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V JAPAN'S CARE ( * # -k "A .oss is Only One Per Cent., A -Major Seaman, Back F His investigations in Hi Preventive Medicine?Sor mm ajok loi is l. seaman, inci ?' ^"ork? w^? went I /l/l I to Japan ami tlietiee to Manchuria in June last to investigate Japanese medu-^t* jut-iu^ds in war, read a paper beiore the Association of Military and Jinval Surgeons of the United States ir session at St. Louis, Mo. Major ftcaicau made an extended study of the United States uietbods in Porto ICieo. the rhibppines and t'iiina in reeoat jears. Ilis studies eonviuced him that the great loss of men in war was due to Improper feeding of soldiers rather tln.a bullets. lie said: "Up to July 1 oni.v about 1:00 wounded and medical eases had reached Yukio, mostly from the base hospital at Hiroshima, which was eoutinualiy uradbig large number.? to other divisional hospitals to make room for fresh ?raes from the front. When I tell you that not one ended fatally up to July and that every one remaining in the wards presented a favorable prognosis, .you can appreciate the admirable mork that is being accomplished there. If is the rule of the Japanese surgeons at the front to do little or 110 operating except iu cases of extreme emergency ? 1 _?k*.Ih-ooimh itnnio. BT A>llCie 1 uu?u vuiiaii.ua ?Xiate death. All eases are treated bathe application of the tirst aid dressfail :>ud then sent to the rear as quickly as possible, thence by hospital boat r transport to the base hospitals In Japan. "The Japanese soldier lias been tanght how to treat his Intestines? and consequently his intestines are tow treating him with equal consideration. His plain, rational diet is diaceated? metabolized and assimilated, it is not an irritating, indigestible fermenting mess, acting as a local irritant, and producing gastritis, duodenitis, enteritis, colitis, heptitis and the Joi*g list of inflammatory intestinal processes with which we were all familiar in the hospital wards at Camp Alger, Chattanooga. Tampa, Cuba, Torto Iiieo, Montauk Point, etc.. in 18118. ( "The great hospitals are there, interne, contagious and infectious dements, -their conspicuously empty beds " icing more eloquently than Avords the most important lesson of the war. A few cases of diseases of the resplra* * ora frviinrl?f-nlrt<5 hrflll mjf OJ 31CUJ ais rfcUIs. jud an occasional pneumonia, ?ntrac:ed through exposure In ford- . i*W rivers, exhaustive marches and lUTOucking on wet ground, a few more ?r typhoid (I saw only .three in Mancharia), occasioually one of dysentery ?and a number of cases of beri beri, ihat former scourge of Oriental armin. "But of all the many thousands gathered in these institutions there were but (e\r medical cases, and of these earcely a baker's dozen came under the heading of "Diseases of the Digestive System." Therein lies one of the creates secrets of the Japanese suc??s. Xapoleon never made a more \rathfui statement than when he said, .An army fights on its belly.' The Japanese have that belly, and they take good care to keep it in fighting ordernot by insulting it three times a day ty cramming it with material totally nnsuitel to the soldier's necessities, Jhereby exciting irritations and disease, but by supplying it with plain, palatable, easily preparea anu easny digested ration that can be thoroughly < metabolized and converted into the < health and energy that makes its own?y the idea! fighting machine of the < world lo-day. i "The organization of the medical deparnne.it of the Japanese Army and -Navy is modeled after that of the Germans, with many added improvements. Ttoo much praise cannot be bestowed opon the medical department of the army and navy for their splendid preparatory work in this war. The Japanese ure the first to recognize the Irne value of an army medical corps. The medical officer is omnipresent. You will find him in countless places where iu an American or British army he has no place. He is as much at the front-as iu the rear. He is with the first screen of scouts with his ml..fvoscope and chemicals, testing and i' febeling wells so the army to follow sball drink no contaminated water. TWhen the scouts reach a town, he immediately institutes a thorough examination of its sanitary condition and if - cwatagion or infection is found he 4|uarantines and places a guard around tbo dangerous district. Notices are posted so the approaching column is warned and no soldiers are billeted where danger exists. Microscopic Mood tests are made iu all fever cases, *nd bacteriological experts, fully quipped, form part of the staff of very divisional headquarters. "The medical officer is also found In auip, lecturing the men on sanitation. *nd the hundred and one details of personal hygiene?how to cook, to eat, and when not to drink, to bathe and even lo the direction of the paring and eicausing of the finger nails to prevent danger from bacteria. I'p to August J 06()2 cases had been received at the reserve hospital at Hiroshima, of whom CC3G were wounded. Of the entire nrnber up to that time only ihirtyJtour had died. *Tf?the testimony of those conversant with the facts can be accepted, supple- j Rented by try ov> u limited observe.