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(Discontentmen Worr By Margaret Stowe. jrhmkAthere are iu this I eeed in life if only t Ing thoughts to prevail and take up thoughts that create energy and v success. Discontentment is usually the ri out in life expecting to do great thin the:a; if Ave fail. Ave blame our ei yvhen in reality Ave are looking too 1 sight of that Avhieh is elose at hani We ourselves are to blame and k "wot'I.i take Avliat avo have at the p L ol it, we might attain to much more r I lEe Truest Ci f Sy Charles Frederic L M14IA)Y.M EXT. in il I fundamental Avoid 1EK' I b pioyiuem. i um a. j sense of wage eari though; of jn the t ilios who are not i -?? ' tutious. Two eauti with men ami worn itable societies or that we should he very slow, and c ploymenf. The second is that it sh , stitute employment for relief. The tirs; suggestion refers to t proacbes a charitable society or iu< v sistance in finding employment, it is not readily be suggested, "This is ftressed man; I will lighten his anx him a dollar." Recently I pent an earnest, supt a gentleman through whom 1 hoped f he was offered $2 in the most tac sities compelled him to yield to th i office so pained and bruised in spi heal in a manner which would leav self-respecting than he had been be j I suggest, therefore, that wher finding employment, and both the r to finding the work desired, we slioi - fore venturing into the dangerous bodied, normal people. Present si cesslve and deteriorating may be i !\ ;loa. >?> ; What Determi By Elizabeth Ellicoi E HILDHOOD is the f voted to the deve m _ ^ foundation for the ; ~ days. The mind is M fc 9 P?wer r^s'st | to r The generation J I I for the generation jj had as well as tin the knowledge of h fe. \ see much that we >ond today and see all the past. I TTnqncstionably it is true that t mar the man. "The child is father bet expressed a fundamental truth acter. When will society learn the vi \ quick enough to provide for the re over night while prisons come into generation. But recreation piers, savior of childhood?church guilds I .qua to to the demand. Many a man who is lost bene: have resisted the eurrent if he h.i< . with It in the days of his innocent The childish eyes, awaking from into life and glad with the full joy - e flash over the ways before them. The visions remain with them, the j bean* if id. They are taught by the while soul is smeared, the young u: little one. has received its inevitable The child nature is the garden archy, rebellion and discord, result!] bloom* beautiful and glorious with civilisation. Traming Our "By Lieutenant H. J. rtffrn ii N the training of tli n ti ance is attached to t flf -jjwC can be no physical R of each drill the/ n k <u[n to inflating at hp ^3 slowly and deeply, > b amj expiration cit WBtsmtssgew^ breath until it cau ful. Inhalation ma arm or shoulder exercise that will raising the arms laterally, while tl contract the walls of the chest sli 1 lowering the arms laterally from t 1 exercise is followed by labored brca has been excessive, and such an e: the heart or lungs. Palpitation or and absolute rest, which is besc ol arms aDd legs outstretched. Exercising is never permitted i gestion being considered much more not too cold, may be taken in tma! recommended. After exercise, tbe tion before eating is allowed. Ca< shoes.oniform trousers and gray fla considered indispensable. Bathing for no man who merely cleanses tk< possess a clean cuticle. A bath afte Ing of the millions of perspiration < is now generally preferred for kealt Inflexible rule. All depends upon alone- can be the judge. Any bath i tal depression and physical lassitui which leaves one letter lu miod ar body a warm bath, with plenty o cold plunge bath of short duration This latter bath must be followed I Where neither is possible, a spun,' [frffir robbing, is the one to use. I kg drinking water freely, both at Boded to all.?Success. EJl* ; V a, * M| rIght atmosphere and ? 3 They are discontent | more so through eonrir ^that I would speak to-< I Have you ever stoji KaJBhaSSB with hindrances?for t --""'l-iiovnr will silCC " 1 1? it and y Mean Failure j j l world m-day feel they might sac- 1 hey had the proper surroundings?the I >pportunities. ed with their lot. and grow more and innl worry and fretting. It is to them lay. >ped to tlnnk that a mind that is filled hat is what such thoughts should he eed? You are allowing those weakenthe room that should be given only to igor of mind, that are so essential to ' 1 >sult of disappointed hopes. We start igs. or to at least have the chance to do J ivironment or tlic lack of opportunity. :ar off aud for too large things and lose i). I no: the lack of opportunities. If we "wnf moment and make the very Pes: than we think.?New York Antet I.a::. . *?? iarity. k Weller. 