GREAT UNIVERSAL LIFE He Is Against It. The stars in their courses doughs against Sisera.—Judges v. , The first lesson that we fe- roy. Law is invariable; nature is BATE ad ganic vacate, first Sonelosion, therefore, and which w lear against Sisera as the best instincts. ‘Truth is the power that holds the armony — witl force that lifts he tides and See: jects the sunbeams, and finds about im a world in which many forces j ¥ are fighting for him. Anarchism things shall hurt or not lies prim-|StoWws out of the false idea that arily 3 orah, in tha| things are against when immortal poem known as ‘The| the situation in which he finds him- jong of Deborah,” recounting the| Self is he logic of a false re- victory of Narak and the host of|lation to lites self, “There are lev- Israel over Sisera and the Canaan-|¢'s and handles waiting to be grasp- ites, sang stars in their|¢d and worked. Also for the blind- course fought against. Sisera,’’ | Ness an ind perversity which pene foundly ETERNALLY TRUE. The stars—which is but symbolic for nature—fought pre Sisera, neue Sisera was against ‘The principles of morality have their roots in the foundation of the 0 does evil is at universe. man’s conduct bears a relation to the great uni- versal life. Sisera was against the | ¢ by these outstretched arms o! ture, these liftin; HELPING HANDS OF GoD. A thousand pathways stand open for the tread of his feet, the vast forces of the universe wait to his bidding, the invisible p na- arch-angel, “We are Thy helpers.” If the same forces are abused | world which was with us is against us and the final judgment of life for us is that which the ancient poetess pronounced of the enemy o! Israel, nd the stars in the courses fought against Sisera.’ Rey. J. Lewis Hartrock. INTERNATIONAL LESSO JAN. 3. Lesson I, The Ascension of Our Lord. Golden Text, Acts 1. 1.44, Verse 1. The former treatise — Greek, ‘‘first treatise.’’ the information an eophilus. the introduction to the Gospel Luke addresses this friend as ‘Most ex- cellent,” which in all probability is the equivalen of our our lency,”” which, therefore, “implies that the person thus addressed was a man of hig rank, perhaps a Roman oficial. 'The well been simply a title or epithet. prompted by personal friendship rather than the real name by which this individual was in general i 2. Until the day in which he was received up— ascensio: For the commandment here refer- red to compare Luke 4. 44-49, The Holy Spirit—Referred to in of Matthias, who was chosen by lot es eth ne place of Judas. tized in—Or, ‘‘with.’” 6. Restore the kingdom to Tsrael— The disciples of Jesus, including even the twelve apostles, shared swith their fellow-countrymen the isthicon-Mossianic conception he manifesting an par oneeary: curio- sity ay regard to the futi 8. shall receive use = Sretlal- cuuipinant tae aseics, ther than the Deeleben of their speculative curiosity, is to be their portion. itnesses—Simply testifying to that which they had seen and heard and experienced. eS de. Sama- ria. . . the uttermost part of the earth Begining with their testi- semiforeign province of Samaria, lying just. worth of Judea, and fi THE S. S. LESSON] a | apottiéa,> whith By|® hundred ai promise by the apostles and their immediate followers 12. Then returned they unto Je- up the thread of the si inues the ae point at which his Gospel record The refer-| ended. ence is to Luke’s Gospel Aes was} A sabbath day’s journey—About written, as was k of Acts,|two enatan cubits or yards, the maximum distance it was permitted by the pharisaic interpre- tation of the Sabbath law to jour- ney on that The aoa “chamber—A large sack room like, and perhaps iden- ion. | tical with, that in which the Last Supper was eaten, and which the apostles were now usin mon living r Mary, the miter oe denis. 35 tia: led out as especially worthy of men- ion. His brethren—The brothers of Jesus and sons of Joseph and Mary. hese were James, or Toses, Binon and Judas (compare att, 13. 