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HUNTINGTON IN DARKNESS i Vest Virginia City Is Facing Famine of Food and Water. j Huntington, W. Vn.. Man h 31. This , .lty wns in total darkness last night, I B fac-tiiK ht" (oi,A a,Kl Wll'(r f;l,,v j be and l."i,udi of the 4't.ooo Inhabitants i ire homeless. Twelve persona are re- ported missing and the property dam ige, affording to dose estimates, will imount to nearly $t.000.foo. The river reached n stage of t'.fi.2 teet, the hlphest in the history of Huntington, and now la stationary. The entire business section is inun llatfd. water being up to the second floor in Home buildings. Governor It. D. Hatfield arrived here on a special train from Charleston, bringing supplies, motor boats nnd Skiffs. The boats now are being taken through the different sections of the City to rescue hundreds who are ma rooned. The local military company has taken charge of the rescue work. The electric light plant has been forced to shut down nnd the pas sup ply was cut off to prevent fires. Although supplies have reached here from Charleston', the city Is In rent. need of food and water. While no reports had been received here from Point Pleasant, W. Va.; Catlettsburg. Ky., and Ironton. 0., it Is believed conditions similar to those here prevail in those cities. DIRE PESlENGE FEAREDJN INDIANA Stale Summons Medical Forces Against Disease. Indianapolis, March 21. Central In diana is summoning its medical forces to fight disease which Is following In the wake of the flood which swept that section last week. Sanitary ex perts expect hundreds of cases of typhoid, diphtheria, pneumonia and measles to develop. Scores of persona of all walks of life have been hud dled for days in small halls and build ings. They have been forced to live like bheep and a pestilence Is feared. Thousands of persons will continue lo be homeless until their residences have Ijcen cleaned of the filth left by the receding waters and fumigated. A majority of these refugees have no clothing except what they wore when the flood descended. The cities along the Ohio river are preparing for the worst flood of their existence. Already thousands of per sons have been driven from the bottom lands nnd the property damage runa In to the millions. The. water still Is rising and the crest of the flood Is three days away. Railroad communication with these Itlcs has been cut off from the north I.wreneeburg, where the levee broke, Is under seven feet of water, Water covers the first floors of the high school and court house, where 4nO persona are marooned, There are 3, KOI) homeless nt Iigans port, nnd the military medical corps say that the danger of a pestilence la printer than at anv other point In the state. Of the forty-two persons reported missing, twenty-one have been report ed safe. In response to an appeal from May or McDowell of Vincennes, Governor Tlalston ordered 2M tents and supplies sent to thnt city. MANY DRIVeTfROM HOMES ILLINOIS HAY BE nrvTTn oiirrcn cai uounxn iovernor Receives Messages From Cairo Levies in Danger, JUNCTION WIRES FOB TENTS. Communication Is Cut Off and Execu tive Thinks Flood Has Broken Levee Shawneetown in Distress. Seventh Regiment on Way. Investigations tended to confirm the ffctimates of d-jatiis in the floods that iwept over a score of cities in Ohio md Indiana last week at between IW ind 600. The latest estimates show the fol owing deaths: Ohio Dayton 150 Coshocton .... 5 Hamilton 91 1 Middletown ... 9 Columbus 64 j Valley Jet 6 Zanesvllle .... 10, Harrison 12 Delaware 14, Cleaves 2 Chillicothe .... la1 Van Wert 3 Mlamlsburg .. lBj Venice 3 Plqua 12 Mansfield 1 Tiffin 15 Globe Center.. 1 Mount Vernon. lO.Wooster 3 Fremont 14 Londonville .. 1 Franklin 4 New Beth'hetn. 2 Troy 9 Ohio total 4ii Indiana. Peru 2o;icrt wayne.... o Brookvlllo 16 I'erre Haute.... 4 Washington .... 4 UV. Indianapolis 1 Frankfort 2,Ufayette 1 Loeansnort .... 1 Newcastle 1 Rushville 1 r.uan.. Muncie I'Shellburn 1 HARD SLEDDING FOR BILL Insurance Code Measure Likely t Have Rough Path. Lincoln. March 31. The bill revis r.g the insurance code as prepared bj commission paid to rearrange, tlu Nebraska laws is liable to have hare sledding In the house. It has passed the senate. Members of fraternal insurance companies nae tne iaea tnat ir tnis bill becomes a law it will wipe out ol existence every fraternal insurance company in trie state, benator cor deal, who sponsored the bill in the up per house, Insists that it In no way af fects fraternal insurance companies and insists that the fear being thrown into the fraternal is being done al the instance of old line companies that are trying to kill the bill. sightseeITook OVERJMAHA RUINS Ian lo Vole $1,000,000 Bonds lor Restoration. Indiana total CO Grand total 531 As the flooded rivers recede the death list gradually grows, bodies be ing picked out of the debris and found In the lowlands. Ultra conservative es timates place the number of dead