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TALM AG E’S SERMON. "CHEERS FOR THE UNKNOWN" •SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. tlio Test. lttoiiait* xvl, 14 himI 1.1 i»» Follow*: ».«liiii. mrltu*. l*lil*> Ron, llrrma*. I'afrolm*. Ilernii.*, ITiU tiloRti* ami Julia. ATTHEW Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam Clark, Thomas Scott, anil all the commenta tors pass by these verses without any especial remark. The other twenty people mentioned in the chapter were distinguished for something and weie therefore dis cussed by the illustrious expositors; but nothing Is said about Asyncrltus, Phlegon, Hernias, Putrobas, Hermes, Phllologus and Julia. Where were they horn? No one knows. When did they die? There Is no record of their decease. For what were they distinguished? Absolutely nothing, or the trait of character would have been brought out by the apostle. If they had been very intrepid; or opulent, or hirsute, or musical of cadence, or crass of style, or in any wise anomalous, that feature would have been caught, by the apostolic camera. But they were good people, because Paul sends to them his high Christian regards. They were ordinary people moving In ordinary sphere, attending to ordi nary duty and meeting ordinary re sponsioimtes, What tho world wants Is a religion for ordinary people. If there be In the United States 70,000,000 people, there are certainly not more than 1, 000,000 extraordinary; and then there are 69,000,000 ordinary, and we do well to turn our hacks for a little while upon the distinguished and conspicu ous people of the Bible and consider In our text 'lie seven ordinary. We spend too much of our time In twist ing garlands for remarkable* and building thrones for magnates and sculpturing warriors and apothoslzlng philanthropists. The rank and file of tho Herd's soldiery tired especial help. The vast majority of people will never lead an army, will never write a state constitution, will never electri fy a senate, will never make an im portant Invention, will never introduce a philosophy, will never decide the fate of a nation. You do not ex pect to; you do not want to. You will not he a Moses to load a nation out. of bondage. You will not he a Joshua to prolong the daylight until you can shut five kings in a cavern. You will not he a St. John to unroll an Apoca lypse. You will not be a Paul to pre side over an apostolic college. You will not he a Mary to mother a Christ. You will more probably he Asyncritua or Phlegon, or Hernias, or Patrohas, or Hermes, or Philologus, or Julia. Many of you are women at the head of households. Every morning you plan for tho day. The culinary depart ment of the household Is In your do minion. You decide all questions of diet. All the sanitary regulations of your house are under your supervision. To regulate the food and the apparel and the habits, and decide the thou sand questions of home life Is a tax upon brain and nerve and general health absolutely appalling, if there be no divine alleviation. It does not help you much to be told that Elizabeth Fry did wonder ful things amid the criminals at New gate. It does not help you much to bo told that Mrs. Judson was very brave among the Bornesian cannibals. It does not help you very much to be told that Florence Nightingale was very kind to the wounded in the Cri mea. It would be better for me to tell I'rtli 1 lin ♦ <1... rl i t. 1 n n ,1 a t* • . Ot .Mill ,1 and Martha is your friend, and that lie sees all the annoyances and disap pointments and abrasions, and exas perations of an ordinary housekeeper from morn till night, and from the first day of the year until the last day of the year, and at your call lie is ready with help and reinforcement. They who provide the food of the world decide the health of the world. Von have only to go on some errand amid the taverns and the hotels of the rutted Suites mid (ire.it llrltain to ap preciate the fact that u vast multitude of the human race ate slaughtered by incompetent cookery. Though a young woman may have taken lessons In mu sic, and may have taken lesauna In painting, and less ms lu astronomy, she Is u it well educated unless she has taken lesson* lu dough! They who ile eolu the apparel of the world, and the find of the world decide the endurance Of the world. Au unthinking man may consider I! .t miller of little importance the tree of the household and the econo mi -a of domestic Ilf# hut I tell you ’ 'he earth Is strewn with the martyrs >f kitchen and nursery The health •hitterrd womanhood of America ir e* <ut for a (lot! who an help ordinary *. m.*n in the ordinary bur tew of house k tprug. The wearing grinding un u-t»e* rated work goes un. but the warn* ; t'biist who stood oa the hank uf Halt b » in the errlr morning and kindled t!