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- J - ..... " , iTiis KCiXNOMIST has a i.vnutu .rmrrutTiox "is tiiikteen corxrtss ltTMlS 1RU Til IN ANT e.ic' i-rc:t-rrcLKjitP." Advertisa In Tba ECtjl . Jf , I . t I I TakB' each man's censure but reserve thy iudgmsrit.-r-Hamlet.j ELIZABETH CITY, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1897. VOL. XXV NO 85. ''-'!'j; : !.'' .i! I i t; - J t x v i 3 Our Fs and Other Eyes. ( .;r I's arc itist as stronrr as thcv were fifty years arro. " IN v.!: n we have ciusc to ue tiicm. Uut wc have less and : I . r iu'c t'j .r.tic ours rives, since ethers do the praising, j and v.- arc m r t!im willing for you ,to see us through c.ir.r ryV 'I his U how we look o SI F. Iioyce, whole t s t'c nn l rjn:1 !ru '-ist, Duluth, Minn., who after a quarter f i v:.:t:ry . J-o! nervation writes: - f I ' 1 Ay.-r's Sarsap.irill.a for more than 25 years, v 5 l 4!- nr.il retail, nr. 1 have never heard any- ' 4 i t;.L. v i t i,f pTus 2 fnra ray customers ; not a single .::..: . i .v.r n.i'.hr! r:v.' 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J. . irilill l'r, ilil.-i l. 4 4. ..,"... . K .b'lisoii. Tie. ;. skinner, C. K. ! - .iiie-r. J It. Fioru, II. F. Smiih u!d B. Bradf rd. A.ir d .VjHVTf . W . J. Ctriflln, Lleii- it amt coiuin.ii din; J. B. Ferebee. ! i.'ineiiant Junior tirade: L A. Win der. Knsicn. Regular Drill each Tues dav night. Arms: 40 Macazine Rilles; 12 "Navy Revolvers; 12 Cutlasses; 2 12 Pound Howitzers. 'mP.m Hrprtm Compjuy M. II. Snowden. Xi: 'lit. J!'iiln-tI txn-l Stotuth-iU Mail train oinj; North, leaves S a. m. and 2:4i p. in., Koing South, 11:40 and -": ") p in. Steamers for Newberne leave at 6 p. in. . Stejdner Newtn, leaves Eliza InuIi City for Cresswell on Moi-days nii.l Tursdavs at 0 : SO a. m. Re- turning will leave Elizabeth t ity follow ine dat at '2. ".p. in.. Steamer Har binger, will leave Eizabeth City for Hertford Wednesdays and Saturdavs at 1. a. m.: Elizalwth City for Nor lolk T1nirlavs and Mondays v. m Way will son buy bitter liaufr atinj: tinics wlifii (2rov T;ills CIillI Tonic is as pleasant as Ieinon Syrup. Yiiar druggist is authorized to refund the money in every case where it faiH to cure. Price 50 cents. THE .MISTAKEN MARY IT WtANS THAT W HAVE AN EVER DAY CHRIST. HfT. Dr. Talu ace Saja the Faet of ThlM Hoarrtctiaa Sctnr Shoold lie Told Io factory end Mine nd Home For th Cluriona Consolation It Afford. Wasiiinotox, April 18. This sermon ' cf Dr. TalmagOWill set its readers to thinking on new lines, and will make this seasou cf Eacter more inspiring than ever. The text is, John xx, 15, "She, EuppcsJug him to be the garden er." . Here are Mary Magdalene and Christ, just after his resurrection. For 4,000 Years a criui and ghastly tyrant had been killing people and dragging them into his cold palace.. Ho had a passion for human skulls. For 40 centuries he had been unhindered in his work. He had taken down kings and queens and conquerors and those without fame. In that cold palace there were shelves ol f-kulls and pillars of skulls and altars oi skulls and even the chalices at the table were made of bleached skulls. To the skeleton of Abel he had added the skele ton jf all the ages, and no one had dis puted his right until one Good Friday, ubout 18G7 years ago, as near as I can calculate it, a mighty stranger came to tho door cf that awful palace, rolled lack the elcor, and went in, and seizing the tyrant threw him to the pavement and put upon the tyrant's neck the heel of triumph. The Kaster Morning-. Then the mighty stranger, exploring all the ghastly furniture of the place .and walking through the labyrinths and cpenihg the dark cellars cf mystery and tarrying under a roof the ribs of which were made cf human bones tarrying for two nights and a day, the nights very i?.:rk :;ud the day very dismal, ho K iztd tho two chit! rillarsof that awful palace tLd uiktdtLcm until it began to fall, and the n, laj ii.g held cf the pon derous ficnt pate, hoisted it from its hinges and niurthed forth, crying, "I am the resuru ction. " That event we celebrate this Easter mom, Handelian and Beethover.n miracles of souneladdcel to this floral decoration which has set the place abloom. There are three or four things which the wor Id and the church have not no ticed in regard to the resurrection of Christ. First, our Lord in gardener's at tire. Mary Magdalene, grief struck, stands by tho rifled sarcophagus of Christ and turns around, hoping she can find the track of the sacrilegious resur rectionist Who has despoiled the grave, und she finds some one in working ap parel peine forth as'if to water the flow ers or uproot the weeds from the garden or set to reelimbing the fallen vine some one in