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^HSE5H5H5S5H5H5-?L5H5E57=S5 I'tbemahs I By EFFIE ADEL [U 1.1 i II !!?.? \5SESSSHSSSHSHSHSHSH^HSH= CHAPTER XIX. 12 Continued. The gallant officer was by no means fond of talking, and Enid certainly gave him no encouragement to continue the exercise, for she looked colder than usual, and only replied to his polite speeches by monvsyllables. Nevertheless, the young man was nothing daunted. His conceit was piqued by this girl's determined resistance to his offer of friendship, and he admired her more than any specimen of her sex he had ever met. Enid, finding she could not get rid of him or his compliments, relapsed into proud silence. Finally, he stood still and faced her, putting a hand on her arm. CHAPTER XX. The Captain Leaves. The evening dusk was creeping on, for their waik had taken some time, and Enid could see that the young man's face was fixed and rather disor?rl hnfnro cVid hnr? fimp to ctuv* ivi v w -think more, he was pouring out vows of love, and finished by asking: her tc be his wife. She stood very silent till he had finished, and then coldly and politely refused his offer. "But I don't understand you!" exclaimed Roger Leicester, angrily. Could his ears have heard aright? "I thought I made it clear. I thank you for your offer, Captain Leicester,) but I must beg to refuse it." "On what grounds, Miss Leslie?" "Surely you do not need me to go further into the question. I am distressed you have asked me, Captain Leicester; I dislike giving pain, but I must refuse." "And I won't take your refusal!" Ihe young man exclaimed, beside himEelf with injured pride and disapnnlrtmont "Vftn milCt hp Tt1V WifP. pnid!" " I "Must!" She drew herself up with & gesture of indignation, then drawing back a little, she said, quickly, "I must request you to leave me, Capfain Leicester; I prefer to be alone." The young man glared at her for a few seconds, then with a smothered exclamation strode forward, caught her suddenly in his arms and kissed her several times. Enid uttered a cry, and as he released her and went hurriedly away, she sunk down on the ground and burst into tears just as some one else, who had been walking up the avenue, hearing her cry, jumped on to the sidewalk and saw her thus plunged in her distress. "Miss Leslie! Good heavens! ,What has happened? Are you hurt?" j Gervais bent down and lifted7the girl to her feet. Enid was weeping bitterly. "How dare he! How dare he!" she said, thinkiug only of the insult and not realizing anything else. "Some one has insulted you; who It it?" the earl said, gravely, standing beside her and conscious that a strange mixture of .tenderness and anger was struggling in his heart. Enid grew a little calmer and dried hor ovoc with trfimhlinf hnnHc "It is nothing, Lord Derriman," she murmured faintly. ,ri. -> Gervais waited a mement. "I am afraid I can't accept that statement. I think I am like Darius of old, who refused to take a falsehood, even from the lips of a weeping woman." *" She answered him quickly. "You are right?I spoke falsely; it was something that made me cry, - Lord Derriman. But?but let it pass, please. 1 was foolish and unnerved at first; now?" "Now you have handed the affair to my keeping, and leave me to settle it," he ended very quietly. "Now, w^g.t has happened ?" r"Enid hesitated a moment before she spoke, then cvttin? out her hr.cc!, she said with a tiny tremor in her voice: "I can not thank you enough, Lord Derriman, for your Wndness. Believe me, I?I am grateful, but I cannot tell you the cause of my tears. I?I have very good reasons. I am only sorry that you should have been here just now." "I will not press the matter further, since it gives you pain, Miss Leslie. I will only tell you that you need fear no mo'-e insults from the gentleman who was with you just now." Enid started and colored deeply. "Then you?you saw?" He smiled, drew her hand through his arm, and led her slowly up the avenue. "I have this very moment caught sight of Captain Leicester leaving the path and going up to the house, and 60 I conjecture I have found the man I seek. We will say nothing of this, Miss Leslie; let it be a little secret; but if there is a spark of manliness or honor in that cub I will rouse it." Enid stood still and looked up at bim hurriedly, her face looking deli v:ait: auu iu\ci> iu iiti a^iiciuuu. "Please, Lord Derrimau, do not cay?" "Your name shall not be mentioned," he said,divining her thoughts easily; "rest assured." And then they walked in silence up to the front entrance and there separated. As they sat down to dinner, however, Dulcie Lowe, who was tired and cross, made a discovery. . "Captain Leicester is late again. We ought to institute a fine, Lord Derriman." Gervais looked down at her from the head of the table. "T d~n't thin!: i: v:i3I be needed, Miss Lowe, as Leicester has left us." "Lef*-us!" exclaimed Lady Lowe and Dulcie in the same breath. "Yes. Got a wire from Sir George this afternoon, so he had to go quickly. He had no time to say good-by to any one." SEBaSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSHSESSk"* 1 iheloved! | hhm*? 3 j AIDE ROWLANDS. 