siva, and on one or two occasions when the rival pri?sts had met in the bazaar the Brahman had made offers to purchase an idol which, as he urged, could be but out of place in an alien sanctuary. That Ram Chunga had any real wish to acquire the Siva was more than the Jain could believe; he was probably acting out of pure aggravation or with a tyrannical desire to dictate and domineer, which Chick was determined to withstand, even while his mild and gentle nature shrank from the impending wrangle. As the Brahman came in -with a general and highly offensive air ol precaution against moral and physical enntamination tho Tain rnco' nnrt saluted him as courteously as he could bring himself to do. Ram Chunga declined the seat which the other indicated on the stone bench. and, remaining at some distance, began by saying that the errand which alone could bring him to such a place would probably be guessed. If, said the Jain, his visitor had come to renew his offer to purchase the Siva, he must with every respect make the same answer as before. The Brahman replied that he no longer proposed to purchase the image; he now demanded that it should be surrendered to him without a price. That, said Acharya Chick, was obviously unjust. The Siva was his own, he hrd bought it at his own expense from one of the Jain temples at Padan-guddy. How, then, could the Brahman claim it from him? As the minislrant of Siva, the azure-throated Ram Chunga replied, it was intolerable to him to know that the image of that mighty one was forced to share the off-rings and suffer the companionship of such a herd of insignificant little demigods as he understood were venerated in the temple of the Jain. To which Acharya Chick answered peaceably that his brother was mistaken. It was true indeed that many of The Vedantic emblems were to be found in Jain temples, and he instanced Brahma, India, Jndrani. and t.he bull of Nandi, as well as Siva: but they were not at any time considered as more than devatas or at tendants upor: the various tirthankars. and this particular image ol Siva was a mere ornament, and never received offerings or adoration. His reply did not improve roariers. for the Brahman retorted thai this or.lv increased the impiety. Why should Siva go ur.honored while these tawdry little tirthankars were loaded with gifts? Whirl) were more powerful. a handful of deified men or a god who was before a'.l things began": "You mistake. Ram Chunga; you do not crasrp the spirit cl oui creed' (the Brahman's thin lips curled contemptuously); "we iuy our humble tributes of iruir and flowers before the emblems of :hese 0111 aihau.-, the pure existences, the .sages, the teachers, but with no purpose to please or propitiate. They themselves- are infmiiely beyond our poor homage; but to honor what is pure and goot: is beneficial :c itseli. and acts of devotion purify the heart, though there is no oihc-r reward. "And tins- newest god :>! yours,-' aid the Brahman, "who and whai U ? ** 7h- .?cin cave an v-riliaviass^i coiTK'.?. Y?.i speak o! Cfsalanka ivlir? wr.s but yetitiday air.ciic ".s- uni aov I. a-- ? a*-1 ?J ..way" K?. toe. is yi'-.i-r ct j c : v;ci Hiiipi-: lit tat fiStiC-*' - ' ' , ~ overcome Hio eight great crimes. | fasting in silence (eveu as did the j blessed Maliavir, who for monthp J kept his eyes fixed upon the tip of hit' n ^ 1m li n A tr<inrttiic?ho/1 y 11 I [ human passion and infirmity, and now therefore that he has crossed I the ocean of existence, his life remains to us for an example.'' The Brahman made a gutteral sound of intense contempt. "An example truly!" he exclaimed; and then I coming nearer, and lowering his voice as he bent his cold keen eyes upon the other's face, he asked: | "Know you how he died?and why? Hear then!" 3 It was a wild story, that was poured into the Jain's unwilling ears, ? a story of stolen joys, of detection. ' hideous punishment and fierce des" pair; it was small wonder that AcJiarya Chick utterly refused to believe it. 1 "Where is this perjured dancing girl of yours?" he said. I \?ould fain question her." 5 'The girl?" said the Brahman, dryly. "Where not you, Acharya ' Chick, nor any man, will see her c mors. And this man, forsooth, is to * take his place among our divinities? his shrine is to be decked while the 5 idol of sacred Siva craves garlands in vain! Nay, this shall not be. I, 1 hi? unworthy priest, protest against i this last outrage. Let this image de1 part, which you know not how to honor?let it depart, I say!" J Mild as the Jain was, he was not going to be bullied in his own temple; ' the attack on Chalanka had aroused ' his flagging enthusiasm, besides, the 5 Brahman's demands was too uncont scionable to be treated seriously. "I have spoken, 0 Ram Chunga," 1 he said; "leave me to administer my ' own temple and go in peace." ^ "You refuse?" said Ram Chunga, and his brows grew black. ' "I refuse!" said Acharya Chick. 