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W tPC&j&z New York City.?The shirt wais that is made with a yoke is one of th< smartest just now, <ud this one is ex ceptionally pretty. The yoke is cu to form tabs that give a novel effect and the sleeves with their deep cuff: #re new and comfortable and smart tn this instance the material is plaid silk piped with a plain color an trimmed with little silk buttons, bu the waist is equally well adapted t wool, silk and washable fabrics. ] the full sleeves are not liked plai ones can be substituted as show in th back view. Moire silk and cashmer promise to be favorites for separat * Z/S waists, and either would be attractiv made after this model. Also th waist is well suited to the entir gown. The closing can be made eith er at the front or the back as liked When made at the back it is designei to be invisible, when made at th .front it can be effected either b oiyans of buttons and buttonhole forked through the box pleat, or b: means of buttonholes worked in a fly The waist consists of front ant back portions. When made wltl closing at the back, the backs an eorvor?ofo1v Kn f nrhon tllQ 'rnn closing is preferred the back is seam less. The tucks in the fronts ar< stitched for a portion of their lengtl only, but the full length box plea gives long lines at both front am back. The full sleeves are finishec tvith deep cuffs. The plain sleeve: are cut in one piece each. I The quantity of material requirec Tor the medium size is four yard: kwenty-four or twenty-seven, three and a half yards thirty-two or twc and an eighth yards forty-four inches wide with three-eighth yard of con :rasting material for piping. Grandma's Shawl. You may see your grandma's lac< shawl?her fine old black lace shaw ?again if you have ingenuity enougl to drape it. It should not be cut. bul only draped in tunic shape, and if toe tone, it may first be drawn up ir apron bib lines, and even tied intc pannier knots at the front, back 01 Bide, according to the lines of the gar ment. Smart Models. The cuirass gown is still seer among the smart models, but it is now fitted in at the waist line, where Jast season it dropped over with les: Clear definition. 7iionj^ t I Evening Costumes. Ribbons after the pattern of old' fashioned brocades will help those who are desirous of using this domin'' ant Parisian note In evening cos3 tumes. ^ Softer Ribbons. Moire ribbon of stiff and supple quality is here. The thick weaves can be tied in immense stiff bows for moire covered hats. The softer ribbons can be fashioned into bags 01 girdles and twisted in decorative knots for trimming. Lotus Flower. The lotus flower and bud have grown under the artful hand of the weaver; brilliant conventional wingg flash out their Egyptian message. These ornamental ribbons suggest fancy-work possibilities and merit consideration because of their sensible shades. Straight Pleated Skirt. Short or apron draperies are very fashionable just now and this one, with points at the sides, is extremely becoming. It is arranged over a pleated skirt, and this skirt is attached to a smoothly fitted yoke. It can be made either with a slightly raised or the natural waist line. In this case the skirt is made of cashmere with bands of satin, but it will be found available for almost every seasonable material. Fine wools aro " * * ? *-1. a exceedingly lignt in weignt, aim everything that can be pleated successfully is appropriate. Made in floor length and of silk voile with d bands of satin it would become very it much more elaborate in effect. Made o from French serge and finished wHn f stitched hems only it would become a u simple, practical skirt adapted to e every-day wear. o The skirt consists of the foundae tion, the pleated portion and the drap \ ' e ery. The foundation is gored and e snugly fitted. The pleated portion is e straight and laid in backward-turn ins pleats, and the drapery is ar 1. ranged over it. There are also two i box pleats at the back and the closing e is made invisibly between the two. y When the natural waist line is des sired the foundation and the drapery y are cut off on indicated lines and the . skirt is joined to a belt. The quantity of material required for the medium ?ize is six and a quar1 ter yards twenty-four or twenty-seven, 31 four and three-quarter yards fortyi J four or fifty-two inches wide with one 5 j yard twenty-seven inches wide for the I bands. THE PULPIT. I c I ? ?? * ?? #M rkrnRiiAM DV ^ a 5unul?ttlt ouinuht otrnvivji-* of