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CHAPTER XVIII.
BRENDA OFFERS A BRIBE A.\D A CAUTIOX.
fe^Sft^^LDEN looked In at St
fi \7/A ^"hiifred's about fl
Wl ?'cl?ck'as his custorn
before going to
^ wa-vs word where
he should dine and
V^V^VS v never gone far
from the hospital.
On this occasion he met Mr. Elmendorf
at the head of the stairs by which
one ascends from the street level within
the structure. The most unobservant
and preoccupied person could cot
have failed to note that Elmendorf was
possessed by an unusual excitement.
Alden's greeting was simply. "What's
the matter?" and the words were spoken
in great anxiety.
"Nothing?nothing at all." replied 111mrniflnr-f
"Mi?? Miller is better than
?r\
"We'll begin tilth A."
ever. She ought to be dead after what
she's been through, but she isn't. She's
fine. I assure you."
"What has she been through?" demanded
Alden, and the detective became
singularly embarrassed. He would
say nothing except that Elsie had had
a hard day.
"But I've struck u little clew in the
case," he continued, brightening. "It
looks to me like a sure thiug. But don't
tisk what It is just yet. All I want is
the names of all the doctors you know
in New York."
"All the doctors I know!" echoed Al-den
in surprise. "Isn't that rather a
large order? How am 1 going to remember
them all?"
"We shan't need absolutely all." said
the detective. "You can skip the eld
ones and the fat ones and the short
ones. In fact, I want a tall, thin, gaunt
man, and if j*ou could remember walk
ing ciown Broadway with him awhile
ago. perhaps two months"?
Alden laughed gently.
"I say, Brother Elmendorf," said he,
"you're rattled, aren't you?"
"Perhaps 1 am." the detective admitted.
"This new clew absolutely stands
' mjtcase on its head. It seems to prove
squarely and fairly that everything 1
had :igured on was not only wrong: it
was upside down. However, let us not
bo hasty. Let us think about the doctors.
I'll take a list of them."
And lie produced pencil and paper
for that purpose.
"Now," said he. "we'll begin with
A."
"Tall. thin, young doctor, whose
name begins wis!) 'A?'" said Aiden.
"I don't know any; Lut. passing to B,
there's Blair."
Elmendorf leaned back against the
wall aud put the pencil and paper into
his pockets.
"Do you mean to tell me that you
knew Dr. A. G. Blair before this case
came up?" he asked in a sort of hopeless
tone almost laughable.
".Why. certainly." replied Alden. "I'd
met him."
"You showed no sign of it over at
Mrs. Simmons'," said Elmendorf.
"Didn't 1? Well, the Lord knows
what I did there. Blair certainly bowed
to me."
"I was watching you." said Elmendorf.
"However, this simplifies matters.
You didn't know Blair well?"
"Not intimately. I'd met him several
times, and." lie added, with a smile.
"I may have walked down Broadway
with him, but 1 don't remember."
"It's only a small matter," said the
detective, with a resumption of his
usual demeanor. "I want to ask Blab
a question; that's all."
I "I'll go over with you." said Alden.
"Wait till 1 have seen Kendall."
He walked toward the doctor's room
and at the first turn of the hall encountered
Brenda.
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in toward the window.
"Brenda! Come!" he said. "The
nurse you left there has sent for me."
Brenda turned as white as paper.
"It Is 1 who let her talk and excite
herself!" she said huskily. "1 may
have killed her."
She turned and seized Elmendorfs
arm.
"One thing more." she said almost In
a whisper. "Remember my promise
and also remember this?that Elsie has
not said It was her husband who struck
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CHAPTER XIX. ]
TIIE EVIDENCE OF DR. BLAIR.
BLAIR'S office was .
f beginning to gather j
*t h/P the night shadows in <
W1 I I llyli Its comers when El- ]
VS " MM UP tnendorf entered, al- 1
If though the long June
day was still bright- '
? without. The doctor 1
was sitting on his couch, staring at the .
,, pretty pillow that Kendall had noticed. ,
i He had not troubled himself to rise as ,
he called, "Come in!" in response to the j
I detective's knock. i
"Mr. Elmendorf." said he. "good even- t
ing. sir. What can I do for you?"
