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.No Man is entitled • to a serious lar,,e shipper that could not he doge
hearing on the subject of farming by tho small farmer, I. e can 00,
Without the loss of a moment's•time
less he proves his faith by his works
to the general lreight agent or other
a.
-"DO you run farm yourself mid railroad offido • •cial"•, and negotiate di.
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you make it pay?" are the questions rectly and .persohally for special fa -
to be put to Very man who has any citifies out of reach of the Man on
advice to offer about 'farming, writes the farm. All those things count
when the .halance is struck.
Mr. S. W. Allerton. in. Saturday Ev- •
.again, the system I have outlined
ening Post- If he cart't answer Yes makes 'possible large econoillies 111
to botn these questions his talk is buying. It stands to .1011S011that
mere theory and not worth listen- the man who buys binding twine for
ing to. If theorizing would raise the harvesting machines On fiftY
farms can secure a lower figure than
crops we should have to go to col-
lege class -rooms instead of to the one purchasing for a single farm:.
fields for grain on which to feed the
world; but it won't, and there is no
USO in giving serious attention to
any talk on this subject that is not
backed up by'sound results, of a
broad, practical sort, which have
been personally obtained by the Wan
making the suggestions.
First, then, I shall give a reason
for the faith that is in me, and
shall state something of my experi-
ence as a fanner, before I ask any
reader to accept my statement and
give them any weight or practical
consideration. . My system of _farms
contains something mOre than. 40,-
000 acres under careful cultivation
and an equal amount in grass. These
it should be clearly undPrstood, are
not ranches, but farms. The farm-
houses covered by 'insurance number
about seventy, While these farms
are, in one sense, managed at long
range, they are "personally con-
ducted," as the tourists say. The
entire system centres right here in
my Chicago office, and every crop is
as much under my personal direc-
tion as if I followed the plow, seed-
ed the land and went into the har-
vest field myself.
So much for the question of prac-
tical personal experience in arming
on a large scale.
FARMING- THAT PAYS.
Now about the results. Does my
farming pay? Yes: And well, too.
For the sake of definitness I can say
that in one year, from a farm of
8600 acres, I have made a net profit
of $37,000. This tract of land cost
me but $70,000. R was bought at
a time when faith in farm values was
low, and when the young man of
that region at least, were in a hurry
to get away from the farms into. the
big cities, where they wotild have a
fair chance to make their fortunes.,
Whether there is a good, big future.
in farming—enough to satisfy any
young man with a healthy ambition:
to get to the front and have a fel--
tune—is well answered by the fact
that quite recently three farmers in
Central Illinois left, at their death
fortunes of more than three millien
dollars each. This Wealth was made
in farming-.
In the same general region can
find scores of farmers + who are worth
from $100,000 to $500,000: These
are the straws which go to show that
for the household the farmer is free
to sell the surplus, The wives and
children of the men who run these
farms are given all the Poultry they
raise, `Iliese privilegds are apPreci-
ated, and go to make the foreman,
the hands and the tenants, together
With- their families, contented with
their lot and eager to keep their
placee.
Orchards are, planted on these
farms,' together with small fruits
and there is every encouragement to
have 'large gardens and to keep them
M good condition. Men who are
well fed, having a tempting varia
of the delicacies. of the season, will
thrive and work well where a plain
and monotonous bill of fare would
produce grumbling, discontent and a
constant change of help.
