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% ^iiirii!ir::;niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiililiniilllli I Ramj I B; ^flillllKlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllll CHAPTER XII.?Continued. ?15? Ramsey looked dogged. "I'm ? goln' around always urguin' abo everything when arguln' would Ju hurt people's feelings about somethii they're all excited about, and wouldi do a bit o' good In the world?and y< 1 - ?" KnrHlv PV bunks, yet ull coming to chant an e # temporized battle-cry in chorus, ev< as they (ought the most wildly. "Who? Who? Who?" they chunte "Who? Who? Who says there all golu' to be no war?" CHAPTER XHI. So everywhere over the country, tin winter of 1SUG, there were light-heat ed boys skylarking?at college, or t the farms; and in the towns tl young machinists snowballed one a other as they came from the shop! while on this Sunday of the "frai snow tight probably several* hundra of thousands of youthful bachelors, b tween the two oceans, went walkin like ltamsey, each with a girl wl could forget the weather. Vet hot of nineteen aud in the twenties wei not light-hearted all the time that wli ter und that spring and that summe Most of them knew long, thoughtfi moments, as ltamsey did, when the seemed to be thinking not of girls < work or play?nor of anything aroun ? them, but of some more vital matt< or prospect. And at such times the Know yourseu jusi i?"? ^ settles anything?so I don't?" "Aha!" Fred cried. "I thought ? Now you listen to me?" "I won't. I?" But at this moment they were lnt rupted. Someone slyly opened a dot and a snowball deftly thrown fro without caught Ramsey upon ' > ba* of the neck and head, where it flu tened and displayed itself as an orn mental star. Shouting fiercely, bo boys sprang up. ran to the door, we caught there in a barrage of snowball ducked through it in spite of all dui age, charged upon a dozen besweater* figures awaiting them und began a mi battle in the blizzard. Some of the opponents treacherously joined the and turned upon the auibirthers. Iu the dusk the merry confli waged up and down the snow-cover* lawu, and the combatants threw ut threw, or surged back and forth, < clenched and toppled over into sno* were grave, but not ungentle. For the long strain was on tbe com try; underneath all its outward seen ing of things going on as usual thei shook a deep vibration, like the a trembling to vast organ pipes in dh pasons too profound to reach the et , as sound; one felt, not lieard, thumb in the ground under one's feet. Tli succession of diplomatic notes cam to an end after the torpedoing of tli Sussex; and at last the tricky rulin Germans in Berlin gave their word t murder no more, and people said, "Thi ineuu* peace for America, and all I well for us," but everybody knew i his heart that nothing was well fi ns. that there was no peace. . They said, "All Is well," while tin thunder iij the ground never eeusedTT grew deeper and heavier till a America shook with it and it hecuw slowly audible us the voice of the ul American soil, a soil wherein lay tliot who had defended it aforetime, a so that bred those who would defend agalt). t*>r it was theirs; and the meai ~r ! I tfu I ll.urtv un.l r 11n Pn suit of Happiness?was theirs, an theirs to defend. And they knew the would defend it, and that more tlui the glory ot a Nation was at stak The Freedom of Man* was at stake. S< gradually, the sacred thunder reaclie the ears of tlie young men and gu\ them those deep moments that came t them whether they sat ill the clns room or the counting-room, or wulkt with the plow, or stood to the iiiachln or behind the ribbon counter. Till the thunder shook them afid tried thei and slowly came into their lives an changed everything for them. Hate of tlie Germans was not bre< but a contempt for what Germany hg shown m lieu of a national heart; contempt as mighty ami as profoun as the resolve that the German wti ami the Uefluuii will should not pr vail in America, nor in any country < the world that would lie free. At when the German kaiser laid his coi maud upon America, that 110 America should take his ship upon the fr< seas, death being the penalty for ai wins disobeyed, then ihe German kaisi giii Ids answer, not only io this ?e law in* mm mime .or lis, inn ui mm i>tli?