"I want to ask you a few questions, *
doctor." replied Elmendorf. "Hello! 5
; Had a burglary?"
lie pointed to a desk in the corner ,
that seemed to have been broken open. f
"There was a blankbook that had s
contained a business memorandum." he f
said, "and it was locked up in that t
desk. A friend of mine was so anxious
to see it that, calling in my absence, J
he did not wait for me to return. lie \
broke the desk and got the book. But, '
unluckily for him, I lmd already re- j
I moved the paste on which the memo- t
rnndum appeared." :
"Blackmail?" queried Elmendorf.
"Something of the sort," was the re- (
piy. !
"If I can be of any assistance, let me ! 1
know," said the detective. "And now I ^
I want to talk about the case of Elsie > j
Miller. There's a little medical point"? I t
"Why don't you ask KendallV" i
"Dr. Kendall is not talkative," said t
Elmendorf. "and"? 1
"Neither am I." responded Blair. *
"However, let's hear your question."
"You remember." said Elmendorf, j
, seating himself and looking across the j ,
I table in the center of the room, his j ?
arms resting upon it. "that Miss Miller |
was stabbed in a peculiar way. There j <
was a little mark, a scar you might > j
call It, just below the collar bone on ?
! the left side"?
'The mark of what we call a 'green' J
fracture." said Blair; "that is. the bone
was broken in youth. I understand J
she fell against a sharp point of some- ]
thing while she was at play. The rib j
at that spot was permanently weaken- ;
ed and somewhat depressed afterward, i
1 but not enough to interfere with the j
lung."
"It was no disfigurement when she
wore a low cut dress, was it?" asked j
Elmendorf. 1
"Quite the coutrnry," replied Blair. 1
"It looked like a large dimple."
"An ordinary man wouldn't have 1
known what it was, eh?"
"Probably not."
"The knife couldn't have struck there
by accident," said Elmendorf. "It ,
looks to me like one of those freaks of i
j a murderer who has brooded over the
I crime in advance."
"Curious point." said Blair.
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, dorf, "and here's another. Of course
the man who stabbed her meant to kill
her."
"Certainly." i
"A thief would have struck her on
the head."
"I should think likely."
"So this was a murder case." said
EIuie:n!orf. "There was the intention
to kill. Now. why didn't the murderer
strike attain?"
"lie probably thought the wound
was fatal." responded Blair.
"That's the queer part of It." said
the detective. "I wouldn't have
thought it was fatal. Most murderers
go on stabbing: they strike half a
dozen times in a sort of frenzy. This
man was content with one blow, but
it was a good one, and if the knife
blade hadn't been bent"?
"Was it beut?" inquired Blair.
"Yes." was the reply. "And If the
assassin was one who knew the location
of the vital organs, but was at
tlie time too much excited to notice
the defect in the instrument, why,
then, that bend in the blade may have
saved her life."
I "If it is saved." added Blair.
"It was certainty savt-w iur u uujc.
said I lit- detective. "though every doctor
w!jo saw the wound immediately
pronounced it fatal. That's a point in
the esse."
"From which you conclude?what?"
said Flair, rising and taking a seat at
the table opposite KlmeildotT.
The detective did not immediately
answer the question. lie seemed to he
deep i!i thought.
"By the way." he said suddenly,
"there's another point while I remember
it. I mean that letter."
f-"Wh:tt letter?"
"The one Allien wrote and Elsie never
trot." replied ElmendotT. "The postman
really delivered it. of course,
though he won't testify positively. It
was undoubtedly put l>v the servant
under the door of the vestibule, that little
hall leading to Miss Miller's room.
It was put under that door, but not far
enough."
"Not far enough?"
"No. Somebody came along and
pulled It out. If it happened to be a
man who was in love with Miss Miller,
i the readLng of it couldn't have been
pleasant But bow did tbe man get
there?"
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TRAGEDY AT GREENVILLE
Prominent Business Man kills tha
Despoiler of His Home,
Greenville. Special.?A tragic rhooting
affair took place Saturday mc.niuc
at the Air Line station, which has created
a sensation on account of the circumstances
preceding it. Mr. D. F.
