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w::s the very one who had said,
"Through a window in a basket
mas 1 let down by the wall."
alg.b.thing unimportant in your life
or mine. Three naughts placed on
the right side of the figure enema's.*
a thousand, and six naughts on the
right side of the figure one a million,
and our nothingness placed on the
right side may he augmentation il- yet stronger one from the field of
limitable. All the ages of time and business, suggested by the fact that
eternity affected by the basket let , the railroad companies and 51 per
down from a Damascus balcony. cent. of all American employers fa-
vor abstainers in seeking employes,
an argument to which attention had
been called by a recent Buffalo inter-
view with our own commander-in-
chief,. General Miles, whose anti-can-
teen opinion, with that of Generals
Wheeler, Ludlow, Shelter and How-
ard, outweighs the opinions of all
the lesser officers on the other side.
"The Washington Post recently in-
timated, in view of the abstinence in-
creasingly required of employes by
railroads and other business estab-
lishments, it would soon come to
pass that the government service
would be the only one open to hard
drinkers. But perhaps those who
anti
-
canteen
arnamyyy will learn, as our
has done, that the
man behind the gun needs a clear
head as much as a man who runs a
freight train."
* of God is through His Son. In
Eden as well as here and in all the
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, other appearances of God we must;
SEPT. 15. recognize Him whom we know as
the Son of God, or Lord Jesus a
- igs
Christ, the Lord of hosts, the Lord
Tex of the Lesson, Gen. X.X.X11. God of Israel, Jehovah of the Old 1-32. Colden Text, Luke Testament, who by. His precious xviii., 1. blood shed for us has provided
THE xxxiii, 20, in the light of John I,'
18, 'teach that every manifestation'
my and howling of the pin-suers 'are
at the front door. They break in.
"Fetch out that gospelizer and let
us hang has head on the city gate.
Where is he ?" The emergency was
terrible. Providentially there was
a good, stout basket in the house.
Paul's friends fasten 4 rope to the
laskea, vak steps into it. The
basket is lifted to the edge of,__ the
balcony on the wall, and then hile
Paul holds the rope with both
hands his friends lower away, care-
hilly and cautiously, slowly 'but
surely, farther down and farther
down, until the basket strikes the
earth and the apostle steps out and
afoot and alone starts on that fa-
mous missionary tour, the story of
which has astonished thirth anal hea-
ven. ApPropriate entry in Paul's,
diary of travels : "Through a win-
dow-in a basket was I let down by
the wall."
I observe first on what a slender
tenure great results hang,. The rope-
maker who twisted that cord fasten-
ed-to that lowering basket never
knew how much would depend upon
THE STRENGTH OF IT.
How if it had been broken and the
apostle's life had been dashed out ?
What- would have become of the
Christian. Church ? All the magnifi-
cent missionary work in Pamphylia,
Cappadocia, Galatia, Macedonia
would never have been accomplished.
All His writings that make up so in-
dispensable and enchanting a part of
the Now Testament would never have
-been written. The story of resur-
rection would never have been so
gloriously, told as lie told it. That
Maniple of heroic and triumphant
endurance at' Philippi in the Medit-
erranean Eurochydon, under flag-
gellation, sand at his be-
heading would not have
kindled the courage of 10,000 mar-
tyrdoms:- But that rope holding that
basket, how- much depended on it I
So again and again great results
have hung on slender circumstances.
The parsonage at Epworth, 'Erma
land, is on fire in the night, and the
father rushed through the hallway
for those worse off than I. and was
general confidant of all those who
had trouble, and once in a while I
was strong enough to make a gar-
ment for, that poor family in the
back . lane." Fees on to another
throne. Who ant, thou, mighty one
of heaven? "I was the mother who
raised a whole family of children for
Clod, and they are out in the world
Christian merchants, Christian me-
chanics, Christian wives, and,I have
had full reward for all nav toil."
Let us pass on in the-circle of
thrones. "I had a Sabbath school
class, and they were always on my
heart, and they all, entered the King-
doms of God, and I am waiting for
their arrival. ' But who-art thou,
the mighty one of heaven on this
other throne? "In time of bitter
amazement 1 heard a strong voice
that sounded as though it might
once have been hoarse from many
exposures, and triumphant as though
it might have belonged to one of
the martyrs, and it said: "Not
many mighty, not many noble are
called, but God hath chosen the
weak things of the world to con-
found the things which are mighty,
and base things of the world and
things which are despised halls God
cohapetno, try.ega,
i to ndauthongs h inghsie she litrlei
are, that no flesh should glory in his
!presence." And I looked to see from
whence the voice cane, and lo! It
THE 111A11011 OF REFORM
THE "MIDWAYS."
