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&, The Detrolt tunnel makes an en- 'departure from methods used in tunnel work, - The river along the waier front of Detroit is about one- hall mite wide and the section of the nel under the stream will be 2,622 fot long. "The depth of the river varies Irom twenty to forty-eight feet, and the current is swift. Instead of the funnel ig bored through rock and clay and y sand many feet below the river now being built up in sections, will pe - lowered into the trench. The problems fo overcome, the difficulties arising trom the 'Intricate process of lowering and ~~ adjusting the hugo sections in exactly the right position, the joining of the sections so as to be absolutely water tight, and the covering of the tubes with cancrele are the principal features of the undertaking. When it is completed '@ new chapter in tunnel bullding will have been written for filing away [n the archives of the engineering world, After the tubes are adjusted to their correct position there remains much fine work for the divers to do. On them devolves the responsibility of the joints which eonnect the twin tubes. Work- ing in the depths of tho open trench with nearly eighty feet of water over them, the divers crawl under the tubes and examine carefully all bearings on the beams of the piling and insert plates where needed to produce the proper ex- aot bearings, The next operation is to bolt the huge sections together so that the joints will be absolutely water tight. The accomplishment of this means the greatest skill. The tunnel will cost $8,000,000. pil --_---- Twenty million dollars' worth of rib- bons come from one French town. That -- fown is St. Etienne, which contains . about 75,000 ribbon looms. The number of ribbon manufactories 1s about 170, fncluding those of the suburban dis. tricts. Within the last few Years elec- fric motor power has been distributed not only to the large ribbon factories Of the region, but also to every weaver who works at home. Hitherto the Weavers, who generally possess from .&w0 to three looms, did all the work "By hand, "but now-a-days hand-made ribbons may be considered 4 work of the past. The output has consequently increased and the wages are a little bet. ter than some years ago. One reason Bor St. Etienne being prominent as a «ribbon maker is that its water is che- mically pure and excellent for dyeing 'purposes, producing to perfection the 'delicate tints. The second reason is aL the weavers are artists in thelr Arade. - Handed down from father to son, all the secrels of the industry, the * delicate manipulation of the threads on {he looms, and the various combinations ©f the design to oblain the most artis- | lie effects are and will remain the dis- 'tinctive teatures of the St, Etingane rib. bon making. The weavers are sober, kr men; absorbed in their {rade end occupying exceptionally neat homes th three rooms apiece, ane big room] istry Hires looms, one combination Kitch. Wining 'room, and bed chamber, ithe third a 'bed chaihber proper Ate chaicest household effects, tr pen fis res It may be a paradox in mechanics, it in philanthroples it . seems to be hal the heart expands under-pres: "Al any rate that has béen "(he in England, where the sum glyen Tho Test of Any Other "For none of us liveth to himself."-- Rom. xiv,, 7, Lives What the laws of physics natural world, 'so in. the world working out character the law: principles of right, ha us: living, Fray RO ; "The greatest foe 'of society is ; | the social order as ii exists duct for met. ; Sometimes our questionings go deep- er. We ask, What is this obligation On me to do the right, to be good and true, to sacrifice and even suffer in or- der to satisfy certain demands, either written. within What js morality more than conven- tion? Has it any greater authority than that of custom? Certainly the moral imperative is not due 0 authority vested in any - code which may express or specify forms of ils application. The tact that courses of conduct may be set down in writ. ing or may have the sanction of long usage and many indorsements does not furnish sufficient guaranty that they are binding on us, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are 10 be obeyed not because they are writlen nor evén because they are said to have been inscribed by 'the finger of the Almighty. "They have been the law of lite for millions because the pro- cess of living discovers them, because they are written on our hearts and our consciences answer back to them assert ing their eternal verity. These laws are to be obeyed because they are laws, principles, tion which are essential of the human and the social order. Morality does not grow out of them; they do but give volce to the unchang- ing principles of morality which exist: ed long before them. "The moral obligation 1s on account of the moral. order of the universe. Here we are in a world working out high purposes, ends which cannot be achieved at random, Life must follow law or, fighting against, it becomes extinct, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 42, what right have t 4 ---- Lesson IL , The Ralsing -of 'Lazarus. Golden Text, John 11. 