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of a new century of the two most enlightened nations in the world, the United States and Great Britain, being In war simultaneously, the former on the border of Asia and the latter in Africa, is an event of evil portent for the coming age. But both the Ger- man statesman and the British journal would take a less gloomy View of the present time it they should glance back at the conditions which prevailed a hundred years ago. Not only were the two nations named en. gaged in war a century ago, but many other countries were also involved in hostilities in some part of the world. England and France were having a life and death grapple at that time through the ambition, or the supposed ambition, of Bonaparte to bring the whale of .EurOpe under his sway, and every great nation and most of the small ones in the Old: \Vorld par- ticipated in that conflict at one time and another. The Prince’s own country furnishes at 1â€"4: r'iking illust ration of th” march Of prugrz‘ss in the century in which he H‘t‘lu~ Lu see nothing but retrogres- sion. A little over I“) yea. rs ago Prus- sia engaged with Austria and Russia in three divisions of Poland which ef- faced that hapless nation from the world’s map, Bonaparte and other con- therors often changed the map in the earlier part 01 the present century, but comparatively little of that work has been done in recent years, and none of. it has been done which ranks in internatioal criminality with the partition of Poland. Within the last half of the century which is soon to close there has been a manumission of the slaves in the United States and in all the other nations which had slavery in that time, and an emancipa- tion of the serfs in Russia. The dark continent of Africa ( has been opened up to civilization. Prus- sla has gained a constitution in this half century, the first which it ever possessed. The German states, under the leadership of Prus- sia, have, been welded into a great nation. Italy, which was only a geo- gr phical expression as recently as Metternich’s time, has been transâ€"- formed into one of the great powers of the earth. In the past 100 or 125 years man has made greater ad- vancement politically and socially than he did in all the previous ages of the world. ed to make him their instrument for assassinating the King out Italy. The man seemed sane. but no corrobora- tion of his story could be obtained. Unexyectedly, after drinking wine. he broke out into anarchistic threats. Acting upon this hint, Professor Lom- broso administered alcohol to him in carefully measured quantities. and discovered that after he had drunk a certain amount he developed violent criminal tendencies, all recollection of which appeared to have vanished from his mind when the effect at the alco- hol had passed cit. Probably Prince th‘enlohe’s dolefnl view of present tendencies has been largely incited by the wars which have recently taken place or are now under way. An English newspaper has just said that the spectacle at the dawn ALCOHOL AND ANARCHY. Prof. Cesare Lombroso recently had an opportunity to test scientificalli the effect of alcohol in developing latent criminal tendencies. The sub- jam of his experiments was a man who had surrendered himself to the police with the avowal that anarchists wish- A remarkable instance at mental obliquity in comparing the pres- ent with the past is seen in a mach just delivered by the Chan- collar of the German Empire, Prince Hohenlohe. At a banquet held in Berlin to commemorate the mth anni- versary of the founding ot the Royal Academy of Science that statesman remarked that he had grown old in the belief of the progress of humanity, but that in recent times his confi- dence on this point has been shaken. "The indispensable battle for life.” 110 declares, “has of late assumed so fierce and coarse a form that we are reminded at the wild and {autistic tales of animallite in the antedilu- vlan ages. Instead of progress, ret- rogression seems to mark the begin- ning of the twentieth century.” This is a plain: with which the world has grown familiar in the few centuries, but it is unusual toflud it uttered by n statesman a! the ability and sanity d the present German Ghancellor. Many a contributor to the world's history doesn't know the first pfinci- plan at grammar. Yon look awful sick, old man. I'll telephone out. to your house that you are coming home early. ' 0h, nol Don't let my wile know. But why not? She has been trying to [at me home oarly {or a month. to move some furni- râ€" ' as. E1133 :3 $005 as be looked at my hand he saw trouble 1:: it. I thought; you were satisfied that that pahm'st was a take. You haven’t b91110..