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THE ACTION
NATED BY
Recognition of
the Most Com
-Lilian of A°
Own Charecte
Washington,
ing troth is pr
discourse of to -
thew x, 29: "
for a farthing?
not fall on th
Father."
You see the
in the ohoice o
a beast or bird
been called t
truth—the fox'
dustry, the spi
footedness, the
gentleness, and
ness and insig
tries none but
sparrow and ea
there on the b
what there is,
population wet
• it any snore t
eating a bat
Jesus, if God t
poor bird that
He not °are for
• We assooiat
We can see a
covery of Amer
the art of print
• the gunpowder
of the needle
• Austrian or "
how hard it is
personal affairs
God as making
host, but cann
that he knows
our head. It
God provides f
ites in the dese
ate the truth
•hungry God st
mouth and put
struck with t
universe with
understand ho
tal palace of a
stand between
pond lily. We
Can we see Go
feet?
We are apt t
stage, or try
there to act ou
but we forget
well, an Alex
an archangel
inspection tha
pey thought th
tbe eyes of Gocl
ored Caesar.
Be sees everyt
In the great w
more certainly
in the glass o
guides the star
nificent truth I
ao that He decide
shall take in c
stand that God
different or
that He sits do
stands beside
our lives is so
of importance
In the first p
pupation for us
many people t
the work they
fourths wish t
occupation, an
of time in regr
wrong trade or
yet that God p
influences whiol
choice. Many
ness that you
started for the
ohandise. • Yo
you are a phys
culture, and y
You thought
other. But y
and mourn ove
member that
cumstances by
you are.
Hugh Miller
mason." God
gist." David g
er's sheep. Sa
father's asses,
finds the crow
much happier
content with t
God saw your
circumstances
rounded, and I
are in the woali
I hear a great
I find that the
the springs .are
I send it down
"Overhaul th
wheels and the
mind their ow
man having a
his working ha
says to one, "
another, "Yon
ers " to anothe
glebe," and ea
lar work. The
the man to w
best, and so it
I remark fur
our friendships
wall. You fou
who sympathiz
you. You say
There was no
that friend jus
es- the angel to str
mestie friends,
your Christian
bless you, and
traitoroue it is
of those who re
only that they
of heaven to gr
Yon always•
hearted friend
and When sick
Mg there will
comes to your
thizers; when
gentle fingers t
the bands and
ressurrection.
-- bodyguard of f
has behaved hi
by three circles
outer circle wi
the next circle
otos° to his he
die for him.
has not any fri
I remark ag
the limit to
The world of fi
God in it. You
land. The Mils
The ingenious
An enterprise o
.1.714 OF FAITH.
eht du
bankruptcy, while out of the p dugup
from some New England marsh the mil-
Romans buildo his fortune. The poormah
thinks it is chance that keeps Iniss
down; the rtoh man thinks it is chance
which hoists him, and they are both
wrong. It is 50 hard '0 think that , God
rules the money market and has a hook
in the nose of the stock gambler, and
that all the commercial revolutions of
the world shall result in the very best
for God's dear children. .
My brethren, do not kick against the
divine allotments. God knows just how
much money it is best for you to lose.
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You never gain unless it is best for you
to gain. You go up when it is best for
you to go up, and go down when it is
best for you to go down. Prove it, you
say. I will—Romans viii, 2, "All things
work tegether for good to them that love
God." You go into a factory and you see
n
00 or 30 wheels, and they are going iust
different directions This band is rolling
off this way, and another band another
way, one down and another up. You say,
"What confusion in a factory!" Oh, no
All these different bands aro only dif-
ferent parts of the machinery.. So I go
into year life and see strange things
Here is one providence pulling you one
way and another in another way. But
these are different parts of one maohinei7
by whieh He will advance your °veriest-
ing and present well being, Now you
know that a second mortgage and a
third and fourth mortgage are often
worth nothing. It is the first mortgage
that is a good investment. I have to tellf
you that every Christian has a first mora
gage on every trial, and on every disas-
tenand it must make payment of eternal
advantage to his soul. How many worri-
ments it would take out of your heart if
you believed that fully. You buy goods
and hope the price will go up, but you
are in a fret and a frown for fear the
price will go down.. Yon do not buy the
goods, using your best discretion in the
matter, and then say: "Oh, Lord, I have
clone the best I could. 1 collunit this
whole trausaction into Thy hands " That
is what religion is good for, or it is good
for nothing.
