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e ‘words, to be a man in the scientific sense of the term is to be an ethiâ€" cal man. He who is governed by passing considerations and narrow sympathies should be consequently regarded as undeveloped or imperâ€" fectly evolved. _ The international plane of responsibility on which we ere moving requires that the chilâ€" dren should be prepared for action on this plane. This can only be acâ€" complished by systematic moral inâ€" struction, a conscious and conscil entious thrashing out of current ethical problems by methods which nre pedagogically sound. The whole international system demands noâ€" thing more imperatively and more urgently than a thorough system of physical, intellectual, and moral education. The ethical conceptions and motives which rule the civilized world must also rule our schools if men and women are to be found who will play a worthy part on the‘ national and international stage. An increasing body of persons exâ€" ists which holds that the history of the human race is an evolution from formlessness to organization or orâ€" der, culminating ultimately in a parliament of men and a federation | of the world. If this be so, the I\is-’ tory of this race must be interpreâ€" ted in ethical terms, while if we foeus human life we shall probably | find the ethical faculty supreme and | all pervading: | Finally, the experience of the last century has given a deeper meaning to the conception of huâ€" man solidarity. The stoic definiâ€" tion of man as being ruled by large considerations and wide sympathies in contradistinction to the lower animals that act mainly on impulse and have narrower sympathies is proving on closer analysis, even from a biological point of view, to The growing intercourse between nations and the evolution of demoâ€" ertic government are not the only signs of our period. The progress of science during the last century bas developed in men a novel sense, the sense of caution, a sense which is providing mankind with a new view of the world, and making us see things far more steadily than our forefathers saw them. Whilst science, by its international charâ€" acter, has forged a further link beâ€" tween the nations, it has at the same time played havoe with illâ€" founded beliefs. In analyzing curâ€" rent religious views of human naâ€" ture it was led to affirm that man is primarily a social being and therefore far from indifferent to the suitability or unsuitability of his environment. Hence the rigid orthodoxy of a century ago has beâ€" come impossible, anrd a freer and fiiendlier relation towards those of other faiths prevails. These numâ€" erous changes have transformed the spirit of the period. Distincâ€" tions of class, of nation, of race, er religion, and of education have lost much of their ancient sting and a humaner tone is everywhere discernible. The almost total disâ€" appearance of cruel sports, the kindly treatment of the insane, the nearly complete abolition of corâ€" poral punishment, and the growing respect for the sensibilities of the 'fyoung are other facets of the same act. We are living on an international plane. A large part of the popuâ€" lation dwells in towns, and not only is travel to distant places rapid and frequent, but the movement of poâ€" pulation from locality to locality and from country to country is & decided feature of the times. Through the utilization of steam and electricity villlages and counâ€" tries have been brought near to each other, the telegraphs, for exâ€" ample, almost annihilating distâ€" ance; hence the development 6f inâ€" ternational commerce on an unâ€" precedented‘ seale, each place reâ€" seiving the products of the farthâ€" »st lands. Simultaneously the deâ€" mocratic trend in politics became more and more noticeable. Accordâ€" Ingly toâ€"day the total absence of constitutional government is a rarâ€" ity, and not only have most men the vote, but womien will soon have it, too. Even the orient, which was supposed to be unalterably absoluâ€" tistic in government, has offered us recently the gratifying spectacle of one nation after another,, Egypt, India, Japan, China, Persia, Turâ€" key, demanding a â€" constitution, and in many «cases obtaining it. Rapid transit and