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: jlr J I 1 ^ ISSUED SEMX-WEEHL^ l. x orist'S sons, Pnbii.h.r.1 % ^amilg gurseaptr: ?n flit fromotion of the flalititai, goriat, g.jgrictil(tirai, and ?mmei;rial Jnttresls of the people. establish1edT855. | YORKVILLE, 9. O.. FpiDAY, JANUABY 13, 1905. ^ ]Sr0. 4.~ f D'rf! By IRVING Author of "Ebon Holden," "D (Oopyrfckl, 1*1, bj lathi CHAPTER X. The shooting and shouting and the tramp ot horse and man had roused everybody In the big house. Even the general came down to know what was the matter. The young ladies came, pale and frightened, but in faultless attire. I put an armed guard by the prisoners at the door, under command of I^rL Then I had them bare the feet o) the four Britishers, knowing they could not run bootless in the brush. We organized a convoy?the general and I?and prepared to start for the garrison. We kept the smudges goings for now and then we could hear the small thunder of hornet-wings above us. There is a mighty menace in it, I can tell you, if they are angry, i "Jerjishy Jane Pepper!" said D'ri, as he sat, rifle on his knee, looking at his prisoners. "Never thought nobody c'u'd luk 8' joemightyful cur-us. Does mek a man humly t' hev any trouble with them air willy-comebobs." He meant wasps. I had had no opportunity for more than a word with the young ladies. 1 hoped it might come when I went in for a hasty breakfast with the baroness, the count, the general and Mr. Parish. As we were eating, Leuison came in hurriedly. She showed some agitation. "What is the trouble, my dear?" said the baroness, in French. , "Eh bien, only this," said she: "1 have dropped my ring in the brook It is my emerald. I cannot reach it" "Too bad! She has dropped her ring in the brook," said the baroness, in English, turning to me. "If she will have the kindness to take me there," I said to the hostess, rising as I spoke, "I shall try to get it for her." "M'sleur le Capitaine, you are very obliging," said she. Then, turning to Louison, she added in French: "Go with him. He will recover it for you." It pleased and flattered me, the strategy of this wonderful young creature. She led me, with dainty steps, through a dewy garden walk into the trail. "Parble*!" she whispered, "is It not a shame to take you from your meat? But I could not help it I had to see von thftrn is aomethlne I wish to say." "A pretty girl is better than meat," I answered quickly. "I am indebted to you." "My! but you have a ready tongue," said sfie. "It is with me a pleasure to listen. You are going away? You < shall not return?perhaps?" She was trying to look very gay and indifferent, but in her voice I couxa aetect a note of trouble. The flame of passion, quenched for a little time by the return of peril and the smoke of gunpowder, flashed up in me. 4iIt is this," she went on: "I may wish you to do me a favor. May I have your address?" "An^ you may command me," I said as I gave it to her. "Have a care!" she said, laughing. "I may ask you to do desperate things ?you m8y need all your valor. The count and the baroness?they may send us back to France." "Which will please you," I remarked. "Perhaps," she said, quickly. "Mon Dieu! I do not know what I want! I am a fool. Take this. Wear it when you are gone. Not that I care?but? it will make you remember." She held in her Angers a flashing emerald on a tiny circlet of gold. Before I could answer she had laid it in my hard palm and shut my hand upon it "Dieu!" she exclaimed, whispering, "I must return?I must hurry. Remember, we did not find the ring." * I felt a great impulse to embrace her and confess my love. But I was not quick enough. Before I could speak she had turned away and was running. I called to her, but she did not turn or seem to bear me. She and my opportunity were gone. We stowed the prisoners in the big ; coach of the baroness, behind a lively t team of four. Then my horse and one for D'ri were brought up. ' i "Do not forget," said the baroness, holding my hand, "you are aiway3 wei-, come in my house. I hope, ma foil , that you will never find happiness until you return." , The young ladies came not to the step where we were, but stood by the count waving adieux. Louison had a merry smile and a pretty word of i. French for me; Louise only a sober look that made me sad, if it did not speak for the same feeling in her. The count was to remain at the Hermitage, having sent to the chateau for a squad of his armed retainers. They were to defend the house, if, by chance, the British should renew their attack. Mr. Parish and his footman and the general went with us, the former driving D'ri and I rode on behind as the coach went