Rush, a merchant cf this city, who was
elected an a'.Jernian last year, mortally
wounded John T. Stevens, a freight
conductor on the Southern railway, at
S o'clock, shooting him at close range
through the head and also through the
neck.
The antecedent facts are that Stevens
was attentive to Rush's wife, and
i couple of months ago Rush found
him one night at his residence when it
was thought Rush was out of town.
He ordered Stc-vens out of the house,
ind also left his home the next day,
placed his brother in charge of the
store and went to California, where he
-emained several weeks, and returned
lere a week or two ago.
It is not known that Rush and Stevens
had met before since Rasn's return
tad the latter was at the station on
jusir.ess. He was about to take the
rolley car when Stevens accosted him.
ind Rush toid him that he did not
,vish to have any conversation with
lim. but Stevens persisted and Rush
igain declined to talk with Stevens,
v'no made a movement as if to draw
i pistol when Rush quickly fired upon
liin and wounded him twice as already
stated. Rush immediately left the vicility
of the station nr.d went to another
wilding, where ho was arrested soon
ifterward by Poiiceman Tucker. It is
said that Rush left the scene of the
shooting for fear that Stevens railroad
riends might do him injur)', but there
vas no evidence of such intention.
: - * T' r\f tVlfi
kihuku) ?as imui ..
ihooting and went in a carriage tc the
;tation. whore ho took charge of Rush
?nd brought him to Sheriff Gilreath's
office, from whence he was taken to
ail. Rush was advised not to do any
alking. and he has made no statement
is yet concerning the affair.
Stevens ia a native of western North
Carolina, and has been connected with
he Southern railway several years. Ho
s unmarried and about 33 years of age.
Stevens has no relatives here and
vas boarding. His mother and sister
ive in North Carolina, apd he was
heir main support. His conduct upon
naking an assult upon Rush, who trfen
o avoid any difficulty, is said to be in
seeping with the declarations made
since Rush came back from California.
iVhile Rush had said to friends at dlT"erent
times that he did not propose to
lave any difficulty with Stevens, but
tvouldf attend to his own affairs if let
ilone.
Stevens die it 7 o'clock Saturday
?vening at t' sanitarium. He had not
shown a.? ? signs lof consciousness
jince he was shot this morning.
,r>u- <->f tho rommunity is
JUC ojuniaiuj v/?
ivith Rush, who narrowly escaped with
lis life, as Stevens was armed with a
14-calibre weapon, and only the fact
that the pistol caught in his pocket as
le attempted to draw it kept Rush
from being the victim of the encounter.
Stevens' pistol was found lying by his
side on the ground.
Negro KHIs His Captor.
Greenville. Special.?Another killing
took place Saturday afternoon Jn
the suburbs of the city, and the victim
ivas Samuel Willimon, a white man.
who was fatally shot by a negro whose
name is unknown. The negro was a
stranger in the neighborhood, and he
broke into a dwelling this morning.
When he was pursued by a party of
white men. including Willimon. who
arrested him and was bringing him to
the city. Accounts differ as to what
took place on the road, and as there
were no eye witnesses the facts may
never be known with certainty. One
story Is that Williraon, in cnargs 01
the negro, allowed him to walk along
the road with him and when near the
eity the negro drew his pistol and shot
Willimon. who died almost instantly.
The other statements that the negro
was not armed, that his hands were
tied and that he knocked Willimon
down and then took his pistol and
killed him, which does not seem probable.
Sheriff Gilreath received the information
by 'phone from the vicinity
of the killing and started at once with
a* posse to catch the negro. Willimon
lived about three miles from the city
and leaves a wife and several children.
He was about 50 years of age.
President Waters Resigns.
Baltimore, Special.?At a directors'
meeting of the Atlantic Coast Line
Company, of Connecticut the parent
company of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad, the resignation of President
Henry Waters was received and ac
cepted, and warren u. cnnuu ?aa
elected president to succeed him
Michael Jenkins, of this city, was
elected a director and Rk D. Cronly,
secretary.
