K L"'-V v Why Some An Persist in By Eliot Grttgawy. HAT charm, one ashs ?n Wmain for long year* Coruhill? It caenor he .cfljod. Kislorical assorts mauj of tkoK? people t< ; pericncc, however, kis t an> as splendidly Jrdrffei ,99**99 matter of that, unless its k human form?as thcr an *rtw? famll'es that one finds resldl Abandoned such foolishnes# as sight-s? im? newcomers; the habitues I hare Vatican galleries or of reading in th Unit they do of settling down seriousl One hears, especially in the less abaut culture; hut you may take my thje real attraction of the place lies In far $SO a month and a good cook for A Ambition in th< By Max Nordau. MiMumii MBITION is nowhere eli KPUV_vvI America. This is uatm KJl a IVI vjdualism so highly diff 101 hgj full of inborn energy, so |0t * & |g| au but one of fa* definite, but which, like "freedom fifiad by everybody with contents dist A A Collegiate I Essen T*y Chauncey M. Depev _m has been my fortuix ? terprises, to become 1 OO t 01 men, will), muiuui wyt S UJtf tioa, have aceninulate dim I jT| vritla one 01' them -w J? ** deep and tba ft Ml uevio* mat one o eace w* cultured peop vrhioii no mono}- pakl try not pr^ared to sacrifioe .bis ."who A the asm? aaortiticottoa. Our in iguajje cones, in part, from iv ia itseli a sort of Lataa and Greek. All 11 and Greek takes up tie paper i aim and .leans the page. -or tie book ftfpstraiious, and there Is a BioaBjng h e^riratioc which comes to liim imeon Atomic flavor in the illustrations wbiel find university people readers to tlie da T&dera until they go iato business. % in the older countries of the wor |wen a privilege. In thest United St is''A to his switch and With the "block" system now in toslcep at the switch" would practical!: heck. The sleeper, in other words, won n>ad until ?cuu* onr; woke aim lip. F to block trains, to keep tlieiu :i certaii tanca betvrcoii toweiv?the distance var feet to over three miles. Only one trait The system is so simple t?r.:t 1; c.v signal? at. each tower are controlled In is. no cdwernnm can give the signal l?y his co-lahorer iti Hie r.e\'t tov.vr. Stntij'. is controlled as follows: On : ssk# tower s yo lor au uuloek by ring twrrea towers one and two, towcrman ???wiling a plunger in a cabinet. Tower train Una pa.s-.od he announces the tva your 1 tells. And this method is carrie line. Si ll, ?ii * block system does r.-?t al a tra n stops at au unusual place, tin fenrrv back over the track for at leas a. teredo o.u the track. Then he mas plate two ;orov?Ices. If his train pu at*ng, he picks up the torpedo nearest trttk. Torpedoes are called audible signal torpedo lie slows up, and if he does 11 *J$e track has been cleared and again (torpedoes, however, he slows up kam iiig there is danger within oxm iui pfpedoes. the trainman must light a f yphirtes- An engineer coming upi tnaa fm ahead within ten minutes, and iwcwoa wtt .. / .:;v . BSb ,o~, . I nericans Living Abroad 'g self in wonder, makes people rewanderjnc: fresklelees from Cairo tc the climate. for our otvb is quite a; itiocs, ire ape assured, compensate >r the absence of kitli and kiB. Ex aught me that the majority of them ent to history?and art. too. for the It is applied to tue decoration 01 me ? to the Roserta Ftone. ng in Italy. for instance, long since elng. That useless fatigue is left to met no more dream of Tisiting the e library of Lorenzo the Magnificent y to study Italian. expensive little cities, some twaddle word for it, fn nine cases ont of ten. the fact that a Victoria can be had one-tenth that sum.?The Century. b United States ?e so general and so boundless as in i-al, for in no other country is indierentinted as in America, or man so i rich in initiative, resource, optimism it tic tethered by pedantry, so willing r a brilliant personality, However wis added that in America the instances nost humble beginnings to ihe most s and striking than anywhere else, ideutter into a President; a Schwab a day. and. at thirty-life. lias a saltogie who. as a youth, did not know s, and. as a man in mature life, does and usefully of his three hundred r woodcutter, every "buttons," every Momentary schooling, the idea that it or not he shall tTead in the footrnegie, and reach the goal that thest has nowhere else so few partisans is the National motto. I suppress, smart sentence. The universal Ideal success. The dream of success feeds the youth, gives the man temerity, logins to become a matter of indifferIvanced age. those vague words which mean nothor "progress," are more recipients inctively his own.?Success. 