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I J EXT DO Oil. We mw the Capers burn -f In the home so close to ours; But however our henrts niinlit yearn, We dared not send our flowers. He will not understand," we said. "Our loviDg thought of Lis loved dead. O City! Thus you hide ... Ji - The pity in every hearth ' Those who nre at our side You sunder a world apart . A little harrier Imilt. of stone And my neighbor grieves alone, alone. : , . , Smart Set. :1 A BEING TRIED FOR THE ELEVEN , BY LESLIE W. QUIRK. 7 p As "Tommy" Blake snapped' open tha door and walked briskly into his father's place of business, the hands of the big office clock pointed severely : to ten minutes after nine. But the :" boy only smiled. He was late, of " course, but he could catch up with the others In an hour. They: always plodded, while he fairly romped through his work, r; " ! ' : Old Dolan, who had been with his father tpr twenty year, up and beck oned. Blake hung up his hat and coat,' flecked Imaginary specks of dust from his clothes, ..and went over to him. ; "Well, daddy?" he said, with his pleasant blue eyes twinkling at the . reproof that he knew was coming. Y Dolan pointed accusingly at the clock. . "You're late again. Tommy,'.' he eald gently. " . x "Tiiat s a ract." admitted Blake. He laid his hand on the old man's shoulder and smiled; "But I can ' make it up by working hard, can't 1?" - : There was no resisting . Tommy. DolanV face relaxed, and he nodded, r "That wasn't what I called you over here for, though," he said, wiping his spectacles.. "It was this," holding out a book the pages of which were , furrowed with straight; orderly lines of figures. -"You made the total wrong again yesterday. Tommy. I stayed to ctrrect it last night." Blake's eyes brightened; "Daddy, you're my good angel!" he ef claimed. "1 will do better after, this. I can, you know." -.: . - ""Yes," admitted Dolan. "you can. but:' - . The boy laughed good-naturedly, In his frank way, and with another promise, walked over to his own desk. Dolan looked' after him with affec tion In his eyes. : , "lis is a good boy, is Tommy," he isald to himself; "but he doesn't un-. derstand. He thinks ho is almost in- dispensable, but he blunders so much that I wish he could be made to understand! If he were not in his father'B office, now, he might." And the gray-haired chief clerk turned wearily to his accounts. ,uB aa aiways run very smoothly for Tommy Blake. His iran:, boyish air of good-nature won him friends on every side, and their reauy praise had spoiled him Just a Hue., At college he had been im mensely popular as a football idol.. Now, for the first time, he had set- -tled down in wrnrb- Tf t.i w.. h.hm i.uiiie, and he fait a little aggrieved at being , iut In such a position. As a result, e did his work carelessly and in the ' mannr which seemed easiest. It was early October, and the air outside was crisp and bracing! .Blake's bead was achirg by noon, and : Jie looked longingly ...at the throng on 'the streets. He wanted to be outside, 'too; he wanted to wajk, to run, to -feel the play of his muscles. He made up his mind quickly, as he -always did, and his father readily .jjusented to his suggestion of a half uoliday. He determined to go- to , soma.; athletic-field and watch the football practice. - Binny had told bim to come up-to the ball park, where the local college te?.m practised, on any afternoon he could spare the time, and he decided to accept the invitation to-day. He had a wait of nearlv an hour before the fellows came, and then ho discovered that Binny was not with them. It really made no differ ence, as the practice was not secret, w.cept for the fact that he felt ' a little lo3t among the group of col lege fellows on the side-lines. The practice was hard. The coach was driving the men as much as he dared, in order to whip them Into shape for the season. The squad was disappointingly small, andifnp lack of material must be offset by science and individual skill; It was good to tee them run and tackle and kick. Blake's impulsive nature got the better of him, and he worked out into the field, crouching when the backs lined up, and spring, lag forward when they did. n. Somebody touched him on the boulder.