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r / CHAPTER IV. 7 Continued. ''Hear that!" she said to Jacqueline. "Does it not seem as if all the lost souls in the Pit were roaming Deadman's Island? You are young and vigorous, Miss Hatton; but tell me, how long could you, even with your health and strength, endure a |>lace like this?" Jacqueline answered frankly: Not for many weeks, I fear. "'No, nor man^' days!" answered Mrs. Trevor, with a strange spark in her gray eyes, "you would soon loathe the very air you were forced to breathe!?you would call upon the sea to rise and devour your prison, and yourself in it!" Philip Trevor lifted his eyebrows. "My love!" he said, in a surprised, reproachful tone. Mrs. Trevor subsided at once, and began to absently crumble the bread on her Sevres plate. ."Monotony is always wearing," laid Jacqueline, trying to fill the awkward pause that ensued. "The daughter of Maria Theresa welcomed an abscess in the face, as a change from the deadly dullness of her everyday life." "I fear my wife is conveying a wrong impression, miss nation. ?ie Bhook his finger playfully at the woman, whose sharply cut face shone like parian against the back of her mahogany chair. "My dear, you must ftot allow Miss Hatton to think our Island ever bores you. We are married lovers, and this is really an ideal home for a pair to make their own world, and find their happiness and resources entirely in each other. May not two beings be isolated on a rock and yet know all the bliss that life can give?" "Oh, certainly?quite undeniable!" answered Mrs. Trevor, in an expressionless voice. The trio rose from the table, and Peter of the crooked eyes threw open a door communicating with the glassenclosed piazza. Mr. Trevor beckoned his companions through. Palms in Moorish jars, and a variety of sickly looking plants filled ' the place. The floor was partially covered with costly rugs. A colored lamp hung from the roof. But beyond the blurred glass gloomed the terribl sea and the savage rocks, in m rr /tonf ^ A f litf la n AaTt uiUtniu5 vuuuaoi tuot utiic uvua of soft color and forced bloom. "Flowers do not flourish at Deadman's," complained Mr. Trevor; "the salt air blights them even behind glass walls." Jacqueline heard a heavy sigh. She glanced at Mrs. Trevor. The white woman was staring straight out Into the storm. The palms hedged her about with their sharp spikes; .. at her side a sickly day lily, in a gorgeous pot, was striving to open one wan blossom. With sudden vehemence Mrs. Trevor snapped the flower and flung it upon the floor. "It's better to end its misery at once!" she said, as she met Jacquetine's look. "There are things immeasurably worse than death!" Trevor was whistling merrily to a gold-finch in a cage over his head. He paused and glanced at his pale wife. "My love!" he said, in the same tenderly reproachful tone that he had j used at the table. Mrs. Trevor walked away to the other side of the piazza, and did not speak another: word to Jacqueline. Our heroine escaped to her own j /"Jiamhsr onH cat rtnwn thprp tr? writp out the events of the morning for ( Doris1 edification. "Is Philip Trevor a heartless hypo-1 crite, or does he really love his wife, | as he pretends?" she said. "I con- j less that I cannot determine!" Presently the room grew, close and stifling?Jacqueline went to the window and flung it open. From this coi.?n of vantage she commanded a ; view of one end of the enclosed piaz za. Philip Trevor and his wife were still moving about there among the palms. She could discern the cage of the goldfinch; and as Jacqueline looked, a sudden scream of pain and terror rang out on the air. Through the blurred glass she saw?could she believe her own eyes??Philip Trevor I grasp his wife by her delicate throat ?saw the woman's arms thrown upward in agonized entreaty?saw her writhe helplessly in that brutal clutch. This, after all the fond words she had heard that day! For a moment Jacqueline stood thunderstruck, then, moved by a great, generous impulse, she ran to the door. He should not strangle that frail. wime creature:?sue wouiu intercede < to defend her?to cry shame upon him! She rushed out upon the landing just as the man Peter appeared at the foot of the stair, bearing in his arms the limp and senseless body of Mrs. Trevor. He ascended the flight with his burden, pretending not to see Jacqueline, who watched him in horror and astonishment. The smooth ! face and crooked eyes of the fellow | filled her with sudden panic. "Is she dead?" she gasped. "Miss," answered Peter, with cold , authority, "that's neither here nor there! Go back to your room, and be careful to mind your own business while you stay in this house!" (;And Jacqueline, in spite of tho anger and dismay that filled her, re- j treated to her chamber and closcd : the door, CHAPTER V. Jacqueline remained in her own. +:ia j-.i.-ncc fall TV>o*1 rovi" :i , jruum mi uAiniivoo %. j rap on the door, ar:d tne rancous! voice of Peter announced: "Dinner is served, miss." Sh? had forgotten that people pre-: serve the outward forms of daily -ivinc. and eat and drink amid the dark-1 est tragadies. She smoo'fctd ht-r rich ! hair, gavt- a few ftP^inine touches to J . ? 