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New York City.?Thesimple blouse
coat that can be belted or left loose
/'as preferred is a smart and practical
-one that is to be much worn throughout
the spring and summer. This
model allows a choice of full sleeves
.gathered into cuffs or of plain ones
of the two-piece sort, and these latter
-can be either cut to full or three-quarter
length as preferred. Pongee is
the material illustrated, and the coat
matches tuo skirt, but it will be found
available for all suiting and all cloaking
materials. Chanticleer red and
royal blue serge are much liked for
the separate wraps of mountain and
seashore use, and the model suits
^uch treatment as well as it does the
costume and more prosaic coats of
street wear. Any contrasting material
can be used for collar and cuffs,
"but this coat is finished with messa
line in matching color. Natural colored
pongee with revers and cuffs of
bowered cretonne would make an attractive
summer coat. SmalJ women
will find the model an excellent one.
The coat is made with fronts and
back. It can be cut off and made
somewhat shorter if preferred. The
full sleeves are made in one piece
cach, gathered at upper and lower
edges, but the plain sleeves are cut
with upper and under portions. The
collar i^ seamed to the neck edge.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size (sixteen years)
is five and a half yards twenty-seven,
three and three-eighth yards fortyfour
or three yards fifty-two inches
wide with three-quarter yard twentyone
for collar and cuffs.
^ Hair Goods Prevail.
Hair goods of all kinds prevail,
some single and of considerable width
and some double, like the Greek filet. I
One-piece work apron garments
are a fancy of the present season and
are much liked made in this way.
This model is simplicity itself.
Toques Hang Low.
The toques that hang low over the
Heht pvp nneht to look verv ridicu
lous, but do not. Possibly this is because
they are what milliners call
"well-worn," that is, balanced to the
exactitude of a hair and suited in
character to the rest of the toilette.
But what would be thought of a cook
if on her day off she were to return
in one of these? The policeman on
duty would certainly keep his eye
upon her.
Coiffure Styles.
Among the minor essentials of the
present coiffure is that an inch of hair
at the neck and above the ears must
show. The braid or swirl must go
above this space. It is not considered
correct these days to pin the switch
down at the very edge of the line of
growth.
Chiffon Cloth Used.
Chiffon cloth will be much used in
combination with plain and tailored
silks, both as a trimming and as a
veiling material for bodice and tunic.
Ppnl iim.
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The straight classic gown known !
as the "peplum" has brought into j
the shops for its use foulards in
gown lengths which have two kinds |
of material, one polka dotted and i
the other plain. The polka dots are
sprinkled over the ground of the dotted
bilk and make a border all
around it. The silk comes in street
tones.
Tucked Blouse.
The simple tucked blouse is always
a dainty and attractive one. This
model can be made from any material
that is adapted to lingerie treatment,
and that means the thin silks
and light weight wools as well as
muslins. It can be made with high or
square neck, and the square neck can
be finished with banding or with a
frill or in any way to suit the fancy.
Mercerized batiste with banding of
lace is the material illustrated, but
muslins include embroidered and
openwork sorts and all kinds of fancy j
effects, while silks that are adapted j
to such a model mean foulards, India j
silk and a variety of silk and cotton j
mixtures. The blouse suits the odd
waist and the gown equally well.
The waist is made with front and
backs. It is tucked to form a yoke
and closed invisibly at the back. The j
sleeves are in one piece each gathered
into cuffs, and these cuffs can be :
made deeper or shorter according to
]M|jO
the length of sleeves desired. When ;
high neck is used a stock collar is at- I
tached to the edge.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is four and an [
eighth yards twenty-one or twenty- i
four, two and three-eighth yards thir- |
ty-two or two and a quarter yards '
forty-four inches wide with three j
yards of insertion, v
j
House gown or wrapper "to be made :
with or without stock collar, with |
three-quarter full or plain long !
sleeves. !
Veiled Sashes.
One of the new touches on lovely
evening frocks for dinners and dances ]
is the veiled sash. These are of satin |
or metal tissue, veiled with chiffon or i
exquisite lace. On one gown the sash ,
was of ivory white satin, veiled with |
filmy chiffon in the most entrancing j
shade of pale green. These sashes
are draped and festooned about the j
bodice of the frock and end in long |
streamers finished with silk or beaded
fringe.
The Untrimmed Hat.
