R. P. Johnson, Minister Fifth Avenue I New York City. Behold I stand at the door and knock. " iii, 20. , This thought was borne in with over- powering emphesis while standing be- fore Holman Hunt's famous _ painting, "The Light of the World," in Keble Col- fege, Oxford. The boldness, the seeming of the conception is start- but the more it is pondered the @learer does it become that it expresses fhe very heart of religion. If tae Bible and religious experience mean anything they spell out the truth that God yearns to enter into. human Gife. The very idea of the Bible is that ft is a revelation from God. Being a wevelation, He must have taken the in ttiptive. That can only mean that He @esired to communicate with man. And @ince the message is one of hope and @heer it can only mean a desire for hu- tan fellowship. We eommonly think gf two deeps in religion--the yearning ef man for God and the yearning of God for man. "Deep calleth unto deep." Sut in the final analysis the divine yeerning is the deeper and is the source af the other, just as the sea is tho gource of the rivers that flow toward it. "We love Him because He first loved wm." And no real explanation of re- figion can be found which omits this @eepest of all religious facts. Our difficulty in appropriating this truth is due to pagan misconceptions of God which aetill survive im Christian thought. Why should it be strange, af- 'ter all, that the loving Father should geek to have fellowship with His chil- @en? Fellowship does not necessarily maean the equal exchange of being with being. The mother has sweet, satisfying fellowship with the babe, when all the tesponse it can give to the wealth of her love, tenderness and care is a smile or @ tear or a babe's caress. But you say she looks forward to the time when, having developed, heart and mind shall answer to heart and mind. But are we not children--knowing only in part, and Soving only in part--yet children on the way to manhood and womanhood? "It doth not yet appear what we shall be, * Dut we shall be like Him." Many have realized this truth in the pest, and the world has been enriched beyond measure. The explanation of the nobdility, of the upreach, of human life is that God is in it. Paul says: "Christ fm you the hope of glory." It is this divine element which has made for high achievements. We might enlarge: the roll call of the eleventh chapter of Hee brews even down to the resent time, and the refrain would be still the same. By -- by faith--and that means at Jest that these men who have "subdued " were conscious that God wrought in and through them. It is this inflow of the divine which has -- for purity and righteousness, for pea good-will. It has inspired the prophets? wisions and the poets' dreams; it has Supplied the strength and nerved the courage which have dared and died for truth. Take it out of the race con- sciousness and you immeasurably paup- erize if. Eliminate it from our educa- Ajenal, benevolent, political and social plans and you quench the buoyant spirit ef altruism and ---- helpfulness. A happy sign of the times is a re- to the conception of religion as an experience. We have had in turn a re- Higion which consisted in the affirmation a creed, in the performance of cere- mronies, in devotion to a book and in submission to a church. We are coming _-- to the conception of a religion ich knows God, and which works that knowledge out into terms of purity, kindness, sweetness ond light. We are beginning to realize that Jesus still Pands at the door, and is knocking. The only condition He lays down for entrance is that we shall open the door. He asks only receptiveness, hospitality, willingness that He should enter. He does not say, "Purify your heart and 1 will come in," but "Let me come in and I will purify your heart." The syn- Shine banishes the darkness and life water aioe: We the soul that bids Him . Hferent is this from our ordinafy tonceptiovs! Much of our prayer is based upon the assumption that God must be propitiated and His teluctance must be overcome. We hear much of wrestling with God. Doubtless there is need of wrestling, but it is with our own selves, not with Him. The mmwillingness does not lie on God's part, but on ours. Prayer has an objective value, but it also has a subjective value, and it avails, not in that it overcomes @ divine reluctance, but in that it brings ms into an attitude of receptivity. The marvel of wireless telegraphy has taught us that the sending and