There' is not awn's" in the • whole
sys.tem, that' haen't i.11$ equip-
ment an extensionetop 'buggy,. and
S01110 have More than .one, according
to. the number •. of young inch ein-
ployed. The horse's which.!'are driv-
en behirid these • carriages are, equal
to the ories owned by the sons of
aei,ghboring farmers ,who work their
This applies to every kind of suPPlY places instead of being la!' the ern -
used in farm operations. ploy of' a "Chicago dapitallet." Here
One of the biggest probleins of is another inStemee in which small
farm management is, of course, the expense and little thoughtfulness
distribution of crops. Whenever this work largo results in loyalty and
question comes up among farmers contentment- . •
there is always a great deal of wise Quite as important to the. welfa,re
talk about "crop, rotation." Sift Qf the employees and the tenants Of
this down to the bottom and it wilt the farms 'Os' orchards; gardens,
be found, in nicest cases, that farm- dairies, poultry and top buggies., are
ers understand this terin to. Mean good district. schools..:. tliere is
sowing a field for oats 0U0 Year and net. a "little red schbelhouse" or
Wheat the next --,-alternating theSe very near a. farni that collies into my
crops indefinitely year after year. .pOseession I see to it that the,'auth-
Here is where the chief Mistake is orities are offered a gift of ample
made. TheY dO not ,make Provision ground ou which to build one. On
for giving their ground a Chance for , one occasion, after repeatedly Press-
ing an o.ffer 61 this kind, My foreman
was asked:
"Why is :!that capitalist 'boss of
yours so anxious to build a. brick
rest and enrichment. They do not
plan to return anything to the 'soil,
Every field.used for wheat, corn and
oats should have a season's re§t once
every three or four years. Give each schoolhouse? It will simply in-
field a chance to serve as pasture crease his ,own taxes', and he will get
land as frequently as this, and it no benefit from the improvement,
will pay big returns in rich and having no children here to attend
heavy yields. Managed on this plan, school." -
by a man who has any knack as aei As the foreman was a bright Irish -
corn raiser, any average Illinois or ma,n he ha.d a. ready answer: ``13e,-,
Nebraska. field should yield from I cause lee thinks 'more .61 your
seventy-five to one hundred bushels area and their chances in life than
of corn to the acre. you do. yourself !"
About thirty years ago I began The schoolhouse was Put up on the
farming on a tract of one hundred strength of :that argument, and is
now well filled and helping 16 make
acres on the haaks of Seneca Lake,
in New York. In three years I sav- good, intelligene citizens ' of ..the -Chil-
dren who live in that region. . There
isn't a more important building on
any farm than the. little 'red. :school-
house! Better get along with. one
the rotation plan which I have since
less barn or corn -crib than leave this
followed. on a larger scale. Froni
bit of architecture Out of the land -
that time until the present I have
been. constantly buying farms and . s6nPe-
The district school is the .salvation
operating them, and have yet to
of this country. It gives. the ,
make the first- unprofitable invest -
Oen of the .common•peOple a chance
chil-
ment. This is why I have little pa -
for -a good education, .and th.at Coun-
tieace with the man who, under av-
try' Which takes Care of thiS - class
erage conditions, declares that there
will. keep Eta the front among the.na-
ed $3,200 from the farm and had a
good living besides. It was there
that I demonstrated the principle of
is nothing in farming." Men who
talk in this strain are those who
are satisfied to get a yield of thirty-
five bushels of corn or oats to the
4
acre, when they should know that PERFUMES AND THE VOICE.
their management is at fault if they French scientists have been mak-
than seventy bushels of either to the
acre. . voice. Many of the most, successful elmaild. All who have received the gospel
feet of certain perfumes upo'n the
experiments in ,regard to the ef-
fail to produce an average of less ing
teachers in. singing have cautioned have been put in trust with the gospel
TIIE,PROPER ALLOTMENT. their pupils stringently against the for the benefit of those who never heard
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XIII, SECOND QUARTER, IN-
TERNATIONAL SERIES, JUNE 30.
srext of the Lesaou. CemPrehenalve
Quarter's' Itevlevv—Geldezt Text 1
cola vi, 14-0onualenitarY Propel -ell
ha' the Rev. 1). steaeus.
LESSON I.—The resurrection of Jesus
(Luke xxiv, 1-12). Golde,n, Text, I Cor.
XI', 20, "Now is Christ :aeon from the
dead." The only way of peace and joy
end )vaihetaotryfleisSaf!::sithanidn thGa°tcLabeellineelainlgjllSt s
what Ile says. 11 the women had be-
lieved His words, they would not have
brought spices to anolut a dead body on
the third day, but would have looked for
O risen Christ. If the apostles had be-
lieved 1 -lis worcls, the report brought to
them oe His resurrection would not h.ave
seemed an idle tale.