THE REV. ARTHUR MERCER. Theme: The Rich Man in Hell. Brooklyn, N. Y.?As tLe sequel to a sermon preached some time ago, the Ilev. Arthur Mercer, pastor of the Church of the New Jerusalem, had for his subject Sunday mornijg "The Rich Man in Hell; or, the Penalty of Selfishness." Mr. Mercer said: "A certain rich man and a certain beggar named Lazarus?and it came to pass that the beggar died. The rich man also died, and in hall he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom." The picture is painted by a master artist. The colors are varied and striking; the contrast of light and shade, lurid and dramatic. We have before us the outlines of a tremendous social drama, not so much being said as suggested ?the details lying behind in a vivid background. A splendid palace rises before our thought. Its wealthy owner, royally garbed ill purple and fine linen, emerges from the gate, followed hv his retinue and flatterers. This is the light and brightness of the picture. The colors are gay, the figures smiling and debonair; everything suggestive of prosperity and happiness. But there is also a shadow, a deep and dismal one. It could not be otherwise, for this is a picture of human society?the social contrast?aud so there in the shadow, in miserable antithesis to this display-of wealth lies the beggar Lazarus with his rags and disgusting sores. The courtly train sweeps by, affecting not to notice Lazarus. These horrible social facts must be, because they are a part of the constituted order, of things; but the peace of Dives must not be troubled by them. Nevertheless, he is generous. He permits his servants to throw the crumbs from the table where he and his company have sumptuously fared to Lazarus and his dogs. It shall not be | said that the rich have no regard for ; the needs of the poor. The death of Lazarus is of small I Importance. A hurried visit to the potter's field and all is over for Lazarus. But a second time, and all unlocked for, the fatal knell rings out, and this time there is a stir in the social world. There is suppressed excitement in the palace of Dives?a moving of lights here and there at night?a hurrying of muffled steps, the passing of the scared whisper to and fro, and the death-angel beckons I Dives to follow Lazarus. What a terrible reality now, this that had seemed so far off and vague! And the rich man also died, ?.ad?after the elegant funeral?was buried. The curtain has rung down on the first act. Usually it remains down so far as our present knowledge is concerned. Death comes and then a thick veil intervenes. And then, whatever terrible thing or whatever happy thing goes on, it goes on behind closed doors. We turn indifferently away from the grave's mouth. But the Master-Magician raises His wand and there come fitful flames from hell beneath, and a vivid stream of light from heaven above, and merge into such a glare of light that the veil , translucent, and the second i act of the drama unfolds before our eyes. The scene has changed. There has 1 been a complete and startling reversal ; in the position of the dramatis per- i sonae. Why? It does not appear ; that Dives was a scoundrel. He was i merely the type of the comfortable < and educated citizen of that day; re- i ligious, according to the conventional idea, educated, refined, benevolent, j and morally strict?with, however, 1 certain important but secret reserva- ] tions. He represents a well-to-do and j cultivated social element of every age. i A very likable sort of fellow, com- 1 panionable, sure to have a host of 1 friends; an elder in the church, a ] leader in most everything that is go- 1 j ing oil in society or in business. Why, then, this utter damnation of j I Dives? He had been a philantropist. j If there had been newspapers in those < days they would have lauded him to the skies as one of the most eminent < and honorable citizens. He had been 1 generous with his crumbs, even as < well-to-do society to-day is generous | in supporting charities for the benefit i of the poor victims of its own pros- 1 perity. But everything was for his ] own glory. "Self was written upon j his every act. If he had presented a < public library to Jerusalem it would i have been that hi*- own name and bas- ] relief might be stamped upon the * face of it. < As Dives was the beneficiary, so Lazarus was the victim of unjust and i social conditions. He was not a beg- < gar from choice. He was "the poor i in spirit," the man who thinks not l I too well of himself. He