ofT at a gallop. He was a great whip, that man David Parish, who had built a big mansion at Ogdensburg and owned so much of the north country those days. He was a gentleman when the founders of the proud families of to-day were dickering in small merchandise. Indeed, one might look in vain for such an establishment as his north of Virginia. This side the Atlantic there was no stable of horses to be compared with that he had?splendid English thorr oughbreds, the blood of which is now in every great family of American horses. And, my faith! he did love to - put them over the road. He went tearing up hill.and down at a swift gal. * BACHELOR arrel of mp*mA IsIm'" Eto* 5=^=7 > I lop, and the roads were none too ' smooth In Wat early day. Before leaving home he had sent relays ahead to await hl4K?,nS every 15 miles of the journetf * always did that if he had far to ga This time he had poeted them ck#r to the harbor. The teams were qdffr ?Mfted; then we were off again * B crack of the whip and a t00t ^ the Ions horn. He held up in the swaWe, hut where footing was fair, theWBh-mettled horses had their heads and little need of urging. We halted atn:i inn for a sip of something and a bite to eat. "PariA" aald the general, rising on stiffened h?n? "I 1Ike your company and I Hto'rour wine, but your driving is a punishment" D'ri worn out with lack of sleep And rest, b<it he had hung doggedly to his ttiil? "How do you feel?" I asked him as we drdt oi> on each side of the coach. "Spit f the collar," said he, soberjy( u |e r08ted an elbow on his pommel. Wept lx> headquarters at five, and turnei over the prisoners. We had never! warmer welcome than that of "I cMgnitulate you both," he said as he bright the rum-bottle after we had made our report. "You 've got more fight 4l you than a wolverene. Down with joor rum and ofT to your beds, and rifort here at reveille. I have a tough Job for you to-morrow." dl CHAPTER XI. It ap, indeed, tougher business than we hat yet known?a dash into the enem? country, where my poor head was % excellent demand. D'rl and I were Jo cross the lake with a band of raided a troop of 40, under my command Wo were to rescue some prisoned In a lockup on the other side. They vere to be shot in the morning, and ir mission therefore admitted of no ?*y- Our horses had been put aboa I a brig at midnight, and soon aftei he noon mess we dropped down the Ice, going into a deep, wooded covfcfuuth of the Grenadier island. There w? jfay^waltTng for "nightfall. A big ind was howling over the woods at atfcaet, and the dark came on its winjrfam-hour ahead of time. The night ;Wfta: black and the lake noisy whenjte got under way, bound for a flatboit ferry. Our skipper, it turned out, |d little knowledge of those waters. ,'He had shortened sail, and said he up not afraid of the weather. The win4f'out of the southeast, came harder aait drove us on. Before we knew it, tl whale kit and boodle of us were in a levil of a shakeup there in the broa water. D'ri and I were down amoi ; tie horses and near being tran led under in the roll. We tried . to pg about then, but the great gusts j of wfetd made us lower sail and drop anchir in a hurry. Soon the horses weitndl In a tumble and one on top of t|i other. We had to jump from KantA- i. ???? /MimotMO Tt WAS "*V-y until IU MIC UUIKKW .. | 00 Jrtty business, I can tell you, to g?t fe the stairway. D'rl was stripped of *bot-leg, and I was cut in the chin j hy f froc t hoof, going ten feet or so to ^ upper deck. To the man who wa?ever hit in the chin by a horse's hoof let me say there is no such renj?y 'or a Prou<t spirit Bullets are mud easier to put up with and keep < Hi tongue in one's head. That . low* de< :k was a kind of horses' hell. We lad to let them alone.. They got 1 *sti ddle of one another's necks, and wer| cut from ear to fetlock?those thai lived, for some of them, I could Wr Mre being trampled to death. Hcatnany I never knew, for suddenly IIt a reef there In the storm and the hlwl night. I knew we had drifted to thelortt shore, and as the sea began to %sh over us it was every man for hin*lf. The brig went up and down 'ftti sledge-hammer, and at every hlow her sides were cracking and caving. She keeled over suddenly, and wM^mptied of horse and man. A big flung me far among the floundering I ftrsea. My fingers caught in a wet I clung desperately between woijing flanks. Then a big wave went wtfns. I hung on, coming up astride myppture. He swam vigorously, his non high, blowing like a trumpet. I knight we were in for a time of it, had very little hope for any landi?8?avc in kingdom come. Every minut?I W8.3 head under in the wash, and ^roanng filled me with that mighty kfor of the windfall. But, on my w<M, there is no captain like a good tootle in bad water. Suddenly I felt | L11 hit the bottom and go forward on tot knees. Then he reared up, and beBi to ;ump in the sand. A big wave W| ihed him down again. He fell on tide in a shallow, but rose and ran * irily over a soft beach. In the blackm b around me I could see nothing. A to hch whipped me in the face, and I dl iked. I was not quick enough; it * "** * * i? Horlr A big | hk? rencmg m LIIC um ?