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J-<fi2H5H5S5H5E5H5H5E5H5E5EE [THE MAN' I By EFF1E ADE ni ^ &15SS5ZSESHSHSE55SE5E5H5E CHAPTER XII. 8 Continued.' "Anything in the wide world, m; larling." "Well, then, let us leave here to morrow and go home. I want to b< at home, dear!" Gervais hesitated only for a mo ment; her vc'.ce was so sweet am fbve laden. "So be it, my own; to-morrow w will go home; but I am afraid w Bhall disappoint the folk a little; re member mother told us they were or >rnWfntr all anrtc nf fpstivitips in th' shape of a welcome to us." "They shall have them all; but t tell the honest truth, Gervais, sha'n't be sorry to miss the welcome So ourselves; I would rather stea juietly Into our home." Enid had moved away to the win flow, but she heard his impassionec "My own darling!" and saw him beni and kiss the lovely, flushed face. "And you consent?" laughed Dor othy. "Can I refuse you anything?" She clasped her hands. "I am so glad! Do you know, will confess to you both, I have beei longing to go for ever so long; bu you were so happy, I did not like t< be selfish and tear you away." Gervais imprisoned her two handi UU l.'rvo ill nia, auu ^icsocu uxo 11^0 iv "You will give your orders, as sooi as possible, I suppose, my lady," hi paid, smilingly. "We can travel witl your maid and one of the other men t shall leave Thompson behind to ar --.range everything here." Dorothy danced over to the othe: side of the room and took up a Brad Bhaw. "We will go early," she declared "about eleven. Here is a lovely train 11.15, to town, and then we shall ge the express down, after some lunch eon in town." The earl bent over her chair anc kissed her hair. "Splendid!" he laughed. "Only w< Bha'n't go to London at all." "Not go to London! " repeated Dor othy, blankly, and Enid saw her fac< tall. "Certainly not. We are close t< Clapham Junction, and shall get i train direct through fron; there. I would be absurd to go to Lonuon, darling." "Oh, yes; absurd altogether." Gervaig pressed his lips to her hail again; as he was standing behind hei he could not see the expression o: her face. Dorothy was thinking rapidly. "What excuse can I make?" shi mused, impatiently. "If I could onlj be in London an hour to-morrow!" She turned over the pages of th< Bradshaw idly, and she thought ovei every possible means that could sue ceed, finding none. She suddenl] looked at Enid, and her heart leaped She shut the book hurriedly. "Yes, you are right," she said, turn ing her head to let her lips meet his in a kiss. "Clapham will be the best Oh, I am so glad to go!" The next mdrning, before Enid was awake, Dorothy came into her room ' She was in her dressing gown, a Ion? robe of palest blue silk, and, with hei hair falling on her shoulders, lookec positively lovely. She stood by Enid's bedside. , "I want you to go to London for m( to-day," she said, abruptly. Enid half raised herself on her plllow and lifted her wonderful eyes questioningly to the other's face. "You mean," she said, hurriedly "that I am to go back to Mrs. Lawson's?" "I mean nothing of the sort. It is out of the question that you are tc go back to such a place. Gervais anc I were only discussing your futurt last night, and as I was appointed your guardian by my father's will, w? agree that your proper place is witt me till you are of age or marry?" Enid's face flushed. "I prefer to be independent,"-sh? murmured. Dorothy smiled coldly. remaps so; oniy l ODject. AS tnt law gives me power over your movements, I wish you to live with me Besides, were I disposed to listen tc , your wishes, Gervais would not permit me. But I did not come to discuss that. I have something else tc say." She stopped, and Enid waited, hei lips quivering just a little at th cold, indifferent tones. She shrunk in a strange, indescribable way from taking up hei abode with the Earl and Countess ol Derriman, but she saw that it was useless to argue just at present, and + + 19 ~ V Hi- J * - iuai 11 Mie buuLuiLieu lor a lime snt might probably get her own way and be allowed to follow her artistic career. Dorothy unfolded a strip of paper "I want you to go to London by th( 11.15 train. I have appointed Maris to be your maid till I can engage i better one. She will go with you and accompany you back to Bromlej Manor this afternoon. I can't spar? Virginie, or I would not ask you to dc this." "I am only too delighted to go dear Dorothy." Enid spoke quicklj onrl ttMitVifiillx* "Take a hansom and drive to al the places I have marked, and giv< the orders I have written down. B< sure you do them all, and bring awaj the things that I wish brought. Yoi understand?" Enid took the paper. "I understand," she answered And then, without another word, Dor otliy swept away. Enid dressed quickly, and then began to busy herself with packing. Enid drove away with a curious sensation in her breast, and a vexed pained look in her eyes that Dorothj was quick to see. "That .VOUfO" Jarlv want? manatr, iH5E5ESHSE5Z5E52SH5E5Z5E55i5>" c SHE LOVED]!