11 \ ^ $ i fE5HSH5ESE5E5E5ESESESB5Et!i^ ? Dorothy had sent her husband ? away. , Her lieart was throbbing wildly, j but the pain was not neuralgia or any j other bodily ailment; the throbbing came from the mind?an excited, overheated, madly wrathful mind. ] Laxon's letter had been intended to j alarm her so terribly that she would ( be forced into granting him all he ^ asked, from the shock and surprise as ^ well as fear. Laxon bad fixed tne wooas xor meir ^ meeting, and she had to make her g plans carefully. It was a great risk, "j How was she' to get there and hack without being discovered? She left the study by the long French window. The night was dark, and she was soon on the lawn in front of the house; from thither she got noiselessly across to the paths she had to take.1 . / Any woman might well have been nervous and timid of that dark, weird walk; but Dorothy had no fear. She glanced neither to the right nor the left, but walked on quickly?so quickly that her heart beat to suffocation and a sharp pain came in her side. She passed the tennis court, on and on, till she came to the rose garden? now a dead and withered wilderness ?and turned her face down to the woods. A little way from the gates she sioppea. v "Hist!" she breathed, rather than ( spoke, j A footstep answered her, and the E voice she loathed came to her ears. } "All right, Dolly; I'm here. Ah! I ? thought you'd bring an answer to my ? note!" i CHAPTER XXI. 1 The Dagger For George. 1 1 c As he spoke George Laxon lounged { carelessly forward; it was too dark to j see his face, but Dorothy guessed well ^ that there was a look of triumph on ( it. i "So this is how you keep your oath, r It it, George Laxon?" she began in a ^ whisper that was hoarse from fatigue ^ and agitation. "This is your promise j to go to Australia and let the secret t of my past be buried? You wring t my money from me and think that I g shall submit; but you are mistaken," sne added, nerceiy. a Dargain is a t bargain, and as you have broken your c share, so will I break mine!" Laxon took the cigar from his lips, T and shook off the ash deliberately. ^ "Softly, Lady Derriman," he said in smooth tones; "we ain't come to talk- a in' about breakin' bargains just yet. c I've got something more to say to you what'll put a different light on things, s I dare say." t Dorothy passed her delicate lace- F edged handkerchief over her cold g lips; there was a sinister touch in his a manner and in his words. a "What does all this mean?" asked j. Dorothy, in the same hard, dry fash- f ion; her hands, burning as with fever, were clinched tightly together. She , shivered every now and then from the c violence of the tempest that raged t in her heart. "Come to the point at t once!" r "Very well, then, I will!" Laxon a flung his cigar away, and folded his s arms across his b~east. ".The point c o' the matter is just this, Dolly; I've ^ a mind to be somebody, and you've r got to make me that somebody! a Money don't give me all I want. I j. look forrard to the day when I shall r be at 'ome in the same place as you v is now; as I should have been if I'd. been yer husband. You've got a home t 'ere, and many others besides; the g earl don't want ycur .things. There's j. Knebwell; give it to me, and our bar- [ gain's struck." g Dorothy made no answer. Laxon waited for an instant, then r Jiis_eagemess went; he became sav- s age. "-- s ' Come, give me yer answer. I tell e you you'll never live in Knebwell Hall again. You don't want to be e haunted?do yer? Haunted by your j i father's ghost?the man as you poisj oned!" Dorothy gave a fearful start, and her hands pressed closer to her heart and seemed to gather nurnose and o strength from the contact. a Laxon moved nearer and nearer. f "Yes, poisoned!" he went on. "It l might 'ave been a mistake?oh, of t course!?but then, you see, there was s such a good reason. Yer father had I just cut yer off; he was goin' to leave g every penny to that young girl, yer i cousin. Ah! yer little thought I was i so near?but I was. I hid just out- t side the winder, and I heard every v word. The old man wasn't very nice f ?was he? And he hit hard. I see 1 your face change as he spoke, and r then, as he got bad and seemed like t faintin', I see you pour out that lau- c danum and give it to him. Now, perhaps, you'll .go to your husband and tell him what yer are?a murderess an' a?c Dorothy gave a choking exclama- v tion?her right hand left her breast, ci She struck at him suddenly and 7io- t lently, rage and passion lending her 8 strength, and Laxon, with one sharp I cry, staggered back and stumbled to s the ground in a heap. s It was the work of a moment. c Dorothy stood motionless, hearing a nothing but her heart beat with those 1 I horrible thuds in her ears. Then her ( j fingers unclosed, and the dagger I | Roger Leicester had given her c j dropped on the grass and weeds at s ' her feet. I CHAPTER XXII. A Murder. . I * Enid was crossing the hall to the ; large staircase. A dark figure glided \ j from a corner and went rapidly up ( before her. The figure never turned, j but hurriedly unlocked the countess' j door and entered. It. was Dorothy , a