County and District fairs are the
Meccas that at this time of year at-
tract our urban population. That
the pleasures offered should be free
from vicious tendencies is a thing to
be desired by all lovers of country
and kind. Ever since the Chicago
World's Fair, the tone of Canadian
Exhibitions has been decidedly low-
er. for while liquor is excluded by
law and its illegal sale cuts but a
small figure, vulgar and even inde-
cent side-shows have multiplied and
games of chance, with sometimes
outright gambling attachments,';
flourished. The following item from
a Chicago paper will be of Interest
to those who hope for an ebb in this
tide of temptation to our Canadian
youth:—
The Civic Committee of Boston
submitted seven questions to the sec-
returnee of all the State Boards of
Agriculture, asking whether, in their
°Pinion, the purely legitimate agricul-
tural fair pays better in the long run.
'Twenty-four secretaries have deelared
unanimously against the wide-open
fair, and say that -intoxicating li-
quors should be vigorously excluded,
together with games of chance, vul-
gar tent shows, "midways„" circus
features, etc. This is most satisfac-
tory news. The annual fair has
grown, in many instances, to be a
centre of danger for attending young
people, as well as adults, and it is
to be hoped this body of secretaries
may be able to rush their theories
to practical issue."
THE ENGLISH CHILD.
On March 20th, the bill prohibit-
ing the sale of intoxicants to per-
sons under 16 years of age" passed
the English House of Commons by
872 to 54. High hopes were enter-
tained that a halt was to be called
in the alcoholiaing of the English
child, so graphically described by
many recent writers In English and
American temperance journals. But
the congratulations indulged in were
premature. An August issue of the
London, England, "White Ribbon"
Wm, 'By a majority of one vote the
Grand Committee has swept out of
the measure its central principle, by
passing an amendment, permitting
drink to be delivered to children if
in 'closed and sealed bottles!' "
The Chicago Union Signal com-
ments as follows:—"Absurdity could
not further go—a loose cork and a
paper label would comply with such
of his tales by appealing successful-
ly to the athletic side of army ab-
stinence. He took two regiments
and gave them a ration of whisky,
and started them on a long march
in the bills of India. On the same
march he started also two regiments
supplied with a ration of beer, and
two other regiments with water in
place of intoxicants. Whisky led in
the opening spurt, but it soon fag-
ged, and then beer led for a little.
but the 'cold water army' showed
far greater endurance and reached the
goal not only sooner but stronger
than the others. . By such tests and
by showing in official statistics year
after year 'that abstainers send only
two-third as many ter 1,000 to the
hospital and only one-third as many
to the guard house as the drinkers.
British generals of the India Army
have induced ,one-third of their sol-
diers to join-;theBritish Army Total
Abstinence Assoc' ition, which they
encourage in every way, instead of
saying, 'Soldiers will drink,' and
making no effort to prevent it. Thus
in peace abstinence is promoted, but
in war it is required of officers and
soldiers alike, not for the sake of
morals, but for the sake of victory.
"To this anti-canteen argument
from the field of athletics let me add
NEW ZEALAND.
Woman's Suffrage in New Zealand
has been a bete noir to the gam-
blers, liquor sellers, and purveyors
for vice. It, has given an impetus to
all reform movements and has so in-
creased the vote cast in favor of
Prohibition, at the plebiscite taken
with every parliamentary election,
that the liquor interests are thor-
oughly alarmed, and are afraid to
risk another vote three years from
now. They are advocating a plebis-
cite in favor of not taking a vote
for six or ten years.
WHAT NOT TO DO IN A BOAT.
Some Rules for the Guidance of
the Land-Lubber.
Some people, fearless because ig-
norant of dangers, will insist upon
boat parties, and we have every
summer a long list of unnecessary
accidents on our rivers. Most of
these might have been avoided by a
little knowledge of what not to do
in a boat.
To begin at the beginning, when
taking your place do not step on the
side of the boat, or the consequence
will be that, unless you have a very
experienced mariner as your compan-
ion, he will, through the sudden
lurch of the boat, be pitched back-
ward into the water. -
But place your foot an the seat,
well in the middle of it; don't stand
there hesitating, but give your
weight on to that foot and prompt-
ly step with the other onto the floor
of the boat.