= nj \ LAIDE ROWLANDS. 1 J J K I' *> t !S25H5E5E5H5HSH5ESHSH5E5Et!l7y' b ing," she thought to herself. "She is ? altogether too priggish to suit me." E Arrived in London, Enid went cony scientioijsly through the list of places f her cousin had written down. , She found that Dorothy's commlse sions took up a great deal of her time, g and, after lunching at the Bristol, as " Lord Derriman had told her, she dis- c * covered one more errand, and then they must go quickly to the train. e She read the address out to the e cabman: ^ "Office of the Magnitude Line of e " Steamers, Ark street, Piccadilly," and a e then she wondered what possible interest Dorothy could take in the list 0 of passengers that sailed to Mel- 0 * bourne on the Penelope the day be- *< e fore- s * However, it was no business of hers, so she went into the office and 0 ' received the list desired without even a 3 glancing at it. * She was tired out when the train steamed into the tiny station tnat was the nearest to Bromley Manor, and looked very pale as she alighted on s. the platform. v A groom came to her at once. ? I "Her ladyship is waiting for you, j 1 miss," he said, respectfully. Enid looked surprised. She knew 5 that they could only have arrived about an hour previously. <j B There was a sparkle in Dorothy's steel-gray eyes?an air of excitement c 1 about her. ^ e As they started off she turned e 1 round abruptly. g "You have been everywhere?" "Yes." ' . t] "And brought everything?" C( r "Yes," said Enid, once more. They did not speak again till they B reached the lodge gates. "Where are p ? the parcels?" inquired Lady Derri- c ? man, suddenly. f Vsnn IV am W iviai la uao iucui. Dorothy frowned. "And the?the papers?" sSe asked. a 1 "I have only one paper, Dorothy. e You mean this?" a 5 Dorothy put out her whip hand and 0 grasped the envelope. The color - deepened In her face, then paled r, 5 quickly, as she thrUtet It Into a side ri pocket. She felt almost suffocated as b > she hastened the ponies ailong the ave- Sj i nue and drew them up, breathless, be- jj t fore the wide door. I T She flung the reins to the groom c; and jumped out, while Gervais came jc down to assist Enid. ' f< r "Welcome to Bromley Manor, r Cousin Enid," he said, with a kind y, f smile. "This is your home hence- 6i forth, and I hope you will be happy ^ here." a s Enid tried to thank him, but she n r had no words. As she turned away e she looked back. t] i "Is Lady Derriman here?" r "You mean my mother? No." A B] - shade just passed over the young a t man's face. "I hoped she would have u . been here to receive us when we came; but, you see, everything was ts - done in a hurry. It seems almost like ri 5 a bad omen, not seeing her sweet face t< . here, where she has been so long." jt "Oh, don't say that!" Enid an- tl 5 swered, hurriedly. ai , He laughed at her serious face and q ; sad look. ' a "Why, I did not know you were n I superstitious, Miss Leslie," he cried. r< 3 Enid made no answer, but followed .tl the housekeeper quietly to her rooms. S( ; Dorothy had managed to slip away, and, locked in her boudoir, which n - Gervais had shown her so proudly 3 directly they arrived, she stood by the 6" hearth and burned the paper Enid p, , had brought. Among the list of first class passengers she had read two ti names?Mr. George Laxon, of Lon- ei j don, and Barbara Laxon, his daugh- e, > ter. a, I As the last ash crumbled away, she > clasped her hands, and gazed at the h [ blackened ashes in triumph. it ; "I am saved!" she said to herself. s] T 1 XI ill JL M i ouveu: 1 i;au ureauie wunout iear tl now he is gone, and think of my love m without dread! Oh, Gervais, my dear, > <lear love!" CHAPTER Xm. | The First Cloud. t( Enid's first sensation on waking at si > Bromley Manor was one of distinct g - pleasure; the eveningbefore had been tl . one of the very nicest she had ever > spent in Dorothy's society, and she re- tl joiced at the delight she saw dawn tl on Lord Derriman's face as he real- di > ized at last he was at home with his wife beside him. a . _ Dorothy was in her riding habit, ci waiting for her husband, on the col- g; [ onnade* that ran in front of the i manor, as Enid came down. She was e] I humming to herself, and beating time tl > witl^ her daintily booted foot. If [ Enid explained briefly where she ti . was going, and Dorothy's eyes grew jr vexed and restless for a moment, a while a shade fell over the brilliancy tc ? of her face. It almost seemed as u i though she hated to hear Knebwell t Hall mentioned. "Can I do anything for you?" Enid r asked, as she was moving away. b< ; "No," answered Lady Derriman, > laconically. "I take no interest in that horrid old place." t( Enid could not help the exclamat tion of surprise and deprecation that n: escaped her lips. 