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4.
FQre i requrod ouly
strengthen twine or
to afturd prtectk»i to oubjects
.140 are living and speculoting in
weak and ill-goiern0 county
Naval requirement* for thit 1&tter
purpose *re already fax more than
satiefied by ail the great ,,porters.
Any one of them could overwhelm
Veneziiela for 4extmitlet with at
fraction of It* • present naval
strength. Any one of them eoula
otereome tlw 411.Vag4 and holf-civil-
- kW people y11014'0 in or on the
able*. of its colonies with a smolt
..a
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$ $
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oft_that the powers are Sincere, we
must admit the need of prutleno.
ute iuce qmtion of national
lit be committedand there
ust be ottt_insuraneengettest, theso
possibilities. For thie reason wo
have.premiums ranging fro, $2004
000,000 to $300,000,000 annually
.whieh are extolled as evidences of
'wise economy. /tut what is tho
risk The United Kingdom has not
bad a war with a firsttelass power
in fifty years. . The United States
bas had none since the war of te12,
• It i$ nearly forty years *ince the
Franeo-Prussian- war. Futther-
snore, o general arbitrationagree-
ment, would elinduate.olt risks, and
we are to appeal to prudence and
common sense we ohould work .in-
ctsantlytior *itch an-igreemou
Much has been ;Add et 'the yellow
peril, butt J'apan-is - setting a good
• .4 exemple at the present time by r
(hieing expenses.: It is neither agi-
tated nor stupefied b the, naval
programmes of other nations. Its
great statesmen are Wit pictured as
the lesding cheyeetert in a. eou
they are not *a1led by t dirt
feultiet or a t,wo-power tan1ard.
They leave' thit elaptroti to the. cn
, lightened Oceident. There is some
encouragement, however, to be de
rived from the competitittit
tary expenditures. It very exces-
*CS count *pleat it to public -Opin-
ion. They constitute an easily Un-
clerstood 'argument for arbitration
and disarmament which will streng-
then the moral and humane r
intents that am suggtAte4 tho
liorrort of war.
•
Mr It
1
Iawsr 11,3,* e,
ether'in
India oi in "':we vott bit
quite to. Is it pit
deflnitiey the+ law
urder ich chiratcr ,growit
surely! vastly more inpart-
ant .that
we vhould know hw t
bring the ultitnate product of life,
to perfection than that wo should
Ise able to fOrinulate preeisoly the
varieble laws governiutt-thottlet
lopment of weeds andflowers.
Surety we recogtuto thet we. are
Imre in life for larger purposesttha.
tiiimg the ground; we are here to
If we have stopped -to think of,
the matter at ell, we are otter that
tint one -great purpose' for which
'men lite is to bring elotracter to
,itt fullness and perfection, to leatn
the 'town of living the life of geed,
nets truth, and 1oiiug tervio, to
•
itieir
Wu t
ple, practicalbecomes
1 thing to 44411 Of 1101 IV rot -
of ,dailv livin&pf meet-inr
Leulties, its burdens, op
temptations,
troggling out through into
—111,1rUSTIttltritN
Often in that struggle* for the
higher life, for the realization of
our best hopes and dreams, of Char-
acter, it. must occur to us that, it
would be strange if, as osio to be
the ease; there should be no definite
riles of procedure, it character
grew by chance or at haphazard.
The question recurs, is ther.e any
definitttplan for growing character
It is a, question, you do not often
hear spoken it is seldom commit-
ted to print,' but it is everywhere,
How can X to thot which I know
ought to bet Many are the ant
twers ',Oven; most of them wholly
disapptenting when. tested. by we,
only leaving men wishieg that tluy
t
e **I
e
ulzlr to ..,,
lly *
L! reason, 'A 1
iping to beeome"
Lurnber. 'Butearaeter
aturaily;the inakzng, o aIifC
ouotviol*te-...**t.tittOtwo
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I . '113 Chain
ow long w
neer the el°
when Mood wou
bim forth.
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rc'ngthen 04
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teepig U4
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t • =,
ieitber I nor bu7 in, hats or *to
oyeotted still, b
in to the u
iad th.ira is s* xemple of, ux
otquerab1e cuurapto they bun
ler neikbors. w10 are In
The .other day I held.
a cheque returned te the
,balter(th*Y .can
t brea4 ne.au'z' that) wh
nough to u *u
rjk
,
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°lin'
stn ibe.
•44:111044,litCil
*eare
steadilybeing with the bes. 11
you wtuld realize yeur idealz 'you
mwt. keep youroelt in the presence
ot the ideal*, at* they are already
.--realized in other persons or in other
eandittons, In our friendthnts, ha-
bits, cutteins we mutt, live in
THE. PRESENCE OF TRU IVEST.
