CALLS GIVEN TO ZION BUT PEOPLE DID NOT GIVE HEED TO THEM WHEN THEY HEARD. Buch a Condition Would Have Been Expect. ed Anywhere But in Zion--]. H. Jowett, D.D., Writes in The Presbyterian, J. H. Jowett, D.D., in Presbyterian. Clamdnt calls were sounding on every side, but the people did not hear them. . Thunder- ous warnings were ringing through the days, but the people had no sense of personal peril. They were wrapped about in their luxurious feeling of privileged security, and their lives were by no means iree trom the deadly poi son of pride. They were lolling about in Zion! £2 And the plice of their eascfulness only em- phasizes our astonishment. We should have expected it anywhere but in Zion. We should not Wave been startled if people had been ot case in Philistia, or it .u soab they had been held in epiecbling languor. Bu tiiese people were lolling about in Zion where God had moved with majesty, where His revelation shone as clear as the morning, and where the sound of the silver trumpet rang through the city night and day. i It is no wonder that men should be at case in some Central African village, where privi- lege is scanty and revelation is dim. It is another thing to be at ease in England and America where grace abounds, where we have heard the peal of the commandments and the music of the Peautitudes. Still greater is the marvel when men are at ease in the church, where the purpose of the Lord is proclaimed in song and symbol afd story. It is like loll ing. about at King Arthur's table when. he himself has gone abroad, "redressing human wrongs.". How had this easeful spirit been born, «nd how was it strengthened and su- stained? Tt was due to certain grave perver- sions and misinterpretations which the pro- phet Amos makes clear to us in this most graphic book. The people confounded Divine favor with Divine favorifism. There was no question that God had lavished his favor upon Israel "He hath not so dealt with any nation," He had made this particular people the subject of particular. training, until they had come to regard themselves as the favorites of the family, a people exalted to loving eminence, to the disparagement of all the rest. In the sense of favoritism they felt perilpusly se- cure, and they lolled about in the assurance of His special regard. This mode of think- ing runs through Jewish history right down to our own day. Ewen in our own time the Jewish nation esteems Jehovah as the pe. culiar lover and custodian of théir race. Now, it is always a peril when individuals or communities begin to regard theinsélves as the outstanding favorites of the Almighty. It invariably leads to self-conceit rather than to a healthy scli-esteem. It lulls to edle rather than inspires to service. It is creative of lassitude, it does mot give rise to chival, rous campaigns. It emasculates rather than invigorates; it neither makes blood nor bone. The conscious favorite of the family is n= variably soft and flabby, wanting in the ster hing qualities which eadure. I am afraid that tite English and American people are rot al: together free from this il, There are sea sons in our national life when we complacent Ig regard ourselves as the favorites of heaven. Qne little till, and that conception will topple ower ints an offensive pride, and we, too, shall become the victim of the deadly delo- sion _ that favor implies favoritism; and we shall find ignoble ease in the assamption that our privileges and not our services constitute our defense. In the second place, the people confounded ritualism with worship. Now let me guard myself against even an apparent attack upon the use of religious symbolism. Ritual may give a most helpful impulse to spiritual com- munion: The aeroplane requires a stretch of common earth before it can rise into the air and fly. Ritual gives the preliminary carth stretch from which the soul can soar into the heavenly places in Christ. Or, to use another &ymbol, ritual is the pole by which you push your boat away from the shore; its purpose is initial and initiative; when it has given the start its mission is accomplished. 1 never despise a bit of ritual, nor do I disparage the man who uses it. A crucifix may help a man's mind to the grip of the Crucified. An elaborate ordinance may guide the spirit into the simplicity of Christ. But the peril begins when the ritual be. comes an end in itself. A crucifix may take the place of the Christ, and a man may re- gard it as a talisman which works independ: ently of his own character. One of thé most uotorious forgers of our time comniitted 'sui cide, and when examination was made of his body it was found that he was wearing a crucifix against his naked skin. The bit of ritual had no moral significance; it was a Bit of magic; and had no relationship v5 Christ, This is the deadly peril, and this wis the conditipn of things in the days of Amos The pdbple offered God ritual and ot wor ship. "I hate, I despise your feasts, and} will take no delight in your solemn assem. bligs. Yea, though ye offer me your birat offerings and meal offerings, I will not ac- cept them, Take thou away from me the oige of thy songs; for I will not hear the Hody of thy viols" Their symbolism had degdnerated into an elaborate system of magic by which they were protected against evil, seen and unseen. There was no more true religion about it than there is about the horseshoe nailed on the farmhouse door. And yet it gave-them a sense of security! They lolled about .as though enswathed by invisible defenses! - They loitered and slept. they were "at ease in Zion" And, thirdly, this people confounded a rich wationalism with a healthy life. If things were loud they regarded jem as real. The glaring thing was the only impressive thing. r very indolence was sensational: "They ivory, and stretch themselves couches." Their fea was in the outer halls. They were always on the way, and mever arrived. They appeared to five, but were not alive. Sensationally they existed, but sympathetically they were dead. All these characteristics revealed that they lived upon the surface. Let us trace the mat- ter one step further. The sensational tends to create the insensitive. The eye that feasts upon the glaring ceases to perceive the ex- quisite. The man who soaks his taste ih wio- lent liquors: déstroys his perception of the delicate. If a man lives in sensational plea- surés he becomes benumbed to the finer de- lights. And so we may truly 'Say that the semga- tional desensitizes ihe soul. It makes men numb to God's holiness and algé numb to human need. Is it any wonder, theréfore, that one of the primary issues of this mode of living is found in an insensitive "case? They lounged about, luxuriating in carnal se- curity, altogether unresponsive to the calls of duty, hearing not the mutterings of jadgment, and umaware of the comings and goings of the eternal God. 8OSSIP OF THE PARISH. is A Lot of Things That Are Very Raly and Readable. Visiting an 'out-of-the-way English. parish when the incumbent happened; to be away, a former archdeacon of Suffolk' was, it is re- fated, shown round by the clerk. On arriv- ng at the churchyard he found a fine crop of wheat growing in it. "Dear, dear!" sad the archdeacon. "] can't approve of this. I really did not think Mr. would have planted wheat in the churchyard." "That's just what I told parson," said the glerk. "1 says, says 1, 'Ye didn't ought to have wheated it; ye ought to have tatéred fe" Eugene Field was once presented (0° i "sister poet," to whom he tried to say plea- sant things. At last the lady inquired con- descendingly, "Do you ever write yourself?" "A tittle," replied Field, modestly. "And what 'did you say your name was?" "My name is Ficld--Eugene Field" "I have. not heard of you before, Mr. Field," said the lady, with oppressive frankness. "No, mi- dam," said Field, "nor I of you, but you m'ght at least have pretended you had, as 1 did., Good afternoon." A well-known man, who occasionally wipes the dishes for his wife, became tired of the job and refused to act, saying, "It is not a man's work." Not feeling disposed to lose his help, she brought out the Bible to con- vince him of his error. and read as follow# from II. Kings 21,13: And will wipe Jerwsa' lem as a. man wipeth a dish, wiping it ang turning it upside down" He is still pers forming his accustomed stunt. : I -- Success--A raw' Irishman: sh pped- as one of the crew of al révenite 'cruiser: His torn af the ow came arotind ond, after a somes what ec ric session in the pilot house, he found himself fhe butt of no little humor We, low. i "Begorrah," he growled at last, "and ye needn't talk. 1 bet I done more steerih' in tik minutes 'n ye done in yer howlwateh = y Mrs. Ethel 'In "Glimpses of 'Es: Africh" Younghusband tells an amusing story of a venerable Parsee who was on board a big liner going to Englind. Some one, wishing to make himself agrecable, went up to him and said, "I hope, sir, you are 4 good sailor." "Sailor, indéed!" said the Pirsee, "Why I am a first-class passenger!" An old book-stall in New York is display- ing a rather unusual sign, announcing "A Large Assortment of Second-Hand Theology Here." Under this doubtful heading the chief attraction is a complete set of the "Sermons of DeWitt Talmage," along with a transla- tion of the Koran, A distinguished fore'gner visiting Epsom Downs in 'Thackeray's company noticed many men. dressed as sailors who were not, to native and experienced eyes, the real thing, "Ah," said the visitors, "these are, I suppose, who you call your British tars?" "Oh, no," replied Thackeray, "only Epsom salts." A son of Ireland was painting a fence sur- rounding a house in ashe of the suburbs of Chicago. His face wore a troubled look; but suddenly it brightened, and, dipping his brush into the paint-pot, he began to paint faster and faster. "Why are you in sich a hurry to finish the ob?" a passer-by chanced to ask. "I haven't much paint left," said the Celt, "an' it's fin'shin' the job I'm after before the paint's all gone!" The New Hygiene. : According to Dr. C. Ward Campbell, in an Address before the New York Public Educa: tion Association, the new hygiené "aims to get results. Showing a child the use of a toothbrush is Mkely to be of more value than many years devoted to study of the struc- ture of the teeth. The need of clean finger mails and the 'importance of clean hands when we eat can be cxpressed scientifically by the physician, but the children should be told that at a certain time fhe teachers will inspect their finger nails and that they must be! clean. This command will bring direct results in mine out of ten children, a thing which it would probably take years of elentific instruction to being about. The ild lives in a practical wor and such pid a is more likely fo be remembered Because it conmects closely with his * daily life. Physical training is a definite part af the new hygiene, and a be", Pog sami | not according