Sit down at once, eveb if not in
the particular spot you wish to oc-
cupy; the change can he made ever
so much better after a minute or so,
when you have quite made up your
mind, where you would best like to
sit, and when the boat has recovered
from the little wobbliness occasion-
ed by your entry.
Be sure not to stand up when any-
body else is moving about the boat.,
More accidents have happened that
way than any other.
Even if you should think that by
so doing you might avert a catas-
trophe, renounce the idea—unless, of
course, a very trustworthy guide
should counsel the action.
Above all things, remember that
when going through the rapids it is
perfectly essential to sit still.
Do not rock the boat to tease a
companion ; and, if frightened, sit
still and do not grab at anyone.
Do not wear fine clothes, but dress
neatly. Large hats, feathers and
streaming ends are inappropriate
and most uncomfortable on the riv-
er. A light woolen skirt, a cotton
er atoms; but a more shady head-
gear may be donned with a simple
summer dress for a smarter occasion.
It is impossible to leave the sub-
ject without a word of- advice to a
lazy man. Never allow a girl to
scull you up stream in the blazing
sun while you loll back at ease.
The girl may be a would-be athlete,
protesting that she likes it, but all
the same you must not pa-mit her
to so overtax her strengths as to
risk a sunstroke. There could be
only, one opinion as to the man's
breeding under these circumstances,
and his selfishness is beyond hope.
SHAVERS, PLEASE NOTE!
Have you noticed - that, after a
very "close" shave in summer time,
your face is irritated, and that some
ugly pimples appear over the course
taken by the razor ? It it especially
noticeable if you happen to go out
immediately, and the streets are
dusty. Scientists have been good
enough-ate explain this disagreeable
condition. Of course, the microbe is
at the bottom of the mischief, but
the explanation is interesting and
may help slatvers to avoid the trou-
ble. There are microbes that take
advantage of .erasures in the skin,
and these minute organisms are
drives] by the wind, together with
the -dust which forms their dwelling-
place, on to your face. If your skin
he whole they can do nothing but
asit till the, wind takes them off
again or until you wash them away.
But the close shave has so scraped
your skin that it offers the microbe
the opportunity it wants; in it goes
and you suffer for a time from irri-
tation and pimples. The microbe
may leave you without- going farther
or it may enter your system to do
mischief elsewhere.
4'
QUITE PROPER.
Orthodox Mother—"Ethel I How
many times must I tell you it is
wicked to pick flowers on the Sab-
bath 1"
Ethel—"But mother, I'm only
picking real Sabbath onee—Adam's-
tin-each-and-needle, Timothy, Solo-
mon's-seal and Jack-in-the-pulpit. I"
1-2. "And Jacob went on his way,
and the angels Hof God met him."
In our last lesson the Lord and the
angels appeared to him as he was
leaving home and now, after twenty
years (chapter xxxi, 38, 41), as he
is about to return home with wives
and children and servants and much
cattle, the angels of Gnu meet him.
In what wondrous grace the Lord
deals -with this man ! And He is
Jesus Christ the same yesterday
and to-day and forever (Heb. xiii,
8) and has just the same grace for
you and for me. In chapters xxix to
xxxi, inclusive, between the last les-
son and this one, we have an ac-
count of Jacob's 20 years with La-
ban, his faithful service, his mar-
riage, his increase and the Lord's
special care of him (chapter xxxi,
11-13, 24, 29); also in verses di to
55 the incident of the covenant be-
tween Laban and Jacob at Galeed
or Miapah as they separated.
3-8. Jacob sent messengers to
Esau, his brother, and on their re-
turn, learning that Esau was com-
ing to meet him with 400 men, he
becomes filled with fear and dis-
tress and attempts to provide for
the safety of at ,least a portion of
his company. Notwithstanding all
God's gracious care of him these
many years, he does not seem to
have learned to trust Him without
fear.
.9-12. In humility he looks to God
and pleads His promises to him, ao-
knowledging all His great goodness
with gratitude. This is a right at-
titude toward God. The assurances
of God when he left his home and
when he was about to return should
have delivered him from all fear
concerning Esau's treatment of him
But many believers are not any more
trustful now, for with such assur-
ances as John x, 27-29 ; Phil. i, 6;
II Tim:" i, 12, etc., there are those
who have their fears lest they may
not reach home, but be lost some-
where by the way.