In Ohio at not more than 500. Ohio River Continues Rising and Lives Are Endangered. Cincinnati, March 31. With nearly 15,0(10 persons In the towns on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river driven from their homes by Hie rising yellow tide sweeping down the Ohio valley and with more than 2,5i0 homes alto gether or partly submerged, the flood situation In this vicinity Is assuming graver proportions hourly. Here the water front buildings are all partially under water and much damage has been done. An Increase In the river stage hero will mean the Isolation of the city from the Kentucky side and the stop page of train service In this direction. So far only one life has been lost as a direct result of the high water here Miss Anna Smith, the first victim drowned, lost her life In an nttempt to reach Newport In a skiff that capsized In midstream. START WORK OF REBUILDING Warmer Weather Helps Destitute, but Is Dangerous to Health. Dayton, O., March 31. The work of rehabilitation began here as the work of rescue approached Its end. The all important weather showed Improve ment as viewed by refugees as it was warmer and pleasant to frost and water chilled bones, but the sanltar experts accepted the rise In tempera ture with mixed feelings, for the cold hud retarded the decomposition of an Imal matter and refuse. R. H. Grant, In charge of the relief supplies committee, issued an appeal to all cities in tho country, asking that as much bottle water bo shipped to Dayton as possible. It Is especially desired that this water be pure, as It Is practically impossible to boll the water for drinking purposes. Bernhardt and Drew Play for Benefit. Denver, March 31. A Hood Buffer its' benefit performance given by the theatrical companies playing here, with Sarah Bernhardt and John Drew as the lending attractions, added $3, 000 to Colorado's contribution to the Ohio nnd lndluna relief funds. Springfield, 111., March .31. Illinois threatens to become the center or flood dlstrcRS. Startling messages were received by Covernor Dunne and Adjutant General Dickson, Indicating that Shawneetown and Cairo are In lnv mlnent danger of being Inundated Other towns are In distress. The governor received a message from Cairo that tho water was within one foot of the top of the levee which protects the city and that tho river was Btlll rlRlng. Bernard Lamb of Junction, Gallatin county, has wired for 100 tents for ref ugees. E. C Fletcher of Mounds has wired for fifty tents for homeless peo pie there. Governor Dunne received word that telephonic communication with Cairo had been cut off. The governor fears that the breaking of communication means the levee has collapsed. The governor personally Is directing the mobilization of troops nnd the ! rushing of supplies. In talking over the telephone with Governor Dunne Mayor Parsons. Cairo stated thnt despite flood warn Ings, advising residents to move to higher ground, the number of those who hnve taken this advice has been offset several times over by thousand refugees from nil along the river who have been rushing Into Cairo. Adjutant General Dickson nnd Colo. nel S. E. Tripp left today for Cairo to take charge of the troops there. a message received It was stated that ondltlons nt Siiawneetown are alarm- Ins nnd thnt a break In the levee Is feared nt any time. Many of the residents hnve moved to the hills back of the town, but a break In the levee would cause n large ohs of life and properly. Ten thousand army rations were sent to Cairo by express. Omaha, March 31 Thousands of Ightseers took advantage of excursion rates given by railroads entering Oma ha to view the six miles of ruins caused by the tornado Easter Sunday. They came from all parts of the conn try and brought hundreds of cameras with them. Many of the visitors took advantage of tho opportunity to make contributions to the relief fund. Reports from the various hospitals indicated that most of the tornado In ured still confined to them wen; do ng nicely. Many have been dis charged since the day after the catas trophe and within another week the number will be reduced considerably After then only those with major hurts will be obliged to remain. In com parison with the large number of wounded that were originally taken to the different, institutions surprisingly few were fatally Injured. With the general relief fund for the tornado sufferers mounting to $151,000 In round numbers, the general relief committee Ret to work systematically to Inquire further for relief money from some of tho business firms of the city. A committee went to Lincoln this morning to present the needs of Oma ha before the state legislature. They will ask for the enactment of laws permitting Douglas county to vote $t 000,000 in bonds to be used for the up building of the destroyed homes. PERILS AMONGST FALSE BRETHREN St, Paul's Experiences Dupli cate the Master's, HIS FA1THFULNESST0 CHRIST Jesus' Footstep Followers Wounded In the House of Their Friends The Philosophy of the Matter How to Re ceive Such Experiences Why They Are Permitted The Results They Serve Special Perils Today. it V 8 - - .