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I A CAT T C { A TALLL !^i||^iiili|is byfrederi THE TROLOGUE. 2 Continued. He sent for his too zealous subordinate and censured him severely; but, unfortunately, a vow of silence for that day prevented the offender from making any attempt at selfd#>fpns#> hevonrl shakius his head with much vehemence. That evening, as Acharya presided over the distribution of the day's offerings, he was even more careful than before to restrict Chalanka's portion both in quantity and quality. It was vain to tell himself that the Brahman's story had had no influence upon him?a slandered saint is like a damaged plum, something is gone from him that can nev6r be restored?and then, too, the Jain had had his doubts from the beginning. But the very next morning revealed an outrage of the grossest irreverence. Every one of the tirthankars had been turned upside down in his niche, except Chalanka, who was almost hidden under a mass of flowers! Acharya well knew that no Jain would be guilty of such impiety; he saw in it the hand of his unscrupulous adversary, Ram Cliunga, and was SLIUU.K. YV 1IU VUugiViiiuwivu and wrath. He got the idols replaced in a normal position before the worshipers arrived, and as soon as the morning's rites were ended he went down to the village and had an interview with the headman, Fattekhan Gul, to whom he disclosed what had happened. The headman sent him to the Mussulman guard, who having a splendid contempt for Jains and Brahmans alike, might be trusted to remain impartial, and who were posted around the temple in such a manner that none could approach unchallenged. And then the idols were all carefully oiled and bathed with sandal water, and left for the night with a strong conviction on Acharya's part that their tranquillity was not likely to be again invaded. But when he entered the idol chamber at dawn next day it was to find it in a condition at the sight or which he staggered back confounded and appalled. All that had gone before was child's play to this. Every niche on the lower tier was bare, and in the centre of the pavement was a pile of images, each one of which proved to have been mutilated?its nose, its ears (which were disproportionately large) and the triple umbrella above its head had all been chipped off, and upon each altar a nose, an umbrella and a pair of ears were laid out with derisive neatness I Acharya almost lost his senses at the sight, for he had spent the whole night in watching, in going from post to post, and he knew that for this second outrage the Brahman could not by any possibility be responsible. Yet a complete and valuable set of iiriasroc hnrf hpen ruthlessly defaced by some one, and the pious Jains would soon be at the gates to perform their morning's devotions. What would they think?what explanation could he give them? To his more enlightened mind the images were but emblems, but this was a doctrine wholly beyond his flock, and be trembled to tbink of the view they might take of such a wholesale destruction. The reader, who was quick of resources. proposed to restore the idols to their niches and trust to the semidarkness to conceal their imperfect condition, but Acharya was too dejected and, be it added, too conscientious, to resort to any such evasion. And so, when the earliest braziers and coppersmiths, after depositing their offerings in the porch, came into the idol chamber to walk around three times and make obeisances to the images as usual, they found their priest standing, with bent head and his white robes torn, behind a heap of mutilated divinities, and they stood aghast. Gradually the chamber filled and a buzz of dismayed curiosity rose from the various groups. If their gods were cast from their shrines what was left for them to worship? And while some of the less devotionally minded were rather relieved to have a legitimate excuse for non-attendance in future, the majority felt a pious regret for their gods ? their bland, sleepy, smiling gods, who never gave any trouble and whose faces had become as the faces of old friends. "My children," faltered the priest, perceiving * they were waiting for some explanation, "the destroyer has been at work in the darkness. I know no more than ye why this has come upon us to humble me and perplex your hearts." "It is the evil spirits!" whispered Mnrii riacc tho pnnnprsmith. and the congregation took it up and cried "Yes, it is the evil spirits?it is the saktis!" And they fell on their knees and struck their foreheads, and Acharya, whatever his private opinions might be, did not contradict them now. But there was a sudden stir in the crowd; several rose to their feet and made way as if for some person of distinction, and Acharya, with an agony of mortification, saw his rival, Ram Chunga, approach ? the very last person he wished to witness his embarrassment. A village in any part of the world is not the place for a secret. The Jain's suspicions and request for a guard had not been long in reaching n -N IDOL. {; C ANSTEY. n n?