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JBEBSS New York City.?The shirt waist that is closed at the left of the front In double breasted style makes a novelty of the season. This one can be made from silk with trimming of velvet, as in this instance, from flannel, albatross, cashmere or any similar rwaistlng can be utilized for such jwashable ones as linen, madras and the like. The two pleats at each side P ||FM yy ^ of the rront provide becoming fulness. The cleeves are of the regulation shirt waist sort, and the waist can be closed either by means of buttons and buttonholes or invisibly as liked. The waist consists of fronts and back. It includes one-piece sleeves that are finished with overlaps and // straight cuffs and a high turned-over collar. The quantity of material required for the medium size is three and a half yards twenty-four or twentyseven, three yards thirty-two or one and seven-eighth yards forty-four inches wide with three-eighth yard of m silk or velvet for collar and cuff. i The New Stone. Now that we are to wear colored crystals and all manner of semi-precious stones as brooches and buckles on turbans as weli as buttons on fur coats, it is interesting to know of any new crystal that appears. The last addition is the olivine, and it will be quite the fashion. It is of a pale shade of green with an underlying tone of yellow. % ? Pump Bows at Neck. The black velvet pump bow continues in favor. It is used with a turnover collar, with a lace or net stock, aid is copied in emerald green, Bur gundy red and king's blue. The bar pins that fasten it are from three to five inches long. The swallow in green or blue enamel with outstretched wings is again in favor, and gives an effective dash of color. Trioornc Hat. Trying as the tricorne hat Is, it promises to be popular. It is beroni ing to a certain type of face, and it is to be hoped that this type alone will wear it. It is adjusted on the head with a point slightly over the left eye. The Paul Jones ones are trimmed with a cockade of scarlet or gold. Young girls will wejir velvet one.s with gold cord and tassels. jfelMDBFJ 11% Quills For Hats. Quills, very long and very odd, are prominent upon walking nats. All Colors Are Subdued. The new coiors are all subdued, delicacy and refinement adding charm to their beauty. Jet Buttons on Gowns. Jet buttons are a favorite mode of adding the invaluable touch of black to a colored garment. Printed Borders. Many of the handsomest silk gauzes have printed borders which work well into the new draperies. For General Wear. Velveteen will make a good street costume for fairly general wear (excluding market^and may be trimmed with fur. Blouse AVith Vest. The blouse that gives a vest effect is alwa3*s a smart one, and this model can be trimmed with plain rows of banding, as illustrated, or with a fan,cy design executed with soutache or rat-tail cord, or with applique, ^'ith a single row of broad banding or with contrasting material or, indeed, in any way that may be liked. The ressgneial feature is found in the cut " " A1 ^ * " ? J ***? TKft OI tile iruut clllU lac vcai. cutvu. xmu ribbon'bow is fashionable, but not essential. In the illustration mercerized cotton poplin is trimmed with straight rows of braid, but all waistings are appropriate and all materials that'are used for simple costumes, for the design is just as well adapted to wear with the skirt to match as it is for use with the odd one or the coat suit. Moire velours is being much used for odd waists and suits this design admirably wfell. It also is to be '!fcommended for French flannel, a3 well as for the familiar linens, madras and materials of the sort. The waist is made with the fitted . lining, which is optional, and consists of fronts and back with vest portion. The right front, is cut with an exten I sion, which is lapped over the vest onto the edge of the left. The pleats at the shoulders provide becoming fulness. V Ijjf The quantity of material required for the medium size is four yards twenty-four or twenty-seven, three and an eighth yards forty-four inches wide with twelve yards of banding. - ' "the pulpit. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON DR. JOHN HUMPSTONE. Theme: Light of the World.