- -r. , . , : f 1 PASTOR. KU5SLLL No Suffering Exists. Washington, March 31. "All places effected by the flood In such a way as to need help are receiving It and it is not believed that suffering exists any where now from wnnt of food or shel ter," was the report to Adjutant Gen eral Andrews from Major General Wood, chief of staff, who, with Fecre tnry of War Garrison, Is directing re lief operations In the flooded district. lie added, while loss of life has been very heavy, It was far smaller than first reports Indicated. "Do not send any more government supplies," sail the report, "unless the department's representatives on the ground request them. Any supplies available should be held for possible needs farther down the river. Major Normoyle has received the great bulk of the supplies sent to Columbus and Is buRlly engnged In shipping them out to points where required." Columbus Cleaning Up. Columbus, O., March 31. Recon Btructlon of the west side of Colum bus, where the flood of last Tuesday wrought the heaviest damage, was be pin In earnest today by the undaunted cltlzenB of that district. Twelve nddl tlonal bodies were recovered from the debris, hut many of them have been Identified as persons previously re ported dead, ro that the Columbu death list Btlll remains sixty four Many are reported missing, but th list Is gradually growing Bmaller. Fif tv-nlno bodies had been recovered Working day and night laborers hnv succeeded in patching up the big bren In the levee, which caused the dlbasf on the west side. ROBBER KILLED IN FLIGHT Slew Cashier of Bank and Was Shot Down by Pursuers. Burnes, Kan., March 31. Robert I Brown, cashier of the Harnes State bank, was Rhot and killed by a man who had robbed the institution. Utter n, posse of citizens shot the robber to death as he was trying to escape from town with a bag of gold. Brown met death when, Instead of obeying the order to throw up his hands, he grabbed a revolver and fired at tho robber. The robber could not be identified. Ho apparently is thirty five yen in old and is believed to bo a member of the Wymore gang of bank robbers that has robbed a number of hanks along the Nebraska Kansas line within the last few years Hansen Sued for Arrest of Thorpe. Lincoln, March 31. John F. Thorpe of Cuming county has sued Nels P. Hansen, ex-pure food commissioner of the state, for $50,000 damages for false arrest in connection with an over-rending of a cream test. W. C Andrews, the deputy inspector who made the test, is made a party to the Bult, as is also the Fairmont Cream cry compnny and John Kyi. Thorpe wns agent for the Farmers' Coopera tive Creamery company of Wisner. East Central Teachers Pick Officers, Fremont, Neb., March 31. The eighth nnnnul session of the Eastern Central Nebraska Teachers' associa tion closed. South Omuha was an as plrant for tho next meeting, but lost to Fremont. The following officers elected: President, T. J. Gogletnnce of Schuyler; vice president, Mrs. C. D Williams of Saunders county; secre tary, M'sr Elizabeth Schaffer of David City; treasurer, C. N. Walton of Wa ll oo. I be St the Muster is still t' the same mind as St. John expressed when he de c!nre,l, "Whn-ioever talctli bis brother is a murderer, timl ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in grange that seems! ; hhu." il John 3:15.) Murderers may that however much j Indeed receive severe strles, and tit,,iy many extol the Lord and the Apostles, and denounce their persecu tors, while they .-iiailarly ersecute. The climax of St. Paul's perils, the severest of them nil, was from false Board Has Money on Hand. Lincoln, March 31. Secretary Mel- lor of the stallion registration board has on hand a considerable sum of money belonging to the board. The decision of the supreme court declar ing the law unconstitutional places him in a position where he does not know what to do with It. He has written Governor Morehead about the matter and between them they will probably devise a way to dispose of it Ice In Missouri at Pierre Runt Out, Pierre, S. D., March 31. The Ice which has been holding the Missouri for about thirty miles In a big gorge above the city broke loose and Is run nlng out rapidly, with quite a rise In the stream. There has been some ap prehension as to results, especially at Fort Flerre, but tho tIro Is not sufn clcnt to disturb thnt place. Stratton Escapes From Prison. Leavenworth, Kan.. March 81 Clyde Stratton, serving a flve-yenr Bontence In tho federal prison at Fort Leavenworth for the robbery of the McCool (Ind.) postoftlce, escaped by crawling a mile through tho prison lewer. Two other prisoners who made the attempt with Stratton were apturcd. Ottawa, Out.. March 30.