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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.
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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 ?
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tlj
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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'
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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. ^
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Loyalty to church should not be
contingent upon petty human likes
and dislikes.
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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?
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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.
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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. .
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Religious Reading
FOR THE QUIET HOUR.
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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.
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The
Sunday=School
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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