> <?/^^A&S?/S>>>l>^U^U I p ? ? i; taking in the situation with no small r bewilderment. "What is this, O , Acharya Chick?" he inquired at last. "Behold," said the Jain, "the effi- . gies of our blessed arhats have been ^ found mutilated and dishonored, as , you see, and by whose hand we can- . not tell!" * "Why," the Brahman asked himself, "had this wretched old creature destroyed the gods by which he 8 lived??for of course this was his f work." Ram Chunga was not above " conducting a manifestation or arranging miracles himself, but he did j not understand a portent on such a scale as this; it seemed wanting in ? common judgment. And then suddenly he saw through j the design; this Jain priest in his . mulish obstinacy had actually de- ^ stroyed his Siva rather than deliver it to his rival, and then to divert suspicion had been forced to deface his v own images. n "Where is the image of Siva, the undying?" he demanded with a black ^ frown. "Bring it forth that I may .. look upon it." . . "It is there, behind you," said the Jain dejectedly, and Ram Chunga, g turning, beheld for the first time the idol on which he had grounded so ^ pretty a quarrel. Till then he had had no particular desire to possess it c for its own sake; now the sight of it t strengthened his determination to get t it out of alien hands. ^ It was really a handsome idol, rather antiquated perhaps in design, but t still of excellent workmanship and, notwithstanding its somewhat ques- r tionable origin, orthodox in all its details; it would do credit to the v best appointed temple. t And to his intense surprise he found it absolutely uninjured. Evi- r dently this old fool had not had the nerve, when it came to the point, to deface it and render it useless (a mu- . tilated ?Iindu idol being, of course, 1 about as formidableas a spiked gun). ? What could have made him attempt such a piece of reckless folly? Was r it?and the Brahman's brow grew 1 darker at the idea?was it intended a to throw suspicion on him? If that r were so he should find he had made r a slight miscalculation. He turned upon the Jains with a c magnificent gesture. "Hear me, O Acharya Chick," he 2 said, "and answer truly. Did not I but two days since make demand of c you for the restoration of this image * of the god from which you and your followers have turned away? Did I 1 not warn you of the indignity, you ^ did him in introducing a miserable yogi, who but yesterday was in our s streets, to be his fellow god and com- * panion in your idol chamber?" - ? >) ?j.l ? ' Miiven so, nam ^nuiiga, saiu mc Jain, "nor will I now deny it." * "Behold the warning fulfilled!" the Brahman cried. "Siva, the beauti- * ful, the blue-necked, has spoken; he has shattered the gods whom he has suffered so long!" But Acharya's suspicions of the Brahman rose again at this attempt to turn the situation to his own advantage; he was resolved to dispose of these outrageous pretensions if he could. "What sign have you, O Ram Chunga, that it is as you have said?" he inquired. "A sign?"*said the Brahman! "Is not the image of Siva unharmed? Are not yours defaced and discredited? And you ask for a sign!" Acharya. in glancing round the idol chamber, had already observed a fact which he did not at first mention, for it only perplexed him more, but now he turned it to account with desperate readiness. "Siva has wrought it, because his image has gone unharmed!" he exclaimed. "How, then, has he spared the very image which you assert to be the main cause of his wrath? If Siva is untouched, much more then is the image of Chalanka, for look you to what honor has he been exalted!" Ke pointed as he spoke to the centre niche in the topmost tier, the Diche lately occupied by the portly idol of Mahavira. There, looking ludicrously disproportioned to its cell, squatted the newest and smallest tir- ? thanker, basking with a smile of sub- i dued and private enjoyment in the flood of m3rsterious glory which had so lately belonged to the deposed Ma havira! The congregation, who had not noticed this before, saw it now with a ' cry of rapture?surely Chalanka.who had weathered a storm in which so many deities of, so to speak, far higher tonnage, had foundered, surely he must be a god of sound and solid qualities, a god who could hold his own. with the whole Hindu mythology ! The Brahman sneered. So this, after all, was what