•
is
man would, he,* musieian, he
cannot afford to deluge, his 44111
With 4113,COIXIS* if he wouldpint,
he squat avoid Orono* and color
confUct3. Both will $414 rnotfrom
*relit:: 'I it 'tee $
5
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7
of but it will he vai withoutnpeerade:
study; the tudy they wIli
tice of the tiretertete of the best.
where doesthislow of growth,
ccoriing
inosphere, hold more exactly than
intherealm of personal ela,ractor.
the potency the
owcr of other lives throu "end -
ships and daily communion to nutk*
our lives, to teed them out into
fulnees. . • .
'There are thosein whoae. pres-
nee it is easy . to think, low
thoughts to cherish ignoble ambi-
tions; there are those with whom
this is altogether impossible, Whote
presence stiett the hest in us, whose
nobility suggest* yet greater, fair-
er heights of life. We may not be
able always to choose, our tompan
lona, but we can select our friends,
or at least- open ;tor lives onlyto
those that lead tt* out and up.
,
COPE.
IINATIO?tAlit LES 0,
' April 11.
• „.
e e
r 0 TO
t Psalm .
totrodottiett,
Iesson andtthis -
years have elapsed. 'Wha
during that time 1 The: $
'the' great tUitittile Church
.och„ and -tho esiling tis
Ilernabas fromi Jerusalem
from Tarsus,. The famine,
famine relief sent to Ieruss1em
from Antioch. • Why do we omit'
those events for the present/ . in,
outer to follow more Closely the
lihtory of Teter:,
itoft-Dentlitititnia:
Verses 1-3 VitTlAt **It that
when our . leason beginal The
spring of A. D. 44, while the,
.eirents dearibed in chapter it 'were,
Oteultri at Antioch'. Who was
ruler tint Ilerod Agrippa.
grandson of Herod the Great, who.'
murdered the innocent t at Itethle.
heat, And :nephew of Herod Antiptia
ton of lured the Ctreet)t who
murdered 4ohntthe Baptist., 'It
as bitten, Iferod. itgriptta. IL, bet
retwiren Pout ‘.moideri hilt fitment
cIefense titets tttt tt3).. T. --T-- -
What wee:the 'history Of tired'
Agrippa I./ He ttote born B.O. 10`
amd educottftt in Rome. Amid st
resit and adventurous easter, he
rose through ,the favor itt the Ern-
tettor -Caligula, •Ue' helped to *it
the weak Claudius Caesar -on the
throne ofItotie (A. D. 41)„ and ria
return w****,cle king sif all kaki.
"no, *hare he reigned only about
tee- lora before ha, came to *
horrible end, as related at 'the
dose Of, this Chapter.
What was the p�licy of this
erod toward the Jews? . tried
tn do whatever vleased the Jews
)a Ito lived in Jerusalem. Re
otok• pains to observe the minutiae
of Jewish teremonials. JIe bung
up in the temple the gold th
whHh Caligula had given hint. Ile
was only part Jew, :and raft'
le, and greatly, feared the pi
would bate 'hint out they had li
Ref ,the Omit. At the, ft*
ta ties in A. D. 41 he had read
pie the whoie'of beater.
-rsting into theatiital
tars wbtn he tame to, the wet*,
t *et a stranger
not :titiy bother."
U 0
Tree plautiog •revolutionttet. It
Is an aitiele of faith • omong fruit
growtrs that *fruit tree 'Must be
plented in properly prepared toil,
large; wide,, .thellow hole; °the
• roofs. eerefully spread out in al1.
direetions and arranged near the.
surface' with s,
log „at .,Qict eil#s7 SnAll uentiti
et le IWtet *tel. fitiftWorked in
onto ig the roott„ \ hollow places
•
ta,!..0ed bv arching* in the stouter
,
roots are filled ,up, the. remainder
...of the toil is rut in, trodclen ,ta,
1011$ down, and the .whele" left- to
the compatting ;influent* 'of the
rain, . The tree Is supported to
stakes until it is liroly.iestabl$s
But Spencer Piekering, with
• 'Itit teeent tettaretteit„ deelere* that
Vitoi*er tree planting Means * *mall
bole, roots doubled up *nylon,' tit.
