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J r. t r L .'5 NUM13EH45. 'VOLUME XV III. FRANK LIN. '.N. C. Wl)NESDA Y. NOVEMBER 11, 1003. 1 4 MOTHER'S HANDS. Mother's hands art wonry olu iheia od her broudti nny bava been so busw Lt. ah. let thm rest I Worn, autKlhlo, ami wrlnklcdt beamed with t'Al and carui Tel to all tnoy've allied Dautllul anil falrl hatrdwfhTsn-toUnff 0W ItlOSH lllll'S lOW iTprSAi 3tn-y have raiae-1 the faliuni Gonilorted lue weak;. Tolled on, unoompUtnlng, W ith their work ne'er done, Full uf toy and glarim-st, 1111 tnitlr test la won I in The Footstep of Fear. by L. H. It Was Christine's friend, torn, through Whom Fear entered thb chlld'i life, Eefore Tom begad to Spend bis evenings in th Kitchen Christine had been the most considerate of nurses. When she tucked the bedclothes about her small charge at h.ight, and sat be side her Until the little one fell asleep, her talk had boen all of fairies, and hawthorn hedges, and the green Eng lish fields in which she had played as a child; but when Tom began to wait for her below stairs to wait In tbe com pany of Ellen, the jolly cook, and Mag gie the; blue-oyed housemaid, Christine had grown cross and Impatient Sho undressed the little girl almost roughly and even hurried her through her prayers. When sho tucked her In bed . she refused to sit besido her; and in answer to the child's, half-suppressed sob she paused In the act of turning out the gas to bend close above the small Dlllow and the suddenly widened ' eyes thdt Stored at bef In the dimmed" light. Her Tolc Itself Was threat as she Opened the door In the Child's soul by which Pear might enter in. -.AloDS you ir goo othlng ' will hurt you," she concluded, tabrS kindly, "Be quiet and don't tell and you're til right" She turned the gas Quite out, and closed the door, leaving ' Fear to watch in her place by tbe bed. Not that the child called it Fear;. she knew no name for tbe vague, form less thing, i But Its formlessness was an added terror, which waa heightened by the fact that to her strained Imag ination an audible footfall cam" from that vofd which waa its presence, while aboe ltt awful shanelcssnesa she felt thni2!ksMjirisiw a face. rluonrter, devil whether one or all of these she could not say; and only because a thing spoken , of mutt be designated by a word could on call ' the dark Impersonal presence It Every night after this It came, terrible black emptiness moving with elow, steady steps to the child's bed. The steps fell first in the long hall, when Christine turned Out the nursery ' gas. At she went out she moved noise lessly over the thick carpet toward the door which led to the back hall,' and the progress. of her retreat waa known to the child only by the sound of the other's stealthy approach a sound dis tinctly heard above the heavy beatinH of her own heart It moved a step nearer for every step that Christine moved away; when she stood at the door of the back hall It stood at the nursery door, always; when she open- ed the door softly, lest it should be known down stairs that the had left the nursery before sleep came to its small inmate It entered; and when Christine closed the door behind her it Sprang with a great leap to the ehild's , " - -Me, and hung over her in the dark, and gibing, i with an awful "hlnu Its senseless leer. She the face nor the leer; 'aaU flh" might ne It; she only felt';" them he shuddering dark. ; - ;a not alone; the tiger un belonged to It and the ape toet and the man with, tbe isk and the sword. These also en enemies, but she knew all them; Christine had told her; not only on that first dreadful night .- but often since. They were friends of Christine's in some mysterious way, ' .'.'.,' and so long aa the child obeyed her . ... they were not to' be feared; but It she ..- ver cried or called her another, or ; told any one that Christlno did not stay with her until she waa asleep then they would spring at her In the dark and tear her limb from limb. If ( obeyed ehe was safe; Christine said so, and Christine never told lies; she said she never did; and, besides, V she would be afraid to tell lies, be cause liars wore put in the fire and burned up. Her brother told her that the day she promised to let him play with her best doll In his own way, and than snatched her away and ran to Christine with her. She waa a liar; - she shivered aa she thought of the lake of fire. " But he wai digging Miss Homer's eyes out of her head her beautiful eyes to see why they didn't shut faster. Ood would burn her up; but It wasn't fair when other people made you tell lies; perhaps Ood did something to them, too. But He would not do anything to Christine; she was always good. That was why the tiger l- s- loved her, and the man, and the ape; they hated bad people-oh, did they know she was a liar? She shrank fur ther down under the bedclothes. Chris tine said they wouldn't hurt her If she kept still; but Christine didn't know about It It would not mind Christine; It would not mind anybody; and It waa the tiger's friend, too! She dared l not open her eyes, but she knew that ' " in the dark It was bending down, and that the tiger had crawled to the edge of the bed to lick It's hand. The ape f paered out of the closet grinning a welcome to It, and the man in -the mask stood Just behind. They were nil It's friends, and ft hated her. But perhaps they "could not she knew in the o-g little soul that e could spring and rnai'h Think how they bar guliod liny, toddling '"t; Bmoothed away all sorrow VW h ttieir touoli so swet Baniehrd pain and aorroWf Closed at last th eyes 01 bar loved who'd greet bar . . la "nausioua Is the skies"! Mother's bands ar wearyt fold them ob bar breaatt I)nr olil bands so feeble., . . Tboy have earned their rest I Ood ti- waiting tor her, And ba understands All tba work for others Dona by mother's banda I Good Housekeeping, Hammond. i floated tip the stairs, and H grinned hideously at the thought of the com' pany in the nursery! Once her moth er song, and that comforted her. Ages afterward her mother came upstairs, The man and the ape drew hack into the depths of the closet; the tiger crawled to the ekact middle bt the space under the bed and oufled hid tall up carefully) It passed noiselessly to the other side of the room and hid In the shadows aa the door opened, add her mother her dearest mother came In and bent down to kiss her cheeit. She dared not stir, but she know that It waa gone. Her mother touched her forehead gently. "The ch.ld is In a perspiration," she said to herself; "but there doesn't seem to be too much cov er; Christine is so careful. How fast asleep she is!" and with another kiss she went through Into her own room, leaving the connecting door open. When she put out her light It slipped back, but the door was open, and It did not dare to com very dost to the bed. The tiger had gone to sleep and th ape and the man knew her toother Wat therei they were afraid oho! The little body relaxed, th broath cam freely, and out on the full tide of Bleep sh drifted beyond lt'l reach,";.. r;-..rv. .