25, ren THE LESSON WORD STUDIES, (Based on the lext of he Revised Version.) A Greater Sign.--As the great tragedy ot his own life Spproached EJ had a special purpose reved men, and ta his disciples in particular; his pcwer over life and death. ' This pur pose was to 'establish thelr faith in: his divine and superhuman character and wer 80 firmly that even in the dark phn of "grie! and disappointment which he knew awalted them, when all their-hopes and expectations would le buried with him in Joseph's tomb, they should still cherish. the mémory of his words and deeds, 'and be prepared for the glorious' message of his resurrec- tion. The story of the raising of Las- arus is thus a 'fiiting climax in the [iis evangelists record of signs wrought by Jasui, 43 the nilracle Sa Tange Te- garded as {he culmination of "his min: John is the resurréotion of Jesus Him. self. At the time of the call of the first disciples; even before the first miracle: ab Cana in 'Galilee had: been" wrought; Nathanael 'had marvéled" at the. 5 culous power implied in. the Master's "| words: "Before 'Philip calied 'thee, when ou wast under the fig lree, I saw (heat that time Jesus had sald to 'The next miracle recorded by {Jesus; who fights against the secial ordel Sh social order or law of unl who refuses to become a part of whole, who says, 1.will ga my way, live my. life, do as 1 please. = 3 The 'great compulsions and persuas- d tons upon us are those of society. The s great penalty hanging over the infrac:! tion of the eternal laws of right is that of social death. We are all sa bound: together inthis bundle of life that NO MAN CAN SIN TO HIMSELF 1 nc man can be a law: #0 himself; the fach of the whole makes the law each. I must do the right simply because! was it is right, and it is right because it Is that which will work out the highest good for the greatest number. "The pharises may live by. rules; the right life is guided by relations, by. seeking. te live the life of harmony and helpful ress to all other. lives, Sh We are not so much answerable 10 some. great heavenly individual as 'we ard to the néedy at our doors, to the weak by our waysides, to the faint and the faltering, to the lonely and heart sick, to every other child of man. We stand not so. much in fear of entries made by a recording angel as of 'the marks of our words and deeds on our fellows. Z Every other authority in religion or. in morals might vanish and this still remain, that I am a living part of 'this great soclal organism, I am a part of every other being, determining every other character and the characterof the whole; therefore I must be the best I can be, must make of my life the best possible, for the good of 'all, for the ladness of making life more and bet- r. I, too, am come into the world that men might have life and might have it more abundantly, G 8."The sisters therefore sent unto him --Unto Jesus, who a 3 Perma "beyond Jo ciples. friénds of Jesus outside the apasto 'Clrole. "This 'watm human at i (4 pe of Jesus for his friend Lazarus throws an important side light on the 'hare Bcter of Jesus i its human aspect." 8. Seeking to. stone. thee--Ther severe' persecution with which he had recently met in Judma was in part at least the reason. for his . retirement into Pern (compare John 10.89, 40), ~~ a 9. Are there mot twelve hours in the day?--In . figurative. language Jesus points out the fact that he had not yet reached the end: of hi¥ divinely intend. try working day), and that a8 no. immediate danger thal the plotting of his enemies against him would be successful, oan 11, Our friend--In Christ friendships survive death, - ot Fallen asleep--A common metaphor for death, both In the New Testament and in the classical literature of all peoples. The Greek word here used is the same from' which we get 'our En h word "cemetery," meaning, liler ally, "sleeping place," Zonk pi a gouty & the superhuman 'knowledge esus; 'since. essen ger se 'had es: yet Aanmnou a sad event. ir 8 16. Thomas." . . Didymus. ond Reme means "win," ( formal" Lists 'of the apostles 'p al. the name of this with 'that of Mat. men were twin brothers, -. 17. In the tomb four days alread 1p The journey of _ thirty Pre sf