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*" THE P v ' AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. W. J. THOMPSON. Subject: Warp and Woof. Brooklyn, X. Y.?Sunday Simpson M. E. Church celebrated its sixty-first anniversary. The subject of Pastor W. J. Thompson's morning sermon was "Faith and Lovqdn the Warp, Pastors and Members in the Woof." The text was from.,I. Thessalonians i:3. Mr.' Thompson said: The warp consists of the threads ; ; running lengthwise through the entire V fabric. The woof consists of the Y threads crosswise, and prompted by the weaver's fancy, may vary with eSCil fcUUL ui iat* axiiiiuc. The warp of Simpson Church is th.it I * - which through these sixty-one years) ' has remained unchanged and is unchangeable. The woof, comprising C ~ pastors and members, by inexorable ?necessity and purposeful design changes and evermore must change. V . ; Faith is a prominent thread in the warp. Conscious of our spiritual growth we reach out after God if I happily we may fiud and be aided by ;y-v ; .Him. God is not found out by searchlug. The futility of the quest adds * ; .welcome to Jesus' who reveals the * sought-for God as the Father. We hold forth Jesus the authoritative re: vealer of God and our relation to Him \V \ as the light of the world. ' Absorbed in His talks and walks, ) we are caught up Jn His life, and by j u. ; that life conformed to his likeness.) Thus Jesus saves men by His life. Also by His death. The obstructions >i. to the tunnel-boring Under Manhattan 1 V and the rivers, overcome by the engiv; neers' sacrifice, measure their devotion tp their ideal?rapid transit. K ''' ? Christ's sacrifice of His life revealed ,His complete love for His ideal, tho ; *&salvation of man, and makes that sal?:v:-' yarion complete. We preach Christ and Him crucified as the all-sufficient I'o -saviour of men who receive Him. %? .. Philosophers reason men into disciple:iship. Without violence to reason, and Invoking it only ?o far as it is a part of conscience, we command men everywhere to repent and believe. Repent , hy ceasing to do evil; believe by the trustful appropriation of the Christ and death. Our forerunners in this are- John the Baptist, Peter and : - flaming evangels on to Whitfield and MoOdy. Our justification is the wit. iiess of sins fdrgiven, and lives bring lag fdrth the fruits of righteousness. Fear is in the warp. It is ours by ;r'\V generous hereditary legacy, and com. > - passes things, beasts, men and devils. When fear is uppermost it dwarfs. Neither moral nor religious giants are p&c the product of fear. What pygmies V wprriment, fear of disaster, makes. p- v 'Intimidation from eclipses and comets f vv science shows to be baseless. The fear of beasts, which vanishes before the 0 ; prowess of the hunter. Fear of physical man departing with war. Fear to ' speak one's convictions and advocating mrwjtnw hp disbelieves, thus count Ing for less thah nothing, and deservv-. ing expatriation from a democracy? . these are all unwholesome fears. The sooner banished the better. Moral fear. Wordsworth calls duty the "Stern Daughter of the Voice of God." She is . a. task mistress oxer us. Our superior therefore we fear. Her commands, like a chrysallis, metamorphoses into the pleasures of duty. Fear of the law drives the criminal to outward legal acts. The-best citizens are moved without fear. William Lloyd Garrison, the great moral champion. ,J/4 the centennial of whose birth this day Is. when dragged through the streets of Boston by a mob, said "his soul was devoid of fear." S Fear is the beginning and not the j^.<v end of morality. Godly fear. PetroHf < nius argued fear made the gods. Some V religions have their devils. We have . ours who goeth about as a devouring -lion. The Old and New Testaments f have 518 references to fear. .1 *$f-- j. It may be needful for the beginnings / and salutary with certain, tempera v/ ments, but fear is only the beginning % of wisdom. P The almightiness of Jehovah makes " us tremble. But He draws near to us In the flesh as we become one with Him. His power is for us. Fear from the least to the King of Terrors is abolished. All power is for our good and we can no lpnger fear. Fear gives ^ place to love and sinks to tne nether : aide of the warp in remembrance of % .the judgments of the lawgiver. The . terrors of the law are replaced by the ' grace of the gospel. Fear is the be^ ginning of wisdom, its end is love. : 7 -'.