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GERMANY' What One American About [DR. LYMAN ABBC The German hotels are the best in | the world?that is, the most to my ffi footfi TVia e+atomont la Slllliect tO flome qualfications. I have not tried j the hotels in Asia, Africa, Australia or South America. But I have tried them in all European countries except Spain and the Balkan States. They (the German ones) are smaller and quieter than the American hotels, give greater variety of food .than the English hotels, more hygienic food than the French hotels and are more sanitary than the Italian hotels. There are certain important respects in which the German hotel differs from the American hotel. Nowhere is there a price charged by the day. The traveler pays a fixed price for his room, depending on its size and location. Sometimes the breakfast is included. The price for a good room in the smaller hotels ranges from three to five marks?that is, from seventy-five cents to SI.25. The I cnarge inciuaes aneuuautc am* lights. The traveler brings his own soap with him. The price for breakfast ranges from a mark to a mark and a half?that is, from twenty-five to thirtv-flve cents. It consists of rolls and coffee, and the coffee is uniformly good. I do not recall a poor cup of coffee in all my German experience. It was either good, better or best. In England it is almost uniformly bad, worse or worst. Personally I like the German coffee better than the French. I suspect there is some chicory in the French. One may by special order add to his breakfast of rolls and coffee eggs in almost any form and, I suppose, also steak or chops. Save possibly in the distinctively American hotels in the great cities, an order of a breakfast food or of buckwheat cakes would not be be comprehended by the waiter. There is a table d'hote dinner usually at 1 or half-past 1, which consists of four or five courses and costs from two and a half to five marks?sixtytwo and a half cents to $1.25. For supper you order what you will? the usual order being cold meat or eggs or both. You take your dinner and supper where you like and do not pay for it at the hotel unless you take it there. The head waiter generally asks you at breakfast if you expect to be at dinner. This is partly to reserve seats for your party; partly, I suspect, that like a prudent housekeeper he may know how many guests to provide for. Save in the large Hotels, tne numoer 01 muse who sit down to the table d'hote dinner rarely exceeds from thirty to fifty. In the modern or modernized hotels the long table has given way to small tables. If you have a party of two or more, you are sure to have a table to yourself if you desire it. If there are any temperance hotels In Germany, I neither saw nor heard of them. In all the hotels wine and beer are sold with the meals and are freely used. In two of the hotels at which we stopped the price of dinner was half a mark more if no wine was' ordered. There was thus a small premium on ordering wine. On the 4 other hand, there are no bars in the hotels in Germany, at least none in evidence to one who is not in search of a bar. We went into one hotel restaurant one evening for an ice and not only found a goodly number of men and women sitting at the little tables who preferred something to drink rather than something to eat, but in going to our table passed an! open door through which we saw something that looked very like an American bar. And in Berlin I looked in through the open door of one saloon on one of the principal streets and saw men and women, some at tables, some at a bar, drinking with the same freedom with which similar groups might be seen on a ;warm day at a soda water fountain In an American city. But in the hotels proper there were apparently no bars. Personally, I think a hotel in which IDA LEWIS A Woman Lighthou Saved Twent; An interesting sketch of unfalter- ! ing devotion and heroism is contributed to the American Magazine by Herbert Ladd Walford. It has to deal with the life and work of Ida Lewis, who has been the keeper of the Lime Rock Light on Rhode Island's coast for fifty-three years. Mr. ,Walford writes of her as follows: "In a lonely lighthouse on a jutting ledge of lime rock on Rhode Island's coast, Ida Lewis is rounding out fifty-three years of Government service. The nation's veteran keeper, sho guards the entrance to Narragansett Bay. Hale in her sixty-five vpars of strenuous activity, she is still untiring, dauntless and brave. In the ! face of gale and storm she has snatched from the tumbling waters of!.' her steady beacon twenty-three human lives. Five of these lives she saved last summer. She is a pensioner of the Carnegie Hero Fund, holds the Government First