'USE ? ON || j ^ A. -A IIA'I'A aaaaaaa-A AAAAAAAI her plain dress, and went down t Trevor and his wife, vaguely wonder ing how she was to meet them, afte the spectacle she had so recently wit nessed. The table was beautifully laid, am a roaring fire blazed on the hearth Tall silver lamps shone on the por celain and crystal of the board. A Jacqueline entered by one door, an other, at the end of the apartment opened and Philip Trevor and hi ?*- -1 J* + vviit; sieypeu miuusu lugciuui. They were talking brightly, each as it seemed, in the best of spirits Was Jacqueline laboring under somi delusion, or had she really seen th hand of the man grasping that slin white throat which rose, like thi stem of a flower, from Mrs. Trevor* black velvetiMress? A dog-collar o diamonds now clasped It. Under neath the jewels did no purple marl of savage fingers still stain the del icate flesh? Yet Mrs. Trevor's eye were radiant, her lips like carmine Greatly puzzled, Jacqueline took he seat at the board. She could hardl: answer coherently the few remark addressed to her. She thought o the pale, helpless figure which sb had seen borne up the stair in th< arms of Peter, and the mystery be came'sickening. During the dinner the Trevon maintained their high spirits an< faultless demeanor. At the close o the meal Mrs. Trevor arose, swep into an adjoining room, her.long vel vet dress trailing behind her, an< eat down to a grand piano. Her hus band followed, and took his violii from its case. In perfect harmony the two began one of Chopin's gloom: despairing nocturnes. Jacqueline't heart thrilled to the sobbing, wailinj An 11 r? Timlin mo infrn/lor \i this strange house, surrounded wit] dangers and uncertainties, sl|e stoot in a window, half concealed by th< long curtain, and looked out into th< night. Far away a fog horn boomed. Th< rain lashed the panes; the sea wai rolling its white tons on the rocks Suddenly a discord in the music drev Jacqueline's eyes back to the musi cians. Mr. Trevor's lips were twitch ing, drops of sweat stood on his fore head, his face looked drawn anc tense. Mrs. Trevor dashed into a wile waltz; her husband strove to follov her, but, turning his head furtively he met the fixed gaze of Jacqueline and the efTect was startling. With t passionate gesture, he dashed dowr his violin. | "My God!" he cried, in horror "that girl is the image of John Hatton!" Mrs. Trevor put her hand on hei husband's arm. "Command yourself, Philip!" she said, in a hard, cold voice. He shook off the hand, murmured something unintelligible, and rushed out of the room. Mrs. Trevor continued her waltz, as though nothing had happened. Her face was like 8 mask. She played on to the last note put the music carefully away, picked up her husband's violin and slipped 11 into its case; then, rising from the piano, she went over to Jacqueline. " 'Have you prayed to-night, Desdemona?'" she said with a strange smile. "That is, are you a religious woman, Miss Hatton?" "I hope so," replied Jacqueline gravely. "Then, don't stand at this window looking for ghosts, but go down or your knees and entreat for cleai skies! You see, the storm shows nc sign of breaking?God pity us! In tempests we are cut off from the world. All evil things are then arrayed against us?we are at the mercy of the powers of darkness!" The velvet dress rippled across the carpet. She disappeared through the same door which had closed on hei husband. With a rapidly increasing sense of insecurity, Jacqueline returned to her own chamber. Husband and wife she regarded with equal distrust; but one thing she had discovered?her presence ir the house unnerved and tortured Trevor. The outbreak at the pianc convinced her that he "was a haunted man. From Jacqueline's face he had seen her dead father looking fortt upon him! "The man has a conscience,' thought Jacqueline, triumphantly "and I am on the trail of it." A rap at the door. Vic entered. "I thought you might want some thing betore you went to sieep, miss Hattoii," she said, tentatively. Jacqueline, who felt drawn to this girl, and who was always cheered b> the sight o:' her Btrong, shrewd face smiled sadly. } "There are many things that ] want, Vicky, but I am not likely tc secure them. How long do ntorms continue here?" "For days and days, sometimes,' replied Vic, cheerfully. "We don'i mind?there's nothing lite gettinf used to them." "I mind," corrected Jacqueline "and so, I fancy, does Mrs. Trevor? anyway, she bade me pray that fail weather might come soon." "Oh, did she?" queried Vic, wit!' interest. She closed Jacqueline's door cautiously. "That scoundrel o: a Peter is like enough listening some where!" she whispered. "You see Miss Hatton, when I went last to the mainland 1 carried letters lor Mrs Trevor?she didn't dare trust 'en with Joe Raby?he'd have given 'en into the wrong hand?: fo I po?te( 'em myseli' aL Waichhaven, and nov she's waiting for answers, and she'i awfully low down in her mind be cause we get no mail in bad weath <r. Poor lady! It's not pleasant t( be watched at*>very turn and spied up on, and not allowed to write a lin< :o absent friends, or send to an: quarter for help. I wouldn't stanc it, miBs?not if you'd give me the I whole round