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fpfliSETTD GLE1IH8S.! I jp flinor Events of the Week in a ? a Brief Form. jg State Wants a Part. A special from Columbia says: Mr. L*. J. Williams, chairman of the State board of control, will leave inside of two weeKs ior wasaington uu a ui?sion of great importance to the State ofg South Carolina. For some time past the United States government has been tapping the revenues of the State dispensary, the institution from which so much income is derived for the benefit of the common schools of this State. The constabulary is wont to seize whatever contraband lipuor that may come under their observation and it is customary to turn it over to the dispensary, which usually disposes of It by sale. For some months, however, the employees of the United States ? ~ ? V A Kaam AvrtAArl incrl V gcveruuitrui. uatc ucxu cAt,nuiufti; zealous and a large amount of liquor which is brought to the great distillery is confiscated by Uncle Sam because in many instances it has no revenue stamp upon it. or some other complication which makes it legally the property of the government. The State of South Carolina feels, however, that jBome of the revenue derived from the N^ele of contraband liquor is due her. as the constabulary seizes the liquor often at considerable cost, and it is this that Mr. Williams has gone to Washington to urge upon the authorities there. He will call upon Hon. John T. Yerkes, the commissioner of internal revenue, and discuss with him this question which so vitally affects the revenue of the State. The seizures by the government have been lately considrably over the average; during the month it is said fully two-thirds 01 tcr coniniuuuu mjuui uao 5uup wu the government. Mr. Williams will report the result of the conference to the State board and to the governor and steps will be taken in accordance with the results obtained. In case the government does not take the view that the State is entitled to any consideration from the internal revenue service the case may be placed in the courts through the attorney general. A Shocking Tragedy. Spartanburg, S. C.?Special?A fatal shooting affray occurred at the home of John Wham, six miles east of Laurins. at an early hour Thursday morning. Wham shot and killed Lafayette itamage, a neighbor, and the neighborhood is greatly excited over the affair. Several days ago Wham wrote an alleged improper note-to the fifteen-year -old daughter of Tom Simpson, a brother-in-law of Ramage, and as a result the men were momentarily exk pecting to meet and settle the difficultly. Thursday morning Ramage called at the home of Wham in order to brine about a peaceful settlement, as the latter had expressed a desire so to do The two shook hands in the presence of mutual friends, and it appeared that all would end well. However, the men renewed the trouble and Ramage fell dead, with a bullet hole in his heart from a pistol in the hands oi Wham. The dead man has a large connection and a later report has it that summary action may be taken by the relatives of the dead man. It is claimed that Wham took advantage ol Ramage after requesting him to disaim. Palmetto Gleanings. The bronze plate stolen about a yeai ago from the Spanish cannon mountec in the State house yard in Columbia has been recovered. At a meeting of the directors of thf First National Bank of Sumter it was tr> iior>inre a 33 1-3 Der cent stock dividend, increasing the capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000. The Neeley Compress company, ol Chester, has applied for a charter, the capital to be ?100,000. It is said thai the company owns a new patent foi compressing cotton. The corporator are J. N. Neeley, T. J. Cunningham, J K. Marion. Abraham Ancrum. a negro living somewhere near Springtown. is in Jail In Bamburg charged with a horrible and revolting crime. It is said that he has beaten his 14-year-old daughter tc death. The secretary of State Thursday issued a charter to the Carolina Claj Company, which will have headquarters in Columbia. The capital stock U ?50,000. Wm. Lockhart, of New York is president. Col. Williamson H. Martin, a prominent attorney of Laurens, died ir Asheville. N. C.. Friday afternoon. He was in his 52nd year, and had been ii w 1H health for the past six months. The First South Carolina Regiment of State troops will encamp in Columbia this summer, the 20th of July, and will continue in camp for a week. The people of Mecklenburg county TC. C., are protesting against the bureau of marriage kept up by 'Squin W. 0. Bailes