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ALL CHILDREN IN SCHOOL OF PRAYER Topic-"Getting the most from pray er." Psalms 34:1-22. A mystery, a reality-such is pray er. The wise men write learned books, endeavoring to explain prayer's processes and power on psychological grounds, but we turn from these un satisfied. By a sense beyond explan ation we know that prayer is not mere ly some higher science, some subli mated law, some psychological reac tion. Prayer is best understood in 'simplest terms. We grasp its reality most clearly when our minds are most childlike. Prayer is just asking God for what we need, and expecting him :to answer our prayers according to his igreater wisdom. The Jesus prescrip tion for prayer is sufficient: "Ask. and ye shall receive." The warrant for human prayer is found in the character of God. They get most from prayer who put most into prayer, of time, interest, faith and knowledge. Affection understands what is mys terious to science. Loving trust Ands none of the difficulties In prayer which stagger the learned critics. To the de voted heart it is perfectly clear that the great God who loves his own, prizes their confidence and delights to fulfill their requests. Because God is God, and cares for his children with a love passing that of an earthly parent, he fulfills to them ali of the offices of a father. "Blind unbelief Is sure to err. And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. "Judge not the Lord by feeble Bense, Bot trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence, He hides, a smiling face." Ordinarily, they get the most from prayer who are most in prayer. The platform of prevailing prayer ls labeled, "Thy will be done." A sense of God's sovereignty, and of his right to decide what ls best, and of the wis dom of all of his decisions, muse un derlie all approach to the throne of grace. The Gethsemane garden cry, "Not my will, but thine, he done," is fundamental to the entire Christian idea of prayer. Stubborn self-will can command no favors from heaven. In the school of prayer the great life lessons are learned. There it is that a sense of relations and propor tions is acquired, so-that life is not dis torted, with the nonessentials first and the essentials last. It ls a profound .education for any soul to gVasp the truth that God is on the throne of the universe. Then all lesser truths and facts fall into proper relationship. A sense of humility and teachableness follows naturally. One is brought in to spiritual fellowship with all the family of God's praying children as he kneels before the^throne; prayer is a real school of brotherhood. The elu sive peace which the world so vainly pursues becomes the possession of the .one who enters often into the prayer closet. Strength, wisdom, content ment, power, all await the pupil in the school of prayer. "There is a spot where spirits blend, Where friend holds fellowship with friend, ! Through sundered far; by faith they ? meet . Around tho common mercy seat "There, there on eagle wings we soar, ;And time and sense seem all no more, And heaven comes down our souls to greet. . And glory crowns the mercy seat." Poise of soul ls acquired In the school of prayer. Every growing life needs periods of detachment. "Come ye apart," is the master's word to all his disciples. Freedom from dependence upon and entanglement with the world ls won .by him who goes apart to pray. Ir. this experience of isolation arid medi tation he realizes himself, as well as God.' George Herbert's Injunction is wise: "By all means use some times to be alone; Salute thyself, see whst thy soul doth wear. !Dare to look within thy chest, for it ls thine own, > And tumble up and down what thou findest there." The Good Shepherd. "The Lord is thy keeper."-Ps. cxxl, 5. We may Ho down in peace, and sleep in safety, because the Shepherd of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps. No foe or thing of evil can ever sur prise our ever-watchful Guardian, or overcome our Almighty Deliverer. He has once laid down bis life for sthc sheep; but now he ever liveth to care for them, and to insure to them all that is needful for this life and for that which is to come.