- ' Thie happened many eight, through many years. At first It never dared to come in tho daytime; but at dusk Bbe knew the stealthy footfall was coming steadily to meet her, and. that in the dark It would stand by her bed, with its horrible unseen leer.. She haftTM e grew older, tried the effe'of leav- ug the gas burning; bvtf fn thesjone- ees and sllencoohe nleht ItNas all-rwcrlfcfr-andcould, shroud itself in darkness and light . alike.- Every night her mother came to give her a last good-night kiss, but th child nev er told her that she was awake; aha was afraid to speak of It at night, and in th daytime she waa ashamed. . Sh no longer believed in the tiger or the ape, though, she looked tor them .under the bed and In the closet every night to make sure, and took off hr slippers In the middle of th room to leap into the bed from a distance, feel ing cold, sharp claws on her ankles at she did so, and tucking the covers about her with feverish haste. The man was no longer in tbe closet, and had lost his mask and bis sword. He carried a knife now, and came with It The two crept op the stairs to gether night aftor night Sometime they paused at her mother's door, or her brother's, Instead of at her own, and sh would spring out of bed to call them before It should be too late. But she was ashamed to give a false alarm, so sh always lit th gas in th hal) first shaking with cold, her teeth chat tering; and always, as sh turned with wide eyes to . face them, they were gone. 8he would rush to the head of tbe stairs after them, but they could not be seen, though the stairs creaked, on by one, under their invisible tread.. She could never understand why the sound did not rouse the world. Some times in a frenzy of .terror to which anything was better than uncertainty, she fled after them, barefooted and silent It mattered little at such times' that the man might turn In the dark ness and plunge , hi knife ' Into" her her heart. If only she could sefze It by the throat and turn it to the light acjd look once lttll in Its face. To do that meant death of ' freedom, she knew; and there wore time when she cared little which It might be. At every point ah strov to face th thing she feared; and at every point It eluded her, and stood, unseen, but felt, a lit tle further down her path, , Tears afterward, when the married, the footstep which had dogged her life began to track the man she loved; then It followed the child. Tbe day time ceased to protect her. Through the long summer In every lightning flash It' lean linger threatened them both; and when the wild Western winds shook the house It leered at her through the storm. Day and night It's power grew with her love, and tho' she still struggled "It waa without hope. But one night as the lay in ber bed thinking a mother's thoughts about the child asleep in the crib beside her, the little one awoke, crying out In sud den fear. As she turned to soothe her it thrust itself with quick, noiseless step between ber bed and th crib. She felt through her soul the horror of the unspoken threat, but she leanea toward the child and quieted It Then something new and strong rose up within ber, and through the darkness he looked full where she felt it's face. You shall never touch the child," She said. "I will fill her life so full of love and courage that there will be no room in it for you to como. You may darken my life aa you will, but the child shall never know that you exist." It drew closer, and as she faced It's nearing presence she knew that It's face waa distorted by a thousand pas sions; but the child's hand lay in ners, and tho' she trembled, she smiled in the dark. Often the man she loved was called from home, and through the long nlghta snd stormy days of that wind- cursed country she fought with It for the child. When the boy came she had double strength,' and with the baby knew hewIf invincible. They i up happy and unafraid; for If .'iipnod their childish hiris ' ! ' ire love's niprfc totn h r i; va and mrht!, aiid . 1 ! ve trie m w(s- t! ' . Ao sorted In this straggle the vomaa fought her own fears no longer, and thought of thcui only when she must Her consciousness of it became focused in a determination to keep a like con SclousncB) out Of her children's lives. . The yesrs passcid by. Never once had her old desire been granted to her to see the vogue torror toke the tan gible shape of danger before her eyet, that she might face her fear and find In its actual presence either the free dom for which she longed or the death to which she had once been Indifferent. But ono morning when the wan she loved was away from home and tho children were at school she glanced up from her sewing and saw two men coma in at the gate, Either of them might have been It made visibto to tae eyes of day so evil were their faces. The old house was a detached one, est In large yard, and there Wat ho one on the place at the moment except herself and the housemaid. Ac customed to forestalling the fears of other rather than to thinking of her own, she Went herself to the door; tbe maid, ehe know, would be fright ened, She opened tae door a little Way, and in nrr to the' younger man' demand tor money replied that she had none to give him. The man swore ft groat Oath, which was echoed by .s Companion, She had opened lii.door such a little way that th7 knew the house was empty save for Women. -. ' ; "We will come la and :e what you have got," said the man. "end what we want we will take." He set his shoulder to the door. A sudden rage rushed upon her and swept her out beyond all knowledge of herself. She flung the door wide and stepped up close to tho man, her eyos blazing Into hiB. She spoke fn new voice. "I will give you 10 seconds to got outside that gate, " she said. "Now They turned and fled. She stood and watched thorn, at they ran down the walk, under the. flickering shad ows Of the elms; her anger was hot Within her. Tbon th leaned against the doorway, trembling, for she caught suddenly the sound of a stealthy step, Which fled before the men, and knew that three pasted out at the gateEe teen' shoes Xslattered on tp brick Walk) but the sound tMfng to heav en Wat 'the burrylnji'Trcad of the --silent footfall, wjiiw terror had filled her life. , bhtood listening through tho clcatvyeSshlQe until It ceased, knowlwfthat it ceased for all time. ThgTehe turned and went into the ee with the light of freedom on face. The Independent . . . 