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THE COLUMBUS STATUE AT WASHINGTON Foreigners have often commented on the absence from Washington City, where statues of heroes and near ( heroes occupy almost every available; space, of ajty monument to Columbus j ?throughout the entire United States j of Columbus, like those of a certain ancient Roman, are conspicuous by! their absence. On the other hand, J throughout Latin America statues of i Columbus in bronze and marble are j numerous and of great beauty. At last, however, the great discoverer is to be honored, an Act of Congress approved March 4, 1907, providing for the erection of a statue in a suitable location, one hundred thousand dollars having been appropriated for the purpose, and a committee named to select the design. At the time the bill was enacted, President Taft was Secretary of War and chairman of the committee. It has been decided that this memorial shall be placed in the plaza of the new Union Depot. This building. which cost eleven million dollars, A MODEL OF THE COLUMBUS STAT TO STAND IN THE P UNION DEPQTVAT is regarded as the finest structure of its kind in the world. It is not inappropriate that the statue should stand at this noble gateway to the national capital. In response to the invitation of the -committee, twenty-one models were submitted by sculptors of international reputation, though only two or three were submitted by foreigners. So uniformly high was the merit of these designs that the work of selection was extremely difficult; but the design finally chosen, the work of Lorado Taft, of Chicago, meets with general approval. It was selected on account of its simplicity, combined with an effective harmonization with its setting in front of the great station building. The model shows a grasp of the architectural problems in. volved, and besides presents a fine characterization of Columbus himself, .fiirho, incidentally a sailor and soldier, was primarily a great thinker. Mr. < Taft will receive the contract for -erecting the statue, which is to form part of the scheme for a central fountain dominating the plaza and facing the Capitol Building. Other designs of especial merit were submitted by Philip Martiny, of New York, who received a prize of five hundred dollars; Augustin Querol, of Madrid, Spain, who was given third honors and a prize of five hundred dollars; Henry Hering, of New York; T. Otto Schweiger, of Phila-1 delphia; Louis Weingartner, of | Bromsgrove, England; and Pierre I Feitu, of New York. ? Harper's | TVeekly. Novel Clothespin. Now the #old-fashioned wooden clothespin that has done its humble work so well for many, many years may have to go. It has a rival, decerned bv a Texas man. which is I much more artistic and is said to be cleaner. The new clothespin is made of wire, galvanized Iron or aluminum wire of good quality, and is guaranteed not to soil the clothes. The NEW DETENTION HOME AND JLTV?% Showing the possibilities in a city tb fully. This building is to Efficient Can Opener. Every housewife would undoubtedly welcome the invention of a , ^ ; | Cuts Top or Side of Can. L ' ? whole device shown in the illustration is made of one piece of wire, twisted and intertwisted to form pin and chain. The wavy pieces of iron shown form a sort of serine. The piu is hooked over a garment between the outward flaring end of the loop and the lower part of the spring ? , , . . v f ' ' ? ' ' ' wKBfc* ' " i UE BY LOR ADO HAFT, WHICH IS LAZA OF THE NEW WASHINGTON. section. By the depending chain the pin is then given a downward tug and the resistance of the spring and the spring coils at the top holds the whole firmly on the clothesline, which fits into the concave part of the spring end. There is mo danger of such a pin coming loose and allowing the clothes to drop.?Washington Star. The Least Shrinking "of Living Ladies. Mrs. Herbert Henry Asquith, wife of the British Prime Minister, stands for that type of female character which is antithetical to the reserved -T J 1 cj ana ueiuuie iiiugusu wuuiau ui tua Victorian period. Chatty, self-possessed and daring, Mrs. Asquith, in her personal qualities, incarnates the new Englishwoman. ILE COURT BMDING, MILWAUKEE. iat is willing to meet the situation cost $80,000.?The Survey. really simple and substantial can opener, one that she could operate without danger of cutting her hands. Simplicity and efficiency seem to be the keynote of the one shown in the illustration below, designed and invented by a Detroit man. In opening a can the point at the end is thrust into the central portion of the top of the can and the bar brought so that it lies parallel with Che top of the can. , The cutter is then regulated on the toothed bar so that it will cut either the top of the can or the side. With a firm pull on the handle the tin can be easily severed. It will be noticed that there are practically two cutters, one for cutting the top of the can and another for cutting the side of the can. This will be found convenient when it is desired to remove the contents without disarranging them.? Boston Post. A motor boat invented by a Wisconsin man, and