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GREAT MEMORIAL HALL. pittsburg's Notable and Costly SolIjL diers and Sailors' Monument. [{?Plttsburgiis erecting at a cost of Si,400,000 a great and noteworthj Irifemorial ball in honor of the solider? |Td sailor's of Allegheny County. This trill be, It Is asserted, the first soldiers ejlpd sailors';.building erected In this roVil^'h tVio nnrplv monu UUUilll ( JiL nuiw. * ?^ .... tnental idea has been treated so as to MEMORIAL HALL FOR SOLDIEI COUN is Being Erected in Pittsburg at a bostel, of New Yo be practicable for public use. The architects are Palmer & iioruuuotci. The building is being erected on the Schenlev property, facing Fifth avenue, and -will contain an auditorium of architectural spaciousness that will be one of the lr gest in this country and will accommodate five thousand persons. The dinner hall will accommodate five thousand more. In a large gallery will be Inscribed the j dames of soldiers and sailors of Allegheny County. The memorial hall will be specially noteworthy for its artistic features. There will be placed in a Grand Army post room, treated in quartered oak, a mural decoration by T. de Thuletrup depicting the final charge of the Pennsylvania cavalry, led by Colonel Schoolmaker, at the Battle of Winchester. Howard Pyle has just finished sketches for a mural decoration of the back of the platform in the auditorium, eighty feet long and twenty feet high. On the exterior of the building, over the front door, will be placed a huge bronze sitting figure symbolical of valor, nineteen feet high, executed fcy Charles Keck, the sculptor. There will also be put in appropriate places memorial tablets descriptive of the Civil War, such as the tablet of the famous telegraph corps, Df which Andrew Carnegie was a member. The approach to the building will be treated in a parkway scheme, 600 feet by 400 feet, so as to contain balustrades, benches and a high flagpole. A peace monument may be erected In the place. The main body of the building is 150 feet square; its height is about 180 feet, and it is built of sandstone. Curative Suggestion. Lecturing in Paris on the "Miracles of Lourdes," the Abbe Conde limited the curative power of "suggestion" to functional as distinct from organic disease and asserted that 650 cases of organic disease f chiefly cancer and tuberculosis, had been completely cured at the shrine. S A w Tourist?"I wonder at your alio' Native?"It's quite safe, sir. It For Renovating Goods. A process for the renovating o: dress goods or other fabrics has beei invented by a Missouri man. The ap paratus consists of a stand, like ? I tlj 1 Pcncil of Many Hues. One of the most ingenious little de vices recently put on the market Is thni- ohnn-n in the cut. This device. ; the invention of a Maryland man, is a j combination marking crayon, lumber [ i gauge and tally pencil. First, there i is a long, thin tube with an opening i i large enough to receive a lead pencil. | i At the other end is an enlarged tubu- j lar holder for crayon, the cravon-rei ceiver end forming a shoulder, which IS AND SAILORS OF ALLEGHENY TY, PA. Cost o? $1,400,000. Palmer & Hornrk City, Architects. i makes a stop when the tube is drawn across the edge of a board, for ini stance. Along the tube a scale Is marked, by means of which the thick- I uess of a board may be measured, as between the shoulder and the marks on the gauge. The crayon is for marking boards and the pencil for recording the various necessary data In . the owner's notpbook. For lumber' i i l- ! j s I Handy For Lumbermen. ' men this little implement is very useful, as it relieves them of the neces' sity of keeping the vest pockets stuffed with a veritable arsenal of pencils, crayons and rules, and also saves them the time otherwise wasted in hunting for each of these implements as it is required.?Philadelphia Record. Religious Teachers in United States. There are 30,000 religious teach, ers in the United States giving their i . lives to teaching. The pay of these ' > should average $500 a year, making j a total of $15,000,000 a year. Now, j : this sum represents, at only five per 1 cent, interest, a capital of $300,000,, 000, which the teaching orders of the ! [ church gives to Catholic education.