The Rice Lands Surveyed
Austin, Tex., Special?Information
from Marble Falls, Burnett coun.y,
Texas, is to the effect that aside from
the Patrick trial, probably no item in
connection with the immense estate o!
the late millionaire, W'm. Marsh Rice,
has created more.interest than the recent
report of the official survey of the
Rice league of land lying to the south
of Marble Falls, and bordering on thr
Colorado river. This survey widens th(
aupposed bounds of the league to ar
enormous extent and takes in supposed
holdings of others. It is the conflict o!
claims now imminent that portends the
most interesting and important phase
of the niatt?r.
Accused of Embezzlement.
Alexandria, Special.?George W
Dix, a letter carrier, late treasurer ol
the Osceola Tribe of Red Men. was
arrested charged with embezzlint
money from the tribe. He will have i
hearing tomorrow. The tribe thi:
morning sent to the Corporation Cour
for record a certificate of a change 11
trustees. The tribe has appointee
Policeman R. F. Bettis and *W. 1
Ferguson trustees, vice George 7/
Dix and S. Cuveller, Jr.
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A . ..
THANKSGIVING SERMON'
DR. CHAPMAN UTTERS A MESSACE
APPROPRIATE TO THE DAY.
ATltnclj* Discourse Kntltleri "Three MeetIn^ii
of the Saviour"? Kendtr Thanks
to Gurt Tor the Greatest of Gifts. His
| Son, Jesus t'hrl?t.
i Neat Yor.K Citv.?The Tor. Dr. J. Wil*
i bur Chapman, v. ho lias recently resigned
i the pastorate of the hour to Presbyterian
i Church in this city in order to devoce him|
self to evangelistic work, has prepared the
' following Thanksgiving sermon for the
I jCess. it is entitled "Three Meetings of
the Saviour," and is founded on the text.
"Evening, and morning, and at noon, will
I pray." Psalm 55: 17.
It is quite the custom on Thanksgiving
Day to render thanks and praise unto Goa
for material gifts and materia! prosperity,
i We are accustomed to measure the harvests
and to try to count out earthly blessings,
and then make an effort to put into
language some adequate expression of our
appreciation of God's gooaness. I leave
this task to other ministers, while I in
their name and behalf express my grateful
thanks to God for the greatest ot all gifts,
namely. His Son. Jesus Christ, and it is
my hopa that I may present Him in such
a way in this message that ail inav see that
it is their privilege :o come in closest fellowship
with Him. With this thought in
mind I use the text. "Evening, and at
morning, and at noon, will I pray." The
I I'salmis; determines to nray rranucntiy, at
I least three times he will be on nig knees;
he determines to pray fervently, for be will
cry aloud unto God. The text does not
run as we would like it to, for we always
reverse the order and say at morning, at
noon, and at evonine, but the Hebrews be:
can the day with the evening and closed
J it with noon. We always begin it with the
i morning, and one dav we shall reach a
morning which shall never end. The
Psalmist means that he will pray more
than three times. He is simply saying that
he will begin and continue and end the
day with God. He takes the natural division
of the day and at each point lie determines
to set up an altar. Mr. Spurgeon
says he lays a line straight through the day
and tracks the sun with his petitions. It
used to be said in olden times that we
I should pray three times at least, at evening,
because Christ was on the cross, in
the morning because He rose from the
dead, and at noon because then He ascended.
If our bodies need nourishing three
times, why not our souls? We have frequent
Old Testament illustrations of this
habit, notably Daniel. "Now. when Daniel
knew that the writing was signed be went
into his house, and, his windows being
open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he
kneeled upon his knee3 three times a day
and praved, and gave thanks before his
God as he did aforetime." Daniel 6: 10.
We have the early members of the churcli
in the New Testament presenting us an example.
and if we studv the Acts of the
Apostles we find the disciples many times
in prayer. but always morning, noon and
night. For Jesus to be with us is one
thing, and we are all the time in His
thought; He has promised never to leave
us and never to forsake us, but for us to
be with Him in our contemplation is quite
another thine, and it is that we may learn
this lesson that I speak the words of the
text. The result of this fellowship will be
cause for thanksgiving. These three times
are suggested because the morning is the
time of feasting, the noon is the time of
questioning or resting, while the evening
is the time for the settling of accounts,
and T have chanced the order of the text
for the reason that we are living in the
new dispensation.