working apparel, his gar ments pe rhaps having tho sign of the dust anil the dirt of the occupation. Mary Magdalene," on her face the rain of a fresh shower of weeping, turns to this workman and charges lijim with tho desecration cf the . tomb, when, lol the stranger responds, flinging his whole soul into one word which trembles with all tho sweetest rhythm of earth and heaven, saying, "Mary!" In that pe culiarity of accentuation all the incog nito fell off, and she fouuel that instead of talking with an humble gardener of Asia Minor, hhe was talking with him who ow ns nil the hanging gardens cf heaven. Constellations the clusters of forgt tmeneits, the sunflower the chief of nil, the morning sky and midnight au icra, flaring terraces of beauty, blaaing like a summer wall with coronation roses and giants cf tattle. Blessed and glorious -mistake of M.iry Magdalenel "She, supposing him to be tho garden- er. " Wiat does tnat mean: ic means that we have an everyday Christ for ev- ervday work in everyday apparel. Not on Sabbath morning in our most seemly apparel are we more attractive tp Christ than we arc in our everyday work ilrcss, managing our merchandise, smit ing our anvil, plowing our field, tend ing the flying shuttles, mending-tho garments for our household, providing fce'd fe r our families or toiling with weary pen or weary pencil or weary chisel. A working day Christ in work ing day apparel for us in our everyday toil. Put it into tho highest strain of this Easter anthem, "Supposing him to le the gardener." In Work Ine Garb. If Christ had appeared at daybreak with a crown upen his head,,that would have seemed to suggest especial sympa thy for monarch, If Christ IrScl appear ed in chain of gold and with robe dia monded, that would, have' seemed to be especial sympathy for the affluent. If Christ had aj pe ared-with soldier's sash and s word cungliug at " his side, that would have se emtd to imply especial svmi athv for wairiors. But when I find Christ in gaidener's habit, with perhaps the flakes of the eailh and of the up turned soil u en his garments, then I spell it cut that he has hearty and pa thetic uuderstautlicg with everyday work and tveiyday anxiety and every day fatigue. Roll it dow n in comfort all through these aisles, A working day Christ in working . day apparel. Tell it in the darkest corridor of the mountain to the poor miner; Tell it to the factory maid in most unvcntilateel establishment at Lowcfi or Lancaster. Tell it to the clear er of roughest new ground in western wilderness. Tell it to tho sewing wom an, a stitch in the side for every stitch in the garment, seme of their cruel em ployes having no right to think that they will get through the door cf heaven any mere man uiey coum inrcugu uio eye cf a broken needle which has just dreppe d en the ban1 fleer from the prick ed and bleeding fingers cf the consump tive sewing girl. Away with your talk alcut byi-e static union and soteriology cf the ccueil of Trent and the meta- physics of religion which would freeze practical Christianity out of the world. but pass alone this gardener's coat to all I cations that tbey may touch the hem of it and feel the thrill of the Chrlstly Lrotherhocd. Not Tnappoeicg the man to Le Caesar, tot guncsing him to Le Scc ratfs, but "supposing him to te the gardener." Cb, that is what helped Joseph Wedg wck d, toiling amid the heat .and tbo oust of the ' potteries, tmtil he could Kak for Queen Charlotte the first royal table service of English manufacture. That was what helped James Watt, Ecofftd at and caricatured, until he could put on wheels the thunderbolt of power which roars by day and by night in ev ery furnace of the locomotive engines of America. That is what helped Hugh Miller, toiling amid the quarries cf Cromarty, until every rock became to him a volume of the world's biography, and he found the footsteps of the Cre ator in the old red sandstone. Oh, the world wants a Christ for the office, a Christ for the kitchen, a Christ for the shop, a Christ for the banking hcuso, a Christ for the garden, while, spading and planting and irrigating the terri tory! Oh, of course wo want to seo Christ at last in royal robe and bedia monded.'a celestial equestrian mount ing the white 'iiorse, but from this East er of 1897 toiour last Easter on earth we most need to see Christ as Mary Magdalene saw him at the daybreak, "supposing him to be gardener." Hia First Appearance. Another thing which the church and the world have not noticed in regard to the resurrection of Christ is that he made his first postmortem appearance to one who had been the seven deviled Mary Magdalene. One would have sup posed he would have made his first post humous appearance to & woman who had always been illustrious for goodness.' There are saintly women who have al ways been saintly saintly in girlhood, saintly in infancy, always saintly. In nearly all our families there have been saintly aunts. In my family circle it was saintly aunt Phebe; in yours saint ly aunt Martha 'or saintly aunt Ruth, One always saintly. But not so was the one spoken cf in the text. While you are not to confound her with the repentant courtesan who had made her long locks do the work of towel at Christ's foot washing, you are not to forget that she was exorcised of seven devils. What a capital of dempn ology she must have been I What a cho rus of all diabolism 1 Seven devils two for the eyes and two for the hands and two for the feet and one for the tongue. Seven devils; yet all these are extirpat ed, and now she is as good as onco she was bad, and Christ honors her with the first posthumous appearance. What does that mean? ' . Why, it means for worst sinner great est grace; it means those lowest down shall come, perhaps, highest pp; it means that the clock that strikes 12 at midnight may strike 12 at midnoon; it means that the grace cf Gcd is seven times stronger than sin. Mary Magdalene the seven deviled became Mary Magda lene the seven angeled. It means that when the Lord meets us at last he will not throw up to us what we have been. All he said to her was, "Mary!" Many people having met her under such cir cumstances would have said: "Let me see, how many devils did ycu have? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. What a terrible piece you were when I first met you!" The most of the Chris tian women in our day would have nothing to do with Mary Magdalene even after her conversion, lest somehow they be compromised. The only thing I have tp say against women is that they havo not enough mercy for Mary Magdalene. Christ put all pathos and all reminis cence an3 all anticipation and all pardon and all cemfort and all heaven into cue word of four letters, "Mary!" Mark you, Christ did not appear to some Bi ble Elizabeth or Bible Hannah or Bible Esther or Bible Deborah or Bible Vashti, but to Mary; not to a Mary against whom nothing was said; not to Mary the mother of Jesus; not to, Mary the mother of James; not to Mary the sister of Lazarus, but to a seven deviled Mary. A Seven Deviled Man. There is a man seven deviled devil of avarice, devil of pride, devil of hate, devil of indolence, devil cf falsehood, devil of strong drink, devil of impurity. God can take them all away, 7 or 70. I rode over the new cantilever bridge that spans Niagara a bridge 900 feet long, 850 feet of chasm from bluff to bluff. I passed over it without any anx iety. Why? Because 22 locomotives and 22 cars laden with gravel had tested tho bridge, thousands of people standing on the Canadian side, thousands standing on the American side to applaud the achievement. And however long the train of our immortal interests may be, we are to remember that God's bridge of mercy spanning the chasm of sin has been fully tested by the awful tonnage of all the pardoned sin of all the ages, ehurch militant standing on cne bank, church triumphant standing on the oth er bank. Oh, it was to the seven deviled Mary that Christ inade his first post mortem appearance. There is another thing that the world and the church have not observed in re- gard to this resurrection, and that is, was the morning twilight. it If the chronometer had been invented and Maryliad as good a watch as seme of the Marys cf our time have, she. would have found it was about half jpast; 5 o'clock a. w. Matthew says it was in the dawn; Mark says it was at the sun rising; Luke says it was veryearly m the morning; John says it was while lit was yet dark. In other words, it was twilight. That was the o'clock at which Mary Magdalene mistook Christ for the gardener. What dees that meari? It means there are shadows over the grave unlifted shadows of - mystery that are. hovering. Mary stooped down and tried to look to. the other end of the crypt. She gave hysteric outcry. She could not see to the other end of the crypt. Nei ther can you see to the other end cf the grave of your dead. Neither can we see to the other end of our own grave. Oh, if there were shadows over the family plot belonging, to Joseph of Arimathea, la it strange that there should be some ehadows over cur family lot? Easter dawn, not Easier noon. M Shadow cf unanswered question I Why were they taken away from! us? Why were they ever given to us if they were to be taken soj soon? Why vrere they taken so suddenly? Why could they not have uttered isome farewell words? Why? A short! question, but a whole crucifixion of agony in it. Why? Shad ow on the graves