-Pn.stot Russell, w ho since his last visit 1ms inuny friends here, arrived again this morning. As usu al, the largest au ditorium was en gaged for him. He spoke twice today. We report one of his ad dresses, from St. Paul's words: "Perils anions false brethren." ('.5 Cor- iuthlans 11:2(5.) lie said: 8t. Paul was remarkable in inanv re spects, but chiefly for bis loving devo tion to the Master and His Cause. Ills faithfulness brought also many trying experiences. In our context he enum erated some of these, lie served the Cause of Christ to such an extent that many thought him unwise, and count ed him u fool. This service brought him stripes, whippings, as a disturber of the peace not that lie did disturb the peace, but that those who opposed his teachings raised a tumult and blauied hlin for it, in order to bring him luto disrepute, hinder his service and forward their own Interests. This t times brought him to prison, too, tud even close to death's door. Nevertheless, he rejoiced in all such privileges. He declared that five times bv received whippings, stripes; once he was stoned, and three times he was shipwrecked. Hut none of these things moved him from faithfulness to his Master, whose servants he had perse cuted before his eyes were opened. Then he recounts various perils ex perlenced from waters, from robbers from the Jews, from the heathen In the city, lu the wilderness, on the sea Uc winds up the list of perils in the words of the text, "Perils amongst false brethren." Oue question which will arise In many minds is. "Were these sufferings stripes, perils, etc. deserved?" asked, the answer would surely that they were unl deserved; fo Paul was a noble character and bore the Message of God's grace in Christ- "good tidings of great joy which shall be unto all people." The next que tion with some would be, "If his suf ferings were not punishments, what were they?" We reply that they were the same ns were the .Masters evidences or. nis loyalty to God nnd of the darkness of the world, which led them to oppose blm. The declaration, "Whosoever will live godly will suffer persecution," was fully exemplified In his own ex periences nnd In the Muster's. The amount of suffering ns a reward for well-doing marked the measure of loy alty and zeal, and the measure of hatred and malice n roused by the Ad versary. The answer to the question as to why Jesus suffered Is the answer to all such questions lu respect to St. Paul and all other footstep followers. Darkness Hates the Light. The Master declared that lie stood for the principles of light, righteous ness. Truth; while Satan stands for tho reverse darkness, superstition, bllnduess. And so it is with the fol lowers of Jesus. They must all be children of the light, must walk In the light, must be uncompromising in their attitude toward sin and nil that Is wrong. Therefore the world will bate them and say all manner or evil agninst them falsely. Yen, men will feel that they do God service when they slay the righteous, whether lit erally, as In Jesus' ease uiid St. Paul s or by "shooting out arrows, even bit ter words," nH Is the more popular method of the present time. But some one will suy, "Ah, time have changed! Today our bishops and popes and preachers are all reverenced. No one thinks of persecuting tucni. Rather, all men speak well of them Any ouo not spoken well of today must be lu some way unworthy. How strange thnt wc should forget, and ar cue along these lines! Were there not Doctors of Divinity lu Jesus' day? Were there not priests and chief priests and Levites then? And were thero not Pharisees who made long Drarers In the Temple? And were they not highly spoken of and rever enced? Did they not make broad their phylucterles? Did any one think of traducing thrmt No! But tho ilastcr was thore, aud His disciples; aud they were not of the popular clergy. By their own record they were styled "the filth and off scouring of the earth"; and, ns the Master said, whoever persecuted them thought that they did God service How apt we all are to think of our own day as being different from other periods! So it was In Jesus' day. As He told nonic of them, "Yo garnish the gepulchers of those whom your fntli ers slew, yet ye do their works. brethren. How One would think the heatheu or the Jews might have persecuted him. at least all professed followers of .Icmis would have thanked God for his example and ministry, and have esteemed him. But this was nol and ns we look back to the Mastei before Ultn, we see the same to be true. As Ho declared, "A man's foe Miall be they of his own household." The Master was a Jew. The Jews were His brethren according to the flesh; and It was they that hated lliin without n cause they that persecuted Ilim-they that said. "He hath a devil and Is mad"-they that "took up stone to stone Him" they that finally cruci fied Him. ' lie came unto His own, nnd Ills own received Illm not," except n few saintly, elect ones. St Paul also had persecution from the Jews, who repeatedly sought bis life. He lived after the