3UAINT AND CURIOU8. I At the age of fifty a person usually begins to slowly decrease in stature, tnd at the age of eighty he hat lost about on and oiye-half Inches. ' Blindness attack many ot th peo ple engaged In, the manufacture of Venetian glass. 'Their sight begins to fall between tbe ages of thirty and forty. This distressing affliction , it caused by th excessive heat and glare from the furnaces and from the red hot glass. v . . . t. Fashionable ladles In Berlin are de-. lighted with a new fad air hatha They array themselves in pajamas and slippers, and then Indulge in athletic exercise In a garden inclosed by a high wall. After spending two hours in this way, they return Indoors, drink warm chocolate, and enjoy a nap. 1 ;. Among the legends ot Greee it Is told lhat the father of Pythagoras, tbe famous Greek philosopher, was a cele brated engraver of gems, and, accord ing to classical history, both Helen of Troy and Ulysses of Greece wor en graved rings. - 'Engraving on stones that were partly precious Wat an art at a very remote age. : The British Museum proudly boasts the possession of a small square of yellow -- Jasper bearing the figure) o a horse and the name ot AmcnopLk II., believed to date back to about the year 1450 B. C. The most marvelous of all rocking stone it that Of th Island ot Cephal onia, oft the coast of Greece. This Is a great rock, about a rod square, in the edge of the sea, and It la in perpetual motion, alternately touching the land and receding from it about twenty timet a minute. The regular oscilla tions of this natural pendulum are un affected by calms or bf upestuout seas thet break completely over it The weight of ten persons did not per ceptibly change Its rat of motion, and when an English captain attempted to drag It away the oscillations snapped hit cbalnt like thread. A description ot a dinner given In 1360 shows that there has been a Test Improvement since then. At a rale, one knife had to serve for two persons, and often a bowl of soup waa used by two persons. For thlt reason the party giving the dinner arranged his guests In couples, trying to place people to gether wbo would be congenial and not averse to this common use of table ap pointments. Spoons were seldom sup plied to the guests, and the soup waa drunk directly from the.towl, tbe lat ter usually having side handles, by which It was held. In less refined company there were no separate soup bowls, only one large porringer, which was passed around to the guests in turn. Tbe diners helped themselves to the pieces of meat they desired from tbe common dish with their fingers. Napkins were considered a luxury, and were only provided in Very aristo cratic and wealthy families. 1 She Has Reformed. He was deep In his paper and did not want to be interruptetl, but, of course, she didn't care anything about that ;. "Did you lead about thevjroung cou ple that went through th"I- marriage cer'hiony Just for a Joke?" she asked. "No," be replied. "What of it?" "Why, aftfr it was all over they dis covered that it wasn't a Joke at, all." "Oh, every rue who talks the mar- rinse quest Ion finds) thnt out." II wasn't Interrupted 8; alii for s. full hour. New York Press. The colonies of the world liDve one thlrd of Its population, A'fiSOW FOS SUNDAY A LEARNED DISCOURSE ENTITLED ."THY KINGDOM COME." f he Be. Dr. Clarence Ang-natoa Barbour Makes aa Eloqoent Plea For Fellow . aklp Canae of tbe Dearth orcandldatea For the HJnlitry. Bbookltw, "N. Y. In the Emmanuel Baptist Church, St. James' place and La fayette avenue, Sunday morning, the Rev. Br, Clarence Augustus Barbour, paitor of the Take Avenue Baptist Church, Roches ter, N. Y., preached on the subject. "Tby Kingdom Come; s Plea for Fellowship. The text was from Mntthew vi:10: "Thy kingdom come." Sr. Barbour said: , , Matthew'a gospel is distinctively the gtypel of the kingdom, but in a vary true sfcLae the Bible throughout is the book of the kingdom. If, as one has suggested, th conception of a sulf print Redeemer runs aa a b.jod-rM "rrd through the Scripture, it is no leas true that the con ception of tha all-embracing kingdom and the all-conquering King runs- through all the Scripture aa a cord of royal purple. Mr fundamental Dronosition ia that the kingdom of supreme and transcemlont importance. The kingdom of (Joil, tlint divine polity over which Jerua Christ ia King of Kings and Ixrd of Lords that tlaims pre-eminent fealty. The kingdom is of greater importance than the local church, of greater import ance than any communion in any com munity, of greater importance than any single denomination . With any different conviction the denominations easily be come "sects," something eut off in sym pathy, aa well as in organisation- and be lief, from the rest of tha Christian world. There is real danger that the local church or the denomination be exalted shove .the kingdom of God. Yon know that our Roman Catholic friends say that Protestantism is split op into innumerable little sects, quarreling among themselves. In the Protectant missionary work . of Japan," they say, "the Japanese, seeing tha headquarters of fifteen different and non-co-operating sects in tha square of Tokio, wrote to America. Do not send ns any more kinds of religion.' We of the Catholic Chuck are everywhere the tame in America, in Africa, in Asia, in Kurone. Lin almost every city and village of every una: tne same rorm 01 woranin. inv&jme articulate and compact organinntW,' Srrf are the church, one and united. might answer that this is not neceasa - . j -) ..,-.; . a gronna lor seil-cnngratuiaiion; wherever there is freedom of inouiry, dom of opinion, freedom of,r""Je is bound to be diversity Hut we TrrAriot now discussing t!th or falnehoal the good orji5dn Etonian Catholicism: we aav UtWtbis argument the Roman CathnliajEaes with powerful effect, 1 Xrai it is that narrow denommationaF in ia belittling and deadening. That was a significant remark made by one of ear college presidents. "The men who least comprehend what I am tryin? to do in this college are some professors of the college. They are