>« Hie and had the gal, already ' I ■ isel an-t broiling when the spurts m a stepped ash *re «hilled sad bun at I, wilt h»U» evety woman to pee pci* iiicllu whether by her own hand u* the Kant ol her hired hei,» lbs tied slit made iwdeelmlI Me #0 ! Ml of ItabWab who made a vwat for Pa mu* I, her sow And earthed it la the j temple every fail Will help •*a*y wo | mm in pie pa "tag the family ward tern- fba H»l who ogees the thbia i •t*h the «- 4 kkiaham s ewtertwta m<*nt !>y the three angels on the plains of Mamre, will help every woman to provide hospitality, however rare and embarrassing. it is high time that some of the attention we have been giving to the remarkable women of the Bible—remarkable for their virtue, or their want of it, or remarkable for their deeds—Deborah and Jezebel, and Herod las and Athalia, and Dorcas and the Marys, excellent and abandoned— It Is high time gome of the attention we have been giving to these conspicu ous women of the Bible be given to Julia, an ordinary woman, amid or dinary circumstances, attending to or dinary duties, and meeting ordinary responsibilities. * * • N'ow, what Is wanted is grace—di vine grace for ordinary business men, men who are harnessed from morn till night and ail the days of their life - harnessed in business. Not grace to lose a hundred thousand, but grace to lose ten dollars. Not grace to super vise two hundred and fifty employes in a factory, but grace to supervise the bookkeeper and two salesmen, and the small boy that sweeps out the store. Grace to Invest not the eighty thou sand dollars of net profit, but the twen ty-five hundred of clear gain. Grace not to endure the loss of a whole ship load of spices from the Indies, but grace to endure the loss of a paper of collars from the leakage of a displaced shingle on a poor roof. Grace not to endure the tardiness of the American Congress In nassinir a necessary law, but grace to endure the tardiness ol an errand boy stopping to play marble? when he ought to deliver the goods. Such a grace an thousands of business men have today -keeping them Iran <iuil, whether goods sell or do not sell, whether customers pay or do not pay v ether tariff Is up or tariff Is down whether the crops are luxuriant or a dead failure- calm In all circumstances and amid all vicissitudes. That Is the kind of grace wo want. Millions of men want It, and they may have It for the ask Ing. Some hero or heroine comes to town, and as the pro cession passes through the streets the business men come out, stand on tip toe on their store steps and look at some one who In Arctic clime, or In ocean storm, or In day of battle, or In hospital agonies, did the brave thing, not realizing that they, the enthusias tic spectators, have gone through trials In business life that are Just as great before God. There are men who have gone through freezing Arctics and burning torrlds, and awful Marengoei of experience without moving five miles from their doorstep. Now, what ordinary business men need is to realize that they have the friendship of that Christ who looked after the religious interests of Matthew, the custom house clerk, and helped Ly dia, of Thyatira, to sell the dry goods, and who opened a bakery and fish mar ket In the wilderness of Asia Minor to feeil the seven thousand who had come out on a religious picnic, and who counts the hairs on your head with as much particularity as though they were the plumes of a coronation, and who took the trouble to stoop down with his finger writing on the ground, al though the first shuffllo of feet obliter ated the divine caligraphy, and who knows Just liow many locusts there were In the Egyptian plague, and knew just how many ravens were nec essary to supply Elijah’s pantry by the brook Cherlth, and who, as floral com mander, leads forth all the regiments of primroses, foxgloves, daffodils, hya cinths, and lilies, which pitch their tents of beauty and kindle their camp fires of color all around the hemisphere — that that Christ and that God knows the most minute affairs of your busi np«sH 11flinvvrvnr i m>nnI>1<> understanding all the affairs of that woman who keeps a thread and needle store as well as ail the affairs of a Rothschild and a Baring. Then there are all the ordinary farm ers. We talk about agricultural life, and we Immediately shoot oft to talk about Cinelnnatus, the patrician, who went front the plow to a high position, and after he got through the dictator ship, In twenty-one days, went hack again the plow. What encourage ment is that to ordinary farmers? The vast majority of them none of them will he patricians. Perhaps nouu of them will he senators. If any of them have dictatorships, It will he over for ty, or fifty, or one hundred acres of the old homestead. What these men want is grace, to keep their patieuce white plowing with balky oxen, and to Keep cheerful amid the drouth that de. stroys the