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/AN UN5JSUAL v I' >\ tH^^iMn' * * ' rowffl^^ifli^i'r fHuHHHnR - Mr. John D. Rockefeller and Ma recently come before the American r devotion of Mr. Rockefeller's wealth tailed plans of Mr. Rockefeller in r< lished. Mr. Rockefeller. Jr., it is un< to administering this Foundation.?I Support For I/awn Sprinkler. "? Take a piece of wood one and one half feet long, three and one-half fee wide. In top of wood bore a hol< -size of hose used and one and one half inch from top. Take & large wire nail or spik< about seven inches long, drive Intc wood at bottom two and one-hal V inches; cut off the head and file to i point. First take off nozzle of hoseput It through the hole and screw 01 nozzle to secure it. This makes oni of the finest sprinklers, because on< can move it anywhere you want t( without shutting off the water.?Bos ton Post. Georgia Humor. The humorous editor of the upsor CountV (Ga.) Parrot grinds out th< following: "His horse went dead anc his mule went lame, and he lost sb cows in a poker game; then a hurricane came on a summer's day anc blew the house where he lived away and the earthquake came when thai was gone and swallowed the land thai , the house was on; then the tax collector came 'round and charged hin; up with the hole in the ground." GOOD E ?f I < ' A r. -*At# Parson?"The pigs do you cred condition." Mike?"Sure, sir, if we was all do."?The Tatler. Can't Lose the Lid. The importance of the dinner pail is not appreciated by most people. To hundreds of thousands, however, it is a live topic. The dinner pail is the laboring man's lunch counter, and its contents are usually more wholesome tfcan the food at the reg^ation lunch -ft. PHOTOGRAPH* son. John I). Rockefeller, Jr.. \vho.ha*< ieople as the principals in the proposec to the welfare of humanity. Tho d? slation to this gift have not been pub lerstood, is purposing to devote himsel; ''rom The World To-Day. * Balaam's Hobrayist. Congressman McCall, of Massachu t setts, tells a story of a Sunday-schoc ? superintendent in Boston, who wa - questioning the pupils concernln Balaam's ass; and he asked thei ? what language was used, whether o > not it was necessarily Hebrew, ii f order that Balaam might understani it; and a bright boy gave answer: "Of course it was Hebrew; for th ass must have been a Hebrayist."? Washington Herald. A JNew Umbrella. A French inventor, with a tende heart for bicyclists, chauffeurs, fisl ermcn and wandering artists, has ooe trived a form of umbrella for protec j tion against sun or rain which can t easily and solidly attached to thi t shoulders so as to leave the arms am : hands absolutely free. When not ii 11 use it folds up in a conveniently port j able form.?Youth's Companion. XAMPLES. I j^j Ij^ ^ I JJ^j^ It, Michael; I never saw any in bettei of us only as fit to die as they be wo'c I counter, too. It was a wise New Yorl [ j man, therefore, who devised a mean: , by which the lid of the dinner pai j: cannot be lost. In this device th< ; handle of the pail is bent into a deei and narrow V at the top of the arch In this V there hangs a long triangu lar piece of wire attached to the lid which is hinged at one side. Th< whole top of the pail may thus b< opened freely to permit of the filling or emptying of the receptacle, but i will always be at hand when wanted Tt is no uncommon thing for a work ingman to lose the lid to his pail, anc as this means the expense of a nev dianer carrier, it is no joke Tho eun carriage that has beer used for carrying the coffins of botl Victoria and Edward VII. will nov be mare than ever an object of popu lar interest in the courtyard of tlx Tower of London. Grasshoppers have their organs o' hearing at the base of the abdomen ? that is, at the same pla^e whero th< > corresponding organ of the Noctulda* has been discovered. j THE FOOD QUESTION AGAIN, I llust. People Abandon the Nitrogen Theory Tu.st. Acquired. ) The Indians of the plain", who lived almost entirely on flesh, were i Serce and warlike enough: the Eskii tios, who also live entirely on flesh, ! ire among the most peacable of men | The unfortunate Armenians, on the I Jther hand, are periodically masI >acred by a race of vegetarians. j The Hindus of Bengal are the traiitional horrible example of the ef| feels of living on rice. But the Chin J ?se and Japanese, who also live on i rice?in sufficient quantity ? are I about the toughest and most endurj :ng of mankind j j During the race of the allied i armies to Pekin the Japanese army }n a diet of rice and dried fish outmarched the Europeans by fifty per ,*ent Even in India the Sikhs and | Rajputs, who eat but twice a day and rarely touch meat, are among the ! I finest men physicaib' and the best soldiers on earth. In the old days before the tele- ] graph, says the Metropolitan, the messenger service from Madras to j Bombay and Calcutta war made up j . )f runners who did sixty miles for a j Jay's work and kept it up 1000 and ! 