^Ba5a5B5a5B52?rE5555SgSB5a | THE IAN S | * By EFFIE AM Ju ^ - I?<*i5SESH5H5H5H5E5H5B5HSHSES CHAPTER XXXI. 20 Continued. The story was so painful, so horrible altogether, that Gervais could not bear to think that he might be .brought in contact with any portion of it again, and immediately follow ang xne quiet iuuerai uc wcui amuau, as the world thought truly, "to help distract his mind from his overwhelming grief." Enid and Lady Derriman had lived for a year and a half in London and Scotland, and then, yielding to the earnest entreaties of the county, they came hack to the Manor and made it their home. Enid could scarcely have described .what constituted her happiness in the five peaceful years that followed, but that she was happy none could doubt; all loved her, and to Lady Derriman she was as dear as her own child. During those long years Gervais, Earl of Derriman, never returned to England once; but, though absent, he was well acquainted with all that went on at home, for his mother j wrote regularly and cheerfully? j more cheerfully, indeed, than, her heart prompted, but she was hot' selfish in her love. Dare Broughton had bepn down several times to Bromley, and Lady Derriman always chronicled the fact ito her son, adding; that she would never be surprised if a romance were to spring from these visits; and some how that passage always left an unpleasant senastion in Gervais' breast. "Simmonds says that Cousin Grace is not well enough to get out to-day, so I think I will walk over, unless you i want me, dear, at home." "You are a great nuisance, and I shall be glad to be rid of you," was Lady Derriman's answer. Enid laughed and kissed her, and then' they chatted of other things. By and by, when Enid was equipped in her pretty, dark blue velvet dress and cap, that set oft her' glorious red brown hair and coloring to perfection, and was walking toward Knebwell Hall, she looked very i thoughtful. "Mother is brave," she said to herself; "but she's pining for him all the same. I?I wish he would come home. Six years and a half?it is almost a lifetime!" She sighed a little, and then, as her / path lay past the church yard, she unconsciously turned in and walked on ,uij sue reacnea me uerrimaa vauu. "Poor Dorothy!" she thought, sadly, tears rising to her eyes as the past grew clear; "if only she had trusted me, had asked me to help her, perhaps that secret would never have been so terrible, and she would have been spared?" "Halloo! Miss Enid, moralizing in a graveyard. Come, this will never do!" It was Dr. Waters who spoke. He was riding past in the lane below, and pulled up his horse. He looked hale and hearty. "I was thinking of Dorothy," Enid caid, as she rone and went toward him. "Ah! sad thing! Beautiful creature! The last one in the world one would have imagined to end as she ilir?' T n:ortioH hnr mvanH1 thof niaht U1U X TU&lAV.Vt UiJOVll. VUtbW UlJjUt of the dinner. Do you remember?" Would Enid ever forget? ' She was drinking then," Dr. Waters went on, "brandy, and such like. It will always be a mystery to me why a high born woman, with everything to make her happy, should have had ?uch depraved tastes." Enid made no answer. She felt that poor Dorothy had flown to this fatal habit from desperation and fear; but that could never be told. "And when is the earl coming back??you don't know?" T*\?? Au:- T -1 xji . YY aicis suuua ms ueau. "Don't sit there any longer?it is tro cold; move on, my Csa;-.'' And, suiting the action to the word, he touched up his horse and rode sharply away. Enid roused herself with a sigh from her sad thoughts, and walked on to the hall. Her visit paid to both her cousins and Mrs. Cullam, she commenced to retrace her steps. It was growing dark, and she had a long way to go, so she called up all her energies and started briskly. "A week only to Christmas!" she said to herself, as she hurried on; "I must begin my small presents for the children next week. 1 shall give those pink flannels to? Oh!" She came to a standstill after this sudden exclamation, and then her heart began to beat wildly. There? right in front of her?was a tall man's figure, which even in the dim light she knew could only belong to one mac. y "Have I frightened you, Enid?" asked Gervais. eagerly, as he grasped her hands. "You?you surprised me!' she answered; then shaking off her nervous ness. "Have you fallen from the clouds?" "No! I arrived an hour and a half ago in a village fly; there is nothing supernatural about me. I nearly frightened my mother out of her wits; and then I must needs come to meet you, and do the same thing!" "I am not frightened," Enid