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At last an elaborately disheveled fady, with a sad smile and .a low trainante voice, said: "When I was iquite a child I had a possession I dearly, dearly loved?a poor old doll ,with no legs and arms and no features?just an ordinary ninepin it was, but it was almost the only thing I cared for in the world! Do you know, I have so often wished I could see its poor old round head and long neck once more!" There was a touch of pathos about this that touched all with any tendency to sentiment. The Chela himself was charmed by the simplicity and poetry of the request, which he readily undertook to gratify. For some minutes he stood with folded arms, absorbed and silent, with his eyes bent on one of the open windows. At length he came out of -rtr* f n 44Tf VA11 I XIAO ic?ciJu tv iiu a oiat u it juu look inside the chair upon which you are sitting, there wilL your long lost ninepin be," he said. The lady started up with a cry of rapture. "How can I thank you!" and then she gave a pretty little moan of dismay. "But?inside the chair! Oh, Mrs. Staniland, may I? may I have it cut open? I'm a foolish wretch, I know; but I should like to see my poor old plaything once more!" "Oh, my dear,"" said Mrs. Staniland, "how can you wait to ask? Cut it open by all means." It was a large armchair, very luxuriously padded, and when the cretonne covering was removed it re,' vealed a richly brocaded stuff, imitated from an old pattern; this was Blit up with as little damage as possible, and a white lining appeared underneath, which was also cut open; the condition of each covering proving conclusively that it could not hava been tampered with, for the stitches were strong and the material still unfrayed. The excitement reached a climax; the floor was gradually strewn with horsehair, and fleck from the disemboweled chair, which began to present a limp and emaciated appearance; but nowhere in its recesses was the interesting ninepin. ,4I am very sorry," the Chela confessed, with his first approach to concision, "but hier among so many indifferent or opposing individuals, I gannot goncentrate my will power upon a gommon ninepin. If I gontin ue till morning light I shall do nodIng; nevare, nevare. And the broder out on the balgony is gone away!" This statement was received in chilling silence, broken by a few dry coughs; Mrs. Honiton, who had just refurnished her drawing-room, deeded that it was not expedient to have the Chela at her own house, and Mrs. Staniland already regretted that she had allowed hers to be the scene of such a fiasco. "Perhaps," suggested Babcock, "your Mahatma might do something for you if you ask him?" The Chela seemed struck by an idea. "Now, listen," he said half aioua. "My Aianatma is far away .n Thibet; don't you think that if I write to him and get a ledder back hier in this room, these people will beleaf?" "Not a doubt of it," said Babcock. "Capital notion! How will it come?" "It will fludder from the ceiling down," said the Chela. "I want you all to have still patience," he said, addressing the assembly. "I am going to write to my Mahatma in Thibet, and you shall see the answer when it arrives, and hear also what he has to say." Babcock conducted him to a small writing cabinet, where the Chela hastily scribbled a few lines. "I shall next place it on a magnetic gurrent, and it will instantly to Thibet transported be," he explained, as he stepped out upon the balcony and stood there, holding out his mystic billet in the warm starlit stillness. In spite of themfeelves, the majority were impressed by the sight of the tall, strangely attired figure standing silent there, and there was a murmur of approbation when he re-entered, saying quietly, "It is gone, and now, until the ledder arrive, berliaps-some laty will a iiddle song sign." Some one sang "Good-by," and after the applause had subsided, the Chela said excitedly: "The ledder will be soon hier, in anoder minute." "Sharp work to and from Thibet | in ten minutes," said Babcock. "There is no time and no space for the true adept," answered Nebelsen; j but the anxiously awaited letter un- j accountably declined to deliver itself. "If somebody would again upon me Diano oiay, me c-neia suggesieu at last, feeling himself very much in the situation of the priests whom Baal so ungratefully left in the sacerdotal lurch. But at last, when the general attention was despairingly directed to the performer who was just sitting down at the piano, a sudden exclamation from Babcock startled the room, and all eyes perceived a pink, cocked hat note slowly sailing down | from the ceiling and drifting toward the Chela's feet. In the reaction which followed, all gathered eagerly around him. while, with flushed face and triumphant smile, lie picked up the mysterious missive. "T tolt you." he said, proudly. "the Mahatma has vindicated the cause by sending 10 you tins greeting," and he reverently unfolded the corked hat and !