The prevailing fashion for having I
an entirely plain hat on the head Is
Interesting and artistic, but one
should not adopt the fashion without
knowing its dangers. They ar?
these: That unless the hat has exquisite
lines, which means perfection of
cut and shape, it looks ungainly.
Fichu in Vogue.
The fichu is again in vogue, but it
is now made flat like a large shawl
collar and of all-over lace embroidery
or heavily embroidered net.
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR. ALLAN D. CARLILE.
Theme: The Tears of Jesus.
Brooklyn. N. Y.?Dr. Allan Douglas
Carlile, pastor of the Throop Avenue
Presbyterian Church, preached
Sunday morning on "The Tears of
Jesus." The text was from John
11:35. In the course of his sermon
Dr. Oarlile said:
J. Wire liC VCl Boa a uittuws* ~
than Jesus. When His masculine
traits are assembled, He towers
among men supreme for courage, 'will
power, fixity of purpose and perseverance
in the face of obstacles. It is
true Jesus embodied human nature
a?d. therefore we see in Him, as in
no other strong man, the distinctive
feminine traits of sympathy, gentleness
and love. But these did not predominate.
Jesus is unique in that in
His character both the masculine and
feminine virtues blended harmoniously.
He is always gentle and always
strong. So that our text represents
Him not only with the tenderness
of the woman who weeps easily,
but also in the awful agony of the
strong Man in tears. And when we
draw near to our Saviour's sorrow
and study the occasion for it, we get
an insight into His character not otherwise
disclosed. Three times He is
represented thus to us. Let us reverently
behold His sorrow and ask
Him why He weeps.
1. We come first to the occasion
referred to in Luke 19:41, where He
weeps over the city. Read the text
and catch the pathoy of it. There are
two elements in Christ's sorrow here,
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the destruction of that city, and for
what that destruction typified. There
are lessons for us in both. The first
indicates Jesus' love of place. It may
seem a little thing, but I like to recall
the fact that Jesus was and ever will
be associated with places on this
earth. He loved Jerusalem. Some
people scoff at the idea of "holy
places." The poet Montgomery asks,
scornfully:
"What's holy ground? Has Earth a
clod
Its Maker meant should not be trod
By Man, the image of his God, erect
and free?"
Perhaps not, but that is nothing
against holy places. It is natural to
love our birthplace; to hold in sacred
reverence the sanctuary where we
first found Christ and the field where
lies the dust of loved ones. And Jesus
loved the Holy City. He had peculiar
reasons for doing so. Had it not been
the trysting place of God and His
people for ages? Besides that, Jerusalem
was and is unique. Like Melchisedek
himself, its history has no
beginning, and It has always been and
always will be a holy city. Its first
king was a priest of the most high
God. It is to this day the object of
the pilgrimages of the three greatest
religions?Jewish, Mohammedan and
Christian?and in prophetic pictures
it is destined to be again the most
sacred city of the world, when Israel
shall be brought back with joy and
singing and the glory of God once
more fill His sanctuary.
The wise men tell us that this
world will be destroyed; that it will
be blown to fragments by its internal
fires, or wrecked in collision with
some other world, or be frozen dead
by its own cooling. In some way or
other they are sure it will be destroyed.
But I doubt it. Jesus abides
unchanged, and in His regard for and
relation to this little world is just
what He was. When Peter and John
healed the lame man at the temple
gate they invoked the name of "Jesus
of Nazareth." That is His name in
heaven. Destroy the world and we
will forgfit how He got His title. He
who wept over the city, how would
He weep over tfce world He came to
save! I do not believe anything in
the universe is going to be destroyed.
For it is written, "The creation itself
shall be delivered from the bondage
of corruption into the glorious liberty
of the children of God." The universe
1b waiting for the "redemption
of our body." Matter, mind and soul
are to be redeemed, not destroyed.
But Jesus' love of place is not sufficient
to explain these tears. There
was agony infinitely deeper than that
in the thought of what the city's
downfall meant to the people for
whose salvation God had done so
much. Not that the work of God
would fail. He was able of the stones
to raise up children unto Abraham.
The door should be thrown wide open
and the Gentiles would come in. But
God's love is not fickle, and the
thought of Israel, whom He loved and
still loves, children of the covenant,
heirs of the promises, doomed by
their own soul-blindness to be scattered
among the nations, a people
without a home, like Abraham,
"strangers and pilgrims" on the
earth, for centuries to be made to
suffer what they had made Him, their
greatest Prophet, suffer, who "was
despised and rejected of men!"?this
was what agonized the Saviour. Here
His tears were for the ancient'people
of God.
