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^iol^ehht Copyright l*>6, by Rfl CHAPTER XII. Contiuued. *T am Sir Thomas Roe. representative in this country of Kins -Tames of England. Your passports and your letter of introduction accidentally came into my hands last night, and you may thank (Tod that it was so, for had it fallen out otherwise it is impossible to ay what might have become of you. The causes which have produced your recent experiences are quite clear to roe. You have not been so unfortunate as in the circumstances misrhi have been expected. Rut before I explain further, console yourself with the knowledge that your ten chests of equins are quite safe, and so is your jtfrdle, your passports and your English monev. and that vou are free to v lake them when and where you choose. Know then that we are in the secorfd week of September, and that less'than five months ago Constantinople was the jwene of a bloody revolution. The Janissaries, incensed by deferred payments, broke through all restraints of * authority on learning that Sultan Othmnn contemplated a pilgrimage to llecra. the expense of which they conceived boded ill for the satisfaction of their claims. This turbulent and powerful military body broke down the enter gates of the Seraglio, and with angry demonstrations demanded the heads of the Sultan's Ministers who had advised the sacred journey. For the moment the discontent of the Janlaaarlcs was appeased with fair word*, hut the Government was in a bad way. with an incompetent Sultan, dire lack ?f money, and but feeble support of any sort it was necessary that some igorous measures should be adopted. The Flema mot secretly and resolved to depose Sultan Othman. who was aoon afterward decoyed into one of he seven towers which compose this tralhling, where he was strangled by an ex-vizier assisted Dy ruree pasnas. Tbis step, while it effectually disposed of the pilgrimage tpiestion. raised other questions vastly more momentous to the State. Musraphn. who was ?finnan's predecessor, and had him eK .been deposed, is again installed ?ultan, though he cannot, I think, hold feia high office for long his conduct being thrA of a lunatic. The treasury being aWosf empty, and money' urgently needed, the Admiral Pasha was instructed to make reprisals ou Venetian vessels for indignities inflicted on the faithful by Venetian traders at Rhodes and Cyprus. There have been no complaints to the Porte of any sncb indignities?for the reason, as I 4l?n* ?a onr?V* in/lt'trnitSau Ko vn I iiu I UU cu\ u .uui^iuuvc ua v been committed, but the Admiral Tasba understood his orders in the spirit in which they were issued, and hence the capture of the Venetian frigatoon in which you came hither. ^ It was seen tlirtt you were not of the Italian race, and you and your effects were set aside for special consideration-a consideration delayed by the turbulence of the times, which engrosses the attention of all the officers of State. It was last night when the slrard Vizier put your EnTlisli papers into my hands for interrelation. I perceived within a little what had oc curred, and exercised such power as I have for your benefit. Your property, uninjured and complete, is at my hoctse. and there H is that I would adv ul?r you to come and stay for the pres' ?at. With regard to the captain who has your Ting i could hy my word cause his heao to be brought to you at once on a dish, hut you have not been in Turkey long enough to be indiffer?st In the ?ight. and indeed bis fault scarce merits the penalty." No words can adequately express the _ transports of joy with which I drauk to the generous declaration of Sir Tboiras Ron. When I was a school- I boy at St. Edmund's Bury I saw a I thief standing on a gallows, his arms bound and his neck in a noose, with the hangman at his side ready to turn trim off, but the king's pardon at that Moment arriving, the halter was re Boved from his neck, his arms unturned, and he was led back to prison. Nothing can efface front uiy memory the expression of that man's face while the king's pardon was being read out tc him. and 1 think I must have feTt somewhat as the Suffolk robber felt on that occasion. My thanks, however briefly expressed, were very fervent, and I felt faint with pleasurable xciicmeDT when Sir Thomas rose to Jea.'e and hade me accompany him. The two young Turks who had guarded nte threw wide the door to allow of our departure, and bowed to my protector so humbly that their foreheads touched the carpet. I would have re ?'!?. * 'am tV?r\ Mnillr .pnotinon: (iKlll 1U. ? Ul I?vu..