and the feeling is suet that Gov. Heyward has been asked tc remove the notary public of upper Fori Mill township, who marric3 over 30( couples every year. Thursday in Columbia Joe Friday colored, stobbed Walter Stephenson also colored, with a knife, inflicting a wound from which the blood flowed like water and which proved fatal ic a short while. The cause of the cutting was a dispute over a game of craps Friday escaped. J ;[ PALMETTO CROP BULLETIN j Most Favorable Bulletin Issued By ; the Department This Season. """tsn? c a m Monday. I 1UO CUUlUi w v.. , July 6th had a mean temperature of about 81 degrees, which is 1 degree above the normal. The day temperatures ranged from S6 to % degrees, and the nights from 68 to 75 degrees, both very favorable for crop growth and development. There was about the usual amount of sunshine. The winds were light, and generally southerly. The relative humidity averaged above the narmal. At the beginning of the week the ! ground was thoroughly soaked by the rains at the close of the previous week, 1 Und there were light scattered showers on the 2nd and again on the last day, but the ground was generally dry 1 enough to permit cultivation after the 1 1st of July, with the exception of very 1 low lying lands, and where the rains on the 2nd were heaviest. A few local- 1 ities need rain, but generally the soil ' i- ?~n with moisture. Hail ' lft WCU OU|/|/iivu ???M that damaged tobacco fell in Horry ' county. 1 With the exception of isolated and limited lcalitiea where the ground is ] still too wet to work, the week was the ' most favorable of the season on all 1 crops, and afforded opportunity to 1 clean fields of grass and weeds, and ' give them much needed cultivation, al- i though complaints of grassy fields con- , tinue to be receiyed from all parts of the State. The warm, humid weather, and the moist condition of the soil, were conditions conducive to growth, 1 and all crops responded, except on light j soils that have been leached by the excessive rains of June, and crops that have not been properly cultivated. The f hot weather, following the heavy rain- i fall, scalded corn and cotton in parts , of Hampton county. , Old corn has about all been laid by, ' and is earing well. Young corn has a ' good color generally. On replanted bot- I torn lands, corn is coming up to gcod i stands. . Cotton continues small, and on light ! soils is yellow, but generally it has a ' better color than heretofore, and is 1 growing rapidly. Lice have about dis- j appeared. Some fields are blooming freeely, in the eastern part or tue staie, but in other parts, blooming is not yet 1 general, and many fields have not put on any squares. Clean fields are the exception. Tobacco curing is in progress in all ] sections. The crop has improved recently, except where previous heavy rains caused irreparable damage. ' Rice is not doing well generally, j Teaches and grapes are rotting extcn- , sively, and the fruit crop is less prom- ( ising than heretofore. Melons arc ' srpall and late. Minor crops, pastures and gardens are excellent. The hay crop promises to be heavy.?J. W. Bauer, i Section Director. i ! P-opie Feel Uneasy. ( Norway. Special.?John T. Phillips, the olu Confederate soldier, who was ] shot five times while at his supper ] ' table by the negro Charles Evans, 1 lynched for the crime, died here Sun- 1 day morning at 6:50 o'clock, after liav- j ing suffered mortal agony for but little less than a week. That ho lived so \ long is considered by the physician j ( of this placo but little short of a ; , miracle. Three of the wounds admin- j istered by the- negro fiend were said 1 , by the physicians tc be fatal and how I , tbe >ld man managed to live all that 1 , time has puzzled the doctors not a j - little. I Just what effect the passing away i cf Mr. Phillips will have on the al- i ; ready very much strained situation i > here it i3 difficult to say. Conserva- i tivc residents of this section have : been hoping against hope that he would live at least a few days longer, believing that if he did not die Just now the conditions here would adjust 1 themselves. Now that the end has 1 come the feeling of anxiety and un 1 easiness has increased and there arc I many persons hereabouts who wear 1 ' mors trouble. 