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"A NATION ONCE AGAIN!" WhatAChnsban is Saved For -To Serve By Rer. H. W. Pope, Super intendent of Men, Moody . Bible Institute, Chicago , TEXT I am debtor. Roman 1:14. it -It, i- wnwinm,:,;,.. ' ' Li ll lf' '" K EVERAL recent or If T rf ' ."f .1 r.,.V,,, CVN prospective event. I jl I SZ.JZr . eombgo lP PCiW I among these -stlmu- jj I 'I'fSI'lH III II wJk rCriP R lii&aMHM lante of popular Inter. I VJjj? 'H If I tZ 1 SSJ ;: fjs. 1L est are the nreuara- I n-4. Jii yflMJ I M." , NtH. I - tif made to honor Commo- PrnV-,-. i II" K L ,ST?C. p . w 7 re V' jvy ffjF i . pin ' t vC- ! '-Vnlv7 4 !7J: lpl!'- v tlons being dore Perry, the hero of that most elg nlflsant historical event, the Battle of Lake Erie, It was Perry, more than any other one man, who has giv en the Great Lakes a place in the his torical annals of the republic fully In keeping with the prestige these In land seas enjoy In the commercial chronicle of the nation. The one hundredth anniversary of Perry's victory is approaching and preparations are under way for the erection of a magnificent Perry me morial, overlooking Put in-Bay, where Perry's ships were harbored before and after the victory over the British on Lake Erie. The memorial which will take the form of a towering shaft and a museum building will stand on the small isthmus connecting the two sections of one of the principal isl ands at Put-In-Bay. This chosen site Is of additional Interest from the fact that it was here, after the naval vic tory, that American troops under Gen- eral William Henry Harrison were or ganized and drilled preparatory to the battle of the Thames and the capture of Detroit. Furthermore the memorial will be unique In that the towering shaft will be made to Berve as a light house of the first order. Tin Museum of Historic Relics will be a hall of fine proportions, with upward of 6,000 square feet of floor space and finally there will be a memori.,1 for the American and British officers and sailors buried on the island, f Another current topic that has fo- cused popular attention upon the great waterway on our northern bor der is thei improvements deslenert t increase the capacity of the locks at Sault Ste. Marie. The government shin canal In St. Mary's river at the Sault or the "Soo" it is popularly termed, is to the Great Lake's what the Panama canal will be to oceanic traffic and the Sault canal already enjoys the distinction of passing more tonnage during the eight months season of navigation than the famous Suez canal does during the full twelve months. What ec ords this link between Lake Huron and Lake Su- . perior will boast with the current expansion of facilities It is difficult to forecast v And. finally, much comment has been preclpl .tated by the rumors in the newspapers that the recent activity of the United States government against certain trusts and particularly the steel trust served to nip In the bud a Very ambitious plan for amalgamating under one ownership prac tically all of the great modern freight-carrying vessels on the Great Lakes. Even as it Is the cargo carriers of the inland seas are owned or controlled by a relatively small group of interests compared to the diverse Interests that have a hand in our oceanic commerce. But perhaps that is due to the circumstance that the commerce of the Great Lakes is so largely restricted to such commodities as iron ore, coal, grain and lumber and the men who make use of the raw material produced in the lake district find it profitable to own ships to an extent not paralleled in any other field of water-borne commerce. The commercial interest of the Great Lakes have for years enjoyed one point of superiority over all the other burden-bearers on the globe. Freight is carried more cheaply on the Great Lakes than anywhere else In the world. It is on ly fair to explain at the outset, however, that this Is due not solely to the monster ships employed, the largest ever floated on fresh water, and to . the economical manner in which these craft are operated. A secondary factor of great Importance ; la found In the marvelous dock machinery and equipment which has been perfected In the lake region for mechanically loading and unloading cargo, transferring the coal or ore from railroad cars to the hold of a ship or vice versa. To such lengths has this been carried that In the case of some commodities the transfer of cargo is wholly automatic and It Is claimed that the iron ore is , not touched by human hands from the time It Is mined In Wisconsin or Minnesota until it is fed to the blast furnaces at Pittsburg or South Chicago, or Gary, Ind., or some other center of the steel manufacturing industry. The ships of the Great Lakes, alike to their courterparta on salt water, have been gradually growing in size as years have gone .by. However the depth of certain channels connecting the lakes and other considerations will preclude the possi bility of the lengthening process going on indefi nitely as it appears likely to do in the case of ; ocean-going craft. The 1,000-foot steamer which Is already "in sight" in the