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THE CORPORATION LAWYER W
?FRANK
B. KELLO
He has had charge for the Govern
Oil Company, which has resulted in
pany in a unanimous decision that is
Can You Do This Sum?
If a bookkeeper on a salary of $12
a week steals $144,000 from a bank
in a small city, how much ought an
Office boy on a salary of $3 a week
take from a New York corporation?
Back of this question in mental arithmetic
lie two serious thoughts. Men
and boys who are responsible for vast
sums of money or who can obtain access
to them should be adequately
paid for the services they render and
the moral character they must possess
to resist great temptation. They <
should also be heavily bonded, checks
should be placed upon them and a
strict oversight of their work should
be provided.?Providence Bulletin.
An Insurgent Leader In the House.
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f All the insurgents are leaders, and
r they claim to number thirty-four in
the House with hopes of more to
come. This leader is Victor Murdock,
of Kansas.
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Wf to reject the budget after their lordsh
might be too dangerous for the 1
money bill.
Keeps Ice Bills Down.
An ingenious device has been used
recently by a Philadelphia man to cut
down his ice bills. He has used it to
keep his drinking water cool without
keeping it on ice or putting ice in it,
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GG, OF ST. PAUL.
ment of the case against the Standard
a sweeping victory against the comealled
"an industrial Magna Charta."
Milk Thieves Balked.
Only the police know the thousands
upon thousands of milk bottles
that are stolen in a big city in a year, j
Most of the milk thieves are poor folk
who are too hungry to resist the
temptation of food and drink so easily
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Saves Empty Bottles, Too.
reached, and the New Jersey man
who invented the patent; bottle holder
did them a good turn when he removed
the temptation from their path
as well as he saved householders and
milkmen a pretty penny. This holder
comprises two clasp members which
fit around the bottom and neck of the
bottle. A hingelike affair acts as a
lock and retains one end of the upper
clasp, the lower one being already
fast to the wall or door jamb, as the
case may be. The milkman sets the
bottle in the lower ring, adjusts the
upper ring around its neck and snaps
the lock, defying early morning
prowlers to get the bottle away. In
the same way the housewife can prevent
other sorts of thieves, who steal
the bottles for their trifling value', by
locking the empty ones up.
The British salmon is said to be
worth $550 a ton.
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forty years, he induced the peers I
ips had, for the most part, felt that it
lereditary chamber to throw out a
(but the same idea may be turned to
I advantage in many other ways and
will be found an economical one.
Metal or wooden racks are fastened
on the wall of the house just outside
the windows. These racks hold bottles
or other receptacles that can be
filled with water or anything that is
to be kept cold, but not necessarily
ice cold.
In summer there is usually enough
! breeze to keep water at a drinkable
; temperature, and inthe cooler months
| it needs no ice i? kept out of doors
; when not wanted. Indeed, on some
days it will treeze itself, but it can be
| quickly melted again. On these occasions,
however, care should be taken
. o the glass will be broken by the expansion
of its contents. The rack does
away with the chances of the bottles
falling, as they are likely to do when
simply put out on the window sill.
A Roman tomb of the second century
before Christ, containing a mar
hie sarcophagus of exquisite work- j
nanship five feet long and admirably I
'/reserved, has Aeen discovered at
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THE PULPIT. |
AN tLOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY c
REV. WALDO ADAMS AMOS.
Theme: Giants. .
Brooklyn, N. Y.?Sunday evening, j
in the Church of the Atonement, the
Rev. Waldo Adams Amos, associate .
rector of the Church of the Holy .
Trinity, preached on "Giants." The
text was from Genesis 6:4: "There
were giants in the earth in those j
days." Mr. Amos said:
There is a story by William Allen .
