WANTS TO BUT DURST NOT.
t never have to bother about what children
need,
I'm not obliged to furnish bread and other
things to teed:
X never have to keep my eyes upon the small
boy's shoes.
X never have to smile, say "yes or gloomily
refuse.
X never have to foot the bill for little baby's
ruilk.
And no one sends an Itemized account of
daughter's silk:
X"m never told to call upon the corner druggist's
store,
And order sent some soothing sirup, a dozen so
or more.
1 never have to give my cash to buy the chil
dren books.
And no one yet has dared to say: "He has his
father's looks."
Xo creature saw me push a gig with baby in
the park
Although I watch the tots that trot between
the light and dark.
X never have to do these tMngs that men detest
and dread.
At least, so married men tell me I am alone
Instead:
And alone, I'd like to try and start my life
anew
And practice thing Tve mentioned here but
now don't have to da
H. S. Keller. In Good Housekeeping.
THE SAYING OF COOT&
BY GILBERT PATTEN.
Copyright, 1894,
by the Author. 1
E THOUGHT
her divine; but
he was only a
curl y-h e aded
boy, not more
than twenty,
and sentiment
al at that. He
had the head of
a Greek god and
the figure of
Apollo, yet he
was Bimply one
of the army of
supers who
came out in
tinsel and tin armor to march and pose
and form an effective background for
the principals who won the applause of
the auaience night after night. Still
he knew he could act. He felt it in his
soul, and he would prove it to the
whole world some day. He was born
with a silver spoon in his mouth, and
it made little difference if the governor
had cast him off when he left college
to go on the s'iage, for he knew his
lack would coma back to him in time.
He was always thinking' of her. He
saw her fresh oval face in the blue-gray
rings of his cigarette smoke; the smell
of roses was like the perfume of her
breath; her eyes looked at him from
the pansies on every corner flower
stand. Perhaps this was because 6he
was one of the band of wood nymphs
who came out in pink and white to
ctrew flowers for the feet of the prima
donna to crush. She should have been
a prima donna herself; he had heard
her sing, and he knew. Wait till his
fortune came back to him.
They were both stopping at the same
wretched actors' boarding-house, on a
Bide street that ran from Broadway to
the Bowery, and at dinner she sat op
Tvnwit him at the loner table around
which gathered nightly a fife collec
tion of chorus girls, ballet dancers.
song ana aance artists, variety per
formers, and broken-down and hard-np
people of the "legit." He knew that
curly shock of yellow hair was not its
natural color, and her evelids were
penciled, but she had teeth like irory
and her laugh thrilled him away down
into his shoes. It was only when the
professional ventriloquist, desiring the
butter, made the chandelier squeak.
"Shove the grease. Coots," that he be
came aware he was staring at her and
not eating a mouthful. He hated the
ventriloquist; for that manipulator of
vocalization was the one who had
given him the nickname of "Coots,"
and now every body in the house called
him that even she called him that.
But she was divine!
The "Johnnies" gathered thickly
about the stage door every night to see
the chorus girls come out; bat he knew
she hated the insipid fops, for he had
heard her say so, and she never paid
any attention to them. She usually got
oil first, and left the theater as soon as
possible, and he had not yet commanded
sufficient courage to tell her he would
take her safely to the boarding house
if she would wait. But one night she
was delayed, and he was close behind
her when she left the theater.
There was the usual throng outside
the stage door, and one of them spoke
to her. He had been drinking, and he
placed himself in her path, offering his
arm and proposing to call a cab. She
tried to pass him, but he caught at her
arm. Tp.e next instant he lay fiat on
his back, and Coots was walking away
with her.
"Oh, I thjtnk you. CootsT' she said,
with a eatohy little laugh that was like
the gurgle yf a brook to him. "That
cad has botuered me for a week. Per
haps he'll keep away now L has got
wiped."
He did not mind the slang; he ex
pected It. He had found everybody
talked slanf at the boarding house, and
it onde. rather sweet and "chic"
from her lips, when he would have
thought it coarse from some other
woman.
