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little sewiag-girl—reseued by the
umoredlee good"stro,nee freak of fate :trona poverty
ereemeea
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and seurity—was to- have wealth
-seem-vetee 1113'un. • steeh as is mine, and the love of such
lending;yourself gm well cared for, my, , anon .as Frederick Caetletent"
.
ho said. relightiug a fresa And the _voice of coaecience Kern -
yore,: teed .pulling away vigorous. tel to whisper to her guilty heext,
**what tempted you to shalte off , eyee are an impater—you have
mortal coil, and land—the ;Lord, gained it all through fraud!" (tad
keeciers where?" he asked, curiously. the false 011ie Cameron threw her -
I wanted to cee because life Is not self down upon ber white lace eed,
torth the living," groaned Marie praying amid her tears and $obe,
leeriest er. that Heaven wpuld forgive ber—yet
you married? have YOU a wife she "could not repent al what he
;end little children?" aseett Frederick, had done," she told herself despeire
remembering the portrait in Ids oleos—for f she bad not come to
tereastpocleet. Cameron Nall she would never have
• "A wife! No!" cried Forrester. met the man -whom she loved with
Meth a moan of pain. "I detest all ell the paesivnate love of her heart.,
'remelt fen the esiee of one echo was And she prayed as she had never
.41.1se. to me; they ere all false tire- prayed before. tat Frederick anight
lerands Inring inee. i.e. their beauty to never filed out her terrible alto
opin etad death, and trampling the She had made what reparative dis
leive of tree hearts uneer -their ilailthe could—es far tot elopey went — con -
*MI" cerning Gilbert Calueron'e wealth
Pretterid; Cestleton flushed hotlyfor bad elle not heroically burned. the
"Do. not Sedge. ell so tarealy or will that had left every dollar of hie
104.0 sake of weat holt have steffered at money 1;0 heel—burne4 it that his
• ete banes of one." e saes. gravelY evoilth might go to the rightful
seed with dienite. beim, Vivian and las nephew! Still,
The white we 'eine; against the the sin remained — no etenement
pillow grew a ebade paler. and the • e(ndd wash that cue.
(levet], ayes etudied his face intently. sea ewes tea she eesstee heee seta
"Heaven grant that you elay never for Vivian And Frederiele pleced tee
lee (lolled he e fele. fickle girl." he gashing elaitemdis and gleaming
Murmurs liteasely. **Your faith bas peerls eguire Cameron hail lavished
mover been shaken—I loge it never •upon her, in their &tends. knelt at
*rill be." their feet, crying oirt:
**There is no danger!" exelaimed •"Pity rile. even though you spur*
rkederzek. a jo;,,r..rs ;:mile brooking xr.e mai send me from you an out -
Over his bonny ease- "A young gw; cast eat.° the bitter world; ;vet X
kap eieele me the ieiredeet ruan the ramie eonfees eey ain—I n noli
earth holds be gevIng me the Pro- " Squire Cameron's •child—I eta only 34
*dee this ver e evening tat ste
would he 111y toridt`. Heaven bleas
Xvt leer!"
Forrwer wisefully at
.11ha. smileng faa., and hie lips quiver -
ea with ett.,..ticei.
•"Tlitteit v. Let a blow it would be
to you to lose or love," te eaid,
he were Pelee to you,
said lied from your love --then. eb.
.13ien you would know what 1 as
seffering now—you would realize my
pain; and if you had the courage to
end your suffering tee 1 tried to end
=Sine,' you would (*woe the man who
'truck the fatal bullet irom your
Wart!"
eIow sorry Frederick Sett ler mot
he watcbed the 'veleta restless
cc, with the lines (of dieeipation
tat should never have been there!
OW etrange It was *bat one shout&
ve tasted the sweets of love's en -
tit* cup Of joywhile the other
So(d. drained to %he dregs its bitter -
5.
"Are you an tuaiat? You have the
*road brow of a, genius," (said Fred -
(tick, hoplug to divert the other'
thoughts from his great we.
"I was an tirtiet once," erns the
letter reply. "I am nothing now. I
leave no desire for fame. I bay,:
'minted out my ideal -dreams that.
poor, det.exeleut eetving-girl 'who
found by chance the Secret of 011ie
Caraeronhi fete. Gold. glitteriug tow-
els tetuptee me. I took the poor deed
011ie's place and destroyed the
proofs. X will go baek. to the old life
again. for the great fear tbat X
ahould /meet zoialcone from the dark
past, who might kuow me and de-
nounce me, has been a ewer greater
than X eau bear. The 'torture has
driven ane mad!, 1 ere you back your
love, Frederick, end the ring you
gave me 43 a tokee of tt. Von, who
are so tar above me, eould never toe%
*he poor aewing-girl who has beat
guilty of such a wicked deceptive."
