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• they give, .4 not ,on what they may
400 141) within their .1:settlers, but
.on what they mayshore with
• hers. - The lift* we elm givo to
• out world will not
netl IP what we Mai in
'export reptirts. Ultimately th
gifts ears be Meesured in one simple
way the kind of manhood and W.
manhood we are. giving to ih
world. Every nation must pl&y tt
part in the sesetsreaftelv,
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utt toil in quiet way, without
the contagion of _the mob end the
ploudits of the throno. een
eet first the Woo that are °first,
honors, truth. justice, and lore. We
if we will, mike saerifieest that
t tifsges will recognize *0 just as
ay heroic as any that hams been
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taor efere Oda:atm .
thsIey Was in.1
be *trinket searceli had tli
aranee of * bi11-A*1100ot Or
creditor;-,Otthe mune thne t_
visitor was 'stranger, and might
be on trouble bents-
"Xf you will !dye me your ea
VII ate, he said non -commit
"I'm Montague Wade, his
father," saidthe elderly visit*
casualty.
"Oh, X beg your pardon I" apolo-
&tea Josephs, at once loArrYing to
the inner Q000.
Helmsley Wade come out 'his morn.
444; smiling, tooth hands extend-
ed, to greet his fattier.
"Wh ste,t11=-1%,,,,,,Auleivoyt1,4
00 ng ughtteny into Nontogue
Wades face. "What's broughtyou
to town?' ,Come into M
AssAtttlf
ervide, and, ifbe coine, as
him to wait,"
Old Wade shook hio son's hand
raetedly, and altowidiiims drawn into -the Inner -office.
Ue looked round the comfortable
apartment curiously aaile,ad4ilei,
to -Vara this table *racier the vizi-
do,w, and Ifemsley shut the door.
"Well, how are your inquired
Wade the elder, and sat down.
"Oh, I'm all right. ,thanks!" re-
turned Remsley hopefully, and
took 'at chair., "Glad to see you
looking to well. You were not well
when You wrote, isle lot, you'll
remember. What's 'brought You
*wide on
II STAINED FIELDS.
Eternity will reveal berate in un -
dream of places, plain mothers
who aMerifice social ambitions
tttellitions,s4.--lifetAbsta,bay
npiht train their children aright,
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No people can ever be greater
in foot than they are in faith and in
Adeato_lito-people-maker--tna-
wavaro our nation Is.
Our greatness is,wholly a matter of
our real worth, our worthiness. All
ii:Plendor.itnd _pomp, AIL a
display sif power that is any more
than the expression of the reel life
and work of people is a -fool's'
mockery,
Sometimes we think•thatthe 4:Ws
are past when 4 mon lied a chance
. to play a man's part irt the affairs
of the: nation, when he might,
moved by splendid • heroism, to
down his life for his people. Our
needs men who will Iv down
their lives not on some altar of ilia -
mediate sacrifice, but on field
of long and toilsome service.
There iis still. all '4 man's work,
indeed there ist holy and divine work
,.ves
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-Though we compessett *11 the
earth in our po 36431•OUS could
be nii-grea er an souls;
though we possessed no-nfore than
little rocky Greet* or barren Pal-
estine, no measure _could be made
of our worth it we but give- the
world each idea*, thoughts, *spirit -
tions, and, visions as have .sprung°
from these little lauds.
This hi the finest, highest, hon.
est, and most truly religious 'service
that we may know., this is -Abet
which sets each one into the glori-
ous company of the great of all
ages, ,just to live such a, life and
give such .ineasure of service that
the whole world is richer, that men
think of better things and live for
uobler ends and the flowers of love
spring in the deserts of old desires.
•
HENRY 74 COPE.
THE SUNDAY SC11OOL
INTElt.NATIONAL LESSON,
JULY 40
Paul's, Second Mild° ry jeers
:-(Cont'd;)-Athens. -Acts 1;
• fry.2.1. Cottle*, Text,.John
4:24. - •
. Athens in St. Paul's Day. Driven
-from Berea, -AS we learned in our
' last lesson,, Paul earn° to Athens in
Greece. As he 'wts.isted from the
Piraeus where he landed, along the
new road to the city, he -211W rimed
'it intervals altars to the unknown
_ gods. - , •
Ai the city" of Athens estnie-into
• his view Isis soul must have been
• thrilled with the deepest emotions.