White, a charming, picturesque story
of a young Ohio farmer and his bride,
who gathered together all their sub- '
stance and fared forth into the great *
West, seeking a new home and a .
larger life in the. land of the setting .
sun. They acquire a farm in Kansas
and here they establish their little r
homestead, and through long years of f
toil and hardship they struggle on,
finding their joy and consolation in ,
those stalwart boys and girls that f
Providence has sent to bless their .
household. But through all these ?
years the memory of the old home in f
the East never fades. When the day's ^
work is done and they sit around the .
great, crackling log fire, then the
farmer and his wife wander back in {
fancy to those olden days and to that
fair State where they had lived long
years ago. The farmer's face lights
up as he tells the boys and girls of
the rich, luscious fruit that grew in
the orchard, of the myriad ears of t
corn that were gathered from one
acre, and waxes eloquent as he tells |
of the vast fields of waving grain;
and then of the house of his boyhood, x
with its great, spacious rooms and its
l iar-reacning nans, whu au us tuuiforts
and luxuries. "Truly, 'twas a
wonderful country, that land where
we lived when we were young." As
the years go on they prosper, and
when the boys and girls are full
grown, the farmer and his wife decide
to go back and visit once again
the fair land of their youth. But, ah,
what a change time has wrought!
The old homestead seems small and
dingy and cramped. The vast orchard
of days gone by has become a wretched
dooryard and the fruit is poor and
tasteless. The fields of waving grain
have become a market garden, and
before a week has passed the farmer
and his wife hasten back to the great
West, where they can breathe full
and deep and free.
I tell this story because It Illustrates
a common mental attitude.
There is an instinet in us humans
which prompts us to idealize the
past. We look back on the days gone
by, and our memory casts a halo
about them. We remember how, in
our boyhood years, the snow was
often ten feet deep and how it lay
upon the ground from November until
late in March. We remember how
life in those days was replete with
interest, how it was rich and deep and
full, and when we hark back to those
halcyon days of our youth, how dull
and commonplace becomes the present
day. The days of long ago become
to our fancy a golden age.
There were giants in the earth in
those days.
This is a universal human tendency.
The person who first conceived the
Garden of Eden story was simply giving
expression to this human inclination
to idealize the past, to look back
to the dawn of human history and regard
?3 as a golden age. Milton represents
Adam as sitting in a leafy
bower making pretty speeches to his
I fair consort, whereas in reality the
first man was probably a shaggy savage.
living in a den and giving expression
to his wishes by means ol a
few elementary and inarticulate
grunts. The same common impulse
of humankind to weave a aalo about
the past prompts the writer of the
early chapters of Genesis to conclyde
that there were giants in those days.
It is particularly in the field of
things religious, in the realm of
things spiritual, that we meet with
this tendency to idealize the past and
its logical accompaniment, the tendency
to disparage the present. . We
hear people talking about the good
old times and then they go on to bewail
the degeneracy of these days. I
heard an address recently in which
the speaker contrasted this benighted
I age with the days of his youth. He
told of the waning influence of the
Sunday-school, of the secular school
which was every day becoming more
detached from things religious, of
church doctrines and the catechism,
which had been relegated to the limbo
of obscurity, and altogether things
were in a sorry plight. Our society ?
and our nation were drifting toward i
tha treacherous shoals of modernism 1
and unless we revived the spirit of (
"ye olden time" we were doomed to ?
certain destruction. The speaker was 1
1 a fine, scholarly man and, so far as
he went, he read the signs of the ?
times aright, but he did not go far 1
' enough. Church doctrines and cate- ?
chisms have been relegated to the t
limbo of obscurity, and that is where ?
most of them belong. The secular t
school is ceasing to give any religious
instruction, and, considering the great <
diversity of religious views repre- c
| sented by the pupils, that is as it i
should be. But the trouble is that I
the speaker who was deploring the a
1 decline of religion and the lack of 1
idealism in our day was incapable of (
nor/iofuinir anvrallfrlnn nranv irlpalism t
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save that which manifested itself in f
the same old way to which he had al- ?
i ways been accustomed. If the giants 1
' of to-day do not dress in exactly the
same way that giants used to dress
in the days of his youth, he is disposed
to deny that they are giants.