world!" "Who watches Mr6. Trevor??who ' spies upon her?" said Jacqueline, in astonishment. ' "Why, Peter, of course," an? swered Vic, disgustedly. | "But Mr. Trevor adores his wife? is a common servant allowed to anl noy her in that way?" "Peter does it! That's all I know, \ miss," answered Vic, dryly. "Vic, come and stand at this wlnl dow. Now you perceive that you can look down into the inclosed piazza. , To-day, from this spot, I saw Mr. Trevor seize his wife by the throat 0 ?I heard her shriek. I ran out on the stair, to go to her help, and met r Peter bearing her senseless body. She looked like a dead woman. I believe 6he was half strangled. And yet, when I met her at dinner, she was self-possessed?radiant, almost?and seemed on the best of terms with s her husband." Vic smiled grimly. " "Queer what grit some women s have, Miss Hatton! Yes, I heard her scream. He really choked the life ' I out of her. Some day she'll be killed here, and she knows It, too. e Say, It's raining awful! Then, you e don't want anything to-night? Well, a I'll keep you in mind, and you'll find e me near when you need me." ? With these comforting assurances Vic vanished. Jacqueline went to bed, but sleep fled from her. For 1 hours she lay listening to the storm. Her mission to Deadman's Island 6 was assuming a complexion for which l; she had not, at the outset, bargained. r In the morning the storm was still y raging. The gray sky bent low to ? the angry, lashing sea. Jacqueline looked from her window, and saw e Joe Raby coming along the slippery B rocks, hitching up his oilskin trousers and shaking the rain from his beard. As she entered the breaks fast room she found Trevor waiting J there alone. He looked haggard and f worn, but greeted her cheerfully, t "Still we are prisoners indoors, - Ua+frvnt Mv wlfa har a head iUXOD iiavbvu. .. ... ? ? 1 ache this morning, and will not leave - her room. Tempests affect her un1 pleasantly?she is a hot-house plant. . May I ask you to take her place at f the coffee urn?" 1 ' Reluctantly Jacqueline took the I seat indicated. He watched the turn 1 of'her white wrist, her graceful move1 ments, as she poured the fragrant am1 her, and burst suddenly into loud ' laughter. ' ''What absurd tricks the imagination plays at times!" he said. "I am 2 thinking, Miss Hatton, of a tea to 3 which you invited me when you were . a child in the care of a governess. r It was in the garden of your father's Beverly villa. You presided, like a - small queen, and poured from a sam ovar. The roses were in bloom? I there were always many roses at I Beverly?and the pleasure boats were r beached at the foot of the garden. , John Hatton sat opposite me at your , little tea table?God above! I be t lieve he is here?opposite me now!" i He leaped to his feet; his face was the hue of chalk. But by an effort he recovered himself. "Preposterous!" he said, drawing a heavy breath. "I am as fanciful j . as a woman! Come to my library, Miss Hatton, and you will now see the , proofs that I promised." Startled, and full of unpleasant I suspioions, Jacqueline arose with I alacrity .and followed him. The library table was spread with papers, , memoranda, books of .account. "I leave you to examine these carefully," said Trevor. "Take time?do [ not hurry. By-and-by I will return, . and you shall then tell me if your opinion of me remains unchanged." He went out, and Jacqueline was alone with her task. She fell to it , eagerly, yet with a determination to j be just?to give Philip Trevor the benefit of the doubt?-to pursue her search with the sincere desire of flndonmp nmnf of hie innocence. The I papers were promissory notes bearing John Hatton's signature. She scru| tinized them closely. Ink and paper seemed strangely fresh. Again and ' again she submitted them to a rigid I 1 examination, but could find no touch | ! of time upon them. The handwriting i was like, and yet unlike, her father's. She turned to the account books, j There she found a record of appalling ! amounts that Trevor had furnished ; his friend?columns of figures that bewildered and staggered her. The ' necessary dates supported each transaction?indeed, both time and place were set forth with labored accuI II racy. ' To be Continued, i ? I The Office-Seeker. ' "So you want to be the door1 keeper to the House?" said the Pres1 ident. ' "Yes, sir." "Well, have you ever been a door- ' keeper?" "No; no actual experience." "Any theoretical experience?any instructions in the ethics of keeping 5 "I cannot say that I have." "Ever attended any lectures on ' 5 doorkeeping?" ' "No, sir." "Have you ever read any textbooks on the subject?" ' "Umph?I cannot say that I have." ? "Have you ever conversed with any ? one who had ever read such a book?" I | "I am afraid not, sir." ' j "Then, my dear man, don't you see j 11 that you have not a single quallfica- I ' j tion for this position?" "I do," said the applicant, and he ? took his humble leave. " | in mis waj> uiijcuiu svt nu ui. uy' [ plicants tor positions?much the I i same as Governor Hughes gets rid of j i applicants to-day.?Judge. f Metal Sleepers in India. It is undersicd that metal sleepers . of cast :ron box form have been tried i nn the Gudh & Rohilkhand Railway, . half a mile of track having been laid i i on tbem in vicinity of the Lucknow i station, when F. D. Fowler, whose 1 invention th^y were, was engineer-inr chief of that line. These sleepers s are about the same weight as the In-; - dian Midland Railroad cast iron pots.i - and believed to be as strong. It is, ) practically the same shape as a tim-j - ber sleeper, which is more easily) ? packed than any other, and, it is) t claimed, is free from the defects of I 1 other metal sleepers. | THE PULPIT. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY j REV. J. H. JOWETT, M. A. i ~ Theme: The Christian's Resources, u 1 New York City.?The Rev. J. H. ' Jowett, M. A., the most famous minis ter of Carr's Lane Congregational 1 Church, B!?ningham, England, who ! is on a vi "or the first time to thi3 j I country, preached Sunday in the Fifth ; Avenue Presbyterian Church. The < sermon was on "The Christian's Resources." Mr. Jowett's text was Luke 1 14:31, "Or what king going to make , war againat another king, sitteth not 1 down first, and consulteth whether he Is able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?" He said: ] J Our Lord was nlways seeking to get men to sit down to think. He ' seeks to win their judgment, to touch u their reason, that they may see the wasonableness of His doings and the reasonableness of His evangel. He 1 is continually calling upon men and women to think "What think ye?n J "What king," He says, "about to en- l gage in a campaign Bitteth not down first to estimate the strength of the ] foe and the strength of his own resources, and then ascertain whether there is legitimate hope of hiu forces 1 being able to meet and conquer those r, who oppose him?" My simple purpose to-day is to ask i you to do this little thinking, to meditate on what kind of enemy we have ( to meet, and I pray you not to let your thoughts wander away to a far- " off world, but let us consider what enemies we have to meet in this world where we have to labor and die, and whether we can with our own strength overcome them. And if not, ^ let us turn to those resources which * are offered to us in Jesus Christ, our ? Lord. Now wh'at are these enemies that < we have to meet? What are the ene- * mies in front of us? I repeat our ? Master's own estimate of the foe * which every one of us will have to * meet ,to-dav and to-morrow. Jesus ^ Christ calls one "the world." Now what is the world? We vsoinetimes say a man is a worldly man. What is the signflcance ?f the term? Too i frequently when we use this term we I refer to something a man does or leaves-oindone. Men may be habitues of the theatre, or fond of cards, and I we say .they are worldly; and people who abstain from these things are labeled unworldly. I do not think that covers it in the slightest degree. Worldliness is not implied in what we do or do not do. Worldliness is not in ; doing this, or not doing this. World: liness is. in the spirit. It is the at| mosphere of the soul. Worldliness is : the spirit of the horizontal. Worldli. | ness looks on and out, but it never j looks up and prays. It is ambition, I not aspiration. Its motto is "for1 ward," never "upward." Its goal is Buccess, never holiness. Worldliness is life without .the vertical, without the upward calling in Christ Jesus, | our Lord. And whenever you find a ; man >r woman, no matter what they | UU Ui uuu t uu, wnu aiwaja luvaa wui ; to the horizontal end, men and worn- * ! en who have no ideal, no aspiration. * ! no heavenly vision, no prayer, those I i are men and women who would be i described by the Master as "of the d j world, worldly." Everybody here ^ knows what an exceedingly strong f 1 gravitation there is toward the hori- c ! zontal life. In the church and out of t it you feel this tremendous mesmer- e ism, this worldly fascination, leading C us to turn our eyes from the height?, z from what Paul calls "the heavenly I things in Christ Jesus." We have i got that force of gravity to-'meet? E the world. T Then there is the "flesh." Every- * one knows the power of the flesh; d not merely .the carnal power of the C body, but of carnal power expressing itself in vanity and pride. The flesh t that bows down the soul and rides it, I instead of the soul's determining the j, movements of the flesh. We have the f "flesh" to meet, whether in appetite j or carnal desire. "The world, the j flesh and the devil." I do not know t how I can define the devil, but Paul's s phrase always seems to describe my c relationship with the devil better than ^ any other: "The prince of the power of the air." He does not leap upon y you like a lion. The devil usually ^ appears as "the prince of the power of j; the air;" and he comes into every v life and lets down the temperature; a he changes the moral atmosphere, t You were just praying fervently, and t suddenly you experienced a chill. It v is "the prince of the power of the air." g You start with great zeal to lead a h clean life, and before you know it the g . temperature is perceptibly chilled, p "The prince of the power of the air" u quietly, silently makes that tremen- t dous change in your moral life by in- t fluencing and changing the atmos- n phere. W6 have got the