Class Medal for Bravery and the American Cross 01 Honor. "Ida Walley Zoradia Lewis was made assistant keeper of Lime Roclc Light by Congress in 1S79 and succeeded her mother in 1887 as keeper. Her father was also keeper at his death in 1872. Known the country over for her life-saving, she is a unique character. Her island home is full of mementos of her valor, and is the Mecca of tourists all the year. Modest and cheery, she talks little of her deeds, but can show a hatful of medals from the greatest of the land. J The Benevolent Life Saving Associa- I ftion of New York and the Humane "Society of Massachusetts have both honored her. ' The United States awarded her a j^rand medal in gold for saving two Snea off the light in a terrible storm on February 4, 1881. Speaking of Jier greatest rescue she said. 'I re S HOTELS. i Expert Has to Saj Them. >TT, IN OUTLOOK.j there i3 no bar but in which wine am beer can be ordered with the meals is more worthy to be called a tem pcmilUli I1UIC1 LLiau <% nutci, ou^u t*o have seen in Maine, in which no win* or beer can be ordered with thi meals, but in which there is a bar ii the basement where one can ge stand-up drinks at pleasure. But if there are no bars in thi hotels in Germany, there is no deartl of places in which to satisfy thirst Restaurants, cafes, gardens am drinking shops abound. There i every variety for every kind of taste I do not know what the statistic! show, but the impression on .the care less traveler is that in the large cities there is as great proportion o drinking places as in American -citiei of equal size, but different in charac ter. You may go into what would bi an ice cream saloon and order eithe an ice, a bottle of beer or a bottle o wine. You may go into a garden an< find the seats?not benches, bu chairs?ranged round little tables an< a waiter ready to receive your orde for a glass of milk (which, by thi way, is quite common) or a glass o beer. You may una on a Daicony o piazza of a hotel restaurant multi tudes of little tables and multitude: of busy waiters serving eating an< drinking guests. Or, I suppose? did not try the experiment?you ma: go into what externally looks like ai American saloon and take your drinl standing. The Germans are alwayi eating, yet do not gluttonize, and al ways drinking, yet are jiever drunk In America we eat and drink as wi put coal on the furnace to keep th< machinery going, in Germany eatinj and drinking is an end in Itself. Th< people eat and drink as one may rea< a book?not to get something out o it for future use, but for the mere en joyment of reading. There is a least one thing to be said in favor o this: It is wholly inconsistent wLtl the spirit of grab and gobble whicl one often sees at our American luncl counters in a business street in busi ness hours. The public rooms characteristic o our great American hotels are in Ger many conspicuous by their absence If there is a lobby. It is not used as i lounging place. There is often i reading room and sometimes a ladies parlor,' but they are both quiet ant retired. I do not think if all the lob bies of all the hotels in Germany weri unted in one great lobby and all th< guests in all .the German lobbies wen turned into it, they would presen any scene of dress and display, laz; luxury and strenuous discussion com parable to what may be seen in an; one of half a dozen hotels in Nev York City or Chicago. In the Bmalle hotels there is a small lobby whicl contains a chair or two, a desk ant sometimes an office opening out of it In this lobby or in the adjolnlnj office is always to be found the por tier. When your cab drives up to th< hotel, the portier comes out in persoi to greet you. You are welcomed as i guest. If you are wise, you leavi your baggage in the cab and ask t( see what rooms they have. You se< them, inquire the price, decline an< drive on .to try elsewhere, or accep i and in ten minutes are settled ant are at home. In the smaller hoteli the proprietor is apt to take his din ner with his guests or, if not, to comi j into the diningroom at the dinnei hour and greet them with a bow. Ii i one hotel the proprietor sent person j ally a flower to every lady at the Sun day dinner and, if for any reason sh< could not bs down to dinner, th< flower was sent to her room. Whei you go away the portier, the heac waiter and perhaps the proprietor ate present to bid their guests good bye. They are not always after tips At one German hotel where tips wen forbidden, as we drove away wi caught a glimpse of three of the wait ers who had served us standing at thi window smiling to us their adieux. , HEROINE. se Keeper Who Has y-three Lives. member one twilight in 1S6?. ] heard the cries of two men during an awful storm. I put