receiving instruments must be in tune, otherwise t beat upon the unre- Sponsive receiver, ard it would be deaf fo them. '6 must be unison between the soul and God, onherte messages pass. ne of the ends of peayer and meditation is that the soul og Moke attuned to receive the messages ig and light that flash eae the heart of God. Jesus om at deor. Shall we let Him in & septs Crar Uc pate SE ing had a great "scoop" story of the | disastrous defeat of the Emperor of Moroceo by the Pretender, and printed it in the usual place for news from Fez, on the foreign page, with the heading, "The Moorish Revolt. Sultan's Army Routed." The new. journalism would have filled a column with head- lines_alone,_The-story comes from The Times' own correspondent, who got away from Fez just in time, and arrived at Tangier on Saturday morning, having ridden through without change of horse, and the last 90 miles without halting. The correspondent in question is Mr. Walter tris, the well-known tra- veller and author, who has thro The Times exceptionally we formed of the progress of this Moroccan trouble, and who fad had more than one interview with the ng nn himself. Mr. Harris was reputed, just a year ago, to have been attacked and robbed by Arabs in the interior of Morocco, but that story fortunately proved to be un- founded. He has written several books on Morocco and Western Asia, and ac- companied Sir Arthur Nicholson's Spe- cial Embassy to Morocco in 18%. He married a daughter of the fourth Earl of Mexborough, whose second daughter married the Prince Lowenstein Wer- thein, who disappeared so mysterious- ly three yéars ago, and was afterwards reported to bave fallen while fighting as an adventurer against the Americans in the Philippine war. Stopping Trains. In a recent report to the State De- partment at Washington the American Consul at Berne, Adolph L. Frankenthal, mentions a test for stopping railway trains, which he witnessed at the re- quest of an inventor. The Consul rode in the cab of a locomotive drawing four passenger cars at a speed of 30 miles an hour. At a predetermined place the Westinghouse brakes were set without any action of the engineer. The stop- page of the train was indicated on a dial, the brakes were then released, and a whistle, which had already once sound- ed as » warning of trouble, now re- ported the brakes thrown on. Two pieces of apparatus are necessary fot this service. One is a lever on the rack, which {s raised into the right po- pies whenever the signal is "set to stop a truin. It does not matter _ ther the signal itself is operated b wire, compressed air or electricity. The lever moves when the signal does. The other part of the apparatus is mounted on the engine. There is an arm hanging down in such a position that it will be moved whenever the train arrives at the piace where the lever is, if the lever sticks 5 One might suppose that the shock of contact would hurt either the lever or the arm; but the latter is mounted so as to swing in such a way as to escape injury, und yet perforn: the duty assigned to it.. That portion of the mechanism which is up in the cab, when it is actuated by the stroke be- low, sets the brakes with a degree of rapidit that is variable, and that is controlled by previous adjustment. Mr. Frankenthal says that several trains on Swiss roads have been equipped with this apparatus provision- ally, for purposes of arteraaek and the hope is entertained that the Govern- ment will require its general adoption. On trial trips in Switzerland a ed of 37 miles an hour was dexelopel, In Austria test were made at various speeds, the maximum being 62 miles an hour. One road in Germany, on which several accidents have happened--thoe Grossherzogliche Padinche--han ordered a aaa of its expresses to be thus equipped. The Brandt Swindle. According to the Marquise de Fonte- noy, Germany, like France, has its Hum. bert swindle, that is to say, a swindle based on a mythical inheritance to the extent of many millions of dollars. It has just been brought to a close by the condemnation of the alleged heirs to the estate to terms of penal servitude by the Berlin courts. It is known as the Brandt affair, and, as in the case of the Humbert-Crawiord swindle in France, has led to all sorts of prominent people being dragged into unwilling and unjustified notoriety. Briefly speaking, it seems that fifty or sixty years ago some people of the name of Brandt, citi- zens of the little town of Achersleben, went