-Rev. J. H. Taylor. r?LL SHOULD MARRY YOUNG I At Least That ls the Advice Dr. Eliot of Harvard Gives the Com ing Generation. Doctor Eliot of Harvard declares that postponed marriage is a great modern evil in educated society. His belief is given in full in Harper's Bazar, a cheerful message to the coming generation, in the course of which he says: "You will hear some young man say: I cannot invite a girl, who has been brought up, to do nothing for herself, and to have every luxury provided for her, to marry me, until I can earn an income which will enable her to live with me in that way. I have two remarks to make about that doctrine-that if a girl has been brought up In that manner, the sooner she has a chance to live dif fereLtly the better for her; and, sec ondly, that it is only fair for a young man who loves a young woman to con sult whether or not she wishes to marry him before he can earn a large Income. "The young woman has a clear right to say a word on that subject to tbe man she loves and not to be .obliged to wait till he is thirty-five years old before he asks her to marry him. This is a matter of looking ahead at a critical point in your lives. You are not in the habit, perhaps, of contemplating this event of marriage. It would be wiser to do so. The sooner you begin to think about it the better-first, because it will be think ing about the most important event of your lives in respect to the develop ment of your ,wn characters and to the happiness not only to yourselves, but of the women you will marry, and of the family life which will nor mally result." SOLDIERS ARE POORLY PAID Men Who Fight in Greek Army Have Imposing Titles, but Draw Small Salaries. Aside from fighting the Turk, about all that commends a commission ic the Greek army is the length of the titles borne by the officers. The pay is far less imposing, an average American workingman making more in a year than a Greek captain. In Greece the minister of war re ceives an annual salary of $1,800, just $100 more than is paid a second lieu tenant in the United States army. A brigadier general is called a hypos trategos and draws $1,416. The same grade in this country carries a salary of $6,000. A colonel is called a syntagmatarchis and is paid $1,392, against the $4,000 an American colonel gets. A lieu tenant-colonel labors under the name of an autisyntagmatarchis, for which he is paid a scant $1,172. An officer of the same rank In the United States army receives $3,500. A major, known as a tagmatarchis, is paid $1, 056, whereas here he would get $3,000. Grades in the line are much less remunerative. A lochagos, or captain, is paia $720 a year, while an Ameri can of similar rank receives $2,400. A first lieutenant, whoso title is hypolochagos, draws $432, and here ho would be paid $2,000. An American second lieutenant's pay is $1,700. while the equivalent rank in the Greek army is known as anthypolocha gbs, the renumeration of which is $382. Also in the Greek army is the rank of adjutant, or anthypaspistis, the pay of which is $2C4. Up On the Roof. People in Los Angeles didn't love the cat that got in the organ's works. Er pecially the organist didn't. But away at the other side of the contin ent hal' a town waa troubled about the welfare of a cat. It was in Pawtucket, R. L A cat had been chased by a dog or a boy or maybe its own fears and had crawled out of an attic window to the roof of the house. Then, as often hap pens, it was afraid to t?y the descent. It howled and was miserable, and the police were called and could do noth ing. "?iey had to call in the fire de partment after two days, nd tho fire men put up their ladders to tho roof and rescued the cat, who was not in the least grateful. "Taylor" Day in the Rifles. F company, First King's Royal Rifles, became noted in Pietermaritz burg as the "Taylor" company, having no fewer than seven Taylors in its ranks-probably a record for any com pany in the army. On the outbreak of the Boer war they were ordered to Dundee, Natal, and their first conflict with the Dutchmen occurred at Glen coe. The casuality list that night, read as follows: "Lieutenant Taylor, killed; Color Sergeant Taylor, severely wounded; Sergeant Taylor, killed ; Corporal Tay lor'killed; Bandsman Taylor, severe ly wounded; Pioneer Taylor, severely wounded; Private Taylor, killed." Truly a sorry day for the Taylors. London Tit-Bits. Caring for Blind Babies. Mrs. Cynthia Westover Allen, presi dent of the International Sunshine society, was the first person to public ly ask permission to take blind babies out of the homes for defectives and to try to have them brought up in homes like other children. Tho Sunshine society is now making th? mothering of blind babies one of its departments of work. She established a private home for the blind hables of New York and then asked the board of education to take on the work, and after many disappointments she had the satisfac tion of seeing institutions for blind children established by acts of legis lature in New York and New Jersey. Wholesale Condemnation. "One of ihe first things that was j told me when I landed in the state of Massachusetts, in my vacation from the territory of Hawaii, was the story of a little girl in the Sabbath school. The class wa3 asked by the teacher what heathen was. Several girls gave answers, and finally *his little ono put up her hand, shaking it most vigor ously, and the teacher asked her, and this was the d?finition she gave: 'Heathen is anyone born outside the state of Massachusetts.' "-Exchange. Football Condemned. Football has always had