^v?. I had received at their hands, hut I kad nothing wherewith to do so. and the opportunity passed. After descending a great number of ttteps and threading our way through some pared courts not much unlike the ccrurjjards of au English castle, my firnYeetor and I at last reached a public siree', where awaited us six nejgrnes witi) two tine horses. Sir Thomas autl 1 having mounted the horses they were led by two negroes, with a negro walking on either side of each rider. And In this manner we proceeded to JPera, where Sir Thomas Roe's house -was situate. Our progress through A. K1-. iret ilBaflR * "V Jiootl." ^=- ! byJ 'ALTER BLOOMFIELD ibeiit B?ser.'9 Sons. narrow* streets tilled with n motley' crowd of petty chapmen strangely appareled. all pressing closely to get a view of mo. was very slow, but I j would not. if I could liavo hastened it. for the sense of liberty, the curious scene, aud the conversation of Sir Iioe were delightful to nie. Of Anita aud her maid Sir Thomas could unfortunately tell me nothing. The usual course, he said, with female captives was to submit them to the ; Mistress of the Harem for exaroiua; tion. and if, in the judgment of that lady they were sufficiently young and beautiful they were received into His Majesty's harem, while such as failed to present the necessary youtlifulness and beauty were sent to the slave market and sold. He promised to institute an inquiry concerning them that same day. but warned me that he was unable to afford them any protection in whatever circumstances they might be placed, as they were neither of them English subjects. The house of Sir Thomas Roe was large, square and low. with wide verandas on every side. It was in the middle of a garden on tne side ot a hill, and overlooked the sea. The demesne tvas surrounded by a thick wall so high that the house could scarce be seen from the outside. We were no sooner entered within the gates than a swarm of slaves crowded about us. and our jaded horses were half led, half pulled, toward the house. I was about to dismount when a stalwart negro threw himself upon the ground right in my way. his legs and arms doubled under him in curious fashion, and the surface of his back presented upward. Hesitating for a moment, in doubt what this might mean. I noticed another slave behave in a similar manner in front of my companion, who proceeded at once to dismount, using his slave as we In England use a stepping stone. I copied his example, but with an ill grace for Sir Thomas smilingly observed. "I perceive by many signs that you are newly arrived in Turkey." As soon as we l?ad refreshed ourselves with sherbet and fruits. Sir Thomas Itoe himself couducted me to a room, where I saw. standiug one | upon other on the floor, the ten black I chests, each bearing my name, apparently in the same state as when I last I saw them in my cabin aboard the Orio I Malipietro. and there also was my girdle full of money, my papers, and the pistols which Signor Siinona had given me.* "Mr. Trueman." said my host, "if the contents of your chests had been kuown to your captors. 1 fear notiiing I could have done would have saved them from confiscation. As it Avas. my knowledge of you was acquired barely in time to help you. for the public disturbances having now subsided, your effects would soon have been examined, with what resuli you may guess. On learning that your usage was the best which the I'orte allows to any prisoner I thought it prudent to make your property my first care, and accordingly obtained la%t night an order from the Grand Vizier that it should be placed in my charge, and behold it before you as I received it. Examine it all carefully at your leisure, for I must now to Seraglio, where I will inquire concerning the two Veuetian ladles, your fellow pasi sengers. and of the Venetian merchant whose sequis you say these are. Meanwhile you must consider my house and servants as your own." At these words my noble benefactor left me. and I proceeded to carefully seruti; nize each chest. None of them had been tampered with in any way; they | were all of the proper weight, and the resinous black paint with which each was covered had scarce received a scratch. My money, too. was equally safe and correct, nine hundred and forty-four pounds, all told, showing that mv fXDenditure since I left Eng land had amounted to no more than lifty-six pounds. After an absence of several hours Sir Thomas Roe returned, and I perceived at once from his countenance that he bore no good news. "The two Venetian ladies," said he. "you are not likely to see again. I have spoken with the thief eunuch, who has conferred with the Mistress of the Harem. and I learn that both ladies were rejected as unworthy of the Sultan, and sent to the slave market for sale. ! I have been to the slave market, and j talked with the merchants there, and { ani told by them that the younger of , the two ladies was bought by an old merchant from Aleppo for two hundred sequins, but that she protested in dumb show so pathetically against being parted from her mistress, the ' only human being near with wnom she was able to speak, that her new owner bought the other lady also for seventy-five sequins, to be the servant of his first purchase, and thus, both as slaves, and with their respective posi, tions reversed, they have been carried