Inessbef IL—Jesus appears to 101ary
(John xx, 11-18). Golden Text, Rev. i,
18, "leehold, I ara alive for evermore."
Unbelief brings sorrow and tears and
blinduoss and keeps us from recognizing
the presence of the Lord and makes us
think that it is another when it is Him-
self. Yet I -Ie loves His poor, unbelieving
ones -aud takes them to Ills heart and
says as He points them to heaven, "My
Father and your Father, my God and
your God."
LESSON III.—The walk to Emmaus
(Luke xxiv, 1$-35). Golden Text, Ludt°
xxiv, 32, "Did not our heart buen within
us evhile He talked with us by the way?"
Eieve are still other sorrowful and blind-
ed ones because they were slow- to be-
lieve all that was evritten, but Jesus felt
sorry for them, and out of the Scriptures
told them of FIhnself and revealed Him-
self to them in the brealing of bread,
and thee, also became filled with conifort
aud a desire to tell others as He talked
with them.
LESSON IV.—Jesus appears to the apos-
tles (John xx, 10-29). Golden Text,
John xx, 29, "Blessed are they that have
not seen and yet have believed." Saved
ones gathered in unbelief concerning His
resurrection, but loved by Him and pit-
ied, and Ire suddenly appears in their
midst, with the words, "Peace be unto
you." 'A week later Thomas, still unbe-
lieving, is present also, and when he sees
he, too, believes, and the words of the
golden text are addressed to him and
through him to all doubting unbelievhig
ones. Faith honors God, 'but unbelief
greatly grieves Him.
LESSON V.—Jesus and Peter (john xxi,
15-22). Golden Text, John xxi, 17, "Lov-
est thou Me?" Sometimes the great
trouble is unbelief, and sometimes it is
self confidence which often develops into
cowardice. Peter's threefold denial need-
ed the Lord's threefold question and
commaad and exhortation not to think of
nor see others, but just to follow Jesus,
never afar off any more, but henceforth
always fully. '
LESSON VI.—The great commiesion
(Math. xxviii, 10-20). Golden Text,
Math. xxviii, 20, "Lo, I am with you al-
ways, even unto the end of the world."
Uuless we are grateful euough to Him
1 01 1 -lis love to us as to, desire above all
things to make Him known to others,
specially to those who never heard of
we are not loving Him as we
Here is my allotment for a fa use of perfumes or the proximity of it, and we are to speak it not as pleasing
of 100 acres: Ten acres for build-
rni odorous flowers. Mme. Richard goes men, but God who trieth our hearts (I
hags, garden patch and a field of . f ..,
so far as to forbid .her pupils the Thess. 11, 4).
se
mangel-wurzel beets; sixty acres for perfumes at all and if LESSON VIL—Jesus ascends into heav-
farming can be made to pay on a big , Pasture; sixty acres for corn; thirty one of them is detected wearing a en (Luke xxiv, 44-53; Acts i, 1-11). Gold -
as well as a small scale, and that it I acres for oa.ts. In the second year bunch of violets the lesson is post- en Text, Luke xxiv. 51, "While He bless -
Th -i f the• 1 t ed them -He was parted from them and
offers a satisfactory field of opera-
tion for the millionaire as well as
the thrifty immigrant.
How can a large system of farms,
scattered over three States, be man-
aged from an office in a big city?
By system. Lack of system is the
curse of the average farmer. He
may, and generally does, practice
all manner of petty and exacting
economies, but he will never do
tAigs on a large scale until he sys-
tematizes lUs entire scheme of opera-
tion. This means that he puts his
economies and his activities on -an
automatic basis. Once established,
they go on with their work in a me-
chanical way, leaving the man at the
head free to do the thinking for the
enterprise in a big way—if he is cap-
. able of it.
One of the naost important things
in running a string of farms is the
long-distance telephone. It would
be almost impossible to do farming
on the syndicate plan without this
means of quick communication. Sup-
pose there is a suddeni bulge in the
market for corn, wheat, hogs, sheep,
or cattle. By the telephone I can
instantly discuss shipments with the
foreman of every one of the farms.