was coil- { scious of his ignorance, of his moral < rags and ulcers, and he abased him- j | self before God. Such was Lazarus, i the man whom God can, and will, ] help. ^ And so when the veil dissolves and ' discloses the terrible second act, 1 where the souls of the two men are ! brought to their trial before that | Great Judge, who regardeth not the outward appearance, but searcheth j the reins and the heart. Lazarus is ] seen in the company of the blest, j while Dives looks up out of "Hell," j the authorized version says, but the Greek word is "Hades," which is a 'c general name for the whole spiritual s world, and the scene is neither heaven \ nor hell, but the intermediate stage t called the "world of spirits." where ^ all spirits, good and bad, assemble j after death and undergo their final t judgment in preparation for either j heaven or hell. We see Dives then T in the lower part of this middle world f on his way to hell, and Lazarus in ^ the upper portion far on his way to ^ heaven. The "great gulf" between . I ~? i ? 1 | mem lb tiiu luiuicaauiauit; uiouuii; j j between good and evil. t By the aid of our New Church doctrines we may readily interpret the experience through which the two men are seen passing. That which is essentially us is our .inmost will, our \ mainspring of love or motive, to Y which all other things in this life are v merely temporary and external. 1: And vhile we are here, there may be c the widest disparity between the out- c ward or apparent and the inward or t real sides of us. But when we pass t on into the other world, all this is I | changed. Divested of the material j body and the trammels of a world external to us, which force us into ! conformity to a mere appearance, and j introduced into a realm of plastic % spiritual substance, tlie real spirit or * the man inevitably comes to the " front. In that world, environment is merely the expression of character. The inmost will and love of the man transforms and colors the whole appearance of things to its own likeness 1< here are few of us who enter the >ther life either so completely good >r so completely evil that the invard and the outward sides of us are n complete agreement. Either there ire certain opposing evils in the outvard man which cannot be taken into leaven, or certain opposing goods vhich cannot be taken into nen. Lazarus m*jt be divested of his rags jj( md sores, and Dives must be stripped >f his purple and fine linen. And this is the ordeal through vhich we see the two men passing *1 n that fleeting glimpse of the world )f spirits vouchsafed to us by the Jreat Teacher. The functiofl of that nterrnediate stage of the other life It s analogous to that of the stomach n the human body?the separation A: ind absorption of that which is capa)le of being assimilated by the heavenly society and the segregation of ^ he rest. A most yaioful experience it must )e. Supposing that our inmost mo- T1 ives have been Godly?that we have )een making a brave struggle to do 3od's will, and supposing that we . lave been largely defeated by certain nherited defects of our outward naure?infirmities of the temper, weak- j ^ lesses of the flesh?which we have j r] lot succeeded in wholly overcoming, i ?l These things, because they are super- ^ Icial in us and not central, because H ve hate and do not love them, be:ause, in short, they form no part of )ur secret wills, will be removed in ri ;he world of spirits, and we shall ?_| Anally be introduced into some posi- J* ;Ion of greater or less usefulness and " lappiness in the innumerable heav- A ;ns, high and low. But it i3 far bet:er to get rid of them here, for here " ;hey can be removed gradually and lainlessly, and being removed by the jxercise of our own will of good, J* :heir removal is accompanied by a jreat development ana enlargement ? )f all our powers of joy and service. ?J While in that world of spirit, they ~ ire simply cushed out of us, or burnt y >ut, or pulled out by the roots. It is *l vhat Swedenborg calls the process of c rastation?the spoliation and re- 81 noval, for instance, of the knowledge, ;he talents, the cultivation, which i ai lave made part of our natural man ^ n this world, but. which we did not i " ?mbody in our secret and real selves | ^ jy regarding them, not for our own j " ;lory and pleasure, but for God's ser idee. And if we carry any serious " ,'aults with us to that final reckoning cvitj. God, which still have any deep P: oois in us?though we reach heaven it last, we shall reach it though such " /ales of anguish, through such cruci)les and threshing floors of torment. ?' ivith such tearings and rendings of " :he spirit, that we shall look back ipon the very worst of our sufferings H tiere as the merest pastime. 