to the father of the present Count Douglas, who was filling the office of their Mayor, told him that they were "rs to a fortune left by an ancestor "theirs at Amsterdam at the close of the eighteenth century, and asked him to help them in getting hold of what was due to them from the Dutch au- thorities. Old Count Douglas, whose son is now the most intimate: friend and rege of the Kaiser, paid little attention o the affair, warned the people that he belleved it to be a myth, and paid no further attention to the matter. No- thing more was heard about the matter until in 1888, which the Brandts started in to endeavor to obtain money from the present Count ouglas on the ground 'that his father had taken their papers and had made use of them in order to appropriate to himself the randt fortune at Amsterdam, amount- ing, they declared, to 8,000,000 florins. They pointed out that in the 760s the wealth of the Douglases was greatly in- creased, and insisted that this Was due don Star. 'The Times the other morn- || yet force stories the courts Count Douglas to disgorge. "I beg your pardon, doctor," toastmaster. after the dinner was over, "for Phir yon inadvertently as fessor. "That's all B ht,'- -- the princi- he occasion "The title hts fess to be a doctor; but I get aianiy little vractice.""--Chicago Tribune. SSE Cauada in iss4. Among a lot of old newspapers dis covered in the cellar of the old Hall of Records building, New York, which is being torn down to make room for the subway, one of the tunnel laborers the other day found a book printed in London in 1834 and entitled "Manners, Customs and Costumes of All Nations of the World." One J. Aspin appears on the title page as the author, and in his introduction he tells-his-readera that he takes them on a trip round the world without the expense of travel, and in 8 way to acquaint them with the folks of various lands, "without exposure to the fatigues and dangers of long jour- neys by land and water, the perils of the ocean, the inclemency of foreign climes, the ferocity of uncivilized tribes, or the artifices that among politer na- tions are too frequently practised upon feal inkeritance.a ; 'and left itanee and obtain of | Cen would said the | the inexperienced. It would surprise e¢ of some nations described in be see themselves depicted as | | Mr. Aspin saw them. is book is il- | lustrated with colored plates, showin the nativea of the various lands in their native costume. The American Indian's costume is a wonder. Then there is a | Brazilian hunter in a high hat, short coat, shoeless, a gun in one hand and an alligator in the other. Ching-is re- presented by a picture of a Chinaman peddling rats and dogs. These, the au- or says, are the two principal foods in China, aside from rice. Of Canada | the author says that the Government is free, but "learning has made so little progress that few of the natives can either read or write." He announces, also that "at an early period of life | the Canadian is healthy and robust, but his strength is not of long duration, and he soon looks old. Accustomed to con- cern himself only in his own affairs, he is not remarkable for constancy of friendship, and is rarely liable to be overreached in traffic." In the winter, according to the veracious author, the Canadians live on carcases they have put in the garrets, "where they soon become frozen and keep without injury," or have | buried in the snow. The Mexicans are | ag no less than eight | a which chocolate is ale very considerable article. The passion | for strong liquors is carried to great excess pond the ladies smoke small | cigars." When oa Mexican dies, the au- thor informs the world, "a domestic | quadruped prog a dog is killed to accompany the deceased in his journey to the invisible world." to the Brandt money. Lawsuits which 8 Roots For Swine. During the last two or three years & great deal of interest has been taken in the subject of feeding roots to swine. Formerly a prejudice existed against them on account of an idea that their use was responsible for a considerable portion of the soft bacon produced in the Canadian packing houses at certain seasons of the year. Careful experiment has shown, however, that roots can bea fed in moderate quantities combined with other feed without any injurious | elfects on the quality of the pork pro- | duced. As heavy root crops can be eas- ily and economically grown in nearly all | those portions of Canada where swine- raising is carried