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hi. mgs m. “HBAVKNL.Y UKCOGNITiON.” The Bible Deecrlbes H»m *• • Omt Borne (Inl% aad Wo Staß Kbow Kwh Other Better. n shall go to Mm."-H «e®usl There is a very sick child In the abode of David tte kin*. Ptoesra. which stalks *p Mo dark laae of the poor and pate It* »*«h eriag baud oa > P eadisostrtlot the van and wanted aino mounts the patateo me n and beading over the pillow blows totot atom of the youag pnnee the frosts of twin aad death. There are wtee to the Mag of terror*. Ala* for David t»* x-n*c> He eaa neither deep nor eat aa t ilee prostrated oa hie Case weeping and wailiuv until the pa ace rings Vtth the oaory at wor. What are courtly attendants, or victorious armies, .or conquered proviueas under each sfamifipmoeW Whut to nny parent In nil rohmdid surrooudtav when his ohlid to n or? Berea dare have pawed on. Thera la that a"****?* T*. Ituutlv ricao I, two tittle hands fol.led, two Hi tin fra: quiet, «w teart soil. The serrants come to near *ke. tid**ss to the kin*, but they o moot ■aka up i heir mis is to tall him, an I they ataod at ttedoor whisn-ring about the m >t ■r, and Dsrt-t tears them, sad he look* up •nd says tn tbits: “fa the ehlld dead?* “Tan, he Is dead." David routes himself ap, washes himself, put* oa new apparel un i sirs down to food, what power hushed that tampon? What strength was it that lifted up that king whom gri-f had dethrone t? Oh, U was the thought that ho wou'd oome again Into the Pomraeton of that darting child. Ho grave, digger’s snide could hide him. Tho wintry Uaamot death eouldiMt put oat tho bright light Tn-re would ha a forge somewhere (hat WKH stlrer hammer would weld the teukea Uete. In a city where the boob of the pale home never strike the pavemeat he Weald etesp bis lost treasure. He wipes •»»rlhe tH«« from hie eyra, aad he dears the choking gri f from his threat aad a*- MM*#. “Is ail go to Mm.** | Was Dorid r gbt or wrong? If we part on I ••rtfc; 5* I we meet again In the next rror’dV ! “WeH." rays some one. “abet seems to be en taponatWHiy. Uoaree is so large a oiaoa wo never coo'd Bed our kindred there.? Going in to some oily, without having appointed a time aad place fur meeting, you might wan-ler around for weeks aad for mouths, aad per haps for pars, add never see eaeh other,and heaven is vaster than all earthly oitfe* to gether. And how am yon going totted roar departed friend ia that country? It is so vast A realm. John went up one mountain of In spiral lon. ami he looked off upon the mntd tude.and he rai<t,“Thouaai>ds of thousands.” Thom he came up upon a greater altitude of laapintfoa and looked off upnn it again, and he said. "fra thoasan<Uimm ten thousand ” And then be came on a higher mount of in spiration and looked off again, aa-t be said, **A bond re I and forty and four iHou«sn<i and thousands of thon*niid.°.” And he came ea a still greater height of inspiration, and he looked off avn'n and exclaimed, VA great multii a>:e that so man can number.” Mow, I ask. how are you got gtoflnd your frien'ln tn sues a tnroag ae thoit Is net ibis Idea we have bran entertaining, after all, a falsity? lathis doctr.no of future recognition «’ farads In heaven a gums, a myth, a whim, or is ft a granitic foundation upon which the soul p creel of all ages may baild a glorious hope? lot* use queriton! Every heart in this audience thro as right Into it. Thereto in erory sou'here the tomb of at least one dead. Tremendous qacotton! It makes the Upgalver: end the ohaek flash, gnd the entire nature Unit'. Shall we know 1 eaeh otner there? I get letters almost every ; month asking me to Uiscnm this subject. i j get n letter ten bold, sobolnrty band, on gilt [ edged paper, asking me to . locum this ques tion, and I *ny. "Ah, that is a curious man. and be wants a curious question solved!” But 1 gut anoiter letter. It U wrdten with u - trembling sand add on what seems to b« a torn out Mas of a hook, and then* and Lore is the mark of n tear, an t I nsy, “Ob, that is a broken heart, sad it wantnto he comfort ad!'’ The object of this sermon in to tate thl-* theory out of tre region of sormtso an ! speculation l*to the region of positive tainty. People say-. “It would ha very •laeraat If that doctrn# were trae. I hop * K ray be true. Perhaps It fa tnre. I win It warn tree.” But I believe that I eaa bring an aeoumufailra of argument to teat upon thin manor which wilt pr.rre the doctrine rtf Muza recognition an plainly tn (bat there is nay heaven at all, and that the km of re union at the ceUwriel g«* wW he ns certain as the dy ag at the door of ‘he sepulcher. How. when von ara going to'build a ship you must gri the right kind ol timber. You fay the keel end mate the f-amework of the soy test mnertsls—the keelson, stanchions, plan k shear, eonnter timber, knees, traneoms L«ll iron or nodd oak, You may build a shin of light erm rerfal.but when the cyclone --- on it wl» *° 'town. Mow, we may hteou giant many besutiful theorise about fifalira world bout out of our own fancy, cad ttev may do very welt m fang enure su l ug in the world, hut when Sractermnef sorrow oo»o upon us, rad the Scssa-JSSSBBS 83n3£r»m wmm know, nr friends, that that h. after all, I" JiaXsof affirmation. Your IZ&ttS&SXT: fSfJSK denrad terils, but Mseparematlon Implira Ifc- And so ih« Bible doe# not so pmltiWty state this theory as, aU up ate down to cteptsr-. tabs It for granted. Darid to go to Msohildtf te would not know Mm? WouidDsrtd bare bean allowed to te ia U tte Sm tSTStte “biSaot^ fdlsd sad was aethers I te Me people, i jiid Hfld Vil to tils puoplo old compoMmwrSf^,*,»» menss (hot U etonotmmn anything ten Sole toe very be*hm>»* of tho Stbto four timea I hat le taken for granted. The w.'to'e iZnSt y ) OTn 1 f * | fight tabs from^ teaTOi iHid good eyesight ate as good capacity? What old Christ mean in His conversation wdb Mary aad Martha when Be said, "Thy brother abaft rise again?” It was at much auto say: •’Don’t cry- Don’t wear your sntvM out wlrb thin trouble. You will *ee Hlmagu u. Tby brother shall rise again." 11m Bible draeribee heaven us a great borne drain Welt, now, that would be a very queer borne cuvle whore the mentuets did not know each other. The Bible de> aertb e uenth as a strap. If we know eaeh other before sre go to sleep, shall we nor know eaeh other a’ter we wake up? Ob. yes. We will kaow each other a great deal better then than now, “*or now. v * sars tbs apostle, •’sre see through u glass darkly, but thea lace to Aten” It will he mypartflad, enthroned mad glorified body gratra on.your purified, enthroned eed glorified body. How, 1 demand, if you heliave the Bible, that yoe leke this thrarv of future re.-ogni tlon out of tho realm of speculation and sur mise Into the region of portfire certainty, and no mow keep saying: ”1 hope It to so. I have M Ideate to so. i guess it to so.” B* able to say, with all the eoutraatel energy of body, mind and soul, “I know It to *©!” There are tn addition to these! Bible sr ru men is otter reasons why I neesp: this theory. In the lint place, berause the rejection of it Implira the entire obliteration of oar memory. Canlt b» prasibla that w» shall forget for ever those with whose walk, look, meaner we have been so long familiar? WM death com* and with a sharp, keen blade hew away thto faculty of memory? Abraham said to Dim*, ”don, remenob-r.” If the exiled and the lost wmember, will not the enthroned remember? You know very well that oar joy In any circumstance ie augmented toy the com pen lonsbip of our friende. We cannot see a picture with lew than tonr eyas, or he .r a song with lam than four vara. We want aom-ono ueside u« With whom to exchange glances and sympathies, and I suppose the joy of heaven to to be augmented by lha fact that we ate to have our friende with ua when there rise before us the tbruaes of iho Mraeed. en 1 when then surges no Inoar ear the Jahi'ate of the saved. Heaven is not a contraction. It is an expansion. If l know you hare, I will know you better there. Hew I see yoe with only two eyes, hut th**r« the soul shall hare a million eym It will te I immortality gaming ou immortality— ran soms i spirit in colloquy with -ansoraed , solvit- viotor tertdn victor. Wl v John Brans, the Scotch minister, was L .ited In his study, bto wifn came ia and said to him, “My