tree!) stuck in, the toil thrown in
and tanimed down ** for a gate
tot. •With, extensive experiments
AK per tent, show in favor of
' toe* *introit method, tleshow no di
fertette, .**(1. 1.4 per tent.'..thow
against the new way. By whateier
criterion the trees *re gau,ged the,
rest method it :Said to give better
steinitkl than the orth*i. Al-
though, aa *fast:oolitic try bat heels
oglintit, the _ revolution
tbeoryi no practical men has been
able to ,give tint! "eaten for the old
faith that is in hint beyond the fact
ttleitt it is Matt; b ,it bli
:44ut
t of
tlaeting theii
(nth r
h
ro -
*
*Verdi
'u long as any oL the othera,41, if
.ur Lord knew itt it needed the
strongest emphasis. IN hen
men re-
proaebed them, reviled film
tented them; deprived them' of
y on earth, they werestill to have
be kingdorn of heaven, and great
r525 to -be tifteret-renteislAte
What wouldhe that reward
Fellowship in Christ's offerings.
iteMowshirt in one another's *tie
-
'Lion. The purification of eharett
ter. The strengthening And beau-
ying of character. Conscieneei
at .peace; She knowledge of the
towing triumph of their cause.
rist's "Well done 1" An eter.
v of • bliss unimaginable. • •
1. PAWLS. and Prayer. ---Verses
4 What it implied by the clause,
when . he • had opprehended
That, there hid been tome dela
and -difficulty in arresting Peter.
Where was Peter confined It, In
ilettlantons vete:min 1.1trixt's
resi-
the
tool*. It WAS there that some ihink
Cliti*t was orteigned'before Pilate
and. -there Pent trois. token when
_Mobbed in Jerusalem. 1t immedi-
ately adjoined .the templet, on tne
northwest, ,
flow was Peter enouxlea
four Auiternione <beide of fur
of soldiers, each quaternien 'being
giiatil through. * three.haut
watch. Two' of the soldiers were
chained to ,Peter's arms, one on
*tither sidel;. a third. Was, 0
the door and title ttrth in
Pouhtless }feted' kneit.h
the apostles had escaped froth, I
prison of Sitithedrim (Acts
:'and 'Meant to keep Peter se-
urely this time, .
Why was 'Peter imprisoned, artd
not caecuted at oncet teeatuss it
would haveroffemled the trews whom
he WWI trying to please, if he exe-
cuted Peter. durteg the Passover
(that is Etotter).
Peter in Prison. Itemember the
frse outdotorlife of *fishermen thot,
Pater had always enjoyed, his im-
petuoua WOO 120
brook reetraitit, and the probabil•
ity it he was the oldest, of the
.pnstks. • Imprisonment it hitter
to any a; it must have beett
I vout ,tu him. *And yet,
douht,1esz 1* teloked ,this r
ce hi* loyalty to
tia*, denied,
ris to 'pia sstjt ,
es. tit! 11)? Wst
510t .1kea*rd for osr
iag ()Wt.'
1 scatting es
*how.
rtstaate iw
1 Ft
between three and six �'c1oek, fr
Peter was at t
w
nor 'until eunrise (v. le), when the
guards were changed again. In
this-. ttlarkeott- b.outt
before dawn" an angel of the Lot
came upon him (*tool by hitutt,
brilliant presence - radiating liglst
Which filled the eelk Peter was
Sleeping o oundly.tthet tho litht
did not wakes hin.„ and the; *angel
smote Peter on the side.
IV. t4Tlie Lord Oath Dolifer
--Mertes PAO What did Teter
-perceive When the, angel distil),
peered it et -Went „ He came
to birne1f, wakin;„thiettial
ontta, thatThe
angei- sent om,tho Lord Aflci
-
let us kccp in mind the fact ibat
back of the angel WAS that. prayer
rneeting.
Vlore did peter_ naturally tre t
Tirthit-ho—iiiittiftlfary cvlaintlit
rendezvont fortheahriatian*. The
apostleknocked at the doorof the
• e--the-outer-door-of-the-entrance
passage Jostling to the inner court.
This was kept fattened, and just
inside- VMS a small room for the
mead who tended the door. The
description,according to Tristram,
shows that it was a, house of the
better class,
Who answered the kopek? A
damsel named Rhoda (meaning
Rote). With youthful impetuosity,
she was ett glittl to hear the beloved
tones that she forgot to unbar the
door,. and left Peter knocking there
.While she rushed into the prayer
meeting to tell -the spoil newel.
'Why siertt the disciples attonish-
tit-this answer- to their, prayers
1lecau'e they had net expected the.
ewer ett soon* or in Rue& a. wont
erful manner. S01114' of them, per-
haps,had been praying twith little
real faith.
V. Tho Door. of • t
'The angel left Peter, having e
omplistied his appointment.
there was JO be another time :when
l'eter -would want the visit of such
stengeel And there will he *
tinie when we also tholt want it,
ave --To go Tout frOte
he prison -house of mortality, and
from the world itself."