* Brooklyn, N. Y.?The Rev. Dr John Humpstone, pastor of Em I manuel .Baptist onurcn, reiuruei j from a world trip of seventeei months in time to be in his pulpi Sunday. His subject in the moruinj w?s, "Whence Came the Light of thi World?" The texts were from Mat thew 4:16: "The people that sat ii darkness, saw a great light;" Johi 8:12: "Jesus spake unto them, say ing, I am the light of the world," an< Hebrews 1:1, 2, 3: "God hatl spoken to us in His Son * * * thi effulgence of His glory and the ver; image of His substance." Dr. Hump stone said: These three Scriptures have unit; as answer to the question which i our subject. The lan^ in which, an( the people to whom, Jesus came sa in darkness, a darkness so deep tha it could be described with adequac: only as "the region and shadow o death." In such surroundings sud denly appeared one, sane and?poise< and effectual, who said, "I am thi light of the world." How .are we t< account for such an emergence? I darkness the source of light; provin cialism the parent of universality narrownees of view the progenitor o worldwide outlook and? sympathy Is supreme spiritual vitality the issu' to be expected from moral torpor Could formalism and phariseeism be get the superbly free sincerities o Jesus? Does death bring forth life Can He who called and has approve) Himself "The Light of the World" bi accounted for my human heredity ant environment? To such questions enlightened faitl has ever had but one answer. It i the answer of the New Testament The supremely good and perfect gif is from above and came down fron the'Father of Lights, in Whom is m darkness at all. God's Son is th effulgence of His Father's glory, th very imag6 of His substance. There * - T J-Ui. f V. ~ TXfrviOrl lore is ne tne .uigui. uj. <.uc m>u Such, in outline, are the thought now briefly to be expanded. Palestine cannot account for Jesus That is the conviction which a visit ti the Ipnd, conventionally called "holy, leaves within an open rc?nd. If it i to be held holy, the hallowing is du to Him and its associations with Him He conferred upon it a distinction am pre-eminence which it did not, couli not, impart to Him. It everywher illuminates and illustrates what H said. It nowhere and in no wise ex plains what He was. One has a con tinaal pleasure in tracing the paral lels between the Lord's ministry am His environment. The land and th gospels are the counterparts of eacl other. At every step some word, o image, of His flashes into the mini with new sense of its truth and beau ty. And this scarcely at all in gpnnec tion with the identification of partic ular sites cr places. On the contrary the mind recoils with disgust from th efTort to fix with exactitude the spo presumptively sacred, because of th degradations to which the supposei identification leads. There is as muc' superstition in Palestine to-day a there is in India, and it is quite a baleful. Man's" purpose to localiz JesusHs the; defeat of his chief intent His "field is the world." If He wer new to visit the land of His earthl nativity, He would denounce witl righteous anger the vain superstition wfilcQ aenie tne piace ci ms irauaieu ministry. As of old He swept th traders from the temple courts, s would He drive away the crowds tha cluster about the idols and the shrine their owu hands have fashioned thinking to do Him honor. One ca: Imagine how His tones would thril as He reaffirmed His declaratioc "The hour cometh and now is whe: neither in this mountain, nor in Jeru salem, shall ye worship the Fathei Ye worship that which ye know no * * God is a spirit and the; that worship Him must worship Hii .in spirit and in truth." But true as this is, and keen a are the pain and disillusionment th fact occasions, still more exquisit and satisfying is the sense of verl similitude, as, New Testament I hand, one wanders over Judean hills through Samaritan villages, over Es draelon's fertile plain, till he find himself at last afloat on Galilee' lake. "He is not here, hut risen; and yet His spirit permeates all. On breathes the air He breathed; on sees the sights He saw; one feels th thrill He felt, and still his compas sions are awakened as one looks upo the people of the land. Nothing coul be more perfect than the accord be tween landscape and narrative, ap metaphor ana odvious iaci, persist ing custom and moral appeal, physica object and spiritual suggestioc These are His flowers, that His cit set oa the hilltop; there flew the bird ihat taught.. Him God's care. Thi barren wild is the physical reflex o His soul's testing. Yonder snow; height, flashing in the sunlight, is th very symbol;- whether it were th scene or not, of His transfiguration To-day His sower goes forth to sow the women