% 121m! again? - "'2 Notes and Ccmments. Yes, I shook it under his nose. PREFERRED 1‘0 BUFFER. I'D WAS A FIST. THE MlDNlGfll‘ WHESTLE. Red-hot disasters have dropped into your store from lol't to cellar. “hat you bought you could not sell. Whom you trusted fled. The help you expect- ed would not come. Some giant panic, with long arms, and grip like death, took hold of you in an awful wrestle, from which you have nOt yet escaped, and it is uncertain whether it will throw you, or you will throw it. Here is another soul, in struggle with some bad appetite. He knew now how steal- thily it was growing upon him. One hour he woke up. He said, " For the sake of my soul, of my family, and of my children, and of my God, I must stop this I” And behold he found himself alone, by the brook Jabbock; and 11‘ was midnight. That evil ap- petite seized upon him, and be seized upon it; and O, the horror of the con- flict! When once a bad habit hath roused itself up to destroy a man. and the man has sworn that. by the help of the eternal God. .he will de- stroy it, all heaven draws itself out in long line of light, to look from above. and all hell stretches itself in myrmsidons of Spite to look up from beneath. I- have seen men rally them- selves for such a struggle, and they have bitten their lip, and clenched their fist, and cried with a blood red earnestness, and- a rain of scalding tears, “God help me 1” From a wresde with habit, I have seen men [all back defeated. 08“ng for no help, but relying on their own resolutions, they have come into the Struggle; and for a time it seemed as if they were getting the upper hand of their habit: but that. habit rallied again its internal power, and lifted its soul from its standing. and with a force borrowed from thepit, hurled it into outer darkness. Fir , I saw the anctioneer's mallet (all; on the pictures, and musical instruments, and the, rich upholstery of his family parlour. After a while I saw him tall into the ditch. Then, in the mid- night. when the children were durum- ing their sweetest dreams, and Chris- than households are silent with slum- ber, angel-watched. I heard him. (we THE SHARP SHRIEK The dust arose from a travelling herd of cattle, and sheep. and goats, and camels. They are the present that Jacob sends to gain the good-will of his offended brother. That night Jacob halts by the brook Jabbock. But there is no rest for the weary man. No shin- ing ladder to let the angelb down into his dream; but a fierce combat, that lasts until morning, with an un- known visitor. They each try to throw the other. The unknown vlsitor, to re- veal his superior power, by atouch wrenches Jacob’s thigh bone from its socket, perhaps maiming him for life. As on the morning sky the clus- ters of purple cloud begin to ripen, Jacob sees it is an angel with whom he has been contending, and not one of his brother’s coadjutors. “ Let me go,” cries the angel. lifting himself up into increasing light, “ the day breaketh.” You see, in the first place, that God allows good people sometimes to get into. a terrible struggle. Jacob was agood man; but here he was left alone in the midnight to wrestle with a tremendous influence by the brook Jabbock. For Joseph a pit; for Dan- iel, a wild beast den; for David. de- ihronement and exile; {or John the Baptist, w ilderness diet and the exe- cutioner’s axe; for Peter, a prison; for Paul, shipwreck; for John, deso- late Patmos; for Vashti, most insult- ing cruelty; for Josephine, banish- ment; {or Mrs. Sdgourney, the agony of a drunkard’s wife; for John \Ves- A despatoh from Washington says: Rev. Dr. Talmage, preached from the following text :â€"â€"“ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him he touched the hol- low of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him. And he said, ‘ Let me go for the day breaketh.‘ And he said, ‘I will not let thee gp except thou bless me.’ ”â€"Genesis xxxii, 24. 1 will go fut-{Ear and say that ev- ery (fhriszian has his struggle. W'ith financial misfortune you have had that followed tho stab of but own pionard. He toll firm u: honou‘nd 30cm! position; he tell from atamfly circlg pt w ich one; o 3333 the ra .- as": attrééfihd'n; her to {from time 6%. ley, stones hurled by an infuriated mob; for Catherine, the Scotch girl, the drowning surges of the sea; for Mr. Burns, the buffetting of the Mont- real populace ; for John Brown, of Ed- inburgh, the pistol-shot of Lord Cla- verhouse; for Hugh McCall, the scaf- fold; for Latimer, the stake; for Christ, the Cross. For whom the rocks, the gibbets. the guillotines, the thumb screws? For the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Some one said to a Christian reformer, “The world is against you.” “ Then,” he re- prlied,’ “I am against the world.” Rev. Dr. Talmage Talks of Their Struggles. of God, at whosc altars he had been consecrated; he foilâ€"401' ever! But, thank God, I have seen men prepare thunselves for amch a Meeting. The: laid hold of God’l toga? they went 1:: to combat. The ' I habit, ro- galed by the cup of many disslpauona