devil to u mf?.t. jiave you anytning eise to meet: b Ye?, the fourth enemy is the binding e pov. zr of guilt. In my coyntry there v are prominent men whoigay that men ' q and women have no loiMfer the sense n of guilt. I cannot r^jard that as h hea.thful. There are roEny who can- D not hear the voice of God who are ^ nevertheless pursued by their guilt, j] You do not need to hear the thunder and see the lightning to have proof of the Btorm. The souring of the mill: in the dairy proves the storm's presence, and there is often the proof ' of .fie Lord's presence and of guilt o in the souring of the disposition, the c manufacturing of cynics. The man P who was once sweet tempered be- f< comos a cynic, the optimist becomes a ? pessimist. These things have regis- I C tered themselves as "the binding pres- | ence of guilt." It is the bondage of to-day that comos from yesterday's sin. We have B, got that to meet. There are men and p women who have that paralyzing i power of their own yesterday from y which tbey cannot escape. J. Still one more enemy we have to m meet; the tremendous impetuc of the T the quiet habit. Everybody La..-: 3rtain habits which are determining the trend and tendency of their lives. I Vi nro i t? r>/"?+V? 1 ? rr V? 11 ?Y1 n n Hfn t-?r V* i #-? Vi is trifling. The most apparent trifle j< has its quota of energy and it em- iJ phasizes that energy in the main river of our life and determines its course. The trend of my life to-day i3 made up of the accumulated trifles of yes- 11 terday. You have got that to meet. B If you rre on the righ.t course so far ? it is we.', but if you are on the wrong 11 course you have to stop; you have 1 that enemy to meet. w c Let me leave the enemies and state what they achieve in the way of destruction. Fir?.L of all you get an impaired heart. 1 use the wor d lr heart in the scriptural sense. The word means that part of human per- jj sonality which apprehends and holds |E communion with God; and that is the a first thing that suffers when a ma" becomes a victim of sin., Religious Reaping FOB THE QUIET HOUR. THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND. The common people heard Him gladly. Three Syrian summers on the lake And on the mountain side, Vfen watched and weighed and tested Him Whom last they crucified; The great men of the cities scorned His miesion and His claim? iVho was this Christ of Nazareth? This Man of lowly name? 3ut when He walked amid the corn, Or rested by the well, }r paced the hot ways of their town With wondrous things to tell, athetic eyes were turned to Him As careworn men passed by, \.nd when His gentle voice was heard, The way far era drew nigh. They listened, and the darkened world Grew fair with morning light; From weary shoulders burdens rolled, And life'8 dim ways were bright; 3ope touched the weary, wistful souls, Darkened with sin and care, ind goodness was the. heart's desire, And speech was tuned to prayer. Sves, lighted with the new-found joy, Were turned toward His face; The common people had not known Such dignity of grace; ind when He smiled and looked at them, Seeing them sick and sad, loved, and healed, and pardoned thei?, Till thej* were strangely glad. ih. gracious Saviour of the world, v The people are the same, The wistful, weary common-folk Still need to know Thy name. iVhy fail Thy messengers to cheer The sin-sick and saa? )>. teach them how to love, and make The common people glad! -Marianne Farningham, in London S. S. Times. 0 A Noble Sentiment. For noble sentiment and the action vhich accompanies the speech nothng finer has come under our eye for i long time than the words of Charles lenry Brent, of the Philippines, in leclining iis second election to the episcopal bishopric of Washington, X C.; the church that can raise men mbued with such sentiments and nolle ideals surely has a mission to the forld: "It Is not that I fall to recognize he splendor of the missionary opporunity in Washington, and the dignity >f the heritage which you bid me ener?they inspire me; nor that I ihrink from the taskB and problems tf leadership which you invite me to ace in company with you?they chalenge me; nor that I do not ottenimes yearn to serve the church In he homeland again?I am human. Jut God charges me to-day?the morow can take care of itself?to coninue my witness to the high imporance of the far-off mission of the :hurch and the gravity of the nation's esponsibility in the Orient by abidng on the spot where I am." This is what makes men believe. ?hen they see the capacity for sacriice that is ignorant of Its own nobilty In the fervent love of .Christ. We tave had a few men in our Methodsm who have made the great renuniation, and we have been gazing ipon them in open-mouthed wonder, t is not well that sacrifice should call nr Riirnrisu* So usual In r>l?re-hnnt ng, the quest of honors and emolunents, that such reversion to the 'auline type is uplifting and fine. It is a noble heritage and a splenlid opportunity that invited him to Vashington. There is indeed need or leadership and high quality of hurchmanship at the nation's capial, but doubtless he is right in his stimate of the strategic value of the )rient. Constructive Christian civiliation