55; Mark 6, 3). ‘They are y di stinguished from the woul dicate that none of ¢ members of the canals group. THE BANK OF here ae ENGLAND, Was Received Some Rude Shocks in Its Long Career. smiths plotted against Bank stock went down rapidly from nd ten to eighty-three Its notes pate collected far and wide, and o 1696, a Bia was made on_ the Bank, ate held at Grocers’ Hall. single goldsmith demanded thirty thousand pounds. The dir- ectors refused to cash notes which had thus been maliciously present- ed. All over the country wretched lampoons appeared: ‘The Last Will and Testament of the Bank of England!” “The Inquest of the r peak: of England (” insolvent. m-pound notes were known to. be sold for eight pounds. not until one hundrea yoars after that the Bank of Eng- land again suspended ‘payment. Its Pareaee were thoroughly drained by the French wars, and by an Or-| der in Council ee February 2 27th, 1797, notes of one and two pounds were put into oe and made a legal tender. ments not finally removed till 1821, han alt fears as to the stability of the “| Bank of England came to an end. Are Suresoated on on ce oe ofl! Himalaya Mountai In the sores part oe India sheep are put to a use unthought of in Europ2an or American-coun- tries. They are made to serve as * coats of burden, because they are cost and ends with the record of|More sure-footed than ~ larger he proclamation of the gospel in| beasts, and tho mountain paths -the imperial soya at Rome. along the foothills of the nee Be Lueecl in con- lee—The Gali- agp Bie was a ate peculi- bolic Jem most of them a Ree by birth =A early trai are steep and difficult. for each sheep is from 16 to 20 8 a nds. The are driven Pp eep from village to village, with the | wool still Aisne and pees ri the farm ears as mi he can sell there and loads the sh a ‘oup ;| with aes shore assembled_in Jerusa-| in which he receives ter it home- Shall so come ia eae nner — The interpretaties given” aving on-its in! ing the he hosts of God, and he who ig] What against God finds God’s world| Will Ae ty Reales him. The stars fought} Piessed tor world in magnetic unity, and the | and successors nusalem-At this point Luke takes | And life ig as a com- | a or When it had only been establish- site h of May, | a The enterprise failed owing to the of foreign EF TaNars. eae H SHEEP AS BEASTS OF BURDEN|; Oh, sereens f Will every hope. reathe the ong tl One single spri In basket and Her g With free-will And shake from rees Rich trophies om Nor friendship’s With falsehood” “Alas,” the New ‘Such was not The wonders of No mortal eye But this let Life cai And clouds must Ai “For joy would the Christian minds during] qpaey.} vith the apostolic age with the reverent] , 1d hone would and hope of Christ’s early re- drakuie wars turn, and thus became a source of|mps Guo nt hen inspiration and sustaining faith in|" toon’ our tes the hours. of trial and persecution Jf with the: sweet was mingled yialy shortly came upon the © bitter drop of gall. chure “No lot, howeve: war: "Twould mar its By Nature’s -h; If but one tiny FOREIGN DEVI Violate Tombs, the secretary. o! dite is signed eats 2, 1908. Dear Sir: vandalism has 1906, Some of tures, etc., are th struction. This utes in the famou images 907 a 2 the monument Sian-fu. boards called the throne to foreign aeaple of Hi kin | tracted the attenti a4 5 Bie of closed to visitors. Ny begun before 1900. than t ecie At the present of China's futur y| and historic shrin ‘oyed w: committed if some: to prevent it. but for a registra’ cent THE NEW are S ANSWER. ged ‘thee Speed oe on thy id tell us of the oe ndere ae ee re gates = ift up the mystic cuehate Nature Is Never Against Man Save as] rs? wen the portals of the future, Which none may wander ' through! Ob, tell us, happy New Year, Hits thou hast in store? be our n and ee over? AVAish KCCUE Ute TeegrenaatA Without . anal blighted bud eb! aaa rare Will pummier send Oh, will fair Cores bless us, And into granary a nD eon pat Will lad Pomona greet Will every eye be smiling, ery household hap; avers hearicire briehtt Will grief no