There are two things says an old pros
verb, you ought not to 'fret about First,
things that you can help, 'I
an- second,
things which you cannot help. If yon oan
help them, why do you not apply the
reraedY? If you cannot help them, YOu
might as well surrender first as last. My
dear brethreia, do not sit any longer mop-
ing about your ledger. Do not sit looking
so despondent upon your stook. of un-
salable goods , Do you think that God is
going to allow you, a Christian man, to
do business alone? Goci is the controlling
partner in every firnaand, 'although your
debtors may abscond, although your se-
curities may fail, although your ' store
may 'burn, God Nvill, out of infinity of
results, choose for you the veras best re-
sults
Do not haw any idea that you can
overstep the limit that GO has laid
down for your ProsPerity. You will never
get one inch beyond it God has decided
how much prosperity you Oen stand hon-
orably, and employ usefully, and control
righteously, and at the end of the year
you will have just so many dollars and
cents, just so much wardrobe, just so
Issuch furniture, lust so many bonds and.
mortgages and Dothing more. I will
give you $100 for every penny you get
beyond that. God has looked. over your
life. He knows what is best for you, and
He is going to Mess you in Mine, and
bless you for eternity, and He will do it
in the best way. Your little child says,
"Papa, I wish you would Iet me have
that knife." "No," you say, it is a
sharp knife, and you will out yourself."
He says, "I must have it." "But you
cannot have it," you reply. He gets
angry.and red in the face and says he
will have it, but you say he shall not
have it. Are you not kind in keeping it
from him? So God treats his children. I
say, "I wish, Heavenly Father, to get
that." God says, "No, my child." I say,
"I must have it." God says, "You can-
not have it." I get ang‘ry and' say, "I
will have it" God says You shall not
have it," and I do not get it. Is he not
kind and toying and the best of Fathers?
Do you tell me there is no rule and reg-
Illation in these things? Tell that to the
men who believe in no God and no
Bible. Tell it not to me.
A man of large business toncludes to
go out of his store, leaving much of his
investments in the business, and he says
to his sons: "Now, I am going to leave
this business in your hands. Perhaps I
may come back in a little while and per
haps not. While I am gone you will
please to look after affairs." After awhile
the father comes back and Ends every-
thing at lease ends, and the whole buss-
ness,seenms to be going wrong. Be says
"I am going to take possession of this
business—you know T. never fully sur-
rendered it—and henceforth consider
yourself subordinates." Is he not right
sin doing it? He saves the business. The
Lord seems to let us go on in life,
anided by our own skill, and. we make
miserable work of it. God comes down
to our ship or our store and says:
"Things are going wrong. I come to
take charge. I am master, and I know
what is best and I proclaim my author-
ity," Re are nserely subordinates. It is
like a boy at school with a long suns
that he cannot da He has been working
at it for hours, making figures here and
rubbing out figures there, and it is all
mixed up, and the teacher, looking over
the boy's shoulder, knows that he can-
not get out of it and °leonine the slate
says, "Begin again." Just so God does
to usour affairs get into an inextricable
entanglementand he rubs everything
f
out and says, "Begin,again.' Is He not
wise and loving in so doing? I think
the trouble is that there is so large a
difference between the divine and the
human estimate as to what is enough,
I have heard of people striving for that
wbich is enough, but I never heard of
any one who had enough. What God
calls enough for man, man calls too
little. What man calls enough, God sceve
is too much. The difference between a
poise man and a rich man is only the
difference in banks o The rich man puts
his money in the Washingtom Bank, or
the Central Bank or the Metropolitan
Bank or some other bauk of that char..
acter,while the poor man comes and
makes his investments in the bank
of Efina who runs all the guar-
ries all the mines, all the gold, all the
I
earth, all heaven. Do you think a man
can fail when he is back.ed up like that?
you may have seen a map on Nvhich
are described with red ink the travels of
the children of Israel through the desert
to the promised land. You see how they
took this and that direction, crossed the
/
river and went through the sea. Do you
know God has made a map of your life
with paths leading up to this bittexness
aud that success, through this river and
, across that sea? But blessed be God the
path always, comes out at the promised
land. Meek that! Mark that! I remarkget
turmin Out+ n11 illrion ilhirtera itha /I cneern 4,e.
1
.be but accidents in our ,life are under 1
the divine Supervision. We sometimes .
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seem to be going helmless and aechor-
less, You say, "If I had SOMO other ,
trade. if I had not one there this sum- 1
a . g mer; if I had livedsome other house"
in ,
You have no right to say that aseee
,, O7,_ '
tear 'you wept,'every step you pave swam,
every burden you have ca'rried is under
,
divine inspection, and that event which
startled Your whole household with tar-
- .
ror God met with, perfect placidity, be
cause He knew it was for your good. It
was part of a great plan projected long
ago. In eternity, when . yeti come to i
reckon up your meroies you will point to
a .
that affliction as one of your gretest
blessings.
God has a strange way with u& Jo-
seph found his way to the prime nainis-
ter's ohair by being pushed into a pit
and to many a Christian down is up.