13-23. Ile prepared a great present
for Esau that he might therewith
appease him—five droves of goats,
sheep, camels, cows and asses-580
in all, with instructions to those in
charge of the droves a. to what they
shall say to Esau when they meet
him. It looks as if he felt that he
must do somewhat to help God in
this matter. He evidently believed
the- world's motto used by many be-
lievers, "God helps those who help
themselves," but the teaching of
Scripture Is that God helps those
who cannot help themselves, and we
must come to an end of ourselves
before we can know His power (Ps.
lxxii, 12 ; cvii, 27, 28 ; lea. xl, 29,
and all His miracles).
24. "Ana Jacob was left alone,
and there wrestled a man wile. lam
until the breaking of day." The
margin says until the ascending of
the -morning. It is not Jacob
wrestling with a man that he might
prevail over him, but the man
wrestles with Jacob that he may
conquer Jacob, and Jacob evidently
stoutly resists him until morning.
God is ever seeking to break us
down, to humble us, to bring -us to
an end of ourselves, that He may
bless us indeed and show us His
strength and magnify Himself in us.
25-26. Toward morning the man
who - wrestled with Jacob touched
the hollow of Jacob's thigh and
put it out of Joint, so that Jacob
could no longer resist, after which
Jacob clung in his helplessness, say-
ing I Will not let thee go except
thou bless me. This is the secret
of prevailing with God, our helpless-
ness clinging to His power. Con-
sider those who came to Him when
He *as on earth for us and see
how in every Case His power was
had died.
27, 28. "Thy name shall be called
no more Jacob, but Israel, for as a
prince hest thou power with God
and with men and host prevailed."
We cannot get our new name of saent
until we confess that we . are and
have been sinners and naught but
sinners. Jacob must acknowledge
himself as Jacob or supplanter,
(chapter xxvii, 36, margin) before
he can receive his slew name of
Israel (margin, a prince of Cod).
The Spirit through Hosea says,
"By his strength he had power with
God ; yea, he had power over the
angel and prevailed ; he wept and
made supplication unto Him ; he
found Him in Bethel, and there He
spoke with us, even the Lord God
of hosts ; the Lord is his memorial"
(Hos. xii, 8-5). Then follows the
exhortation to turn to God and
wait on God continually. This is
the secret of prevailing prayer, per-
sistent clinging to God alone, plead-
ing only our need and His great
mercy. We will always have oc-
casion to say, "Though our ini-
quities testify against us, do Thou
it for Thy 'name's sake" (Jen xiv,
7). When we take the place of utter
helplessness and unworthiness and,
like Jacob, cry, I will not let thee
go, we shall see fulfillments of John
xiv 18, 14, and similar promises.
This is the first mention of the great
name of Israel, a name that always
is used to designate Jacob or his
posterity.' It is never used as a
name Inc the church, not even in
Gal. vi, 16, where it evidently means
the believers in Israel, who are
spoken of in addition to other be-
lievers. There is no authority for
the term "spiritual Israel:' though
it may properly be used in reference
to -true believers in Israel, but
should never be applied to gentiles.
We must not confound the church
with Israel, nor the kingdom with
either. though both will be very
prominent in the kingdom.
29-32. "He blessed him there."
So Jacob called the name of the
place Peniel (margin, the face of
God), for ho said, I have seen God
face to face, and my life is pre-
served. This and Ex. xxiv, 11 ;
eternal redemption and a joint heir-
ship with Himself for all who re-
ceive him. It would seem that Ja-
cob carried with Ilan from that time
the evidence of that night's conflict,
and we must never forget that ma
have been rebels against God, chil-
dren of disobedience, and by His
grace have been redeemed. We must
learn to know that in us—that is,
in our flesh—there dwelleth no good
thing (Roin. vii, 18) and glory ' in.
the Lord alone, seeing no man but
Jesus only and coveting above all
things His blessing, which -maketh
rich (Mark ix, 8 ; Prov. x, 22,
R.V., margin).
TRACKING A TIGER.
An Exciting Adventure in Search
of a Man-Eater.