7 Education iial to Success 7. f, as business associate in many enntimately acquainted with hundreds any equipment whatever of educad millions ?f dollars. I never met lease regret was not profound ami t he had Dot an education, f them who did not feel In the *Te?le a eortain aense of mortification far. I aever aiet ane of them who !e fortune that hie boy ehonld nerw the Latin and Greek. Onr literature [File man or the woman who knows and reads the editorial ?r the roagao? poetry or prose and looks at the u the word with the Greek or Latin sciously; there is a suggestion of a ti gives them a delight; s? that yon y of their death, and busiuess people Id the higher education had always ates of America a liberal education ncnt rest upon thrones, rest upon igher education endangers the caste rty rests upon the intelligence of the ording to the character of that intelpany against anarchy and socialism, (hunted boy and girl is a missionary n religion and in morals. 7 RflttheSwitch" could not Lave been -written if the sf the poet's time had been what they r of those thrilling verses had not lock, amateur recitationists of to-day entirely on "Woodman, Spare That night." For the melodramatic sitnaihnian snoring at his post, the train id saved in the very nick of time by id?would not be true to life in these c-haaged?for the better?and the fate ;er left to a single man who may or take a nap. operation on the main lines, a man y stop the running of trains for miles Id virtually tie up the operation of the or the object of the block system is i distance apart. A block is the dis ying all the way from loss than 1500 1 is allowed in & block at a time, u be described in a few words. The ,* the man in the tower ahead. That ,11 clear'* until that signal is unlocked Thus, a train leaving Grand Central approaching tower one the towernmn iug three bells. If bloek is clear beat tower two unlocks tower one by one then clears signals, and after the in approaching tower two by ringing d out ail the way to the end of the ? tor the old rule for trainmen. When * trainman, as in former days, must r three-quarters of a mile, and place i continue further back one mile and lis away before another train comes the train, leaving the others on the s. When the engineer strikes the first ot strike a third he knows then that goes ahead full speed. If he strikes and proceeds with extreme caution, le ahead. At night, in addition to the usee, a red light, which burns exactly an one of these fusees knows that a 1 does not proceed until the fusee has I I Igood ? j? |! ? roads.!' ??< , Interesting Information. , ( y | y HE following interesting in- ^ i formation is taLen from the ; recent article entitled "Road j "Jj Building with Convict La'.ior in the Southern States." by Professor J. A. Holmes, and will be of interest to those interested in the good ronda ! movement: Portable prisons on wheels are novel- ' ties which arc now in use in several 1 localities. These movable jails appear 1 to solve the problem of preventing the 1 escape of convicts employed at great 1 distances from their prison proper. In * exterior appearances they are freight 1 car bodies provided with barred win- I dows and mounted upon wagon trucks. As the road improvement progresses they are drawn forward by horses and collected in some convenient grove or open field, selected as the temporary l prison camp. Morning and evening the ' convicts are marched along the road front and to their quarters. To faeil- j i itntc their being safely guarded during the night without too great risk ! c and expense, each prisoner, when 2:e ; goes to bed, has either one foot or one j hand manacled loosely to a chain or I ? rod from which he can be easily re-! j leased the following morning. Tiers of bunks inside comprise the { sleeping quarters. These are easily ; and cheaply made comfortable. Ample j ventilation is afforded in summer and j 4.U ^1* if ?? UUHUS lHIT V.OIU UiV.'UU?J iawu 4.T ** ^ in each car. ! c One of these portable prisons, which j ? can l>o disjointed and transported in t sections, is in use on the public roads of ! North Carolina. One of these movable jails can be lengthened to acconmjodate fifty convicts. Its sides and ends i ? arc of boards bolted together in sec- v tions. The roof, of corrugated iron, is also in sections. Large tents are used in States. Women prisoners do the cooking and washing of some migratory camps. This work Is usually done, however, by trusty male convicts, and in some s cases it is performed by hired labor, a The younger prisoners are usually assigned to such tasks as the carrying of r water or the running of errands. i: A ball and chain are attached to convicts who show a desire to escape, t While these encumbrances make it impossible for a prisoner to ruu rapidly, ^ | tney do not seriously unmper nis uiou> i incuts during the regular road work. Critics of the convict system of road s building say that it offers too many ^ opportunities for the escape of prison- Y crs; as a matter