The wheat must be Roiled; the quarry
m be blasted; tbema
diamond must be
ground; the Christian must be afflicted,
and that single event, which you sup-
posed stood entirely alone, was a con-
meeting link betvveen two great chains,
one chain reaching through all eternity
past and the other chain reaching through
all eternity future—so small an event
fastening two eternities together. .
A snissionary coming from India to
the Uefore
United States stopped at SiSt Helena
while the vessel was taking water, He
had his little child with Jana. They
walked along by an embankment, and
a rock at that moment became loosened,
and falling instantly killed the child.
Was it an accident? Was it a surprise to
God? Had He allowed File servant, after
a life of consecration, to came to such a
trial? Not such is my God. There are
no accidents in the divine mind, though
they xnay seem so to us. God is good,
and by every single incident of our life,
whether it be adverse oi• otherwise, be
fore earth and heaven God will demon-
strata His mercy. .
I hear a man save "That idea bent-
ties God. You bring Him down to such i
little things " Oh. I have a more thor-
ough appreciation of God in little things
than I have in greet things. The mother
does not wait until the child has crushed
its foot or broken its arm before she ad-
.ministers sympathy. The child comes in
with the least bruise, and the mother
kisses it God does not wait for some
tremendous crisis in our life, but comes
to us in our most insignificant trials and
throws over us the arms of His mercy.
Going up the White Mountains some
years ago I thought of that passage in
the Bible that speaks of God as weigh-
ing mountains in a balance. As I looked
at those great suountains, I thought can
it be possible that God can put these
great mouotains •in scales? It was an
idea too great for sue to grasp, but when
I saw a blue ben down by the mule's
foot on my way up Mount Washington
then I understood the kindness and good-
ness of God. It is not much of God in
great things I can understand, but of
God in little things.
There is a man who says, "That sloe-
trine cannot lse true, because things do
go so very wrong." I reply it is no in-
consistency on the part of God, but a
lack If understanding on our part I
hear that men are making very fine
shawls in sense factory. I go in on the
first floor and see only the raw, meter-
ials, and I ask, "Are these the shawls I
have heard about?" "No says the man-
nfacturer, "go up to th'e next floor.„
And I go up, and there I begin to see
the design. But the•man says: "Do not
stop here. Go up to the top floor of the
factory and you will see the idea fullyanical
carried out." I do so, and, having come
to the topcompleteid
, see the pattern of
an exquisite shawl. So in our life, stand-
ing down on a low level of Christian
experience we do not understand God'salteredexce
dealings. He tells us to go up higherinter
u
until we begin to understand the divine
meaning with respect to us, and we ad-
Nance until we stand at the very gate ofPes
heaven, and there see God's idea allother
wrought out—a perfect idea of ercy,
m
of love, of kindness. And we say, "Just
and true are all Thy ways." It is all
eight at the top, Remember there is 230intended
ioconsistency on the part of God, but itxnen
is only our niental and spiritualra
Mo
pacity.
Some of you may be disappointed this
summer—vacations are apt to be disap-
pointments—but whatever your per-
plexities and worrirnents know that
"inan's heart deviseth his way, but the
' Lard directeth his steps " Ask these aged
men in this church if it is not so. It has
been so in my own life. One summer I
started for the Adirondacks, but my
plans were so changed that I landed in
Liverpool. I studied law, and r got into
the ministry. I resolved to go as a rais-
sionary to China'and I stayed in the
United States I thought I would like to
be in the east, and I went to the west—
all the circumstances of life, an my
work, different from that which I ex-
pected. ".A man's heart deviseth his
way, but the Lord directeth his steps,"
So, my dear friends, this day take
home this subject. Be content with
such things as you have. From every
grass blade under your feet learn the
lesson of divine care, and never let the
smallest bird flit across your path Nvith-
out thinking of the truth that two spar-
rows are sold for a farthing, and one of
them shall not fall on the ground with-
out your Father. Blessed be His glorious
name forever. Amen
A NOVEL TELESCOPE ,
.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
DOES THIS MEAN YOU
. _
It Enables the Observer to See over a Wall
or Tram Behind a Tree. '
Great interest Was manifested at ahe
recent meeting of the British Royal In-
Stitutionan the new field glasses and
,
s ereceteleseopes shown by the Zeiss
t'
works at Jena. These instruments VOS-
sess remarkable features different from
anything enviously known The objects
. •
sought in their design are (1), to obtain
a considerably larger field than that pas-
sessed by an opera glass of shnilar mag-
nifying power without the use of oreli-
nary telescopic eyepieces, and (2) to