the Jain had been scheming for! He had sacrificed the greater part of his sacred stock to increase the value of the remainder? well, he would checkmate him there at all events! "Does a tiger lie in wait for a rat?" he said, "or shall an elephant charge a tortoise? Fools, 1 all of ye, and blind, not to see that c this Chalanka of yours owes his im- ? munity to his insignificance. These others are in a measure divinities, j but he is less than all, and therefore j the mighty, magnanimous Siva scorns to lift up so much as the little finger of his sixth hand in wrath against him. He hath set him thus on high in his derision, as the god before ' whom it is indeed fit that such as ye t should bow!" | The Jains veered round again. Ram ( Chunga was wise and spoke with as- s surance; he must know best. i "Set up your maimed idols," the 1 Brahman continued, with biting " scorn, "worship them as before, for what concern is it of mine or Siva's? But detain his image no longer, yield i it to me, his servant. For the last ? time I demand it!" i The Jain was about to refuse once mor?\ !;'.it his followers would not hear of it. "Yield it," they cried, J c * oh, yield it, lest harm overran*- x._ Iso!" And Acharya Chick knew that hia :old over them was rudely shaken, if ot lost forever. Suddenly he turned o the Brahman and said: "Take it, nd trouble us no more." The Brahman was not precisely the lan to spare a defeated adversary a ingle pang. It was good policy to lake as much of his advantage as ossible, and, besides, it was clearly mpossible to walk out with the surendered idol under his arm. "This submission is tardy, but pruent," he ^.id, "and I accept it in the aighty name of Siva, conqueror of eath. With glory and rejoicing phall he sacred image of Iswara be conucted to a more seemly abode. At he hr r of sunset the idol of the ver-L...jg Brahma shall come hia*elf to escort him. See that your ates are open to us when we arrive, nd should any unseemly encounter ake place between our respective folDwers I shall hold you responsible." Acharya Chick bent his head in sient resignation; he felt a sullen im atience to have the measure of his Lumiliation filled to the brim; the aainspring of his simple, inoffensive ife was snapped, the good he had ried to do all undone, and he felt a litter protest against the apathy rhich could allow sush things to be. At last he came out of his reverie .rith a groan and fled like a haunted nan from his dishonored temple, and ip the rocky heights, till the noon-1 ay blaze forced him to fall panting n the shade of a projecting crag, and he temple attendants went their own irays, and the temple itself was deerted. The Brahman meanwhile had gone lown to the village bent upon organzing as magnificent a display as ould be procured on such short noice. He was excessively pleased at laving so completely outwitted the typocritical and cowardly old Jain, ,nd he arranged in his mind where he new idol should be set up; it only leeded a little purification, a few nantrams, to be as good as ever. And before the day declined the /bole Hindu portion of the viliagers, hanks to the Brahman's endeavors, i-as in a ferment of religious excitenent. Acharya, greatly cast down, spent he greater part of the day crouched n such shade as he could find, his nind possessed by a kind of stupor, lis main impulse the childish deternination to mortify himself to the itmost. But as the sun began to set, tnd the plain below steamed with the nists from the paddy fields, he grew nore collected; some powerful atraction seemed to be drawing him lown the slope to where his temple tood; he was impelled to be present it his own humiliation. So. feeling faint and weak, he ilambered painfully down until he eached a banyan grove, from -which le could command his own com>ound, and see all that took place vithout attracting attention. Very soon the air thickened with udden dusk, and part of the village >ecame outlined in flickering lines >f fire, while a confused buzzing bejan to be heard in the direction of be bazaar. The buzzing grew louder, swelling nto a low roar, above which rose the :lash of cymbals and the screaming ?f chank shells; with a little stretchng the Jain could make out a dim, onfused mass swarming up the slope, ind knew that the procession bad aleady started to conduct Siva to his lew home. Up they came, with clouds of dust, ind waving banners and sacred insignia, with leaping fanatics, and ilow, serpentine movements of the lautch girls at the head, and in the nidst, drawn by bullocks, came the luge, clumsy idol-chariot, with its >arbaric splendor of carving and gildng, its dome-shaped canopy, which :aught the last red ray of the sun. And now the crowd