If we believe in a living God, and if "
we believe that His eternal purpose .
cannot fail, then our faith is too supreme
for us to admit that the world J
of to-day is less religious than the
world of our forefathers. Pure re- 1
ligion and undefiled is this, to visit ,
the fatherless and the widows, to go :
out into the world and cry aloud at .
social injustice and oppression, to do
all in our power to stamp out prosti- j
tution and the economic causes there- k
of, to work for the uplift and better- f
ment of humankind. Pure religion J
and undefiled is an attitude of the \
heart toward all God's children here 1
on earth, aud if the twin giants called *
j human love and human service dwell *
in the midst of our society. I do not J
personally feel disposed to lament the 1
demise of those grim, gaunt giants
named "doctrine" and "catechism."
The giant called "doctrine" has always
been a sort of serio-comic giant,
anyway. In a lecture the other even- ]
lug I mentioned that the primary i
cause of the split between the Greek <
Church and the Latin Church was the j
doctrine of the procession of the Holy j
Spirit. The Greek Church contended ]
that the Holy Spirit proceeded only ,
from the Father, whereas, the Latins ]
, maintained that the procession was
from the Father and the Son, and,
after quarreling about it for se\erai
hundred years, each church anathematized
the other and lived unhap- t
i
>tly ever after. This was one aspect
)f the giant called "doctrine," and
laturally the world has lost interest
n such a foolish giant. The thing .to
lo is to congratulate the world an<?
:ommend it for Its growing wisdom,
nstead of condemning it.
It is all right to weave a halo about
he past, to regurd it as a golden age;
>ut, if our inclination to idealize the
)ast is going to make us blind to the
ine things of the present, then this
nolinatinn ia all wrone. It's wicked.
t is all right to wax enthusistic over
he pictures of Tintoretto or Raphael,
)ut, if our admiration for them presents
our recognizing the merits of
>resent-day artists, then our admiraion
is all wrong. It is all right to
lavo a creed coming down out of
he past, but, if .that creed obscures
>ur visicn of the Christ in the world
it the present day, then that creed is
t mistake. We have spent altogether
oo much time in the world worshipng
the God of our fathers, and now
t's time to worship the God of ourlelves
and the God of our sons. We
lave spent altogether too mucn time
alking about the miracles and the
ipiritual experiences of remote ages
ind remote lands, and now it's time
o discard the notion that our day is
>ald and commonplace and to talk
ibout the mighty works and the spirtual
experiences of this year of grace.
;Ve have spent too much time looking
or the Christ in the inspired epistles
>f St. Peter, and now it's time to look
or the Christ in the inspired writings
>f our contemporaries.
T\Totr"hrv thoro TtrorO crian^Q 'in tllG
;arth In those days, but, even if there
vere, they are dead, and our concern
low Is with the giants that are in
he earth in our day. And there are
;iants in the earth in our day. It
las been my good fortune to be perionallly
acquainted with several of
hem. When you just looked at them
:asually their stature seemed like
hat of other men, but when you
ooked more closely, when you looked
vith the eye of the spirit, you began
o realize that they towered up into
he heavens, you began to realize that
hey were tall men, sun-crowned, livng
above the fog in public duty and
n private thinking. You began to
ealize that the spirits of those men
:ould be contained in the compass of
10 ordinary body, and you confessed
o yourself that, here were giants in
he earth in our day.
And tfcen in addition to these iiidiridual
giants of to-day, there are corjorate
giants, which are more comnonly
called movements. One deals
vith the prevention and cure of disease,
another restricts the hours o?
abor for working women, and yet
mother protects the children of the
joor from exploitation and abuse.
There is a whole family of these
;iants, and they are a religious famly,
religious in the deepest sense of
;hat noble word. They occupy the
iuarters in our life that were formery
tenanted by doctrines, catechisms
ind kindred giants. All these movenents
that I mention, all ;hese agen:ies
working for the uplift and betternent
of the race, are so many maniestations
of the religion and idealism
if our day. Revere the good old
imes, my friends, but revere also the
Ine, splendid spirit of your, own day.
.lonor the religion of days gone by,
iut honor also its fair offspring, the
eligion of to-day.