dear, do you think we wilt know each other tn heaven?” He tamed to her aad said. “My dear, do you think we will te Mvger fools in heaven than w» ara here?" Again, 1 accept tbU doetrtoe of future raoogßition because the world’s expectancy affirms it In ah lends aad ague this theory is rareired. What form of religion planted it? No form of religion, forte to received under aU forms of religion. Theo, I argue, a sentiment, n feeling, an anticipation, universally planted, mopt have b-wj God I'tipl inted, rail if Go I implanted te to right* fatty implanted. Bjfratea writes: “Who would not pare with a great dsa< to pnrohaee a meeting with OrpUtms and Ho net? If it „e true that thin to to te the consuqasses of Ceub, I could evan bt able to dleotten.” * Again. I adopt thto iheocy teeau-e there ara lectures ol moral teaperament nod feature* of the soul tnet wilt «ltotingash us fowmr. How do we know each other in this world? It tt merely by the color of the eye. or the ieugth of the b*Jr, or tte tort si pro do rt ions? Oh, no. It 1* by the disposi tion as well, by natural affinity, using tte word iu the very brat sons-* and not in tte bad sense, and if in ihadiutour body should perish and lie there forever, an : there should be no renarwetioo, still the soul has enough feature and the disposition has enough fen* lures to mate us tiniugutillable. I can un derstand how in sickness a man will twe >me * m dellr.ous that he wifi not know his own • friend* l , but WUI we be Mn«ted with such Insufferable Idiocy that, standing beside our | test frton is for ull eternity, we will never guess Who they ate? Again, I think that one reason why wo ought to accept thto doctrine to beeiuse we never In tb • worid hnv.f aa opportunity to give thins-* to tho«« to whom we are spirit ually radebte t. 'The Joy of heaven, weave told, to to be tnanrorated hy a review of life’s work. These Oiiristlau meu and wo. men who hive teen tolling for Christ, have :h y seen the full rmult of tholr work? Oh. ao! In the church at Somerville. N. J., John Trcdenburth preached for a great many yi-ars. He felt that hie ministry war a failure, although be was a faithful minister preach.ag t«e gospel all the time. Be died, nod die i amid dtecouragements, aad went home to God. for no o-e ev.-r doabte<l that John Vredenburgh waa a good Ohrtotian mln-.Mer. A Utile while after b's death there cam* a-rrat awakening lu Romervil e, and one Sabbath 300 souls stood up at tte Oh butan altar espous ng the cause of Cnnst, among them my owa father and mother. And What was peculiar tu regard to nearly nil or those 303 soalt wee that tuey dated their rellgtous Impreralon from the ministry of Jonn Vradeaburgh. Will that good Cfarto tian man before the throne of God never meet those souls brought to Christ through bto Instrumentality? Ob, of cours* be will kaow them. I inmemter one Sabbath after noon, homo down with the sense of my sine and knowing not God, I took up Doddridge's “Rise ate Progress. Oh, what n dark afternoon It was, rad X rand tha chapters, radl rand tte praysrs, and X tried tomato (he prayers my own. Ob, I mu** see PMUp Doddridge*. A glorious oid book he wrote! It to out of fashion now. There ton mother before the throne of flh>d. You sup nor joy to full, fa K? You any there era te no augmsetstlon of te. Cannot there te? Her son was a wanderer and a vagabond on tho earth whan that good mother died. He broke her old heart. She died leaving Mm la the wildannaaof sin. She to before tte intone of God new. Years peso, and that non tepeuu or hi* crime* ate give* bto heart to Ood and becomes a useful Christian and dim rad eoters tte gotta of heaven. Yon tell me that that mother’s joyeannot te rag- Bttiaaetfggage lulobi I never expected to nw*thto lost one oome took.” TteriUWe says Bat was are to bn bora inn day. Ween Chinn oemra to Ood. willßtettoow Dr. A heel? When Iteh trad, wlllU not kaow Dr. When the Indians come to Ood,will they not know David Brolnerd* X see n soul entering hravra at last, with covered face at the Idea ihat tt ho* done so lirtle tor Christ ate feeling hOToedo w* wllh sssrsr Item." Ate another voice rays: ’Yon for get that poor mu