This ability to move produce into
the market On quick notice and thus
get the benefit of a high figure means
thousands of dollars in additional
profits each 3, -ear to the man who
has a large number of farms under
his control.
Chicago is the centre of the grain
and live -stock trade of this country,
and the advantage of being situated
right here where the world's prices
are made is great. Of course we
have a, inan who is at the stockya,rd8
all the time, keeping a close eye on
the prices, and buying or selling as
our needs and advantage dictate.
ANOTHER END SERVED.
by this quick communication from
one central metropolitan office is
that of having a. means of meeting
crop exigencies due to the sudden
and radical changes of weather. The
man in Chicago, only a. block or two
distant feom the Auditorium tower,
is closer' to the source of the weather
supply than the man out on the
farm. The latter knows only whe-
ther it is locally foul or fair for the
moment; bat here there is a chance
to chat with Old Probabilities and
thus to secure a better guess as to
the future conditions 'of drought or
rain, wind or calm. The difference
of a day in putting in a crop some-
times determines the SUM:SS or fail-.
tire of the, yield. So as to the time
fOr harvesting.
' Then this centralization of control
m an office in a big market, city
gives a distinct advantage in secur-
ing quick shippilig facilities. When it
becemes imeeseary to get a large
these crops should be shifted, pas- P • .
has been found by the 'use of ;the
ture and grass lands being turned
over for cereals. The beets should laryngoscope to be particularly -in-
jurious, producing ill sensitive sub -
be fed to sheep and hogs, and as
inuch will be realized from. the sale jects a tumefaction of the ;Weal
cords. '
of wool, iambs and hogs, under this -
system, as would otherwise be se-
cured 'from the entire product of the
farm.
The showing made by an intelli-
gent following of this plan should be
fully as good as this:
From sale of wool .$ 100
" '"' lambs .. . .. .... 500
" " " hogs
" " n 500
cor
9 00
" oats
200
--
$2200
This allows for feeding 1500 bush-
els of corn out of a crop of 4500 in good he'llthe will prove as good
bushels; the corn being figured at and capable soldiers nowadays as
thirty cents a bushel, and the yield their taller brethren. There seems
at seventy-five bushels an acre. The
number of lambs in this estimate is no reason why this should not be so;
but judging from the experience of
one hundred, and hogs afty. Placa the recruiting committee with con-
ing the farmer's outlay fbr expenses:scripts ordered up to join the col -
at $700, this leaves him $1500 clear. ours this year, the average French
I believe this to be a very conserva- youth is a very poor specimea of
tive estimate of what any good farm humanity, despite the increased at -
may be made to pay, for I have gen- tention paid to athletics and the ra-
erally exceeded this figure in the net Phi extension of sports in recent
results of my farming. years.
On the 3600 -acre farm to which I M. Gaston LIery, an ultra -patriot
have alluded, the allotment followed of the new Nationalist order, and for us and keeping us and is ever before
is this: 1800 acres in corn, 900 consequently not likely to overdraw God for us, and we may continue in qui -
acres in rye or oats, and tile remain- the picture, makes melancholy re- etuess knowing that we are accepted in
der in pasture. We keep 350 cattle, flections upon what he saw race/1,11Y Him and He is seeing to all that con -
and sell from $8000 to $3.0,00f) when acting as examiner of several corns us. He in heaven for us, we on
FIVE FEET NOTHING.
Is What the French Soldier of the
Future Is to Be.
The new law reducing the accepted
height for service in the French
army to only an sinch .0r so above
five feet is already. being put into
practice, and probably .result in
five feet is already: being rput into
the ranks per: stamina • •
In France, as in '•England, doctors
clalin that short Men, if .sturdy and
carried up into heaven." He had, ap-
peared unto them many times, at least 10
or 12, establishing His resurrection by
many infallible proofs and speakiug of
the kingdom of God yet to be set up on
the earth, and uow He visibly ascends
from the Mount of Olives, blessing them
as He goes, having told them that they
are to be His witnesses, but they must
tarry in Jerusalem until Ile shall have
endued them with power from heaven,
even with the Holy Spirit.