There are giants in the earth in
>ur day and you have it in you to be
lumbered among them. You may
>e email of stature and slight of
'rame, but in the realm of things spirtual
one is r.ot accounted a giant be:ause
of stature or physical strength,
f your heart beats strong and true
vith a desire for the onward march
>f righteousness, if from the very
lepths of your being the cry goes
orth, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will
>e done;" if with all your heart, and
til your mind, and all your soul and
ill your strength you love the Lord
'our God and your neighbor as your;elf,
then God accounts you among
he giants of His kingdom; then you
ire among the giants that are in the
:arth in our day.
My friends, if in the deep and quiet
>f your lives you listen closely, you
vill hear a voice that bids you go
orth and take part in the giant movements
for the uplift and betterment
>f the world. You will hear a voice
hat bids you go forth and be giants,
owering in spiritual stature far above
ill self-seeking and petty individual
nterests. Hearken with the ears of
rour heart and you will hear a voice
:hat bids you go forth and prove by
;he mighty stature of your life that
;here are giants in the earth of our
lay.
Spiritual Life.
Some people take their pleasures
is if God begrudged them. But look
it the apple trees, with a hundred
)lossoms to one possible apple! How
ixtravagantly fond is God of all sweet
tnd beautiful things!?William E.
3arton.
We are learning that no one can see
ill of truth, that our doubting neigh>or
may be as honest as we are, that
is many causes tend to make men
hink differently as alike; and we are
llso learning that the main thing is
.0 cast out Satan.?T. T. Munger.
Beauty of achievement, whether in
jvercoming a hasty temper, a habit
)f exaggeration, in exploring a contllent
with Stanley or guiding well the
Ship of State with Gladstone, is alvays
. fascinating, and, whether
tnown in a circle large as tne equaior
>r only in the family circle at home,
hose who are in this fashion beauti'ul
are never desolate, and some one
ilways loves them.?Frances B.
iVillard.
Working the Corners.
At a mission meeting one preacher
said to another: "Where have you
jeen lately? I haven't seen you or
leard of you, nor have I once seen
our name in the papers." "No," was
he reply, "I've been working .the corlers
the past year."
"What do you mean?" "Well, I
ound there were plenty of preachers
n the city and towns, but the outying
districts where they were most
leeded were almost without them.
3o I left the city work and have been
joing from house to house, gathering
jeople in little groups in farmhouses
ind schoolliouses, preaching to them
ind teaching them there. There
;eemed to be nobody to do that work,
o I took it up. I call that working
:he corners, and I guess my name
lasn't been in the papers for a year."
?Christian Advocate.
Peace Through Submission.
Not in husbanding our strength,
jut in yielding it in service; not in
jurying our talents, but in adminisering
them; not in hoarding our seeti
n the barn, but in scattering it; not
n following an earthly human policy,
jut in surrendering ourselves to the
ivilj of God, do we find the safe and
alessed path.?F. B. Meyer.
Loyalty to Church.
Surrender is a necessary principle
;o Christian activity.
| The
Sunday=School
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR MAY 15.
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Subject: Growing Hatred to Jesus,
Matt. 12:22-32, 3S-42?Com
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GOLDEN TEXT.?"He ttiat is not
with Me is against Me; and he that
1 gathereth not with Me scattereth
abroad."?Matt. 12:30.
TIME.?Midsummer. A. D. 28.
PLACE.?Galilee.
EXPOSITION.?I. The Unpardonable
Sin, 22-32. Again we see on one |
I hand the awful power of demons and
i an the other the gracious power of
our Saviour, setting men entirely free
from the power of the evil one (v. I
22). Satan shuts the eyes and mouth
of many a man to-day, but Jesus has
power to open the eyes and enable
the dumb to speak. The multitudes
at once saw in Jesus' power to open
eyes , and lips the evidence that He
was the Messiah. The old Testament I
prophets had foretold that, the Messiah
-would do these things (Is.