He described are yet toil ing at the mill or bearing aloft thei waterpots. The fishermen He com panioned ar6 there, drawing thei nets; and even as we are busy watch ing them, such a sudden windstorm a He quieted sweeps down the valle between the bills and threatens t overturn out boat. Yes! It is gooi for faith to visit the land, howeve much credulity may have defiled it however sadly superstition has en crusted it with unrealities. But mos nf all ia it enod for faith to see th actual environment of Jesus, that th mind may have sense of the contras between it and Him. It is so small He is so great. Its color tones are s neutral; He is so resplendent. It i so Oriental; He is so cosmopolitan It is so limited; He is so universal It is so sordid; He is so ethereal. I is foul with unmentionable filth; H is so pure and clean. It is so eccle siastical; He is so spiritual. It is s i distinctly Hebraic; He is so decisive ly and inclusively human. These con trasts drive the mind at first to won der that such a personality coul emerge in such surroundings. A their cogency completes itself the draw forth to fresh reverence ani impel the soul to worship Him. wh said to His contemporaries, "Ye ar I from beneath. I am from above; v ! are of this world, I an not of thi world." Spend, then, a brief moment or tw I In contemplation of this self-con I sciousness of Jesus out of which is j sued continuously that stream of self assertion of which one sing'e specs men is before us: "I am the light o the world." Sometimes such utter ances of our Lord have been denomi uated "claims." But as a New Testa tnent writer says: "He counted notth being on an equality with God a thini to be grasped at." To Him these ex prsssions of His prerogative needei ao demonstration. Such utterance were the spontaneities of His mind; the inevitabilities of His consciousness. He could not but thus speak. Any other tone would have been out f of keeping with his self-knowledge. "I know," He said, "whence I came and whither I go." And this knowledge was of that kind no other could share with Him. It was self-knowledge. "Ye know not whence I come or whither I go." Standing in that * 1- - narrow spnere, among sums su wauv1 ing insight, speaking to an age that j had no longer within itself either the j possibilities or the realization of vist ion, Jesus knew God as by the parities r of His own life. He knew man as a knowing not his features, but his _ heart?what was in him. He knew j the world, not as the traveler Itnows ! it, but as the Creator perceives it. _ H5s thoughts were of nations more j than of His nation; of the world 1 rather than of His birthplace. He 5 spoke with a note of authority in ^ every .utterance, while His contemporaries were babbling bu of tradition. Their eyes were in the back of j their heads; and such narrow, blinded 3 eyes at that. His face was toward the j future. All time He had for His prost pect. He spoke of the end of the age t with the same calm certitude as chary acterized His insight into conditions f then existing. He was in attitude, in _ utterance, in outlook, in tho sublime j confidence of His expectation, in the g precision of His foresight, the Son of 3 the Eternal. He saw as in r. mirror all g the ages and claimed them for His . own. He held toward men an atti; tude of supremacy which was the f correlate of this sense of Himself. He ? bade them comc to Him, believe in g Him, follow Him, honor Him. He ? commanded their service, accepted 1 their worship, declared that when f they called Him Master and Lord they 1 said well, for so fie was. Nor are j these assertions of Himself mere disg jecta membra. They are the very j fibre of the revelation He makes. They are unified by Himself into a x program. He was not merely His s own subject. He made Himself the subject of His messengers. He looked t forward to the realization of a King a dom oI the Spirit, or wmcn tie iiim3 self was to be the King. Into this e kingdom, as before Him at last for e decisive judgment, all nations were . to be gathered. "Every creature" was His objectivie. As to no other who s ever lived or taught, everything humarv was germane to Him, and fell L within the scope of His purpose, j Himself the Way, the Truth,'the Life, ? He knew and said that He came to g bring and be the Life of men: "Bee cause I live ye shall live also." In u Him was life and the life was the i light of men. And the light shined 3 in the darkness; and the darkness ape prehended it not. e Now