i p = ; ??!?. Enid went swiftly down tbs 1 c )assage and knocked. At first thcra j vas no answer, but finally Dorothy, ( )ale and disheveled, opened the door, j Snid tremblingly asked if she could )e of assistance, but was dismissed vith a rough "No!" Dorothy waited with her ear close igainst the door till the sound of Snid's soft footsteps had died away. I She was trembling all over from the j jffects of excitement, the great fear ' ;hat had come upon her in the woods, | ind lastly by the dread of detection . vith which she had struggled, on her stealthy passage back to her room; vith almost superhuman swiftness she had thrown off her cloak and slipped her loose silk peignoir over aer dark tweed gown, shaking down ler hair as she did so. She was careful to stand with the loor only^partially opened, so that Enid might not see anything strange n her appearance, or catch a glimpse if the thick boots that were wet from ;he moisture of the weeds and grass ;hrough which she had Just come. Once alone and safe, Dorothy sunk :or an instant on to an ottoman that itood at the foot of the bed, and bendng forward, buried her face in her lands and tried to calm the fluttering )f her heart and the trembling in her imbs; but suddenly she started up, !or the dim light fell on her right Dalm, and she noticed for the first j ;ime that a stain of blood was smeared on it, left there from the moment of finding the wound in Faxon's arm. She rubbed her hand 'everishly with her handkercmer, ana i hen went hurriedly to her dressing I *oom and held it under a running j iteam of water, having first thrown I he piece of cambric and priceless lace i .0 be devoured by the fire. She shuddered every now and j ;hen with a long-drawn shudder of j lorror. It was a wise precaution she | lad taken in shutting Gervais and her , naid from the room, for assuredly j ierv condition would have provoked j nuch alarm and many questions. | Shivering as if struck by some sudden i shill, Dorothy crouched down by the 1 5re and tried to gather warmth and ! itre'ngth from it, but the strain on her : nental powers had been so great that j >he could not control herself, and in sheer desperation she rose to have 1 ecourse to other aids. By the earl's orders, Virginie had j jrought up a dainty tray, with some ulirtortw waa "ho^lr hnrnfviv'o truant j cvy nvu uwv,n juviwi.aj u umuv | ippetlte, and a small bottle of chamjagne, which Gervais had sent up, , laving heard from Lady Lowe that it vas so good for neuralgia. This Dor- j )thy had despised, simply bidding i 1 /irginie leave it and not return; but [ low it came as a friend to succor her. i iVith feverish, trembling hands she ! . ried to unfasten the cork, and, find* I ng her fingers powerless, she struck > he neck off against the marble man- ! le pillars and drank the bubbling ;olden liquid without drawing breath. The effect was almost instan- I aneous. Of late Dorothy had had re- ] :ourse to brandy and other stimuants, and the exhilarating wine ran 1 vith strengthening fire through her , reins. j Her courage gradually stole back, ? .nd something like self-disgust and i nn+omr-?f Vtar Vioarf I uuicuj^t ua&u uv* uvm? v> "I am a weak fool!" she mused ' harply. "If I go on like this, I shall 1 ie soon discovered by my own stuildity. After all, why should the ' ight of blood alarm me? It was only , i scratch, and he is a coward and I .in safe now. I feel I shall be rid of ] lim. Six thousand a year! It is a i ortune, but it is worth his silence." ' She swept to and fro and laughed rith triumph as she caught a glimpse : if herself, and saw that the color was tack in her cheeks and the firmness ( o her bearing; then she took off her j ieignoir and removed the gown, ex? ' mining it deliberately to see that no < tain of blood was on it,' or on the | loak either; this done, she threw the j ' Iress down carelessly for her maid to j ] emove and brush and hung the cloak ! : .way in a cupboard; then she drew ! ( ler peignoir round her again, pulled j j tp a chair to the fire and sunk into it j vith a sigh of fatigue. . 1 " i? ? -vii J i w .1, ? ' i "fie swore uy me umiu; sue mmered, gloomily, as she gazed into the 1 flowing red embers, "and this oath le will keep sacred, for he loves her. I J must write him in the morning, dis- j ] ;uise my hand, so that the inn people nay not know it, and send or take it j nyself. Send," she repeated to her- j i elf. "I can trust Enid. What a i trange thing that I should trust her, ! iven while I hate her." She leaned her head back and her ! lyelids drooped; the wine was mak- ! ng her drowsy. (J To be Continued. _ Jamacian Cotton. , Mr. O. F. Cook, of the Department ) f Agriculture, reports that cotton of i . primitive type, collected by Proessor N; L. Britton and Mr. William larris in coastal thickets in the ex- J reme southern part of Jamaica, eems to be undoubtedly a wua piant. | t resembles a type of cotton which | ;rows wild on the Florida Keys. The : nterest of the discovery lies largely I : n the suggestion of Prof. Britton hat this cotton may prove very vallable for breeding purposes, cince it urnishes a new point of departure. J The existence of wild cotton in Jaaaica has been affirmed before, but ; he evidence hitherto has not been onviucing.?Youth's Companion. Preserving Fish in Paper. Some interesting experiments in onncction with the carriage of fcsh vere recently made by M. Alfred Golles, president of the fishery scction of he Brussels Chamber of Commerce, loles caught by Ostend boats off the 'ortuguese coast were packed in a pecial vegetable paper, and alter ' t~~Jm r.n **rwl {r? miioll lioffpi* ! uuja ?