said, tremulously; "only very, very glad'" her heart whispered. His bright, cheerful voice, the vigorous clasp of his hand, told her he was better, and that he no longer wasted his life in useless mourning ovpr rrhr.t could never be changed. Do you know you have grown?" he said, suddenly: "you are a most magnificent young woman now!" Enid laughed shyly "Am I?" she asked, and then there rvas silence between them as they wa ited sv/iftiy on. "J ii?.ve coil, home for srood and ! i 5S5a5HS2SHSHSHSS5ESaSH5S^ j J iHELOVEDli' -# -# S ! M m ROWLANDS. I j i ym Ifl Q HSa5HSSS5SHSHSSSHSH5HSH;!i^ i P t r | all, Enid," Gervais observed, after ( t( awhile. j 6 i "Yes," she answered. i ^ "I have been selfish," he went on, | "forgetting that my mother is no i . longer young and needs me." 1 "She will be happy. J know," the | . girl murmured. j . "And you, are you glad?" "Vuc " clip said eimnlv. "T am - n glad." j rj Gervais hesitated; the lights of i . Bromley were twinkling in the dis- 1 tance. ! "Enid," he Baid in a low, uncertain t way, "I have no right to ask you the I question, but I want, to hear the truth ? from your lips. When?when are . you and Dare to be married?" Enid started and then trembled. ] "You are?are mistaken," she , managed to get out. "I am not?" i "You are not vexed with me?" he exclaimed, quickly. I _ "I am not going to marry Mr. Broughton," she cried, in desperation. { " "What!" Gervais stopped and looked at her. "'Enid, is this true?" She only nodded her head. : ' "Why are you not going to marry Dare?" ? Enid turned away. . ' "Because I?I do not think it Bl wise." ! a "Is' it because you love some one ; ? else? Oh, Enid, forgive me!" "There is nothine to forsive." she murmured, faintly. j x Gervais said no more, only drew ; her hand through his arm, and then, as if urged by some strong emotion, he released it again. i "No," he said, almost to himself. " i "I must know. Enid, be gentle with . I me. You are not going to marry " I Dare. Is it because you love some j one else?it it?oh, my darling, is it because you love me?" 1 She breated a word so low he had to stoop to catch it. ; "Yes." | 11 With an eager cry of joy he clasped her in his arms and kissed ^ her. | ri "Enid, I should have been home ! nearly two years ago, but I thought that Dare and you were?" "Hush!" she said, faintly, yet so 1 r happily. "Why, Gervais, I have loved b you from the first?the very first day j " I saw you." j ? He softly touched the sweet lips ! bl with his own. "And out of my sorrow has growr my great love for you, Enid. I thinfc 1 it must have been there all the time Cling closer to me, my darling, and g deal gently with me, for I have suffered so much!" p Her answer was to wrap her armt j around him and pillow her head or j _ his breast. "Oh, my dear, dear love!" she said i brokenly. "If I had only dared le* you know all I felt for you!" "I did know it, Enid," he said "and even in that awful past tb? ' knowledge comforted me. Enid, ' i have come upon you so suddenly, per ! haps I have startled your confessioi j bi from you; if so, I will be patient anc j i wait till you have thought it all over j my dearest, and?" "I want no thought, Gervais. ' j know my own heart too well. I hav< always loved you." He stood silent for a moment 03 hardly comprehending the fullness o: i his joy at first; then a fleeting, dart ft memory came. "But the past, Enid!" he said, jus' j tl tightening his hbld. "I?I must tel. j you all now." "Tell me nothing." She lifted he? j a pure, lovely face to his. "Let he) i |r secret be buried with her, poor crea J ^ ture!" Gervais murmured the last twt a] wordS after her. I gi "It was one terrible mistake," h< I said, sadly. "But it is over; anc j jj henceforth, my darling, our lives, bj | Q] heaven's blessing, shall run ui ! smoothly to the end. Kiss me again ! Enid, my own dear one, my wife!" J * The moon broke through the cold i b gray sky, and shone down on them a* j " they walked on. lost in their greal [ j happiness; it gleamed, too, on tht i 4 home that had been so degraded and I desecrated, and it lingered on Enitf ' j with a soft, tender touch, as if it im j printed a blessing on her and on thf j "t man she loved. j & 'ine End. 2 51 Russian Wins Honor. P i This year's "senior wranglership" ' I at the University of Cambridge, Eng j r < land, gave great honors to a young | I Russian Jew. The result of the I X "mathematical tripos" shows that Se- j 01 lig Brodetsky, whose father had ! r sought an asylum in England from \ 8t Russian oppression, had been brack- U eted with Mr. Ibbotson. scholar o1 Ji Pembroke, for the coveted British C blue riband of mathematics. > . Every Letter in One Versr. t In the twenty-first verse of the ;> seventh chapter of Ezra can be found '1 every letter of the English alphabet. 