'c 1 "Oh, Dorothy, how could you say a; } so? Such a lovely house, and those ft ; magnificent grounds!" "What an enthusiast you are! Al- <j i most as bad as Gervais!" "Who is taking my name in vain?" ai inquired the earl, coming out, looking . marvelously handsome in his riding - attire. b; "We are discussing ancestral pos- gi . sessions," Dorothy laughed, just turn- w ing to him. "Enid's sentiments would tl ; touch you. She worships a house be- L cause it is old, because lots of disa' greeable people have lived and died in it, and because the most objection- Pi . able uarf of one's pxistpnr? nnrnolv J iii hildhood, was passed in Its pre- f* [nets." f "Then, indeed, I do agree heartily Cm ith Miss Leslie!" Dorothy gathered her habit afresh 1 her hand, and beat the cloth im- sr, atiently with her small whip. y "Pedigree is a thing I never had .11 tie smallest sympathy with, nor do I alue the ancient belongings simply ecause they are ancient; and to rove that I am speaking facts, I may nform you both that it is my sovreign will that Knebwell Hall shall e handed over to the care of stran- Th ers without any unnecessary delay." "You are going to sell it?" said Jnid in low, surprised tones. "Shades of the dead and gone ?j0 [nebwells, what heresy!" answerod ch )orothy, in mock dismay. Then she am dded, laughingly: "No, Mistress Inid, I am only going to let it, that's 11. You may breathe again. Here ome the horses. Let's be off, Ger- ^ot an ais; we must be home early, as Mr. troughton arrives to luncheon." " Gervais, with a grave look on his tor ace, went up to her mount, examined ly verythihg carefully, then put her up bel s easily as though Bhe had been a ?te eatherweight, not a woman. ?ea Gervais said very little as they rode e?g n, and Dorothy had all the conversa- reg Ion to herself at first. At last he bef eemed to rouse himself. ing "You were not in earnest just now, Th f course, my darling?" he said, with smile. jjj1' Dorothy looked at him.' ^ "In earnest; what about?" . km "About Knebwell." . sio She knitted her brows for an In- the tant. y ] "Yes, I am," she replied, quietly. ?01 Quite in earnest. And what is more, "0< have already put the matter into ^ tie hands of several agents." Jta Gervais was silent for awhile. Be] "I wish you had consulted me first, ger ear." of "I did not think there was any ne- reE essity," she observed coldly. She **ic ras compelled to speak like this, oth- ?y* rwise he might have seen how jea' dgety and nervous she was. ?Y4 "Surely there can be no doubt on iat< hat subject. My wife should always hai ome to me for advice and aid." \ &ni "But, Gervais, darling, you are aburd. What aid or advice could I "Or ossibly want in this particular j^0. ase?", Gel "What is your reason, darling?" he hor sked, gently. no "The place takes an enormous "ye mount of keeping up, and to leave it 1 mpty with a whole host of servants s its only inhabitants Is preposterus-" phj "But you are a rich young lady, so emember. You have no need to woi aise an income like this." Dorothy a p it her lip and said nothing. "Be- nec ides, my darling, I can not help say- W01 ig I don't like the idea. You know1 am head of the county, and as such en, hallenge criticism. All the world I cari nows that you brought me a large oth srtune. Now what will they think Spi hen they learn that I have permitted anc ou to let Knebwell? Why, they will Pla ay, of course, that your money is be- ^ ig taken for the Derriman estates, nd that you are compelled to Jraise ajj lore on your own. I have pride, Woi lorothy, and my pride rebels against of his!" it, : "You are a dear, stupid old .thing!" befl tie cried, seeing that to continue this iscussion in its present form was I ^ ttle short of madness. " Bun "Another thing," went on Gervais, mu iking no notice of her affectionate sen udeness; "I was going to broach it con ) you at Weir Cottage, but somehow ter went completely out of my Goc loughts. Would it not be a kind ction, dear, to offer Knebwell to Sir or ^ eorge? You know how poor they the re, and this would be a kindness, if or ot a positive charity. With a home to i jnt free, he could manaee to keeD a ci le place in order, and maintain bis ual DCial position!" Dorothy bent and stroked the 1)?^ lare's neck. j "The most Quixotic arrangement 1 of < per heard of, and consequently im< be ossible of being carried out!" day Gervais tightened his reins thi9 to 1 me, and his horse pricked up its -j?y ars. As a rule the hands .that guid- j I him, though firm, were as gentle th? 3 down. A cloud no larger than a man's the and had arisen, but small as it was, the; was still there, and shed a gloomy BP*1 ladow on the peace and contentment lat had filled the earl's breast thia lorning. To be Continued. ane ' live Mail Bag Was Robber. free "Office robbed last night. No clew life ) thief. Loss about $300." re3! That was the telegram that came dmming over the wires from Cerrc a ordo, 111., to the Chicago postoffice us illuming. Postmaster Campbell answered tc QT le postmaster at Cerro Gordo: "Was W0I le money in a cigar boi, 'Bouquet m0< e Straw' brand?" hon When the wires had been used for ! by i brief time the down State official | ban ime to, and then there were apolo- ! 