THE GINGER-BREAD HORSE.
There are people and places that fade from our
minds.
And days that grow dim in the past
There are lovea that are born, and wither, and
die.
And nothing seems true to the last:
Bat back In the days of the long, long ago
When the lUUe back yard was our course.
The friend who was dearest and sweetest to
us
Was the galloping ginger-bread horse.
Can we ever forget him? Eis arched seek anil
tail.
His sugar-glaced ears and fore-topt
Don't we still feel the thrill of utvarmost Joy
As we carried him out of the shop? ,
Then, breathless with happiness, longing to
start.
We sped to the back cellar door.
And there, in a paradise, nibbled and munched
Till the ginger-bread horse was no more!
Oh, my ginger- bread horse, how the taste of thy
heels.
And the peppery sweet of thy name,
With thy black currant eyes, and thy brown,
softened sides
Come back from the dim past again!
How I taste, as I dream, every mouthful I
ate
Of thy luscious young self: For n truth.
There are times when I feel I would give all I
have
For a gingerbread horse of my youth:
Everard J. Apple ton, in Detroit Free .Press.
A STRANGE PATIENT.
The Remarkable Experience of a
London Specialist.
About two years ag'O there came to
me a tall, handsome fellow, who gave
the name of George Griffiths, lie had
a fearless eye, a cheerful, even genial
expression, an exceptionally well
molded, aquiline nose, and a splendid
mustache, trimmed and tended, evi
dently, with scrupulous care. There
was no obvious reason, certainly, why
he should require my services; there
was no possibility of making him bet
ter looking.
"I hear that yon are a specialist in
dermatology," he begun, after I had
greeted him with the usual formality.
I admitted the soft impeachment.
"Well," he went on, "I want you to
perform a surgical feat on me. I want
my nose altered."
I expressed surprise, and assured
him that, in my humble opinion, his
nose was best let alone. Hut he dis
puted this proposition, and insisted
that he had reasons for being1 weary of
the aquiline, and for craving a pro
boscis as unlike as possible to that
with which nature had endowed him.
Seeing my curiosity, and possibly not
wishing to be deemed a madman, he
proceeded to explain them to me.
"After several years roughing it in
Texas," he said, "I have come back
rich, and there is nothing to prevent
my enjoying myself but the pestering
attentions of relatives whom I had
hoped to have done with forever when
I went abroad. But I cannot escape
them or their importunities, and so,
however eccentric you may think me, I
must enlist your service. I presume
there is no danger in the operation."
"No danger," I replied, accepting his
explanation as that of an eccentric
man, whose affairs, after all, were no
business of mine, "and very little pain
practically none, in fact- But you
must keep indoors for a few days after
it is over. When and where shall I
call upon you?"
"Could you not operate here, and
now?" he asked.
"Impossible. Your journey home
would not be without great risk."
"But could I not stay here? Could
you not accommodate me for the short
time necessary? Doctor, I could and
would pay you liberally for the service.
Consider, if 1 go home, my identity
would be again revealed to those from
whom I desire to conceal it."
This speech, one would have thought,
would have aroused my suspicions, but
it did not. The man's frank and open
expression disarmed me entirely, and I
could but look upon him as I had done
previously, simply as an eccentric indi
vidual. It so happened I had a spare
oom. I could not regard the question
of remuneration with indifference, and
so, to cut a long story "short, I con
sented. For the purpose of more convenient
ly operating I suggested, somewhat
timidly, the sacrifice of his beautiful
mustache. To my surprise, he assented
eagerly, and was for the application of
scissors and razor forthwith. You
scarcely credit the difference the re
moval of this artistic hirsute appen
dage "the crop of many years," as he
jokingly decribed it made in my pa
tient. It displaved what had leen con
cealed before, his mouth, and the sinis
ter expression of this was such as to
effectually nullify the honest geniality
of his upper face. In fact the removal
of his mustache constituted, as I
promptly told him, sufficient disguise
to baffle any number of inquisitive rela
tives. But he insisted on the nasal op
eration nevertheless. II is motto was
evidently "Thorough."
Well. I performed it, and when, six
tlays later, Georee Griffiths left my
house with nothing but a rapidly heal
ing and almost invisible scar to blem
ish the straight nose which now
adorned his face. 1 would have watered
my case of instruments to a two-penny
penknife that the most observant of his
precious acquaintances would never
have recognized him.