2. The second instance shows His
sympathy for men in the ordinary
sorrows of life. It happened at the
tomb of Lazarus, and it is from that
story that our text is taken. Understand,
this is a case of pure sympathy.
He was not weeping for the death of
Lazarus. Such an interpretation does
violence to the account as we have it.
Read the whole chapter. He knew
that Lazarus was to die. He knew
that it was that "the Son of Man
might be glorified thereby." He
stayed away from Bethany that he
might have time to die. And He
knew that He would raise him from
the dead. So far as regards Lazarus,
there must have been in Jesus' heart
great and solemn joy as He stood before
that tomb. But in the pause before
He works His mightiest miracle
He feels the throb of anguish in the
sisters' hearts. No faith in His immediate
help; no hope there, and His
perception of the awful agony that
death brings < > blind, unbelieving yet
loving humanity awakened a tempest
in CIo Tri aii f'o mil 1
iu tiiu kjuuuui o ocrui.
Do you think this is not enough to
account for the Strong Man's tears?
That there must have been the "more
awful sense of the personal loss of a
lovedone?" You are mistaken. Jesus
had no such sense of personal loss,
for He knew that in a moment more
Lazarus would stand among them
alive and well. And if you think
mere sympathy insufficient, it is because
you have become dulled, as
Jesus is not, to the awfulness of
earth's trials. Perhaps we all have to
some extent?with the exception of
death. We have never gotten used
to death. God has planted deep in
our hearts a hatred of death as the
unnatural thing, the unnecessary
thing, the thing that ought not to
be! It is His promise and prophecy
that it shall not always be. But we
have grown measurably callous to
the ordinary trials of life. But
heaven has not! Earth's sorrows are
worse in heaven's view than in our
own. Do not think that Jesus mini- I
mizes them, when even the angel, i '
when speaking of His suffering ones. I
to John, said, "These a.re they that
have come out of great tribulation." '
3. The third instance is His agony
in the Garden. And this, too, is sympathy.
Not now. for the Jewish people,
nor for the world at large in life's <
ordinary troubles, but for His own
disciples, whose awful grief and disnnnninfmonf
tta fnraqooc
I know that some think that His
agony in the Garden was due to Hh.' I
dread of physical suffering. But I '
do not believe it. That would con- "
tradict all I have said about the Man- '
liest of Men. I have a nobler concep- I
tion of Jesus. Other men have faced
death in the most excruciating forms
without a murmur. His followers I
without number have died for Him
rejoicing. They have been beheaded, ]
crucified head downward, burned at 1
the stake, and have bathed their <
hands in the fire and sung praises to
God while breath lasted. Jesus wus 1
no coward. "And the disciple is not 1
greater than His Lord." j
But others think that we must add <
to this tfce "loss of the conscious 1
fellowship of the Father, which was ;
hell for Jesus." But He evidently i
did not anticipate this. That is a cry <
of surprise He utters on the cross
when He says, "My God! My God! ;
Why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Bad
enough for His disciples to forsake 1
Him, and reason enough for it, but ,
Thou? "Why hast Thou forsaken ,
Me?" 1
And there are still others who say ! ;
it was the "horror of being made an i
? -? -1- ?? T>.. * T_T? +Vi f a I 4
onenng xor Sill. out r:iC aucn cilia |
all along. He faced this from the j
beginning of His ministry. And He j
said once that He was "straitened un- (
til it be accomplished."
I see in Christ's agony in the Gar- ,
den?and it is beautiful as a revela-1 J
tion of His character?His sympathy ,
for His disciples in the awful agony '
His death was to occasion them. You, ! ,
too, may see it, ii you will read atten- | !
tively the story in John's Gospel beginning
with the thirteenth chapter.
Note how He laborB to make them
comprehend what must happen to
Him, and. how utterly He fails.
Though He tells them over and over
again that He aiust leave them, that
He will be crucified, and that it is absolutely
necessary that He should
be, they cannot entertain the thought.