A writer in the Indian Sporting
Times gives some details of the de- .
predations of a tiger in various vil-
lages during the famine year. In the
course of his remarks he says that
for a whole year the monster contin-
ued his depredations almost without'
molestation. Over forty people had
been slain, and thus village herds suf-
fered severely. The local forest
ranger was in a state of terror, and
had written to his superior in terms
much as follows, showing the diffi-
cult situation in which he compiled )
Isis reports:—
'February 1st—Up a tree, where I!
adhere with much pain and discora-'
posure while big tiger roaring in a'
very awful manner on the fire line.
This is two times he spoiled my
work, coming and shouting like
thunder and putting me up a tree,
and making me behave like au insect.
I am not able to climb with agility
owing to stomach being a little big,
owing to bad water of this jungle.
Jungle mans can fly up tree quickly.
Even when I do not see this tiger,'
and he does not make a dreadfuk
noise. I see the marks of his hoofs
and his nails on the path.
The writer of this article continues: •
So it came about that when my
camp was pitched in the vicinity of
the "Yellow Peril," a deputatien,
headed by Koombappa, presented it•
self befbre my tent, and begged me
to rid the neighborhood of earners-
ster concerning whose doings each ,
one had some piteous tale to tell.
It was a long tramp up the valley
before daylight next morning, and' a
stiff climb up the path, which wound
its way over the reeks and through
the thick bamboo jungle. Now, the'
jungle was so thick and extensive
that to beat for the tiger would be
a useless task. Nothing could be
seen in the dense thickets of the
cover where he lurked. What was to
be done?
"SIIIKAR WITH BELLS."
Then I bethought me of a mode of
hunting of which a sportsman of 611
years of age had told me. This was.
the "shikar with bells." A native,
adorned only with a coating of wood
ashes, with a tray containing burn-
ing oil-wicks upon his head, and a
chime of bells in his hand, precedes
the hunter in search of game on a
dark night. Such was the plan now .
proposed. At ten o'clock at night
Koombappa, smeared with ashes anch
bearing the lights upon himhead and
the chimes in his hand, preceded me
to the forest. It was a weird .ad-
venture. Nought could be seen but
the dim outline of trees in the
gloomy forest. My companion's
movements became more grotesque
and, as it were, inspired. Ths
lights danced before my eyes and cash
a beautiful glare for, some yards
ahead. The tinkle of the bells be.
cansaes more sonorous, anti filled the
forest with a weird -noise that men
cised an indescribable spell over the
senses. Suddenly the spectral ash'
-clad figure ceased to advance, huh
frantically continued its ceaseless
antics. I peered into the gloom is
front, an d saw two luminous orbs
shining through the darkness.. Slow. ,
ly they approached. The mot-orients
of the dancer became El asmodic as
the huge form of the tiger emerged
from the shadows and stood erect be'
fore us -in the dim flickering light,
with every hair set, breathing heav'
ily, with panting tongue and heavies
sides. As I raised my rifle and fires
between the creature's eyes Koom-
bappa sank to the ground exhausted
by his exertions and excitement.
The lights were exhausted at the
same moment, and all was silent and
buried in 'darkness. F9r some mo-
ments I dared not move. At length
as my eyes became accustomed to
the darkness, 'objects outlined them'
selves amid the surrounding obscuss
ity and the great form of the tiger
appeared lying on the ground a few
yards off. My bullet hail pierced his
brain.
LARGE LANDOWNERS.
The largest landowner in Engle-,
proper is the Duke of Northumber-
land, who possesses 186,000 acres,
mainly of course, in the county from
which he takes his title, and he is
the only one of these eight-and-
twenty great lords who has not an
acre either in Scotland or Ireland.
Tho largest landlord in Ireland is
the Marquis of Conyngha.m, wise
owns 156,000 acres ; in Wales, ''The
Prince in Wales," Sir Watkin Wil-
liams Wynn, whose acres amount to
145,000, is the only possessor of
more than 100,000 acres who is not
a peer.
• A PERFECT BOY.
"I never heard of but one perfect
boy," said Johnhy, pensively, as he
sat in the corner doing penance.
"And who was that 1" asked
01.0.011150..
"Papa—when he was little," was
the answer. And silence reigned fob
the space of five minutes. •
the sea. Ask their mission stations
all around the world. Ask their
hundreds of thousands already as-
cended to join their founder, who
would have perished but for the liv-
ing stairs of peasants' shoulders.
PRACTICAL INFERENCE:,,
There are no insignificancies in life.