noble, self-sacrificing men. ' out each one considers his own department the only really important one, snd the idea of building ud a university is something which none of them can grain." So there are self-sacrificing denominationalista, who nave no adequate concention of the dig nity end Importance of the churcb univer salthe vast embracing kingdom of God. "The field is the world," saya our Mas ter, nothing less: any smaller conception is a caricature ot Christianity, a belittling of our faith; any ideal short of united effort for the conanest of the world-field is an. ideal unworthy of th Christian nam. The good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom:" the words immediately follow the reference to the world-field. la good aeed. these are tha aona of the kingdom," not the membership of any lo cal church, ' nor of any single denominv tinnal body. . - 'I believe that We are coming to recog nlse th essential unity of the kingdom ot God. Many mountains, one globe; manv ravines, one mighty earth mass, vastly greater than the wrinkles on her face; many regiments, one army; many denomi nations, one church; manv creeds, one faith; many ways np the hill, one city at the top, where aita the King on His throne, Denominationalitm, wisely "man aged, may be need for mutual provoca tion to love and good works. Perhaps it is better to be broken up externally, that each denomination may do its own work. But there must be recognition, and that recognition more than a normal one, of the practical fellowship, the co-operative fellowship oi believers. 1 am a tfantut bv birth, by Training, by conviction. I yield to ca ene in mr loy alty to essential Baptist principles. There are Congrentionalista and Presbyterians snd Methodists with equal loyalty. - Bat the Christian should b no bigot, and no eneeiea of bigotry is mora nfienaiv than that of the denominational bigot. Let no one misunderstand. . We are not of those sentimentalists who decrr eccle siastical and denominational organisation. we are not OI those wbo Idealise the man who perches on the denominational fence. The fence-titter ia nauseating as lukewarm water. . .,,.,. ... We counsel nn sacrifice of ermvletlon. nut a mirroring forth of the spirit of our divine Lord, who prayed for His discin!es i i ,i i..rL' ij i-irr ty phi! lor mono wuo snouiu relieve on mm through their word, "that they all may be one, even aa Thpn. Fa.her, art in lie, and 1 in them, that thev also mav ha in us. that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me," that as of old the world mav recognize ns as His. in that these Christiana "love one another," .. , btich S stunt is a long war bevnnd the spirit of "toleration." Yet even toleration is in advance of what we have known, even in this 'Hand of the free." In the Harvard baccalaureate of this year Dr. Van Dvk eloquently said of the Puritan: "Something too little of sunlight msy have come in throueh the narrow windows of his house. But that house had founda tions, and the virtues lived in it." With all deference dne to our national forefath ersend to them deference is due there were tenants in the noose other than those readily recognimhle aa virtues. In tolerance, intense and hitter, was charac teristic of Puritanism. The Puritan failed to annrehend the first nrinclnlea of relig. lous liberty.- That it waa his independence of conviction and his demand for freedom of worship which banished him from his nstive lend, but renders his failure in this respect the more ronsnicuous. He had no charity for those who read the troth through other eyes than his. The freedom which he demanded for himteif he would hot accord to those of different faith. To his view of troth the whole community must yield assent; to his standards of worthiD all must conform. And this nur- poae to secure uniformity of .worship did not content itself wittt seeking to correct error by the gentler arts of persuasion; error must be rooted ont. at whatever cost. The arm of the State is invoked, to secure uniformity. Upon the shores of the New World are re-enacted scenes of which these exiles should long since h grown weary. The Puritan rivals in cru elty the persecutors from whom he has fled. W e see Holmes, and Clark, and Crandall dragged before the Governor and sentenced to heavv punisnment. Wa hear tbe shrill err of their clerical accuser as he smites Itolinea before the judgment seat, "The curse of God go with thee." we see tne inree irau yuaiier women scourged through th settlement, nntil re prieved at last at the point of death. We see Ann Hutchinson, ner reason wil nigh gone, driven through the deep snows to perish at the hnuds of sa-acee. No ele rent of horror is wanting to the scene. 1'inea, imprisonment, whipping, mutila tions, banishment, death, await those who under stress of present convictions seek to be faithful to the lemou ot fidelity to rnwicneo lenrncd from their Puritan fathers end associate in the land from which they have coi.ie. Fuoli int.iiraiire wis IihIcms eno'igh. though it wns based .3 na'-t upon otreiu'th of conviction. To-iiav the pemlulum h,u swim? to the n.hrr extreme. We arc in a r'.iy when TtmehieveeK mnnil malaria gleab sui.my int'' ti'.e lihpr of a ont endeavor. The ae in lininl: with mai-rialis. .. the south wmil aofllv. and mulliliuli's are enervated hi t." Nmifi would seem iv th; towers of a 1 (!i inieter nn 1 ef i, "ne ot the V .ru in h i -.. H t t ) t'li,)'. that TlnilcrU.ind me, the ri-arl of the chnrrh still bents rtrnng nnd true, but grrit mnsaca of nominal Christiana are in a lo-tm-entiri atmosphere, liaUesr, idle, unae complisning. ... ,i ToVraHon is t long advance from intol erance, but toleration caaily lieromes in difference, and both are utterly inade quate to express he i'leal relationship be tween bodies of Christ'" followjrs. Toler ate! Endure? Be indifferent! Shame on thoao who would thus crucify the Christ nfresM "Like a mighty army mores the ehnrch of God." shoulder to shoulder, henrt beat answering to heart beat, ateps swinging in time to the martial music of tha church militant snd the church trium phant, "Like a michty army moves tha church of God." Ht regimental sacrifice of conviction, but above tha flag of th regiment, tne flag of the army above tna standard of the denomination, the wliiU banner of th Captain bf the host, th Commander of the armies of the faithful, the King, omnipotent and eternal! Not indiffer ence, hut fel'owthin. is the rsllring cry. eid we mav believe that it finds a sympa thetic chord in every heart of this' great com pany. ... - A eoori beeinnine has been made. Fed erMn ia fellow-shin pnt into practice. 