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RELATIVE IMPORTANCE OF THINK? ING, FEELING, DO?NG AND BEING. This is a very simple exhortation, but on? that deserves our pondering. It is not an. exhortation to do something, or to think something, or to feel some? thing, bot to be something. The whole of loy sermon this morning might be pot into one simple formulary : To feel right is more important than to think right; to do right is more important than to mel right; to be right is most important of alL Calvinism lays em? phasis on the right kind of thinking about religion; Methodism lays empha- ; sis on tile right kind of feeling In the realm of religion; Unitarianism lays em phasis <m the right kind of conduct phasis on the fourth-being the right kind of a person. Yon say, Is that an? tithesis correct? ls Unitarianism bet? ter than Methodism or Calvinism? No! the antithesis is not correct, and it is because it ? impcjssible to state what 1 want to state in a sentence that I roust go on and elaborate it a little, and ask yon to meditate with me a little upon it this morning. 1 say again : To right is important; to feel right is: important than to thinks right; to do is. more^^BO^a? ina* ?ree*. ; right, bot to fe right is the mest im? portant of all. IMPORTANCE OF BELIEF. It? avery makes no difference and it is said by are sup/posed to-be very antagonistic Tho agnostic says that all thinking about God and inwiott?f?ty is tinkling brass and soonding cymbals, for we can kn ow nothing about them. Dogmatism, second cousin of agnosticism, says it is IK> uso to think about them ; yoa must accept what was tbougb^about them in the si i ieeuth centary,-or>tfcfourth"<en-t tury,'or the first century; we want not thinking, but an ^questionable faith. Agnosticism says that yon must stop before yon begin; dogmatism "cays that yon may go a little way and then yon must stop. But that liberalism which saya mat it makes no difference what a maur believes is equally deadening to the Inman intellect- that liberalism which says yon must have a very short, simple creed, and all beyond that is superfluous. Our problem is to discov? er, not how little we'can know, but how much we can know, and the whole eternal and infinite world is before ns - for our investigation. To pnt a creed np at the entrance and say, You shall not . enter school until you have learned all it has to teach yon, is absurd, of course; the creed ought to be, not at the porch door, but over the pulpit. But to say to men, It makes no difference whether yon think rightly or wrongly respecting these great fundamental problems of life, Who and what God is. Who and what eternal destiny is, Who and what I am, and How ought I to act toward my neighbor-this is a folly so extreme that it does not need to be criticised. These three isms-agnosticism, dogma? tism and the pseudo liberalism-are children of the same parent. The phi? losophy that say? yon cannot know any? thing, the philosophy that says yon can know only what your fathers knew, and the philosophy mat saya it does not make any difference what yon think they are all of the same bad stock. It is important that we should have right ideas of the problems of life, but it is not enough that we have right ideas. An opinion is of very little value unless it has become a conviction. What is a conviction? A conviction is an opinion that has conquered. It is born of battle and of victory! No opinion ever becomes conviction until it has been in battle and has conquered. The boy has inherited from his mother a 'belief that God is; he is assailed by doubt, and when these two have fought together, and the belief that God is ceases to bo an opinion and becomes a conviction, it is because it has conquer? ed the unbelief. But unbelief is not the only thing to be conquered. There are pride and selfishness and vanity to be conquered. "And nothing becomes con? viction until it has been so wrought in? to the soul that it is conqueror of the soul, sa that it shapes and directs the destiny as master, so that it holds the scepter, so that it sits on the throne-in other words, no opinion is of value un? til it becomes a part of that character of which I am speaking this morning. A creed is not a real creed until it gets below ?be intellect and enters into the heart The man takes the proposition "God is love," and he says, Why, cer? tainly; I believe mat; I abominate the old pagan teaching that God is hate, and I abominate the teaching which represents God as though he were not good; I will have none of it; I believe that God is love. And then he goes on his way as though there were no God at alL This is an intellectual proposition, and he looks at it with critical judg? ment, and he says, Ay, that is true, as he