- In our necessitated helplessness in in1 fanev and vouth we depended upon .1 M . - - -A* y- cur fathers. That dependence met f ; s; brought forth as the foremost fillai feeling, love. Ail men have this tutelage, and to them Jesus reveals God as the Father who excels the most devoted fattier in giving good things. The, devotee of many gods may be , :<' ; >\ sober until he is intoxicated at the feast of Dionysius and be righteous * throughout aU. To the same devotee '< wisdom is a virtue if he is a stalesmail-and courage if -be' is a ^sofctfer. There are different virtues for diff$re:ir - times and different people. Jesus re^ vealed Diety as one God and Father, therefore virtue is one and love is .the fulfilling of all virtue. To offend ~in one point of love is to be guilty of : v alL because righteousness is a unit. The acknowledged master in my craft addresses my ambition with. "You can be an artisan equal to me % and I will aid you." He has my heart's I - best love. The absolutely perfect God } addresses my loftiest ambition with, "Be ye perfect as I am perfect and My ' proffered grace, all-sufficient, is yours for the asking." It follows my heart's supreme, love wells up to God. The most prominent thread in the warp is. "Love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength." God the Father of all?then geography, national boundaries, is a matter of the head and not of the heart and merchandise a commodity in things and not in men. Accordingly, in the I beginning of this era it was predestined a William Lloyd Garrison should toll the ddath knell of slavery. Buddhistic love is individualistic and does no mighty deeds; Christian love is social and does. It inculcates love to the neighbor and unites to the true religion the loftiest morals and inspires the mightiest deeds of man for man. Thomas Hobbes set the Englishthinking world agog with, "^elf-love U the oily love; we tolerate, but eta not love another." This cynic would view the Samaritan's succor of the wounded man not to mitigate his sufferings, but himself to exhilarate in power possessed. Adam Smith has shown with his pen what so many have with their lives that sympathy is an integral part of our nature. Sympathy, to feel with another, is a prerequisite of love. The tragic stimulates it. Accordingly, in the Christian religion the death of Jesus is most prominent. His betrayal, triple denial by Peter, stripped of His robe, mocfcea. scourged, carrying the cross, bound to it, nailed; His agonizing cries, death, burial?the whole is detailed with ! minutiae. Add to this the remem brance of a young man radiant with j hopes that are stifled; the long-for Messiah, Son of God, founder of a j religion, whose life was all for human weal, crucified in the populous capital of His nation as a malefactor, and the tragedy of Calvary becomes pathetic in the extreme. If the Oberammergau play is so heartrending, the loved disciples of Jesus must have had an experience in pathos rarely felt by mortal. It is a wonder some of them did not die from sheer pity. To-day we observe Passion Week and the forty days of Lent. Art. literature and sermons picture the pathetic profile of Jesus and melt, our hearts. The courageous man of Calvary is less viewed, and wisely so. +? Ko InfncoA with tlif* OAS ur UCCU IV W AU?.v?wv^ .. 4 sion of Jesus to give us the heart to feel. The melted heart first. Darwin ruled- sympathy out of order in this world of struggle. A recent reputable sociologist shows how sympathy evidenced in mutual aid has made possible the life of the animate world and the progress of man. In the highest form of life the offspring is fewest and weakest. Pity absent, and such would perish. God pitying perishing man brought redemption. Jesus" magnified sympathy. It melts the heart to love. There is false sympathy. A sect, the Jainists. so pity venomous Insects as not to kill them. The Doukhobors absurdly pity the puffing engine. Sentimentalists so pity the perpetrators of horrible murder as to foil justice; parents their disobedient child as to spare the rod and spoil. False philanthropists feed the lazy and pauperize those who ought not to eat because they do not work. We must sympathize aright. The woman who cares for the orphan; the nurse who ceases not her vigils in the epidemic; the neighbor who grants a loan to a deserving man in a hard place; the friend with his fitly spoken word to lighten the. weighted heart and gladden the recordin^ flntrpi?