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.3 sm "Love is a compound thing," Paul tells us. It is like light. As you have seen a man of science take a beam of light and pass it through a crystal prism, as you have seen it come out on the other side of the prism broken up into its component ecslors-red, and "m4 'ellow, and Violet. and orange, and all the colors of the rainbow-so Paul passes this thing, love, through the magnificent prism of his inspired intellect, and it Lesson IX. Paul on Christian Love. Golden Text, 1 Cor. 13: 1-13. I. Love Completes All Virtues, and Makes Perfect All the Good Things of Life.-Vs. 1-3. Eloquence, uninspired by real love, not seek. ing the highest good of the bearer, is but sounding brass, or a, tinkling cymbal; mere noise without har, mony, without meaning, without the soul of music. This is true even it we had the gift of tongues be, stowed by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and could express in every language with the utmost eloquence, every rapt emotion, every highest experience and ecstay of the human heart, that "harp of a thousand strings" ; yea, though I have the eloquence and perfect language of the angels. _ On the other hand, eloquence is one of the most powerful instru, ments- of love in persuading men to repent, in moving men toward righteousness, in portraying the blessedness of serving Christ. De, spise not these gifts, but transform and give them power as the instru- ments of love. Then they are sweet as the music of the angel hampers in heaven. Our next duty is to learn what love is. Like life, love cannot be defined, but it can be described and recognized by what it does, by its fruits, by the expression of its qualities. It is like life. The greats est scientists cannot tell what it is in its essence, but only describe 1t by qualities and results. All the qualities together do not make life or love. II. The Spectrum of Love. The Qualities Which are Combined in 1Perfect Love.--Vs. 4-7. The abso, lute importance of love, as an essential pare of all virtues and ac- tions, has been shown in the first three verses. It is not necessary to deny the validity of old beliefs in order to assert the imperative of newer con- captions. Many thitigs we doubt may be just as true ', as those of which we are most certain. The The fear of hell persuades few, if. any, to-day; the hope of heaven seems too indefinite, too uncertain to act as a motive, even if the se- curing of goodness by the promise of a moral process. Now when a man holds in the balanee_questior1s of conduct, motives of fear and re- ward being absent, what is there to govern his decision? The Evidence For Any Revelation Is That . Our Hearts Answer to It THE SUNBAY SCHEBL ialflllifllls IN RELIGIEJN A-XOICE OF AUTHORITY. Now the plain fact is that for many the old compulsions and the old im, peratives have lost their author, ity. What is there to take their place? "It a man will do his will he shall know the doctrine."--John vii. 17. Yet neither scepticism on one side nor blind indifference to facts on the other will keep man from keen, ly desiring to be sure of the things which seem to him to constitute his religious life. Who can blame the passion found in all for some glimpse of the facts of life beyond, and what more natural than that we should want to know whether ah the time and thought invested in religion are wasted, spent on a delusion or not? _ V Then come the real questions of life: What makes right? What de- termines ultimately the higher values in existence? What solution is there to this mystery of exist. ence, to the problem of pain, to the shadow of death? Why does ini- quity seem to prosper? What be- comes of eternal justice under our modern conditions of living? . To many it seems as if there is no longer anything clearly, definite- ly settled. Once we were quite sure of the statements of the creeds and tifé church sp ke with Are there any certainties in re- ligion? Is it not all either mere speculation or a matter of feeling? Is anything susceptible of absolute Froof'! Some answer that the re- igious life does not need to, com cern itself with certainties in any~ thing like the scientific sense, while others say that any kind of Cer- tainty is, impossible in that which has to do with things so intangible as the life of faith. INTERNATIONAL LES SON, AU G U ST 29. The Coroner's jury in the Michael Hall case at Simcoe found that death was caused by a shot hved bs some unknown person. President James Ross of the Do- minion Coal Company reiterates his determination to fight the striking, miners to a. finish. Love the Greatest of All. But the greatest of these is charity. Love. (1) It is greatest in its nature, nob- iest, deepest, happiest, most per- vasive, most heavenly. (2) It brings us closest to God, makes us par- takers of his nature, his children and heirs. (3) It is the one thing without which faith and hope are of little avail. (4) ft is the most powerful, exerts the widest irrdu- ence for good, is the strongest mo- tive for the upbuilding of character. (5) It is universal. Every person, of every degree, may have this love. More than all other things together it makes those that have it “free and equal.” (6) With faith and hope, love is eternal. The longer one lives, the more love he can have. It will expand and grow forever and ever, in increasing blessedness and glory. Hope Abideth. For the more we gain the larger our vision of things to hope for. The more we gain our ideal, the more glorious the ideal to be gained. And this through eternal ages. We do not cease growing, developing, by go- ing to heaven. III. Love is 1mperishable.