found practicable, is mounted, catamaran fashion, in two narrow hulls, which are kept filled w!tlx air. |^Ar?s ! . Lif rnmm ~~ " I Good Roads and Their Value. At the conventions of the Carriage : Builders' National Association held 1 i in New York Henry F. Keachline, of j Philadelphia, chairman of the com- ; mittee on good roads, read the fol- : ; I lowing interesting paper: j I "Nothing is more essential to our i , ! local and national development than % ] j good roads. This subject has been^ 1 I one practically ignored by our Gov- j * ! ernment until the various agitations j i covering a few recent years, and yet j , I we style ourselves as one of the most i ( ' progressive governments. The Ro- j ^ ! mans*were undoubtedly the greatest . ] j road builderG. Their roads were ! < built with funds from the imperial i exchequer. Napoleon was the road ; 1 builder of France, and constantly ad- j j vocated the construction of govern- I * ment highways. England's good j roads are famous to-day, but were j { not so less than a century-ago; it j ( ? s_v* "o;/! nnt until ToJfnrri and ! c Llllglil UC OCliU, av? Macadam agitated for roads, and by | Parliamentary appropriation; they j predicted the beneficent result sure | to follow the construction of better i roads. / I "The United States must be' made | to recognize the importance of this ! artery of its commerce, its legislators \ must be made to understand that good roads are not only of benefit to the farmers, who, in fact, are less dependent than the millions of people i who live in our cities and towns. The most casual investigation will show j that the consumer, after all> pays the j freight. j "We are only too prone to believe 1 that the railroads carry the most j freight and may have decreased the J exigency of good roads; the figures at j hand, however, do not bear out this j assumption, .bast year ic cusi *j.,- , i 850,000,000 to transport the products j ' of the country over the dirt roads to : j nearer shipping points, while the j j gross receipts of all -he railroads was : ( considerably less, and when the as- ! ( tonishing figures are considered, the ! ( j saving that could be effected through I I good roads is both startling and tenor- t mous. Why, then, is it not made 1 fully apparent to the State and Na- J tional Government? * "The following table will show the j r I difference in cost of transportation by j horse power, electric power, steam 1 , cars and steamships: 11 Per Ton. j 1 Horse power, 5 miles $1.25 ! i Electric power, 25 miles 1.25 jt Steam cars, 250 miles 1.25 j,t Steamship on lakes, 1000 miles. 1.25 ! ( "Thus it is found that it costs M twenty-five cents to transport every j J ton of freight over our poor roads, ( while in European States it is less 1 than ten cents a mile. Good roads , \ would, therefore, efTect a Saving of ! 1 over $1,000,000,000 yearly. "It seems almost absurd to think I j so little attention has been given good IJ roads, which are so essential to the i j welfare of all classes of people, espe- ! , cially when reminded that the Gov- ! j ernment spends annually about $100,- ! c 000,000 for the navy, and that thus I I far over $500,000,000 have been ; ' spent for river and harbor improve- j' ment, and it is firmly believed thai | j no one of those three improvements , j is more important i lan the other. It j has been comparatively easy to get . ( an appropriation ior a reuerai siruv i ture of some kind for your locality, j but in more than fifty years not one dollar for good roads." Good Roads. I Ohio has been experimenting with ; preparations for preventing dust and for binding the surface of macadam roads. It has built an experimental road, giving each of the ipaterials i tested a section of 400 feet ih length j with a roadway sixteen feet wide, the j sections being connected and forming ! a continuous road, all parts receiving ! very nearly the same amount ot tra- \ vel. It was Ohio's Highway Depart- j ment which is thus testing the com- [ parative value of various road-bind- j ing materials. ! In the good old days of horses the broken stone road seemed to give sat- ! isfaction. With the advent of the au- ! tomobile the surface of the macadam road proved not so satisfactory as formerly. The flue binding material loosened, loose stones cropped up, ruts were made. The suction of the soft tire lifted off the binding surface of the fine particles of stone and scattered them. This removed the cementing power, and left the larger stones to be scattered. In the Paris congress of the roadbuilders of the world It was agreed thiit the water-bound macadam road < could not resist the destruction caused by automobile travel, and that J if the use of this class of roads was to be continued some method of binding I ! these roads other than the cementing , power of the stone dust must be used. The opinion was expressed that this ] probably would be effected by the use 1 of tar or asnhalt incorporated with the stone or applied on the surface.? Collier's Weekly. What is Inevitable. In view of the increased agitation of good roads everywhere in our broad land, it will not be long before it