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\ '"THE TULT1T~\. I SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON EY ( THE REV. HERBERT H. MOTT. Subject: Can a Man Do as He Likes? Boston, Mass.? The following sermon was contributed to The Christian Register by the Rev. Herbert H. Mott. It is entitled "Can a Man Do as He 1 Likes?" and the text is: "Choose you < this day who you will serve."?Joshua xxiv., 15. 1 Can a man do as he likes? Of course not! you say. All sorts of barriers hedge him round. He would oe tVia hirrlc flv hilt the lltv.tr IV lij ao I4*v -v weight of his flesh and bones keeps plodding along the ground. He is born poor or stupid; consequently he can < neither buy a steam yacht nor set the 1 Thames on fire, though he would like 1 dearly to do both. The force of public opinion compels him to don a tall silk hat and a frock coat when he would much prefer to go about in a golf caj>e and a shooting jacket. The. force of public law compels him to run his auto at ten miles an hour when he very much wishes to spin along joyously at the rate of thirty. Every man exists under a set of compulsions. He is 1 obliged to submit to many limitations, . natural and artificial, and he is compelled, by pushes and pulls and press- : ures he is unable to resist, to do maDy things he doesn't want to do. Nevertheless, in spite of a man's abject slavery in certain directions, is there not some small space, some little 1 area, in wnich, instead of being a slave, he is actually and truly free? a department of life and conduct in which he can do as he likes? The old doctrine?the doctrine believed by our fathers, and by nearly the whole of humanity, civilized and ; uncivilized, in every part of the world, ! from the beginning of recorded timewas that there is such a department of , life ^pd conduct; that in all vital matters, in all matters that have to do with the moral quality of life, a man : can do as he likes. Our fathers held that, whenever we stand at a point ! where two roads diverge, we are able to choose, select, determine, which road to pursue. In such a situation the casting vote remains with us. Whenever two or more governments, leaders, employers, claim our allegiance, ; we can "choose whom we will serve." This is true, said our fathers, no mat- ; ter how severe the pressure. The temptation, urgency, force of circum- , stances, may be so great as to resemble compulsion. It appears as if we 1 were obliged to take one road rather than the other. This, said bur fathers, : Is appearance only. In reality, when- . ever two or more alternatives pre- ; sent themselves, whenever two roads . KANAKA A AAl CJ1AT1 mm Q 1 fl C Upcu UC1V1 ^7 UO, lug vitvioivu i. vaumauo .with us. It is with us to say yes or . no. to lift the latch or not to lift it, to take the left or the right No matter how great the pressure brought to bear on us, in the last resort we can always choose poverty instead of ; riches, captivity instead of freedom, : suffering instead of ease, and instead of life, rather than yield, if need be, .we can always choose death. This is the old doctrine, and, al- j though it has stood both the test of time and the test of experience, there appears to be, in these days, a widely spread tendency to ignore it. No one denies that circumstances exercise a ' powerful influence over our lives, but ! the tendency nowadays is to ascribe everything to circumstances. It is related that the eminent natur- i alist. Professor Boulton, placed the eggs of caterpillars in differently col- , ored boxes, and left them there to > hatch out, with the remarkable result that the eggs in the blue box hatched . out into blue caterpillars, those in the red box into red, and those in the yellow box into yellow caterpillars. They . were, you see. the product of their surroundings, they were what the tint of their surroundings made them. And j so, it is declared, are you and I; we are what our surroundings and those of our ancestors make us. We are the , planes of outside conditions, past and present. Here is a man who is an epemy of society. He preys upon his kind. His , career is divided between debauchery and other crimes. He is the victim, < the helpless victim, of outward circumstances, we are told. His mother was ( a drunkard, hi9 father was a thief. He was reared in the slums. What can you expect? True, he has been to a reform school; true, he has been ueipea ana aiuea uy various pmiunthropic people whom he has mercilessly deceived. But he. poor fellow! could not help himself. Like Professor Boulton's caterpillars, he took on the tint of his environment. Born in a black box, he turns out black. His surroundings were evil, therefore he is evil. j Or, again, there is the hero who, like Charles Lamb, gives up all, in order to support some one dependent on him. or surrenders life itself in order to save the lives of others. We are told the same story about the hero as about the thief. He is not brave or self-denying of his own accord. He is heroic : simply because the conditions in which ' he was brought up were favorable to heroism, and so heroism grew out of his soul, just as cabbages grow out of the soil when the soil contains the seeds of cabbages. Goodness and badness, heroism and criminality, it is declared, do not reside in us, but in our surroundings. We are mere passive lumps of clay, on which our surroundings stamp whatever is in them. We are the slaves and victims of the conditions in the midst : of