such a phenomenon of being _ and the reality of being has to be . accounted for. But how? Source . must equal issue. By so much as the i stream is strong and free and full, by e that same measure its spring must h be high. Cause must* be adequate to r effect. No insigniflcent cause ever yet i produced so transcendent an effect. - Ask yourself the question Jesus urged upon His associates: "What think ye j- of Christ? Whose Son is He?" Can Joseph, the Galilean carpenter, be the e actual, as he was the putative, father t of such a son? Must not the Father e Of such an One have in Himself the i infinitudes, the magnitudes, the unih versalities which characterize the s Son's life and service? Who but God s could beget such a Son? And every e word of Jesus as to His own origin bears out the assertions of the later e New Testament: "I and My Father y are one." "He that hath seen Me h hath seen the Father." "No man a hath seen the Father, save He that is t from God; He hath seen the Father." e These are the uniform and charactero Istic words of Jesus when speaking of ,t His origin. He knew that He waa a come from God and lhat He was go[, ing to God. For this cause they a sought to kill Him, because He called [1 God His own Father .(that is, His i, Father in a unique and entirely indla vidual sense) making Himself equal i- with God. This, then, is the one, \ only, adequate explanation of Jesus: it God hath spoken unto us in His Son, y who is the effulgence of God's glory; a who bears the very impress of His essential life. Thence came the Light s of, the World! Bathed in itn streame ing radiance, we are drawn, as chile dren of the Resurrection, to our Mas[ ter'e feet. Our adorationis the n ecstasy of Thomas: "My Lord and i, my God." s Make Religion a Reality. ? Real religion must either be out for business or go out of business. e It must either make the world better, e be doing things for the ideals which it sees, or acknowledge that it is noth^ ing.but a dream or a delusion. Now A when one is in the thick of as big an , undertaking as religion sets before t him. nothing less than the redemption of the whole world, he has no energy j left to wonder whether he is as good [ as Tie ought to be. y The sickly saints are always worrys ing over their souls; their spiritual s livers are always out of order bef cause they are perpetually examining y them. They complain and groan* so e much that the ignorant, hearing e them, imagine religion to be a mourni, ful affair. The pious hypochrondriacs are so near to hypocrites that they have the same effect on others. r ? " The Life of Christ. The only life worth living is the s one of which Christ has left us an exy ample. Devoted to the service of oth0 ers, full of that all conquering love j that is strong as death, it brings light r and happiness into dark places and bears that sweet and blessed fruit 1 which is promised to all. Such a life t is neither tiresome nor even a cause e of regret, but finds grace before God e and man. May we all try to master t this wonderful art and life will be; come more content, more interesting, o more productive of good from day to s day until at last it becomes a sweet, i. harmonious song to the glory of life's I. Creator.?Rev. Ernest A. Tappert. t e Pleasing God. p But how easy it ia to please God! A tear, a sigh, a cry of penitence; a prayer for His mercy on the sinner; ~ a hunger for holier things; a tender jj kindness to another; a cup of cold g water, a word, a look, and hand of v sympathy and help; confiding trust in His wisdom, power .~nd love when 0 dark days come: a song of praise in e the night; self-denying service of the e needy-ones. Such things please Him s very much, as do all efforts to be more like His Son. and to extend His o kingdom. God makes great prom_ ises to those "that choose the things that please" Him. " The Voice of the Future. Let us listen not so much to the ~ voice that is behind us as to the voice " that comes out from the great future g that stretches before us. g Let us fear the patronage of the il world more than its persecutions.? s R. C. Chapman. THE GREAT DESTROYED SOME STARTLING PACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. The Rum Traffic. First and foremost, as always, is thp fart that thp csIp nf liminr rr>snlt3 detrimentally to the community, individually and collectively. A few men are prospered financially by the licensed sale of liqujr, but the vast majority are made poorer by it, and thousands