of good men and wom en who seemed ito die before their work was done. Shadow on all theraves of children because we ourselves why so beautiful a craft launched at all if it was to he wrecked one mile outside of the harbor? But what did Mary Magda lene have to do in order to get more light on that grave?! She had only to wait After awhile the Easter sun rolled up, and the whole place was flooded with light. What have you and I to'do in or der to get more light on our own graves and light uponl the graves of our dear loved ones? Only to wait ' The Morning Twilight. Charles V of Spain with his servants and torches, went down." into; the vault of the necropolis where his' ancestors were buried, and went deeper!, farther on until he came to a cross around which werearranged the caskets of his ances tors. He also found a casket,containing the body of one of his own family. He had that casket opened, and there by embalmer's aft he found that the body was as perfect" as 18 years before when it was entombed. But under the explo ration his body and mind perished. Oh, my friends, do not let us morbidly struggle with the shadows of the sepul cher. What are we to do? Wait It is not the evening twilight' that gets dark er and darker. It is the morning twi light that gets brighter and brighter in to the perfect day. I preach it today. .Sunrise over Pere le Chaise, sunrise over Greyf riars churchyard, sunrise over Greenwood, over .WOodlawn, over Lau rel Hill, over Mount Auburn, over Con gressional burying ground, sunrise over every country graveyard; sunrise over the catacombs, sunrise over the sarebph aei' where the - shins lie buried. Half past 5 o'clock among the tombs now, but seen to be the noonday of explana tion and beatitude. It was in the morn ing twilight that Mary Magdalene mis took Christ for a gardener. Another thing the world and -the church have Hot observed that is, Christ's pathetic credentials; How do vou know it was not a! gardener? His garments said he was a gardener. The flakes of the inpturned earth scattered upon his garments said he was a gar dener. How do you know he; was not a gardener? Ali! Before. Easter had gone by he gave to 'some of his disciples his three credentials. He showed them his hands and his side. Three paragraphs written in rigid or depressed letters. A scar in the right palm, a scar in the left palm, a scar amid the fibs scars, j scars. That is the way they knew him. ! That is the way you and-1 will know him. Aye, am I ( saying this morning too much when I say that will be one of the ways in which you and I will know each other by the scars of earth scar8(cf ac cident, scars of sickness, scars of perse cution, scars, of hard work, scars of bat tle, scars of bid age. When I see Christ's resurrected body having scars, it haakes me think that our remodeled and resur rected bodies wilLhave scars. ;Why, be fore we get out of this world seme of us will be - Covered with scars all' over. Heaven will not be a bay into which' float summer yachts after a pleasuring with the gay bunting and with the em broidered .sails as 'fair as wpen they were first unfurled. jHeavenl will be more like a navy yard wherej men-of-war come in from Trafalgar and Lepan to men-of-war with -masts twisted by a cyclone, men-of-war struck; on all sides by 74 pounders, men-of-var with decks scorched of the shell. Old Consti tutions, old j Constellations, floating in discharged from service to rest forever. In the resurrection Christ credentialed by scars. Yciu and I will be credentialed and will recognize each other I by scars. Do you think them now a disfigurement? Do you thihk them now a badge of en durance? I tell you the glorious thought this morning, they are going 'to be the means' of heavenly recognition.' LA. Notable Fact. j There , is j one more thing ihat the world and the! church have not npticed in this resurrection of Christ, and that is that Christ from Friday to Sabbath was lifeless jiniahot climate where sani tary prudence demanded that burial take place the same day as dath, and where there jwas no ice to retard disso lution. Yet;, after three days She comes up so healthful, so robust and so! rubi cund Mary Magdalene takes him! for a gardener. Not supposing him to be an invalid from a hospital, not supposing him to be a corpse frcm the tpmb, hut supposing him to be the gardener. Healthful by the breath of the faptumed sod and by si perpetual life ni the sun- ehine. ' .) . ' M J ' I X. After Christ's interment every cellular tissue broke jdoWn, and nerve and artery and brain wjere a physiological wjreck, and yet he cpmes up swarthy, rubicund and well. When I gee after such mortu ary silence j such radiant appearance, thit 'settles it khat