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CHAPTER VII. S 1
Continued.
' "That is enough," said Sybil. She
psras drawing off a ring from her
Iflnger. "You must taite tnis ubck,
jshe continued, holding it out to him.
j4'Yes, I wish it, and there are other
[things to he sent to you. And my
(letters, if?if they are not burnt you.
^will return them?"
"To-night," he said, "with your
ipresent?the idol you gave me once."
"I don't want it," she said. "I
want you to keep it. You promised
to keep it always. Don't part with it
now?it is the last thing I shall ask
of you. If you see it now and then,
and it reminds you of this I
don't think you deserve to forget it
too soon "
"I shall want 110 reminder," he
jsaid. "But I won't part with it, if
(that is your wish. And now?good
'Bye, siDyi.
As he went out the page gave him
& sealed envelope, which, being in no
'mood to read letters just then, he put
[unread in his pocket as he strode
across the park.
Sybil heard the door close upon
(Mm; her heart seemed to shut at the
same moment, as she stood for some
jtime stunned by the new loneliness
;which had come upon her.
How could he have done it? What
Jiad she done that he could humiliate
!her like that?' And then to persist
that he was innocent!
He did not remember Mrs. Stanidand's
letter until he was at home,
tand then he opened it with an un>ea^y
curiosity; from a lady of her benevolence
it was slightly vindictive in
its sentiments.
"In case," she wrote, "you are
.thinking of destroying all traces of
your ill deed before the gallery is
open to the public, I write to inform
you that I shall permit no such thing.
,fThe picture is mine, and I forbid you
to touch it or interfere with it in any
;way; and if you have a spark of gentlemanly
feeling left in you, you will
respect my wishes whether you arc
hnnnfl tn nr not. I under
stand that the portrait could not in
any case be removed without a royal
order, but however this is, it is my
wish that it remains where it is. It
ds too absurdly unlike my niece to injure
her, whilst the insult to myself,
.when explained, may serve to show
the danger of intrusting you with
similar commissions, and the ingratitude
which is ever the portion of
those who try to serve others. I inclose
a check, though I should be
quite justified in throwing the portrait
on your hands after what you
have done."
As will be observed the fact which
had chiefly impressed Mrs. Staniland
,vas the wanton introduction of that
iatal idol; the misrepresentation of
Sybil was a minor offense in comparison,
though she was not sorry that
her niece should think otherwise.
Campion cursed his ill luck as he
read this prohibition and tore the
check which accompanied it into
piecss.
CHAPTER VIII.
Reopened Wounds.
Self-swayed our feelings ebb and swell;
Thou lov'st no more!?Farewell! Farewell!
?Arnold.
May was a fortnight old before
Babcock had succeeded in inducing
[Mrs. Staniland to keep a long-standing
promise to visit bis new studio;
an end which he attained by mentioning
casually that he would ask Nefbelsen,
tho German Chela, to meet
iher. i
When the time came he began to
entertain misgivings that she would
Steep the appointment without thinking
it advisable to bring Sybil, and he
saw them both enter with intense
thankfulness.
He was radiant with satisfaction.
"Delighted to welcome you to my little
workshop," he said, as he took her
hand. "Do you approve?"
"Very magnificent,indeed, Lionel,"
she said.
It was a sumptuous studio, with a
good deal of old armor and tapestry,
skins and fan palms, amongst which
an easel with all the latest improvements
was doing penance, possibly
for idleness, in a corner.
At a Moorish arch, where he drew
aside the portiere, was a little octagon
boudoir with stained windows,
beneath which a person of somewhat
unusual appearance was seated on a
divan, V'ith a patience which struck
the mean between dignity and humility.
Axel Nebelson was a Norwegian by
birth, but had been brought up in
Germany. He had been educated for
the medical profession, but, having
accompanied a scientific expedition to
India, had there been led to abandon
science for theosopby, to which his
temperament?dreamy and abnormally
developed in some directions?
found itself powerfully attracted.
Since then he was understood to
have nassed much of his time in se
elusion, endeavoring to prepare himself
for the further ordeals necessary
to complete initiation, and he was
now in Englaud for purposes the nature
of which no one, himself not accepted,
clearly understood.
He was a striking looking figure
as he sat there in the dim yellow and
green light. His age might have
been anything between thirty an',
forty; hia long biscuit-colorc' hair
was parted in the middle, and fell in
-6piral curls to mingle inextricably
with his beard; he had pale-blue visionary
eyes, with a ring of opal light
round each iris, a broad innocent
jpose, and r mouth which no amount
of hair could invest with decision.
He extended his peculiarity even
to his dress, which was a long, closefilting
sort of caftan, round which a
broad red sash was knotied. He
took the precaution to use a less unconventional
garb for outdoor wear;
but, even as it was, he always left u
litllo crowd of his own collection 0:1
tk3 ilcorstep of any house he
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He started as from a vision when
the others entered, but he neither
rose nor offered his hand, and only
sat smiling with a vague sweetness.
