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mm '' : - ^ . ? ., A S&1M0N ~FOR SUNDAY AN ElCG'Jr NT DISCOURSE EY .THE REV. JOHN BALCOM SHAW, D. D. % Subject: The Ash-fan Bible?History of a Volume of Holy Writ That is Uniqne in Church Annals?'Warning Against a Common Typs of Family Deterioration | New York City.?The following splendid sermon was preached Sunday morning by the Rev. John Balcom Shatv. It is entitled "The Ash-Can Bible."' Hi? text was; The word of God which liveth and abideth forever?I Peter J:2o. This honh rather than fho -vrnrfls I have read from it, is my text. Not the Bible in general as a theme to be ui&cussed, but this particular Bible consisting of paper, printing and binding, as an object lesson to be ? taught. Ttiis Bible has a history. It was a gift to the church under the uniquest conditions. Indeed I doubt if there is another church in the whole world that came by its pulpit Bible in the same or in anything like a similar way. This is its history. One morning last spring a woman, a pewholder, but not a member of this"church, came into the minister's office, where 1 was keeping the pastoral hour, and handing me a package neatly wrapped and tied, asked me if I could make use of its contents in any way. Opening the package and finding this beautifully bound Bible inside, I, of course, answered affirmatively, and suggested that I hand it on to some mission church or . poor, struggling congregation, for use as a ? puiuit Bible. Sue then tola me its story. That racrn' ing upon coining out of the apartment where she lived she spied an elegantly bound book on the top of the ash-can that stoo'd awaiting the coming of the garbage cart. Feeling it was a shame to allow so fine a book to be disposed of in that way, she went to the ash-can and turned its tit.e round toward her. What was her'amazement, her horror, her sense of desecration, to fit*! it was a copy of the Holy Bible! She opened it and found that several leaves I between the Old Testament and the New had been cut oat. and the explanation came to her at once, an explanation which the janitor afterward fully confirmed. It seems that a family, apparently respectable and well disposed, had moved away from the apartment house the day before, and desiring to throw away everything for which they bad no use and which . increased the bulk of their effects, had seized upon the family Bible which had been in their home for years, as a thing that could bo as easily get along without as anything else, had cut out tne family record that it might not be lost, and sent the hook down to the janitor as rubbish to be thrown away. Ke, either because he had failed to recognize it cr because he had a low estimate oi the Bible's value, had deposited it in the ash-can, end was looking for the city's cart to come at any moment and take it away. A new interest immediately attached itself to the Bible. I put it into the minister's room to await some providential opportunity to dispose of it. That opportunity was not long in coining. When this new pulpit was set in p?aee upon my return it was found that not one of the three pulpit Bibles that had been previously presented to the church would fit its book board. I then went to the minister's room and brought out this ash?can Bible. It was just the thing. Besides being of the right size, its gold edges and richly em, - bossea covers made it peculiarly suitable to mount this pulpit, and here it* will stand * as itself a memorial?the pulpit a memorial to a family who loved 'the Bible, guided their lives for fifty years in this community by its counsels, and sent forth into it 6treams of Christian influence that will never run dry; the Bible which rests upon v this pulpit sneaking to us of a family who flitted into tliis neighborhood, and after a restless sojourn of a few months, more probably of not more than a few weeks, fiitted oat again without having done anything to help it, and who thought so little of God and goodness, desired so faintly, not oniv to iighfc the road heavenward for others, but to have it lighted for themselves, that they threw away their family Bible and moved on to drag dbwn the religious tone and temperature of some other community. Kobert Browning, in his great poem. "The King and the Book," tells the story of finding a rare book at a stall in \hc Square of Florence, and, after reporting its contents, he gives rein to his poetic musings upon the life, character and history of the persons figuring within its narrative, punctuating with marks of exquisite " strength and beauty the lessons of their lives. This strangely