enhance the stereoscopic effect of the ino
telescopes he-
ages seen theough the by p
ing the object glasses of the binooular
father apamat than the interooular distance
of the eye, or that of this eyepieces Two
types of glasses are made --.field glasses,
vp ith gnifying powers from four to
eight diameters, and stereo -binocular tea
escopes, with powers of eight to ten di -
arneters. In the stereo -binocular tele-
scope the object glasses oart be moved
through a w
wide rang. They can be put
s° far apart sid4waYs that it as possible
to stand behind a good-sized tree, with a
giass at oath side of it, tile observerbe-
ing thus hidden while he clearly seas all
im. Alsoit is possible to put
h,
the two object glasses close together and
look over a wall which is higher than
the observer himself. The value of this
arrangement in military Iliatters is too
obvious to need inentio. t is the real-
nI
hl f s
ization otoe Irishman's ideaoeein ssa
aroural the corner. A. theater glass made
on this prinomle would be much appre-
elated when large hats are iu rashion
with ladies
As is well known, the simplest and
most efficient type a telescope is tim as -
tronomical, which has an achromatic
object glass at one end to bring the rays
to Mous, and an eye lens at the other
end through whieh to vieNv the aerial
image thus formed. It has, however, the
disacivantase,e .of showing objects inverted,
whieb does not matter for stars. Now let
s suonose such a telescope thbe bent
' u -- -
twice at right angles Evidently it oould
t e - -a • b h e f
noi e seen thiroug stisitiless 1 y t.1)e bus itoh
trah raorsidoritpr grils sbn e aabg es, 0 u w
cults vviudd e possi leititit see ovehr
at Ila or arosidn b a oorniebri. t two such
u es, it wdout e posts re ctm. gel a very
pronounceh fs eireloscopdo e eabc Thl is,zie in:
tel r"g I as 1 (c)In't tel esberhi 'end the b' t
e escope. mme ia e y 1'ehind e o jec
lass, wbich is at the side—not the end
g f th t b is a rigraiiiphled hprisms,
froem thee Illlypeoithenuse o w io t e ray
are totally reflected down the tube At
the buttons of the tube is another prism,
through the hypothenuse of which the
pass to be twice, totally reflected
fraYs 't tl e t id d ts d b k
tshr wo1 se es,Iallne warn: h0awo.
romaiii 1%0° danst sie v sai
P"_ e e d to ' tlsird
ever, unme la e y p s.e n a
prism, in which they are bent at right
- '" -
alleles, and delivered into the eye tube.
In7tha field glass the arraisgement is
someNvhat different There are practically
• -
two tubes side by side with time object
elas t th e d of one' and the e e lass
at thseaen I e fn the otl er. Time rYaysg go
d the ihe•st tube 1 1 the second, and
bewtnla n emen't T fairl Ion tele-
y ais arra g
sofope fisiedom1prses.ss eel i to th Y cr egn Ions
Fanrther in the asssage
teheaughe thge a isms the inia e is ePrected,
(lath th Pr al • dug lerises in the
an • us ee asa elee - as s
not necessary. The rays un-
edyeinecfe a. n 1 r a .
ergo ou success ve ee actions at the
of
surface the and emerge from
the ilast orasmprwithssms, undiminished in-
- -
tensty.
The mechand optical details of
thnstrumens are exceedinglwell
e y
h thbbe focused
workeou. ace can•
tE
thdf
se ar M1 , and such is e de of focus
thPat tahe Yadjustnsent does not need ever
t for very near obects
to be pj.
cular di stance i
The os ca able of
Adj,
ustmentand the owner can Mark thespring
It that suits himself ba
oy
ach, which, however, does not prevent
s tubet
suie re-
be tbe
thems Pelersouve& Thsee tttubes can always
td ilook-
urned to the ol pos tion without
g asses are no
ing through them. These I t
for use at the theater—London
.
Engineer •
-
Trying to Sleep Makes Some Peoph
, awake.
It has just been discovered that
persons have been kept awake ,,byt;,
to go to sleep. This ,.odse etatam
so
suscePesble of Proof, agording ti
Ellis Joy, an authority on insomni
By a series of experiments on
hose health had been seriously in
w _ _ _
li.O sleepless nights, the rentarkab/
was established that the harder a e
lending h• self to tbe experimon
deavorecl to lose consciousness. the
thoroughly awake did,he become.
it became evtdent that, no matte]
strong the will, the mind could. s
emptied like a veesel. Successive at
to make it a blank only aggravat,
experimenter. Those who have 1
enced the fruitless attempts to
sleep by auto suggestion will read
preoiate this fact As 'quickly a
thought was banished another sue
it Then it was cieterinined to wol
pheus in an entirely new way.
As the nand when awake rat
be eatisfied with imothingness the
was advanced that it could be so
pied as to actually produce sleep.
Was accomplished by a breaking
the thoughts into words The thi
faculty which will not rest was exE
With disconnected words, and here
the secret of bringing about sleep
wise not superInduced by physit
mental fatigue. As is well knom
think and remember in sentences,
mind is continually making Met
ebd suggestions—saying something
something or asking questions,
questions are sometimes serious,
more often idle and their answer
spondiogly valueless, but they
orowding in until the mettal 1
seems interminable.