- Blake looked up tatq the face of the coach. "Ever play?" asked the man. :' "Oh, yes!" said Blake. He said it proudly, and the coach smiled de risively. "High-school -team, I suppose?" he remarked. It was on the tlpf Blake's tongue . to tell the man who he was. But he Hesitated, turning over and over In bis mind a plan. He had played In high-school, of course, as well as on the "varsity" team. "Yes, sir," he said, meekly. In an swer to the question. "Then go over there and get Into a suit as quickly as you can!" ordered the coacb. The blood mounted to Blake's cheeks at the brusque manner in which the man spoke, but he said nothing. If the coach took bim for a student, let him. He would get into the "togs" and show him how the game should be played. He rut on a padded suit that he found in the locker-room; this was like old times again. , The coach eyed his great form si lently; although -Blake took care to stride along with the lumbering gait common to - heavy-muscled athletes; and ordered him in at'left-half-back on the scrub, or second, team. The substitutes looked at him hopefully. : - Ten minutes of sham signal m-ac tice sufficed to put him in touch with the simpler plays,, and ha was glad woen tne coach lined up the two teams in the middle of the field. : Now he would show them what he could do!;..: ," -. :, ..; ,":-. The varsity team had the ball; The quarter-back's sharp eye3 passed rap Idly over the eleven players on the other team, and he gave the sienals with queer; Jerky intonations. . Suddenly the ball was snaDned: The whole team seemed to work on a pivot. It was an end run, timed to a second,' and seemingly almost im pregnable in its interference. Blake only smiled. He knew a trick thai would stop it, should the little end miss the man. ins end was caught by" the first! man in the , interference,., and sent whirling far out Into the Held. . Blake set his teetti, still smiling with' his lips, and dived for the runner. Soniething-soniebody caueht his shoulder, with a terrible force, and he turned over and over. ?' Two players fell; with him. " After they had cot up, he lay a moment; dazed and won dering, i "Get up there!" ordered the coach Don t be a baby! ' You made a fool or yourself in that play. ' Get up say!'" tfiajce jumped to his feet. - He was rainy crazed with anger, but down in his: heart he realized that th man was only speaking the truth..' The smile was gone now, and bis chin was coming forward. "I'll make good on the next play," ne sam to himself. "I'll ;Bhow him!" He watched the quarter-back, and decided the play was to go through the line. Ho heard the signals come in quick, sharp tones; and saw tha nanus or the quarter-back opjen sud denly. . The ball was passed to a half-dck, who lowered his head and ninncm! ourwaru, witn a quick Intuition of tn.e weak spot in the Iine ; Blake's big shoulders were back ing the man at tackle on the instant. He dug his cleated shoes into the soft dirt, and pushed with' all the power of his great body, pushed until the blood was making his face burn. - . , But - the great" mass moved him back and back and back. . There was ho stopping the play, it looked like a touch-down to Blake, and only the quick action of the scrub full-back in falling Just in front of the mass, and plunging.it to the ground over him, prevented the scoring. , Blake scrambled out of the scrim mage, and stood waiting for the otny ers to get to their feet. Afraid, eh?" sneered a voice In his ear. "Did you think you could push the wohle team back? Why didn't you get. down In front of them away back, there; as Eilkens did? Afraid, I Biippose?" - ' Blake whirled angrily on the coach. The man stood staring at him with curling lip, and somehow the rage in the boys heart vanished; He wiped his steaming face with the sleeve of his Jersey;" ;.; '"' ,:. '::';,; "Not afraid!" he declared, shortly, and went back to his position. '.- Three more plays came straight in to Blake's arms, and three times the coach looked at him derisively, and called out: "First down! Fiv3 yards to gain! " Then the man gave the "scrubs" the ball, and took the quarter-back to one side and whispered instruc tions as td the play. -. Blake found his place, and leaned forward- expectantly. . There was ' a moment's wait while . the coach showed the left guard how to brace his ; knee back of. the center rush, and Blake looked over at the op posing half, and grinned. :" , "Keep your eye on the ball!" com manded. the coach, shortly. "You told me you had played .the game." .There was a Sneer in the words that rankled in Blake's heart, but he swallowed hard and said nothing. , "Four - two three - seven! called the little quarter. . . It wa3 the signal for an end run by Blake. He gritted his teeth and waited, wa'tching with fascinated eyes the dirty leather that quivered in the hands of the'eenter rush. '. : The quarter-back signalled