for them ir my boat. Through the mist anc spray I could see them clinging tc their frail boat. I managed to pul them in, but they were nearly gone when I made the shore. Yes, the) both lived. This is home to me anc I hope the good Lord will take me away when I have to leave it. The light is my child and I know it needs me even if I sleep.' She has nevei had a vacation yet nor asked for one Her greatest precepts are work and thrift." Wasted Charity. Robert Loveman, the noted Georgia poet, said, in the course of an address on charity in Daltonr "All classes, naturally, are no1 worthy cases. It was but the othei month a Dalton philanthropist, visit ing a destitute family, had his liearl strings torn with pity. And drawing out his wallet, he said: " 'Here, Calhoun, take this dollai and gp and buy a chicken for the Christmas dianer.' "Calhoun, the. young son of the house, accepted the banknote gratefully, and the poor widow, with tear: in her eyes, bowed the philanthropisl out. "But the garden walk wound bj an open window, and as the departing philanthropist passed the window he heard the mother say shrilly to hei son: " 'You. Cal, you jst' gimme dat dol lar an' go git dat Christmas chicker in do natcherl way.' "?Minneapolis Journal. Boys over fourteen years of ag< and girls over twelve may marry ir Scotland without the consent of pa^ rents or guardians. New York Citv.?Girls' dressy that. are made in jersey style are exceed- ^ y Ingly becoming and exceedinzly well mad, 1 liked. This one is novel and attrac- ]opg tive and can be treated in two quite and , - different ways. As illustrated the edge I skirt is joined to the jersey portion, and 3 making a one-piece dress, but if pre- tuek< e terred the jersey portion-could be fln1 Ished separately and the skirt joined t to a body lining. White serge with Tt t yoke of baby Irish lace are the ma f terials Illustrated. 1 The dress consists of the jersey 1 portion and the skirt. The jersey i portion is cut in tabs at the lower - edge which are faced and turned over to form the trimming. The skirt is I t straight and pleated. The trimming I - portions on the waist are separate and J >. are attached and the simple sleeves J i are made with upper and under por- | i tions. If the jersey portion is de- Iff sired separate the skirt can be joined Iff , 1 to a second body portion, preferably IB ( - cut from thin lining material. fj? 8 The quantity of material required ^ ! b for the medium size (ten years) is 3 five and one-half yards twenty-four TL t or twenty-seven, four and one-half for tl r yards thirty-two or three and one- Quar - half yards forty-four'inches wide with sevei j one-quarter yard of all-over lace, one- two 7 half yard of silk for piping and trim- skirt r mlng. one-1 l u j i I \\ { ' ' " j latest in Trimming. ' !he lTTidhry ,?r fi,et ta<* I nil kinds of mS- V g ror tp""n>m? know I J '" '5' ""'1 Is suitable Not b -*>?- ?P I JORC J I 1 vl tiiuiuu, 11/1 V.1UL11, dim Ul UU^ VJ L ? -? *j the novelty fabrics. One perfectly you n .! stunning piece has on a Caledonian colors green filet net, a Persian design in haps, dull soft tones, much green used that . harmonizes with the net. At the top j edge is a narrow black satin band, Sle< and at the other a wider band, and an and ? Inch above a border design is a very deep larrow ?atin fold. fashio A French Blouse. new yet simple lingerie blouse 1b 3 of eyelet embroidery, with seal turned upward toward the yoke overlapping it. In the sleeve the of the embroidery is reversed, the scallops turn down over a gd cuff. Eight Gored Skirt. le skirt that is made in sections, a give a panel effect, is an e:cingly smart one that is constants ring in favor. This model is emily graceful yet quite simple. It be found adapted to all seasonmaterials and also to those of incoming season. One of the ;y novelties woven to give a sugon of a check is the material trated and it is trimmed with 5ns and simulated buttonholes, juttons would be quite correct or edges finished with stitching, or med in any manner preferred, skirt is in walking length and equently adapted to the street to simple indoor gowns. It is sful and becoming without meanJlaboration. le skirt is made in eight gores each alternate gore is made in sections, the lower being pleated joined to the upper, which la ed 'at its lower edge. The closs made beneath the box pleat at >ack. flllk ^ le quantity of material required tie medium size is eight and one* ter yards twenty-four or twenty1, five yards forty-four or fiiftyinches wide. The width of the at the lower edge is four and lalf yards. Gray Always Popular. ten in doubt, use gray. Do you that fancy work positively need e rod, blue or pink? It doub:las never occurred to you that lay substitute for these popular r. lit**** t1?