5 "Then, hear my warning. Not 5 long can such obstinacy go unpun" ished. Our gods at least have, not ' dreamed themselves to eternal 1 apathy. They can reward, and. what is more, they can punish. Quick are ' they to feel a slight?yea, and to re5 vengo it." He turned and strode down the " path, with his aquiline nose high Mn ' the air, while the Jain stood in the s portico for a few moments, watching ! the Brahman's scarlet cap as it ' burned in the sun every time he * passed out of the shade, before he ' went into his temple, with a new 1 reason for disquietude. He could not, he would not believe 1 so terrible a slander, and' yet he 1 wished more than ever that the head 1 guru had not been so positive about ' the new idol. He was more determined than before to observe a ; marked moderation in the offerings '' he laid before it. 1 Thus resolved, he shook off his " slippers on the marble pavement of ' the vestibule under the central dome, and unfastened the heavy aDd richly 1 inlaid doors which communicated 1 with the idol chamber, a large, cool, ana aimjy ngntea place, where the air was charged with the accumulated fragrance of constantly renewed blossoms of the champack and a kind 1 of oleander The gloom when the priest entered made it difficult to distinguish ob1 jects very clearly for a time, but as his eyes became more accustomed to it he made a startling discovery. Some impious person bad entered during the night and stripped the ; idols of their jewelry! The robber had even dared to carry off the freshly dedicated flowers and fruit, for the altars which Acharya himself had seen neaped the night before were bared. , But the next moment brought a certain relief. It was not sacrilege after all; neither jewelry, frui-t, nor flowers had been actually removed! The earrings and necklaces loaded the idol of the new tirthankar, before which the whole of the previous day's offerings were heaped in profusion. The sight made Acharya extremely angry notwithstanding; the temple 1 ministrant (for Acharya himself merely superintended the ceremonies) was youthful and fervid, but still it was ill-judged of him to give this invidious welcome to the idol of a local celebrity. To be Continued. New Invention For Treating Flax. A ijew Australian process for converting worthless fiax into a good ! fiber is described in the London Commercial Intelligence as follows: Sheaves of straw are immersed in ' a hot neutral solution for about one hour, afier which the flax is passed through rollers- during which it is 1 sprayed, by i-team force, with a special solution, and then with clean water. The flax is then dried and the straws broken and scutched in the usual manner. Each bath holds about 3?.C pounds of fiber and the cost of ihe solution (there) does not exceed forty-eight cents. The same bath may be used repeatedly, thus reducing the 4'Ost of the operation. , Frequen' use ol the same bath some- | what darkens the fiber, but for some [ purposes this is little or no detri- ( ment. The light fiber can be used fcr many purposes without further bleaching treatment, which is frequently an expensive process. 'It is i claimed by the inventors that ibeir process tan be carried on continuous! 