had surged hrough the temple gates, and there vas Ram Chunga with other white obed Brahmans, keeping what order vas possible in the wild throng. And then, the road being clear for t, the idol-car rolled creaking and olting over the threshold, whilst the dol it bore wobbled, with some loss >f dignity, upon the lofty seat to Vhicn it nau very yi uuciiu; strapped. It was a representation of Brahma n one of his numerous avatars, the jod being fashioned as a manlion, ,vith tt*3 usual superabundance of irms, one pair of which seemed busy jlucking a small figure which lay icross his knees and was supposed to ie a personal enemy. To be Coutinued. Divining Rod. D. W. S. (New York City): Kindly jive me some information about the vitch hazel divining rod for locating vater; how it is made, used, etc. As usually employed, this device :onsists of a forked twig, held in a lorizontal position in front of the jperator. He grasps one tip of the Y vith each hand, and the main stem projects before him. He walks to tnd fro in search of a hidden vein of vafer, and it is said that when he is >ver one the stem will bend downvard. Thbugh hazel was once considered e&fefttfal, some operators re )ort equally satisfactory results with )ther wood, and even with wire. The levice does not work in everybody's lands, and we do not wish to be unierstood as guaranteeing that it will succeed in any one's. Nevertheless, a ,'ew of the cases in which the divining od seemed to reveal water are now airly well attested.?New York Tri)une. Literature as an Intoxicant. According to Arthur Symons, 'there is more drunkenness in a book han in all the vineyards of France." [From a report or a iuiure jjuu? :ourt case: "Prisoner said he was >orry, but it had oeen his birthday, ind, one thing leading to another, he lad taken a paragraph too much. > ? * ?j?London Globe. A street knife-cleaner has made his ippearance in London. He calls himself the first of his trade. His charge s two cents a dozen. Last year the United States proluced 3 09,000 tens cf beet sugar. King and Quee ~~~~:-iiHillSiililll KING GUSTAVE V. A Appliance For Keeping Cue Steady. In playing billiards and pool it Is the custom of' the player to crook the index linger of one hand to use as a holder and guide for the cue, while the butt is grasped by the other hand to make the shot. There is one decided disadvantage in this Prevents Cue Slipping. tjne of the cue when the hand is damp or moist from perspiration. The moisture checks or retards the forward motion of the cue. Experts use lotions to present, this perspiration, and other expedients have been adopted for the purpose. The flesh of the index finger also prevents the delicate and accurate holding of the cue. These objections are overcome in the device shown here, which is merely a sleeve or tube through which the cue passes, and is encircled by the Index finger. The inner end of the sleeve fits the hollow between the thumb and flnegr, while the forward end rests against the second finger. The hand which holds the cue does not come in contact with the cue, so that any perspiration cannot in any way retard the movement of the cue. The exact amount of pressure necessary to insure correct movement can thus be gauged with accuracy and nicety. ? Philadelphia Record. <r . Would Help Mnsic. At a brilliant "At Home" given by a society woman a pianist of world wide reputation was asnea xo perform. When he had finished, the lady's young daughter was made to sit down and play her new piece. "Now ' tell me, Herr said the fussy mother to the great artist, "what do you think of my daughter's execution?" "Madame," he replied deliberately, "I think it would be a capital idea."?Argonaut. Bccnuse They Wouldn't Cut Hair. Owing to the vice-magistrates of An Byen, Chung Pyeng and Kap San not having yet cut their hair, the Governor of the province has risen in his wrath and has strongly requested the Home Departmentto dismiss them i from their positions. ? Korea Daily News. HISTORIC SUE /" *r.A Ki? riAnfoHorfltPS for V^Uil?>LI uv-icu UJ wuv vv??