longer rankle, s darkness follows lay! Can be misfortune-proof, for each y 8p rue Or blighted bud were spared!” China’s Sacred Monuments, The following letter, received especially ed and valuable monuments, sculp- Recently one of the Government eaven enclosure at Pe- Last year foreign trespassers s| commited outrages there ed tomple Ta-Kao-tien in Pekin to be mn ase of the famous marble tope in the Yellow Temple above might be cited if there is danger that the monuments that.are to be the chief attraction |? of Confucius, where sim- ilar outrage will most certainly be thing is not done : a The formation ofa society iwhich shall receive sufficient state of aggravated grievance eos @ & means toward its arrest. ——— THE ALIEN IN FRANCE. paid, however lon; their mo Sen have the full free. happy Sie Year day, rom mortal view portio we cherish es wit epringtime bring her garlands wo: is fair, g of rue? in bee offerings me bending ans at our feet? tt be pete ore annoy, gold be mingled abies Eloy Year answered, Nature’s plan; the future may scan; t. follow sunshine, lose its savour grief or pai ies cues r tranquil, h is weaving wondrous ‘pattern, ed, and prig of r scl LS MISBEHAVE. Deface and Steal rican Asi- th i ae: back, you sa: 14. With the? *vomen—Or, “vith that the ‘foreign devils’’ in China "One va J knelied to concede what certain ee these were! occasionally conduct themselves in uu urge. We who do well on cece ot indi oe but. among them i ps pea is n ig @ manner to earn that The | cannot, ed, boast of wi title. by Frederick Me- ick and is dated Pekin, Sep- | ism: Tt rea the most celebrat: hreatened with de- can be said of the|s monoliths at the Ming Tombs to the north of Pekin, where the stat- 1s avenue of stone|made over, have been where depredations carvings, etc., by visitors are in- and images, deface of im: foreigner abroad, nsi, who removed |‘? into the city of attention of the vandalism in the which at- ‘ion of the throne. depreda- the of. carvings Other instances rate of progress parks, museums Be will be effect- impres: pon | by children not yet in their teens. aliens, and, tion fee of about "; [forever in such company, §|hinna lost ae 255) already.”’ POSSIBILITIES OF STEADINESS “be ger too 3. Mi once ad to an old Irishwoman in is Bisbing, as has applied he was any steadier he’d be ttetttteteee tet e ttt THE NEW VEER HEHE H tet ttt eget tt tteee Why this loitering? oesessseeat the departing year? Say, you, January, no holding. back!’ "Ap. ointed ‘to special post fro even before the order of things was known to man, since man as yet had not appeared, there is for you no yp up the eillene PEER that began its march when the first moment of time be- gan; and you come nex Come se) To What? To abuse, is wai to grossest_ perversion? To be ‘the sport of brainless derers up and you iy philosophy of life that is taught in the preparatory halls of the un- training to pee eees venture and bu A da bopst e tal oratories of the heights r e ‘the depths, are the int ee dabouw obtener Story filled with ught but apprehensions of evil d messages of woe? In the pues or apprenticeship of the veil- , is there not a getting equips ‘or the mastery of the unveiled? there no intimation that this world is something besides a poor world and a ava world, where often we confound with right? Is it ae pater into consideration that this ‘world, rough and tumble as abeolniely destitute of warmth, and a fair supply the conditions of Lappines, so that there i the. shad: times, very much other thane Piiseoutore di i and hed: ey and might be a great deal more did You ask after the ana in the school whence ae months years. From the date ie man first put forth ms will to what he would, unmindful uf what he cigs the tuitioning « of that which should be known as a given date or time has been 1S ned to greet the lands! d the races, each according to its needs. at h you term the hool_of ment e right muss have issued universal well-being. wise it has been, ea know, What ages of discord, what unreason has there not been Is it strange that I loiter or hold have accomplished, a the fetes inished, a little. Though we can- not claim perfection, we might be wor at we are not vie- ious, is witnessed by the anuitnd inous leaves that are remembered the r introducing namesake with grateful thought, as long as they lived. Yes, you must come on, January? We cannot get Ae you, not come, we shall be jott ta ourselves, e left, Ca me on, with your usually good. cheer and r abounding e will and we are not exactly the bells in tune throughout year. “W. yy not. infallibly re- member. Occasionally, we may! ®. 