About a week after my eccentric pa
tient's departure the particulars, so far
as they were known, of a remarkably
brutal murder were made public The
body of a lady named Bates, evidently
stabbed to death, had been discovered
in a house in a London subnrb, where
she had resided with her husband, who
had now disappeared and whose por
trait and description were now freely
circulated by the police. A brief
amount of attention to those published
details was snflicient to convince me
thai my patient, George Griffiths, was
the criminaL
I lost no time in communicating what
I knew to the authorities, by whom, it
nust be said, my story was received
vith some incredulity. You see, my
'fpecial branch of surgery is but little
Inown to the public, and it was the
pinion of the police that the murderer
lad left the country some time before
Hr. Gridths had quitted my house.
Bat a few months ago, happening to
to be on a visit to Dresden, whither X
had gone on a brief summer holiday
and having in a way largely succeeded
in dismissing from my mind the events
above related I was startled to see,
seated at a table in the Gowerbehaus
in that city, enjoying the 6 trains of the
talented orchestra, my no longer mys
terious, but now dreadful, acquaint
ance, George Griffiths!
My duty, I decided after a moment's
reflection, was plain to denounce and
deliver him to the authorities.
Quickly, therefore, least he should
leave before I could have him arrested,
I explained myself as well as I was
able to the nearest official. lie looked
and was unbelieving. So, too, were
the others whom he summoned to hear
my story. That part of it which re
ferred to the operation was received
with a smile; and the upshot of it was
that so far from effecting my expa
tient's capture, I was myself lightly
ridiculed as a mad Englishman.
But I could not allow myself to be
baffled in what I considered my clear
duty, viz., to deliver a foul murderer
up to justice. I determined, therefore,
to renew my acquaintance with him
there and then, to give him no inkling
of my knowledge of the truth, and to
communicate once more with the Eng
lish police, while continuing to keep
him under my own surveillance in the
Saxon capital.
When, with a polite bow, I ap
proached and spoke to him, he recog
nized me at once; I could see that,
though at first he pretended not to
know me. We had a glass of beer to
gether, and spoke of many matters of
general interest; I flattered myself
that nothing in my conversation or
bearing gave him the slightest ground
to suspect me.
That same night I wrote a letter to
the London police, again stating my
certain knowledge that this man,
changed though he was, was the mur
derer of Mrs. Bates, and suggesting
that they should forthwith send over
to Dresden an official armed with in
formation as to other distinguishing
marks on Mr. Bates' person besides his
aquiline nose and heavy mustache.
During the next few days I became
very intimate with my ex-patient, and
in pursuance of a scheme I had formed
invited him more than once to bathe
with me from one of the floating baths.
This he cheerfully did, being an admir
able swimmer. On the fifth day from
my writing to London an answer ar
rived in the person of a stalwart detec
tive from Scotland Yard, who informed
me that the real Mr. Bates had, as I
suspected, the distinguishing marks
which could be verified; among them
an anchor tattooed on the left forearm,
which I had myself, of course, noticed
while we were bathing together. To
satisfy himself before acting on the
warrant he had brought with him, the
detective, Mr. Ilanway, it was agreed,
should join our bathing party on the
morrow a simple and not disagreeable ;
preliminary to the contemplated ar- :
rest. ;
But alas! for the schemes of mice
and men! We called together at Mr. !
Griffith's alias Bates' rooms in the
morning and found him busy with :
some correspondence. "If you will
wait for me half an hour or so on the
terrace," he said, "which your friend ,
will find very pleasant, I'll join you
for our swim in about half an hour." ,
Suspecting nothing, we took our leave, '
and waited for him, as he had directed.
But we waited in vain. Whether ;
the features of my friend, Mr. Han- .
way, were known to him, or whether ;
there had, in spite of my care, been ;
anything in my manner to excite his ;
suspicion, I cannot say. Suffice it that
we remained a full hour on the ter- ,
race, and then returned to find him ;
gone. '
Whither, we could never trace, and I
have never seen him since. From that '
day to this he has baffled the skill of i
the police of two countries, and it is ;
my belief that if he is still alive he has
again persuaded some guileless sur- ;
geon to operate on him and once more
alter the outlines of his features be- ;
yond recognition. London Million. j
Pawnbrokers Methods.