<.wMv....wm Now Abandoned Under the "W ?A. V. Ha Saw Attachment. A great deal of time is consumed bv a Citl'Mt-MUirl' In # ?11 picking up hip saw. The saw also be' j m,m\ 'n comes rusty ami collects grit upon the I blade, dulling the teeth, when al-[ lowed to lay upon the ground. In ! / n of Sweden. ND QUEEN MAUD. Gambling Part of Religion. A missionary lay beside a campfire of birch logs in the Maine woods, smoking a black cigar and watching his guide grill trout. , "Speaking of gambling," the missionary said, "I know of a sect that regards it as a religious duty, like fasting or prayer. "This sect is the Hindus. They one day in each year gamble like mad from sunrise till sunset. The day is the festival of the lamps, a day sacred | to Lakshun, the goddess of wealth, j A tremendous lot of money changes ; hands in Lakshun's honor. "All this gambling is done to test the financial success that will attend on each person throughout the year. If a gambler loses he knows a year of hard luck is ahead of him. If he wins he knows he may expect a I twelvemonth of prosperity. "Strange to say, a good deal of cheating accompanies this religious gambling." ? St. Loui3 Globe-Democrat. Mmmmmmmmmmm? ?mmmmmmmWMM EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH OP AUSTRIA. ' Doubtless. "Do you believe In an actual devil who rules over a burning lake?" "Sure." "Then how do you suppose he tortures his victims?" "He probably asks them if it is hot enough for them."?Houston Post. {.MARINE BOAT, the Defense of New Orleans in 1862, alls of the Old Spanish Fort. .11. Louisiana, in Leslie's Weekly. i order that the saw can be easily suspended on an object so that the '.mijhIIc wilJ always bf in readiness to be grasped a California mai. has de- ! vi.sert th*- simple attachment shown in I tin- illustration There is no necessity ! for laying a saw having this attach- ' ment upon the ground. On the back I ' J " "i'*'"* * ^ lionHlo ic n I Of tRe Liiaae, ciustr m mc uauuivi ~ . tapered point, which is forced into I any convenient object, such as the ' top of a workbench, fence post, etc. ' Trees and Lightning. The trees most apt to be struck by I lightning are those that conform most naturally to the law of electrical motion?that electricity moves along the path of least resistance. Flammarion, the great French scientist, published in 3 905 a list of different kinds of trees, showing the number of times each species had been struck by light ning during a given period. Tiie iigures are: Fifty-four oaks, twentyfour poplars, fourteen elms, eleven walnuts, ten firs, seven willows, six , beeches, four chestnuts, but uot a I single birch.?The Reader. I ~ ^ I ?un5aii-ScBpoT [INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- I MENTS FOR MAY 17. j I Subject: Jesus Betrayed and Denied. ^ John 18:1-27 ? Golden Text. Matt. 17:22?Commit Verses 2. j 3?Commentary. TIME.?Wednesday morning early. * April 5, A. D. 30. PLACE.?Geth- 1 semane and Courtyard of Annas. EXPOSITION.?I. The Perfldity ol 1 Judas, 1-3. Jesus longed to meet the Father in prayer. The awful weighl of agony was crushing Him (Matt 26:38). But He must strengthen the disciples and fortify them against the coming trial. To this He attended 1 first. But now this work was done ; The necessary words had beer spoken, the wondrous prayer that 1 made their safety sure had been of- ' fered, and Jesus goes forth to the I??? T-To aVi!>11 mppt tllC 1 gtir.UCU WUCIO 11V Father in prayer and get the strength * needed to insure Him victory in His 1 last great conflict. This garden was j a place of frequent resort for oui 1 Lord. It was a chosen sanctuarj where He met the Father. Those who ' knew Him best knew that this retired ! place of prayer was the likeliest place 1 to find Him at that time of nig1"1 (v. 3). Judas had often been there In that hallowed garden beneath the old olive trees he had seen Jesus inter- ; ceding with God. But his heart had become so hardened by covetousness that the sacred sight had made little impression upon it. His principal 1 thought seems to have been that the , garden of prayer would be a good place to capture Jesus unawares. Judas had not become so hard^^d in a day. But little by little, L. .1lowing the greed of money to usurp a larger place in his heart, and by hardening his heart more and more against the truths that he heard constantly falling from the lips of the Son of God, Judas had become what we here see him. Two bands were to meet that night in the garden, God's band and the devil's. Judas had provided himself with a large company of soldiers (v. 3, R. V. marg.). Evidently a great fear of this humble man, Jesus, had taken possession of them, and they feared the multitude also. If Jesus had seen fit to* resist, their preparations would have proven totally inadequate (Matt. 26:53). They did not have to search for Jesus. Jesus fully realizing His peril, but knowing also that God's appointed time had come, went forth and delivered Himself into their hands (v. 4; jomp. ch. 10:17, 18). II. Jesus Protecting His Own, 4-9. Jesus knew that at last the awful bour that He had so long looked forward to with sorrow unspeakable had come. He knew all that was coming apon Him, but He did not shrink. He 'went forth" with steady step and uniaunted heart. He put to Judas and lis band a question that had more in it than appears on the surface. 