rapid news have, however, not only led to. a close. contact between individuals of the several nations, but between the rations themselves. Hence village politics has gradually given way to national politics, and this to inter-) national politics, and men are conâ€" sequently almost as sensitive toâ€"day concerning what happens a thouâ€" sand miles away as to what happens next door. strictly scientific. In other CURRENT TOPICS. W 3. Timothy had just come_ back from Thessalonicaz_ and had brought a report concerning the church, giving a favorable account in genâ€" eral. But two facts were made known by him. One was that they were suffering severe persecutions from both Jews and Gentiles ; the other that they were discouraged and troublel by the death of some bcforeT the second coming of the 2. Paul longed to_ visit them again, and made three vain atâ€" tempts to do so, frem Berera, from Athens, from Corinth_ He felt their need of training and of more knowledge of the truth, of comfort, of guidance. 4. The Epistle is very personal and retrospective, breathing a spirit of affection and of joy. 16 is full of Seweetness and light."" ""A loving, fatherly spirit breathes in every line I. Characteristics of the First Epistle to the Thessalonians.â€"Note the facts in ‘"‘The Lesson in Its Setting.‘" 1. Review the circumâ€" stances of the Thessalonian church as given in Acts 17. _ See Lesson IIL. of this Quarter._ Three misâ€" sionaries had come there from Philippi, two of them torn and bruised by terrible flagellation at Philippi, emerging from the lowest dungeon of a prison, their whole aspect bespeaking "their poverty, their sufferings, their earthly inâ€" significance. A famine, says Farrar, ‘was raging in the Roman empire, and the commonest necessaries of life had risen to six: times their proper value.‘"" These poor perâ€" secuted wanderers supported themâ€" selves by weaving black goat‘s hair into tent cloth. _ Here they preached a few weeks, founded a church, and were driven away by persecution. Lord Jesus Lesson VI. Paul‘s Instructions to the Thessalonians. Golden Text, 1 Thes. 5: 15. The truth is that "the faiths" are of yesterday, while faith is always of toâ€"day and toâ€"morrow. It is THE SUNDAY SCHOOL He will be satisfied with no faith that fails here or does less than this. He cannot see how the perâ€" functory acquiescence on his part with the formal statements of the creeds would aid to this end. Supâ€" pose he throws aside other considâ€" erations and accepts the Mosaic cosmongeryâ€"what light will that throw on the struggle in his own soul between the dust and the diâ€" vine? In what way will that help bim to altruism ? one often unconscious and seldom formulated, is to discover the agenâ€" cies and aids which will clarify his ideals, strengthen his resolves, and secure their realization. At heart every man who lives above the brute is religiousâ€"that is, he desires to realize in some way those soul and character ideals that grow within him and shine before him. The real difficulty in religion for the average man, however, lies not in the credibility of the historic statements of the faiths, not in the logic of their syllogisms ; he is even willing to take many such things for granted; the difficulty lies in seeing any particular value or use in such articles of creed and hisâ€" tory ; he cannot see why their acâ€" ceptance should be regarded as the most vital thine in life. It were better to have no faith at all than weakly to submit to the doctrine that the universe lies in the hands of a creature so unjust as to arbitrarily decree our eternal damnation unless we subscribe to statements we cannot indorse, or blindly to insist on the historic acâ€" curacy of incidents which we would discredit in any other relation. There can be no faith without freedom. "It is not faith to attempt or pretend to believe the things which you are told you must beâ€" lieve. Even to seek toâ€"comply is to prove your fear rather than yeur faith, your. apprehension of some dread consequence attendant on failure to conform.. To‘say "I believe,""‘ lest a catastrophe attend the honest denial of such belief is to play the liar and the coward. ‘"‘The just shall live by faith." Romans i. 17. It Is Confidence That Life Holds