"I'm almost ashamed to think I
truck him so hard," he said; "but my
blood boiled hen I saw him put his
aand un your arm, liia Tlioraa"
ASD COOTS WAS WAI.K.ISO AW1T WITH
EF.B.
Oh! call me Daisy. Coots; that,
good enough for my style."
"Your style! You're too modest.
You are fit to star. You will some day,
too."
"Well, I hope you're right All I
want is to get hold of an angeL
I'll
work the duck for all he is worth!
Twelve dollars a week is rocky, but I
have to do it or get off the earth."
"Wait till my luck comes back to
me!" cried Coots. "I'll back you then.
I'll have a piece written for you."
"You dear boy!" she laughed.
They did not take a car. She said
she had as lief walk, as it would save
tne fare; and Coots was sure he had
much rather walk as long as she was
at his side.
"Tell me, Coots how did you ever
happen to get down to this?" she
asked.
Then he told her all about it, and she
called him a foolish fellow, but he did
not agree with her.
"Mother sends me money every now
and then, without the governor know
ing it," he said. "I'll get along all
right until I find an opening and do
something to give me a foothold."
Coots never forgot that walk down
Broadway and the warm pressure given
his fingers by her plump little hand
when they reached the boarding-house.
That night she was in all his dreams.
Sidney Temple belonged to the
"legit," but he waa in hard luck; the
"Bowery Flower" company, in which
he had played the heavy villain, having
stranded in Oshkosh, where they were
deserted by their manager and left to
get back to New York as best they
could. Temple had come in on his up
pers, and he was staying at the second
rate actors' boarding house until he
truck another engagement. How he
obtained money to pay his board was
something of a mystery, but it was no
ticed that he had become very friendly
with Coots, the two being together a
great deal. Daisy was the first to sus
pect the truth, and, one day, she ac
cused Temple.
"You are playing Coots for a sucker.
Temple!' she declared, her brown eyes
flashing. "I know he has money from
his mother, and you are beating him
out of it at cards! You are encourag
ing him to drink, too."
Temple laughed. "Well, what of it.
Little Spitfire? He'll blow himself
"TOV ABE FLAnSQ COOTS FOB A BCCKEB,
TEMPLE."
some way and I've got to live till I get
on the road again."
"It's a shame!" cried Daisy, warmly.
"You are a scoundrel and he is nothing
but a boy!"
"It seems to me you take a remark
able interest in the kid. I believe
you're stuck on his bang."
"I don't care what you believe. I'm
not going to see him beaten out of his
money."
"How will you help it?"
"I know a way. There's a man on
Twenty-third street who would give
something to know where to find you,
and he says he is willing to pay your
board at Ludlow street jail for awhile.
If you don't let up on Coots, that man
is pretty sure to find you."
"I pass!" said Temple, ruefully.
"You hold high card and the pot is
vours."
One day Coots came to Daisy with
strange look of mingled grief and joy
on his face.
It's awful!" he said, chokingly.
"Father's dead. Terribly mdden.
Heart failure."
He saw tte sympathy in her eyes,
and he wvnt on, before she could
speak:
"He wu rich, you know, and his will
leaves on-half of everything to me,
providing I give up the idea of going
on the stage."
"Of course you will do that," sh
said. "You'd be crazy if you didn'tP
"Yes, I shall give it up I don't know
as I was cut out for an actor, after alL
I told you my luck would come back to
me, and I would not forget you then.
There is nothing in the will to prevent
me from marrying an actress and back
ing her, if I want to do it. If you'U
marry me, Daisy, I'll put you out in a
new piece and at the head of a first-class
company."
"You dear, good boy!" she cried, with
a laugh that was half a sob. "I
signed contracts for next season yes
terday, and I am to marry Sidney
Temple next Saturday! We are going
out together in the same company."
Coots' luck had truly come back to
him!
Pessimisms.
Energy and mirth are contagious.
A drunkard is a beast minus the
in.
stinct.. . ....
Deceit is a cockatrice and its eggs are
suspicion.
Healthful amusement ia the oxygen
oi the soul
A man who is honest from policy ia
not an honest man.