. had seen Jersualem, the most
influential city in the world for re-
; he longed to go to Rome,
whiela stood, above all others in
power, in law, in imperial sway, the.
itat -4, the world -f 7but now he•
to gaze upon tit; city which
then stood and still stands en -
'Orr acd above all others for in-
telleetual supfemeey,, for liters,.
• tuts, art)1, isrebitecture,..and. hit;
situation Was.. ope of the MOS
iseasutiful in the world, Within its
walls rose a. double group of hills.
This Afropolis, Mars' Rill (Areo-
pagus), The Pnyx on ;which .De-
mosthettes siliske his orations, the
Itizseum Rill, the Rill, of the
Nymphs, all crowned with huildingt
, of the most perfect architecture.
'Below teese were the market, the
brow, ,the great square 'south of
the Areoptegus„ and the Aereipolio,
like the pirate or *Wore St.
liferk s at 'Venice, surrounded by
the 'most heautifisl buildings and
husiett stores in the eitk.
II. 'Pan) Begins His Work in
1041. While Paul
waited for Silas and Timothy to
come from Berea-, before precoeding
farther„ le.,gitirting sresial work
st slew' anti pevaliar field, his
spirst was sktirreu nine "urgetl u
1.04;',°•ri.'.
r
gtia,rds of Eiieuris, his teaching de-
generated "into a mere series of
prudential calculations or a mere
indulgence of the sense* and ap-
petites"; and "his folloners were•
grven to gresse, nsualism."
4. The Btoles, whose school was
called the Porch an tithe Academy,
They 'were pantheists ,-believmg
that God. WM thesoulof the world,
that everything was governed be,
fate, *that there was no perpetual
individual immortality. - "Virtue
was its own 'reward, and vice its
own punishment. , Pleasure was no
good, and pain no evil." It is well
to note -the tenets of these philoses-
phers in • connection with Paul's
address, to see how he answer*
-them by his positive° teething.
III.: Paul's Address:tidore th
University of Athens. -:--Vs. 22.31.
„A Omelets „, Introduction- 42Ye
-
/men Ot Athensi, Athenians
were proud of their city, and Could
he called by no higher title. So
Dernosthen, the greatest orator
in 'all history,. addressed them..
perceive that 113 an things ye are
too superstitious. An `unfortunate
traduslation., not in accord With
_either -Paul's courtesy or hie skill'
asstoi-oretw,--or as a Christian se-a-
il:4;W gain converts. The 'Greek
Maeona "more full of. reverence •for
deities than, the other Oreekohivery
religious," ailleding to the great
uniber :of itiale ,:thi) titer) *n414
the fact that the two great pint-
sopliieid -sects-Jo Epicureans and
Stows, were deeply concerned with
religious questions.- •
. The Effects. PrOdueed by
Paul's Address, --Ars. -444. I. 32,
Sonie tockstle The tesiotaxigeseem-
od tilsostd to them. °
It. &nes refused to ..„deeide. We
'will heir thee again. Like/ Felix,
but theyyireie1Inwth te4o idat waits:anitfax tI ow ttoes 0.: nizteuur spa their to an . -
1 se and to te change Wet they
re almost any Ittarsge tistorie?,
a. A 16W stieepted the truth, re-
pented, and became diseiples of
Jesus!. 34. Dionysitts the. Alto-
Pogite, that -4s, a mernhet. of the
Learned before whom Pani
had isreisehed. Damaris. Nothing
farther it known oneerning tier
s imutt hose been * women of
tinction• and power. church
an with * eliatp goad," to. !give the dis
s founded here liter, and the
rthenott became a Christiin
mPle.
gospel to * cite wholly given to vta
Idolatry; •Its
His work was with fur chess to
f persons
1. The Jeste.
the synago
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"Two things, Remiley," said Mr.
Wade, looking at his ion fixedl
and erossing his legs. "X hear
you're 0U -the point of bankruptey,
and that -you're practically enga
to a most undsirable young wo-
man."
Hensley flushed, and his hands
clenched under the 'screening of the
Ile drew hisrd breath, for
his father's tone was a Istutall
offensive as were his worth.
"You have no right to speak in
that way of a girl you don't knisrtr
sir," lie said, as calmly as possible:
"As to my financial difficulties -un-
• less you've:inelinatiOn. to re-
Va th011l, I' don't see that it will
serve any good purpose for us to
discuss them.- Fm not in -the state
of mind just -now to accept verbal
castigation lying down."