LESSON VIII.—The Holy Spirit given
(Acts ii, 1-11). Golden Text, John xvi,
13, "When He, the Spirit of Truth, is
come, He will guide you into all truth."
While they were gathered together ex-
pecting from day to day, after ten day
the Spirit came as tongues of fire and,
h
filled each of them and spake throug
them the wonderful works of God, and as
Peter spoke to them the Spirit convinced
them of their sin in crucifying Christ and
led 3,000 of them to accept Him as the,
Messiah and their Saviour.
LEssoN IX.—Jesus our High Priest in
heaven (Heb. ix, 11-14, 24-28). Golden
Text, Heb. vii, 25, "He ever liveth to
make intercession." He gave evidence
by the descent of the Spirit that He was
in heaven, and by the two men in whit
apparel Ire had assured them that He
would come again, and in this lesson and
in Born. viil, 34, we aro told what He is
doing in heaven, while His redeemed aro
His witnesses on the earth. He is caring
worth of hogs. hun.dred young fellows called for ser- earth for Him. •
Each farm has its foreman, whose vice in Paris'
duty consists in seeing, that the ccm- They were all country -bred, and,
tral office is always intelligently en...I coming from all parts of France,
formed of all. local conditions and I may be considered fairly representa-
affairs and that orders are prompt-tive of 'the nation.
ly and efficiently carried out. All f
the expenses are Paid by draft, NO WONDER TiliLl CHEMIST WAS as all Israel will be converted at His
through the local bank. This trans- ' • ' coming in glory, became tho great 'epos -
WO RRIE D • • -
fers the .detail book-keeping to the , tie to the gentiles, as Israel saved • will
central office and. 'relieves the head A. chemist • was a good deal evor- be His messengers to all nations' by and
farmer. of clerical - burdens. HiS ilea the other day,and it must be -by. ,
only care in this particular is to see admitted not altogether without LESSON. XI. ---Jesus appears to John'
that he had a proper voucher cause. The first he knew about it (Rev. 1, 9-20). Golden Text, Heb. xiii, 8,
. .
for every item of expense and that was from a regular customer, who "Jesus Christ, thessame 'yesterday mid'
this voucher is forwarded in the re- 'popped his head in and, nodding ap- today and forever." Although thisawas
gular routine of business, provingly, said, with a chuckle: 1 60 years or more after His ascension',
Wish I could say the same ' . lays the same loving, band ap,on His
HOW TO GET WORKERS.
The ehenest.was mys•teeea, hut dear, servant and hastho same kind
There is no difficulty in getting smiled back benignly. • "Pear
good foremen and good handmto.
s so Then someone else called out. to not" with which to, comfort lim,
and this day Ile has not changed, but
long as they are given the right kind him: You've got rid of your dare. IS the very saine je•SII8' Perhaps When we
of a chance to make something for I-IappY man! And for some time See /lira It Will be as He aPPeared to
themselves and to Jive in comfortcarne a fusillade of: I agree with you e7S:"..,1:tIl•
The foreman of my largest farm ig old man! Quite right, too! Ah LEssoN XII.—A new heaven and it
worth $10,000, and lives in a degree you lenow the value of ,tbend And new earth (Rev. xxi, 1-7, 22-27). Golden
61 comfort that some city men who the like laconic Observations went • Text, Rev. xxi, 7, "He that overcometh
make almost that anlount every year on until the beatildered chemist at shall inherit all things, and 1 vill be hie
can't provide froin their hicomee. • hilt, rushed madly out of the shop God; and he shall be My son." All the
First of all, the • houses are kept in and, ,seizing one of his persecutors, millennial glary, and all the glory' of the