10 broad sense of useful activity, is the in charitable work of any kind. K:nthis large meaning ami in the small' r ling, is the lirst and last thing to be reatincut of needy individuals and fan:o be accommodated in charitable iiistions are to be observed in our dealings en who apply to us in our various charax our private residences. The first is arcful about substituting relief for otnould be our xtuceasing endeavor to sub *??? nix. he fact that wncn an i-annsi m.w> ..r ilividual for the first time and aslts as5 a natural impulse to say, if work canobviously no pauper, br.t a worthy, d islet ies and prove my Sued will by giving >rior but destitute applicant for work to he might secure employment. Instead rful. kindly manner. His urgent necese temptation, but he came back to my [tit that I knew this sore wound must e him just a little less independent and fore. 1 people apply to us for assistance In applicant and we ourselves are delayed aid permit the extreme to he reached 1><realin of giving material alms to ahlejfferlng to an extent which is nor .ox\ great deal better than future degradnnes Character. :t Poe. springtime of life. The infant days are lopment of the primitive. The strong after structure must be laid in the first plastic and does not know or exercise a nee. ?~ 1 - vn?n?iKililp ! mat conies uwuif i? uui; * I that conies after; responsible for the > sood. The little minds are alert for ow to face the ways of life. The eyes do not dream of. Indeed, they look belie influences of childhood will make or to the man," said Wordsworth, and he i iu the formation o' the human charrtno of the ounce of prevention? It is stilt of its failure. Hospitals spring up ) noxious being with the birth of each kindergartens, schools and the great and ministrations?are painfully inadeith the flood of life feels that lie could d known the right and been inculcated childhood. i tho sleep of babyhood, eager to plunge ; of innocence, arc as beacon lights that j seeing alike the light and dark place?, dark mingling with their dreams of the actions of "grown ups," and soon the liud has lost its pristine purity, and the ? herbage?the practice of wrong, of the world. In it may be sown anng in the sorrows of nations, or it may the buds of peace, advancement and & Army Officers Kochler, U. S. A. e West Toint cadet, tbe utmost imnort' proper breathing, without which there excellence. At the beginning and end ten are required to devote several miuid deflating their lungs. They breathe inspirations being through the nostrils her by nose or mouth. Holding the be 110 longer ueia is uusuiuieiy uuiui;y be accompanied by any part of an elevate and distend the thorax, such as nit part of an exercise which tends to ould be accompanied by exhalation, as he shoulders or from overhead. When thing, it is a certain sign that the work ctreine is a frequent cause of injury to distressful breathing calis for immediate jiained by lying flat on the back, with mmediately before or after a meal, diimportant. During the exercises water, 11 sips, but merely rinsing the mouth is bouy must return to its normal condi.lets. during exercise, wear soft canvas unci shirts, wool next to the skin being is ordered in connection with exercise, ? surface of his skin can be expected to r a good "sweat" accomplishes the flushducts in the body. Though a cold bath hy men. it is impossible to lay down an the condition of the individual, and he hat leaves the bather in a state of menJe must be avoided, as only that bath id body is beneficial. For cleansing the f soap, is advised. For stimulation, a i, taken before the body cools, is best, hy a brisk rubbing with a coarse towel. ;e bath -with tepid water, followed by in this connection, bathing the stomach, ' vising and retiring, is strongly recom I The Great Turnpike. 1 THE proposed New York-Chica- ; go highway, while it may be j considered a fantastic project ' by some, says the Journal, continues to attract attention, and ] there are those who say its completion is assured. In large cities along the ! proposed route much enthusiasm in favor of it is reported. At Chicago. F. C. Donald. President of the Automobile Club, who is one of the trustees of the association behind the project, realizes the importance of having good roads for feeders to railroads with which he is connected. It is the purpose of the association to secure sufficient co-operation to have the road built as soon as possible, and it is stated that the Government. recognizing the military importance of such a highway, will lend its support. The conditions vary