corn crop, and thut enables them to restore the garden the day aft er the neighbor's cuttle have broken In and trampled out the strawberry bed. and gone through the I.lma bean patch and eaten up the sweet corn In such large i|uant!tles that they must lie kept from the water lest they swell up and die Grace In catching weather that en sides them, without imprecation, to spread out the hay the third time, al though again, and again, and again. It has been almost ready for the mow A grace to doctor the row with a hollow horn, and the sheep with the foot rat. and the horse with the distemper, and to Compel the unwilling seres to yield a livelihood for the Ismtly. and school lug fur the children and little elites to help the abler hoy In business and something for Ih* daughter s wedding out At. and a little surplus for the time when the ankles will gel stiff with age and the breath will he g little short and the swinging of the ersdl# through the hot harvest held will bring ten the nM man s i erttgo. Itetter close up about t in- inoatu* I know §«a huw 4red ta*users Just aa noble as ha was What they want ia *« know that they have the fttandshtp i*f that t'hrut Who •fun drew hia stmiles ftusn the farm sr a *if* aa who* ha sold A auwsr w«*t forth Ns sow, * aa whan ha hutfl ■■■■■nBHBnHinacanBnaiM : Ills best parable out of the scene of a farmer boy coming hack from his wanderings, and the old farm house shook that night with rural Jubilee; and who compared himself to a lamb In ♦he pasture field, and who said that the eternal God Is a farmer, declaring, “My father Is the husbandman.'’ Those stone masons do not want to hear about Christopher Wren, the ar chitect, who built St. Paul's Cathedral. It would be better to tell them how to carry the hod of brick up the ladder without slipping, and how on a cold morning, with the trowel to smooth off the mortar and keep cheerful, and how to be thankful to God for the plain food taken from the pall by the road side. Carpenters, standing amid the adze, and the hit, and the plane, and the broad axe, need to he told that Christ was a carpenter, with his own hand wielding saw and hammer. Oh, this Is a tired world, and It Is an over worked world, and It Is an under fed world, and It Is ri wrung out world, and men and women need to know that there Is rest and recuperation In God and In that religion whleh was not so much Intended for extraordinary peo ple as for ordinary people, because there are more of them. . • * • Al an anniversary of a deaf and dumb asylum, one of Ihn children wrote up on the blackboard words as sublime as Ihn Iliad, the Odyssey, and the "Dlvlna Commedla” all compressed In one par agraph. The examiner, In the signs of the mute language, asked her, “Who made the world?” The deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the blackboard, "In the beginning God created the hpaven and the earth.” The examiner asked her. “For what purpose did Christ come In to the world?” The deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the blackboard, "Tills Is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came In to the world to save sinners.” The examiner said to her, "Why were you .i L. ...t. it., r t__.1 speak?” Hhe wrote upon the black board, "Even so, Father; for so It seemcth good In thy sight.” Oh, that we might be baptized with a contented spirit. The spider draws poison out \ of a llower, the bee gets honey out of a thistle, but happiness Is a heavenly elixir, and the contented spirit extracts It, not from the rhododendron of the hills, but from the Illy of the valley. MERRY WARFARE. M lii'ii Two NiM'lfty M'omen Halo Kmli Ollier Cordially, "You can’t appreciate what may he embodied In that term bitter-sweet,” sighed I.lmptou to the Detroit Free l’ress man, "till you hear two society women In conversation, each hating the other fervently, yet smiling, laugh ing and looking angelic while they are stabbing each other as cruelly and vig orously as though it were a duel to the death. This Is between us, but I Just came away from a little scene confirm ing my view of the case. Hinckley's wife bad called on mine. Mrs. Bink ley had said somewhere that Mrs. Limp ton looked prematurely old, and that she dressed in execrable taste, con sidering her appearance. Of course, some ‘good friend’ told Mrs. I.lmpton, I expected blue blazes when the two met, but the event showed far more diplomacy than is displayed In the management of International affairs. When Mrs. Blnckley called Mrs. Limp ton kissed her, clung to her hand, chid ed her for not coming oftener, and then, In the softest tones of solicitude, asked her If she was troubled with ma laria, now prevalent. ‘You look so yel low,' she went on, 'and drawn. 1 al ways have you in mind as plump and rosy. Do take treatment, dear.' ‘It’s nothing serious,’ laughed Mrs. Hinck ley. 