'W-wtixT of churches snd of Christian -nr'-r has erased to he a dream. It is 'r fi-irn rneommon to-day. In single com Amities, in eonnties. in Rtates. Let me 'ndicate a very few of the lines which have Ven r-igieared aid actually followed in this federated work. A religious census of ' eir"n community, resulting in a religions directory, showing church snd Sunday srpool member-snip and attendance; Chrls tisn citisenahip effort, including those against the legalised saloon, and against the desecration and annihilation of the day of rest, a bulwark of our national lii row thrown Hnwn and tramoled in the i?nsfr our brethren under other national flairs are not free from the bitterness o! this assault; a common rallying for the preservation or the securing of an ideal oublio school system ; where it can he don a wise direction of denominational enter prises in tho way of the founding of new ehnrchea, thus tending to economy of ef fort and wis stewardship of resource, hut chieflv. chiefly, en-oneration I" th vital, invaleeH'e work of the church universal in evsnge'i-ntion. this above everything else the joinin" hands of those who believe Hiatithe world is lost without .Teens Christ "rn...hnrnior'!mis and loving fellowship of - 't.jn fo- the wor.d t salvation. In all of these endeavors we may work together, onr hearts nesting as one in our common losW irJvir tosvtreommon I)rd. - Let me suggest two tTrmnlvU.which may strengthen us in one feUowahio. First The enemu j of Chriat and Li fo"owcrs are neither dead nor sleeping. Luther saM. as a renresentstion of the nrcn in res any: "vuo would paint a ,1 . -. J ' . ; i . L - freh let him naint a ymins woman in a wildrrnem, or in some desert place, and rounf about her let hi ji fin-re lions, whoai eves, are glaring upon -her and whose months are orten to devour her substance s"d her beauty." That l the natural con dition of the church. When the. church in that see. in this age. in an age, is trulv" alive, and ts fulttlline ner deatioy, she win And about her, as ef old. men more eruel than ravenous beasts. The gospel means hattV. It ia rightly on the offensive, not he defensive. The gosnel divides, when It 9 manifested in a disciple whose em borlving of the gospel hi strong enough to divide anything The bloci; will bear al noit nnmarVed tho edit of an axe han d'ed by the fech'e fin "rsof an Infant, but, the axe goes cleaving thronch the wood when the edge comes down -under th sweeping nnwer of strong man's arm. True, multitudes of nomi ial Christiana live nn most amiable terms with the r-orlrl. and know next to nothing of any tribulation or opposition occasioned by their profession o! Christ!, nity. But that I not because there is anv real alteration in the eonseniienoes of close union with Jeans. Ik is beceuse their unioi is so very alight and superficial. The world loves Its own. and what can it find to hate in the shoals of neoo'e whose religion is confined to their tongues mnstlv and has nothing to do with the'r lives! It -is not ceased to h a hard thing to be real and thorough Ch-istian. ' To be sure, exposition finds different foes to-day than in soma other days. Von Vnow tn what lengths iv has go-ie. Tha Inouisition. the meowere of St. Bartholo mew, the reign of Philip II. of Brain, the T)nke of Alv with his satanie deeds in the Nether'anus. the fires of tmithfield. these, are not so far in the nast that mists of oblivion have shrouded them. But let ns understand, mv fellow Christians, that the world and tbe flesh and the devil are against Cnristian building and Christian living still, just as they always were. I do not believe in people looking for tronbb-, inarching for some one who will consent to persecute them, but I have an me that the sting of emithheld tires and the wrenching ef Tornuemada'a rack, if those experiences could be retieated, might correct some vagaries of modern theology. The thundering summons of the enemy at th door might-be wholesome anti dote for some conditions in our churches of to-dav, "There is something in the call to battle,, battle for a cause which ia righteous 'and supremely worthy, which stirs the deepest and the best in ns. Is it true that there ia to-day little of the heroic In religion to appeal to men? Alas for us if that be so. Th statement comes from some of our theological seminaries that there is soma dearth of candidates for the ministry. Why? Why it it that the ministry doe not appeal to every stalwart, able, earnest unselfish Christian man in bis college days , It does to some. A part of the product o( our seminaries to-day was rarer sur passed. But why does not the claim oi this great vocation press upon every such an one until it is soberly settled one wsy or the -other? It ia not because young men are afraid. There was no difficulty in filling up the ranks of the Rough Rider regiment, though every man knew that he waa taking hit life in his hands when he volunteered. There was no lack of volun teers for service when th Merrimae was to be sunk at tbe mouth of Santiago har bor, though it meant a voyage into the jaws of death. Eight men were needed; yon know the response to the call for vol unteers. ' I will not believe th-t there is among our young men a lack of courage, lack of willingness to suffer, Can it be that young men nave made up their minds that with the present spirit in the rhuroh there is little demand for the heroic in her minis try? They say that a minister makes his church. He does leave his stamp upon the church, but it is no less true that the church makes the ministers. And the minister will net go far beyond what the church requires, or at lcai he will not go far beyond the point to which the church will follow him. If the church of the liv ing God it to any considerable degree hon eycombed with indilference, -wrmeatcd with the dry rot of letharev, if the heroio element in the church is dying, then fie Shurch may hold itself responsible for any uninution in numb, and for any letiea ing of stalwart effl "Vney in its leadership. No man of strength and self respect is going to submit to being regarded merely as a convenient adjunct to weddings and funerals, as a kind of family pet to be coddled and fed with sweetmeats. - If the church wanta much that ia heroic in her leaders, she must have much that is heroic In herself. There must bit a recognition of the fact that the foes of Christ and of His followers are neither dead nor sleep