so in relation to the laws governing the building and maintenance of roads that these exigencies will be met and remedied. In order to ascertain local conditions two members of the association are going over the lino in an automo* bile. Stops will bo made in each town alone: ihe proposed road, and plans discussed with the local authorities. From reports received it is possible that not more than 400 miles between New York and Chicago will have to be built because of existing pavements. Eastward from Chicago to South Beud, Ind.. there are food level roads, mostly gravel, about 111 miles. From that point eastward there are passable dirt roads to Swanton. about flfty-five miles. The uext ten miles are not reported. but running into Toledo are eight miles of level macadam. There are patches of good roads running j through Ohio, but from New York i State reports are lacking. The road I through this State will start from a ; point on the Hudson at Kingston and follow the line to Delhi, thence to Binghamton and due west, following the marked out road as it is to Jamestown. Crossing the Panhandle of Pennsylva- ' cia and touching Erie, the tirst point reached in Ohio is Conneaut. Thence j westward the route is as previously in- | dicated. Strong sentiment in favor of ; the proposed highway is reported from I many points, and assurance is given by i the association behind it that the road j will actually he built.?Randolph (N. Y.) Register. Surface Drainage. The wearing surface of a road must ho in nffppr n rnnf: flint is. the section In the middle should be the highest I part, and the traveled roadway should J be made as impervious to water as possible, so that it will flow freely and quickly into the gutters or ditches alongside. The best shape for the cross section of a road has been found to be either a flat ellipse or one made up of two plane surfaces sloping uniformly from the middle to the sides and joined in the centre by a small, circular curve. ' Either of these sections may be used, provided it is not too flat in the middle ! for good drainage or too steep at the * - * nr%i. _ #? pullers ior saiciy. iue sieepiwrss ui | the slope from the centre to the sides i should depend upon the nature of the ; surface, being greater or less accord- : ing to its roughness or smoothness. This slope ought to be greatest on i earth roads, perhaps as much in some ! as one foot in twenty feet after the sur- ! face has been thoroughly rolled or ; compacted by traffic. This varies from I about onp in twenty to one in thirty on a macadam road to one in forty or one in sixty on the various classes of pavements and for asphalt sometimes as low as one in eighty. Pertinent Paragraph*. In Florida $1.G0 per ton is paid for , granite crushed, screened and delivered .'for use in macadamizing the reads. 1 Cood drainage and good material are both esseiitkil in the construction of a 1 macadam road. < One miles of a good, well constructed : macadam road is preferable to several miles of one poorly constructed. ; It is false economy to build a road over a steep grade rather than cut down or encircle the hill in order to se cure an easy grade. i It lias been demonstrated that in 1 country districts in Kentucky where 1 macadamized highways have been ! built the lands have increased in value i as much as .$10 per acre. This is conclusive evidence that the burden of ! building roads should not be borne ; alone by the agricultural classes, but 1 is a strong argument in favor of muui- j eipal. county and State aid. , i A Great Reform Needed. The farmers who have been organiz- 1 Ing for many years for the purpose cf j securing better and cheaper railroad ( transportation for their marketable i products, are now becoming awake to J the fact that a great reform is needed , in the people's own roads right at i home. An unnecessary and very ex- ! pensive evil has been permitted to exist . at their very doors. They have been i wasting much valuable time and horse- ' flesh in getting products to market. J Farmers are at last learning that it , costs more to haul a load to the station < a few miles away than it does to have ! it transported from the station to the ! far away seaboards. i Love of Troth. The love of truth, with the power j to prove it, gives one the courage to be i sincere.?New York News. 1 A iV'AVS CONTRASTED.^ 11 V lit. CHAPMAN'S SUNDAY SERMON. ' v a he Difference Between Our Ways, c the Ways of the World and tb# 0 Ways of Christ. e Kew York City. ? The distinguished t evangelist, the lie v. Dr. J. Wilbur Chap man^ has prepared the following sermon i for the press. It is entitled "Three Ways j af Treating a .Sinner," and was preached t from the text: "Neither do 1 condemn a thee; go, and sin no more." John 8: 11. 