of fact, however, the j annual escapes amount to less than ' two men out of each hundred. Almost , 300 counties, representing ten States, * j employ convict labor upon their roads, i This furnishes an army of 4377 road ! builders, each of whom costs his State thirty-three and one-half cents a day. I Were he left in the county jail he 3 j would cost one aud one-half cents more ^ a day. Hence he is a cheaper article j toiling upon the roads than languishing ^ ; in a cell or jail yard. All told, the cost ! of convlcf labor in these States ranges ! from one-third to one-half that of hired ! labor employed in the same work. The Southern States employing eon- 1 vict road builders are Florida, Georgia, A Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi. * North Caroliua. South Carolina. Ton- ,l ; nessee, Texas and Virginia. In the I two Carolinas and Georgia sueh a per- v ! feeiion of systems is reached that large J , camps arc operated at cost of only ll twenty to thirty cents per convict per s day. Provisions are purchased for the 11 prison camps at wholesale at eompetitire rates: tile convicts do their own f i cooking and washing. Owing to the ^ I usually good sanitation of the camps ] I and the benefits of exercise to the pris- x I cners. the cost of medical attention is I aimost nothing. Another virtue of the system is that ! the prisoners, after injuring their communities by the commission of their crime s. and after adding to its financial j, burdens by incurring expense for their j, capture, conviction and punishment, j, are put in a position to benefit that p community. Having served an apprcu- j; tieeship in the handling of road build- t ing machinery the convict leaves g prison with a training which enables 0 liini to earn a better living than he t: probably made before. f Only prisoners convicted of misde- r mcanors can be assigned to work on p the public roads of Virginia, West Vir- b ginin. Kentucky. Tennessee, Louisiana, s Mississippi, Texas, Florida and Gcor- o gia. The terms of such convicts do b not usually exceed one year. In Ala- il bama all able bodied male prisoners G whose terms do not exceed two years, f may be sent to the roads. In South I Carolina the limit is live years and in < North Carolina ten. y An experiment is now being made in tl some Southern .counties in the employ- <1 meat 011 the roads of captured, but un- n convicted prisoners, unable to give p bail. If the prisoner be acquitted at his c trial he is paid for his services. If con- c vieted, his period of labor on the roads is deducted from his term. d Many convicts in the Southern States T tire employed on farms, in factories or in mines, being worked under the lease or contract system, or in some cases under State control. California convicts quarry and crush 11 stone for use in permament road build- P ing. The cost is half what it would be with hired labor. Strong stockades v surround these quarries, also the con- r vict quarters. The percentage of escapes is no larger than that experi- u enocd in jails proper. - T There are over 82,000 prisoners in C confinement within this country. Sev- a eitfy-slx thousand of these are men, 13,- ? 000 white. There art 73,000 inmates of a * ' V , ' ilms houses, 41.000 of whom are men. iVlth such a force every county in very State ml ;ht develop its highways o the highest decree of perfection. The article above referred to on Tload Building with Convict Labor 11 the Souther 1 States" can i)e secured i roe of cost b.v application to Profeesor L A. Holmes, Chapel Ilill, X. C.. who s the Special Agent of the Southern division of the office of Road Inquiries >f the United State Department of Agriculture. ( An Imagination Nt*ga*rer. If we could have good roads it would \ :dd more to the value of farm property han all other public improvements put , T. ogetner ever uave. n numu iruuic he cost of getting our crops to market nore than one-half, and in savins of 'eed that is now fed to idle horses. It vould amount to a sum that staggers he imagination. A Practical ltc*u!t. Every day that a team remains idle t is something for which no return rill ever he received. If we had good 1 oads the teams could be used on the arm when the ground was in condiiou and the crops could be hauled to uarket at such times as farm work ould not lie prosecuted. A i:i>merk3l)le Statement. I It has been computed that tiie averse cost of getting crops from the farm o tlie railway station is greater than iutting it from the raiiroaJ station to , he seaboard. A Farmer'* Opinion. "If it were a question of farm warms with narrow tires furnished free if expense, or such wide tire wagons s I ;un using at my own cost. I should ontinue to use the latter."