5y. independent of weather condi- j I tions. and also that the fiber is pro- j dnoed so cheaply that it will u)t.i- j i mateJy. to a great extent, take the | 1 place of other libers after meeting the j i world s demand lor Linum f.ai. uinev on ? Sun Lrial. j . JJen-> Van Dyke has written no j ; iinei ji'ore beautiful ihan those i > whk.h rttecrau 'be sun dial at Vad- i - | Q(}f kill' sj? I > T.ask. Esq.: | ? l ime iy Too sioiv foi those who wait, ! Too vv.it! iov those who leal-. Too long foi those who pneve. Too short lor I hunt* who rejoice; , i ?nt I of those who love Tuiit etern;t\ ? i'Yon; the Ho'.jse Beautiful. i 1 Kf.ew !i Ixy Heart. "Do >o:i think ycsi could !ea:n to i i iov- me?" the yo-.uig man inquired. "Learn to Jcve you?" exclaimed ! ! tjapluioti? iv.aui. juiioiu. i j f'Oiiltl !?ijvssv.a*, si* it.' ?Lcuis:villa ! ! Cviiirifci- i New York City. ? Coats that-in ane way or another are so arranged is to conceal the armhole seams, make a notable feature of the season. This one, designed for young girls, s charmingly attractive and graceful yet quite simple withal, and alicws a choice of three-quarter or full ength sleeves. In the Illustration porcelain blue Panama cloth Is trimmed with black braid, but the little snap is adapted to every seasonable jultlng material. It would be charming made of any of the rough finished if IW v pongees or of linen quite as well as of ?700l, and It can be trimmed with itralght banding or with applique or Jnlshed with stitched edges only as iked. The coat Is made with fronts, side.'ronts, backs and side-backs. The Ironts and backs are lapped over onto Ihe side-fronts and side-backs, so forming the pleats over the shoullers. The sleeves are made in two jortions each and three-quarter sleeves are finished with cuffs, but hhp lone nnea are stitched to simulate the effect. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and three-quarter yards twenty-seven, iwc and three-eight yards forty-four 01 two and one-eighth yards fifty-twc Inches wide with four and one-hall yards of braid. (Jet Out Old Combs. Do you remember the high, carved tortoise shell comb which grand mother used lo wear in your child hood days? If so. gel her to give i to you. If she has forgotten when she put It years ago. ransack liti belongings till you fib'J ;t. It )$ j;isl what you want to net off your owi elaboralely-dresseil hair this ?easor of 1908. and make you envied ef ai the girh- whose combs:, though perhaps bejeweled. are not feel;looms. One New Gown a Year. If only one new gown a year car be bought that gown should be ; handsome cloth one, selected in t.b< springtime, from the new fabrics And it should be thoroughly up-todate in every respect, even to the color, which should be ol a new ant modish shade?raspberry. leather aster red, r.oral or o:.e 01 ;ne oai: new greens. *)ne ol the new blues or even an old French or t-uxy *jl.u would be an excellent rboice. ! j hionM Panel Effects in Favor. A feature of all the new skirts is the panol effect in the front and back. Lace Collars. The handsomest and most expensive of the stiff collars have Irish' lace insertion used in a sort of con' ventional design. An Emotional. An "emotional" gown is of smok<\ gray veiling with little touches ol blue and silver embroidery and deaq roses at the belt. It is known as thd "dear desire"?possibly because ol the price. A Picturesquo Hat. A picturesque hat seen recentl3 had.a stiff, broad brim of mauve satir ,41- ? ?3 A?A?>n rtn vnla WAT. Willi U HlllJlUU uunii ui iiuiyiu T v< . vet something on the order of tin) old-time Tam-o'-Shanter, only ending in two frills of velvet that fell ovei the brim. The only trimming was c big bunch of purple satin poppies. i High Boned Collars. PariBiennes, it is said, are appearing In the afternoon with the impossibly high collars of their gowns; , which are boned and shaped so as literally to disappear under the lobe of each ear, encircled with a wide folded band of,black or dark-colored velvet ribbon tied in a huge manylooped bow on one side. Misses' Fancy Pleated 8kirt. There is no variation of the pleated skirt that is not in demand Just'now and this' one suits ryoung girls admirably well. It is^plaln, oyer tie hips and at the waist line, so doing away with all bulk at that point, while it is gracefully and becomingly full below. In the Illustration It is made ~ /v# nmraHv tth Q tori a la trim U1 UiiO Ui LUC UU?V?VJ UJMVV? w - ? med with banding, but it Is suited , to almost everything seasonable. Plaids and stripes with bias folds of the same are much worn, plain on ! plaid material is in vogue and there are numberless ready made bandings, j while also a plain stitched hem is al- i ways correct. Indeed, simple as the skirt is, it can be varied again and again. j ''' There are nine gores with exten; sions that form the pleated portions ' and the fullness at the back is laid I in Inverted pleats. Above the