^- | , Catholic Columbian Record. lFE! ^ I f yw sving people to mount that ruin." was only built last year." reading desk, with a roller attached f to the lower end. The goods are ! placed on this stand and drawn up as . the work progresses. t The actual work of renovating is done by a sand blast, propelled through a tube with a fan-shaped mouth. The sand is propelled through the tube by compressed air, which may be supplied by a foot pump, and is directed first against the direction i of the nap of the fabric and afterward I with the direction of the nap. L mis results in a cleaning out ot an [ extraneous material, and after this Is [ done the particles of sand and otker [ ! substances can be easily removed by t ' brushing or by a blast of air. The [ ' advantage of using the sand is that It works its way under the nap as air ; would not do. After this treatment I : the goods are chemically cleaned.? Boston Post. i The industry of making lebkuchen, or honey cake, is worth to the German i city of NuFemburg about one million I. dollars a year. | THE PULPIT. : I A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON 3Y THE REV. DR. W. C. STILES. Theme: Tlio Divine Mobility. Greenwich. Conn.?The Rev. Dr. W. C. Stiles, of Brooklyn, editor of the Homiletic Review, preached in the Second Congregational Church here Sunday. Dr. Stiles had as his subject, "The Divine Mobility." In the course of his sermon he said: Our attention has often been called to the abiding quality of divine life and of the inner powers of the spirit, and we are accustomed to set these realities over against the things i:hat change and pass away. The Psalmist is re-echoed by the Apostle Peter in the sentiment which expresses the frailty of the outward things?"the grass withereth, the flower thereof falleth away," and Jesus, referring to the enduring quality of His word, said: "Heaven and earth shall pass away." In all these apprehensions of the contrast involved, we have dwelt lightly upon the passing away of things and have usually fixed our thought upon that element of eternity that lies within them. But has it never occurred to us that there must be profound significance also in the other side of the truth, that wher the heavens and earth pass away and the flower falleth and withereth, and the whole universe in like manner is seen to be a constant panorama of flu" and change, there must be some divine signiflcence to this phenomenal universe. When Paul comes to apply it to his own career, he speaks of that career as a continual forgetting of things that are behind and r. constant reaching forth unto things that are before. It is as though he thought the soul could never stand still; and it is certain that there is nothing more inclusive; nothing more completely filling all the consciousness of the life of the man than the mobility of the world we live in and of the lives we live. It is of this I am reminding; you: first, as a fact of universal experience. The heavens and earth do pass I away; the flowers do fade; human life I does move on; the old order changI eth; every day is a new day; old 1 things have passed away. "Behold, all things have become new," might j be written at any moment of our j career. A fact of such wide significance is worth while to inquire about. Doubtless we may complain with Augustine that our hearts are restless until they rest in God, but is there no significance in a,restless heart, and do we, after all, really wish our hearts to be at rest, In the last and best thought with which we contemplate the highest possibilities of the soul? Is there meaning in the passing away of the heavens and the earth? That is a great fact, and one that must have some meaning or other for us. We do not look on the same stars?not precisely the same?as those that shone upon the Egyptians who built the pyramids, and who built the lines of their east and west faces by the pole' star, from which these lines now have swerved enough to prove that the heavens have been changing; and the time will come when future inhabitants of this earth will no longer look upon the same constellations in the same places where now we see them. How much truer might such affirmation be of this far more changeful earth. We speak lightly of the ever lasting hills. When they built the great Eads Bridge at St. Louis, on the east side of that river they sent the bores down something lilce 130 feet through the fine silt of the river bed before they struck the solid limestone below. That 130 feet of sand, spread with various thickness over wide areas of the valleys of the Mississippi and the Missouri, is nothing more than the remains of what men call the everlasting hills, washed down through milenniums of time to make the great fertile areas of the valleys. You who have lived by the sea know what constant changes are going on with the coast?upbuilding here and washing away yonder; on our Pacific coast great mountains lifted up, sometimes with great earthquake shocks that destroy cities; on