The minutest thing is a part of a
magnitude. Infinity is made up of
infinitesimals ; great things an ag-
gregation of 'email things. Bethle-
hem manger pulling on a star in the
eastern sky. One book In a drenched
sailor's mouth the evangelization of
a multitude. One ho-c of papyrus
.on the Nile freighted a. ,, events !or
Henceforth Think of Nothing As
Insignificant.
A despatch Iron laashingten says: all ages. 'rile fate of Christendom
—Rev. Dr. Tannage preached froth in a basket let down from a win-
th6 following text: II. Corinthians dose on the wall. What you do, do
xi, 33, "Through a window in a bat- well. If you make a rope, make it
ket was 1 let down by the wall." strong said true, for you know not
Sermons on Paul in jail, Paul on how much may clepeucl on your work-
Mars Hill, Paul in the shipwreck, manship. If you fashion a boat, let
Paul before the Shanhedrin, Paul be- it be waterproof, for you know not
fore Felix, are plentiful, but in my who may sail in it. 11 you put a
text we have Paul in -a basket. Bible in the trunk of your boy as
Damascus is a city of white and he goes from home, let it be Yemen,
glistening architecture, sometimes bered in your prayers, for it may
called "the eye of the East," some- have a mission as far-reaching as the
times called "a pearl surrounded by book which the sailor carried in his
emeralds," at one time distinguish- teeth to the Pitcairn bedch. The
ed fdr swords of the best material, plainest man's life is an island be-
called Damascus blades, and upbol- tween two eternities—eternity past
stery of richest fabric called damask. rippling, against his shoulders, eter-
A horseman of the name of Saul, pity to come touching his brow.
riding toward this city, had been The casual, the accidental, that
thrown from the saddle. The horse which merely happened so. are parts
had dropped under a flash from' the of a great plan, and the rope that
sky, which at the same time was lets the fugitive apostle from the
so bright it blinded the rider for Damascus wall is the cable that
many days, and, I think, so per- holds to its mooring the ship of the
manently injured hia eyesight that Church in the storm of the centuries.
this defect of vision became the 0,'men and women, you brag some-
thorn in the flesh he afterwards lime how you have fought your way
speaks of. He had started for. Da- in the world, but I think there have
miscue to butcher Christians, but
after that hard fall -from his horse
he was a changed man and preached
Christ in Dammscus till the city was
shaken to its foundation.
The mayor gives authority for his
arrest, and the popular cry is: "Kill
him ! Kill him I" The city is sur-
rounded by h high wall and the gates
are watched by the police lest the
Cilician prisoner escape. Many of
the houses are built on the wall, and
their balconies .projected clear over
and hovered above the gardens Out-
side. It was customary to lower
baskets out of these balconies and
pull up fruits and flowers from the
gardens. To this day visitors at the
monastery of Mount Sinai are lifted
and
LET DOWN IN BASKETS.
Detectives prowled ar8une . from
house to house looking for Paul,
but his friends had. him, now in one
place, now in .another. He is no
coward, as fifty incidents in his life
demonstrate; but he feels his .work
is not done yet end so he evades as• the mast as he climbs the ratlines
eassination. "Is that preacher to disentangle a rope in the tempest
here?" the foaming mob shout at and finds them swinging on the ham-
tine house door. "Is that fanatic mock when he turns in. Why not
be frank and acknowledge it? The here r the police shout at another house door. Sometimes on the most of us would long ago have been
dashed to' pieces had not gracious street incognito he passes through a and loving hands steadily and lov- Cloud of clin
he secretes himself on the house top.
ched fiats and sometimes ingly and mightily held the rope.
But them must come a time when At last the infuriated populace get we shalt on out who these Damns- on sure track of him. They have canes were who lowered Paul in the positive evidence that he is in the basket, -and greet them and all those house of one of the Christians, the
balcony of whose home reaches over who have rendered to God and the the wall. "Here he is ! Ifere he world, unrecognized and unrecorded
Is t The vociferation and blasphe- services. That is going to be one of "