1 400 miles on end?on a diet of : ' boiled rice According to this writer the place | where the first scientific dieticians ,j went wrong is this: "The muscle ; when it. does work consumes its own ' substance. There is no question j about that. But it does not consume i | | all its constituents equally. The j enriy paysiuiugisis a-ssumeu mac 11. i does, and that therefore the waste is j " to be renewed only by foods such as ; cheese, beans, peas, niilk and especially meat, all of which, like the ' " | muscle itself, contain nitrogen. "As a matter of fact, a fact which | > I was proved the very first time the j >! matter was tested by direct experl- I 6 ment and has never been questioned | ? since, the working muscle uses up it? I n non-nitrogenous constituents, and r needs therefore to be .renewed by a non-nitrogenous foodstuffs?starches, d fats, sugars, gums and the like. "In fact, as we know now. the G muscle is essentially a million cylin I dered explosion engine, built of meat, ! but working on bread and butter, i precisely as the simpler engines of > I automobiles and motor boats are 1 ! built of steel and work on gasoline. ! l* i What is true of the muscle is true ! u I also of nerves and glands and other i > j tissues of the body, except that they j j do vastly less work than the muscles. ; and need therefore vastly less food I of any sort. I "All gas engines, then, whether ! j they happen to be built of steel or of i ! nrotonlasm use un their Weight of I fuel many times over before they j wear out their substance once. With ; this discovery?that the muscle works on a non-uitrogenous 'muscle- j I sugar,' present in minute quantities, j * rapidly consumed and rapidly re- . ; newed?departed forever the ancient ! rigid divisions of foods into "fuel j foods,' muscle formers.' 'tissue buildj ers' and the rest. 6 j Learning to Fly. 9 Perched on the back seat, tie has j i before him and under his eyes the | 1 master pilot; he observes closely his j p manipulations while they make two j or three turns, rolling and flying low. ' - At the second lesson, the pupil is al- j lowed to place his hand gingerly above ' j the master pilot'h, on the lever of i ; depth and lateral stability, thus sens- j ing the movements. He is then placed ! upon the front seat and given the rudder of direction. They fly thus ; master and pupil, the latter responsi- : ble for the direction, the former keep- i Ing to himself the more delicate and j dangerous lever, which decides the j rise and fall and the lateral balance. 1 Thus, step by step, the pupil is intrusted with more and more of the maneuver, till he is left master of two directions, and finally of ail three? j the right and left, the up and down, . the lateral balance (obtained by bend- j ; ing down one wing or the other, or | small additional winglets at the ends I of thft nlanesi He is then elven the freedom of the taxicab. He mounts it alone, master of all its directions? ; and caprices But for a period, the length of which depends on the man, ! he will roll around and around with- j out rising from the ground Then I some day he will hop up a few feet, I come down, hop up again and stay a . little longer, hop up and fly perhaps ! I 100 yards?and dream of it all night in his little bed, waiting for the Tiest day's dawn.?Collier's. I Trappers Forced Further North. A recent report of the American \ Consul General in Winnipeg show? that in 1909 furs to the value of more ! than $12,000,000 were shipped to j New York from the Dominion. Many l of these furs are manufactured foi j the American market, but the largei j part is reshipped to London, and, af- j ter treatment, distributed from there j Most of the New York dealers take I fhair ahinmonta linrlop an lc'l'pompfli i by which they pay sixty per cent, of the j estimated value to the shipper on de: | I I livery, the balance being paid when I the actual prices are determined by | the results of the public sales. In c this way the small dealers are pro* vided with current funds iiulead o! having to wait six or eight months tc ; * realize on their consignments. In i these da.V3 the traoners an? beina ] | forced further and further north, j Coronation Gulf, the southerly point j being at the Arctic Circle, is now ;i ' recognized starting point, and the fut _ hunters liave to push far into the: * Arctic region to find silver and l?!acl> foxes, the pelts of which have been known to brine; from $1000 to 'fl'O'1 j apiece.?New York Press t Mortuary Benefits. Too many Americans are something like a fellow Tip knew, working hard i a clerk for life for $12 a week, and he 1 loathed his job at that This slow r fool hail rights in a big estate, but hf never bad che sense or energy to i make a start and get it. but his wif* sot. it after lie died, and her second husband did the spending anil enjoyf ihg ?Tip, in the New York Press. > The heaviest hammer 111 the world > weighs fifty tons and is found at the Terni works, Italy. | THE PULPIT. j A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY I THE REV. HUBERT B. MUNSON. j Theme: Power'of God. Brooklyn. N. T.?The nev. Hubert | B. Munson. pastor of the Bushwick Avenue Central M. E. Church, had for ! his subject Sundav morning "Power ! of God." Tlie text was from I. Cor; inthians 1:24: "Christ, the power of ! God." Mr. Munson said: i I wonder, if'we could have stood by Paul's side, as he began writing his i letter to the Corinthian Church, if he | should have asked us for a definition i in two words of the character of i Christ, if we would have had the saI gacitv or the insniration which he evi: dently possessed when he deined I Christ to he God's power and God's ! wisdom. Tt is comparatively easy | for us,' with the record of so many years of Christian progress behind us, to see how Christ embodies both the wisdom and the power of di7inI it.v: but it was an infinitelv more I difficult task, standing as close as Paul stood in time to the Nazarene. to have seen in that work such manifest intelligence, such wide and encompassing nower. as to lead him to say concerning that, life that it was the embodiment of God's wisdom and thp incarnation of God's power. The wisdom of Cod might, well give us pause, as Christ, in Whom were hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, declared it: but the nower of God. reaching out from the life of this humble Son of Judea, touches the lives of twentieth-century dwellers and thrills and changes their motives, their characters, their destinies. The power, as Pascal defined it. is of three kinds: phvsical power, mental nower. spiritual power: the power of brute force, of mental acumen and soul life. If the earlv home of the race was by the seaside per cnance man s nrst idea or tne pnysical power came as lie watched the waves beating in ceaseless rhythm against the shifting sand of the beach, and it spoke to him of a great mighty force. But men did not have to dwell by the sea long before they saw the power of the wave, plus the power of the wind, held in abeyance as a vessel that both wind and wave would drivp resistlessly upon the sands, held its even course, because one stood at the helm and steered: that is. the physical power was overcome by the power of the will and the mind of the helmsman, and we do not have to look very lone either at the life of Jesus or at the lives of the followers of the Christ before we become familiar with the great spiritual dynamic which, moving out from His person and touching the hearts of the men of every age, has given to them cTNtrifnnl noeeiAn on/1 tktVion nro f the uplift of the human spirit hack to the force which started it on this upward way, it is no surprise to find it in the power of God, revealed through the life of the person of His Son. There are some aspects of the life of Jesus to which our attention is directed, which reveal the way in which Christ shows God's power. First. Chriat is the transforming power of God. The process o! transformation is a familiar one to the manufacturer, who talces the crude, raw material of the milne, of the forest. of the field, and changes that material, through the wonderful alchemy of civilized machinery, into the finished product of commerce. The pound of iron or-3 that, in its crude state may be purchased for a few cents, is changed into the skilled instrument of the carpenter, into the sharp-cutting tool of the machinist, into those delicate and tensile springs that move the most delicately adjusted chronometer. What has been done in the process of change? That which was comparatively valueless and without utility has been changed into those instruments which give value to human labor and aid to our lives. The added value of the tool represents, commerce tells us, the skill of the labor which is put upon it, plus the capital invested in the creat factory of which it is the out put. That which is thus done for commerce and for life, in transforming the raw material into the finished product, Christ does for humanity. He takes humanity in its crude state, nay, in its worthless forms, and changes sinnenuntosaints; the worthless into priceless jewels of eternity. Take your stand, if you are wise, by the side of some poor fellow who, by his plea, has elicited your sympathy and for whom you wish to secure employment. He has told you his story. Let it be only the average story of the man whom bad habits and vicious associates and idleness has produced. Stand by his side in (he labor market and try to- secure employment for him. The man who wants a laborer turns from him because he has passed the meridian. The philanthropist to whom you may present the man. making an appeal for him upon humanitarian grounds, may tell you that all of his energy and all of his capital he is investing in young life; he is building a fence at the top of the precipice rather than asvlnm at the foot. Even the Doli tician, eager as he is for help, may smile sadly and turn away. You may stand by this man's side until discouraged and sick at heart; you become convinced that