1 les. Through Cerro Gordo's mind there owly percolated the remembrance lat just before he locked his office qui, ist night he placed his cigar-boxed an^i easure in an empty mail sack, fear- disc ig thieveB. Then the last thing he id was to send all the empty sacks > Chicago.?Chicago Telegram to * le Philadelphia Record. tur< row The Mystery of It. Publican?"And how do you like j b eing married, John?" j tjje John?"Don't like it at all." | thr< Publican?"Why, what's the mat- I Ave ?r wi' she, John?" John?"Well, first thing in the j lorning it's money; when 1 goes T ime in to icy dinner it's money ; divi gain; and at supper it's the same. sl)o: othing but money, money, money!" Publican?"Well, I never! What n cVio wi' nil that mnnpv?" V John?"I dunno. I ain't given hex now ay yet."?London Punch- had inir Modern progress has its drawacks. How is the boy of to-day ente oing to by proud of his first boota mai lieu boots are no longer sold in j era 16 market places??From "Braiu enks,"' in The Commoner. An average of 200 applications for T atenis is received at the Patent Of- wor ce every working dav in the year.. 10n? ?groan?Mil i iimm?a?iw? The Puifo/t | A SERMON' ^JLC?? VkV/lENDE^^pPTheme: Regeneration. John 3: "Ye must be born again." is is fundamental in the teaching Jesus. It lies at the root of alJ ristian experience. It is as true it is terse, as philosophic as it is agent, as timely as it is insistent. man can know the joy of the ristian life until he has been born ew. This statement of Jesus to Nicodeis was startling. It was both a lllenge and a rebuke, a bit of sage insel and a quiet though terrible aignment. Nicodemus came in the name of ? class whose representative hisically he has been and immediatehe was. In their own eyes they d the essence of wisdom unto life rnal. "We know that Thou art a icher come from God." "We ow." In their opinion it waa necary for all the world to become generated in the bonds of Judiasm 'ore the world could enjoy a sav; knowledge of the only true God. ey were God's people, His chosen, i sons of Abraham. They were ite familiar with the idea of a new th, for they declared that the rid would have to be born to a awledge of their spiritual possesns before the world could possess i gift of the divine favor. Mo doubt Nicodemus thought he ild instruct Christ. In all likeli )d be had little prescience of the eption he would receive. It la ite probable that be considered Qself a fit challenger of Christ, bold the challenged is the challen\ the representative of the wisdom Israel a pupil of a despised Nazale. It is not to be wondered that :odemus was amazed. resus declared strong doctrine, e must be born again." "Ye," the ders and righteous of Israel! teachers and prieBts and pre;s, learned and intellectual, who re tithed mint and cummin and se and forgotten the weightier tters of the law, "ye" must be n anew! t He had said that the Greeks and mans, barbarians and foreigners, itiles, -without the pale, had to be n again, .there would have been "How can these things be?" But >!" , i.nd yet it was quite correct teach. and most sublimated .thought truly as It is necessary that a man at be born to enjdy the exercise of rsical faculties in a physical world truly is it requisite that in the rid of the Spirit he shall undergc irocess of spiritual borning. It ia lessary that a man shall enter the rid before he can experience the led activities of physical life. He st become alive to the intellectual Ironment of humanity before bo l have experience therein. Not erwise is it with the world of the rit. We must be born. Born to ither and a larger as a higher no of living; born again. Phere is nothing permissive about Ye "must." It is the law of the ritual kingdom. It is the law of life. If you jare alive to one rid and dead to the consciousness another you "must" be born into into a consciousness of its reality, ore you may enjoy its experiences, prerogatives and its enlargements. Vhat Jesus said to Nicodemus He s to the world to-day. It Is the imons of God to the world. "Ye st be born again." Born to the se of a larger life. Born to the sciousness of a fuller and a betlife. Born to the spiritual life of I in Jesus Christ our Lord. Jpon no other terms is it possible men to enter the kingdom bf God to see it. And the wonder is that y so rebel. It is not an invitation command to self destruction, but i larger self realization. It is not all to sin, but a promise of spiritgrowth. It is not irksome, but :inctly profitable. Humanity has hing to lose and everything to a. Regeneration is the need of this as 3very time. Men never needed to born anew more than