--Vs. 8-12. Love, like light, shines on however it may be received. Men may hate it, but love continues. Men may get so hardened as not to be infHeneed by it, but God loves them still. Men may persecute and injure and rebel agarnst and hate those who love them, but these things cannot destroy the love. Love is like the laws of nature; you may break them, but they do not change; you may defy them, but they work right on; you may use them and they trust them un- lest, deepest, happiest, most per- Faith Abideth. We shall never cease to trust in God, for our souls can no more live in heaven than they can here, without divine help and influence which come from trusting his as Governor, Helper, and Friend. Faith will only be stronger, more complete, in heaven than here. IV. The Immortal Throe.--Arcsu. 13. And now, in conclusion, abideth faith, hope, charity. comes out on the other side broken up into its elements. And in these few words we have what one might call the spectrum of love, the analysis of love. _ The uncertainties are in the past, matters of yesterday's reeords;the certainties are for the life of to- day. Let a man answer the best in himself with affirmative action, hat him give freedom to his own soul aria he shall know of the truth. Do the right and the right will be increasingly clear. Look within for your certainties. Debate not with the voice that bids you rise. difficulty is we are not convinced of them and we dare not profess. to believe where we remam unconvict- ed. Nevertheless certainties are ours ; they have an authority far greater than those of past days; they speak, not from without, but from within. Childhood listens for the word from the skies OI' the message graven on stone, the man hears the voice with- in and obeys the inner witness. All the external phenomena of religion might be discredited, but the fact of religion in the heart of man would remain. The essential things are written where they cannot be erased save bs our neglect or denial of them, that it is better being good than bad, that we know the good from the evil, that life was made to climb from level to level, that love is fairer than hate, that self-seek- ing is the denial of the best we know. We are sure of ourselves as moral beings, as those who are capable of self-examination, of choice be- tween acts, of determination and responsibility. More, we know ourselves as born for higher things. The great prophets of the race speak first in our own breasts. OUR ASPIRATIONS Even though all scriptures and re- cords should he blotted out, all ex- ternal authority vanish, all the history of religion be lost to us, yet there would remain the exter- nal trend of our lives, the longing for fuller, better life, and the pas- sion for perfection; there would re- main the sense of harmony with good and the doubt as to evil, while the record of what we are reveals the power that has brought us from what we were. _ are due not so much to invitations from above as to propulsions from within. _ HENRY F. COPE. M, hat the Canadian National Exhi- bition Looks Like. The greatest year in the history of the Canadian National Exhibi- tion is assured. There are horses from across the ocean as well as hom across the line, Jerseys from the Street Railway King of Toron- to and horses from Sir William Van Horne's Manitoba farm. There are sheep from Canada and from the United States. There are manufac- tures finished and manufactures in the making. There's everything and an abundance of it. Add all is to the greatest bill-of special attractions the Canadian National Exhibition ever offered and you have all the elements of a world‘s fair-and a, few things thrown in besides. Exhition grounds at Toronto this year. All the big buildings are fit- ted with exterior decorations of electric light and they turn the Ex- hibition nights into the whitest kind of days. This brilliancy added to the martial music. the movements of troops and all the panoply of dis- play makes the night scene at the Canadian National one never to be forgotten. Lady Alma-Tadema. wife of the famous Must, is dead. Nearly the Entire Tonnage Will be in Operation. A despatch from Detroit, Mich.. says: President Livingston of the Lake Carriers' Association, says: "But 55 per cent.