Helena pictured to herself, as alte
lay there, hoer lae would turn (rose
her in horror end discnae—ee wke
was the very soul ot honor.
"I •could never do it!" .abst arias,
starting tip In reokless despair cued
putting her dark, curly Mir beck
from ber flushed, tear -stained keg
'I will marry my love and be happy.
He will never know. I •will plead
with Frederick night and day to take
me far away—so far that the great
• fear of meeting some one who will
know me will (lie fee of my heart.
Yet, who -would reetetitee in me Hel-
ena lreathcliff, tee poor little sew-
ing -girl, whose fece. was pinched
with privation, 'want, and all the ties
once ealeely put upon -canvas.. thiste- poverty is heir to?"
lag ler the world's praise. \exult is Again those glorious dark eyes
late cold eraise .of the empty world 'scanned the lovely face the mirror re-
tie a heart thirsting for a. love that fleeted with breathless anxiety. Then
is denied it? I destroyed my pita- she breathed fretr.
gs and burned rote brushes, I lived "No one would ever know me,"
Seem day to clay 'with but one hope, she murmured; "I am, greatly chang-
e/ad that was to find any false love ede, To
alid take Vengeance upon ter or The next afternoon, while on his
way to Cameron ia1l. Miss leirk-
-wood's answering telegram was
placed tn Frederick's hands:
"Iiindly detain Mr. Forrester un-
til his sister and 1arrive."
neelong zn,y lie."
if 1 could but get my beautiful
litelena to talk to this poor unfort-
te, she might in him from this
et- of vengeance ctgainet his false
love,- mused his host. In the days that followed, Helena
A. brillitent idea occurred fo lerede seemed so completely eharod Freder-
eeeck. He would engage him to go felt looked upon her in the greatest
tet Ca.raeron Hall wad paint Helene.* wonder and pleased surprese.
p2rtrait, and he -would pay him hie . The strange, brooding- shastoves up4
o n price for the work if It was
delay faithful copy of his darling's fied from her dark eyes; she was gay
Ickely dimpled face. • —recklessly gay, as a buoyant,
With such a beautitul -aubject, a : romping school -girl.
jekbe artist must: needs lanter heart Frederick stniled delightedly at the
sglid soul into kis work, and it would t change love had made. If she was
rely, ive his flagging here for the art charming and lovable before, in her
hie. once adored. •timid, girlish bashfulaese, she was
ellfow little we ithitak when we plait bewitchingly charming and Irresisti-
fer theefuture, that eftimes the reale ble now.
zeftion of those very plans •eill pierI91 How little he dreamed that it waa
• hearts keener than a swordall due to one cause— she had
hat, and cause us the raost polo-
/Agitthrown off the dread fear that haunt -
grief a human heart ean knowed her—she had dared to be happy
d while Frederiek sat there, and risk all consequences.
c placently planning a meeting btee Once Frederick had attempted to
t sen Mark Forrester the artist and induce her to sit to a young artist
lovely Helena, in her owe. blue for her portrait.
teed gold boudoir at Cameron Hall,
Helena was peeing up and do -ore "He is a stranger in Baltimore,
333setrmuring faintly: dear," he said; ”but he has excellent
'I am to be Frederick's bride, recommendations from New York
one shadow darkens the rose parties as an artist of extraordinary
f ability. You will (surely sit to him
dparn
the future, and that shad -
o
. is the haunting fear that scone*
ae. later I ratty come face to face
eleth Mark Forrester!"
r Pt
CHAPTER =V -
`•el am to be Frederick's bridet"
Helena raurtnured, pressing her hands
'tightly over her heart; and some-
thing very like a guilty thrill of ter -
roe crept over her as she re.menabered
how near she had ones been to being
▪ eride.
"I was never suited to poor
eferke. she sighed, glancing at the
e --gloriously beautiful face the mirror
rettected. "I never was intended for
a life such as I would have had to
teed as his wife. It was not love
which prompted me to accept Mark,'
see rau.sed, “for X repeated of it
getite as Won as the words were ut-
tered. I did not know what lo -re
meant then. ley heart was never
&wakened until 1 snet Frederick Owe
bleton. And now his love is mine—
• ail mine!" she cried with a throb-
biug heart, as elm turned the sparkl-
e* diamond eagagententering around
leee white enger. -What young girl
has ever had such e strange roraa.3a-
e life," she soliloquized, her dark
es agate seeking the inirror; **wee
d dream that I ----once a peer
for your portrait, for ray sake,
dear?"