good repair and especial attention is clemanded to know what it all neW heaven. and earth, all the glory that
paid • to the kitchens. Everyrhing meant. ' I the Father bas given to the Son --.-all is
•
LESSON X.—Jesus appears to Saul
(Acts xxii, 6-16). Golden Text, Acts
xxvi, 19, "I was not disobedient unto the
heavenly visien." He was seen by three
men after His ascensiOn-s-Stephen and
Saul and John. Saul, converted by see-
ing Jesus in glory and hearing.His voice,
within human reason thatt can be 'r he captive sai(I nothing, lent MU- ours in Him (John xvii, 22; I Cer.ni 21),
done to make the houses convenient ing grinily he pointed up to the ehop but We do not seem to believe it. If we
amount of produee into the Market fOr the wilees Of the fannere ie done, front, where the legend ran : Pre- did, ')101-11(1 'We 'Da be more weaned frolu
o11 abort notice, in order to seeure 1 Thon each family is furniShed with a seriptions dispensed with, these present things and itiore wliolhy
the bencrit of temPoaary high prices, certain htnnbOr of cows, If these Some practical joker had painted gi's!'en U1) 10 lEm fpr BIS riervico and the
things can be acconiplished. by the yield. /acne butter than is required Out the concluding word care'. aflatir0 Of Ills iduzdora2 '
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NIIIIAT PRAYERS CANNOT D
Will Not Pai nt a Church, Pay a Coal Bill
Nor Meet the Insurance.
- A' desPateh from Washingten says: if we could have all these safTerint..
--klev. Dr. Taiinage peeached. feem little ones Leathered together, wasa
the' following text!--"Irato the an- a ,SCene of .liungcr and wretchedness •
gel of the church in Smyrna write: and rags , and Sin and trouble and '
These, things saith the first and the darkness! , If we, could see those 1(1 -
last, Which was. dead .and is alive, tle feet on the broadroad to death,
I know thy werkS and bit u la IA , ,,, which through Christian Charity '
and poverty, but thou art rich"— Ought ' to be paessiag the narrow
Rev, ta 8; ea path Of life; if we could hear their
, Smyrna was. a great City Of the an- voices in blasphemy, which ought to
cients, bounded on three, sides by be singing- thepraises of, God; if We
1110UntainS. It was the c0‘.tral 01117. could see , those little hearts which
porium, of the Levantin.e. trade. In at that age ought not to be soiled
that prosperous and ' 1)1 (1111011 city with dne uneleah thought, becoming
there was a Christian charch estab- the sewers. for every abomination! il
lished. . After it had existed for a we could see those suffering little
while it ' was rocked down by an ones sacrificed on, 1110 altar of every
earthquake. It was retell (le. ' Then iniquitous pktSSion, and baptised
it was consumed by a cOnflagration with fire from the laver .01 the pit—
that swept ovee the eathee city. That We would recoil, crying out, ' "Ave
c,hurch went 'through fire and trouble auat; thou dream of hell!" ' '
and dieaster, but kept on to great On, what a tremendous' psower
spiritual prosperity. The 'fact 100.5, 111010 113 in iniquity when uneducated
that churcI'l had the grace of God, and uarestredned and 'unbla,nched it
an ever active principle. Had it goes on .concentrating .011c1 deepening
been otherwise, all thegrahdehr of ancl Wid011ing and -gathering 'inomen-
architecture, and all the .poinp of tum until it; swings ahead with .4
surroundings would only have been very triumph of desolation, ch.own-'
the ornament of death, the garlands jaglike surges; scorching like flames ,
of a coffin, the phimes of a hearee. CRUS El. l. Na -.1 1 LE ROCKS. . Tonight, preachng my anniversary.