So far from it that they insist on believing
that He is still speaking to
them in parables. But He is so exceedingly
eager to forewarn them
and thus fortify them for their trial
that He utters that remarkable prayer
of John 17 in their hearing. Surely
they will believe and understand
when they hear Him speaking the
same things to God and praying for
them that the Father might keep
them in His absence? But it is in j
vain, So foreign to their preconcep- J
tions is it that His words make no
impression upon them. And so they
must hear the awful downfall of all
their hopes and the loss of all their
faith in Him. Dull pupils were ths
apostles until after Pentecost.
It was in this spirit that Christ entered
Gethsemane. Why did He take !
aside the brightest three of His apos- j
ties and why did He bid them watch
Him as He went and prayed, unless it
were to show them the eager earnest,
ness of His own heart for them? They
could not think that a parable. But
they were too heavy-eyed to watch.
So I believe that even the agony in I
the Garden was vicarious. Jesus whs I
I rnfncori +/i ovorcico Mia nnwar for I
Himself at the beginning did not
weep for Himself at the end of His
ministry. /
Now what could show us the heart
side tt the Saviour so clearly as Hie
tears? We need no feminine intermediary,
for Christ haB the tenderness
of a woman. He knows your
sorrow. He appreciates its weight to
the full. He considers it more awful
than you do. How gloriously will He
reward them that endure to the end?
He feels for all mankind. His own
ministry was largely to the desolate,
and He waits for you, His disciples,
to hear His message of hope and love
and comfort to every one.
He has not forgotten nor cast off
His ancient people. They, too, in
God's good time, shall come to know
His love for them. And in that day
the city that crumbled beneath the
Saviour's tears shall be glorified with
His smile. ,a Our
Three-Fold Gospel.
The Gospel of our Lord Jesus.
Christ is a three-fold Gospel. You
all know that "gospel" means "glad
tidings" or "good news." There are
thrae parts to the good news.
"he first part is Christ for us on
the cross. That God took every one
of your sins, and every dne of mine,
and laid them on Jesus Christ, so
that to-day there is not a cloud between
us and God.
The second part of the Gospel is
Christ in us, the secret of a victorious
life. There is no use of our
trying to imitate Jesus Christ, but
God through the Holy Spirit forms
the living Christ in us, so that Christ
in us live3 out His life day by day.
The third part of the Gospel is
Christ with us. He is not with us
fully now. He is with us, of course,
in the presence and power of the
il, ? T Tap 11 o laft
Spirit. DUl IUC -uuiu ucouo iv*L, ?,**? * J
earth. He is now our absent Lord,
but He is coming back again. We
are going to have Him with us, delivering
us from the very presence of
sin.?R. A. Torrey.
Our Father's AVorld.
He who thinks deeply lives deeply.
We can go through life drifting along
on the surface of things, never knowing
all the sweep and force of the
mighty stream that bears humanity
onward. But the men and women
who live deeply, whose thought is
serious, who have in more or less degree
the consciousness that they are
here for a purpose, are living with
God; even now they are in the eternal
order. In all true men ana women
that is the growing thought of the
years.
As a fact we find that conviction
stronger among the aged, when the
failure of the body seems well nigh
complete. The outward man perishes,
but tlie inward man is renewed
day by day?yes, renewed in the profound
and inspiring and blessed
thought that in spite of all the sin
and suffering it is still God's world
which H6 is guiding to some divine
end.?Rev. George D. Latimer.
Have Pcrfect Trust.
The infinite Father does not stand
by us to be catechized and explain
Himself to our vain nnncis. Jie 13
here for our trust; and if we will but
lean oc. Him our chafing heart shall
sleep the sweet sleep of recovery.
We must not carry the habits and exactions
of vision into the hours of
its loss; if we do but take His hand
He will lead us as the blind by a way
that we know not; and we cannot go
astray whilo He abides.?Evangelical
Herald.
The " I1
Sunday=School <
[NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMME
NTS FOR JUNE 5.
]
Tneiio Wnllrc Art +tl#> SOU. i
Matt. 14:22-30?-Commit 1
Verses 20, 27. j
1
GOLDEN TEXT?"Then they that !
were in the ship came and worshiped <
Him. saying, Of a truth Thou are the
3on of God." Matt. 14:33. j
TIME.?April, A. D. 29. j
PLACE.?The Sea of Galilee be- ]
tween Bethsaida and Capernaum. i
EXPOSITION.?I. Jesus Sending i
His Disciples Into the Storm, 22, 24. ]
rhe multitude who beheld the sign
Df the multiplied loaves and fishes ]
were so affected by itthat they wished ]
to take Jesus at once and make Hlmt |
king (Jno. 6:14, 15). To keep His i
Immature disciples out of this politi- i
cal excitement Jesus immediately i
forced them to get into the boat and i
pull for the other side. They wanted
to stay. In sending them away He i
was sending theminto a terrific storm, i
How often to-day He sends us away
from the place of quiet and refreshment
to meet the midnight storm, j
rhey were safe there. When both i
disciples and multitude had gone
Jesus went further into the mountain
to pray. Son of God though He was, '
He needed prayer. Can we then expect
to get beyond the place where we
need prayer? There were things that
He must pour into no ears but God's.