He never forgot, nor could es un-
derstand, the sharp cry of horror
that rose to Helena's lips.
"My portrait!" she cried, in a.
voice so changed by terror that It
sounded scarcely human, “e—X -.-
should die if you brought an erten
here. I—I—would not live through
the ordeal!
A hearty laugh broke from Fred-
erick, the idea, was so very ludicrous.
"I can not understand you, dar-
ling," he deelared, laughingly. "I
have heard and read of young.
having • aversioe to crimson, -blood
roses, to red -plumaged birds, to el-
fembaate dandies and so on; but I
have never heard of a young and be -
•witchingly lovely girl refusing, in
such terror, to allow her lovely fea-
tures to be transferred to anneae.
You surprise ma I-Ielena."
'Don't folk about it any more,
Frederick," she murmured, elaspieg
two ice-cold hands me his arm.
1. had !loped to Interest you, ewe
by telling you this poor fellowes hiss
eliorne" lee went; of, tatoughtlessity.
"elle quite a Woman -hater. h
33a1.17oziiy 3202 .of eemplimeet te Ie
lee lets oolotezhed te teedertalial
le at eel. 1 betricsoled Wee. 011.041,, alld
'"""ltnierv 4110 re ta, sralona,?" ke cried.
le4110111 10 the Ve0110/16 41019f
has faded from yOur eaoe, and yout.
eye.s have in them the look of a hint-
ed fawn; even your -elands are bum -
leg. 'You must be ill," he cried,
anxiously. "Don't worry yourself
about the portratt; of couree Tour
will is to be ray Lew, 1 eon no
complain, you know, <leer, for am 1
not to beve the sweet original ier
nay own very soon now? Look op
Into my eyes and smile agein.
will tell you the artist's story some
other time."
By a great effort ITelene threw -04
all the deadly fear that for one mo-
ment had swept like a deluge ever
her fluttering heart.
1 -1 -ow silly she was, she told hex -
self, to give way to sudden terror
like that! Mark was not the only
artist in the world. Still, she would
never sit for a portrait --never -*bile
the sun shone! She had a, deadly
terror of it, nothing eauld change
that—just such a. brooding horror
as a deserted wife feels lest the same
fate may reach her own daughters
when they grow up and marry, and
a constant dread, if she remarries,
her elegzed. brain to, deny her identity,
•-aeo.. 'eery eut surprisetily: "You
taldet be mad; we are strangers who
ba -re never met before. I ane not
Helena Ileathelift. '1 am 011ie Cam-
eront“ She must do it to save here
self.
But the words refueed to leave her
ehe could, only steed there in
the .suielight, hei laxge, dark eyes
Axed upon his face, a world of un-
utterable borror and dread in them.
Before Mark Forrester had team to
utter one word of tbe torrent of
wrath that was raging in his heart,
the door of the hall. opened sudden-
ly. and Viyiett, stepping out upon
the porch, tailed sharply:
--Helena1 liteenal where are Toe?
I want you at once!"
Vivian'a -voice had netrae-cd ber.
It was eseless to deny her identity
now—quite tiseless—and a deathly
despair etept over her.
"One moment," cried Mark Forres-
ter, grasping her white arm rudely,
"and with a grim, set purpose in his
gUttering eyes. "'I must have an
interview with you my fair, false
bride that was to be. Why did you
By from me, tra,niple say love down,
break my heart and leave me?" he
cried, sternly, his eyes fairly blezing
dawn into her guilty soul.
"Helena! Helena! .Are you com-
ing. or shall I come 4own into the
garden after you?" called Viviaies
impatient, shrill voice.
tell you all, Mark; but
not here—not now," breathed Ilel-
era. Wale'.
"I shall. gelt .you to invite me into
the Halle" replied Merit. grimly, -un-
conseiously tightening hie beld of
the beautiful white ertn—his Newt,
throbbing metily with grief and bit-
ter Pain.
"Olt, no. no! Not there!" cried
Helena, faintly, "I will come to 'sou
In the rose -arbor to -night at eight."
and in an instant she had wrenched
herself free front his grasp and sped
like a swift -winged bird over the
greensward, across the rose -bordered
terrace, and eisappeared through the
door -way.
Like one dazed. Helena groped her
way elong the corridor. She seemed
like one stricken suddenly blind.
Ttvian stood gayly thatting with
a lady. She presented the lady to
Helena, bue the girl's brain 'MI5 too
benumbed to quite comprehend the
name, 41341 she added. earelteesIy;
"Look In at the parlors and revel).
tion room beyond, and see how you
like the decorations; it is a, perfect
bower of roses.