away to Aieppo." Poor Anita! I was too dazed by contemplation of her miserable and j ? .graded fate to offer any remark. Sir Thomas Roe continued: "Signor Mario Battista Is dead: he ! was killed a full month before yon j came to Constantinople. He had amassed a large fortune by trade, and being a shrewd, clever man he liberally feed an influential pasha, from whom he received in return intelligence of State matters. In this way the unfortunate Battista learned in advance of the Porte's alleged grievance against the Venetians, and correctly estimating the incident he closed his affairs here with as much secrecy and despatch as he could, and. accompanied by his wife and his two sons, embarked one night aboard a vessel he had purchased, taking with him ! an immense treasure of money and [ jewels. But his flight was noticed almost at once, and his means of in' formation ascertained. His friend, the I pasha, -was bow-strung, Battista's ship overtaken and sunk with all aboard before it had go: out of the Bosphorus, and the treasure brought hack and placed in the imperial treasury, where it now is." This horrible narrative dumbfounded me. and I resolved to get without the i dominions cf the Grand Turk as soon as conveniently might be. Apprehending that I should experience some difficulty in reaching Venice (for I designed to return to that city). I questioned Sir Thomas Boo as to the degree of safety enjoyed by Englishmen in Turkey, and in particular desired him to tell me how it came about that his representations were more regarded than the representations made by ambassadors from other countries, which appeared very plainly the case. "The Turks." said Sir Thomas Roe. "have respected England since 15S8. In 15S7 England humiliated herself by asking these people to aid her in repelling invasion. The Turk, who is nothing if not selfish, of course refused. and Elizabeth's envoys succeeded only in impressing the Porte with an idea of England's iinpotency. But when in l."?.S8 England single-handed scattered and destroyed the whole might of Spain, it was noted here, as indeed it was throughout the world, that the islanders of Northern Europe are not only keen in trade, but quick to avenge and formidable in fight, accustomed withal to speak the truth and stand for thei" rights against whatever odds. Your Turk. I say. noted these things, and the benefit to Englishmen has been that to this day their ships ride in the Bosphorus as securely as in their own narrow seas. That it is not so with the ships of weaker States you yourself can witness." For many days I continued to reside iu the house of Sir Thomas Roe, not going abroad further than the boundaries of the garden which encompassed >. it. My host was a delightful companion. as full of information as an egg is of meat, yet withal singularly modest in his manner of imparting it. By i his advice I not only delayed my departure for Venice, but refrained from walking about the city, and I was the 1 more content to follow his counsel 1 when I considered the pain which in- ' telligence of the ill-fated Orio Malipie- , tro and her passengers would inflict . on Signor Sirnona. and so I rested my- 1 self, filling my mind from the rich 1 stores of knowledge possessed by tny < host, and making under his able guid- ] auee rapid progress toward a mastery 1 of the Turkish tongue. But the time soon eame when I j could no longer suppress my desire to explore the streets of Constantinople, 1 and observe the manners and customs ( of the people, aud I intimated as much 1 to my host in the choicest Turkish I < could command. My host no further ' opposed my desire, but merely auvised j me to adopt the dress of a Turk, and \ never to stir abroad unless accompa 1 nied by at. least two stout slaves; J suggestions which I very willingly , adopted, though at first I found the loose flowing garments of the Otto- 1 ^vppssivolv inconvenient, and ' could not then have believed that I should for twenty-eight years clothe myself in no other way. The health of Sir Thomas Roe was not robust, and it was always his custom after a spell of sickness to talk of his return to England, a change which he contemplated with pleasure. He had no regular assistance in the duties of his ofilce. which at times pressed heavily upon him. sj that when 1 volunteered to assist in the ? 