is possible as is evidenced by Jishop Brent. At last the world :nows that in the Philippines is a nan and the church; and the world rill not forget his splendid devotion o duty in an age when the dollar hag lulled so terribly the ideals oj real Christianity.?Baltimore Methodist. Will Yon Take God at His Word? Will you set to your seal that God s true? Unbelief says, "I won't." i'aith says, "I will." Oh. may God lelp you now to say, "I will set to ay seal that God is true" this very lour, and the moment you do that, ind put your faith in God, then omes the peace,"the happiness you ia.ve ueeu luuKing j.ur su iuuk: It is recorded in history that some ears ago a man was condemned to ie put to death. When he came to ay his head on the block, the prince rho had charge of the execution .sked him if there was any one petiion that he could grant him. All hat 'the condemned man asked for vas a glass of water. They went and ;ot him a tumbler of water, but hia iand trembled so that he could not ;et the water to his mouth. The irince said to him, "Your life 1b safe intil you drink that water." He took he prince at his word and dashed he water to the ground. They could ot gather it up, and bo he saved his Ife. My friend, you can be saved now y taking God at His word. The watr of life is offered to "whosoever .<11 ?> T/tl..** i4- nn/1 l;-rr^ mii. lane it iiu w, auu nvr. iviaj }od give you grace to do so this molent! Let feelings go! Say in your eart, "I do believe, I will believe. I ow believe on the Lord Jesus Christ rith all my heart," and life everlaatag is yours!?D. L. Moody. Unrepented Repentance. For the many mistakes of the past re must have sincere regret, and for ur sins sorrow, but if they have aused a "repentance not to be reented of" they have been mercifully orgiven us of God for Je?us Christ's ake.?Rev. A. W. Snyder, New York :ity. Brighter Days. Look for a brighter sunrise from ome hill to-morrow. Look for surrises in the coming days. Look for be great thing that shall yet make nnr whole beiner to feel the fellow hip which it was made to entertain rith ibe infinite God.?Rev. E. L. 'ot.-';1, Louisville. Faith. Faith, the appropriation of the ieal, is the secret of a successful and ispiring life.?Rev. E. L. Powell. University's Property Sold. The property of the George Washington University, at. H and Fifteenth treet, Northwest, Washington, D. C., -as sold for about $600,000. The nstitution will continue to c>"cupy he building this year, but where it rill be next year has net b^en deided. A Course in Aeronautics. At Ann Arbor. Mich., plans are be? ig made by Dean M. E. Cooley, of le engineering department nf tli? niversity of Michigan. H,r a co;nse l aeronautic? Dean Ctiuley prepared course of lecnm* en: the OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN. REPORTS OF PROGRESS OF THE BATTLE AGAINST RUM. The Sunday School Temperance Alliance. The influence oi a simple temperance organization in a Sunday school Is very potent for interesting and educating the children and youth in the principles of total abstinence and the evils of the alcoholic drink traffic. With a distinct purpose and at least quarterly exercises by the entire school and pledge signing at the close of the meetings, the attention, interest and finally active co-operation of nearly all is secured. This has been demonstrated in many communities id the last two years where the Sunday School Temperance Alliance has hoan fnn in ano at maro onV*aaIo LU.IWI. iiJ uug Ul LUU1 C 0V.UUU10. [t is not meant to take the place of any existing society already doing good work, or to crowd out any good movement desired, but to suggest to the thousands of Sunday schools in our land that are doing little or nothing practical in temperance education a simple method to do effectual work. The quarterly temperance lesson is often neglected In Sunday jchools; that Sunday being used for . special services, etc. It should be made a most interesting day to all in ; the Sunday school. The Alliance j purposes to enroll^the entire school j and make it a temperance army op- ! posing an ever-present and aggresive j enemy. Young people are ready to study ? live subject. They co-oper- ' ate quickly iD aggressive work for I some good purpose. The church has its great opportunity in forming j Christian character and pure lives in ' its Sunday school work. No evil so | takes our young people away from ; participation in Christian Endeavors i as does the social drinking habit or j the influence of the saloon and those j that begin to frequent It. With the j 'spirit of wine" in the "Snirit of i God" has no room. The National j Temperance Society now publishes j ? pocket leaflet. No. 54, entitled | "Save the Children," which has'had i the record of just such a society as fho QnnHav Sr?hnnl TomAllf- \ ance purposes, for over forty years. ' Every Sunday school ?uDerintendent ! should read It. We shall be glad to ; furnish a copy with a suggestive method and constitution of the Alii- j ance to any pastor or superintendent. | Every church and Sunday school j should be alive to this great question j and should be training its army of ; childrer and youth for aggressive bat- , tie against the alcoholic enemy. How about your Sunday school reader? Is it measuring up to its duty and opportunity in thir warfare against an ev- j erywhere present and active foe to all good and Christian influences? 