to whom you guys • loaf of brand rad told of the haaren'y bread. I was that own.” And another rays: “Ton teg* that stok sue to whom you gave me il siue for tte body aa-t tbs souL I was that ooe.” And tteu Christ, from s throo# ovsr lopplng all tte rent, will ray. “Inasmuch as g ttelr burps from tte side of the throne ate cry. “ffhnt song shell it her And Ohrtw, a-ffawrKSf ““ Ora mom nraon why X am dtopoaad to rasspt ttesdostriae of fatnra rasogelttoh to that to maay to ikstr Hat how on earth have seuflrmsd thto thnory. I speak sot of persons who have been delirioun to Ibeto last moment and knew not what they were about, hnt of persons who died to on*moral and plueldity, and who were not naturally su penult tour. Often the glories ol braves I have struck tbs dying pillow, ate tho de parting man bested he saw and brant thorn who ha t gone away from him. How often J It !s In the dyiag moments parents mo itelt departed children and children see their de parted parents! X came down to the hanks of tte Mohawk Hirer, It woe evening, and I wanted to go over the nr*r, and to I warrd my hat and shoutsd, amt niter a while 1 saw some one waring on tha oppoelfa bank, and I heard him about, and tha boat came norms, nod I got in and was transported. Ate so I suppose it will be la tte evening our life. We will oome down to the river of death ate give • signal to our friends on tha other shore, and they will give a signal ba?k to us, and the boat comes, and our departed kindred are tte oarsmen, the firm of the set ting day tinging tte tope of the paddies. Hrav> n Is not n stately, formal place, as 1 sometimes bear It de-oribed, a very (rigidity of splendor, where peoolo stand oa cold formalities and go around about with tear? crowns of gold oa their brads. No, that is not my Idea of heaven. My idee of heaven to more like thto: You are seated to the erasing tide by the fireplace, your whole Umtly there, or nesriy all of them there. While you are seated talking and enjoying th« evening hour there to n knock at the door and the door opens, rad there oomes in a brother that has oeeo long absent. He has teen long absent, for yean you hare not seen him. and no soonra you m-iko up your mind that it to oenain'y he than you leap up, and the question to Who shall give him the first embrace? That to my Ides of heaven-a great home circle where they are waiting for aa. Ob, wIH you not know your mother’s tolch ttere? Hhe who had always called you by your flret name long after others had given you the formal “mtotsr?” You were never anything but James or Jobe, or Georg** or Thomas, or Miry or Florence to her. WUI you not know your child!* voice? She of the bright eye aad ruddy cheek an I the quiet step, who came to from piay and flung terse't Into your lap, a wry shower ol mirth and brauty? Why. tha pic ture to graven in your soul. It cannot weir out. If that Utile one should stand oa the other rid* or some heavenly hill aa I call to von, you would hrar her vole* above tte burst of heaven's great orchestra. Know ill Yon cOnld not halp but know It. How I bring you this Morions consolation of futare recognition. If you could get this theory inro your heart. It would lilt a grmt many shadows that are stretching across It. When I was a la-i.I used to goont to tte railroad traig aad put my ear down on the irate, and I could near the express tr* n rambling miles away and coming on, and to-dny, my friends, if we only bad latth enough we could put our ear down to tte gray* of our deed aa I listen and hrar tmhe distance the rumbling on of the chariots of resur action victcrv. O heaven! Sweet hravsnl You do not spell heaven ns you used to spell I*—hra-n-v --e-n. h aven. Bat now when you want to aoell that word, yon place rids by side the fae s ot the loved onra who ere gone rad id that itradfatton o’ light au t love and hrautv and joy you spell it out ss never before, in song* and tetlrirt* w. Ob, ye whoso hearts ere down under too sod of the oemeiray. heer no at th* thought of thto reunion! Oh, how mu*rh you wtl have to tall them whmi once you meet fhem! O \ bow diff rsut it Is on earth from the way it to In heaven wh-n a Chris'lah