>egan to read the contents to himself. Many who had remained skeptical and uumoved thrpugh all the preced $ v'/O/M v \}> ?</ *!/ v*/ \t/ & vl/tf/vl/vt^ )/ v|a{/ I vt>v; K'/ st> v*> ^ v' / >'/ vV 'S1'? v'^ Vj'V? i'/^KtKt/V/WlAWw^vVUAww^KV^v'Mvwwwvww | ??i<l>\>>a<\t/vO\f/\t>;>>\>/\l/'l>vl/?t)'*At>it/vt/\t/\tAt/V|/\>At/ I JN IDOL i ing marvels began to waver now, and on all sides there was a consuming anxiety to hear what the Mahatma had to say. It was not gratified. Nebelsen, after studying the note with a confused and angry face, crushed it in his hand and thrust it into his sash. "But mayn't we look?" cried Mrs. Honiton. "I should so love to see what an occult note looks like! " "J am not able to communicate the gontents," said the Chela. "Too tremendous for our weak minds to grasp?" inquired Bal^pock. "Quite right," was the answer; "to read it aloud would not be of advantage, and after this I do not think I shall succeed in obtaining any more results this evening." The announcement brought back the former frost in increased severity; eyebrows were significantly lifted, and smiles of private incredulity " ? ' * i?? XT ^ r Vi o rl n ireeiy muuigt^u iu. nuuuuj' uai& ? good word to say for a faith which was not even able to entertain them for a single evening. Mrs. Staniland began to send people downstairs, where a light supper had been provided. "You never touch supper, I know, Herr Nebelsen," she said, as she passed him. "To-night, yes," he replied. "Oh, then, perhaps you will take some one down by and by," she said, with a marked contrast to the distinction she had shown him earlier in the evening, and left him standing, humbled, but patient, in the emptying room, where he aroused Sybil's compassion. "I mustn't?till I've seen everybody else go," she said to Babcock, who was hoping to secure her as his companion. "Nobody has asked that pretty Miss Chatterton; come with me ai\d be introduced." When she had got rid of him thus, and only a few scattered couples were left, she went up to Nebelsen. "Will you be very good and take me down for some supper?" she said. "Not now, it's crowded, and it will be pleasanter out on the balcony." She stepped outside, and .he followed with reverential submission. When they were both seated, Sybil macie some oramary remarK; uul uc was so long silent that she began to feel uncomfortable. At last he spoke. "I haf seddled in my mind to renounce my Mahatma," he said, glancing at her to see how she took this tremendous piece of information. "Have you?" said Syybil, feeling, in spite of her sympathy, a very strong inclination to laugh. "Why?" "Because," said Nebelsen, vehemently, 'he is so imbolite, he does not know how to behafe. In Thibet they are?well, not schendlemen, and a long time I haf borne it batiently. But to-night it is too much. I drusted all to him?and he leaf me quide alone! Other Chelas of less standing are assisted to make manifestations, but for me there is noding done. So from to-night I will no longer a Chela be?I chuck up." "I'm so glad," said Sybil. "I think, it's so sensible of you." "You do? And you are glad that I renounce? Ah, you do not know how happy you make me when you say that!" "And don't you believe in theosophy any more?" "I beleaf the same as ever?yes. That to-night I obtained only a few phenomena makes noding?it is not ungommon that the will-bower and magnetic currents will not work; there will be agsidents and breakdowns?shust as on a railway line. And, you saw, there did arrive the ledder from my Mahatma." "But you wouldn't show It to us, you know." "That is where my Mahatma was so inconsiderate. He writes me a ledder, but he take care that I should be unable to show it, or read it. I will tell you, so that you will see how insulting he can make himself. When I open the note I see in Greek characters, and forgif me that I repeat such worts to you at all, but I see written there: 'Do not a damfool be!' " Sybil was obliged to caress her lips somewhat assiduously with the feathery head of her fan before she could express her indignation with becoming gravity. "After that, you know, there must be and end com. And so to-night I shall wride him a formal resignation. He has never taken any pains when I gonsult him. Sometimes he never answers one wort; sometimes the answer when it comes is?well, it is not moch. I will tell you one instance. There is a young frient of mine, a bainter?but you know him, he made that bad picture of you in the gallerie?he is named Campion." "Well?" said Sybil, suddenly serious. "Well for seferal weeks he is very unlucky?altogether, as you say, off his golors. He lose his name, his frients, and his money and