-' IF SICK TROOPS. r gainst Our Seventy Per Cent. :rom Manchuria, Reports on aspitals?Wonderful Work in ne Great Lessons. tions, the Joss from preventable ?liscnse in the first six months of this terrible conllict will be but a fraction of one per cent. This, too, in a country notoriously unsanitary. Compare this with the fearful losses of the Kritisb from preventable diseases in t?outh Af rica, or. worse, with our own losses ia the Spanish-American War, where, in a campaign. tlie actual hostilities of which lasted six weeks, the mortality front .bullets and wounds was L'GS, while that from disease reached the appalling number of 3802, or about fourteen to one. or seventy per eent., one per cent, against seventy per cent. "Naturally, one asks, were these results anticipated? As an answer, the statement of a distinguished Japanese officer, when discussing with ine the subject of Russia's overwhelming numbers, is pertinent. "Yes," lie said, "we are prepared for that. Russia may he able to place 2,1)00,000 men in the field. We can furnish 300,001k You know iu every war four men die of disease for every one who falls from bullets. That will be the position of Russia in this war. We propose to eliminate disease as a factor. Every man who die* in our army must fall on the field of battle. In this way we shall neutralize the superiority of Russian numbers and stand on a comparatively equal footing." "Japan is the first country iu the world to recognize that the greatest enemy in war is not the army of the invader, but of a foe more treacherous and dangerous?preventable disease. round turning in every camp. "If wars are inevitable and the slaughter of men must go 0:1 (and I believe wars are inevitable and that most of them are ultimately beneficial>. then, for the love of (Jod, let our men be killed legitimately, on the field, fighting for the stake at issue, not drop them by the wayside by preventable disease, as we did in tin SpanishAmerican War?1400 for every 100 that died in action. It is for that 1400 poor devils who are sacrificed, never for the 100 who fall gallantly fighting, that I offer my prayer. "The State deprives the soldier of his liberty, prescribes his exercises, equipment, dress, diet, the locality in which he shall reside, and in the hour of danger expects him, if necessary, to lay down his life In its defense and jjuuui. n mjuuiu lurmure fcnv iiiiu the host sanitation and the best medical supervision that the science of the ape, be it Japanese or Patagouian, can devise." It's All In the Point at View. "Most men," said the man of cxporl- j ence, "think it must be awl'uliy nice to have a wife who takes things as coolly as Dave Potter's wife takes them, but others, more discriminating would prefer a good, honest row to her quiet cynicism. The way she behaved the other day when she found a letter in Dave's pocket from some giri over in Brooklyn is an example of her quiet manners. " 'I don't see,' wrote the Tragic Muse from Long Island, 'how on earth I can ever live without you.' "Dave's wife read that gush and a lot more just like it without ever turning a hair. " 'Well.' she said, coolly, 'that girl is a fool. If she knew you as well as I do she would be wondering how on earth she could ever live with you.' "And that, In the opinion of the dis criminating few, cuts a whole lot deeper that a common, everyday rumpus." ?New York Press. The Swiftest Stenographer. The world's typewriting record on actual practical work has been broker, by Mrs. Margaret Cunningham, stenographer in the office of the Supieme Court, Trenton, N. J. She wrote 21.089 words of a legal decision requiring the utmost care in six and one-half hours' actual time, and not a correction bad to be made on the fifty-seven pages covered. The record discounts the one made recently in the Washington Patent Office by Miss Olive R. Cameron, of Tennessee, M ho wrote 32,000 words in a working day of seven and onehalf hours, using only one sheet at a time. Mrs. Cunningham was compelled to make eight manifold copies, which necessitated the handling of 513 sheets of paper and 399 carbon sheets, nearly eight times as many as used by Miss Cameron. Mrs. Cunningham was highly complimented by the justices of the court. Bit Diplomacy. "now did you work your father so beautifully?" "With diplomacy, my dear, pure diplomacy. I told him I wanted to marry one of his daughters. He glared at me ami asked which one of the six. i said Myrtle." ' You said Myrtle?" *Uh-kuh. AH diplomacy, my dear, lie flew into an awful rape and said I couldn't have her. He said she was too good for rue. I insisted. He grew madder. I still insisted. Then he roared out: " 'You can't have Myrtle, you know nothing! Grace is plenty good enough for you!