might say it of a proposition of Eu? clid's geometry, ont it has not become a part of his being; it is not a convic? tion. And a theological opinion is not religion until it ceases to be an opinion and becomes a conviction; until it has conquered something in the man, and so become master of the main. m FEELING AND OPINION. Feeling is more important than opin? ion. A man may go right if be has right impulses with a poor judgment, but he cannot go right if he has a good judgment and bad impulses. Han is like an ocean steamer with two screws. lithe screws are in order, you can steer the steamer with the two screws even if the rudder is unshipped, but if the rudder is all right and the machinery has broken down there is no steerage way, and the steamer drifts wherever the currents take it More than right opin? ions, therefore, men need right emo? tions-that is, right motive powers. " tTKen"' ?ra. "tS?Be" "goef ?own "fo^t? Bethe! and talks to the men ont of th lodging; houses,, do you suppose the need instruction? Do^yOT su^>pdse the need to be told that to be idle, to I dissolute* to be drunken, to be shiftier brin&'&BaBtexl Ifcr JWfcaJ; thejfcnee ia new power, power to doJwhat the Imow^ilnjp?t to,v^e dane.. What tbe need ytou and 1 need also* We g astral;-not chiefly becaa?ewe do nc know better, bot because we lack th power* when the rime comes, to do th things we know we ought to do. An* so the motive power is more importan than the intellectual opinion. Brit th motive power, if it is mere emotion, i of very little value. One man goes t the theater and sees a wife maltreat? and is stirred to pity and indignarlo; and then goes home and scolds his ow: wife because the dinner does not sui his delicate palate. What good has th theater done bim? The next day h goes to a beautiful church, and th choir sings beautifully, and the minis ter portrays suffering in such a way a to stir his emotions, and he takes on his handkerchief and wipes his eyes and presently the benediction is pro nctmced-andha???s iwme and sco3dj his wife because his Sunday dinner ii not to his liking. The emotions in th< church were not any more religion) than the emotions in the theater, fo: the emotion that simply plays onth< surface of a man's heart, but does no' go down into his life, is idle and nu gatory. As his opinion must be a con viction, conquering the man and cou trolling 'him, so this emotion must bf harnessed to the life and direct the life. The man who weeps over an imaginar} wi&on tbe sta^Vnd then go^o^ toiboid Ms own wife is no be?p^i the play, nor is the man whose xev-ar ence is kindled by the choir or the min? ister and~?l?en goes out to forget God and carry OB his business as thoo gi there were no God in the world better for the service. As tbe opinion must enter into the character, sb the emotion must enter into the character and be? come a part of the man himself. CONDUCT AND CHARACTER. How about the conduct? Suppose the mail does right, is. that enough? No! Conduct that is not a part of character ia but little better than creed or emotion that is not a part of character. The minister ha* been studying al 1 the morn? ing; and been very much interested in his problems and his books. Evening comes; there is a church sociable. He says, I suppose I must go; i will be so? ciable; I am determined that I will be sociable,, and he puts on a smile, and shakes hands with everybody, and all the time wishes he were out of it. Do you not know that most men see through it, and all women see through it? Con? duct is of very little value unless it is the spontaneous expression of character. We take the life of Christ and look it through. Here was one who knew the truth and taught it, we say-and we reverence him as a teacher for his wis? dom; here was one who felt the pulsa? tions of reverence and faith and hope and love and went everywhere inspir? ing feeling in men he touched-and we reverence him for his feeling; here was , one who went about doing good, heal? ing tbe sick, bringing sight to the blind, giving comfort to the afflicted-and we reverence him for his brotherly love. "These things saith he that is holy, he that is true. 7 ** I know thy works : be? hold, 1 have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it : for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name." "Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation. " noma AND BEING. Religion does not consist in doing tilings. If a man goes into the market saying, 1 am going to be honest, you would better watch him. The man who has to watch himself needs to be watch? ed by his neighbor. It is not enough to do honest things-one must be honest; it is not enough to tell the truth-one must be truthful; it is not enough to do deeds of love-one