Fsager to escape elvicires aurious,
keen gaze, Helena passed into the
parlor; only the roes will bear wit-
ness what happened there. How she
Id diazily back against the banlc of
blooms, crushing them as she fell.
Mut their perfume stifled her. Wild,
mobbing cries fell front her lips as
she rocked herself to and fro an her
bended knees, wailing out that her
sin had overtaken her, and fate had
showered a deathly vengeance upon
Ler.
Oh! U the hand of fate had lieett
:stayed but another day—only a few
more hours—and she would have
been Frederick Costleton's bride.
And now her doom had overtaken
her—cut tier off from all joy or hope,
just as the cup of happiness WAS
held 'to her Welshed lips. And in
that one boue of bitter repentance
she suffered tenfold for that ono
thoughtless ace of folly committed
—ay, a hundred -fold. Tbat one act
of girlish lolly—of wearing Miss
• littawood's pini -silk dress to the
skating carnival, and all the tragic
sorrene that had accrued in conse-
quence.
Pate had brought her face to *ice
with Mark at last, and his revenge
'would re complete when he dragged
the skeleton from the closet of the
dark past and disclosed to the world
lest the next one may follow suit ex
the least provocation—that was tlee
haunting skeleton in ber closet whien
the world knew not of; but in Frere -
crick's presence she would forget is
all, and be happy; she would enjoy
bis tender love, as the shrinitieg
flower enjoys the sweet, invigerall-
ing sue:thine,
"I have eiot been idle, daeling,"
exclaimed Frederick., fondly, as, arm
in arm, they paced the elowerearne,
dered terrace a peement before Ile
took, his leave, "I beve bought a
beautiful horee for ray beautittli
bride," he exclaimed, entlaisiastical-
ly, "and have bad it furnished witk
every leeury taste could suggest and.
money procure It is upon one of
the xaost fashionable ageweee
Washington, wbere my Helena V111,
shine as the most beautiful of beau-
tiful brides; and have purebasee.
tlint home and its a.dornings as my
bridal gift to you. dear," he eaide
bending over her tenderly.
"You are 30 good to nee, h-edere
ick" cried Helena, lifting two tear -
gemmed eyes to his handsome face,
"and the „one prayer of my life trill
be"—and her voice fluttered trentea
lously---"I hope you will never love
nee less tban you do now; and tbet
no shadow will ever come betweee
He laughed lightly at her words
then; but the time tallle 'when thee*
words sounded like a. prophecy.
The cheys flew by on golden 'wing*,
as the days of lovers' wooing genere
oily do. It was tbte day before Bee
ena"a wedding, and the sun :atones
and the bade sung in tbe trees *tete
side of her window as though lee
tragedy were to be enacted ere gm
day waned—M5 though no girliek
heart were to be broken and a yoratig
life cruelly blasted.
"Ah, tne, how happy 1 eaul To-
morrow Is to be ray wedding clay:"
she enurmurtel, standing before the
mirror, and knotting a (trims= eaelk
about her 'slender waist, and twine
ing a spray of geramitme—leretler-
ick's favorite flower—in her dark
brown, glossy curia:
• She walked ;slowly down the carte.
dor and out into the rose garden.
Helena liked to gather the roses
• best when they were spangled with
diaanonds of dew, glistening in the .
sunlight.
she was an early riser. No one
was yet astir at Cie Hall, and she
walked briskly along with her sun
hat over her white arm. The mdrning
air and golden sunshine kissed her
cheeks into twin -blown roses as she
walked about amid the lads of bril-
liant blooms.
"My happiness will be like this
flower," she marraured, plucking a
fragrant white rose—"pure and
sweet; but I -trust it will 'be more
• lasting than this flower, so fragile
and lovely!"
A slight noise directly behind her
startled her, and, glancing hastily
' around, she saw a gentleman beside
the fence, with both of his hands
1 leaning lightly upon the railing.
"I beg your pardon, madame," he
(mid, raising his hat respectfully;
"but will you kindly tell. me the
name of that flowering plant at your
feet?"
A faint, choking cry broke 'Teem
Helena's ethite stiffening lips. She
tried to turn and fly, but Heaven it-
, self seemed against her; she had not
; even power to turn her face away,
or to fall on her knees and bury it
anong the pitying crimson blooms at
her feet. Like one fascinated, her
strained, terrified gaze never left the
stranger's face.
His eyes were fixed curiously upon
the plant he had been admiring. One
moment more he would raise his
eyes to her face—and then! ale dear
Heaven, . she dared not think what
would happen then!
She knew him at the first glance
While the sun shone, the birds sung
and the roses had v. :geed their per-
fuxne about her on enteiner car,
her doom had ovC. `. her! It
was Meek Forresi... t eckless,
passionate, artist ice. . 'se last
words had been to her, eee-ser prove
false to me, mydarling; for, if you
were, I should kill myself—perhaps
both of us."