* "And that's the way I got you, Grace, dear. Wasn't it beautiful diplomacy?"?New York Press. ; J tW^I 0 ' A l'otlrjf Party. When the ser makes !t seem delightful to be again indoors, girls ! often like to have suggestions for j methods of making their meetings at! tractive- something besides the usual ! "talk and refreshments"?what sotno eminent man of letters in a waggish way described as "giggle, gabble, gobble and git." A series of little meetings, eac' in. j celebration of some i?oet's birthday or i other anniversary, would he an excuse | .or making some interesting additions | to the usual program. Thus there i would be no ;,*reat difficulty in arrangI ing a Shakespeare party or a Milton party, in which quotations front the works of either poet were used in invitations. dinner cards, bills of fare j anil so no. Or an American poet might be chosen. Oliver Wendell j Holmes would furnish lines of a ; cheering nature tit for mild festivii ties; or you might introduce your I guests to some of the beautiful poems j of C'elia Thaxter. or of Jean lugelow, I if you do not mind going outside of i our own land. ? From Books and Auj tbors. in St. Nicholas. Uniqae Collection. i A New York woman has made a unique collection of teapots. During residence in Japan she mauaged to accumulate more than a thousand examwhlrth ?A fu-A OPA qlSL'A ThftfO were black pots and white, blue pots and gray. big pots, little ones, pots iu glaze, in crackle, in yellow and browns and reds and blacks. One was like an oM man. whose head formed the lid and could be set at any angle. Others were in the form of birds, beasts and fowls, lish. frogs and actuallj' a beetle j or two. I-tuddhu, even, was pressed into service as a model. There were lotus-bud pots and other pots in semblance of a teahouse. One euormous caldronlike affair held three gallons, but at least a dozen specimens would ! uot have contained a thimbleful, j Among the teapots were several in the form of swans, correct to the last curl | of neck and feather, and of a size to be bidden in the hand. The materials used lor tnesc treasures were jiuuiu silver, hammered copper, iron?most exquisitely wrought?silver-gilt alloys and all the myriad sorts of Japanese pattern. i Rrowna and Purple*. The fashionable colors this season, writes '"Ninette" from Paris, are browns in every shade; a new "vert Empire," or vieux vert, a shade between moss and laurel green, and "bronze." a tint that Is likely to become the favorite in the fashion handicap to be run this winter. Then comes the manifold shades of purple, containing a warm dosing of crimson in the dye; aubergine, ametbyst, pansy and fuchsia-purple are the newest, especially the lastnamed, that, in combination with crimson. rose-red, orange or heliotrope, look very rich and lovely. Ilats naturally follow suit, and quills, ostrich feathers?the latter more often shaded than not -and rich velvet flowers, dahlias, begonias, fuchsias? the purple and red variety especially ?marigolds, orellles. d'ors. crimson and golden brown dahlias, small and compact, and the entire scale of deep- i intaH i-njou urrt to ho found on Jllltlimn I and winter hats. Small velvet sunflowers are also sparingly employed in seasonable millinery. Hats and large bonnets will be eminently picturesque. A Word A boat Fars. Furs are a bit of a problem for the woman who wants to dress well on a moderate sum of money. They are expensive to begin with, and vary in style almost as often as frocks and bats do. There Is a new cut in sleeves every winter, a different length, a variation in collar and some novelty in lining. Furs used to be a real comfort. You packed them away with blankets aud curtains, aud borax powder to outwit moths, and all you had to do in the fall was to shake them, hang them out to air, and then be comfortable. But nowadays women begin In ino'iiet tn wnndpr hnw thpv mil r-pt their furs up-to-date without bankrupting the family exchequer. For furriers are as heartless as plumbers aud almost as essential to happiness. Of course this season's furs di-Ter a good deal from last season's, but here is a word of comfort, they suggest all sorts of practical schemes for the artistic remodelling of old garments. Almost all furs are trimmed or made up with other furs. Ermine is combined with almost everything but seal, deer and baby calf skin; chinchilla combines with sea! nicely, especially the Russian chinchilla, which has a brownish cast. It is also used with deer and mink, with Persian lamb and tine dog skin. Usually the light fur is the trimming; but squirrel, beaver, tibet and mole shin are ail