ing; that eternal vigilance, eternal self sacrifice, everlasting and strenuotia alrug gle, are the price of progress and of vic tory now as always. Seeond-The insistent enll for service has not censed. -Bean Frederick W. Kar rar, who hss brft recently passed from among us, has said: "Is not this fatally true, that the lives of very manv arc friv olous, nseh-KS, egotistical; that the lives of verv many nrvi wasted and self-ruined by their owri vih-st passions; that Ihe lives of some are like a mere poi-em nnd peiti- I- ce to all around liietii( that it is tne hrrs of tew only which me non e a-a gen erous, brave and i!nne!h?,h. nierc.i.il and h,r nine nnit true? And the main etir-e of must, lives is tljt ll-cv think ohlv of self and live only fur It." I h ine tn . I e: the vor!s contain nn es.i p : but, be'icve that e.i' h of us o-'-n cire'e lirs wIimIi. t-e 1im1!,-o f-oin pu'i-'tc v.. -v p- n-e "l.i-riv,, -'l II" "" Uno of the rife of this world it is good to think of men nnd women who have not pleased themselves, but have gone about doing rood, great souls who in their stubborn devotion to the truth, in dctestntion o( falsehood and lies, jhave feeed a lying world and the hatred of the base and the storm of weak and cowardly criticism, not holding their lives dear unto themselves. I hear some one say. "We have no such call they." but we have. The only call thev bad we. have the ea'l of the need. We might, ths humblest of ut, be useful. Perhans verv few evea will be wet for ns, .and they not for long, while others, with leas of opportunity than ourselves, hays gone down to the grave amid the benedic tions of the poor. Ah, the insistent call for service has not ceased. Can we not strive to vise, to rise unitedly, to rise in ever strengthening feUowahio, into such a life as is described bv th words spoken of our blessed Lord, "He went about doing good." ' ' The great Methodlit leader, John Wes ley, the bicentennary of whose birth ha just been celebrated thmnghnot the Chris tian world, nohlv said: "I desire a league,, tflensive and defensive, with every soldier of Christ." So say we. Let it be repeated In ever increasing volume until the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. "We desire a league, offensive i"d defensive, with every soldier of Christ." Two Kinds of Sympathy. Sympathy is word set over from th Greek, and means "suffering with." Hence one who symnathiie with smother suffers with Him. In our careless use of the word we do not put to much meaning into it. At generally employed, it mean that one hat a gentle touch of nity for an other who it in trouble. In order to have it- signify anything worth while w should put its full meaning into it when we use it. There are two kinds of tymnathy, eavs Wellarr.'ing. There is a so-called sympathy that it timplv depressing. If one it in trouble it makes hit trouble stem greater and harder to hear.1 it weeps with one, but not in a comforting wav. On the con trary, it makes one feel that he indeed has occasion to weep, and tjjet there is no real solace for him. If one is cast down be cause of-Via health, it makes him almost give np aiV-hope of recover. In his friends Job hd sajipathiiert, but he wat justified in tnyinp rWhem: "Miserable comforters are ye all." (V '' The other is a sympathy typuui heart, hope, manhood into one, V CT' down it leaves him cheered.1, lftei-warda the obstacles d not lock so wssViidable or the clouds jo' black. In oar despondent pr)rui we wTTrrrg weTNsuvni opr. our troubles; helpful them hi their not only weeps with those who are tor- rowful, but speaks a comforting word, Jt does not merely pity the unfortunate, it . pur ouc a nana to me mm np. ji one really sympathises suffers with another, he will do something beside condole, if something betides condolence is needed. - Sympathize with others, as yon wonld like to have others sympathit with you. ., Subjects of Thought, Behavior hi a mirror in which every one displays hit own image. Originality blase a new track while ec centricity runt on one wheel in an old rut. It is better to suffer wrong than do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. v.---,---; ; Rome men stand on principle and some othens probably Would if they had it to itsnd on. ,r.-';v When you ttep no on one promise you will always find a higher and a better one before you. ... , ". ., . . , ,.. - A laugh to he joyous must flow from a joyous heart; for without kindness there esn be no true joy. -.. : The art of saying appropriate words in kindlv way is one that never goes out of fashion, never ecasea to nlense, and i within th reach of the humblest. - The domestic man who loves no musio so well as hit kitchen clock and the airs which the lnrt ting to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of. -m:..- God la in our souls, as our anula are in our bodies. He never ceases to speak tn ns, but the voire of the world without and, the tumult of nnr passion within bewilder us1, and prevent us from listening to Him; - M heart is fixed firm snd stable in the belief that, ultimately the sunshine and summer, the flowers and the assre strv, shall become, at it were. interwoen into man's existence. He shall take from all their beauty and enjoy their glory. . Da To Travel on Good Koartsf -Good roads are a matter of religious as well as of national life. We must learn that the amount we can carry depends not ao much on the weight of our burdens as on the road over which we try to carry them. A man can haul three tons over a good macadam easier than he can draw a hundred weight through a mudhok- So a man can cam great burdens who is up- neio on tot roci ot uoa s proviuence, Who would stumble and fall at he tried to flounder on through the mint of tlie world'e ditcourakement and discontent. Aa Thomas a Kempia said. "He rideth eas ily enough whom the grace of God ear rieth." John Kut was a poor boy, deaf and dumb, snu brought up in a workhouse a lot hard enough to cast down manv lives, but he trusted in (tod, ha though and wrote of God's kingdom, and he wrought great things before he died. It does not mstter so greatly what ws have to bear, or what genius or gift or power we we have to bear it with, as it does over what puds of doubt - 1 fear and fretful neas, or of faith and courage and singing, we try to bear our burden. Sunday-School Times. - ;. - - .. , Tfhsro Tjots Abounds. i Dr. James Q. K. McClure gives the fol lowing beautiful description of the heart where love abounds: What strength and joy and nobleness would characterise men if in every soul that now has some love, that love should "abound!" When warmth "abounds" in a heart no room it left for coldness. Our world Would become un speakably sweet and tiJpful if in all Christian hearts loving kin. uesa abounded "yet more and more." The most attract ive lives would becoi-e even more at tractive, '..p.