Solitude is needful for the best prayer.
"He was there alone." He prayed
long, way on till near dawn. He
seemed to greatly need rest, He had
gone apart to get it, and then had had
a day of excessive toil, but He needed
prayer more than rest. There is often
greater refreshment in prayer than
Bleep (Is. 40:31. There had just
been a great crisis in His history, and
so He must talk it all over with the
Father. While He prayed, through
the flashes of lightning He saw His
disciples out on the sea distressed
with rowing against the storm (Mark
6:48). Thay had been in the storm
before, but then Jesus was with them,
now they were alone (Jno. 6:17).
Jesus did not go to them at once. He
left them to battle with the waves
while He continued in prayer. But
He was helping them by His prayers
and He helps us to-day by His intercession
(Heb. 7:25).
II. Jesus Coming to His Disciplcs
in the Storm, 25-27. In the darkest
hour, just before dawn, as their boat
was helplessly tossed about, Jesus
Himself came to the despairing disciples.
He came, "walking upon the
sea" (cf. Job 9:8). The disciples
were not relieved, but troubled at the
sight of Him. They did not recognize
Him, but fancied .that He was an apparition,
and that their time had
come. They cried out for fear. Jesus
often approaches us in a way that we
do not at first recognize Him, and we
are terrified instead of comforted. But
Jesus did not leave them long in suspense
and fear. He uttered the most
comfdrting words He can ever say, "It
is I." The "be of good cheer" and
"be not afraid" would not have helped
without the "It is I."
I3T. A Disciple's Approach to Jesus
in the Storm, 28-31. Peter, true to
his character, comes forward with a
proposition. Good and bad are
strangely mixed in the request. There
was the good desire to get to Jesus at
once, there is the bad desire to display
himself. There is faith and there
is unbelief. Jesus says but one word,
"Come." Peter climbed over the side
of the boat and began walking on the
waters. He trusted Christ and the
power of God sustained him (1 Pet.
1:5). He was quite proud of his
achievement and began to look around
Instead of looking at Jesus. Then he |
saw the wind and down he began to I
sink. Alas, for the man who takes
his eyes off from Jesus and looks at I
his environment. But Peter was wise I
in his peril, he did the best thing any !
one can do when sinking. His prayer
was short, explicit, personal, right to
the point, intensely earnest, and it
was answered Immediately, though its
faith was by no means perfect. If any
sinking soul honestly cries to Jesus,
"Lord, save me," He will do it (Ro.
10:13). Jesus helped immediately
t(cf. Is. ?5:24). It was with His out- j
stretched hand that He "took hold of )
him" and saved (cf. Ps. 138:7; Mark I
1:31; 41:5-41; Acts 4:30; Is. 59:1).
Peter's failure was through his
"doubt."
IV. Jesus on Board, the Storm
Over and the Desired Haven Reached,
32-33. As soon as Jesus was in the
boat the wind ceased. All .that many
a tempest-tossed soul needs is to take
Jesus on board and it will find calm
and safety at once. The disciples
were greatly amazed at what had happened
(Mark 6:5-1). The demonstrations
that they had already seen of
Jesus' divine power should have prepared
them for this further one
(Mark 6:52). They immediately
"worshiped" Jesus. They were right
in so doing (Heb. 1:6; Jno. 5:23).
Jesus' acceptance without nrotest of
the worship thus offered clearly
proves His recognition of His own
deity (cf. Matt. 4:9, 10; Acts 10:25,
26; Rev. 19:10). The disciples exclaimed,
"Of a truth, Thou art the
Son of God." This, too, was/true (cf.
ch. 16:16-18). Immediately upon receiving
Jesus into the boat they
reached the shore. If any one is "all
at sea" and storm-driven, toiling
fruitlessly against wind and wave, let
him lake Jesus on board and he will
come speedily and safely to land.