um out. Itrong and defiant. They Jacob’s Combat With an Unknown Visitor--Men’s Conflict With Evil Habits-=With the Help of the Lord They Triumph-Prosperity and Trouble Compared. clenched. There were the writhings and distortions of a fearful struggle. But the old giant began .to waver; and 30 last, in the midnight alone, with none but God to witness, by the brook Jabbock, the giant. fell: and the triumphant wrestler broke the dark- ness with. the cry. “Thanks be unto {God who giveth us the Victory, it’hrougb our Lord Jesus Christ." ‘There 18 a widow’s heart, that first 4 l l l l l l l l was desolated .by bereavement, and since. by the anxieties and trials that came in the support of. a family. It . ‘3 a sad thing to see a man contend-. £08 for a livelihood under disadvant-z ages: but to see a delicate woman, -..-~.._â€".â€"â€"â€"..._.__. -,. _ -.â€".--. â€". - with helpless little ones at her back,. fighting the giants of poverty and‘ sorrow. is more affecting It. was a 5 humble home: and passers by knew j not that within those four walls were ' displuys of courage more admirable: than that of Hannibal crossing the§ Alps. or in the Pass of. Thermopylae, ? or at Balaklava, where, “ into the jaws of death, rode the six hundred.’ These heroes: had the whole would to cheer them on: but; there were none to: applaud, the struggle in that hum- ble home. She fought for bread. for -clothing. for fire, for shelter. with :aching head. and weak‘ side, and ex- hausted strength. through the long night by the brook Jabbock. Could it be that none would give her help? Had God forgotten to be gracious No! contending soul. The midnight air is full of wings, coming to the res- cue. She hears it now. in the sough of the night wind. in the ripple of the brook Jabbock.â€"the A GOLD-EN CROWN of laurel leaves: Btu, amid all the appmuse and enthusiasm Rossini turn- ed to a friend and said, "1 would give all Lhis brilliant scene for a few days of youth and low." Lea 1-11 again from this subject. lhalâ€" people sometines are surprise-:1 to find out. tlm 1. what they have been strug- gimp,- \ch 1n the darkness. is zeally rzn "angel of blessmg.’ Jacob found 1n the mormng, thrlt th1s strange personage was ilnot an enemy, but a God-deSpatched messenger to promise prosperity for him and for his children. And so, many :1 man, at. the close of his trial, has found out that he has been try- ing to throw down his own blessing. If you are a Christian man, I will go back in your history and find that the grandest things that have ever hap- pened to you, have been your trials. Nothing short of scourging, impris- onment and ship-“reek, could have mad: Paul \\ but he “as. \Vhen David “as fleeing through the wilderness, pursued by his own son, he was be- ingr prepared to become the sweet singer of Israel. The pit and the dungeon were the best schools at which Joseph evcr graduated. The hurricane that upset the tent, and killed Job's children, prepared the man of U2 to write the magnificent poem that. has astounded the ages. There is no way to get the wheat out of “he sun“ but to thresh it. There is no any to purify the gold but to burn it. Look at the people \1 ho have alxsays had it their can \1 a) 'Ihey are proud, discontented, useless, and unhappy. If you want to find cheer- ful folks. go among those who have been purified by the fire. After Rossini had rendered \N'illiam Tell the fin: hundredth time. a company of musicians came under his “indow in Paris and Serenaded him. they put upon his b_row_ II is prosperity that kills, and 3h" mo trouble that saves. While the Israe- ,mg‘i t! lites were on the march, amid great I. ‘50, I privaiions and hardships. they be- :am 1” «' haved well. After awhile they prayed Lgrudge for meat; and the sky darkenedgonly fa M’ilh a great flock of quails; andlworld these quails tell in great multitudes 1 But wl: all about them; and the Israelites ate ? to b0 and ate, and stuffed themselves un- settled til they died. Oh, my friends, it is Want t. not hardship, or trial, or starvationanBS- A that injures the soul. but abundanthDfOObl supply. It is non the vulture otlffiint,l trouble that eats up the Christian’sl be her life; it is the quails! it is the quails! stretch You will yet find out that your mid- the he night wrestle by the brook Jabbock i draw I: is with an angel of God, come down me on, to bless and to save. ldoubtil Learn again that, while our wrest- ling with trouble may be triumphant, we must expect that it will leave its mark upon us. Jacob prevailed. but the angel touched him, and his thigh- bone sprang from its socket. and the (pod man went limping on his way. We must carry through this world the mark of the combat. What ploughed those premature wrinkles in your boot What whitened your hair be- 2933 It was time for front? \Vhat affirmed im‘ ever so much of the hil- arity at your household! Ah! it is because the angel