1 The massing of the negroes at Bush > Fond yesterday and tneir open tnrcaxs i on the Huttos and other persons in this vicinity have made matters worse and the local merchants say they will regard It as exceedingly fortunate if they are able to pass safely j , through the ordeal necessarily consc , ; quent upon the old man's funeral. The ! presence of the Richland Volunteers , [ here last night and this morning, of course, acted as a forcible preventive * on any move that the negroes pro- ( posed to carry out In lieu 01 uiew i tijreats. I j It was with no little regret that the [ * 'dagers saw the troops depart and 1 they did not hesitate to say that, theJ feared additional trouble would en ' sue if Capt. Haskell withdrew his i men. Assistant Adjutant General Pal | rick, however, explained that now tha; , ' Sheriff Dukes was on the ground i! looked like a reflection on him for tlu i troops to remain as he was ostensibly ' , able to cope with the difficulty and ar i r<st the ringleaders among the no i . groes who had made the threats. } t This explanation did not exactly sat- ' } L.fy the Norway people and they ! showed their anxiety in more way? 1 than one. Assistant Adjutant Cenere! l Patrick did not think the troops would " be required on tte ground anv longer l" end as it was quite a material ex pense tc the State it was dee'dea to withdraw them. 1 , Escapes From Jatl. ( St. Louis. Specia'?Wm. Randolph, of ) Union, ?>lo? who has been confined in | the city jail for several months on the ' charge of having participated in the robbery of the bank of Union, last win' ter. and also charged with the killing : of Detective Schumacher who was at' tempting to arrest him, made a des| perate and successful escape from jail late Monday afternoon and is still at large. ... ^ TROUBLES MULTIPLY Negroes Threaten to Precipitate Rioi In Mew York THE POLICE RESERVE CALLED OUT Arrest of a Leader of a Gang Who Were Making Trouble In the Negro Quarter Resisted. IxVw York, Special.?A riot which required the reserves of three police precincts to suppress, broke out Sun day night in the negro quarter in West Sixty-second street. The trouble was precipitated by the attempt of a policeman to arrest Wm. Johnson, the loader of a gang of negroeB who were making a disturbance in the street. The policeman secured bis prisoner ifter a sharp fight and was dragging lim to the station house, when he was A3sailed by a mob and volleys of bricks and stones were hurled at him Ircm the roofs of adjacent tenements. On the arrival of 20 other policemen, Connor opened Are on a negro on a roof and shots were returned from the windows of the house. Reserves cleared the streets and chased the rioters over the roofs, making several arrests and finally restoring order. Quiet at Evansville. ^ Evansville, Ind., Special.?The town las been quiet all day and the officials bave had an opportunity to re3t up ifter a week of excitement. The negroes have remained at their homes ill day and the services at their ohurches were not well attended. Many of the negroes who left the city iuring the week are returning and by Lhe middle of the week business will be resumed in Baptist Town. The authorities will keep no extra guards this week, as they believe the excitement is at an end. It is not thought It will be necessary to guard Lee Di-Awn + r*ocrrn nrhon ho iq hrnilfht back here for trial for killing Policeman Massey. The Pope Improving. Rome, By Cable.?Pope Leo has lived to see another Sunday, and with the Sabbath quiet which fell upon Rome, came nlso peace and even progress to the Pontiff. Beginning Sunlay morning with distinct signs of improvement, he maintained this throughout the day. At night Dr. Lapponi made the following important statement in answer to the question if he thought that the improvement in the Pope's condition could continue: "I believe that if the improvement lasts until July 21, we may not perhaps achieve an absolute cure, but we will secure such a general state of health in the patient as will allay our anxiety." Storm in Baltimore. Baltimore, Special.?A severe wind and rain storm occurred here Sunday afternoon, which was particularly violent in a limited portion of Northwest R.iltimore. where within a radius of about four blocks 50 houses were unroofed, walls demolished and trees uprooted. The damage to houses and household goods is estimated at $100,)00. Twenty persons were injured, one >eriously, but none killed. The rainfall here for the day was 3.90 inches and the velocity of the wind 16 miles an hour. Cloudburst at Winchester. Winchester, Va.. Special.?Sunday afternoon the most serious cloudburst ever experienced here, broke over the city, submerging the place in from three to six feet of water. The damage will reach thousands of dollars, as every store, residence and a building in the centre of the