01 No doubt Lazarus had been trodden in his wine-press of pain in that in- j 5t :erval between his death and the mo- I J* ment when Dives sees him with his ! c head on Abraham's bosom. But, oh, ! the agony of Dives! For it is just in j 11 that process of vastation in the vesti' ' ' ^ - l- -11 _ kokntd i h DU16 01 1116 II tills Liia.t ivc u^uuiu i Dives and all his kind?the people J-! who have great possessions and will *? aot give them to God's poor and j te needy in the spirit of lowly and lov- I [ng service. Only that while Lazarus J Is being relieved of all that made his | soul ugly, Dives is being stripped ot ^ ill that seemed to make his soul beau- ^ tiful. Though the will was selfish S( and Godless the intellect is still full ^ Df the truths of religion, and by that failing light his true character is beIng revealed to him in all its ugliness, w ind he can now fully measure the horror of his loss and his despair. g( His eyes turn inward and he is made to know that with all his moral vir* rj tues and amiable traits he never had n a, motive that was not selfish, and he now finds himself spiritually isolated, [t is a time of self-revealing con- je sciousness and remorse. He is still tc capable of seeming consideration foi a] ujthers, for though in a spirit of selfjustification, he pleads that a warn- jj ing be sent to his brothers on earth. ^ rhe flames of torment are the burning appetites which he can no longer gratify, and through the gathering tl Jarkness he feels himself sinking, while all his hopes and all his dreams, r' ' - -c *V?4 pi the ornamems ana osauues uj. tutu / ? liigher life to which lie had aspired, | but which had never entered into a I motive of self-sacrifice, fade from his grasp as he sinks down, down intc j Y* the abyss. It is the rending apart 3f a soul. _ It is of Divine mercy that there * should be no such hell as that?that j j1' the torments of Dives should be but i Df the transition onlj*. For Dives for- | P1 ;ets! The mere shell of him in which i C1 tie had resided here, all that might j>' have made his life- sublime?the unlived truths, the outward elegancies 11 md powers and virtues, are all ? stripped fi*>m him. Presently the in- " :ernal, animating, selfish soul and love of him have changed the outtvard appearance to their own hid- ^ jousnssx. i *>' We have before us a most terrible " earning. We know what we now ;eem to be, but we know not what. *c ive shall be. Our natural gifts are J11 )ut loaned to us for a season. They ire not a part of our permanent possession, unless, in the way of His j s* service, we build them into the in- { nost fiber of our most unselfish loves. bi :f used for our own pleasure and adrancement they will be stripped from is at last. God help us to use them 01 .'rom His Spirit and in His service. *e A Prayer. Eternal God, we thank Thee that j hrough Thy grace we find life and ' [n ight. Kindle Thou our souls into m loly desire that our common lifo m nay be possessed by a heavenly pur- w >ose. Help us as children of the Lord w )f Love to spend ourselves in loving ; ie service and show a depth of affection 01 n our daily life that will witness to is he power of the grace of Christ, reach us the love which endnreth all st kings, hopeth all things and laboreth F; into .he coming of Thy kingdom. 3urge from our hearts all narrowless and self-seeking and make us luick to discern and respond to Thy vill concerning us. Uplift us from he clouds of discouragement and give Pf is the higher vision of the eternal m oys reserved for all who overcome P? hrough faith in a risen Saviour. The Hardest Conquest. Of heroes and hero worship we iear much. But there is a spiritual G< leroism little known, that of the man fo vho resolves to conquer himself? fir lardest of all conquests. Impatience, sii uvy, rage, selfishness, eager for sucess or sullen at defeat, passions of he flt^h and passions of the spirit? hese aro his enemies.?Orville )ewey. fii ai Regeneration. > P' in The moment a sinner comes into ^ ital touch with Christ, by faith, he is 0I eaqimated, that is, "regenerated," inder the influence of the Spirit.? tev. David J. Burrell. Self-Control. Self-control in lower things will m 2ad to self-control in that which Is pe Religious Sheading FOR THE QUIET HOUR. THF FEVER HEALED. e touched her hands and the fever left her; Oh! we need His touch on our fevered hands; le cool, still touch of the Man of Sorrows, Who knows us and loves us, and understands. may be the fever of pain and anger, When the wounded spirit is hard to bear, nd only the Lord can draw forth the arrows Left carelessly, cruelly, rankling there. 