"Have you ever noticed," said De- ;
Broke the other day, "that pawn
brokers will never answer the question: '
What can I get on this?' They always
make one tell what he wauls to borrow, '
and then no matter how low one places,
the amount, the broker will always go
him a dollar or two lower. I knew of
a fellow in an office who was pretty .
green for a pawnbroker, but who had .'
learned this first principle. j
"I had a beautiful solitaire ring and I
needed just a fiver. So I thought, for
fun, I would see if this fellow would
actually try to go me one lower on the
ring.
"I asked for six dollars, and as he
looked at the ring be smiled sarcas
tically' and said, curtly: 'Five dollars.'
But I was obstinate, and slipping the
ring on my finger went out.
"I easily got ten plunkers on it from
another money lender." Philadelphia
CalL
CntactfuJL
The pages of amusing literature are
stocked with the sayings of honest and
untactful people. The following inci
dents have, moreover, the merit of be
ing strictly true: A lady who had
stndied an elementary treatise of as
trology one day took it upon her to
"cast the horoscope" of a boarding
house acquaintance. "Let me see."
she began, after taking down the day
of the "subject's" birth, "you are in
Aries. Aries is intellect. "Why, no!"
she suddenly exclaimed, looking up, as
the fell force of the definition struck
her. "there must be some mistake.
You can't be in AriesH Another inno
cently frank person was admiring the
baby grandson of a famous man.
"Xow," said she. encouragingly, to the
parents of the ehild, 44thisboy will be a
genius. It is perfectly 6afe to expect
it, for you know genius always skips
one generationr Youth's Companion.
The Daughter "I hear papa grum
bling again this morning, mother. !
What is he grumbling about?" The
Mother "He is grumbling.my dear, bo
cause he cannot find anything to grum
Wo about 'VS. Y. Press.
HOWTHE FARMER IS PROTECTED
What McKlaleylsm la Doing tor the
ricnltnrml Class.
The American manufacturer asks for
protection from the American farmer's
competition, and that the American
farmer shall be confined exclusively to
the American market for farm products;
that he shall be prevented by law from
trading his surplus for foreign manu
factures from importing profitable
payment. The American manufacturer
has no other competitor except the
Standard Oil company, our silver kings
and our fishermen whose competition
is too small to trouble him. No foreign
manufacturer can "compete" with the
American manufacturer except through
the American farmer, unless the foreign
manufacturer gives us the foreign goods.
If the goods are not given to us we
must either steal them or exchange for
them surplus farm products of equal
value. We can only "buy" them with
metals, oil or farm products or a promise
of them. "Cash" must be either prod
uct of labor or the promise of it
Congress grants the mill owner this
protection by levy ing a tax on each ex
change of surplus American farm prod
ucts for foreign manufactured products.
This tax ranges from 40 to 225 per cent.,
according to the article, and it is im
posed upon the only party to it that
congress can get hold of the American
farmer. It is levied upon the final prod
uct of his labor our imports. It is not
imposed and cannot be imposed until
after the goods have been exchanged,
until the foreign goods have become
the product of American labor. Not
even the pretense of a tax can be
levied on the foreigners because the
constitution of the United States ex
pressly forbids any tax on exports, and
the foreigner has his untaxed goods ex
ported as the final result of his labor.
Protection, "to make things even,"
offers the American farmer sawdust
protection against the mill-owner's in
vasion of the farmer's "home market."
The farmer does not need even genuine
protection. lie has his own "home
market" already, and he has a slice of
the "home market" for manufactured
goods as welL Protection takes away
from him this slice of the mill-owner's
market, and. while pretending to give
him what he has already, his own
"home market," tries to deprive him of
that also.
That the mill-owner may be able to
export his mill surplus, exchange his
mill products for foreign farm prod
ucts and then bring these here in com
petition with the products of our
farms, protection pays to the mill
owner, when he exports, 99 per cent, of
any revenue taxes imposed on imported
raw material, and then admits the for
eign farm products the mill-owner im
ports either free of duty or subject
only to a very low revenue duty. Of
the 50 leading farm products 10 are ad
mitted free of duty, 5 are taxed only
from 6 to o per cent., on 20 it is lOtper
cent or less, on 25 it is under 15 per
cent On only 8 does it exceed 20 per
cent, and on only 5 items wool, hops,
rice, cane-juice and peanuts is there
even a pretense of sawdust protection.