they do to: Born to the better things, born the larger world, born .to the enment of the spiritual kingdom of all-wise God. ieside the joy of the spiritual life pleasures of the world are vain. i capacities of men are limited by nhvQlpnl onrirnnmont in xchiph y live. Only in the world of the it can the faculties of man be adately exercised and his powers intely enlarged. But to know and enjoy this kingdom and its life must, as Nicodemus, be born w. Eeing born into it we may i therein; a large life, a full and } and varied and soul-invigorating The life of God flooding and ivenating the life of man. God s us the desire for regeneration ; the grace to will to be born again. The Model Woman. l woman may be model, married single, but not ideal. The ideal nan is the wife and mother. The iel wife reigns as a queen in her le, exerting atremendous influence comforting and inspiring her husd in life's battle.?Rev. William Carr. Perils of Play. lit; ycino ut yiay iuia. in uui mun. self-control, In our failure to rere more of ourselves than friends custom do, and in our refusal to iriminate.?Rev. Orville A. Petty. Unseen Forces, low dospairing we grow of the fu?! We ask, "What of to-mor ?" We see the menace of great s in society and in the State, and grow discouraged. But that ig ause while evil is so conspicuous forces that are set for its over aw are invisible. ? Rev. James :ry Norris. The Stamp of Civilization. "he mark of civilization is the indual man, his rights and his reasibilities.?Rev. Cortland Myers. God in the World. Ve have more of God in the world r than in Bible days. Then God to break through nature by a acle in order to be recognized; r we realize that nature is God. n He was over us, Cod, transcend; now He is God immanent. Imluel, God with us.?Rev. Frank ue. God's Companionship. here is no other happiness in this Id than that obtained by compan:hip with God,?Rev. Dr. Duval. / ' V " BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE ~ SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSE GREATLY CHEERED. ~ ... ^ Says Women Make Drink tne Vogue. In an address delivered in the I Church of the Covenant, Washington, Dr. John D. Quackenbos, of the Lon- * don Society for Psychical Research, Bounded a warning over what he ] called the alarming increase in the use of alcoholic liquors by women. 1 "There is no more artfully organi ized, no more unscrupulously executed an intent to imbrute and devil- i ize human nature," he said, "than r that implied in the existence of the public bar?the grossest insult to American intelligence, the most bru- 1 tal assault on the Christian con- . Bciousness of the centuries. " j "The notable increase in the con- j i sumption of stimulants, especially j ] among the upper classes, estimated at ten per cent, during the last decade in the case of men and a much larger percentage in that of women, is inviting anxious attention. Upward of one billion dollars are spent annually in the United States for intoxicating drinks, and another billion for the. relief of. the destitution, the punishment of the crime, and the care of the physical and mental diseases that result directly, from the drink habit. Especially alarming is the growth of the practice among our women. When the American woman 1 gives herself up to anything she pushes her devotion to the utmost , limit. She makes a god of her very religion, and if she affects a habit she affects it in the superlative de gree. I "The punch bowl figures at all | . functions, and proud-pled women dip freely therein, ten drinking to-day where one drank a dozen years ago. School misses and college girls are conspicuous among the throng. Debutantes, not necessarily of the fast set, unblushlngly assert a right to drink wine and smoke cigarettes at luncheons and levees, to say nothI lng of private indulgence, and not a few of this class, as well as young { married women, have been brought to my office in a state of intoxication. Such has become the vogue; and, ; I worse than this, girls in their teens ! see no impropriety in drinking pub! licly with men companions. | "The abstinent, unobtrusive young woman of the past generations is giv- ( ing place to a coarse and boisterous | bon vivant, controlled by unworthy ; impulses, and wholly unfit to fulfil ; her function In society'as an inspirer i to meritorious action, or her func tion m tne nome as a cnaracier former and a wife. Many a clergyman can date his downfall from bis first dose of Jamaica ginger. "Our very school children are be- j : coming beer and even wine drinkers, especially those of foreign parentage, J ; and the increasing prevalence of this habit is leading to a mental sluggish- j ness, if not defect among the pupils ; ! of the public schools that is attract- ( ing the attention of educators and ! philanthropists. "Experience has proved that you cannot make and keep people sober , | by act of legislature. In the total J I abolition of the public bar will be ; found the alembic." # J Beef Drinking by School Children. 