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!}?. VVM -'I-' THE_WORLD'S GREATEST BDBV WHERE MILLIONS OF DOLLAF EVEI Novel Fire-Escape. Something radically new in tl way of "fire escapes has been designi by a North Dakota man. In the pla< of ttu well-known iron stairways ai rope ladders, this invention provid a series of inclined planes, slanted opposite directions to each other ai I T forming a sort of double back actii chute which sends the people using swiftly to the street. The illustration gives a good id' of the apparatus and arrangement the new fire escape. The material b tu-pen th#? narallel bars is of SOE yielding material which will be si flciently depressed by the weight of human body to form a sort of gutt and prevent the people using the < cape from falling over the edge. Ti material, of course, is fireproof. When flames are discovered t people in the building climb out t windows and slide down the outwa projecting slope to the incline poir ing toward the building. This dro them to the next outward going la and so on until they reach the stre< the whole occupying only a few s< onds.?Boston Post. Old Kentish Wedding. A quaint old English wedding to< place at Trowsley Church, Kent, < Wednesday afternoon, when Ml Marjory Nash, daughter of Capta Nash, late R. H. A., of Trowsley, w married to Percy Allen. The bridal carriage consisted of gaily decorated farm wagon drav by a prize team of Shires. Returnii from the church the bridal party w headed by fiddlers and dancers, ai on arrival at the village green tl Inhabitants were given cakes ai cider, and very bright festivities fc lowed.?London Daily Graphic. AN ENGLISH K A LO: Farmer (to editor of local p? newspaper o' tht> death of m> broifc Editor?"Ten shillings and six Farmer?"Oh, I can't afford t M. A. P. Novel Erooir. Holder. The life of u broom, lixe that of i most everything elat depends on tl | care that is taken of it. All hous wives know that to stand a broo brush end down on the floor will so( MARKET AT MOfiOH, DPPER BCRHA. f jjjj IS' WORTH OF STONES ARE SOLD IY YEAR. ?Empress. Hazing Hereditary. le Hazing, like the hereditary family ;d feud in certain sections of this counce try, Is a continuing evil, because it is id handed down from one college genes eratlon to the next, and each man at who has in his time and turn run the id gantlet wants to pay off the score and secure his revenge vicariously upon the person of the trembling freshman who falls into his clutches. The class that decides to proscribe hazing has been punished and now ' finds itself deprived of the chance of i Inflicting punishment. And so the evil tradition persists, merely because no class can make up its mind to forego the precious privilege of meting out to others the same harsh and cruel treatment that was their own portion.?Philadelphia Public Ledger. Auto Lamps That Turn. The majority of automobile accidents are attributed to the inability of the lamps to illuminate the roadway when running around curves. A.n Ohio inventor has designed and patented a device which makes possible the turning of the lamps wltb J the steering apparatus, as snown id the illustration. The roadway Id front of the automobile is thus as >n well illuminated in rounding curves it; as on a straight road. With automobile lamps statlonarily attached to ea the frame of the machine, as is now of Kiiommarv thr> illuminated stretch e" when going around a curve or a cirQe cular 'rack is away off in fields, or on ifa , < er 93 in as a Lamps That Light the Curves. i*n ig the side of some one's house, instead as of on the path the machine is taking. id The apparatus is attached to the tie steering wheel so that the turning of id the steering wheel not only swings )1- the forward wheels but also the lamps.?Washington Star. NEWSPAPER JOKE. aij^ -nLf^it?A l t>_ fVoieKfcUL SG PRICE. iper)?"I want to put a notice in your ler. What's yer price?" pence an inch, sir." :liat, my brother was G feet 2."?From wear it out. Hence the number of tl- devices to hold a broom by head or be handle, one of the best of which la j shown in the illustration. This holder was designed by a Pennsylvanian. It consists of a ring somewhat larger in circumference than the handle, cf a broom with a sharp outstanding spur Fitting over tht, ring | i? a spirai spring wit't aL opening in the centra The rins is drawn down over the bandit of the broom and the spring affords a resistance wnich makes the ring fit firmly All that is necessary the:., is tc hang the broom ! ui ol the- kitchen wall or door by the | sn-.'