*% ?uuvM , ondition, as regards both freshness <nd flavor, thnn those packcd in ico. .'his paper was recommended at the )stend Fishery Congress of 1907 by lerr Soiling, inspector of Danish lish- I Ties. It coctu little and takes up but j mall space.?Harper's Weekly. Try If on the Dog. I| "Cullivatw a picr.sant tune of voice | >7 practicing on the dog," saya a j iansas man. ' He doesn't care eo iiucli what you say, but he is very articular, how you say it."?Kansas ;:ty Journal. Confucius: "The superior man !? low ia his VDi n3 ?.tii -ivmM in ills onduct." i ffiit San&aii-^cfiool? IXTErtNATIQ'NAL LESSON COM- I MENTS FOR AUGUST 8 I Subject: Paul's Instructions to the j Tliessalonians, 1 Thess. 5:12-24 ?Golden Text: 1 Thess. 5:15? ~ Commit Verses 1C-18. TIME.?A. D. 52. PLACE.?Corinth. EXPOSITION.?I. Christian Conduct Toward Those Who Are Over Them in the Lord, 12, 13. Paul was an apostle and had the authority of an apostle, but he was absolutely free from the domineering, spirit. He besought men rather than commanded them (cf. ch. 2:6, 7). His example is worthy of consideration and imitation by all ecclesiastical rulers to-day. While all believers are brethren, it is the appointment of God that some be "over" others. The duty of those who are "over" others is to labor among them (the word for labor" Is a very strong word; it means not merely to work, but to work hard) and to admonish them. Those whom they admonish are under obligation to esteem them very highly (R. V.) in love for their work's sake. n. Christian Conduct Toward All Men at All Times, 14, 15. The "disorderly" (particularly those who would not work, cf. 2 Thess. 3:6, 11; 1 Thess. 4:11), they should "admonish," "the faint-hearted" they should "encourage," "the weak" (those spiritually weak) they should "support." The word for "support" is a very expressive one. It means to take hold 1 of so as to support (cf. Gal. 6:1, 2; \ Ro. 15:1; 1 Cor. 9:22). "Long suf- i fering toward all." "There is no believer who needs not the exercise of Datience "toward" him: there is none ! to whom a believer should not show It." Under no circumstances must we pay back the evil that any other man does us (cf. Ro. 12:17; 1 Pet. 3:9; 2:23; Luke 23:34; Acts 7:60). We should "always, follow after (as a matter of eager pursuit) that which is good, one toward another," and not only so, but "toward all," even the bitterest infidel and persecutor. in. The Will of God, 16-18. Three things every believer should do all the time?rejoice, pray and give thanks, this is God's will in Christ Jesus to usward. A Christian should rejoice every day and every hour (cf. Phil. 4:4, 6; Rom. 14:17; 12:12; Acts 5:415 Jas. 1:2). A Christian | should, pray, not intermittently, but | constantly. Every day should be a ! "day of prayer" (cf. Eph. 6-18) Phil. 4:6). Only as he prays without ceasing will the Christian rejoice always, [n everything, absolutely everything, should the Christian give thanks (cf. Eph. 5:20). '{ IV. Entire Sanctification, 19-24. When any one receives the Holy Spirit he receives a holy fire (cf. Matt. 3:11; Acts 2:3>2 Tim. 1:6, R. V., Marg.). This fire should not be quenched. We quench this fire in ourselves by not yielding to the fire that burns within. We quench this Are in others when we throw cold water upon them as they seek to obey the prompting of the Holy Spirit. Some in Thessalonica thought lightly Df the utterances of others who spoke under the Holy Spirit's influence. Yet they must not accept every man's claim to speak by the^Spirit. They should "prove all thing?' (cf. 1 Jno. 4:1). They should seek to find out whether the claim was true or false. Every claim to speak by the Spirit 3hould be tested by a comparison with the teachings of the written word (cf. Isa. 8:20; Acts 17:11; Gal. 1:8, 9). No man's claim to authority and infallibility should be aceeptsd merely because he makes the ilaim. That which stands the test and is found to be good we should "hold fast" (cf. Luke 8:15, R. V.; 1 Cor. 11:2, R. V.; Heb. 2:1). On the Dther hand, tbat which proves bad, "every form of evil" 6R. V ), should k^v nWolnfl/l f r?r\m HPhia twPTlHpt.ll L/C auoiatugu b ? perse is constantly misinterpreted to mean to abstain from all appearance Df doing evil if we can without doing actual evil in order to avoid the mere appearance of doing evil (cf. 2 Cor. S: 20, 21). Nevertheless it is not the outward appearance, but the heart and its purposes at which God looks (cf. 1 Sam. 16:7; Luke 16:15). Man consists of three parts, the spirit, received directly from God and linking him to God (cf. Gen. 2:7; 1 Cor. 15: 45); the soul, i. e., the animal soul (cf. Jude 19, R. V., and Marg. and Greek), and the body. Paul's prayer [3 that each part of this threefold rtian be "preserved entire, without blame." This means the absolute I srfection of the whole man (cf. Phil. 3:20, 21). When is this absolute perfection to be attained? "At the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (c?. ch. 3:13; 1 Jno. 3:2). And now follows, if we take it in its connection, Dne of the most cheering statements in the Bible: "Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it." Do what? Do what Paul has just prayed ?