%. ? j*ugh hit me, raking the withers of my kttse, and I rolled off headlong In a of bushes. The horse went on, out Jjf hearing, but I was glad enough to J j till, for I had begun to know of my j?*toes In a few minutes I took off W boots and emptied them and wrung W blouse, and lay back, cursing my if'"1 , ?ot that year of 1813 had the kica fill fortune in it for every mother's J311 of us there in the north country. I have ever noticed that war goes in I**?* of success or failure. If we had Brown or Scott to lead us that I year, instead of Wilkinson, I believe it had had a better history. Here was I in the enemy's country. God knew where, or how, or when I should come out of it I thought of D'ri and how it had gone with him in that hell of waters. I knew it would be hard to drown him. We were so near shore, if he had missed the rocks I felt sure he would come out safely. I thought of Louison and Louise, and wondered if ever I should see them again. Their faces shone upon me there in the windy darkness, and one as brightly as the other. Afterwhiles I drew my wet blouse over me and went to sleep, shivering. A familiar sound woke me?that of the reveille. The sun was shining, the sky clear, the wind had gone down. A crow sat calling in the tree above my head. I lay in a strip of timber, thin and narrow, on the lake shore. Through the bushes I could see the masts of the brig slanting out of water some rods away. Beyond the timber was a field of corn, climbing a side-bill that sloped off to a level, grassy plain. Beyond the hill-top, reveille was still sounding. A mmiary camp was near wo, ?uu although I made no move, my mind was up and busy as a cat at a mouse-hole, looking down at my uniform, not, Indeed, the most healthful sort of dress for that country. All at once I caught sight of a scarecrow In the corn. I laughed at the odd grotesquery of the thing?an old frock coat and trousers of olive-green, faded and torn and fat with straw. A stake driven through Its collar Into the earth, and crowned with an ancient, tall hat of beaver, gave It a backbone. An idea came to me. I would rob the scarecrow and hide my uniform. I ran out and hauled it over and pulled the stuffing out of it The coat and trousers were made for a stouter man. I drew on the latter, fat| tening my figure with straw to fit them. That done, I quickly donned the coat Each sleeve-end fell to my finger-tips, and its girth would have circled a flour barrel and buttoned with room to spare. But with my stuffing of straw It came around me as snug at the belt as the coat of a bear. I took alarm as I closed the buttons. For half a minute I had heard a drum-tap coming nearer. It was the measured tap! tap! tap-tap-tap! so familiar to me. Now I could hear the tread of feet coming with it back of the hill. How soon they would heave in sight I was unable to reckon, but I dared not run for cover. So I thrust my scabbard deep in the soft earth, pulled down the big beaver hat over my face, muffled my neck with straw, stuck the st/ke ip front of me to steady myself, and stood stiff as any scarecrow in Canada. Before I was done a column, scarletcoated, came out In the level beyond the hillside. Through a hole in the beaver I could see them clearly. They ramp on. rank after rank. They de ployed, forming an open square, scarlet-sided, on the green turf, the gap toward me. Then came three, walking stiffly in black coats, a squad leading them. The thing I had taken for a white visor was a blindfold. Their heads were bare. I could see now, they were in shackles, their arms behind them. They were coming to their death ?some of my unlucky comrades. God pity them! A spy might as well make his peace with heaven, if he were caught those days, and be done with hope. Suspicion was enough to convict on either side of the water that year. As my feet sank deeper in the soft earth I felt as if I were going down to my grave. The soldiers led them into the gap, standing them close together, backs to me. The squad drew ofT. The prisoners stood erect, their faces turning up a little, as if they were looking into the clear, blue sky. I could see them waver as they stood waiting. The .sharp-shooterB advanced, halting as they raised their rifles. To my horror, I saw the prisoners were directly between me nnd them. Great God! was I also of that little company about to die? But I dared not move a step. I stood still, watching, trembling. An officer in a shining helmet was speaking to the riflemen. His helmet seemed to jump and quiver as he moved away. Those doomed figures began to reel and sway as they waited. The shiny barrels lifted a little, their muzzles pointtrie at them and at me. The corn seemed to duck and tremble as It waited the volley. A great black ball shot across the sky In a long curve, and began to fall. Then came the word, a flash of fire, a cloud of smoke, a roar of rifles that made me Jump In my tracks. I heard bullets cuffing the corn, I felt the dirt fly up and scatter over me, but was unhurt, a rigid, motionless man of straw. I saw my countrymen reel, their legs go limp as rags, their bodies fall silently forward. The soldiers stood a moment, then a squad went after the dead with litters. Forming in fours, they marched away as they had come, their steps measured by that regular rap! rap! rap-rap-rap! of the drum. The last rank went out of sight. I moved a little and pulled the stake, and quickly stuck it again, for there were voices near. I stood waiting as stiff as a poker. Some men were running along the beach; two others were coming through the corn. They passed within a few feet of me on each side. I heard them talking with much animation. They spoke of the wreck. When they were all by me I faced about, watching them. They went away in the timber, down to a rocky point, where I knew the wreck was visible. TO BE CONTINUED. X*r When one starts out to do the greatest good to the greatest number, No. 1 is usually "it." -Don't hide your light under a bushel. Use the bushel to cover your faults?If It's big enough." Many a would-be society woman Isn't in the swim deep enough to get her bathing suit wet. *tr Self-made opportunities are a great help to the man who would break Into the self-made class. j i, wines i nmmi ^ Heart of Gold Yields Up Its Precious Contents. MESSAGE OF CHRISTIAN LOVE. What tha Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Yorkvflle Told His Congregation on the Dissolution of a Long and Faithful Pastorate?He Would Have His People Strive Toward Perfect Christian Unity In the Assurance' That God's Blessings Must Follow. At the request of The Enquirer, Rev. Dr. W. G. Neville, has furnished he preached to his congregation on the first Sunday in January. It is as follows: "Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of of love and peace shall be with you." 2 Cor. *111, IV By the act of Bethel presbytery at Its recent meeting, the pastoral relation which has existed for more than eleven years between this church and myself Is this day dissolved. This Is a very sacred relation. It Is not to be established, nor to be dissolved, except as indicated by the providence of God. If the providence of God Indicates that a minister should remain In the same field for twenty-five years, no agency has the right to move that man until his work there Is done; and, if the providence of God indicates that a preacher ought to leave his field in six months after he has settled there, no agency has the right to keep him there beyond this time. Christ is the Head- of the church and the only Head of the church, and. It is our duty to obey His will, so far as we can know this will as It Is revealed to us In the Word of God. and In the providence of God. It Is difficult often to Interpret the providence of God and to know what God's will is. Hence we are liable to make mistakes; but this does not Invalidate the position which we occupy. Believing that these are the truths taught us In the word of God concerning the pastorate, I profess to have been Uul by the providence of God In the^teps which I have-taken to have the pastoral relation dissolved. It may be that I have made a mistake In the matter; but, I hope not. since the relation has been dissolved. I have tried to do my whole duty, although the steps which I have taken have caused my heart many a pans:. I trust that God will control and overrule the whole matter, so that his name will be glorified and the welfare of all Interested may be enhanced. It Is needless for me to say that the relation between this church and *tnyself has been a pleasant one to me. I have found In this church and community some of the best and. truest friends I have ever had. It Is hard to break up these relations. But we must remember that while they appear to be broken, really they are not. Though friends may be separated