its enemies. In "The Anatomie of Abuses," publish ed in 1583, the game is houndly abused. Its author describes football as "a bloodle and murdering practice." "For doth not everyone lye In waite for his adversaurie," he argues, "seeking to overthrow him or to picke him on his noso, though it be upon hard stones? in ditch or dale, in valley or hill, or what place souer it be, he careth not, so jie have him down?" I Making Others Happy. If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself, but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is. The greatest of the world's heroes could not by any series of acts of heroism do as much real good as any individual living his whole life in seeking from day to day to make others happy.-William George Jordan. The Dead Past. A young man was complaining to an experienced man of affairs the other , day about an old grievance he had j against somebody. "Forget it," said j the older man. "The past is mighty dead. I have noticed that men who are always bemoaning their past mis takes or bloviating over what they have done don't get very far. They overlook their present opportunities." I Reduced Rates. "Comin' this way ag'in?" asked the justice of the peace after he had fined Jlmpson $50. "I'm afraid I'll have to," said Jimpson, ruefully. "Wa-al," said the justice, stroking his chin whisker reflectively, "perhaps I'd oughter tell ye that we sell a return fine ticket for $75, "utitlin* ye to immunerty from arrest on th#? way back."-Judge. Admiral Hawke's Ambition. vVhen Admiral Hawke "was a boy, about to go to sea for the first time, his father gave him much good ad vice, ending up with the words, "I 1 hope to live to see you a captain." "A I captain!" answered the boy; "if I ??fcS not think I should one day be an ad miral I would not go to sea at all." Quite a Simple Thing. Young Lady-"What is the secret of your happy life with both your husbands-two such different men?" Old Lady-"Why, I guess I wasn't fussy over trifles. And then I let them have their own way sometimes. They thought they always did." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Degrees of Vocabulary. Shakespeare produced all his plays with about 15,000 different words; Mil ton's range comprised about S.OOO, and the Old Testament's limit is 5.642. A person ol' good education seldom ex ceeds 1,000, while many people are lim ited to about 300. No Chance for Him. Mr. Lobstock-"Yo' wife and yo' gets along fine togedder, 'peahs to me, Brudder Shindig." Mr. Shindig "Yessah! She kin /ell louder'n I kin, io save ni uh life; and dar ain't no fun uh-quah-lin' wid a pusson dat kin out holler yo'." An Early Error. "When Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, she did not eat largely enough. We recognize Good and Evil, but we miss the finer shades."-"Grit Lawless," by F. E. Mills Young. About the Same. "Edkins is a terrific worker, is he not?" said Binks. "Just wedded to his pen, eh?" "I don't know about his pen, but I do know he's married to his typewriter," said Harkaway. Harper's Weekly. Market for Broken Glass. Broken glass has a market. Some of it is ground in fine, powder-like particles and used for various pur poses. At other times it is remelted and made into new glass objects. Few. Few men would worry today over the mistakes of yesterday if it were not necessary to keep on paying for them. Then It's Dun. Unlike most workers, the mosquito presents his bill before he does the job.-Montreal Star. Never. The man who goes out to meet trouble never happens to take the wrong road. For Love ls Blind. If Jack is in love, he is no judge of Jill's beauty.-Proverb. uperiority of The Advertiser's We Have Been Doing Job Printing For Nearly 78 Years The fact that we have been doing job printing in Edgeiield for over three quarters of a cen tury is notable. Our job depart ment has grown steadily during all these years, and today our work stands out among the best. The old-time printer, old style type, and old-fashioned machinery are all gone, and to day our plant is nearly all new. Why the Superiority of our Work? This question may arise, but it is easily an swered: We employ workmen who have ideas and can put them in type; new type, bearing the latest faces, has recently been laid, and our machinery is the new-fashioned kind. Quickness of Delivery and Quality of Work are two features of our job department. When we receive an order it is printed at the quickest time possible, consistent with good printing. Each line and portion is brought out as it should be, thus bringing about smoothess and harmony, which appeal to all lovers of pretty printing. What We Print We can print anything from a visiting card to 44 x 30 circular. It matters not how small the job may be it receives our earnest efforts to make it neat. Won't you try us with an order? itfgefteM ^?sa?m. Established 1835 .Edgefield, S. C. New Style Printers.