"Don't • lose your temper,
please," amid old Wade, file -
member, I ans your lather, and that
X am deeply concerned in the pos-
stibility that our naine may he dis-
graced by bankruptcy or a, meat,
liaise°. Are you actually ersgag-
edi" - • -
"Yes," sMswirid flemiley,' re -
seating himself.
"Actually- engaged -eh I" mut-
toted old Wade, and moved •un-
comfortably in °his. chair. "And
doe this chorus -girl, or Whatever
she is, know that you're ruined i"
• two.**
"That Your father is wealthy"
Montague Wade laughed slily.
ley. stared at itim, his lips
t
.."Fat exelairata, leaning'
rem ddenly and layingitiselenehed Saia (Millie titbits bhore
him, this is *326 tittle for you.tO
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me 0 inc itt. your preterit frame of
ml. can't 'Stand it. My posi-
nis deoperAte; every 11101W0trin
ecting the bankruptey petition
come *long. For the love you
eine as, a child* for the tsffeetion
have borne me as a man, don't
ff at ,the one thing that quakes
position endurableA4ettie I",
I'm afraid find that 'Let -
mike yeur potitioit worse
she ItaSOIVA /Alla polo' position
' answered dtd 'Wade/ wisely.
she don't chuck you, it'll be be.
se she knows PM your , father,
yon"rt my only.son." .
Cut it, sir---eut it!" cried
msley angrily,' leaping to bi$
„ "For what reitson have you
here, if *you've nothing bet-
witer,,, Linder to say?'
The putpou% tor which
e titre. oily ton, is, as
a duplex purpose, and
ight 1 might Jull two_birde wit
atone," old Wade responded ,
di,. "I've not eome to .qunr.
though f se to hixi
•coosider
"If that ia'it-fatherly offer. mad
in s iri of fatherly seneressit
• itio t gratefully* .4' said Rens
deliberately;Iey .,',"but if, it ,ist an
o up Let
tic, Idecline it
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athe t
hit; - Thtlatro
Or • thi ,
ight, she was
poieted out
".,An'd doesn't your knowledge of
eletracter--enelde you, tolls ge tat
a•gooa girl!" •
• "My knowledge of worldly' affairs
enables me to judge that Montt
Wade's eis.-1-tiusTh-77-tets
augioeoudy:o!fegt,Ty.':uaLsysswoucorrocie oltlthiWttet
ree, old enough to know -whist
rt girl;/•• woman, or chit you
`most' faneY for it wife, arel I'm not
disposed discuss your judgment,
At thersause tithe, rni old enough
to know What to do. with my money.
Yo,n- understand I'
rs';,*
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US 74 '.1k never expect an-
other penny from you Utatia$4 givo
up- Lettle--4hieli X :shall never do.
,•••, •••r. a•r`a • 4". ' .
lat
to
Aaa
r Open for W
in that p'eriod you aro call upon
me for the eh on ttle.condition
4 I 441 4•4
shall take the luattstem steo
informing the. girl that you're
bankrupt, Ati,a _entirely -without
expectaVions, is another
mans to the same end -namely,
saving you from the toils of a for-
tune-hunting chorus -girl. / mean
it." •
"Ob. I don't doubt you mean
it!" Hensley answered bitterly.
"But I'm not a penny beUer or
worse off fax your bribes or
threats." .
"Yes, s-ott are, young lot -head.
'You're better, because • you know
now, while before you could only,
have supposed. Which door do
this one? Go0d-1:0701
week, Ilemsley!"
He opened the door leading to the
outer office and went out.
Hemsley threw himself into his
chair, and sat inertly, crushed.
The last draw had been laid 11 -Pon
his -back. Re fell into a brown
study -or, rather, & Atful
tempt to review the sitnatio14-and
find Iv glimmer of hope in any tit-
cumstance. Ile Scarcely felt any
resentment agaiost hie father, be-
cause he understood him -knew
that he was sincere'M his prejudice
and honest in big determination.
llemsley knevr all 'along that his
engagement to /Attie "Sernerton
would meet his father's meat dog-
ged opposition, and, fax that res. -
*OD, ))0. had planned to marry her,
and take her off the stage; and in-
troduee her to Montague Wades ILS,
/What she was by nature ---a 'charm-
ing little lady --not „as what she
had been-for!:alivelihoott-In whieh
cirentristanees, being unpreindiced,
his father would itcoept,her-s-tritic-
ally, perhaps, seetiCallY, it -might
vett be, but open to conversion,
ut his fir:amend - difficulties; had
prevented the execution of Isii
plan. And now it WWI too late.