"Here he is, you see," said Babcock,
as if he was exhibiting him.
"All aione in aere.
"Not alone?most of the time,"
said the Chela, "and not hier." He
spoke English with an amount of fluency
that rendered him occasionally
unintelligible.
Mrs. Staniland, according to her
wont, took complete possession of
him. "Ah!" she said, with infinite
relish. "That's how I like to hear
you talk; now go on, don't let's waste
time in trivialities. Be interesting.
We never finished our delightful little
chat about Karma and Nirvona.
Do you know I find theosophy most
enlarging for the ideas? And, positively,
if I hadn't been brought up to
be quite so orthodox, I should be
very much tempted to adopt your
doctrines. jdul j. aupijuac a jjj iuu
old?"
"Yes," said the Chela, with refreshing
candor; "it is late now to
begin."
"Still," pursued Mrs. Staniland, "I
like to keep up with all the new
movements, and when I find one that
deserves a little encouragement, I'm
only too glad to do anything for it."
"Matam," said the Chela, stiffly,
'"theosophy is not at all in need to
be, as you say, upon the back
smacked."
During the conversation Sybil's attention
had slightly wandered. This
studio recalled by force of contract
another which was not magnificent;
and a strong, manly face, with the
keen quizzical eyes that could be so
tender at a word from her, rose before
her. Suppose Ronald were to
come to her and beg forgiveness, suppose
he insisted masterfully that he
had only read her a well-needed lessnn?would
she have firmness
enough to maintain her grouhd? If
she could only believe that he had
not intended to gain his freedom, if
he could but persuade her of that,
she might?but, after all, there was
no danger of losing her dignity as a
justly offended woman?he never'
would come now!
"What are you looking so serious
about?" asked Babcock, crossing
to her side.
"Am I serious? I think I was
wondering why you have a grand
piano. I never heard you play."
"Oh, yes," he said, in a weary,
high-pitched tone, "I strum a little;
it is one of my lew pleasures" "if so,
it was at least a simple one, for he
restricted himself to one finper".
won t you come ana try iu:
She rose and passed in to the studio
with him.
"I may not do all I might, but then
I have no one to inspire me, to urge
me on, to care what work I produce."
"No," she agreed sympathetically.
"And it's too bad to expect you to do
anything till you find somebody who
will do all that for you?isn't it?"
"You turn everything into ridicule,"
he said impatiently, "and yet
I could show you a picture if I chose,
that will prove to you that I can
work when I take the trouble.
"Then please do."
"Once I looked forward to showing
it to you?but that is all over.
I cannot show it?least of all to you."
"And why?"
"Eecause it has been ruinod."
I thought an oil painting was
never hopeless! At least you could
show it to me. Who knows, I might
encourage you?it is probably much
better than you think, and surely
you need not dread my opinion."
"Sybil," he said, "it is best that
you should not see it?this time, perhaps,
you will take my warning!"
Sybil laughed mischievously. "You
shall not escape like that. If you refuse
me, you will not refuse Aunt
Hilary, or if you do, I shall know
what to think."
And she went back to the octagon
room, in time to hear her aunt, after
questioning Herr Nebelsen closely
upon the precise hue of her aura, observe,
"Not really; a sort of purlisu
mauve?how truly hideous; the very
last color I should care to be seen in!
do ten me, now, is mere anytnmg i
can do to change it?" Sybil's appeal,
coming at that moment, was not am,ably
received.
"If Lionel ha3 any hesitation in
showing you his picture," she replied,
"depend upon it, he has excellent
reasons. I'm surprised you
should condescend to press him!"
"Don't be hard on a fellow, Mrs.
Staniland," said Babcock. "I shall
be very happy to show the canvas to
you, and leave you to say whether I
am not right."
"This is getting mysterious," said
Sybil; "so there really is a picture!
Do go, auntie."
Mrs. Staniland was struck by something
in Eabcok's manner, and followed
him into a room beyond the
studio, leaving her niece to entertain
the Chela.
Sybil eyed him rather apprehensively
as he sat there?he looked
very mystic and uncanny. Presently
he fixed his pale eyes upon her and
said in his deep guttural tones. "You
are not much interested in occultism
?you do not even perhaps believe
that such things can be?"
"It's no good saying pretty things
to him if he really can read
4. 1 l.~ ? I ?T,yv A ~
muu^iiLS, situ uuiisiutri'eu, ana uecided
upon perfect candor.
"It is a good deal to believe all at
once, you know," she said. "I don't
pretend to understand it, but I
should have thought if you had all
these marvelous powers you might
make some use of them."
"Hniv iisp nf thpm?" hp rtpmanripri.
"It isn't such a happy world surely."
she said, "that there is no one in
it to be saved from danger, or temptation.
or misery of some sort. If
you can read the future and see
forces at work that we can't see, you
might do so much to v:aru or help
people, if you chose!"