By breaking up the thoughts
words and. trying to have the wor
disoonnected as possible, the thc
gradually give way, and the one lc
Minself to the experiment ' sinks i
slumber, although a chronic a
from insomnia. In this case the
word. thee came into the mind
"house." Presematly another woz
lowed, but as instructions had been
to let csny word bearing any gramrs
or associative relation. to the first
slip out of the mind without 'lactic
was done.. It being found quite pl
to do so, although not to banish
entirely.
Then the niind, awarding' to tl
arranged plan, snught out a -mesa
different olass—"enthosiasin." No
disconnected word after another ea
until the series ran like this: "3
enthusiasm, Great Britain, walk, -be
tangible, beyond, superior, Washim
eta In following out this forams
going to sleep artificially the xeade
endeavor to avoid a succession of
and numbers and all classifloatis
words, for the obvious reason that
course appeals to the memory an
imagination, and, the would-be •
gets to thinking in the regular
which he is trying to escape doing.
It will be found as the discon
ideas flow on in your mind that yc
gradually observe yourself taking ;
interest in the disjointed proo
Then will follow a loss of the agl
self-consciousness, succeeded by •
sive state which does not atten
combat the grotesque parade of yam
THIRD QUARTER—LESSON I., IN-
TERNATIoNetas SERIES, JULY 5•
.
S OF WISE MEN DOMI"
r HE LARGER TRUST,
•
Golden Text..." me Lord reigneth, let the
earth rejoice... .
The o emus, are so La e
Th books' f S 1 • 11 d be
cause they record the life and the fruits
'of the life of the great judge, Sanitiel
The author is unisnown, but they are
largely a oompilation frosn various
sources, "probably ' contemporary pro-
uhetio histories"
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.1he date of writing is after the death
of David, and not later than soon after
the division of the kingdom; that is be
tween R a 1015 and 950.
David had a good inheritance. The
holy devotion and warm attachment of
Ruth was very apparent in tho character
of her great-grandson.
Just what bis education was we cannot
tell, but he certainly had an education,
espeoially in religion and in the Sorip-
tures then koown
David was trained to work, His daily
duties with the sheep gave him an op-
portunity for training in business, cour-
age, government.
When David was eighteen or twenty
years old. he was anointed by the prophet
Samuel to be the future king of Israel
After his victory over Goliath, David
came to Saul's court. Here he learned to
.
do right amid great tomptetions to wrong-
doing. He learned to Iles wisely amid
great difficulties. He gained the friend-
ship and love of Princes Jonatlaart
For seven years David was an exile;
part of the time conong the Philistines,
and partly ammig the fastnesses of his
native land. Hard as these seven years
of exile were for David to bear yet they
were most -fruitful years to him, as his
apprenticeship for the kingdom, as his
schools mid schoolmasters.
The death of Saul aua Jonathan in
battle loft the way open for David to
come to the throne
The Lesson ---2 Samuel 2; 1-11
'
1 And it (gime to pass cdter this, that
David inquired of the Lord, owing, Shall
1 ga up into ttuy of the cities of Jildah?
And the Lord said unto Moo Uo up.
And David said, Whither shall I go up?
And. he said, Unto Hebron. .
David desired divine direction how to
act in this crisis and inquired of the
cot , pro a 3eprams ,
L •ci b bl s through th high • t
Abiathar, He would not take one step
that was not right The kingdom was
from God, and God would guide him
into the best wee- of reaching it.
The northern part of the Oingdom was
held by the Philistine invaders, and
David was in no positiou to drive them
. out A largo part of the population lied
across the Jordan. Saul left one son, the
heir to the throue according to custom
in other =Alone, and the great general
and politician Abner, Hata's cousin and
the rival of David's chief man and
' T b dh • d t tho a x f
cousin . Oa , a et° 0C USG o
Saul. On the other hand, Judah was his
own tribe, and had escaped the invading
forces In the neighborhood David had
spent considerable pctrt of his fugitive
life and gabse , many supporters,
2 So David went up thither, and his
two wives also, Ahinoan the .Tesreelitess,
and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite.
His two wives went with him, because
he was intending to settle down.
3 And his men that were with him
did David bring up, every man Nvith his
household:. and they dwelt in the cities
of Hebron.
Six hu.udred of his chosen band. Every
mau with his household. There was to
be no roaming in exile, but ecteh one was
to settle down to the duties of peace
David was planning for peace, not war.
4 And themen of David cans°, and
there they anointed David king over the
house of ;Judah . And they told David,
saying, That the men of ,Tabeslogilead
wore they that buried Saul. David had
already been anointed privately by Sam-
uel. But this was his public inauguration
by the people. .