Cotton is free. Wheat is taxed only 18
per cent, corn 18, cornmeal 10, rye 17.
buckwheat 10, poultry 10, pork 10. beef
14, flax 7, hemp 6, milk 10, and so on
with all general farm products. The
manufacturer is protected against the
competition of farm labor by average
taxes of 60 per cent; the farmer is pro-
tected against mill labor competition
by average taxes of 10 per cent
To discourage American farming and
make it unprofitable a tax is levied on
every exchange of farm products for
foreign manufactures, ranging from
40 to 255 per cent and averaging nearly
60 per cent On exchanges that can be
still made at a profit it averages 43 per
cent; but how high it is on those that
cannot be made and some can be and
are made on which 20b per cent tax is
paid no man knows or can guess.
11 ere is how it has discouraged farming
generally and how it has made wheat
farming unprofitable in the central
states:
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The mill-owners do not wish to com
pete with the American farmer at
present They have a bonanza in the
home market, a gold mine they are sat
isfied to work. If they can get rid of
the farm competition how they do not
care and supply the people at their
own trust prices, they can "make enois
mous fortunes when times are good,"'
to quote Senator Plumb. But no trust,,
no selling agreement, no combination
of ccy kind is possible among the mill
owners while the farmers are free to
produce a surplus of cotton or wheat,
export it, trade it for mill goods, bring
it back, and dispose of it in competition.
If they can drive one-fourth the farm
ers out of business or prevent them
from exchanging their surplus, then
they have the people by the throat
N. Y. World.
Says a protective tariff organ:
"For all intents and purposes, so far as
domestic industries are concerned, the
Wilson bill is in force now." Indeed!
The mere suggestion of a protective
tariff bill docs not answer all the in
tents and purposes of the bounty beg
gars, however. They want something
substantial They want a real law in
force not one in embryo. The Mc
Kinley law is now in force, every word
and letter of it, while no one can yet
tell in what form the Wilson bill will
become a law. The monopoly newspa
pers which presume to tell the people
of America that the troubles inflicted
upon them by the infamous McKinley
law are due to a "law" which is not
yet fully written, and which cannot be
in force for weeks to come, may be
honest in their folly, but they .will
not deceive many intelligent readers.
Chicago Herald.
McKinley's workers are already
finding it a hard task to keep it before
the country that he has a presidential
boom. It appears to have been sprung
not wisely but too soon. Detroit Free
Press.
M'KINLEVS STATESMANSHIP.
Om of the Smallest Folltlclaas Who Evet.
Reached National Distinction.
Gov. William McKinley is flying from
one part of the country to the other on
a speech-making tour, and is showing
himself to the people with as much in
dustry aa a ward candidate for office
displays in the spring campaign. lie
is keeping himself before the public
with the persistence of a patent medi
cine advertisement on dead walls and
board fences. Evidently he does not
mean that the voters shall forget him
for a day.
Gov. McKinley is one of the smallest
politicians who ever reached national
distinction in this country. lie is not
a statesman. He is not a scholar. He
is not an orator. Acaident, that is, his
luck, has boosted him into a conspicu
ous place, and has "blazed" for him a
track through the political woods
toward the presidency.
Gov. McKinley was not the real
author of the tariff bill which bears his
name. The bill was framed, in sub
stance, by the agents of the protected
monopolies for their own benefit Mc
Kinley simply presented them a form
a skeleton of the measure, and each
protected interest filled in the figures
for itself. "How much do you want?"
was, in effect the question asked of
each monopoly, and according as it
was answered the tariff was fixed. The
completed bill, as it received McKin
ley's name, was a mere indication, in
the various scheduled items, of the ex
tent and intensity of monopoly greed
in establishing the amount of "protec
tion" that it was to enjoy.
There is no measure of government,
except the highest and most uncon
scionable tariff ever adopted by a civ
ilized nation, with which McKinley's
name is associated. 11 is only title to
eminence is that he was the putative
author of an enormous and extortion
ate tax on the people of the country,
levied for the benefit of the limited
class of baron manufacturers cloth
barons, iron barons, glass barons and
other monopoly barons of all degrees.
lie is not identified with the cause of
a sound currency, with any great na
tional policy, except the pernicious tax
policy, with any great public reform,
with any great improvement with any
work of progress and American devel
opment The chapter of accidents gave
his name to an outrageous tariff bill
which he did not frame, and it has be
come his stock in trade his capital in
business trafficking for the first offices
in the nation.