1 There is something exceedingly pathetic f in the beginning of this chapter where wc t read Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives, i I know the critics say that this story does l not belong to the New Testament, Lut did f you ever sec a better representation of < Christ, first, in His going out to the c Mount of Olives as He was accustomed to, t secondly, in His rising early in the morn- i ing that He might come again in touch 1 with the great throbbing mass of people so 1 much in need of His service. Thirdly, in i His sitting down and teaching, showing l that He spoke with authority. Fourth, in 1 the scorn with which lie treated the f'har- i isees as they condemned this poor, unfor- i tunate woman, when Ho said, "ile that is without sin among you let him lirst casta i ston? at h;;-," and finally in Jdi* tender i treatment of the sinner herself when He 1 said, "Neither do 1 condemn thee; go, and ! ein no more." This is all very like Him. 1 and somehow 1 cannot get jt inv mind that it belongs jus: wncre we have " ever found it, and that anything which i has so genuine a ring as this must have been given to lis by inspiration of God. i lint the pathos of the first verse comes to l us when wc connect it with the last verse of the 7th chanter of John, "And every | man went unto his own house." Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. They all had houses. His commonest accuser had a home. The people that helped Him all had lodgings somewhere, but the Son of Man had not where to lay His head. He was rich, but for our sakes lie became poor, r. homeless waudcrer, although the cat:?e on j a thousand hills were His and the very world in which lie lived had been only, as it were, His footstool. It is really touching to see Him going to the Mount of Olives. It may be that He went to lodge with a friend, possibly to sleep out in the aien air. with only the blue sky above im; perhaps lie went to pray, tor again and again do we find lliin in communion i with His Father on this mountain side, and He may have gone just to wait upon Cod that He might -have some new message from heaven or that some new direction might bo given to His life of self-sacrifice. He was always going in the direction of this mountain, and it is for this reason that Christian travelers always are ever delighted tO do the Sam; thin*. ?;;? this partin.'hr time He vaup Tr.r'y in the morning. What a worker He was. The most tireless servant the world has ever seen was our Ma iter, beginning in His childhood when He said. "Wist ye not that I must he about My Father's business," going out i:a His ministry when He declares, "I must work the works of Jlim that sent Me while it is day. fer the night Cometh when no man can work," saving as ri :.l .U? ?.?11 tr. >UIU Uil me "CII V.UIW, *?*#v ...? vw | do the wiii Him that cent Me." ami then step].!ir.to a l^at .vul pushing r * from the shore when the crowd is to.) ^Icat to make His ministry helpful, thus. using the boat for His pulpit. Iiy day and by night He toiled, in heat or in cold lie labored, with the multitudes following Him shouting hcsr.r.na, and th? tr.ob Hacking after Him. let Him be crucified. He did nothing but work. What a joy it was to Him to say -as He came up to the cross. "I have finished the work Thou gavest Me to do." How few men can say it. Most men feel as >7 they were but at , the beginning of their life's journey when they stop it. and say with regret, if I could but live my life over again I would do something worthy of note, but Jesus finished His work. I like to picture Him rising in the Mount of Olives. The scene must have been most beautiful. There is - i-j_- i?; i. **:_ ine cuy 01 uie uing tying ?i ms mj icci, j the citv He loved with passionate^ devotion. That valley yonder is thf Kidron, between Him and Jerusalem, and that stretch of hills in the distance with the peculiar haze of the Holy band upon them, looking more like a string of jewels than anything c^se, are the Mountains of Mohab. Looking off in the direction in which Jesus must have ever turned His eyes, that glistening light in the distance comes from the Dead Sea. but He cares not for beautiful scenery, although He was in love with all nature. He taught all day yesterday and He must teach to-day, so down the mountain side He goes, past the garden where ] later He is to suffer, over the Kidron. in i through the gates and He is at the temple < and takes His scab with the people throng- j ing about Hiin. The day's work is begun. i T shall never take this story out of my Table, and if others remove it I shall keep ( it ever in my heart till I see Him. I find \ in it three ways of treating a sinner. First, the world's way, which is cruel in 1 the extreme. i Second, the law's way, which is as re- i Jen Hess as death. i Third, the Saviour's treatment, which 1 presents to us a sublimcr picture than any- ' thing the world has ever scon. I. The world's treatment of a sinner. "And , early in the morning He came again into i the tempie. and all the people ca.ne unto t Him, and Tic sat down and taught them. 1 And the Scribes and Pharisees brought t unto Him a woman taken in adultery, and ) whin thev had set her in the midst they 1 sav unto Himi Master, this woman was i taken in adultery, in the very act." Verses 1 2-4. Sin is an awful thing. You do not < need to turn to the Hib'.e to understand 1 this; read the daily newspapers, keep s your eyes and ears open as you walk the 1 streets of the city; but still you may read s it in this account, wmch is almost luiju ; years old. It is a woman the mob has c taken and hurried into the presence of the J Master. You can understand how a man c could sin, but not a woman, vet if our i hearts were known how many of us. with- j out respect to sex, would stand condemned in the presence of Him who has said that anger is murder and an evil im- a lgination is sin. c The other day in a place of sinful resort k i man suddenly stood up and rapping on t the table with a revolver said. "Hear me," 1 ind when other men with frightened faces I ivould have left the room he commanded s them to stop and said. "I used to have a t aappy home, a wife and children; now look r it me. a horrible wreck, my family gone, I my situation taken from me. my friends a have forsaken me," and before they could f stop him lie had sent his soul into the v presence of his maker. This storv of a I man is of common occurrence, but I know r ilmost identically the same wretched story 1 mnccrning a woman. Satan has no respect | for sex, and since women seem to fall from r jrcater heights than men. somehow, alas, t hey seem to go to greater depths. I suppose ? that we nil of us fall because we conm to t trifle with sin. You avoid the house that s has the mark of a contagious disease upon ( a it, and yet you can scarcely read a news-' v paner but in it you will see the awful de- -1 tails of some heartbreaking scene, and be- t Fore you know it you are as familiar with 1 the circumstances as if you had lived in i. them yourself, and you place yourself in r linger of being inoculated with the virus g of a worse disease t 1 the world has ever o oen. Possibly we l.i:l all of us because we illow some sin to tarry in our hearts, and s ivith deadening influence which may be so 1 imperceptible at first it blinds our eves to ?r.r danger, and causes us to be indifferent r to every appeal made to us. When the 1 eld elm on the, Boston Common was cut c down a flattened bullet was found almost r at its heart, and men estimated as they f could well do that jhe bullet had been k * * ' ( i. f hero for 200 years, and many of us have I lowed sins to enter our hearts in the lays of our youth which have pursued us ntil old age and caused our wreck. If romen are not exempt from sin God pity he men. Hut this mob that hurried this poor roman into the presence of Jesus was not n honest company of men. I know it beatise in the seventh chapter I read they ailed Him a deceiver, while in the eighth hey addressed Him as Master and Teachx. In the sixth verse of this eighth chaper we also read that they brought this voman, tempting Him. for they wanted o catch Him on either one of these two mints, first, if He accepted Moses' law hen thev would turn the Roman citizens igainst iiim and condemn Him because ie would put another to death. If He remdiated tne law of Moses the Jewish poptlace would have been His enemies, but levertheless it is a true picture of tiie yorld. Have nothing to do with it. thereore; as you love your own souls, beware )f it. It has slain its thousands and tens >f thousands. What ruined Lot's wife? :lie world; what ruined Achan until he debated the whole camp of Israel? the vorld; what ruined Judas until he sold his very soul for greed of wealth? the vorld; what has ruined ten thousand souls that are to-day shut away from God and lope, this same old world, "And what shall t profit a man if he gain the whole world ind lose his own soul." First, the world is critical. It will find very flaw that exists in vour nature; imperfections to which your loved ones would he blind, and which you yourself were hardly aware of will be pointed out and ,-ulgarlv displayed. Sfond, is merciless. It lias positively lio for the men that fails, and while never offering to help him.over his difficulties when tlid tide is against