'Whom seek ye?" "Jesus of Nazareth," is the quick response. Little did they realize who He was whom ihey sought to capture and destroy. There are five words of awful sadness - - "'-J -A J in tnis men verse. juaas was ?t?tuu!ng with them." Think of it, he who lad been a chosen apostle standing with the enemies of his Lord! So tolay there are many standing with the snemies of Jesus whom one would aaturally expect to be standing by the side of Jesus. Judas standing there Is an illustration of the brazen effrontery of sin. But Judas does not iong remain standing. With majestic :almness and dignity Jesus simply says, "I am He," and Judas and his aellish crew go backward and fall to :he ground. lost (v. 9, R. V.). III. Peter Denies His Lord, 24-27. Peter following his Lord at this time got him into trouble. Furthermore, he had followed hi3 Lord afar >ff (Matt. 27:58). If we follow Jesus it all we should follow close. Jesus bad warned him of his weakness and bis coming fall (ch. 13:3S). Furthermore, just before this He had given His disciples a hint that they were to go away (v. 8). He had told Peter on the preceding evening that he could not follow Him at this time, but that he should later (ch. 13:36), but Peter had turned a deaf ear to all this. He had asked "Why cannot 1 follow Thes now?" and started out tc do so against the Lord's warning. He had boasted, "I will lay down my life for Thy sake" (ch. 13:37), and now undertakes to make good his boast and prove his Master mistaken in Hie estimate of him, but our Lord knows us all better than we know ourselves. We next see Peter standing with Christ's enemies and warming himself at the enemies' fire. Tbe end is now sure. Of course he does not sympathize with them and what they are saying about his Master grieves his soul, but he is not protesting. He ought to have stood separate from them (Ps. 1:1; 26:4-10; 2 Cor. 6:417), but that would have attracted too much attention to him and would have made him appear singular and exposed him to danger. The same arguments for conforming to the world are advanced to-day and are of as little value as in Peter's day. He after all escaped none of the danger he sought to avoid. He only got away by denying his Lord, and that is the only way anyone can escape who seeks to make friends with the world (Jas. 4:4; 1 Cor. 15:33, R. V.; Prov. 13:20; Eph. 5:11, 12). Bad company is a good thing to keep out of unlesa nno f?ne5 intn it to win them fOI Christ and keeps that purpose in his mind every moment. Peter had no ?uch purpose in his mind. Chair of "Good Taste." Plans were made to introduce into Northwestern University, at Chicago, a department of "Art Appreciations"?a chair of "Cultivation of Good Taste." This will aim especially to instill into the feminine student mind notions of appropriate flressinsr. All branches of art appre ciation, including home building and | furnishing, will be given. Dirty Hands cf Conductors. "Help old ladies in black dresses, but leave the young ones with white and iight colored shirtwaists to get on the cars unassisted." was the appeal made to the street car authorities of Atlanta, Ga.. by Mrs. Maria Sprinkle, who declares that her shirtwaist was ruined by the dirty hands of conductors. Slaves to Morphine. The surgeon of the Nebraska State Pcnitrntiarv reported that scares 01 inmates have become slaves of thr morphine habit through wholesale smuggling ol the chug into th?! prison. r v 4 fjELIGIOUS ffEAPING FOR THE QVIJSJl' tnjcj.i? ' THE CALL OP GOD FOR MEN. 1 f "rora California's shores of gold To Jersey's coasts of sand. Voir. Minnesota's lakes and hills, To Dixie's runny land, n East and West and North and South* In valley, plain and glen, ?he call of God is uounding loud For stalwart Christian men. . n marts of trade where commerce reign*. And business bears its sway, n all our heated, rushing life, The call rings out to-dav for men of grace and granite, too. For men 01 faith and force and vim, To rise and serve and laud the King, And bring the world to Him. -Robert F. Coyle, D. D., in The Interior. \ Steps to Resurrection. The heart sentiment, as expressed )y our blessed Lord, in Gethsemane, when He said: "Not My will, but rhine be done" (Luke 22:42), Is an imperative pre-requisite to a resurrected life. ' . The Gethsemane experience is suf' ? nf Afft* > < lering, sunermg iur mc eUi?v jrs; misunderstood suffering,, conseluently suffering alone. This Is suffering unrealized by friends and well realized and enjoyed by enemies. The end of self Id to have no rebellion, no demand, no choice. Self is simply denied and surrendered. This suffering worketh patience (see Rom. 5:3) and maketh perfect. (See I. Pet. 5:10). No one