by long distances as to their bodies, yet their hearts can be Joined together in the most intimate relationships of true friendship. Thank God, distances cannot break up the ties of true friendship. "When wj asunder part, It gives us Inward pain; But we shall still be Joined In heart, And hope to meet again." I trust that the dissolution of the relation which Is now drawing to a close will not be the cause of your thinking any the less of me. I will go away from this place entertaining the very kindest feelings for each and all of you. I ask that you all will reciprocate these feelings towards me. It would be a sad thing Indeed to me to know that any one In this community cherished any but the kindest feelings towards me for any thing I have done, or left undone, wnne i nuve uoc ... your midst. I have made mistakes, many of them; but they have all been mistakes of the head and not of the heart. God knows my heart, and I am profoundly thankful that He is to be my final Judge. If any thing has transpired since I have been living in this community with which I have been connected that has been unpleasant to you and for which you have blamed me. let me beseech you to bury it today, and remember it no more forever. While the separation is in many respects a sad one, let us entertain the most kindly feelings for each other. Let us bear each other In the arms of our faith and prayers before our Heavenly Father's throne. Let us bear one another's burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ. Our work together which has been so pleasant and harmonious, and I trust profitable, is drawing to a close. I expect soon to be in another field of labor, and you expect soon to have another pastor. It is sad to say, Farewell. After we have worked together and taken counsel together for more than eleven years, it is hard to say, Good-bye. It is a great trial for me to take my leave of you. Aftef having received so many of you into the church, after having baptized so many of your dear children, after having officiated at the marriage of so many of your young people, after having burled so many of your precious dead, after having sympathized with you in all of your troubles and after having wrestled with God in prayer for you during all these years and after having given you more than eleven of the best years of my life in trying to preach to you the unsearchable riches of Christ, It is painful to go through the ordeal of separation. But my earnest prayer Is that It will all be for the best. I take this occasion to thank you all, regardless of church affiliations, for the marked and unceasing kindness you have shown me and my family since we have been in your midst. It is thoroughly appreciated by us. and will never be forgotten. It has been an Incentive and an inspiration to us and a source of true Joy and happiness. May our covenant keeping God, whose promises are sure and steadfast, bless you abundantly for this kindness. But, It becomes us, brethren. In this our last service together as pastor and people to consider some imngs wnicn will have a practical bearing upon the future work and welfare of this church. "Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you." . Here we have an exhortation and a promise, an exhortation to be perfect, to be of good comfort, to be of one mind, to live in peace, and then upon the obeying of this command a promise that the God of love and peace shall be with you. "Be perfect." If there is anything lacking in heart and character, in your life and conduct, it is your duty to give your pndivlded attention to that which is lacking and try in every possible way to rectify it. Tou are to be perfect by filling up that which is lacking in character and In conduct. Whatever you do, don't neglect the cultivation of the Christian graces In your hearts. Especially would I urge you to cultivate the grace of charity, or love, that grace, which suffereth long and is kind; which envieth not; which vaunteth not Itself and is not puffed up; which doth not behave itself unseemly; which seeketh not her own, Is not easily provoked, thlnketh no evil; which rejoiceth not in Iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth; which beareth all things, belteveth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. May each of you be brought to a thorough realization in your deepest experience of the precious worth and the infinite power of the blessed gospel of the Son of God. May the gospel take a firmer hold upon your heart and upon your life; and, by the grace of God, may you take a firmer hold upon the gospel. Don't be satisfied with present attainments. Keep on striving