*r thoughts of his. Vet the u i swer was for some time delayed. There was a hitter Sunday, and I bitterness went everywhere, to evei place in the whole world that he high ami generous hearts. Its hitu ness came to tfie special meeting the "frat hall," where tliere we hearts, indeed, of that right sort, at one of tlieni became vocal in its hittt 11ess. This was the heart of Fr< Mitchell, who was now an authorit being president of the Junior cJas chairman of the From committee, ai other things pleasant to he and to li for at Ids age. "For me. brothers." he said, "I thil I'd a great deal rather have been sh through the head than heard the ne\ from Washington today! I tell yc I've spent the meauest afternoon ever did In my life, and I guess |i been pretty much tlie same with till ns. The worst of it is. it locks though there Isn't a thing in the wor we can do. The country's been I : rayed by a few blatherskites :u botieheads that had the power to do and ail we can do?we've .just got stand :t. Hat there's some America that aren't Just standing it, and want to t? 11 you a lot of 'cm are m from the universities, just like i They're over there right now; th iiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiii >ey Milhi / BOOTH TARKING1 > Itlllllllllllllllllllllllllllll llllllllllllllllllllltMIII . haven't said much?they Just packed ! up and went. They're Hying for France ot and for England and for Canada; ut they're fighting under every fiag on st the right side of the western frout; r?g and they're driving ambulances at i't Verdun and ammunition trucks at the >u Somme. WeU, there's going to he a lot er more American boys en all these Jobs mighty soon, on account of what those o! men did in congress today. If they won't give us a chance to do something under our own flag, then we'll >r- have to go and do it under some other >r, tiag; and I want to tell you I'm one m thut's going to go! I'll stick it out in ?k college up to Easter, and then if it- there's still /in chance to go under the a- Stars and Stripes I'll maybe have to th go under the flag my great-greatre grandfather fought against In 177G, Is, but. anyhow, I'll go!" n- It was In speaking to Itamsey of this i.'d declaration that Dora said Fred was a id "dangerous firebrund." They were ir taking another February walk, but the to February was February, 1917; and the day was dry and sunny. "It's just ct about a year ago," she said. ?d "What is?" Rarnpey asked, id "That first time we went walking. (,r Don't you remember?" ,v- "Oh. that day? Yes, I remember It x- was snowing." L>n "And so cold and blowy!" she added. "it serins a long time ago. I like walkd. ing with you, Ramsey. You're so quiet i't and solid?I've always felt I could talk *r "I Never Liked Any Girl Enough to ,r Go and Call on Her." ie to you just anyhow I pleased, and you J ie wouldn't mind. I'll miss these walks | ie with you when we're otit of college." , S He chuckled. "That's funny!" O "Why?" 18 "Because we've only taken four he- i sides this: two last year, and another ! 11 i week before last, and another Inst ,r j week. This is only the fifth." "Good gracious! Is that all? It ! j seemed to me we'd gone ever so ~ | often!" She laughed. "I'm afraid you " j won't think that seems much as If I'd j ie liked going, hut I really have. And. d | by the way. you've never called on me j :e i at all. Perhaps it's because I've for11 | gotten to ask you." It "Oh. no," Itamsey said, and scuffed his shoes on the path, presently ex- i r* plaining rather huskily that h * "never d was much of a caller"; and lie added. >y "or anything." 11 "Well, you must come if you ever care to." she said, with a big-sister ?. graciousness. "The Dorm chaperon | d sits there, of course, but ours is a jolly | e one and you'd like her. You've prole j ? ably met her?Mrs. Hustings??when : s* you've called oil other girls at our old u j shop." e- "No." said Ramsey. "1 never was Is i much of a " He paused fearing t lu that he might he repeating himself, j and too hastily amended his intention. ' j "I never liked any girl enough to go 'l and call on her." 1(1 j "Ramsey Milholland!" she cried. a "Why, when we were in school half the room used to he talking ahout how ' x you and t?at pretty .Milla?" "No. no!" Ramsey protested, again too hurriedly. "I never called on her. j We just wot.t walking." A moment later his color suddenly i i became liery. "I don't mean?1 mean v ?" he stammered. "It was walking, j of course- I mean we did go out walking. hut it wasn't walking like?like i this." He concluded with a fit of coughing which seemed to rack him. IIDora threw hack her head and laughed delightedly. "Don't you apoio- : n. gize!" she said. "1 didn't when I said l('l i it seemed to me that we've gone walk>r. ing so often, when in reality it's only ! j? four or live times altogether. I think I re | can explain, though: I think it came Kj partly from a feeling I have that I can ,r. rely on you?that you're a good, solid. t*l] . ,, [ oci ire OF THF l V'J I\I "<| iiV/U v/i * m. *?