1 i Send freely to the National Temperance Society for information and ' suggestion.?The National Advocate. ' Catholic Attack Smites Saloons. Clergy and layman or the Roman ; Catholic Church, as typified in the ! convention of the Catholic Total Ab- | stinence Union of Illinois, held in j Chicago, have put their shoulders to the wheel to crush out the saloon in > America. In thundering resolutions and in | oratory, which for unequivocal con- ! demnation of the liquor business ! probably transcended anything ever I before put forward in a similar Cath- j olic gathering of equal magnitude, ; the liquor trade and the persons en- | gaged in it were scored without mer- , cy. Th? saloon business was declared a scandal which had endured too long, and now must be crushed for the safety of the children of the church. Catholic clergymen of note 'n Chicago rose to their feet to announce their intention of setting forth upon | the highways and byways of the nation to spread the total abstinence movement on behalf of the church. The whole weight of condemnation j of the convention as a body fell upon ; societies within the church which ' permit Saturday night dances and j Sunday picnics under their auspices at which intoxicating liquors are sold. ??I Bad Effect on Students. One of the Indian? counties which has lately banished the saloon is ( Montgomery, the county-seat of which, the historic city of Crawfordsville, is the seat also of Wabash Col- ' lege, one of the best known of the older collegiate institutions in the ! Middle West. The faculty exerted themselves vigorously in the cam- ; nntcn nnd has enod reason to re- : joice over the result. Among the ar- ; guments published by the Citizens' j League shortly before the elction was i one whicb has force for every college I town. It was authoritatively deelared that ninety per cent, of the cases of student discipline were the I direct result of the presence of saloons; that for years an intense strnp- j gle had been waged between the col- j lege and the saloons for the control of th^ character of students; that so ; many college towns in the West had ! already "gone dry" that parents were becoming unwilling to send their ' sonp to a saloon town for their edu- j . cation. Every precinct in the city | went no-license!?Christian Advo- | ! cate. I 1 I ( Good For Guthrie, Oklahoma. j i From a letter received the other i i day from one of the vice-presidents ! i of our National Temperance Society, we quote the following: 1 "I am just from Guthrie, Okla- i homa. It looks good to see a city ol 22,000 with,not a saloon nor sign oi 1 liquor. A lawyer said to me, 'I doubt 1 if you would! see an intoxicated man I 1 if you were to stay here a month.' " ! ?National Advocate. j \ Teniperanec Notes. Ti:e local elections in Minnesota ; c show a decided no-llccnse gain. I j At Eaton, Ohio, William Eutler ' c was arrested for operating a tiger. > Butler, bedfast with rheumatism, had j > intoxicants concealed in and under ! s his bed. | t The individual who is early led to ! v apprehend the perils of alcohol, not j 1 | only to himself, but to those around : v ] him and to those who come after him, I f , win bp loss iis.fc.ii to vield to debasing i t ! temptations. j Investigation has repeatedly shown j i that the foundations of sobriety in a j I very large majority of cases were laid f in the training received in childhood [ or youth. ? j "The brewing interests are grap- * pling with thoir adversary in a fight [ ^ for life or death."?From the report i I of the Brewers' Vigilance Committee j c at tho recent national convention. t While the alcoholic c?ink evil goes hack to .Noah, an'.! no doubt flfteeu ' J t-enturf^ nore. nji-dern organic temiftTunce iffoit, on the two fund a- ; nieut.il principles now forging nhesd : as nev-r before, did not begin to work ! [ with widespread and inteiiigect ; earnestness until i / 'V ' ' ' ' ' / - -v. j/y.: V; The =^= Sunday? School INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 21. " Subject: Paul's Story of His Life, 2 Cor. ^1:21-12:10?Golden Text* 2 Cor. 12:9?Commit Verses 24r 25?Commentary on the Lesson.TIME.?A. D. 57. PLACE.?Ephesus. EXPOSITION. ? I. What Paul! Suffered For Christ, 22-28. Howv small the hardships we suffer compared with these. Yet Paul earlier in this same epistle speaks of them as"our light affliction" (cf. 4:17; Rom. 8:18). The stoning is recorded in Acts 14:19. The three shipwrecks, mentioned were prior to the one described in Acts 27, "a night and a day" was spent in the deep,swimming or clinging to a spar, or in an openj boat. "The journeyings often" were" not with the comforts of modern traving, but with very great hardships.. and peril. "The perils of rivers"' were the perils of swollen streams, where many lost their lives, and even to this present day many lose their litrAO + V* 4r? iwftTJ iw f Vlo r.rtnntHOO xi t cd buio tiaj 1u vuv vuumviivv through which Paul traveled. PauL labored with toil and pain (v. 27),. not only with brain and heart and lips, but- with his hands also (Acts. 18:3, 4). He spent whole nights in vigils of prayer and watching against perils of one kind or /mother. He knew often what it meant to go without food or drink (cf. Phil. 4:12), to have insufficient clothing and to-suffer from cold; and all this time he was a man suffering from physical infirmity (ch. 12:7-10; Gal. 4:13, 14). II. I take pleasure in infirmities,. In reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake*. 