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A Wandering Weatherby Has Fought is C He's British Consul at no; Northern Rigors Better ' SDanish Blockade Off San1 ' Col. Lionel R. Stuart Weatherby, ;who is his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Nome. Alaska, is at the Waldorf, jbaving just returned from a brief yisit to London, whither he went to show his friends over there a nugget lie had picked up In the North and to renew old associations for a brief (time. But the fashions of Piccadilly and Pall Mall did not appeal to the Col! onel at all. Most of his life during the last twenty years has been passed away from England, for he has sought adventure in India and South 'Africa, and again In Cuba during the last insurrection. So he clings to the rwide brimmed felt hat of the West j and a short coat. In manner he is genial and he speaks in a full, round voice, and he hasn't lost the broad "a" of his younger days, though his forehead has grown and grown. The Colonel makes no attempt to conceal this either, for what hair he has left he wears closely cropped, in contrast With the length of his mustache. "I went to the Northwest in *98 first," said Col. Weatherbv. "First I tried the Dawson country, but in 1900 I came back and went down into South America to explore the head.waters of the Amazon. I have never told about it yet. In fact I am keeping quiet about that until I get ready to tell what I found. I was down there two years. f "There are few old timers left in Alaska. Most of those who went up there in the early days got out after making their pile. Alaska is still the richest gold country in the world, but of course the Territory has undergone tremendous changes. "During the last Cuban insurrection I was in charge of a filibustering expedition in the Horsa, a little fruit steamer, and took a lot of rifles and ammunition down there for the rebels. One night we ran up near the southern coast, but when we made out a vessel which the Cuban major .with me said was a Spanish gunboat we made off shore again. Next night we came back and came in sight of a black cloud which the major said was the island and we prepared to land our cargo in boats. A field piece was the most important part of the outfit, and I got that and the ammunition belonging to it safely into the first boat, and told the major to hold on until the last boat left. Well, after a few of the other boats fcad been loaded the steamer started away and I pulled in our hawsers and found they had been cut. The Horsa afterward arrived in Jamaica, was found to have arms on board and was sent up here with her captain, under arrest. I "We found ourselves in a predicament. What we were told was land turned out to be only a cloud, and instead of being a couple of miles off shore we were fully thirty. To make things worse, a storm came up and we spent the night pitching up and down. We couldn't see the stars, and so couldn't make out which way to steer. The crews of the other W boats threw their cargoes overboard, except one that was commanded by a colonel. Next morning we could not see land at all. I had put a tarpaulin into the boat to cover the gun, and we rigged this up with a sail, and using this and the oars we made for where we thought the land "was. As we had been told we were so near the land we had not put any water or food into the boat, and on the second day the man upon whom we depended to show us the way to Gomez's camp ,went mad and tried to kill several of us. so we had to tie him up. We made out land on the second day, and rowed for all we were worth, and that night, the moon being clear, we hove in sight of what seemed the entrance to a beautiful bay. "All at once two men-o'-war appeared, coming out of the opening. It was the harbor of Santiago. I immediately ordered the tarpaulin down BASEBALL'S GR" How Hans Wagner, tin First Job on Hugh S. Fullerton, the well-known baseball expert, contributes an interesting sketch about Hans Wagner, "'the greatest baseball player in the world." to the American Magazine. Mr. Fullerton gives the following ac ^ count of how vvagner got ms nrsc ' pay job at playing baseball: "The career of Wagner in baseball has been interesting. I-Ie was reared (n Carnegie, Pa., before it "was Carnegie. and he and his brothers played the game there. John (I wonder how many admirers of Honus, or Hans, know his name is John P?) was not a good player as a boy. The brothers thought he was a bit too awkward, and barred him except when be wanted to pitch. His arms were tremendously long, and they assert around his home that when he Was a 'kid.' and his legs were even more bowed than they are now, he could wai\ along and wck up apples without stooping. TrEat immense length of arm has been one of the physical advantages that has gone to make him the greatest of all players. Besides, he has shoulders almost as wide as his arms are long, and he could