.r into rlaste: or woodwork, prefer! abl* the tatter, because of its great stability. This keeps the broom I { proper from dirt and from spreading. ?Boston Post. When the portoffice was Grst j oponed at Kai-Fong, China, the clerks J had a fight with some men who ;e- bought stamps and refused to go m away until the stamps were licked ju and stuck on the envelopes for them. THE PULPIT. 15 e s AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY C REV. DR. JOHN CURTIS AGER. J c Theme: Tabernacle of God. v - - ... f Erooklyn, N. Y.?Sunday morning the Rev. Dr. John Curtis Ager, pastor J emeritus of the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), new c. professor in Cambridge Theological ^ School, preached in the pulpit which 1 he filled for so many years. His sub- 1 .ioct was "The Tabernacle of God . With Men." The text was from Reve- \ lation 21:3: "And I heard a great 1 voice out of the (new) heaven, say- c ing, see, the tabernacle of God with * men, and He will tabernacle with ? them, and they will be His peoples, J and He, God with them, will be their God." Dr. Ager said: The preceding verses, with the J greater part of what follows in this j chapter, are a description of what 1 John saw coming down from God out of the new heaven. The remainder of the prdfchecy tells us what John | heard out of that heaven. John rec- J nizes this distinction wnen ne sajs m the next chapter, "I John am he who saw and heard these things." This reflects an Important spiritual distinction that is in some measure recognized in the common language of the world. Seeing a thing mentally is a purely intellectual act, but hearing implies also such a giving heed to the truth as calls for some response from the will. So In this prophetic vision the things John is said to have seen picture those aspects of the new I truth now coming into the world that ! appeal to the understanding, while the things he heaid represent those I aspects of truth that appeal also to ! our emotions and volitions. The new : heaven and the new earth, the holy i city descending from the new heaven upon the new earth, complete fa all its parts, with its walls and gates and foundations of precious stones, its streets of pure gold, and the whole city as transparent as the purest glass, and resplendent throughout with a divine light, for the Lamb was the light of it?all this is a divine symbol of that body of divine truth which will illuminate and fill and quicken all our intellectual faculties as fast and as fully as we are prepared to receive it. But the prophecy appealed both to John's sight and John's hearing to picture the important truth that man is not a purely intellectual being, and that he cannot be made a new creature by any change, however great or radical, in his intelligence alone. The new truth has not done its work until it has touched the emotions and has quickened and directed the will to higher purposes and reformed the conduct and filled it with a new spirit. And this aspect of the truth is especially pictured in that part of the prophecy that John heard. It is said out of the new heaven that he saw, John heard a great voice, which means, not a loud voice, but a great volume of sound, such sound as would be fit expression of heavenly love. And this great voice said, "See, the tabernacle of God with men, and He will be tabernacled with them, and they will be His peoples, and He, God with them, will be their God." This pictures another aspect of the rvatrr that la nnw rnmin? into the ? ~ j world. This truth is first pictured as , a holy city to indicate how completely , it would meet and satisfy all the in- , tellectual needs of men, a perfect be- ' lief for man's mental abiding place and peace. It was pictured as a bride 1 attired for her marriage to teach that . the requirements of this belief will , not be satisfied until the life is J brought into harmony and union with the belief. And now it is pic- j tured as a tabernacle in which God . will tabernacle Himself with men, to , : teach that this belief will furnish not , i only a most perfect spiritual abiding j place for men, but also an abiding ! place for God with men. I To realize the full force of this | symbol we need to recall that the tab- ; arnacle was under the Jewish dispen- j sation. The Jewish dispensation, as we , know, was a dispensation of types and symbols. Its sole function was to , symbolize or picture the true church ) or tne l^ora or tne true numau me uu ( the earth, and to maintain that repre- ^ sentation in the world. , Thus its laws and ceremonies, as j prescribed by the Lord, were simply . a body of prophetic symbols. The tabernacle which was built at , Mt. Sinai under divine direction was, in a sense,- the centre of this whole representative