1 * ?Uo*of/ihoQ tn Kinc preparation . uupauu-.p James my offer was gratefully accepted. And thus the winter of 1622 passed away, the spring of 1623 advanced and still my daily life remained unaltered, bat I had meanwhile acquired the language of the Turks, and that, too, with little trouble, for it presen.s but few difficulties to an earnest student. In June, 1G23. intelligence reached Sir Thomas Roe. in answer to inquiries which he had instituted at my instigation, that Siguor Pietro Siutoua was dead, that the good old Venetian merchant had died in :Le belief that all who sailed from Venice in the Orio Malipletro had perished. There remained nothing now to attract mo to that city, and abandoning my intention to revisit it. I continued to live with Sir Thomas Roc. To be continued. The Industrious Danes. The children of Denmark are taught to knit when but five years old. Even iu the public schools this is quite an institution. although the private schools made it au absolute rule, one -? tlint in. i 1 liour each uay ueiug gnuu , dustry. The same rule applies in the , home-life, one hour being devoted < daily either to sewing, knitting, eroeh- 1 etiug. embroidery or laee-making. Nor , is this considered sufficient; the young ] woman of the family is supposed never ' to be idle, she must always have something 011 hand to be taken up. If a chance visitor comes in, or a friend < arrives for the day, both have their j needlework with them.?Marie Man- , ley, in the Woman's Home Compan- i ion. - 1 A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED "JONAH'S SEA EXPERIENCES." rhc Kpv. Dr. John R. .Muckar Show How Human KlTnrt and Human In fluence Wither Ouiekly Under Sarrasn ?Jonah Has Suffered in Till* Way. Glens Falls, X. Y. ? The Rev. Dr John R. MacKay, jiastor of the First Prea byterian Chtircli here, preached Sunda; morning on "The Significance of Jonah' Sea Experience." The text was for Jonah i:12. Dr. MacKay said: One of tlie surest ways to ruin any eaus< is to be able successfully to heap ridicul upon it. Make it ridiculous and vou hay * - - :a. I '*1. 1...A ruinea u. .-\s soon as 11 ucranm me uui of common talk and the standing joke to the funny column of the newspaper it power is gone, its influence sealed. An< so soon as an individual becomes the centr of a community's jokes and sneers his in fluence is gone. Human effort and influ ence wither more quickly under sarcasn and ridicule than in any other way. Ii this way many a good cause and many ; good person has suffered at the hands o persons -who have never seriously tried ti understand the cause or the person. Ii this way many a great human neart ha been placed upon its Calvary and made t< bleed and suffer the keenest agony. In thi way many a noble, sincere, sensitive sou is going through its Gethsemane or is be ing nailed to its cross on this very Sabbatl day. This is how I believe the work and lift of Jonah have suffered. Unthinkingly, un feelingly, sarcastically, people have asso ciated .Jonah with a whale, and a joke be ing the easiest and cheapest way of shew ing wisdom they have exhausted all theii wisdom there. We cannot keep too often remindin) ourselves that we shall continue to mis the true meaning of the Bible and most o its great teaching unless we remember tha every incident mentioned in the Old Tes tament gives not only the story of somi person, with all the local coloring sur rounding him as a man and an individual but also and more important, that there ii a great world truth to be revealed, anc this individual, with his local coloring, liai been chosen as the medium through whicl to reveal and teach that truth. And therefore, the great Bible difficulties, wit! so many, have arisen because they hnv< been satisfied to centre all their thoughi and interest on the individual and his lo cal details, and in this way have missec the great truth intended to be taught?t truth so great that were it grasped il would then become a key by which t< op-n up and understand the incident it self. This i.> how Jonah has suffered at oui nancis. ami our tasu is now in n lew words to take another look at Jonah?tc try and sec hint in the light of the greal truth intended to be taught and see ii thereby we can the better understand the story itself. Bethink yourselves back into the earliet stages and gradual growth of the humar race. To them as to us there came prob lonis to be solved. We have the benefit oi their efforts and can profit by them in oui problems. But the further back we go the less and less did they have to help them solve their problems. Yet they felt the ful force of each one and nan to make an ef fort of some sort to solve it. The problem was not always the same. Sometimes it was social, sometimes it was physical, sometimes it was national, sometimes it was intellectual, sometimes it was moral. If it took a religious phase it was either national or moral or intellectual. Men felt rhe presence of God impinging upon them, They have forced themselves to formulate certain conceptions about Him. Then they found that certain of their exnerienees did not agree wich these conceptions of God, And there their difficulties arose. This is the meaning of the book of Jonah. Whoever wrote the book felt the difficulty of a neat intellectual and national problem. Ihis led liim to take the story of the Proohet Jonah, that, having thrown it into a parabolic form, lie might the better through it explain to the people what he thought was God's own solution of this particular problem. What. then, was that difficulty, that problem? The people of Israel