which we are. When we fancy we are doing as we like, going our own way, following our own wills, we are, In reality, merely obeying the pressure of circumstance. We are under a rigid law of necessity all the time. Even when we stand where two roads diverge, and think that we ourselves choose to take the -left hand or the right hand road, it is not really we ourselves who choose, but a number of circumstances and conditions, working on us and through us. This doctrine, that we are creatures of circumstance and cannot help what we do, is a misleading one. It tends to self-deception. It makes us imagine ourselves Detter tnan we are. >viien we do wrong, this doctrine offers the temptation to us to say: "It was not mf fault. It wasi the fault of my education and surroundings." And this will lend today, as it has always done in the past, to a general laxity with regard to I I / wrong doing?to a habit of thinking j lightly of the exceeding sinfulness of sin. This evil doctrine is the more diffi- ! cult to combat because there is an element of truth in it. We are moved and swayed by circumstances. Birth and education do exercise a powerful influence over us. These things must be taken into consideration. Nevertheless, they don't explain everything. Make what allowance you will for circumstances and education, still in every transaction we have the last word. The proof of this is in our daily conduct. We cannot help blaming men.and praising them. Suppose you are on a Boston street, and are accosted by an individual in shabby garments. You are touched by his tale of woe, and with your usual generosity you give him an ample alms. Five minutes later (this incident is founded upon fact) in the crush of a crowded corner, you feel an unwonted hand busy at your pocket, and, turning round, discover in the wouldbe thief the very man you have just helped. What do you think of this fellow? Do you feel toward him as if he were an invalid, a sick soul, a deluded victim of circumstance? On the contrary, you regard ?and Justly regard?the robust purloiner of your pocketbook as an ungrateful scoundrel, and, if you are a good citizen. you promptly and indignantly hand him over to the police. Sorrow and pity you no doubt experience, but. mingled with sorrow and pity there will be righteous indignation. However many excuses your kind heart makes for him. you will still blame the man; for you will be convinced, however bad his surroundings and his bringing up, being a man. he could have kept straight in spite of all, as many another has done. You know, in your soul, that, however great the obstacles. being a man, he was still master of himself. He might have chosen differently. He might have taken the right road instead of the wrong one. if only he had tried hard enough. You feel, after all is said and done, he was, in this matter, able to do as he liked. Consequently, he is responsible. Therefore, we blame him. Take the opposite case, that of the hero. We have all read recently how the Japanese attempted to block the entrance to Port Arthur by sinking steamers in the channel. One of these vessels had reached the appointed spot. Her anchor had been let go. The fuse attached to the charge which was to blow a hole in her had been lighted. The officer in command ordered the crew into the lifeboat, he himself be- | ing the last to leave the, ship. A moment he stands on the gunwale, ready to cast loose. He counts; his men. One is missing. Shall they leave him? The officer has but an instant in which to make up his mind. There is an inward struggle between the rival impulses of duty and self-regard. Then he climbs again upon the shot-swept deck to seek his lost comrade. Alas! it is in vain. The next moment he is killed by a Russian shell, and his crew push off, only just in time to sa^ themselves. Why do we regard this man as a hero? Why was a public funeral held in his honor by his countrymen? Why do we praise him? Because we feel the brave action was due to him, and to no thing and no one else. Because we feel that he stood where two .ways diverged?the way of duty and the way of safety?and that he was master of the situation. He determined which road to take. Out of his own brave will, ont of his own courageous soul, he chose the right way. The decision lay not with circumstances, conditions, previous training, or ancestry, but with himself. We feel that he, and he alone, was responsible, and that therefore to him, and to him alone, belongs the credit and the praise. We cannot help blaming the criminal, we cannot help praising the hero, but. if criminal and hero were simply the victims of circumstance, to do so would be meaningless. We have no right to condemn the criminal if he cannot help doing what he does. There is no sense in honoring the hero if the heroism is due to education or to surrounding conditions; that is. to something other than the hero. Yet we do condemn the one. and we do give our homage to the other. We cannot help ourselves. The praise and the blame we bestow are involuntary acknowledgment that, in spite of ;all the theories closet philosophers may spin, there is an ineradicable conviction in the human heart that we are able, in the last resort, to do as we like, and that as a consequence we are responsible before God and man both for our deeds and for our thoughts. He Given Grace. "Bounteous is Jehovah in His nature; to give is His delight. His gifts are beyond measure precious, and are as freely given as the