at trouble hath touched you that you go limping on {our \fay. You geed not be any-prises! PROMISE MADE SO LONG AGO, ringing down the sky: “Thy father- less children I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in Mei” Some one; said to a very poor woman. "How is it that in such distress yup keep cheerful?” She said, "Ido u by what [will cross players. When I had my rent to pay, and nothing to pay ii, with. and bread to buy and nuihlnp; to buy it with, I usea to sit down -:ml cry. But. now I do not get (llSt'tdli‘ .ged. If 1 go along the. street, when l mme to :1 corner of the street, I say. The Lord help mel'. I then go until luume to another crossin of the 5' met. and again I say, 'The ford help me! And so I pray ax every (-rus- 5mg: Ylnll, sim‘e 1 have got. into the habit ut' saying these ‘cmss p-rayers.’ that thdu who have paged through the fire do not feel as GAY AS THEY ONCE DID. Donut on on» QM with than I have been able to keep up my Cour! age. ' nay to all, is a Struggle and a wrestle. We have many friends that it will be hard to Leave. I care not how, bright our future hope is. It is a bitter thing to look upon this fair world, and know that we shall never again see its blossoming spring, its falling fruits, its sparkling streams, and to say farewell to those with whom we played in childhood, or counselled in manhood. In that night, like Jacob, we may have to wrestle, but God will not leave us unblessed. It shall not be told in heaven that a dying soul cried unto God for help, but was not delivered. The lattice may be turn- ed to keep out the sun, or a book set. to dim the light of the midnight taper; or the room may be filled with the cries of orphanage and widow- hood; or the Church of Christ may mourn over our going; but, if Jesus calls, all is well. The strong wrestl- ing by the brook will cease; the hours of death’s night will pass along: one o’clock in the morning; two o‘clock in the morning; four o'clock in the morn- ing: the day breaketh. So I would have it when I die. I ‘am in no haste to be gone. I have no grudge against this world, The only fault [have to find with the world is, that it treats me too well. But when the time comes to o, I trust to be ready, my worldly a fairs all settled. If I have wronged others,I want then to be sure of their forgive- ness. In that last wrestling, my arm enfeebled with sickness, and my head faint, I want Jesus beside me. If. there be hands on this side of the flood stretched out to hold me back, I want the heavenly hands stretched out to draw me forward. Then, 0 Jesus, help me on, and help me up. Unfearing, un- doubting, may I step right out into the light, and be able to look back to my kindred and friends; who would detain me here, exclaiming, Let me goâ€"Let me go l” The day breaketh. Luther and Melanmhon were talking together gloomily about the prospects of the Church. «They could see no hope of deliverance. After a while, Luther got up and said to Melancth- on, “Come, Philip, let us sing the forty-sixth Psalm of David: “God is our refuge and strength, a very pre- sent help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be re- moved, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Sel‘lh." Mra. A. before the full-length por- trait of a girl-Oh, if I on]: know the paintgr of this:â€" Artist, stepping forward joyfullyâ€" Permit me, Madam, to introduce my- Belg as the painter. Mrs. A.â€" Vhat extraordinary good luck! Now you will tell me, won’t you the address of the dreasmaker who made this girl’s frock. Again: we may take the idea of the text, and announce the approach of the day-dawn. No one was ever more glad to see the morning than was Jacob after that night of struggle. It is appropriate for philanthropists and Christians to cry out with this angel of the text, "The day breaketh.” The world’s prospects are brightening. Popery has had its strongest props knocked out. The tyrants of the earth are falling flat in the dust. The Church of Christ is rising up in' its strength to go forth, “fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army of banners.” Clap your ’hands, all ye people, the day breaketh. The bigotries of the earth are perishing. The time was when we were told that if we wanted to get to heaven, we must be immersed or sprinkled; or we must believe in the perseverance of the saints, or in falling away from grace, or a liturgy, or no liturgy; or they must be Calvinists, or Armin‘i- ans, in order to reach heaven. W'e have all come to confess now that these are who come not out of their despond- ency. They may triumph over their loss, and yet their gait shall tell you that they have been troubled-touch- ed. Are we Stoics, that we can, un- moved, see our cradle rifled off the bright eyes and the sweet lips? Can we stand unmoved and see our gard- ens of earthly delight uprooted? Will Jesus, who wept Himself, be angry with us if