believed that the love and sympathv of God were confined to themselves. His cr.re, His faror. His blessings were for them and them rlone. God was their God and all the rest af the world was outside. There was but ine human family that had a divine relationship. and that was Jewish. Quite true, there were other nations, and thev had to live, but they had to live without God. He lid not belontr to them, they had no claim tpon Him. That was the real traditional Jewish feeling:. But a few peonle were growing up who had a newer and truer conception of God. ind a broader outlook upon man. One of thein felt he would like to relieve this narrow, limited, wrong conception of God. This led him to write the book, and in loing so he took Jonah as the representative of the old narrow Jewish idea, and showed how Jonah's ideas became broad;ned. and thus taught the broad, full love )f God for all tnen?taught not only the demency of God, but also that He loves all men. There, then, is the national problem, to teach that God is God of all men md loves them: and the intellectual problem. to teach the Jewish people and all ther people that God is everywhere. Let js see, then, how this double sided probem was solved and satisfactorily illus:rated in Jonah's experiences?that God is everywhere and that God ioves all men. Jonah did not believe this. God was not verywhere as Jehovah. This Jonah had >een taught and this he believed. This was :he very atmosphere in which he lived and moved and had his being. This was his jabyhood's lisping, his boyhood's teaching ind his manhood's patriotism. But one lay there broke into his mind a new :hought: "Why should not God care for ;he people in that other city just as well is He does for the people in this city? Why should Jerusalem be any more favored than Nineveh? The people are not Jews, but why should God not care for ihem just as well as if they were Jews? Why should there not be a brotherhood of mankind stronger than all the limits of * - i f?i -j: o r*n iv? lauonat ana lamuy prejuuicv. uhv nut; That thought came to Jonah like a voice vhich seemed to say to him, '"Then, Jonah, ivhv don't you go and tell them about Rod? Why don't you go and tell them :hey may have God's favor as well as other people?" This thought so burned itself nto Jonah's mind and heart that he felt t must be God's will also to bless other oeople beside Jews. But Jonah being a lyed-in-the-wool Jew could not tolerate ;hat. He therefore said. "Xow. if I get >ut of the country for a while this thought Evill leave me, for God is not everywhere to press it upon me as He is in Israel." He did not care very much where he went if only he could get away from that voice. The voice troubled him. He felt that roice was calling him to do something he tvas sure was right, but he did not wish to do it. This is the sphere in which we so jften are Jonahs. That voice we have alivays heard, and like Jonah we have tried to stifle it. Yea, we get just as angry with Rod and our friends when they dare to keep suggesting it to us; we do not want to hear about the right when we don't want to do it. Jonah, therefore, fled. He Hid not care where. That ship going to farshish was opportune. It made him de:ide that the safest place for him would be at sea. God was never known to have spoken to a Jew on the sea. And so now Jonah felt he would be safe from God and that voice. That is why he so rapidly and peacefully got asleep. Now that is just why a storm was neces/ r sary. Jonah had iO learn, and t'neough I him all men had to learn, that God is pies- ] ent as much on sea as upon land?on an I ocean greyhound as on a Tarshish mer chantman. And Jonah learned if. And Jonah accepted it. At once he admitted. "I have done wrong, cast me into the sea." And the storm ceased. The lesson had ? been learned, and through Jonah the Israelites learned that God is everywhere, and no man can get away from Him. That " a fish should pick him up and cast him ashore is a mere incident of the parable. >. It is siniolv that part of the story which 1 i- teaches that if a man reoents God will re- 1 y eeive him and care for him and give him s another chance. It is the divine exposii tion of man's "other chance"?a chance to redeem his past and go forward to do e God's will?go forward to accomplish the ( e particular form of service for which his e lifp has been endowed and prepared, t To have learned that God is everywhere < r was also to learn that since God is God . s there can be no limit to His divine love? J that God has love and blessing for al| peo e Pie and every person. r-o mat in uonaa i- being cast into the sea. it was not a pun. ishment. but one method of a fuller reve- , n lation of the care and love of God for those ri who became willing to obey Him. Our sor^ row is not a punishment, but a method for 1 f a higher and fuller revelation of Hod's lore 0 and blessing. There is often a little tinge 1 of atheism in our thought about Christian