to what he knows, but on what he rally it He : ------------ M "Dorcas" Society. pany ROMANCE AND MISSIONS. Romance Is in the Character of the Missionary. Bishop Brent in The Outlook. "Missionary work is a normal vocation for normal (that is to say, the best) men dnd women. Romance in missionary work, in domestic and foreign fields alke, is in the character of the man who undertakss it znd fot in the character of the work undertaken. It is time 'for us to drop, once and for all, that sentimental regard for missions and missionaries which is belittling t5 the mis- sionary cause, supporters and Missionaries alike. It is always harmful and unfair to pre- tend that the ordinary is the extraordinary li, a while siuce, the missionary's vocation 'was an extraordinary ome, it is fio longer so, It is now simply a normal part of religious duty, and should be accepted. and recognized as such. When this is sccomplished = we shall be in the way of sccdring the kind and number of missionaries that are neelfed. "The real hardship of the missionary is that which founders of ¢empre as well as re- ligion have had to fice from the beginning-- failure from whatever cause on the part of the pioneer to make others see the vision of the 'things that belong to their peace,' ne- glect until it is too late of imperial oppor- tunity by those on whose word and support action is dependent, timidity on the part of executive dnd 'administrative forces which lings to a policy amd methods long since be- come threadbare.. Of hardship of this sort there is enough aiid to spare. Missionary life is as much a vocation for the laity as for the clergy. 'The consecrated, well-cqu pped layman is needed not less--in some places he is rieeded more--than the priest or the cate- chist. "But efficient equipment is a necessity of ficient. work. Poorly conducted and pro- fessionally weak missionary institutions, When side by side with well-conducted secu- lar institutions of a high order, are a menace, vot an aid, to the cause of missions. Mis sions must unfalteringly stand for the best institutions of their kind, or else yield place to the best. The harder the task, the poorer the equ pment, is not a proverb found in the sayings of the wise man, though it is practised in the economy of the Churches. . . What may have been genemus for yesterday's' needs is penurious in relation to to-day's. 'Missionary schools and hospitals cannot live on the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table; they can only starve on them. As much discredit has accrued to the missionary cause because of inefficiency due to inadequate support 3s to incompetent mis- sionaries." Iu closing Bishop Brent suggests that mien and women of the privileged class should be taught that there is a 'place for them in the nission field, permanent or temporiry, if they will qualify by becoming proficient in some departméit of useful work. More profitable than ahy, grand tour would be 2 year after leav'ng «college spent 'in some place where service might be an education to the visitor and njaterial 'benefit to missions, Why, he pe riage, it is at least asks, should mt colleges and schools system- ptically contribute oné of their 'professors or masters to teach in such institutions as 'St. John's, Shanghci, or St. Paul's, Tokyo, fal- lowing the 'movement that : Grotom ingugur: ated by lending for a year to Babno sao a master with the true mijssionary = spirit? The academic world is apt, he says, to suffer from provincialisnt; to take a difect share in solving the puzzles and bearing the burdens of far-away lands would be to its profit. and such Volunteers would find mission work "as wonderful a sphefe of opportunity for the investment of all that manhood is ot may be as the market of time affords." -- ROMANCE OF ARCHITECTURE. Origin of the Graceful Corinthian Style of Capital, In the winter a young girl 'had died in Corinth, Some time afterward hér maid gath- ered together various trinkets and playthings which the girl had loved and brought them to the girl's grave. There she placed them in a basket near the monument and put a large square tile upon the basket to prevent the wind from overturning it. It happened that under the basket was a root of an acaa- thus plant. When spring came the acatithus sprouted, but its shoots were not able to pierce the bdsket, and accordingly they grew around it, having the basket in their midst Such of the long leaves as grew up against the four protruding corners of the tile on the top of the basket curled around under these corners and formed preity vohites. Kallimachos, the sculptop, ; walking that way one diy, saw this and immediately con ceived 'the notion that the form of the basket with the plaque on top of it and surrounded by the leaves and stalks of adamthus would be a comely heading for column: in archi tecture. He from this idea formed the beau tiful Corinthian style of capital. Such, at least, is the story as the architect Vitruvius told it 1,90 years ago. i JELLY-FISH MORALITY. The Bishop of Carlisle Strongly Denounces "The habit of calling Back things by white names and wicked things by soft sobriquets is responsible for much of the jellyfish mor- ality of the present day," said the Bishop of Carlisle when he spoke on the divorce com- mission at the Carlisle « ocesan conference. "All manner of confusion fills the air re. garding the marriage question," said the Bi- shop, "but in the midst of it all one truth shines forth 'clear. No teal Christian can doubt that marrage is the most sacred and close of all earthly bonds. It's the only sure foundation of family life, and our botinten duty therefore is to set forth the wickedness of undermining it. "Whatever else said may be vi BIBLE DISTRIBUTION. Six Million Books Issued in the Past Year. The one hundred and s'xth snnual repou of the British and Foreign Bible Society shows the society's total issues for the past year were as follows: Bibles . . New Testaments . . ............... 