for something higher and better and nobler and more god-like. "Slvlng all diligence, add ^to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity." Tou don't know what you can accomplish In the field of Christian experience and Christian endeavor. Tou ought to aspire to larger, and still larger, experiences and victories as disciples of Christ. There Is no danger of ever exhausting the Infinite resources of the gospel. Let me urge you then to go on from one degree of perfection to another, never satisfied with present attainments, but ever grasping for something higher and better In the Chrisdan life. In order to do this, you must make a diligent use of all the means of grace that are In your reach. Let me beseech you, then, to keep up the services of the sanctuary, the preaching services, the prayer-meeting services, the Sabbath school services. Keep up your contributions to the church. Pay all your apportionments to benevolence. Don't let the splendid record of this church on this subject be broken. Don't fall to continue your support of a missionary In the foreign field. "Be of good comfort." Ours Is a gospel of encouragement. Don't become discouraged. It is a sin, as well as a mistake. The way to avoid discouragement Is to go right to work and get another pastor. It is a reflection upon the providence of God for you to become discouraged. The Lord's work Is not dependent on the presence or efforts of any one man. If God has a work to be done here, then there Is a man somewhere to do this work; and, if the proper efforts are made, the man and the work will be brought together. Therefore, I beseech you not to become discouraged, but be of good comfort. "Be of one mind." Be united. How necessary it Is for a vacant church to take heed to this Injunction! For, if this command is not heeded, you will soon be scattered as a flock without a shepherd. In the selection of a pastor, you ought, if possible, to be of one mind. The future prosperity of the church, to a very great extent, will depend upon the man whom you get as your pastor. If you find there Is strong opposition to a minister whom you would lll^o ?/, Viovo an nogtnr tnr the STOOd of the church, you ought to relinquish your efforts to secure his services, unless you can overcome the opposition against him. If the new minister comes into the field with strong opposition against him, he will find It very difficult to succeed In that field. And let me say, Just here, that you ought to be extremely careful as to the objections you bring against a man who Is proposed as a suitable pastor for your church. You ought to be sure that the objections are well grounded and will be real obstacles In the way of the prosperity of the church. In the selection of a pastor, the chief thing for you to consider Is the welfare of the church. If It will be for the good of the churoh, you ought to be willing to sacrifice your own personal likes and dislikes. But, If you are satisfied In your own mind that a certain man Is not the man for the field, then It Is your duty to oppose his election. If it Is within your reach, I would advise you by all means, to be united In your selection of a pas tor. For, If he comeg Into the field with some against him, he la at once handicapped in his work. Do all that you cgn consistently with truth and righteousness to make the call a unanimous call. This will be an encouragement and an Incentive to the new pastor.* He will enter upon his work with his heart In It and his labors will receive an Impetus right at the beginning which will be felt throughout the bounds of the congregation and to the end of the pastorate. Again, you ought to be united In I your reception of the new pastor. Re celve him with open arms; give Ijlm a warm welcome. Assure him of your interest in him and in his work. And, when he and his family are settled In the manse, go to see him in his home. Especially would I advise the men In the congregation to do this. The ladles will do this without being advised. You have no Idea what an encouragement these little attentions are to the pastor. If you stand back and neglect to show the new minister these courtesies when he first comes into your midst, it may be some time before be finds out that you are really glad to have him as your pastor. So, I would urge you to give your new pastor a warm and hearty welcome. It will not be much trouble to you; but it will be of immense benefit to him. Again, let me urge you to be united in your support of the new pastor in every good work which he undertakes. Just here you ought to lay out all your strength and resources. The minister needs your support and cooperation and