Slowly he rased his eyes to the
girl's white, ghastly face. -
"Nly God!" he cried out hoarsely,'
in a voice that was scarcely human.
"Helena U.callicliff, 1 have found
you at lastI"
And in another ;instant, with one
bound he had cleared tbe .low iron
railings, and_ had gained .her side.
CHAPTER XV.
-
"Helena Heathclift, I have tound
you it last!" repeated Mark .Forres-
ter, hoarsely. .
Then for an awful moment, while
the birds were singing, and the sun-
shine deifted down upon her terrified
face, there were profound silence be-.
.ween them.
As a frightened dove stands terri-
/ lied, mesmerized, before h deadly ser-
pent, Delete, stood before Mark.
elis angeredlstorted face, livid -with
aroused paesiem, was terrible to see.
Helena's -was pitiful to behold in its
pale, pathetic loveliness a•nd un.utter.
able lea,.
A Vila, iketene idiect neehed through
. eareoseeees.a.
,.......a.seeeeeeesee
that the girl whom they had known
as Squire Cameron's daughter wet;
an imposter, Helena, Ileathcliff, She
who bad dared claim a dead girl's
heritage was but a poor NOW York
sewing -girl, es ambitious as she was
bea.utiful, and had made this daring
strike for glittering gold and posi-
tion.
Men would turn from her In won-
der, and young girls in horror, •while
Frederick, her heart's love, *would
curse the day his fair, hon070...-
ble name had been coupled with hers
upon the lips of men.
Tier prayers and her entreaties
\voted be useless. The voice that
had always had for her noth-
ing but words of tenderest
love would cry out against her as ha
spurned her from him ana tore him-
self from her frenzied, clinging clasp,
and left her an outcast at the
world's mercy, praying for death.
An hour later, when Vivian enter-
ed the parlor, she found great clus-
ters of roses torn. from their fasten-
ings and scattered abent the room,
theirpetals ground deep into the
white velvetcarpet and Helena ly-
ing as white as a sno•wedrop among
the debris of rose leaves.
"Their stilling odor • must have
overcome me, and I must have fallen
against thexa," Helena -explained,
trying to speak calmly when she re-
gained consciousness.
But Vivian knew it was something
besides the oder of the roses that
caused it, and that made her ..face
so ghastly and her eyes so black
with terror . elect caused her to cry
out in nervous fright at every peal
of the door -bell;
TUE SUNDAY &Tool,.
LESSON IV, CONE) QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, APRIL 28,
Text or the L.L.NK.:111, .14140. u. 19-29.
Memory Verses. 19.20-G014es% Te•xt,
John xx, 1:9--000410e48tstry Prepooee
1.43' 12eN. 0. 111.-SteArrie,
(Copyrigbt, 1901, by Aancriearx exess Atteeiation.1
19, "Jesus steed iu the midst and saitit
unto them, Peace be unto you." Tills
was a the evening of the resuriectiou
dos. while the disciples were gathered ii-
gether, with the deers shut for rear of
the JeWS, listening to the testimony et e
the two with whom He bad walked m
Inu1lamIS. wliea suddenlJesus Itinteelf
stood in the midst, with those bieseed
words. "'Peace be ado you." wleelt lie al-
so repeated a little later Ayers,: 21). Com -
Pare His "Be of g•otel eheere- eBe set
afraid,""Go in peace" (Math, ix,2, 22; Nis,.
27; laulte vie .50; viii.48), and remember teat
He is the Prince or Puce, He hes 010.ie
peace for' us by the blood of His eroes,
aIl Ilis tbouttlas to us are thoughts of
neace, He is our melee, Ile will eeep ip
perfect peace all'whoseentinds are stafkl
('i Him, and it is our privilege to 'let
the peace of God rule in our hearts thee ;
ix, 0; Col. i, 20; Jer. xxix, 11; EA. H. 11;
tea, 1NVi, 3 Col. id. 10). This seems te
me to have been His fifth am:tomes. ;
counting as follows: To Mary, to the oth- :
et' woman. to Peter. to the two who
walked to Emmaus, and aow to the 4nst.. !
eipleS gethereil together. Md as the tire;
tifth In SeriPtUTO is associated with tibiae
denee (Gen. 1, 20-23L as also in Joseph's ;
kindness to Ilenjamin, acid the live loaves
which so abundauttly fed the 5.000, eta '
20. 'ashen were the diseiples glad weal
tileY Sow the Lord," At first they were
terrified and affrighted, but Ile showed g
them His hands end His feet and lethal
them to bundle Him and ea. that He was
not a epirit, es they bad supposed. I ex- ;
peek He says to us many a time, "Wily i
are ye troubled? And why do thoughte
arise in your hearts?" (Luke xxiv, 3740)
and if we would only see Him and itte
liere His lore toward us we would lose
our troubled thoughts a John iv. 10;,
John xiv,1„ 27). We learn from the pas.;
sage in Luke just quoted that our resin-. !
rection bodies will be tangible and mato-
rial, for ours shall be lie° His (Pbil.