discovered bock starts no * ptfllic strains witlfin me?I have no such strings to vibrate?but it does set my soul to musing, and those musings seem to me to take the path of likeliest fact and truth. They carry me back over the earlier history of this book. It may have been, it doubtless was, a wedding present, given probably by a pious father and mother long since among the sainted dead. It had been in the home through all the years of their family history, and had become as familiar an object as the silver 0:1 their table or the pictures upon their walls. Again and again they, had gone to it through the passing years to inscribe within its sacred pages the records of their home. With the daintiest touch they had put in their own names while the honey- | moon was sthl on. Later v.hen tlrnt little life came to them, their t?r?t bom. and ; the glow of parenthood flushed their sou's as with a baptism from heaven, they dipped the pen as if into some love fluid and wrote out with pride the dear little one's newly chosen name. A fe-w years passed and the ausqI came and took the s-cct soul away. The funeral over, the father one evenmg\w?ien they were a'one and the house was silent, went through into the parlor, unknown to his wife, and put i: the record, leaning over the open book till tlie tears began to soil the page, and then turning ovo u few pages into the book that adjoined the record, he read over and over again those dear and holy words. "Suffer little children to come unto Me. and forbid them not, for of such is the kie-gdom of heaven.'' and these other words so inseparably associated with them, "Their angels uo always behold the face of ity Father." It was the Bible, too. out of which the mir.is? ter had read at the little one's funeral, and in this and a hundred other ways ic had taken on a halloweduess and built itself into the whole life of the home. But five years ago the family moved into \ New York, and the decay of their home life began. Sentiment, association, memory, though sacred and tender, could not run a race with the evanescent, migratory life of the metropolis. They had moved often, and every time they moved they had left something of their home life bel hind them. Age ceased to give anything its value; it was the case with whicn it , * i ...i ? : 1 OOUiCt DC trsnspurttu v? u.cil uett'iiiixucu . that. Their religious life had declined, j and they never opened the Bible of late. ; They bad even neglected to teeord the last I death that had taken place in the family. J They had be^n weaned from the church I through frequent removals, and religious ! thoug-nt and feeling had become strangers ! to their hearts. Their consciences had been dulled, and | what had once seemed impossible to them i was now second nature. Thev used to think they could never allow the Sunday paper in their home, but now they read it themselves and allowed their children to read it without the least qualm of conscience. To stay away from church once was a few years ago an act of backsliding, but they had not long Been in New York before whole months passed without their crossing the sacred thre&'mld, and yet it i gave them no compunction whatever. Time J was. and not l#ng since, when they were j most punctilious about sending their chil- ! drcn to Sunday-school. The wildest wind , and the foulest weather would not pass i with them as an. excuse for allowing the j boys and girls to stay hit home. There was ; no such strictness these last years, but weeks of Sabbaths went by and failed to record a single present mark for any of the children on the rolls of the Sunday-school. Therefore, sentiment gone, association and memory having loosened their grasp, ; their religious life having become a thing : of the past, and their consciences having grown sluggish, thev had no more use for ; the Old Book. It wr.s too bulky to move; j they would keep the family record, but the j ? aawa/1 i iwI r-Aroro irlitpli llfi/I <"H VP',1 ! cavicu uuu w?v*c ? ? n- , it its inclosure and setting, they would j throw awav. Were there ever a sadder storr? It makes one weep to think of it. Ana yet it . is the story of a thousand homes in this ! community, of a hundred thousand homes in this city. It i? what some of you are coming to. dear friend-, unless you take warning. Let this Bible give you such a warning to-night. May it ever be a warn- , ing to every family-of this church. As often as the eyes of those worshiping : here shall rest upon it, niav it' speak< to them its solemn message with a voice that cannot be drowned?let not the fire burn low on your hearthstone, but keep