'hatever the fever, His touch can heal it; Whatever the tempest, His voice can still; flere is only joy as we seek His-pleasure; There is only rest as we choose His will. ?Christian Herald. Christian Certainty. How can one be sure that he is a hrlstian? The Apostle John gives iles which are in harmony with !5er Scripture. "Hereby know we lat we are in Him;" "Whoso keepeth is word, in him verily is the love of od perfected." Obedience is a test, ife know that everyone that doeth ghteousness is born of Him." An:her rule is in the words, "We know lat we have passed from death unto fe, because we love the brethren." nd still another in these words. We know that He abideth in us by le Spirit which He hath given us." * Tbe Spirit bears witness with our jlrits that we are the children of od. John gives also a rule by which le spirit may db kuuwu. ncicuj now we the Spirit of God. Every >irit that confesseth that Jesus hrist is come in the flesh is of God." e also declares his assurance of a iture meeting with and likeness to hrist. "We know that when He lall appear, we shall be like Him." John had faith in God as a hearer ad annwerer of prayer. This is the mfidence that we have in Him, that we ask anything according to His ill, He heareth us, "And if we know lat He hears us, whatsoever we ask, e know that we have the petitions lat we desired of Him." With this assurance in regard to rayer is associated an assurance of istaining grace in time of temptaon. "We know that whosoever is E God sinneth not; but he that is sgotten of God keepeth himself, and lat wicked one toucheth him not." This knowledge, however, did not lake him careless in regard to sin, r vain of his security. He knew the eaknes3 of the ilesh, and the :rength of .temptation. Hence, sumling up our knowledge of God and hrist, and our own security and eteral life, he said: "Every man that ath this hope in him purifieth him;lf, even as He is pure," and closed is epistle with the exhortation, "Lite children, keep yourselves from lols. Amen."?Herald and Presby!.r .. ? ?? <nrr . A Windfall Message. It was easy for the gossiping wo* lan in the ol#? story to obey when er confessor told her to walk a mile, :attering feathers. But the other alf of the pcnance was to go back ad gather them up again. The difculty of undoing scattered mischief as her lesson. Heaven has made it equally difcult to undo scattered good. More lan that, we may believe that no ght deed or word is ever lost, while lany a wrong one is forgiven and >rgotten. A leaf of an Australian newspaper, :ft to the chance of the winds, was >ssed about the plains of Victoria, ad flnaltyr blown to the foot-hills syond Balarat, where a lonely sheperd lived with his sheep in "the ush." One day he saw and picked up the )iled paper, delighted to find someling he could read. To his disapDintment, nearly the whole of one age was covered by a printed serlon; but its opening sentences lught his attention and held him till e began to be interested. He de3ured every word, to the end of the , ist column. It was a sermon b7 Mr. Spurgeon. he solitary, a man past middle life, ad been so long a stranger to everyling its theme and language exressed, and so far away from the sa ed scenes and privileges it sugssted, that the human soul within im had starved and withered, and e had errown almost as numb and eutral in moral feeling as the four>oted creatures he tended. The reading of that discourse 100k him from the slumbei of years, e read It again and again; and the Dspel that was in it taught him and fted him and made him rejoice. Five years later a minister in Geeing, conversing with some of his earers after an evening service, was itroduced to a gray-haired man who ad a story to tell. He was the old lepherd of the wilderness. "I am a poor man," he said, when 3 had related how and where he reathed his first Christian breath, 3ut God thought I was worth saving. He never would have blown thai ;>f fn mo in ihp hush " Not Merely Good, But IToly. It is not for us to despair of growig not merely pure, but good; nof erely good, but holy. God ha? ade us for that very thing; and. hat God intends, that assuredly ill at last be done. He is not weard of us; it is we who are weary of :r vain and vacillating selves. He always forgiving. lie stands by 1 'ery hour, watching all our poor 1 ruggles, with pity and love.? j ranees Power Cobbe. Art of Livins. The greatest thing in living is in lowing how to get along with other :ople. The highest state of liappi- ' :ss can only come from the most J srfect companionship. 