- of the lake ton- nage was in commission last year. This fall between 90 and 100 per cent. of the boats will be in opera- tion. Grain rates have not yet been fixed, but vesselmen expect to get three cents per bushel when the fall rush comes. Ore rates are at present 65 cents per ton, but in all probability and judging from the increasing conditions of prosperity carriers will get a rate of $1, the latter part of the season. Next sea- son will be one of the best in the history of lake commerce, accord- ing to the present indications. All available tonnage will find busi- ness." Night Scene at Canadian National Exhibition. The "Electric City”. is a fitting name for the Canadian National Suftr'agettes Post Sentries at the Premier's Residence. A despatch from London says: The militant suffragettes who have been picketing the House of Com- mons for the past six weeks with the object of securing an interview with Mr. Asquith, the Premier, have extended their operations to the Premier's residence on Down- ing street. Mrs. Despard and Mrs. Saunderson, on Wednesday after- noon, took up their stand outside Mr. Asquith's house, and declared that sentries would be maintained uninterruptedly until the Premier granted an audience. The Premier, however, is able to slip through a garden in the rear of his house, to which the public does not enjoy ac- cess. No Extension of Time in Proprie- tory Medicine Act. A despatch from Ottawa says: The Proprietory Medicines Act went into force on April l, but mer- chants having on hand medicines purchased before that date were granted an extension of time in which to procure and affix the stamps required by law. The time was extended by order-in-Council to Sunday, Aug. 15. Enquiry at the Inland Revenue Department on Wednesday disclosed that no fur- ther extension is likely to be grant- ed and dealers failing to comply with this requirement of the Act will be liable to prosecution. The stamps can be procured by dealers in any district from the nearest in., land revenue collector. Praised by Glasgow Magistrate at New York. A despatch from New York says: Mr. James Shaw Maxwell, Senior Magistrate of the City of Glasgow, who is making an extensive tour of tho United States and Canada, ar- rived in New York on Tuesday. Al- though Mr, Maxwell's purpose in visiting America is for the trans- action of private business, he is taking advantage of the opportun- ity to study public institutions. He declares he has been greatly im- pressed with those he has already visited in Chicago, Boston, Toron- to and Ottawa. Coming, as be does, from the birthplace of muni- cipal ownership, Mr. Maxwell pro- fesses surprise that the citizens of the large municipalities are not more interested in that problem. "From what I have already observ- ed," he said, "the Canadian cities are far ahead of those in the United States in many respects. They ap- pear to be better regulated, and are kept cleaner." MR. ASQUITH WELL GUARDED MUST COMPLY WITH LAW. AUTUMN LAKE TRAFFIC, THE CITIES OF CANADA. TIIE GREATE ST EVER. A BLAZE OF LIGHT. We are not the only country to suffer in like fashion. Was ever a more glaring instance of thankless- ness than was exhibited by the Phri"1ppjm-er"irlanderc? n _ -----_, a quiet, plainly dressed woman, who was also sewing. They fell in- to conversation about domestic af- fairs, telling each other how they made their own frocks, and those of their children. "I like to occupy myself with this sort of work," said the seamstress. "So do I," repli- ed the other woman. "It is one of my greatest pleasures." Then, as further eonfidence seemed in or- der, "My husband is a good man," the little seamstress continued. "So is mine," admitted theother wo- man. "Mine works in a railway station, as did his father before him," said the seamstress, encour- aged to go still deeper into her his- tory by her listener's interest. "My own father was a wocdcarver. What was yours?" After a moment's he- sitation the other woman said sim- ply, "My father is Francis Joseph." And, in fact, it was the daughter oi the Austrian Emperor, the Arch- dnchess Gisela. wife of the regent 4, i' Bavaria. who was sewing in the public garden in Vienna. Story of Areluluehess Gisela, Daughter of Austrian Emperor. A short time ago in one of the public gardens in Vienna a seam- stress found herself seated beside BOTH WITH GOOD HUSBANDS. In November, 1898, the Unitifd States, after beating Spain, paid her $20,000,000 for the islands. The Americans proceeded to institute every kind of usefl'l reform, and promised the Filipinos that, when they were fit, they should have self- government. ... . . ."'