town is several feet under water. Death of Major Brown. Beaumont, Tex.. Special.?Cap. F. Brown, of Asbury Park, N. Jr.. one of the best known operators la the Texas oil fields, died in the hospital here. He ? from WpqI Point and nno i. - ? served as civil engineer in the SpanishAmerican war, with the rank of major. He was an operator in the West Virginia oil fields and he became prominent in the Texas oil field soon after Its discovery. Storm in Nebraska. Beaver City, Special.?A terrible electrical and wind storm prevailed here Sunday afternoon, lasting for 45 minutes, in which time two and onefourth inches of rain fell. The wind blew with great violence, doing much iamage to small buildings, wind-mills and the wheat crop, which is just ready for harvest. The Union Salva tion Army of Kansas and Nebraska, now holding a camp-meeting here, suffered much loss. Nine of their tents were blown down. Commander Holland was struck by a falling tent pole find sustained a dislocation of the shoulder. Rank Wrecked By a Cashier. Newburgh. N. H., Special.?Joseph W. Cummin is in jail here on the charge of grand larceny. He was secretary, treasurer and cashier of the Cornwall Bank, and is alleged to be a defaulter to the extent of about $50.000, wrecking the bank. The State bank examiner appeared at the bank and before the examination of the books Cummin confessed that he was short in his accounts between $40,000 and $50,000. PROMINENT PEOPLE. General ;:Joe': V\*Wki: guoat of President ltoosovelt at Oyster Bay. Secretary Shaw received the degree [ of Doctor of Laws at Wesleyan University. Jaime Angles, a cooper, is the first workingman ever elected r. member of the Spanish Cortes. Mrs. Payne, wife of the PostmasterCcneral, expects to remain in Washington with her husband through the ( fticuivi i'?ui Ui auuiuit'i out1 nus bcu an invalid for many years. 1 When the will of Paul B. Du Cliaillu, African explorer, was filed, the Interesting fact was revealed that it was a disappointment in love that led the , wealthy and brilliant writer to turn explorer. As foreign representative of the St. Louis Fair, John Barrett, the newly 1 appointed Minister to Argentina, has traveled 45,000 rulles in the past 5*oar. He has interviewed fifteen kings and emperors. Sir George Williams, the founder of the first Young Men's Christian Association, is still living at the age of eighty-two in London. He was knighted in 1S04. the fiftieth anniversary of the Y. M. C. A. Ninety-five years old, the oldest living graduate of Harvard University, a grandson of the Revolution and a son of the War of 1812, is the proud record of the Rev. Joseph Warren Cross, of I^awrence, Mass. Baron Maximilian Washington died recently at Graz, seventy-four years old. He was a member of the Austrian House of Lords. He belonged to the family of Washin^tons in England and America, and his son was named George. Moses Ezekiel, the Cincinnati sculptor, now a resident of Rome, Italy, has presented to the Virginia Military In I Mi III It; U iliUUUiiit'Ul iU LUIiiUiCUiUI UL1UU | of Ills schoolmates who fell at the battle of Newmarket, Va., in 1804. He ! was formerly a student of the institution. _ .... . One Killed and Two Injured. Wasbinton, Special.?During a terrific thunder stcrm which passed over the city Sunday, lightning struck a boat house near the Potomac river, in which about a dozen men had taken ' refuge on their way home from the ! bathing beach. One man was killed ; outright, another so badly injured he j may die and still another is in the hos! pital suffering severely from the effects of the bolt. The man killed is Rover B. Smith.' white, aged 33 years, married. The seriously injured are: Charles Slaughter, colored, 20 years; may die. Planter Killed. Osceola, Ark., Special.?Arthur j Shadden, a prominent young planter, ! living about four miles south of ; Osceola, was shot and killed on his I farm at an early hour Wednesday J morning. Mr. Shadden had had trouble | with a negro in regard to an account i which he was trying to collect from j him. The negro made his escape, but the sheriff and a posse are in pursuit. ' A lynching is proDaDie n me negro J is caught News of the Day. , I Tho Charleston Lumber Co. ol Charleston. W. Va., has increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000. The schooner Ergar C. Ross cleared from Charleston, S. C., last week with 314,269 feet of lumber for Baltimore. The Acme Lumber Co. of Timberland, N. C., will remove its plant to a point near Bcnnettsville, S. C., and install some new machinery. J. W. Fisher of