1 Personal Succeso. , Our personal success in work for i Dd depends much upon our methods, i r we have to deal with men as we < id them and not as we shouJd de- i re them to be. ' c Chicago I'oiiccnian Dismissed. Patrolman Emil E. Kolar was the , rst man to bo discharged for cow- j dins from the Chicatro Police De irtmcnt. Ho was charged with hav- j g skulked behind a crowd while a lief, who had killed a pawnbroker 1 his post, made his escape. t Must Shape Policy. t Henri Bourassa, leader of the Can- E llan nationalist parly, urges the Do- ' inion to contribute nothing to im- f OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN. REPORTS OF PROGRESS OF THE BATTLE AGAINST RUM. Railways and Drink. That railway accidents in this country are due, in some degree, to the use of alcohol by employes, is asserted, at least by implication, by Dr. Henry O. Marcy, of Boston, in a leading article in the Quarterly Journal of Inebriety. Dr. Marcy emphasizes the point that it is not sufficient for trainmen to keep from drinking while on duty, they should be abstainers; otherwise their nerves will not be strong enough to stand the strain of their occupation. Most railroads do not go as far as this. Says the writer: "The railroad authorities of the United States are widely awake to the dangers to their various systems, from the monetary standpoint as also from a humanitarian point of view. As I have just shown, every railroad wreck involves a large loss. Therefore it behooves these great nnmnontoa Tint tllnnB tf> ARTIftfiiallV train their important servants, watching carefully ov^r their physical condition, seeing to it that, as far as possible, their duties are assigned to them at regular hours, with an insistence of taking proper rest and food, and then demand of them when on duty the highest type of possible efficiency. / "In the army, no matter how fatigued, the sentinel has his four hours of rest and his two hours of watchful vigilance. Negtest of duty during these two hours may endanger the entire camp. Woe be then to the sentinel caught sleeping at his post. A court-martial and execution swiftly follow as a stern warning to the future. In a large sense the engineer and trainmen are sentinels on duty, ^pon every one of the numberless trains traversing the country. While we may not shoot such derelict servants, we certainly should bring to bear every possible effort to secure from them the best and safest service. Hence the wisest teachings of the effect of alcohol upop the human system should be disseminated, and establish among these men the esprit de corps of the service." After quoting letters from officials of the New York Central, Boston and New Haven and Hartford roads, from which it appears that these three companies absolutely prohibit the use of intoxicants by employes on duty, Dr. Marcy says: "These letters show a commendable spirit of watchfulness on the part of the managers of our great railroad systems, and I doubt not similar rules are enforced with greater or less sfnlnorannv nmn oil tVio ra5Irnn d<3 flf I the country. The rule of thirty years ago is now decidedly the exception, and the type and charactcr of our employes in their self-respecting manhood show a vast improvement. To those who desire to drink It is yet all too easy to furnish stimulants, but each year the responsibility is more and more placed upon the dispensers of alcoholic beverages, as well as those who partake of them. "The London and Northwestern Company have established a Total Abstinence Union Society among Its employes, which society now numbers over 12,000 members. The central object of this society is not only to promote total abstinence among its members, but lessen the risk and danger of the work and diminish accidents and lessen the worry and strain. All members of this -union are put on the promotion list to receive an increase of wages every five years if they remain in the same position and are total abstainers. "The Midland Railway Company have encouraged their operatives to form total abstinence societies and pledge themselves not to use