BOYCOTTING IN IREI:
A ALCOV;it MOMS 00
011 OF TERROR..
Paris of the CoU try More Do
erous Thoto Strrage Laois,
Seytt„s.
r. anMalcolm, who spent some
week s in Coned* during the regime'
of Lord' Minto, teeenty has pub-
lishedseveral letters txt The Lon -
on me* on conditions in ire.
"The lot of 'these letters
follows t
be • snowed to Set down
some pertional impretsiorie Of my
r ut,,,vieit to Itelendt They in-
cline Ine qmpathize with the
bit-
ter,reflection of * ',boycotted ist-,
mer when he said to me r ,u4 OU
your Missionaries andi youi.
convert and ratify heathen tribe*,
t the lair,abkling people .of
you leave -to suffer-alonsP
O many ' these sufferings
hae been on eye -witness, of others
ve been told, lor, their vietirtestrdzrettly.to every voter tn the
miters of the seed holly of 'ed Xinedont. • ;ander the present
Const*Atr Gokthrick, who murlOovernment.1 'veintitte to assert de.
eteml tortnig asp near Craugh- illterately that certain parts( of Ire.
well by. ilritith subletts, bears *lb- lland *re more dangerous and dit
quint teitimony to the terror tteolt Set loyalitt lixo in than
wrought by the wholeisie trod:to in 1 ony pert of the Empire, bowsvea
nocirgos Permitf44 *V Mr- Itirrellyl*avege osid -uttoi,vitized. *lid I have
Seeretery for Ireland, evilest, the , visited :amity of these. Mr. ltirrell
.04411ranee of every authotit in Ire- knows it; Lord- Aberdeen knows
'land. r s ,risible for the *44estittetit the Irielt lodge* know it; **1
'sues 4441 ardor. the inflow t444114tht to hove it, so."'
s rovvoLtas. oritt4i141., it is only rebellion OM
it, terror •ttolke alorosto
But tbe r of liviug 410,at land.
aloott .$0*** U034
r sudden death
masked. **testi
14 frith Ite
*w of Xi*,
•
ward VI1 is
rloss to Pre:
utoirct
tap *ding to ti Strong ,ou it tit the ends ot the ea th to
ot old soldier who
e beeauze
- -worked- lost at boycotted
This man is comPlitelytiiii-
toted still; no man may even be
n__*realrang-to him
-
• OVCOTTED THE omr.mum.
Elsewhere 1 came *cross **milk
num whote titer" is tignificoutt ite
has a tiny iholding, whieh lie rot
from o. 'condemned" man and
works with his family ;and no out-
side help. Ile Is completely boy,.
co t no men or ..-voman,inaY-buy
hit milk' in the town; the wives of
married ,soldiere quartered there
14 that, if they buy it, they
tttraittleyitt Tot itt
them in, Re sold o few apples to
one pour foliose& he is now cot,
ted, tooBus little bey was sent
away from thetNational School foris
'notother, reason- than-hecoutte.
he
r
was the 1104 "boycotts." Bus
mother thett b
priest, who eluded her and I
ou$4y-thettlwitt
• carried her complaint to the Bishop,
who asked why the -boy bad been
expelled. . She anlif4ed " canto
.,Ice are "tioYoott*,' "Why Acyro
asked his latlibip, akin
at emelt pjece of condemned I
replied the mother.
ting the"penalty the a w 3,tinflict
for dual". queried, t ,,ry.o
the Christian (thurch. The little
boy is *till absent from school, but
/to summons bait - been issued to
compel his attendance; the:evidence.
might be awkward. Ili* little *is-
ters in soother school were continut
ally annoyed by the Other children
.writing,:hveotting ndticeson their
*tote; with great plat* they
• eatetted littrepott-tthe, Mint it
is
rwetta** atprosvinedby- 1;i:opt:elf U-10 uets. tablet;
ttonitantly stoned as they leave
school for home. Nobody will Sit
next either the toilet', Of mother
in ovUerrth*i's oppre
itY
ion• of" the .League, I omit* poo
told- man -,working on tat- farmof
-
emnething over 100 _acres with
bit Of .bog land attachedto it..He
t completely boycotted because he
has & little. marc bog. than his neight
:114ii.a_teher'tehfeirew-itTlito "i"ttirfugmr red"
d no man may me* !Teak to him; he
is Ntstehed," 'all- the OM*, Exoct-
the lame trettttoent is meted out
• the wotkinen Who have faithful.