3. It runs thus: "And I, even I, Artax- n erxes the King, do make a decree to a: all toe treasurers wnicn are Deyona :i the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law ol the God of heaven, shall require ol you. it be done speedily." Peanuts From Africa. So many peanuts are eatea in ta:s country that the native supply is not . sufficient lor the demand, and about $3000 worth of the African nuts ' were imported from Marseilles in ] 90f. and over CT^.000 v/orth in 1907. The west coast of Africa pro- u duces quantities of peanuts.?New York World. Although the mulberry tree is fc raised in Mysore, the most of the silk ci produced in India is rnadn from the tl wild silkworms and from raw silk im- ]y ! noried from China aud Sinm w 'HOTOGKAPHING THE VAVES OF LIFE. An Amazing Discovery by a Parisian Searcher After the Psychic. Many interesting articles have "been written of late about the spirit-world, ut assuredly Vance Thompson, in is vivid contribution, "On the Trail f the Ghost," has found some things, ew and startling, which surpass all revious magazine contributions. This emarkable work appears in Hampon's Magazine. Speaking, for intance, of Dr. Baraduc, the wellnown inventor of a system of radiohotography, Mr. Thompson says: Dr. Baraduc's son, Andre, a youth f twenty, died last year of consumpion. Radio-photography showed a eep ulceration of the lungs. II howed more?even the shudder ol is entire being as death took him. 'he third day, eighty hours after eath, while the body lay in the cofn, a curious photograph was taken, n it could be seen the dispersal ol he fluids?to keep to the doctor's brase?of the bodily envelope. In illowy waves they rolled through he chamber of the dead, beating gainst the living flesh of those who matched there. The shock of these raves as they spread through the ?^ +VIA Ttr o fnVinro flic UU ill VTaS ICll VJJ I.UC TTttVVllVAtr vuv .bbe H , Madame Julie and Dr. taraduc himself. What radio-phosgraphy did not record in this case ras the Mental Ball. Three months later Madame Barauc died very quietly. She had never ecovered from the loss of her son. leath took her at two o'clock on an ictober afternoon. Twenty minutes iter the first photograph was made, bowing three fluidic clouds drifting Way from her body; and, ap well, the urious serpentine filament, or lien, [ore significant was the death pho3g?aph Itself, which showed the forlation of the Mental Ball, at the loment veiling the face. The lien, oiled on itself, had the shape of a gure 8. In a little while it passed way. The mysterious globe?call it hat you will?had gone otherwhere, t one moment the eyes of the sensive might see it, the film take a recrd of it; then it was not?as the chtninp- finch whlrh n&Rses. leavine arkness. Spherical, gyratory, luminous; in iese words Dr. Baraduc describes le Boule Mentale, And this descripon is the result of long Jnvestigaon, in many lands, among many ices of men. "It is in Scotland," Dr. Baraduc lys, "that this globe is most readily iscerned?there, and in Indo-China. he most intersting one of which I ave a record is that of W. T. Stead, le English publicist. In his Mental all there is distinctly traceable the gginning of a star formation." WORDS OP WISDOM. A fool uttereth all his mind.? ible. No lock avails against a hatchet.? rench. Courtesy is the bond of all society. -Italian. He who swears distrusts his own ords.?Latin. When it thunders the thief becomes onest.?Dutch. To borrow on usury brings sudden sggary.?Dutch. He who sows brambles must not go arefoot.?Dutch. He that comes unbidden will sit own unasked.?Irish. Patience is a bitter seed, but it ields sweet fruit.?German. Many a lout is wealthy and a clever, tan hard put to.?Spanish. Experience keeps a dear school, but >ols can be taught no other.?Latin. Conscience is the voice of the soul; \e passions are the voice of the body. -French. Religion is not a department of hulan life. Religion is a spirit pervadig all departments of human life.? :ary Emily Case. nnlA : ucic die uiumcxiiD YY ti cu paic ad modest star, kindled by God 111 rnple hearts, -which men call conlience, illumines our path with truer ght than the flaming comet of genius a its magnificent course.?MazzinL Christian faith is a grand cathedral ith divinely pictured windows, tanding without you see no glory or can possibly imagine any. Standlg within, every ray of light reveals harmony of unspeakable splendors. -Hawthorne. 