encouragement in all the enterprises which he Inaugurates for the building up of Christ's kingdom. Without your help, his hands are tied, his work to a certain extent at least is a failure. The encouragement which you give him will be to him a mighty incentive urging him forward. In the prosecution of his work. Don't permit yourself to be an obstacle in the way of the progress of the church. Unless you hold up the hands of your minister, you will be just so much dead weight on the church as well as on the pastor. Redeem promptly every promise you make to your 'pastor; hold up his nanus m every guoa worn, spout words of encouragement to him as opportunity affords. We are constantly hearing of the Influence exerted over a congregation by a minister, but how seldom is it the case that we hear of the Influence exerted over the pastor by the congregation. To a very great extent, you are responsible for what your preacher is. If the preacher can't bring his congregation up to his standard, his congregation will be very apt to bring him down to their standard. "Live In peace." There is nothing that will destroy the efficiency of a church more effectively than. internal dissensions in the church. How can we expect the church to do effective and satisfactory work when the members of the church are not living amicably among themselves? All the members of the church ought to be united in the most intimate bonds, loving each other as disciples of a common Lord. When they are not loving each other and living in peace, they are violating the fundamental principles of the gospel. For the good of the church, you are to live in peace; for the good of your fellow-men, you are to live in peace; ror me guuu ut your own immortal bouIs, you are to live In peace. These are the injunctions of the Apostle: be perfect: be of good comfort; be of one mind; live in peace. Consider the promise: "And the God of love and peace shall be with you." If you will obey the injunctions, the promise is yours. There Is no uncertainty about the matter. The apostle does not say He may be with you; He does not say He will probably be with you; but he says He shall be with you. The apostle carries the matter altogether out of the range of the possible and even the probable, until he rests upon the solid ground of absolute certainty. "The God of love and peace shall be with you." He shall be with you to defend you, to guide you, to sustain you, to comfort you, to support you and to provide for you. He is the God of love and peace. No permanent harm can befall you. so long as He is with you. Disappointment may come, obstacles may confront you, the clouds of adversity may overshadow you; but, if the God of love and peace is with you, it will be well with you. "The God of love and peace shall be with you." Oh! what a precious promise! He shall be with you as your never failing friend, as your daily companion, as your omnipotent Savior. "The God of love and peace shall be with you." How this ought to lift you up, when you are cast down. "The God of love and peace shall be with you." How this ought to urge you forward in your work when you are discouraged in this work! "The God of love and peace shall be with you." How this ought to .destroy your fears and dispel your doubts! It Is impossible for us to compass all that is wrapped up in this precious and comprehensive promise. 1 irusi you all will experience much of the comfort and satisfaction which Is to be derived from It. In this farewell service, I wish to make another appeal to those who have never publicly espoused the cause of^true religion. You do not profess tp be on the Lord's side; and, since this Is true, how can you claim the Lord to be on your side? What right have you then to expect the blessings of God to rest upon you? If you are without God, are you not without hope? Without God, and therefore without hope. These two things are natural, logical, Scriptural and Inevitable' concomitants of each other. Therefore, let me beseech you by the value of your Immortal -soul, by the infinite efficacy of the blood of Christ, and by the stern realities of 4 the future world, let me beseech you to be reconciled to God. Tou now have the opportunity to do this; but the time is rapidly coming when all such opportunities will be gone forever. Oh, my dying fellow-sinners, stop for a moment and consider the momentous Issues that are Involved in this, the most stupendous of all questions. May the grace of God Incline your heart to Jesus, the Savior of men. "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us; we pray you In Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God." In