I.
The morning. "But when the morning
was come." John 21: 4. John's gospel
might properly have closed with the 20th
chapter. The 31st verse of that chapter is
most significant and gives the object and
aim of the gospel. "But these are written,
that ye might believe that Jesus is the
Christ, the bon of God, and that believing
ye might have life through His name,
llut John adds this 21st chapter because
he gives us another beautiful picture of the
Lord, and records the only miracle worked
after the resurrection. May this not be
typical and did we but live in touch with
our Lord might it not be possible in these
i days to have tilled nets and a multitude
about us of the saved.
The disciples had returned to their
homes in Galilee after the events rnen1
tioned in the previous chapter. They were
probably in tne house of Zebedce. They
were doubtless talking of the past. They
might have called to mind their first meeting
with the Saviour and dwelt lovingly
on the glory of His life. They might have
spoken in whispers of the disappointment
j of His death, and then with shining faces
I have recalled the account of His resurrecj
tion and His personal appearing to them.
| Doubtless Peter was of the company once
J again. They are back amid the familiar
j scenes of their old life; the boats are lying
I VioinVi fVio fiati^rmon nrp mendint?
their nets and these seven, five of whom
are named and two unnamed, doubtless
stand together. There is a boat pushing
out from the shore, and the women are
, wishing their husbands and bovs good
speed, while the men answer with words
>f cheer. Fishing is always fascinating,
vnd so I can imagine Peter with flashing
1 ye and twitching nerves and quick beat,ng
heart looking about the busy scene un
vil he can stand it no longer, and then he
, says, "I go a-fishing." Instantlv they are
all ready to go and they push off from the
shore. It is a most beautiful sea in itself,
and as their oars flashed in the light of
1 the setting sun as they ate away to the
old scenes of other days, the vision is fascinating.
But it really was a perilous position,
for though the sea is always treacherous,
the boat might have been old, and
here are these representative leaders of
the cause of Christ. What if they had
been lost in the night? The same question
might be asked concerning Moses when a
child in the ark. What if one rf the waves
of the Nile should submerge the little ark
1 or the crocodile should crunch it? But such
questions are idle and useless. Moses is
not safer to-day than then, and so these
early disciples were safe, because their
hope was centred upon One whose eyes
are ever upon His own by night. They
toiled and took nothing. Every old device
was used to charm the fish, but every
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the tug of it that they had failed. As the
light is breaking thcv arc about 100 yards
' from the shore. They hear a voice saying,
"Lads, have ye any meat?" and they answer
"No." "Cast the net on the right
side," says the stranger, and 153 fish was
! the result of obedience. The disciples
i shout. "It is the Lord." and Peter, jumnirg
into the waves swims ashore, and in
obedience to the command of the Master.
1 "Come and dine." they all sit with Him
l about the fire and ate. May I suggest sevI
eral daily lessons for the morning hour?
[ Fir?t, Jesus stood upon the shore and
, they knew not that it was Jesus. He is always
nearer than we think, and He has
been waiting every morning since that day
to begin the day with His own diseirdes.
You must begin ever.v day with Him.
therefore, if you would have a day of
peace.
"I have a Friend so precious,
I So very dear to me,
: He loves me with such tender love,
He loves so faithfully,
I could not live apart from Him,
i I love to feel Him nigh;
And so we dwell together,
My Lord ard I."
There is such a thin^ as being too busy
: to see Jesus. "Be stih, and know that I
1 am God," is the message for many of us,
while that line in the 23a Psalm. "He
makes me to lie down in green pastures.
He leadeth me beside the still waters."
I must never be forgotten. We must be
quiet first, active afterward.
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Second, He is the secret of power always, i
Contrast verses 3 and 6. The first one '
says "that night they caught nbthing." i
The second one says, '"'now they were not 1
able to draw it for the multitude of
fishes." They had the same net3 and the i
same fishermen and the same sea and the
same difficulties to contend with. Jesus
made th? difference by adding His own
power. How many times we have toiled.
