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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
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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 !
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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
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ivlir? wr.s but yetitiday air.ciic ".s- uni
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~ 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
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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 !
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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INTERN ATTON A h LESSON COM- ?
MENTS FOR MAY 10.
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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
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