other coasts sinking down to give way to the dominance of the sea. Yes. the heavens and earth are passing away. A fact, I have said, of such wide reach in human experience must have some significance and must need some interpretation. I think, therefore, we may inquire, in the next place, whether the change and flux of onward movement may not constitute a universal law of the world and of all life? Is not this as it should be? Do not things move on and disap pear i uu nut tut: uiu j-atis and the new facts appear, because this is, in a way, the divine method for all of us, and for the universe in which we live, the providence of God accompanying us in our journey and educating us on the way? Surely, if we should come to such conclusion as this, it would dissolve some of the perplexing difficulties that besiege our minds and embarrass our lives. For one thing, it would teach us that one of the great dominant arts of a human soul must be the art of letting go of things with which God is through. It is death or the beginning of death for a man in a living world to hold on to the things that no * ' fTUn longer nave me m tueiu. auc uunci will fade and the grass will wither, but we may not make very much of storing the withered stock and the faded petal in the old scrapbooks of our lives. How many a man has become old and sour and useless holding on to the things which he should let go! The only salvation in a moving world is to keep moving with the world, and to keep pace with the divine spirit that every morning makes all things new. Let the children, eager with curiosity for every new scene, teach us, for they shall have finer lessons for us than we can ever have for them. We speak of the "good old days," "the old Gospel," "the faith once delivered to the saints," but there are no good old days, and for us there is no old Gospel, and we do not want the faith that was delivered to the saints. Anything that was delivered yesterday was for yesterday. We are to go into the larger place; we are to breathe the now airs of the new morning. There shall be perfume of sweeter flowers for us above the graves of those that faded for the man of yesterday. It often happens that daughters marry from the old home, and go out Into new lite in some larger ana more active community. As the years go by and the children gather in the new home, the old folks from the farm come up to visit the children and the grandchildren. Have you not known how often the grandmother is i shocked at the forwardness of the ^children in these days, and she holds f up her hands in horror, and site aol: eninly assures the daughter that 9t\ch j liberty, such behavior, were never seen in her time, and the children | must be going to ruin under such an i education. There are new things 'in I the house, and now ways of doing, j and a new world around her. What is the secret of it all? She has been holding on and abiding in the things remained. They have been moving on in the larger life. We think we would like to go back to the old vil- 'I lage, to the old times, and the old ways, but in our reason we know how i onnti nn ovner- I A USUI U LCI.Y uuaanoijiu^, ? . ience would be. We sing: "Backward, roll backward, oh time in ! tby flight, j ^ Make me a child again just for to- > night." J -j But if we went back and if we : met those whom we knew in the years j gone by, how quickly conversation and . communion would be exhausted, and j * especially if we have been moving on ; and they have been standing still. It j would not be good to be a child again, j Our march is onward and "the grave is not its goal." With all this wide j universe of things we are sweeping | * away from the past every hour, every \ j moment, and Paul expressed the right j philosophy of human life and recog- J nized the wide reach of this law of j the universe when he resolved to for- j ^ get the things that are behind and J press toward the things which are be- j fore. Certainly, disaster must befz.ll I ? the man who stops. There is freedom J ^ and there is life only in moving on, j If you were to climb to the apex of i C the Metropolitan tower, and there | cVinnirt cnrpppd in stonnine:. some- ! thing fearful would befail you. The ! . atmosphere of the earth, rushing on ; nineteen miles in a second, striking \ j against you would Instantly reduce j you to a little patch of flame, and you would disappear. Something like fthat begins to happen when a man halts cn a journey^ refuses to hear the call of God, ceases to feel the tremendous mobility of the universe moving around him, and thinks he t: will sit down content in his place and t be quiet. God will