-these are all illustrations of. sympathizing aright. The highest form is the poor sympathizing with the rich in their loneliness, and the rich with the poor in their needs. When the highest and lowest feel as one, sym-' pa thy has its perfect work. The heart thus sympathetic will go down in pity, out in love to enemies and up in love to God, and throughout envieth not. Thus this most blessed faculty of the heart is pure. We preach "Love one another with a pure heart, fervently." Love, the most prominent thread warp, is more than "mere morality." Knowledge of the good does not overcome the inertia to its doing. The imperaj tive's of duty must be divinely spoken ! and warmed. It's not the act, but the motive that gives quality. The love of God to us in Christ Jesus drawing us into fellowship with the Infinite heart imparts the highest quality to our deeds. Hate is another thread in the warp. We have earned advanced university degrees in this accomplishment Instance civil wars and religious inquisitions. (There is an Orientalism in Thugism, whdse votaries worship the sword as the Greek his Icon. Killing is worship wherein they do the will of their goddess. Asceticism could have a patent office all Its own for instruments of ttagellation devised to scourge monks into hatred of this beautiful world. Count the number of those you hate. We naturally love friends and hate enemies. From Christ we learn to hate aright. The Pharisee's law was: "Be hoiy,; OC +ha. Twrd rmir Cod is holv." Jesus sat at meat in a Pharisee's, house. There were good Pharisees. There were others whom the Master branded as "generation of vipers, straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel; without whited sepulchres, and full of dead men's bones within." Not the Pharisees, but their sins, Jesus hated. The cross shows God's immeasurable hatred of sin. Paul delivered the most drastic philippics against sin, the destroyer of soul. To describe sin as the glory of the imperfect is worse than criminal. We ought to hate sin with all passion. Work is a prominent thread in the warp, x Love, hate, fear are emotional. John Wesley, in his experience of saving faith, says the heart was strangely warmed. The Sermon on the Mount is a jnecsage to the heart. The feelings have reared the great faiths. "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." Tonurseour feelings for themselves is irreligious. They must issue in acts. Hunger leads $& to- eat, not for the titfllation of the-, palate, -but to restore lost tissue and ^complete" the body. The blessing of 'hungering and thirsting after righteousness, is in leading to the activity that fills us with the fullness of God. True character is within. But "no man liveth to himself." "Let your light shine" is the command to objectify that character. To be seen, it must be in good works, and those best seen are to men's bodily needs. Eleemosynary provisions must always characterize Christians. ? ? '?* VIKIA Wily JtJ O SCUUIGU I11D Jtiuiva The Rev. Russell Bigelow Pope, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who recently died in his sixtieth year, accomplished that which seems almost to be beyond belief. He read the Bible through 150 times, thirty-eight tiipes in one year, and once in one day. He made his own concordance, and could give almost any chapter and verse in any part of the Bible at call. For forty years he read the Greek Testament through carefully once a quarter. His reason for this close and accurate searching of the Scriptures is given by Dr. Pope in the Christian Advocate, -as follows: "Once upon a time I called at a drug store and asked for a certain j medicine. The clerk went to the backof the store and laid his hand on. the | unmarked vial. 