establishment of the Church. He had also Christian brethren, begotten of the Holy Spirit and fel'.oT.' ineinbers of tho Body of Christ. Jesus had none such. "Of the peoplo there were none with IIIiu." The Holy Spirit was not given until Pentecost; hence Jesus could not re ceive Clirinthin persecution. The near est approximation wns tho case of Judas. But if St. Paul enjoyed the sweetness of Christian fellowship lu his study, labors and tolls, he also knew the bitterness of opposition mid persecutions from false brethren the climax of his perils. We may be sure that such experiences were more diffi cult for him to bear than any others, because they en me closer homo. They came from brethreu of tho closest im aginable relationship fellow-members of the Body of Christ. The Godly Suffer Persecution. As we glance dow n through this Gos pel Age, from St. Paul's day to the present, we find thnt all followers of Jesus have had experiences such us He foretold for them persecutions. We find that these persecutions have come from every quarter, but none, appar ently,- more severe, more cruel, more fierllous, than those which have come from Christian brethren. It Is scarcely necessary for us to refer to history to demonstrate this fact. Disputes be tween Christians hnve been very bit ter. Thousands have lost their lives at ench other's Imnds. The word hcrctie became more obnoxious than any other term In the dictionary Neither Catholic nor Protestant can deny the terrible story of the pages of "nistory. All true men are ashamed of the record. All are ready to say, "ire would not so have done." Monu meats stand in various parts of the world, marking places where sectarian strife has manifested itself in atrocious, barbarous nets. Our Catholic friends blush at the story of tho Huguenots. Our Church of England friends blush at the storv of the Covenanters nnd other non-conformists. Our Presby terinn friends. In turn, blush for ntro clous acts. Injustice, etc.. done In the name of Calvinism We might almost say that each de nomination in Its turn has been a sub J ect of persecution from one and an other. Baptists were publicly whip ped sometimes driven from their homes to exile. So were the Puritans, who afterwards became persecutors themselves. The Methodists also suf fered from sectarian spite and jenl- ousy, ignorance ana superstition, in deed, who will dispute that Christen dom has good cause to be ashamed of her own record, no matter whnt her standpoint mny be? Thank God for the advancement made along the line of human sym pathy! No longer can civilized peo ple take pleasure In public executions, tortures, burnlug nt tho stnke, as in former times. Whatever competition mny remnln between Christian breth ren, the peril Is not that of open per secution; for general sentiment has ad vanced beyond tho point where physi cal torture could bo tolerated. We have come to the time when Calvlnlsts erect u monument to Serve tus, expressing dissent from their grent leader's mistake In cnusing a Christlau brother to bo burned. Wo have come to tho place where the "perils amongst false brethren" are of a different kind. Now whatever Jealousies or rivalries there may be, either nt home or In the mission fields, nre recognized ns Im proper nnd suppressed, so far ns breth ren connected with popular ana influen tial bodies of Christians are concerned But Is It not true today tbnt the Truth is unpopular? nas this not al ways beeu the fact? Is It not true that In proportion ns tho denominations hnve become popular they have escap ed persecution? But woe be to those who, as were Jesus and the Apostles are unpopular! If they ludeed escape the cross, the guillotine, the rack and the fagot, they nre amenable to other means of torture. Something can be trumped up against their personality. Insinuations can be given by word and look, and Bhrug of shoulder. More damage can bo accomplished In this way than lu outward attack. Evll-spenklng. evil-surmlslng, slan ders, ambiguous suggestions, etc. all, as torture can be applied to the fol lowers of Jesus today. And all who today take such n course are sharers with the malefactors, even though they do not Indulge In physical torture. Who can dispute thnt sometimes mental tor ture is equally severe? In our day there nre other and more refined ways of persecuting, torturing, open to false brethren, than imprisonment or cruci fixion or burning. And what shall wo say of the false brethren who do such things? And how shall we nssure ourselves thnt we shall not be of them? Undoubtedly eventually learn better under Mes siah's Kingdom; but uo one of a mur derous condition of heart, seeking to do evil to n brother, could possibly be of suitable character to be- a joint-heir with bis Master in the Kingdom. "One of the Least of These." In every time, and now. the spirit of persecution naturally would btrlke most prominently certain leading fig ures; nevertheless, even as Jesus' words implied, ull lovers of righteous ness are to have more or less share in such experiences of opposition. St. Paul mentions this, saying. "Ye en dured a great tight of afflictions; part ly, whilst ye were made a gazing stock and partly whilst ye be came companions of them that were so used." (Hebrews 10:02. 