How often we have grown weary. How
many days we have failed all because the
effort was in our own strength. Never begin
a day until you strike step with Him
and clasp His hand in yours; then nothing
can overthrow you.
Third, as soon as they were come to
land they 6aw a fire of coals. This is the
Oth verse. There is only one other place
where this expression is used, and that is
in the ISth verse of the 18th chapter oi
John, the place of Peter's denial. The
first thing that Peter saw was doubtless
this fire of coals after his vision of the
Saviour. Fow the story of his denial
must have flashed across his mind* It is
better for us not to begin a day until we
have csk^d Christ to snow us where we
failed yesterday. He will do it. not with a
fire of coals always, but with the touch of
His fincer. For a Christian to fail at the
same place two days in succession is an
awful sin.
Fourth., Just as He made a feast for
those disciples in the early morning so He
makes a feast for us every morning of our
lives. He spreads the table with His own
purity. How that will helo us m the presence
of all that is impure. He displays
His own gentleness. How that will
strengthen us in the time when we arc In
ble to be irritable. He sets before us His
own love. How that" will enable us to
'ove *he things that we might, naturally
hate, and in our presence He roakc.s display
of His own power. How that will encourage
us in the hour of temptation. I like
th? close of the 21st ehapter of John, the
?3th verse. "And there are also many
other things which Jesus did. the which,
if they should be written every one. T suppose
that even the world it?elf could not
contain the hooks that ?hould be written.
Amen." Doubtless many miracles were
wrought beside the mirr.c e or tnc cnanemg
I of water into wine and other parables
sweeter than the Prodigal Son and the
Lost Sheep He spok? and we never heard
of them. There is mam* a moraine when
we shall talk of these things with Him.
If you turn to Genesis, the first chapter,
you will notice that the first six days of
creation have both an evening and a morning.
while the seventh day has a morning
but no evening. It is typical of that day
which shall be ushered in by the resurrection
morning when we shall have eternity
with Christ and go out from His presence
no more forever, and we shall talk
of these things.
IT.
Noon. "Jesu9, therefore, being wearied
with His journey sat thus on the well, and
it was about the sixth hour." John 4: 6.
It is high noon. The husbandman rests
from his labors; the cattle seek the
shadow of the rocks; the birds have
stopped their song. Even Jesus Himself
is weary. He has left Jerusalem because
He has been surrounded by the wrong
kind of a crowd, and under the impulse
of the Spirit He must needs go through
Samaria. The disciples are awav and He
sits alone upon the well curb. Beyond all
question the story of the giving of Jacob's
well is in His mind, and as He looks out
toward Ebal and Gerizim He has the vision
of the crowds listening to the blessing and
cursing of the servant of God, when suddenly
as He looks there comes a woman
on the scene hearing upon her head a
water pitcher. The people of the East
know good water, and for this reason she
has often dipped her water pitcher, not in
the running streams, but comes to Jacob's
well, where the water is most refreshing.
It is not night, as when Nicodemus came,
but the sun has reached the meridian. I
always have thought that this was a Deautiful
picture of our meeting with the Saviour
for the purpose of solving our difficulties.
Who of us has not had them?
From 8 to 12 o'clock in the morning, when
we have said. "Vv'hv have I met this
temptation and had thai; trial, and been
face to face with this problem?"
"A little talk with Jesus,
How it smooths the rugged road;
How it seems to help me onward,
When I faint beneath my load;
When my heart is crushed with sorrow,
And my eyes with tears are dim.
There is naught can yield me comfort,
Like a little talk with Him."
Will you note the following points:
Jesus said, "Give Me to drink." He always
speaks first. Genesis 3: 9, "And the Lord
God called upon Adam, and said unto
him. Where art thou?" gives us a picture
of God, and all through the Old Testament
and New His word is sooken first
to the sinner and to the wandering one.
Whatever may be your own desire for
blessing His is greater than yours. We
always think of Him giving to us. Indeed,
His was a life of giving, but is it not wonderful
that we may give to Him? The
woman gave the annointment and Jesus
said, "Wherever the gospel is preached
shall ho told as a memorial." Paul
writes to Titus, "Adorn the doctrine of
the gospel to-day." and he^ sends his message
to the Corinthians. "We are unto God
a sweet savour of Christ." by which he
means that we will remind God of Christ.