It may as well be admitted that early
in this year, 1694, after twelve months
of power, the democrats have not made
as much progress as they ought to
have made in securing a successful is
sue to the presidential campaign of
1SSK3. A victory then, which ought to
have been a certainty now, has been
placed in peril. But there is abundant
time and there will be plenty of oppor
tunities to retrieve the errors that have
been made and to enter upon a winning
campaign.
To that end it is probably best that
the republicans should nominate Mc
Kinley for president The republican
platform, properly interpreted, reads:
"Up with taxes; deatn to commerce,"
and a man should stand upon it who
represents that principle. Chicago
Herald.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Mr. Cleveland did well to put an
end to the unseemly wrangle in which
the supreme court was a football. As
for New York, the state must make
the best of a situation tbat is unfortu
nate from whatever point it may be
viewed. X. Y. World.
Secretary Gresham's name is on
the pension roll, but the government
isn't any poorer on that account His
idea of keeping his name on the roll of
honor and declining to draw his pen
sion is worthy of the consideration of
other pensioners who do not need the
money. Boston Herald.
In thinking over the Hawaiian
matter, it is well to keep in mind that
of the thirteen thousand legal voters of
Hawaii, eight thousand have signed a
petition for the restoration of the gov
ernment which was overturned a year
ago by the firm of Stevens, Marines fc
Co. Detroit Free Press.
The president has done the sensi
ble thing- in leaving the New York
wrangle and going as far away as
Louisiana for a supreme court justice.
The democratic party will follow his
example and take its presidential nom
inees from other states than New
York. Louisville Courier- Journal.
Gov. McKinley's boom is out of
all proportion to the circumstances
tbat evolved it It will be only a case
of history repeating itself if the gover
nor discovers between this and 1S96
that a double track business cannot be
safely conducted on a single-track
road. He is likely to experience a
head-end collision with the sober sec
ond thought of the people of even the
republicans. Chicago Herald.
It is evident from the movements
of the republicans on the national re
publican committee that McKinley.
who has been crucified in two national
campaigns, is to have his garments di
vided among the centurions. It re
mains to be seen whether the parallel
will be carried to the point of McKin
ley's resurrection. At any rate, his
clothes are too large for any of the
men who are now trying to put them
on. St Louis Republic.
It is plain that the ad valorem
or "according to value" style of duty is
much more equitable than the fixed or
specific style of duty. Rich people
naturally like the specific style of duty
more than they like the other, as under
it they are not required to pay their
proper share of taxation. It is to the
great advantage of the poorer classes
to have ad valorem duties on every
thing, as then they are not required to
pay their own share of taxation and a
considerable 6lice of the rich men's
share as welL The inferior qualities of
goods which poor people buy are not
any longer to be taxed two, three or
four times as highly as the fine qual
ities of goods in the same line which
millionaires buy. N. O. Times-Democrat
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
EVEN ML
Lord, a sufferer, brought to Thee.
By the Galilean sea.
Found the pressing throng so great.
Found the time so lone to wait.
That they broke the twisted wool
Of the woven palm-bough roof.
Till the sunlight, calm and sweet.
Came down, with Him, to Thy feet
All the waiting crowd fell back.
Leaving clear the sunlight's track.
Made the stricken one a place.
In the glory of Thy face;
Ere his trembling eyes could lift
To implore Thy wondrous gift.
Fell Thy word, as voice from Heaves:
Son, thy sins are all forgiven!"
Lord, a stricken soul to-day .
Watches for Thee by the way;
Helpless in the bonds of sin.
Sees where Thou hast entered In;
Sees the people round Thee press:
Knows Thy hands are raised to bless;
Hears the sound of joyful song
From the weak, in Thee made strong.
They are many. Lord; but I
Lie alone beneath the sky;
Though the world Is large and wide.
Yet. to help me to Thy side.
And Thy healing grace implore,
I can count no friendly four.
Who. in hands ot faith and prayer,
Will my palsied spirit bear.
Saviour, can it be Thy will
Liketh best my lyinr still?
If I can not reach Thy gate.
Shall I by the wayside wail?
Surely, some day. ere I aie.