The more stupid a person the better
satisfied is he with himself.
We generally hate a man who hit a
target that we have just missed.
It is not unpleasant to hear tales
gainst those whom we have wronged.
As tendrils to a climbing plant so ia
curiosity to the vigorous intellect
Few persons stop to reflect that we
always bore those who are borinor us.
Human nature is not altogether bad.
Few people see others in distress with
out wishing that somebody else would
kelp thaitt. Mary ii. Scott, ia Judge. .
PREACHING VS. PRACTICING.
Republican Rant on the Changing
Sent-
ment of the Country.
Republican journals are taking upon
themselves the gratnitous duty of in
forminc the democratic maioritv in
j congress that it should abandon its ef-
fort to reform the tariff, pass the ap
propriation bills and go home. The
reason given for this advice is that the
sentiment of the country has changed,
as evidenced by the protests that have
been made against tariff legislation,
and the admitted fact that democratic
political prospects next November are
not exactly rose-colored. Of course,
our republican friends have not the
least notion that their advice will be
taken.
But it may not be out of place to re
mind these self-appointed advisers that
the course they are recommending,
even assuming that the advice is given
in good faith and for the best interests
of the eountry, is one which political
parties are not at all likely to follow.
No better illustration of this could be
found than the comparatively re
cent experience of the republican
party. In 1.SS8 a republican victory
was won upon a large scale by
pledges given in the west that un hon
est revision of the tariff would be
made by the republicans if - they were
given the power to act. It was recog
nized by the republicans in all of the
I states of the Mississippi valley that
there was a growing demand for a
change from the old high tax principles
of the war tariff that the people
wanted tariff reform. But it was said
and this was said on the stump in
1SS3 in scores of western congressional
districts that tariff revision should be
made, not by the enemies, but by the
J doubtedly too high, and the taxes im
irienas, oi protection. Duties are un-
posed in consequence of them too
onerous, but it is well that the protec
tion system should be gradually
changed by those who have for years
past supported it, and that it should
not be suddenly destroyed by those
who have always opposed it.
It was upon these grounds that the
republican victory was won. Evidence
can be obtained that quite a number
of western republican congressmen
went to attend the first session of the
Fifty-first congress with the belief that
the tariff was to be revised by cutting
the duties down, and who found, to
their surprise and disgust, after the
session had opened, that the combina
tion of republican congressional lead
ers, under Messrs. Reed and McKinley,
were determined that this course should
6hould not be taken, and that, instead
of lowering the barrier of protection,
the height of that barrier was to be
increased. One of the leading western
congressmen, a republican of national
reputatioc, said in the summer of 1S30:
"Our party is betraying its trust, and,
under the whip of party discipline, I
shall be compelled to vote for a meas
ure which is almost a complete repudia
tion of tbe pledges I made to my con
stituents, and that my western associ
ates made their constituents at the
time they were elected. We supposed,
and they supposed, that the tariff was
V be revised downward, and not up
ward, but we have now discovered our
mistake; our people are already in
censed against us; and yet there is
nothing to do but follow the bidding of
those who are recognized as the party
leaders in and out of congress, and who
have definitely committed themselves
to this line of policy."
This, we 6ay. was a personal state
ment made by a man holding an excep
tional position, and one who paid the
penalty that he knew awaited him by
a defeat in the fall of 1890. There was,
it is true, no financial panic to compli
cate the situation, but throughout the
country there were protests raised
against the enactment of the McKinley
bilL The republicans in the west and
northwest denounced the measure as a
betrayal of trust, and it was predicted
as inevitable that the party that was
responsible for this legislation would
be overwhelmingly defeated in the No
vember election. The handwriting on
the wall was not in mystical characters.
On the contrary, it was easy of inter
pretation to anyone who was not blind
ed by interest or preconceived ideas.