-?r? n Vv > uu> Liiiiife rioc, uuiuoo 11 uc, IJCI orange or dull green. Bishop Sleeves. sves fulled into the armliotes gathered below the elbow into cuffs are seen In some dtra>uable afteroooD eowna. The Sunday=School INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL 17. Siibjcct: The Question of John the Baptist, Matt. 11:1-19?Commit Verses 4, 5. GOLDEWTEXT.?"But the witness which I have is greater than that of ' John; for the works of which the Father hath given Me to accomplish, the very works that I do bear witness ; of Me, that the Father hath sent Me." Tohn 5:36, R. V. TIME.?Midsummer, A. D. 2S. PLACE.?Capernaum. EXPOSITION.?I. John's Doubt Concerning Jesus, 1-6. John was in prison in Macherus, but the news of Jesus' mighty deeds penetrates even to his dungeon. John's disciples have access to him in his imprisonment, and they tell him the strange reports that fill .the air (Luke 7:18). John had had a divine revelation that Jesus was the baptizer with the Holy Spirit and 4 clear, positive faith in Him as the Lamb of God, and Son of God (John 1:33, 29, 34). But John was not perfect, he was human; and when his active spirit was shut up in prison doubts began to come, as they are so likely to come to the man of intense activity when he is obliged to sit still arid wait (cf. 1 Kings 19:3, 4). Many Bud difficulty in reconciling John's present questioning witn nis former clear faith; but those who know men, even the mightiest men of God, and 'specially those who know their own hearts, with their moments of clear vision and unquestioning faith, and other moments of conflict and uncertainty, will find this story most natural. Indeed it would never have been fabricated in this way, but it bears the evidence of its genuineness on its face. John, in his doubt, did the wisest thing any man can do in ! his doubt: he went right to Jesus | Himself with it. He was not clear for the time being that Jesus was "the Coming One," but he was clear that Jesus' testimony about Himself should be accepted. Such a doubter will not remain a doubter. If those who to-day doubt that Jesue is the Messiah and'the Son of God would only go right to Him and ask Him, He would soon tell them. John's question was right to the point, "Art Thou the Coming One?" (the one whom all the prophets from Moses to Malaghi foretold was to come as the fulfiller of God's promises to and glorious plans for His people) or look we for another? The thought very likely had come to John, "If He is the Coming One, why does He delay to manifest Himself as King and to dethrone Herod and set me free?" At the very hour John's messengers arrived Jesus was giving ocular demonstration that He was "the Coming' One" by curing diseases and plagues, cpening the eyes of the blind, and casting out evil spirits (cf. Luke 8: 21). For an answer to John, He simply points John's two messengers 1 to what they see going on before their very eyes and the glad testimonies that they hear. "Go tell John* the things which ye do hear and see." Then follows a catalogue of divine works accomplished before their eyes or testified to in their astonished ears. These were the very things predicted of the Messiah (Is. 35:5, 6; 42:6, 7; 61:1-3). Jesus constantly appealed to His miracles as proof that He was Messiah and the Son of God (John 5:36; 14:11; 15:24). In the present instance the things John's disciples heard reached even to the raising of the dead, for the son of the widow of Nain had been recently raised (cf. Luke 7:11-21) and quite likely was among those about Jesus on this day. Jesus added a gentle word of reproof and warning for ; John, "Blessed is he whosoever shall find none occasion of stumbling in Me." This was a reference to Old Testament prediction concerning the Messiah (Is. 8:14. 15). II. Jesus' Testimony to John the Baptist, 7-11. Jesus had sent to John a word of cheer and a word of reproof, bu.l, when the messengers were out of hearing, Jesus gave the multitudes a glowing testimony to John'a worth and greatness. As he had been shaken for a moment in his faith, it might seem to thsm that c? was a "reed shaken with the wind." but he was not. Neither was he a man seeking his own glory and comfort, gorgeously apparalled and living deli cately (cf. Luke 7:25). He was a prophet, that is, a man directly commissioned, sent and inspired of God," authoritatively declaring God's mind to men (cf. Luke 1:70 and 26). But he was more than that, he was himself the subject of Old Testament proI phecy, one of whom the great proj phets of olden times had spoken (Mai. 3:1; 4:5, 6; Is. 40:3; cf. Luke 1:15-17, 76; John 1:2, 3). He was i chosen from the whole human race to be God's own messenger to go before