-anctify us wholly and preserve our spirit and soul and body entire. The pledge of this is not our faithfulness, but His. What He has called us to He Himself will also perfect (cf. Phil. 1:6; Ro. 8:30). "Faithful" means true to His word. What He has promised He will do (cf. Jno. 10:2729; 1 Cor. 1:8, 9, 10, 13; 1 Jno. 1: 9). If we would have hearts filled with hope and strength, we should look neither at our foes nor at ourselves, but to our faithful God (cf. Nu. 13:30; 14:8,9). Never discount a promise of God, no matter how stupendous it seems. "Faithful is He, who also will^do it." Stop Music After 10 P. M. City Attorney Anderson has drafted a law for the apartmeni house piano, phonograph, accordion and fiddle, which will also apply to the apartment house vocalist, songstress or near sonebird in St. Louis. Under his bill the lid will be nut on awirt- ! ment house music at 10 p. m., which [will become a misdemeanor from thai hour until 7 a. m. Similar laws are in force in London, Berlin, Paris and fother European cities. Claude E Vrooman. owner of apartments, agrees with the City Attorney. Kicks Out Dad's Eye. At Anderson, Ind., George Horde, fifty years old, is uow totally blind. He had lost the sight of one eye some years r o. While asleep in his bed at lie mo a few evenings ago a little three-year-old daughter in her play kicked him in the good eye, causing injury which destroyed his eyesight. Voliva Deposed as Zlon Dictator. Wilbur Glenn Voliva, successor ol John Alexander Dowie, was deposed as political dictator of Zion City by the independent officers elected several weeks ago. * .... _j 1 THE PULPIT. ! A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. H. G. GREENSMITH. Theme: Limiting Jesas Christ. Oswego, N. Y.?In the First cap- j tist Church here, Sunday morning, the minister, the Rev. Harry Gladstone Greensmith, preached on "Lim- | iting Jesus Christ." The sermon touched upon what he declared to be the limitations of the Emmanuel Movement. He also spoke of Chris- i tian Science. The test was from Matthew 13:58: "And He did not many I .mighty works there because of their j unbelief." Mr. Greensmith said, j among other things: > Even the Holy One of God, seem- j ingly, had limitations. He was a prophet without honor in His own land. In Christ we find the wisdom of the ages, the skill of the universe. He was the "vis medicatrix" of ail science, religion and medicine. Preeminent over all, and yet limited. In Capernaum, per contrary to Nazareth, . there seems to have been no limit to the "powers" of Jesus. There and in adjacent places He had wrought the 'mightiest miracles known to the ages. No other man hafe turned water into wine, or healed a nobleman's son of palsy. None but i Jesus has cleaned out devils out ol the temple of man's soul, or out of i the visihlp) temnle of God's Kingdom on earth. Entering into Jerusalem, His beloved city, the city which caused the very nerve centres of His being to leap with joy, or travail in anguish, He saw a man impotent for thirtyeight years. By a word from the'lipa of this "rejected Nazarene" the man takes up his bed and goes away rejoicing. Even here we find limitations. Christ could do nothing of j Himself. "I am come in My Father's j name and ye receive Me not." "The j Scriptures testify of Me, and yet ye | will not come unto Me." And here ! we see forthcoming "isms." "If another come in his own name, him ye | will receive." And how wild the; world has gone over Dowie and Mrs, i Eddy. They set forth a religion in their own name, and people have gone wild, and Christ instead of being exalted has been bowed from His throne. Eddyism, falsely called , "Christian Science," as there is sc | little of Christ in it, is nothing short j of idolatry, worse than Mariolatry, j and Dowielsm, is fast "going unto its 'j own"?.to its rounder, unrist s pow- t er Is limited by these two fads. Entering the temple one Sabbath, j Jesus meets a man whose right hand | is withered. "What will He do?" cries the Scribes. "Will He heal j him?" the Pharisees ask. And in spite of them, Jesus shows forth His ' power and commands the man ' to I stand forth. Then after a quiet talk j on His sovereignty, He orders the | man to stretch forth his hand, and he was immediately healed. This in- j creased the anger of His adversaries i to madness, and they plotted how ! they might destroy Him, thus limiting ; again His powers. Thus far we have seen Christ's I power over the lower limbs, in that | He caused a man to walk for the first i time in thirty-eight years; to another i He gives the use of an arm that was useless; others who on the point of death He restores to strength. These