will be considered a crime, rather than indifference, for any locality to remain \ satisfied with bad roads ? a crimd 1 against the horse, a crime against I everybody using the highways, a ! I crime against the Government, both i | national and local. ? I Fruits of t ivn service. Fourth class postoffiCes seem to at- I j tract some second class men under ' the civil service system, which, morej over, brings relief to pestered Con! gressmen. There is hope, therefore, | for its extension.?Boston Transcript. -To permit a motorist to explore I dark corners of his car with a light ! and yet leave his hands free there | has been invented an incandescent I lamp and reflector to fasten to the j forehead and take current frora the I car's batteries through a cord. I THE PULPIT" \ v A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. W. L. DAVISON Theme: Christ's Way. Brooklyn, N. Y.?Sunday morning the n?.w pastor of the Fleet Street M. E. O^arch, the Rev. Dr. William L. Davi#-?, began his ministry there. He was appointed from' Jamaica to replace the Rev. E. G. Richardson, who went to Bristol, Conn. He was cordially received. The subject of his germon was "Christ's Way." The text was taken from John 14:6: "I im the way, the truth and the life." Dr. Davison said: These words were spoken to rhomas. This man stands in the ?yes of many as the New Testament type of the honest doubter. As to his doubt or his real desire to be sure?that is a matter of viewpoint ind interpretation. This, however, is true?he was not of that Old Testament type represented as the fool, ?aying: "There is no God!" There is i vast difference between the man iVi-io. in his heart, eives utterance to such blasphemy and the man who lesires to have unimpeachable eviience. The one would be glad to lave Deity blotted out;. The existence )f a holy God who cannot look upon ivil with any degrei of allowance is i constant reproach no his evil heart ind way, and a menace to his manler of life. ' He, therefore, would shout for joy if omnipotent justice :ould be obliterated. , Thomas, on the other hand, represents that resplendent type of intelectual manhood that really desires ;o find solution for the fonde3t wish )f his heart. Therefore, when he ;omes to Jesus with his questionings le comes as the type of questioner vho really wishes a solution of his ntell'ectual and spiritual problem. \nd so I bring this text as an answer ;o the man who is a seeker of the rue wav of life?as to the axiom of ;ruth and as to the solution of any life's problems that may confront lis progress. Now, we are perfectly familiar vith what Jesus meant when He said: 'I am the life " We may not understand precisely the process of that ife that comes from Him; it in the nystery of masteries; it is the entire mtgiving of the regenerating life of 3od, and who can enter into the leeper counsels of the Most High? ^icodemus desired to know how these ;hings could be?he a master in Israel and leader of the Jewish faith? fet Jesus Christ gave him no Batisaction. Perhaps it was because of he limitation and poverty of the hunan intellect. We know something of what Jesus neant when He said,"lam the truth." rhere must be some standard, some nfallible court of appealu by which nen may judge the varying hypoheses that have been exploited by he human intellect. When we come ;o Jesus, Christ we realize that He himself is the last solution of the rexing and changing problems of all .ime. So I say, we have some con:eption of this aspect of the text. But what did the Christ mean vhen He said "I am the way?" It is lere that we must recall those unranslatable terms of Scripture, terms hat baffle the student of language as le attempts to bring over' the full neaning of one language to another. ?or example, the Scriptures contain vords that cannot be perfectly renlered in our English tongue. When, >n the morning of the resurrection, Tesus said to Mary Magdalene. "Rab)oni," we must understand its hlsorical setting in order to even faintly ;rasp its meaning, and the translators jring over the word bodily inte our Snglish' version. When Jesus, in the garden, uttered hat word "Abba," the nearest approach we have to its pathon of meanng is our tender expression "papa," ind here again we have the word in :he original. The same is true of ;hat form of divine despair, "Eloi, 31oi, lama sabachthani." One of the ;reat works on the third person of ;he blessed Trinity is entitled the 'Paracleto," and so in this category we place this word "the way" and night show, by numerous Scriptural stations that it is not our English :erm of the manner or direction of >ne's going. In our ordinary life we say of a nan his way is attractive or repulsive. We cannot further define this ittraction or repulsion. It is simply :hat there is a somewhat about his personality that is either good or evil n our sight. It is not what we do, it s not what we say, it is what we are :hat counts mightily in our relation :o mankind. In our religious life we ire coming to the place where the phraseology of religious expression :s a matter of very small moment; it s not creed but character that counts. Indeed, I