5 forget; but if you will come, iwe Paitaetaar eto TIRED OF HIM. At a recent trial in Scotland a lowing conversation took place be- tween her and the opposing coun- sel 3 Counsel; ‘‘How old are you 1 ee Miss Jane: “Oh, weel, sir, I am Aeneid woman, and dinna think it ah e answer that uestiogn.’” udge: “Oh, yes, answ the medtete: How old are you?” Miss J; ‘‘Weel-a-weel, I fifty.’” Counsel : Are son not Buea Miss Jane: im. sixty.” I The inquisite laser still further pee if she had any hopes of gett- ing married, to which Miss Jane replied :— “Weel; sir, I winna tell a lee; I 0 pee “but I widna marry you, Tam sick and tired 0” your ——_k__—_. CLEVER CHILDREN. Hindu children are remarkable ‘A boy of seven may a skilful wood-carver, while some of the handsomest rugs are woven SS Steadiness is a pattie, but it can adden,” a gentleman ious Woeiehber, ae ie for wotk. Is he steady?’ rs. Madden tired up her hands. “Steady, is it?’’ she said. ‘Sure, ead.” -| noticed that his son-in-law what is ord I iro Gre geaiee ntion te GEugaRE g and | ¢l0! we always know when we are welll th iad d the! who what wi aldnees, a e| both named Cadog: was the Lord- SLE RAKSP while the | ha —|cumulator on Sister to Que | with some curiosity in him. I have mask, questions VERY AMUSING STORIES GREAT MEN MADE TO FEEL VERY SMALL. Ludicrous Mistakes of People Who. Are Well-known in the World. est of us, celebrities Satay se make mis- ‘icpiunders says Pearson’s parents moon, Mr. Sullivan suddenly tak- rella by mistake. ‘om. I’ve got six idee qo but only one umbrells. Bring ack |" "Other woll-known peoele are eee ed For in the House of Lords, went flat with a sickening crunc! Their Lordships laughed, leaving Hite, old colleague to bestow what compassion he could upon the meted age. 8 made an even more Kin; is Prince of Wales. His Royal ete hness was sitting one night on the cross benches listening o the speeches. tongetting that he AEE Ae oy ‘Nor THE ONLY CADOGAN. The little Duke of Saxe-Coburg once made a sad mistake during an autumn stay at Birkhall, on the Balmoral estate, His chief amuse- The little it float, but, alas! the along. cur- rent suddenly carried it away. | When the oes aaa returned, ci sould not find the s] ome vowing serrret on, the reallant who had made awa’ Picts a time the affair came to the ears of the Duchess of Albany. Asa result, the Duke was sent to it to the woman’s cottage and apologize, A very embarrassing mistake too! place at the time when Ireland con- tained two Spader persons, me of these other was “Patsey,” a well-known bookmaker. State function Lord Cadogan unexpectedly had a sheaf of telegrams handed him instructing him to put ‘‘fifty’’ s.p. on the Royal Jay Colt, with an ac- erflow- All this nical con- consternation to er, and so 01 siderable er was given to understand that he could no longer look upon himself as the only Cadogan in Ireland. Considerable excitement was caused some time ago by Mr. he ont organ entering his Hearse in his hand an empty bird. The same performance was wee through by the great financier three consecutive ae 1 who saw him carrying tl appar- ently useless article were filled with 20" 3 As euriosity, and on the third day one] gig a year. fe danlor managers ventured to Pierpont Morgan his rea- mo fee cette abou tie empty irdcage. ‘ wena BY THEIR OWN PETARD. e financier ery. calmly replied : ote. see if anybody would have the intolerable impudence to me why I do so.”” The