must be loving. Between the man who simply tells the truth and the man who is truthful, be? tween the man who simply does what is honest and the man who is honest, be? tween the man who does charitable things and the man who is charitable, there is an enormous gulf, and we all know it And no man has come into that state in which any man should be willing to be until truth and honesty and charity flow spontaneously out of him. The conduct of a man ought not to be like water in a well, when one has to pump hard to get a little out; it ought to be like a spring that flows spontaneously out of the hillside, and youcannotstop .it if you try, and if you stop it here it will find some new ? vent elsewhere. We all know this. To be is more important than to do, and to j do is more important than to feel, and j to feel is more important than to think, and thinking and feeling and doing are j of very little value except as they tend i to make character and are the expres I sion of character. ! The other summer, while sailing along the shores of the sound, I landed at a little cove; there were a lighthouse tower and a fog bell, and the keeper i showed ns the fog bell, and how the j mechanism made it strike every few i moments in the darkness and in the j night when the fog hung over the coast, and r said, That is the preacher; there he8tands ringing out the message of warning, ringir? out the message of rc ; atruction, ridging out the message of cheer; it is a great thing to be a preach? er. And we went up into the lighthouse tower; there was a tower that never said anything and never did anything it just stood still and shone, and I said, That is the Christian; he may not have any word to utter, he may not be a prophet, he may not be a worker, he may achieve nothing, but he stands still and shines, in the darkness and in the storm, always and every night. The fog bell strikes only on occasion, but all the time and every night the light flashes out from the lighthouse. All the time and every night this light is flashing out from you if you are God's children. Let your light so shine. Do not flash it-let it shine; just have it, r'??cT"t^^ Yon cannot let it shine unless you have it, and if you have it yon cannot keep it from shining. THE PRINCE AND THE DAISY. Are you sometimes discouraged and despondent? Yon never bare been able to give mach in money nor in strength of service; you cannot teach La the Sunday school; you cannot work in' the club; perhaps you were active once, and hs^e been laid aside and say some? times to yourself, I am of use no more, 1 might as well be dead. If you can? not do, you can be, and that is most important of all. -1 read or heard years ago a little parable. A certain prince went ont into his vineyard to examine it, andie caine to the peach tree, and he said, What are you doing for me? and the tree said, Iii the spring I give my blossoms and fill the air with fra? grance, and on my boughs hang the fruit which presently men will gather and carry into the palace for yon. and the prince said, Well done, good and faithful servant. And he came to the I maple, and he said, What are you do? ing? and the maple said, I am making nests for the birds and shelter for the cattle with my leaves and my spreading branches, and the prince said, Well done, good and faithful servant. And he went down into the meadow, and he said to the waving grass, What are yen doing? and the grass said. We" are giv? ing up our liveSifor others, for your sheep and your cattle, that they may be nourished, and. the prince said, Well done, good, and faithful servants that give your lives np for others. And then he came to a little daisy that was grow? ing in the hedge row, and he said, What are you doing? and the daisy said. Nothing! nothing! I cannot make nest? ing places for the birds, and I cannot give shelter to the cattle, and I cannot send fm it into the palace, and I cannot even famish food for the sheep and the cows-they do not want me in the meadow; all I can do is to be the best little daisy I can be. And the prince bent down and kissed the daisy, and said. There is none better than thon. Chines* Prisoner*. A Chinese prison is called a * * cangne. " It? outer door is barred with bamboo and is guarded by petty soldiers or po? licemen. The "cangue" contains two rooms and two yards. - One room and one yard are for men. The other room and yard are for women. The space set apart for women, is very much smaller than that for men. But the women's quarters and the men's quarters are alike in being en? tirely devoid of any provision for per? sonal comfort or for personal decency. Chinese prisoners are by the govern? ment provided with absolutely nothing but the space beyond which they may not pass. If tneir friends thrust food to them through the bars of the prison fence, the law does not interpose. Oth? erwise the prisoners may starve.