order. Until the tem- ( pie took its place it was the centre . and seat of the entire Jewish system of worship, and for a time the centre j of such civil organization as the Jews t possessed. In itself it was simply a j tent, similar in many respects to the , tents in which the people themselves t lived, and as readily transported from * place to place during their nomad j life. It was made after a pattern { I shown to Moses in heaven, and every | detail of its construction was typical of heavenly things. And to the Jewish people it was the dwelling place of the Most High, the tent of the great unseen captain of the host, by whom all their movements were directed. His presence and His commands were made known by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of lire by night, which moved forward to su'de the host in its movements and rested where the host was to encamp. And both on the march and in camp this holy tent was at the centra and was ' : ipgarded with a reverence aud awe it ? ! is impossible for us to realize. And s j whenever specific directions were 1 J needed Moses sought the will of the * j Lorl in the tabernacle, as it had be- ? I fore been revealed to him in the * mount, and the Lord talked with him * ! tfcere face to face. In this way the * presence of the Loid was made maui- J fest and the will of the Lord was * made known to the Jewish people * ' during all their forty years' life in \ I thp dpspir. and afterward with less ? fullness during the conquest of the * ' promised land. And when at last a j more permanent abiding place for the 1 Lord was built, and the ark was brought and placed in the holy of holies of the temple, this manifestation of the divine presence by the cloud i "filled the house of the Lord, so that ? the priests could not stand to minister < by reason of the cloud, for the glory ? j of the Lord has filled the house of the ^ Lord." And this wonderful cloud of \ J glory, this symbol of the divine prosj enre, called by the Jews the S'neki- 1 j nah, continued to rest upon the ark 1 until the temple was burned by Xe- ' I buc'.iaduezzar and the ark was de- t j stroyed. But the tradition remained | that when the Messiah came, and ' (heir government and worship were 1 re-establishe,d, the Shekinah would bo I restored and the presence of the Lord i | with tlieni again made manifest by I this outward sign. This hope and expectation of the t I Jews, in which doubtless the early 1. | Christians shared, it is necessary to c recall to make clear the meaning and v orce of this prophecy. As nnder the Tewish dispensation God's actual presince with His people was made phyiically evident, by this visible pillar of loud and fire in connection with the | abernacle, and as those who followed j his cloud and got from it immediate ' lirection from God know themselves, >y this visible symbol, to be His choon nennip sn in these latter days, vhen a new Jerusalem would descend ' rom God out of a new heaven, there vould be given a new tabernacle of Jod with men, in which He would in i new and higher way tabernacle or [well with them, and they would be -tts peoples, and He, God with them, vould be their God. Thus the old returns in the new. But it returns only as a type fulfilled, is a symbol realized. Between the ' >ld and the new there is the immeaslrable difference between shadow and i substance, between type and fulfill-! nent. With the Jews God's presence n the tabernacle was only a typical >resence. His revelation of Himself n the cloud was only a typical mani.'estation, they were His chosen peo>le only in a typical sense, and He vas God with them, ttieir God, only n a typical or representative way. And this brings us back to the ;ame primary truths respecting the :rue life of man tha* the Divine Word ;verywhere reflects. The true life of nan is not a product of human pruience or of human ideals of goodness * * _ ma numan sinviugs tmci suuu &wuu.iess in which there is little if any ref rence to the Divine life. The true ife of man is simply and solely the Divine life flowing into us and beaming active in us. This is the funlamental truth revealed in the Incarlation, whereby God became taberlacled with men, and whereby as 'Immanuel," God with us, He became >ur God. Thus in Jesus Christ this jrophecy became potentially fulfilled. iVhen God took upon Himself our na;ure and glorified it He became tabjrnacled in every minutest capacity ind activity of that nature. In a 'uller sense than man has ever known jr ever can know did He then become 3od with us. But the dim percep:ions of this truth that the apostles jained were soon obliterated, and in ;he Christian Church in us real sense