I shall see Thee passing by:
Creeping after Thee. I must
Find Thy footprints in tne dust
Waiting. para!yzd and dumb.
As. at old Capernaum.
Waited by Tiuerias' wave
One who found Thee strong to save.
Freed from pain and washed from sin,
Some day Thou wilt tike me in:
"Ked waves of Thy pardoning sea
Yet may cleanse me even me."
Alary L. Dickinson, in X. Y. Independent
AT AN ACUTE ANGLE.
The Trouble with the Man Who Keldonr
or Never bees Anything ltrlgtat-
When a man stands "at an acute an
gle with all the world, it is probable
that the man is out of plumb, not the
world. When all nature turns leaden
in hue, it is time to wipe our glasses;
and if still the light of the eye be dark
ened it will be better to send for an
oculist than to insist that the sun is
growing dim.
It is a reasonably comfortable world
for people reasonably content, but a
mighty uncomfortable world for peo
ple that must have everything in sight
To the unhinged mind "the times"
themselves are "out of joint," and a
peppery temper lives in an atmosphere
impregnated with sulphurous fumes.
The irascible old gentleman always
has the worst grandchildren in the
world.and the most.pugnacious mistress
always finds the most be li cose maid.
Whether we sleep on down, or toss on
brambles, we each make our own beds,
and must, perforce, lie on them. The
quickest way to re-create a universe in
which everything is awry is to be our
selves regenerated; and what was hell
is Heaven. Among the marks of a sin
cere conversion St Paul puts this
down, that a true Christian "is not
easily provoked." Whether one be
easily provoked depends not upon what
is without, but what is within him. A
spark will not ignite a single pound of
coal, but it will blow up a magazine of
dynamite. A Christian, says St Paul.
6hould be slow to take fire and not
easy to explode. A barrel of gunpow
der, mixed with powdered glass, will
burn so slowly that it may be extin
tinguished with the hand; and a spirit,
however hasty, mixed with grace, is
always under easy control.
When any man has seemed to re
ceive an affront, he has but to lower
his claims and he has received no in
justice; the less obtrusive his demands
the less does the world clash with his
rights. Vanity, swelling out its sides,
is always liable to find some one biting
his thumbs at it, and the man that
takes the sword will inevitably have
use for it A litigious man is always
being sued, and a pompous man con
stantly insulted.
In all our congregations there are
hearers who invariably find the
preacher either above their heads, or
beneath their contempt; they can
neither tolerate the singing of the
choir nor the ventilating of the sex
ton; the Sunday-school is noisy and
the prayer meeting dull; the so
ciables are stiff. and the
family in the next pew too
familiar, and altogether everything is
radically wrong. No wonder; they are
wrong themselves, says St Paul; and a
clearer eye would discover a happier
world. What is really needed is not a
better fortune, but 'more grace. The
profoundest scholar is usually known
to be the most considerate critic; the
most brilliant or.itor is proverbially
the best listener; the Christian of a
heavenly temper usually settles in the
best neighborhood of the city. A ten
dency to grumble, and find fault, and
scold, whether in'man or woman, in
pastor or people, in parent or child, be
speaks a lack in that chief of all graces,
the charity which has for it distinguish
ing characteristic that it "is not easily
provoked. " I n te r ior. a
THE GENUINE RELIGION.
Iloly Living; a Stronger Indication of Ita
I'resenre Than Any Mere Creed.
Man is born with religious aptitudes,
instincts and tastes: and a creature so
endowed will have a religion. A world,
or even a nation, of atheists is impossi
ble; the righteousness of man's nature
will assert itself. The danger is not
that man will be irreligious, but that
he will be misreligious; not that he
will be without a religion, but that he
will accept a false instead of the genu
ine religion.
Genuine religion is both internal and
external: it is an inward life manifest
ing itself in external conduct No re
ligion is genuine in which either of
these factors is wanting. To insure
the true religion there must be the life
of God in the soul of man, and the only
guarantee of its existence within is the
effects it produces in the outer world.
"By their fruits shall ye know them."
In religion the controlling factor is in
ward and hidden from the natural eye.
The form does not create the life; the)
life creates the form; the condition of
the interior life will reappear in the
world of sense; men will see and know
the genuine religion in its fruits. ,
While religion must be outward, it
must not be merely outward. The cul
ture of the husk will never produce the)
full corn in the ear. The growth from
within is the hope for the harvest.
