RELIGIOUS READING A Wotkor’a Prayer. lord, .panic to mo, that I mar apeak, In living achOM of Thy tone; As Thou best sought, so let me seek Tby erring children, lost and lone. Oh lead me. Lord, that I may lead The wandering and the wavering feet; Oh, feed me, Lord, that I may feed The hungering cues with manna sweet. Ob, strengthen me, that while I stand Firm on the rock, and strong in Ihoa I may stretch out a loving hand To wrestlers with the troubled seo. Oh, teach me, Lord, that I may teach The precious things Thou dost impart; And wing my words, that they may reach The hidden depths of many a heart. Oh, give Thine own sweet rest to me. That I may speak with soothing power A word in season, as from Thee, To weary ones in needful hour. Oh, fill me with Thy fullness. Lord, Until my very heart o’erflow In kindling thought and glowing word, Thy love to tell, Thy praise to show. Oh, use me. Lord, use even me, Just as Thou wilt, and when, and where, Until Thy blessed face 1 seo Thy rest, Thy joy. Thy glory share. —{Frances Ridley Havergal. The Hfleslon of the Church of Chris*. In a discussion of this topic in the Homi letic Review, Rev. J. E. Twitcbell, D.D., presents quite forcibly and opportunely the mission of the church in holding forth the word of life. Pastors and people are not to wait for the careless and unconcerned to come to them. They are to search for the lost sheep, unless this is done the lost will not he found. Each member of the church is to be a wit ness and a light bearer. Here iB a field for the Young Men’s Christian Associations, and the societies of Christina Endeavor in which they may work individually and indefinitely. To leave this field for social entertainments and public exhibitions for popular favor will be a sad mistake. This holding forth the word of life by the churchee naturally leads out to the evangeli sation of the world. History shows this will be accomplished only as the church does it. Human philosophy has given birth to no system of saving truth. To every local church and to every individual member is given a share in the commissioned agency by which the kingdoms of this world are to be come the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.—{Hartford Rel. Herald. Year Weapons. “I think I’ll give up my music," exclaimed a young girl graduate; “it's of no use. ” But she was persuaded to keep up her practising, and a few years later circumstances placed her in the centre of a worldly community, where, by her brilliant musical talent alone, she drew and held numbers of young people under church and Sunday-school influence. “I am so glad I did not lose the use of my gift, ’’ she said to an old friend, “itisnow one of the best weapons for the Lord’s ser vice.” Every gift or grace,every accomplishment or talent, if held for this high service, can be used to advantage in the great warfare. And what interest, what zest it will put into your study or work to keep this in mind! Is it a tiresome lesson in mathematics, or a day of baking and brewing, or a monotonous practice of shorthand 1 ssons, or patient ef fort in a drawing class? It matters not which it is, they are weapons all for you to fashion and polish; in the campaign of life thev are all to have part. “And I know,” said one of God’s saints, “that it is my duty to keep these weapons clean and bright, though God’s only use for them and me at present seems to be the daily drill."—[For ward. What Confronts Evangelists. In an address before the Congregational ministry of Boston recently, Rev. Dr. Geo. F. Pentecost made some statements which deserve Wide and Berious consideration. The new evangelistic movement he considered as important in its effect on pastors as in send ing out evangelists. Pastors should tie evan gelists. Dr. Pentecost defined bis position hs that of a hopeful pessimist. Evangelists must look obstacles in tbe fsce; and the first difficulty is a great lack of clear, distinct R resentdtfons of the great doctrines of re gion. There has been on unholy crusade against doctrinal preaching. We want a re vival of righteousness; but we cannot get righteousness till we get it through Christ. That which binds man bach to God is the cross of Christ Another obstacle is a worldly church, that is, a church which is worldly in its methods and life. A man cannot get spirituality un til be breaks away from the old Adam life and gets the new Jesus life. We have relied too much on worldly means. We legin in the spirit and go on in tbe flesh. We rejy on such attractions as a new meeting-house nr a fine choir, but people who join the