aas the "God with men" become their jod. To some He became a type or example of the possibilities of human lature, to others He became an infinite victim to expiate the infinite sinfulness of the race, but to none did He become a bringing down of the ^1 ' nnntOdt TtHtll fa 1. LJ1VIUC lli.c 1UIU auuu WUV.UVI. len human nature as a whole as would restore that nature to its true jrder and its true relation to the Dii-ine life, and thus also into such contact with our individual life as to make the restoration of everyone's life to its true order and to its true relation to the Divine life an easy :ask. But in the now opened word this s the truth that is everywhere proclaimed. What the Old Testament prefigures the New Testament declares fulfilled. To the Jews God [ jade manifest His presence and repealed His will by physical signs, because they had no eyes to see His spiritual presence, no ears to hear His spiritual voice. But those to-day who choose to be God's chosen people are able to see, in the light of spiritual truth shining into their opened spiritual intelligence, that these Jewish signs are actually filial led; to see in the Divine human life Df our Lord Jesus Christ tde taDeroacle of God with men; to see that, by what the Lord did in His assumed iuman nature, the Divine life is in ictual contact with every minutest movement of our life; to see that in svery least issue between right and ivrong that comes before our thought :ho Lord is really with us, to help us ind uphold us to the fullest extent :hat is good for us, and that, by slm)ly bringing all our thinking and feeing into harmony with this truth, all :he requirements of spiritual lifting tvill be made easy and its burdens light. i This simple truth, which makes ?lear to us the relation of the Divine life to our life, is the good tidings of ;reat joy which the world is now beginning to hear. It says to us: "See n the Lord Jesus Christ the taberlacle of God with men." And seeing liow He is the tabernacle of God with men, we nave omy 10 ujjen uui unuua md hearts by the repudiation of evil tnd falsity and He will come in and :abernacle in us: and we shall then je in reality His people, and He, 'God with us," will be our God, for rlis Divine human wisdom will then secome our wisdom, His Divine human love our love, and His Divine luman life our life. And this truth is to come, not i merely to our spiritual vision as a , ruth seen, but to our spiritual hear- ; ng as a truth heard, and heard as a jreat voice out of the new heaven, j n that our affections as well as our | hought will be moved and quickened 1 >y the limitless love that is revealed i n that supreme truth. For when we : spiritually hear this truth, we not jnlv see but also feel that God is our heavenly Father, yearning to make is veritably His children by making 1 is consequently partakers of all the j joys ana aeugnis mat spring irum j hat life. And no voice that ever | ?ntered human ear can compare with j he fullness and sweetness of that , roice when It is heard. It is the voice hat saith: "These things have I I ipoken unto you that My joy may be j n you, and that your joy may be :uii." The Divine Will. It is sometimes a small matter that ( lindereth and liideth grace from us. i it least if anything can be called j imall, and not. rather a weighty mat- 1 er, which obstructeth so great a I ;ood. And if thou remove this, be it ' jreat or small, and perfectly over- J :ome it. thou wilt have thy desire, j Tor immediately, as soon as thou giv- ; ?st thyself to God trom tnv wnoia i ieart, and seekest neither this nor ! hat, according to thine own pleasure )r will, but settlest thyself wholly in -lim, thou shalt find thyself united nid at peace, for nothing can afford ;o sweet a relish, nothing be so deightful, as the good pleasure of tli3 Divine will.?Thomas a Kempis The Life of Service. No life is really worth livinf that s not a useful life, and which does lot exalt the idea of service. The lifo )f the Apostle Paul was eminently successful, not as tried by the standirds of Caesar, but as measured itliwart the great plans of Jehovah, jecause Paul put God first and Paul ast, and kept before him tiio ideal >f the body presented as a living sac ifice. as outlined in the twelfth diaper of Romans. The Pauline ideal of l consecration that daily serves both iod and man is vie oniy principle vhicii sliould rnlo the development cf )resent-day Christian life. Fairness. L?t us he open-minded and fair oward all men; let us judge them, >ut not prejudge them. Let us treat >thers as we would have them treat is. The Sunday ?School INTERN ATYVjN A L LESSON" COMMENTS FOR MARCH 0. Subject: Jesus, the Healer, Matt. 8: 2-17?Commit to Memory Verses 2, 3. GOLDEN TEXT.?"Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses." Matt. S.:17. TIME.?April and Midsummer A. D. 28. PLACE.?Capernaum. EXPOSITION.?I. Jesus Cleansing a Leper. It required much faith to come to Jesus, for no lerer had ever been cleansed by man, and as far as the record goes, Jesus had cleansed no lepers before this. He was dead in earnest, kneeling down and falling on his face (Mk. 1:40; Lu. 5:12). The leper's prayer wa:. brief and right to the point. It displayed great faith in the Lord Jesus, faith that He was able to do what He would. It was, however, imperfect faith. He had perfect confidence in Wito1 oK5!5ftr Kiif Uio i/^UO UUlilLJ f W U I UUUUltU J.1IO H 111" ingness to help. Many to-day put the "If" just where the leper did, on the willingness of Jesus to help. If there Is any "If" in regard to a blessing sought of Jesus Christ, it belongs, not on His willingness nor nower, but on our faith (Mk. 9:22, 23). Imperfect as the leper's faith was, Jesus responded to it. He is just the same to-day (Heb. 13:S). It was Christ's :ompasslon, not the leper's unworthiness, that led Jesus to answer the lener's prayer (Mk. 1:41: cf. Matt. 14:14). Jesus exerted His healing power by a touch. That touch was an act of great compassion, for it would make Jesus Himself ceremonially unclean. He took the leper's unsleanness upon Himself that He might make the leper clean (cf. 2 Cor. 5:21). There is many a moral leper to-day needinc the touch of a clean hand. This "I will" of Jesus taken in its context proves His divinity (cf. Gen. 1:3; Ps. 33:9; Mk. 4: 39). The leprosy left immediately; the cleansing was complete. Jesus, itnllks mpdern healers, avoided publicity. II. Jesns ITealing the Centurion's Servant, 5-13. This centurion occupied a much higher social position than Jesus, but he recognized the infinite suneriority of Jesus to himself (cf. Lu. 7:fi, 7). Tf Matthew's Gospel contained the only account, we would get the impression that tbe centurion came at once himself, but he certainly did not until after he had sent the Jewish elders and his friends (Lu. 7:3, 6). It was a deep sense of nersonal unworthiness that kept him back from the personal approach to Jesus, though the earnestness of his desire for his slave and the thought that he was not worthy for Jesus to :ome under his roof sent him out at last to meet Him and save Him the trouble of coming further. His tender care for the slave is only second, in beauty to the simnlicity and strength of his faith (cf. Lu. 7:2; contrast 1 Sam. 30:13). The case was desperate. The lad was at the point of death (Lu. 7:2). There was no one else who could help him but Jesus: but there is nothing too hard for Him, and we can always turn to Him when there is no other nlace to go. The centurion built his faith upon what he had "heard concerning Jesus" (cf. Rom. 10:17). He who witnesses for Jesus never knows what may come of his testimony. The centurion's prayer was short and definite. How gracious the Lord's answer. "T will come and heal him." Jesus said "I will come" bpcause He was invited. He is always ready to accept an invitation to any home or heart (Rev. 3:20). "He is worthy" had been the testimony concerning him by the Jewish elders (Lu. 7:4) "T am nnt worthy" was his testimony concerning himself. The man who thinks himself most unworthy is the one who is most likely -to be thought worthy by others, and he is always the surest to get a blessing from God (Ps. 10:17; Lu. 18:10-14). The Roman soldier had got a glimnso of the deity of Christ. He considered sickness to be as absolutely subject to the word of Jesus as were his subjects to his own word. Thank God the centurion was right about that (cf. Lu. 4:35, 36, 39; Mk. 4:39; Jno. 11:43, 44). Jesus marvelled at the centurion's faith. He had met so little faith on earth that to find so great faith in such a quarter was astonishing. He not only wondered at the centurion's faith, He commended it (cr. Matt. 15:28). Faith is a very pleasing thing to Christ (Heb. 11:5, 6; Jno. 6:29). In the two instances where Jesus commended faith it was a Gentile who was the believer. In this heathen's faith Jesus got a glimpse of the great coming day when the Gentiles would be gathered to Him (v. 11). III. Jesus Healing Peter's Wife's Mother, 14-17. The family invited Jesus to dinner, and well were they repaid. It always does pay to invite Jesus to our home3 (cf. Matt. 25:37, 40, 34). Jesus could heal at a distance, but He loved to get right to the afflicted one. He touched her hand. Mark, who got his information from Peter himself, tells us that He took