5 And David sent messengers -auto the
of Jabeslogilead, and said unto
them, Blessed be ye of the Lord, that
ye have sheNved this kindness unto your
lord,even unto Saul, :said have buried bins
6 And. now the Lord shew kindness
and truth unto you; and I also Neill re-
quite you this kindness, because ye have
done this thing.
Saul was an enemy to David, but
David was not an enemy to Saul. David
assured these men that they need have
no fear of harm from bins on account of
what they have done, but, rather, he
esteemed them for it
7 Therefore now let your hands be
strengthened, and be ye vayour
fax yo
master Saul is dead, and also the house
of Judah have anointed me king over
them
This gave them an opportunity to join
David, if they wished
8 .And Abner the son of Ner, captain
of Saul's host, took Ish-bosheth the son
of Saal, and brought him over to Mahanaim
9 And made him king over Gilead,
and over the Ashurites, and over Jez-
reel, and over Ephraim, and over Benja-
inin and over all Israel.
Isb-boshetlaa dominions were gradn-
ally extended until they included all the
country which afterwards formed the
kingdom of Israel as distinguished from
that of Judah
10 Ish-bosheth, Saul's son was forty
years old when he began to reign over
Israel, and he reigned two years. But
the house of .Tuctah followed David.
11 And the Mine that David was king
in Hebron over the house of Judah was
seven years and six months
All this time there was a mild civil
war between the kingdoms, which In
oreased as Abner regained control over
northern Israel. Tnis Was wholly defen-
sive on David's part which was both
right and wise At length a great army
assembled at Gideon on David's northern
border, and he was compelled to sneet
them. There was first an attempt to set-
tle the question of supremacy by a cons-
bat of twelve chosen men from each side,
but every one of these perished at the
first onset. '
David showed wise statesmanship, and
was not only becoming fit to rale over
the whole kingdom, but was making
known his fitness, so that in clue tune
the whole kingdom came to him. Psalm
101 is ascribed to David, and certainly
expresses his desires and Darns as he took
possession of his kingdom
the Divine Plan In Nature
or ing Ideal Iltatildnd Has
Ion Determined by Nana
r. •
June 28.—A most uplift-
3sented in Do Talmage's
day. His text was Mat-
re not two sparrows sold
And one of them shall
e ground without your
3ible odll not be limited
symbols There Is hardly,
or insect which has not.
m illustrate some divine
; patience,'the ant's in
ler's skill, the .hincl's sures
eagle's speed, the dove's.
even the sparrow's mean-
Lifloance. In oriental coon-
the poorest people buy the
t it—so very little meat is
mnes and so •yery poor is it
of it The comfortable
Id not think of touching
man you would think of
sr a lamprey. Now, says
aces such good care of a
s not worth a cent will
. you, an immortal?
• God with revolutions
livine purpose in the dis-
ice, in the invention of
ing, in the exposure of
plot, in the contrivance
e•un, in the ruin of. an
iapoleonic .despotism, but
to see God in the minute
of our lives! We think of
• a record of the starry
a realize the Bible truth
how many hairs are on
looms a grand thing that
mod for hundreds of Israel-
rt, but we cannot appreci-
that when a sparrow is
mops down and opens its
;$ the seed in. We are
be idea that God fills the
Ells presence, but cannot
v He encamps in the orys-
ieWdrop or finds room to
the alabaster pillars of the
man see God in the clouds.
1 in the flowers at our
m place God on some great
a do it expecting Him
1 His stupendous arojeots,
bat the life of a Crom-
Lnder or a Washington or
s not more under divine
your life or mine. Pons-
ore must be a mist over
. because he so much fax-
Out there is no such mist
log. We say God's path is
mters, True enough, but no
than He is in the water,
1 the table We say God
; in their courses. Mag-
But no more certain than
s which road or street yon
miming to church. 'Under-
does not sit upon an in-
throne, but
wn beside you to day and
le to day, and no affair of
tnSi.'lliliOent but that it i5
a d'od.
lace, God chooses our co-
. I ash amazed to see hove
mere are dissatisfied with
have to do. I think three-
hey were in some other
1 they spend a great deal
stting that they got in the
profession. I want to tell
ut into operation all tae
li led you to that particulim
mf you are not in the Mai-
thai-
expected to be in. You
ministry and leaaned =or-
i started for the law, and
.cian. You preferred agris
ou' became a mechanic.
one way, God thought an-
la ought not to sit down
r the past. Yost are to re-
loci arranged all these cir-
whioh you are made what
says, "1 will be a stone-
aya, "You will be a geolo-
oes out to attend his fath-
al goes Mit to hunt his
and before he gets back
of regal dominion. How
would we be if we were
me places God gave usl
temperament and all the
by which you were sur-
believe 1111)0 tenths of You
: yea are best fitted for.