. Were the Filipinos grateful? So deeply that they turned on their benefactors, and under Aguinaldo fought them for three years. The rebellion cost the lives: of nearly three thousand Americans, and an expenditure of over $50,000,000. The same accusation applies to Egypt, the people of which country Lord Cromer and his predecessors have raised from a miserable slav- ery to a prosperous farming com- munity. Formerly, the Egyptian fellah had to work fourteen to fd- teen hours a day to earn enough food to keep him alive and to pay the enormous taxes exacted from him. To-day he works eight, and spends his spare time in plotting sedition against his best friends, AMERICA, TOO, SUFFERED. Talk about "man's ingratitude" ! It is nothing to that of a nation. Everyone knows that, were it not for Britain, Germany would long ago have swallowed up Holland with its coveted ports. Yet how much gratitude have the Dutch ever exhibited? During our revers- es in South Africa every Dutch paper fairly shrieked with jubila- tion. Japan has shown gratitude for our help. Germany, on the other hand, seems bent upon forcing upon us a ruinous competition in the building of Dreadnoughts. We have for a hundred years been sending our best men to India, not to merely live in the country, but to work in it. We have irrigated huge tracts and so saved them from famine. We have instituted a splen- did system of education. India to-day is more populous, richer, happier in every way than ever at any previous epoch, and-by way of showing their gratitude Bengali Students at British-insti- tuted colleges have been shooting defenceless women through train windows, and hurling bombs at British officials. NATIONS NOT GRATEF UL HOW BRITAIN HAS BEEN TREATED FOR FAVORS. The German Navy, whose tremen- dous expansion is worrying us so deeply is the direct descendant of the old Prussian Navy. And we, the British nation, are directly re- sponsible for the fact that Prussia started a Navy, says Pearson's Weekly. That started the trouble. Prussia sent a number of naval cadets over here to be trained, and began build- ing for herself. The next thing we heard was that a, Prussian squad- ron with the Thetis as flagship, and commanded by a Brltish trained of- ficer, had started on an ocean-going cruise. The squadron went to Japan, and Japan was so greatly interested that she herself at once called on British seamen for instruction. If only our fathers could have looked forward one short half cen- tury, and realized their colossal foolishness! Prussia, with her wretched sandy coast, her almost entire lack of harbors, and her shallow, almost land-locked sea, had no naval ambitions. Then what must we do but make Prussia the present of a, warship. She was the Thetis, a fine ’old craft if somewhat out of date. 7 Germany, India, Egypt and Holland Have all Shown Their In gratitude. JAPAN SHOWED GRATITUDE. A Chinese patrol was assaulted by a body of Japanese soldiers in Manchuria. Business Disorganized by Heaviest Storm in Years. A despatch from Johannesburg, South Africa, says: The heaviest snowfall in many years occurred here on Tuesday. Six inches had fallen at noon. The telegraph and telephone services are badly disor- ganized and business has been al- most suspended. Farmers Near Newhoro' Suitet. Loss of Their Grain. A despatch from Ottawa says: Farmers up the Rideau, near New- boro', complain of the destruction of their grain by grasshoppers, of which there are clouds. The place has never before had such a visita- tion. Horrible Death of a Young College Student. A despatch from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., says: Fred G. Cogs- well, a watchman on the steamer J. T. Hutchinson, met a horrible death early on Thursday morning, as the boat was locking through the American Canal, when he clam- bered over the side to get ashore to handle lines. In the darkness he slipped into the water between the boat and the canal walls. He caught the fender streak, and tried to get out, but was too late. The boat closed in and crushed him be- tween the fender streak and the canal walls, nearly cutting him in two. Cogswell was a college stu- dent, aged 20 years. He had been on the boat for two months, and was making his last trip before pre- paring for the Fall term. His par- ents live in Cleveland. The Grand Trunk Paeifte to Tap the District. A despatch from Montreal says: The G. T. P. officials announce the finding of valuable coal lands near Pembina and are planning to tap the district. The track-laying is be- ing rushed with all possible speed, and it is said that when the rails reach the Pembina River one of the first shipments over the new line will be of machinery for the devel- opment of these coal properties. It Is expected that the railway com- pany will secure fuel here for the entire line west of Edmonton. It is stated also that tho coal is the very best bituminous, and very much superior to the lignite coal in the Edmonton district. A Disastrous Collision in the Detroit River. A despatch from Detroit says: In a collision in the Detroit river ofi Sandwich Point, shortly before g o’clock on Tuesday night, the steel steamer Collingwood, commanded by Captain F. J. Bassett of Colling- wood, and carrying a crew of twen- ty-three men, was rammed by the steamer George L. Craig. Five minutes later the Collingwood went down in forty feet of water, after Captain Bassett had made a heroic effort to run her ashore on the Am- erican side of the channel. The crew all escaped in safety. The Craig was not seriously injured, and after a, short delay, proceeded, Pascal Parent, Aged Seventy-Two Years, the Victim. A despatch from Quebec says: Pascal Parent, aged 72 years, of Notre Dame de Barre Coeur, near Rimouski, was killed by a, vicious bull in a field at his homeon Sun- day. The animal had been