Newport, Tenn., has purchased 17,000 acres of timber lands in Blount county, but as yet has made no arrangements to develop the Fame. The Rock Creek Coal & Lumber Co of Rock Creek, Ky.. has been incorporated, with a capital of $50,000. by E. S. Moss, J. L. Manning, William Hayes and others. The Alpena Lumber Co. at Philiippi, W. Va., has been incorporated, with a capita! of $10,000, by J. M. Hauser, , C. Woodford, J. W. Woodford, W. G. Keys and others. Jt!.UUIL3 are UClUfi IU4UC IU uigauui; a $500,000 cotton-mill company at Jackson, Miss. It is stated that North Carolina capitalists have offered to supply half the amount of the investment provided local capital subscribe* the other half. The Gimnich Furniture Co. of Louisi ville, Ky., is about erecting a switch to connect its factory with the railroad. The Gimnich Company recently sold its old plant, and will erect a new factory to be finished in thirty days. Work has commenced on the box and crate factory at the Seago mill site, two miles north of Big Sandy, Texas, J. A. Smith, an expert machinist, is superintending the building of the plant. The Nassan County Star reports the shipments of wood products from the pert of Fernandina, Fla., for the fliscal year ending June 30, 1903, as follows: Lumber 118,543,162 feet, crossties 896,654 pieces, and cedar logs 1942. The Skylark. Bird of the wilderness, Blithesome and cumberless, Sweet be thy matin o'er moorlanfi and lea! Emblem of happiness, Blest 1b thy dwelling place? O to abide in the desert with thoe: Wild is thy lay and loud Far in the downy cloud. Love given it energy, love gave K birth! Where, on thy dewj, wing. Where art thou Journeying? Tby lay is on heaven, thy love is on ear in. O'er fell and fountain sheen, i O'er moor and mountain green. O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, i Over the cloudlet dim. Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing away! Then when the gloaming comes, i Low In the heather blooms. Sweet will thy welwcme and bed of love be! ! Emblem of happn.-ss, 1 Blest by thy dwelling place? > O to abide the desert with thee! ?James Hogg. " A SUNDAY SERMON. THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD. Broadmindedness oa the Consiatent Christian Contrasted With the World. New York City.?Dr. Henry C. Swcntr.el, rector of St. Luke's Church. Clinton avenue, near Fulton street, preached Sunday on "The Broadmindednesn of Chrisfiunifv " Mo frtnL- hia tort frnm P-tfllma cxix:9(': "Thv Commandment is exceeding broad." Dr. Swentzel said: The Son of God has called men into a J dace of liberty and has set their feet in a arge room. His example, His teachings j and His whole tone illustrate and prove His broadmindedness. No one who rightly appreciates the Gospel can well contend that it seeks to make human nature smaller and feebler than it is. or that it would lower the dignity and lessen the freedom and banish the opportunities of human life. In the broadmindedness of Jesus is one of His most notable characteristics. He lived in the open, and His every word indicates the comprehensiveness of His thinking and the perfect sanity of His conclusions. He is the broadest being who has trod this earth and He has given the broadest religion that man has known, a religion which is not racial, national or provincial, but worldwide. It is intended to inspire the most liberal ideas and to make the largest men. It is the embodiment of broadmindedness in doctrine and ideal, in itR outlook, its estimate of possibilities, and its conceptions of human destinv. Every follower of Christ should divest himself as far as possible of narrowness and pettiness in living his life and doing his work. Let him be thoughtful and honest and industrious and brave: let him be sane, broadminded in his ideas, generous in his principles and loyal in his conscience. He is not called upon to emulate the paltry disposition of the past, or to try to restore the regime of a bygone age or to clamor for the return of conditions which were well enough for a younger civilization, but which should not be installed in the iwenuecn century. neiigion is not superstition. faith is r.ot bigotry, godliness is not intolerance. We all do well to take account of the Lord's admonition concerning the use of language. He has warned us that we must answer at the last for every idle word we speak. How many idle words are used, and how massive is human guilt in this particular. Even those words which should be pronounced with reverence are mixed with frivolities. Other words which should be used always