his work; he is ill, he worries, and he cannot tell why; and all the time he never guessed till I tolt him that it was all caused by one leedle ogly idol." "And when you told him," said Sybil, "did he believe it?" "At first?no; but in the end?yes, as moch almost as I. And this will show you what my Mahatma is like? I write to ask him what is the best thing for Mr. Campion to do, and he reblies that the only way is to send (he idol back to the giver! and that is shust the one thing which Mr. Campion will not do." "Why?" asked Sybil, shocked that Ronald could put any faith in such an extravagant explanation, and hoping lo find he was less credulous than Ncbeisen seemed to believe. "tJPCilllSe II?rf JHl.vn It miuiu uc vunardly and selfish, and 1 confess he is quite right, and the Mahatma has inadp a grand moral mistake to gif advice at all. Is'o matter, now, once ail auu;uui ui. cuc cApuiuiwuv ??v*? . red paint, and its sequel. "And he is afraid now?" "When I see him last he was derrily afrait, and I cannot help thinking that unless something is soon done that idol will do a moch worse act. Till now he plays the Poltergeist, but that cannot always continue." Sybil gave a little shiver. "I wish you hadn't told me all this," she ! said. "And now let us go in." CHAPTER Xn. For Old Soke's Sake. As Sybil thought over Nebelsen's revelations she found it difficult wholly to resist the impression they made upon her. They had aroused the superstititon, which, in spite of : education, is more or less latent in so many of us. She had only to insist upon taking the idol back, and when he saw that nothine alarmine haDnened to her, he would be cured of his morbid fancies. Perhaps Nebelsen's Mahatma, whoever he might be, was right in this at least. Impulsive Sybil no sooner conceived this resolve than she was im- j patient to carry it out. She must j save Ronald, and if?well, if there was anything dreadful about the idol, as to which she could not reason away all her terrors?it was only just that she should bear the brunt of its inexplicable malice. The following day was Sunday, and as the afternoon drew on, Miss Sybil, who was accustomed to restrict her devotions to the morning service, astonished her aunt by announcing that she was going to church again that . evening. \ Mrs. Staniland, as Sybil had antici- j pated, did not propose to accompany J her, but sent one of the housemaids, , who attended in the worst of tempers, having made other plans for spending me evening. ^ Romanoff Road looked more Area- , dian than ever in the warm Sabbath stillness, and under a Bky which was just beginning to melt from throbbing blue to a luminous green. There was ^io one to be seen except a pair of lovers parting at a corner, and the ; lamp lighter beginning his rounds at the end of a turning. . And now Sybil was at the studio door, and it seemed to her that some ] one was within. Ronald often sat . and smoked there, she know, in the 1 evenings. ' She had Louisa as chaperon, or rather duenna, but she began to wish she had not come, and to hesitate. * Suppose Ronald^'s man or a model * were to come to the door, what should she say? Her hand was already on the bell, * when from within a peal of laughter rang out on the silence, and she shrunk back, terrified. For it was laughter that conveyed an insult, full of course triumph and cynical/mockery, and yet?it was like J Ronald's laughter, as it might become after some sad deterioration. She turned to the maid with a white face and startled eyes. "I?I don't think I will go in just now after t all, Louisa. Mr. Campion seems en- ^ gaged." ^ "Just as you think best, miss, I'm t sure," said Louisa, primly; and they went back to Sussex place. On his return to his lodgings, which were in a quiet street in Paddington, Nebelsen set about the business of repudiating his Mahatma. It ? took *him some hours to compose a document which should strike a poig- 0 nant remorse in his guru's unsympathetic bosom, but he finished it at last. "I will not send it by Babu v^uu ivivjuaic^ juvii) i "because he will want to talk and to ? argue, and induce me to retract. I will dispatch it to the Mahatma my- ? self by occult means. He will get it quite as soon." And then his pupilage was over; the vision of transcendent knowledge and power faded; he could no longer flatter himself with the secret con- c sciousness of superiority to the rest 1 of mankind; he had deliberately reduced himself to their level. 8 To be Continued. 