!acket in my watch, and
hands and. the wheels and
getting out of their places.
to the jeweler's and say,
t watch and teach the
springs and tho hands to
• business." You know a
,arge estate He gathers
nds in the morning and
'ou go trim that vine," to
go and weed those flow-
r, 'You plow that tough
b one goes to bis partials-
owner of the estate points
mat he knows he can do
is with the Lord?
ther that God arranges all
You were driven to the
d a man just at that crisis
md with you and helped
, "How lucky I was!"
luck about it God sent.,
t as certainly as He sent
engthen Christ. Your do-
your business friends,.
friends, Gcd sent them to
1 any of them has proved
only to bring out the value
/slain. If some die, it is
!nay stand at the outposts
set you at your coming
will have friends, warm-
s magnanimous friends,
0SS 001330S to your dwell-
a watchers; When trouble
mart there will be sympa-
.eath comes there will be
s close the eyes and fold
gentle lips to tell of a
th, we are compassed by o
lends! Every man, if he
nself Well, is surrounded
of friends; thee of the
shing him well; those in
willing to help him, while
,rt are a few who would
a.
ed pity the 'wretch' who
Inds.
tin that God puts clown
nu. temporal ovoseroitY.
sa,nce seems to bave no
tell where a man will
.ent fall, the poor rise.
'ail, the ignorant succeed.,
ermin� oral -idly shuts in
Worthless Antiquities.
Owners Of creole antiquities ani
in Louisiana have just received
pleasant shock. Several northern •
ha antiquities and bricoobrae rum
among the creole households of :
Etna a. few years ago and unearthe
carried off almost priceless tre•
mainly in chinaware and fur:
bronght here by the early Franc
tiers, who *were generally cadets o
faintly or emigres during the earl
of the French revolution. Two NE
leans bankers who thought that
were still more important art trE
hidden here, "blushing unseen," s
some live years ago, to make a . col
of paintings brought over by th
French settlers A connoissem•
took charge of the paintings, was i
that there were some really vs
ones among these family heirloonac
collection, which has been steadily.
ing for the past Sloe years, was s
to Paris a few weeks ago, as i
thought that time paintings would
better prices there, besides being
thentioated." A. cable message 1
P loded. the bubble. The French
pronounce the paintings "no good;
not genuine, and they will be s
back to New Orleans if they are .
the
the expense of shipping. Those ea
"out" on this art transaction are .
to understand why the French e
clung to paintings which were
value whatever, for there is no qi
of their having been brought ove.
and treasured, many of them for
century, in creole families. The er
at least those who went to Lou
were evidently not good judges of
Harper's Weekly.
Made Famous by Creaming.
Some of the brightest minds have been
dreamers—but they dresuned sensibly.
They educated themselves along the line
chosen as their life work. Darwin
dreamed over his "Origin of Species"
twenty years before it saw light. Milton
dreamed over his "Paradise Lost" from
boyhood. Columbus was oondemned as a
soothsayer, a visionary quack, yet after
fifteen years of the cruelist antagonism he
Proved the truth of his dreams and as-
tounded the world. Ferdinand de Les-
seps dreamed for twelve years of bring-
ing London nearly 4,000 miles nearer
Ladle by the reconstruction of the Suez
Canal before the necessary permission
was granted by the 'Khedive of Egypt.
But these men dreamed with a purpose.
They read, argued, studied and fought
for their beliefs because they knevv they
were right They knew from positive
demonstration, from practical know-
edge. They had weighed and analyzed
and sifted and refined until all acts and
data were made to converge to one corn-
an center, and end there in one grins,
unwavering point. When they laid their
finger on a plan they saw the resnit as it
would appear to the ignorant world when
finished.
They did not sit fax hours consuming
cigars and staring blankly at the open
sky. They worked; they bent every en-
ergy to one grim purpose;.all their lives
were devoted to the consummation of the
one supreine wish of their lives. They
gave their work, their hope, their life.
From the dim recesses of the human mind,
ordinarily go incomprehensible, they
evolved the brightest thoughts, and fol-
lowed the birth of each id,ea, with the
sacred solicitude of a loving mother over
her first-born child
A Monkey on Shipboard.
Among the passengers =Mb
Southampton receetly by the stet
Norman was a monkey of larg
which came from South Africa in
of a passenger, by whom he was
after the late explosion at Joh
burg, seated in the only room rem
intact of what had just before. .
considerable sized cottage. In the
were also discovered two baby oh
one of whom had been killed, in
other was alive„ and, it is said,
arms of the snonkey, wise was te
nursing it. The living child was a
by a resident of Johannesburg, bi
snonkey, who was noted on board .
extreme fondness for children, was
ular passenger by the Union Com
mail steamer.—St. Louis Dispatch,
FASHIONS IN MEDICINE.