dim! Wesiv. “Close h!s eyes.” Ia heaven they say, “Give bm a paltn.” On ranh we say, “Let him down m th* grouod.” In heaven they say, “Hoist him oa * throne.” On earth it t«, “y.irewrii, farewell.” In heaven it to. “Welcome, we'come.” And no I sen a Christian son! coming down to tee river ot death, and be steps Into tho river, end the water comes up to the ankle. He says, “Lor I Jenu*. to thto drat'.?” “So,” says Christ, “th<* ts not death.” And he wades stilt draper down into the waters until the Rood oomes to the knee, and he says. “Lor i Jreiu. tell m»*. te’i me is this destb?” And Christ soys. “So. no; this to not death.” And he wa tos still farther down until the wave <-omra to tte girlto. an I tte sou 1 says, “Lor-l J sus, to this death?” “So,” car* Christ, “th ato not.” And deeper In wades the »ml til) the billow strikes the lip, and the depart ing one cries. “Lord Jesus Is ihl* death?” ‘-Ho,’* says Christ, “this to not.” But whoa Cortot had lifted this soni on a throne ot glory, nod all the pomp and joy of heaven ram- surging to its test, then Christ Slid, “This, O transported soul, tbtoto death! BIG GOLD BELT IN ALASKA. Th* Frertoa* Metal ffoaed In a Large Tract of Territory. Director Walcott, of tho Geological Sur vey, report* to lb* Secretary of the Interior i hat there to aa enormonsgold belt In Alaska. The report tail* of an expedition that was seat out by th# Gsotoglom Server to deter mine the gold and coal deposits along tho line iff tte Ainriun conw. A second exp* ll tion followed In Miy. 1898, going to tho gold fields ot the Yukon it.ver to investigate the report that there were large placer deposits along the stream beds. Tte parry traversed the va'ley of the Yukon from tho British boundary on tte ■ cast to th* mouth of tte river on tha west All or the well-known pinner deposits wow examined sad the origin of th* gold to thorn was traced to tho quarto veins alougjbu ben 1 waters of the vnrioa* stream* entering the Yukon. BaMctoot data were sowred to establish the presence ofa grid brit 300 arils# lu length la Alaska, which enters Alaska near th* month of Forty Milo Greek, and ex trad* westward across the Yukon volley « the Baapana TREASURE TROVi. A Mew Jsrsev Carps*!** Finds* Fort*os otXcsriy fiM,MOtaaa Old Max. While working ou au old bulldiag of the Haves property, two miles from Fort Elisa bath, N. J.. Roman Cole, a ear prater of the latter plum, found a fortune seareted In tte eaves of tte structure. To* fortune was found ia a long box ou t was to tte shape of hoed*, mortgages, gold and silver coin and targe roils ot poprr money, aad amounted to nearly ’ Col* we* pscreuMly happy over tte find, hut tt will probably not benefit Mm much,as Lawyer H. a heweirah. of Millville, rays he WM tte administrator of the Hayes estate and will late rbirga of the box. The fortune will be elriaed hy Loranm Bayes, of Mrilv lie, who Mates that be to toe oldest living ho c. Ho nay* that he and his steer searched for th* m»a*y up to ten yetis ago, sod then gave K up la disgust. THEATRE MATS MUST CO. Chisago ire posse a Fls* #C to toank ea Millinery Mnhlhlls. Hereafter It Will ces? to to ohrtruet lb* view of the stage during a theatrical per fomsoMln Cilragc with a floral eraoologl eal vXblbit ©rite “sweetest" mHHmrry eon lerttoa toot over got uwsjr from Paris. Mayer Swift vetoed Alderman P.otte’s or dlmuM* tabooug allkladsof huts during «S2£g£3 tte ehry agreed upon. The owhseera wm passed bynualtooat snanlmous veto la tot OftyOeuaett. | Bill ARP’S WEEKLY LETTER. WILLIAM 18 HOBBIFIKD AT THB INCREASE OT BCICIDKB. i I PRACTICAL REMEDY SUGGESTED. Wicked Deeds Lead So fits—eras of Oea seteaoe Which to Turn leads to Con ftTirpTnllwn #f timlam. I wm rumlnstlng about these suicides f it seem to be oa tte Increase all over the la i, and are not confined to any dare or eor i tlon. Several have occurred during the i-d few days In Georgia and tte adjoining stot. s. Two were young men. two poet middle a » and one wm n girl In her teens. None kid good cause for the rash deed, end It see:us like thto generation has more nerve and h is fear of the hereafter than their fatten. I eannot imagine any condition or peril