'29:18; 32:3, 4). The Pharisees in
I their unwillingness to yield to the
truth had another explanation: it was
Beelzebub, the Prince of demons,
casting out demons. The Scribes and
Pharisees had come down from Jerusalem
to discover something to find
j fault with and accuse Him (cf. Mark
13:2. 6: 7:1: Luke 5:17. 21; Matt.
j 21:15, 16). They did Hot accept the
natural and true explanation because
their own hearts were wicked; and
they were unwilling to give the inheritance
to the real heir (John 3:19,
20; Ik47, 48; Mark 12:7). This
was not the only instance in which
this accusation was brought against
Jesus (Matt. 9:34; John 7:20; 8:48,
52; 10:20).. If such charges were
brought against Jesus, His true disciples
must not expect to escape
(Matt. 10:25). These charges broke
the heart of our loving Lord (Ps.
69:20). It was for our sakes that He
"endured such contradiction of sinners
against Himself" (Is. 63:3, 4).
He did not meet these outrageous
charges with anger and invective, but
lovingly sought to open the eyes of
those who brought them that they
might not be lost forever. The Pharisees
had not made these charges directly
to Him, but He had read their
thoughts (Matt. 12:25; Luke 11:17).
and by "knowing their thoughts" had
proved Himself divine. He exposes
the utter folly of their charge (vs.
25, 26). As it was not by Satan's
power that He cast out demons, He
showed them that it must be by the
Spirit of God (v. 28; Luke 11:20).
He who could thus put forth the
"finger of God" r?d bring Satan's
power to naught must Himself be divine.
Satan is a strong man (Mark
3:27; Luke 11:21, 22), but Jesus is
stronger, He has power to bind the
strong man and take his goods out
of his hands (v. 29). The one who is
under Satan's influence is a slave,
bound and guarded by the strong man
(Luke 11:21). If one is under the
mighty power of Satan, there is only
One to whom we can look for deliverance.
There are but two classes of
persons in the world, those who are
with Christ openly, whole-heartedly,
and those who are against Christ (v.
30). All sins but one are pardonable.
No matter how often a man has
siinned or how grievously, he can find
pardon, if he will only receive the One
who has borne our sins in His own
body on the tree (1 Pet. 2:24; Acts
10:43; 13:39). The one sin for
which there is no pardon is the blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit. The
context clearly shows that the blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit is the
deliberate attributing to the Devil
what we know to be the work of the
Holy Spirit. One who does this will
become so hardened and so blinded
that he will never come to Christ, and
thus will never find pardon. If any
one will come to Jesus, He will receive
him (John 6:37), and if therefore
one does come to Jesus, it is
nmnf that hp has not committed the
unpardonable sin. Jesus' statement
is proof positive that the doctrine that
| all men will ultimately be forgiven
I and saved (if not in this age, in a
future age) is absolutely untrue.
II. An Evil and Adulterous Generfttion
Seeketh After a Sign, 38-42.
The Scribes and Pharisees next demanded
a sign, some miracle to prove
that He was the Messiah. They were
not honest seeker^, for if they really
desired a sign, jesus naa aireauy
given abundant signs that He was a
Teacher sent from God (cf. John
3:2). Many to-day are asking proofs,
like the Pharisees of old, deliberately
shutting their eyes to the proofs that
are round about them on every hand.
Their seeking a further sign was a
revelation of the wickedness of their
own hearts, that they were in an evil
1 and adulterous generation (39). To
such a generation Jesus would give
no sign but the one great all conclusive
sign, that of tho resurrection.
Incidentally Jesus indorses the story
of Jonah as being actually historic
and not a mere allegory. If the story
cf Jonah being three days and three
nights in the belly of the sea monster
was an allegory, then, according to
Jesus himself, the resurrection of
Christ is also an allegory. Je3us an1
ticipated by centuries and exposed the
theories of the modern destructive
critics. Infidels have made merry
over the story of Jonah, and the great
fish, trying to show how impossible
it was for a whale to swallow a man.
The Bible nowhere says it was a
whale (see R. V. margin), but even
if it had, there would have been no
scientific impossibility in it; for it has
been proven in recent years that a
certain species or wnaie can swauuw
a man alive. This objection, like all
infidel objections, is founded on ignorance
and not' upon knowledge.