on extensively, the fact that roots can be profitably fed with- | out injury to the bacon, and with posi- | tive benefit so far as the general thrift | of the animal is concerned, becomes of | considerable importance to our farmers. tight pounds of mangels or carrots and about the same weight, or a littie less, of sugar beets are equal in value to one pound of grain. This is the con- census of opinion of the Copenhagen, | Ottawa and several American experi- ment stations. At Copenhagen the | mangels were fed finely cut and raw and even when one-fourth of the daily | feed was given in the form of roots no injurious effects were noticed in the | | 'quality of the pork. The gain per head in ten days on a ration half grain and half whey or milk was 7.8 pounds, whereas when the grain was replaced by oots after the proportion of 1 to 10 the ievnuns was found to be 8.3 and 8.6 pounds, When. half the grain was re- placed 'by roots in proportion of 1 to 8 the growth of the different lots was pretty nearly the same, viz., 8.5 poun for the grain-fed pigs, and 8.6 ser for those fed roots, thus showing small difference in fuiwor of the latter. in this experiment it miffst be noted that the pigs had been fed roots previously, and . at, tonk them readily. ents with nearly "1 pigs on a estates ~ mmark it was found that carrots a mangels teas taining eqeal @ quantities of dry matter had similar value in pig foqdings* ae other words, the amo, of in roots is of impo ce Pater than the total weight or 'the quantity of sugar contained. cae aad ae of The "Savages'™ Banquet. The following is: taken from the col amns of The London Chronicle:--In the unavoidable absence of Sir Edward Clarke, K.0., Alderman, Sir William Treloar presided at the 45th annual din- ner of the Savage Club. The Chairman, in proposing "Our Guest," regretted very much the absence of Sir Edward Clarke and expressed his fear that his absence ;'was due to his mixing too much in high- 'ly civilized society. (Laughter.--Sir Bd- ward was engaged as one of the counsel in the Hartopp divorce case.) 'The toast he would couple with the name of Sir Harry Johnston. Sir Harry Johnston said African sav- agery was fast disap ing under the influence of a not altogether compen- sating civilization. One of his first Af rican banquets was in a wild part of West Africa. He was a very timid guest, because he had been hauled out of his canoe on the Upper Cross River, and his imprisoned. It was a feast 'tn honor of ancestors," and he was told | that the dinner to some extent consist- |ed of the ancestors themselves. (Laugh- ter.) e asked about the composition of one rather agreeably flavored dish of red paste, and was told it was Man! It 'was made of triturated relative, which had been previously smoked over a fire of weeds, and had been mixed with palm- oil, red pepper, and salt. Having con- sumed this entremet, he became a mem- ber of the tribe. (Laughter.) His last | African banquet was in ve different circumstances. It was little more than @ year ago. It was an assembly of blacks, but the menu was in French, and the feast was certainly cooked under French influences, so that in this as in | other matters Africa was fast losing its savagery, and would in time become as tame as much of this life seemed to him. But they (the club) were developing a little mild savagery, for they were try- ing to bring to bear a little more of the real into our artificial life, and perkaps in that aspect of savagery they were do- ing a very wholesome work. (Cheers.) A Royal Betrothal. Among the royal betrothals recently announced, and which is of widespread interest, is that of the Grand Duke Wil- liam Ernest of Saxe-Weimar and the beautiful and popular Princess Caroline of Ruess. The Duke is the grandson of the late Grand Duke Charles Alexander. His | Royal Highness lost has father, the hereditary Grand Duke, in 1894. He was born in 1876, his mother, who is still living, being a cousin of his father. | Like all the German Princes, the Grand Duke is a soldier. He is a Colonel of Prussian guards, and holds a number of | honorary commands in Saxony, and one |in Russia. He is very rich. His bride, the Princess Caroline Elizabeth Ida of Reuss, is the third daughter of Prince | Henry XXIV., of the senior branch of the house of Reuss, Another member of the Reuss family, belonging to one of the junior branches, Prince Henry VIL., the well-known diplomatist who signed the first treaty of the triple alliance on | behalf