we pour our tears into the graves that opened to swallow down what we love best? Was Lazarus more dear to Him than our beloved dead to us? No. We have a right to weep. Our tears must come. You shall not drive them back to scald the heart. They fall into God’s bottle. Afflicted ones have died be- cause they could not weep. Thank God for the sweet, the mysterious relief that comes to us in tears! Under this gentle rain the flowers of corn put forth their bloom. God pity that dry, withered, parched, all-consuming grief that wrings its hands, and grinds its teeth, and bites its nails unto the quick, but cannot weep! “76 may have found the comfort of the Cross, and yet ever after show that in the dark night, and by the brook Jabbock, we were trouble-touched. NON-ESSENTIALS IN RELIGION. During my vacation, one summer, I was in a Presbyterian audience, and it was sacramental day, and with grateful heart 1 received the Holy Communion. 0n the next Sahbathl was in a Methodist church, and sat at a love-steast. On the following Sabbath I was in an Episcopalian church and knelt at the alftar and re- ceived the consecrated bread. I do not know which service I enjoyed the most. "1 believe in the communion of saints and in the life everlasting.” "The day breaketh.” As I look upon this audience, I see/ many who have passed through waves of trouble that came up higher than their girdle. In God’s name 1 proâ€" claim cessation of hostilities. You shall not go always saddened and heart-broken. God will lift your bur- den. God will bring your dead to life. God will staunch the heart’s bleeding. I know He will. Like asa father pitieth his children, so the Lord pities you. The pains of earth will end. The tomb will burst. The dead will rise. The morning star‘ trembles on a brightening sky. The gates of the east begin to swing" open. The day breaketh. Experience comes high, but you aedn’t tell your neighbors what it AT THE ART EXHIBITION. DEATH T0 MANY, v_‘â€"â€"â€"â€" ‘ V‘Vv j7shows that; ie-fsonal agfilwatlon ywas nbt, made because of the cen- ttunon’s humility. He assumes that men of; high rank can most readily i mfluence Jesus. Beseechina him that : he would; come and heal. The affhct- . 6. Jesus went with them, Promptly 'responded to the faith of the centur- :ion and the messengers; "I will come 'and heal him.” he said. He was now : not far from the house. Near enough ,for one of the elders to hasten back 'to the centurion with the news that gthe great Rabbi was coming. The Toenturion sent friends to him. With fevery step that the Lord took 3the centurion realized with increas- Eing intensity. the awfulness of this ‘ ‘l’he Centnrlon's Servant Ruled." Luke 7. no. Golden Text. Pan. 108. 18. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse. 1. When he had ended all his sayings in the audience of the peo. ple. “Sayings” here refers to the Ser- mon on the Mount; “audience” has its oriSinal meaning of hearing; "the peo- ple” are the multitudes that constant- 15' thronged him; and the whole verse simply means that at the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount Jesus went to his home in Capernaum. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, APRIL 22. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. MuSIer .0! nature. Like Dwight L. Moody tn his early Christian life. this officer could not have passed a credi-‘ table examination in theology: but. he had in his heart the “root of the mat- ter,’ the essence of‘ faith. holy p-I‘ln-' ciples Which doubtless were developed ed later into genuine Christianity. I am not. worthy that thou shouldesl enter under my roof. His humility and his faith were equally remark- able. To his.‘ view Jams was a pet-ult- arly holy -rabbi. Rabbis generally avoided the: houses of Gentiles as un- clean and association with them as deffling. “The higher this mun placed Jesus onl the pinnacle of Judaism the more natural was it; for him not to expect the personal presence of the Master.”â€"Edensheim. 7. Neither thought Imyself worthy to come unto thee. This man is one of a type, and should be carefully stuâ€" ito you. {don’t worry. died. There are people in 9111: m”? . The holiness- iworrying he believed Jesusto possess increased 'cbeerfulness and. loving. khe necessary distance between them. WuLW‘luu-D, " Juvu (LIV 9V VVAJ thy to medical pocketbooks. Worry is a line thing [or the doctor, but a viery poor thing {or the patient, ms it breaks up the whole system, and invites all kinds of troubles. We must not blame the doctors too much. since they must make a livelihood. I only .wish that people would realize that they are not nearly so necessary as they think they are. . i There is plenty of happiness and -good in the world, as well as sorrow ;and seeming badness: you can have your shares as well as your neighbor, Expect it. demand it, declare that you can have it, that you will have it, and ithen get it in the best and easiest way. {You won’t be poor, or sick, or miser- ialble long adter you have learned that does not pay. and that kindness are ulIMVll .