conclusion, what better and more appropriate wish can I make In taking my leave of you than that the God of love and peace will be with you all. T pray that He will be with these aged persons, that they may realise in their declining years the sweetness of that promise where Christ assures his disciples that He will never leave nor forsake them. In your weakness, may He be your strength, and may you have rich and constant foretastes ol that sweet rest in heaven to which I trust you are rapidly going. As you are passing through the evening of life, may its twilight be the forerunner of heaven's glory which is soon tc> dawn upon you. I pray that God will b<> with you who are In the prime and vigor pf manhood and womanhood, that He , will support you In every trial anil that He will bring you successfullythrough every conflict As you are battling with the stern realities of active life, may you feel the power and Influence of God's presence with you. May you be a power for good in the church and in the world. I pray that God will be with these 1ear young people?these young men and women and these dear boys and ?rirls; that He will throw around them the arms of His love and protection, that He will keep them from the evil influences by which they are susrouad ed. that He will lead them Into pathi of usefulness and happiness and that He will call some of these young men an>l Kaus inin i ka snoaMal mlnistw ??'U wv/? tuvv ure ftvo uiuiWM/* My earnest and fervent prayer Is that the Ood of love and peace may be with all of you in the fulness of His grace and in the richness of His exceeding great and precious promises. Amen. TWO ARMIES AND A PIQ. Prospect of "Freeh Meat" Was Too Mueh For Combatants. We have just come in from a ride around the front It was nearly a mile to the extreme front through fields of cut Icaolin, the giant millet of Manchuria, which Is being rapidly burnt for fuel. Whole villages of Chinese huts have been gutted of every particle of woodwork for the same purpose and nearly the whole of the army is living under ground, where body heat has to serve instead of fires, and with those who can afford fires at all a little fuel has to go a long ways. The men have plenty of tea and they are fairly well fed, but fresh meat Is a luxury that Is not to be neglected at any junction, and suddenly, while we were talking to some officers at an extensive encampment, some fresh meat made Its appearance. . There was a row toward the forward line of trenches that might have presaged a Japanese attack, and we rushed to a knoll that commanded a view. There, from a seemingly deserted Chinese hut, rushed a half grown pig, a shoat of the Manchurlun razorback variety. After It went a Cossack In hot pursuit. Other Cossacks joined the chase, but the pi g, threading the trenches, gained the open ground and headed for the Japanese lines, less than 400 yards away. Reckless of death or anything else, six Cossacks dashed In pursuit, with their long brown coats tucked about their waists. But the pig had the legs of them, and with ear-piercing shrieks headed across the imaginary Mne and charged the Japanese position. The opposite hill slope had been to all appearances vacant and silent as the grave, but a hidden trench suddenly gave up a party of Japanese, and away they went after the pig. The Cossacks stopped, and the Japanese headed the pig diagonally back toward the Russian lines. They did not catch it, but a fresh relay of Russians took up the chase and the pig veered over again to the Japanese. Not a shot was fired all this time, and the Japanese and Cossacks stood within 100 paces of each other in the open, laughing at each other's nonsuccess and hurling maledictions after the pig. The last we saw of it the pig was keeping strictly up the neutral strip between the two forces and heading westward in the direction of the Li&o river.?Mukden letter of November 20, o New York Times. A Woman's Decision.?From Geneva it Is reported that a sanguinary duel was fought in the woods near Belllnzona between a journalist and a rich tradesman, both of whom belong to Venice. Sabres were the weapons used. Both men were excellent swordsmen and the encounter lasted ten minutes, when the Journalist inflicted a horrible gash on his adversary's cheek, almost cutting away the lower part of his face. The quarrel was over a- woman, who declared, after it was over, that she would have nothing to do with either of them, as the one was too disllgured by the wounds and the other was too bloodthirsty. XV Benham: "My heart was in my mouth when I proposed to you." Mrs. Benham: "That wasn't large enough to cause any impediment in your speech." ? ^jK.