Better » Things Farther On ‘ FAITH IS FORW ARD LOOKING INTERNATIONAL LESSON AUGUSE 8. HIS DEEPEST NEED, Whole spirit and soul and body. Every part of your nature, the spirit that allies us _ to God, the highest moral nature. And soul. Our real selves, our immaterial nature, including all the faculties of our being. And body. The home of the soul, which should be as pure as a temple of the Holy Ghost. No one is preservedâ€" blameless, i.e., without spot or imperfection for which one can be blamed. No one is perfect till his body is under perâ€" fect con‘rol of his moral and menâ€" tal nature, a perfect instrument of the â€" spirit. _ Unto _ the coming, Greek ‘"‘in (or at) the comfug" of our Lord Jesus Christ. As in Matithew 25, that you may be amonse 23. And the very God of peace. Better as R.V., "the God of peace himself,"" the God who brings peaceâ€"peace with himself, through sins forgiven, and natures in harâ€" mony with his; peace in the soul, peace of conscience, the peace of trust in God our Father; peace of righteousness, for it is only when righteousness is ‘"as the waves of the sea‘‘ that "peace can flow like a river‘‘ ; peace with nature and providence; peace with our fellowâ€" men. . Sanctify you. Make _ you holy, pure, free from sin and imâ€" perfection, from every taint of evil. Wholly. Unto completeness, to full perfection, in degree and in kind ! Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: â€"~..~. and grow up into him in all things, which is the head, â€" even Cloist (Eph. 1: Is,.â€"15). II. A Lesson in Morals for the Building Up of the Noblest Chrisâ€" tian Life.:â€"V. 23. First, the Ideal and Aim. The first sentences of the Lord‘s Prayer, and, therefore, of all prayer and all living. \ It is as necessary to have the right goal of life as for a sea captain to know the port for which he is sailing. It is by the ideal that we test our daily lives. ‘"The religious view of heaven is no unpractical thing. Think of it, earth the place where heaven is shadowed forth! _ This means that our life and affairs and conduct are to show forth the very highest that we can know or conâ€" ceive. If then heaven be the place of the real and true, is not_ that great, and noble, and practical ?" The same is true of life. _ Every young person should know definiteâ€" ly and decidedly where he wants to go, what he wants to become, what is his ideal. 1 Moreover, many of the Greeks were cultivated and thoughtful people, who through the gospel had been enlightened by the Holy Spirit. It is the height of folly to quarrel over forms, descriptions, and anaâ€" lyses ; it is but cowardice to listen to the croaking voices that tell us we must subscribe to their forms, must see through their myoptic eyes er be forever doomed. It were betâ€" ter to be doomed for loyalty to truth than saved at the prics of compromise with our own souls. That which has been can never Le enough for that which is. Religâ€" ion is to creed and forms of faith as life is to works on physiology and anatomy. Religion is the love o{ life, the faith in its fullness and meaning; it can find expression wnly in terms of life, in life coming into its richness, beauty, and useâ€" fulness. fascing the future, looking forward with high hopes, ib sees the promâ€" ised land ; then come the cartograâ€" phers, who care nothing about the land so long as they make its maps. They draw lines and lay on colors ; they describe, prescribe, bound, and limit that which their fellows of larger heart and hope have seen as a living, glowing glory. â€" Thus from the visionless minds we get cur creeds, our descriptions of yesâ€" terday‘s faith. The formal statements which men call faiths are commonly but the dead shells that once contained glowing life; they are like photoâ€" graphs of a sunset; the form is there, but the glow, the color, the life has gone from it. The faith that there was once & perfect man is an empty thing unâ€" less it becomes the power that pushâ€" es me on to yet nobler perfections ; unless the facts af the past become for me the prophecy of the future. All the history of the soul has value only as it indicates the soul‘s direction toward its promised counâ€" iry. I believe the past whenever the past shows the race coming inâ€" to the fuller