First, never let a noon pass that you do
not make Him an offer. Best of all, offer
Him yourself.
Second. "If thou knewest the gift of
God?thou wouldest have asked." It is
because we do not know the Sjtviour that
we have failed to ask of Him: according to
the measure of our knowledge we will have
asked, and He is pledged to give us living
water in contrast to what the world offers.
Do not let a noon hour pass that
you do not tell Him every annoyance of
the moraine. Nothing is too trifling for
Him. and He will give to you just that
blessing which will ever stay the weakness
of your life.
"I tell Him all my sorrows,
I tell Him all my joys,
I tell Him all that pleases me,
I tell Him what annoys;
He tells me what I ought to do.
He tells me what to try;
And so we walk together,
My Lord and I."
Then take a deep drink of living water
and it will be in you a well of living water
springing up.
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shining light that shineth more and
more.' This is a picture of the way we
should walk. "He that doeth the will of
God shall know." This is Christ's challenge
to those who are in difficulty. And
as He sat thus on the well curb He said
to the woman, "(lo call thy husband," as
much as to say "How about your own life,"
and He puts this sharp, cutting question
to her, which opens up the secret of all her
past life and brings her face to face with
ner sin, for she has no husband. She was
a sinner of the deepest dye. Just remember
when you stop at the neon hour to
meet with Jesus that sin must be uncovered.
"He that covereth his sin shall not
prosper." It must be confessed. "Whosoever
confesses his sin God will receive
him," and it must be forsaken', for "whosoever
forsaketh his transgression shall
find mercy." Then there is victory, and
the story of this woman running back to
her city to tell all the city of the marvelous
works of Jesus wUl be a picture of
i your own life and mine.
III.
Evening. "Then the same day at evening?came
Jean* and stood in the midst of
them." John 20: 19. What a wonderful
day that was, for-this evening mentioned
is the evening of the dav which began
with the resurrection of Jesus. This is
the first meeting of the disciples after
they had heard the story, and the door is
shut for fear of the Jews. It is not necessary
that I sliouid describe the empty
tomb nor the shining face of Mary as she
told of her meeting with Him, nor yet
again to speak of Christ's special meeting
ivith Peter, to meet him in spite of hia denial,
but only that ye should see this wonderful
Saviour like the Jesus of olden
times, and that only while Ue eats and
drinks with them, yet He can pass through
the door while the door is yet shut.
Note first that it was at the evening.
This is the time for the squaring of accounts.
Mo man ought to close his eyes
in sleep until he has gone over every hour
of the dav, made note of every inconsistency,
nncl presented it all to the great
High Priest, who waits to make intercession
for us. Note second that the door
was shut. Alas, there arc many things
that have closed the door of our hearts,
and the diterer.ce between the_ heart's
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Jesus cauie into that roan of His owu
will. hie will iioc come into our lives
against our wills. There are certain things
that close the door of the heart. First, inconsistency.
Let no man think that he
can be an inconsistent Christian ayd'walk
in fellowship with Christ.
Second, selfishness. Let no one imagine
that he can put self on the throne and
have Christ rule in His being.
Third, an unforgiving spirit. "Tender
hearted, forgiving one another even as Cod
for Christ's sake has forgiven you." is
the spirit that should control us. Throw
open the door this evening hour and let
the light of the Son of Goa come in, and
He will say to you "Feace," and in the
very saying of it there is rest.
Fourth, He showed them His hands and
His side. That gives a hint as to His
atonement and what He means, for our
Saviour saves us not only from the penalty
of sin but from the power of sin, from
the penalty when He died upon the cross,
from the power as He sits to-day on God's
right hand with bared side and outstretching
hand?. Let the evening hour be the
time when you meet Him. Mr. Meyer
gives an illustration or the mother who
goes about the room at night gathering up
the playthings of her children, putting
away their books and clothing and saying,
"I always straighten up the room at night
after they are asleep, and this is wuat
Jesus does for us. lie straightens un the
affairs of the day if we will but let Him.