21), and His was flesh and bones anti
eould be handled and could eat (Luke
sxiv, 41, 42). Those who die have gain,
but they still wait for the resurrection.
body.
21. "Then. ;said Jesus to them again:
Peace be unto you. As My Father bath
sent Me, even ea send I you." In Bis
prayer to Ills Father He said, "As Thou
east scut Me into the world mon so beta
I also seta them Into theworle" (Jobnxvii,
18). Moro than 30 times in this gospel
He speaks of Llimself, or Is spoken of,
as sent by the Father. He said to Moses,
"Came now, therefore, and I will emit
thee unto Pharaele" and to Gideon, "Go
In this thy nieght; hare not I sent tbee?"
and to Jeremiah, "Thou shalt go to all
that r shall send thee, and whatsoever I
command thee thou shalt speak" Mx. iil.
10; Judges ye 14; Jee 1, 7).
22, 23. "Ho breathed on them and eaitk
411120 them, Reeds() ye the Holy Ghost,"
Some are perplexed about the discipl4s
being commissioned to remit er retain
sins, but notice that the power given to
Peter in Math. xvi, 10, is here gieen to
all who were gntbered together. All be-
lievers are eoMmissioned to go In Hie
name proclaiming the remission of sine
to all who will accept HMI (Rev. eel!, 17;
Acts iii, 38, 39). As to receiving the
Holy Ghost, one has said, "It does not
appear that the Holy Gbost did now
come upon them. This seems to bare been
a epithelia net representing that wheel
actually took place on the day of Pente-
cost." All believers are temples of the
Holy Ghost, and Ile Is in every believer,
but to be filled with the Spirit, while it is
the privilege of all, it is to be feared is
the experience of but few (1 Coe vi, 19,
20; John xiv, 17; DIAL v, 18).
24, 25. "We lave seen the Lord."
Thus said the others to Thomas, who
was not with them when Jesus appeared
on that first ereniug, but his reply was,
"Except I shall see, I will not believe."
There was no simplicity of Oen hero,
Not only did he doebt the word of his fel-
lowdisciples, but, like them,he did stet
belieee the word of our Lord .Hinaself
that He would rise from the dead. We
all need, and need often, the word of our
Lord, "0 ye of little faith!" How much
Thomas missed by not being with the
others that resurrection evening! A
whole week of doubt and darkness was
one of the results.
26, 27. "Be not faithless, but believ-
ing." The next first day of -the week,
the disciples being again gathered, and
Thomas with them, Jesus again appears
with His great greeting, "Peace be unto
you." No one had told Him *hat Thom-
as had said, yet see how He exactly
meets Thomas' difficulty (compare veree
25). He knows the things that come in
our mind, every one of them, and there
not a word in our tongue but He knot
it altogether (Ezek. xi, 5; Ps. cxxxix,
How careful this should make us co
corning even our thoughts, for t
thought of foolishness is sin (Prov. set
9).
28. "My Lord and my God." The lo
of Christ and the word of Christ wet
enough. We do not read that Thorn'
put his finger into the print of the nal
in order to be convinced, as he thougt
he would need to do. A word from Chri
Himself did it all, but it was sight th;
did it. He saw end believed, and h
heart then cried, "My Lord and in
God." Does your heart thus cry out n
you see Him by faith Wonteled for you
transgressions and bruised for your ise
uities, or has He still oceasion to mane;
you for your unbelief mei
heart because you will a
message ndr His metes:. •
14.) -
29. "Jesus see' •
cause thou has! !ea -
Hever]. Blessed • .
'seen and yet hay:,
thing He asks us •
what He says cot .t.
present or the futn • •
unlikely as that Noeli, fiviee 1)!'mll'aPsfi
from any water, would ever -need n re
sel to save bis houseliold, but it is alma
for faith that God says or 'command's. I
is ours to believe and obey. Do I accep
the Son of Clod as my Saviour, puttin
all my taist in His precious blood. she
for me, then it is my privilege to believ
all that ,He has said concerning ; suc
and when'T read John v, 24; vl, 37: e'.1
lc, 27-29; Eph. 1, 6, 7; Bora. 7, l; P
exxxvfii, 8; Ise- ali 13, milli, 25; col. h
4; 1 John iii, 1, g, or eireilar passages
ehotad say 'with glad heart; "I bellev
God," tad rerna•Mbi4',
7,19,118Aiir
"Is it a stranger calling for me?"