exemplify His powers over life, but, entering the City of Nain, He shows His power over death. The only son of a widowed mother is being carried to the grave. Jesus commands him ; to arise. And the young man sits up ! and speaks. To another born blind j He gives sight. Surely such miraculous deeds ought to have removed all j unbelief. But, sad to relate, He could j not do in His own city any mighty i 1? Firon I wui tt.5 ueuauac ui iu^ikuuuciici. His own disciples at times manifested this unbelief, or lack of explicit trust. John in prison shows this spirit in his last message. Christ's answer was not sufficient to" remove , all doubt, ! even when He said: "Go, tell John j what ye have seen and heard: The ' blind receive their sight, lame walk, j deaf hear, and the dead are raised," j etc. And all these doubts, limited the i Son of God. In the calling of the twelve we see ; Christ's limitations. He was sub- i ?ervient to His Father's will, and He | must have helpers with Him. Every | step He took He counseled with the ; Father before taking it.* "And He! continued all'night in prayer to God. j And when it was day He appointed ! twelve, that they might be with Him, i and that He might send them forth j to preach, and to have authority to | heal," cast out demons. "And as He : came down from the mount a great j number of people from all sections came to hear Him and to be healed | of their diseases. And the multitude j sought to touch Him, for power came j forth from Him, and He healed them all." Now, this power of healing was given to these new "Christs," or, as they were afterwards called, "Christians," at Antioch. These men received their new power and went out under orders. How well they obeyed is recorded. They were to be voices of God. "For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you." "I will give you a mouth j and wisdom, which all your adver- I saries shall not be able to withstand ! or to gainsay." And they went? j preached, cast out devils, anointed with oil those that were sick, healed I them all. All power was given .to them which i Christ had. "I have given you au- j thority," He said to the seventy. Peter was rebuked for not using au- ' thority over the waves upon which he ! " L 1 - 11- M AU ^ C ] attempted to warn. luuu uj. ix.l- , tie faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" The disciples were also rebuked be- ! tause their little faith prevented their j healing the demoniac boy. Power had been given them, and ! they were rebuked for their failure to use it, just as much as the onetalent njan was rebuked. These brief suggestions lead to the question: When did the authority L,lven to tho .disciples end? Why should there not be direct manifesta- j tions of the miraculous saving power : Dver diseases to-day among the disci- ! pies of Christ as in the apostolic days? J the closing of the canon certainly j did not close the door of healing. Another question arises: Why : should we limit the power of the ! Spirit? Surely the psychical nature is not greater than the physical? I am in great sympathy with the Emmanuel movement. I am reading ill I can get my hands on about it, but when I read the wonderful changes wrought in so many lives, I isk, Why could not we cast him out? Why cannot the same mighty vorks oe wrought in Boston, as were wrought in Capernaum? Is this not putting a limitation on the work of ""Mifiot ; Atwl ia nnf this limitation simply because our faith is so "little," md Christ cannot do many mighty works here because of our unbelief?. . THE TEMPERANCE PROPAGANDA! CONCERTED ATTACK ON DRINK WINNING ALL ALONG LINE. ! Docs Prohobition Prohibit? Tour article "Does Prohobition j 1 Prohibit?" which depicts a group of i several lawyers and ex-Judge express- I ing the horrible evils of prohibition, makes one wish that at least .pne more lawyer could have been added to the group to give from his personal j knowledge the results of the enforce- j ment of prohobition in Kansas City, j Kan. If C. W. Trickett, Assistant j Attorney-General of Kansas, had been j present he would have stated the ' facts which appear below, culled from j one of his speeches, and xwhich I have | taken the pains to have verified by j communication direct with his office, t On June 8, 1906, Mr. Trickett was ; appointed special Attorney-General ; for Wyandotte County, which In- i eluded Kansas City, Kan., a city of i about 00,000 inhabitants, and Argen- ' tine, a city of about 10,000 inhabi- j tants. At that time there were In the J county 256 open saloons, 200 gam- j bling dens and sixty houses of social evil. Of the saloons 210 were in Kansas City, Kan., twenty-two saloons were in Argentine and twenty-four in other localities. Thirty days later I there was not a saloon in the county. J Of the 90,000 population in Kan- I sas City, Kan., a large part were for- I eigners. It was and is a manufac- ; turing city and the metropolis of the | State. Time and again there had been j outbreaks of the undesirable citizens burning property, wrecking trains, ) destroying lives. A few months be- 1 fore the city had elected by 2000 ma- ; jority a Mayor whose platform was "Damn the Constitution