pleats 1 the edges of the gores are lapped ) one over the other and are stitched flat, while they can be trimmed with j ? buttons as illustrated or let plain aa I r liked. The quantity of material required ; j i for the sixteen-year size is ten yards 1 I twently-seven, five aud one-half vfirds j ' torty-four or five yards fifty-two j ' inches wide with five aid one-ffuar- 1 ' r. r vni rls o1 bnrulinir ' I - ' BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE | SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CTT.SE \ GREATLY CHEERED. E".i TV'ieelcv Wilcox Writes a Power* j ful Ankle For the New York American on the Good in Prohibition and the Evil?? of Drink. A great wave of "Prohibition" and "No License" has been sweeping over \ the Western States. May it sweep nver the v/hole world and either drown or reform all the men and women who are destroying their own lives and the happiness of those associated with them by their intemperance. All the monopolies, trusts and political injustice ol the world combined have never produced the poverty and misery which are continually produced by the habit of drink. . A good woman and wife and mother has suffered for forty years from the incessant drunkenness of her husband and sons. Among nine children, fotifr only have been temperate, or kind. The miserable husband lives on and on, seemingly preserved, like a cucumber. by his pickling in alcohol. Another woman buried her noble and temperate son a year ago, while her drunken husband sits like a fiend incarnate in the home, pouring down his weekly earnings, and refusing alike to reform or to seek another abode. Both of these women are obliged to work in order to maintain homes, and the question arises, why they consider it incumbent upon them to remain under the same roof with Lhese wilfully drunken men, who have over and over violated the vows they made to "love, protect and cherish" the women they chose as wives. / No man who desires to reform need be addicted to the habit of drink today. 7 Every good physician knows simple and inexpensive remedies which will take away the craving, the physical craving for drink, and at the 6ame time help the man to build up and fortify his constitution. , But unless the man desires to reform, and has the mental and moral nature awakened to that purpose, the j physical remedy does little good. Neither of the men referred to j above desires any higher pleasure or j satisfaction in life than that obtained from drinking. Their natures are incapable of any feelings of remorse or shame; the sorrow of their wives I and children makes no impression upon their minds, hardened and deadened to the finer emotions. It is hopeless to expect any "cure" for such men. There are thousands of them in the land; and they should be incarcerated by force in institutions and treated for alcoholism at the expense of the State which allows open saloons on every corner, then put on parole, and if they return to their drunken habits they should be forbidden, on penalty of imprisonment for life, from returning to their homes, and their wives should be le gaily divorced. * The weak women who continue to live with such men and to bear their children ought " to come under the care of the Gerry Society. It should become a part of the duty of all philanthropists and of the State to Arid employment for the wives and families of such men. The world is not as drunken as it used to be. It is slowly, but surely, coming to realize the degradation which lies in confirmed habits of dissipation. But there is misery unspeakable still existing all about us, caused by the thirst of men and women for spirituous drink. No reforms can be established until the minds of people are lifted above this need of stimulants, but the closing of saloons and the prohibition of the manufacture of alcoholic drinks will help to keep the workingman from wasting his'wages in the nearby saloon, and from reeling home drunk and abusing hie unhappy family. It is, however, in the education of the growing generation that the real reform lies. Our schools are doing much to bring about a true understanding in the minds of children on this important subject. Twenty-five years from now drunkenness will be less frequent; fifty years, still less frequent, and the great decrease in the use of alcoholic drinks of the last