The men of the past who repented at
the preaching of the lesser prophets
will rise in judgment with the men
of this generation who reject the
great Prophet. "It will be more tol
erable in the Day of Judgment" for
those who have sinned against great
light in the old dispensation than foi
those in England and America whc
reject Him who is the Light of the
world, the incarnate Son o* God.
Would Take Xo Risks.
Sarah Kalmer, a bride of three
months, caused the arrest of her husband
because she had a premonition
that the balmy spring weather would
give him "wanderlust" and he would
desert her. She had been deserted
' by a former husband. Her present
husband cheerfully gave $S00 bond
Favorable to Railroads.
The United Sto-tes Supreme Court,
handed down two decisions favorable
to railroads, in which laws of Nebraska
and Arkansas were declared
null and void. _ _ ... j
THE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK
pnnnppijc MAnw "RV fTWA UPTONS
FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON.
The Potential Drop.
A little drop of drink
May make bright eyes grow dim.
!A little drop of drink
Takes the manhood out of him.
A little drop of drink
Brings "the wolf" to many a door,
A little drop of drink
Makes bare the cottage floor.
A little drop of drink
Takes the money from the bank.
A little drop of drink
Brings down the highest rank.
A little drop of drink
Sinks the man below the brute.
A little drop of drink
Brings forth but sorry fruit.
A little drop of drink
Ponder it, neighbor, well?
A little drop of drink
Can bring a soul to hell!
Drink Got Him.
William Binnings, known In Bowery
lodging houses as the "Duke of
Montreal," a tall, handsome man of
commanding presence, although
showing unmistakably the marks of
years of dissipation, was found dead
in his bed in the Vigilant Hotel, a
lodging house at No. 119 Bowery.
His death was undoubtedly the result
of hard drinking, just as his
downfall from a gentleman's estate
came from the same cause, for that
the "Duke 6t Montreal" was a gentleman
there can be no question. It
was because of his manner and evident
education that Bowery lodging
house habitues gave him a title.
From friends who had known him
in better days, when he was a man
among men, a little history of his
life was obtained yesterday. He was
borni In Stirling, Scotland, sixty-one
years ago. His family was a good
one and he received a first class education,
finally being graduated with
honors from Edinburg University.
After leaving the university he went
to Canada and obtained a junior 1
clerkship in the Bank of Montreal,
of which institution hia cousin, Richard
B. Angus, was then the general
manager.
Binnings rose rapidly and finally
was promoted to a high place in the
bank and commanded a large salary.
But he had formed drinking habits
and at last lost his position. His discharge
from the bank, where he had
worked several years, brought him
to a realization of what his habits
would lead to and he stopped drinking.
He obtained a good position with
the St. Paul and Manitoba Railroad
through the influence of some of his
relatives, who were large stockholders
in the road, tat after a little he
began drinking again and lost his
place once more.
He drifted to St. Louis and became
a clerk in a packing nouse, out iosi
the job through drink. Then he
found what work he could at odd
jobs and finally reached this city,
where he had many friends. Some
of them persuaded him to brace up
again and he did so and became an
accountant with a Wall street firm.
He did not hold the place long, for
the appetite for strong drink was
such that he had not the will power
to resist ft.
Then he cut loose from his old
friends and sank lower and lower in
the social scale, at last becoming a
regular hanger-on In Bowery saloons
and sleeping, when he had the price,
in a fifteen-cent lodging-house bed.
Now and then he would brace up for
a few days and then would address
envelopes for the Business Addressing
Company, No. 9 Barclay street,
the president of which, W. H. Parsons,
had known Binnlngs for more
than forty years.
Mr. Parsons was shocked to hear
of his death yesterday and said he
had telegraphed to the dead man's
relatives in Canada to ask what disposition
they wanted made of the
body.
"Binnlngs came of an excellent
family," said Mr. Parsons. "They
were prominent in the East India
service. He was a gentleman, charming
in his manners at all times. His
case is the saddest that ever came
under my notice."?New York
World.