very smart trimmed with iamb or with monkey skin. WOMAN'sl REALM J Iks When furs are not combined, n 115 one fur may be trimmed with suede leather, or for dressy occasions with embroidery. This use of leather is new. and you have no idea what a smart touch it gives an old coat put over collar, cuffs or set in a double breasted tailor vest. It comes in all the dull vegetable dyes, in hunting green, golf red, mahogany, bluet blue, navy blue and every couceivable shade of brown, light and dark. Sometimes it is embroidered with outline work in gold thread or silk. The embroideries most in vogue for fur trimmings are straps from old Chinese silk petticoats, to be found in any Cliiuese shop, bands from Persian towels, strips of Itnssian or Utilitarian peasant work and all the rich Turkish. India and Japanese hand embroideries. The colors are selected to match the color scheme of fur and lining as closely as possible. It would he very easy for a clever girl to imitate Russian or Japanese embroidery and make her own trimming just to match her coat. There is one bit of good fortune in this season's furs, they are rashionanie all lengths, and both loose and tight litting. You are in the style whether your coat is a reefer, blouse or basque, and your sleeves may have fulness at the shoulder, or a trifle at the elbow, and the stole effect of last winter is quite gone out. Nearly all coats, plain as well as fancy, have light linings this season, satin-brocade, damasse and brochc silk and plain light twilled taffeta. As this was somewhat the vogue in 1903-4, many women will unpack their furs with a sense of dismay over the soiled conditions of their pretty coat linings. But there is no need to worry, for a soiled lining that is still in good condition otherwise can be made as good as new by the right sort of home cleaning. ladings for fur coats are fitted in after the coat is quite finished and may be removed without any ripping beyond brush with a velvet whisk, thou regularly wash in a luke warm suds of castile soap and borax, two teaspoonfuls of borax and a handful of soap shavings to a bowl of water, and let drip in tbe wind. When almost dry roll over a curtain pole, pull taut and pin. stand near the fire. Unroll the next rooming and you will find to all intents and purposes a new coat lining. If the lining is in a pale tint, soak in cold borax water, two teaspoonfuls to a basin of water, for half an hour before washing. It is not impossible for tbe amateur dressmaker to do over her own furs, with a hint or two about the work. Use always a seamless pattern: place it on the leather side, tack with pins, then cut without any seam allowance, using a sharp pen knife. The seams are overhauded with fine stitches. It is wise to first cut a cambric pattern, see that it tits perfectly and make a stiff paper pattern from that, as any wrong cutting in fur work is serious. In piecing, make sure that the nap of the fur runs in tbe same direction and that your colors are what furriers call "doss." For evening wear the palest tints are chosen. There will be a perfect craze for Irish lace and fur combined. Silks will no doubt continue popular, but they will be of a heavier quality. Satins and cashmeres will be the most popular materials for both young and old. Black will net be worn to any extent. excepting, possibly, the all-black evening gown. T on thai- antara r?rtri?nir,1imiKlv into the fashionable ' motor" outlit both for coats and headgear. The envelope bag. so eagerly heralded by the shops, has found scant favor with femininity. Close fttir.g turbauc of suede trimmoJ, with quills or a harness ' buckle ere also good style. In haudles the tendency is away from braids and straps and towai' plain stiff handles, preferably flat. The new style of halrdressing is not contined to one particular coiffure, but greatly depends on the beconi in guess. Brown, green, dark blue or black leather tam-o'-shanters with patent leather visor are both smart and practical. , Little change purses of pigskin are on view, with long handles of the same length and variety as are seen I 0:1 the "Peggy from Paris" bag. Gloves of heavy kid. some with gauntlets, others loose at the wrist, with strap and buckle to adjust them, are among the essentials of a motor outfit I * A SERMON FOR SUNDAY A&? ci AAiiCMT nieAAiioec riiTin rn An 11-wvawc.n ? uiowuunjL tn i i i l.u. "KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST." the Rev. Wlnfleld Scott Bter Tell* Those Who Would Receive Light That They Hut Kxerdse Self-Control and Sacrifice Pleasure to the Work. BnooKLYX, N. y.?The Rev. Winfield Scott Baer. rector of St. George's Church, preached Sunday morning on "Knowledge of Christ." He took his text from Philippianj iii, 8: "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." Mr. Baer said among other things: A quarter of a century