chained up, owing to his viciousness, but was liberated by the old man, who had gone to feed it. The victim was well-known and highly esteemed, and was Mayor of the parish. A despatch from Montevideo I South America, says '. The excursion _ steamer Colombia, which plies regu- larly between Buenos Ayres and Montevideo, Was rammed and cut in two while entering the harbor cn. Tuesday by the North German Lloyd steamer Schliesen, and some eighty persons were drowned. The Schlesien, which is a vessel of 3,528 tons, had arrived here from Brem- en, outward bound. The Columbia was bringing in exeursionists, most- ly women and children, for the na- tional fetes hrre. There was a heavy sea on and a thick rain was falling. Just as the Colombia reach- ed the entrance to the harbor the S-chlesien struck the excursion boat almost amidships, and out her down. The excursion steamer sank in a few seconds, but the after part floated for some minutes. Excursion Steamer Rammed Cut in Two. EIGHTY PEOPLE DROWNED . CLOUD OI? GRASSHQPPERS. BODY SEVERED IN CANAL. SNOW IN JQHANNESB URG. TIIE CeLLENGW00D SUNK. BULL KILLED OLD MAN. PEMBINA COAL FIELD S. and A des atch from London saystr ft is angerstood that New Ztiavlatn will provide cruisers for New Zea- land waters instead of a Dread- nought for the fleet. At the final meeting of the Imperial Defence Conference on Thursday a resolu- tion was brought forward to the ef- fect that all the naval and military frrces of the empire shall be so organized that each shall be in a, position to render efficient service in an emeigency in any part of the empire. Investigation Into Deaths Show Symptoms of Scourge. “ A despatch from Warrensbtfhr",' Missouri, says: The recent sud- den deaths of Washington Weeks and his brother, Henry, living with their sister, near Kingsville, Mo., caused an investigation by J. A. B. Adock, State Health Commis- sioner, who reported that, while they had every symptom of Asiatic cholera, he believed they died from sporadic cholera or aggravated cholera morbus. Forces Prepared to Serve in Any Part of the Empire. Several villages in the State of Victoria, Australia, have been sub- merged by floods, and great dam- age has been done. Eighty per cent. of the deaths among 1etter-sorters in Australia are due to tuberculosis. Greece has sent a note to Turkey saying that she will abide by the decision of the protecting powers in the Cretan affair. Harry Eckley, formerly of Toron-, to, was killed by strike sympathi ers in a riot at McKee’s Rock: Pa., on Saturday. Women led the rioting strikers at McKee’s Rocks, Pa., on Friday,. and had to be disperserloy trpops. Three persons were killed in an: automobile accident Saturday dur- ing races on the motor speedway- at Indianapolis. A proposal was made to adopt a, great Red Cross system within the British Empire to work with tho, territorial army. Ten men attempted to rob a large- iewellery store in Cheapside, Lon- don, on Saturday. A' natural gas explosion in Cleveland wrecked a building and] injured ten. A rumor current in New York says that Harriman has secured. control of the New York Central lines. An inexhaustible supply of pitch blends, from which radium is ob- tained, has been discovered in Cali- fornia. Dr. Herbert D. Pease, a native of Toronto, has been appointed direc- tor of bacteriological work in tho. Lederie laboratories, New York. A man having $1,000,000 in coun- terfeit notes was arrested in Ken-, tucky. Two trainmen were killed on the, Pere Marquette Railroad, near Lansing, Mich., by an explosion of the locomotive boiler. The Bank of Commerce estimates. the western Wheaa, crop at 113,979,- 000 bushels, the oat crop at 157;“ 537,000 bushels, and the bark. crop at 24,320,000 bushels. _ Suffragettes caused t.iistih.baye.s at several public meetings in Bri- tain. After October Isl, Montreal con- sumers will get their electricity for ten cents a kilowatt, instead of fit-, teen cents, as at present. Mr. Robert Meighen, President of the Lake of the Woods Milling Company, declares that farmers- will do better by holding their wheat. Eight suffragettes were arrest- edNirL London on Thursday. CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS Wilfrid Bourque of West Fam- ham, Que., and another man were, killed in an automobile race at Lr. dianapolis, Ind., on Thursday. Ti‘legrwnlo Briefs From Our Own: and Other Countries 01 Recent Events. Harold McQueen, a Hamilton. boy, was bitten by a dog, and ie, is feared rabies may result. Port Arthur will expend. $10,000: in the extension of the local tel/61 phone system and improvements: r""s'r Lord Strathcona in Montreal, spoke most hopefully of the pros- pects of rapid progress for the Do- minion. HAPPENING-S E'rt01f ALL OVER THE GLOBE. There is a rush to Otter town, ship, where rich finds of silver are reported. A scheme has beer the formation of the Canadifmp navy. Code 1 have to Sept. lst DISEASE LIKE CHOLEBA. REA D Y AN D EFFICIENT. UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN telegraph messages wilt pay higher rates after GENERAL. CANADA. has - been outlined for nucleus of