up the ; fireside glow. See that your home is in i touch with the church. Suffer not your , family altar to become a ruin. Have a family Bible and use it. Take care that mildew spots, like those which I find here that are always signs of disuse, are not al- , lowed to mar it. Read the Old Book to your children. Read it to your own soul. Without it your home life will grow hollow and unholy, your children will deteriorate, your own soul shrivel up and die. j Thus this Bible shall stand as a memorial to a typically deteriorated New York home, and as a warning to the families that have not likewise deteriorated, but , shall it not also be at the same time a j memorial to something higher and more inspiring?to the glorious character and ministry of the word of God as an abiding and ever expanding power among men? Here is a fountain that was long- sealed, but it has begun to flow, and its streams shall water not one home but a thousand. This book so seldom used before shall be cnened. with every recurring service within this house of prayer, to be read, expound- j ed and applied "to the multiplying hun- : dreds that shall worship here. This Bible \t-.ic dicrtirnpd desecrated, cast out as rub bish into the street, only to be recovered,' honored, set in a high place, elevated to a pnhlic throne from which it will issue a verdict of condemnation upon this heme j and every home in this city that has turned God from its door, but will speak comfort, hope and strength to those within which the word of God dwells and exercises its heavenly dominion. While this book shall utter its admonition, then, letl it also speak forth its word of encourage-! ment and triumnh. telling all who shall' henceforth behold it that the word of Godi liveth and aoideth forever; that, however much men may attack it and seek to de-? stroy it, it shall come out of every battle a thousand fold stronger than before, and light a circle that extends far beyond its former perimeter of influence. "A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic as the sun: It gives a light to every age; It giveth, but borrows none." i Alone With God. This is the quiet hour in which I sit alone with God, writes Charles Edward i Martin, in the New York Observer. He : hears my whispered plaints and listens to mv love. He maketh me hapjpy in my love, wiiich ever goeth cut to Him as quietly and constantly as the river flows or the star shines. ^ ' i This is the hour that I talk with the loving Father about myself, of victories won ! in the open field, when He was my deliverer and my strength, and of the sorry failures and defeats which were mine when I sought safety within unstrengtb- j ened raeroarts of my own construction. I acknowledge His marvelous strength and own my own wavering weakness. j I was too impetuous, too impatient. I would rush heaalong and heedless, follow- i ing my own plans to my own shame and ! dishonor. It would seem that I could not | wait. But I will now learn the value of | time?the wisdom cf taking time to do all | things in obedience to His plans, and to do them well. * _ I In this quiet hour I will tell Him all. ; But I will not speak of my plans. Alas for me! I have too many plans! I will ; simply and humbly ask for His love and i guidance just for to-day. To-morrow 1 | mav be with Him in paradise. I will say: .j "All-wise One,* all-loving One, Thou who J makesfc and warmest the affections of the human heart, I submit myself to Thee. By Thy grace I live, and by Thy mysterious quickening will I ply my task with loving faithfulness and care. Let Thy love, and if so be, Thy approval, be ray reward. O, teach me to understand Thy | love! Make me -to love Thee more and j more. Make me as Thou wouldst _ have me. dear Father, and I shall be satisfied. ; Thy ways shall be mv ways. Widen my j narrow thought. Unchain the self-made j fetters that cramp and fret my heart, j Teach mc that true and lasting happiness j cometh only with those tilings which are j pleasing unto Thee. Lead me in these holv footstens that bear the print of the nail!" What the Bible Ce. Some writer gives the following analysis of the "Book oi books," the Bible: It is a book cf laws, to show the right from the wrong. "It-is a boo^: of wisdom, that makes the foolish wise. It is a book of truth, which detects all j human errors j It is a book cf life, and shows how to I avoid everlasting death. It is the most authentic and entertain- j ing'historv ever published. It contains the meet remote antiquities, the most remarkable events and wonderful occurrences. It is a complete code of laws. It is a perfect body