spirits at any time or place. Preference Is given to all persons applying for profhotion and larger wages who belong to these societies. The company reports less loss from accidents and more perfect work by the members of this society." Testimony From the Brnch. Judge McAuley, of Kansas City, in f committing a "plain drunk," gave ut- j terance to the following: "If I ha<3 my way I would not only close every saloon in the county Sunday and week days, but I would stop the sale of intoxicating liquor in any shape or for any purpose whatever. I would make It a crime to manufacture the stuff. This may be far reaching, but the sentiment is justified by the sight? and experiences in this courtroom. Ninety-five per cent, of the cases tried i here are the direct results of whisky; the other five per cent, includes morphine and cocajne fiends and a few petty grievances that come before me for adjustment. ?. j I'The woes that arise from the use ; of whisky, the ruined men and worn- j en, the broken families, the griefa and tears all aired in this courtroom are enough to turn gray the hair on a buffalo robe." What Will Happen? Saloonkeeper?"If I am driven out o? this business I won't know what to do." Searchlight?"Go into the tomb- | stone business, and get the job of ! erecting monuments over .he graves j of those your business has slain." Xo Signs of Reaction. "Much has been said of a reaction I In the sweeping movement which has i made so much of the South and some portions of the North dry, but up to the present no substantial indications .if that reaction are in evidence," declares the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Temperancc Xotcs. The citizen is the State. A drunken iltizen means a drunken State. A Dauperized citizen means a naupcrized State. A corrupt citizenship means a corrupt State.?Professor A. A. Hopkins, in "Profit and Loss in Man." The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, August 25. announced that t would hereafter refuse to re-employ my discharged motormen and conluctors unless they would sign a total )ledge. General Manager Kruger declared no exceptions wculd be made. Nebraska Prohibitionists, in an en:husiastie two days' convention at ifork, Neb., canvassed the situation,! md unanimously decided to launch a >attle for State prohibition with a. lemand for county prohibition lcgis- ; ation at the next legislative session j is a first step. i Whether the citizen shall be sober >r drunken, may be first a moral I 1 juestion with the man himself, but i hereafter and directly in becomes a iocial question, ramifying through all Iiq nvonndd of snofnl infprrfenendenpc. , .nd resultantly a political question. L iecause in the man is the jiniLfl^^JJ Siifidflv= ^rhnnlH B^H INTERNATIONAL LESSON COlil^H ME NTS FOB FEBRUARY 13. Subject: Worldliness and Trnst, Bfattj^^S 6:19-34?Commit to Memory $. 99| GOLDEN TEXT. ?"Seek ye the kingdom of God and His righ&Hfl eousness, and all these things shall.wflHn added unto you." Matt. 6:33.: ' TIME.'?Midsummer A. D. 28, PLACE.?Horns of Hattin.' |?B EXPOSITION.?I. Where to Up Treasures, 10-23. Our Lord fozv-^^M bids our laying up treasures for oqfkVH selves dn earth. This does not forbid us to lay up treasures upon earth for.^M the benefit of others (1 Tim. 5:8)^MM But it is not wise to lay up very largoi^H[ treasures even for others. EarthlyvHH treasures are perishable; moth rust consume them and thieves steal'jMHW them. But it is right for us to lay up treasures for ourselves?in he&ve&!|^H[ Those treasures will never fail; nor rust cannot consume- and thlevea&|^B can never get at them. The tells us very plainly how to lay treasures in heaven (Prov. 11:30^3 Dan. 12:3; .Tno. 4:35, 36; 15:18;j BE Luke 16:9-12; Matt. 19:29; fcllwSi 12; 2 Tim. 2:12; Rom. 8:18; 2 Cor. ? 4:17,. 18). Our hearts should, fixed on heaven (cf. Col. 3:1, 2), and'Hflj therefore we should lay up treag\rra?ffijfl there. If our treasures are upoa^^H earth, we will wish to stay here; if. ral our treasures are in heaven, we will always he willing to go there (Phit-l^N 1:23). The will is to the soul the eye is to the body. A surrendered will brings illumination to the whole JD soul (Jno. 7:17,R. V.). When the wlik Bl is wholly surrendered to God, ttteaj^H the whole person will be fall ot Hghti.