s trouble or sorrow. It does not seem right a to speak of any Christian sorrow as somes thing- allowed of God and overruled to a < ] higher puroose. All Christian sorrow, as I- well as all Christian experiences are hut 3 different methods of God's own through which He gives higher and fuller re velae tions of His love and blessing, and devel ops His people to better fitness for service. Ami this is what Jonah learned, and hav ine learned it he went at once to that city . of Nineveh and delivered the message God ( r had given him to deliver. He tells the . Ninevites all he knows about the love of g God. He tells them also all about the pure g and righteous demands of God, and that if J f they persist in living tl.eir awful lives of t selfishness and sin destruction must come . to them as it must come to all men who ? persist in sinning. The city did repent and God did bless , the people. And in this way Jonah learned j * that the very blessings he had himself re1 ceived and his people had received were s not for themselves alone, but also for oth- < i ers?Nineveh and every other Nineveh that , needed the knowledge of the love and i righteousness of God. It is this that makes ; this parable of Jonah so like the parables t of Jesus?illustrations of the love of God - I and of what God expects from those who | 1 alreadv have been blessed. i And this second thought was just as vivt idlv taught as the first one. _ After preach- 1 > ing tor about five week^in Nineveh. Jonah - thought God was showing too much favor 1 to this city. He was granting it too many . blessings. This he regarded as a very pain. ful reflection upon Jewish traditions, and , this he resented. At the close of a day's . preaching he went out into the country to j \ think it all out and have a real satisfactory , grumble about it all by himself. He sat ' down near to a large, big leaved gourd. r ' * 1- n AT'orJ 4 whose rerresnmg snuue. mc sun mu?.<i , around, kent its burning rays from harm- , ing him. Next morning he went back to j* the same place, but the gourd had with1 ered during the night. Jonah got angry. , and in his indignation pitied the gourd [ thus destroyed so soon. But as he cooled j of? ard his reason and his heart again asserted themselves, that voice Seemed again ' , to speak, within him, "Jonah, what a foolish. unreasonable creature you are! Here , you pity this gourd, and yet you find fault with and upbraid God because He has ' shown His pitying love and blessing to- < 1 ward these peonle of Nineveh?are not sinful. sorrowing human beings of more value than a gourd?" That was enough for Jo| nab. He was satisfied God did care for . ! the neople of Nineveh, and that it was ' Godlike to do so: yea, and what waa more important, that His love and blessing were f | to be made known -to them through the , people already blessed. That is the teaching of the book of Jonah; that is the les- ' son Jonah learned, that he must offer God 1 missionary service as well as worship, that he must offer God service as well as love, that to carry the message of God's love to his fellow men is to worship God. ! Do you know. I think that is what God ' still asks? And yet. and yet. I sometimes i think we rebel against the thought of it j quite as much as Jonah did. That is why I have been led to bring this study of Jonah this morning. If we are not going to i help the people of our Nineveh, who is ^ going to do it? Like Jonah, we spend enough upon ourselves; we do not deny ourselves a single thing we set our hearts upon?social parties, theatres, entertainment. home comforts, bodily comforts, travel by land and sea. And these have all their own nlace?but we must not forget the jieople in Nineveh. In addition to our ?*>/] r*nr irr.rc'h i n own tare iut uuiacnt t ??? ?* .. - . we have one other responsibility?the people in Nineveh. For them I speak this morning. We may take to sea as Jonah did. but it is not a vert* profitable business. Much better respond to the Lord gladly. True, we do not say with Jotoah that God is not everywhere, or that His love is not for every creatiire?that is the very essence of our creed, but we may say with Jonah. Let some one else help Nineveh. I don't want to do it; if Nineveh can't take care of itself and some one must help them, let some one else do so.. This JS HO l T> llHl 11C tllC |;uill? iu na; >v We are going to say, rather, tell us where our Nineveh is. tell us how we can best help at this particular time and we will do it! My answer is, this home mission offering is our Nineveh. Why should we? Because it is Godlike. God Himself is our supreme example. Because it is good for us to give?we feel our brotherhood Letter and the joy of giving becomes outs. Because new .American communities need our help to fill them with hope, and by church privileges inspire them with those same God-given princifiies and truths that have made New Engand and New York, that have made our- ' selves and given us our