him it laughs at his despair and mocks at his hopelessties?. Third, it is heartless. There is no forgiveness in the world. There may be soint time a disposition to overlook hut not to forgive, and this sort of forgiveness has nothing in it of a helpful nature to nooi lost, sinning humanity. You who belons to the world, may I say to you in all seriousness, don't cast a stone at a man that is a sinner for the reason that yon ire. or have been, or may lie, just what yon condemn in others. Xo one of us except we arc linked to the Son of God by faith and walking heartily in fellowship wit" Him may hope to escape from the awiu grip of Satan. Don't be unforgiving. He that cannot forgive others breaks ('own the bridge over which he must pass himself and he who is unwilling to forgive others nakes it impossible for God to forgive him; but thank God we are not shut up to the world. There is an open door before ;:s tc that which is iniinite'.y better than anything the world has ever see i. IT. The law's treatment. '"Now. Moses ir the law commanded us that such should b< roncd, but what say in t Thou?'' Verse o This statement is perfectly true, that is th< law. It w:-; rri!.: v: bv Mo?cs and writter to him ot C! >>'. 1 'ier^ a.e oa'y t*. o forcci lit opffl*a':on io-d-y :n the moral. world law and 1 hroapli cue or the othei of these forces we have submitted car selves and by one or the other we i.u.s' hope to stand before God. Dy the way o the law the t?se would seem to be hope less. Ore act of sin is sufficient to incui tlic penalty of death. It is always so wit! law; if a man takes one false step in the mountains he lands himself at the bottoir cf Ike abyss; there is r.o mercy shown bj tne law. J)r. Parkhurst gives the deserip tion of his climbing the mountains ir Switzerland with a rope around his waist held fcv two guides, one leading and the other following after hire, when he stood upon a little piece of rock not inches u'oad and looked down into the depth whii'U measures 3000 feet. If lie had oro ken the law of gravitation and stepped out from the narrow ledge nothing cou.d have saved him from a horrible death. We can quite understand this in nature; the same thing applies in morals. If you sin against your health you suffer. Law is a shrewd detective, and is ever on the watch. One wheel broken in the machinery and the whole is inefficient; one piece of a rail displaced means fearful disaster. Just one transgression of one law of God the pen titv must be paid. "He that offends in one point is guilty of all," the Scriptures declare, which simply means that the least offense of the law means a breaking away from God. I repeat my statement that there are but two forces in operation today in the moral world, law and grace, li vou have rejected Christ then your onlv hope is in the law, and I should think every man here must see that that is hopeless. First, you must stffer, for every broken law means a penalty to pay. and every transgression of God's plan brings down jpon you a burden you cannot well hear. Second, you will be found out. No man has sufficient ingenuity to cover up his sin, ind no grave has yet ever been deep enough to save the sinner from the searching eye of God. Be sure your sin will find rou out. A truer text was never written. Third, vnu must die. The wages of sin is leatli. I beg you. therefore, that you will not allow yourself to he controlled by the aw. It is like the world, merciless and heartless, and presents to you an onportnnity of escape from sin. but. thank God. rou are not shut un to it. There is a way opening lip which leads to heaven shining wighter and brighter until the perfect day. To this way I now commend vou. III. Christ's treatment of a sinner. "But lesus stooped down and with His finger vrotc on the ground, as though He heard hem not. So when they continued asking ilim, He lifted up Himself and said unto :hem, He that is without sin among you et him first cast a stone at her. And again le stooped down and wrote on the ground. \nd they which heard it, being convicted iy their own conscience, went out one by >ne, beginning at the eldest even unto the ast, and Jesu^ was left alone and the wornin standing in the midst. When Jesus had if ted up Himself, and saw none but the voman. He said unto her. Woman, where ire those thine accusers?