13 ^ t One Little Screw. i I E Advertising is a subtle science, so j p subtle, in fact, that by most of the people it is regarded as more or less j. of a game of cbance. This is a mis- ^ take. There is nothing in the world a more certain than advertising if it is j. properly done. You can make a fail- j ure in anything?any line of business r ?if you do not go about it with a t full understanding of its details and ^ careful attention to them. Leave one single, little, insignificant screw out ^ of a locomotive, and sooner or later there is going to be a smash-up. t Whenever advertising doesn't pay jj there is a loose screw or a lost one some place. Two many advertisers do not look beneath the surface.? Current Advertising. e Irving and His Cats. A new story is told illustrating Sir E Henry Irving's kindness of heart. An f old lady came to him asking employ- j _ ment. i He telephoned to his business man- t ager inquiring if there was any em- j _ ployment at the theatre that could be I ? found for her. "Absolutely nothing I ?nothing at all." ^ Irving suggested that she might look after the cats. The manager j. telephoned back that there were al- g ready three women looking after the cats. B "Well," said Irving, "you must v find her something. Let her look after the three women that are looking _ after the cats."?Human Life. c n Stand-pipes of concrete, over 100 j ieei mgn auu miy teui m uiauieiui, liave become actualities. About C000 pieces of crockery are 0 broken on each trip of a first-class ? ocean liner, E more, I shall be able myself to help Mr. Campion!" "Herr Nebelsen," said Sybil earnestly, "I don't think you ought to encourage him in these morbid fancies ?I beg your pardon, but how can I speak of them as anything else? You can't seriously believe yourself that an idol can have any Sort of power!" "Exactly the same as Mr. Campion say at first. But let me tell you how he was convinced," and he gave her J 3 fflgpKgg^ i The diamond, so long the hardest known substance, now has two rivals, the silicide and the deoride of titanium?products of Heri Moissan's electric furnace?being claimed to be as hard. An incandescent lamp in its green shade will, when turned upward toward the ceiling, spread a soft and pleasantly diffused light, plenty strong enough for a room where no one is reading. When the lamp is so used no shadows are cast. Science so far has failed to furnish any explanation of the mystery of seedless fruits. They are not the outcome of the work of man. . Man perpetuates them; he does no more. The seedless orange was found in a state of seedlessness. A Belgian engineer has been commissioned by the committee for the international exhibition at Brussels in 1910 to erect a tower at Ixelles, which will be much higher than the Eiffel tower. The cost is estimated at $240,000. A movement has been started in the scientific world favoring the adoption of the word Kelvin to designate the commercial unit of electrical energy at present known as the kilowatt-hour, as a recognition of the <-? ? lato T.orH Kelvin to DCI V1LCO \JM. tuv ^ electrical science. One of the most curious phenomena of geography is found on the southern coast of the Island of Sephalonia, in Greece. It is a stream of salt water which for an unknown period has left the almost tideless sea and flowed inland with a volume sufficient to furnish waterpower to two mills. Milking by machinery, introduced last year on a large diary farm near Notingham, Eng., has proved highly successful. The machine is a Scotch invention and is operated by a gas engine. The entire plant is worked by a man and a boy, who milk seventy cows within one and a half hours. The proprietor says the saving in ;ost of labor will pay for the machine in less than two years, to say aothing of the gain in cleanliness compared with handwork. Rabies is a far more common disease than is generally admitted; so :hat Dr. E. C. Shroeder, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, urges conitant observation of dogs and their nuzzling in public places. Recent progress has greatly lessened its ef!ects, for, since Negri's discovery in L903 of the distinguishing micro-organisms in the nerve cells, the disjase is early recognizable, and the Pasteur treatment is effective in curng it. The mortality of sixty and ;ighty per cent, in untreated bites on lands and head has been reduced to ).75 and 1.25 per cent. THE DECEITFUL FARMER. lis Outrageous Traffic in Watered Stock. We might well cease our railing it Rockefeller; the farmer is the real nonopolist. We might as well quit lammering Harriman and cussing Carnegie until we can squeeze the vater out of the farm produce. For he farmer is caught with the goods, tnd science tells us the exact proporion of the water in his "truck." , For example, beef is 76.5 per cent, vater, mutton 75, lamb 63.9, and fork 60.9. Such a watering of stock s enough to make a traction monopilist look like a drougth in the desert. Milk is 77 to 88 per cent, water, ,nd cream 32.2 to 48, and this is even tefore it has come in contact with the lump. Potatoes, our old reliable puds, are 76.7 per cent, water, yams 9.6, carrots, 85.7, cabbage 