?A Farmer. Hare Wide Tire*. The very best way to make and keep :ood roads is to have wide tired vagons. | WORDS OF WISDOM. Like the bee, we should make our in- < lustry our amusement.?Goldsmith. If you will not hear reason, she will ] urcly rap your knuckles.?Poor Rich- j ird. Politeness induces morality. Sere- i < lity of manner requires serenity of ' nlnd.?Julia Ward Ilowe. After so many have coldly repeated 1 hat vice leads to misery, is there no j :enerous man who will proclaim aloud 1 hat misery leads to vice??Landor. 1 The human race is divided into two lasses?these who go ahead and do i oniething. and those who sit and inluiro, "Why wasn't it done the other ray?"?O. W. Holmes. i Taken in its widest sense, culture j nouns preparation for complete living. ] Acquisition of fitness for carrying on t he business of life is primarily a duty 1 o self, and secondarily, a duty to otii- , rs.?Herbert Spencer. 1 The aim for which we give our best J trength is everything, the visible sue- < nnthini? Trim fm'Hi mnv ho the I COO AO UU I Ullin. A huv yeatest, goodness ami fidelity at the 1 tlghcst, when visible success is at the j ?ast.?John Hamilton Tbom. Men, though never so thickly clad in * lignities. sit not inaccessible to the in- i uence of their time: especially men j .'hose life is business: who at all turns, 1 fere it even from behind judgment , eats, have conic in contact with the ' ctual workings of the world.?Carlyle. j 'Tis certain that the one thing we ' rish to know is. where power is to be I louglit. But we want a finer kind han that of commerce, and every rea- j onable man would give any price of I ouse aud land and future provision j or condensation, concentration and ] he recalling at will of high mental en- < rgy. Our money is only a second ^ est- We would jump to ouy power rltli it. that is. intellectual perception aovicg the will. That is first best, tut we don't know where the shop is. -Emerson. ltririal Snperntlt lon?. Many and curious are the customs re- j arding brides, lu Switzerland the j ride ou her wedding day will permit 1 o one, not even her parents, to kiss J er upon the lips. In parts of rural 1 England the cook pours hot water over t be threshold after the bridal couple < o, in order to keep it warm for an- j ther bride. The pretty custom of < browing the slipper originated in i 'ranee. An old woman seeing the car- , iage of her young king?Louis XIII.? ] assing on the way from church, where ^ ? nod inat tippn married, took off her ^ lioe, and. flinging it his coach, cried > ut, " 'Tis all I have. Your Majesty, i iut may the blessing of God go with t." There is an old superstition in , lermany against marriages in May. A i avorite wedding day in Scotland is )ecember 31. so thai the young people , an leave their old life with the old j i ear and begin their married life with 1 lie new one. The Italians permit no wed- ! in? gifts that are sharp pointed, con- ] iccted with which practice is our su erstition that the gift of a knife sev- j rs friendship. One beautiful marriage 1 ustom is that of the bride, immediate- i y after the ceremony. Hinging her bon- | iuet among her maiden friends. Slie ] rho catches ir is destined to be the 1 ext bride.?Loudon Globe.. ( i . < Parcel Currying. i For many years the eudless-belt * lethod of carrying merchandise trom | lice to place in large buildings has f ceu in use and the system has worked 1 I'ell. Its place, however,, is being ' apidly taken by the telepherage sys- j era, in which, cn an overhead wire, 5 icrchandise may be carried suspended, ?*ita electricity as the motive power, j >ne of the uses of telepherage, which i ppeals to everybody, ( is In railway ] rations for carrying; baggage.?Baltlsow Bra. / ! I ' i A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AM FLOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED "POWER OF A CREAT IDEAL." The Iter. Hr. J.Wilbur Chapman I)?ll?r? a TJr?ntlftil Sermon on the Comfortaml H?!pfaln?il of Hnrlni; ,an Ideal to Anchor One to the (tetter Thine* of Wfe New York City.?The Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, who has recently resigned the pastorate of the Fourth Presbyterian Church in this city in order to devote himself to evangelistic work, has prepared the following sermon for the press. It is entitled "The Power of a Great Ideal," and was Ereached from the text, "I have net the ord always before me; because He ie at tny right hand, I shall not be moved." Psalm 16: 8 If you look at the fop of this Psalm you will r^fid the M'chtnri of David. There are differences of opinion as to the meaning of this expression. Some have said that it means victory, and this would seem to be true, since there is a particular Psalm bearing the same title, whose subject matter is on various themes, but nil of which end in triumph. Psalm 56. "Thou hast delivered my soul