-Pitts? burg Dispatch. How a Hen Sleeps. People often,wonder why a hen does not fall off her perch when she goes to sleep. The fact is she cannot. As long as a hen is standing up or walking about the tendons of her toes are relaxed, but by a very curious arrangement, a natu? ral mechanical grip, the moment she sits down on her perch the act of bend? ing the knee joint tightens the toe sin? ews and they are drawn taut, thus clasp? ing the foot around the perch with a viselike clutch. She can only looser it by rising, and that is the reason why a hen or bird mat has been frozen to death is found firmly fixed on the perch. Hens or birds that die in convulsions stand up or try to fly, and so fall, but a bird that has been frozen slowly to death remains on the perch.-Exchange. Averse to the Camera. Roscoe Conkling took a very cynical view of picture making. When I step? ped up to his desk one day in Washing? ton and asked him to give me a sitting, he gave his curly brown locks a toss and replied: "A picture, sir? Ask me anything else! But a picture, never!" Other photographers had no better success. Alexander T. Stewart was simply callous. He would not even entertain a proposal to sit before a camera. When he died, there was a memorable rough and tumble scramble among the news? paper men to get anything in the way of a likeness of him, most of them be? ing compelled to rely upon their recol? lection of him-and their invention.- I G. Pach in New York Herald. Chocolate as a Beverage. An enthusiastic lover of chocolate af? firms in the Omaha Herald that for j those who wish to keep the imagination I fresh and vigorous chocolate is the bev- j erage of beverages. However copiously you have lunched, a cupful of choco? late immediately afterward will pro? duce digestion in three hours and pre? pare the way for a good dinner. It is recommended to every one who devotes to brain work the hours he should pass ! in bed; to every wit who finds he has become suddenly dull; to all who find the air damp, the time long and the at? mosphere insupportable, and above all to those who, tormented with a fixed idea, have lost their freedom of thought. Another Had the Call. Colonel Wat Hardin of Kentucky ? was asked if he did not regard a certain j fellow here in Washington who had dealt most villainously with him as the most perfectly unmitigated scoundrel he ever knew. The colonel studied the question with thoughtful gravity a mo- j ment and then, loyally remembering another rogue of even meaner proclivi ties, finally decided: "No; I'm committed to a fellow out in Ohio."-Washington Post. MTS. Lewis' Work. Mrs. Lewis, widow of Professor Lew? is of Cambridge, England, with her sis? ter, Mrs. Gibson, has returned from her second visit to the monastery of Mount j Sinai. Mrs. Lewis is familiar with Greek, .Hebrew and Arabic. The monks i at the monastery permitted her to ex amine six chests full of manuscripts in their possession, and she and her sister brought away photographs of almost all ; the papers. 1 Auriferous Irish Moss. A story from Astoria says that James Anderson, keeper of the Fort Canby lighthouse, brought to town, carefully wrapped, a small piece of dirty stick and an insignificant branch of seaweed, but both the stick and seaweed were thickly powdered with pare gold. The weed, or 4'Irish moss blanc mange," as all the old settlers of Clatsop ?mow it, grows between the kelp and the rocks in the vicinity of Fort Canby and is a common article of food. After being bleached and mixed with boiling water it makes a blanc mange indistinguish? able from the real cornstarch. Mr. Anderson picked a quantity of it last spring and bleached it throughout the summer in shallow wooden boxes. The other day, when cutting the boxes up for kindling wood, he noticed that they contained a large number of scattered grains of gold, and on some of the pieces of seaweed he also found traces of the precious metal. Tracing the cause of this strange discovery to its source, it appears that in the spring; when the swell around the lighthouse is not very strong, the black sand that abounds in that locality had been wash? ed over the kelp continuously, leaving these gold deposits behind on the sea? weed. Mr. Anderson says that be has found a gold mine, but under present condi? tions it is absolutely impossible to ab? stract the gold from the brack sand, as no reducing apparatus has yet been dis? covered that will do it. It has been known that there is gold in all the sand on the lower Columbia, but up to the present, though trials have been repeat? edly made, no known process is keen enough to sever the metal.