To her relief her aunt called her, r
to come at once to the room where I
Babcock's picture was to be seen, and she
obeyed with some curiosity.
" Quite rigut of Lionel 'to consider
your feelings, my dear," said Mr?. (
Staniland, who was standing before J
an easel on which the canvas had j Q
just been placed, "but I knew you j
were too sensible to mind seeing It, i
and I thought it as well that you ' j
should." jj
"I like the landscape part, Lionel," ^
said Sybil, after examining it; "you j
are not quite as lazy as I accused
you of being?only," and she drew j
her eyebrows together, "what does j
that extraordinary figure mean in the a
middle of it?and what is it sitting 8
on?" 1
I "Ah, my dear!" said Mrs. Stani- s
land, with a sigh of portentous mean- n
ing, "that is the point!"
| "That's just the thing," said Bab- ^
cock. "That I'm not responsible for."
"It was like this, my dear," explained
Mrs. Staniland. "Lionel *ias
been telling me 'all about it. He'd b
painted the landscape, and Sieditoff o
wanted it for his gallery in Bond n
Street, only he thought it ought ; > a
have a figure in the foreground. *
Well, and bo Lionel took it to a frierd tl
of his who was a good figure painter; ti
Lionel has never gone in for figure
painting, and he told him what an
opportunity this was for him and
asked him to do it, and he said he e
would. And this is what he chose 0
to do?a horrid figure which is too M
ridiculously absurd, hanging in the i t(
air, and out of all proportion and J ^
keeping besides! And Lionel is j ^
afraid Sieditoff won't take it now, ani c
if he does, he can't sell it, and he j
daren't try to scrape it out or paint
it over for fear of making it worse.
It was a piece of jealously and deliberate
spite on thi friend's part."
"What a hateful, mean wretch he ^
must b. ' cried Sybil. "But why," *
and then she stopped. "Do I know I
- - l-~ I o
him? Oh, don't say it was ut. auui.
Hilary, you might, yes, you might f
have spared me this!" And her short J*
upper lip quiverod indignantly.
"I thought it necessary it should v
not be hidden from you, my dear," t
said the old lady, calmly.
"Then please understand, both oy
you, as you are kind enough to discuss
my affairs together," said Sybil, j 1<
haughtily, "that it was not neces- ! n
sary at all. I wanted no warning to 1'
tell me that Mr. Campion is a treach- P
erous friend; whatever he chooses to s
do now does not concern me in the d
I least, and you insult me when you c
think it can!" "n
And she turned away with the ges- t:
ture of an offended princess. She P
was very angry indeed?all the an- d
grier because she had needed the s<
warning only too well. a
When Babcock returned to his own.. r
flat after seeing his visitors off he p
found Nebelsen standing before his u
picture. "Like it?" he said. "w
"No?not at all," replied the e
Chela. "Why have you painted a i:
yogi performing his japa in the yoga tl
posture?" ii
"I thought you would say that, i tl
Poor 'little Miss Sisworth couldn't j e
stand that yogi either; it upset her j t]
most awfully!" ^
"Why,then, do you baint so as to
upset people awfully?" demanded
the Chela. "You have learned that j
in India?yes?" ti
"If you must know, Nebelsen, that j]
idiotic Hindoo isn't my work at all; i<
it was done, for some low purpose of
his own, by a scoundrel named Cam- tl
pion." tl
"But it upset that so charming c
Mees Elsvort!" v
"Yes?that's a long story. But the
upshot of .it is that he had almost c
trapped her into consenting to marry ti
him, till he played very much the a
same trick upon her that he did on a
me." s
"I see?I see well," muttered the
Chela, "it was tnat, then, which she j3
to forget desired. Tell me, where a
does this Gampion live? I want to
look him up and rebroach him!" t!
"Von shall have the address, old a
boy!" said Babcock, with much heart- c
iness, and he gave it to the Chela, <j
who departed with all the exaltation i
of a great mission. s
To be Continued. ^
p
A Wonderful Clock.
The Czar recently received at Pe- D
terhof Palace a peasant named Franz
Karass, who presented an extraordi- ?
j nary masterpiece of clockwork of his
own invention. The clock registers 1
the time, the months' and days' duration,
day and night, the hour of sun- ?
rise and sunset, and the phases of the i
moon, as well as the movement of the v
earth around the sun.
rp'u ^ otn o nrl m irrnr P'laR.c;
1 lie liUUi JJ1UV.v> UUU A w* O"*?'
are covered with black enamel and I
are more than a yard high by a yard
wide. The mechanism is of copper
and the working is quite noiseless.' C
The clock weighs 72 0 pounds. It h
needs winding once in 400 days. f
Karass has been working on the
invention for twenty-two years in h
making the design and spent six years o
in constructing the works.?St. Pe- c
tersburg Correspondence of the New
York Sun. a
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An Easy Matter. t.;
The man was playing euchre with 1
the latest belle of the Mountain
House, while his bride of three 0
months was trying to busy her mind ' a
as well as her fingers with a piece ] 11
of embroidery. . h
Suddenly the husband turned to- *
ward his wife with a patronizing air.