as part of life's flotsam he is scarcely worth anything. But listen! This man, who has madesuch a sad wreck of life, meets a new power: Christ meets him on life's way and changes his heart and his life. The drunkard no longer drinks: the gambler no longer plays for stakes: he has changed: the power has laid hold of his life which has transformed that life. Whence came it? Where is the source of it? Trace it back, and you will find that it is Christ?God's power. Notice *ow wondrously this transforming power of Christ shows itself forth in the gospel tales; the blind see, the deaf hear, the lame leap, the dead are raised, because power comes out from Him, hearer, have you experienced the power of God in transforming your life? Second. Jesus Christ is the Jransmittable power of God. What is most wonderful about the dynamo? Superficially, we might answer that it Is Mih :rreat charge of electricity which it possesses, .but really the most wonderful thing about the dynamo is that it yields so readily the electricity which it possesses. We are told that enough electricity is latent in the earth that our feet press lo give us immediate death, but berause the earth does not readily yield this force we are unharmed, though fine touches the live wire at his peril, because it yields so readily its force. {5o the most wonderful thing about the life of Christ is the readiness? yea, the ease?with which He yields to human need, responds to the cry for help and gives forth the oower which Is In Him. Note. If 70a will, that incident so charmingly told us by the gospel writer, of that poor woman, who, having heard of Christ, joined herself to the throng that crowded around Him on the street that day: how eagerly she followed. 1 hoping, as only desperate persons : hope, to gain His-notice. But the dense crowd stood compactly and un- i yielding between her and our Lord, I until at last, is despair, having sue- j ceeded in getting reasonably near to \ Him. she thought. "Oh, if I can but I touch His garment. I shall be whole." j And. acting upon the suggestion, she i reached her long, slender arm 1 through the crowd and touched the edge of His robe, and instantly she was: healed. Christ turned around, and He said. ' Who touched Me?" for He perceived the power had gone out 1 from Him. Such forces dwelt in Him thai even His garments were Invested with them, and human need, coming in touch with Him, felt the power of His life. The point where many of Christ's followers fail is in this very point of transmitting His power. If the power of Niagara can aid the commerce and the transportation of Lockport and Rochester, surely the power which dwells in Christ can be transmitted by human channels to human need: and yet many of us who have felt the transforming power of Christ fall to transmit that power through us to other lives. The familiar parlor experiment of the battery and the joined hands of the company is capable of being applied to the transmit- I ting of Christ's saving grace, through | us, to those who, by heart, by the ties of love, by the close associations of J the years, were touched. At a reunion of veterans some years i since, in a Western State, this story ! of Lincoln was told by the man who j was saved from a drunkard's grave by i the President: 4' T a In Ann r\ 9 f hfl Wocf- ! i yy as a pnvatc m uuo t.u^ ttV?w- i ern regiments that arrived first in ' Washington after the call for 75,000. J We were marching through the city, amid great crowds of cheering people, and then, after going into camp,-were, given leave to see the town. Like many others of our boys the saloon or tavern was the first thing we hit. With my comrade I was just about to ' go into the door of one of these places j when a hand was laid upon my arm, , and looking ud there was President I Lincoln, from his grand height above ! me, a mere lad, regarding me with ! those kindly eyes and pleasant smile, j I almost dropped with surprise and bashfulness, but he held out his hand, and as I took it he shook hands in a strong Western fashion and said: 'I don't like to see our uniform going /*ap * rTV?of Ttroe oil ha Ill LU LUC3C j;iatco. x uuo tt said. He turned immediately and walked away, and we passed on. He would not have gone into that tavern for all the wealth of Washington City." Here, then, we have these two characteristics of God's power manifested in the life of Jesus, our Lord. It is His work to transform and change us from glory unto glory, or, as Drummond put it, "from character unto character, or until we come unto the measure of the stature of the life of Christ." It is our province, standing in our place in human history and in the development of the work of the gospel, to transmit to those who stand .lust beyond us in time, the same vital breath of life, the same holy impulse of love, that has been transmitted to us by our Lord. Sentence Sermons on Faith. No man ever broke faith with man ' who did not first break faith with 1 God. No man ever kept faith with God j and