present, rising from lowlier levels. life‘s onward pressing in full asâ€" surance that there is a goal, that the universe does not mock us, that the hopes and aspirations that burn within are but reflections and pulâ€" sations of the law of the fullness of life that runs through all the creation. , EACH AGE HAS ITS VISION; HENRY F. COPE for ) one perâ€" menâ€" Man Lay on â€" Track Four Hours With Legs Cut Of. A despatch froimn Kenora says : Wim. Morris, an employee of the Keewatin Lumber Company, was fatally injured by being run over by the C. _ P. R. express about two miles west of here on Friday. The unfortunate man had both legs cut off and lay beside the track until 4 o‘clock in the morning. He was then brought to the Jubilee Hosâ€" pital here, but died shortly afterâ€" wards. He had been walking on the tracks, and in stepping to one side to avoid a freight had stepâ€" ped directly in front of the express. Arrangements have been completâ€" ea for a merger of the leading Caâ€" nadian cement companies. The question of commission rates has caused a bitter dispute in the western grain trade. RUN OVER BY C.P.R. EXPRESS. Says Young Man was Murdercd in Lake Montford. A despatch from Montreal says : Impressed with the story of a clairâ€" voyant that her son was murdered and his body sunk in Lake Montâ€" ford, Mrs. Francis Fournier sent a diver on Wednesday to search the bottom of the lake. Impressed with her faith, which was in line with their own suspicions, two Frovincial detectives went with the diver in a further effort to unravel this new mystery of the mountains. Last November Francis Fournier, jun., was working with a contracâ€" tor in the mountains. _ He went duckâ€"shooting one day with a comâ€" panion and was never seen again. The story which came to Montreal was that he was drowned by the upsetting of the canoe. It is now believed that murder was commitâ€" ted. Agreement With Regard to Emigraâ€" tion Being Well Kept. A despatch from Ottawa says : Canada‘s Trade Commissioner in Japan, Mr. G. A. Harris, reportâ€" ed to the Trade and Commerce Deâ€" partment that the official emigraâ€" tion figures of the Japanese Govâ€" ernment for the first five months of this year show that Japan is livâ€" ing up to the agreement with Canâ€" ada and the United States to reâ€" strict Japanese emigration to this continent. Up to the end of May the total Japanese emigration to America was 718, as compared with 2,275 for the same period of last year. Emigration to Canada toâ€" talled only 184, and of these 56 were classed as nonâ€"laborers. The rumber of Japanese in Canada who returned home during the same period was 163, leaving the net increase only 21. FEW JAPS ENTERING CANADA Terrible Scenes Witnessed in a Russian Town. A despatch from St. Petersburg says: News received here on Wedâ€" nesday from Polotsk, in the Govâ€" ernment of Vitebsk, the only city in Russia, aside from St. Petersâ€" burg, where the cholera has made much headway, say that the city is full of panic, owing to the inefficiâ€" ency of the sanitary administration and the shortage of physicians. Forty cases of the disease are reâ€" ported daily, and to cope with this situation there are only five doe tors, who are so overwhelmed with work that they are obliged to reâ€" fuse their services at night. Heartâ€" breaking scenes are witnessed at. the physicians‘ offices where relaâ€" tives of the stricken of the city fail to get attention. Many stores have been closed, and all wellâ€"toâ€"do perâ€" sons are fleeing from the city. One of those hot, sticky spells struck New York on Thursday, and although the average temperaâ€" ture was only 75 at least two deaths were caused by heat prostrations. James Turner, driver, was struck by lightning while on the seat of a lumber waggon. He was hurled to the road dead, Jos. Behman of Winnetka was prostrated by the heat while fishing from the Kenilâ€" worth pier. He rolled from the pier into the lake and was drowned. Mrs. Hattie Henderson and Mrs. Dorothy Hartung were struck by an electric light wire that had been blown down by the wind and were burned seriously. those on his right hand, belonging to, having a part in his everlasting kingdom of righteousness and love. Carl Hanson, a truck farmer, was struck by lightning