4
Pads, Plasters and Other Remedies Hive
Each Their Turn.
A. druggist has discovered that patent
inedicines have their fashionslike hats
and canes There was a time when plass
ters were all the rage, but after sticking
to thein for some years public taste
changed, and then kidney and be
'medicines came into Nettie
People who never knew they had kid-
neys began te take stuff that they had
heard was geed for them, and suen first
in the field got rich.
Bitters were in vogue universally at
Ono time. A man whose sideboard was
not provided with half a dozen different
varieties of bitters was considered old-
fashioued and destitute of enterprise
Then there was the craze for pads
There were lung pads, and liver pads,
and kidney pads, and foot pada No man
who wished to keep up with the limes
failed to go to his druggist and be moms-
mod for 8 pad. With a full -ta of ds
mquopa
ProPerlY adjusted undershirts were super-
litmus. .
Cough and grip remedies had their hi-
slings last winter, there being something
like three hundred in the market, was
any num
number of doctors and professors sit-
ting op iiights concocting more.
The Very Best Rule.
.
Don't tounent yourself about what
people are going to think about this and
that action. No matter what you do or
leave undone some will criticise you se-
verely, and the very best rule for getting
through life with comparattve comfort is
after you have made up your mind as to
the prosperity encl advisability of a cer-
tain course, pursue it calmly, without
paying the slightest attention to the
criticisms of the lookers on lawn the out
side. You see, just because they axe 012
the outside they can only see the surface
It does not matter in the least what
they think.
Economical Japan.
The little economies that have
Japan so rich may be noticed
where The duct of charcoal is gc
up and mixed with chaff of *het
ley and other gating, and. with c
straw. It is then moistened into
rolled into balls about as big as b
balls, and makes exeellent fuel.
collecting.
. "X understand that since Bark
. .
his last position he has been enga
bill-Oollector.''
"Tbat so? Well I've got quite
let of bil.ls at bones that 1 11 let hi
to his collection if he wents. All
oeipted, too
Obliging Others, '
A man was once asked why he took so
much pains to Oblige others in trifles
HIS answer wasimi substanceI have
, :
oo' e)the wealth, nor tie `
intellect, nor
the learning nor the position to do big
things for dod or man, and so I take de-
light in doing. any little thing to Iwo -
nsote another's interest or enjoyment. In
this Way 1 may add. to the stun of hu
r13.111. 11•1r) ine s and al o s •
. , . 1 p s , s rum:mend my
Savior to the attention of those who
know him not •
Qualities Constituting Greatness
Bear in inind that tobe truly great,
.
it is not necessary that yon should gain
vvealth and' importance. Steadfast and
tusdeviating truth, fearless and straight-
forward integrity, and an honor ever
unsullied by an 'unworthy word or ac-
tion us eke their ossessor seeater than
, ,, p s...
worldly success or proeperity. These
qualities constitute greatness.—PeabodY.
No B00111 for Both.
p p Th t • Is old
upson owrmes— a me
of yours may have one foot in the
but she'll never dia
Upson
Upson DoWnes—Why not?
Pups= Downes—Beeause she
never the other foot in. She's
Give Him the Best Cart
w . '
• Would our friends love us very much
1 f we only went to them w.hen we were
sad? 121103r want Us 31.10St Nolien we are
'oyous and so does Jesus Let us eive
, s ,,
4,111 1 'th b t -
i 1, then, e es part of our octasres
end We Shall be rewarded
.7•
Wide
• many
trying
ent is
Jane
a.
people
paired
O fact
erson,
t, en -
more
Then
hove
ot b.
emote
d the
xperi-
mime
ly ap-
e one
ceeded
Mor-
ses to
heory
moo -
This,
up of
nking
raised'
In lay
that
al or
n, we
The
rtions
about
The
• but
00Tr0-
keep
recess
into
ds as
ughta
nding
nto a
fferer
first
was
tt fol -
given
atioal
word
o that
ssible
words
e pro-
of a
Nv one
e up
ouse,
aunty,
on,"
a for
must
names
ns of
lush a
d the
leeper
way,
mated
u will
mild
ssion.
toting
pas -
pt to
rds.
rake
an 1111-
ealors
maged
L.ouiI-
d
sures,
iture,
h set -
good
y days
w Or -
there
sures
arted,
ection
early
who
ertain
luable
•
The
grow -
hipped.
was
bring
a.s ex -
critics
" and
sipped.
worth
ho are
=able
igres
of no
estion
here
over a
igres,
slam,
art.—
g ali
=ship
e size
charge
found
anises-
aining
been a
room
sleben,
t the
in the
nderly
dopteci
st the
or his
a. pop-
pany's
made
every-
therea
t, bar-
opped
paste,
'bard -
w lost
ged as
a nice
m add
unre-
emit
grave,