evolution of trans-Atlantic navigation will probably never have a par allel on fresh water and. Indeed, it is more than likely that present-day lake cargo ships come pretty near representing maximum, although there is no doubt that our Great Lake passenger ships will go on increasing in size and luxury as more and more people come to realize that a trip , "up the lakes" or "down the lakes" has a variety and fascination not equalled by a voyage across the Atlantic. . ' ; Tbe freighters of the Great Lakes are irltbout a counterpart on the other water of the globe and they are a source of continual wonderment to foreigners traveling in this country, and, In dede, to most of our own citizens who reside in sections of the country away from the inland seas. The most common type of lake carrier, the approved pattern for the ore and coal trade ' which is the mainstay of lake commerce, is a long vessel with rounded ends. No deck la laid on the main-deck beams in the cargo-holds and the bridge, mast and deck-houses are bunched at the extreme forward end of the vessel whereaa tbe engines and propelling machinery are at the , extreme opposite end, leaving practically the en tire length of the hold free for cargo storage. This odd arrangement conduces to the carrying of the greatest possible amount of freight and, more Impor tant yet. It renders possible the em ployment of the marvelously economi cal loading and unloading machinery, "car dumpers" which dump coal Into the hold at tbe rate of a car a minute and "automatic unloaders" which low er "clam shell" grab buckets Into a hold, scoop up ten tons of Iron ore at a bite, lift It aloK. carry it to tbe dock and deposit It either on stock piles or in waiting railroad cars. To facilitate the operation of these gi gantic Inanimate dock laborers it is necessary of course to have numerous openings In the deck of tbe ship. As a matter of fact the latest approved pattern of lake freighter presents a long line of batches set as close to each other as possible, and each hatch extending almost tbe full width of the ship. This renders it easy for the mechanical unloaders to reach, with their steel fingers, to every nook and .corner of the cargo space and all that is necessary to complete the Job of unloading, aft er the automatic unloaders have concluded oper ations, is to turn loose a small squad of men with shovels who will clean up the scant amount of ore or coal missed by the automatics. Ice limits the season of navigation on tbe lakes to eight or nine months and this makes lively work necessary when there Is much freight to be moved back and forth between Buffalo and Chi cago or Duluth, or between Intermediate ports. In an average season an average cargo steamer will make at least twenty round trips on the ma rine highway that encompasses nearly one-third of all the fresh water on the globe. The season's Journeylngs of tbe ordinary freighter would in the aggregate more than equal a voyage around the world. The lake ships are intensely modern in every respect They are constructed entirely of steel; lighted by electricity; steered and heated by steam; and have almost all the "fixings" to be found on any of the oceanic cargo ships in any quarter of the globe. The first lake cargo car riers had a capacity of only a few hundred tons, but. so rapid was the development of this class or shipping that within a 'core and a half of years the pioneers of lake navigation who had continued in service were rubbing their eyes to realize the magnitude of vessels around Blx hun dred feet in length and with, a carrying capacity of nine thousand to ten thousand tons. And, most surprising of all to many people, is tbe circum stance that these ships when fully loaded do not in most Instances draw more than eighteen to twenty feet of water., . WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. "Where," asked the female suffrage orator, "would man be today were it not for woman?" She paused a moment and looked round the hall. "I repeat she said, "where would man be totay If not for woman T" "He'd be in tbe Garden of Eden eating straw berries," answered a voice from the gallery. ' Making a Home of Your Abode Order Is All Right, of Course, but Other Things 8hould Have ,; First Consideration. v Are yon a good homekeeper as well a good housekeeper? If you think more of keeping your house in apple pie order than of allowing the 'mem bers of your family to enjoy real home comfort you are not , Tour family can secure a house keeper at any time for a stipulated sum, but the woman capable of creat ing a "homey" atmosphere la price less. r .