her by the hand and raised het up (Mk. 1:31). This, too, has a lesc rtrt f rvr? no Tf 4 c? t Vi a o n rl orncn r\ f o strong, well hand that the sick need, and it is the hand grasp of a holy, strong hand that the sinful and weak need. "The fever left her." Sickness as well as leprosy gives way before Jesus. She at once began to use her new-found health and strength in ministering to her Healer. A wonderful scene follows). The people wait until the Sabbath closes, at sunset. Then from every corner of Capernaum they bring to Jesus all the demon-possessed and sick. Oh, that we would bring all our devil-tormented and sick ones to Him! These people, however, were not as eager for spiritual blessings as for healing. Neither are people to-day. But Jesus healed every one of them (Lu. 4:40). All this was a fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy (v. 1"* nf. Isa. 53:4, R. V., marg.). Overcome by Heat During Cold Wave Within forty-eight hours of the time when Boston was shivering at ? _i *\\7i 1 a temperature 01 nve ueiuw ici<j, ??uliam F. Quinlan, of Roxbury, was overcome by the heat. Clad in a heavy coat, Quinlan attended a rally at the Vine Street Church in the interest of John S. Fitzgerald, one of the Mayoralty candidates. The crowd was wedged together closely, and the young man became faint. He was removed to the open. A doctor wa? summoned, and pronounced Quinlan overcome by the heat. .... THE TEMPERANCE PROPAGADNA CONCERTED ATTACK OX DRINK WINNING ALL ALONG LINE. A Worthy Tribute to the W. C. 'I. V The growth of the Woman's Christian Temnerance Union is the mos4 astonishing of all moral enterprises Indeed, it may be said that the world has never seen so influential an organization for the promotion of what is high and good. In the character, too, of its membership, comnosed oi women wholly, it enjoys a unique dis! tinction among the international assoj clations. Of a purely humanitarian I origin and of disinterested ;"-inciples It has gone forward ever ridening and increasing in power anA *?fflciencj' till it has become universal in its usefulness. It would seem that there must be some underlying and vita) foundation for thi? marvelous success. Recently, while endeavoring to discover what that basis of prosperity might be, the explanation came Buddenly to me as the revelation of a new truth, though it may have occurred to manv. It was this: Women are In a situation which gives them peculiar advantages for appreciating the grief, infamy and ruin of intemperance. Their lives are spent in the home, where they must necessarily come into close quarters with the vie tims of drink. They are. hence, the supreme sufferers. Men observe theii i fellows wasting their substance it riotous living; they see them staggering along the streets and nof.e upon the unmistakable 'tokens of the inebriate, but unless these unfortunate ones are members of their own families, they will not be apt to give them attentive thought. But in the quiet and sacred precinct of home the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters, endowed with more sensitive minds and unable to resist or escape, experience by far the heavier share of the want, poverty and Bhame which are the bitter fruits of strong drink Herein, I believe, is the source of the magnitude ana irresisuDie power ui the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. When a promising young man goes the downward path of the drunkard, it is the mother, who nursed him in her bosom, that feels most poignantly the deep sorrow; It is she that takes the brunt of the blow. When her fair and darling daughter is mated to an inebriate, it is the mother's great, loving and sympathetic heart that is instinctively wrung with anguish. When the coal bin is empty in the drunkard's home and the little ones arp suffering foi food and raiment, it is upon the wife that the terrible weigh*., of misery falls. Is it any wonder, then, that we have the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and that it exists throughout the Christian world? For women have had tne tragical story ul miexuperance burned into their hearts and the scars will remain. Thus the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is not only a demonstration. but an indication. It Is the handwriting on the wall. This great work of women Indicates that a storm Is arising; that Its arrival is inevitable. Thick clouds burden the west/ ern horizon. The vqice of the muttering thunder is heard! Ere long the lightning will dart forth upon the earth, the clouds will burst, till at last the saloon shall be destroyed and the land redeemed. The Treatment 'of Inebriety. "That people