are subjected by it to extreme hardship and misery. There is not a single sound argument, moral or material, that can be advanced in favor of the sale of liquor. Many good citizens vote ' Yes" year after year on the assumption that the sale of liquor cannot be stopped by a "No" vote, and that it is better to have the business regulated under license. Many others vote "Yes" because of the moqey the sale of licenses brings into the city treasury. Neither of these reasons justifies the infliction upon the community of the evils of the rum traffic. There has never been any honest attempt to regulate the liquor traffic under license. A computation of the extra burden of expense entailed upon the city by the rum traffic .through the police and pauper departments would show that the city pays out more than it receives on account of it. Add to what the city pays in extra police and pauper appropriations the amounts expended by the churches and charitable institutions and by individuals in caring for the,victims of the pauper-breeding traffic and the amount received from liquor licenses appears only a drop in the bucket in comparison. Then the loss of income to mauy families entailed by drunkenness which results in the loss of time or the loss of jobs must be .taken into consideration.?National Advocate. Nation Sells Indulgences. To-day the Government is a partner in the liquor traffic. This is Its j shame. It is a great, stain upon our nation's life. Somehow or other Uncle Sam has been induced to buy out a large share of Old Nick's interest(in the business, and he finds it an exceedingly profitable investment, if it does impoverish his people. His,Coffers are full. His vaults are almost bursting with accumulated millions of gold and silver. Every now and then he must make new vaults to hold the surplus. And he says to the liquor men, "Go on debauching manhood, ruining health, dethroning reason, peopling prisons, supplying gallows, filling hell, but be careful to give me every cent of my share of the profits!" Thus the nation sells indulgences to sin. Thus it builds itself up with the price of blood. Thus it establishes itself with the price of ini| quity. Thus it places itself under the woes of Almighty God. Thus it be| comes particeps criminis in all the abominations growing out of the liquor business. Rnssia and the Drink Evil. * M. Fuster, in L'Alcool, has this to say of t?e drink evil in Russia: "I have visited all the countries ol Europe, and I can say that in no part have 1 seen so many drunkards as in Russia. On Sundays and on fete 1 days (of which there are more than 100 officially recognized, besides Sun; days) they are to be found everywhere in towns and villages. On the | edges of the footpaths, in corners of the streets, one stumbles against men 1 dead drunk, sleeping a leaden sleep. The police occasionally pick them up. but more usually leave them to sleep in peace. At Moscow I haye often 1 seen peasants and workmen lying in the dust, a bottle of vodka in their shrivelled hands. In every street 1 there is an official place of sale, and the people form up in a queue as at 1 the door of a theatre and pass Id with their empty bottle, and exchange 1 them for bottles full of liquor with ' forty per cent, of alcohol." "After Your Boy." , One of the delegates to a State convention of Christian Endeavorers, a young business man, dressed in a natty rough-and-ready suit, every movement alert and eager, and telling oi bottled energy within, came suddenly upon a red-faced citizen who evident, ly had been patronizing the hotel bar, j Buttonholing the delegate a trifle unceremoniously, the latter said: I "What are you fellows trying to do down at the meetings? You are temperance, I see by the papers.v Do ' you think you could make a temperance man of.me?" "No," repfied the delegate, looking him over from head to foot with a keen glance, "we evidently couldn't do much for you, but we are after your boy." At this unexpected retort the man dropped his jocular tone and said se. riously: "Well, you have got the right of it there. If somebody had been after me when I wa3 a boy I should be a better man to-day." I Firewater Statistics. William E. Johnson, chief special officer of the United States Indian service, in Salt Lake City, has issued a table showing the convictions secured during the month of March of this year, in the matter of the suppression of ihe liquor traffic among Indians. It is .here shown that the total number of