89.6, turlips 90, spinach 90.6, muchrooms 13.7, and cucumbers 96. What comort Is there for a vegetarian in such igures as these? And even the stalwart onion, the ioliath of the grocery, is 89.1 per ent. water! Only a smell more than .0 per cent, of real onion! Fruits are 85 to 90 per cent, water, ,nd early spring strawberries are learly all water, and sour water at hat! Even the great American hen ias seemingly been corrupted by our nnH#>rn methods, and eegs are 85.7 ler cent, water. And is this water capitalized? It t? Look at your grocery bills and iehold! At the sight of them we are lmost ready to sing a new "Marselaise," to cry, "Conspuez le farmer! L bas his watered stock!" But we efrain. Secretary Wilson tells us hat the farmer's boy insists on comng to the city. Let the deluded vicim come. Let him hasten to his unioing. Let us send our boy out to un the farm, and the next generaion shall see our revenge!?Milwau:ee Journal. The Heal Reason. That midsummer days are the longst in the year is because heat ex tanas; . ?that criminals weigh less than noral men, is because they're lighter ingered; ?that a man swears at a dull razor, s because the pesky thing lost its emper first; ?that roses are referred to as blushing," is because they are properly ashamed of the prices they j iring; ?that a wave is called a swell, is lecause it arrives at the shore in ;reat style and goes away broke; ?that the army of unemployed is lot decreasing is because its members mnt too many afternoons off a week; * i- ~ rl o \r a orn />1n ha LI! cl L HI C |)I CDCat-uu.T w vtuww I .re considered so exclusive, is bsause the members necessarily all aove in the upper circles.?Warwick ames Price, in The Bohemian. Owing to instructions .in the will f W. W. Wilson, auctioneer, Southnd-on-Sea (Eng.), his favorite pony ollowed him to the grave and wa3 hot at Billerlcav. *%, Household /" | \ Matters. J 1 * Putting Salt in Lamps. Putting a tablespoonful of salt into l kerosene lamp after filling it will prevent the lamp from exploding, but will not mar the lighting quality of the oil.?New York World. To Clean Ironware. Take two tablespoonfuls of concentrated lye to three quarts of water. It will make-pancake griddles like new and the cakes ^ill not stick. Set the griddles or any vessel to be cleaned where they will keep hot, but not boil, for three or four hours.? New York World. Durable Bubbles. To make bubbles that can be blown big and will last take a piece of pure white soap about the size of a walnut and cut it up in a cupful of warm water. Then add a teaspoonful of glycerine. Stir well and blow from a small pipe. Strawberry juice will make pink bubbles, and orange juice will makeyellowones.?Housekeeper. To Clean Windows. Wet a soft cloth in kerosene, then polish with clean cloth. Finger marks may be removed from windows by putting a few drops of ammonia on a moist cloth. Mortar and paint may be removed from windows with best sharp vinegar. Flower pot stains are removed from window sills by rubbing them with fine wood ashes and rinsing with clean water.?Boston Post. I | xne uuiiuie oihi-ii. I Many of the imported lingerie blouses this season have part of the embroidery done in outline stitch. For instance, a running vine wiU be worked in outline stitcb, -while a bit of solid embroidery, eyelet work or soutache braiding is introduced to give a pleasing combination. This present fashion for outlining and braiding is a boon to the woman whose eyes will not permit the execution of the closer and finer needlework.?Indianapolis News. To Make Inexpensive Ties. i Take an old four-in-hand tie and rip it apart carefully to get the pat- j tern. I make them of pieces of light print, white waist goods, gingham, 1 . chambray or silk and some of them I could not be distinguished from $1 ' ties. I use a single thickness of ( white cotton to line the cotton ones, ' but use flannelette for the silk ones. ( They are easily laundered (do not ( starch them) and will outwear a doz- | en twenty-flve-cent ties, besides they look fresher and are so inexpensive one can have a large variety to choose from. Try it, especially if you have < boys in your family.?Boston Post. 1 I Tea Cozies. The "Old Maid" tea cozies are the j quaintest little affairs seen in an art i shop in a big city. They 'are built < upon the wire frames which resemble ' lamp shade frames, and are bought ' for hat rests. I Upon one of these is mounted the ] quaintest little terra cotta head, witb *hair drawn plainly back into a snug : knot, and with features kindly, but * unmistakably of the spinster type. 1 The wire frame, which simulates a j hoop skirt, is first padded, then plied . with layers of beruffled organdie. It ] Is a clever novelty, and has figured i with popularity as the consolation < prize at bridge parties.?Indianapolis ( News. c Jellied Chicken. Take a large chicken, and after i carefully cleaning and washing it, cut \ it up as though going to stew it. 1 Then place the pieces on a meat J board, and pound them with a potato beater until all the flesh is mashed and the bones thoroughly ^rushed. Place them in a double boiler and ^ pour over them one quart of filtered ^ eold water. Stir in one level tea- e spoonful of salt, fill the lower part of t the double boiler with cold water, and v i ;n nr.il I e I set 1U Wliere tuc na nil! wvn. . From time to time open the upper ; 1 part of the double boiler where the * chicken is, and stir it round. Add no more water to the chicken, but fill tfie lower part from time to time as the water boils away, always adding boiling water after the water j has begun to boil the first time. Let t the chicken cook at least six hours, 1 then take it off and strain through a 1J fine sieve into a bowl. Set away to s cool. When cold skim off the grease, ? which will rise to the top. Underneath you will find a clear hard jelly, This may be served ' cold, a table- E spoonful at a time, chopped fine; or it may be warmed into a soup-, a little at a time, for invalids.?American Home Monthly. I o i s . Recipes. I a I a. Bread Pie.?A good way to use old j) bread. Crumb the bread and soak in o milk; sweeten to suit taste; flavor h with nutmeg, lemon or chocolate; dot v with scraps of butter; bake without top crust and ice the top after baking. Hot Biscuits.?Put a little sr.lt and five teaspoons cream tartar and two P teaspoons soda (leveled off with a n knife) into one quart of flour and c sift. Chop in one-half cup lard and t] add sweet milk to make the right a j consistency to roll cut, rather soft, a It will take about one pint. .tsaKe in v a quick oven. Cottage Pic.?Chop cold meat very fine, boil and mash some potatoes, to | every cup of meat add one-half tea- sc j spoon salt, a little pepper, one teaspoon of finely chopped cooked onion and one-half cup of gravy or stock. Put the meat, seasoning and gravy in g a baking dish, cover with the mashed n potatoes and bake In hot oven until jj golden brown. p Baked Hani.?Soak a ham in cold '' water over night; trim it neatly and cover all over with a thick crust or < flour and water; bake slowly eight ] hours; remove the cri:?t and skin; cover the top with fine cracker ^ crumbs; place in the over, until the 0 crumbs are brown. When cold cut in jr thiD slices. tc t > 1 { 1'for rry daily range JI VUVxffcmong, th<? pfcajcinf fields I OtfW Holy Wrih I m?hj despair.^', V/' 4-- J_?Ttnnnson^ .j ) ???W, OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL. Since service is the highest lot, And all are in one Body bound. In all the world the place is not Which mar not with this bliss bi crowned. The little child in trustful glee, With love and kindness brimming o'er, Many a cup of ministry May for the weary veteran pour. The lonely glory of a throne ? May yet this lowly joy preserve; Love may make that a stepping-stone, And raise "I reign" into I serve." This, by the ministries of prayer. The loneliest life with blessings crowds, Can consecrate each petty care, Make angels' ladders out of clouds. Birds, being glfid. their Maker bless; Bv simple shining, sun and star: And we. whose law is love, serve less By what we do than what we are. ?The Changed Cross. Christian Fellowship. The most arresting feature of the early church is to be found In the intimate fellowship which united its memDers. ine inauguration 01 mis fellowship followed immediately upon the Day of Pentecost. The converts of that day "continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and in fellowship, in the breaking of bread and the prayers." Further, we are told that "the multitude of them that ba? lieved were of one heart and soul; and not one of them said that aught of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things common." . The New Testament bears witness throughout to the establishment and maintenance of such fellowship wherever a Christian church was founded. The whole basis of St. Paul's ethical teaching consist in his conception that the church is the body of Christ, and that its members stand in the most intimatq and vital relations not only to Him but to one another. The very sins which endangered the wellbeing of the church here and there ?whether sins of sensuality, of faction or of strife?consisted in an abuse of this fellowship, and are therefore a witness to the close personal intercourse of all the members of the church. In later times it was this distinctive mark which at once exerted an irresistible attraction upon those who were won to the church and created the greatest suspicion and hostility in the minds of its enemies. It was not as professors of a creed that the Christians were hated and