hundred years will be immeasurably greater in the next hundred. In the days of Washington, "Gentlemen" and "Kings" were all proud of the frequent debauch, but to-day only men of poor mental and low moral calibre boast of being drunk. Respectable men are ashamed of it. So the world is improving in ;thi8 as in all other things. But so much j needless misery still exists, caused by drink, that all right minded and pub- | lie spirited men and women ought tc I unite their efforts-to help lessen th? j evil in any and every way possible. . A Logical Decision. A widow and her two children have , just been awarded $6500 by a Chi- J cago jury for damages against a sa- > loonkeeper. It seems the defendanl ! had been heedless of the appealing , cry of the plaintiff and had sold the i husband and father into a drunkard's grave. Such suits and awards are ; getting to be quite common. Nothing ' could be more logical and.consistent j than to make the saloons shouldei j the results of their work. Why? The burglar has his mask. The footDad his unlighted corner, j The seducer his secluded spot. The murderer his hidden weapon, j The saloon its screened windows and private rooms. Why??Connecticut Citizen. St. Paul Saloons Must Close at II. ! Chief of Police O'Connor, of St. j Paul. Minn., issued an order that ail ' saloons must obey the law and close J at 21 p. m. The action of the chief j followed a complaint by members of j a church organization to AttorneyGeneral Young. Huge Enrollment of Abstainers. Real progress toward an abandon- ( ment of intoxicants is uemonsiraicu by the voluntary signing of a total abstinence pledge by 25,000 employes Df the Northwestern Railroad. Alcohol is a "Food." "That foolish old question, 'Is al- j cohol poison?' is again being dis- ! cussed, this time by English physi- i clans. No, of course it is not poison. j It is food?rich food?for the undertaker and the poorhouse."? Editorial, I Minneapolis Daily News. Boats Them AH. n neorn TlllCilief. O'^i Ul'UlgC JUl.lvu, toniized the history of men ol his type and preached an able sermon when. 011 his deathbed, he said: ' 1'v?j :o:i?i;* i John Barleycorn and he .1 ; , 111 e.1 | &unbatj-<!bcfa>ol' 0 ~ INTERN ATTON A h LESSON COM- ? MENTS FOR MAY 10. _______ . .';?3 ' ? Subject: The Mission of the HolySpirit, John 15:2t and 16:24? Golden Text, John 14:16?Commit. Verse 13?Commentary. TIME.?Late Tuesday night ot early Wednesday morning. April 4tb or 5lb, A. D. 20. PLACE.?Near Jerusalem. EXrOSITION.?I. Jesns Gointf, the Comforter Coming, 4-7. The disciples were filled with sorrow at the , ! announcement of the departure of Jesus. The story of the world's bate still goes on (of. vs. 1-3). The world, Jesus says, will excommunicate and kill the one who is true to Him. How true this prophecy has proven to be in actual history, bbt Jesus prepared Hip disciples for the fiery trial by forewarning them of it, and He would " ' prepare us for the persecutions we must surely meet, if we are loyal to Him, by forewarning us of them (Z Tim. 3-12). The disciples were filled with sorrow, so full were they that they did not even ston to ask, "Whither goest Thou?" If we would only ask that question concerning our departing friends, and get God's answer to the question, sorrow would no longer fill our hearts (cf. Phil. 1:23). Jesus did not tell them of coming trial while He was with them, but now that He was to be no longer with them in person, they needed to be forewarned in order that they might be forearmed. II.?When the Comforter is Come, 7-15. Their sorrow over the departure of Jesus was altogether needless. Tt was profitable for them for Jesus to go, for another Divine Friend was .coming 'to take His place, a Friepd who could be much nearer and more constantly nearer to them than Jesus could be during the days of Hi* flesh. How clearly the personality of the Holy Spirit comes out In all this. Can we conceive of Jesus saying it wan profitable for Him to go, If the One who 'was to come and take His place was not a Person but only an impersonal influence or power? The word translated "Comforter" means I mat ana iar more, 11 is me huuib word that is translated "advocate" In ( 1 John 2:1. But advocate does aot give its fnll force. It means one called to stand beside another, as constant helper, counselor, guide, friend. Jesus, up to this time, had been a friend constantly at hand, but He was v | going and another Divine Friend was I soming who would not only be with them, but dwell in them (ch. 14:16? 