convictions secured , during the montn was flfty-six. Of these, thirty were in California, two in New York, six fn Oklahoma, thirteen in Nevada, one in Montana, two in Arizona and two in New Mexico. Tcmperance Notes. The Russians are the hardest drinking of all the European peoples. It is worthy of notice that last Christmas Prince Henry presented all the navy with the temperance pamphlet. ''The Poi3on Tree of the German People." "Wyoming will be entirely under prohibition outside of incorporated towns after January 1, 1910, under a new law whereby saloons are permitted only to that extent, each license costing $1000." State prohibition is predicted at the next session of* the State Legislature of South Carolina. The Catholic ciersy of Germany to vhe number of six hundred have organized a sacerdotal total abstinence Union. lilt: iirudiueuL <>i inc muuu 10 Prince Max, of Saxony, who is a priest. Sir William Hartley, a prominent temperance leader of England, has Just made a gift of 24.500 copics of "Alcohol and the Body," the wellknown recent book by Sir Victor Horsley and Dr. Mary Sturge, to the Band of Hope movement in Great Rrifnin V oluO^^TOUFL THE GIFTS OF GOD. Be with me, Lord! My house is growing still As one by one the guests go out the door; 1 And some, who helped me once to do Thy will, Behold and praise Thee on the Heavenly Shore. ! | Uphold my strength! My task is not yet done. JNor let me nt tne moor cease 10 sing, But from the rising to the setting sun_ Each faithful hour do service to my King. Show me Thy light! Let not my wearied eyes Miss the fresh glory of life's passing day, But keep the light of morn, the sweet surprise Of eacn hew blessing that attends my way. And for the crowning grace, O Lord, renew The best of gifts Thy best of glints have had; y With the great joy of Christ my heart endue To sh?re the whole world's tears and still be glad. , ?Theodore C. Williams, in Christian Register. ^ The Joy of Christ. There is a prevalent misconception concerning the daily life and experience of the Lord Jesus when He was ' with us. We think of Him as the "man of sorrows," and rightly. "He carried our sorrows;" th^ burden of our guilt was upon Him. ' He was so in sympathy with men that their burdens and sorrows became His. The incompleteness of character, the hypocrisy and deceit which met Him everywhere, the tho-.sand forms of iniquity which filled the world, our guilt laid upon His soul, did indeed , "fill Him with sorrow; there was no-| sorrow like His. It was a deep undercurrent that became greater as He approached tho end. Even when all would seem to be far removed from this, when the multitudes were about Him'seeking His blessing, we hear Him fcay: "Aiy soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.'.' But with all this His heart was full of' joy. There was sorrow, but there was no sadness: there was a i burden, but there was no disappointment; there was the keen sense of the guilt of sin and of the agony ofi the atoaement, but there was no hesitation. We see the tumult, but He speaks of "My peace," His own peculiar peace; we see the suffering, but His highest wish for His disciples was , that "My joy might remain in you and that your joy might be fully." Suffering and happinesB are not incompatible; sorrow and joy are not so antagonistic that they may not dwell in the same heart. There is a grace which rises above the suffering, and makes it minister to joy. It 19 one of the wonderful things of grace that it so lifts us up put of our surroundings, and out of ourselves, that there is perfect peace even when the suffering is greatest. We fta^ve seen the victim of disease racked with pain whose face beamed with joy and whose words were songs of prateo. The martyrs sang as they burned. So with Jesus; at the very tin^e when His cup was filled to the overflowing, He talked with His disciples oijt of i a heart perfectly at rest. There was to Jesus the joy of His j sinless nature. We cannot measure that, but we'may sometimes have a foretaste of it; there may be such a sense of pardon and of Divine love that we are as in the presence of God, but our highest short experience is ! far below the blessedness which was j perpetual in the soul of Jesus. To | Him there was the joy of, infinite ; love. He gave Himself for others, J and in their salvation His joy was ' above all suffering. The prayer of the penitent thief was to Him the joy ! of love prevailing, even over the j thorns and the nails. There was