Now be had to choose between Let
tie 'and a fortune of something like
80,000 -possible it might he
great deal Arial 'Whir
always, lived qUi040001Ststrt
and the wily in wbich he had spoken
of a ehequis for 410,000 ,suggetsted
that it would best, comparatively
easy matter .to /stooge -without em-
barr*tern* him. •\
T14.0 lie Liwait interrupted in his
bewildering thouglits--.4thie time b
Josephs, who cense in And looked
•Itim eared eyes, end held
ortt.a card.
liemsley took tlie card, but his
hands trembled ow he could not
reed- it. ,
"Who* it, Josephs t" he ittkeds
bunking.
"A clerk from Andrews,r/inston,
•Outley"te," soistloseplis comPos-
eiOnetely. r r
ifeaule'l strung Inalf-round, arid
dropped itto aehair. It bsd eotn
•the an bour
af is (Other's visit. •'
• Show biro ire Joseph
cry- white, *rid h
whieh were generaJF
tendersi thoughtful, we
bi-ight*net rettiese with exeiteinert
he leant beck against the he
o tbe shabby Sofa. Iter Misers, du
sly into its padding.
msiey wotehed her cagerIv
for her striswer.
al. ;
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until You wit it
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s*id you
uf her, eye, and, wince
he looked at him out et the to:
or,60
he
his
know. I)
e cap&
sit don't.
andtelt him
t.
did. It M'bi
ou the brush- o ,
dices but tie •,difite
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engi
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tit t have „As bar II
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We uift it . Q.1,4 °Oa;
7:401;en a• Y*'' ao -move
head to *coy sat
"Xotete perfeetly, ins i d„ af
urse,7 he titbit turning her
4 'speaking rapidly, "and I'm
oundirs-lionor to release u;
yon so triao-of comfortable mean*
wwiitthlesut ploess ,or protest. I .eou
taboos-. •
perfectly jest'.• I *hall see my
'other to -night, d• sell my pledge
fax his draft.'''..
"X will return our letters," he
addecl„ and went towords the
door.
GThooandk-hylurr
"Good-bye!" she echeed. She
heard him speak to her lamdltody,
Istietritrthec'poweratt
o !sot, *shutting the street door
after - ft -Good- "
• •
,
Zi*
noonsa
of * 10:511138.110111 comedyfax
provinesd toutiLand she woes glad
of it -g4 d to 'bevels) stroirk---ardtr-
ops work -to take her thoughts
front her disappointment. Though
it ecareely did that; lett it blurred
the tigures of lior imagination, and
inspired her with seine hope of the
future, for in thai tour she was to
have A speaking -part.
Her salary would be the same as.
she received as a ehorus-girl in
town, but -ler status in the profes-
sion 'Would be improved. It was
the second rung of the ladder, and
in her mind's eye /she worked up the
onibiliti lost. An after the re-
hearsal he had to attend at the
Relate heart, to sing and look
prett •
She threw her •whole mini into the.
Mater, sueeeeded. Bid; while
she rang, r fancy pictured Items -
ley,' and n indefinite' form, which
• .
rePyezetit a his father, sitting over
ath_:;t:or.rtoftelri-rt_wiwther4wartdinper..‘wine, and renaher:
voice ithnott broke. She was .1411
ing struggles before her; tall "one
or *er0w4"; dill is face.utstS e
to be looked at, & voice to be heard;
no longer. woman of flesh and
blood and mind, to he loved.
At last the cued -min rang. down,
and oho was free oha,triore till the
following evening.. Fttgel At lib-
erty to experience to the full that
dulkstrangling seatisnent whieb is
loneliness. in despair.
Fax the' first time She paused on
the dirty pavement outside the
stage -door l hesitating which way to
turn," instead of hurrying straight
home, as usual. The right' way
the
tormetingtol,,th;:ityvtlodhgiengt zneimAt
"Ara you Mist Somerton, may 1
a
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not
aid not
hurried
for
med reeky*
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xou. no, u
atandt" she, panting wr
nger and t -,L1Cou thin
ott, .tstle Why I did it, an
u ,Ottee• moneyt" She -leant"
forward .towards her ,Asnger
• shine-.frora her -tear-filled eyes,
end heat softly on the edge of the
table uncontrollable passion. "X
did it because loved him, just as
would have lum and
,Atisrved fax him bee:Luse X love him!