of Germany, is married to the Grand Duke's aunt, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar. The Princess Caroline | Of Reuss is in her nineteenth year. She ,is very pretty, and in her native Town j of Buckeburg is universally beloved, Mr. Bryan's Parrot. Some well-meaning but misguided per- son recently presented William Jennings Bryan with a parrot. The bird, to do it justice, was a wonder, and was not in the household of the Nebraskan for any considerable length of time before it had acquired the trick of mimicking to advantage the voices of the various members of.the family. Its particular jalty, however, was in imitating the voice 0 'Mrs. Bryan in giving orders to the'cook, and this knack occasioned not a little trouble for Bridget in the kit- chen. A week or ten 'geld afo--20 runs the stery--Mrs. Bryan through the pantry, when inet cataen y flashed her the memory that she had ne- ected to give some necessary -- the competent but somewhat cible queen wot the kitchen. "Bri " she called. In s number of Danish experiments four pouds of Feclospa potatoes ve practically . the same pa one pound of grain. The parrot a2 ene te and unhesitating oa BT umped re aie, ut and sr et iced left i ereasaaee phia Press, | Bet at the exesc ihe" Relief in ~ Six Hours. and Ointments, Balves ae blood--and by purifying that, restore t tH Gsteutsn condition Tho wire Rheumatic Cure lieves in six pou ent cerita coca days M cular three Rheumatism, Infflamma' Rheuma- tism, Lumbago, pecralen atica, and an' ¢ joints and muscles from impure Mr. F. E. of Toronto, Canada, writes: "I suffered afmost constantly with Neural- gia and Rheumatisni. YF used seve jes, but nothing seemed to relieve the pain until I tri anywhere isa. danger = Pasin ier reaper f the kidneys, are not workin ro} '» The Great South Ame ing Piopeny. Cure restores these organs to Bealthy Eregreenee Tec Turkish Women. The first Turkish w woman, it-is said, who has visited Europe with the object of exposing the unhappy condition of her countrywomen is the Princess Hairie Ben-Ayad, who is now in Lon- don with her husband, Ali Nouri Bey, lately consul-general of Turkey in Rot- terdam. The princess is declared to be @ell educated and accomplished, and expects to give a course of lectures on she hopes to arouse sentiment against the existing state of affairs. Her hus- band is well known as a leader of the Turkish Legitimist party, which is working for the release of Murad V. from prison, where his brother, the reigning Sultan, placed him on the plea of insanity. It is said in political circles that the accession of Murad to the throne would introduce a progress- ive policy into Turkish governmental affairs. The princess, who is deeply, interested in these plans, is the daugh- ter of the late Mahmoud Pacha Ben- Ayad of Tunis, a friend of Napoleon UI, and prominent during his reign in Parip society. Melba's Wants. Mme. Nellie Melba enjoys meeting her friends itn the most simple way. She does not hedge herself about with guards to keep people from her. There- fore a recent injunction of hers is of much interest. In Paris she met an Americai® millionaire who is on the ghady side of fifty, and has great charm of manner and a good sense of umor. He asked Mme, Melba for the privilege of bringing to see her one or two Philadelphia friends, who were staying in Paris. She ---- and _ very earnestly: "Now, Mr. you really want to be a good friend of mine 2? If you do, IT want yon to keep absolutely these rules that I have given to my best friends. I don't want to meet any young man. I don't want to meet any poor man. I don't want to meet any stupid man. I don't want to meet many women; and I don't want to meet any who are not scat and well dressed, and b: ¢." 8 sweetly)--I hear you've brok- en An George, ee Giady 2 (ee bing) --Ye-- saw Me ese ee, Hs ae suit, permission ress and it seems pa ot him that it wanted pressing, and he a Dear the house since, re is cer- on tainty of cure for "her. Mood to . the. pump, wthenece es s will be quiet. The woman will be beautiful agaia. . Mrs. ames Beas... Post- Mistress of Ont., had idigestion and eyerenat so Soa t times could fter tnikth ag bot ee rv eayee well aaa amin perfect health. .° The Great -- ---- Kideey Care solves and wash t waste matter at once from kidneys: and. bladder, and "Oh, shut up--will youl" came the- immedia shouttasootst begins the buil of ne w tisstes, Relief in 'ox hours. r social conditions in Turkey, in which ~ <;,