manager was dumbfounded, “I beg your pardon,”’ he feebly re- plied... Mr. Pierpont Morgan laughed heartily and said, “‘Oh, there i _ no need for you to do that, see, I made a bet of $25 that I had in my employment at least one man won the money. owever, don’t about things that n’t concern you in it. uw seis Valdemar of Dati rk recently ‘caught the French postal officials napping owing to a blunder of one of their number. She long had reason to suspect that her let- ters to her mother, the Duchess of Chartre, ee opened on ibe French frontier. ain, the Princess added this paxtacHioe to one of her epistles: Dear Mamma, you some early Danish Keep them, Bea think of me when you look at the: When her mother wot in answer to this letter, she thanked her| + soueiier, iF the lovely violets she had r - The: ae tan be ee pou that the 7 officials who opened the Royal let- © | dropped the violet: ts, which, as a matter of fact, had never been sent st all, Erol ably an anxious sea: for them; at any rate, they bought some fresh French vio. zeta and inclosed them in the en- ve! | ee PROOF. With saat he regarded cea dry Oe iL pow a ee sure that thte| fi health ‘ood is eae are ‘ou?’ he demanded. = “Suret pate fe ee man. ‘hy, invento! oe not onli speech by sitting on his hat, which | cent mo} in dislodge the hat of his Royal High-|, 8|whom vaey see only at lunch time himself by making|a re lordship, and finally Cadogan the| Vanv I ane sy after sixty years | ter happened to think that they had aes rch | fo) VIRTUE PRIZES EARNED TALES OF SELF-DEVOTION AT PARIS DISTRIBUTION. Women Cared for Houscholds Al- though Earning a Few Francs a Day. The French Academy distributed recently the prizes for virtue found- ed over eighty years ago by M. ontyon, who left all his fortune— which he expected to realize less than $50,000, but which proved to mount nearly _$1,200,000—for ibeio the good deeds in private the speech in praise of the prize de Monson 5 be delivered member they did on the day that interest in the Steinhell murder case was at came from Paris and that one was @ concierge. And yet some of st eae are worthy of record as evi- dence, were it ee na Paris is not peopled with Mme. Stein- hell’s alone. Here are some of em : A DEVOTED SEAMSTRESS. Miss Anna Puttemans isa scam- stress who employs some ten as~ sistants, to whom she is a devoted frien anty resources ; poor and for six months sheltered under her roof a polaelnis, When it is remembere “few francs day mobeee will think the prize es misplace ns Celina Leclere, a midinette, as Parisians call the sewing girls, (midi), when they swarm forth for st and scanty meal, was autgt seventeen when her mother lost her sight, her poe was unable t noth and her father died, leaving her avi He support the household. sr in for her a life of se Rising every day before dawn, she attended to the work of the 40 cents she josques where they are sold, and after that work- ed the long day of the Parisian workshop. PULLED BUSINESS TOGETHER. third prize winner was Marie de Breton. When she was working thirteen years in the house of Joachim Padrun, ‘At this time—it was 1861—the farmer’s wife die leaving him three little children. we - re somewhat much and not industrious. Marie, feeling her position in the went to ligious order which involves the vows of chastity, poverty and obed- ience, and then returned and took charge of the farm ae ia farmer, In a few years she ged all his money | affairs, alata "ie only a small sum a wee! ler—aleo+ hol aie barred entirely. She brought up the children, mado the farm a model place and remains to of ser- in the employ of the family, fey caaik still being no more than FLOATING SLUM OF CANTON. Where the Poor of: ore a Great Chinese City 1 Stand beside the pera ees house at Canton and let ‘the range down the river aoe aes ong, says the ’s Realm. As far as the sight can reach lic boats, boats and again boats. These are ni y craft, mere vessels of transport plying hither and_ thither, ut the countless homes of myriad Chinese, in| which