prosperous environ- \ ment. For God's sake, for our own sake, s for America's sake, this is our opportunity, 1 We want these people to know the same God we know and to speak to Him as confidently as we do and call Him '"Father." When these people come together on Sundays we want them to be able to say with us "Our Father." When they gather their little, white-robed childrdh around them ' at the even hour, we want them, children i and parents together, to say "Our Fatlier." e When they come to lay any of these little ones out on the hillside and piaee upon the marker the words "Our Darling.'' we want I them also confidingly to say, "My Father." v And when thev themselves eome to the t] edge of the deep waters and wonder what ferryboat is to bear them across their Jordan we want them trustfully, lovingly, to he able to put their hands outward and upward and say. "My Father." That is out p Nineveh. Will vou help? Help us unto s Him! "I'll Not Forget to K<tep You." T She was only a poor, sick, old woman, a but a royal soul dwelt -vithin her homely f body. The ?'eaconess found her, after j climbing a long, dark stairway, in a poor little room, dark, but neat and clean. On 1 a tiny table lay an open Bible, and opposite the bed hung a picture of the Good Sherherd. "Ay, my dear lady." she said, when the . deaconess spoke of the picture, "many a time I lie here all alone looking at Him s ; and at the little Iamb He carrieo so tenderly, and sometimes He seems to look at }] me so kindly that I can almost hear Him saying, "I'll rot forget to keep you.'" e The deaconess went away feeling stronger J" for the simple expression of faith. v True greatness lies not in never falling, 6 but in rising every time we fall. Humor^ Todeiv Sure Sign, ' So you think he's a genius, do you?'* "I know it. He's always hungry, and poverty makes him see stars!"?Atlan iii < mismuuou. Easy. Miss Tort?"Can you diagnose lone5oni?n?ss, Dr. Steel?" l)r. Steel?"Certainly. Its chief characteristic is an .ill-gone feeling." ?Detroit Free Press. Part ol Her. Doctor?"Your wife must keep out of excitement." Mr. Brisque?"She can't, doctor. She carries it around with her."?Indianapolis Journal. Close Quarters. Oldwed?'"Do you and your wife juarrel?" Xewwed?"Xo; we live ir. a flat, and there is no room for argument."? Manitoba Free Press. Danger of a Wreik. "We are told to "cast our oread on the waters!'" said the young wife. "But don't you do it," said her husband. "A vessel might run against it and get wrecked."?What to Eat. Those Bright Girls. She?"In a college town the girls are made to walk on one side of the street and the boys on the other." He?"There's nothing to prevent the girls from loosing on me sonny siue, [ suppose."?Yonkers Statesman. at Hoi Is Them. 'It always makes me mad to^alk to an actor. He pretends to listen politely, but his attention is waudering all the time. Ever notice it?" "So. I always talk to them about themselves."?Philadelphia Ledger. Nothing l)one. "I don't think I'll wager with you," said the baker. "You haven't the lough." "That may be," replied the butcher, 'hut I don't see you putting up any stakes."?Boston Commercial Bulletin. Ad Emergency Man. Eleanor?"Cook says she must go; we live so far out it gives hei; the blues." Edgar?"Tell her she can't go; we will hire a nice lady compauion to cheer her up."?Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Point of View. "Kissing," said the coy maid, "should k^. rvfU'o to '' Ln* SllIUllJ J^inuvt. "Oh, I don't know." replied the strenuous youtli. "Just think of what we w6uld have missed if the discoverer of kissing had never made it public."?Chicago News. Hli Memory Wan Good. Angry Wife?"It seems to me we've )cen married a century. I can't even vmember when or where we first net." Husband (emphatically)?"I can. It vas at a dinner party, where there ivere thirteen at table."?Tit-Bits. Hard Lack. "Well, if that ain't just my luck! iere I've went an' lost that excuse I vas bringin' the teacher for bein' abent yesterday. An' It took me three lours to write It. too!"?New York American. At Oilier* S?e Them. Vegetarian?"Don't you know that he strongest animals are all vegetarans. the elephant being the most pow? rfulV carnivorous menu? xums u^m. f they weren't so strong they never rould be able to stand a vegetable liet." A Sadden Change. Higglns?"Do you believe that any ierson'8 liair ever turned gray in a ingle nightV" Wister?"Oh, I don't know! Should hink it might happen. Once I knew young woman's hair which turned rom red to golden in a siugle day. t was the day she came into a for- - une."?Boston Transcript. Bonnd to Get 111m. The lady arose and drew her boa ighter. "Then your answer is no?" be said in husky tones. "My dear lady," the man remarked a his gentlest manner, "I told you iglit years ago that I could not marry ou. and I have not changed my mind." The lady paused in the doorway. "I rill see you again in four years," she aid.?Cleveland Plaiu Dealer.