from death:" Psalm 57. "My heart is fixed. I will sing and give praise:" I'saiin 58. "There is a reward for the righteous:" Psalm 50. "God is my defense and the God of my mercy;" Psalm 60. "Through God we shall do valiantly." There are others who sav that the expression means golden, and so we might infei from the margin, which means that it is worthy of being written in letters of gold, and may have been in some conspicuous place in the temple. At any rate we know that it? truth is bettor than gold: yea. than much fine gold. There are still others who declare that its meaning is precious, and certain it is that it i* a prerious privilege to walk with Christ ever before us. "So on I go. not knowing. T would not if I might. I'd rather walk in the dark with GoJ, Than go alone in the light. I'd rather walk br faith with Ilim, Than go alone bv sight." Some teachers say (hat the meaning of the expression is secret, and whit follows it is hidden truth. Certainly it is true that the "secret, of the Lord is with them that, fear Him." and t^ere is a se-ret place of the Most Tlizh. The first is learned when we walk with Hiiu. the second is reached at the end of the journey. But if pou nut all these interpretations together von hare the srolden Psalm of the nrecinus secret. which would seem to lie a fittinrr Introduction to nil that follows. This Psalm is about Christ. Wo know it, because Peter said. "For David sneaketh concerning Him, 1 foresaw the Lord alwnvg before my tare; for Ho is on nv right hand. th*t T should rot he moved." Acts 2: 2o. Tf David could have strength by looking forward to Christ, what may I not have as I look back at His history and lite in the power of His presence by the Holy Spirit. It is the instinct of a human soul to have in ideal. TCverv child has. The boy longs to be like his father. The eirl ha3 a desire to resemble her mother. What a responsibility rests upon each. Men and women have whether they will acknowledge it or not. They long to be like some one e!?e. The musician has his Mendelssohn, the poat Ilia Shakesneare. the artist his Da Vanei. the preacher his Spurgeon. David knew this and so he said. "I have set. the kord always before me; because He is at ny right hand, I shall not be moved." To imitate any one else in the world is to become ridiculous, but it is remarkable that oeople all over tlie world may seek to imitate Christ and be the bette- for it. Let it be noted that this is a definite experience or conclusion which David has reached. I insist upon the definition of it because it is scriptural. Notice Romans G: 13. "Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but rield yourselves unto God. as those that ire alive from the dead, and your members m instruments of righteousness unto (iod." And also Romans 12: ). "I beseech vou. therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God. that ve present votm bodies a livins: sacrifice. holy, acceptable unto Cod. which is ironr reasonable service." The tense of the rerbs m both verges indicate definite action. It is really putting one's self over nto the keepinc and control of Christ. A man has a threefold nature, snirit. soul ?.nd body, and in this order. I Cor. 6: 20. 'For ve arc bought with a price: therefore jlorify God in your body and in your mirit. which are Cod's." Romans IS: 1. "Ret cverv soul be subject to the hicher " - 1...1 lowers, ror mere is no jiuwt-r imt ->i > "?. rhe powers that he are ordaired of God." Roman* I!?: ]. "I beseech von. therefore, brethren, by the merries of God. that ve aresent your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, irceptahle unto God. which is your reason?h!e service." All of which indicate that. Flo will 111 the spirit, inspire the soul and "oritroi the body if given the right to do it. Then everything has become sarred in our ives and living itself is a sacrament. T do not much bcl'^ve in the world's division if a'l things into sacred and secular, for *11 things ought to be sacred to the child if God. and all days ought to be holy, and thev would be did we but live in the spirit if th? text, Some neople meet temptation ind flv to Ilim. It is inlinitelv better to ly to Him and then meet trial in whatever Form it mav come. There is great, power in the word "because" in the text. This is not fust a flash ot an experience, it is the deliberate outcome of a long and varied retrospect, and will not. in any true lense be before our face until we set Him there. It is first decision and then practice. and the text must become the habit of ljur lives. It certainly was in the experience of David, for he said. "I have set the Lord always before me." There nre 'ertain Old Testament characters which furnish us an illustration of this text. First. Abraham. Christ said it. John 8: 56. "Your farher, Abraham, rejoiced to sec 111V iUy. and he saw it. and was glad." rhe Scribes and Pharisees about Him when He spoke of Abraham answered with ji sneer, and the Jews said. John 8: 57. 