Effects on Circulation and Nervous
- I
System.
I With regard to the circulation, al:
cohol produces an increased heart!
beat, a fuller pulse, and a redder
| skin. It calls upon the reserve powj
er of the organ, but the moment the
i effect has passed ofT, the action of
| the heart is actually weakened. ; ConI
sequently, the temporary effect is
produced at an unfortunate coat.
Then there is its action on the central
nervous system. Here, writes
an authority, "it acts directly on the
nerve cells as a functional poison."
i Tt first stimulates the nervous sysj
tem and then depresses it, and, as
I with other poisons which act upon
I this part of the body, the higher cenI
tres are affected first. They become
| a. little dull?a little less quick and
I acute. It may be very trifling, but
there it is; so that the man who does
his work on alcohol?even on a moderate
amount?is not at his best.
TTiorh TpstimOnv.
" =?" ? ?" I
Archbishop Ireland, in an address
In Chicago some years ago. said:
"Three-fourths of the crime, threefourths
of the inmates of poorhouses
and asylums, three-fourths of those
who are recipients in any way of public
or private charity have been reduced
to poverty through their own
intemperance or through the intemperance
of their natural protector."
Temperance Jfotes.
The alcoholic has lowered vitality,
greater metabolic derangements and
feebler power of repair. Comparison
of the mortality of diseases both medical
and surgical bring out this fact
very clearly.
Every man in the United States
should be an advocate of temperance.
The man in the United States who
lets whisky and all ardent spirits I
! alone is a fortunate man. He is the i
I man that succeeds, he is the man to i
j be trusted, he ia the man that is '
i wanted.
I Blows on the head and concussions
are followed by a greater variety and
more serious symptoms out of all
proportion to the injuries received in
the alcoholic.
The churches have never been so
! deenlv moved on the drink question
as now. They have learned beyond
any possible dispute that the drink
has been the slaveholder of tha
masses of the people.
The Governor of Oklahoma recently
said: "It will cost to enforce prohibition
five per cent, of what It will
cost to punish crimes, keep orphans,
paupers and criminals that the whisky,
traffic creates."
"NO, NEVER ALONE.'*
(Written on the passage, Hebrews 13:5: "l
will never leave thee nor forsake thee.").
I've seen the lightning, flashing, .
And heard the thunder roll;
I've felt sin's breakers dashing,
Almost they whelmed my soul.
I've heard the voice of Jesus,
He bade me still go on;
He promised never to leave me.
Never to leave me alone.
The world's fierce winds are blowing*
Temptations sharp and keen,
I feel a peace in knowing
My Saviour stands between.
He is my shield in danger,
When other friends are gone; * ^
He promised never to leave me,
Never to leave me alone.
When in affliction's valley
_ I tread the road of care,
JVlv Saviour ne.?ps me carrv ^
My cross when hard to Dear.
My feet, when torn and bleeding, i
My body tired and worn,
Then Jesus whispers His promise
Never to leave me alone.
He died on Calv'ry's mountain,
And there they pieced His side.
And there He opened that fountain .
The crimson, cleansing tide.
For me He waits in glory, '? . /. '-'a
Now seated on His throne;
He promised never to leave me, 'gain
Never to leave?me alone.
CHORUS.
No. never alone!' No, never alone!
He promised never to leave me; i
Never to leave me alone. .
?Cumberland Songs, No. 71.
AfiilHtiidpa And Manliness. ;
Thou shalt not follow a multitude ^
to do evil.?Exodus, 22:2%
This ordinance In the book of Ex-: (
odus is an evidence of that wtedom *-l&M
which marks Moses as the greatest
3tatesman of ancient days. The warning
of this old command is simply.
Don't follow the crowd.
The peril of the city is the excess
of the Instinct for association.
Civilization, progress, Is the growth ''.vfjga
and development of the associate life . dygs
of man, but the peril of city life Is
that this instinct'Is overdone.