- Hath 110 man 'ondoTinod thro? She said. No man. Lord. Vnd Jesus said unto her. Neither do I conlemn thee; go, and sin no more." From erse 6 to 11. You have a great picture resented to you in this story. First, the angry crowd. Second, the infinite Saviour. If I were in artist I should paint it. and vet no man ouid ever paint the picture of Christ. I :now of one who attemnted it and then deermined that he would never paint again, (eyause after working upon the face of Inrist no other face could be worthy of his kill. I doubt if any man could paint the rembling woman, her face now tlushed and low pale, trembling in every part of her iody, and yet you can see it all as you stop nd" think. I know why He was so mcretul. You say it was because He was diine. and that is true without saying it, iut it seems to me He must have been eslecially merciful because of the night He lad sp?nt at the Mount of Olives. I am icrfectly sure that that man who pravs nuch with Christ is ever charitable in his reatment of those who have gone astray, drs. Whittemore's treatment of Hluebird, he roor fallen girl, who become* the misionary to the our-ast; Jerrv MeAtiley's rm about S. II. Hadley and his prayer, vhich reveal to the poor sinful man that ierrv McAuley knew Christ, are but illusrations of the spirit of which 1 speak. The man who h;i3 the spirit of Christ s ever gentle with the erring, ar.d ip and down the streets of our cities men o in multitudes longing for just one word f sympathy. Said a young business man to me this veck: "I have been four years in New fork, most of the time with a heavy heart, so one has ever spoken to me of Christ, lor invited me to the church, nor asked if te could be mv friend, and I haver never raved money /from any one, for I have not iccded it. but my heart has been hungry or sympathy and the touch of a brother's and." Do you notice the manner of Jesus. I ? > I 'First, "'He stooped down and wrote fn the dust." Some one lias said thf He did it just because His mind v.as occupied with thinking what He should do with the sinner, and it was much the same spirit as you would have if vou would scribb.e dpon a piece of paper while your mind was taking in some weighty problem. Some one else h ?s suggested that in the purity of """" His nature, standing in the presence of the woman of sin. He stooped down to write because He would hide the Hushing of llis own face. That,dust that was then at His feet is gone forever; only (ion Himself could bring it back, and yet if bv miracle He shotild bring it before us to-ni'ght 1 believe 1 know w'nat> would be written thereon, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more." And I am g!c.d that we are not shut un to itie sand for a record of that truth. It is written in this hook, "liiere is. therefore. no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus." ar.d this record is eternal. "Heaven and earth shall pass, but llv word shall never pass away." Second, when He continued .with bowed head to write the crowd became exceedingly anxious, and Jinally they asked Him what He had to say about the woman who *' wa3 a sinner, and then comes one of the Grandest sentences that ever fell from His ips, and gives us all the beauty of His manhood, as well as the power of His Godhood when Ho said. "Let lie who is without sin cast the first stone." I doubt not the woman began to tremble, and she must have said to herself, "My punishment is upon me. for here are these l'harisees who have made loud professions of their purity, surely they will cast the first stone," but never a hand was lifted and never a stone was thrown, which only revcr.'s to me the fact that when men arc c-a?t with^those men who arc sinful, not oatbreakingly sinful, buc nevertheless wrong in the sight of i God, who of us could cast the first stone in this assembly to-"izht? The very fact that hands arc not lifted and stones are ffoE thrown is our own condemnation. > Thii'd. in the ninth veiso vo read, "And i they which hcahl it being convicted by* ; their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last, ; and Jesus wa3 left alone and the woman standing in the midst." That to my mind i is the most dramatic scene in all the chapi ter. if not in the New Testament. Sudi deniy the shouts of the mob arc hushed, ; they have taken their hands eff from the i trembling woman, they arc speechless in Snn of God. and with I out consultation tiiey begin to slink away. > I can sec them go, until finally the last one ? is gone and there is the hush of death upon , the two as they stand together. You can ! all but hear the throbbing of their hearts; ; you can detect the quick breathing of the > woman, who thinks that the time for sen> lence has come. Mercy and pity face each . other, and mercy waits for pity to speak. "NC'th"" uo I condemn thee; go and sin no more.'' And wc are ever to remember , three things in connection with our Sa* ! viour: ? " ' First, there is never a question as to | how deeply we have sinned; the stories of [ thp greatest sinners are to.d in the New j Testament (r,T o 'r hope. . t Second, there is power enough in the ' blood of the Son to blot out the deepest 1 sin. Though your sins be as scarlet they i shrill h: a~ white as enow; though they be j | crims./.t they shall be as woo). And the t^ird thing to remember is if . the rr.au with shi is like the sands of the , sea for number if he would feel the power, of the shed blood of the Son of God he J must by real faith and honest confession r lay hold upon Him for eternal life. His kindness lifted her burden, and the ( world is just dying to-day for the want of sympathy. 