believe that this is but a reversion of type, for the early Chris nans, me primitive iuiiuweis ui Christ, were known as "those of the tvay," and Scripture gives us numerous expressions that might shed some light on certain aspects of the irapor:ant truth contained in this term. For example, "There is a way that 3eemeth right unto a man." It is possible for us, though we may not Cully portray the majesty of meaniug contained in this title word to emphasize certain aspects and ideals of Him who said, "I am the way." Thu:3 by studying the Christ we nay affirm that Christ's way is a pleasant way. I shrink not from saying that the fundamental craving of the human heart is for pleasure. Not that pleasure that tendeth unto vice. Christ's way, if it tfe God'ji way, must be a way (hat is pleasant. It is true that He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, but this is only the :aalf truth, and the other aspect of this way is recorded in that Scripture, "In Tty presence is fullness of joy, at Thy right hand are pleasures for evermore." We may havs much tribulation, we may be born to trouble, we may confront antagonism and temptations severe, but underneath all and above all is that consciousness, that serenity of spirit, that will glory in tribulation aud count it all joy when we are led into divers temptations. Did not our Saviour say in that matchless allegory of the vine, "These things have 1 spoken unto you that My joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full?" It is perfectly apparent also that this way is an attractive one. All the virtues of human experience are here found. The blossoms aad perfumes of the best life here abound. The glorious foliage of human heroism and kindness that make beautiful the histcrj of the race is here discovered in profusion. Here are the philanthropies, here are the deeds of service and sacrifice, that gladden the heart of man and relieve it from selfish paganism so that eyen a follower of Charles Darwin, because of intellectual difficulties cf creedal statement upoe leaving the organize/! institutions ol Christianity, said: "I am sorry to go '* Wherever this way is paramount, the deserts of human baseness speedily blossom as the r.ose. We also say that this way is a wa? of solid, satisfaction. There are no dissatisfied ones here. Any man who looks and listens will discover a great deal of dissatisfaction in this world. The numberless suicides, the thwarted ambitions, the shattered hop<?s, reiterate the experience of one of old, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' But. on the other hand, the devout follower of the Christ utters no wail of complaint. He exclaims in a shout of triumph. "The path of the just is a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." Once again, let me say that this way of our Christ is a reasonable way. It is not true that we must bid farewell to reason and violate the hu man intellect wiieii we uecuuie iuilowers of the Christ. Ever since the Wise Men of old brought the gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh to the feet of the infant Christ, the intellectual aristocracy of the centuries has been bringing its choicest productions into His service. The intellect may be transcended. It is never transgressed. We oftentimes come to the border land where reason ends and faith takes the torch to its ultimate goal; but never is it necessary to violate the God-given blessing of the human mind in order to become a consistent follower of the Man of Galilee. And now I might emphasize other aspects of this way in that it is the way of safety for the individual as well as for organized society. If we are standing upon the immutable truths of the Christ, we may exclaim: "The eternal God is our refuge and underneath us are the everlasting Arms!" It is the way of life and not the way of death, and blessed be God, this way of pleasure and attractiveness and satisfaction and reason and safety and life is accessible?not upon the ground of any patent of human nobility, not upon the basis of material possession, but ^upon the broad and gracious invitation of Himwho not only said: "I am the way." but who also said: "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." And so we bring our questioning, with Thomas, to the Christ and find in Him a solution and an answer, and we get some faint conception of the commanding spiritual eminence occupied by St. Paul when he said: "For me to live is Christ." When the Mists Have Rolled Away. Once I was visiting a friend near the foot of the Southern Catskills. When I retired he told me there was a beautiful view from my room window. So in the morning I awoke early, expecting to enjoy it. But as I looked out I saw nothing save the ordinary landscape of that section, of fields, rocks and trees, and a long, narrow strip of water they called "the lake," over which hung a heavy mist. During the course of the day, however, the mist lifted and floated away, and then I saw what my friend meant. There rose the beautiful mountains, clothed in the many-hued foliage of autumn, rising on hill, thousands of feet above us, and crowned with gold and purple in the afternoon sun. It is often so with the Word. We see only very ordinary things in it because the mists have not been dispersed from our minds and hearts. | When the Spirit drives the mists away, then will we see the grand mountains of God's eternal truth and i- it - T -..J T?U^ D0 giau in toe juuru. mc pi eav;iit;i t the Sabbath-school teacher, all students of the Word, should pray for the Holy Spirit's presence when they would receive the Word for their own life or enforce it upon others. To have the Word bring forth its full and proper fruit in our own hearts, or from our speaking of it to our fellow-man, it is necessary "to be filled with the Spirit."