Fifth. "As the Father has sent Me even
so send I you." This is what Jesus said
/? /SlorMrJrz Wp must realize that we
have a divine commission to work, and
we must also realize that we have a divine
promise of strength. I like the illustration
used by the Rev. F. B. Meyer of the old /
artist who toiled away during the day
upon his model and finished it at night
as he supposed, but there were the marks
of imperfection, because his hand had lost
its cunning, but when he has gone from
Ids work his son, a real artist, takes away
the marks of old age and makes the moda
as it should be, and the old artist come*
in the morning to look at it and say,
"Why. I can work as well as ever I did,"
and this is but a picture of what Christ
will do if we will but yield ourselves to
Him.
Sixth. "And He breathed upon them."
He will come as near to us as that, and
as the breath of God made Adam a living
soul and His breathing upon the disciples
sent them forth to conquer, so His breathing
upon us will change our lives if we
will but breathe in of what He breathes
out. and we shall have power in proportion
as we do it. For all that will come
to us as the result of a three-fold experience
I am most devoutly thankful.
Spear Points.
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
Circumstances may change, but God
never does.
The breadth of Christianity depends on
its depth.
God puts consolation only where He has
first put pain.
Early athletics will not suffice for the
heavenly race.
In this life there is bnt one sure happiness?to
live for others.
Expect God to help you when-you have
prayed for His assistance.
True greatness is ability to serve coupled
with a meek and quiet spirit.
When the Lord is in our hearts His hand
will be seen in our works.
Never take your eye off the cross, as all
the lines of salvation centre there.
Poverty of possessions need not be discreditable;
poverty of life always is.
A thousand times better are the men
who do than the weaklings who only know.
The loving judgments of friends are
harder to bear than the harsh ones of foes.
All God's providences are but His
touches of the strings of the great instrument
of the world.
When you step up on one promise yon
will always find a higher and a better one
before you.
The self-centred life comes to nought;
the Christ-centred life ever continues in
enlargement.
There are some lessons which can only^
be learned in the garden, and beneath the
shadow of the cross.?The Kam a norn.
Sitting Still.
To the best comes the time when theii
very good is evil spoken of. It takes good*
ness to understand goodness. The pure* in
heart see God, and only such can recognize
the life of God when manifested in the ,
saints. Few trials are more keen than the
misrepresentation of goodness. An evil
motive imputed to a saintly deed \s as the
sting of a serpent. The clouds of defamation
lower at some time over everv saintly
heart. The life of the saint is hidden ana
cannot be understood by the worldling.
"Sitting still" is the only possibility. Time
exerts a remedial influence, and such remedy
that it cannot exert the One to whom
the saints are dead will. He will bring out
our goodness as the light and our righteousness
as the noonday.?Episcopal K?>
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Work Makes Men. _____
Work is given to men not only, nor so
much, perhaps, because the _world_ needs it.
Men make work, but worn 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 malting machinery, for
fitting engines and turning cylinders; it is *
a place for making souls; for fitting in the
virtues to one's life; for turning 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
and growth in grace.?Henry Drum'mond.
The Way to the Cross.
None of us can tell for what God is educating
us. Wc fret ana murmur at the
narrow sound and daily task of ordinary
life, not realizing that it is only thus that
we can be prepared for the high and holy
office which awaits us. We must descend
before we can ascend. We must take the
way of the cross submissively and patiently
if we would tread the way of light. We
must endure the polishing if we would be
shafts in the ouiver of Emmanual. God't
will comes to thee and me in daily circumstance?.
in little things usually as in great;
meet them oraveiy; De ai your Desi always,
though the occasion be one of the
very least; dignify the smallest summon
l>v the greatness of your response.?F. B.
Meyer.
A World Beautiful.
Don't crowd your world with hate, an
ger. envy, regrets, fears, disorder, discord
and inharmony. Every second brighten
your world with love and joy and peace
and hope. Every minute eipand voui
world by unfolding yourself. Every hour
open your eves wider to the grand and
beautiful sights in yonr world; open your
ears to the delightful and inspiring strains
of divine music which comes of love, brotherhood,
tenderness, kindness, gentleness,
cheerfulness and conteutment. Then
from hour to hour, day by day, year by
year your world will become more beauto- J
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