V. Jesus Healing the Sick, 34-3G.
The disciples are to have still further
proof that Jesus is truly the Son of
God. As soon as the men of Gennesaret
recognize Jesus they scour the
country around about for any that are
sink and brine them ?o Him. Would
that we had an equal appreciation of
Jesus to-day and would scour the
country for all that are sick, not only
in body, but in soul. They were very
humble in their demand, they only
asked that they might touch the border
o? His garment. They got what
they asked, and "as many as touched
were made whole." All that one
needs to receive help from Jesus is
just to touch Hiui.
Dances 000 Times, Earns $000.
Miss Antonia Ropesak, twentythree
years old. was-married to Joseph
Barry, twenty-six, in Venice, 111.
They returned to East Madison, and
at night the festivities began. According
to a Polish custom, every
man present is expected to dance
around the room with the bride and
to hurl a silver dollar at a china plate. I
If he breaks the plate he may danco
again. In any event, the bride keeps
the money. When the proceeds were
counted at daylight the bride had six
hundred silver dollars. As some
plates were broken, she must have
danr*d mora thAn 600 tLmp.fu -
SITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE
SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSE
GREATLY CHEERED.
Tlie Consumption of Liquor.
The American Prohibition Year
Book for 1910 is just to hand and
jives some interesting statistics on
:he consumption of liquor in this
jountry as compared with the United*
Kingdom. In 1889 the drink bill of
j. ? O 4 A AAA AAA mm I
cms couairy waa .oiu.vuu^uv aa
igainst $750,000,000 for Great Britain
and Ireland; an expenditure of
$14 a head against $20 a head. In
1899 our bill was $1,000,000,000
igainst $900,000,000 for Britain; or
$14.40 a head against $23 a head.
In 1908 this country spent $1,675,500,000
for liquor against $800,000,000;
or $19.22 a head against $18 a
head.
For the last ten years, owing largely
to the increasing excise tax, the
English per capita consumption has
been steadily going down. So much
30 that the nation is now saving annually
$120,000,000 a year as compared
with 1899. On the other hand,
the consumption of liquor steadily
increased up to 1907, when it reached
the high water mark of $1,757,000,000.
The only encouraging figure in the
long table, as far as this is concerned,
Is the expenditure for 1908, which
shows a decrease of $80,000,000.
Unfortunately, that is just one-half
the increase which took place during
the year immediately preceding. It
is to be regretted that the Year Book
does not give the figures for 1909,
as they are elsewhere stated to be
much more promising.
Of course, the above figures are all
only estimates. It is Impossible to
get at the exact fact. But they are
perhaps close enough for the comparison
based upon them.
Civilization "Soused."
I have read your quotations from
the address delivered recently by Dr.
T Alovnnrifir MacNichol. and am
puzzled at the use of the word "pessimistic"
in describing his sentiments.
Has any one proved that Dr. MacNichol
is wrong in his statements?
There are any number of people who
believe him to be right, and if he has
merely stated a fact why should he
be called pessimistic?
The word optimism seems, through
common usage, to mean a whitewashed,
rose-tinted, sugar-coated de-*
scription of the bitter things' of life
which some men absolutely refuse'to
see, and pessimism, instead of standing
for the distorted vision of a torpid
liver, is utilized wherever a man ofcn
serves actual conditions and describes
them exactly as they are, with no attempt
either to gloss or darken them.
Apparently no two words in tlie
English language are more abused
than the two in question, and no Intelligent
thinker is more wronged by
the public than when he is called a
pessimist for merely being a truth
teller.
In view of these facts is it not possible
that Dr. MacNichol's suggestion
that the Government should use its
police power for the destruction of
alcoholism (to save future generations
of school children) is something
more than pessimism?
Regardless of the fact that the
writer will also be willed a pessimist
I have no hesitation in saying that
civilization is "soused" at the present
time, and unless the Government
soon reforms itself and its people
there will be little vitality or longevity
left for coming * generations.?
Lurana W. Sheldon, in the New York
Times.
A Good Answer.
The question propounded by Mayor
Rose, "Where will the people employed
in the liquor business find
work when it is prohibited?" Dr.
Dickie said:
"In one of our Michigan towns the
'wets' were wiped out the other day.
A saloonkeeper's wife went over to a
neighbor's and began to storm about
the people taking away her husband's
business. 'What am I going to do
when he has to close up?' she exclaimed.