throw a ball with terrific speed. Because he could throw so hard, all the other boys boasted 'no catcher could hold John,' and thereupon made bim pitcher. "Presently Al, who was John's older brother, became a professional player, and got a job playing third base for a team at Sieubenville, Ohio. George Moreland. who now is the Rhief baseball statistician of the country, was seized with a mania for owning and managing teams, and he had bought the Steubenville club and hired Al Wagner. Moreland needed ft Ditcher in the summer of 1895. sjtf Colonel, He uba and Frozen in Alaska? me Now and He Likes the rhan the Tropics?Ran a tiago With Arms. and the men and I got under it. hoping that as we thus presented almost a flat appearance upon the water we would not be noticed, and we were not, though one of the warships passed within 500 yards of us before turning east. The other turned west. As soon as they got far enough away we changed our course and rowed along the coast until we found a bit of beach. There we buried the field piece and the breech block in sand and brush, destroyed the trail and running the boat out to sea stove a hole in her. "We were all pretty weak, but I made the men go to sleep while I started to do sentry duty. I strolled up and down and must have gone to sleep while walking, for suddenly I came up against a rock that was sticking up out of the sand and thought I had run up against a Spaniard. At daylight we started out over the hills looking for water, but found none until three o'clock of that afternoon, when reaching the top of a little range, we looked down and saw a beautiful stream at our feet. We rushed down to drink, but the water was salt. "Well, I told the men to lie down, placing them in a strategic position, nnH tpiiinc them to fieht if the Span iards came, and started off alone to find water. In half an hour I came across a friendly Cuban who quickly got us out of our distress. "This was in '95. I fought down there with the insurgents until '98, but it was poor fighting. Fully eighty per cent, of the victories we were credited with we won by our j superiority of foot power. We really J ran away. We had to run because our men had no arms. "Yes, I like Alaska betted than the tropics. We have a great deal of sport up there. One great event is the yearly dog race from Nome to Candle, a distance of 406 miles. The one last year was a corker. They started out in a blizzard, and this continued for fifteen hours after the start. The winner, in spite of it, finished the journey in eighty hours. The Hon. Fox Ramsay, a young Englishman, who is my partner, was passing his first winter there, but he had entered with a team of nine dogs. He got out three miles and then his dogs got away from him. He came back to Nome pulling his sled himself. Then he got his dogs together again and made another start. Well, he got lost out at sea on the ice. He was missing for a couple of days, but he found the course again, and reached Candle safely. Then when | he found he hadn't won he went on further north to shoot polar bears. His pluck made him vastly popular with the men up there."?New York Sun. The Great American Nut. By E. A. GOEWEY. Indianapolis baseball fans paid $6000 for their peanuts at Washington Park la# season, and they consumed fifteen tons of the popular delicacy. The shells from fifteen tons of peanuts would 'cover .the entire surface of the park. Fifteen tons are equivalent to 30,000 pounds, which equal 120,000 bags of four ounces each. At five cents a bag the purchase price of fifteen tons would be $6000. Talk about a show of true sporting blood! Can you beat the above??Leslie's. Used to Paying. When the waiter veered arouna sne took out her pocketbook. "For heaven's sake," the man with her cried. "What do you mean? Aren't you dining with me?" "I forgot," she apologized. "I be- j long to so many Dutch treat clubs It's got to be second nature."?New York Presa. EATEST PLAYER ie Pirates' Star. Got His the Diamond. ; could not find one to complete his i I Ditching staff until A1 Wagner came ! to him and said. 'Why don't you give my brother John a chance?' 'Can he pitch?' asked Moreland. 'I don't know." replied AI. 'But it won't cost much for you to find out.' "Honus was playing on the lots around Carnegie and Moreland wrote, asking him if he would sign a contract to pitch for Steubenville, and the second day thereafter there came a posial card on which was written, 'Yes. When do you want me?' ' Wagner ignored the salary question entirely, and Moreland called Al into consultation. 'What will your brother want?' he asked. 'Oh, anything will suit him,' replied AI. "The salary limit of the Steubenville team was 3S00 a month, and -Moreland was within $35 of the limit set by the league, 30 he wrote offering John Wagner $35 a month to pitch for him. The following day came another laconic card: 'All right. Will accept.' 