"Pardon me," he exclaimed; "I S
hadn't noticed that I was between ^
you and the light." 0
"Oh, pray, don't move!" the little s
woman replied. "I can see through 3
you perfectly well!"?Lipplncott's.
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The Universal Solvent. 4
g
A "burglar proof" safe was robbeil
by a boy In N.ew Jersey the other day. '
He opened the safe with a hairpin. .
This leads to the suspicion that he is
a woman in disguise. A woman can ^
do anything with that instrument.? s
Cleveland Leader.
c
Scotch Pig Iron Exports. s
This year 155,000 tons of pig c
iron have been shipped from Scot- 1
land, of which the United States took v
49,000 tons, eleven times as much as v
in the same period of last year.???? f
? to :sr, t
Iousehold Matters.
I
To Iron Muslin Curtains Easily. |
Tack some old, soft cotton cloth
n a small board, saturate with keroene
and rub' the iron well on it,
ien on a clean cloth before using,
here will be no trouble about stick- !
ig or rubbing up, and they can be
one in half the time.?Boston Post, j
Trolong Life of Shoes. <
A coat ol gurn of copal varnish
pplied to the soles of boots and ]
hoes, and repeated as it dries until
u - flll/5/1 and fVio ClirfHrp
[it; puj aic iiu^u ?4.uv? vuv
hines like polished mahogany, will
lake the soles waterproof and make 1
hem last three times as long.?New
'ork World.
Care of Coat Collars. '
My husband's coat collar always ;
ecame more soiled than the rest
f the garment, and it seemed well- j
igh impossible to get the grease
nd dirt out w.th soap and water. 'inally
I tried alcohol and salt, and
be collar was cleaned nicely with no ]
rouble at all.?New York World.
Cleaning Mildewed Cupboard.
To clean a musty, mildewed woodn
cupboard, put one-half a cupful ?f
xalic acid crystals in a gallon of hot
or?iiv hr>t taking' rare not
CL LCI anu MW, VM.....0
d get any on the hands. Scald afterward
with clean hot water and dry
1 open air and sun, if possible. The
upboard will be sweet and clean.? '
ndianapolis News.
Old Bedspreads Used. I
Dressmaking at Home has a new
se for old bedsteads. It is to cover 1
hem with cheesecloth or silkoline in '
ainty color to match the furnishings j
f one's bedroom and tack them at ,
egular intervals as a comfortable i
5 tacked. The edges may be button- (
oled or bound. They are easy to <
wash and make splendid quilts for I
he warmer weather. 1
i
To Polish a Piano. ,
When the piano takes on a cloudy
3ok the best way to restore it to for- <
ler beauty is to pdlish it with oil of '
emon and alcohol. Have several j
ieces of cheesecloth; if new they (
hnniri ho n.-flshprl to remove the ,
ressing. Dip a clean, dry cheese- ?'
loth In oil of lemon (ten cents' worth <
rill he sufficient) and rub gently on i
he -woodwork of the piano. When '
olishing a piano always rub in one 1
irection. Have in another saucer
ome wood alcohol and dip into this
clean, dry cheesecloth; with this ub
off. the oil of lemon from the |
iano. With some clean alcohol sat- ]
rate another clean cheesecloth and 1
rring as dry as possible. Polish the j
ntire piano with this. A final polshing
may be given with the palm of 1
he hand, always remembering to rub j
a the one direction decided upon in
he beginning. This is the method j
mployed in the piano factories foi I
he extremely high polish.?American (
tome Monthly.
To Test Silk and Linen.
Of the goods sold as "all wool". <
here is not one-tenth that is genu- i
le. Generally the main componenl
s cotton.
The for this is simnle. All 1
hat is necessary is to pull out a fe* ,
breads and apply a lighted match. |
lotton will go off in a blaze, woo)
'ill shrivel up. ' i
To distinguish pure linen from
ounterfeit is c/en easier. The inending
buyer need but wet her fingei
nd apply it to the goods. If thej ,
re pure linen the moisture will pas?
traight through; the spot touched j
rill be soaked at once and almosl
nmediately one side will be as-we1
s the other.
Frauds are more numerous'in silk 1
han in any other fabric, but here !
lso the material of adulteration ie j
otton. Its presence can readily be ]
kcnvPTPd Draw a few threads out
'he pieces of cotton will snap ofl
hort when pulled, while the silk 1
rill stretch and permit a considerable
ull before breaking.
The boasted silk of our grand- \
lothers that "stood ly itself" is not ;
ecessarily the jest. Modern in- i
enuity has devised means of giving
tie poorest article the body requisite' 1
or this purpose.