light of the sun. He gives grace to His elect because He wills it, to His redeemed because of His covenant, to the called because of His promise, to believers because they seek it, to sinners because they need it. He gives grace abundantly, seasonably, constantly, readily, sovereignly; doubly enhancing the value of the boon by the manner of His bestowal. Reader, how blessed it is. as the years roll round and the leaves begin again to fall, to enjoy such an unfading promise as this: 'The L^d will give grace.' Spnrgeon. How to Win Sonli For Chrlut, Andrew teaches Christians still tb* first lesson in soul-winning: Go fcr vour own brother. That is, try to bring to Christ those whom you love, those nearest to you. It makes no difference whether the nearness is of blood or sympathy. You will succeed where you love. Christianity is to win the world by this process alone?neighbor influencing neighbor, friend influencing friend. It is like leaven. One part of yeast will permeate' twp thousand parts of douzb." but only by changing the parts next to it, and so working its way through the mass. Tbo Worker's Howard. An English drunkard said to a Salvation Army lassie, who spoke to liim about his soul: "You must be well paid for this. I suppose you expect as much as half a crown for getting me to sign the pledge." She replied: "I'm better paid than that. I expect to get a whole crown, and there'll be stars in it beside." SWATHE TRIAL ON Senate Impeachment Court Formally Convened, WITNESSES ON THE STAND rainier if i arvwj) ww?wvmvitk wi wuov Against Accused Jurist and 8et? Forth What the Prosecution Intends to Prove. The trial of Judge S wayne on impeachment oharges begun in the senate Friday. After some preliminaries Manager Palmer made a statement of the case against Judge Swayne. Senator Piatt of Connecticut took j the chair, and the sergeant at arms made the usual proclamation imposing silence on pain of imprisonment. Senator Clark of Wyoming, who had not hitherto been sworn, took the oath as a member of the court. On motion of Mr. Bacon, an order was adopted informing the house thst the senate was prepared to proceed with the trial and inviting the house to be present. Chairs for the members of the house were placed in the rear of ,the senate chamber and many of them were occupied. Judge Swayne came in witli nis attorneys, ex-senators Higgins and Thurston, and took a seat between them at the table set apart for their use. v On motion of Mr. Fairbanks, the senate adopted an order for daily sittings in the impeachment proceedings beginning at 2 o'clock and closing at 6 p. m., and providing for daily printing of the report of the proceedings. The sergeant at arms reported that sixty-seven witnesses had been summoned as directed and many of them had arrived in the city. The first witness sworn in the Swayne case was Benjamin S. Llggon of Jacksonville, Fla., who was oalled to testify to the physical condition of Major Joseph H. Durkee of that city, who had been summoned as a witness and had failed to respond on the ground of illness. Mr. Liggon said he bad seen Durkee a week ago and had then found him engaged in business. Mi*. Palmer, on behalf of fhe house, asked that an attachment for 'Durkee be issued, and the chair took the request under consideration. Mr. Palmer, at 1:30 p. m., took the floor to make his opening statement, , stating what he expected to prove in the proceedings. When Mr. Palmer concluded the presentation of evidence was begun by Mr. Olmstead, who put in evidence Judge Swayne's commission, the statutes which Judge Swayne is accused of violating and other documents , bearing on the ease, included amonf ' these being Judge Swayne's certificates of expense and his receipts for the money paid to him at the rate of $10 a day, while holding court in Texas. The first witness called was Payne W. Chase, who ie clerk in a hotel ttt Tyler, Texas, who gave a statement regarding Judge Swayne's expenses while holding court in Texas. The next witness called was Mrs. Susan L. Downs of Waco, Texas, who testified on the same subject. Mr. Higgins asked for an attachment to compel the attendance of Louis Paquet of New Orleans as a witness. There being no other witnesses present, the senate court adjourned at 3:40 p. m., and immediately went into executive session. TWENTIETH BALLOT FRUITLESS Senatorial Contest in Missouri Legislature in Statu Quo. As the twentieth ballot of the joint session of the Mliseourl legislature to select a successor to Senator Cockrell proceeded Friday, the expectation was there would be a break in the Niedringhaus forces, but the vote was as follows: Niedringhaus 60, Cockrell 62, Keren 11, Finkelburg 1, Pettijohn 1, Corey 1. WIRE DAMAGE ENORMOUS. Atlanta Completely Isolated for Thirtye| Kw Ctfvrm i iwn. ? The worst effect of the sleet storm from any and every point of view was the fact that for thirty-six hours, Georgia's capital was absolutely shut out from communication with the outside world. This was the greatest proof of the fury of the elements. With ail her hundreds and thousands of wires, not one single wire led to the great outside world, so far as communication was concerned. TO NAME FINANCIAL AGENTS. Plan to Collect Funds for Use of Southern Cotton Association. Two financial agents, and perhaps more, will be named by President Har vie Jordan, under authority given him by the Soutnern uotton Association, to canvass the entire cotton stales territory Tor funds to en-able the assoi