'Moreland telegraphed Wagner to 1 report immediately and wired a rail- j t-/^o rl orrlc-r for i inn Tho I .V,. , telegram was sent at eight o'clock In the morning, and the first train leaving Pittsburg for Steubenville started at noon, reaching Steubenville at about 1.30. Shortly before one j o'clock, Claude Ritchey, who was playing his first professional engagement. said: 'Here comes the big Dutchman,' and Hans Wagner, covered with cinders, sauntered up to begin his baseball career." In the United States the percentage of railroads which are not engaged in carriage of the mails is very small. IN J. AUSTEN CH. (Mouth-piece and Successor of His Inv< Imperial Sandpaper Plane. Another invention of interest to carpenters, joiners and men of kin- ] dred trades is the sandpaper plane i designed by a Louisiana man. This 1 . 1 ' j '( ' J implement, as shown in the illustra- ! tion, closely resembles an orthodox; i plane, but instead of having a blade f underneath it has a smooth base cov- j ered with a layer of sandpaper, which j polishes off rough surfaces with great : rapidity and absolute uniformity. It also has the advantage of doing the j work without pousning tne sKin on che knuckles of the person using it. The two knobs seen in the cut unscrew and the baseboard, which fits in grooves in the body of the plane and slides backward and forward when released, can be taken out and covered with a fresh piece of sandpaper when the old piece is worn down. Thus recovered the base is put back, i the knobs screwed up tight again to hold it firmly, and the carpenter scrapes away with ease and rapidity. ?Boston Post. 15!!===^ ARSENAL OF A~j Armed like the porcupine, but studded with sharp metal spikes bene of Paris, known as Apaches, have rece the public, which used to regard their other day two detectives went into a v Liaboeuf. As soon as they had seized 1 by the hidden spikes on the miscreant go. The Apache then stabbed one of tb other dead. The police will be chary a ers hereafter for fear of the porcupine < Wagon Winds Up. t If children cannot have automo- 4 biles of their own to run, they can at I least have a wagon thc.t will run sev- I eral blocks on its own power and give ? t r V il oLc^i ? \ i ii; BUGEYE. A.MBERLAIN. ilid Father as Leader of the British ists.) Hammer Holds Nails. Who has not pounded his thu:aib in place of a nail while trying to harnner the latter into some place difficult to reach or Home corner where it was bard to get both hand and hammer? & North Dakota man has gotten around this difficulty with aft ingenious invention of an attachment for che heads of hammers whiqh holds the nail just beneath the head and drives it- irifr> nlare without difficulty. The attachment consists of a loop :>? metal and a slight groove and recess under the hammer head. The nail fits in this, and all that, need be clone is to give one blow as If the nail svere held in position with tljfi fingers. This blow will suffice to fix the nail In place, and the hammer can then be withdrawn, the loop in the head being large enough to permit of the passage ???mmmmmm*??? 1 1 ^3 of the head of the nail, ani the nail can be pounded all the ws.y In with no trouble at all. In this way the thumb and fingers of the carpentei are In no danger.?Boston Post. PAWS^\PACHE. invisibly, their arms ana shouiaen sath their coats, the young brigands ntly defied the police and frightened pranks with some indulgence. The fine shop to arrest an Apache named lim their hands were frightfully tori 's arms and they were forced, to let e detectives eight times and shot the bout laying hands on Apache prisonjquipment.?Le Monde Illustre. hem all the fun of speeding for a litle while. This vehicle was invented >y an Ohio woman, and its motive lower is i. spring. The wagon is a itrongly built affair with two seats ind a steering apparatus be operited from the front aeat. Underneath he body is a strong spring, which is vound from the back by means of a nultiple gear. After the spring has >een wound tight the boys get aboard ind release the brake which keeps the vheels still. Instantly the vehicle ihoots forward at an exhilarating peed and runs for several hundred ards before it slows down to a stop, fhe brake, before mentioned, en Ll)les tile occupants 01 tne wagon to top it. in a short space if there is any langer of running down a poor old tpple woman or butting a trolley car iff the track. Canada has 100,000 Indians among ler population of 6,000,000. The ;overnment has isolated them, as vards of the nation, in reserres, ^hich are scattered all ov?r the Doninion. THE PULPIT. [ A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. CHARLES W. M'CORMICK. Theme: Faith. Brooklyn, N. Y.?Dr. Charles W. McCormick, pastor of the Nostrand Avenue M. E. Church, preached Sunday morning the sixth in a series of notable sermons on "The Fruits of the Spirit." The special subject was "Faith." The text was from Galatians 5:22: "Now the fruit of the Spirit is faith." Dr. McCormick said: What is faith? Perhaps no one can answer. Certainly no one will be able to give a scientific definition. For faith is one of those ultimate impulses of the soul which defies accurate metes and bounds. Like love, it is so wrought into the fiber of personality that it cannot be separated and viewed apart. Yet faith is one1 ? * A1-- o?lTf r\P nil Tiiimon n 11 q 1 {_ UL lUti Uiuat n. 111 ftiJ ui an uumuu >!?