Shellac and other sticky substance*
lixed through the fabric will prouce
as stiff a silk as ever graced the 3
wardrobe of our ancestors. Such j
tuff is quite worthless, however, as
t quickly rots.?New York Times.
Rccipes.
Chocolate Sauce for Ice Cream.? J ;
>ne-hal? cup water, square of choco- )
ite, one cup of ?ugar, one teaspoon* i
ul of flour. Eoil.
Deer Park Muffins.?Two and one- J
alf cups of flour, two cups of milk. (
ne-half cup of butter, one-half yeast ;
ake, whites of two eggs.
Ba?.ed Apple Ice Cream.?Bake 1
nd sift six sweet apples. Add one j
uart of rich cream, and sugar to
aste. When the sugar is dissolved. !
reeze.
Orange ar.tl Strawberry.?Peel the
ranges and remove the pulp neatly
nd without having any of the white
lembrane left upon it; divide it intc
" * *- * ?1I naiist/a
au-incn pieces, saving an mc juivt.
lull the berries, wash and dry them,
E necessary, then cut into halves 1
let the whole aside to become chilled i
Vhen ready to serve, mix the pieces
f berry and orange with a little
agar. Divide the fruit, atflong the
lasses and pour over the juice.
K:;gli.sh Dumplings.?One pint of
our, one cupful ot' finely chopped
uol, one (easpoonful of salt, one te:.poonful
of baking powder. Mix and
ift flour, salt and baking powder,
idd suet. Mix to firm dough with i
le water. Knead for two minutes; 1
oil out one-half inch thick. Put 1
loured cloth over a board; on it
pread the crust. Fill with slicee 1
1
pples mixed with sugar and a little
irmamon. Draw up crust and cloth
o as to completely cover apples; ii*
loth, allowing a little room to swell 1
)rop in kettle of rapidly boiling <
/ater, with twist at bottom to pre- 1
enl. scorching. Koe]> ai a rapid boil J
or two hours. II' water stops boilins ^
he dumplings will foe heavy.
|Religious Truths\
"H-" !
From the Writings of Great
Preachers.
THE HUMAN AND DIVINE.
D Christ, I cannot understand
Thy birth?Thy wondrous mind.
The power to heal the sick, and giYe
Their sight unto the blind.
[ cannot understand how Thou
Didst walk upon the sea.
Dr stilled the wind and calmed the wavei
On stormy Galilee.
[ cannot understand how Thou
The multitudes didst l'eed,
3r raised the widow's only son,
Supplying all her need.
But this, 0 Christ, I understand:
The sweat upon Thy brow, *
4r Thou didst toil beside the bench
As men are toiling now.
[ understand Thy tears of grief
In lone Gethsemane;
rhe drinking of the bitter cup
That none could share with Thee.
[ understand how thou didit feel
When all Thy friends had fled,
&nd sinful men reviled and placed
The thorn-crown on Thy nead.
[ understand Thy sufferings
Upon the cursed tree;
rhy pierced hands and feet and sid?,
Ana that 'twas all for me.
Tis this, the mingling of the two,
The human and divine,
That makes me call Thee Saviour?Friend,
And joins my life to Thine.
?Will P. Snyder, in Home Herald.
rhe Child's Dream and the Man's.
A friend of mine related the fol?
owing incident relative to a tine
vhen his only child was dangerously
11: "One day she fell into a troubled
sleep, in which it was evidect that
ler dream3 were disquiet. She tossed
ibout and cried aloud. Her mother
Dent over her, touched her, and she
nvoke. The eyes of the little sufferer
jpened. She looked up into her
mother's face, and oh! what a ,
:hange passed oyer her own, and she
said, .Oh, mother dear, I have been
Ireaming such dreadful things. I I
ireamt that I was far away In a dark I
place, and that I called and called
ind you could not hear me, and did
not answer. And then you touched
me and I opened my eyes, and there j
fou were.
"The language of the child reminded
me of the language of a saint, one
pf the greatest that ever lived, in a
prayer addressed to the King of
Kings and Lord of Lords, 'We sleep,
Dh, our Father, in Thy tender and
paternal bosom, and in our sleep we
jometftnes dream that all is wrong,
pnly to wake and find that all is j
right. 'Nothing can separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ
Jeaus our Lord."
If you are earnestly endeavoring to [
io God's will, why allow any trial or
iiscouragement to disquiet you?.
Four way is fully known to your
heavenly Father, and for that reason
no evil can come to you. Your Godlias
not withdrawn Himself. He is
uear yotf to comfort and strengthen.
Believe it, oh, believe it, and your
?very sorrow shall be turned into that
ioy which the world cannot give,
neither can it take away.
"Why sayest thou, My way is hid
from the Lord. Hast thou not
known? Hast thou not heard that
the everlasting God, the Lord, the
Creator of the ends of the earth,
fainteth not, neither is weary? There
la no searching His understanding.
