evn Qf, analytical. and rhetorical .skill, aie] rings ve and we are encouraged to pers in our efforts after Christlikeness. ee me oh ee ee 8. Ore "Paul" a servant Rept P49 * It is*said that no.one can look upon == the-matchiess~statue~ of *threApotio"} ; Belvidere without instinctively drawing , _ Mp himself. Such is the influence of _ perfection in the realm.of art. A beau- tiful character has precisely the same influence in the realm .of morals. No one can read the biography of _ Paul, the master Christian, and care- fully atudy his character, without feel- +) 4mg;a conscious moral. . uplift, expan- Men and inspiration. Survey him first ~~ @mtellectually,, Paul was naturally "en- .-»-Mowed. with the highest order .of intel- | - bect..,,His. natural, endowments. were . developed and strengthened by study, ~~ and his mind was enriched. by pro- found learning, drawn from every realm ,, @f thought . ', His .was.a. comprehensive mind 'and an expressive mind. Despite his mod- est disclaimer of eloquence, Paul pos- e ¥ " wivid imagination, a brilliant invention, fervor and depth of feeling, presence si of mind, readiness and.exactness of.ob- | _,,eervation and.command of language «jis first. recorded sermon is. a model In Apis defence, before Agrippa Paul-shows. his wonderful power of adaptation. His auddes transitions prove his..mastery - githe rhetorican's art... His was a homiletical.mind.; Paul -made his sermons. definite, practical, fervid,.. His sermons possess,unity, Or- der, movement, point. _Nothing was . gdmitted. except on business... He al- ways adapted -himself to, the occasion, the circumstances and to his audience. foo many preachers lack fervor, adap- gation. and knowledge of men. They are mouldy pedants, useless book worms; unfitted to dwell with~living, aspiring working men. The: heart lies at the root eloquence.: The great defect in the modern pulpit is want of heart. Many able and. scholarly preachers do not fouch the sensibil:ties and kindle emo- tion. Their formal discourses,' dried preparations joined together by arbi- trary ligaincnts, are as meagre and fifeless' as a skeleton articulated with Sron wires... Enamored of the truth, impelled by a mighty motive, swayed' t a great, loving heart, Paul's ser- xpressions of what he himself was. What his luminous mind gaw his warm heart felt an' h . el»- quent lips expressed. Ever) 2entence eomes to us laden with heart power and burning eloquerce. is was a theological mind. Paul's epistles whon arranged in chronological et Ft: ee of all mons were ¢ 'Of Jesus Christ-- ' ¥ sessed, the rarest oratorical giftss.a: 'when er.the develapments of 'grace ! sculptor ever made more out of the block of marble;'even*when he wrought it.into -the most supérbic of «angelic Saul, the persecutor.; ..., The artist with inward: sight.:- Saw in the hard, ward, atte The loveliest statue that sun shone on. , * Me Me ° But. the blows wete hafd.and 'fast That brought from'thetmarble that work.-at dast. ' '8 So I' think that human fives Must bear God's chisel keen, If-the. spirit. yearns and:strives For the better dife unseen; _ or'men are only blocks at best,' | . Till the *aariae brings out all, the res ' ede. ~ A Valuable Plant." This, from The New, York Tribune, would, no doubt, if it met his,eye, in- atriggie as to. wheter he should with 'his' South Aftican tdur, 'or ' fmmediately, for Philadelphin*: The Sayer moss it would not have made m tea {spoonful Out- of thi Hols" twa. tiny leaves, each 'less*thina* Half-inch long, | peepee They, ; wera - variegated: leaves; their right halyes .were greep and | left halves white. -Pot, earth, leaves and ; alh'thie plant would have' slipped easily intove man's waistcoat: pocket: And yet | 010,000 had been offered: fer it. It did}: i mot. w an ounce. _.There was nobh+ | ing to it but two tiny leaves upon a | efem "léds 'than' an inch' long. Yet it j "vas worth $10,000... It was:an' orchid in | the collection of, Mrs. George.B, Wilson ; of Philadelphia. Mrs, Wilson's orchids are said to be tho finest in America; 