not have it so; | d God will not let you keep still. You i u must move or die. With ;^1 of the j s wide sweep of this- moving universe i t around you, the only safety for man from absolute destruction oE soul and i C life is to cast himself into tho moving | I currents of God and trust himself to i li them to bear him on. I i If now we have found this mobll- j c ity of the world to be a great fact I 1 of experience, and if it has seemed to us to indicate that this is really a * universal law of life and of the world, t ought we not to thrnk again? Surely 1 these meanings of things reach higher than our little lives and deeper than 5 the mere flood jnd flux of phenome- ^ non before our eyes. Does not this I great spectacle of a moving cosmos, s this great consciousness of on-moving T life tell us something as to what is c the nature of God Himself? Have c we fixed Him sometimes in our theol* T ogles upon a static throne In the T midst of angels and archangels? Not a so was the picture of Him that Jesus drew. So solicitous was He?our r Father In Heaven?that the hairs of \ * our heads were numbered, that not J a one sparrow could fall without His I e notice; and we may not find God at ' * all unless somehow we find Him in | e this moving universe. Who paints | a the superb colors of the sunrise in the ; h morning east, different each posing | morning and beyond the painter's j c skill to Imitate? Who is the vasl ? weaver that threads the fabric of the ? petals of the flowers and weave?, 'jeer j3 carpets over the fields? Who Is the spirit of the mist that lifts itself from the meadow-way under the touch ot j 0 the morning sun? We should be tired I v hv this time ol! that wooden fetish of | a law under which men have bound this ! w frail and mobile universe, and which men have worshiped in the place ol J God. No, God is not law; God is life, and life is motion, and God Him- I c self is forever moving on. The final i explanation of this mobile universe v must be sought in the infinite mobil- * ity of God. God is not a static sov- ( ereign seated on His throne; He is the I life of all life, the light behind the j t light, the glory that shines with the j e glory. If the heavens ari the earth J s are passing away, it is because noth< a ing that h?*s God's life in it can ra main stationary. I If, then, we would harmonize our- I selves and quiet our restless hearts, h in a sense that Augustine perhaps j d did not mean, it shall not be by rest- ii ing in some snug haven of God's ; c preparation. It shall be by coming tc j <3 that triumphant faith of the soul that c is willing to cast itself into the mov? ii ing providence of God, and go on r where God is going. And shall that c be forever? Certainly I hope so. B This shall be the transcendant joy o! F the life that is to come, that we are t forever to pass on into the new and E the wonderful and the unexpected re- j gions and the unexplored glories ol I c an infinite universe. Fear not, oh, s soul, to launch thy bark and cast ' C away; cut thy moorings behind thee; * let the old dead past go, and in the x vast to-morrow look upward through a the vistas of that path of the Just, E shinging more and more unto the per- c feet day, on which no darkness ever a Jnrrn TT'hnrO Tin night PVPr fillS. ^ DUU15 KJ.XJ rr xi ?r ~ w Q _ . which no barriers ever cut off, and " whose goal has not been fixed for us, because it is the endless path of tha onward moving God. ' J God's Word and One Man. Fifty years ago Hiram Bingham 0 and his wife v/ent from Hawaii to j. Gilbert Islands, then inhabited by a c tribe of cannibals, "sullen, passion- j, ate, cruel and treacherous," as they g were described by navigators of that c day. Last November 30,000 Gilbert- ^ ese met to celebrata the emergence of j their raco from savagery to civiliza- T tlon. All the pastors of these people s have been trained by their first mis- t sionary, and 11,000 copies of his c translations of the Bible have been f sold. Two thousand religious books are bought by these people annually. At tQO time OI LIT. JDlllguaui a acixiicentennial jubilee he received from 1 the islanders a letter of love and gratitude. This is the record of one man.? ^ Reformed Church Record. I v Threads of Gold. j Little self-denials, little honesties, h little passing words of sympathy, lit- 1; tie nameless acts of kindness, little F silent victories over favorite tempta- i, tions?these are the silent threads of I t gold which, when woven together, b gleam out so brightly in the pattern oi me ihhl vjoa upiuuvca.?Lfcau l- at rar. 11, Happiness the Rule. t v I believe that a man's right is to j F expect happiness, as he ought to ex- I ' pect to be well. I believe that hap- S piness ought to be the rule and not the exception, for happiness is the ^ health cf a man's inner life.?Charles 51 F. Dole. P Surrender. ^ p Loyalty to church should not be contingent upon petty human likes and dislikes. I OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN. IE PORTS OP PROGRESS OF THE BATTLE AGAINST RUM. "Am I My Brother"? Keeper?" Lnsvtrer thou, whc epreadst the sparkling I ' eight Of richly gilded pain; Uluring poor, weak mortals from tha right? 