for the ball, caught it deftly in his two palms and swung round. Blake's start was a little slow, and before he was fairly under way the line had parted; and he had been tackled for a loss. The coach yanked , off the players on the top of him, andset the boy .on hi3 feet. He looked at him silently for ' ai moment, and : Blake's : cheeks colored; He knew the fault was his. "Four two three seven!" called the quarter, at a nod from the coach. . Blake knew he. could have varied the numbers In suca a way as to confuse ; tho other team, and still have the same play. He understood that the coach was handicapping him in . every ' way : possible; He gritted his teeth and waited.. . . This time he sprang forward at the instant the ball was oft the ground, and was scurrying 'away and almost skirting the end before , the varsity could fathom the play. - With ;; his heart beating exultlngly, he ran with all his might. "One by one the inter ferenca vanished as tackier;; appeared; until he found himself running alone Between him and the goal , was only single player. At last he would make a touch-down and prove his ability to the coach. With a sudden plunge,. the tackier dived and caught him Just above the knets.; ' Blake had not expected him to come with" such terrific force, and the : shock took him off his balance. He wavered a moment, and instinct ively threw up his hands as he fell. The ball - slipped to the ground, bounced slightly and rolled away. ' ; One of the varsity men snatched it up, and charged back up the field; dodging, squirming,: sprinting desper ately through the few who were in his path, until he found a clear field, and planted the ball behind the goal line, Bquarely between the two white washed poles. - Blake wiped the sleeve of .his Jer- i sey across his face, and waited for the kick-off. Down in his heart: an ad mission was growing. He : was be ginning , to fear " that: these players were his- superiors! : i ;; He missed the ball on the kick-off. and although 'one of the scrubs re covered it, , he knew the error was anpardonable. The coach: sneered openly. With clenched fists he waited for the first play. The quarter-back gave the signal, and he took the ball and plunged against tht' opposing line. It was of no use. He was-battered back in spite of his best endeavors: Worst of all; he began to see that It was not muscle and weight that was overpowering him, but better foot ball. . He was being beaten because he could not play as tlve others. did he who had been the star of a- cham pionship team at another college! How the next:tfin.: minutes passed he could not have told himself. Sore, aching in every limb, angry, disap pointed, he played with a desperate energy; and eagerness- that almost frightened him. Blake was almost insane with the desire" to do something, with the knowledge that he was playing like a man who had never seen a football befdre,: Instead of like- ons who had crossed the checker-board : squares scores of times ' wita the ball1 under his arm and a whole team in pursuit. But always now there werearms clinging about his legs, or hands pull ing savagely at him, or padded flgutes lying fiat in his path to trip bim.. . At last, tired and' thoroughly dis couraged, his vision cleared, , and : he admitted defeat; , He was not the player he -had been, not the wonder that he had thought' himself. With the lesson came a little relief. There was consolation in . knowing that he was doing his best, even if his best was not equal to the best of the oth ers. When the coach ordered the play ers to stop practice and run in; . he took Blake to one side. . "I don't want you to think I am using you any differently from the others," he apologized. . "You needed the grueling. I have been working yoa hard, and making you do it from sheer desperation, because you look promising. You play like a novice, but you know the game; I can see that. The trouble -is,. you. thnk you understand everything, ... and won't learn. As soon as you get that idea out of your head you'll do.. Under stand?" 