. The leading protectionists, it is true,
did not admit at the time the McKinley
bill was under discussion, and at the
time it was enacted, that the ountry
was soon to repudiate them and their
measure; but the fact was evident to
everyone else. When they asserted
that the election of 1890. which re
sulted in such an overwhelming defeat
for them, was due to a misunderstand
ing of the benefits of the protective
tariff, it needed only the second defeat
in 1892, after two years of experience
with McKinleyism, to make it evident
that the judgment of these gentlemen
as political prophets was not in the
least to be depended upon; that they
predicted what they desired to see
brought about without the least regard
to obvious facts. Now the proper
course for the republican majority in
congress in the spring and summer of
1890, when it found that the sentiments
of the people were averse to McKinley
ism, was either to have abandoned all
effort to revise the tariff or to have
taken up revision upon the principle of
lowering duties. But they did not do
anything of this kind. Boston nerald.
Sot Much la It.
The Rhode Island election, in the
light of the official returns, is more a
triumph of the gerrymander than a po
litical victory. What gave it the ap
pearance of an overwhelming demo
cratic defeat was the fact that there
were 102 republicans elected to the leg
islature against eight democrats. There
were just 54,000 votes cast a little less
than double the voteof Jackson county
for president. Of these the republicans
got 29.000 in round figures, about 2,000
more than half. According to this the
republicans get a member of the legis
lature for each 290 votes and the demo
crats one for each 2,875 votes. Rhode
Island has been a hide-bound republic
an state ever since the beginning of
the war. On one or two occasions the
majority has been less than this year,
but very rarely. If it were not for the
palpably unfair apportionment the vic
tory would have b;en a defeat Kansas
City Times. ,
RFED'S STATESMANSHIP.
The Great Issue Proposed to the Country
by the Ex-Ccar.
Republicans think that Mr. Reed is
rendering a great service to the coun
try in exposing the partisan character
of Speaker Crisp's rulings as well as the
absenteeism of the democrats.
The less Mr. Reed has to say about
partisan rulings the better. No speaker
was ever more deliberately nd osten
tatiously unfair than Mr. Reed. It has
happened that he has been repeatedly
shut off in his attempts at filibustering
by following precedents which he him
self established.
As to the absenteeism of democratic
members, it is wholly inexcusable, and
there can be no objection to having at
tention called to it. Of course, absent
eeism is not confined to democrats,
but the latter, being responsible for
legislation, have stronger reasons for
being in attendance than the members
of the opposition.
Nevertheless, it is only just, while
ex-Speaker Reed is calling attention to
democratic neglect of duty, that the at
tention of the country should be called
to what Mr. Reed is doing. He is ob
structing the business of the house.
He is refusing and instructing his fol
lowers to refuse to attend to the busi
ness for which they were elected to
congress. He is violating the rules of
the house. While present at the daily
sessions he is pretending to be absent,
a line of conduct which he has re
peatedly characterized as wholly inde
fensible. For what purpose is Mr. Reed doing
this? To prevent the passage of some
revolutionary measure? To protect the
people from some invasion of their
rights by an arrogant and unscrupu
lous majority? Not at alL Such
emergencies have occasionally arisen
ia congress, and have been deemed jus
tification for a resort to every sort of
obstruction that the rules put in the
power of the minority. It is known
that some of the worst measures ever
introduced into congress have been de
feated in that way, and the sober sec
ond thought of the country has ap
proved both the means and the end.
But Mr. Reed is not engaged in any
work of this sort.
What Mr. Reed is trying to do is to
force the house to adopt his patent de
vice for securing quorums whether a
majority of the members vote or not
of counting members present, but re
fusing to vote, and occasionally count
ing members that are not present. The
country got along for a hundred years
without any such rule, but Mr. Reed
wishes to demonstrate that it cannot
now go on for a single session without
it. It requires no demonstration to
prove that, if a majority of the mem
bers will not do their duty, business
cannot be done under any system of
rules. But Mr. Reed is desirous of ob
taining from the democrats a vindica
tion of his autocratic methods, and he
professes to think this important
enouffh to justify him in obstructing
public business. 'While he is focusing
public attention upon democratic ab
senteeism, he is also giving the country
the measure of his conception of states
manship S'o change in the rules can vindicate
the conduct of Mr. Reed when he occu
pied the chair. He and his friends are
fond of referring to a decision of the
supreme court that the house could
make rules authorizing the speaker to
count a quorum. They call this a vin
dication. As usual, they suppress the
real point at issue. Mr. Reed counted
a quorum before any rule was made
authorizing him to do so. He put under
his feet ruthlessly the precedents of a
hundred years before they had been
rendered inapplicable by a change in
the rules. It is this act that no change
of rules can ever justify.