-Oregon Statesman. PW Ul ps Br oo ka and Ingersoll. Ingersoll and the late Phillips Brooks were great friends, despite the wide di? vergence in their ideas as to spiritual things. On one occasion, when Inger? soll happened in Boston, he called to pay his respects to the distinguished divine. Dr. Brooks was very busy on that par? ticular day and had given positive or? ders to his servant to admit no one to his study. Several ministers called, but each waa turned away with the polite explanation that Dr. Brooks was at home to no one. Presently Ingersoll called. The servant told him the same story. ..But,'* said the colonel, "lam a friend of Dr. Brooks, and I think he . really wants to see me. Anyway carry in my card and see what he says. " The servant speedily returned and re? quested Ingersoll to walk right in. Aft? er formal greetings Ingersoll said: "Doctor, your servant told me that several preachers called just before me and you declined to see them. Why have you shown me this marked dis? tinction,may I ask?'* .* The reason is simple, " replied the great churchman. "If those preachers die, I'll be sure to meet them again in heaven, whereas had you gone away and died 1 should never have met yon again. I thought I had better take no chances."-Ram's Horn. A Journalistic Mentor. A brilliant and not unsuccessful news? paper proprietor once remarked to me, apropos of his staff: "I do not care for men of broad views, sound common sense and correct principles. Give me a clever, disappointed man of morbid mind, who * wants to get his knife' into as many of his fellow creatures as pos? sible. That's the kind of man who can write what the public like to read, but of course he needs constant supervi-* sion." At the time I was somewhat shocked by the cynicism of my journalistic men? tor, but an extended experience of life is apt to convince one that most persons in? wardly relish disparaging and **spicy" comments on others and are not over and above pleased when an old school? fellow or next door neighbor is publicly acclaimed. Let those kindly souls who may feel inclined to deny this cynical view of human nature turn again to x)ean Swift's pungent verses on his own death, with their famous-and shall we not say accepted?-motto from his master, Rochefoucauld, "Dans l'adver site de nos meilleurs amis nous troa vonoa toujours quelque chose qui ne nous deplait pas. "-National Review. ? His Query. The eta tn e of Dr. Horace Wells in Bushnell park, Hartford, bears beneath his name the assertion, "Who Dis? covered Anaesthesia. " The other day a stranger in the town looked earnestly at it for a long time, and then turning to a bystander said, apparently in all sin? cerity: "Please, sir, will you kindly tell me what that word Anaesthesia means? W?.3 it the old name of Hart? ford?" Possibly the querist was a* Bostonian, who, having his own town's claimants to the honor in his mind, thought after the manner of his kind j that the assertion in the inscription | ought to be a query.-New York Times, A Queen Bee. MTS. Jennie Atchley of Beeville, Bee county, Tex., has 800 colonies of bees, devoted entirely to queen rearing. She is the most extensive breeder of queen bees in the world. She is a woman of 88 and has eight children, with whose help she Joes all the work in the apiary. She has sold over 4,000 queens this year and expects to sell 5,000. Some single queens are valued at $100 each. A Greek Find. The French Arcba?ological school in Greece is in luck. In the course of their excavations at Delphi they discov? ered, it seems, an inscription of a hymn to Apollo, with the musical notes. This is a "find" of the utmost interest, for music is one of the lost arts of Greece. We know what effect it had on those who heard it and how large a part it played in the views of philosophers. But of the nature of it we know very little-less even than we know of that other lost art, the Greek art of paint? ing. The French school will indeed have reason to be proud of their dig? gings if in this hymn of Apollo be found a key wherewith to unlock a closed page in the knowledge of old Greek civilization.-Westminster Gazette. LOW FOR CASH A CAR LOAD OF Fine Buggy Morgen. A Full Line of OLD HICKORY WAGONS, . BUGGIES. CARRIAGES, HARNESS, WHIPS, ETC. ALL FOR SALE LOW FOR CASH. W. M. GRAHAM. Jan ll. CHOICE GOODS. Nuts, Raisins, Citron, Prunes, Currants, Fig?, Mince Meat, Dates, &c. Candy of every Description. 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A complete workshop bas been Gtted up on LIBERTY STREET, NEAR POST OFFiCK And we are now ready to execute with promptness all orders consigned to ns. Satis? faction guaranteed. Obtain our price before placing an order elsewhere. W. H. COMMANDER, G. E. RICHARDSON, Jone 16.