-i a rjj- England Has Three of the Most Reot : markable That the Whole World ,vs Has to Offer. >u. | 1 | A Ion f of bread more than 600 years 1 I's : old. it is said, is to he found at Amhasof j ton, in Derbyshire. Kngland. It was . as j included in a grant of land from the Id j crown in the reign of King John, and >e- has remained in the Soar family ever nd j since. it. j Almost as great a curiosity as this to is a house 1,100 years of age, and yet ns lit for habitation. This old dwelling. 1 the oldest inhabited house in Kngland, en was built in the time of King oflfa of is. : Mereiu. It i>' octagonal in shape, the ej j walls of its lower story being of greut | THE CJ IIIIIISIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIillllMlUIIIIU i H olland | roN I Copyright by Doubled ay. Paga S Company iiiiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimriin reliable sort of person. I remember from the time we were little children, you always hnd a sort of worried, honest look In school, and you used tc make a dent In your forehead?you meant It for a frown?whenever I caught your eye. You hated me so honestly. and you were so honestly ufvald I wouldn't see It!" "Oh. no?no?" "Oh. yes?yes!" she laughed, hen grew serious. "My feeling about yon ?that you were a person to be rolled on, I mean?I think It began thut evening In our freshman year, after the Lusitunia, when I stopped you on the campus and you went with me, and 1 couldn't help crplng, and you were so nice and quiet. 1 hardly realized then that it was tl^e first time we'd ever really talked together?of course I did nil the talking!?and yet we'd known each other so many years. I thought I\t if- affr>ru-nrH Kilt whnf CUVe me such a different view pf you, I'd always thought you were one of that truculent sort of boys, always just bursting for a fight; but you showed tne you'd renlly never had a tight in your life and hated fighting, and that you sympathized with my leellng about war." She stopped speaking to draw in iter breath with a sharp sigh. "Ah, don't you remember what I've told you * \ all along? How it keeps coming closer and closer?and now it's almost here! Isn't it unthinkable? And what can we do to stop it, we poor few who feel that we must stop It?" "Well?" Ramsey began uncomfortably. "Of course I?I?" "l'oc. can't do much," she said. "I know. None of us can. What can any little group do? There are so few of us among the undergraduates?and only one in the whole faculty. All the rest are for war. But we mustn't give up; we must never feel ufterward that we left anything undone; we must fight to the last breath!" "'Fight'?" he repeated wonderingly, then chuckled. "Oh, as a figure of speech," she said. Impatiently. "Our language is full of barbaric figures left over from the dark ages. But, oh. Rnmsey!"?she touched his sleeve?"I've heard that Fred .Mitchell is saying that he's going to Canada after Faster, to try to get /^mo/linn nvlatinn rnrna If IIJLU llic UllCtVIIUII UTMiiiVM vv. J/M. it's true, he's a dangerous firebrand, I think. Is It true?" "I guess so. He's been talking that way. some." "But why do you let him talk that way?" she cried. "He's your rommnte; sprelv you have more intluenee with him tluin anybody else has. Couldn't you?" He shook his head slowly, while upon his face the faintly Indicated modelings of a grin hinted of an Inner t laughte* at some surreptitious thought. "Well, you know, Fred says himself sometimes. I don't seem to be niflch of a talker exactly!" "I know. But don't you see? That sort of thing Is contagious. Others will think they ought to go if he does; he's popular and quite a leader. Can't you do anything with him?" She waited for liiin to answer. "Can't you?" she insisted. The grin had disappeared and Ramsey grew red again. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Stamp Profiteering Slew. The lowest Lilliputians In the whole hierarchy of International tinunce are probably the stamp peddlers. There is hardly a person who was born on the other side who is not dabbling In some tuigle of foreign exchange, but ciihiii wilHnir tn nn*?r lilt' wvv... ........& "I'V. ;?t? on the most fractional margin of profit. Up and down' the market streets of the Italian sections they go every Saturday night, displaying stamps that were made in Italy. They offer them to shoppers, generally following a boy who sells writing paper. No doubt they are to encourage early replies to letters in which they are inclosed. Occasionally a transaction involving a half-sheet or so of stamps may he seen, so that small amounts of money may also he sent in this way to friends on tlie other side.?New York Sun. How Man Spoils the Air. "Windows open more would keep | doctors from the door." A very large quantify of fresh air is spoiled and rendered foul by the act of breathing, j A man spoils not less than a gallon | every minute. In eight hours' breath- > ing a full-grown man spoils as much fresh air as seventeen three-bushel sacks could hold. If he wore shut up in a room seven feet broad, seven feet long and seven feet high, the doors and windows fitting so tigh ly that no air could pass through, he would die poisoned by ids own breath, in a very few hours; in twenty-four hours he would have spoiled all the air contained In the room, and have convert oil it into poison. a~pg KGES LONG PAST thickness. The upper part Is of oak. At one time the house was fortified and known by the name of St. German's Gate. It stands close to the River Ver, and only a few yards from St. Albans aijbe.v. A marriage proposal 3,400 years of aire is in existence in the British museum. It is the oldest mnrrlage proposal of which there is any definite record. It consists of about ninetyeight lines of very fine cuneiform writing. and is on a small clay tablet made <if Nile mud. It is a marriage proposal of a Pharaoh for the hand of the daughter of the king of Babylon. It was written about the year 153U I U. 3ERAW CHRONICLE, CHER | Borrow Sportswe p .. .. ^eW 'TMItt arbiters of fashion are not those who design the clothes that pass In review each season, hilt those who approve them. The way of the producer would he a straight and easy path to success If he could make the right guess at least half of the time. His brain children have had their spring tryouts and he knows now which have survived. Among the dependable things for summer wear, very simple sport suits are already a success. The word "sport" must be given a broad In RIVAL OF THE terpretntlnn in connection with clothe* this season for it embraces everyday street dress. As a rival of the tailored suit, sport suits like that shown here, or similar to It, enliven the streets und lend to their wearers,at least tjie flavor of youth. At flrst glance it seems there is nothing to rhese suits?Just a plain skirt and a Jacket or sinock or slip-over blouse? hut there is in reality much to them. It lies In the choice of material, color, neck and sleeve styles and character of decoration. The suit pictured is made of gray honfespun and embroidered at the neck and on the sleeves with blue and white chenille. It has three small pockets, one at each side of the blouse and one, still smaller, ut the left of the bust. The narrow belt is made of the material. The skirt, as pictured, is shorter FLOWERS AND than the mode dictates?eight inches from the floor Is the limit set for brevity. Hut in some localities the younger women insist upon shorter skirts and go their independent way with the approval of a considerable number of people. Fashion may decree simplicity in dresses and suits for spring and summer. hut she is of a different tnim! l " " ...ill: I,, ui nrr nuuuiiililt' of It IIUUI lllilllliri .1 . III r.v... I..?... ........ ... hats we lint! litem elaborated jn many ways: paying tribute t?? spring by wearing its blossoms and heralding the eoming of summer by choosing its A#Taffeta Frock. New jaunty ways to trim tbe spring taffeta froek tire band efforts of ribbon or velvet, tlrndiinted blnek velvet or alternate narrow widths si re pretty on blue taffeta, while colored ribbon, an ineh or half-inch wide, in rieii rainbow shades makes a stJirininp oriental effect on brown. Skirt' tint1 bell sleeves tire tints decorated. Cushion Looks Better. When making up a cushion, spread a thick sheet of wadding over it jlist AW, S. C. ;ar Styles; I Styles in Millinery I fruits and flowers for their adornment. These are the themes, with endless , 1 varlatjons, that millinery employs to make its song of summer, and hats ( with no flowers or fruits on?them, are 1 rare. * Another outstanding feature In the new displays of millinery is the nami her of huts with brims? m<?re or less wide, and therefore more picturesque, t than their, early spring forerunners, t i Colors are enchanting, with many v soft shades of yellow in greut favor. v In blues, cobalt and periwinkle have t TAILORED SUIT been reinforced by a pale tint, arriving in company with "Princess v Mary pink." Orchid has an army of h admirers und gooseberry green is a ol promising addition to the gay company. R In more vivid tones there are "spark" t( and "lip-stick" reds, rust color and p nusturtlum shades.. But none of these ti colors outrivals white, which the dis- y, plays indicate will predominate for tf midsummer. w In the group of four hats shown hi here a little glimpse of the great >; diversity in millinery styles is given. g< They nre distinctly different from S( eucli other. The group Includes a leg- h horn in the natural color, with soft fl crown und scarf of pale amber georg- n ette and a wreath of locust blossoms, j, A smull hat of orchid straw, wreathed g with grapes and pansies, has a sash of narrow blue ribbon. A white fub- w SI FRUITS PREVAIL i P I '' rlc lint is dotted with hlack heads 1 that spatter themselves over the hlack j silk blossoms flattened against the | brim. It has a collar and hanging ! ( ends of silk braid. Whoever chooses j timv timl tiiilnrpfl f'lhrir* lints: nn/1 I . among them thdse of Ha fa via cloth. I .' i' liko the hat pictured in black, with | I stiff loops of ribbon and a jet buckle ! , ? n I for ornament. 1 ' corniCMT n votwn hwwu unioh i fl i tinder the outside cover, tacking it : down with a stitch at the corners and in the middle of the sides. The cushion p feels softer than it otherwise would; (. ! moreover, the wadding shows up the t| I work ami makes even a plain cover ,. i j look well. s ' l " I ; Fringe. Fringe is seen on many of the smart- 8 est'of new frocks. Possibly its lasting ^ vogue can he accounted for in the fact ? I that it is the most tlattering of trim- 8 1} tilings, especially when it is long. a I BOY SCOUTS S Conducted by National Council of the Boy Scouts of America.) BRITISH COLUMBIA HERO Before the eyes of scores of spectaors, two bo; scouts of Vancouver. I. C.. Allen Wooton and Hamlsli Daldson recently covered thetuselvei [ 1th glory by crawling out on the reacherous melting ice of Coal Uaror and rescued Bruce Mclntyre, the ourteen-year-old Bon of Kev. R. J. Mcntyre. The boy had been skating nd was about 200 feet out from shore fhpn without wnrninir the ice eave ray, precipitating hlra Into the water, le made a game struggle to pull hlmelf out, but the Ice was too rotten to ling to. Many people saw the boy's plight, ut none dared venture out to his escue as the Ice obviously would ear no man's weight. Ladders were un out. Even this Improvised bridge as precarious, as by this time the :e was breaking up on all sides. The wo scouts volunteered to attempt the escue, Davidson skating out, as near s be could to the ladder while Wooon crawled out on the ladder, drop-, lng a rope and another small ladder ehlnd him. Between them the resuers managed to push the extra lader under the drowning boy and pry lm to the surface of the Ice. People n the shore then hauled In the rope nd all three boys landed safely Just s the police arrived. First aol was Iven young Mclntyre. and In the exIteruent the two rescuers slipped way. nobody having even Inquired lieir names. Later, however, the oung heroes were solicit out, though hey made light of the incident and rould not permit their pictures to be uhllshed until they secured the prom?e that the fact they were boy scouts hould be mentioned and the chief redlt given to the organization which ad given them the trninlng which had nabled them to do the good turn. Both oys have been scouts for over five ears. Davidson Is troop leader of he Fifth mountaineers and a King's ?? .. mrwionnnHiiiir somewhat I'UUI, n I nur\ VWI ic.?