He giveth power to the faint, He increased
strength. Even the youths
shall faint and be weary; and the
young men shall utterly fail. But
they that wait upon the Lord shall
renew their strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they
shall run ^nd not be weary; they
3hall walk and not faint."?Dr.
George R. Lum, in Christian Intelligencer.
Trusting Jesus.
His name shall be called Jesus, for
He shall save His people from their
3ins.?Matt. 1:21.
Oh, how sweet the name of Jesus
is to one who has realized what
those words mean. "Unto them that
believe He is precious." _ (1 Peter
2:7.) The person that believes and
claims the many promises?receives
great joy. Earth has no sorrow but
what Jesus can heal. Yes, Jesus is
the source of all true happiness; a
present help in time of trouble.
When human help fails He is always
near, glad to help and cheer us on
the way. Oh, how we should praise
the name of Jesus. May we, like the
psalmist, say, "I will praise the Lord
at all times. His praise shall continually
be in my mouth, for great
is the Lord and greatly to b- praised;
and His greatness is unsearchable."
(Psa. 145:3." ? M. S. Anderson, in
Gospel Herald.
The Highest Riches.
Poverty is largely a matter of
fancy. The real poverty is in the
mind?in the mind's attitude. There
fs such a thing as being rich without
money. That man is rich whose mind
is rich, whose heart is rich in integrity,
and who has that best of all
blessings, a contented mind?Christian
contentment, says Dr. G. B. P.
Hallock. This last great boon is
gained through making the most of
our little enjoyments, through making
the least of our little lacks,
through doing our best with our little
duties?through trusting in God and
doing the right. To be sure, we cannot
all be money rich. Some money
rich people are very poor. But we
can all be millionaires of character
and of faith, possessing that "godliness"
which with "contentment" is a
crroat <rain tho rsa.1 llftin. the hichest
riches.
Goodness.
Goodness does not mean exemption
from the common ills of life. Every
life has its burdens, every heart ita
own secret sorrow. We would not
minimize the cares which are in- :
evitable. They are not joyous, but j
grievous.?Rev. A. H. Goodenough, |
Methodist, Bristol. Conn.
Lots the Devil In.
Many a man nails up his windows
at some one eln and then lets the
devil himself in at the front door
Hen Hatches Rrood of Snakes.
Peter Wise, living near Omega,
rnd.. had the surprise of his life when
ho pulled a setting hen ofF the nest
thai she had made in the edge of a
strowsfaek. He had noticed the fowl
sitting (here for some time and be%an
to suspect that she was sitting on
d door knob. When he lifted her instead
of a brood of chickens he found
i bunch of snakes, eleven liltle black
fellows, each about seven inches long,
ind all wriggling furiously Wisf
promptly despatched the snake? and
wrung the ben's neck. Wise said he
had no uso for a Inn llial rmilu not
tell a snake's egg from her own.
| OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN. |
I
S REPORTS OF PROGRESS OF 'J
EATTLE AGAINST RUM.
Poem: Lips That Shall Not Toncli
Mine?Where the Bottle is Banished?Whttt
is the Secret of
This Surlden Change of Front?
You are coming to woo me, but not as of
yore,
When I hastened to welcome your ring at
the door;
[ For I trusted that he who stood waiting
me then
Was the brightest, the truest, the noblest
of men.
Your lips on my own when they printed
Farewell,"
' Had never been soiled by "the beverage
of hell!"
But they come to me now with bacchanal
sign.
And the lips that touch liquor must never
touch mine.
I think of tbat night in the garden alone,
When in whispers you told me your heart
was my own.
That your love in the future should faith?
fully be
Unshared by another, kent only for me.
Oh, sweet to my soul is'tne memory still,
Of the. lips which met mine when they
murmured "I will,"
But now to their pressure no more they
incline,
For the lips that touch liquor must never
touch mine.
0, John! how it crushed me, when first in
youi1 face
The pen of the Rum Fiend had written
"disgrace,"
And turned me in silence and tears from
that breath,
All poisoned and foul from the chalice of
death.
It scattered the hopes I had treasured tor
last,
It darkened the future and clouded the
past; v
It shattered my idol and ruined the shrine,
For the lips that touch liquor must never
toucu mine.
I loved you, oh, dearer than language can
tell,
And you saw it, you proved it, you knew
it too well;
But the man of my love was far other
than he
Who now from the "tap-room" comes
reeling to me;
In manhood and honor so noble and
right?
His heart was so true and his genius so
, bright?
And his soul was unstained, unpolluted by
wine,
Bu? the lips that touch liquor must never
touch mine.
You promised reform, but I trusted in
vain; .
Your pledge was made but to be broken
again;
And the lover so false to his promises
now,
Will not, as a husband, be true to his
vow.