People hate ii be alone. What
proportion of the ten thousand wife- -VO
nesses of a football match, would
stand for an hour or more in the
wind and rain If each man were iso-* '
lated from the rest of the crowd and
3aw only the players? . .
In spite of dirt and disease, con- Vfig
gestion and high rents the cities are J ^
growing at. an enormous rate, while .
the Aowns and villages are diminish- ;
ing. This instinct to be,in a crowd la ;
one of the most serious development#
in modern civilization. "New York . j
Is not a civilization; it Is a great rail- J
way station." The inevitable result
of association in a crowd is to do as j
the crowd does. The temper of j
Broadway, which Is damning thou- J
sands of careless lives, is the subtle J
cry which calls, "Do as the crowd I
All aDOUt us are pwyio nuu <un? ^
dheir standard to suit the crowd) JtffV'S
(s astonishing how far we are infftt-:,'V
snced by the practice and opinion of '
our fellows. Fear of unpopularity,
desire to be one with the rest, has led
many a prodigal into the far coun- V3
try. . The history of the sinning >c
world In a nutshell is simply doIngK^j
as others do, going the way the-?ro#&'
goes. Obviously, those who follow -v: i
otfters come to have no autonomy of i]
their own. They lose the poWcfr 'ofc
Independent judgment, the sttongtjr.? h '."I
and disposition for personal initfa? ' ' I
tive and finally the sense of personal- tfh
obligation. .'7$
That is the kind of atmospherein
which many of us are living to- ' .'I
day?eager, restless to be in the cur? - V;
rent of things, where is the ceaseless V.'
fret and foam of the sea, the man's
Identity is lost and his personality
merged in the great composite*
Moses, speaking to ancient Israel, ut- ,
tered a warning and. command which . *
was never more potent than to-day:)
"Thou shalt not follow a multitude
to do evil."
Resistance is power. L?ne nas ueea ?
defined as the sum total of the forces H
that resist death. Resistance is life.
In the centripetal force which keeps
the planet from flying off into 8pa<& fl
there operates the law oT resistance*
whose might is the secret of creation. A
In the moral and spiritual world the H
secret of life is the might of one's ?
resistance. H
When one's sense of personal re- S
sponsibility and obligation is lost n
his resistance is gone, and when his H
resisting power is gone the man is H
gone. Follow not the crowd, but the
challenge of thine own soul. Be a H
whole man to the whole life and veri- Hj
tably thy feet shall be established, m
thou having done all to stand.?Sj
Lewis Hartsoclc, In the New York H
Herald.
The Loftiest Sen-Ice. HflS
TVe are always wanting wings to B|
fi.v with in God's service, and we have
only hands and feet. The Lord Jesus '^D
Christ comes into the world to teach Jj
us, by those thirty years of life as the MB
carpenter, that the loftiest service of
God can be lived out in the lowliest
conditions?that to do one's work |H
honestly and thoroughly and cheer- H
fully is as much the service of God as
the life of the angels before His
throne.?Rev. Mark Gray l'earse.
Theology find Chriiit.
A knowledge of theology does not
o Irnn-cvlpHtrp flf Christ. Bflj
*
Active Service. B9
No life is rich vrhich is not man!- H
festlng itself in active service. Life
in every sphere will involve the privilege
and opportunity of toil.
Social Position. ^B|
What satisfaction is it to Tfave so*
rial position and political prefeiment
If our conscience is dulled? |^H
Spirit of Brotherhood. BB
The spirit of brotherhood is the un- flJ|
deriving motive for philanthropists
and humanities.
Father of Thirty-four Children. fiDB
The birth of a healthy baby In H9
Dedham, Mass., has made Joseph
Sears, of Hillside avenue, the father
of thirty-four children. He has been
twice married in the last forty years/ IBlj
his first wife giving birth to eighteen
children and the present Mrs. Seara
to sixteen. Only twelve of the large
iamny are imng. owio 13 u?j> ^nn
seven years old. He is a carpenter Hn|
by trade. A wH
Model For Nations. ""S HH
King Frederick of Denmark thinks
the United States the model for all BBfl
nations. ? ? HB