had passed since Paul on the way to Damascus saw a great light, since he who was the persecutor of the church became Apostle to the Gentiles. They were years of mental and spiritual growth, of missionary zeal and activity, of suffering and privation, and beyond that of joy and gladness which no man could tell. Now, looking back over his life from Erison in Rome, he passed judgment upon is gain and loss. Th?re was no tinge of despondency which might have come from age or weakness, no touch of bitterness showing that the iron might have entered into his soul. but with the calmness of a judge and the fervor of a seeker after truth, he cried: "I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus mv Lord." There are many kinds of knowledge, trained in different methods and ways. Some comes through exercise of memorv; some through careful observation of the facts of nature: some by experiment in the laboratory; some by careful reading of the past and wise judgment upon it: much from the careful study of ourselves. In varying degrees, these all are precious, and they are given only for a price. The school system of which we are proud is costly. The vast expenditure of money is hut an item in the cost. Energy, time, thought of myriads interested in the work of knowledge and in training those committed to their care harder far than hearing lessons from a book. The years of school, the hours of study and practice, the physical confinement when children would rat.her be on the street or in the field, all these must be counted in. We are .almost disappointed when we do not read among the honors of collegecommencement .some mention of gifts of money to enable the college to pursue truth, and give it out to those who seek it; and here also are time and labor and research. So those who would receive the full benefit of the prof fered knowledge must exercise seit-controi, sacrifice play and pleasure to the wort:. This is but the beginning of knowledge. In every realm of life men seek if haoly they may find. The borders of the unknown are being pushed back day bv day, and the light of truth is seen and known over ever wider tracts. In scientific research, invention, exploration of the earth, knowledge of society, knowledge of mind, men are thinking, working, "sining knowledge. They pay the cost. The ice of the north, could it speak, would tell of these who sought the pole, merely, than they might know: the jungles of Asia and the forests ot-Africa are known to us from the traveler; missionary, scientist, so'dier, seeker after gold, with their different motives imnelling them, they bring forth knowledge for the world. Human tria)s. nrivat'ons and dea*h hafe been paid for that knowledge. Few as they take it, think of the price at which it is purchased. Them are decrees of worth in knowledge. That which has mo3t of the human in it contains most interest for us. Persons are the highest facts; the knowledge of persons is the highest knowledge. It is a wonderful story which sc:ence tells us of the development of th? world. It is a mnrc living story for u? to know of the development of mankind; hence, historv, biography and social matters have a deener interest for us. Nor is it an easy matter to read the past or the present. From the same chemical ingredients we exnect the ?ame results. Personality may conceal or may reveal itself by its word* and deeds. None of im needs to be .Jekyl! and Hvd? lu i nav sjvt ii? uvi ?i?-nja v*v?t ss crystal, to be read by all f'ne world. Deeds may belie tbe beart. None of us knows another nerfcctlv. perbans we do not know ourselves. Tbe mathematical ab'e we know, but the knowledge of mankind is b'glier, and more eeeret and di?Ccu't to gain. If ctudy of man be our true studv, then tbe stud" of the best is our wise part. How foo'isb for the student in art to study the eliromo when tbe masterpiece s bri*o~e his e-c; Why strive to read by 'iglit of lami when the glorious sun in the heaven floods the earth with light? Seek the nob'est. and Kirn of h'm. It was this which Paul was doing. The desire of his boart. the end of his thought, the goal of his purpose was that he m;ght know Christ, and. for that he would count all things but loss. Thee has been lo^s in Paul's life as he paired th:s krowiedce. Los* of money, position, friendship; bitterly hated by his peonle. and now loss of liberty as captiveat Rome. But these lie counted loss for tb" knowledge of Christ. This was more than a kr.ov'edge of the facts of Christ's life: more than an ackrowledgment of his past and present high dignity in the spiritual worjd: more than a recognition of the place* of Christ in Cod's work for man. One night know all this, vet rot know Christ, as Haul longed to know, in the commun'on of friendship, in the inspiration of Christ within, in the power of Christ raising him from sin to riffhtaousifss, making