' stood by Mr. Clarke, of Holy.
out they cannot buy anything in
the. village, .ond 'would literally
*terve it the 14L.L_AIrt' otter had not
"opened a •*toro for them in his own
oidence.. And toe stone outrage-
ous vengeance is wroked upon
hrec--poor tnaid-tiereatits of on-
ci:otette.itielottther 7Iindedf illnyintIrwee *tined POI
the ban ft•they go to mats on Su
UDGES 'AND -MIMS ItITOWIT
'Such ore a, few institutes of how
the terror bits spread in Itelend,
during the past few month!, for
it is for ',Norte than it was twelve
•
1
”
bi!dren
te
e.ou'*fl want, sonctbrn
rtut1 thtnk 1 h*1t bac,
14,
W 1W .tha
ta and
fle4*..,,M41);4•44:4g*.:. jot hOutr. 4, :
,zzi's.0,11,,t7i,t4i.,..,.,
ar
"litot * Do .• hear. , !guested. '
Mem. ... , 0, 0.
9; . 11
t0.r.04
‘ 0,
0
"I think it's a ttnitamon heart
declaredBob.• . - '
., Uncle Dan, Wished,' ..
*aid, "it isn't otty one thoo•
bears. . It's-askindof tittory�utioneer-- -----
. heord--o tilott,
estsr, oit.: basverYt.strzngo .
41n the is b
found all over * ceuutry, not only
in wiki pieces in the woods and
mountentst. hitt eve more oft*
neer. lo outlet N11111
.and especially *ban pastures
where you go to 416v the cow* 14
the, tnorniug and to ego*
ttt.•
o
tog, but only when it has toe
to get desk a, little, at evening, an
ni Mt when thet* is just a tin
bit moon.
110 II "under
nmuths ago. If our $P4'06 permit-
ted 1 colt/4 give attmany more, ottid
stf.tould any man who, having the
true proSprity of Ireland at heart,
*044 go ()yeti and look into th
quesliou for himself. -Thio muchl
Yo that the tiniad Irish
Lcague glories int its -Work and
inakes otelfcrt to biaeo, it. The
bastr nature is that *hid% has tho
power to truth it; but dares not
de so ; and thi pOwer beton In
k
,
nt,y father'spasture
,
r t o nig, hut .sonte.
I would tee, r four .
, •
a single evening, and they would
frighten mo.. so that I would 'yen
11‘trttheid.Wth"eY!leTtmaseec on; 0,1*7'nele
or did you *hoot them, or scare,
them ***yr
dear, don't think any Of
them ever chased me, thoughtItr*
too hard to see; IOU SUTO.
never shot one,: partly 'bicaute
had no gun with we .tliert andpart-
l3 becauett tit* kind of 'bear is 'SO
baot.itetsi!jaltit*t'hPiiluli
at alt; nar can
you scare him away. He will not
run. from anybody, no Matter k*
mialtsoluthoOt vzhow.1044,*.404see-
-ot,ie gun. makes t He just etopt
:right there?! :
}Tow big are they, and wkat
celori" ;asked ItYrtiant whose ees
were, round with interest sum"
itomeu - -
”They are all 7403,1/ said -Thu
44* !loztRetimts, not any large
thanet' itis tliratilvr at4bilirtinan41°-gh'u't4omei
are always darloaclorett.,alpz0;
lack; and they are always atand-
ing very still.
. "The plate where you are MO
likely- to. zee them is in :tlie shainws
near trees, and In fence. cornet*
and along the -edge* of • old pas-
tures." - • ,
lint,- Uncle Dan," beton
°tit .4tagerlyt. "if Tot cant *limit •
them sittl can't drive them *way.'
at can Yon do with this kind of
beast I Do you olwitytIotVe to run
ay from themt thirik-that is.
saivardly." _
ttItte, my. bott"." answered Uncle
Dan, with a snide, "there is en -
other *ay. If you are bravo enough .
bears -0.. oo tight.-np ttst,ane f (hese
hand, he will never burt w I °
"unlbebuty4'
that you CS.4 0 MO ,g0.• bstris
the only thing to do, but I -didn't. -
ileait out for a Ions .tinie-tuittil
was *hoot grown up.",
"But what Is the strange tear I"
*eked Lizzie, with *puttied 'leek
on bet -foie. "What is the name
burtfeii:r1Vt;i6:3fidni:twhitertied7:1710in'itlh.ror has flthe ittiatuusmil
064 more- pentionstspcially
boys and gar1, than anyOther kind
of animal." And Uaelo Dan.
isiugollre4a*set" and the children, id not
know what to think. Ther Lizzie
•hursf into toyoutivi h.. I know
what it it!" she t • "It isn't,
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