1,198,226 Portions . . 4.578014 Total. ain ii iis nl 6,620,024 This result is 685,000 in excess of the out- put in the previous year, and constitutes a record in the history of the society. Threr times in the last seven years the total" has execeded 5,900,000, but hitherto it has always been below 6,000,000 copies. Last year's issuc of compicte Bibles. was, however, 40.000 be- low that of the previdus year, while the issue of New Testaments was nearly 82000 :bove that of the previous year. The marked in- crease in the issues dufing the past year is chiefly due to the advance of Christianity in the Far East. More than 1,500,000 copies of the Scriptures' went out to China, and of these neatly 99 per cent. were sold; while 356,000 books were circulated in Korea and 305,000. in Japan. In India, including Burma and Ceylon, the circulation rose to 780,000. In South America 155,000 copies and in Canada 148,000 copies were put into the hands of the people, while 1,115,000 copies were distributed in Continental Europe. - The falling off in the sales of complete Bibles and Testamews has taken place, not as a rule in the mission ficld. but almost entirely in Great Brita'n and Europe, where tlie society is not the sole source of supply. From the Bible House in Tondon 2.395 cases of Scriptures, we ghing 293 tons, were shipped abroad during the year. But only atout 28 per cent. of the total issues go ont from London. The society's editions are pro- duced and published, as far as possible, in the countries where they will be sold and read. Of the 844,000 Bibles circulated, 493. 000 are English; and among these, ninctcen ou' of every twenty were the English author- ized version. Nearly 3,000 volumes went out in embossed type for the blind. The Gospels have been pubMshed in six new languages during the past year. St Matthew has been published in Ongom, the speech of a powerful Bantu tribe inhabiting the basin of the Gabun River in French Congo. St. Matthew and St. John have been published 'in Namau, the specch of 40000 cannibzls on the south coast of British New Guinea. For two tribes in New Caledonia, St. Mark and St. John are printed in Houal- lou, and St. Mark in Ponerihouen. For the Solomon Islands St. Matthew has been. print- 'ed in Eiu, a 'dialect spoken on the island of Mwala; while St. Luke has been issued in ga, spoken an Whitsuptide Island, in the New Hebrides. ~All these six languages were reduced to written form in order that they might become vehicles 'of the Gospel. For the subjects of ithe Emperor Menelek, a com- plete New Testament has at last been pub- lished in- Tigrinya. BURIAL OF HOLMAN HUNT. S---- 4 Ashes of the Great Religious Painter Laid in St. Paul's, The burikl of. the ashes of Will'am Holman Hunt, in old St, Paul's, was most impressive, and for the first time a cremated body lies beside the illustrious dead within the eathe- drals walls. On a pall of bay leaves rested a marble casket, smaller far, than the cross of lilies beside it. The eight bearers of the bier represented poetry, art, science -and philanthropy, and were Lord Tennyson, Sir Charles Holrody, Mr. William Rossetti (bro- ther of the great Dante Gabriel Rossetti, wh with Millais and Hunt formed the Pre-Raplif- aclite Brotherhood), Rt. Hon. Charles Booth, Mr. Arthur Hughes, Sir Norman Lockyer, Mr. Forbes -Robertson and Professor Gol- lancz. The music at thé committal; (the first part of the burial office had been said at the ere- mator.um) was very - beautiful. The sun shome through the clerestory windows, paint- ing in bright hues upon a sombre background, "lingering like a benediction of hope," and, as a writer in the C.F.N. says, the last notés of into a very pacan of triumph as though they throbbed with the rapture of the spirit of the great painter who for four years had suffered a dimness of sight which forbade him to paint his visions any more and who had now looked upon the dazzling Face of "The Light of the World." Rev. Dr. Carter, speaking at St. Dionis, Patson's-Gteen, where Mr. Hunt and his wife were regular communicants for a time. spoke of the former as "that distinguished old man who so loved this church whilst he lived among us and has left behind him such a priceless heritage While a parishioner here the artist painted the second verson of "The Light of the World," which now hangs in St. vicar should have realized, of himself, that the crescent in the lantern held by Chris symbolized the fact that even Mohammedan ism owes its light to our blessed Lord. PROTECTION OF CHILDREN. # ---- The Noble Work Being Done By Children's Aid Society. Many people de not know much about the Children's Protection Act of Ontario, and as a result children are allowed fo-zrow ap in intervention, have been sagied to a happy and useful career. Under this act there 1s a Children's Aid Society organized in cach city, and committees or correspondents in many towns and villages. 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