whatever should be come of thie bodies of our Christian dead, they are going to come. up, the nerves restfung, the optic nerve reil lumined, the ear drum a-vibrate, the ,whole body Jifted up, without its weak nesses and worldly uses for which i there is no resurrection. , Come, is . it not al most time for us tci go out to meet our reanimated dead? Can you not hear the' lifting of the rusted latch? j Oh, the glorious thought, the glori eus consolation of this subject when 1 find Christ coming j up without any 'of the lacerations for you must remember he was lacerated andwounded fearfully in the crucifixion doming up without one! What; does that make me think?" That the grave will get nothing of us except our;wound3 and imperfections. Christ went Into ihej grave exhausted and bloodless. All the currents of his life had poured out ifrom bift wounds. He-ihad lived a life elf trouble, sorrow ind privation, am,l then he died a lin- KEEP YOUR Surely if the word REGULA TOR is not on a package ' v' it is not . -;' ' , ,: ? ; ; : i ' : : X ' n Nothing else is the same. It cannot be and never has been put up by any one except JJ- D-D. Z E 0 LD & CO. And it can be easily told by their Trade Mark : ' THE ;RED.;i2.:':; . 9 For ale by Dra. W. W. GRK2GS ft MOM. gering death. His entire body hung on four spikes. No invalid of 20 years' suf fering ever wept into the grave so white and ghastly and broken down as Christy and yet here he comes up so rubicund and robust she ; supposed him to be the gardener. .Ah, all the side aches, and the head aches, and the back aches, and the leg, aches, and the heart aches we will leave where Christ left his ! The ear will come up without its heaviness, the eye will come up without its dimness, tho lungs will come up without oppressed respira tion Oh, what faces we will run when we become immortal athletes! Oh, what circuits we' will take when, all earthly imperfections subtracted and all celes tial velocities added, wo shall set up our residence in that city which, though vaster than all the cities of this world, shall never have one obsequy! : Standing this morning round the shattered masonry of our Lord's tomb, I point you to a world without hearse, without muffled drum, without tumulus, without catafalque and without a tear. Amid all the cathedrals of the blessed no longer fte "Dead March On Saul," but whnlfi lihrptti nf 'Halleluiah . Chorus. I' : Oh, put trumpet to lip and ticer to key -'j and loving forehead against "lie bosom of j a risen Christ! Halleluiah, amen! Hal leluiah, amen! , ' A Chicago Shirt. That portion of Chicago's population which is particular about the way it dresses and there is "such a portion, whatever the jealous residents of other -j towns may pretend to think is just now In astate of intense but pleasurable excitement. This emotion results from the fact that in ona of that city's most fashionable stores tliere has been placed on sale a full line of shirts' so construct ed as to be exactly what the elegant youth of Chicago have long demanded in vain! It is a shirt planned on wholly new principles, and the inventor claims for it the merit of preserving an appear ance of immaculateness for an almost indefinite period. Other shirts must bo sent to the Iauhjdry every few months, but this one is subject to no such neces sity,, and the consequent economy in money and trouble will be. almost be yond the power of figures to express. The-greater part of the new garment is much like similar sections of its pred ecessors. It is upon the exposed -front that Chicago's benefactor has expended all the power of his genius. Indeed, it is simply a front that ho has produced, and yet it is by no means a "dicky" for which he demands admiration and pat ronage. The "dicky" has been, tf ied in Chicago "and found wanting. The new device is a disk of stiff linen, revolving on a gold stud and divided into four V shaped segments of equal size and 'dif ferent colors. Each segment is large enough to more than fill the spaeeeft open . by a reasonably high' waistcoat, and is therefore a shirt for all practical purposes as practical purposes in the shirt line are understood iii. Chicago. When one' quarter of the disk has served the purpose of beauty and protection to the wearer's' satisfaction, all he has to do is to turn the next quarter into view, and, behold, he is started anew on so cial rounds and can face the world with confidence of- his power to undergo se verest scrutiny. Again and once again may' he repeat this operation and after that--well, . after that he will be an old man with little regard for appearances and none for criticism. New York Times. "EatiDC Him Back,r In a farming district in Louisiana a candidate once inaefe