33.) Jesus gives us the sumo thought in His declaration that whosoever shnll of fend one of the least of these, Ills disciples, it were better for blm that a millstone were hanged nbout his neck and he were drowned in the depths of the Koa.-Matthew 18:. This, of course, is very highly figura tive lauiruage. and vet It must have a special meaning. It must menn that the Lord has a special care over all of His consecrated saints; aud that no matter how poor, how weak, how ig norant, they may be, the very least of His followers nre supervised, nnd in jury to the least is punishable. Of course, there would still be nu nwak: ening from the dead for the one who was drowned in the sen; nnd so thee nre possibilities of help nnd recovesy for those who would stumble the Lord's "little ones." Nevertheless, the' intimation is thnt of drastic punish ment. ThlH would not mean anything like we once supposed eternal tor mentbut. some just recompense of re ward for every evil deed. From this standpoint we may readily assume that considerable (satisfaction of Justice is necessary; for surely a considerable number of the Lord's "little ones" have suffered persecution. And as we have seen, not all of this persecution' lies at the door of the world. Much of it lies at the door of the professed Church of Christ "false brethren." Speaking of some such, Jesus once declared that they would hnve great disappointment when the time of re wards would come. He says, "Many shall say unto Me in that Day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied In Thy name, and aone many wonaerrui works? And I will declare, I do not recognize you." They will not be worthy of the Lord's recognition as amongst Ills Elect Church, His Bride class. We shall be glad if they will be found worthy of some blessing under Ills Kingdom. But there will be great disappointment to them. They missed the greater point of the Gospel iMt. Love For the Brethren. The Lord's will concerning all His followers Is that they should love one another as He loved them. St. John expressed this sentiment, snylng that ns Jesus loved the Church nnd laid " down Ills life for the Church, so also Ills followers should lay down their lives for the brethren. (1 John 3:10.) If this is the lute standard that the Lord basset for His people, how sorely some will soon be disappointed in re spect to Ills will If they hnve ignored this requirement. If, Instead of loving the brethren and laying down their lives for them, they sny nil maimer of evil against them, etc., what then? Then they nre false brethren. Then they are tho peril of the true brethreu, as men tioned in our text. Oh, how much the true followers of Jesus need to impress upon themselves this great lesson thnt love does no 111 to his neighbor, that love Is sympa thetic, suffereth long and is kind, vaunteth not Itself, is not puffed up, sceketh not merely its own interest nnd welfare, but seeketh the interest and welfare of others! The supreme test of our loynlty to God Is our love for Him. And this love Is manifested by our desire to do those things acceptable to Illm. There is little thnt we really can do for the Almighty. He Is so great and we are so small! But if we have Ills spirit of Love, then wo shall love all those I TTI 1 J ... .1 . . 1 A. wno ove iiiiu. fti.u our i-uuuuci to ward them will demonstrate the real sentiment of our hearts. Thus seen, we nre dally making our reward In the Lord's sight, dnlly showing Illm to what degree we are worthy or un worthy of His grent reward. Those mentioned in our text as false brethren were perilous to the true brethren, but did not get into this po sition immediately. It wns a growth. I development. The wrong spirit grad ually supplanted tho right. It is well that Christians note this Insidious canker which gnaws at the root of brotherly love, tends to poison the spirit and to bring forth the evil fruit age mentioned. Apparently, In some cases, the spirit of pride, the spirit of sectarianism, the spirit of ambition, are the leading features of. the wrong course, which, if permitted to go to the heart, will develop a bad fruitage. Biich as we are discussing. It will pro duce false brethren, persecuting breth ren, blind to the real spirit of their Master, bendy, high-minded. Let us then, beloved, bo more and more on guard against the encroach ments of the Adversnry upon us n New Creatures! Let us be more nnd more zealous for the Spirit of our Mas ter and show forth the praises of Illm who has called ns out of darkness into nis marvelous light 1 In no way can we better show forth these praises than by exemplifying In our daily conduct the lesson we have learned of Ulm!