'ART THOU CAIN? Lnd thou, who holdst it to thy neighbor's lips, Maddening his brain; k.nd stealing strength and manhood as he sips? ART THOU CAIN? Ind thou, who brewst the evil sin-filled draughty For greed of gain; learing unmoved the demon's fearful , laugh? ART THOU CAIN? _ t ind thou, official, with the power invest To bless or bane; )ost wash thy hands like Pilate, and con- . sent? ART THOU CAIN? ind you, who coldly pas? the other side, I With proud disdain I i"or him. so lost to virtue and to pride? i ART THOU CAIN? . ind thou. 0 Christian, lifting holy hands ! Above the stain )f aiding those, fast bound in Satan's 1 bands? i ART THOU CAIN? ( md thou, 0 man of God, a watchman set who see'st the accursed train Lnd speak'st no word of warning or rebuke? I ART THOU CAIN? ? -Written for the National Advocate by f E. E. C. Lane, New York. j Beer, Overweight and 111 Health. \ It is well known that the contin- < led use of beer is often accompanied ' y a noticeable increase in the avoir- 1 unnie nf tho Hrinlrpp This increase I lot only frequently becomes burdenome. but it may be a menace to lealth. Dr. Brandreth Symonds, M. A., "hief Medical Director of the Mutual ..ife Insurance Company, New York, tas an article iu the Medical Review, n which he shows the disadvantages if overweight and underweight, in Lealth and longevity. A case is considered overweight chen it exceeds by twenty per cent, he standard adopted by the leading ife insurance companies. Dr. Symonds finds that after thirty ears of age mortality rises rapidly pith the age and with the weight, ncreasing abdominal girth is very erious addition to overweight, and rhen this exceeds the expanded hest, the mortality is markedly inreased. According to the records on which this report was based, no overweight man or woman died of old ge or reached eighty years. "Cirrhosis of the liver" (hoblailed liver), says Dr. Symonds, "is hree and one-half times as prevalent mong overwelghttf as in our general xperience. This undoubtedly points , - - i nfot fcfnq croru U (ilUULLUHSlii| J.IS1 otauabibtuuw qwu ^ rally consider that liver cirrhosis is . very accurate index of the alcoholic iabit9 of a class." Dr. Symonds expresses himself as onvinced that a given percentage of iverweight in persons over twentyIve years of age is a more serious natter than if It were underweight. 'The excessive weight, whether it ie fat or muscle, is not a storehouse if reserve strength, but a burden fhich has to be nourished if muscle, nd which markedly interferes with iutrltion and function if fat." Alcohol and Tuberculosis. i It is already well known that al- i oholism creates a stiitci of receptiv- 1 ty particularly favorable1 to the de- < elopment of tuberculosis, says a 1 writer in the Revue Scientifique ' Paris, June 12th). Mr. Jacques < Jertillon has presented these rela- 1 ions somewhat strikingly in a set of ! naps embodying the late3t French ] tatistica. Says ihe writer cited s bove: "On the map of France it may < ie seen that the northern depart- < nents drink, per inhabitant, more ] irandy than the central and southern < lepartments. The !ine of separation I 3 represented exactly by the limit of t ulture of the vine. In the wine- ! [rinking countries the consumption 1 if brandy is comparatively small; it | 1 s considerable in the cider and beer 1 egions. xne awenurs iu iuc cmi if France drink some brandy and 1 auch absinthe. The second map ] iresented by Mr. Bertillon shows ' hat the frequency of tuberculosis is < Quch greater, with some exceptions, 1 n the regions where most alcohol is onsumed. The phthisis map may be uperposed on the alcoholism map. )n the other hand, phthisis is more ' requent among saloon-keepers than 1 /ith other merchants (579 deaths ' nnually, in 100,000 pereons, as comlared with 245). It Is probably alohol also t.hat makes phthisis twice s frequent, in Paris, among men han among women.?Translation 1 iade For The Literary Digest. < The Custer Massacre. D. D. Thompson, editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, ;ives the true explanation ol uc leath of General Custer