that requires as much courage and will power m the deliberate taking of one's life. I would rather take my ohaneea la battle or ship wreck or pestilence. To be weary ot Ufo to a common misfortune, end thousands there are who can exclaim with David: “Oh. that I had the wings of a dove, that I might ay away and be at rest” But to the avenge man “the weariest life that age, ache, pe nary and imprisonment can lay on nature to a paradise to what we fear of death.” It must be a fearful leap to commit sulolde— •to die and go we know not where,” and vet It tee become almost m oommon m murder —murder that has the excuse of gratifying some passion as hate, revenge.avariao,desire or ambition. Tte suicide leaves no blood behind him save bto own—no nothing biff pity and domestic grief. There to no sheriff to pursue, no oouri to try, aad in this coun try no attainder or confiscation or burial without benefit of clergy. A little more than n century ago, when George IV wm king of England, the law was in force that the body of a suicide should have a stake thrust through it and he burled by the highway, so Mto intimidate others firom self destruction. Els goods and ohottiea were forfeited to the crown. This law was re- Taw deelar*d*that the body should be buried at night,without the performance of religious ceremonies, finch wm the detestation of our English ancestors for what they oalled tte crime of suicide. I know ot but one crime that would justify n man taking his owa life, and that to remorse—such remorse m J udas Iscariot felt when he wont oat sad hanged himself. There are but three In stances of self murder mentioned In sacred history, and they were all bad men. But in our day, suicide* are generally good-hearted people—Shakespeare says of Othello, that he wm great of heart, but It wm remorse for killing bis innocent wife that nerved him to the deed. Nowadays the most of suicide* are caused not from remorse, hut from dis appointments, failures tn business, domestic dead kindred. Bo®**** I*™ kwt lovers or tries to drown trouble to drink, £nS T*u brings a depression that ends In self murder. But tt does not tote a great misfortune to ennse sulolde now. Only last week n clever young man killed himself on hearing that his mother was dead, and n young girl hanged herself because she did not Uke net step-mother. How many traveling man have bean found dead lathe Atlanta hotels during tte poet few yean with no extraordinary cause for self destruction—just tired of life couidnt make money fast enough; couldn't square their accounts with their employers or some such reason. Job suffered great tribulations, but didn’t dare to destroy him self. In the greatest anguish he said: “My soul to weary of my life, oh, that it would Itlease God to destroy me, that He would oose His hand sod cut me off.” What to tte cause of thto growing mental malady in thto happy land? Are these sui cides aU skeptics, or infidels, or universal lets, that they should have no tear of death, no dread of something after death« Maybe there is a hereafter and a judgment to come, and If so, a murderer tea a bet ter chonoe than a suicide, for he baa time to repent end be forgiven, as David waa. Then, again, It to such a selfish act, for it brings grief to kindred and leaves a shadow over the household toot never pusses uwuy. A few years ago I met a young roan whom I hud not seen sinoe be was a lad. He was do ing well in a distant state, where his mother and sisters lived, but I could see tte lines of a never forgotten sorrow to his face. His father hung himself In a ham, and tte heart broken family moved tar swot. A few months ago I met an old friend who hadal ways greeted me cheerfully, but I hardly knew Shn. He wm prematurely pay, aad the lines of sadness were in every Unewnent of his Intellectual features. He bad sensed to smile. Hie only son, cm whom bto love and his hope wm oenterad, had killed him seif—had placed tte fatal pistol to Ms temple and fired ft. What makes our young men do so? Hit oomes from remorse, is It not cheaper su'd safer to repent and reform? Whatdoeeaman kffl,*nyfaow? Nothing but Ms body. Hi* soul goes unrobing oa and tte