and laws of the State of Kansas." When Mr. Trickett was appointed under instructions to enforce the prohibitory law in Kansas City, Kan., he was met by delegation after delegation of business men to protest against the closing of the saloons, j They said if ths saloons were closed | gc it would stop the city's growth, de- i ai stroy the business of the merchants, [ q deplete the deposits of the banks, : stop the erection of buildings, render | houses vacant, increase taxation, re- j duce .the price of real estate, causa | ? people to go over to Kansas City, Mo., 6 to do their shopping and would ruin ^ the town generally. The delegations f? were composed of bankers, real estate men, lumber men and business Interests and professions generally. "] Mr. Trickett proceeded to enforce the law. with the result that the same men who came to protest now admit . their mistake and declare that if the ^ State administration ever lets up they fv will raise any amount of money nec- P. essary to prevent going back to the *7 old regime." J" In the first twelve months after ~~ closing saloons the combined deposits , of the city banks increased one and 1 a half million dollars. Mr. Trickett ca says: "The real estate man says rents . are higher than ever before. "The lumber man says so many new buildings are being erected that it is vj almost impossible to supply the de mand. and this in mid-winter. "The taxpayer finds that it has put R nioney into the public treasury instead of increasing taxes. X, "The furniture dealer finds that j J? he is selling more furniture than ever j 11 before. J11 "The timekeeper of one of the large nacking houses tells me that if UI the saloons are kept closed they could afford an increase in wages, because of the increased efficiency of the men. T1 The shoe man reports likewise. "Recently Mr. Newton, of the firm b of Dengel & Newton, stated to me Be that one astonishing feature of the f1 increase in their line was that it was *a largely in footwear for women ond j A( children. Why is it that when the | saloons are closed the women and | children buy more shoes?" Here are some of the effects on crime: Reduced expense of criminal prose- , cutions more than $25,000 per year. ' Smaller police force required, making another saving of $25,000. The criminal docket in District Court shows that before the saloons j jn were closed it required six or more j w, weeks to try criminal cases. Since I jj( closing the saloons no term has ex- I je ceeded three weeks. 0j Before the saloons were closed I there were from ten to thirty in the : B0 police court every morning.. Since j tnen very few arrests. On Septem ber ll, iauo, me oiai icpwnw aiJ not a single arrest had been made in twenty-four hours. In the fall of 1906 a carnival was given with 50,000 persons gathered on in the heart of the city and parading f0 the streets. There was no drunken- th ness, no picking of pockets, no row- ta dyism. ca No longer need for a detective to force: thieves and burglars followed er the saloon out of the city. en In January, 1907, the police Judge is) of Argentine said: "There is not one th case now where there were fifteen be- gr fore." go Formerly from fifteen to twenty | young men were sent from Wyan- I th dotte County to the reformatory. I Br With the saloons closed Wyandotte County sent only two prisoners in a year. What was done in Kansas City could be done in New York City. The bo same problems of lawless element w] and foreign population were met w< thpre as would be encountered here, ro Prohibition may not prohibit, but tri regulation does not seem to regulate, fa No law ever passed is more persist- | by ently and flagrantly violated than the tic high license Raines law.?Alfred L. he Maniere, in the New York Evening ar Sun. he ge Temperance Kotes. First, the man takes a drink; then the drink takes a drink; then the drink takes the man. gv City officials believe that in future Gc Chicago's income from saloon licenses Yc will never fall below 57,000,000 a an year. Rc Arkansas' law prohibiting the drinking of intoxicants on trains in flie State or on station platforms, though framed rrly to put down row- W] dyism, will materially affect the busi- aIj ness of the buffet car. , All the high class magazines now refuse liquor advertising, Harper's being the last to join the ranks. The strange commentary upon the pU claim that Prohibition is an enemy nc of hotels is found in the fact that the pi annual convention of the National co Association of Hotel Men was held In ya Atlanta, Ga., on May 13. is From this time forth, the man who ty makes mere temperance addresses Pr will be rated as a good-natured, un- aI: conscious traitor to our cause; and m the man who is too broad to be true oc will be rated as our most dangerous *? enemy.?Professor Aaron S. "Wat* ?c kins. i "l' ci< ???? /or my dally range I A'VifSniono th? frteajanf fields J$\ rVVof rtoly Wrif T mifthr despair.