will ever reach this heart condition any other way than by this old, yet royal route; through suffering, yet how sweet to learn to "kiss the rod." The statement of Jesus before God alone: "Not My will, but Thine be done," proves His purity of heart The statement before Pilate: "Thou w-ouldst have no power at all against Me, except It were given thee from above" (Jno. 19:11), proves His unlimited confidence. To see and acknowledge God's hand when alone in the midst of enemies is the battle, won. Truly Jesus portrayed such an one when He said: "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God" (Matt. 5:8), arid the apostle well corroborates the statement of His Mas* ter, when He says: "Holiness, with- . out which no man shall see the Lord." (Heb. 12:14). The one who sees God in all must either become a wil ful rebel against uoa or iae yjcwij a is won, and the soul is resting in God, I for "God is light and in Him is. no | darkness at all." (I. Jno. 1:5). "If I we say we have fellowship with Him I and walk in darkness we lie and da I not tell the truth. But if we walk fn I the light as He is in the light, w? I have fellowship one with another, I and the blood of Jesus Christ His Sod I cleanseth us from all sin." (6, 7).? U Gospel Herald. H Do You Expect an Answer? We believe it was Mr. Meyer who once said: "Some people are always telegraphing to heaven for God tc send a cargo of blessing to them, but they are not at the wharf to unload the vessel when it comes." We fancy one reason why many are not at the wharf to unload the vessel is because, thnnirh thev have asked for it, they do not expect any vessel to come In, They pray only as an echo of halfformed desires, and when that Is done too often they take no furthei thought of the matter. Such petition mocks God, and it would be arrant folly to expect asking prayer of this kind to wrest cargoes of blessing from God. But the soul that asks In faith believing, that prays honestly, earnestly, expectantly, and then meets the conditions necessary to obtain the blessing, never has failed and never will fail of receiving blessing at God's hands.?Methodist Recorder. The Naturalness of Religioa. Religion is as natural as breathing, It is the natural unfolding of the powers inherent in the self. It la as natural as very life. It is not In any , way a matter of forced belief or artificial appendage or practiced form. It does not necessarily have to do with churches or creeds or Sabbaths or psalm singing. These may be an aid to its expression, but they are religious only in so far as they are. RemoIKo ia fnnnrl nnlv In life U&4UU a A V/UUVJ .M w and character and purpose?in loving life and strong character and noble purpose. These form the fact and the fruition of religion.?Paragraph Pulpit. i Our Every Day Temptations. Great trials come at lengthened intervals, and we rise to breast them, but it is the petty friction of our every day life with one another, the jar of business or of work, the discord of the domestic circle, the collapse of our ambition, the crossing of our will, the taking down of our conceit, which makes inward peace impossible.-^Henry Drummond. Quiet in Our Souls. Nevr do great thoughts come to a man while he is discontented or fretful. There must be quiet in the temple of his soul before the windows of it will open for him to see out of them into the infinite. Quiet is what j heavenly powers move in. It is in silence that the stars move on, and it (s in quiet our souls are visited from ? ujo-v. ?\\7illiom Mnnntfnrrl. UU llifeu.. imuihw *.*w? Sympathy. B Our country needed a baptism of I sympathy. Times of matchless pros perity tave untied the heart strings 3f the rich from the poor.?Rev. S. I Edward Young, Presbyterian. Pitts Durg. The Situation That Confronts Us. 9 We have come to the time when w? I must either live up to our preaching I khat the Gospel is for the whole world H )r else we must brin;; our preaching I 1ovn to our living. The day has :ome when we can and must put to I 1 ' ?1 ?Un^ 1,,A /'liimoH Viofnr?i H '.HQ iesi WIJcll Vmiuivv% MV*w.v we had the opportunity to test it.? Bishop Ward. A Just Ji'.dgc. TIiey who know Him r.s Jesus will cot ie:?r Hiu: as Juice. Stole Red Hot Stove. "Wait till I see If the pies are done," cried John Keishock, as he was arrested in Doud's alley at Youngstown, Ohio. Court Constable Elias Jones had chased Keishock, who was trundling a roaring hot cooking stove on a wheelbarrow for six blocks. The stove belonged to Mrs. Charles Pull. Jones waited, but he arrested Keishock as he ate the last of the two apple pies which had been in the stove. Keishock had wanted only the pies, but stole stove KB and all when he had the opportunity, Ma J