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' thers islation and municipal government, 'and acts of reform, and 'all the struggle after better lives for © selves and otheré! Pure automs- _tiFm say some, an illusion of free will; - Possibly; but even a dream is not an' absolute nonentity; the ¢ effort, however it be accounted for, exists. What is all the effort, re- garded scientifically, but the action of the totality of things trying to Improve itself, striving still to evolve - something = higher, 'holer, and happier ont of an inchoate mass? ve According to Sit Oliver Lodge we. Bre God's visible and tangible wgents, 'and we can help; we. our- selves can answer some kinds of prayer so it be articulate. We our- selves can interfere with the course cf inanimate nature, can make waste places habitable and habit- able places waste. Not by break- ing laws do we ever influence na- fure--we canrot break a law of na- ture, it is not brittle; we only break ourselves if we try--but by obeying them. In accordance with law we have to act, but act we can and do, and through us act as deity. And perhaps not alone through us. We wre the highest bodily organisms on this material planet and the mater- "ial control 'of it belongs to us. It is subject to the laws of physics and to the laws of our minds operating through our bodies. But. what about our mental acts? = We can bperate on each other's minds ~ Abrough our physical envelope,. by speech and writing, and in other ways, but we can do more; it ap- ~. pears that we can operate at a dis: tance, by no apparent physical or- gan or medium; if by mechanism at all, then by mechanism at any rate unknown to us. If we are open to influence froth each other by mnon- Corporeal methods, may wé not be open to influence from in another order! And if so, may we a 'clond.of "witnesses, not witnesses only but' helpers, agents like our- selves of the immanent God Religious pedple seem tobe losing some of their faith in prayer ; they $hink it scientific not to pray in the sense of simple petition. They may think God is too great d they too little for Him to care for them. And since Jigngy has u veiled' the wonders 'and infinitud: «f the universe, they feel in. significance far more than 'could those who lived in the former sim- plo times. But this one word, "Fa- ther,". explains what else were in- deed inconceivable. Tove and fa- therhood do not take note of large or small, The least and the great- est lose all meaning 'to the heart|ed of 'a father. His providential care marks even the sparrow that falls ~how much 'more, then; those form- ed in image and whom He ten- derly regards as HIS OWN CHILDREN? We 'have here a sure ground for prayer.: If God be a Father, He will have converse with His sons and datighters. He will cause them to. hear His still, small voice in 'the murmurs of forest and sea,'in the eoul's sécret inner chambers, in His Holy Word, they will have audible speech of Him. And so does He invite us to address Him in the lan- 'guage of faith and petition and love and praise. To the Almighty Spirit we can go with far more confidence than even to any "earthly parent, assured that He is the hearér and answerer of prayer. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, T. 27. Lesson XIII. Temperance Lesson, Golden: Text, Prov. 20. 1: "Verse 11. '"Woe"'--This occurs as the introductory word to six pro- phecies against various forms of un- righteousness, Taking a similar denunciation in Isa; 10. 1,:2 as pro- bably originally belonging here, we have seven, the complete dumber ; each one being the abstract of what wah probably exténded oration. (Compare Jesus's denunciation 'in Matt. 237) The first is directed his is-auned ab drunkards values. The other sins referred to are various, but behind them all is the background of 'avarice, indul- gence, and drunk ; "Early in the m stages of slaveiy 'The morning brings no: remorse; for the dissipations of the night. te) be right. It may be the highest at-{ titude never to ask for anything specific, only. for ' acquiescence. « Exayer, we have 'been told, is a mighty engine of achievement, but Btrong 'dri composed of the, fi of 'several 'fruits . ded to we have ceased to believe it. Why|*" should we be 60 incredulous 'no drugs. Mental and are interlocked. The ia Sgainet grasping land-owners (verse. not be aided, inspired, guided, by od their neglect 'of God's reall When all men feel' thal 'brothers, then will class pe business strifes' and social Sense And Shon ; il : oruelest source of human we outcast from the earth and son's equisite vision will b And then there comes, last and |, .: best of 'all, our inheritance, This St. Paul puts in those great words; "If we be sons, then heirs of God." 1t is the Father's will that the dren should be His heirs. what is this inhertaneet homes, everlasting = life. precious boon of immortalify. eternal 'being, progress and joy. Ever. growing in-the knowledge of the love of God the Father; which fills 'all worlds with light and life and beauty. ¥ JUNIUS B. REMENSNY! and wrath in her soul uy of 'rest. kr _ You call this selfishness but it is more than that--th of ill breeding. DER. called the most regal I the, phets 'and his vision of Jeho always majestic. and lofty (I : Do God's elevation must bes mor- al one=it is in justice. Bes Sanctified--This term ' was relig-| ious rather than moral--indeéd in contiection with the heat! ites it | { often had an immoral meani he sacred isolation. of Jehovah an worship must be on the moral basis of righteousness. ERY 17. The text is difficult in this) verse. The picture is of the site of: Jerusalem after 'her destru used by flocks for pasture. 18. Draw iniquity: with cords falsehood---Professor G.. A: Smith translates this "'draw punishment {4 near with cords. of vanity," an says: 'This figure of sinners je ing at the approach of a pith while they actually wear the ha ness of ity 'cn whether: it was tertain th ut: ' 20, The fourth "woe," pronoun: 'od 'upon: "them that call evil and good evil' No condition Tmore pital Lin both. th sly decried by pr ¢ Od aad New ents than the perversion. of