'How do you know j that this is the medicine I inquired for?' He replied, 'I know my store." , and then I made up my mind that I would know the entire Word like that", WITH THE WILD DUCKS. The Common Varieties Can Rarely Be Seen Closely. By the river, the lake, and the swamp, where the tall grasses and reeds are sighing in the wind, an interesting company of birds is gathering. Perhaps we have made the acquaintance of some of them in spring when they went north?tiiey are the wild ducks. Do not expect them tc allow you soclose a friendship as the robin and other birds that people dc not often harm. For the ducks, yoi1 remember, are great game birds, anc so tney nave a areaa or everyuiing that looks at all like a shooter. Sc hide near the water and watch then from a distance. If we keep stilfanc out of sight, they may come quite close. Most of the drakes are hand . somely colored, while the ducks are generally grayish and look a gooc deal alike at a little distance. Whei you see one distinctly marked, blacl next to white, or any very dark anc light colors which meet without blend ing, you may be pretty sure it is ? drake. Three of the kinds we set most often are .shown in the heading ?the scaup, the mallard, and the pin tail. Others are the teal, which yoi may know at a glance, they are s< small; the widgeon, wood-duck, shov eler, black duck, baldpate, goldeneye, bufflehead, and the mergansers or fish-ducks. If you succeed in getting acquaint ed with several of these you will d< well. It needs patience and good eyes and if you can add to these an opera glass, you will be still better fitte( for duck-hunting. To stalk ducks near the shore ii open water, approach them by shor stages whenever all are under wate: at once. A duck will usually remaii under water about half a minute; ii the meantime you have covered a hun dred feet or more of ground, an( concealed yourself as much as pos sible, allowing' only an opening t( watch from. Sometimes one .finds s feeding-ground where he can hide an< wait for the ducks to come. This ii the best way to ODserve them at clos* r^ige. I knew of a small pond, sui rounded by willows and other bush es, where scaup-ducks came every da; to feed. While waiting beside th< pond I have seen a flock of duck sail down over the water only a hur dred feet from me, then tu?n and coming back, repeat the performance As they swooped down with set wing and making a IoikIv swishing noise they were a fine sight, well worth a: hour's waiting. Although ducks are very wary ani alert, they do not readilyxsee dange when they are about to alight in th water. This appears to be a rathe difficult act, for it seems to engag their entire attention. The most common Kinds 01 aucK can rarely be seen closely. Even th black duck is not often to be studiec except at an aggravating distance, al though he is found in every marsh. I is a common saying that water leave no trail. But where some black duck had been pluming and sunning then: selves I have read the story ver plainly in the water, where numerou small, downy feathers floated an clung to the grassy tussocks. In a lagoon, in Jackson Park, Chi cago, where. no shooting is allowec j the ducks are remarkably tame I though on Lake .Michigan, a quarte of a mile away, they are hunted am are wild. There are other place wnere ducks find safe retreats fror shooters, and in these they soon bs come very tame.?From Nature am Science, in St. Nicholas. Valuable Military Records. The navy department library ha recently come into the possession o some valuable documentary relics These include the old papers of Guer Gansevoort, consisting of diaries journals and official correspondenc which have been retained in the fan: ily for many years and which ar now acquired from the estate-in Ne\ York city. The papers relate for th most part to the Northwest boundar; troubles and show that the situatioi between this country and Great Bri tain * approached perilously near th state of war. The library has als< acquired the Reynolds papers whic] embrace the period of the civil wa and include some valuable historica ! documents descriptive of the situa tion abroad. Thes^ papers have beei obtained from descendants of Rey nolds who now live in Rochester. N Y. Still another acquisition of valm is that which includes the diaries o Flag Officer William Mervine, cover ing a long period beginning with thi war of 1812 and describing the situa tion on the African coast in the