-..I Order ia an excellert thing and no fliousehold should be without it but the woman who makes a fetish of It drives happiness and comfort from tie earth. Ever witness the sigh of relief with which hen-pecked family see the wire and mother take a vacation t They're fond of her, of course, but there isn't any doubt about a certain sense of freedom and relief which her absence affords. . When John put her on the train he doesn't return home to mourn and pine for her return; In stead, he take an almost fiendish de light in smoking In every room in the house without the fear of being or dered to the porch or the room allot ted him for the purpose: Tommy ex ultantly punches her ornamental pil lows to a comfortable angle for his head. , Nellie isn't obliged to endure the mortification of Informing her new bean that mother insist rpoa the young men going home at an unrea sonable i hour. ' Even the ' younger children break loose and have a candy pull In the Immaculate kitchen, while everyone delights : in ' moving . the stately row of porch chairs to a look of disorderly comfort. In fact they all uncensclously do their best to cre ate the longed-for "homey" atmos phere, with a secret dread that . the wife and mother will return all too soon... ' ' v '.- ''. . ' s- Do not mak the mistake of sacrific ing the happiness and comfort of your family to your insane worship of or der. Tbe members of your family do not appreciate it They'll a great deal rather you were a little cam less and less exacting. Besides, you would then have time to get better acquaint ed with them and their Individual in terests, and to keep In touch with cur rent events instead of being a back number. Exchange. : "Comparisons Are Odious." ; When little Amy was three years old she was taken to visit her maternal grandmother, . During ber stay the en tire household made much of her, and on her departure she was hugged and kla) ed and wept over by each member of the affectionate family in turn. The scene made a deep impression oa her young mind. '.: A visit to her father's home follow ed. At the conclusion of It her pa ternal grandmother and her Aunt Ma bel stood smilingly waving their adieus to the little one until the carriage was out of eight : Amy mother was beginning to won der what made her so unusually quiet when a solemn little voice rang out from her corner of the carriage: , "Not a tear shed!" Youth's Com panion. ; ; t , I - T:- t f-smi to c?e f i est fatal last moments of l'.fe. I Stand on Ui9 car p'.tifo! i f.i wave, anj !; ( ' c t ft t t co 1. "( "i, t "' f'"- t g;.t ! ' ' - 'V $ :? ' , V . , . . ' - . I -s, I ., hot car, too. I thought I'd never get here, the cars were blocked you know they're tearing up tfie streets t ,!a they always, are." (Pause.) 'Tow's f :e? That's nice. And r. w's r ' -'!"t? Tee, you wrote ire f, - t ! f; i. What a gc-od I ' ' v ' y I ! I i to f ( j t ' : ' i I I .' f- ? r r t ( : so you can look. Why, it isn't time yet is itt Oh, dear! And we havent really begun to talk. Well, stand oa the step and then you wont get left. Yes. I'll write. j ir'ad to have seen you. Going to be jr--ne H winter? C i, yea, I rem? ! r. you wrote me. V. t'l, r vod bye. t live!" February Ireland' a Hope of Home Rule Nearing Realization at Last NATURE, GRACE AND TRAINING FITTED ST. PATRICK TO J HIS TASK fSo Well Accomplished, Ireland Wat Known for Centuries as , the "Land of Saints" Ik T. PATRICK says of him self In his confession that he was born at "Bannaven Tabernlae," which la ex tremely hard to Identify. Some, however, claim that Klrk-Patrlck, near Glasgow, in Scot land, took Us name from St. Patrick. Tbe saint was born about 372; was a captive and a slave of the king of Dalaradla, in Ireland, from 388 to 395; went to Gaul and was there ordained priest; was consecrated bishop and sent to Ireland as missionary In 432, and died at Saul, near Strangford Lough, County Down, Ulster, where many years before he had founded his church, March 17, 465,' the day now sacred to his memory. Ireland was then occupied by a great number of petty tribes, most of whom were evangelized by Patrick. So well was the work accomplished that Ireland was known in subsequent cen turies as tbe "Island of saints and scholars." Tbe method employed waa that of dealing cautiously and gently with tbe old paganism of the people. Tbe chief tains were first won over and then through them their clans. Of St. Patrick himself much that has been related is fabulous, but his au tobiographical confession and his epis tle to Corotlcus, both of which are un questionably genuine, reveal a devout simple minded man, and a most dis creet and energetic missionary. In his epistle be states that he was of noble birth . and that his father, Calphurnlcus, was a Roman deculro. His Mother, Conchessa, or Concels, was the sister of St. Martin of Tours. The family of the saint Is affirmed by the earliest authorities to have belonged to Britain, but whether the term refers to Great Britain or Brit tany Or other parts of France Is not ascertained. - .- .,. Some of the quaint stories told in Ireland about St Patrick would make the traveler Imagine that the saint visited the Uland for tbe benefit, of witty guides, or to promote mirth in wet weather. It Is not remarkable that the subject of these stories for 18 centuries, at countless hearths, has been regarded and Is today honored as the greatest man and tbe greatest ben efactor that ever trod the Irish soil, and considering tbe versatility of the Irish character, It Is not strange that there remains respecting tbe saint a vast cycle of legends serious, pathet ic and profound. . ,. It could not be otherwise. Such a people could not have forgotten tbe he roic figure who led them forth In the exodus from the bondage., of v pagan ; darkness.. In many Instances doubt less has the tale become a tradition,! the foliage of an ever active popular j imagination, gathered around the cen tral stem of fact; but the fact re mained. r.,. .,..:.'