1 think the time is long past [ when men are willing in these days to j spend an hour in listening to abstract rea. soning or deep theological discussions. I feel confident that the time is upon us | when men are ready- to explain to that . church, or that minister readi* to bestow a ; word of cheer, ready to help a little in j bearing the burden bf life. A woman came with a handful of sand 1 ---? ? ?* : la to nor minister ana saia, -uv sms uvc nw [ that for number," and he said, "Take the , sand back to the sea and let a wave roll , over your handful of sand and they will be gone. To-night I bring you to the sea | greater than any the world has ever looked upon. , "Tlmre is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's vein, And sinners plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains." "Neither do I condemn thee," said Jesus when 5,11 her accusers had slipped away. We do not know what became of this woman, but I am perfectly sure that she nevei sinned again. This is the secret of victory over sin: Catch a glimpse of the face fairer than all the sons of men, listen but once to the sound of His voice, sweeter than all the music of earth. How the man that preache.? the development of character can match this matchless story I cannot see: how the man who takes the blood out of the word of God and the sacrificial part away from the death of Christ can for a moment compare his message with this story of the divine Son of God is more thao,/ I can tell. I bid all burdened ones weighed down because of sin to come into His presence to-night and you can hear Him say "Neither do I condemn thee; go and s:n no more." flie Example of Patience. The example of God's forbearance and tbc incentive of His trust he'n to nreuare us for that self-control and patient waiting which are, perhaps, the most difficult arts of living, Preachers of the strenuous life often forget that for one who dares to act there must be many who are compelled to wait and to endure. It is not the charge which commanders dread for their commands, it is the waiting'before the word to charge is given. Action relieves the tension of the nerves-and occupies the thought. The example of God's Datience is not in itself a sufficient inceiitive in our time of need. God waits because He knows. He sees the end from the beginning, and is never tempted to gather unripe fruit as . we so often are. He asks us to be sharers of His patience by the exercise of faith. We can wait because we believe. He trusts us in the partnership of work and waiting, and we renounce and have patience because we trust Him for the end He promises.?The Congregationalist. XYorlc. Work is given to men not only, nor so much, perhaps, because the world needs it. Men make work, but work makes men. An office is not a place for making money; it is a place for making men. A workshop is not a place for making machinery, for fitting engines and turning cylinders; it is a place for making souls, for fitting out honest, modest, whole natured men. For Providence cares less for winning causes than that men, whether losing or winning, should be great and true: cares nothing that reforms should drag their cause from year to year bewilderingly, but that men and nations, in carrying them out, should find there education, discipline, unselfishness aud growth in grace.?Henry Drummond. ruiut'urnn aii Aiuiune* Politeness appears to bo what gotjlness really is, and is an attitude rather than an action. Fine breeding ie not the mere learning of any code of manners any more than gracefulness is the mere learning of any kind of physical exercise. The gentleman apparently as the Christian really, looks not on his own things, but on the things of others, and the selfish person is always both un-Christian and ill-bred.?Ellen T. Fowler. A Perpetual Life* We have not divined the whole Gospel when we point to the four Gospels ana say: "It is all there." Only ip a limited sense is that true, for the life thev record is a perpetual life among men. There are volumes of it in the life of to-dA.v that are not put into print and bound up ill a book. ?Rer, J. A. Kondthaler.