of divinity. It is an unequaled narrative. It is a book of biography. It is a book of travels. It is the best covenant ever made, the best deed ever written. It is the best wiil ever excutcd, the best i testament ever signed. It is the learned man's masterpiece. It is the voung man's best ccmoanion. - 'L. -.1 i JZ IS ine SCJiUUiL/Ujr s ucai. Jiisnutiui. j It is the ignorant man's dictionary and j every man's directory. It promises an eternal reward to the faithful and believing. But that which crowns all is the Author. He is without partiality and without hypocrisy, with whom there is no variub encss, neither shadow of turning?Religious intelligencer. The Waj' of Pep.ce. Tn proportion as the perfect obedience of I the life of Christ comes, through humility and prayer and thought, to be the constant aim of all our efforts; in proportion as we try. God helping us, to think and speak and act as He did, and through all* the ; means of grace to sanctify Him in our i hearts, wc shall, with growing hope and j with a wonder that is ever lest in giati- i tude. know that even our lives are not without the earnest of their rest in an eternal harmony; that through them there is sounding more and more the echo of a faultless music, and that Ke who loves that concord, He who alone can ever make us what He bids us be, will silence in us every harsh and jarring note; that our service. too, may blend with the consenting praise of all His saints and angels.?Fran* cis Paget. ..-V..- . . -v'/rlv HONEST INDIANS. The Red Men of Northern Canada Have a High Code of Honor. The honesty of the woods Indian? that is, the Indian of Northern Canada? is of a very high order. The sense cf mine and thine is strongly j forced by the exigencies of the North Woods life. A man is always on the move. It is impossible for Lira to transport all his goods. The ir"~> mtms 01 Tvmier ars a uuruen ia summer. The return journey from c.sta'nt shores must be provided fo- b" food stations. The solution of these needs is the cache. And the cache is net a literal term at. all. It conceals nothing. Ratrer does it hold aloft in long-legged prominence, for the inspection of all who pass, what the owner has seen-fit to leave behind. A heavy platform high enough from the ground to frustrate the investigations of animals is all that is required. Visual concealment is unnecessary, because in the North country a cache is sacred. On it may depend the life of a man. He who leaves previsions must find them on his return, for he may reach them starving, and the length of his outjourney may depend on his certainty of relief at this point on his in-journey. So men passing touch not on his board, for seme cay they may be in the same case, and a precedent is a bad thing. Thus in parts of the wildest countries of Northern Canada I have unexpectedly come upon a birch canoe hanging upside down oetween two trees, or a whole bunch of snowshoes depending beneath the fans of a rpriice, or a tangle of steal traps thrust into the crevice of a tree root, or a supply of pork and flour swathed like an Egyptian mummy lying In state on a high bier. These things we have passed by reverently as symbols of a people's trust in its kind. The same sort of honesty holds in regard to smaller things. I have never hesitated to leave in my camp firearms, fishing rods, utensils valuable from a woods point of view, even a watch or money. Not only have I i^ever lost anything in that manner, but once an Indian lad followed me some miles after the morning's start to restore to me a ha'f dozen trout lines I had accidentally left behind. Mr. McDonald, of Brunswick House, once discussed with me the system of credits carried on by the Hudson Bay Company with the trappers. Each family receives an advance of goods to the value of $200. with the understanding that the debt is to be paid from the season's catch. "I should think you would lose a good deal," I said. "Nothing could be easier than for an Indian to take bis $200 worth and disappear in the woods. You'd never be able to find him." Mr. MacDonald's rep'y struck me. for the man had twenty years' trading ' experience. "I have never," said he, "in a long woods life, known but one Indian liar."