'some asy*the finest in' thé wérld: 'The |" little plant--was a cross between"s 'Cat- tleya aurea and a:Uattleyailabiata. It ! was two years old, and it woulJ, be "five years more before it would begin to | bloom. But. it 'was the 'otily~orchid in ; the world. with. leaves *half m*-and balf -mhite, and therefore, Sanders, the ; Sn collector, seeing it. in November, : gaid: ; i] will give you $10,000 for' it." But Mrs; Wilson's gardéuer' replied : p "We. puy all we oan,, but we never , me sian | entered one ; poisoned uable plants. The erder show that his mind was ever | is pre-eminently the thinker of istianity; as a theologian he is un- surpassed and unsurpass: le. Like the sun in a rival. For nineteen centuries he has a a profounder grasp of truth, ! e ruled in the realm of theology, pearing in every ec-lesiastical council, entering every theological and settling all doctrinal disputes. In brief, Paul was an intellectual giant, a-theological genius. "He has beggar- ed the past and bankrupted the fu- . tare." And new survey Paul morally. He strode the earth lik- a moral Colos- gus, rebuking ruler:. ignoring arnties, shakin rones, liberating nations, building the king '!om of God. Not 's intellectual power, not his.oratori- is moral power gave emacy. His character gave e force to his words. He was i Paul gladly ga.e up Jewish preferences and privi- cheerfully sacrificing all preferment.He willingly endured bonds and imprisonments, perils om land and sea, for Christ burned at the glowing eentre of his heart, and mo sacrifice ; which he might make could possibly express his gratitude for the great sal- watien. Paul was conscientious. Even before fhis conversion he rcverenced J is con- science as king. Alcer his conversion fhe was governed invariably "by the game principle. He did'always and only that which his conscience approved 'as right. He exercised himself 'to have alway" a conscience void of offence to- ward Ged and toward man. 'He was eourageous. Everywhere he lived the hero. aul was .ever vahant: for 'the ety, by a policy of trimming or re- eantation. The chains of imprisonment, the stripes of the scourge, the agony ef martyrdom could not move him. . Paul was.a man of prayer. Every-| being: sed the. grac-| aroused; that the srell.of the delusions prayer. With a chain | which have caused her to close her eves where, always, he exerci ious ministry of the heavens, he stands without , ap- , discussion |; << of worldly honor and political , =a He never attempted to purchase | worda:-- sa ' the city were inform | of detectives tried to find the poisimer, CO) ' directing their attention mainly to th Peri- professional rivals of the gardener, | eat. They had no success, however, the murderer of the flowers is still a large. Since that fatality the Wilson greenhouses have all beoca protected with an elaborate system of safety looks. --_--_ Russia in Manchuria. { Ruseja is developing her interests im ' Manchuria despite the protests of the ' powers. Manchuria may yet prove 8 | bone of bitter contention. | Armenia alse threateats to disturb 'the peace of the world, Turkey being _ either unwilling or unable to carry eut eertain reforms in that country demand- ag powers. Europe allow the United States to construct the Panama Canalt It erould be no surprise to those versed im intermational politics to see a Buropean protest raised against the building of the canal, which will afford the United | States navy vast advantages im the At- lantic ar-i Pacific, und render her more | essively determined to uphold the Bonree doctrine. 