meeting house are barnacles ever after, and a choir is a hindrance to spirituality right straight through. A worldly church grows more worldly every year. Our churches are dvlng and dead by reason of resorting lo one bun ■ dred and one cotch-penny tricks to get money to pay parish expenses. Fairs and all such things dry up both be nevolence and spirituality Ministers shut their mouths because afraid of driving off generous but irreligious pew-holders. I’d never appeal to unconverted men for money, but I’d take their free offerings. The world patronises the church, but this is not fellow ship. Our wealthy church members are not active in spiritual work. (Os course, there are noble except ons.) They pay so mnch money and then quit coming to the prayer meeting; or, if they come, have nothing to say. Their minds are all on business, and we take tbeir money and let them go. The rich Christian says; “Here’s one hundred dollars to help on your meeting, but you must run it yourself.” He is not found at the evangelistic services, nor are his em ployee why should they go I We need a revival of church members. A man says, We must have some new con verts right away. or our church will die; but we should r. member tbat converts ero not for the cLurcu, but the church is for converts The first question asked me con tinually is, “How many converter' not. What is the state of religion? There is al ■ most an insane idea to get in converts I'm getting conservative In this matter. It is not so much converts as revived churches that are needed. The Spirit works through the church; but, if tbe church won’t work, then He has to work through outside agen cies Henca Wesley and Whit field; henc> tbe Salvation Army. There is a great indisposition to personal work. Pastors are to blame for this. They make social visits and do not seek souls. They do not go in and out say ing, “Now is tbe accepted time; now is tbe day of salvation. ” Dr. Pentecost gave an affecting incident of a business man's coming to Christ, whose pastor tor twelve years had talked everything else but religion wlti him. Benia are waiting for close personal' talks. Tbe church of Christ must bumble itself before God.—[Chris. Watch Atheism Is an inhuman, bloody, ferocious system, equally hostile to every ti-eful re straint and to evary virtuous affection; that, leaving nothing above ns to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness it wagee war with heaven and earth; its first object Is to dethrone God, ite next to destroy man. flin Is a bad thing, not alone that It die honors God; that la snoogh— but It debases tbs God in man. Not alone tbat It Injures S; that is enough but a man loans h-« renesa to virtue. Bln lias In ambush In tbs mind and heart, ready to spring upon tbs Ilfs in Its dangerous moments. It must be destroyed or it will destroy. j NEWS AND NOTES EOS WOMEN. Very new hairpins have heads of em ber. The Queen of Sweden is an excellent cook. Russian enamel is the very newest ersn in jewelry. Queen Elizabeth of Roumania hat written a ballet. Although deaf, the Queen of Denmark ia fond of miis.c. Pink takes the place nf heliotrope among summer tints. Queen Marguerite of Italy is very fond of American literature. The fashion of wearing a corsage dlf ferent from the akirt is in vogue. Queen Margaret College, Glasgow, it the only woman's college in Scotland. The mother of General Lew Wallace lectures on woman suffrage and temper ence. Miaa Kate Kavanagh is a successful ranchero m the C cur d’Alene country of Lakota. Queen Olga, of Greece, has made and embroidered a national costume for bet husband. White and copper promises to rival white and gold as a favorite color com bination. White braids will be in vogue on dark sateens, and on velvet and silk they arc also fancied. The Empress of Germany tastes por tions of every article of food intended for the Emperor. Gray and green are very stylishly blended together in some of tbe new hats and bonnets. Silk-flowered woolen lace looks rich and elegant as a trimming for summer challies and lusties. Full bows of ribbon, with a stiff quill or two, are the only permissible trim ming worn for traveling hats. The Princess of Wales is setting the example oi displaying as much jewelry as possible on court occasions. Miss Frances E. Willard, the temper ance organiser, says the doll teaches little girls to be vain of dress. If Queen Victoria lives a few years longer she will have reigned longer than any royal personage of history. A garment that is a basque at one side and upon the other a well-delined polo naise, is among the