the face of God incarnate to prepare the way before Him. John the Baptist filled one of .the loftelst offices ever filled by man. Among3t purely human beings, there is none greater than John the Baptist. And yet Jesus, the Son of God, was so much greater than John the Baptist, that the latter was not worthy to wear His shoes (cb. 0:11; John 1:27). Great as John was as the forerunner of Christ and preparing the way for the kingdom, he was not yet in the king-, dom, and the one who is "but little" in the kingdom, but really in the kinedon:. is creater than even John. We who to-day are in .the kingdom, see and hear things which prophets desired to see and hear but did not (Luke 10:23, 24). Things are now clearly revealed to us which had been hidden from the beginning of the world (Eph. 3:8, 9; Col. 1:25-27; 1 Pet. 1:10-12). The one who In this dispensation is actually in the kingdom enjoys privileges immeasurably beyond what any before'the kingdom was established ever knew, and yet the full establishment of that kingdom upon earth is still ahead of us. Who can measure, or ever imagine, svbat its privileges shall be? "Cut It Out!" Parrot Shouted. At Monticello, N. Y., a parrot escaped from its cage in the Bolsom Hotel and created a sensation by picking the cork from a bottle of whisky and drinking it until it was drunk. The bird became hilarious and shouted to the men at the bar:. "I see your finish! Cut it out!" War Game Scarps Filipinos. The army maneuvres have frightened the natives in the mountains of the Philippines nearly out of their wits. The officers have not been able to convince them that real war is not being carried on. THE TEMPERANCE PRQPAGADNA CONCERTED ATTACK ON DRINK WINNING ALL ALONG LINE. Alcohol Hurts Race. Alcohol and alcoholism are two of the real and substantial enemies of moral, artistic and commercial progress of the human race, according to the report of the United States ueiegai.es tu me lwcillii luicruanuimi Congress on Alcoholism, made public by the State Department, Washington. The delegates were appointed by Secretary Knox as one of his first official acts. The congress was held last July in London, and twenty-five governments were represented, the delegates of each concurring in the general finding that alcohol not only was unnecessary to human life and comfort, but was inimical to both. Three departments of the Government were represented?the State, Navy and Treasury. Twelve representatives went abroad, and all of them signed the unanimous report made public, the finding of which is to condemn the drinking habit as dangerous to public health and morals and subversive of national, moral, commercial and military greatness. While the congress urged the necessity of imposing the most rigorous restrictions on the sale and traffic in alcoholic liquors, it regarded as equally important the need of educating the younger generation to a true knowledge of what alcohol is and what its effects upon the human system are. The delegates bfelieve that the numerous recent discoveries as to the harmfulness of drunkenness and even of "moderate" drinking also should be set before children in order that they may see the danger of .the practice. The American delegates sum up this phase of their report by saying: "Increased teaching as to its character and influence should be provided, to conserve industrial efficiency in the commercial competition of nations, as well as to promote two of the chief objects of government?the public health and morals." The value of this method of combating the growth of the liquor habit is emphasized in the report. While acknowledgment is made that the organization of associations of juvenile abstainers is useful, it is asserted the chief reliance should be placed on scientific temperance education in the public schools as a means of ridding the public mind of errors about the effects of alcohol and substituting the facta that, science is believed to have evolved about the use of the beverage, even when taken in small doses. Miss Cora F. Stoddard, of Boston, another American delegate and secretary of the Scientific Temeperance Federation, also devoted to the same subject her address, which was the first paper of the congress. In it she put forward the benefits derived by a number of countries througn the adoption of such a plan as proof that it should become universal. The United States, the report says, made an unusually good showing in its exhibits. Germany also was to the fore with a particularly fine collection of colored charts showing the effect of alcohol on the body, the family and upon society. Especially effective, it is said, were the stereopticon slides of the National TemperT ~ O i- T> HUn ? vt auutj ueaguu ui uicai