â€" :magneis as powerful as the sun, and Ethet every time you see them they will Cdraxw heal-2h. happiness and prosperity Therefore, whatever you do, 2. A certain centurion’s servant. A centurion in the Roman army was an officer in command of one hundred men. Each of the several centurions of the New Testament is mentioned- favorably. It has bebn guessed that this {centurion was in the army of Herod Antipas. He was a Gentile, Matt. 8. 10. That he was a“proee1yte” is not probable, for proselytes are us- ually referred to as either “devout men” or “men who feared God, while our Lord draws a definite line be- tween this heathen and the sons of the kingdom. But evidently this cen- turion was aman of lofty morals and wide human sympathies, or his Jewish neighbors, whose prejudices at the beginning must have been all against him, would not have been won over to his side. He was rich also and gener- ous. The "servant” was a slave, whose duties were those of a personal servant, possibly of a confidential clerk. Matthews says, “He lieth at home." Dear unto him is literally ”held in value by” or “precious to” him. The narrative throughout, in- dicates the master’s respect for and fondness of the slave. Was sick. Lit- erally, “he was in bad condition,” was ill; and Matthew tells us that he was palsied or paralyzed- and grievously tormented. His disease may have L_‘_ ,_ A 4, 5. Instantly. Urgently. These elders may not [have been disciples of Jesus, but were respectful of his pow- ers; certainly, if they had been re- cognized as opponents, the centurion would not “have selected them. He was worthy for whom he should do this. The Revised Version makes the phrase more dramatic. "He is worthy that when shouldest do this for him.” \Vorthy from the elders’ point of view, because, "'he loveth our nation, and himself built us our synagogue. Re- vised Version. He was a foreigner by blood, a heathen in religion, and a representative of tryanny, but by his kindness of heart and justice of behavior he had won the friendship of the loyal religionists and hot-headed patriots of Galileeâ€"a truly remark- able man. He had "bimself” built this house of worshipâ€"that is, entirely at his own expense. A little of Gali- lean free air and largeness of concep- tion, as well as much of the centur- ion’s nobility, is {hinted at by the very fact that a heathen was permitted to build so holy a Structure. Such a thing would hardly have been toler- ated in Judea. Of, a type, and should be carefully stu- died. There are people in our own day Who deeply reverence God and goodness, but who from undue diffi- Idenoe or beclouded religious views shrink from identifioetion with God's people. It may help us to get”: close to m it we .can understand this man's position, who, though classed as a an, was in full sympathy with the ewe, and had the faith of aChris- tion. Every sinful eouid should be a subject of special study. The Church will never outgrow the eoâ€"called “re- vival methods ;” but every good meth- od has incidental faults as well as been progressive paralysis or tetanus, some form of nervous cramps. Ready to die. Apparently past all help, Palestine is toâ€"day, as it was in the time 01 Christ, 3 land without com- pegeny _physicians. sy uugugue or ecolesmstlcal officers of ann sort; the were venerable men of influence in t e community. Verse 7 shows that; personal application was not, made because of the cen- turion’s humility. He assumes that men of- high rank can most readily influence Jesus. Beseechingy_ him that he would; come and heal. The afflict- ed man was too ill to be brought eseemu; Spears s,u03.m}uea sq) euesqo 01 Bugsexeiu'} s; .31 'Susef 03 of humility as Jesus approaches the house. H18 shrinking from meeting the Prophet develops into a shrinking from even having him enter his home. 4, 5. Instantly. elders may not have been disciples of Jesus, but were respectful of his pow- ers;.certalnly, if they had been re- cognxzed as opponents, the centurion would not have selected them. He was worthy for whom he should do this. The Revised Version makes the phrase more dramatic. "He is worthy that when shouldest do this for him.” \Vorthy from the elders’ point of view, because, “he loveth our nation, and himself built us our synagogue. Re- _v13e_d_ Version. He was a toreigmer .worLd would be. gthe foes of life, it darkens what would 'otherw.ise be a bright day; it makes 3 Urgently. These; There can only be so much of dark- ? to it. ;1.8 a proverb old, and of excellent wit.” ‘ -â€"L0~ng'fellow. l i If that bit of advice were only heed- t ed, how much better and happier the Worrying is one of the gentle mother cross, the father ir- ritable, and the life of the child is a sad one. There is no need to worry, for instead of advancing your cause “it hinders it. guess, rain or sorrow, and the glorious {sunshine comes again. The little tri- fals of life are the sign-posts along Life's highway, showing the right road to take in the future; you may have taken the wrong one at first; if so, you will know better the next time. Take a different course. and you will not worry or cross any bridges until you come to them. 3. When he. heard of PJesus. Not heard than he was coming down a certain street, but heard of hrs teachmgs and miracles. See Matt. 4. 