~^HI if the will itself is perverted, then the whole person will be full of dark- B ness. And how great 1b that darlc-^H n. Tlie Impossibility of Senr Two Masters, 24-34. There are flbmgy things no man can do. One of theixt is to serve two masters. We can have VJB out one aDsoiute sovereign 01 wEa a wills and service; that one absolute'*'''' H sovereign should be God. If we try r H to serve both the world and God, we g will end by hating God and lovlngtfrjj8fl| 9 world. The history of the centurittj^/ |R proves the truth of Christ's utteraQCej;:.'-,'^H "Ye cannot serve God and maroir Time and again the church has. trt<apJ?W it, but It has alwayB ended by serCTjjj^: fl mammon and forsaking God. Everj^SH man must serve some master. must choose between God and. t devil. God demands the whole heart: j. . | of every one^ who would serve Hlrol/i'i ? If we are nbt with Hitn tflth Tuhnlo haart f h on roa art* ncntlHC^I Him (Matt, i/2: e 0). serve God he must give up all of the world (i;> Jno, 2:1 &; JagfflgjB 4:4). If a man's whole heart set on pleasing God he will' b^.'-JS absolutely free from any aetxieo regarding worldly things .(v. If we are anxious about our life, oar), ?1;J| food, our drink, or ouc clothing, it ia^r^i proof positive that ihe whole will is. i not surrendered to God. A true bo-' ; '.-'M llever will be anxious for nothing*: (Phil. 4:6). God provides for the: .1 birds and He will certainly provide , '.I for Hlg children. The one who feeds J the birds is our Father. Need we ] f An r f Kof WA afl^l OA Vl 1?T1 U> I'NS 6*' icai , tucu, luat no ou^u^. u.uu()i j Anxiety is foolish anyio*\ for It er accomplishes anything;-,it cannot even add one euhlt to the measure of-, /!: our life. The flowers of the field should teach us to be free anxiety about our own clothirig. Jy God clothes them, He certainly will M clothe us. For our own good He may ; let us wear poor clothes for a time. X* but the day is coming when He clothe us with a beauty beyond any 4 this world ever saw. Aniiety about temporal affairs may be pardon-" .^3 able in a heathen, but it is in- 'TSr excusable to one who believes that ;?gSj God i? hip Father (v. 32). /.Our Fatten ^ er knows what our real need Is an<l we can trust Him to supply It. The -. ;Va "-I -I- i ??1. 1- n?J'. l.l :'(!h8 ming IU put lust is vjruu o tuuguuiu ~ and His righteousness; they are first, and therefore we should put theiQL f *$j first. If we are anxious about food and drink and clothing, it Is evident that we have not put them first; if: /.j$j we put God's kingdom first, God will - "Vj| see to it that we shall not lack any - t good things (v. 33; cf. Ps. 84:11). yjfl We should be absolutely free from anxiety about the future; we should vj| live a day at a time. Most of our . jS anxiety about the future is over trou- i: bles that never come. God will take care of our troubles when they come. True Goodness. He only is good who does good. ^ Every man is good in the measure of ' ,3 the life he gives the world. He only is fit for heaven who really is fit, ef- (-j flcient, for the service of heaven here. /.iM The greatest need of the world is men and women to whom the divine plans -If of life are so glorious that they will pay any price to become proficient in realizing them. There is a world of good work to he ?' done right here. You may cease to worry as to whether you are good or riot if you will but begin to do with all your powers the good work that i lies next to your hands. The only way to be is to do. Every man really . ,j reflects the thing for which he works. He who works for the ideal kingdom shows its glory in his countenance. He who serves the good, who does good, is changed to its glory though he knows it not. Salvation. . .,iSalvation means more than simply a kind of ticket to heaven. ?? " : ... Lcgacy to Horses Ties Up Tax. A A hearing in progress in the Coun* ifl ty Court at Eau Claire, Wis., to da termine the inheritance tat on th< ^^0 $60,000 estate of the late C. B. DanJ iels was stopped to determine the tas ^ on one of the legacies. In his will " Mr. Daniels left $4000 for the care oj his black mare. Flora, aged thirty, .'Sj jWhatever was left from the $400 after the horse died was to go to thfl Presbyterian Church, and a legacj left a church is not taxable. It must be ascertained what part of tin $4000 it will tako to maintain th? mare. . M Chicago Policeman Dismissed. Patrolman Emil E. Kolar was the fivcf inn n tn lip rl isrlin rsrpfl fnr rnw ardice from the Chicago Police Department. He was charged with having skulked behind a crowd while a thief, who had killed a pawnbroker on his post, made his escape. Russia and Japan. -M Pekin says that confirmation of U^reporte^@ntent^)etweg]^Rt^^^^H|