1 am the Lord that comforts you i time of trial. Come unto Me when is not well with you. This it is that lost of all stands in the way of eavenly comfort?that you come sc owly to your prayers. For before ou ask Me earnestly, in the meanme you look for many a solace.? homas a Kempis. A psalm -which cultivates the spirit f gratitude is a psalm which we light often to read. If we were more ratpful hnth our invs and nnr .rength would be increased. (I ratijde is born in hearts which take the me to count up past mercies.? harles E. Jefferson. Outgrow religion? No, faith will ecome stronger as it is enlightened od re-enforced by knowledge, or as e learn more of the wise, safe, iendly order in which disorder is eld as the ocean holds its eddies and iffles; for that order will shine round and within us like a revelaon.?Charles G. Ames. Bit of Advice From Missouri Don't go into a newspaper office ud ask the editor t.o roast someody. You don't know bow jt looks r you wouldn't do it. Here's a parllel case: You step up to a iend and say, "Bill, I wish you'd o over there and give that fellow a ood cussing for me. I'm a little Fraid to do it myself." ? Lamar emocrat. Luckily For the Captain. Captain (spinning a yarn)?"I was >r eight days a prisoner among the mnibals. Lady?"And how was it ley didn't eat you!" Captain (calm )?"Well, the truth was the chief's ife had mislaid her cook-book." ; BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCI i SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSI i i GREATLY CHEERED. ' i | Wine Drinking Continues. i A very significant indication of tb? ! antagonism of the people of the wine growing and other parts, of Europe ti the use of wine and other intoxicat ing liquors was shown at the Anti Alcoholic Congress held in Stock holm, Sweden, last August. In j room devoted to an exhibition of thvast literature of anti-alcoholism | where, not counting books, tracts leaflets, reprints^ etc., over twelv< hundred distinct periodicals pointinj out the danger of drink and advocat ing abstinence were shown. Onl; two hundred of these were printed h English; the others were chiefly ii the languages of continental Europe and most of them emanated from tin wine-producing countries. This tells the story. The greate | agitation against drink among thes ' more conservative people but show j how much greater has been the suf fering from the vice than was know] to the world at large. They indicate as nothing else could, how terrlbl must have been the scourge of th< popular poison in those countrie supposed to be free from the evil ef fects of intemperance. ! Over fifteen hundred delegate , I from all parts of the world, includ I 2 ? ? ~ ? 1.. U ^ ^ nliirafrtlonc lllg UCclI IJ Ck UUUU1CU puJ Oavjuub were present at the'great convention Governments sent representatives ' and the almost universal cry wa 1 "prohibition." Prom The Journal of Mental Path ology we learn that the French, Ital ! ian, Swiss, Russian and German na I tions are keenly alive to the dange | of alcoholic intemperance. j The marked sensitiveness on thi ' subject is not the result of fanaticism ' but of acts brought to light by clini I cal observation. These investigation i show that mental, moral and physi ; cal deterioration among these peopl is due to intemperance more than an; other cause, alcoholism of the paren producing degeneracy of the off spring. For this reason the governments o j these countries have been actively con I cerned in the propaganda of popula ' temperance. Russia is trying to sup I plant the thirst for alcohol by openinj soup and tea houses for the poor j France is fighting her anti-alcoholi j battles with lectures. Germany 1 j attempting the same reform by dras j tic legal enactment. Sweden an< I Norway, after years of governmenta i control of the sale of liquor, and witl j good results, are now agitating fo I its comDlete abolition: and Finland ' by an overwhelming .majority, de | cided to prevent the manufacture o I alcoholic beverages within its bor [ ders, and prohibits its importatioi | from other countries. The Socialis : party in Germany, at its recent Na : tional Congress at Essen, placed it j self on record against the use of al I cohol in any form.?From "Thi i Truth About Wine-Drinking Coun I tries," by Matthew Woods, M. D., i] ; The Sunday School Times. Saloon Man Votes "Dry.M i A Chicago young man who is trav eling in the South, writes home t< i his father of a conversation he hat . with a Memphis saloonkeeper, tb< proprietor of one of the largest an< i finest saloons In that city, which I under the new State law, Is to