actually do inherit an appetite for liquor I am fully convinced. I have seen a child of twelve dead drunk. The child was from inebriate parents, and not only had the taste for liquor, but sought it with all the cunning of the old drinker/' says Dr. Charles Mix. "In cases where inebriety is inherited, the first drink is intoxicating, the taste is there, and the liquoi acts upon the body as though it were habituated to its use. "The present treatment of inebriety i3 altogether wrong. If inebrietj is a disease, as is granted by the majority of physicians, its treatment bj arrest and incarceration in jails and penal institutions is contrary to all medical laws. The reason for drunkeness is to be found, in almost al! cases, in ancestry. In the very neai ancestry there will be found some i nervous weakness, if /not actual dis ease. It is so closely amea wiui m sanity that it is often difficult to separate the two; indeed, I think that inebriety may be called a form of insanity. Vagabondage is known to b? a form of insanity, and three-fifthe, al least, of the alcoholics of this country belong to that class. The tenden cy toward vagabondage is one of the marked symptoms of inebriety.?The Peninsula Methodist. Why Five? The Glasgow Presbytery of th( United Free Church of Scotland, aftei a protracted discussion, decided by i vote of 203 to 5 to exclude liquor ad. vertisements from all the church publications. We are surprised that then should have been five persons, mem hers of the Presbytery, who voted *gains.t this. We should have been nc less astonished had we read of one It does not sesm to us possible thai there can be two sides to this que& tion. We are glad, however, that th( Glasgow United Free Presbytery has even at this late day, made public an nouncement of its stand.?Xationa Advocate. Total Abstinence Prolongs Life. Of the twenty-seven charter mem bers of Hope Section of the Junioi Templars of Honor and Temperance cwAnflnrirtoh Pn thirtv [ organized m oiicuauuvuu, *. ?v I seven years ago, all but one survived j and participated in the thirty-seventi ; anniversary celebration. Temperance Xotes, Follow the direction of tne cork i screw and you'll be in a crooked path ; Liquor misleads human souls anc j crushes human hearts under its rum^ bling w heels. The German Emperor has enterec the ranks of those who drink not ? liquor which has, in any degree, the elements of intoxication. ! Alcohol comes to change the wife's ' love into despair ;ind her pride intc I shame. It comes to still the laughtei on me ups ui iiinc tauui^u. TlUit the investors in stocks anc l honds of the breweries and distilleries are looking to the future with th< greatest misgivings is not surprising The Omaha Daily News has qui! publishing liquor advertisements anc taken its stand, in the same claw with the Nashville Tennesseean, At lanta Georgian and other clean anc independent dailies of the country. The most eminent medical practi tioners, men like the distinguished surgeon of King Edward VII. (Sii Frederick Treves), take the grounc that even small doses of alcohol con tain a very appreciable amount o! injury to the individual when sober. ? ll.vWo^ for rwdalty raijtf \l \?V%ffinwn? rh<? ^feasant" JJe.ds **1. ri' <i oi Aoly V/ril11 myjhf dejpblrw, , ?| ?> . -- 'l-ZTtrnyyojx . ;| >' : >? PERSPECTIVE. _____ Tf dwellera on some other planet scan This globe, with all its throngs in seething strife, What can the polished lens reveal of man Or otress of human life? The continents have shrunken to a span; The eve mav rove the sea, but cannot tell # _ ? I Li Matiretarua s lurDines cauru u iu<uu ? Or Spanish caravel; < fl If Olaf's "serpent"' lonp its trail of white I Cleaves, darting fiord-ward through the B Baltic spume, t 9 Or fated navy of the Muscovite 9| 17 ....moo tn lior Hnnm' 9E When earth slows bright as Martian son'* I sets fade H From Martian telescopes alike are hid* H Chicago's columbaria of hade H And Cheop's pyramid. H Only where prairie acres westward swell " From Mississippi to the mountains' feet, A darkening line, each year, may vaguely. Of quickening fieldd of wheat. If these should fail, the crowded dtf, fl starves. ? The galleons that sail the trackless brine Unburthened nil, rust at their But for that darkening line. flj Must we from some remoter planet gaze flj Before we recognize amidst tbe strife Of living, 'neath its struggles in the haze, B| The needful things of life? M ?John Elliot Bowman, in the Chratiak Yield, Trust and Walt. I More than one admits tJ?Ht it is a H sacred duty and a blessed privilege | to abide in Christ, but -shrinks baclc igjM continually before the question: Is H it possible, a life of unbroken felloe*ftjBj hip with the Saviour? eminent Chrli?