and killed inâ€" stantly while trying to escape the rain. Thomas Madoney, a butâ€" cher, fell dead on the sidewalk in front of his shop. Cause Several Deaths in New York and Chicago. A despatch from Chicago says: Two days of torrid weather in this city were broken on Thursday by an electrical storm which brought temporary relief. Several deaths resulted either from the storm or from the great heat. _ STORY OF 4A CLAIRYOYANT. IN THE CHOLERA CITY. HEAT AND LIGHTNING A despatch from Michel, B. C., | turned over says: This, one of the larger coal!and Provinc mining towns of the Crow‘s Nest| son and Bul district, is an armed camp toâ€"day, | an investigat among it foreign population especiâ€" ’ deposit of t] ally, because of activity of the, 10 o‘clock RBlack Hand Society. Great exciteâ€"| o‘clock Wed ment has prevailed since Sunday,| eral men we when five leaders among the foreâ€"| nated place ign miners and business men were| were placed threatened with instant death by | cipients of 1 the Black Hand unless they paid| was made b; $200 each. In the threatening letâ€"| to claim the ters received, a place for deposit Three hun ol the money was designated, one| Maliars hel of themâ€" being alongside a large| nesday after rock, which is a landmark, at the’ situation. â€" T rear of the Roman Catholic Church.| ing doubled Tuesday night the threatened mes ‘ mpecials. When the police get a man‘s tiial he can‘t conceal himself among the branches of his family tree. Five Leaders Among Foreign Population Were Threatened With Death. ACTVITY 0F BLACK HANDâ€" Sceneâ€"Grammar class. Dialogue between teacher _ and Johnnie. Teacherâ€"‘What is the future of ‘he drinks‘ ?‘ _ Johnnieâ€""He is drunk." & The protecting powers have evaâ€" cuated Crete and the Greek flag has been run up on the fortress at Canea. Six persons lost their lives in the political riots in Mexico on Sunâ€" day. 2 Forty thousand workers in the paper and textile industries of Sweden are on strike. Owing to the failure of the fish barvest, Labrador fishermen are facing starvation, _â€" _ â€" * A woman has been made superinâ€" tendent of Chicago‘s school system. Orville Wright made a crossâ€"counâ€" try flight of ten miles at Fort Meyer at the rate of 42 miles an hour, on Eriday. A suicide club is believed to exâ€" ist among disheartened factory emâ€" ployees at Cleveland. Harry C. Pullian, President of the National Baseball League, atâ€" tempted to commit suicide in New York on Wednesday. Peru is said to be preparing for war with Chili. A Massachusetts militia Captain made sixtyâ€"two consecutive bullsâ€" eyes at 500 yards at a tournament av Wakefield, Mass. Hubert Latham made an attempt to cross the English Channel in his aeroplane, but plunged into the sea two miles from Dover. Two men were killed by the exâ€" plosion of a mortar during a fireâ€" works display near Sandusky, Ohio. In a realistic war test the torâ€" pedoâ€"boat destroyer Terret cut the boom in front of Portsmouth harâ€" bor and entered the basin. Canadian marksmen _ “;(,);],,%’BW at Bisley. The Miners‘ Confederation of Great Britain has voted overâ€" whelmingly in favor of a national strike. New procedure rules, intended to facilitate the passage of the finance bill, have been adopted in the British House of Commons. King Edward reviewed the Britâ€" ish fleet'a,t Cowes on Saturday. Alternative proposals to comâ€" memorate one hundred. years of peace between Canada and the United States are to hold a miliâ€" tary pageant and erect an interâ€" national bridse. Mr. Benjamin Price of Battleâ€" ford has been appointed to the Senate, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Senator Perley. 