'Then said the Jews unto Him. Thou art iot yet tiftv years old. and hot Thou seen \braliam?" When the answer of our Master was. John 8: />$. "Jesi's said unto theiti. Verily. Veri'v. I say unto you, before Abraham was. I am." There is something nat letie about, these ivorus of the Jews. "That rrt not yet fifty j mr. r?M " fii fact. Up was onlv about. thirty, lli* face mu.?i have been marked ivith pain and suffering. Now old is He. j lo you ask1' There are different wavs of mswering. By the record He was thirty; * looks No ?"ust have been a thousand; tecording lo Nis work Ho is apes o'd. The nspiration of Abraham's life was that the Lord was.ever before Him. Gbnesis 12: 1. IVe deny onr.-e'ves for succors in business, ipnarenty little caring whctlier tliis business will help or hinder us in spiritual development. See the lesson in Lot's case. He pitched his tent toward Sodom and hen moved into the city. His family be:amc identified with tin- life of th- city, ind he a part of its gov erauient. In the ?nd of the story he has lost his power to witness, all his property, his political portion, his influence over men, over his own family, and even with God. Abraham was rerv different. God choose for him. Gene- j lis 13: 14-15, "And the Lord said unto Abraham, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up thine eyes and look from the place where thou are northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward. , for an the land which thou seeat. to thee J will I give it, and to thy see^ forever." How like this is to our own inheritance. Ephesians 3: 17-19, "That Christ may dwell hj your hearts bv faith; that ye being ?oted/and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know tht lovt of Chriet, t which pisseth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of Clod." The storjr is told of a man who was confined in a prison cell. Being an artist his paints and brushes were given liirn. and on the wad of the cell he painted the picture of the cross with Christ on it. Over the cross he painted the word love, at the top and the bottom of the cross the words height and depth, at the cross beams the words length and breadth, and indeed, it is true that nc. one ever quite appreciates what the love of God is to him until he has this pjc| ture of the cross clearly in mind. Have you ever noticed the differences in I the ending of the lives of Abraham and . T_rtf'K efnrv is written in Genesis 19. It is an awful picture. Hi.s wife is taken from him. his daughters at;e disgraced and he is in despair, while with Abraham the picture is exactly the opposite, and to my mind is most beautiful. (Jenesis 25: 7-8, "And these are the days of the yeara of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred three-score and fifteen years. Then Abraham gave up the ghost and died in a good old age. an old man. and full of years, and was gathered to his people." Second. Moses was an illustration of I the text. In Hebrews 11: 27. "He endured j as seeing Him who is invisible. That ex| plains the mystery of the burning bush and this vision of Christ explains how it was that when vour hope seemed to be consumed and the dearest plan of your life was burned as in the Are, you rejoiced. David has learned the secret of happy living when he says in the text, "I have set the Lord always before me; because He is at my right hand. T shall not be moved." This ri?ion enabled Moses to surmount every difficulty. What did he care that the mountains were on every side, certain of the Egyptians behind him and the Red Fea before him. He marched like a conqueror until the water parted in advance of him and drv shod he went over to the other side. Rut such pictures as these have been realized in our day when men j have passed through Keel t*ea? or aimcuuv I ivhere other men of the world have gone I down in defeat and all "heenv.se tbev endured as seeing Him who is invisible.". Third, our Saviour is an illustration. He always set God before Him. As He came into the world He said. "Do. I come to do Thy will;" as He eat on the well curb of Jacob's we',1. "Mv m"*t is to do the will of Him that sent Me:" as Ik bowed in Get lise mane, "Not Mr will, not Thine be done." At the beginning of His ministry, in the midst of it and rear to its close He cave forth the same music. What a life it was. "The strong man's strength to toil fer Christ, The fervent preacher's skill. I sometimes wish, but better far, To be jost what God wills. No service in itself is amall. None great though earth it fill. But that is small that seeks its own. That great which