the consciousness of His Father's love and support. He uwelj on that love. Even with the cross before Him, in the communion of the ' I holy fellowship His very garmentB ' shone with the glory of God. He was J mocked and scorned, but all the time He saw His work prevailing. The. lamfe man walking, the one dumb man feinging the praises of God, the dead coming back to life, were typical 1 . of a greater work of love in the sal- j vation of men. He thought of the man whose sins were forgiven as one J saved, and not simply healed. How great the joy of that hour as He prayed, "Holy Father; keep those whom Thou hast given Me!" Wq can know but little of that higher world in which Jesus lived, j 1 for it is the world of perfect holiness ' and infinite love, but we see some- ! 1 thing of it: we have something in common with Him, so that we can enter into His joy sufficiently to know that it crowned all labor and ; sweetened all sorrow. The "man of '/ sorrows" let Him ever be to us, but alsp we should open our hearts to re- j ceive the inflowing of His ever-pres- I ent, unbounded joy.?United Presby- j terian. - I The Ferfect One. Our Lord, when in the flesh, passed through the different stages of human life that He might sanctify them all and show mankind that it is possible in every estate and condition of existence to keep the law of God in view and to deal justly and humanely with one's fellow men. Christ was the perfect man, though He was more than man and not less than God. By ! His sinless life He ha3 dignified and i ennobled every earthly relation, and 1 leaving behind Him a shining and beautiful example, calls now to all believing souls to reproduce in their own exDerience and conduct the grace and holiness that shone resplendent ! in His unique career. Christianity's Failure. If Christianity fails as a world power it will fail because the individual fails as a Christian to incarnate in his life the spirit and life of his Lord ?which means that he fails to be n Christ man. Present Day Fathers. Present day fathers are too often merely their children's pocketbooks and bogy men, instead of being their law book, monitor, teacher, guide ana closest friend. Sure to Reach Him. Worthy of Lord Dundreary's brother Sam is the following. A young Englishman of excellent family settled in Winnipeg some years since and lias been using his best endeav- i ?r? tr> rofripve his? fallen fortunes. ! Since arriving; in America be has been the recipient of many letters from his devoted brother "at home," all of which are directed to him at "Minnipeg, Manitoba, Massachusetts."?New York Times. ---f - ,1 The Sunday^School ^ INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JANUARY 30. Subject: Some Laws of the; Kingdom, Matt. 5:17-20, 38-40?Commit Verse 44. * GOLDEN TEXT?"Be ye there- If fore perfect even as yonr Father whlcbsis in heaven is perfect." Matt. 5:48. TIME-?Midsummer A. D. 28-. %. PLACE.?Horns of Hattin. EXPOSITION.?I. The Law of * the Kingdom Regarding Anger, 2226. By the old law murder was for- ^ bidden (v. 2,1: cf. Ex. 20:13; I>eut. V^| 17); by the higher law of the Kingdom anger, which is incipient murder, 3 Tapttib nf rnntemnf^ "ira whereby a brother's feelings are in- ...ijt jured and his reputation endangered. are forbidden. Jesus teaches thar-vMj there is a "hell of fire" (v. 10). we have wronged another in the smallest "matter so that he "hatb aught against" us we should first be reconciled to him before we seek to ' v';j bring an offering to God. The secret-, of many an unanswered prayer is that some brother has a just claim against us which we have not settled. One ^ should not allow a just claim to re- .'jJ main unsatisfied a moment. He ;?>'xJ ehojjld seek agreement with every ad- tiij versary quickly. "Have aught against thee" does not mean, as so often In- ^ terpreted. have a grudge or bitterness against thee, but have a just :.?? claim. We are not necessarily re-> 35 sponsible for the grudge others hold y against us, but we are responsible for -V-u the just claims. All just claims ^ be settled sooner or later. II. The Law of the Kin^tlOjn" Rer parding Injuries, 38-41. . The ifew bf gaS APor, 1 noHfo In loi^uatcvt VJkMVV J UWV?vv ?? ? .j-y -y punishment of offences. "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth;" but the law of Christ, the law of thevKlngdom, which Is not for the administration of public justice, bat for the government of individual action, de- : mandB the most thoroughgoing for- ^ giveness of injuries. Evil is not to be resisted, even as Jesus Himself did v? not resist it, leaving us an example .