The word must be spoken that bids you
departThough
in silence, with blighted affection,
I pine,
I Yet the lips that touch liquor must never
touch mine. .
If one spark in your bosom of virtue remains,
Go fan it with prayer till it kindle again;
Resolved, with "God helping," in future
to be
From wine and its follies unshackled and
free!
And when you have conquered this foe of
your soul?
In manhood and honor beyond his control?
This heart will again beat responsive to
thine, i
And the lips free from liquor will be welcome
to mine.
Where the Bottle is Banished.
The South is going dry. Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi have won their
victories. Other States are fighting
with every prospect of success. The
triumph has been quick and decisive
In each case. Recent results in Ne.w
England and the Middle West show
that the temperance forces in other
Darts have taken fresh courage and
inspiration from the Southern victories.
Prohibition is winning in many
places unexpected triumphs?for nothing
succeeds like success.
' What is the secret of this sudden
change of front? The temperance
leaders are not more brilliant than
formerly. The American voter has
not changed his character. The liquor
business is not more loamsome?it
could not be. And yet the manhood
of the nation is swinging into the
ranks of temperance.
We believe these victories are the
result of the long and seemingly unprofitable
year3 when the prohibition
cause was apparently at a standstill.
Little was done in legislation during
that period, but we are finding that
much was done in education. The
Southern white man was convinced
that the negro and liquor made a
deadly combination. It took murders
and worse crimes, and the avenging
mob law to teach it, but he has
learned his lesson well.
Employer and employes in all our
cities have been convinced that a
armsing worKman ib a, jjuui huirman.
And all classes are learning
that the liquor traffic is repulsive, expensive
and dangerous.
There is a lesson in all this for reformers.
It is the world-old lesson
that patience and industry bring victory
in the long run. The long years
of preparation are as necessary as
the final conflict.?Home Herald.
Sweeping Indictment.
Hon. Carroll D. Wright, while United
States Commissioner of Labor,
made the following assertion: "I have
looked into a thousand homes of the
working people of Europe; I do not
know how many in this country. I
have tried to find the best and the
worst, and while, as I say, the worst
exists, and as bad as under any system,
or as bad as in any age, I have
never had to look beyond the inmates
to find the cause, and in every case,
| so far as my observation goes, drunkenness
was at the bottom of the misI
ari/l nnt 1 o 1 nrl 11 etrl'n 1 KVStem Ol*
CAJ ****** ,
the industrial conditions surrounding
the men and their families."
Distillery Slops Barred.
Bills are to be introduced in the
Ohio legislature to prevent the use
of milk from cows fed on slops from
distilleries, tQ allow the health boards
I of the cities to inspect the dairies
( outside of the cities.
| Xo Liquor Advertisement.
Eight hundred and five newspapers
| are printed ir. Kansas, only twenty
nf which ever mtut any liquor ad
vertisemenis, and four of these
i twenty are printed in the German
language.?Union Signal.
Tcmpi-ramce Notes.
Maine has fewest "retail liquor
dealers" of any State.
First the occasional drinker, after
that th? drunkard chained to the hot
"Th^ next State to so dry will be
Arkansas," says the Western Methodist.
"During tlie las: yea:( poor old
Prohibition Kansas incorporated
more banks that any other State in
ti.f Union. Prohibition North Dakota
was second ar.d Prohibition
Amine t!iird."?Attorney General C.
W Ti-ickett ol' Kansas.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JUNE 28.
Subject: Temperance, Ephesians 5r
0-20 ? Golden Text, Eph. 5:18
?Commit Verses 15, 10-?Commentary.
TIME.?A. D. 62. PLACE.?Rome.
EXPOSITION.?I. No Fellowship
With the Unfruitful Works of Dark*
ness, 0-14. The believer in Christ i*
a child of light (v. 8), there can be
no fellowship between light and darkness,
the believer must therefore refuse
all fellowship with the works oi
darkness (cf. 2 Cor. 6:17)/. This settles
our duty about the theatre, dance,
etc. etc. These works of darkiies?
bring lorth no fruit for God (Rom.
6:21). So far from having fellowship
with them we should "even reprove
them," i. e., expose and rebuke
their badness. "Darkness1'" does much
of its work "in secret," light does it* work
in the open. The things done
by those who are "of tie darkness"
in secret it is disgraceful even to men*
tion. Many sins are better undescribed.
Don't let out the darkness,
hut lpt In tho lieht Th#? llcrht makes
everything manifest, and that whicb
is thus made manifest by turning the
light on to it becomes light itself (v.
13, R. V.) The believer who has
any fellowship with darkness 1?
asleep. The sinner is dead (cf. Eph.
2:1). God calls the sleeping believer,
the one who is having fellowship
with the unfruitful works of darkness,
to awake from his sleep and
arise out from among the dead, i. e.,
from the sinners with whom he le
fellowshipping, as a live man among
corpses (cf. Ro. 13:11).