1-10. It might not seem expedient for Paul to ?lory, but his heart was; so full he just "must." There is a difference between a "visidn" and a. "revelation." A "vision" iB something seen, a "revelation" is an un veiling of truth (it might be throughsomething seen or something heard, or in some other way; cf. 1 Sam. 9; 15, R. V., and margin). In visions their meaning might or might not beexplalned at the time. In revelations there was always an unveiling or dis- 1 closing of the truth/ The man to whom Paul refers in verse 2 was him self. This is evident from verse 7..J In verse 5 he distinguishes between this man and himself, for there was a a wide difference between Paul as h? was himself in his weakness and therapt and glorified individual he be* came In this wondrous experience. He was not exalted by it as many of us would he, but humbled by it. The experience occurred fourteen year* before, perhaps at the time he was stoned at Lystra and supposed to be dead (Acts 14:19). At .that time hisspirit may actually have; left the body and been takeri up into paradise. It. may have been at the time of his second visit to Jerusalem (cf. \Acts 22: 17). Paul himself did not know whether he was in the body or out of the body at the time (vs. 2, 3). Paul evidently believed in the possibility o? conscious existence of the spirit "out of-the body".and "aDart from the body" (v. 3, R. V.). At that time-s, he was caught up even to "the thirifc . heaven" "into paradise." The day of Christ's crucifixion He went into paradise (Luke 23:43), which was then, "in the heart of the earth" (Matt. 12:40), but at His ascension Christ emptied the subterranean paradise* and took It up Into heaven with Himself (Eph. 4:8-10). Paradise, theabode of the blessed dead, is now with Christ in heaven (cf. Phil. 1:23; 2 Cor. 5:8, R. V.). Into this paradisePaul was caught up either in the body (cf. Acts 8:3fl) or "apart from the body." He heard there words which, it was not lawful to utter to others. They were intended for his own edification and comfort alone. God shows us some things that He would have . us tell others; some things that He would have us keep to ourselves. Paul apparently did not mentAn this wonderful experience to any one else for * fourteen years, and even now tries to put himself out of sight as the subject of this remarkable experience (v. 5). And he forbore to glory lest some man might account of him above that which he saw him to be or heard from him. What the "thorn in the flesh" was we are not told. The words translated "weakness" and '/infirmity" are the usual words for sickness. The thorn in the flesh Is alsospoken of as "a messenger of Satan."" This would be an appropriate description of physical infirmity (Luke 13:! 16; Job 2:7; Acts 10:38; Heb. 14; Gal. 4:13, 14). Though this thorn in the flesh was Satan's messenger, it vas "given" by God. God permits Satan to buffet His servants and brings to them blessing out of thisbuffeting. EvenSatan'shate and buffeting brings blessing to the child of God. Three times Paul prayed about it and the first two times God gave him no answer. Seemingly the thorn was not removed, but Christ's power was continually ministered to Paul and gave him strength in his own natural weakness. This teaches a number of important lessons about prayer: (1) To pray to Christ; (2) to ask again and again for the same thing until we obtain it or the Lord reveals, to us that it is not His will to give it; (3) to go to Christ with our physical infirmities, but knowing that there are times when Christ will not remove our physical infirmities, but will give us strength in Himself; (s) that the probability is He will remove them, and we ought to ask Him to do so until He clearly makes known to us that it is net His will to e?. Makes Child of Twelve a Wife. Thomas Lopez, twenty-eight yean )ld, has been arrested at Los An ,'eles, Cal., charged with having al> tucted Vincente Minjares, a twelve ear-old girl, who became his bride. Vhea he procured the license, Lope? howed a paper purporting to have ieen signed by the girl's father, in vhich ner age was given as siaiccji. The father alleges that his signature ? vas forged and obtained the warrant or the bridegroom's arr * and he hen took the girl home. Semi:;cle? to Teach Their Urcthren. Fifteen Seminole Indians have arr ived at Jupiter, Kla., from Oklahoma or the purpose of evangelizing the Seminoles in the Everglades. They ;xpect to remain about two months. U1 are well dressed and spe * Engish perfectly. The EvergUucS Inlians take deep interest in the movenent. ''our Headache Powders Killed Hirn, Kilk-d by ht-ad;uhe powders was he verdict in tfc*- inquest over the >cdy of H. J. Wolter. of Depue, 111. )ea:h came after Wolter took four owders.