- . .: ABOUT MAGNETS. Magnet ire frequently made " tn tba form of a horseshoe or letter U, but a horseshoe magnet Is really noth. Ing more than a bar magnet bent As both poles will attract iron, it is ap parently twice as strong aa when In the bar form. A piece ot Iron laid across tbe poles is attracted by both, of thorn.' In this case the poles act on opposite ends of the iron and do not destroy each other effects, for eacln pole magnetizes the portion of th iron opposite it The iron, therefore, becomes strong magnet with It, north pole touching the south of th horseshoe magnet and it south pole touching the north pole. This Is pop. ulaxy called a "keeper," because it "keeps," or preserves, the strength of tha magnet, which becomes much weaker when the keeper is loft off. Iron, Bteol (which is a modified iron), the metals nickel and cobalt, and some substances which contain a large portion of Iron, are the only bodies than can be strongly magne tized, though many others can ba maenetlzod very foeWy and tempor arily. 'What magnet Ism really Is, no one known. It ac-ema to be a natural property of the pm'1''''9 ot Iron, and what, we cull nruniol i on la only, as I have i-.ii id, tho net of turnli-n (Jig mne.netlair Jen no that they act to p.-Uier. ', in ftvuiii'iitly brou 1, t ft'--ft l y i i-ymnl our control, ! ' hon, if rare. i 1 ! v. , ali trae proportion!. - This kinrVriivf'' wor8t of ". capable of per- THE TURKISH EESERYES THE KIND OF SOLDIERY THE PORTE HAS JUST CALLED OUT. "Fearless and Frightful" Infantrymen, a Cheerful Fighter Is th Redif In describably Content, Perfectly Obe . dlenl 8ultn's Militia Comparable to th Beat Soldiers in the World. Paul Lindau, the well known Ger man traveler and author, during one of his trips in Turkey, studied a band of redlfs or militia, just called out for military service. Here follow the re sult of his observations, given in his book, "Zwel Reisen in der Turkcl." At the station there was a hustle and bustle, but It was like life in a big ant hill, o quiet and orderly wa every thing, in spit of sny seeming confu sion. Three battalion of reserrislii, numbering 800 men each, bad just landed from three long train. After a long trip, during which the men had been cramped,, they " were given a chance to stretch their limbs, Hero were men who had been taken from their work only the day before for mil itary duty the militia of the country. , It waa not a pleasant - Bight ; The men looked fearleae and frightful Most ot them, if not in rags, were at leaat badly dressed. Feet and legs, up to the knee were enveloped in a light green felt bound around with string. Baggy cotton breeches, bright-colored vests, over which were so-called lace trimmed Greek jackets; a girdle wound around the body several times and a fes completed the dress. '.VI They were strong and well set up. One could not fall to be Impressed by their eveu development They moved with a quiet, elastic motion which re minded one of a wild beast ready to spring. Their dark eyes glittered un pleasantly. Their small, white teeth shone. - Finer "cannon Jeed' I bajjeJ never eenyrT could quite easftbe Iieve wm I had often heard from x- penVthat the Turkish redlf, with the forming wonderful feat of marching; and, properly officered, never turn back. , . ' ' They scarcely looked at usaIthough It is certain that they had rarely seen any one dressed in European fashion. As we went from one group to another they gave way, neither angrily nor ill naturedly, When we asked question we received curt, but not surly re plies: . ; , ..... "Where are you fromr"- '' "Karahlssar." - "How old are youf . "I don't know." C "Where are you going?" ! , "I haven't been told." . "Are you tired?" Tre slept" -.- - - -" "Hungry?" " . .' , "No." - v- "Thlrstyf "We had wratier;" 4 ."-; That waa about the sum and sub stance of what we could learn. Just then they found something better to do than answer our questions. Without crowding or showing the slightest Im patience, qulotly and earnestly, they went to ft table upon which was heaped a pile of bread. Each on bought him self a piece weighing nearly five pounds, for which he paid piastre; then, without a word, moved away to make room for another. In half ami hour every man had been served. . I learned that one piastre a day wa all the redlf received, and that the dry bread, washed down with water was all that h got to eat and drink In 24 hour."-'--.; r;;-,;- ;; -j-'k : The under officers, who were distin guished by, being in uniform, stood about doing nothing, and apparently took not the slightest notice ot their men. No loud order wa to be heard. Not all the redlf could afford tobac co, although I was told that the better-to-do shared with their poorer com rades, and that in the care, as long a any man had any tobacco, all smoked. f we went orer and bought tOO little package of th weed. When we ot tered one to' redif he took it and sa luted; but no one moved hi band to ask for one. When we had distributed, all tbe tobacco there remained 600 men who had received none, but not look ot request did .we see. All the came, most of them looked poverty stricken, and tobacco, wa a godsend to them. Most of the Turks r have seen, and among them were powerful men, devils and worthy men. Of course, in Tur key, a In other countries, there are criminals of all, sorts robbers, mur derers, firebugs but no cur. ." , At the end-of an hour I heard short orders repeated In several part ot tha station. As it th officer had had strings tied to the men th latter ar ranged themselves In squads tour deep. Aa soon as the officer ot the squad had glanced over the line so a to see that no on wa missing he gay the man on the right a sign with his hand. Th on to-whom tha signal wa given resounded with a clear, loud "One! His neighbor followed with '"Two!" and so on. In a few minutes the count ing of th entire battalion of 800 waa completed. Then the officer made an other hand signal, and aa quickly and quietly as they had gotten together the redlf separated. It was evident that they were all trained mldlers. Again and' again wa it impressed upon me that everything went on quietly, as if by clockwork." I beard no ahouting, no laughing, no singing; only her and ther a word very quietly spoken. 