siuaiu. These stereopticon pictures, the report goes on to show, were largely reproductions of municipal posters that are being issued by the City Councils of about 100 British boroughs. The posters deal in a popular way with the deleterious effects _of alcohol on the human system, ai^d. are posted by order of the regular officials of towns 'in which the sale of intoxicants is licensed. This fact, however, does not prevent the officials from warning the public against the use of alcohol. Following the example of Great Britain the city and district officials of F/ance and Australia likewise have adopted the "public warning" method of advising the people against indulgence. The report deplores the fact that the same method has not yet found a foothold in the United States, although such a plan has been noted in certain cities, where posters inveighing against the use of alcohol have been issued by authority of the Mayors. The Chief 'Justice of England, Lord Alverstone, announced that in his belief ninety per cent, of the crimes I passing under hi3 observation were due to drink. Judge W. F. Pollard, of St. Louis, who presides at the Second District Police Court in that city, said that of the cases passed upon by him fully eighty-five per cent, of those convicted could charge their degradation to the use of alcohol. Lieutenant-Colonel McHardy, of Edinburgh, Scotland, coincided with Judge Pollard as to the percentage of crimes occurring in ;he former Scotch capital. * Judge Pollard won the support of the delegates from twenty-three countries for .the adoption of his plan to suspend sentence in the case of every first offender who is brought into :ourt charged with drunkenness. This Involves such first offenders signing i pledge to abstain for one year. If the probationers fail to live up to their pledge they may be arrested ind summarily sentenced. The knowledge that one drink may mean i pnsoii ssmeiiue, juugtr jtuiicmu aigued, kept many a man straight until ' he had time to collect himself. The penalty for failure to keep faith with the court %as not settled, several of the delegates arguing in favor of various degrees of punishment. The principle, ho'wever, was regarded as admirable, and 400 delegates urged its adoption by the various governments of the world. Effective Prayers. A number of school children, between ten and fourteen years of age; held a prayer meeting outside a public house at Newport, Wales, some of them praying for their fathers, who were inside. The scene so affected the landlord that he put out the gas lamp around which the young Chriistians v/ere congregated. "Never mind," said one of them, '"we'll pray to the Lord to send His fight upon all," and they continued to pray until the men left the public house. Temperance Notes. Studies of pauperism anu us causes and diseases which follow from tho neglect of hygienic living show that alcohol is both an active and predisposing causa to an extent practically unknown, and at least beyond any present estimation of its influence. Mr. M. T. Stead, writing to Mr. Hugh Edwards. Liverpool, says in the course of his communication: "I was much struck last Sunday when I was in Pontypridd by the fact that it is everywhere becoming manifest that, for all practical purposes, drink iz the devil in South Wales." . for rnydally roryfi A<vi(4f7)ono the pleasant fields JM1 ft <*?} Holy Writ I wtfihr djjpair'^J |. 'THY KINGDOM COME.? . "Thy Kingdom Come!" into the ways of human "woe Where moaus and heartaches come anA. go; m Where the wild storms of sorrow sweep, " . i Where anxious souls lone vigils keep, Where eyes with weeping ache and burn, Where longing hearts for day-break yearn, Shine with the brightness of Thy face, ' ' ?* Gleam with the beauty of Thy grace? tl "Thy Kingdom Come!" r; "Thy Kingdom Come!" .. > . >J| O'er War's red fields rough plowed by flr% In lives weed-grown with foul desire; In souls of men ice-hard and cold. * Chilled by the death-like greed of gold; Into base lives of lustfulness, . * j Dry-rotted hearts of selfishness, Into the pleasures, vain and lig1 \ \ Into the shame-tracked ways of night, fcnme witn tne spienaor irom aDove, The pure white lij;hi of Saving Love? "Thy Kingdom Come!" ?Robert J. Burdette, in Pacific Baptist ' ..^M When Christianity is Under Fire. ; The enemies of God have been as- fs Bailing Him since the world began, :,: but His throne is unmoved. Demons by the legion glared at Jesua and sought to overthrow Him, but His Kingdom is more secure than ever. The Word of God has been scissored y , and burned, but every jot-and tittle of it remains, and will remain til) ; earth and tho 'heavens pass away. The saints have been sneered.at* scourged, and slain, but they Jiave ;'j multiplied till for multitude they are ft as the sands of the sea and't&e stars ^ of the sky. And till the end of time the foes of right will do their worlc . H-* and go their way, leaving the churclk triumphant, the Bible undestroyed, and God forever upon His throne. Therefore when Christinity is under fire, as it is to-day, be not nerv- ' ous, trembling for the ark of God or \ ?