him a partake of His own life, so that he could say: '"I live, yet not I, but Christ live?h i*i ire." We may not follow Paul's int?llcctual flights, noj- gaze with his vision at the mvs* teries which are unveiled. Hut we may know the purpose ot God for us. which is that we shall seek the truth of life. This is found in Christ. To know Him is the privilege of all. There is no exclusive class of rich or poor, hut the knowledge is open to all who are willing to take it as it can be taugiit, ana arc wining to pay tiic price. This knowledge of Christ; can he known but partially through reading of the skies Lhove or the Scriptures beneath. Many through these come to a knowledge of God. Rut such study is too easy a school for character, as we strive to know the living, loving God. One has told of the search for the snowwhite bird of truth. IIow, after weary journeying:;, toils, temptations, struggles, at last in the hour of death a glimpse of the passing creature is given, and a feather dropped from its wing is graeped by the dying man. No such cold truth as that do we seek. It is the knowledge of the Jiving person. Christy Jesus, our Lord. He ran l>e known truly only through sympathy, kindness of rind and heart and life; through persona! experience. For succfS3 in any pursuit of truth tlirr*? must ba desire, concentration, won:, and patience. There must be the desire impelling the searcher; the concentration of energies on the pursuit; study of the laws of the subject; willingness to serve in the hall of patience ere passing into the palace of wisdom. It is unreasonable to expect that the highest knowledge of man. the knowledge of life, can be secured without paying the price. For it there is needed a desire which shall overcome all other desires. There must be a purpose of the will, the lifelong endeavor to attain. Paul counted not him- ' self to have attained, but lie pressed on J for the prize. There must be a purification of life, for God is known through the spiritual rather than the intellectual part r( man. Those who love sin do not know Him, in this sense; they hart no svmpnthv with Him, they know not His mind, they i love not His thing.?, .and without this a pathy there cannot be the knowledge^^^H person to person. Because of this nece^^H sity of knowing God through the earnet^^H nesa of desire, the bendine of oar will. th^^H obedience of our life, there comes tb^^H struggle in man's life with trial, tion. suffering. For if it be the life Christ we are to know, then it is a life of truth, of holiness, of love, of self-aicrifiee, of consecration to the Father's will. N? man can know that life in its fulness save as he experiences it. He may discuss it, and compare it with others, but only he who lives it knows what it is. Two of the disciples asked the Lord for the chief places in the kingdom. He told them that they knew not what they asked. Can ye drink the cup that I drink, be baptised with the baptism that I am? They thought they could. Later, in a measure, they did. But the places are reserved for those to whom it is appointed, for those who are fitted for it. It is the inner nrize of character, of holiness, of love, of truth, after the likeness of Jesus Christ which entitles one to stand near Him in spiritual power and dominion. This is rot always easy. Christ had His struggles. H:s agony. His cross. The disciple is not above the Master. It may not mean the giving up of life. It does at times in n>'s?'in lands. But to gain that knowledge of t>riat wig cost. Ts righteousness gained without of- . fort? Is forgiveness of -one who lias injured us a mere bagatelle? Do a'l the rewards go to the honest and high principled in polities? Is truth in business always at a prem;um? In the presence of the pleasure and the business of the day is it a simple matter to 3*eon one's head erect, and work as a son of God. and thn* acting. know Christ in truth and love? Does it demand much of us that we shall give ourselves lip for those who may scorn o" hate us, so following the cTamn'.e of Christ, who gave Himself for us? Ah. we know in our daily life how great the task is set for us in the school of character, that we mav know Christ; that we may be like Him; that we may grow in the knowledge of human truth and love as we not only sec it in Him. but know it in ourselves. It costs much because it is life: and'be-' oause it is life, it nave. For chief in the j joys and glories of truth, there stands excellency of the know>d~e of Christ ja apprehended bv mar: it is the truth of lif? th? life o' Cod, the life of man, who is th# child of God. - Read through the history of the nast of those noble ones who have aided the moral uolift of the world through this personal living knowledge of Christ. They know tmth and love, because the* have lived truth and love. They paid the price. It ^ might be poverty, pe-section,martyrdom; struggles with'n and trials without. In the power of Chris's strengthening them to do the things which wer? right, in the suffering for others that they might drawn ur.to God. tljew p?me into possession the knew>dge of Christ, through experience. With one accord that noble multitude which no man can number, of apoatles. prophets, martvrs. known and unknown. giving thanks ?nto God for Hi? goodness, ascribes to this knowledge preeminence and surpassing glory above all ? others, crying out with Paul. We cou^t all things bnt lo?