*}/ ~TemJS??Ji> tXV? THE STRAY LAMB. A little lamb went straying Among the hills one day, Leaving its faithful shepherd, Because it loved to stray; And while the sun shone brightly, It knew no thought or fear, For flowers around were blooming* And balmy was the air. But night came over quickly, The hollow breezes .blew? The sun soon ceased from shining,. All dark and dismal grew. The little lamb stood bleating, As well indeed it might, So far from home and shepherd. And on so dark a night! But ah! the faithful shepherd Soon .missed the little thing, Ar?/^ /m"i Yttq r?rl n>ar?f 4>y\ ???!. * **"V* V*4'*<*4.VA ??tut w OCC&. IV, It home again to bring; He sought on hill, in valley, And called it by its name? He sought, nor ceased hia seeking, 1 Until he found his lamb. Then to his gentle bosom The little lamb he pressed. And, as he bore it homeward, He fondly it caressed. The little lamb was happy To find itself secure; ./ And happy, too, the shepherd, Because his lamb he bore. V And won't you love the Shepherd, So gentle and so kind, N .. . Who came from brightest glory His little lambs to find? / To make them, oh, so happy* Rejoicing in His love, Till every lamb be gathered Safe in His home above. ?Albert Mid lane, in London Christian. Forgiveness. ' The.first prayer of every awakened iul Is, "Forgive, O Lord, forgive!" id the answer of God is, "Forgive, man, forgive!'-' and In this answer e does not mock us. When He iys, "Forgive, and you shall be foiv ven," He only reveals the law of ace. The Kingdom of God is within you. e has planted it there. It lies in ie heart like a grain of mustard ed, lost in the dust of a sordid !e. There is no magician in Heaven on earth that can make It spring ) all at once into the greatest of ?rbs. It must be watered, it must 5 cultivated, and the culture must ; diligent and patient. It is so of e Kingdom and it is so of each of i graces, only the merciiui can odIn mercy; only the peacemaker# n have the peace of God; only those . ho love even the unthankful and e unworthy can be conscious of Dd's love; only those who forgive n be forgiven. There is such a thing as insufflent grace?grace that falls short of Ivation. It is only full grown grace at saves, and grace reaches its marity only by cultivation. The grace forgiveness can grow only by forving, and only as it grows can it ing forgiveness. "But, Lord, how ten shall my brother sin against e and I forgive him? till seven nes?" "I say not unto to thee, itil seven times; but, until seventy nes-seven." Never cease to forgive itil you no longer need to b'e forven; and then you will still forgive, r you will have become like God. , le grace that forgives you is God's, ace, and it is as truly Divine in the ;art of a sinner as it is in God HimIf. But it requires much grace, and ace matured by much forgiving, take atoay sin.?Nashville Christian ivocate. A New, Complete Heart. It is nothing less than character,, ithing less than a new, complete art, a fulfilled manhood, that Christ trying to give us. Therefore, weay be patient, and be sure that the rfection of His gift cannot be all at ice. i He who enters into Christ enters to a region of life and growth aich stretches far away before him. s steps across the threshold and his et are glad with the very touchingthe blessed soiL Christ is so One at all which He is ever to be to the ul He is in some true sense already, it none the less there is much which 3 cannot be until the soul is more, id so can take more of the life tore by. The world can give you blessings lich will be complete to you at ice. It is able and glad to set forth r you at the beginning of the feast e best wine it has. But Christ will ke you, if you let Him, into His lm, strong power, and lead you on ever richer capacity and ever richblessing, till at last only at the d of eternity shall your soul be sat5ed and be sure that it has touched e height and depth of His great ace, and say: "Now I know Thy odness wholly." Oh, at the end of our eternity may ose words be ours!?Phillips ooks. What God Sends is Always Good. Whatever falls from the skies is,. oner or later, good for the land; iiatever comes to us from God is jrth having, even though it be a d. We cannot by nature like Duble any more than a mouse can I 11 in love with a cat, and yet Paul grace came to "glory in tribula>n also." Losses and crosses areavy to bear, but when our hearts' e right with God, it is wonderful w easy the yoke becomes.?Spuron. The Sovereign of Will. Christ is sovereign of the will. Toll to do a thing is almost to do itit we must have a sanctified will, id helps a man who helps himself. iu can become mentally, spiritually d physically what you will to be.? :v. A. T. Osborn. Greed For Gain. It Is the greed for gain that is ecking society. Money making is : right: but it should be made le.imately.?Rev. J. Wesley Kill. Dreadnoughts Begun. The construction of the new Rusin battleship Poltava, of the Dreadlught type, which is to have a disacement of 21,000 tons, has beei> mmenced in the Government dockrd at St. Petersburg. The Poltava the first of six vessels of a similar pe which the Russian Government oposes to build. The Government so intends to lay down six large arored cruisers and twenty or thirty ean going torpedo boats of 1000 ns each. The plans of the torpedoiats have not yet been approved, it their construction has been deled upon In principle. - ?d