seriously and with the utmost accuracy are connected with the pronouncements of garrulous brains and flippant lips. "Breadth" is one of the i words against which people sin most often, so that earnest sou's have almost reached the point of suspecting its tenor whenever they hear it. In common parlance a "broad" Romanist is a Roman Catholic who cares little or nothing for his church or for the religion which it preaches. A "broad" Christian is a man who. though he may not have broken with Chiistianity, has no definite religious principles, no c'earlv slated rules of right and wrong, and has r.o fault to find with a propaganda, the success of which would mean not only the overthrow of faith but the ruin of society. It is supposed to be "broad" to be not too scrupulous about one's amusements. to encourage irreligion. to disregard the sanctities of Sunday. It is supposed to be "broad" to sav and to do nothing that would indicate that one has religious feelings, to put himself in the attitude of sympathy with bad things. It is oiipposed to be "broad" to upset the Bible, to cast discredit upon the church, to brand holy traditions as a rack of lies, to make the go?nel mean as little as possible, to reduce religion, not to it* lowest terms. Put to no terms at all. Thus the noble word is clothed with a sense which it ought not to have. When people tell of a "broad statement" they mean a statement which '9 susoicious. if not inaccurate. When they , refer to a "broad storv" they mean a storv which is not quite decent. Tt were well i to distinguish between a true breadth and a spurious breadth, so that we might be spafed from the ills that follow in the train of a mere catchword, and have the blessing and (be power which are imparted by the breadth of thought and sympathy which is one of the very finest marks of a son of God. From whatever standpoint iWs viewed the religion of .Testis Christ is ol"-actemed for its broadmindedness. It is to-dav the only world religion, and the church ^ooks forward to the time when all the neople of all the nations will become the Lord's i disciples. An examination of the theories or schemes which have been set' up in opposition to or rivalry with the everlasting gospel will disclose their essential narrowness. both as to ideas and life. In contrast with the notions held by those who stand aloof from Christ, how broad and strong is the platform of Christian belief! In all the world there is no creed or cone t_ i_ i - i 1:1 i ? iession wnicn is so amp e ana uoprai anu 1 comprehensive as the Nicene creed. It is great in what it says and in what it does not say, in what it defines and what it refuses to define. Its expressions and its reticence are mgnificant and impressive. In it technical terms have been reduced to a minimum, and it stands as an unfailing source of truth and aspiration which shall bless and enrich all classes of humanity until the close of the latest age. It proposes the divinity of the Trinity and the trinity of divinity, but not in the foims of phi!1 osophv. It. dec'ares the Fatherhood of God, the Sonship of Christ, the perpetual ministry of the Holy Ghost, but not in the elaborate phrases of the theologian. It upholds tne virgin birth of .Teaus, His worldwide office and His omnipotent endeavors "for us men and for our salvation," but without the glosses of a mistaken devotion. It proclaims the continuity of the church of the apostles, but without the speculations and dicta of the ecclesiologist. It announces the nearness of God's children in everv world, and the blessed ! life of endless felicity which awaits the souls that He has redeemed, but without the fancies and guesses and vagaries which ( have vainly tried to explore the hereafter. . These truths are not only re. tarkable in the manner of their statement, but also in , themselves. They are the foundation on ( which we are asked to build while we are here, and the structure of our thoughts and motives and efforts should be spacious accordingly. What an unspeakable crime it is to attack such a belief on the scpre of its al- ! leged narrowness. It presents the largest ( iitone that man has known, and it nresents them in the largest possible way. Its portrayal of Jehovah is in harmony with His divine majesty; its account of Jesus has the sweetness and reverence of the gospel according to St. John; its interpretation of the Holy Spirit is a comforting and inspiring doctrine for the needs ana sorrows and possibilities of the present; its declaration of the church marks it as a society of grace and blessing