The dusk crept on, the stars fixed
themselves in the sky, and the broad,
• full moon was riding like a lumin-
ous chiricet high in the heavens,
shedding a golden radiance over the
ear h, as Frederick Castleton wend-
ed his way, blithe and happy of
heal'', toward -Cameron 'Teall.
on the steps of his • club he met
hir eld friend, , Herbert.Ren.wick.
*7 can so happy with the whole
• world," .he told himself, impalsives
13r, "that I ought to make overtures
of friendship to my old chum who'
hes lost what I have won."
• All the world seemed joyous, for .
etas not to -morrow his wedding -day
and by that time on the morrow,
please, 13mtvee, he would have won
beautiful, peerless Helena for Ms
bride.
CONTINUED
sr'r •
SUMMER FORCING.
Istant7 vceenawases Vtilized With
rcne4a1s1os What vine xieat.
Greenhopeies, more particularly tem
ing houses, are vapidly increasing in
number throughent the northern state's.
This allay be coverdone in time, but at
present It is a valuable source et in-
come. During the summer mouths It is
the prevailing enstem to clean out the
forcing houses, allowing there to 1/3
Id).. -time to Inepare for the fall
eaxnpaign.
Some time ago it occurred to Frank
W. Bane of New Hampshire that there
should be some tropical or other plants
of eeonomic importance that would
adapt themselves to the utilization of
the empty bou.ses„ Eggplants, peppere,
sweet potatoes and tomatoes were se-
lecte51 for 1rria1. .The house is an even
span, 2fi by 100 feet, and the beds, with
21
SrEC04Y.143 TOMATOKS.
12, rady Avee 14. liatuty. 48. Doxide Early
lemma, ge leteteue lendbook 11‘
New'Liberty Dell.
one exception, on the ground. AU of
the plants used were started early. Ise
that they were of good size when trans-
planted into permanent positions. By
so doing earlier maturity and cense-
!pent greater profit were gained. Mr.
Rene says:
From tomato plants the seed of
which was sown on March 10 and the
plants set into the ground beds he -
'tweet; )ettuce on April 0 'WO began pick-
ing fruit on July 10. The plants were
set 18 inches apart each way and train-
ed to one stem. The varieties used
wore Early Aeme, Beauty, New Liber-
ty Bell, Ignotum, Fordbook First and
liopti's Early Minnesota. These rede-
fine from past aperience had proved
'ray valuable for forelug•
On examination of data, at hand it
Pas found that log.10 could safely be
counted upon as about the ripening
period of the outdoor crop in New
rfampshire. Figuring the yield per
average plant for each variety to Ang.
10 and then taking the average iinf the
/whole 'the yield flgured 2 pounds 0%
ounces per squall.* foot. The average
price which tomatoes have brought be-
tween July.10 and Aug. 10 bas been
at least 7 cents per pound. Two
pounds 014* ounces at 7 cents a pound
equal nearly 16.8 cents, the income
from one square foot Multiplying this
NAPOLEON'S WISDOM.
Great Geonree 1.ie:sl
a271,341eYap,. og
InteulesloINL-1)oet rer Abotkin
Mau eXerri$93 „ttis 14MSCIfle fee
prove them. Ile econpetsis ,eeeese
ly with his eellewe, ziyalFy tot
muscle ends in nrssenlaridapeeree-
raieve.htatallexreorund.
eise4.03 tor tioi joxoros
discussion does for the braia.
The importance el aiocossieo Alto.
pornodn wpiae.prozleheieatliod. vosetilOrd0,11%11.7d.44404:
ea like a big man, selecting fix*i.
tions to exhaust the maineta 414,
far away into 11443 of cenjec4AnaS
and widest ispeeelatima,
• }Its was no dreageer'a
ing to speaulattee tee ten* et
for doing. First come the teal lff
of the day or hour -the plaetaisggegf
fineshiug 9f details, from the d-
ing of army corps te the eanie htl
fatal arraegements.
Then, fres leen actual work, «a'
ing relief from cOecesatrated app1te^te.-
tion, his brae* nought rest ell (AN
worth whi/..
On kis 'voyage te eegypt, 0.00;
Wined to waste no time, he ergents.
ed serious diacussion as Beithodicalig
as he eYer organized e.egkting glps
pointed
e dillgeuairszons
. iewere rogalarl1r ttl**
Needless to 'say, Napoleozt arrejsge
ad everything awl eon -trolled .try.
thing.