It is understood that Mr. Reed is a
candidate for the presidency. It is. no
doubt, grateful to his feelings to have
his action as speaker kept prominently
before the country. It is pleasant for
hm to have the business of congress at
a standstill awaiting the vindication of
the rule which he created and enforced
before the house adopted it. Besides,
he must enjoy the spectacle of seeing
the friends and supporters of his rivals
for the republican nomination cheer
fully doing his bidding while he seeks
to make himself the great issue and to
demonstrate that business cannot be
done without his consent. Neverthe
less, it remains to be seen whether this
course will impress the country as a
demonstration of the surpassing states
manship of Mr. Reed. The great issue
which he proposes to the country is
whether it i proper to obstruct pub
lic business in order to vindicate the
action of a member whom the coun
try's bad luck elevated to the speaker
ship four or five years ago. This is
the -tremendous issue that the nomina
tion of Mr. Reed would present to the
country. Louisville Courier-JournaL
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
Thomas B. Reed's rules still con
stitute a putrid reminiscence. Boston
Herald.
Gov. McKinley has not fully de
cided rhom he will allow to run for
vice piesident when he heads the tick
et. What's the matter with John Sa
bine Smith? Detroit Free Press.
Napoleon McKinley is booming
along on a wave of temporary and fic
titious popularity, but he will come
down with a bump long before he at
tains the throne. Chicago Herald.
Republican editors who were
thrown into convulsions by the Van
Alen incident see nothing wrong in
George Peabody Wetmore's purchase of
a Rhode Island senatorship N. Y.
World.
Chauncey Depew's utterance
that because the democrats have not
freed the country from all the ills visit
ed upon it by republican misrule, the
people will fly to theg. o. p for relief, is
the kind of talk that would be sugges
tive of imbecility in almost any other
man. Detroit Free Press.
It ia eminently fitting that the
robber baron and the tramp fraternity
should unite in sending delegations to
Washington to represent themselves as
living petitions to congress. The same
protective system that built up the I
barons also multiplied the tramps. J
Louisville Courier-JournaL '
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
A BLESSED THOUGHT.
God knows best, o blessed thoucht.
Thought full ot strength and peace.
That stills the tempest in our hearts
And bids the storm to cease.
God known bent. Why should ws
Attempt to choose our way.
When we know He leads us on
Unto the perfect day?
God knows bent. Increase our faith.
Help us. dear Lord, to come;
And bowing humbly at Thy feet
To say: "Thy will be done,"
And when at last life's troubles o'er
We reach the land of rest.
In Heaven's clear light we shall see
And own that God knows best.
Mrs. H. H. Booker, in Chicago Standard.
BUSINESS AND RELIGION.
Is It Possible to Condect Business Suc
cessfully on Strictly Chrlntlan Principle
The above question recently came up
in a Sunday-school class of young men
in one of our larger city churches, and
was answered by a number in the neg
ative, showing this dangerous opinion
to have considerable currency. To ob
tain the sentiment of the business
world on the subject, the Chicago Ad
vance addressed the question to a
number of leading business men.
Among those addressed was ex-Postmaster-General
Wanamaker. of Phila
delphia, who said: "I have never seen
dishonesty or deception succeed in bus
iness. The gain of a temporary advan
tage was always counterbalanced, and
in the end netted a large percentage
of loss. I took the stand when a boy
that it was not necessary to lie to sell
goods. It is a slander on the mercan
tile profession to assert or argue that
it is founded on un-Christian principles
and practices."
"In mv experience." wrote E. G.