Church organisms and forms of worship
are well, but they are a small part of
religion and may be maintained with
out any real religion at all. The Gos
pel is broader than the intellect It
includes the heart, the reason, the con
science, the will in a word, the whole
man. The struggle to-day is to go
back of the mere intellectual state
ment of the head to the heart and
character of the man. That is. the
age is feeling its way toward genuine
religion, in which the ecclesiastical or
ganism, the ritual, the creed even, are
of small consequence compared with
the spiritual life showing itself in holy
living. Zion's Herald.
LIBERTY'S LAW.
Judged by What Is Done When Every
Kestraiut la Removed.
James says we shall be judged by the
law of liberty. The most frightful
judgment in the world is the judgment
of liberty. You three men are off on
a vacation. You are away from your
wives and your daughters, from all the
society in which you go. That is your
judgment day. Not when you come up
to your little children and say in your
heart: "Oh, dear children, I will be pure
in speech and lofty in life for your sake.
That was not your judgment day. But
when you were off, and every limita
tion was removed, and you could do
what you wanted to do without any
body knowing it; that was the test of
your manhood. Oh, how sober a man
seems when he knows that every limi
tation is removed, the laws are all
thrown aside: and yet tbat man wants
to do the thing that is glorious, and
sublime, and heroic, and true; that is
his judgment day. Someday the judg
ment will open court the judgment in
which every man will be allowed to do
the thing that he wants to do. Where
will you and I be? F. W. Gunsaulus,
D. D.
What Does It Indicate.
It is often said, as if in reflection on
religion itself that women are largely
in the majority in the membership of
Christian churches. But it is to the
discredit of men, and not to the dis
credit of religion that this thing is so.
There are more men than women in
our prisons and jails, in the grog-shops
and gambling-houses, and among the
criminal and worthless classes in
every community. Yet it would
hardly be claimed that this in
itself is an indication of man's
moral and intellectual superiority.
Among the hearty sympathizers with
every good cause, women are likely to
be in the majority. When it comes to
the commission of crime, and the in
dulgence in vice, more men than wom
en can be found at the fore-front Be
fore a man is inclined to sneer at the
fact that his sex is less prominent than
the other in the sphere where he finds
himself, let him consider whether it is
in the church or in the police court that
he happens just then to be. S. S.
Times.
TERSELY PUT.
Echoes of Gospel Truth Sounded from the
liana's Horn.
Love for God always takes in every
body else.
A stingy Christian is a living- dis
honor to Christ
It is hard to tire the man whom Christ
has rested.
If sin could not hide its face none but
devils would love it
The widow who gave the two mites
did not starve to death.
When a man gets religion his horse
is apt to find it out
Seek happiness, and you will faiL
Seek Christ, and you will find both.
The devil's power over us is destroyed
when we find out that God is love.
People who dislike to talk about God
seldom love to talk to Hirn.
Some of the best friends the devil has
belong to church.
The man who is not some kind of a
missionary is not a true follower of
Jesus Christ
People are scarce who think that the
folks in the next house have religion
enough.
All the science in the world can't
make a bad man feel at home in a good
prayer meeting.
Some people never pray for a revival
to come at a time when it will interfere
with their work.
There are people who would do more
growing in grace if thev would try
growling less.
There is nothing but chaff in giving
the devil the most of your time and
nearly all your money. ,
The devil enjoys himself in the com
pany of people who are well pleased
with themselves.
The wisest people in the world are
those who have found out for them
selves that God is good.
Dust on a Christian's Bible is a top
dressing that the devil can always use
to make a crop.
The only kind of a sinner who can
not be saved to-day is the one who wiU
not trust in Christ
No man can ever get religion enough
in his head to make the devil lei, go of
his hands and feet
Sooner or later the world it going to
be taken for Christ in spite of the
preachers who are jealous of- each
other.
Many a man who asks God to lead
him when he goes . to prayer meeting
suffers the devil to guide him when he
goes' to vote.
The man who knows that his scales
and measures are wrong, bas all the
proof that God will give him that his
religion is not right
It is hard to convince a worldiag that
a sin is black clear through, as long as
he can hear gold jingling in his pocket
Daniel had time to pray three times
a day, but some church members think
they are doing well if they pray once
week. 1