'In almost every part ef the world ' @ritish interests are conflicting ~ with those of some other power, The least alarmist authorities admit that trouble 'may ecour any day. Is England ready? jer. Spenser Wilkinson, in a book just 'published, "The Great Alternative," an- , ewers this question in the : following i 4 .;;"England for may years past has been irresolute, ain' +ss, ungoverned, and unled. Shoe has forgotten tle root from fwhich she' sprung, the purpose of her It may be that she cannot' be on either arm, he was still a stupend- | gnd ignore the world cannot be broken. ous agency for good. iss heart was like a. great or Asia Minor, and influente a man of-power. Prayer is eret of his successful life... Pa r rises before usin" eer beauty. Surely yeauty' is reflected in" His feam the servant we tirn ad* é - sin' all' its the Master's devout ; ¢. galvanic bat-'| {n that case the end of her greatness is tery; it enabled hi~, despite. all hin. | drances, to communicate with distant } _ friends in Palestine or Itaty, in Greece their destinies. A man of. prayer is always, the se- al's moral at hand. The other nations'are watch. fngher. Ife' 'ontinues the course of timidity anc surrender, the encroach: ments. on her empire and on her work will be renewed and increased, uatil 'one day she will be confronted' by a i league of armed nations. , f are not empty fears, the phan- toms of imagination. They are but tie translation into English policy of the | to Questions which disturb Europe." v7} forms, than divine grace made out of |. 1 ? "Tbe volve Mr. Chamberlain in a fierce mental }-? ip on |" epart pot was .like~s toy: ' The * their | - and | tly ac n° London For spotless air rinka, No Canadian city iis deted complete without.a covered # and 'evénl a mushroom town of t! Gen CSeurbins :sonstonsh af sapl can at a8) building where many may geek a tion "and: ex' rcise during the 'inevit and: excitement of a' miner'g exist ote supreme pleasure of' glidi {te clear surface, «be unfolding fresh ecenea on which to feas their eyes; and as evening approaches th glow of it in( whit A mor When e wind springs up it ia poasibl to sail before it at ie rate-of 30 mile an hour. There is also, of course, hockey on the ice, and we can believe Lady, Min to when she saye that "it is » béeautifu sight to see what absolute mathe Tight players have over the blades, the light ning epeed with which they stop, turn jump, or resume their course, performin{ feata of gkill and endurance with. su easy assurance that the spectator cannoi fail to follow each movement of th e with admiration and interest.' no wonder the Canadian manages t« reach this remarkable shames foi "the Canadian boy can akate as soon a he can walk; it matters nothing to hin ff he skates on ice or snow on the frozer ; it becomes second na rfect and his con me excellent pho in al pha il ustrate the article, y Mite herself figures with ed grace and proficiency, Bragg--i was knooked senseleag by & ericket bal] two years ago. P The boy im the eorner--When does yer; expeck ter get over it !--lasgow Kvening Times. --o----_ Le Montt--aA spider has eight eyes. La Moyne--Whew! What could be any woree than'a spider with styes ? Montt--Why, a centipede with of eourse.--Chicago News, Oharles Lever's Irishman. Whenoe, says London Outleok, did Ubaries Lever get his rollieKing Irish- man? Professor Oman in his preface- te the reissue of William Grattan's "Adventures With the Connaught discloses the secret. It was clearly, he avows, from the domestic 'an- nals of the eld 88th, Foot in Peninsular days that Lever drew the greater part of the good steries which made the for- 'tune of "Charles O'Malley." Many of the characters in that romance appear in the flesh in Grattan's reminiscences. Notably.:-- "The eccentric surgeon, Maurice Quill, whose fame was 60 great throughout the British army that the. novelist did not. even take the trouble to change his name, His colleague, Dr. O'Reilly, was almost as great an original. Many: of the humors 'of Micky Free seem to be drawn from the doings of Grattan's servant, Dan Carsons." ; "Comparing the 'real thing,'"* Mr. Oman tion, one is driven to conclude much of what was regarded as reijjcki part was onl ya ction of anecdot invention on Lever's reprodu that be had the Connaught 'of the | pon Pisease- 7 my ' %) honk B jl. | Dodd's Medicine: Co., street, Toronto, ° to "ascertain the ploy of the American Bank Note views of the, management concerning wad orice thS* Surprised: ;| sidti that Dodd's Kidréy' Pills e3 heard from old soldiers of Rangers." 