-' ! A large tract of Irish history - is dark; but tbe time of St. Patrick and the three centuries which succeeded i It is clearly, as depicted by history, a time of Joy. (The chronicle Is a song of gratitude and of hope, as befits the story of a nation's - conversion ' to Christianity. The higher legends, : which, how ever,, do not profess to keep close to the original sources, except as re gards their spirit and the manners of tbe time, are found its some ancient lives of St Patrick, the most valu able of which is the "Tripartite Life." i ascribed by Colgen to the century aft er the saint's death. The work was lost for many centuries, but two cop ies of It were rediscovered, one of which has been recently translated by an eminent Irish scholar, Mr. Hen-Bessy.- - i Tbe miracles, however, recorded In tbe "Tripartite Life" are neither the most marvelous nor the moat interest ing portion of that life. , Whether regarded from the religious r phllosophlo point of view, few things can be more Instructive than the picture which it delineates of hu man nature In tbe period of critical transition and the dawning of the re ligion of peace upon a race barbaric, but Tar, Indeed, from savage. That warlike race rer'rded it doubt less as a notable cruelty V hen tbe now faUh dHcourared an imo-i.t i pejnilar as ls!!'. But Irj t r r irwsj tv were ia yn "ft -, . f 1 t rcce t ' t i n ; r t r ' r -, I family tlea, like the Germans record ed by Tacitus, and It could but have been drawn to Christianity. Its morals were pure, and It had not lost that simplicity to which so much of spiritual Insight belongs. Ad miration and wonder were among Its chief habits. It desired a rellglou no smaller than the human heart itself a religion capable of being not only appreciated and believed, but compre hended in its fullness and measured In all its parts. Warlike as it was, It was unbounded also In loyalty, generosity, and self-sac riflce; it was not therefore, untouched by the records of martyrs, the princi ples of self-sacrifice, or the doctrine of a great sacrifice. It loved tbe chil dren and the poor, and St. Patrick made the former tbe exempllers of the faith and the latter the eminent Inher itors of the kingdom. In the main. Institutions and trad!' tlons of Ireland were favorable to Christianity, and the people received the gospel gladly. It appealed to them and prompted ardent natures to find their rest in spiritual things. It had created among them an excellent ap preciation of the beautiful, the es thetic and tbe pure. The early Irish chroniclers show how strong that sentiment has ever been. , The Borhrmean Tribute, " for many years the source of relentless wars, had been Imposed in vengeance for an insult offered to a woman, and a discourtesy shown to a poet had overthrown an ancient dynasty; an unprovoked affront was regarded as a great moral oflense. And severe pun ishments were ordained not only, for detraction, but for a word, though ut tered in Jest which brought a blush on the cheek of the listener. It wss not that laws were wanting; a code minute in it Justice had pro portioned a penalty to every offlense. It was no that heart were ' hard there was at least as much pity for others a for self. It was that anger was implacable, and that where fear was unknown the war Held was the happy hunting ground. The rapid growth of learning, as well as piety, in the three centuries succeeding tbe conversion of Ireland proved that the country had not been until then without a preparation for the girt Perhaps nothing human had so large an influence In tbe conversion of tbe Irish as the personal character 1 "T ? If 8t Patrick. of our apostle. By nature, by grace, and by providential training ha had been especially fitted for his task. Everywhere we can trace the might and sweetness that belonged to hi character; the versatile mind, yet the simple heart; the varying tact yet the fixed resolve j the large desire tak ing counsel from all, yet the minute so licitude for each; the fiery seal, yet the gentle temper; the skill in using means, yet the reliance In God alone; tbe readiness In action, with a willing ness to wait; the habitual self-possession, yet the outburst of an In spiration which raised him above him selfthe abiding consciousness, of an authority an authority in him, but not of bfm, and yet tbe ever present humility. Above all, there burned In him that boundless love which seems the main constituent of apostolio char acter. It was love for God; but It was love for niaa' also, an I in passioned love, a parental compassion. Wrong and injustice to the poor he resented i an lis jury to God. A Junt man. Indeed, wss Et Patrick; with purity of nature i:ke the patri archs; a true r'' i 1 o Abraham; w 'a and fo- v -f of heart like s; a I . p?almlst like I; t f .r