>.>. ties. The old question, which is greater, faith or love, may never find its answer. Each is great and in certain aspects supremely so, and each conditions ,the other. Without faith there can be rib love, and without love there can be no faith. Yet It would seem as if faith has a certain priority In that it holds up the light for love to walk by. If love and faith are one in their initial manifestation, they travel but little way hand in hand. Soon faith takes a step ahead and becomes the guide of love, though sometimes faith falls back on love when It is itself menaced. Likewise the question, which is^^l^er, faith or reason, may be difflcultS.^ answer. Reason in its low ranges? has to do with facts and phenomena and their arrangement. But reason in its high ranges draws mighty inferences, makes great generalizations and reaches conclusions that may defy demonstration for generations, if not forever. Here reason merges Into faith and faith finds its foothold In reason. It seems that faith Is after all hardly other than the highest utterance of reason. Especially does this seem true when we remember that reason In the large meaning always assumes some great and indemonstrable principle. It seems easy to say that a grain of wheat will produce its thirty or sixty fold of wheat when planted in congenial soil, but the great assumption underlying this simple statement is that the laws of nature are uniform in their operation and this is demonstrable only to faith. But what is faith? Can we get any nearer to an understanding of it? At any rate, we may clarify our thought by determining the use we will make of the word. The term faith is applied either to the act of believing or to the content of belief; that is, to belief as a function of the soul or to what the individual believes. The latter meaning is found in the phrase, "the faith once delivered to the saints." Here Paul has in mind the great body of Christian doctrine re ceivea irorn unnst ana geaerau; accepted by the church of that day. On the other hand, when Paul exhorted the Philippian jailer to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, he referred to I an act on the part of the jailer though he did not forget that the Christ upon whom the jailer was to believe was the Christ of the Gospels, and therefore possessed well-known and accepted characteristic?. We .have taken a short step toward 'understanding what faith is when we make this distinction and limit ourselves to faith as an action of the soul. But we need to make clear also that faith is not the action of some special soul . power. It is nothing less than the act of the whole spiritual nature. This conception excludes any definition of faith which makes it a mere intellectual process. Pure intellect is only a theoretical concept. It is not found in reality. All intellectual processes are the outgrowth of the Individual soul as it is, and no soul can be separated for a single instant from its feeling, its trend and its accumulated volitions or habits. Faith, then, can be nothing less than the action of the whole nature of man. In like manner, a distinction must be drawn I between a transient and a permanent I activity. Faith in the New Testament sense is not a single act complete in itself. It is a constant and enduring movement or trend of the soul. In the interest of further clearness, it may be noted also that faith as an action may relate either to facts or persons. We may believe either that certain statements are true, or we may believe in a person. Faith in the Christian sense involves both facts and a person. Here we must speak very guardedly. There is much in the present trend of theological thinking, which finds its echo in popular thought, that tends to looseness, and, it would seem, to vagueness. When we are told that faith has to do with God as a person, or with Jesus Christ as a person without regard to any definition or clear historic setting, we are asked to do either the impossible or the absurd; perhaps both. It is hard to think of God without giving to Him some definite qualities. If we know Him at all, we must know Him as we know our fel lows, tDrougn nis uiiiuncsLctLiuua. That is, through the display of His qualities. The "unknowable" of Herbert Spencer may be a fine refuge for intellectual incompetence when the mind has failed in its vain endeavor to account for the universe and explain its processes. It is worth something to fall back upon the