1 " v Blake nodded. - He' had meant to save this moment for the final revela tion of hi3 identity.' Now he had no desire to explain who he was. He lboked at the coach soberly. "You're right," he said, smiling In spite of a cut lip. "I've been a fool, I'm afraid, in moro ways than one. That practice has opened myeyes." was thinking only of football. "Good for you!" he said., "Good for you!" : : ; Down at: the office the next' morn ing Dolan ' looked i up in surprise as the door clicked shut' after his em ployer's son. -. It Btill lacked ten min utes of the time to unlock the safe. . Blake' came over to the old man. and held out his hand. Dolan took it. staring oddly at the scratches on the boy's face. Before he could ( speak; Blake vwas smiling: at him; and ; say-, lag: . , ' . ;;-:;:.;;;...:..::, "I'm going to turn over a new leaf, daddy, and be worth something; I've been wasting my opportunities here and imposing on all of you. ' But it's been because I didn't quite under stand.' Now I'm going to get down to work, real, honest, hard work! " Dolan clung to the hand be held. 'I don't pretend to know how it has all come about," he said, in his gentle way, "but you do understand; Tommy, and I'm'-glad,, mighty glad!" -From Youth's . Companion. . - , AN THE PULPIT.. tUCOUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY PROFESSOR HUGH BLACK.'- Tlicr.ic:.:' Shame of Detection' mm TIF 1 en. In the Blood. Willy Lamb was one of those fellows that everybody liked, remarking that "he does- not amount to. anything." . When he had a bargain to make he would say, "Oh; what ever yon think. Is fair," and he was quite content to give faith ful service for the salary that "Root and Driver" saw fit to pay. He would give what he could to anyone who asked him. An elderly termagant had seized upon film and married him by fore?, in order to improve her social condition. Willy fell ill, and being poor, went to the hospital, where they experiment on people. The doctors decided that he needed blood, and as he could never afford to buy human blood,, even at the present bargain prices, they looked about tor the animal nearest like man to transfer its blood to him. Of course they cboss a hog: hairless, tailless, omnivorous; the operation was successful, notwithstanding which, Lamb recovered. But a great change had come over him. He knew so much of tbo methods of the firm that he Insisted on being admitted as a member as the price of his silence. Then he began to write his name W. C. Lamb and to cut off all his charities. He drove hard - bargains with the men who bad once thought him legitimate prey. Then he grabbed a little cross-town railroad, capitalized it at ten times its cost and sold it to the Combine. The Combine had to take him in. ' At the same time he put his wife on a short allowance. The newspapers gossiped about his personal affairs and pointed to bim as a model for the young. His name began to appear on boards cf directors. In short he grew rich, respected and Influential, and men said, "It was in Lamb's blood tosucceed." Bolton Hall, in Puck. 7 -'NO : A noted Belgian bacteriologist, Dr Leon Bertrand, claims that he has discovered a much, more powerful serum as a cure f 6r pneumonia than that now in use. It is bactericidal. not : an antitoxic agent.- - A fly so minute as to be almost in yisioie .ran tnree mcnes in- hair a second, and was calculated to make no less than 540 steps in the time a man could breathe once. A man with proportionate agility could. ; run twenty-four miles in a minute. Hatpins made from real rosebuds, by subjecting" them to an electro bath' which' deposits metal,. on the bud; preserving it with all ' its deli cate veining and ; tracery perfects is a novelty described by Popular Me chanics.. Gold, silver and copper are the metals used. -Experiments conducted by dock officials in London prove that a rat consumes daily a half penny's worth of food; One of the officials who has been superintending, the operations of the docks says that from the re ports he has f received' from various towns and villages he estimates that the rats in England ' number at least 20,600vq00. ; "'At a half penny a day the rats' daily food; bill, therefore, amounts to over 40,000.. Yearly, on a similar estimate,, some' 15 000,000. Curious among vegetable growths Is the rootless cactus of the Califor nia desert. This plant, a round, com pact growth, roll3 about ; the level floor of. the desert for, some -eight , or nin 9 months of the year, tossed hith er and yon, by the winds which blow with fierceness over all of Califor nia's sand plat during those months At the coming of the rains, or. rath er, the cloudbursts, which sweep the desert . in its springtime, this ..cac tus takes root, wherever It happens to.