persecuted, but as members of a community, sharers of a common life, the mystery Df which aroused fears that either in cull/ ui muncuu/ it >Ydo a uaugci to the State.?Christian Advocate. Keep on Believing. G. Campbell Morgan says: "The levil is only too glad to take hold of anything whereby he may unsettle one." "Satan, himself, is transformed into an angel of light" (Cor. 11:14), and often presents himself In such a way that a man or woman must be filled with the Holy Ghost to detect him. The Apostle Paul says: "We are not ignorant of his ievices." (2 Cor. 2:11.) Jesus says: "Watch ye, and pray lest ye enter into temptation." (Mark L4:38.) The devil may say; "Look at pour failures." The Apostle Paul says: "Forgetting those things vhich are behind, 1 press toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God, in Christ Jesus" (Phil. J:IS, 14), "looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith." (Heb. 12:2.) By faith ye stand; :he faith of the Son of God, so now :ontinue in the faith. "He will perfect that which con:erneth you" and me. Keep believ ng. The words of a child of God, vho was about to pass out of time nto eternity, were these: "My sins vere many, bub they are all covered >y the blood, and there is plenty of jlood." What more do we need?? ?\ L. Wismer, in Gospel Herald. Core of Onr Faith. We, I conceive, are justified in lolding clearly and boldly, as the rery core of our faith, that God loves iternally and unalterably every creaure He has made; and that our sin, vhile it draws a thick veil over our yes and make it impossible to give is the joy of communion with Him, et never changes Him, never blackns that sun of love in the heavens.? ^ranees Power Cobbe. Strength to Bear Sorrow. Sorrow, grief, agony are realities. Lnd no vote of the company that Viqv nittrVil- n/it trv nviat lo cninc tr? ighten their pressure or soothe their lang. What the good God offers is trength to Dear sorrow. In place if hapipness, which is gone, very ikely forever, He offers blessedness ?He offers tne certainty of His innite help and present stay.?Edward Jverett Hale. Reason. Christianity demands the exercise f reason in separating the non-esenual from the essential, the secondry from the primary. Educationists re agreed that to acquire this abil:y is the chief end of education, and | nly thus can one rise> to true manood.?The Rev. W. A. Hunter, Dener., One Guiding Stream. When the love of God has taken ossession of the soul, and the whole lan is consecrated to His service, life >ses its fragmentary character, and ue guiding stream seems to run irough it. Then all varying and pparently disjointed circumstances nd duties find a fixed and appointed lace.?Marie Hare. Make Jesus the Centre. I The radii of your life will be safe ) long as Jesus is its centre. Sale of 5,000,000 Barrels of Oil. The sale of 5,000,000 barrels o! rude oil at fifty ceuts a barrel to the outhern Pacific Company is anotinced at Austin, Texas. The deverles are to be made covering a eriod of three years. The oil will e stored by the Southern Pacific and sod for fuel for its locomotives on its nes in Texas and Louisiana. I't'uniH.s 111 i>urnm. Consul-General Win. H. Michael, of alcutta. reports that the cultivation F peanuts in Burma is fast becomig recognized as a source of wealth > the province. ? . /.>, . M 5>ctnbai|-^cftod J ' 'vy INTERNATIONAL . ESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 19. v.* 'jfi Subject: Samuel Warns Saul and the People, i Samuel 12?Golden Text, 1 Sam. 12:24?Commit Verses 23, 24?O .nentary. TIME.?10S9 B. C. PLACE.? Gilgal. EXPOSITION.?I. Obey the voice of the LORD, 18-15. Samuel had spent a little time in dwelling upon his own fidelity (vs. 2-5)', but had quickly passed to a recital of the mercies of Jehovah (vs. 6-12). God had given them a king only because they flad demanded one (vs. 12, 13, 17, 19). It was not God's first and best choice for them. Now Samuel calls :hem to look upon the king whom they had chosen and whom God had given. The king they were called upon to gaze upon was a fine speci? ? - / -u -I A . O n \ V..4 t. Uit'U Ula Ulclll \CU. (JUL UUW poor a substitute for God, and how bitter was the disappointment and defeat. Israel was to experience la him. go will it always be with those "J who desire an arm of flesh instead of . uOd to lean upon (Jer. 17:5, 8). But 3od is long-sufTering, and eveh yet '.here was mercy and help for them. I in these verses we have the whole secret of having the Lord for us or igainst us. To have the Lord with as, and consequently to have it well with us, all that is necessary is (1) 'fear the Lord," i. e., hold Him In chat reverent regard that leads to a prompt and constant obedience to Hia will as expressed in His word (Prov. 3:13; 16:6; cf. 1 Jno. 5:3). (2) 'Serve Hiin." (3) "Hearken unt? His