be ! come "dry" on the first day of nex i JuJyThe young Chicagoan incidentall; ! fell into conversation with the mai j at the hotel breakfast table, an< ! asked him what about the new pro hibitory law. "Well, sir, when that law goes inti | effect I will be a ruined man flnan ! cially," he said. "Everything I'v< got will go and I will have to star all over again in some new business.' Being asked if he didn't feel rathe sore about it, he replied: "No, sir, I don't. I am a whisk; man; have sold it all my life, and t know that it is the root of all evil It ruins more lives than any othe thing. It is the curse of this coun try. Though I am not a married mai and have no family, yet when I g< to the polls I vote for prohibition." His new acquaintance semed sur | prised at this, and he went on: "I have sisters and brothers wh< j are married and have children. D< I you think I am going to vote for i I thing that may ruin the lives of thosi | children and drag them down to de j 6truction? No, sir; I've seen to< much misery caused by alcoholic liq uors to do a thing like that." This saloonkeeper predicted that ii j ten years we would have nation-wid< j prohibition.?Illinois Issue. A? ThiIMA AU XlUIICBl U UU^C. Judge Steere, of Sault Ste. Marie Mich., evidently has the courage o h:_ tendency all the time in us towar ~ becoming friendly with our. surrounc , | ings that answers to a yearning i '' our hearts and which makes us fe< that the world in which we live j _ lovable, and for us a home; and i is one of the evidences of the know edge which God has meant us to at tain here. He has meant us to fe? that friendly feeling toward our sui roundings; to have it as a part c '* our education and part of our pr( l' paration for whatever of life ther ' may be in store for us when we hav passed into the more glorious rad ance of knowledge of God. As th| ~ is true of things, it is even more tru of faces and people. For the facc ' we see, although we know but littl of the personality behind them w get to have a certain friendliness 8 and when we have gone by?sa] ' the same afrple woman?often, an seen the face, we have acquired 8 sort of affectionate interest in th welfare of this and that person; an ?, it is only when some change come that we realize how strong has bee c the influence of the personalities c whom we know very little, i Again, as this is true of thing 1 and persons whom we do not knov it is all the more true of God, c r whom, though we think we know great deal, we know little, and wit f whom we may have had sweet intei ' course, but yet have not attained t ? anything like intimacy, and as thi 9 is so of things and people and c " God, It is surely to be part of tha 1 life which we are to live forever, an 1 the eternal God is showing us a pat 1 by which we may attain immeasui r able love. ? The problem before us is whethe " we can carry this friendliness aJ * through life. We know what it h " but to many the past is only a men * ory, and to-day we are not being a 4 friendly as we would like to be " The universe now is such a big plact " Our childhood world, when thi feeling of friendliness became stron* 9 was a large world, but by and by w " outgrow the toy and the chicken coo 3 and there comes the difficult prot lem of how to hecome friendly wit things afterwardB. It * is not s easy to become friendly with th office desk, and, moreover, th - population of the country is constant j ly bringing to us a greater difficult 1 in understanding what it is to lov a mankind. When we are youn I among our friends, we come to, un i, derstand w'.at God meand by "lov - all men;" but when we see all classe t of men coming here and jostling u and pushlug us, it is harder for u ? to realize that we are to keep upo: i a friendly relationship with all, an ] we have not rathomed the meanin - of the brotherhood of man. Bu when we do realize the greatness o a the demand of human sympathy, w . see that, as Urierly tells us, the un) a verse is much vaster than our father t thought it. We find that the su: ' and moon and the light were not ap r pointed for our sole benefit. W have discovered that we are an in f flnitesimal speck in the univers j amidst vast consellations, and tha . our sun is only one of many and ou t planet a tiny one in the immensit . of space. We have learned that th 3 way to discover the "distance of dif 3 tant stars is to measure the tim which It takes for the light to travel . We move 180,000,000 of miles be tween January and June, but th j stars do not change their position t 3 us by a hair's breadth, and so we se 3 how Bmall we are in the whol 3 heavens. When the microscope ha . brought us a great realization of th 3 life about us, of the vast interest . conveying all around us. When we discover these things w 3 see that this universe is far greate > than men of a generation ago eve dreamed. Are we, then, less friendly? Hav ! we moved God afar off, and canno think of Him as sitting intent upoi us and our prayers, but as all th . time doing something to carry ou f and maintain these magnlficen f powers and forces all around us f Are we less friendly when we thinl , of the vastness of our surroundings s | 1 imutt. 