deceived his fellow men. No j matter what a man has. if he lacks | faith, he lacks all; if he can't be | trusted, the more brilliant, powerful, I successful he is, the more he is to be j dreaded. The one fruitful source of | failure in business and social life is ; unfaithfulness. It disintegrates the ' home. The bonds which hold homes j in peace are eaten off by the acid of i unfaithfulness. Fruit shows the sap; j work proves the words. Faithfulness is the fruit and out- ! working of faith. "Show thy'faith by thy works." Our claim is that we are saved bv faith in Jesus Christ, but a faith which does not make faithful is not a saving faith. You trust Christ, I but do men trust you? No subtler temptation can come to man than to use God's given power for self. Many break down, right here: they are faithful, not to the one appointing tbpm. but to self. For j this men speculate with trust funds, expecting to return the nrincipal, hoping to absorb the profits. For this men pervert political office, entering it poor, leaving it rich, but Jesus : Christ is "faithful to him that appointed Him." * T Heaven is a place of business be- i cause there all keep faith. When i men are faithful to God as God is faithful to men. heaven will be on earth. Jesus Christ, an apostle and priest, was faithful in temptation. Many men break down when the testing time comes. Testing does not create, it simply reveals, weakens. Ynn Mnnnt fell whether the ship will float till you launch it. whether the feed will bring forth till it is sown. The testing time comes sooner or later.?Eugene G. Willard, in Pittsburg Christian Advocate. : The Crooked Stick and the Straight J Stick. The positive note is ever better than the negative note. The con- : structive habit is far better than the 1 destructive. Progress is rarely made by the process of pulling down. Littering the way with wrecks does not 1 clear the track. One cause is not helped by depreciating another. The scolding habit does not win friends, supporters, influence, or enthusiasm. It oftener drives away, or alienates or discourages. Children reared in an atmosphere of "don't" seldom grow up happy with fine, symmetrical characters. The easiest way of showing and proving the crookedness of a stick is to lay a straight one alongside it. The ( easiest way to push a bad habit out | of the life is to push a good one in to | ; 1 displace :.t.?Presbyterian of the j South. , A candle that will not shine in one 1 room is very unlikely to shine in an- ] other. If you do not shine at home, if your father and mother, your sis- , ter and brother, if the very cat and { dog in the house are not better and ( happier for your being a Christian, it is a question whether you really are one.?J. Hudson Taylor. i The grace that is free and the faith that chooses what faith offers sets , up the kingdom of God whenever and \ wherever they meet.?rBishop O. P. j Fitzgerald. ( i The reason we know that our faith ; in Christ is not in vain, is hecausa < Christ has risen.?S. E. Ebersole. j BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE SOLDIERS FIGHTING TmS CURSE GREATLY CHEERED. Why Smith Sold Oat His Saloon. "I hear that Smith has just sold out his saloon," said one of a couple of middle-aged men who sat sipping their beer and eating a bit of teheese in an American saloon. "Yes," responded the other, rather slowly "What is the reason? I thought he was just coiniug money there." The other nibbled a cracker abstractedly for a moment, and then said: "Smith, you know,, lives on Mt. Washington, where he has an excellent wife, a nice home, and three as pretty children as ever played outdoors. Smith is a pretty respectable sort of citizen?never drinks or gambles, and thinks the world of his family. When he went home one afternoon, and found his wife out shopping, he Vent through the house into the back yard, and there under an apple tree were his three boys playing. They had a bench and some bottles and tumblers, and were playing 'keep saloon.' He noticed that they were drinking something out of a pail, and that they acted tipsy. The youngest, who waa behind the bar, had a towel tied around his waist, and was setting the drinks up pretty freely. "Smith walked over and looked in the pail. It was beer, and two of the boys were so drunk .that they staggered. A neighbor's boy, two years older, lay asleep behind the tree. " 'Rnvs vnii must not drink that!' he said, as he lifted the six-year-ohl from behind the bench. " 'We's playin' s'loon, pap; ah' I was sellin' it just like you,' said the little fellow. "Smith poured out the beer, carried the drunken boy home, and then took his own boys in and put them to bed. When his wife came back she found him crying like a child. "He came down town that night and sold out his business, and says he will not sell or drink another drop of liquor. His wife told mine about it, and she broke down crying while she told it." This is a true story, but the > name was not Smith.?Christian Scotsman, It Didn't