- have been "dropped by the last wind of which it: was the plaything and immediately begins to put out all around: it small shoots, which, in turn, become cacti, exactly like' the parent plant. For a. long time: inventors and manufacturers Tiave been endeavor ing to utilize paper for the manu factured -garments. Now a Saxony concern, has apparently - achieved a considerable success in this endeavor. Almost every one la aware ot the increase of warmth possible by simp ly, buttoning a newspaper Inside of the" coat, and paper vests have had a considerable sale. The objection to naper In its natural state, however; ia that it is. said that it.rwtlea and. that it cannot, of course, be washed. The Saxon firm, has- devised a methods of. spinning, narrow .strips of cotton and paper into a fabric, and paper and wood are also combined, either making serviceable suits, Jack ets and shirt?. Xylolin, as the new fabric is called, is cream-colored, may be washed repeatedly without injury and Is being sold at a very low price. A sufficient quantity of the goods to make a suit-may be had for from two to three dollars. - T Pohion to Toor Business. When confronted with, a price- cutter's bid In the hands of a customs er who is willing to use it as a club to beaT down your- established price, you' sometimes, "Just to hold good customer," take the order at loss, which is like so much poison' to your business system. Now, , let us ask if you think more poison a good antidote for poison; and if you expect to make profits and build up or maintain a business by losing money to hold customers? Keystche Insert. - - , Brooklyn, Jv. Y. The baccalaureate sermon of the Packer Collegiate In stitute was delivered by Professor Hugh Black, M. A of Union Theo logical Seminary. The service was held in the chapel! of the institute, and' was presided over by Processor Black. Mr. Black, as the Scripture lesson; read the fiftieth Psalm. Pro fessor Black snoke on "The Shams of Detection.r selecting as his - , theme Jeremiah 2: 26: "As- the thief is ashamed when he is found out, so Is the house of Israel ashamed." In the course of Lis sermon, Professor Black said: k , The prophet is accusing the nation of apostasy of unfaithfulness to her true spouse. To awaken repentance he points to Hhe bas9 ihgratitude which could forget the early-day3 of their: history when; God espoused them, In , love and favor brought them "up out of the land of EevDt. led tham through the wilderness and brought them: into a plentiful country. He points next to the willful and wicked obstinacy which made them ; forsake God and choose the lower worship and the lower; moral practice: of heathenism. And here he points to the folly, of it. Besides its ingrati tude and Its wickedness, it Is also un speakably foolish, . an insensate stu pidity at which the heavens might well be astonished,, not only that a nation should change its God who had taken them by-the arms and in end-; less; love and pity taught "them to walk; but that it 3hould change Him Bum uiucu- - guus- mat- israsi snould have, clven Jehovah Riirh nin ful rivals.,. This is the folly at which the heavens may be amazed, that My peopie -nave rorsaken Me. the foun tain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns; broken cisterns, that can hold no water. " To a monotheist who had grasped the prlnpiple of the One viuu, ana wno naa experience or spir itual communion; polytheism with its joras many and god3 rany must have seemea a system almost beneath con tempt. - Intellectually, . it introducsfl confusion instead of order; morally, It meant that life would; be lived on a; muca lower plane; reltelouslv. was the degradation of the tium nnfr. itual worship to which : the prop hets punned ine peopie.: : - - : inis is why the prophets always speak of the shame TJt idtlatry. It seemed incredible that men in their senses should prefer: what appeared to them to be brutism suDerstttlon Both intellectually and morally it was a aisgrace. Especially the prophets of the exile and after it, who had come into close connection- with heathen idolatry, had ; this sense- of superiority, and; withered the stupid; uy ' 01 poiytneism with their ' most mordant irony. It was a shams, at wnicn they blushed, to think of "Jews descending tosuchpuerileworshiii and practices. It was folly for the heathen who knew no better; it was shame for Israelites to grovo". before a stock or stone. The prophets confidently predicted that experience would prove the folly and : vanity of idolatry. "They shall be turned back,? savs the prophet of the exile; "they 'shall be greatly asnamed that trust in graven images,- that say to the molten im ages, Ye are our gods." The nronh- ets with their spiritual, iusight al ready saw the disgrace and vanity of sucn worsnip ; : but the people who were seduced by the lower and more sensuous rites of idolatry would