1 Some interesting facts regarding the use of alcohol among German 1 school children have been collected 1 ; by a Government doctor in Rotten; burg. His Investigations included j j Bixty-eight classes with 4240 chilj dren. Of this total 4178, or ninety- 1 , eight per cent., had tasted intoxicants j and seventy-one per cent, drank beer | or. wine daily; 541 drank half a litre ! ] (nearly a pint) or more, while 3214, or seventy-six per cent., drank a quar| ter of a litre. Ten, children admitted drinking a ; litre (a pint and three-quarters) of | | beer every day. and one drank a litre ; and a half. The doctor made no in> Quiries as to the drinking of spirits. ! assuming that such a practice among i ! school children was unknown, but he j says that he was greatly mistaken. i One teacher told him that in a class < i of seventy-one children between I | seven and nine years of age, twenty- 1 i one had drunk brandy. \ Alcohol and Tuberculosis. Dr. S. A. Knopf, of New York, In : j his International prize essay on tuberculosis says that statistics in hos- , .pitals for tuberculosis and scrofulous ] 'children show that the majority of j them had parents addicted to the use ( of alcohol, and thatit has been proved , that when one or more parents were j i addicted to such use their offspring ] I has become scrofulous. This is in ^ j harmony with the resolution passed ? ' in 1905 by the International Congress j ! on Tuberculosis, viz.: "In view of the . j close connection between alcohol and J I tuberculosis, this congress strongly j j emphasizes the importance of combin- . i ing the fight, against tuberculosis with ? the struggle against alcoholism." ( A JTuge Organized Criminal. ; I now say that the liquor traffic | not only breeds criminals-, but the ,, liquor traffic is largely a huge organized criminal itself. I do not mean to say, and I shall not be heard to say, that every man engaged in that business is a violator i of the law, but I am prepared to i prove that in every section of the j country where I have given it care- 1 ful examination a large majority of 1 the liquor men themselves are law- ( | DreaKers. 1 am not acre iu imycatu the veracity of them all, but a great majority of them belong to the Ananias Club. I chance to have in my I possession some interesting facts? concerning which, of course, you will have a full explanation later ou. Temperance Notes. The saloon might have a right to Its ways if our sins involved only our- t selves in suffering. I The Gann bill for statutory prohi- e bition passed the Arkansas House by 5 a vote of fifty-three to twenty-seven, i s A Pennsylvania Prohibitionist, in writing to State Chairman McCaltnont recently, coined a striking expression. He said that the people of \ his section had through local option | f n/iino " oorQinct nrnhlhf. ' | IJCTCii. v av-viiiutv^ - p i tion. | i A singular result of the annual i elections in Vermont on the license I question was that ten towns that j were no-license voted for license and j towns that were "wet" voted "dry." I 2 Echhouse Brothers, wholesale liq- j B uor dealers in Cincinnati, have turned | s their business over to a receiver. The ! * prohibition wave, they claim, has j J forced them for some time past to j run their business at a loss. I There is more intemperance per ' 1 capita right now in Boston than there J was when there were no licenses re- , quired and when every man made _ and sold liquor regardless.?Hon. E. j1 W. Chafin at the New England C011- * ference. I 7 ... 'l.V;'/- " . . ' V' . - ' ' V-il' ' ' \ "VVV Religious Reading FOB THE QUIET HOUR. THE SPLENDOR OF THE STARS. Jp to the splendor of the stars I lift my eyes to-night, stare that have shone for countless years And still are just as bright. The "Mighty Hunter" leads his dogs Across tKe Southern sky; iVhile in the North the Great Bear lifts His massive form on high. ind higher yet from East to West To-night how bright, how clear, rhat portion of the Milky Way Which lights our hemisphere. Upon that filmy path of light I gaze with aeep'ning awe, rhose thousand, thousand stars of light Obey our Lord?one law. N Be 'tells their names, appoints their pathj For His delight they shine. He willed. He spake, it_ was enough; Fulfilled was His design. Set He who made those mighty guns And counts them one by one, , t For this perverse, rebellions world, <% Has sent His only Son. He came a workman's life to live, A felon's death to die; For this, that we might be forgiven? This was the reason why. For this the Holiest gave His life, For this endured the shame; Ehat every contrite soul might know Forgiveness through His name. Oh, silent stars, ye still look down On hearts that turn away, And to the stroiig appeal of Love Give one swift answer, "Nay." x . I ' How much depends upon that word They