Pay. A well known novelist who was for years a moderate drinker whites his experiences in McClure's. He found in the end that it didn't pay. "It should be borne in mind," he says, "that I am not dealing with confirmed drunkenness, drinking that has become an organic necessity. Inebriety is a disease as much as tuberculosis, and must be so considered and treated. I am dealing with the custom or onnKing as u is pracucea by the great majority of men who drink at all.4 And 'fair'that,very reason I think that testimony like'mine should be suggestive and valuable. I have absolutely no prejudice against the custom, and yet, though I never abused it, socially speaking, and am still a worshiper of Dionysius (from afar), I do not hesitate to declare that moderate drinking does not pay! "I have tried it. I know. No one can tell me anything about its joys and satisfactions. I have also tried total abstinence. As a consequence, I feel better, sleep better, work better, enjoy life better and have Increased my usefulness as a citizen." "Catch My Pal." The London correspondent of the New York Sun relates the following Interesting incident: One d,ay last July a Presbyterian clergyman in the city of Armagh, persuaded .twelve hard drinkers to sign the pledge. Before parting with them he said: "Now, perhaps, each of you could bring a pal to my house to-morrow, and induce him to sign." , "I think I can catch my pil," said one of the men, and that was the origin of the "Catch My Pal" movement now sweeping over the north of Ireland. Scarcely a town or village in Ulster Is without an enthusiastic band of members, each of whom wears an enameled bras3 button hearing the words, "Protestant Catch My Pal TInirtn " Tho oalnnTiQ in manv of th*e provincial manufacturing towns have lost fully fifty per cent, of their-trade. Of the 3000 inhabitants of Cookstown, County Tyrone, over 700 men joined the union in November and December, and . the percentage is equally great in other towns. Does It Prohibit? Prohibition prohibited $79,059,743.60 worth! This is the official statement of the United States Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1909, the comparison being with the previous year. The drop in the production of whisky was 4,828,268 gallons, being more than three per cent, of the previous year's production. The decrease in the beer item was 2,444,183 gallons, four per cent, of the production. Uncle Sam lost nearly eight.million in tares, but the people are ahead by nearly eighty million dollars that did not go for beer and whisky.?Central Christian Advocate. Labor Not Fooled. The brewer says the saloon is a friend of labor. The liquor dealer says the same. The saloonkeeper declares it is true. But Gompers and Mitchell and Lennon say the saloon is labor's enemy. Labor will not be fooled. It has faith in its leaders finrf iftmwa the> liduor interests care only for the dollars it passes over the liar. Temperance Notes. Civilization will not be a success until the saloon is but a memory of what men once endured. ? Collier's Weekly. The city of Youngstown, 0., which decided some months ago It had to have open saloons in 'order to help l>ay the running expenses of the town, now finds itself in financial straits. For the first time in the city's history there is not enough money In the police fund to pay members of the department If you are reading the daily newspapers you can hardly think any tho>logy too strong for the needs of the time.?Advance One swallow does not make a summer, but a dozen or so in a black bottle are sufficient to produce a great rhange in temperature The last convention of the German Social-Democratic party at Leipslc idopted a resolution recommending: to the members of the party a boycott in alcoholic liquors One factor leading to this action is said to be a fight igainst the distillers, but the hygienic 3fffect of such a measure was a potent ;eason. LORD, KEEP ME ONE. Lord, keep me one?in deed, and word, and thought; With such distraction* all the world ia <f rife .And different aspects cleave, as with ft knife In fragments small the good that must be sought. Give the controlling motive, for untaught By Thy divinity I am at strife, < ' C\ And shreds and patches make my troubled life; From out my chaos oider must be brought. 0, unify, direct, -abdue, control I These warring elements, diverse desires, ;I These conflicts of the timid flesh with soul; j Hush Thou the voice that breathes the I worldly word. S Attune these ears to hear Thee speak, O rl Lord- | Quench with Thy Spirit all the earthly; j fires! 