have to learn tnelr folly by bitter experi ence. When : the pinch came, , when the needs of life drove them, like sheep, when in, the face of the great necessities, they would find out how futile had been their faith; "As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, so the house of Israel will be ashamed; . they, tnelr , kings, their princes, : and -their priests and their prophets,,, saying to a stock, , Thou art. my father;: and to stone; Thou hast; brought? me forth; but in the time or. their trouble they will saj'i, Arise- and save us. But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? Let-them arise ft they can save thee in the tim9 of thy trouble." - Ah. in the time of trouble they would find out their follyr and the vanity or their trust in idols would be round out! They should feel already the disgrace; but, though they are In sensible to that now; they will yet be convicted and the hot blush of shame win cover' them with confusion of fa$i. They are not ashamed of the ingratitude and wickedness and folly of their conduct, but their sin will find them; out, and then surely the conviction of their foloishness and guilt, will. abash.,the.m, and, then! at last they will know thessense of degradation and self-contempt which .should be theirs now. "As the thief is ashamed when he is found out, so the house of Israel will be ashamed." The same dullness of mind . and darkening of heart and obtuseness of conscience can be paralleled among ourselves. Is it not true- that in social ethics the unpardonable sin is to be fonnd out? In many cases it is not the thing Itself that men fear and' condemn' and are ashamed of, but anything like exposure of it. There is a keen enough sensibility to disgrace, but not for the thing itself which is the disgrace. Men will do things with an easy conscience for which, they would be ashemed If they were found out. Our moral standard of Judgment is so much Just that of the community. . Our con science Is largely a social conscience merely; not: individual and personal and vital, but imposed upon us by society, a code of manners and rules which we must-not transgress. It is no exaggeration to say that we live more by this code, by the customs and restraints of society, than by the holy law of God as a light to our feet and a lamp-to our path. Much of this is good, and represents the accumulated gains of the past, a certain standard of living below which men are not ex pected to fall, a moral and even a Christian atmosphere which affects us all and which is responsible for much of the good that is in us. One only needs to live for a little In a pagan community to realize how much we owe to the general Christian standard of our country, such as it is same time we must see how Insecure this is as a guard and guide to life. .A man might have a corrupt heart and be filled with all evil passions, but- it stands to reason that society cannot take him to task for that," un less it gets. something on which It can lay a finger. . And apart even from such- .deeper moral depths of charac ter, . there may b8 actual transgres sions, but, until they are' discovered and proved, -society must treat them as if they did not exist;.. A man might be a thief, not only in desire and hear:; tint In yan!U,r : ..MI1!,. f. found out, he rubs shoulders with jonest men everywhere- as ; one- of tnemseives. . society is not ashamed of him; and he need not be ashamed of himself. -..-'.;. . . The shame of beine found out mav. of course, induce this better feeling, and be the beginning of a nobler and more stable, moral life. - It is one of the blessed functions of punishment to offer us this point of departure as the house of -Israel through-the shame- or idolatry reached a loathing of it that ultimately made it impossible in Israel. Welcome the . retribution . which brings ns self-knowledge; wel come tne detection which makes us ashamed and makes us distrust our- sslve3 at last;: welcome the punish ment which gives repentance of sin: welcome the exposure which finds us out because it makes, us at last find oat ourselves! All true knowledge is seit-nncwiedge. All true exposure is -self-exposure. The itrue Judgment is self-Judgment. The true condemna tion is when a man captures and tries and condemns himself. Real repent ance mean3 shame, the shame of self that he' should have permitted-himself to fall so far below himself; and have dimmed the radiance of hl3 own Foul. Long after others have for gotten; It may still be hard for a man to forgive himself. Long after others have forgotten, he