assertion that there is an unknown and perhaps unknowable power working everywhere and always in nature, which on the whole makes for righteousness. But that conclusion grows out of the inability of the human intellect to go any further in its search. And this assertion, empty as it is, is the assertion of faith and not of the intellect. It is a postulate which man must make because he is made as he is. But it is impossible either to love or to believe in a postulate. Faith must find for its full exercise much more than a mere force without quality or attribute. The personality of Jesus Christ means something If we accept as substantially true the Gospel narrative, illuminated and enforced by the progress of Christian history. But if deny the Gospels, or with Schmiedel reduce the biography of Jesus to two or three sentences of the most ordinary sort, it does not seem credible that Jesus as a person shall long survive. Whatever else may be true, it is true that the Christ in whom the world believes, and believing has found a regenerating power from age to age. is the Christ I of the Gospels. In all our present ' day-thinking, it is this Christ whose image stands before us, whom we love and in whom we trust. A Christ who has no history and whose life therefore presents no facts for credence would be a vanishing Christ. Nevertheless, the faith of which the New Testament speaks relates chiefly to persons. Christianity is not funda mentally a creed, but the manifestation of God In Christ Jesus, to which man may respond trustfully and loyally, and it is this response which we call faith. The mission of Christ is to bring us to God, that we may love Him and believe in Him, and, therefore, serve Him. And I am persuaded that many a man finds God in Christ with whose technical theology I could not agree. If all men had to believe the same creed, salvation would be impossible to many of us Tirhn nnf find Ifc difficult to believe in the same God and the same Christ with difference of definition. What, then, is faith? Four our purposes to-day as it relates to God it is the continued and loyal movement of the entire soul of a man toward God as the revealer of truth and the authoritative Lord of life. We may note also two other meanings of faith which grow out of this larger meaning, for faith not only comprises the entire nature of the individual, but also the whole field of his activities. Faith in God Implies faith in our fellowmen as the creatiou of God, or from the Christian point of view, the children of God.. By this we may not mean a foolish disregard of all distinctions of character, nor the assertion that all men are equally to be relied upon; but it does mean a recognition of humanity as involved in the purpose of a trustworthy God, and therefore, itself worthy of confidence. He who believes in God as his Father, believes also in man as his brother. Faith in God implies also good faith on the part 01 tne oenever. to accept iioa as the giver of light and the Lord of life is to acknowledge ourselves bound to be utterly sincere in our relations to Him. And to acknowledge the brotherhood of man, including ourselves, is to enthrone the principle of good faith among men. In a wor,?.. faith is the expression of the soul's I">ve of truth and its loyalty to truth; to God who is truth and whose plans, though not understood by us, are the embodiment of His truth; to man, who, cre?> ted In the image of God and -redeemed by God's only begotten Son, preserves yet amid the ruinous results of hi? sin, some traces of the Father's image-, and the capacity for unlimited development; to self as the creature of the true God and as part of the constituted" 'order of things where truth forms the only reliable basis of harmonious action."" Faith thus defined bulks large. foi is seen to be not merely the transient activity of a single phase of man's lotm-o tlio 4nfo11ont hut tho rnnttn* iiU b U1 V| VUV AUVW*?W?^ */uv vuw N< v ? ued movement of man's entire being, intellect, sensibilities, will, toward truth and ultimately toward the God of truth. It is not for a day nor an hour, but for all time and for all eternity. It is not limited to a single faculty of the human soul, but involves the wbole soul. It has not for its object a limited area of truth, but reaches out toward all truth, even the infinite God of truth. It is difficult, if not impossible, to draw a clear line of distinction between what is called "natural" and what is called "religious" faith. To one who believes as I do that man Is a religious being through and through, the faith which arises in the ordinary so-called "secular" processes of life and has to do with practical daily affairs is itself a fruit of the spirit. By this I mean that man is a creation of the Almighty, upon whose soul and its consequent activities God has stamped His own nature. Furthermore, God has interwoven Himself in the very fabric of