1 ?Caroline Hazard, iu The Congregation- J The Enemy. J The enemy is often . mentioned, in '! the Bible. Men are warned against his wiles. Who is the enemy? Owr Lord does not leave us in the dark. He says plainly and in so many words that the enemy is the Devil. Some theologians and some moralists are horrified when we warn men against the devices of Satan aa though he < were a real, personal being. They tell us that the doctrine of the Devil' ' $ is an exploded fable and that the > Devil is a myth. . . But Jesus did not think so, and who will say that Jesus was lacking j in intelligence or that He was ignorant of spiritual truth? But some trill? ' say that while He was a great teacher I He li$ed a long time ago, and His words must be interpreted in the light of the times in which He lived. He did not mean to teach that there Is a real person called Satan, but the peopie of His tim3 believed it, and He * > accommodate'* Ufa speech to the ltfw. order c* intelligence which pre-v.\'"^ Tailed It .s true that Jesus lived long agp, but His words were not merely for His own time. They were for all time. The words of men pass awtpr. They speak in their own time, andi w?'th the light of t'>e time, and in *. / few years the oi:W has oatfcrownl vi their doctrines., Their words, fail* ',;7! But Jesus epoko ia the light of God* / and His words shall not pass away. They are as fresh and vital to-day aa they w^re nineteen hundred year* )> He spoke of the Devil as a refcl'^ being, and He was either deceiyed, OB' 8 He was a deceiver in this matter.' ! V How can any intelligent man bring ":'X his miid to believe either? If there was a Devil then there is one nowij^g If Jesus did well to warn men of that age against his devices we do well io ;; receive that warning now. If It wtrt-v the business of Satan then* to sow; "rtarw'lt is his business now, He-i? evidently very busy about that buslness still. Tares aro springing up l# lour cities, in our homes, in. our churches, in all the world. "Yourt adversary, the Devil, goeth about ag ? a roaring lion, seeking whom he may; devour." If there was ever a tima when men should watch that time 1# ; now.?Christian Advocate. 1 -1 For Not Knowing'Better. ' "* ') "I did the best I knew!" protested the dressmaker's apprentice sullenly* / when she was sharply reprimanded} for a piece of ill-judged work tha# ruined a valuable dress and vexed ? valuable customer. "I don't see whati she's blaming me for!" . fa "I'm not blaming you for doing thai best you know how!" said the em- , ployer, overhearing and turning on. - her crisply; "I'm blaming'y<?& tar not knowing any better! You onght to> ?you've been here long enough Yoai mean well, bijtrgood intentions aren't enough to carry ;on the dressmaking business." They aren't enough in any business. It is an old proverb that goo? .p intentions pavo a, place of very dia^ -':A reputable character. "He meant ' < well," is about the poorest thing on? , can say of a person, short of actual . detraction; unless we except that other phrase of mild apology: "H? did the best he knew how." When ever you hear either of these yom know at onco that it is a case oil fiilure on somebody's part to do thai right thing at the right moment, an& usually, if you look closely enough, .there was fault behind the fairur& To do the best we know is not enough! ; when we might know any better.'-*-* i Kind Words. ^ \ "*8 i A Wretched State. The envious man is in pain upon , all occasions which ought to give him pleasure. The relish of his life ia averted; and the objects which ad- > ; minister the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this pa?? sion give the quickest pangs to per I sods wno are suojeci 10 u. ah 109 perfections of their fellow creature# are odious. Youth, beauty, valor and! wisdom are provocations of their displeasure What a wretched and apostate state is this?to be offended withlexcellence and to hate a man because we approve him! This World a Heaven. For my part, I do not think w& have any right to think of a heaven. for others, much less of a heaven fori ; ourselves in the world to come, until we are wholly determined to make* this world a heaven for our fellowmen, and are hoping, believing, loving, and working for that, and for its realization^, not in a thousand or a million yeAre, but in a nearer and a nearer future.?Stopford A. Brooke. " Where God Works. [>' "God worketh in you." This implies the actual presence of God at< the centre of our being. The very* simplicity of the words renders thenxi j difficult of understanding; for no ma*' i understands the cou plex and marvelous mechanism of his own personality. God worketh in you?not out- -i side, but in ? in the place whero Thought is born and the throne of the will is set up and the affections r u? ..A eftot' in l*ha innrot'H CJ V* Iiavu LUl'll OV-C4-, II* ** "V MMKUU OllliilO I nf the beiug Cod worketh.?Camp- 9 j tell Morgan. B Bees Swann on Her Hat. ^ 9 Mme. Rodier. wife of a land ownen 9 at Borne. France, was dozing in hetj 9 garden when a swarm of bees, attract- 9 ed by her picture hat, surrounded herv H With great presence of mind she wentj <9 over to an empty hive and Siook heti Bj bat into it. whereupon the bees tookj 9 possession. Mme. Rodier was noti H stung. ^ 9 Turner Gallery Opened. 9 The new wing of the Tait Gallery^ n containing many selections from th?5 fl works bequeathed by Turner to tho H British nation, was opened in London^ 9