a very '.'sensible talk to some of his discontented e'bustit ueuts. He told them that it was hard to draw the line between the rich and the poor. "You call the Blanks rich peo ple," he said, "but they Lie simply well to do farmers. Over yonder, in the xivef" bottom, C' as men of ver " : the big piante even when they men hy the side manufacturers the cities. You i tout there are i f -a a ncnnlt 111 ACV vould be rega'.d ; lerate means, r-ut, 1 the bottom ltjLids, , out of debt, lue pcor l?e great merchants,, i 1 fal eperafors in aL yourselves peer, v hq look upon you ircumstahces You' j 49 "J f ' . are rooiisn wanny iue uiau uu . horses . against the man who has only one." j He then told the. following story: "One day a farmer rode into a little country town in a state adjoining Lou-; isiaha and got into talk with sonm' friends at a store where he had gone to' make some purchases. ' Well, John,' j said one, 'how are ycu getting along? j "What, me? Oh tolerably weli--just ; the same, just like I always do. ' 'And j all the neighbors out your way; how J are they getting along?' 'Well, they're j just the same, too just like I am. We never .allow any ViifTerence cut our way, yon know. ' 'No? Well, how do ' jon manage that?' 'Well, whenever we notice smj fellow getting ahead, you . know, we just go to see him, and we tay withihim until we eat him back.' " , There are .many such communities. When peoplersee their neighbors getting ahead, they swarm around them , and neat, them .back. "Atlanta Constitu tion. . . EYES OPEN! m REGULATOR. '' . v J NELLIE. j . , : . ,. Where goes her little 1W Tread meaanre for in; heart to beat. For then iU quickened pulin f bowa That I'd fain follow wbereaba foa. Where XeUle apeaka in 7 listening; ear No aweeter ninaio knows to hear. And auch its charm my fond soul seoka To bide forever where aha apraks. When Nellie amileM, the angels fty " To ftpread the news throughout the ekj. For what were heaven's jaspered ml Ice To earth and love and NelHe'a ainilee? Where Nellie goes be mine the way; Where Nellie epeaka I'd ever efcay; When NelM? am ilea, it it'a on roe. What greater hUm than mine can bet. J.;L. Heaton in "The Quilting Dee." Stories About Secretary Welles. . a Mr. Lincoln's choice for cretnry ' of tho navy was Gideon Welles of Hartford. Mr. Welles was one of the " representatives of fhoKO I)emecrats , who had abandoned their party on account of its attitude towarel slav- ery. His former associates in Con necticut trioel to cxjns61o,theinsedve!!S for his loss by affecting to regard him US a "hoodoo," whom they wore glad o get rid of. The party ? beaten when Welles was 'was always' at the .front, they said. , There was in tho country some surpriso, too, that Ir Lincoln should have picked out a "Hartford lawyer" for secre tary of the paVy. . . : '- "What else tire Hartford lawyers for?" was Mr. Lincoln's comment, referring tcj the fact that Isaac Ton cey, Buchanan's secretary of the . navy, was also a 4 Hartford lawyer. ' ' When the appointment was made known in Hartford, one of Jr. Welles' formed Democratic col-. leagues remarked : ' t "Well, if his marine experience, fitted Jonah to be high admiral,.1 then' Gid Welles will learn . how to command a squadron by being swal lowed by that Illinois whale. " In spite of this spiteful prophecy Mr. AVelles , success in building up and managing the navy department has entitlejl him to a fajne in the; war administration well alongside cf Chase's) as its eminent financier and Stanton's as its- groat war rnin ifeter. Chicago Times-Herald. V -Is Belief Superior fo Knowledge? , One of the questions of tho tlay is this, Is "to beliove" more than "to know!'! Shall a sane man extend belief in directions where ho has no knowledge and in. lines outsido the reach of his -power to act i (dan be lief soar in spaco. not traversable by "orgdnizeelqommonsenso?" lf such distinction; is made between 'know-. ing" and "believing," which of tbo two has precedence as a guide for action f Is belief to be tested by science? ' Or is science useful only where belief is indifferent t6 .tho subject matter? If belief is subordi- nate to the tests of science, to bo ac cepted or rejected in the degree of its accord with human experience, . then it is simply an annex to) science, a footnotojto human expe'rienee", and the authority of tho latter is su preme.. If,! however,' truth comes to us. from sources outside ofj human experience, it miwt come in some Iuro form, free from human.errors, As , such it must claim the first place. Ih this event the progress of scienco will be always on a lower Ilane than the progress of belief.-- : David Starr Jordan f No. 117. 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