And you offer me money 1"
She leapt to her feet, and, before
he could recover his pretence of
mind.„ brushed past, him, and ewePt..
out into the !street.
He rose quit* AS oho dis*p.
peered, end, throwing half-*
,erown down upon the table, rushed
out of the cafe after her.
r
of her swiftly -moving figure twenty
yar•ds down the street,. and, in his__
-azetiient forgettinehilaself, an
telaiotitet--w
LeAtticlenhitakalcilitottIncePlii;ftesmt,antsc'
whons
akin, propptlay gavo. chase to the
unbreeding girl. In a few seconds
swung her round, and was walking
her, -back to -meet 1.4criitague Wade.
At sight of -her 'In custoi3y.tIo ,
man hurried forward.
"Tessa her, if you, dare! Don't
touch her!" he stormed. ..'91Thrit
the.—
"Ain t you lett nothing?" de-
mande the surprised constable.
"IST9 snapped Montague. And,
taking et hand quietly, he drew
her aw y from 41se little knot of
people who had gathered round.
"Come along, my dear!" he said
ibpinskylyi.sui‘tIit wittiso.moy,infarstlits--ef 1,,,ntire-
"It's all right now!" he Contin-
uea_xoothingly, yet quiekly. "It's
- all right row! We understand now -
I was-- an old foot, my -dear; but
how should - I know it was lilt°
thati Women are sobeguiling;
and young men. ate, iso 'easily be.
galled. rloves my boy, and ".1 was
afraid fax bird! I'm a bit
fashioned, perhaps. But Ws all
-
right now, my dear though I shall
insist on your leaving the stage.
You'll do that, to please Me, won't
you'? And it'll please IletasleY. •
too. /..know you'll do that, fax :
you love him, sal:smell as I do. My
dear, you melted me! Let's look
fax a cab! drive you hOMO
Virt can't • get hold,of Ilemsley. and
let him know to -night, but Ill try
soon. tia I've /teen you home,
try! Where, d'you live
cabby!. is1)--.410-1-; -
She got into the hansom with
thaldlike obedience, tared by her
wonderment,, bewildOed by his
Volubility; but ras'hoc-fisr,fro '
self on the seat besiO'ber, and.
taking her hand, patted soothing-
ly, tears' gushed from her eyes
"I feel for the. moment that '
lOce you better than Ifernaley!"
.she said hyiteriesdly.' • •
"Pools! litonsente V* he :exclaim-
ed-rint- he wag inimensely "priased,„
nevertheless. London Answers.
4,4411414.1VO.
„
tcYou.Atre. , of-that-
*Itionaire up o the hill, aren't
your *napped the tharit•Itteed
wo-
man who ran the butter-eggshop.,•
m son' respondedthe
Men in the White apron, "and I
want two pounds of butter for my
master's table. IIe ettia he'd send „
to town after it, only the toed* are
$5°•
41142**d°,44 eh t vti it's* 'not - -
Sitiattlar *bent' his i Did
you fell him I, sat his money.' WAS ,
arillteA
"iliti#44 ditto"
what did ,
"Said to was ,you lom told
utter."
IISEPIrre
"Life er,ttely 'Made u
usions," said the eons I
,:nYtiesgysinsseer-veetead bent,
pose. If there were res,
there would be fax letssf
She looked round, and saw in
Montague Wades big.. face and, fig-
ure sr stranger, whO, Irs.'soine inde-
finable way reminded' her of some-
evr
reel. the said satiny,on her
guard instantly, and "looked over
her.. shoulder to Assure herself that
the. doorkeeper was at hand. -
"1-*InilIontsigue Wade," he said
pointedly, "I should like to epeak
to yott.confidentiallY, if I might."
'I 'don't think Montague 'Wade .
and itiettle 8onstrton poso have an
eon:mien interest to 4140111*a at this
tinie ,of' night, air,r the retorted-,
her selt-loting kiiidling her anger
at the annottneement of hie name..
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the tincoreprcitaising attitude, sind,
irritated, 'too; but he pressed her
to steeerd hint in interview, and,
finally, writhing under hiss per-
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often sensed with Hounsley sifter.
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laid me under an obligation. I tar,
hini tonight, and was quite"
frank, .giving you the, entire the
entire, credit of -toneelling the en -
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