little ca^e to guess; Nor all the joy which waits for those Who gladly answer, "Yes." ?E.TE. Trusted, in London Christian. No Unnecessary -Trials. Not many years ago a young mai graduated from one of our theologi cal seminaries whose life seenjet specially full of promise. He wag j fine student and a convincing speaker; he was an enthusiast in fail work, and he had married a gir whose hopes and idealB were as higl as his own. Together they begai their labors in a field which callec for alt their zeal and consecration Then suddenly the young miniate: was stricken with a strange throa disease which entirely destroyed hii voice. He consulted specialists, bu the verdict was always the same?h< never could preach again. For a time the blackness of dark ness settled over him. What goot were all the years spent in prepara tion for what he believed hid life work, if all was to be ended thus' He could not be reconciled. Hii wife, braver than he. strove in ever: possible way to instill hope and cour age into his heart, but in vain. One night he had a vision. H< saw the face of Christ, full of tendei reproach. "Child,"i said the Pres ence, "do you deem I know naugh of suffering? When on earth I wai Dften weary, that I might sympathiz< with tired ones; I was lonely, that 1 might have tender thought for th< desolate: I have suffered pain ant agony, far beyond what you conlt have comprehended, so that I am ?' brother in very deed to all who suf fer. Bear your load, knowing tha It was sent in truest love and wis 3om. If not now, you shall under 3tand hereafter." The vision lifted him from despali to faith and hope. He found a us< for all his natural and acquired gifts and through the power of his pen h? reached and swayed multitudes whicl never would have come under th< 30und of his voice.?Sunday-Schoo! Illustrator. Escorting the Devil to Ch&rch. We read in the Bible of one occa sion at least when the people of th< Lord came up to worshiD and th< Devil came also. PerhaDs he was noi risible, 'but the invisible peters ol the world are its real forces. Th? Devil still enjoys going to a churct service. Most frequently he is essorted to the house of God. If a mar goes to the service, letting sweai words and all other mean things hav< Free course in his heart, he is taking the Devil along. If one goes bent 01 murder, as did Guiseppe Alia in Denver, the case is even more pronounced. There are variations in the extent to which people are .possessed of the Deyil. At home, in the open air, i: the church service, that they are not entirely given over to doing the will - ? ? ?- * rni j. )[ Satan is not nis xauii. iaai oami. is crowded out of their mind and hearts in any measure is' greatly tc their credit. To be filled with th? Spirit and keep filled continually, rejuires constant devotion to the Lord md a heart which lives in the spirit )f prayer.. This is the kind of comamnion God desires, both for His ?lory and for man's growth. A conscious yielding in any degree to th Devil is a backward step. Man should set his face like a flint, and shr.tijd declare with the psalmist 'Thy word have I hid in my heart ;hat I might not sin against Thee." ?Religious Telescope. Continuity of Progress. Between the Here and the Hereifter there is no gap nor chasm nor julf, but continuity of progress and jerfect sequence. There is no end tc ife. Life changes Its rorm, its embodiment, the location of its resilence: but life is the breath of God, md when once breathed into the uni> rerse, and it has taken form and nade for itself expression, who may tnnihilate it? who may strike it out )f existence? No, there is no end to ife. Death is an enlightenment and i discovery.?W. H. H. Murray. The Ideals. The deeds attained by great souls >ecome the ideals towards which esser souls strive, in iaci, tue greaiist thing that a hero does for the vorld is to be a hero, and thereby inpire others to heroic living.?H. R. Uger. The Requisite. No mere effort to do one's duty can ill the measure of love, and nothing lse' in human relationship can take 'k nlace ?ForwardHis Own Funeral Director. C. B. Smith, commonly known to til seafaring men of the Pacific Coasl is "Shanghai" Smith, who committed uicide at Seattle, following the granting of a divorce to his wife; nade all the arrangements for his uneral several weeks before he died, Two months ago Smith entered aD mdertaking establishment and an* lounced tuat he was going to end his ife soon. He said he wanted the irm to take charge of his funeral. ,ml wrote out an order authorizing he firm to take his body when he ipri ZSlit | INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 11. Subjcct: Paul's Second Missionary Journey?The Phllippian Jailer* Acts 16:16-40?Golden Text* Acts 16:31?Commit Vs. 29-31. TDEE.?A. D. 52. PLACE.?Philippi. . . . . EXPOSITION. ? I. A Midnight Prayer and Praise Service in Jail, 25, , 26. .This is one of the most inspiring '' and instructive prayer and praise services on record. (1) The circffm. stances?in a dark hole, with torn ; and bleeding $nd aching backs, and with a very dark outlook for the morrow. A good time to pray (Ps. 50:' 15; comp. Jas. 5:13). But it migtrt seem a strange time to sing praises (Luke 6:22, 23, ch. 5:41; Ro. 5:3; Phil. 2:17; 1 Pet. 14:4;vEph. 6:20)Sorrows and aches taken in that war become sweet friends. (2) The time ?'midnight. There is no better timefor a prayer and praise meeting. It might seem as if Paul and Silas would have been better employed sleeping and getting strength for the next day's trials. But strength can often* . bo better gained by prayer than by sleep. (3) The result?"a great earthquake," "foundations of the prison shaken," "every one's bands- . loosed, tne janor ana nis wnoie household converted and rejoicing. This land needs a moral earthquake. Let us pray for it. There are many prisoners who need to have their bands loosed. Let us pray for that. There Is great need of the conversion of whole households. Let ui pray for this also. Paul would never haver gotten a hearing from those prisoner? had he not himself been cast into pri-' son. They were doubtless a hardened crowd, more used to profanity, and blasphemy tl^an to prayer and songs of praise. V. ,] II. The Jailor at Philippi Suddenly i and Thoroughly Converted, 27-84. Ia ' | a moment the brutal Jailor becomes- v an anxious Inquirer. He asked & j great question. A question every ; man should asK. Note why tne jaiior t asked it, how he asked it, from whom he asked it. (1) Why: Because he% t was lost and had been bought to see it and feel it. The jailor had not been listening with the prisoners a* Paul and Silas prayed and sung. He-\ j had been fast asleep. But God woke | him up. It is a great thing to have God wake us up. He had been j brought face to face with death. Her " had been brought face to face with. two holy men. He had been brought* _ face to face with God, and he sawr himself utterly lost; as^any sane man ; ' sees himself when brought face t6-* face with eternity and God. (2) How: In deep earnestness. None of ' the trifling and shallowness charac^ teristic of so many modern "inquffy- ' \ rooms" here?"trembling for Jeaiv ; : fell down." Men who ask thia,4'ues-T. | tion, in this spirit, will soon be rejoie-. | lng as this jailor was. (3) From [ whom: From men who knew the answer; from,men who knew God'r.., word (v. 32); from'men who we're " saved themselves. (A great answir;t<>:; the great question.' But a very simple answer. What is it to believe on. the Lord Jesus? To "receive Him.""or take Him (Jno. 1:12). Take Him , as our Saviour who died in out* place - (Isa. 53:6;- 1 Pet. 2:24; Gal. 3:13). Take Him as the One who rose again ' to be our Lord and King, and to de: liver us from sin's power (Acts 2:36;! j Heb. 7:25). Again it is to commit ourselves and all that we have to. Him * (2 Tim. 1:12). Cast yourself upon Him, surrender absolutely to Him,, leave all with Him, that is the step . ----- n..i n?.. 1 nn/4 Qlloa CH3.L saves & inmi* DUI ram auu iTtFT did not stop with merely telling the . ' jailor to believe on the Lord Jesus,. \ they "Spake the Word" unto- him (Rom. 10:17; comp. Jno. 20:.31)~ * Here is where many workers make & 1 mistake. They rightly tell people to. "believe," but they do not give them \ the word about Christ crucified and risen to enable them to believe. It \ does not take long to get a man saved ' if he is in earnest. This jailor seemed 1 a hard case. He was brutal, he was. " indifferent, he was utterly Ignorant. ' But in an hour (v. 33) he had passed out of suicidal despair into the rejolc* ing, gentleness and abounding hospl* tality of a baptized believer in Christ. I Surely there is nothing about the way : of salvation that it takes long to tell 1 or long to learn. One hour is suffi- . f cient for the whole business. Note the results of genuine conversion: (1), J Transformation from brutality to tens der compassion. (2) Open and lmmediate confession of Christ in bap[ tism. (3) Great joy (R. V.). (4). " Generous hospitality. (5) A transj formed home. III. Paul and Silas Released From j Jail, 33-40. In the morning the mag[ istrates were frightened. They no / I longer wished to punish Paul and Silas, but to get rid of them as quickly ' as possible. The earthquake had set / ! i chem thinking. But they were not to get rid of Paul as easuy as tuey thought. He was a Roman citizen and they had beaten him publicly and uncondemned. This was a serious ofj fense. They had beaten him publicly 1 j and now they must justify him as . | publicly. Their former severity i j changes into utter obsequiesness. They l came and they besought and they . | brought and they begged. They did , i not hasten their departure from the , j city. They comforted the young dis. | ciples before they left. 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