which was founded by the Lord. and. like a oeatitiful angel, it points to "the life of the world to come." | These are the dearest of all doctrines, the best and the brightest, the largest and mo3t liberal. Whatever else they are, they are not contracted or paltry, but as catholic as God and as universal as man. In- 1 deed, our religion is the only thing in the ' world that professes to desire the allegiance ' of everybody. It has the length and 1 breadth and depth and height of the love 3 of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. It does i not give us views or conjectures, but only 1 the commandment of God which is "ex- 1 ceeding broad." I The clever pettifogger can make it diffi- > cult for us to defend anything, though we 1 may be infallibly sure of its truthfulness. < The cross-examiner may succeed as far M ] to bring us to the verge of doubting tiw . : testimony ot our own senses. Even so aw doubts easily possible concerning the matters of Christian belief. It is not the par? pose of this discourse, however, to disciiw g the grounds of skepticism except in so far ' as they would impeach the breadth ot ( Christianity. Several forms of unbelief, ; or of indifference, which is in a sense tb? same thing logically, present a sorrjr spee? I lacie in me presence- ui me imuumuw ^ of the Gospel. What are the troths for ' which they stand, and how real are those troths? They talk perhaps of their intellectuality, but they should remember thai the men who are responsible for the Hi- & cene Creed were pastmasters as metaphysicians. They refer to the liberty of which they are the champions, but the liberty which they advocate is ir. essence the very doctrine of nihilists and anarch- ;2 ists in society and politics. With blare of trumpet they herald their own broad- S mindedne8s. but if they had their way, and if tusy could sweep religion from the fae* of the earth, burn ud the Bibles, dynamite the churches, it requires no propbet to foretell what a dreadful situation would ensue as the result of their havoc. The man who puts agnosticism against the creed has nothing to give this world except what would make men more narro# than they are, and would speedilv plunge them into conditions first of civilized paganises a..d a little later of rank barbarism. The j skeptic is no more an apostle of liberality than is tire anarchist an apostle cf liherty. With great regret it must be confessed that there are and have been multitude* of narrow-minded Christians. Inasmuch as human nature finds it difficult to attain unto liberality, it is not to be wondered at that so many fall short of the breadth of our holy religion. Christians have not onlv been' persecuted, but they have actually persecuted one another, because of differences of opinion. Only 100 frequently have they failed to recognize the comprehensiveness of the Gospel, and they prefer their confessions to the catholic faith and therr sects to the catholic church. It is simply impossible to apologize for them or to offer any argument in * extenuation of their grievous offenses Idonr . this line. They have restricted their God . and their Eibie and their creed, 'and have stood up stoutly to resist the largemindedness of their Lord. But this does not really affect the issue which we have L ~*i in hand. It does not at all impair our . J contention that the gospel of Christ itself ?not Protestantism or Puritanism or 'i Medievalism, but the gospel?contains the -fi broadest doctrines, the broadest ideas of God and of man and of destiny, and the broadest working principle oi thought and ^ of life. God's "commandment is exceeding . A broad" in its practical application to man a conditions. It preaches God's Fatherhood, which is a mighty foundation for Ihe in- f tellectual life, and man's brotherhood. whi^h makes the scope of moral obligation. v-i God's relation to us is most assuring, and ^ our relation to Him and to all our nroihera makes toe theatre of action and sete < ^ forth the sphere of conscience, sympathy /* and endeavor. One of the miseries of irreligion is that it despoils humanity of alt this. The heart which cares not for th? i doctrines of Christian belief is sadly im- *'? poverished and reduces this present existence to a small affair, for it has nothing to say of the higher things or of an eternity of blessedness, and nothing that avails for the enlargement of aspiration and the reinforcement of energy. Christ truly di?? covered the individual. He argued that S '3 man's soul was more important than the gain of the whole world; He came