2, ever have I seen elsewhere at one place 800 men of from 25 to 35 (except regular soldiers) who when "Atten tion!" was called stand so still aa the First Redlf battalion. The other two battalions were at a hort distance from the stntlou, but, when I went over to see them I found that everything was moving Just as quickly and aulutly as at the station Itself. I suited a German railroad olSolal how the redlfs passed tbe night In the crowded cars. "Oh, they've not been pampered and spoiled," he replied. "They come an' stretch out on the floor, and from sun Bet to Bimrlso nothing is heard from thm. They're a curiously quiet lot, nnd demand practically no'hlng. Tlt-y don't r-jolio; they don't crimp' Mn In whhli ti" -y are very 1 : rf.-i -; t f i tvr own ! :'- -. TV..f.1" 1,- : fXr - ' I'-iV aSftk ! t.-,f well. I have seen hero that they ar at least wonderfully obedient to their officers. What la more, the offic.j hav to give scarcely ""' wiy"" orders". Every redlf poems to know what 1 expected of him. What is more, he does it and that without waiting tor any order." . , That I bad already noticed. . But a I thought of the hard face and th dark glistening eyes, it came over ma that these y well disciplined ', troop could, by an outbreak of religious fa- -natlclsm, be transformed into fearful wild, beast If a captured city were tuned over to them. But tbe Turkish soldier, it properly led, will bear com-. parison with the best soldier of the world.. H fights cheerfully, i Is a brave aa a lion, has no-fear of death, Is strong and quick of foot, contented and obedient ,i v, . I-.i J . ' HEALTH AND SONS. Breathing Lessons as a Cur for Many Complaints, ".. The London concert Treason, which has come to ft close, has called atten tion to discovery the doctor's hava made that vocallfim Is a healthy profes sion, m-y'y.!-;!;iiC! rv'i.H::iT. A quiet baby who nevr gives- way Uu tantrums and tears is not a healthy, but ft weakly child. - When bis voice is raised in a piercing crescendo ot screams bis lungs are .expanded, his blood is circulating well, and he Is gaining strength and beauty momenta rily. -Translate tha salutary shriek ot infancy ln(p the .educated ainglng ot maturity and the net result is the same namely, a large Increase of health and comeliness. h ;; Vv! I Anaemic boys and girls are now be ing ordered by doctors to take singing lessons, because such person do not know how to breathe properly and the singing maflg teaches them. - tfery few people utilize the whole of v meir lung power wnen tney Dreams, but get into a lazy way of merely gasp- ' , Ing or breathing superficially. ', Candidates for the army Whose chest measurement lacks the. requisite num ber of inches take singing lesson to Increase their girth, or, if their voice lack the musical element, they attend breathing classes and learn where their respiration should come from that b to say, how they should retain It ad how emit It Though mankind mu3t breathe in order to live, few human beings know how to breathe properly. --After the anaemic1 girl with the bowed shoulders and the contracted , chest has taken a dozen leeons in- sing ing her back begin to flatten and her -chest to develop. Hor complexion . freshens, and she notices with pleas ure a rose-leaf stain reddening her cheeks. j-V , ; . . :;. The professional songstress retains the freshness ot youth into old age, ' not entirely a a result ot tbe care ehe take ot her health and the excellent- - food she eats for the sake of her Yolce but mainly because she breathes per fectly and exercises her vocal organs regularly. It is acting on this princl pie, says the London Mall, that middle aged women inclined to embonpoint,, now take breathing lessons at a fash lonable school In South Kensington; , whes waist are coaxed back tP fig- -area long devoid ot them, and new vigor is given to the ageing physique, ' Watching th Watcfierj.st Coney. -"It's. the 'little tnlng d3iwy Isl and that make it worth all the trouble of going," remarked the Harlem ol server. ."Just to watch tbe: uncon scious little comedies make, up all the fun. Now, yesterday, I watched two old maids and an elderly matron riding the hurdy gurdy.t- TJp and down they rolled, and you could have heard their scream for half ft mile, i They were in an ecstasy of fear and delight. Ev erybody within sight was ' laughing with and at them except one- Thl wa the little red headed boy who sits on the back scat That little Imp wa within a foot ot the screeching wom en, but, be was as deaf to their crlo as were the seat rails they grasped. The red head rolled up and down all the length of the track, bent over he porting page of a newspaper. . . "Then It's fun to watch the people follow the shade with their little camp stools under the walks, that lead from tne bath house to the beach. I saw an old man-yetonliryholterlng his head and newspaper in tV"srm4ecast by a sign some four foot square. "Of course, It's (be best fan to watch the children simple and affected and the girls.; : There Is. rare sport in watching the watchers. ' Scorn aiid delight and disgust the last usually affected honest good fellowship, , ad mlrntlou, envy, jealousy, man-of-the-world superiority, clerk-gentllity all the phases ot the million's temper. "Coney 1 th place where th mil lion go to get their thrills, and to watch the million getting their titrllls Is great sport That's why I go." New Yorft, Press. Effect of Emotion. Tho actor' mouth is cssontlally fa cial, and not infrequently It exhibits a tendency to turn to one side or the other. This is due, In part to its being; constantly used to express emotion and also to the peculiar but no lotss well-recognized fact that - when the mouth in somewhat crooked & greater effect can be produced than when It Is opened quite straight. Example af tor example could be cited, but for ob vious reasons names may not be men tioned. At one time It was considered the mark of thi low comedian, for nearly every one of (Jliem had a mouth twisted either to the rlsht or lert; (i the result of "mugging" Some of the most serious actors even tho. with a reputation for eeauly could, however, be pointed to as possi 'j r tho same characterise, hl( ti 1 -i i ; so been observed with not a few o ; ;i singers of the first rank. London T.-t-lor. 'i"' ' An Aff.iblo Youth. "How did you have tho e propose to that, your? w "Why," end Will Vm, "every ore cotpietl.e nnd k'- d I
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