remorse goes with it. But even bto body to sacred, and te has no right to mutilate or destroy It The scripture soys that our bodice are temples of tte living God—created in His image and but n little lower than th* Mflrts. oh. it Is horrible to think of. It becomes no one but murderers and assas sins. nod they don’t do it If the fattoter, VtaangM,should kill Momenta htooelLlt wouid be s fit ending of his life, whtthoa be be suae or insane, but for a young man at woman who have been tenderly raised end have parents or children or kindred who love item, then Is no excuse Better to tear the ills we have than to plunge tangnU of dark despair. Ost upsnd!"***&} ** you have nerve enough to pnil th* fatal trigger, you surely eaa make another effort to reform or to suffer and emiure whatever troubles yon. Get up nd do somrtMng— work for your board If you out do tetter. Work at anyth Ing-dlg, hoe. chop wood, tie fireman on n locomotive, keep going—don't stop to think and brood over trouble*. Con stant employment will stifle grief. If you eun’t get work, go to the woods and hear tte birds sing, sad see tte glad water flow ing in the lfttle branotee. Life to worth living and the faithful wag of your dog's tail to worth living for—much more, is tte love of kindred and friends. I believe that idleness is not only the devil's workshop and the ohief osuro of crime, but it produces that morbid melancholy state ot mind that begins with drink and ends to suicide. Who ever board ot an engineer, or a conductor, or a gardener, or a hard-working farmer committing suicide. They haven’t got Mm* to think about tt If domestic trouble or family discord haunts you, work It off: Soorutas married Xanri ppe, the most aggra vating woman he could find, and te says te did it for ssif-dteetpilo* aad humiliation. Some women marry aggravating man, fart not for tte like rosseSThut woman rarely aommitsnMde. They pnte to softer and to Hvo for ttelr ehlkbun. Don’t nun* you wrath to hasp It worm. There are thousands who are unfortunately worse off than yoe are. Suffer aad be strong, for death wtß come after a while and relieve you. I wm ruminating about tho difference be tween now and then—between the old times and tho new. There were no suicides then. A crazy woman throw herself into n well and it oroeted a great sensation, Ws heard ol many case# tn Faria and we wondered and had pity, but X can't recall any in Georgia, Now the dally papers have to keep a spare open for them. Our children are raised wrong or educated wrong. They don’t love to work or to study or to read good books or go to church. They want to frolic and to sport or to find short cuts to fortune. Sup pose we look tor some of the old landmens and travel along tte old roads sad see if w* can't stop this self-destruction that is as fearfully increasing In Our southern land.— Bill Aar In Atlanta GcnsHtution. nonraraov nonnns. Wo have had prohibition in Antrim Tvre»r five yrars» says ux-Govsmor Goodeil, ot New Hutupehiiu. - Our pobo# fare* costs shout fitO a year on aa average. Oar pro purs cost tte town about S3O per year. N# drunken person tea teen sera, to my knowl edge. on ear streets tor six months. Pro hibition prohibits always. A taw written oa tte statute books does not prohibit nairas tt to used, nay more t*‘*n u shovel shovels am Ism thereto man attached to tt» atumuwi cnuxL to nra to mm Were Intemperance stripps l of every uvtt attribute save 11s cruelty to children alonv bow eould It then be tolerated even for a day by any truly Christian people? quartos Horace Maun. Th* condition of the ehll> Iren of tate upentte parent* seems es Itself su argument of suffiolant power to revolu tionise a Worid. Maternal n-itare has filled tte heartsetohttdten full of happy prom- ISM. A presentiment of love 1s n divine In stlnct tn their bosoms. They are created**- pedant of joy, awaiting it as the newly wrong edlan awaits the sepbyr. Nature enjoins no obligation upon u* with aero aararat and urtienlate voice than vara she summands and Imneres us through the telplesaa m aad traatingnrae >f Infancy naff ebtl lhood. Who used* an interpreter to read la ttelr feebleness tte duty of protom