the universe. If, as we have said, faith is necessary to all progress, then the exercise of -- -O iaiin Oil HIW J^ctrV V1 man uionia^o something of the divine nature within him. It is because God has sent forth His spirit into the heart of man that man is able to think God's thoughts after Him in the universe^ and to reach forward with those 'majestic reaches of confident expectation which have wrought the great accomplishments in the material and intellectual development of human life in relation to the world outside of man. Yet, it must be conceded that religious faith Is of a higher order than this general faith because it deals with a higher order of facts. The moral nature of man is his crowning possession. The apprehension of God marks the highest reach of his moral intelligence. Fellowship with God is at once his crowning glory and supreme privilege. To believe in God is the highest attribute to faith and the exercise of this attribute is conditioned by personal fellowship with God. As with every one else, God must first be known and then believed. When one knows God, especially as a personal friend and Saviour, it is not difficult to believe what otherwise would he most incomprehensible, nor to trust God where without such knowledge trust would be impossible. This knowledge of God is made possible through the Holy Spirit whom God hath sent Into the hearts-of those who believe, crying, "Abba, i'ather." In like manner it is this knowledge of God which underlies and conditions faith in our fellowmen and good faith on the part of ourselves. If God has faith in man, the believer in God must have also, and if God has faith in man, then the individual who realizes that God has faith in him must make a fitting response of good faith. Great heights give wide visions to open eyes. It is only when the spirit of God leads men to those exalted experiences where he knows and feels that God is, that the very ground about him becomes holy ground and ? ? ./> V/M.!Tnn le rvitcVloH linolf Sfl thflt lie can behold the infinite glory beyond. i No Trials, No Strength of Character. "I will allure her and bring het into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. and I will give he; vineyards from thence," that is from the soil that comes from her wilderness experience. So, beloved, if you had an easy path you would become a coward; and run away every time you saw a Philistine. The people that have no trials and discipline are just like this, they are soft and cowardly. And the one God wants to make strong to undergo the journey to Canaan, He has .to make hardy by discipline and training. He leadB you by tho hard way that you may be harnessed, may be trained as a soldier to fight the battles of your life, educated for your work by the very things you are going through now.?A. B. Simpson. Era of Enormous Goodness. If we live in an era of greed and graft, we also live in an era of enormous goodness, unparalleled philanthropy, increasing intelligence and crowing ethical standards. Can there be any doubt which forces will win??Milton Reed. Creed. A creed is that which a man thinks in his heart, and what he thinks inheart he is and does. A The INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- j MENTS FOB APRIL 24. i \\ ,:M Subject: Warning and Invitation,; Matt. 11:20-30?Commit "j. f : . Verses 28-30. GOLDEN TEXT.?"Come unto Me, . ' ^ all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matt. 11:28. TIME.?Midsummer, A. D. 28. PLACE.?Capernaum. EXPOSITION.?I. Warnings of Unutterable Woe to the Impenitent* ' *' 20-24. The works of God are a call to repentance (ct Ro. 2:4; Actf, XTih,' 30, 31). The greater and more maii^. ifest the works the louder the call tx* repentance. If we see great work? of , God and do not repent, we bring: greater guilt and condemnation upon;; 7. ourselves. Chorazin and Bethsai<laf > I had been witnesses to marveion?Y workings of God's grace and power In.:, Jesus Christ. These should hare', . brought them to repentance and the acceptance of Jesus Christ as the 8a-*' viour and Lord. But they had not re-r pented. They had closed their eyea >?? and hardened their hearts and that which was intended for their salvation became .their condemnation. ChriBt accepted brings salvation and: eternal life; Christ rejected bringa greater condemnation and more intol- jz erable judgment and penalty (Helb? 10:28, 29). Their impenitence was utterly without excuse and Jegus up~ :>3 braided them Tor It. But we have more light than Chorazln and Bethsaida. How then must Jesus regar/I those who do not reftent among u8?; Sodom was a very guilty city. Its vileness has become the synonym -cf all that is most Indescribably loath- i' some in vice, but the guilt of New j York and Chicago, London and other American and English cities is greats er than that of Sodom; for these clt- ; v'\j ies have rejected greater light. The . ] amount of light given and rejected is I the measure of the guilt of the na- ' : ;] tion and of the Individual. Caper* /$p? naum thought it 'would surely be ex j alted to heaven because of the great i gillie oesioweu upuu ll, uut <icgua , <rn| said nils would drag it down to hades* becausa that boasted grace was fle- . eplsed a'ru^ neglected. Our blessings as a nation will drag ua down to 1 hades unlesfet we repent. Jesus contemplated thfeM;oming judgment of . rl Chorazln and B&hsalda with unut- . j.39H terable sorrow ("M. Matt. 23:37). I How great must be' .the sorrow with, -tjjpa which He contemplate.the Judgment . ?