>. fearful that the Kingdom of God can now or ever be destroyed. And do not "fight fire with flre.,k J Abuse and sarcasm, chicanery'and falsehood are in the hands of your foes, but to bring down the giant , J David must not wear the armor of Nor rely altogether upon, intellect- ;.J ual weapons. Argument for the sake I of argument Is seldom convincing. Be spiritual, first of all; for a spir- . 1 Itual life is the best possible answer 8 to the critics of the cross. In wordy 1 argumentation men may muddle your I brain, but they cannot pump the life-/^|3 blood out of your heart, j Be loyal to God and His Word. * g Allegiance to His sovereignty and un waverlpg confidence in His Word are forts of strength in time of war. 1 Be aggressive, evangelistic, mis- % slonary. Instead of stopping to ; 8 shiver with tear or parley with foe, herald the good news .of salvation fer- 9 vently, faithfully, persistently,. Do not wait to even contend that the . Word is the word; proclaim 11 ana. uasn see it win its own way! j And in all, be courageous, wise,. . 4 hopeful, persevering. For they who* are "blasting at the Rock of Ages" M can do nothing more than remove bits of the moss that have gathered there. And they who would dissect fl the Bible are unable to insert the <'% m scalpel deeper than the cuticle of .a - fl creed or the wart of a theological ay*. I tem. And they who bydiapute and 'V.H denial would destroy Hm deity of fl Jesus might as well attempt to warm fl Greenland with a candle dr' overpaint I the sun with an ink-drop. ' B "Our God i3 marching on!"?Bib- . fi Ileal Recorder. Service. ' "An angel of the Lord spate unto " H Philip * and he arose* and went^f I The Lord of Angels paused one day ! to hear a report from His messengers fl upon the earth. With joy or sorrov B each told what he had seen. The youngest, Amsiel, stood alone in ear- H nest thought. When his turn came to H I speak he said: "Lord, in the city of H Lupton I found three of Thy servants I renowned above the rest. One is very wise, one has the gift of golden H speech, the third has no rare gift or H grace, but he wins the people's hearts H by doing good. Lord, I would know. * which loves Thee best." The Lord of Angels answered: "Al! Hj men's hearts are open to Me, and I H well know which loves Me best, but that you may know, go to each and say: 'Thy Master bids thee go to Spi- H ran's huts across the snow; there you 'Ml shall find a task to do for Him.' The one who answers best thou shalt B| , crown for Me." t T'VIA vAnno-oct oncol r?0e<20f? fhftf. ' same hour through the gate of the city. He came.to the temple where the people thronged to hear the HB gifted preacher. He, Bernol, knelt at the altar; the angel touched him and, HH gave the message. Ills face went white, and he answered, "Why?" He faltered. The angel turned away. *(F<* the wise man intent on holy thought the message was given. He saw the 'iqflfl perils, and answered, "How?" The angel was gone. The third was hur- Hn rying down the street on service bent;" IH the angel stopped him with the message. Quick came the eager answer:; "When?" The angel answered, M "Now," and crowned him with the HI golden circle from his brow, saying, "Not ours to answer how/or why. '<89 The Master knows the cause; His ways are wise and just. Who serves H irUrr muot en with nprfpp.t LUC I\ill5 ju uov uvi * v/ <! ? > r.. trust."?Rev. Henry Van Dyke, In IB| "A Legend of Service." ffiW Imagination. MB Imagination is the most essential ;flB element in any great invention, knowledge, business enterprise and religion. If it was not for the powers |M of imagination, the nations would be stranded long before this. RHj night Feeling. A man is right when right feeling EgQj stimulates right thought, in a disciplined and finished manner, and turns HH upon the feelings and beromes their master, directing theta with right pur- HH pose. W Farmer Tickled to Death. Joe Reeves, aged sixty-seven, a Bfl farmer living six miles east of Carmi, RBB 111., was tickled to death. Reeves IHH attended a lodge meting of the Farmers' Union and laughed continuously, BM at the initiation ceremony of a rebellious candidate. Next day he died.' Heart disease, superinduced by exces 6ive laughter, caused the death, according to the Coroner's verdict. _4 HH Tobacco Growers' Merger. HH A merger of Florida tobacco grow* ers was formed.