|/viniM>0 ) the Eagle of the Boy Scouts of .merlca. Wooton is an assistant coutinaster of the Sixth Vancouver oop. SCOUTS FIND LOST CHILD / Consternation reigned in a certain ome in Shreveport, La. Four-yearid Perkins Sykes had disappeared, pparently as completely as last wind's snow. The frantic- mother apealed to the police, and at the same r?e Wayne Durham, a cousin of the outhful vagrant, took it on himself ) call out the Fox patrol of which he as lender. Two squads of scouts, one ended by Durham, and another by ed Tarver started an organized ?arch thro 'gh the neighborhood. A pout ndver gives up and though for ours no luck crowned their efforts; nally the missing youngster was capired In Gasser ball park tired, but npp.v and not at all concerned about ettlng home. ' "I walked; that's all.'* e explained, "walked and walked, anted to find .Terry." Jerry, it eemed, was a small playmate whose ociety Perkins had missed greatly >nce his parents had moved to anther part of town. "Can't get home ow." he added. "Don't want to get ome. Want to play." Nevertheless e consented to be taken back to his lotlmr. the scouts taking turns carrytg him. Sound asleep In his cousin's rms hp was handed over to ms ueghted mother. /ILL MAKE WASHINGTON TRIP Roy scouts of Wheeling and Moundsille council. West Virginia, are alpady beginning to hoard their earnlgs and spending money in anticlpaon of their excursion to the national npital. scheduled to take place next umnier, according to the present plans f the council. It is planned to mnke fie trip by means of auto trucks, travling by day and making night camps long the way. This is one of the lan.v similar education trips which re being promoted by scout leaders limughout the country, looking to ard both pleasure and profit of routs, jp i MAN, WOMAN AND BOY SCOUT TIip Chamber of Commerce of MarInez, Cal., recently put through a city leanup, during whidi t hey urged very body to trim shrubbery, remove uliliisli, tear down or mend and reaint old fences, burn over gruss in acant lots, etc. The city was looked out in districts for this purose, with a man, a woman and a oy scout in charge of each. RESCUE WITH HOCKEY STICKS Scouts Rosland Bowers and Donald 'lark of Mllford, Conn., last winter aved with their hockey sticks a small oy who had fallen through the Ice. Vlth characteristic scout modesty, nf fhu Incident. The I t-1 I 11 1 v? rst notification their scoutmaster had lint his troop hud some sure-enough eroes was when he received a grate111 appreciation from the rescued lud's iurents asking him to publicly thank he boys for their splendid service in irst aid. IS STRONG FOR SCOUTS August Vollmer. chief of police of lerkeley. Cnl., tells his force to enourage scouting on their "beats" If hey do nothing else. "Prevention of rim? is nine tenths of the game." he ays. "Xa full-fledged boy scout has ver been a delinquent in the history f this department." Chief Vollmer !s frong for scouts. He likes their ways, heir loyalty, their habit of the daily good turn." Above all he likes the cout smile, and considers It a valuable sset to society. i FT* * IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL SindaySchool ' Lesson' (By REV. P. B. FITZWATEK. D. D.. Teacher of English Bible In the Moody . ' Bible Institute of Chicago ! Copyright mi. Ww'trii Nfwip?p?r Unlom. LESSON FOR APRIL 30 /, ISAIAH'S 8UMMONS AND RE8PONSE. LESSON TEXT.?Isa. 8:1-11. GOLDEN TEXT.?Here am I; send me. ?Isa. 6:8. . ' REFERENCE MATERIAL.?Gen. 12:1-4: Ex. 3:1-4:17; Josh. 1:1-9; Jar. 1:4-10; Matt 10:5-20. PRIMARY TOPIC.?God Calls Isaiah to Help Him. - J U.\ 1UK TUflC.?A Young Man wno Was Ready. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC. ?Our Response to the Call for Service. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC. ?The Service to Which God Calls Us. I. Isaiah's Vision of Glory (vv. 1-4). , So definite was this vision that the prophet remembered the very time of Its occurrence. It meant so much to him that he could ever look back to , it us a day when his ministry took on a new meaning. 1. He Saw the Lord on His Throne (v. 1). Though the death of Uzzlah left Jadah's throne tenipty it was made clear to the prophet that the throne of God -was occupied. The Lord was high and lifted up, showing that He is above all kingdoms. This was a peculiar preparation of Iaaiah for his % work. The one who has reully seen God can never be the same ugcfcprftfa has a fuller meaning aver afterward. 