Keith, president of the Metropolitan
national bank, Chicapo, "I can not re
call an instance where in the long run
6trict rules of equity as laid down by
Christ Himself would not win success,
and I feel sure if you apply such rules,
no man will ever regret it, even so far
as this world's success is concerned.
Of course the better rule, that it is
best to do right whatever the results,
should be the standard.
"I answer your question," says El
bridge Torrey, of Boston, "with an
emphatic Yes. If the Bible is true, it
will ever be true that 'Godliness is
profitable for the life that now is as
well as for the life to come.' Facts
for a long term of years in any city
will show that while there may be
temporary success where there is trick
ery and fraud, permanent and true
success must ever rest on permanent
principle, and that is always the prin
ciple resting on the ord of God as a
foundation."
' Albert Shaw, editor of the American
Review of Reviews, wrote: "I wish to
reply yes, with emphasis and without
qualifications. There is such a thing
as Christian common sense, and it is
not difficult to find it embodied in bus
iness men whose careers are successful
in the estimation of the business world,
and whose consciences at the same
time are clear in a sense of upright,
manly and generous conduct. The
rapid acquisition of wealth at a domi
nating motive ancPan end in ittelfis wrong.
But to regard the rapid acquisition of
wealth as synonymous with the suc
cessful conduct of business, is a false
view from anv legitimate standpoint,
whether of economics, of business ethics
or of Christian principle. We live in a
country that affords opportunities such
as the world has never seen before the
development of very large enterprises.
The American people, now numbering
some seventy millions, possess very
much the highest average purchasing
power that any people have ever pos
sessed in the history of the world.
Consequently, success in a business en
terprise may mean the growth of that
i enterprise to very large porportions,
j aud the consequent acquisition of very
j large wealth. The one paramount
human possession is character. The
existing industrial order affords abun
dant opportunity both for the develop
ment and acquisition of high charac
ter, and also for the constant daily
exercise of Christian principles. The
business world to-day more than
ever before in the history
of trade, commerce and in
dustry recognizes the binding char
acter of the essential principles of
Christian ethics; and the business
world is full of successful men who
endeavor with clean hands and a pure
heart, and moreover with eyes wide
open and brains cleared of the fogs of
self-deception, to act upon the princi
ples of the golden rule in all their
business transactions."
"I answered the question so thor
oughly on my editorial page," wrote
Edward W. Bok. editor of the Ladies'
Home Journal, "that I do not think I
can do letter than to send my com
ments there printed. To my mind. I
can not see how the highest attainable
business s-uccess can be had apart from
Christian ethics.
"It is strange." he comments, "how
reluctant young men are to accept, as
the most vital truth in life, that the
most absolute honesty is the only kind
of honesty that succeeds in business.
It isn't a question of religion or re
ligious beliefs. Honesty does not de
pend upon any religious creed or dogma
that was ever conceived. It is a ques
tion of a young man's own conscience.
He knows what is right and what is
wrong. And yet, simple as the matter
is, it is astonishing how difficult it is of
understanding. An honest course in
business seems too slow to the young
man. I ean't afford to plod along. I
must strike, and strike quickly is
the sentiment. Ah, yes, my friend,
but not dishonestly. No young
man can afford to even think of dis
honesty. Success on honorable lines
may sometimes seem slower in coming,
but when it does come it outrivals in
permanency all the so-called st ccesses
gained by other methods. To 100k at
the methods of others is always a mis
take. The successes of to-day are not
given to the imitator but to the origi
nator. It makes no difference how
other men may succeed their success
i theirs and not vouxa You can not
partake of it- Every man is a law un
to himself. The most absolute integri
ty is the one and the only sure founda
tion of success. Such a success is last
ing. Other kind of successes may seem
so, but it is all in the seeming and not
in the reality. Let a young'man swerve
from the path of honesty and it
will surprise him how quickly every
avenue of a lasting success is closed
against him. Making money dishon
estly is the most difficulUthing to ac
complish in the world, just as lying is
the practice most wearing' to the
mind. It is the young man of un
questioned integrity, who is selected
for the position. No business man ever
places his business in the hands ot a
young man whom he feels he can not
absolutely trust. And to be trusted
means to be honest. Honesty, and
that alone commands confidence. An
honest life, well directed, is the only
life for a young man to lead. It is the
one life that is compatible with the
largest and surest business success."
UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE.
Tbe Time When the Real Inner Light
Shows Itself.
One of the greatest tributes one per
son can pay another is to say that he
led him to do this or that good deed by
his unconscious influence. Most any
one can appear good and earnest and
sympathetic when he tries. But it is
quite another thing to show that good
ness, earnestness and sympathy with
out trying to have these beneficent in
fluences flow from one's life because
the heart overflows with them. The
people who are good only when they
make a special effort to be so are likely
to be caught off their guard. It may
be doubted if such people are really
good at all, but put on their goodness
as they do their coats, according to the
character of the people with whom
they associate or the thing to be gained.
David Livingstone was one whose
character ever shone, even though no
human hearts were to be cheered ex
cept the dark-faced Africans. Stanley
says that during the four months he
was with him in the dark continent,
there was such a constant stream of
good influences flowing from the great
missionary's personality that though
he went to Africa "as prejudiced as
the biggest atheist in London," he re
turned a Christian man. "Little by
little," says Stanley, "his sympathy
for others became contagious; my sym
pathy was aroused; seeing his piety,
his gentleness, his zeal, his earnest
ness, and how he went quietly about
his business, I was converted by him,
although he had not tried to do it.
Christ truly in the heart, Christ
animating all one's thoughts, Christ
the motive power of all one's acts,
Christ the aim and purpose of one's life
this means Christ always and everywhere-Just
as good breeding makes a man
a gentleman under all circumstances,
just as careful nature gives the rose
the beautiful tint it desired to have,
just so, except much more surely, the
human character, molded by the Di
vine hand, shows the effects of its
training, and, without exercise of the
will, sheds its influence all around.
Young Men's Era.
NUGGETS OF GOLD.
Some Bright Bits of Troth Taken from
k tbe Kam's Horn.
Truth is the strength of God.
It never helps sin any to wash its
face.
All offers of salvation are in the pres
ent tense.
Bad men hate the Bible as rogues do
the police.
Sin is a great detective it always
"spots" its man.
No man seeks his best who does not
seek God first.
If we obey Christ it is proof that we
know Him.
To say yes to any kind of a sin is to
say no to Christ.
It is a long step toward God to for
sake bad company.
Praying at people is never prompted
by the Holy Spirit.
The labor of unbelief is to make a
stone, look like bread.
We all hate self when we see it crop
out in sombody else.
Too many divisions in sermons sub
tract from congregations.
The only freedom is to be in full ac
cord with God's purpose.
The sun is always shining to the
man who walks by faith.
Most any kind of money, held close
to the eye, will shut out Heaven.
The only cure for unbelief is the
knowledge of God's love.
All true prayer is anointed with the
blood of self-sacrifice, a
An oath is a confession that the devil
is served from choice.
To seek God is every man's highest
duty and greatest privilege.
A man may have a good deal of re
ligion and yet not have Christ.
Try to keep God's law and you will
soon find out that He made it.
It keeps the devil busy to hold his
own against a praying mother.
All God-eiven rights stop when they
touch those of a neighbor.
To say "Our Father" with the heart
is a prayer for the whole earth.
"Ho, everyone that thirsteth" is the
call of the Spirit to the man who knows
not God.
Because Jesus Christ has been in the
grave, every man who will may have
eternal life.
One of the hardest things the devil
has ever tried to do is to put a long face
on a happy Christian.
There is nothing like the love of God
for putting true courage in the heart.
Every deed is the child of s creed.
When tbe multitude followed Christ
it was generally out of curiosity, or be
cause they wanted something to eat.
The devil loves the man whose mule
has an er.sier time than his wife, no
matter whether he belongs to churcb
or not.
The devil always feels free to walk
into the house of the man who does not
put up a fence that tells him to keep
out.
One reason why some preachers da
not reach the masses is because they
get up in the church steeple to writ
their sermons.