?Rev. C. P. Detmars. The Last Five Minutes. The highest interest of any meeting should be reached at the close, and every part of the program up to that point should be planned so as to lead up to the last five minutes as the climax of the hour's thought and feeling. That can be done most appropriately in this meeting, if the suggestions for the leader are followed carefully. Then, when the hour is almost ended, let song and testimony and spoken prayer all cease. Call every one to silent prayer, a prayer of praise for those gifts of God that are too sacred and too near the very soul of the soul to be spoken of to others. And then let the sacrifice of praise break forth in short but profoundly earnest and definite prayers of personal dedication. Invite espertlollir 4-Mc enrt nf nrftVAT those who have praised God but little in their lives, though they know they owe Him much. So let the hour close in a united expression of purpose to praise God continually by consecrated i and holy lives. Bits of Quotable Wisdom. Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, aye, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and, seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him and glorify Him.?Manning. When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it-to God. the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.?Jeremy Taylor. Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God. by singing hymns to Him in church onre a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; .and, more. He asks of thee works tirst and words after.?Charles Kingsley. I Keeping the Soul on Top. It is related of a small boy who heard a sermon from the text, "I keep my body under," that on his return homo, when asked to repeat the text, he sitid: "The text was, 'I keep j my soul on top.' " That is the only | proper place for souls. Paracelsus I (Browning) went "to his soul." That is what every ruan must do, whether I he will or not. None needs to fear j the proving, for God will certainly give victory to the valiant knight. Read "Sir Launfal."?R. B. Kester. Prayer in the Meeting. Make much of prayer that is pure praise. Do not try to keep from askiug for new blessings, but put the . emphasis on glorifying God through Jesus Christ for old blessings. Get the spirit of exultation. Remember t the things that make rejoicing possible. Seek the mood of the psalmist. ; by reading some of the great psalms - of praise and applying them to your i own case. } . BHHHHBHI THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK TEMPERANCE BATTLE GATHERS STRENGTH EVERY DAY. Labor and the Saloons. The old idea that the saloon in ita function of "the poor man's club" is an economic necessity in large centres of population, especially manufacturing cities, is getting hard jolts nowadays. A few days ago at a mass meeting in Toronto addresses denouncing the saloon and the liquor business in general were made by such influential and clear-thinking labor leaders as John Mitchell and John B. Lennon, respectively vicepresident and treasurer of the American Federation of Labor, and by President Lewis, of the United MinG Workers. Mr. Lennon said that the liquor business lowers the efficiency of the working man and prophesied that the .time would come when labor as a unit would be arrayed against the saloon. Mr. Lewis declared that the United Mine Workers have already prohibited the sale of liquor by their members, even at picnics, and Mr. Mitchell expressed similar views. Even more significant is the decision recently made by the United States Steel Corporation to control as far as possible the liquor business in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, where it has 25,000 employes. It is declared that the Steel Corporation estimates that at least three per cent, better returns can be made on the millions it has invested there by regulating the drinking of the coke workers?that is, permitting them to drink, but stipulating jvhere and when they shall drink. "For more than a year," says the dispatch, "figures have been gathered on drinking among coke workers, and It found that for seventy-two hours after each payday the coke ovens run at only twb-thirds of their capacity; and on nearly every payday hundreds of tons of coke are ruined by inability to get sober men to care for it in the ovens." Nine breweries are now run+V?a n/Minltr on/1 f V> Q Qfool U11I5 1U kUC LUUULj auu tuv mwww poration intends