^n tians, to whom special opportunities H of cultivating this grace has beei?SS| granted, may. attain to it;' for th&t&B , large majority of disciples, whose;f-W life, by a Divine appointment, is so- |H fully occupied with the affairs of this life, it can scarce be expected. ' The more they hear of this life, tha.^H| deeper their sense of its glory and 'B blessedness, and there is nothing thejr'J* would not sacrifice to be made par- ^f| takers of it. But they are tod too unfaithful?they never can attain.::"^H Dear souls! how little they knovr MB that the abiding in Christ is just : meant for the weak, and so beautlfuJr&j^B ly suited to their feebleness. It is not the doing of some great thing; and does not demand that we first; lead a very holy life and devoted life, No, it is simply weakness entrusting itself to a Mighty One to be kept?; 9| the unfaithful one casting self on On? B| who is altogether trustworthy and flj TTI^, ?? riftf o Trrnr-lr tVifif.flHj AUlUlIlg 111 lllUi AO uvw u ttwa? we have to do as the condition of'en^^H joying His salvation, but a consenting to let Him do all for us, and^in ua,*H and through us. It is a work He docs flQ for us?the fruit and the power of His redeeming love. Our part simply to yield, to trust, and to wait 9H for what He has engaged to perform. ?Andrew Murray. , EH "' H * Ml Tbe Virility of the Bible. ? Our Bible was not intended^-prf-fi^H ' marilv to be intoned In cathedral set- I vice or languidly perused in, a ladiee^^H boudoir, tl was meant to grappie^H with the conscience of the wor}#, "have dominion over the earth, and subdue it." It has tamed the ferocrl^H ity of Goth and Vandal, has softened the bard hatreds of Viking and Ntir>^^B man, has rebuked the secret vices of the Latins, has seared and shamedctfceflM languorous indulgence of the Orient.flH It. has roused the Germans to defy-^B the chief powers of the hierarchy^ and MB ' the English to believe that resistance^? 1 to tyrants is the service of God. (o do this it has needed more than ' spray of rosewater. It has needed &HB rugged vocabulary, a rhetoric tha^Ha ! can stab and burn, an imagery tha^^B can "uarrow up the soul" with tc-rrorB^E and a phophetic power that can de^^| scend as a veritable "hammer of God"^H| upon the head of hypocrite and^^fl usuper and simoniac. The livper-sensitive and dappei^HR ! crirics who now find the Bible toe^^fl ancicnt to be palatable, and too franfeflH| to be in good form, forget that theli^^H fathers would have never left th^|H| worship of Odin and Thor, and th(^^H delights of piracy and bloodshed, had^B it not been for the sledge-hammei^^l % --K i... niuu DIOWS QCitll ij.V liif d1uic l(j iuuoc which have especially beset our An-^BR glo-Saxon blood. We had better ex^^H purgate some newspaper reports proceedings in the courtroom beford^Hj we attempt to improve the Scripture^RB ?President Faunce, of Brown versity, in Van Norden Magazine. HB The Consecrated Life. nflH I Paul of Tarsus gloried in the facflBfl j that he did not live, preach and wrtt^^H ; I for himself, but served another, fo^^H j whom he delighted to consecrate aflH 1 bis powers. Paul lived his life in thH^| | spirit and with the system of a hig^Bfl| and noble ministry. He phrased lif^BH in the terms of the experiences of tl^HB other man; he projected himself oi^^Kj in sacrifice upon the need of the i ciety of his own time. In so doin^^Hj 1 | Paul distributed his love and syn^^^H j pathy and service among men of aH|H j races and conditions of life,, and su(^^H| 1 should be the ideal for all Christiai^^H of the present day. MSB Surt- Faith. HH "Though He slay me, yet will i trust in Him."?Job 13:15. I Only beyond our knowledge is the^HH J really room for the exercise of fait^^^l ! It is where sure knowledge ends th^^R , | sure faith begins. Even a suspicio^MWB ' doubter will trust as far as he "see." But He whom we trust, in whom we have faith, can be trust^HS beyond sight, and against sight, darkness, and when all appearan^HHfl seem against His loving purposes aflHfl ends in our behalf. mBm Dies After 24-Day Fast. I After a fast of twenty-four daysJHBH ; Will Tippin, a well-to-do citizen, { at Rome, Ga. For the past year i t so Tippin has astonished his frien^^Hfl I ! by his religious views. He decid^^^H ! not to eat another bite until co^H^P ! manded to do so by the Almighty,^HHN I cause he bccame convinced he been visited by the Lord with a tarrh of the stomach. His fam^^^H ;egged and pleaded with him in ~ HUB nuies I'Oi- AntomoDiles. For the trimming of automob^^HB I with leather in 1909 the hides^^^H 500.000 cattle were used. JHH