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sermon as your pastor, it may be What ' are you, going to do with thii
profitable to consider what are the abandoned population of the streets'?
elements of a live church.. Will you. gather ' them in ypur
I remark, in the first place, that churelies,?, It .is aipt the will of your .
one characteristic Of , Snell a church Heavenly Father that one Of these
is punctuality in meeting its engage- little Ones , should perish. If you
meats. All ecclesiastical institu- have ten respectable children in your
tions have financial relaelons, and class, gather in ten that are not ree
they ought to meet their obligations spectable. If in your Bible class
just as ' certainly as men meet their there be.twenty young men who have
obligations at the bank. When a Come from. Christian homes' and, ole -
church of God is not as faithful ia giant surroundings, 'let those twenty
its pfonaSes as the Bank of England young men go out and gather in
it ceases to be 4 church of Clod. It twenty more of the young Men, of the
ought to be understood that prayers cite, who are lost .to society. '
cannot paint a' church, and prayers Another characteristic of a live
Cannot pay 'a winter's coal bill, and church is one with appropriate arch --
Prayers cannot, meet the. iusurance, itecture. Because Christ was born
and that while prayers can do a in a manger is no reason whywe
thousand things, there are a thou- should worship him in a. barn. Lot
sand things that prayers cannot do. the churches of .Jesus Christ be not
Prayer for anY Particular church will only comfortabln'. but ornate. The
never reach heaven-Iltgh -unless it church of Jesus Chriet ought to be
goes down Pocket -deep. 'f 'e PraY a great family cirele, the pulpit only
Lor the advancement of the church the fireplace around which they are
and do not, out of our means, con- .
gathered in sweet and domestic com- .
tribute for -its advanaament, our mullion. A live church must have a
pcliMarYc011is°
1. of Clohrd then T
eli°1 ciakieelet. its oblige.- anted building. "I-Iow amiable are ,
Let the commedious, comfortable, and ad-
• .
tions on the outside. and let the
thy, Tabernacles, 0 Lord of
members , of the congregation meet HostsI
.
would rather be aadoorkeeper in the
the obligations . inside and the house of my God than to dwell in
church will be financially prosper- the 'tents .of.wickedness." ,
ous. . Again, the characteristic of a live
' Let me say alsoatha.t. there must church must be that - it is a soul -
be' panctuality in the attendance in. savin, church. Tt must •be the gos-
the house of the Lord. If the ser- `.,"
pel or Christ... "Oh," say some 1)01-
vice , begins at . half -past ten in sthe pip, ,,the goe'Oe ' of Christ
ariornings the regular coagregation allows but '
of a live churcn will not come at a a small saint for anan's , fimulties,•
qis and Some nien have left the ministry
uarter. to eleven. If the service
to begin at half -past seven in the with that idea." Why, there is no
evening, the regular' congiagation of field on earth so grand as that
as live , ,church will net come at a iwsltiii.,,ch is open before the gospel min -
quarter to eight. , In some churches aid' It has been my ambition,
-I have noticed the people are always I believe' it has been. yours, my
tardy. There 'are some, people ,,who dear people, in these years of ms
ininistry, to have this -
aro always late. They were born
too late, and the probability is that ,A SOUL -SAVING CHURCH,
they will die too late.
,.,THE RUSTLING, OF SILK and we never yet. threw out the gos-
.
, siamming 01 Pel net but we drew in a great mini-
titude. ' They have come, a hundred
up the aisle, , and the. 'and requires two hundred at a ,
me, and three hundred and 211 ty at
doers, and. 'the treading of heavy
feet is poor, inspiration for a minis-
time,
in a pastor's mind to rroceed with pear wa time, and 1 expect the day will ap-
the" preliminary exercises .61 the hen in , some service there will
•
be -three thousand souls accepting*
Seated are,,looking around to ,see the that
Offers of eternal life. I wish. 1
c.huach. when one-half of the audience
other half come in. -.Such a difference could tell you sonic dircumsta.nces :
of, attendance upon the 'house of God hat have come under my oleservaa
n, proving the fact that God has
may be a difference 01 ilmc pieces;blessed the prayers of his dear pee -
but the live church 'of, sabich I am ple in, behalf of. souls immortal. '
time, and that is pretty Well under- living. the Christian life
Others in different parts of tha
and are
speaking ought, to go by railroad land
stoo&ia all our communities. and upholding the Christian stana
' Another characteristic of a lista dard, and we, shall .meet them when
first ',tune Starta Whether' there. is
Pchl..ailr, strangerPchar'tisi eitic:Illaaentef. 7i?tieit4tt,,11bileay-t„.etXf:eller1 ciusheaesy'. Pte'ri,°A: gmreel'llt hi leacli'nv ecsrtt ahrIeh;c hear . tkii. can ,.0 f ,,
any life there./ A chur•as that does the thils ' •of life are over,- in tho
sovereign mercy. All the offers of
the, gosp,e1 are 'extended ,..to you•
avith,out ,0 Men and wo- '
not .sing,' is .a tdm•Cd chiteeh,: De ia ' money and without pride,"
awatil to hear.'a cold drizat'i cf music and yoU ale conscious of the fact
coining down from the organ loft, that these opportunities will soon
while all the people beneath sit in be gone forever. The conductor of
silence. When a tune wanders a railtrain was telling me a few'
around lonely' and una.aecie tded. and weeks ago, of the fact that he was
Is finally lost, amid the arches be- one night standing by his train on'
I '
cause the people do hot join in it, a side track, his train laving
there is not -much. melody Londe un- switehed off so that the express
train might dart past unhindered.!