^? that we should follow in:'His stepir;:,;^ (1 Pet. 3:18-23). When one'injury &? ia done us, instead of relisting we ,.$3 should stand willing to receive, an- ' 'ft other. , . ; III. The Law of the Kingdom garding Giving and*Lending, 42. The ;.*2: heart should be* open in love toward^? all and the hand ever ready to gire. ^y* We should not only he ready to to the g6od and to the worthy, but;#!? to the unworthy, to the I unfaithful and evil (cf. Luke C:30-85). We.;c*. should giye to every one that asks of" ; ^ us (Luke 6:30). Should we take this literally? Yes, but nqte that does cot say that we should give-to v. every one that asks the very thing v *j that he asks. "If a man will not ' work neither shall he eat" (2 Thee&lgH 3:10). But while we may not give \% the very thing that is asked; we ought ;:| to give. Giving with unstinting hand*. | always giving, giviiig to all, iskthe \ law of the Kingdom. That most j bothersome q|f men, the ^borrower, j should not receive the cold shoulder, j but a hearty welcoih^,' ? IV. The Law of the Kingdom Re- ; ] garding the Treatment of Enemiee,.^ 4348. Love should go put to all, not merely jto .friend and neighbor, ' ? but to the enemy as itell. The man who dow everything ia hie power to, .' ?] undermine us. to blast onr r6puta-i " tlon, to curtail our influonco. should:, be the object of our. kindest 'c^tttd*^ eritlon. When others' curse Va, we should*bless them; ,when others hate ' us, we should do them good; whra|^| others persecute-us and despitefully use us, we should pray for them. The more people there are to persecute us,, & the more there are for whbm ra# Will, q have the privilege of praying. In thhr way persecution becomes a means of unalloyed blessing, a stepping stone on which we step higher into the life of Jesus <Jhrist. Hapny is he, indeed, '$ wHo takes tnese words literally. He-';-,? will have no more anxiety from perse-, /.v; cutlons and lies and slanders. By loving our enemies we shall ourselves be sons of God, for the son is like his ^ father, and this is the way the heavenly Father acts; He retuyns blessing -; for cursing, kindness for hate; He , xnaketh His sun, with all its pealing, -J1 fruit-giving power, to rise on thfe evil j-i and the good. That is a very sng- k gestive phrase, "H1b sftn." When . 3 you look up at the glorious sun again just say, "That is His sun and He fa gives it to me." To love them that love us is no indication of grace; even the publicans do the same.. The last % verse is very wonderfal, holdlnjf up T the perfection of God as our standard. . It is really a promise more than 4 j command, "Ye therefore shall be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect"! (R. V.). The immediate reference is to perfection in love, lov-v>^ Ing eneinies as well as friends, bad : as well as good (cr. Luke ?:3b, aej. : But It is clearly implied that in'all things God's character is our standard (Eph. 5:1). Nothing short of absolute likeness to Him should gat- ' isfy us, and it is to this that we are finally to'attain (1 Jno. 3:3). f* Fit For the Master's Use. If the joy of youth has more foam and sparkle, the joy of age has greater depth and substancg. One is like the reflection of sunlight on the lumps of ore, where there is much 1 dross mingled with the metal, the other like the glance of tempered v steiil which has been through the < furnace and between the anvil and the hammer, and has come forth wholly fitted for the Master's use. ^Millionaire Cop" Treed by a Goat. Policeman Mulholland, known ia Philadelphia as the "millionaire,cop,** charged a goat he saw eating grass in Logan Square. He was butted so systematically that he climbed a tree i J.1 Ail 4M1lAm.A?RAATO ana siayea inure uum icnun-uiuwi? answered the blasts of his polled whistle for aid. .. . \;i _ | Ham ana bggs Fartea Couple. ; Louis Mayer's wife served him with, ham and eggs for Sundav dinner at Carlstadt, N. J., and he left home la 1905. never to return. She has saed him for ^divorce in Jersey City and. won. . v * ' Mn-r?c' Rirfhnlace. \ I 1V.-)IUV lib 11MJX./ s m The house in which President Rutherford B. Hayes was born, in Delaware, Ohio, has just been bought .to erect on the site a large candy; factory. Policeman's surgical operation. Eniil Williams yawned his jaw out ol joint, in t\ew torn uuy, uuu ?. pv- a ]iceman rapped it into place with hia I nightstick. _ *V_ ^