in the Battle f Little Big Horn River, in 1876. le says that Major Reno was not a | oward, as many believe. His career n the army and his promotion for allant and meritorious services prelude that idea. But Major Reno limself told the late Rev. Dr. Arthur ' ]dwards, then editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, that his trange actions were due to the fact hat he was drank. Drink ultimately aused his downfall and expulsion rom the army in disgrace. ; Jquor Drinking Inconsistent With Good Work. Alcohol is certainly inconsistent , rith what might be called fine work. ( t is inconsistent with a surgeon's rork, and with anything that reuires a quick, accurate and alert udgment. Many professional men ave discontinued the use of stiniu- I *nts in the middle of the day. Why? ""or no other reason, probably in ^ ?:etv-nine cases out of a hundred, han that they find they can work etter without it. ( Spent $30,000,000 For Ileer. Five hundred and ninety-two milion litres of the national beverage ere consumed in Germany last year. ] Javaria, where hidpc of the beer is ' rewed, heads the list of the various 1 tates with In2.000,000 litres. Wiipfftmhnrir i? nfVYt With o2.0C0.- < 00 litres. Baden lias ^S.OC-J.OOO to 1 is credit, while Alsace-Lorraine is i lit down for 1,250,000. It is calculated that the amount of eer consumed in Germany could 1 asilv float a modern Dreadnought. 1 .t an average price of six cents a : tre. SSO.QOO.OOO was spent for beer. . i Religious Reading FOR THE QUIET HOUR. ~==% THE NATIONS' PRAYER. l?eacc, 0 Father, giva U3 peace! Lo, the nations bend the knee; Bid the surge of discord cease, All resolved in harmony. Save us from the deep of hate, 0 thou Love that gave us birth! Xeach us only they are great Who defend Thy peace on earth. Breathe Thy Spirit through our life, Spirit of gooa will to men; Still the storm waves of strife, That we wage no war again. Banished be the cannon's roar, Blare of bugle, beat of drum; Peace he with us evermore. And with peace Thy kingdom come. -A. Irvine innes, in Christian Register. 'The Unlit Lamp and the Unglrt Loin." Jesus very plainly taught and very pointedly illustrated the truth that n order to participate in the life vhich is life indeed, the fullness of Ife, we must be prepared for the opportunities of service whjch come to .is. We are not saved on account )f any works which we have done, t is true, but we are saved by grace nto a kingdom or realm of living vhere service is in such demand and n such relation to life, that participation in the one involves faithfulless in the other. To fail of having part in the mar iage festival when once the bridegroom had entered into the house ma snui 10 me uuur was iu mo ??i?ins just the 3ame as to miss the ioy of life?the joy for which they lad been waiting and looking forward. But to have part in the festival depended upon the faithful performance of the simple task which lad been appointed them, and which vas reasonably expected of them? he tisk of carrying a lighted lamp, )r torch, in the procession of the sridegroom as it swept along in the larkness of midnight. Their exclusion from the marriage-feast was not in arbitrary and harsh act on the jart of the bridegroom. He had not ;een them in the procession, and be lid not know them as members of lis company. Thus does Jesus teach the intimacy md superlative importance of the reation of service to the realization of lfe. It is not so much a mechanical )r formal matter of the relation of service to its appropriate reward, but )f the relation of the work of the kingdom of fellowship of Jesus Christ ;o the life of that fellowship. There a work there to be done because it is i kingdom, a brotherhood, and we ire saved face to face with the opportunities of that work which is jound up with the life we fain would jnjoy.?Pittsburg Christian Advo:ate. As the Heart Looks. If we are on the hunt of nettles ve will certainly find them, but it is loubtful whether the find is worth ;he search. There are scores of aright flowers in the field for every punch of nettles. There are a thousand trees in the woods for every :horn bush, and each one is more pleasing to the eye and more companionable to our moods than their prickly neighbor in the fence row. The bee on the head of clover and the DUtterfly waving its painted wings pver some random flower speak to 3ur hearts of sweetness and beauty, ind remind us that on every path of life there is something better than ;he spines of the thistle or the sting 3f the nettle. He who carries a muckrake will always want to use it. He svho lives in the marshes will have the croak of frogs in his