24, 25: Luke 6. 17. He sent: unto hrm the elders of the Jews. Omit “the" before ”elders.” It does not seem that these came to Jesus as rulers of the synagogue or ecclesiastical officers of ann sort; the were venerable men of influence in t 9. community. Verse ”-1 . ; 10. {Found the servant whole that had beam sick. That was just what ,the centurion has asked for. “Ask. ' and it shall be given you; seek, and ye ; and it shall be given you; seek, and ye .shall find; knock, and it shall be iopened unto you." inherent merits, and the fault otthe “ revival methods’ is that they too often deal with souls by the whole- sale, and regard sinners in mass. No two sub ’ects of Christ’s saving POW‘ er are alike or need exactly the same manifestation of race. Sunday school teachers especialfy should keep this in mind, and take a timely lesson from the notable fact that Jesus never sDread out his hands over a town to cure all its sufferers at once. Indi- v1dual needs must be individually met. Say in a word, and my servant shall be healed. He saw that this Healer was neither a physician using reme- dies nor a magician using rites, but a Master who simply exerted his will tonbavnis‘h disease and infirmity. A11 men gr? anxious for fame, but many are wfllmg to accept money as a substitute. And the sharpest you still have sur- vived; But what torments of paifi‘you endur- "Some of your gr-iefs you have endur- wâ€"â€" -â€"â€"-- o..- VJ - 8. I also am a man set under au- thority, having under me soldiers. That is to say, Like you. Iboth obey authority and exemise authority. Go, and he goeth: . . . . .Come, and he cometh;. . . . Do this, and he doeth it. The next verse tells of our Lord’s astonishment at this saying. Well might he "niarvel,’ for probably, not another man in Palestine would. have thus frankly acknowledged the: nature and sweep of Jesus’s power. The centurion's unauestioning obedience «to the king, or emperor, helped him to understand our Lord’s unquestioning obedience to God, "Lo, I come to do thy Will. 0. God”; and his military authority help- ed him} to understand our Lord‘s mastery of Minds and waves and de- mons and mobs and fevers and. blind. ness and strokes. 9. He marveled. It will noti do to say that Jesus here expresses awon- der which, he does not feel. The words turned him about, and said are the record of his expression of gen- uine astonishment. If one says that all this is inconsistent with the that all. this is inconsistent. with the omniscience of divinity, the reply is simply that: the four gospels teach in every line that, as Dr. Kendrick has expressed lt,a "the Lord's divinity and his humanity stand in einexplicaible union.” Jesus was not an actor. He who could silently will the dying man back to: life was really ttaken by sur- Prlse at what this centurion said. I have not found so great. faith. no, not in Israel. The. one other occasmn where Jesus is said. to have marvel- ed was at unbelief; Mark. 6. 6. This commendation oi the soldier’s faith is essentially a commendation of his character, for no one can \be full of faith in; God without being“ faithful to God. TROUBLES THAT NEVER ARRIVE. Hop-e. cheerfulnese, happiness and health are as contagious as the small- pox or scarlet fever; the only reason that the fact LS not better known is that one does not to have to emyloy a. doctor in these cases. and they do not put the dollars into the doctor’s pockets. Therefore new germs have to be invented now an dtnen, or new names given to old diseases to coun- teract the good influence of these four contagious, which are so very unheal- thy to medical pocketbooks. ___ n n “Don’t cross the bridge till you come ”Everything goes wrong." you say, “how can I help worrying 9” You have golden into the habit of expect- ing everything to go wrong. have you not? "The baby is sure to have the colic” you say, or “Johnny is sure LO soil his clean waist," or “Maudie is sure to forget to practice her lesson? Why is it that you are not sure that the baby will keep well. that. Johnny will keep clean, and {but Maudie will practice? There is juSt as much reason to believe that they will as to worry and expect trouble; trust a lit- tle more and the day will be bright- er.” From evils that never arrived." â€"Emerson. What else have you got!” asked Cholly, looking languidly over the bill‘ of fare for something to tempt his jaded _appet_i_te. ' Well, replied the waitress, we ban bot, biscuits, toa. a That’ll do. said Cholly, resting his intellect by tossing the bill of {are aside. Bring me a bot biscuit stew. Dog. That Have Eluded Their Own- en, and Even Cats and Birds That Have Gone Astrny, Have to Be Ont-ed For In the “Morgue.” “Have you seen anything of 3 been- tlful little girl with nutty golden hall and a blue frock ?” anxiously inquired a young woman at the clerk in charge or the linen counter in a great depart- ment store. “Why, no! Are you sure you brought her In here ?" “Indeed I an! I left her sitting he tore those 98 cent «masks to look at those $1.43 shirt waists marked down from 81.60, and now I can’t find her anywhere. I’m worried to death!” “Don’t be alarmed." remarked the cierk, consolingly. “She’ll turn up all right. I expect she’s up in th. dead room by this time.” “The what?” “The dead roomâ€"tho morgue, you know.” dOmemDOUO 202200 ( CNIFOE 0.5.255. OZ( >m<m FwOJ WOES OF BIG STORES. ) “The morgue? Oh. my Irene! Oh. my darling!” there.” _ The young woman followed to n lonpfi room, the door of which was labeled" “Lost and Found," and there. sure enough, seated upon a monument of packages, boxes. baskets, umbrellas. canes and other articles. at n tiny golden haired tirl in a blue frock. eon- tentedly kicking her small feet 133ml! u puteboard bonnet box. “Sh-h-h, madam,” softly commané- ed a floor walker, for a commotion seemed imminent. “Your child is out. enough, I’ll venture. The 'morguo’ in simply the cant name of our lost and found department. Come with me. “ch, fully two-third. o! the than are claimed. and nothing worth con- lng after remains in our pose-sacs long. Neither do may other th which are not worth hunting 3). 0 keep lost trucks 0. month from duo of turning in. 134 then. if it h (and that they were originally all in or store. we put them in noel. Pro quently lost articles of serious value are advertised at the end of a month.” â€"Cincinnatl Enquirer. “That’s the second kid nnd confin- gent sensation I‘ve hnd today,” con- fided the keeper of the morgue to me u the recovered child, lustily scream- ing in the fervent embrace of her tea- tui parent, was cnrried ewey. “No. We nothing unnsuel. It: almost e «11in occurrence. In the excitement of bar yain rushes persona very frequently lose sight of their children for n fefi moments, and the nature) tendency at the children is to stray awey and ate in the strange eight: of the store on their own hook. or course they might wander out of the establiehmeni. end to prevent this the floor walkers it» variably send to me every child they find unaccompanied by a guardian. “Dogs of all sorts and eondltlons are constantly brought to the morgue and now and then a pet cat, whlch hes es- caped from a basket. I’ve even had a cage of canal-fies left on a: hands to feed for a week before careless owner, who bed left the cage down in the crockery department during a spe- clal sale. appenred to claim her prop erty. “Watches. purses, babies. parade. bundles end even diamond rings nre parts of my stock in trade here. I’d have horses, too, I verily bellevg were our customers permitted to bring them late the store. ['6 like to set up in business with the thing: brought to the morgue. I’d get rich. sure. “I don’t know it there is any port..- bie article, animate or inanimate. which does not find its way to the morgue.” continued the keeper reflect ively. “No clue of people loses thing: so readiiy as shopper: do. You see. they become so interested in looking at bargain: that they lay down what- ever they may happen to have in their hands and perambniate between counter: with hardly a thought as to their actions. “Suddenly they discover thetr lose, and a mild panic seizes them. They go flying about from one counter to the other, prosecuting their inquiries without stoppin‘ to think whether they have visited these same counter. before or not. Therefore the morgue has become a veluahle and indispensa- ble department in every large store.‘ “What did I do? Oh. I adjourned, and everybody went on a still hunt {or the owner of the dog. We eventually found her, and she came up and lam- bastod us for abusing her precious darling. with never a word about the rough way he had handled the morgue-'3 acqumulationa. “Some of the things which drift lnto this place would unuso you. Last week a great Dane 60: was brought up by our nerviest floor walker. and an ugly customer he was, indeedâ€"tho dog, not the floor wnlkor. We triced him up by a short chain and tried to make him lie down pending the at" rlval of his owner. But he wouldn’t‘i Instead he took a stand. braced him- self and let out a bowl which froze? the souls of some half dozen sales. women within earshot. Then he broke his chain and started In to clean out the morgue. will HIS ORDER. see it the little girl It