to buy them out. Everybody who has followed the progress of the present temperance movement must have noted an important difference between the methods adopted by its promoters ani those used in such movements in the past. There is less appeal to sentiment and sympathy and more to the pocketbook. The prohibition worksrs are trying?and with astonishing success?to show the country that the liquor traffic produces an economic loss which it simply cannot afford to stand. The man who drinks thereby iowers his efficiency, reduces his proiuctive capacity, impairs his value to bis employer and to himself, and aventually lowers his earning capacity. This means that the industrial world is deprived of the services of a man who otherwise would hfre had i definite value as a producer of wealth, and when the case is carried to an extreme it means that the drinker becomes an actual source of expense to the State by reason of crime >r destitution. In matters of business the directors of the United States Steel Corporation cannot be accused of sentiment. When they indulge in philanthropy they do so as individuals, but in the conduct of their business every proposition that comes before them aiust stand the acid test of "will it pay?" They probably do not care two straws whether their thousands )f employes use liquor or not, so long is the question of efficiency does no^t enter into the case. But when they and their coke ovens running on two .birds time tor tnree aays auer every payday and a part of thplr product ruined, all because the employes are all on a big drunk, It becomes a matter of dollars and cents, and the anjwer is easy. Every employer in the land, big and little, is coming more and more co take this view of the liquor question. A Quid Pro Quo. The Western Christian Advocate publishes the following: Passengers coming into Seattle from the north are laughing at the wit of a Government employe who has turned Into a joke the wreck of the old steamship Colorado, whose tiulk is now bleaching at the northern and of the Wrangel Narrows. Tho Colorado went down in 1902, bound north with a full cargo. Her hull's prominence caught the eye of tbe itinerant advertising artist, and, one day, mariners passing by saw on It the iengend, "Drink. 's Rye and 's Whisky." About the time they had become used to the sign the glaring "ad" was suddenly changed. A man employed by tho Government to paint the buoys along the coast added alongside the advertisement the following paragraph: "I did, and I am a wreck." Much Lunacy in Liqaor. The On-the-Water-Wagon Colony Is coming. Dr. Ferris, president of the New York State Lunacy commission, said in regard to the Grady-Lee bill to provide a hospital ani industrial colony for inebriates in this city: ''In the State of New York 2S.9 per cent, of the male patients in asylums owe their insanity to alcohol. In the N'orristown Hospital, Pennsylvania, forty-six per cent, of 520 male patients owe their insanity to alcohol alone or in combination with othei causes." Members of the On-the-WaterWagon-Colony would be assured that in their new heme no jolt could turn* ble them off. No Confiscation. The Detroit News takes very little stock in the cry of the liquor men that the closing of the saloons under local option and prohibition laws amounts to confiscation of property. The News says: "The liquor business has no standing before the law. It has no rights. It is merely tol erated by license. A license is noi property. It is not negotiable. When it expires that is the end of the State's special obligation; the contract has been fulfilled and is dead." The Greatest Problem. The happiness, the security and thn progress of the Nation depend more upon the solution of the liquor problem than upon the disposition of any other question confronting the people of our country. The Government must soon take cognizance of the great evil to society that has grown out of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, and it cannon long afford to continue its partnership with the liquor interests by accepting revenues from, and issuing licenses to a traffic which is eating at the very vitals of the Nation.?*, John Mitchell. I Religious Truths| From the Writings of Great Preachers* ; ' | THE KINGDOM OP THE MEEK. J BT PR1SOILLA. LEONARD. ^ Kings choose their soldiers from the strong ^ and sound, And hurl them forth to battle at com- [tn ,mand. Across the centuries, o'er pea and land, ffi Age after age, the shouts of war resound: ' ' ) Yet/ at the end, the whole wide world around, Each empty empire once so proudly ? planned, Melts through Time's fingers like the dropping sand. . ' - "\ ;?0 But once, a King?despised, forsaken, crowned Only with thorns?chose in the face of lpbi ' j Earth's poor, her weak, her outcast; gave i them love, And sent them forth to conquer ia Hi* name. The world that crucified Him, and pro .73 claim His empire. Lo! pride's vanished thrones , $3j Above, Behold the enduring banner of the Cross! ?Priscilia Leonard. ; The Fire of Jesus. We have it on very good authority t ,* that lukewarm Christians nausdate ?to| the Lord. And a very slight contem- ':T$ plation of His own burning zeal con- -J&1 vinces us that.it could not be otherwise. He was red-hot. It comes out in His fierce attack upon those who were desecrating Hto Father's house. He charged on them with such fire that they were instaiitly scattered, and His disciples looking | were pungently reminded of His paB- * sage in the psalm which said, "The zeal of thine house hath eaten me He.was consumed with an oT^r-V';*^ whelming eagerness to completer HI* great work, and fhe time in which.to . do it was vegc short. The compeiMdg "must" was ever on His lips, beginning with that eatty time in the Tern- x pie when He lost thought of every-. thing else but the discussion of great problems of religion which He found-;- J of absorbing interest, and said to Hi? ;.. ; wohdering mother, "Knew ye not that , I must be in the things of My Fa- J "I must preach the Qospel of the Kingdom," He said, "I must go to Jerusalem." He was straightened, compressed, constrained, impelled; .?$3 until His full baptism with suffering , was accomplished. There could be no . delay. Everything must .be brought into requisition. There was scarcely time to eat. His friends thought that ' He was bordering on insanity, that' M; He was beside Himself. His enemies said, "He hath a devil, and is mad." It is the way all religious enthus- ? lasm looks to the people of this. world. It was the way Paul appeared / ; to Festus, for the great apostle deemed it "good to be zealously fected in a good thing." It was com- :< mon with Jesus to spend an entire night under the stars in prayer, pour- $fm Ing out His soul to God. It was Hia justom to be intense. aaa His flaming and blazing word# & made some gnash upon Him with their teeth, while others were ready to lay do\*n their lives at His feet. His apostles were positive men, real- . \1( ots, inflammable, sons of thunder, ' full of flre. It was because of Hia 'A own hot soul that He attracted such: ../V*; He had a glowing heart. There excitement wherever He went. : < "'Driven" Himself by the Spirit intiT : ^ the wilderness, so urgent was It that He settle His course, He came forth* ^ to do much driving, expelling demon?, and causing'a panic among wrongdoers. He had a sensitive, finely organised .'% nature. He saw c|early the majesty .f? and holiness of God, the needs and sinfulness of humanity. Hence He ' v| could not be neutral or unconcerned. S He had to throw Himself wholeheartedly into the terrific conflict be- * tween light and darkness. It was. a crisis hour in the history of the universe. Is it not a crisis still? - Is <there $ not urgency upon us now? Does not ? the Master call upon us to participate In His enthusiasm for humanity and' for the kingdom of righteousness? Should not our tpngue be touched ' v anew with pentecostal. flame? Noth- ' 2jfi Ing but the flre of Jesus, of one who * moves in the presence Of the Eternal i and has a single object in view, will '! * A1 J +1*1* /Jnt? To m fia' ;!"1 I metll me ueuiauub ui mc uaj. uautcB Mudge, in Epworth Herald. The Central Power Station. |j One morning I entered the car J shops of a great railroad In the Cen- i tral West. It was at sir-thirty o'clock, and a great cloud of black ?; smoke was pouring from the huge .J smokestack.. I went with my friend into the work rooms, where for long distances stretched a tangle of belts, * shafts, pulleys, till one was almost .: lost in wonder at the complications. But there was no motion. All the possibilities of the shop were hushed in inaction. My guide said: "It will look different here in a few moments." * ^ We then went into the engine j room, where an eight-hundred horse- ^ power engine was being oiled. At seven o'clock the whistle blew, and i the great machine became a thing of life. The arms began to move, and .) in my admiration of the greatness of the engine I forgot the machine shop. n Presently my friend said: "Now, look yonder into the shops." As I looked I saw every shaft and belt moving, and the men taking their places at their machines, and soon the whole place was humming with life. The power had been turned on. The Spirit is the power we all need to make our work a living, glorious. jubilant thing.?J. W. Holland. _______ Trust and Walt. God has promised to satisfy?but He did not promise when. God has time enough, and so ha\e you. God ^ has boundless resources, and His re- . sources are yours. Can you not trust Him? Trust and wait. He knows what is best for you, He has reasons for denying you now, but in the end i He will satisfy.?Maltbie D. Babcock, j D. D. I ^ JLJie &ecus nnu me niunsi, Out of dark affliction comes a (Spiritual light.?John Bunyan. Children Chased by a Snake. The screams of a half dozen ch.il; dren who were playing in a field at ; Brownsville, Pa., attracted the attenj tion of Miss Sarah Walsh, who hurj ried to their rescue and found a large I copperhead snake chasing the little j ones. Miss Walsh procured an axe from a woodpile near by and killed the snake, which measured five feet two inches in length and six Inches . in circumference. Gift to Princeton. "r"~ ' Isaac C. Wynan left $10,000,000! ' tor Princeton University, _