* for the excelVncv of the * 1? r't,..;.* t./,?/) W a:tunivu^c \?i Vitnob ovouo vrj* uuiu. -yLiberty. There is no sweeter word in human speech than liberty, no finer thought in. human mind, no richer gift in human life. What is freedom? Independence of law? So many think. But they arc mistaken. He who imagines freedom consists in getting rJ of law is totally and fatally wrong. \\*e offer the Ten Commandments to a man for his moral code. He rejects the code, saying, "I will be bound by no taWe cf laws. I am free." He is not free. He may as well reject the multiplication table or the law of gravitation. "I will be enslaved by no creed." Enslaved by a creed? Creeds do not enslave; they are declarations of religion* independence, proclamations of emancipation. affirmations of freedom. A creed ! is much like a political platform?a statement of opinions. No one platform ever contained all the political opinions nf tne men who adopted it. No one creed ever contained all the religious opinions cf it* adherents. It is at best only an atferhph to stats the essential doctrines in which ] its makers agree. A bird is free in the air. The air is it* ! element. A fish is free in the water. Water is its element. Man is free'iu obedience to the lawa of his being. The Bible contains these laws. Mora! judgment confirms them. Conscience approves when ws 1 observe them, accuses us when we violate them. A man who persists in sin *? truly cut of his element aa a trout m the air or a sparrow in water. Arfd the J end is the same when any living ercature^^ getr out of it3 element, out of barnyjijj^ with law?the penalty is death.-But an intervening hand n&y restore the hah and the bird to their elements? Yes. And is there no hanq to restore a lost man to ht3 element? Christ is God's answer to that question. "Whom toe Son iraltcs free, ha is free indeed.''?I'hlladci- ' phiu Ledger. j Pray Not Alone l*or Sfl". A gentleman v.-ho wns traveling in Ireland sat down one day in a cottage to talk with an o'.d woman. As they were having their "dish of discourse" there came a clap of thunder, and the 6ld woman at once spread oat her hands in supplication, crying: "God bleos and save us! And rave hi* honor, and save the peop'.c and all o: ns!" For the space cf half an hour the thunder was frequent, and each tit.e sh? prayed. Then she to'd the visi-.cr this story, whicli has a good moral in ;tu denning of the proper ,?jirit which should belong to prayer: Jfnere was a man, and he rraa vorlrlc? in a field like, and it came on to thunder, and he put his head in a hole Li the vail and he said: t " 'God eave what'3 cat o' tncj* "Rut he om,ht to have prayed for th? * whole of him, for he n> sooner said that than the wail fell rind took his head ofT. "It was telle J to me that this was a judgment on the rrathur, because it is not right to pray small, just for yoursih'. 3u; you shouid pray large?to save us a?l~pray big and open near-ed. Eat that may be only a story# sir." Sensitive to Every Impression. In the quaint little house where Shaken pcarc once lived, writes Peter Ainslee, for many years no register was kept, and visitors wrote their names upon the walls and ceilings, until every bit of space had fccen occupied with 6omc handwriting, and it irr.sr not be forgotten that fully 40,GOO people visited there every year. Sir Walter Scott iiad written with his diamond riaaj his name upon the window pane, and there were the names of Washington Irving. John Rusk in, ar..l a host of distinguished and non-distinguished visitors. Standing there. 1 felt as though that little room A wa3 'ike the human heart, sensible to every M influence, and inviting every comer to write his name oon its walls, for the heart is the most impressionable Ohafcfl Hod's wcrp. It gets a part of every pissir.g thought, word, look, picturc-^cvery- . tiling, and here lies its salvation, if "it catches the good, or its damnation if it holds the bad. Luther wisely said, "I am more afraid of my own heart than of the > i'ope and all his cardinals." And hence that imperative demand, "Love the Lord with all thy heart." A Piirn Home. On a recent Sunday Dr. W. B. Leach, o? Chicago, informed his Methodist hearer* that "a pure home is worth a thousand women's clubs for the reform and elevation, of the masses."' .it'4 ? >,*383