latest caprices. Gray with yellow—the bright, brassy, buttercup hue—ia one of London’s atro cious combinations for evening gowns. About the prettiest of new rustic bats are made of line corn huaka, delicately braided and neither bleached nor colored. Heal silver hooks and eyes are seen upon the corsages ot some of the summer guwns, and are ornamental as well as useful. Brilliantine, the new summer stuff so popular for house gowns, is merely the old-time alpaca in new tints and printed patterns. Isaiah Walton, a farmer living near Byron, Ga., says he has five married daughters whose aggregate weight is over 1000 pounds. The University of Zurich, Switzerland, his conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy upon Miss Frances H. Mitch ell, of Philadelphia. It is stated that so great is the demand for green hats the present season, that dealers find it at times almost impossible to keep them in stock. Ella Wheeler Wilcox writes with a picture of Marshall Wilder, the humor ist, on one side of her and a mirror tied with ribbons on the other. Striped fabrics, when used for corsages, ate made more effective by being made to taper sharply at the back forme, and to slope diagonally to a point in front. Thousands of hands are now busy on the trousseau of the future Empress of China, and it will be the greatest ever made. The wedding will not occur until 188 U. Among the most attractive of the sea son's bonnets are those of straw lace, which are nearly as delicate as some of the silk and thread hand - wrought guipures. Bleeves are made of two materials to be very stylish and are very becoming. Two full wide puffs with wide bands be tween are very pretty,and bows to finish at elbow and wrists. There are in Asia 200,000,000 of Bud dhist women not one of whom,according lo her religious belief, has any hope of immortality, except, perchance after transmigration through many animals, their sp:i ts may enter some boy iofant. It is said that the new gold braided and bordered white camel's hair capes are called Bulgarian simply because they had to be cal.ed something, and the aame Marie Antoinette had been stretched about as much a, it would bear. Dr. Sarah Harkett Stevenson said at tbe Womao’s International Conference in Washington, that the women who went to all quarters of the globe as physicians did more missionary work than the thurch missionaries, because the doctor appealed to natuie. Cheese straws are a new wrinkle at dinner parties. The cheese comes in .ong slicks like macaroni, and one end is tied with a narrow strip of ribbon. These cheese straws were first introduced at the five o'clo.k teas two seasons ago, sml now find their way to the fashion able dinner table. Albert cloth, among the best of new English woolens, is to be had in golden bron/e, blood orange, terracotta, moss and olive green, all which are made up with mu- h heavy braiding of gold, sil ver, steel or cop|>er, the design outlined with silk or mohair bra d rs a color con trasting with the foundation. Paris ans are wearing a new sort of tarring, to which they have taken kindly—an arrow or feather fixed almost aori/outally across the lobe. The arrow is generally enriched with a single | earl. The feather has a small cluster of colore I ■tones. Long droop earrings have aso come in again, to tne delight of women who possessed such trinkets and hast ened to exhume them from tha case# in which they have lain so long, The first coast light in America va established in HGS, and the first light house on Little Brewitar island, Boatoe j harbor, 1718-I*. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIISk A Mew Soaps I Take eight large potatoes and thm onions; cut them us small piecesaaMd b> any konao to* two monUta. I bad »hr*« and »cglm* on n»» front kfffid lo foot, my Bnc r flail* enaa* offtad oykai *»l wfifi* kora rfiHM oufi. I had two pfcyftgiori . boi dkft afifi fcrin U*gel norh b- U*r Ho d*» Bog- opart to ft*k*4 me *0 much that I confiia fid fiaklo; M ott I kmd aaad threw bottle*, whan Imu «w*4 I eon ro *•- mend Hoort'a —raaoartHa <• all aa Ha M trial part*m Mww gs ' -oaoooa W. Vrrna. W Fork tottkrandnnftMa. Hi««hMk HmiLi mm ky C-lx *OOO4 00, iffNtaearhta Lowott, Sana tOO Do— Ong Ooltaf -Ha ricking* far Lawyers Her* J Dr. ExeeeW Wagner, of Metcalfs county. Kt., recently died, leaving an estate weash a most peouliai wdL T» hi* hsolbrr, Napoleon Bona part* Wagner, he bequeathed hit left aim; another heather was to receive hit rigid hand and atm. Among varioui near letmivna he divided hi* leg* feet, teetk, ear* nose; gam* etc His entire fertnnehr left