4 j on a charge of attempting to blow up Manager Simpson‘s house. A Montreal butcher and ten pokâ€" er players were arrested in a raid upor a gambling joint in Montreal. A little girl [died at Hamilton from lockjaw resulting from a wound caused by a rusty nail. A demented Englishman, on his way east to be deported, jumped from the train near Moose Jaw, but was recaptured. «Daniel â€" McKenzie and_ Albert Ross were â€"arrested at Glace Bay Telegrapnic Bricfs From Our Owu aad Other Countries of RBecent Events. CANADA. Montreal Citizens‘ Association wants a Board of Control. . The Manitoba Government has decided to give a grant of $250,000 to Selkirk Centennial Exhibition. _ Hon. John Dryden, former Minâ€" ister of Agriculture for Ontario, died on Thuy;day. : CONDENSED NEWS iTEMS aarrENINGS FRKOMY ALL TBE GLOBE. UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN GENERAL. OYVER | turned over the letters to the police { and Provincial Qonstables Stevenâ€" !son and Bulger immediately made Ttaliars held a meeting on Wedâ€" nesday afternoon and discussed the situation. â€" The police foree is beâ€" ing doubled _ by swesringâ€"in of en investigation.The time set for the deposit of the money was between 10 o‘clock Tuesday night and I o‘clock Wednesday morning. Se®â€" eral men were posted at the desigâ€" nated places, and fake parcels were placed in hiding places by reâ€" cipients of letters, but no attempt was made by the Black Hand gang to claim the bounty. Three hundred and fifty armed A human being cannot live withâ€" out food, water and air. These are the three essentials. The lungs must be plentifully supplied Witill pure air, or they cannot give good blood to the body, and every park suffers. The germs of disease can. pot be destroyed unless the sys tem through the lungs receives plenty of fresh air. The lungs canâ€" not get this supply unless the air passages are free. If one breathes through the mouth, it means that the air does not enter the lungs either in suficient amount or in the condition that it should. If, the children are mouth breathers their condition should be examined to ascertain the cause. The man who talks to himself hears a lot of silly remarks. s Some men are homeless and some kaven‘t sense enough to go home. "Pâ€"aâ€"uâ€"1!"‘ eried the little voice. ‘Hurrah!‘‘ shouted the boy, and came darting across the street. | L want to hear that nearer.‘"‘ he said. Robin was saying his first word to his mother when Paul reachel them. Felix was afraid the baby would not say it again. $ In a minute or two the whole Stanley family was in the Taylor kitchen, hearing Robin say "Paul,"" which he did again and again.â€" Youth‘s Companion. Felix nearly went wild. _ Paul sbouted with gleoe, and darted away home to tell the news. "Pâ€"aâ€"uâ€"1!‘‘ exclaimed Robin. again, waving his hand excitedly. "O you «dlarling!‘‘ cried Felix. He threw open the window. ‘"Paul l‘ he called. ‘‘Rebin satd ‘Pauk 1 ‘‘Now say it once more for Paul Stanley,"‘ Felix urged. "Pâ€"aâ€"uâ€"l,""‘ patiently repeated the little one, and then, while they were exclaiming and praising, he ended, with a mighty effort, "‘Tâ€"aâ€"nâ€" One noon the brothers were at. the window, as usual, when Felix‘s. attention was taken up by the capâ€" ers of a boy down the street, and he quite forgot to_ watch for the Stanley children. Then suddenly there was a glad cry of "Pâ€"aâ€"ul! right in his ears. He turned and stared at Robin, too amazed for a word. "Oh, L don‘t hb lheve_ it!‘‘! ho laughed. "I wish you would try to talk, Robin, dear,‘"‘ coaxed Felix. . T don‘t want folks to think you can‘t."" "I wouldn‘t bother about it," mother said, overhearing his pfi.' "I love to!‘‘ cried Felix. But although Felix continued his. lessons day after day, Robin said. not a single word. ‘"‘There‘s Paul Stanley !‘ Felix pointed to the boy going into the: yard across the street. ‘"Robin, say ‘‘Paul Stanley.‘ * . "Ooâ€"a0â€"00!‘ was Robin‘s hapâ€" py answer. & ; ‘Dear . me!‘ l&aughed mother ‘‘Don‘t you worry one mite about Robin. Two years isn‘t so very old not to talk. He‘ll chatter fa% enough pretty soon. %Some chil= dJren learn to talk a great deal younger than others." "Cikes But Robin only wriggled joyfulâ€" ly on Felix‘s knees, and waved his fat little hand. j ‘ There is Herbert Grant,""‘ Felix said. _ ‘"Can‘t Robin say, ‘Herâ€" bert‘ 1" ns When the little brother W&lfi! up, Felix took him to the windo to see the children coming home. from school. 5 I Eie oo ie en e en n e Nee ‘‘Why, the Stanleys all say he is going to be deaf and dumb, becaus, he is almost two years old @h& hasn‘t talked yet !!‘ f l "Deaf and dumb?‘ mother reâ€" peated, looking puzzled. "What ever put that into your head?" _ Felix came in with & trouble& little face. ‘‘Mocher,"‘ he crled,_ «o you think Robin is going to be deaf and dumb ?? FOOD, WATER AND AIR y !')) WHEN ROBIN TALKED