earl; daya of the slave trade. Would Learn New Songs. A Kansas City lawyer has in hi; i office a small boy who is addicted ti j the whistling habit. The lawyer trie | to stop the whistling, but he is onl; ! partially successful. vThe noise both I ers him greatly, but as the lad is i good office boy his employer is loatl ! to discharge him and gets along witl him th# best he can. Monday the bo; said to the lawyer: "Mr. Blank, kin I draw half a do! j lar? I want to go to the minstre show." "Any new songs being sung tn th< show?" asked the lawyer. "Yep, some dandy ones." "I'll tell you what I'll do," said th< lawyer, after a pause. "If you won' ! en to the minstrel show I'll let yoi I i draw half a dollar and make you ? I present of another half." j The boy accepted the offer and th< j lawyer is now priding himself on hii I success as a strategist.?Kansas Cit: I Times. There Is Genuine-S | The Genuine I Californi L The Tuff ngtmi of the g lm printed on the front [ The Gemrirre- Syrup ( Packages Only, & i Knowing the above ? } I tions made by piratical ca dealers. The jmitathms i therefore he dtdbvL Buy the genuine 2&w< > It cleanses the system genii] when h&ons orcoostipat j kidneys* ifoer* stomach and by men* women or chflfee I effects from acted use and r laxative remedy of the we! \ A5*"** W & Gen a lAliKK Louisville, R \ XSL ' BOY'S TERRIBLE ECZEMA i, , Month and Eye* Covered With Cmwta S Hands Pinned Dowa-Xtneit uloo? Cwre- by Cntfewra. a "When ray little- boy was air months old he had eczema, 'lbe sores extended (j so quickly over the whole body that we at r once called in the doctor. We then went to another doetor. but be conUf not help him, and in our despair we went to a r third one. Matters became so bad that e he had rezuiar boles in bis ebeeks, large enough to pu-t a. linger into. The food S bad to be given with a spoon, for bis 0 mouth was covered with crusts as thick 1 as a finger, and whenever he opened the l' mouth they began* to bleed and suppurate, as did also bis eyes. Hands, anas, chest and back, in abort, the whole body, was s covered over and ever. We had no Test S by day or night. Whenever be was laid L- in bis bed we hud to> pin his banrts down, y otherwise -he would scratch his face, sod s make an open sore. I think his face must j have itchea meet fearfully. "We finally thought nothing coai help, and 1 bad made up my mind to send my wife with .he e>ild tokhnrope, hoping that l> the sed air might cure him, otherwise hie ; was to be pot tinder ~eod medical care r .there. But, Lord be blessed, matters came d differently, and we soon saw a miracle. A s friend of ours spoke about Coticnra. We Q made a trial with Cuticora Soap, Oint^ ment and Resolvent, and within ten days ^ or two weeks we noticed a decided inQ provement. Just as quickly as the sickness had appeared it also began ;o disappear, and within tea weeks the child was absolutely well, send has skin was smooth and white as never before. F. Hohratb, President of the t'_ L_ Jiohratb Company, * Manufacturers of Silk Ribbons, 4 to 20 * Rink Alley, South Bethlehem, Fa. done t 5, 1905." '' Catarrh Camrrtrt BeCi*wt e With local applications, as they cannot l* reach tlie seat of the disease. Catarrh Is a 0 blood or constitutional.disease,and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Ball's Catarrh Cure is- taken internally, and 3 acts directly on the blood and mncoassnrfaee y Hail's Catarrh Cure is net a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physia clans in tnls country for yaws, and is areg ular prescription. 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A mes? 2 sage sent via the Me'ropofitaa Rail* 2 vay required 31 minutes, by omnSms 1 34 minutes, a telegram 35 minutes, a ^ 1? fnho thrm message uy iue yucumaub __ hours, while the message sent by telephone did not arrive at aEL?Harper's Weekly. ? A TRAGEDY. Kleene Gawn?Is there a more 3 beautiful spectacle on eartJb that the t tnoon rising full orbed from the x peaceful bosom cf the lake? x Gladdi Kister? No, indeed! I could sit here hour after hoar wafting for 3 it to 3 Po?iceman (suddenly appearing)? j Hi! there! young felly! Teke y*r armm away fr'm that g'yurl's waisht or 1 I'll run yez in.?Chicago Tribune. 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