millions have been born, have lived 4 They are the dwellings of the very or, who live in them practically free from rent, ‘axes and the other burdens of the ordinary citizen. Tankia (which means boat How. the dvarining masses of them contrive 0 support existence is a mystery, eas their chief mode of employment is in carrying merchandise “ag Pe sengers from place to pla In some cases waite “ot the family go ashore to work in fac- er. as against this low rate of pay t! standard of living is See: rent. @ houses which make y theo seat floating slums ar a-| $20, and since the anchorage is epee is obvious that the poe effect savii impossible Reise 01 ‘The Marquis de Segur, in making “lits highest these stories attracted e|hours, light tasks, dwellers), as the denizens of thesé/ a Hung 0 New Slt + > & FEEEEE ETE ETE TEE THEE In a sense there is ee es iar about New Year’s Day. neither longer nor note bright- er no wa ae Nor more important in the next, or any will be. | Every day is important. We know not as we enter its gato what may depend on its decisions, in its short gard any commonest day as unim- portant, when we suppose it is of e|no consequence how we live, what fe to its close, and wu) San is not BS antiat hing may not hap- pen that will change eyersthing for us. lay may be doom: Yet the first day of the new r year always seems to have special signi- new beginning. rs 9 aaah Hed not bose satietentay: There are things in it which we are ashamed of. Now we seem to be = oF S ¢* 2 28 5 & & ata it where an cub our-, selves off from those spoiled days and begin again. So we @ good SR and start anew. e elements in all new- nee sei ter wha of ee we have a new oppor- “What is defeat?” ne Wendell Phillips. but edueation; nothing but the first steps to something better.” Pupils always waste material before they are able to do beautiful work, The child spoils whité paper is fairly. The artist spoils many a piece of canvas before he 'can paint a picture which is worthy to be seen. We should not vex our- without the slightest fooling of dis- © uragement over our pas' couragement is. a chain dragging ress. iD, makes one Lea: and changes bur- dens into wing’ iness for hard work, Want of en- ergy is one of the most fruitful causes of failure in life. Nothing worth while can be attained ena ily. “he young man who quest of a good time, with sheet ae struggles, do the har not dream ourselve that is either beautiful or good; hew our dreams out of the now in school 01 ways for their life work. are telling us these days that the secret of nearly all failures in busi- ness life may be traced ae lack of thoroughness in prepara é 5 do not rise above thelr starting place because they ob mas their work, are content to, Bek through the day watchin, They have no real interest in what they are doing. The result is they never get any They blame it on their aguirers there is no chance. for promotion, they say. » |The trouble is, they do not make * themselves promotion. The new year should call young people to thoroughness in prepara- tion. It BI ways opening in life’s paths, NE RMBDR aio DIDN'T LOS’ WIS HEAD. Astute aes ms patio Into Some people ae or heads at the first sign of defeat, and by - doing ensure it. Nat one ol lawyer, however, His) beeebace of mind ues obtained ‘a favorable ver. dict on many occasions when the odds were decidedly against him barrister’s impressive taps foi decided thump, and burst site a fit of tiie at the wrong mome: a is the matter with “oe ESS duos the presiding judge. The lady Give up and answered through her tears— “Hie” —indicating sie barrister— “told mi cry every time he ehmepedl the tabla: sha Here was a nice predicament, surely enough to Be the coo! est. But the equal to the eR and actually turned ae circumstance to hig advanti * ere FHHEE FEE Ht ts REET E ED ETH lay ing thi me clock, and dropping everything thd moment the closing hour comes# % awyer was af oer miei with the wmode con-. fiden a oe MUCH THE SAME, Rae he was duly: rewarded. St ngs to the shore eet