ciation to push the great movement j that has been undertaken, to cut down j the acreage and hold back the rej mainder of the present crop. I WHERE'S THE PANORAMA? j Decay cf a Once Popular and Profit- ; able Form of Amusement. ! One form of public amusement, j once popular all over the United States, is now practically extinct. It is the entertainment by panorama to I the accompaniment of lecture and musical selections. The panorama was a series of paintings on canvas ! T-niiod And unrolied by two youttts, j whose arduous labor in this particuj lar was ill requited. The measure of the excellence of a panorama, in the preliminary advertising at least, was the number of yards of canvas. The subject was chosen with reference to the sensibilities of a large class of persons who were opposed to theatre going, but who patronized lectures, panoramas, circus and museum performances. "Travels in Ireland," "Scenes in the Holy Land," "The.Heart of the African Continent," "Among the Indians" and "Travels in European Countries" I wAr? snme of the subjects. A "literary man" wrote the lecture, which was recited by an employe, and there were usually musical features, furnished by a duet, husband and wife. So the outfit of the panorama was made up of the manager, who sold the tickets; the lecturer, tne duetists and the two roller boys, six in all. The chief investment was the panorama itself, and once painted it would last for many years, with occasional refurbishing. One of the best known theatres in New York was built from the profits of a panorama manager. But by degrees panoramas have ceased to be a recognized form of popular amusement. The prejudice against theatres has been effaced, scene painting has greatly : improved,. and the larger towns are equipped with theatres. The improvement of railroad connections has made it possible for the residents even of the smallest towns to obtain a fair share of theatrical novelties, and they are no longer dependent upon companies travelling, as panorama companies often did, by van from town to town. * There survive a few old panorama managers who are reminiscent of the old i days, and some of the older stor age houses have unclaimed in some dusty corner the hundreds of yards of canvas which have delighted hundreds nightly, as laboriously they were unrolled to the accompaniment of the monotone lecturer.?New York Sun. Horrible Heroism. One of the Resolution's gunners was standing by his gun as the ship sheered abreast of De Grasse's flagship. The gunner was all ready and just going to fire when a shot came in at the port and took his leg off at the knee. As quick as thought the man pulled off his neckcloth and tied his leg above the stump. The next instant he seized his shot-off limb and thrust it into the muzzle of the gun, which went ofT two seconds later. "My foot," shouted the man, exultantly, "is the first to board the Ville de Paris f"?Frasier's "Famous Fighters." A Cemetery for Unknowns. The island of Heligoland is surrounded by a great number of treacherous rocks and cliffs, and every year witnesses the stranding of many a flshine boat or sailing vessel. A cem etery has now been created in tne neighborhood of the great dunes, where the bodies of fishermen and sailors washed ashore find their last resting place. A simple iron cross stands on every grave, and whenever the body has been identified the cross bears the name of the dead. In most cases, however, such an identification is impossible. READS THE BOOK. Tb? Road to Wellrill*" Pointed tha Way Down at Hot Springs, Ark., the visitors have all sorts of complaints, but it is a subject of remark that the great majority of them have some trouble with stomach and bowels. This may be partly attributed to the heavy medicines. Naturally, under the conditions, the question of food is very prominent A young man states that he had suffered for nine years from stomach and bowel trouble, had two operations which did not cure, and was at last threatened with appendicitis. He went to Hot Springs for rheumatism and his stomach trouble got worse. One day at breakfast the waiter. knowing his condition, suggested be try Grape-Nuts and cream, which he did, and found the food agreed with Mm perfectly. r After the second day he began to sleep peacefully at night, different than he had for years. The perfect digestion of the food quieted hii nervous system and made sleep possible. He says: "The next morning I was astonished to find my condition of constipation had disappeared. I could not believe it true after suffering for so many years; then I took more interest in the food, read the little book The Road to Wellville,' and started following the simple directions. "I have met with such results that in the last fire weeks I have gained eight pounds in spite of hot baths which take away the flesh from anyone. "A friend of mine has been entirely cured of a bad case of indigestion and stomach trouble by using Grape-Nuts Food and cream alone for breakfast. "There is one thing in particular?I have noticed a great change in my | mental condition. Fosmeriy I could i hardly remember anything, and now ' the mlud seems nnusualiy acute and ' retentive. I can memorise practically J anything I desire." Name given by ] Poetum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. DANGERS AVOIDEI J Intense Cold Breeds CatzrrfL Sum ^ ^ Wither. T( February if a month of severe storms and intense cold. 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