2. He Saw the SerapMms Above (vv. 2, 3). Just who these beings are we do not know. The word signifies "fiery," "burning." They wei;e glorious beings whoso business was to wait upon the Lord, to go on errands for Him. They had six 'wings?two for flight; two to cover (heir face, showing reverence; and two to cover their feet, showing humility. These three pairs show that reverence and humility ure of equal valug before God. with activity. The song of the sernphims shows thfft they saw holiness as God's supreme attribute. The thrice "holy" perhaps refers to the Trinity. % Th? flrct phnlf onnc "Hnlv holv holv." ,,v ,,,M4 v '""1 MM"o? "V? ?- ?? and the secdnd choir responded to this by spying, "The whole earth Is full of His glory." ? 3. The Manifestation of Majesty (v. 4). "The posts uf the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was Ailed with smoke." The smoke, no doubt, signified God's wrath against man's sinfulness (see Psalms 18 :8; 74:1). II. Isaiah's Conviction of Sin (v. 6). The vision o\ God brought the prophet to see hhfself. It is only is the light of God's kpllness that we see our unholiness. WTjen Peter got a * glimpse of who Christ was he begged Him to depart from Vdrn, saying, "Depart from me; for I a.ta a sinful man, O lord" (Luke 5:8). The prophet not only realized thut lie a sinner, but that the nation was ? nation of sinners. What the world needs today above all things Is a vision j)t God. III. Isaiah's Cleansing r>?m Sin (vv. 6, 7). The taking of the coal from i>e altai shows that it was connected with sacrifice. The fire that consume ths sacrifice wus holy fire. When u Jinnor gets u vision of God in Christ, ? Holy Spirit applies the merits < Christ's shed hlood and cleanses from ' rU sin. The soul touched by the fire from the altar of God's sacrifice is freed instantly from all sin. * IV. Isaiah's Call (v. 8). Immediately following his cleansing came the call. Men must be cleansed from sin before they shall be called to God's service. Though God has many angelic beings who willingly go , on errands for Him. yet He hus errands upon which only cleansed human beings can go. The only ones who can really declare the gospel of God's grace ure those who have experienced Its saving power. God Is asking this same question or men ana women. Isaiah readily responded to his call by dedicating himself to the task, fie said, "Here am I; send me." V. Isaiah's Commission (vv. 9-13). 1. The Sending (vv. 9, 10). He had / a most discouruglng task before him. He is assured that the people wiTT * hear his message, out be unmoved by it. They \vlll even increuse in blindness and deafness to the divine warnings?they will neither be converted nor healed. Such a hopeless task would only be undertaken by one who had had a vision of God. 1'. The Eneounivgement (vv. 11-13) Facing this discouraging outlook the 5S prophet raised th.? inquiry, "Lord, how V long?" Tlie Lord in His reply aiSsurec a him that it would not 1:ist forever. 4 The land would be desolate, the cities without inhabitants, and the houses without occupants; but as the oak retains its vital substance even long afte* It has been cut down, so from Juduh shall a remnant be saved. The * holy seed is the substance which shall constitute the basis of the kingdotr which shall come wheu David's sod shull be king. ( ? Value of Libraries. Women can do a grent deal to raise the rone of lite in the community. Tin public library ought to have its pluct and adequate support in every village town, or city. In some parts of New England, the law requires that everj * town, however small, shall maintaic a public library. It Is discreditable to us that there is not such a llbrarj p In many more of our communities. Lei the beginning he made in a small waj if necessary, hut let church womer give leadership In establishing suet libraries and making them attractive places of resort for readers, centers 01 intellectual life.?The Bishop ol Newark. * The Voice of a Fool. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter anj thing before God; for God is in heav en, and thou upon earth; therefore lei thy words be few. For a dream com eth through the multitude of business and a fool's voice Is known by a multi tude of words.?Eccles. 5:2*3. % i