voice." (4) "Rebel not against His commandment." (5) "Be fol} towers of the Lord your God" (cf. Eph. 5:1). If on the other hand we 'will not hearken to the voice of fehovah," the hand of Jehovah shall )e against us. There can be no greater calamity than to have the hand of fehovah against us. Samuel pointed '.hem to the whole history of Israel is a connrmauuii ul ms wurus vcl. v. 9). For a comment upon vs. 14, 16;. :urn to Lev. 26:1-39; Deu. 28:1-68; isa. 1:16-20. ' II. Samuel Prays and God Answers, 10-10. Samuel sees the need ** chat the people be brought to a deep realization of their sin. A sign Is , . , needed and he has faith in God that tie will give it. He acted under God's lirection, hence the outcome. He x ialls upon the people to stand atil! ind see the "great thing the Lord will Jo." The Lord is always ready to do great and wonderful things for those who call upon Him with an intelligent faith (Jer. 33:3). In Palestine ,. ~t rains were almost unknown at the Lime of wheat harvest (?f. Pro v. 26:1). But God gave thunder and ;ain in answer to Samuel's prayer (cf. Jh. 7:9, 10; Josh. 10:12; Jas. 5:16 18). There are some who are too wise to believe such stories as this* out their wisdom is a wisdom born of ignorance and prejudice. No one who candidly studies the evidence, both . in the Bible ?nd outside of it,' can doubt that Go<i does give rain, as well as do many other wonderful things,, m direct answer to prayer. To doubt it is not scientific; for it ignores unquestionable facts. The Lord did precisely as Samuel had counted upon His doing, and as he had said that He would do. The result was that "thepeople greatly feared the Lord and Samuel." Nothing makes God mora real to men than a direct answer to prayer, and no man is more feared than the man whom the world knows. | has the ear of God. But fche. world soon forgets (Ps. 106:12,13). The sign was effective, the people saw themselves ae great sinners deserving to die. That is the way in which we all need to see ourselves. That is the way in which we shall see ourselves when we are brought, as Israel was, face to face with God. They did not feel fit to pray for themselves, but felt the need of Samuel's prayers. III. Fear Not, the Lord Will Not . Forsake His People, 20-25. God's oft-repeated message to His people is, '"Fear not." Here He says it to His people even when they have greatly sinned. But they had just made conr fession of their sin. There was pardon for them still. The devil delights to use our past sin to discourage us. God says, "Though you have sinned greatly in the pact, fear not and turn not aside from following the Lord" (cf. Josh. 23:<; Ps. 40:4). Though we may have sfnned grievously in the past, still it is entirely JU1.. r 4-V*~ T rswA pUSSILMe iUl US LU OCl VC LUC ?J\Jl U TT KU all our heart in the future. How true ,, it is of the things of this world, after which thelieartsof mengoastray from the Lord, that they "cannot profit nor deliver." If our salvation depended upon anything in us we should never be saved; but because it depends entirely upon Him, it is always sure. It was the Lord's good pleasure to make Israel " a people unto Himself" (cf. Deu. 7:7, 8; Matt. 11:26; Ro. 9:1318; Jno. 15:16). It is the Lord's good pleasure to-day to make all who receive Jesus as their Saviour and their Lord, a people unto Himself (cf. 1 Pet. 2:9, 10, R. V.). For Samuel to cease to pray for God's people would be for Samuel to "sin against the Lord." There are many professed Christians in our day who are sinnine: aeainst the Lord in this very way (cf. Ro. 1:9; Col. 1:9; 1 Thess. 3:10; 5:17). But Samuel would not only pray, he would also teach. Note well what he would teach, "the good and the right way." The way of obedience to God is not only the right way, it is also the good way. Cow With a Tin Hat. An Elwood (Ind.) man watered his cow in a washboiler, and as the animal pushed her head down to reach the water her horns became wedged in the boiler and ?he could not release herself, and, in consequence, she made a wild plunge down the street. She first dashed into a street car, but the motorman saw her in time and no injury followed, save smashing the headlight! Then the animal plunged into a group of school children, but they escaped without hurt, and she was headed off and thrown as she was making a dash into a store, 1 ne Doner war cur. away and the cow resumed her normal condition. Samoan Volcano Activc. The volcano Mu, of th? Samoan group, has been again in violent eruption, and has destroyed a large tract of valuable farm land. The information came to San Francisco, Cal., by steamship. The natives living in Matatauta have been advised to flee for their lives. According to the last advices the flow was rapidly nparin? Rnlonnlfl and thr> inhabitants were preuarine to leave. H jA I