seeks God's will." Fourth. Paul was certainly an illustration of the spirit of our text. He caught that vision in the sky as he made hi$ war to Damascus and he never forgot it. He said truthfully. "I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision." This made him insensible to him surroundings. There is really nothing more pathetic than his ret numeration of bis trials. II Cor. 11: 24-27, "Of the Jews five times received I fortv stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep: in joumeyincs often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils of mine own countrymen, in perils bv the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea. in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfullness, in wntchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings ofteD, in cold and nakedness." And yet here he says. "I have learned with whatsoever state I ana, therewith to be content. He was with Paul to the very end. II Timothy 4: 7-8, "1 have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have keot the faith; henceforth there w laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that dav, and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing."^ That was the secret of his victorious life, and that the secret of his triumphant death. n. If He is before me no nath is too hard for me to travel, since He walks in every way in which He would have me go: nor shall I ever walk in darkness, for "He is the light of the world, and in Him is no darkness at all,"' nor shall I ever be moved. Have you never noticed the differences between the second and sixth verses in the 8iity-gecond Psalm. The second verse reads, "He only is my rock and my salvation: He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved." And the sixth is the same with the exception of one word. "He only is ray rock and salvation :^He is mv de fense; I shall not be moven." mat worn is "great ly.' There is deep meaning in the omission of "greatly." Confidence lias grown evidently. In the first, hope was that the waitine heart should not be much shaker., that the tottering fence should rot he quite thrown down; the second is that it shall not be shaken at all. III. Ho is before me in all experiences, whether of sorrow or of jov, but since men are horn unto trouble as the sparks fiv upward it is well to remember that He is before u? in suffering. There never has been a heart ache on the part of any of His followers that the pain did not reach Him. and He had fellowship with us in our sufferings. as we are privileged to do in His. He shall be with n? even in death. "Since Jesus is mine I'll not fear undressing. But gladly put off these garments of elav, 1 To die in the T,ord is a covenant blessing, Since Jesus to glory, thro* death led the way." IV. It is an awful thing for a life not to have the helpful presence of God. "Oh to have no hope in Jesus. How dark this world would be." One of tbe ocean dangers that captains fear almost more than anything else is the danger oT coming in contact with a "derelict," as a ship abandoned at sea is called. There are now supposed to be about thirty of such vessels floating about at the will of the currents in the Atlantic wafers. They ere without pilot, have neither crew nor rudder, are bound nowhere and carry no cargo to any port. One of them, which has a cargo of mahogany on board, and is level with the water's cdee. has been driftin? about since March. 1S91. The perils of collision at spa have been reduced since the steamship companies * adopted what is known as the lar.c routes. Vow the route a steamer follows after leaving New York is fifty miles away from the route taken by steamers bound west. Une steamer, tnereiorc, is im e useiv m meet another and come into collision with her. But these abandoned ships, not being under control, and carrying no lights, are a continual source of danger. The Gulf Stream carries them northward and then eastward, and the oantains of incoming ships have warned the Government of their whereabouts. One of them has been cut in two and the two halves are drifting in company. There is scarcely any peril of the sea which is so terrible to the mariner. No sound will reveal their nearness, no temperature of air or wave will make known their approach. Though it carry no guns a "derelict" is often a more deadly enemy than a man-of-war. The ship that steera fov'no pori can only have one influence, and that is to be a stumbling block in the way to send other ships to the bottom of the oeean. God help us that not one of us majfhecome a spiritual "dereliet." God pity that m?n who has pushed God out of his life and goes along in his journey to eternity, not only having sorrow in his own soul, nut standing in the way of the progress Of oth? IS. i ,[.:H