?Stewart Edward White, in the Outlook. Eye Strain and Ill-Health. Is "eye strain" the chief physical foe cf genius? t? hie n.ou- volume cf "Biographic i la uiu Mv . _ Clinics" Dr. Gould makes further inquiries into the maladies of men of genius. He is more than ever convinced that Carlyle, Huxley, Darwin and other great men owed their illhealth solely to eye strain. To tiis he attributes "migraine" and "brain fag" and all the disordered digestions and huge depressions j and remorses of the special children i of genius. | "Melancholy, morbidity and despair | are the confessed results of *mi- j graine.'" In fourteen patients? ) most of the great literary figures of j the nineteenth century?he finds ! "headache, insomnia, biliousness, sick I headache, nervousness, indescribable ! suiTering, inability to do literary work j without producing these symptoms. Dr. Gould pleads for scientific spec- j tacles as the only remedy for an over- | strung civilization. "One of the j greatest of European men, with a j splendid equipment, physical and in- J tellectual?Nietzsche," he says, "was finally driven into insanity simply because he had not a scientific pair of | spectacles." _ A Use for Reindeer Hair. The attention of textile manufacturers has been attracted by a recent report of the United States Consul j General at Frankfort, Germany, set- ! ting forth the adaptability of reindeer j hair or wool for tne manufacture of j textile fabrics. Tne Laplanders have j long used it for tne manufacture of ! a coarse blanket, but its peculiar prep- I i erties are, it is thougnt, especially j suitable for use in bathing suits. The hair of the reindeer is not hoi- j low throughout like that of most j other animals, but is partitioned off into innumerable small compartments j filled with compressed air. The walls ! cf these compartments are so tough j that they are not broken up in the ; process of manufacture, so that a ' cloth of reindeer wool consists o* millions of littie pockets of condensed air surrounded by an impervious covering. This cloth is practically waterproof, as well as exceedingly buoyant, ?Philadelphia Record. To cure, or r ^vv-v ^ . Grandmother at Thirty-fcur. "The wife of a Brooklyn Alderman j has just had the rare experience cf becoming a grandmother at thirtysix.'* The above paragraph, which appear- j i ed in The Express recently, has pro- ! vided an instant challenge from a ' lady who lives near Brighton. "Is this unusual?" she asks. "I was ! married at fifteen. I had a daughter i at sixteen. She married at seventeen I and she had a child nearly a yoar j afterward. I "Therefore I was a grandmother at i thirty-four. I had four children be- j fore I was twenty-one, and have had ! f none since. Now I am forty-two. My j * girls are all grown up, so we are like i * five sisters, and as happy as Queens, j ' "Three of my daughters are mar- * ried, and I nave two grandsons. ' "I could not resist the challenge < implied in your paragraph, seeing that 1 I could so distinctly go one bettor than the American grandmother." Our correspondent's achievement is j ' heroic. But she will probably net be i 1 astonished to find, in spite cf the obvious surprise of her question, that she has very few competitors in England. The lady was married at fifteen. , Now, in all England at the time cf j the last census there were only thirty j wives of that age. This is not conclu- j , sive, of course. If the census were ' taken annually, it might show thirty < wives at the age of fifteen every year. Against that, however, is to be set the extreme improbability of juvenile marriage 'extending to the second generation. It no more follows that tne daughter of a girl of seventeen will herself be a mother at seventeen than it fellows that the first born of a woman of forty will not be a mother until she is forty herself. Such records as that of the lady in the vicinity 01 nngnion muic common in countries like Australia, where young girls mature into women : while still very young. In India a i woman who was not a grandmother J until she was thirty-six would be regarded as an eccentricity. Two in every five of the female population of India are married before they are fifteen.?London Express. 'TWOULD BE AN ACCIDENT. "I can't tell whether I'll get any , vacation this summer. I've been figuring on a railroad accid'eiit lately." < "You mean figured 'in' a railroad ! accident?" "No, 'on'; I've been figuring on that I railroad stock of mine paying a dividend."?Philadelphia Press. i i DECORATING THE DEN. Margaret?I'm awfully tired oMhis old 10 cent plaster bust of that illustrious poet?what's his name? ; Catharine?So am I; let's paint him red.?Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. FITS permanent lvcured. o .'U*or r?e: vourDess after lirst clay s use of Dr. K line"? (Trm' NerveKest ort>r,*f'itrial bottle and treatise Tiv.o Dr. K. H. K mice. Ltd.. J*si rhiial, r.^ Automobile watering carts are "used i.i Paris. 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