"The neighbor had a woman scrub
- * ? 1J
bing tfle floors, ana mis woman cumu
stand it no longer. 'I'll tell you what
you can do,' she said, with 'lashing
eyes. 'My husband has been getting
twelve dollars, a week, and he has
spent half of it in your husband's
saloon. Now that the saloon is to be
closed, he can support me, and you
can have my job here at scrubbing.' "
?Pittsburg Christian Advocate. .
^ Back Into the Jug.
A man returned to his native Indiana
village after having emigrated
to Kansas, some twenty years previous.
He asked about different ones he
had known in the old days, and finally
of old Nicodemus Bainbridge, the
town drunkard of his time.
"Oh, he's dead," replied the one
questioned.
"Well, well! dead and buried, is
he?"
"Nope, they didn't bury him."
"Didn't bury him!" exclaimed the
former resident. "Well, then, what
did they do with his remains?"
"Oh, they just poured them back
Into the jug."
The Devil's Own.
Referring to President Taft's definition
of whisky the Philadelphia
North American aptly puts the matter
in the following language:
President Taft took 5000 words to
answer the question, "What is whisky?"
He might have answered it in
three by adopting General Sherman's
definition of war.
An Expensive Evil.
Slowly but surely sensible business
men are discovering the fact wmcn
religious papers and temperance advocates
have so often asserted, that
for every dollar received from saloon
taxes the saloon makes necessary the
expenditure of two dollars.
Degenerations From Alcohol.
No matter what the opinions or
theories of the physician may be, the
degenerations from alcohol must be
recognized in the study and j^iictice
of medicine.
Sweden's King Temperate.
Staff correspondence to the Associated
Prohibition Press notes the
fact that the King of Sweden, on the
occasion of the grand maneuvres at
Adalen, gave a dinner to some 200
persons at which no wine nor Deer
were served. The information is
given also that no wine is servec^^^u
the ordinary table of the
The Bishop of Liverpoo^^^^^H
at Chester recently said thHBSHa
tlon the English spend $S^BHSH9
a year in strong drink.
that would pay tba
A m aA-LL < L.?* :
I'fi^ncrcojorrnc, i
SORROW.
Count each affliction, whether light or ?
wave, . i
God s messenger sent down to thee. So $
thou
With courtesy receive him; rise and bow, /
And, ere his shadow pass thy threshold, t-tf
crave
Permission first his heavenly feet to lave; . . ,
Then lay before him all thou hast. Allow
No cloud of passion to usurp thy brow,
Or mar thy hospitality; no wave
Of mortal tumult to obliterate f ''2
TVio onnl'g marmnrMl ralmnma. Oriel
should be
Like joy, majestic, equable, sedate, ]
Confirming, cleansing, raising, making '
free; <
Strong to consume small troubles; to com-" -via
mand
Great thoughts, grave thoughts, thoughts
lasting to tne end. ' *
?Thomas Aubrey de Yere. / ' -X
The Joy of Christ.
There Is a prevalent misconception 3
concerning the daily life and eipe- j
rience of the Lord Jesus when He
was with us. Wo think of Him as ;
the "Man of sorrows," and rightly.