ex- ?3 pressly to 1 ft human nature out of tte ."J stnallness and to place it in an environment where the sons of God rightly belong; He -1 revealed the model which is nothing lew than the character of the King of kings. sj and called all the sons of men to a royal life; He disposed a large meaning for doties and eriefs, pleasures and possibilities; ^ He would have His people stand on the Mount of the Ascension whence they caa see the present in its perspective, snd hsre an expansive outlook for the study of them* . selves and their lives. The broadrainded , ' >? Lord has given a broadminded religion for men when thev pray and work and suffer, i and He would inspire them to rise n? to the oblications and opportunities which j wait upon them every hour in the day. . >';js How narrow is the average man! Modera conditions are not an unmixed boon to the masses. Tiiere have been many ' gains, but there have been manv lotnwalso. Amonz the losses in the world as we ; / know it to-day is the almost inevitable tendency of our way of living and oor J. methods of business to curtail the individ- ^ ual in the living of his life and the doing rof his work. More and more are the people of the workaday world hampered and \V restricted l>v the demand for specialization. J T.ie individual is being called upon to do ^ome one ta?k and to do it over and over .-main three hundred days in the year. aB of which is equivalent to shutting hiitt within confines where he can scarcely hopo to develop into his best self. Thia effect is one of the deplorable ills of the times. The rules of offices and fa^tqjics and shops which encourage erncrts is ruinous to~tMi individual who indeed learnR to do one r thing perfectly, but who is thus hindered from knowing anything else outside* of bis daily task. Then. too. the spirit of the business man that makes him ambitions and satisfied to become a man of busineaa \ and thus reduce his 'ife to the level of a mere monev-maker, is likelv to produce the same direful result. No one should willingly become a machine. In spite of the advancement which is one of the won ders of the age. the people of the United States are now face to face with a situation which soielv requires a crusade in favor of hroadmindedness?a crusade that will ex- * hort the people, in spite of discourage- i ments to the contrary, to find leisure for considering tonics and resorting to occupations in addition to those which belong .l Wn LU men nniiv ciipiautniciuo. n t muov o???ply make time for thought and reading and recreation; we mint rise to the glorious liberty of the children of God; we must insist for ourselves that the most important things are not meat and drink, but th* kingdom of God and His righteousness. . We need the broadmindedness of Jean*. We need His outlook, His doctrine, liis model of thought and life. His symmetry of character, His proportions of manhood. The Saviour of mankind would save as from pettiness and illiberality. He would have us accept God's largest estimate of ourselves. He would call us to a life which will issue at last in the heavenly land. He would fill us in mind and heart and sonl with God's commandment which is so exceeding broad. Oar Part Essential. God has a place for each one of us and * work for each one of us. God does not expect us to fill more than our own place, or to do more than our own work, but each one of us is important in his or her ova tnhere. All the offerings of the wealthy in the courts of the temple in Jerusalem^ were well in their time and amount. But^ the poor widow, who had only her two mites, should not have felt that her gift was unimportant. It seemed as if Jesus ?at watching and watting for that little of- ? ferirg, and the story of ner doing her part j has been told the world over in the centur?? n Incsnn a a n lit. icj* suae vucu, as ?* ? ?? ? ? ? ?piration. Even though our part ia bnt ft little one God, as it were, watches and waits for that. Shall it be lacking? Superiority In Confession' of Wrong. A confession of wrong may be proof of ft possession of superior ability. One who in making progress is likely to see truth > ft new light to-day, and to perceive that ho j was not right in the light which he had yesterday. Pope says truly, "A man should never be ashamed to say he has been ia the wrong, which is but saying in other words that hf is wiser to-day than he was resterday." Therefore it often require* more ability to admit having been in the wrong than to stand by the position which me maintained yesterday. Jiave you this power to grow 1 _