7 : a on. : 7 = Vanquished by Dodd's ~~ Rigney PAR a : at hire . ¥ Vc 3 FENG alm ox pia Charl tl Otier Canes da iithioh- the ck. >wnGreat Kidney Remedy | Sa tories Over, the, Dread Lars. (Fromy Mail and Empire. » rf the case. -He found Satisfied, but by-no "No," 'Wai the answer to the re- ' porter's question. "Wepare! not sur- prised that the. public generally are at length being forced. the conclu- : will cure "Bright's DiséaSe.° We have known it' for a long. time, ourselves. The Parker cure is only ,one-of many °! of which we can furnish 'proofs. A SPECIALIST'S PRESCRIPTION. "(The troubles in these' cares have been made by what is "térmed a 'pa- tent medicine.' Had they been made _by.. a physician, in the regular way, and,.that physician had been able to. tell sexactly- how he bropght' them about, they.would baye been talked of learnedly from one end of the coun- try ,to. the. other. But when people talk-ahout, our cures there is a ten- dénc? to Sky," 'Oh, "thatissonly a patent medicine advertisement.' . "They forget that Dodd's Kidney Pill§_ dre thé. ife work ofa 'doctor. That they have been uniformly suc- ces&{ul in treating "all diseases of the Kidneys, and that the only feature in which they differ from regularly obtained medical advice is that the prescription of a specialist is given the public at popular prices. NO ROOM FOR DOUBT. "Now, you have seen the particu- lars in the Parker case. Nobody can doubt for an instant that that was a veritable case of the 'incurable' 'Bright's Disease, neither can anyone doubt. that the cure was effected by Dodd's Kidney Pills and by no other agency. Of course, it took time a perseverance; but the patient was in the last stages of the disease before she started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills. Had she started sooner the work would have been easier; an the results would have been obtained much more speedily. It was an ex- treme case and took time."' '""You know of other cases of Bright's Disease that have been cured by tDodd's Kidney Pills?" queried the re- porter. ge €% The manager 'walked over to a safe and produced* a bundle of letters. Holding them up, he said: "Everyone of those letters tells of a case of Bright's Disease eured by Dodd's Kid- ney Pills, and every case has been thoroughly investigated and verified. | Let me read: you. a few of ROBT. BOND CURED.' "This ome, you see, i8 signed, 'Robert: Bond, Mt. Brydges, Ont.' You see what he says. 'My attending physician said 1 was- in the last stages of Bright's Disease. I com menced using Dodd's Kidney Pills in July, 1894, and used in all about twenty boxes, and have used no other remedy or medicine of any kind since, la good appetite, etc.' | sop 'another letter | Bond, dated May zn jwhat he says in it. |manent. as far as I<know. My general j health is good.' C. A. HARRIS CURED. "Here is another case. If jtake the trou "ter you'll see it is written | A. ;Harris. oe a 2 ariably Reliable "Men Tell of 'Vice So: great has been the. interest 'in Toronto over the Neorg of _ Bright's Ottawa. His was a remarkable case, Disease, reported from Shebenacadie, indeed, so remarkable that wi Nova Scotia, that a reporter yester-. Wa ] 'lday visited the head office' df the Mént - under' oath before a 62° Yonge | P /and I feel well, sleepy well, and I have hat is away: back fn 1894. Here's -s from the same Robert i --~------ . d, 1902. You Se€) yristress--What in the world are you 'The cure is per- you'll ble to loek at this let-' er. by the relieved me of the necessity Postmaster at Lovett, Ont., Mr. C., Notice what he says: 'In! 1897 I was at the point of- death from on, "with the work of fic- Bricht's Disease, and was a complete yee | wreck, could not even dress myself or | 8 turn in my bed, but now I'am, I may say, a well man, and I attribute it > to Dodd's Kidney Pills.' . That's from.a postmaster; a man who un- doubtedly knows: what he is talking about,;-and there's no uncertain soumd -- about what he says. ~~ GHAS, -ENGRAM- CURED. '"'Here's one, from a Toronto maz, Ingram, 58 Humbert street. stonemason,..and.well knows among the working men in the build- . ing. trade..See..what he.says: 'For _ten years I have been troubled with the first stages of Bright's Disease. I tried several other medicinés, but could not get cured. A friend*of mine told. me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. I have usedfour boxes, and am now cured of the first stages of ps , _. @. H. KENT CURED? "Y could go on showing you similar But i i '-; letters most..of the afternoon, I'll just give you'one more--that of G. H. Kent, of 408--Gilmour street; alter- wards. gat him to make his} state- *& notary, ublic. . 3 "Mr. Kent is a printer in the ema- te Com- pany. He_ suffered for four;montha from Bright's Disease, and ha@ acte- ally reached the stage when Be doe- tors declared he could not livertill the next morning:' 'While the ~sofrowing, wife waited by his bedside watching for the end her eye chanced fall on 'an 'advertisement which s4 Dodd's Kidney Pills wou Bright's Disease, @ i. ts "As a drowning man grasp@at @ straw, so this despairing "woman grasped at this last chance t@ save her husband's life. A messenger was | procured, a druggist roused gut of his bed, a box of Dodd's Kidney Pills bought, and: the dying man given his first dose.. That dose brought im provement, gradually the pail ) ceased and health returned. It took sevem- teen boxes to cure him completely. But that's seven years ago, and he's been- working every day. since, Surely, & cure like that-is enough ta; make the -whole:.world. believe. that "Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure Bright's Dis- ease. ---- WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES. 'The "whole trouble is in® making people believe. This is a skeptical age. It used to be 'If you see it im the papers it's true.' Nowadays it is 'If you see it in-the papers.don't be- lieve it.' If we could bring the peo- le here one at a time and let them read these letters, or bring them face to face with the men and women whe "wrote them, our struggle would be over, for the whole world would ad- lmit that Dodd's Kidney Pills wil lcure Bright's- Disease. LOTS MORE CASES._ "As vou can see, these are only a few cures of Bright's Disease" picked at random from the many. Phere are dozens of others equally as remark- able and all carefully investigated and attested to by reliable people. Surely you would think that as doctors cam give no hope to those threatened with this terrible disease, there should be no hesitancy in giving Dodd's Kidney Pill8 a trial. And if Dodd's Kidney Pills can cure Bright's Disease, the most deadly form of Kidney Disease, how sure it is that they can cure those earlier stages of Kidney Dis- ease, such aS Diabetes, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Pain in the Back, etc. Remember, as I_ said before, Dodd's Kidney Pills are a specialist prescription for diseases of the kid- neys, and-in-the twelve years they have been before the public they have proved their worth by curing thous- ands of sufferers from all forms of kidney disease. They are no _cure-all, but they do cure all forms.of kidney, disease. "Tithe and -the- public -- have proved that." } ---- A man down in old Santa Fe Is often suspiciously ge, There are people who think He is given to drink, the fact is, it's only his wa ' --Chicago Tribune. 1. od 4 oi But --_----o---- na Was there a full attendance at the club last night ?" Jaggs--Well, they were getting that ay when I left.--The Moon. sere. ashes on the floor for, Bridget? idget--Shure, »ma'am, an' didn't yes say to doost the parlor ?!--Town and Country. --_--o------ "Yes, it's true," said Miss De Skreem- "The death of a rich relative has y living a. singing in public." "lm so glad!" impulsively exclaimed the other girl.--Chicago Tribune. Haruppe*Say, old man, I believe I owe you an apology. Freeman--Well, l've 'eard it called a V, a fiver, a fimuf plunks, and five bones, but never an apology before-- New York Times.