may- still remem- ' ber. To this sensitive soul, to this vitalized conscience there may be even wounds hidden to all sight but his own sight and God's. As the thief is ashamed : when he is caught, the house of ; Israel is ashamed,. at last,, not because of the mere, exposure, but because of the Ingratitude and wick edness and folly that ; made an ex posure possible and: necessary," We need to have the law written on "our hearts, to conform to that and not to a set of outward social rules; we need to walk not by the consent of mea . but by the will of God; we need to : see the beauty of Christ's holiness, and, then our sin will find us-out, though no. mortal man has found it out. . "As the thief Is ashamed when heV" isv found out, so the house of-Israels will be ashamed." Shall be must be! We are only playing with the facts and forces of moral life if we -imagine it can. be otherwise. Real and ultimate ; escape from this self- exposnre is impossible. " There Is no secrecy in all the world. "Murder will out" is the old, saying, or old superstition, if you will. The blood cries from the' ground. It will out In somefprm or other.vthough not al ways -by the ordinary detective's art.: Retribution is a fact of life, whether " it comes as moralists and artists of all ages have depicted or not. Moral life writes itself indelibly on nerves and tissues, colors the blood. It . records itself on character. Any. day may be the Judgment day; the day of revealing, declaring patently what is and what has been. The geologist by a casual cut of the earth can tell the Story Of the earth's hannpnlne-a ' by the strata that are laid bare, de posit on deposit. The story of our life is not a tale that is tnTd nnrl then done with. It leaves its mark on the , soul. It only needs true self-knowl- -, edge to let us see it all.- It only needs . awakened . memory to-bring it all back. It only needs the fierce light ' to beat on it to show it np as it was and is. "There is nothine covered' that shall not be revealed and hid ; mat snaii not oe maae Known, xnere fore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light, , and that which ye have spoken in the ear In closets shall be. proclaimed' npon the housetops." Ashamed when he- is found out! If to be undetected f the only defense. It fs to gamble -against a certainty-.. Pound' out we shall be, as we stand naked in the -revealing and self-revealing light. Then shall we begin to say to the mountains. Fall on us, and to the hills. Cover ns. T . jvock 01 ages, ciert ior me. J-T-'W 1U UIUP LLIJ OCi 1 1 11 XUVV. . A Song in tle Heart. ' ' Tve can sing away our cares easier than we can reason them away. The birds are the earliest to sing in the ' morning; the birds are more without care than anything else I know of. Sing In the evening. Singing is the iasi luiug ium ruums uu. wnen iney nave aone tnelr daily work, when they have flown their last flight and picked up their last morsel of food and cleared their bills on a napkin of a bough, then, on the top twig, they sing one song of praise. I know they; sleep sweeter for it. Oh, that we might sing every even. Ing and- morning, and let song touch song all the way through! Oh,, that we could put song under our burden! Oh, that we could extract the sense of sorrow by song! Then, sad things would not poison so much. - . When troubles come, go at them with r song.. When, griefs arise, sing them down. Lift the voice of praise against cares. Praise God' by sing ing; that will lift yon above trials of every sort.. Attempt it. They sing in Heaven, and among God's people on earth, song is thi appropriate lan- . guage of Christian feeling. Henry Ward Beecher. Uncommon Service. ' We must not forget that our call ing Is a high one. How often we hear it said in our prayer meetings that we are to serve the Lord ia little things! It is trne, and It is a great comfort that it is true, that the giving of a glass of water can please God, and the sweeping of a room can glorify Him, But woe be to-us if we are content with small service! Too much, thought of little things belittles. We should "attempt great things for God." Caleb said: "Give me this mountain." Mary broke the alabaster box that was exceedingly precious. The disciples left all to follow Jesus, and counted it Joy to suffer for His sake. Let us not be easily content. The note of heroism should be in our giving, in our serving. Our King de serves and fecrects kiDEliness. M. D. At the ! Babcock, D. D.
The Progress (Enfield, N.C.)
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