to the Lord. In heavea they all
He said while he stood there in the
sing, though some there sanaot sing
darlcness beside his train on the side
half as well as others. The Metho-
track, he heard the thunder of the
dist church has sung all round the
exprese in the distance. Then he
world and gone from conquest to
aaw the -flash of the headlight. Tho
conquest, among other things be -
train came on with fearful velocity,
cauee it is a singing church; and ansr
Christian church organization that nearer and nearer, until after awhile
when it came very near, by the flash
with enthusiasm performs this part
of its duty will g0 00 fro,' triumph of the head right, he saw that the"
switchman had not attended to his
to triumph. A church of God that
idnucitiyfl-aTi?eiitlicle6—r and that train unless
can sing, can do anything that through intoxication or
ought to be done. We go forth into
this holy war with the Bible in one something was done immediately,'
would rush on the sidetrack and •
hand, and a hymn .book in the other.
0 ye who used to sing the praises of dash the other train to atoms. 1 -le
shouted to the switchman: "Set up
the Lord, and have got out of the
habit, take, your h,arps down from the switch!" and with One stroke
the switch went back and the 11)1-
ANOTHER
willowa.
press thundered on. 0 men and wo-• *
NOTHER CHARACTERISTIC
„ men, going toward the eternal' world,
of a live church is .0 flourishing Sab- swift as the years, swift as the
bath school. It is too late in the months, swift as the days, swift as
history of the ClinStdan church to the ,houre swift' as the • s
argue the benefit of such an institu- eln htw?hat': track are c' youe
•The Sabbath school iist, iiisotitas Ti6g7i.1 Toward eight or darkness?
supplement to the church;
right arm. But ,,you say, there are heaven y defeat,? Toward
dead churchee that have Sabbath s tcl!' 001 ree hell?
d 0011. ' 'Now
Set up that .
00 schools. Yes, but the Sabbath is theLday of Salvation,"
schoolseare ,cleacl too. It is a dead
Mother holding iii her arms a dead '
child: But when superintendent
atal teachers. and scholars
dome on Sabbath afternoons to-
gether,, theirifaces glowing with in -
tercet anil enthusiasm, and their
Songs' are beard all throughthe ex-
e1015ee, arid at the close they go
away feeling- they have been on the
Thou nt of tr ans gur ati on—th at iS 11
live school, and it is characteristic
of a live church.. There is only one
thing I have against the Sabbath'
schools of this country, and that is,
they are toe, respectable. We gather
in our achbels the chilclaen of the re-
fined, and the cultured; but:alas! for
th e great multitude of 1110 011ildi‘en
,
L of the abandoned and the lost. Oh,
WHERE SINGLENESS IS DIA:W.
We speak of single blessedness,
And talk Of married life;
But what a sad awakening when
A girl becomes a wife!
Imi fancy, she can see the path
With, roses .richly strewn;
No • thorns, of cOurse, lie ande
neath— •
"Tis one long honeymoon.,"
Make no mistake, dear girl, if you
Would alio quiet, happy lives;
"Where singleness is bliss, 'twere ut
most
Folly to be wives'