of wUdom like ; a a vepsel for pro- i I V Apostle rsul; a ul of knowlc' f i. "''t Tie tbe belov! i ' i U s.rer;,'b sod poer; a - ' ! ' ' In his letter to the church at Rome Paul aays: "I am d e b t o i both to the Greeks and Barbarians, both to th wise and to the un wise.". When and where , did Paul discover that be was la flebt to the very verge ol bankruptcy T Not In the theological school at Jeruwv Iem. Mora Rely It was on the way to Damascus. When God drew aaids the veil which hides tbe earthly from the heavenly, and gave him a glimpse . of the risen and glorified Jesus, hs learned more theology in one moment than In all tbe years he had spent al the feet of Gamaliel. That little reve lation of Jesus wrought a revolution In Saul. That Is what revelations are for. As soon as he became acquaint ed with Jesus he felt that every one else ought to know him. That price less knowledge was a sacred trust, and he was a debtor to every one who knew him not. - Something of the same kind occurs at every true conversion. We realize that our relation to this world ha , changed almost as much as our rela tion to God. This Is a lost world, and while we are still in It we are no longer of it We belong to the life saving service, and It Is our business to help seek and save the lost. And so as we go through life we no loneor ask, "How much can we get out of this world V but rather, "How much can we put into It?" And with Jesus Christ to draw upon, every one of us ha more to give to tbe world than the world wide world ha to give to as. "I'm a child of the king. I'm a child of the king." . The obligation to serve our day and generation Is a threefold one. It arises from the commands of the Lord Jesus. No one can read the New Testament without noticing that he expect ev ery one of his followers to became a soul-winner. He taught ' the world thirty year by example and three years by precept Then, at the close of his earthly career he uttered one command, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every crea-' ture." That command remain In force to thl day. : From the nature of the Gospel It self, It la "good news," and hence it must be carried to tbe Individual by. an individual. We hear much about reaching the masses, and regenerat ing society, but we must not forget that society Is composed of units. Sin Is an Individual matter, and so i sal vation. The world will not be Judged by nations or by townships, but "Ev ery one of us shall give account of. himself to God." Jesus taught the v crowds, but when he forgave men' . sins, he did it one by one. One sinner thinks that he Is not very bad, another is afraid that be , cannot 'hold out while, others save doctrinal difficulties of various kinds. And what I worse still, most of them are not quite ready to do tbeir duty when they see it without more or less persuasion. ,''.. ;;' ' i - .v.y.-' The changed rellglou condition require It. Formerly. It wa custom ary for people ; to ' attend church. Indeed, one waa hardly counted re spectable unless he did.. That day. has gone by. The world no longer come to tbe church for the Gospel. ' The majority of the people today do not attend church. One reaaon for this Is the strenuous life which many " lead. They work so hard through the week that they consume seven days' strength in six day" time. , When Sunday comes they are so ex hausted that they think they cannot attend church. , In' many . churches also the Gospel is no longer preached, rhean substitute for it The ministers preach over our head," Is a common complaint among poor people. . ' Occasionally," . though . not usually. I think, a church Is so cold and formal that a stranger Is not ;. likely to enter a second time. ,' Could Jesus Enter the Average " Churchf .. ' I. 1 I J .!. a MnaM n . Ifc IB luav vuu utu .wuvv h plied for admission to i a wealthy church. The committee', soon saw ... that be would add nothing to their financial strength or social standing. , and recommended that be wait a ... while. To their surprise he soon ep- peared again. At a loss what to say, one of them suggested that he talk, with the Lord about the matter. Th man meekly consented and went away. In a few weeks h appeared before the committee again. , They were now at' their wits' end, but, de termined to contest every step of the . way, they Inquired, "Brother, did you -talk with the Lord about this mat ter r I did." "And what did he say T" "He told m not to get dls- . couraged, 'but to be as patient as I could. He said he had been trying to get Into this church himself ever k since It was organized, 'but that he had not succeded yet" Thl story may seem a little exaggerated, but It to be feared that there are nor a few churches where such an lnter- .lav vnlr-ht nprill For these and other reason a large part of every community practically Ignores the church. This t ng th case, mere is omy one a ..ernauve; t?e church must carry the Oospel to a wor' l. for the GopI tbey must ! iv e. T it who is to do It? The lay-. .1 wonva. Tbf v 1 now th t' meet th- - i, $ cn t t la the shops. rrt They n m a
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