II. Understanding What the Will ol
the Lord id, 15*17. It will not do to
carelessiy take it for granted that our
walk is all right unless we have
looked very minutely into it. There
are two kinds of walk, the walk of
the unwise and the walk of the wise.
In order to walk wisely we must "buy
up the opportunity" (v. 16 R. V.?
Marg.) As the far sighted merchant
buys up all that which ne sees to be
of large and constantly increasing,
value, so we must lay hold of every
swiftly passing opportunity of doing
eoad and of erowth in the knowledge
of and likeness to God. The tact that /
"the days are evil" is not a reason for,
discouragement, but for more earnest
improvement of every opportu-'
nity that offers. This is a reason for
not being "foolish" (v. 17, R. V., a i
very strong word, literally "without
reason," senseless). The only way to
avoid being foolish is by "under- ,
standing what the will of the Lord
is." The Lord here is Jesut (vs. 2(y
and 8). v
HI. Filled With the Spirit, 18-20. /r
Paul here takes up one especial form
of folly, a fruit of darkness that has
cursed every age since the days of
Noah, drunkenness (Gen. 9:20-25).
Perhaps Paul warns against this spe-.
cial form of folly because it is the
root of almost every other kind of
folly. But by God's wondrous grace
one who has been a drunkard may
be "washed," "sanctified," "justified"
and may then inherit the kingdom of
God (1 Cor. 6:11). In drunkenness
there is "excess" or "riot" (R. V., in:orrigibleness,
abandoned profligacy).
Any one who has had any experience
of life knows how true this is. The
drunkard becomes lost to every noble
ambition and holy desire. Note that
it is drunkenness, not merely with
whisky and rum, but drunkenness
with wine that Paul warns against
and proposes as the cure for drunkenness
the only sure cure, being,
"filled with the Spirit." To be "filled
with the Spirit" means to have the
Holy Spirit take possession of the
whole being (Luke 1:41, 42, 67;
Acts 2:4; 4:8; 31:13, 9, 10). It Is
nearly synonymous with being "bap-.
tized with the Holy Ghost," excepting
that the expression being "baptized"
with the Spirit is never used
of a second experience, while being
"filled" is (cf. Acts 1:5 with 2:1-4
and 10:44-46 with 11, 15, 16). When
one is "drunk with wine," wine takes
possession of every faculty, and when
one is "filled with the Spirit" the
Spirit takes possession of every faculty.
Intoxication is the devil's counterfeit'
of being filled with the Spirit.
The effects of being filled with the
Spirit is that one is lifted on to a supernatural
plane of life and activity.
The best way to keep a man from
having recourse to the devil's stimulation
is to have him filled with God's.
He that knows the wine of heaven
(Is. 55:1) will not want the winu of
hell. The literal force of the words
translated "be filled with the Spirit"
is "be getting filled with (qr in) the
Spirit," i. e., be getting constantly
filled. One filling is not enough, '
there must be a constant inpouring.
As to how to be "filled with the
Spirit" study Acts 2:38; 5:32; Luke
11:14; Acts 4:31; 8:15-17. When
one is filled with the Spirit he will be
full of joy and song (v. 19), there
will be melody not only upon his lips,
but in his heart as well (cf. Is. 65:
11). But the songs will not be the
songs of this world, but "psalms and
hymns /and spiritual songs." The
Spirit-filled man is taken up with
God and Christ (Acts 2:4, 11; 4:31,
33) and his songs will be about
Christ. The Spirit-filled man will
also be filled with thanksgiving (v.
20). He will he returning thanks all
the 1inie (cf. Ps. 34:1) and "for all
things." His Spirit-illumined soul
will see something to be thankful to
(iod for in everything (1 Cor. 1:4; 1
Thess. 1:2, 3; 2; IS; 2 Thess, 1:3;
2:13; Axis 5:41; 1G:25; Job 1:21).
142,000 Knssian Political Prisoners.
Alexis Smirnoff, a Russian editor,
who arrived in New York a few days
ago. said he had come here to study
economic conditions. He declared
that more than half a million Russians
were in exile and 14 2,000 in
prison chieflv becaus? or political 01fenses,
and that a large number of the
exiled were becoming the victims of
diseases that the Government made
no aDcaren* etfnrt to rlieck.
Uog 1'atrncs a I"'ivr-I*ouna l'lke.
A pet water spaniel belonging to a
Clear Lake (Iowa) fisherman swam
out into the lake carrying around his
neck a fish line, with spoon hook, attached.
When he swam back to shore
a fine five-pound pike was on the
hook and he proudly dragged it to
his master.
Doctor Fined $211 For One Drink.
Procuring a single drink for a
thirsty friend from Massachusetts
cost Dr. George B. Hunter $211, the
amount ot a nne imposed at Draiuehoro.
Vt., on the charce of pr?scribing
liquor for other than medicinal
purposes. Tho penalty for the second
offense is $500.