11 we gu aiuug ixj iaiu huc, - of thought we shall not lose ou friendliness. f Let us try to maintain the opei 3 heart of childhood and keep In our ] Belves that friendliness that may bi 3 in danger of escaping. The firs 3 thing is this: that friendly relation ) ship does not consist of anything in ? trinsic. It consists in the first placi - in the human heart. We are friend i ly because God made us friendly and if that is so, what do thing: i matter? If things pass away as lon{ > aa we have the spring in ourselvei i the water will bubble forth. The thing is to look to the thin* ] inside ourselves and not to the thin* ] outside. As that is so It is true also ;ha this friendliness can never disappeai t really as long as man lives, and i we have lost any of it, it is because j to some extent, we have ceased t( j live. It is possible to have som< part of us die?the things behind us j and yet have them revive. It is quit< possible for us to feel that there ii h?yon1 us fomcfhicg which we car hi ino- hank to ourselves jf we are ner slstent enough Sn our search. The j relation between us and the thinp t we have learned to be friendly to is based, not upon knowledge, but upor t feeling. "We cannot increase knowledge toe much if only we keep growing with our knowledge. There is another thing: we have still direct and vital connection with things, though our life does change and the things change. Though some things be destroyed, we have still direct access to the things that do not change. Does it matter that ( there have been a dozen years before this one? This year is to us a source of joy and glory because this year unfolds again the marvelous ; way that God brings the spring to r life. Does it matter tliat it is the 1 same star that shone on Moses? It is the same star. \ * | ,1 Mhercdforrbe f | | QyETHoUiy, l/j WORK AND REST. 3 I -??? y I] 0 Father, while I live, I pray . i That 1 may work from day to day? : Work with strong hand and willing mina '? ' At little tasks that help mankind. Ct I i, j And, Father, when I die, I pray il j That, as I rise to greet the day, h i I be not cursed with idle rest, i. ;j But with some heavenly work be blest, 'i ?John Havnes Holmes, in Isles of Shoals i Hymn Book. ? ! Undeveloped Forces in the Average ^ Christian. i Speak unto the children of Israel, ' ! that they go forward.?Exodus 14:15. ^ i When the command of this text r_ : was spoken by Moses to the Israelites ~ i they were shut in completely. High 1 ^ mountains on either side, before them ! the great deep sea, behind them an | ~ | embittered, cruel, determined foe. ' j Calmly Moses is bidden by God to r ! speak unto the children of Israel tkat , ^ j they go forward. I_ | You remember how that sea be- j " J came a safe pathway to freedom and i J I a fuller knowledge of a divine provi- 1 i dence and grace. So God's forward : call to-day to the undeveloped forces * within us, if obeyed in as firm a faith, 1 ~ will be crowned with as marvellous results. 'I Tn nnttlnir in+n oaitvina thaao nn/1n I 1 AU Jivuvwiug 4UW DVl f i\j\* VUVOV' UAAVIV" veloped forces of Christian manhood ? : and womanhood remember that the ? i years of preparation or of slow progress in attaining our ideals or of apparent bitter defeat and failure are : 7 : not lost to us. Much Is accomplished '' | in these struggles of the soul, which ' J none but God and the individual j ? j really ever know. We may judge | ourselves as only doing the little \ . j things, the hidden things, yet, if j these be well done, like towers of ; ' | strength we will rise and be enabled j f i to do greater things afterward for ! II ! God. I Remember, too, that God's call for | * the undeveloped forces of Christian i ; manhood and womanhood bespeaks I the exalted purpose of real life, viz., | . to remove obstructions. The ignor- j ant and the indolent may hinder by i standing in the way of God's plans and purposes for the betterment of |f humanity, but the office of a true man t is to use all his accumulated knowl- | i edge in making the pathway of life ! h pleasant, peaceful and prosperous, I u even as Jesus Himself sougnt to make it for every man. We may use our knowledge upon j the undeveloped forces of nature and find profit therefrom, but when we ' j have used our acquirements in bene" ' fiting the bodies and souls of our fel- i f low beings, so that afterward they " i rise up and declare that we helped " i them, we have achieved the most ex? J alted of all services. g Three things will aid in going for ' wara in spite or every difficulty. _ Stronger faith in the word of our J j Master. To live well is no easy task, ] but to attempt to live without the i sincerest faith in the living Christ, j within us and above us, is to curtail ; life of its powers and to draw the y curtain of destiny. Another inspira- j * fion is more earnest conviction of per- ; sonal duty. Christ speaks to us and ? asks for our service In behalf of a " world. Love for Christ and for humanity is another inspiration. The poor, the neglected, the sore s in heart, the helpless ought to find in Q us their truest friend, as we seek for ^ opportunity to overcome in the difficult places of life. Such strong men ^ and women God is continually calling f into His service and blessing their ' obedience. Such, too, the world api_ preciates and honors. The greatest " one who ever trod this earth declared n of Himself, "I am among you as one h that serveth;" "I do always those * things which please Him." When L_ you and I have pleased God with our 0 lives, when we have done what He * would have us do, we have emphar sized the fact that the Christian life y is oniy worth the living when it is q lived well.?Rev. Andrew Hageman, Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, in e the New York Herald. e j Christian Charity. 0 Jesus is the Incarnation of true I o charity, and none ever denounced 0 wrong with greater energy than He. 0 He exposed the shallow pretensions s and denounced the insincerity of the 0 Pharisees with an energy and zeal s which burned with a white heat. ! He was the uncompromising en's j emy of all shamxand the fast friend ' | of truth and honest conviction, and * | yet no one ever entered so fully into I sympathy with the erring and peni0 ] tent children of men as did Jesus, t Fierce and unrelenting in His oppo3 j sition to strongly fortified wicked0 ; ness, He is tenderness Itself when t dealing with the broken in spirit, or t when looking ppon the bruised reed ? and the smoking flax. His example, S in this respect, is worthy of imitation, ? and is the pattern by which we should s shape our lives. r | 1 God Our Home. . j God is our home; and in that home 0 j life all His gifts are freely bestowed t I upon us, We can use and enjoy . | them; ndy, we ought to dt> so. The . | marvellous endowments of our hu3 i man nature?of the mind, of the . j senses, of love and of beauty; all the f I marvels of this universe in which we 3 j live, which man half receives and y! half creates; these we are meant to i 3 i know, to use, to enjpy. It is the very I privilege bf man to be able in some I , j degree to "share God's rapture" in I I I I His creation, to Gee and know that it 1 5 j Is "very good." t; r The Church. f We speak of attending church as a . 3uty; more deeply Is it a privilege J and a benefit. The union of the soul fwith its God is the meaning and pur? pose of religion; the church is a ' 5 means to that end.?Rev. C. A. Mar- ? 3 lin (Roman Catholic). ! i ?? :Patience. 4 ^ Patience is as a case of armor j iround the heart, which deadens the i [ olows inflicted upon it.?Rev. J. B. ] , QomononvHor j riau r*n> jlivj, I At Detroit, Mich., Harold Gibbons, eight years old, was pulled into the ! river by a carp or some other power- j \ ful fish while he was fishing from the dock at the foot of Field avenue. He \ went down in about fourteen feet of . water, and beins unable to swim, ' drowned before the eyes of his broth' er John. i i Sioux Settlement in Nicaragua. Little Bison, a Sioux Indian chief, p 1 returned to New Orleans after mak- ^ ! ing arrangements with President Ze- 5 laya io settle a colony of North Amer- jj ican Indians in Nicaragua. i A. ; Jjfie ! &unDau-cftc?f INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM ME NTS /FOR OCTOBER S. Subject: Paul a Prisoner?The Arrest, Acts 21:17-22:29?Golden Text: 2 Tim. 2:3?Commit Vs? < 21:39-?Commentary on Lessen. TIME.?A. D. 68. | PLACE.?Jerusalem. EXPOSITION.?I. Paul Mobbed, 27-81. Paul's atteb?f)t at conciliation resulted not in peace, but more dis, :ord and grave trouble. But that Joes not prove that the attempt was in Itself unwise; incalculable good came from it. It ^suited in bringing Paul to Rome, wberfe God wanted him', and where he wanted to go, and that without expense to himself or "the church, and under the most favorable circumstances to gain a hearing. It brought Paul the opportunity to testify to the truth to Felix,. Festus and Agrippa, and gave him access to the pretorium guard (Phil. 1:13, R. V.) and to the household of the emperor. It gave to the church some of the most precious epistles in the Bible. Paul was grossly misrepresented .