*%***% AAIMA A?I man onif noHAna """ DVUU vu WUiO VU liuo UiUU UUM ? of to-day who reject the tfondroua - .- Jfl light given them. Jesue puts the re- $3 jection of Hlrpself as the supreme sin 9 and the one meriting heaviest con- .J demnation, another proof, of Hia 'J deity. Jesus is the supreme manifes- 1 tation of truth and God. The rejec-. " TRjA tlon of Him is, therefore, the final revelation of a heart wedded to dark- VI ness, error and sin; it is the supreme* V-3SM decisive, damning sin (cf. Jno. 3:18, IT. Promises of Unspeakable Joy to Those Who Come to Jesus, 25-30. Tn v. 25 v? find one of the most im- ioffll portaht principles upon which God x:g deals with men in the revelation ot vSjg His truth. If we are to ggt God's in-.V'r^ finite wiBdom we muBt renounce our . ^ finite wisdom. The man who is full- roS of his own wisdom cannot have God's. V? (cf. Is. 5:21;;,i'?0B!.r 1:1,8-27)., If w*j$| are to be wise with the true wisdpm, we must take our place as fools to-Wore&f taught, by the All-wise (i Cor.' 3:1&. 20)/ Jesus ChriBt rejoiced in thfr>-^ Spirit and thanked God that thiaJg so 'f ^ (Luke 10:21, R. V.). The 27th vento 5$ contains a .tremendous statement, the authority committed to Jesua^ aM^^ is to be taken in the broadest:and - r most absolute sense (Matt. ''' &* Jno. 3:35; 13:3; 17:2; Eph. 1:2023 Ph!1 5>-1 ft 11: Hftb. 2:8-10: Act* 10:86). God has actually committed .f.fl *he whole universe, celestial as well as terrestrial, into the hands'of Jesus Christ. We have a wonderful and M mighty Saviour, He is also a wise / Saviour, He thoroughly knows God. S He alone does, and those to whom He ' . H wills to reveal Him. How foolish then are those who seek to know God H by study of philosophy or theoso- U| phy, or comparative religion. Out- H aide of the revelation Jesus Christ r '/SM makes of the Father, God is, indeed, - H as the agnostic says, "the Unknowable." But there is one who knows J| God and who is ready to give to any * ' H| one who will believe on Him an un- B| | derstanding that he also may know flR| j God (1 Jno. 6:20). The words of v. |H 28 are among the most wonderful IH i that ever fell from the lips of Him 1 who spake as never man spake. Here ! i- TTI- J.U.. U.UVi agaiu nib ueiiy auiuca uut u 115111, auu clear. What presumption or lunacy H| it would have been in Jesus to have said this if He were mere man. But that it is neither presumption nor lu- H| nacy is amply proven by the fact that 9Q thousands upon thousands have put :.BH these words to the test of actual ex- H| periment and found them absolutely H true. Jesus does give rest. Note four .things in this wonderful invi^ laHfl ! tation: (1) Who invites?Jesus. (2) > Whom He invites?all that labor and ; are heavy laden. Commentators have ^H| i sought to set various limitations upon Hfi this, e. g., "those who labor under burden of guilt." It includes those, Jgg ; but is not limited to them. It means I just what it says, "All that labor." ; Christ invites every one that has a M Irurden. It may be sin, remorse, Bfl doubt, sorrow, sickness. No matter !bH| what, overburdened man, Jesus says, r^Efl "Come." (3) To what He invites? rest. That is what the human heart 9H8 craves, that is what Jesus gives. (4) HH The condition, "Come." That is all. HHI Note also to Whom we are to "Come," Hfifl "unto Me," not unto a creed, not unto aKm a church, unto a person, and that WW person, Jesus Himself. Not to a ESSH priest, not to a pastor, net to some BEH great theologian, not to the Pope, "unto Me," right straight to Jesus, |H| lie only can give rest, but He can. HB If you haven't rest, it is because you haven't come to Jesus. Come now. Then Jesus proceeds to tell of a deep- ^^9 er rest still?rest in service. "Take My yoke upon you," surrender absolutely to His will (Jno. 14:21-23; HBB j 15:10-14). HH | To Study Law at Seventy-three. flflj J. W. Jones, seventy-three years of r.ge, of Glouster, Ohio, certified to the Supreme Conrt at Columbus, Ohio, Nj (hat lie had begun the study of law HH j preparatory to admission to the bar. I Three years' study is required, so ! that he will be seventy-six when admilted to practice, even with the best l,ic n-nrl I oui.v.cdo ni mo ??*? i mm^m ' Nicaragua Insurgents Beaten. . H9R Nicaragua insurgents have virtu* HBH ally admitted that the rebellion i^H crushed. jaam