voice and tvill have much to say of reDtil&s and water rats. Our speech will partake Df the character of our life and life tvill be a bane or blessing as we have sought the evil and the good. On the path of life we will find what we seek; and we fashion our destiny as we go along. If we care to build into on/1 nil n L- o nrl f h P JUr Uiltll (IUIC1 lliui>n. auu puun m?v* v??v ieleterious things by the way, we can. [f we care to fill it with dragons and ioleful creatures, these will always oe found available. But if we go through the world, walking on the 3unny side of the road, with a smile for every one, admiring the beautiful things which God has made to grow there, we will live a more contented life, there will be a blessing in oui fellowship, a recommendation of the goodness of God and an example svhich those who follow may speak Df with respect and honor.?United Presbyterian. Eight-Story Christianity. The Word of God has power to build up. In Acts 20:32 we read: "I commend you to God. and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up." We hear a great deal in these days about character-buifding. The Word of God is that by whUch we must carry, it on if it is tc be done right. In 2 Peter 1:5-7 we have a picture of a seven-story-and-basement Christian. The great trouble to-day is we have so many one-story Christian, and the reason is neglect of the Word. In 1 Peter 2:2 we have a similar thought Expressed under a different figure. "As new-born babes desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby." II we are 10 grow, we musi na?^ wholesome, nutritious food and plen ty of it. The only spiritual food that contains all the elements neccssart for symmetrical Christian growth i? the Word of God. A Christian can no more grow as he ought without feeding frfquently, regularly, and largely upon the Word of God, than a baby can grow as he ought without proper nutriment.?R. A. Torrey. Solution of Life. However wido life may be in it* reach, or however narrow, it is stir, ever true that the solution is within the individual heart. The Unit. The soul is a unit, and when we think or feel or act it is the whole personality that is thinking or feeling or acting. The Law of Service. The law service is the touchstone of human endeavor. Wife's Note Divorce Basis. Charles S. Walsh, a mining prospector. filed sriit for an absolute d};orce in New York City from his wife, ivho was a stenographer in Chicago ivhen he met her there twelve years igo. Not long ago she wrote him a note in shorthand, Mr. Walsh says, md, not being able to decipher,it, he had it translated. According to Mr. Walsh, the translator of the note told liim that it said, in part: "You are a fool. You are a fine, specimen of a man. I (k>n't love j?u any more." After that Mr. Walsh began preparations to bring his suit for a divorce. ? 1 "*?\>4 _ The Sunday=School %/ V'M INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MAY 8. : Subject: Temperance, Prov. 23:2935?Commit to Memory Verse 31. ' ^ GOLDEN TEXT.?"At the last it /Jj biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder." Prov. 23:32. TIME.?All time. PLACE.?Everywhere. EXPOSITION.?I. Six Great Evils J That Result From Indulgence in Wine, 29, 30. Solomen here gives us a very vivid picture of sit evils that result from Indulgence in wine. Centuries have passed since Solomon's day, but it is as true in our day as it j was in his that these evils pursue the - * winebibber. Note them carefully. T* (1) "Woe," literally, "Oh!" i. e., the intense pain that leads one to cry J "Oh." How many "Ohs" are arising to-day from the lips of men and wo men whose bodies are tortured with vs the many Ills that arise from the use of alcoholic stimulants. I can see. . ^ still the man that I once carried bod- }] ily through the streets of a cityshrieking "Oh, oh, oh!" in indescrib- <3? able agony from drink, and I see him $ later as I held him down with my knee upon his chest as they strapped ' V him to a bed in the hospital. (2) ? "Sorrow," literally, "Alas!" i. e., the deep'seated and abiding grief that causes one to cry, "Alas! alas!" Thla ? sorrow'of the drunkard is of innumerable forms. Sometimes it is the sorrow of seeing loved wife and children ' reduced from plenty to poverty/ Sometimes it is the sorrow of being ! passed upon the street unnoticed by old-time friends and associates. Some- ' y times it is the sorrow of-standing by . i'-jj the grave of the once beautiful atid happy wife who died of a broken Xv>| heart over her loved one's degrada- m ] tion. (3) "Contentions." Cpntentions at home, contentions in society, ] contentions in the place of business,. 