to institutions. Dr. Wagaser we* perfectly sane when he made the will, and wished to punish what he ceamidered the indifference of hi* tebstixen to hit welfaie. A* hi* body was hurteo nosae time before the will was tend, hw executor-* ate ia a quandary as to how they shall cany out hit instruc tion* JfaaQ-fbmrwrvst. Grain Rag*! Tht gratia hag trade on the Pacifi roast last year aunoanted to Aa.fWKUXk n»d the wdscMmoa now ate tha’ 5.0-o*oo* mere will hr re-suited forth) wheat crop this neawm. The prospect so n barge wheat yield never was better The entire bar capacity of the California date Mill Company is about l,*.vynn par year, and not mote than this num her can bo pradarred by the double shift prison fosce at Son Quentin. The grew bulk of these goods, or over beg. cmw to the cosd from Calcutta They are filled with grain and shipped t> Liverpool, awl (torn there they ate le turned to New York a* second-banc bug* which C»n never again be used so wheat, but ate used for bugging vegetn Idea and mill offal*- —SkvmtUK American A Tueatl X swim' Kxerrteaee. T» Bkvadwny, New York, Mcb IT, ISSft 1 have born ariag JLIUMfb IVems Pi.as- TO» fcw twenty tomxmml frond them one OI th* bat «* family swtWws Briefly "wmssrnrc no my rqvrwwv- I ssy tbat when ptand oa tbe small of tbe back Juncs's RA-vttfc. an tbe Kv|y wWb arvrou-) v-netgy, mm than ware tatsgwe- brain exhaustion. de- MKty awl ksdmy djflbwliies Foe ormion ssfrhMws I bate found them inralaahie. TVjr never wtrinutetbe skin or cwwsr the >-itglit nit rum., but cases anwotkToat.cavwpy has exec soon an equine gifted with skepower vs speech; trick an aaitnal would b> psoucusevd a ndrarte; but-so wouM the tsmptrah and tbe tdsk.te have teeei a husrii 1 yvnrs. ago Why. oven eery re crafty a rase bar vemmmpahm would have been Lacked upen as mSnwwbws. but non people see teyvwnmg In malice that the il'Dssm it aof isasaabka. Hr. TVewV Golden Mobi-al Ibo'im wfll rase it. if taken in time This wortkevwowwed mnmly will not mats asm loses, be* A will netwodtsoisd ouss to a bsaluty uate when all other moans ilawNM Thiuoandsena cratofntlv teoti fytotins __*«*»»■(* TV* “‘rigwuufi trust" is the Itblk It has atm heesdnwarires at Mviladcloh a “As ghw« is the tiger on bis furs. It wiwul ks by hunters tywusoeed bows. Awl. eve tee brands upra the ring, Sdeeit tbs obpee of his spring,' Bis dees* in myriad l-ovns. fastens its fosifs spun tbe human rare Ladies who suffer tressfle.4xo.-suq; utneeutm peeuliae to tbeir sex. should so* IV I Veer’s Fsoorite fWenpitra It e>» ptins cam for tho ■test cvsnplsratod nee) - let urate nm, ,4 fcwvnri*. rxeewiw Howtug, painful men flnffh* ama mural sups avosawis, prolapsus. *r taring of the wesub. wrak back, "female »wto**'s«i«en»* averox asson. hosr aagdram sranutpw*. etwvsear concession, in flaamtwaa aaod nboeulaou of ibe uomh, intis ■“’sq isoT T 4 ’* ovarii* •A wousxa iu New York died tvecnllx freon th* effect# of -wal owin' four false teeth co a rabber idale. If you siegWE to buy * tkettoa Gin this fonrdoaVbal to otrAetotbe Rrown Cotton i.s (V . Now I ewadnn. Ceraa , to* tbeir prices awl tostaaacunoh vs tbe thoo-aads nxo base used thorn HOMES! NEMESH Yltat ba*i"ihftr xv’titx rto SiVlt nwl ki'igp Mm tlSe uiren. ril 9n> wprvcwa. IMKftr. HmrajitL TrcitrahUfl AS aotag dm* mo twe Yn rirw hctvoob Ofidift«Ul*C«V I) Wl4 elery Qm|)ound For Tbs Nervous The Debilitated The Aged. TH/S GKEAT NERVE TONIC Afco f w—inn. nM kn gtaor Aran I ”^ wvwry render or thia publication; it s ' contain* 1 OO perforated fliwuplnn NT pA pul i cm a and »m lades a treat mriciv as all ami tbat at« wanted. This aotflt t* a real work of at*; «« bimj/ •uwiping outfit baa avar Wen 9m? / L\'r [M* 1 offered heretofore, on kJ H 1 iMAfTfI anythin* hha an much artistic H l •hitite we* brought to bene. ffHkINA U| enchontfit ia A Roy of fIRVT BTffMP- \\ W 111 J/ZfNff nifl I’etrnn, rki», and Hook of \\ vl \tf HWWWWfIfI, giving hill dipertion»y U / for stamping, tell* how iff make the/ coo- M ’R/ tnma tnatm barm tag manner.and readilv nt.-»k<" money by doing stamping, lara* Re«« ri«ten and lined painting lor rubor* A goodaurap. law outfit la tndtaeeemble to every woman who eoma to makd hems heauti'ul Ih># outfit rontaina panama fur each and every bmuch nf nandH work, fiowra pa in on*, etc. ae.l th* llwrik •* IhMihUloh* make* all clear and rmlly euay This orifit will do more f-r IMlt and LxDiaarhaa many Umea the amoMot of a trial year ee been prion spent -otherwise; no houid sboiitd h*w«h ont It The beau'iful design* of tin* Hiuil, t*H of cwtfit* sag All. 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