17). A Christian need never be lonej (y if he would only bear in mind that ; fact, that in him dwells the best of ; ill companions, the Paraclete, the j Holy Spirit. The Comforter has come. His first work is to show the world it^ 1 error about sin, to show that the great, decisive, damning sin is not to i believe in the Son of God (cf. Acts !i j 2:36, 37; John 3:18, 19), and that v I Ihey are guilty of this sin. It is not | our wo:'k to try to convince the world : of sin. If we tried to do it, we should ; fail; but there is one who can do it | if we look to Him, the Holy Spirit, but He does it through us. Jesus i says, "I will send Him unio you it. ! 7), "and when He ie come (unto I you), He will convict the world." As j far as the Scriptures reveal, the Holy ; Spirit has no channel through which I He can get at the world except through those who are already saved. Are you an unobstructed channel? How many there are in our homes^ and our classes that the Hply Spirit is trying to get at, and He is trying i to get the use of our frps^bnt we will ! not place them at Hft disposal. Or, ; If we do place them at His disposal, * j our own lives are not surrendered fully to Him and so He cannot work I ihrough us. He shows the world, too, j its error about righteousness. He j shows to the world by the resurrec Hnn and ascension of Jesus, that : Jesus is the righteous One and the II ' only righteousness possible to us is in H i Him (cf. Phil. 3:9, R. V.). There I are two things that a man needs to H \ see in order to be saved?first, him- # H > self, that he is a sinner; second, * ' < Jesus, His righteousness, and the I righteousness of Gud provided for us I ! in Him. It is the work of the Holy H ; Spirit to show these two things to- H man. He also shows the world its fl error about judgment, i. e., that there 3 is to be a judgment for it, inasmuch B as its prince is judged already. But t the Holy Spirit would do another Z work, guide the disciples into all the- H truth. The disciples were not yet H ripe for all the truth, and Jesus is an H infinitely wise Teacher, and gave H them the truth as they were prepared ? to receive it. It would be well if H modern teachers would learn from ffi Jesus to adapt their teaching to the H nf tho hearers. But the '"<^1 UJ&VOViN/** v* ?-w ? ? _ time would come when they Hhould IX lie led into all the fullness of God's' H truth. This promise was made pri- H inarily to the apostles. It is Jesus* H own guarantee of the inspiration and H truth and completeness of their teach- 8 ing. But this promise cannot be Iim- E9 ited to the apostles, for John himself H applies it to all believers (I John H 2:27). It is the privilege of each be- H liever to be directly taught of the H Spirit, and we will not understand the EES truth until we are thus taught. No BB amount of reading of good books, or H oi the mere letter of the Word, will give us to know the truth the Spirit (SB Himself must teach us. Of course, H He will not teach anything contrary H to the Book of which He Himself is H the Author, but He will'be the inter- H preter of the Book. ^9 Tour, on Oie Bearing Rock. It will not be many months now, It is believed, before the village of egg Sparta, Mesaba Range, Mich., is shifted to a new location. Ore underlies H the present site, and to permit of its H economical mining, it in necessary that the town be moved. It will probably be oniy a question of time K9 when McKinley occupies another site. Hibbing. the melroDolis of the range, is underlaid with bodies of ore. As a BSR rule me villages auu ernes cd ine.oia range of the Lake Superior region HQ have teea built on ground nolding M pre. IB Prairie Chickens Invade Farms. SMBj Jim Stain reports that during the HO recent heavy snowstorm a large flock H of prairie chickens became bewildered HI and flew into his yard at Almena. Hjj Wis., and against a building with Hfl such lcrce the! they were killed. Bjg They were exceedingly fat and M9 dressed two and one-half pounds H each The open winter has proved favorable for wild game birds, and it HH | is hoped the n?:ails and chickens may inuii lb'* s'.-*.b;::'k tbe> Lu^e IB9 ; .'ia;! i;i lb.* U.-i Jew severe v/ic'.er.i. H I