1 contentions on the street. Alcohol - j mothers most of t8e broils in this J world. If a man wants perpetual war < 1 let him drink. (4) "Complainings" I Wine injures the stomach and breaks f down the nerves and thereby spoils I the disposition. .The drinker soon be-.- ffiaH comes a grumbler, and the grumbler 8 is miserable under any circumstances: ^ (5) "Wounds without cause." Go to the police court to-morrow morning .- 1 and see the black eyes, broken noses, crippled arms and legs, chewed ear* and , more serious and entirely un- - necessary wounds that come through I drink. (6) "Redness of eyes," the 'I sign of distempered brain and pre monition of approaching insanity and death. Note that these things come from "wine," not merely from thejOM stronger distilled liquors. ''I know; of course, that there is danger in V 'S whiskey and rum and gin and sucb things," many are saying, "but what ' harm is there In wine?" Well, this JH inspired scripture hints what there is, and history and experience ' abundantly confirm it. Of course says, "they that tarry .long at theJS wine," but the probabilities are over" . whelming in our day and land that:.;^^H if one tarries at wine at all he wllfr /JH a ? i---. nna nrVlA hO. -/ I soon tarry iuug, auu ,wc >?gins with light wines will soon go on -r'^H "to seek out mixed wine." II. The Only Wise Attitude Toward fin Wine, 31. "Look , not thou upon wine." -This is total abstinence with a vengeance. Not only "don't taste, but "don't look." It is good inspired advice. If a thing ought to ' 'M be left alone, leave it alone utterly. There are many who do not mean t?' sin. but they just look at. the1 That look is fatal. Ev& first looked, they she lusted, then she ate, 'then she H| died (Gen. 3:6). Many a man and IB woman has taken the same path tc ' the drunkard's grave and the drunk- I ard's hell. "I wouldn't drink--wine 1 for anything," but I do like to look , at it. It has such a beautiful colpr^^M It sparkles so. How smoothly : it? would go down. Just look Just a sip now. Delicious! Another^. Just one more. What is the matter?.,? .^Hj I am dizzy. I am drowsy. I am dead, BB I am damned." Don't look at That is the absolutely saie pa to. " . is the only safe one. HH III. "At the Last," 32. *At the last." Three significant words. II men could only see the end from the beginning, how many things they would leave undone which they now flH do. Eefore entering upon any course ^H| of action we ought always to ask where it ends. "There is a way th&t':^^H seemeth right unto a man, but the 1^9 end thereof is the ways of death*:'fl^H (chap. 14:12). The way of the wine<!fl^H drinker is undeniably such a way, The beginning is likely to be pleasant HIM indeed. In the beginning it singetb - ~ iU?i like a bird; It is "at me jasi iuai biteth like a serpent and stingeth like.fl^H an adder." But most of the trains on that road are through trains, and you get on the train you are not likely HB to get off until you reach the end ol^^H the line, Hell. I remember a pootHIH wretch my father brought home when^HB I was a boy. My father had knowaHHS him In young manhood when his pros*^^^| pects were the brightest. But wine cup had been reached out him. He looked, drank, fell. He now "at the last." I recall another^^^f who had been one of the brlghtesl^^^f lawyers and highest office holders the State, whom I saw lying insens-^^^H ible o^n our front lawn, and he after-flBBj ward died in a madhouse. IV. The Wine Drinker's Eyes Heart, 38. "Thine eyes shall beholc^HHH strange things." Indeed they ghaU^^^D They shall see things out of all prope^^^H proportion, they shall see double^^^H they shall see snakes and monster^^^Hj and devils. The drinking man ha^^^H perverted vision, physical, menta^^^H moral. Folly loofo like wisdom an^^^H wisdom looks like folfy. Right pears wrong and wrong appears righ^^BQ A man who is truthful and honeBt aaHHH pure, when sober, will lie and stai^H^H and commit abomination when he o iiffin Ulrtlin. n imiv. Wisdom's Beginning. There is only one thing that ca^Hj^B save our souls and save society, that is "the fear of the Lord, which HHH the beginning of wisdom." SHfl Grandmother at Twenty-eight. Through the birth of a son to h^E^Hj four-teen-year-old daughter. Charles Lane, of Indianapolis, Infl^^^^H Mrs. Everett Parker, of Richmoi^|HH Ird., has become a grand mother the unusually early age of twen^^^^H eiqht. Mrs. Parker was not thirte^^^BB when she married. Mrs. Parke^^^^H mother is forty-six years of aHM^Bfl and her great-great-grandmother ninety. Musicnl Art Building Began. The cornerstone of the New ' Institute of Musical Art was lald.^^H^J