( . 2). In fact, he was a devoted lover of his people and observer of the law. ev,ery irue servant or uo; have here a striking Example of the utter folly and wickedness of mobs. n. Paul Refecoed From the Mob, , 32-36. The murderous Jews had healthy respect tot the Roman set-'. diers. Mobs usually have a deep respect for soldiers; mobs are cowardly things. They had been beating-Pact, just as he in the olden time ha^ beat* en those who believed in Jesus (cfc< 22:19). At the first sight of the sol' diers they quit. Bnt Paul's troubles were not over yet. The colonel of the Roman regiment now arrested him, He took it for granted that If every one was against Paul he must b? guilty of some great crime. That if th? way we often1 Judge, but we may be as wrong as this officer was. ?au{ loaded with chains. The . prophecy of Agabus was fulfilled (cf. v. 11), After thus heaping indignities upon Paul he inquired "who he was and" what he had done." The mob then* ; selves did not know; there is nothing more senseless than a mob (cf. ch< ( 19:32). But while the mob did nbi know what he had done, they did1 know that they wanted his blood, They surged up around the soldleri untjl they were forced! to lift Pauj above their heads and thus carry him, Paul himself was the only calm pen son in the whole gathering (cf. Isa 26:3). A hoarse cry continually renf > the air, "Away with him." Paul wai following closely in the same path bis Master had trod (cf. Jno. 19:15). Paul will hear that cry again (cf. ch. , 22:22). ITT. Paul Longing For the Salv* fion of His Persecutors, 37-40. Dan |ng all this tumult Paul had but oni thought, how he might witness for Iris Master and bring some of'hit blinded enemies to a saving knowt edge of Christ. He asks the privilegf of speaking. He makes his requeai very courteously. Paul was a tactful gentleman as well as a brave man. He united in himself qualities tha/ are seldom united. He knew how t<. be deferential as well as brave. Th< Roman colonel was startled, not only by the language in which Paul mad< the request, but also by the tone an? manner of it. He bad taken Paul t< be a notorious inciter of insurrectior and leader of "the assassins." Paul declared his nationality and his citi< tenship. The officer did not noticc ' it.. # at lut; lime IUC iuitc vi uio sajiu^ _ that, he was a citizen of Tarsus, bur B Paul will tell him again in due time I (cf. ch. 22:25, 29). Paul's plea t< B speak is very urgent, "I beseech or H thee." The sight of that great crowc" I of his unsaved countrymen was au fl appeal to Paul's heart that he could B not resist, he must speak. It mat- B tered nothing to him that they bad B just sought to kill him. He loved I them. What an example of loyaltj 9 to Christ, love to man and eagerness B to preach the Gospel anywhere and B always. Paul got the desire of his B heart; they let him down, and stand* B ing on the stairs he beckons with hit fl band to the mob to be still. He has 9 mastered his audience in a moment. Q "there was made a great silence." B Paul at once drops bis Greek and be gins to speak the language of the peo? fl [ile. Would that all preachers woulif fl learn wisdom from Paul in this mati. g Shot at Man's Reflection. | An unsuccessful attempt was made o assassinate S. D. Poyner, postmaser at Moyock, N. C., by an unknown erson who fired upon him through & edroom window. Fortunately for 'ostmaster Poyner it was the reflecion of his head in a mirror across the oom at which the would-be assassin imed, with a double-barreled gun, 'hose load of buckshot shattered the lirror and slightly hurt a child sleep]g in a near-by cradle. The cause f the attempt on the postmaster's ?. fe has not been explained Diamond Set in His Fingernail. A diamond set in the nail of his ittle finger was displayed by Alhonse Albert Dupuy, an Evanston 111.) tailor. The stone is one-third arat. On ordinary occasions the tailr wears a thimble over the bejewlled finger. Ship Raced Iccberg. Passengers on the California reorted on arriving at New York City hat an iceberg 1000 feet long and 00 feet high kept ahead of the ship 1 a race at sea.