"He carried our sorrows;" the burden
of our guilt was upon Him. He
was so in sympathy with men that
their burdens and sorrows became
His. The incompleteness of character,
the hypocrisy and deceit which
met Him everywhere, the thousand
forms of iniquity which filled the ]
world, our guilt laid upon His soul, ]
did indeed fill His with sorrow; there . J
was no sorrow like His. It was a I
deep undercurrent, that - became
greater as He approached the end " ]
"i- i -i: i -r-ri?^ 1
wnen cue muuuuaes were auuut mm r y-.M
seeking His blessing, we hesir Hinf 1
| say: "My soul is. exceeding borrow- -j
ful, even unto death." |
But with all this His heart was 1
full of Joy. There was sorrow, but J
there was no sadness; there was a > |
burden, but there was no disappoint*- . *1
went; there was the keen sense of . f J
the guilt of sin> and of the agony of 1
the atonement, but there was no hesl- ; 1
tation. We see the tumult, but He ' 1
speaks of "My. peafce," His own pe- ' 1
culiar peace; we see! the suffering:, 1
but i$is highest wish for His dia- >9
ciples was that "My Joy might remain
in you, afid that your Joy might , J
be full." 9
Suffering and happiness are not
Incompatible; sorrow and joy are not I
so antagonistic that they may not - .1
dwell in the same heart. There ia - I
a grace which rises above the sufTei*- 9
lng, and makes it-minister to joy. yM
It is one of the wonderful things of. ' 9
grace that It so lifts us up out of our 9
anrrminrtlnira and -Ollt. of OUrselves.J*aS J
that there is perfect peace even when
the suffering I& greatest. We have
teen the victim of disease racked, with
pain whose face beamed with joy, and 11
'whose words- were < songs, of praise. :
The martyrs sang as they burned. So " 1
with Jesus; at the very time when His
cup wa3 filled to the overflowing, He
talked with His disciples out of
heart perfectly at Jrest. ,
There was to Jesus the joy of H1& '2jM
sinless nature. We cannot measure-' . 9
that, but we may sometimes nave a
foretaste of it; there may be such a ''l
Bense of pardon and of friyine iove ^J
that we are as in the presence of God, -.1
but our highest short experience is
tar below the blessedness which was 'nornotiiftt
In thfl ROnl of JoSUS. Tttta'iflM
Him there was the Joy of infinite love.
He gave Himself for others, and'
their salvation His Joy was above
aufferlng. The prayer of the.penitent"- ,
thief was to Him the Joy of icive pre*r^l
railing, even over the thoriis and'thesis
aails. There to Him wis the con- .4
3clousness of His Father's love and.5
He dwelt on that love. Even wittir*^
the cross before Him, in the qomy^
munion of the holy fellowship His
very garments shone with the glory^ftf
God. He was mocked and scorned;
but all the time He saw HTs work
prevailing. The lame man walking, ,
the dumb man singing the prate of >
I God, the dead coming back to life,
I n-oro tvnfra) nf ft flrreatar work Of
love in the salvation of men. He :.
thought of the man whose sins were
forgiven as one saved, and not
healed. t
How great the joy of that hour aft fl
He prayed. "Holy Father, keep those -fl
whom Thou hast given Me!" We can
know but little of that higher world
In which Jesus lived, for it Is the S
world of perfect holiness and infinite fl
love, but we see something of it: we fl
have something in common with Him, fl
62. that, we, can enter into His Joy B
sufficiently" to know that it crowned
all labor and -sweetened all sorrow.
The "Man of sorrows" let Him ever
be to us, but also we should open our H
hearts to receive the inflowing of His B
ever-present, unbounded joy.?United E
Presbyterian.
ISK I
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Reason ar.d Faith. H
i Tt 1? well to bear in mind that most
of the so-called "modern" difficulties '
of belief are by no means new, but; -jfl
I have at recurring periods been put H
I prominently forward by "thinkers B
lost and gone." Whatever may be
' 11? -1 -"u:a# inlAllAnfiiol onnra. H
CQ6 QllUCUlllCd U1 Uljy|>4 V
hension, "belief would"?as has been
finely said?"cease to be Itself, were' <S|
; it capable of mathematical demon
; 6t ration." ,
| There are regions into which rea- |H
I Eon cannot penetrate, and then "faith
must go forward alone with its torch: Bi
to light the way." The history of
reason shows conclusively that every
attempt to make it the only light of
humanity has failed. "You may^^H
drive faith out by the door, but it
will return through the window."
''Blessed are thev that' have not seen,
and yet have believed." (John 20:' ;VH
! 20.)?London Christian. jg|
In His Bosom.
The bosom of Christ !b the grave^^M
J and the only grave of religious acrl|
raonv; we learn secrets there which
; render it possible for us to be of one
I heart, if we may not yet be of one
| mind, with all who lean upen It with
I us.?Dora Greenwell. 9
Tnie Cliarity. gB|
! A keen, warm sympathy that
1 aiakes your brother's need your owa EM
I ?nothing short of that is really char-'
ty.?Phillips Brooks. K
Oliio Fights For Estate. : Bag
Special Counsel Clarence D. Laylin,^HE
of the Attorney-General's office, leftMH
Columbus, Ohio, for Ireland to takeHH
depositions in a case involving theHH
question whether the State of OhioHH
cr alleged heirs in Ireland will get|^B
the estate of the late General James^^B
W. Rilly, of Wellsville, valued at^HH
from $150,000 to S200.000.
i to Vauuevme.^^^^WM
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