Hsfil xlooxol conns xotxivo. Doctor ft. N. Bucko, Medical Superinten dent of the Asylum for the lea-ms, London, Canada, In a report, said: “As we have given up tte use of alcohol we have needed and used less opium aad cblorel, and as we have discontinue i the use of alcohol, opium -aad ohioral, we hnv - use led end used Ism seclusion and rest raint. X have, during the year just class.), carefully watched the effect ot tte alcohol given and the progress ot eases wh-ro in former year* It would have been given, aad I nm morally certain that tte aluotel used during ihe last year did a* good. “With bom Illation I nm forced to admit that, until ia tte recent imst, my noble pro fession has teen to au alarming extent, and is silil too much so, guilty ot producing many druuknrds tn tte laud directly nod ta dir ctly by the rock-ess and wholorala man ner tu which so many of Us members have prescribed alcoholic to imnlsnts iu their dully practice tor all the achee end pains, agues aed dsucee, coughs and colds, liiflamma- Mobs and consumptions, f*v-r» end enllfa at tlm hour of 1-frtb, at tho timn ot dustb, end iH iiuraaedlste points of Ufa, lo indues a cud to promote wakeful nra*. and for « reel and Imaginary ills that oome un der tte eyes ol our JKmulni>faa dmoradanu.” cm mu topics. TOPIC FOR SUNDAY, JAN. 31. "Eudeuvenrc Loyal te Christ—What WIH They Bar JshnxiiL Sl-8S; vilL 31. Mon., Jaa. 38. Shown la leva John IU 15-34. rues., Jaa. 31 Shown in obedience. Mott. 7:31-381 Wed., Jan. IT. Shown In truth. Mai. 2:1-1 Thu., Jaa. 88. Shown ia rarncetaust T i*. 82:1-7. Fit, Jaa. 39. Shown in toil.. Ex. 18; 18-3A gat,, Jaa. 80. Shown fa pratou Ps. 147: 1-U. Botimu Yxanxe—Matt x. 88; Mark vilL 84; Luke ix. to; Mv. 37: xxliL 38; John xfx 17; Acta Xiv. 33; Phil. li. 5-9; Heo. xIL 3, t Cor. xiL Al 3; *9-81; xiv. 13, Eph. ilk 16-33; Tt 18,30. ” LXSSOW TXOnCHTS. Christ Is represented by his efalldrea ter*; sad loyalty to Christ demands loyalty tp hie children. If we entertain unkind feelings toward them. Instead of loving one another, Christ takes it m uoioyalty to himself. God takes no account of words If they do net oomepoad with ite expressions of th* bran, nor es vain, boasting promises that cannot be fulfilled. With him m with as, actions speak louder than words, and th* loyal endeavorSr must be faithful ia both. sxlsctioxs. If thou dost love me, to my own te loving, By esrvios done unto my weak onra proving The love thou bearrat hlm who strengthens then. Xiovwt then me? Christ’s dominion over winds and waves was absolute: demons aad disease were sub ject to Ms bidding, hut fa m hto disciple* he asks aad eooapte no allegiance that to not willing and loving. That loro must rive proof of Its presence by obedtanc*, “If ye k>v* me. ye will keep my commandments.” Nathan Hals, when about to te bunged m espy, regretted that he had butoaeUfate give for Ms oo»fttry. Many of undo net giro even the whole of on* fife to our Lord. No nation to content to shore with another the sllegleooe of tie humblest subject A man may live tn a country a large part of hto life, sad enjoy much of Us liberty sad advan tage*; but, ifhe wishes to be acittase.be must wholly break soy tie* that bifid hint is soother government No disol pie ran be true to the Master, aad still give half bto heart to the world. Assuredly ia tte approaching lay of uut versal Judgment It wiu not be Inquired what ws huro read, but what we have done; not horn eloquently w* have spoken, bat bow kollly we have lived. A large percentage of the million es Canadian* who bar* emigrated to tb* United States are French, an distinct ly co ac were their ancestors when they settled In Gansds, although their lan guage has lost something es Its original purity. Not less than 56.000 of those Immigrants ate domiciled. In the State of Maine, aad they are there to stag. They are regarded tn Maine aa a pm Dumont, Important and enluaM* era meat of the population. It is probable that Maine’s loss by tte emigration of native stock to ttm West will be e» act so far as numtera go, by this dare of immigrants.
Eastern Carolina News (Trenton, N.C.)
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