been helpful influences that you have
never fully acknowledged. Has there
not been some influence in your early
or present home that the world can-
not see? Does there not reach you
from among the New England hills
or Rosa the western prairie or from
English or Irish or Scottish home
A CORD OF INFLUENCE
that has kept you right when you
would have gone astray and which,
after you had made a crooked track,
recalled you? The rope may be as
long as 30 years or 5.00 miles long
or 3,000 miles long, but hands that
went out of mortal sight long ago
still hold the rope. You want a
very swift horse, and you need to
rowel him with sharpest spurs and
to let the reins lie loose upon -the
neck and to gives a shout to the racer
if you are going to ride out of reach
of your mother's prayers. Why, a ship
crossing the Atlantic in six days
can't sail away from that. A sail-
or finds them on the lookout as he
talles his place and finds them on
S. S. LESSON.
the glad excitements of heaven, the
hunting up and picking out of those a restriction: and the main evil of
who did great good on earth and familiarizing children With the
got no credit for it. Here the scenes and the language of the pub-
church has been going on 19 cen- licshouse would remain untouched.
turiem and yet the world has not America has a perpetual battle on
recognized the services of the people hand to keep in enforcement such
in that Damascus balcony. Charles laws as we have prohibiting the sale
G. Finuey said to a dying Christian, of intoxicants to minors. Perhaps
"Give my love to St. Paul when we do not realize how much deeper
you meet hint." When you and' I is the crime against childhood in
meet him, as we will, I shall ask fair England. Observation was very
him' to introduce me to those svlio recently made by a Teetotal Evidence
got hies out of Society on one licensed house in
TIIL' DAMASCUS PERIL. London during seven hours. In that
Come, let us go right up and ac- thne, 1,792 men, 766 women and
cost those on the click of heavenly 1.365 children entered the house.
thrones. Surely they must have Words fail in the face of such .facts
killed in battle a million men. Sure- as these."
ly they must nave been buried with
all tha cathedrals sounding a dirge
and all the towers of all the cities THE CANTEEN.
tolling the national grief. Who art The life and death grapple in pro-
thou, mighty one of heaven? gross in our sister nation to the lived by choice the unmarried sleigh- south, between the temperance hosts
ter in a humble home that I might and the , liquor elements, finds its
take care of my parents in their old storm centre in the effort now on shirt with a jacket to match the -madeie.m.esalzifest on behalf of utter
age,' and I endured without coin-; the blind, the lepers,
plaint ail their querulousness and camber 6th, 1900, by the American foot to repeal the law, enacted De- skirt' and .a plain straw hat are nev- the woman with the issue, those at
administered to all their wants for congress, prohibiting the sale of II-
the point of death and those who
20. years." Let us pass on round quer in army canteens. Both sides
the circle of thrones. Who net realize that there is much at stake, thou, mighty one . of heaven? "I for if the- law is allowed to stand, it
was for 30 years a Christian lava- is a rational proclamation that li-
lid and suffered all the while, occa- quer Is not necessary for the ender-
sionally writing a note of sympathy anco of mental or physical strain.
and Its mandate will influence many
a civilian whom temperance societies
cannot reach.
Rev. Wilbur F. Grafts,-Secretary
of the American National Reform
Bureau, said recently, in an address
before the Cleveland Y.M.C.A.:—
"The regimen of the regiment
ought to be that of the athlete, even
if moral considerations be left out
of account. As the pugilist, even in
training for retail fighting, must ab-
stain, much more should the soldier
in the wholesale business, with vast-
ly greater issues at stake. When the
physically best equipped of modern
pugilists lost the championship
everybody knows that 'John Barley-
corn' really -knocked him out with a
blow 'below • the belt.' All intoxi-
for the rescue of his children. Seven persecution •I owned a house in Da. cants are really 'knockout drops.'
mamas, Muse on the . A Which reminds us of 'one more drop' children me out and safe on the man who preached Christ was namely, that intelligent men should ground, but one remains in the con- hounded from street to street and I drop the out-grown ignorance fossil- thining building. That one awakes,.
iced in that lying name 'strong hid him from the assassins, and and finding his bed on tire and the when I f011Eld them breaking into my drink .' Water Bobs,' head of building crumbling, comes to the ho,-e .and I couldno longer keep the British Army, got that proudest window, and two peasants make EL him safely I advised him to
ladder of their bodies, one peasant FLEE FOR HIS LIFE, standing on the shoulder of the oth- id a basket was let down Cr, and down the human /adder the mid a the wall with the maltreated
boy descends—John Wesley. If you ma in it, and I was one who helped would know how much depended on field the rope." And said: "Is
that ladder of peasants ask the that all." And he answered: "That lions of Methodists on bath sides of is all." And while 1 was lost in
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