Re seleeted the sitbjeet Par 4k4c41.4*
sleet, he he tbe three or four
each side to eupport teed opal,*
given propomiticea.
These were leis feererite toPleeti
ka'ritrst0,1 gtohyeoraLatoojt;wiaruir; rcreianisd,terr
From his point 1.4 lisr, his 001/1
MaUbblr etgosefour. disnetytoorio.parLfeernewadillliter
only two things he eared for 2).0• 1_1)7
Lie fate liereafter.
liol:w:Itt.exednt.dhetbzeo:e:f1
the scope Ills embiticoa, was tnt-
-to°11dceecidbee elret*Je4lerhif3tal7luttnedts4liaViast:
inhabited.
Again, be direassed thin earlra
prdhable ending, by Are or Teat*.
Ile disclosed also the moaning Ot
dreams and Om value et dpreweattie
*Itt4e..r"actecal life be discarded every.
Ching, sale realitine, but in discus*
arkiii. =Alt: yabistittrailoaclattl::toustito:skinoret7:::
in general be honied poalielfehlr the
eeletenett et bell-perheas that w;19
vaution on his part -and vortintathod
that no man should alie withent On-%
• RZW YORK IIIPROVRD geoeLANT.
by the number of square feet available .
for tomatoes, or 1,440 square feet, the -
area of our center bed, we have a re-
turn of $241.92.
Eggplants arid peppers find ideal I
Conditions in the summer greenhouse. I
Possibly this may not apply with equal
force to states farther south, but it Is
n-;
I, • ,,.•
IV VI
be
,•-•
teasing lits cans.
"Only a fool trayis thee ete 'KM ea^
4114 without+ 41, contour. There lgr
30 much W44 do not know slkd that
we cannot explain."
Xt is deeply characteristie of Italto-
leon's thought that he should tri4„Va
declared for ISoharamedanisne. in
preference to Christianity.
ILI admired Ow religion of llo-
hammed "because. it sosquernd onc.
hall the yrorld ill UR years, "'trials
it took 300 years ter Christianiby-Th-
.
establish itself."
The old Frenck king became tWrt-•
verted because h• 'thought the Chrigt4
an God heat his pagan god in MY.-
tle. Napoleon had not traveled la"r.
beyond that old king.
The man who stele for all corts'Of
wisdom in Napoleon will be doesAy,
'disappointed when he comes to nno,-
1y2e the great !letter's raligtbus
thought.
But for the here worshiper theee is
eons/art in this:
Napoleon trifled with nrerytbl,ng
except the first great cause.
On the deck of his ship on a IMP
night there was much irreveratt,'
flippant, materialistic chatter. Vele
revolution had made stupid nekeeelii
fashionable.
But Napoleon was impressed by ete -
eam night. the blue, dark weak('
and the silent beautiful stars ahlee
ing down in cosmic rebuke ei
tiny blasphemers below.
ire stopped very abruptly tlie
prattle of atheism.
Toward the stars he pointed ,the
short, thick arm so soon to rule Otis
little planet.
"You nta,y talk me 'long as you
please, gentlemen, but who made 'al
that?"
There was no aneiver, and theare
was 110 more atheism that night. ,
The man who was to build up the
code Napoleon could appreciate the
force and necessity of law. ,
mind realized the feeblehess of Mtela
coping even with little problems 131
earth.
He felt that great lave and
Great Lawgiver must swing and di-
rect those millions of akin, worths
above. tee
When Napoleon was stili a Corsi-
can patriot, the great Paoli said to
him:
"Napoleon, you are not a modern.
You talk like the heroes of Piet -
arch."
Earnestness of the old kind was
;Lee ed Napoleon's characteristie-•as
.seperor, planning to rule Asia from
• back of an ornexuented ole -
t, or as a poor, half starve
• taking oft his nntddy 'shoes to
the presence of the matronly;
..e. Permon and listening to her
stories of descent from the emperors
of Constantinople.
• Napoleon in his hours of work eras
aedoer, and in las hours of leisure
he was a discusser.
He exercised constantly the two
side: of his brain, the practical and
epainlative.
ASONV the Budget Got Its Warne.
Probably rot 1 per cent. of the
British taxpayers who are lust -n-tele-toes
anxiously discussing the possibility
af Sir Michael Hicks -Beach's
coming budget are aware of the 0
gin of the term. Almost
time immemorial it was the eule
In England to put %lee estime,
receipts and expeedeturcs pr
to Parliament inatteetner
word budget being ati holler
us from the plc' Nos*** wen,*
gette, which eigniteit
Curiously enctugh,
ed back again Oleo se
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