'The doctor tells me I hat a person with strong eyes aud teeth always has wonderful recuperative powers. It la I only a matter of a short time and not at all as though 1 had stepped per manently from my prime into old ago.' This was hot shot, for my wife has worn glasses ever since she was a little girl, and some of her prettiest teeth were supplied by a dentist, but she blandly told of how many of her dear t fi'ic.ta ,1 V, 1.11...... pearance of health had gone with quick consumption, and they fell to talking about hired girls. Woman is a sphinx.” Woiiit*II tli«* 11«*•*t Of one thing there can he very lit tle doubt, aud that is the greater readi ness in conversation of women than men. A woman can creute conversa tion, which is a very useful thing, anil is frequently found a great social diffi culty. If we give a man a subject on which he kuows anything at all. un less he be a fool or morbidly reticent, be can talk about It so as to make him self fairly Intelligible ami perhaps In terestiug (or those to whom the sub ject has any Interest at all. Men. when their feeling of enthusiasm Is excited throw off the slowness and hesitation which frequently cramp their power In society, just as they throw off the physical Infirmity of stuttsrlog under the Influence of some awakening theme or some strong sympathy. Hut the power of conversation In some women and not always those of remarkable ability. Is the tery art of making brick* ■ without straw They will talh lu owe ! by I he b mr about nothing that Is on wo particular subject aid with no par i ! tu telar object aa I lath coherently and I aol foolishly and * it leal very pleasant- { ly alt the time |t would, we are free ; le confess he rather dtgkult for the listener to retry away with him any mental note* of whai bed sent, j h* may y *t be eon*. i>o»* of haying gained any new ideas or of basing had his old “«*•» much enlarged, but he will rise and go hla way, aa one due* after a light and whedemrme meal, sensibly t Meted an t refteahed. has retaining no truss Isle some memories of the isgr •di sci's wh.> h hate tompueed tt Why dues a msn alnaya kma h>« 1 • »«ss just When ha needs H m-at > GLADYS’ 'KKBCHIEFS. tlly Litla Patrick Wilson, in Short Stories.) HILIP WARINO walked along Main etreet with a quick, nervous tread. Ills mouth was set de terminedly, and a deep flush of red dyed each cheek. The happy stir of (he Christmas sea son was still In the air, hut Philip had a guilty feeling that every one who passed knew that his engagement with Gladys Lawton was broken, and that there reposed in his left hand pocket, to bo returned to their owner, one dozen little notes on heavy white pa per, monogram G. L., and In his right hand pocket a diamond scarf pin and six dainty handkerchiefs, with flufly borders, especially designed to tickle a lady-like little nose. Why Philip defied custom In returning these ar ticles in person the little god of love alone knows. A far more Imposing array of Rifts and love tokens wus being collected at the other end of the line, for Phil was a generous soul, and his ladylove most chary of her favors. Letter writing she detested, and Phil at an early stage In their engagement had been em ployed as secretary. The answers to Ills dally notes were, to bis disgust, usually given hy telephone. As to the handkerchiefs —thereby hangs a tale, for Gladys was one of those unfortun ate beings—a girl without a pocket— and could he traced hy the trail of pretty moucholrs she left behind her. Phil's hand Involuntarily tightened over the packet which aroused such hitter sweet remembrances. One lit tle square of linen, with wide ruffles of lace, ho pilfered the day they became for It had wiped awuy two happy tears from Gladys' Idg eyes. Another had been put In his pocket for safe keeping one evening ns they were going to see a famous tragedian. “Keep It for me, Phil, for 1 know I shall cry,” said Gladys, fully conscious of her weak ness. It was not needed, for the play proved more glad than sad, and Philip added the bit of cambric to his rapidly growing collection. Gladys had a pretty habit of wearing a fluffy handkerchief tucked coquet flshly up her sleeve, and another of Phil's souvenirs had been used one happy night to bandage a finger he hail bruised in raising a window, lie smiled to himself as he remem bered how many times he had heard her agonized whisper, "Please lend me your handkerchief, Phil, I can’t think what has become of mine.” This com mon occurrence had caused Phil, In making his toilet, to Invariably add an extra one for Gladys and her emer gencies. Phil heaved a sigh that would have been a credit to the stagiest lover, and his honest heart thumped bard as he r"" “IN THU LIBHARY, Slit." walked up the steps of Mrs. Lawton's house. "Ah, well, Gladys is the only 1 In the world for me; but our first quarrel Is to be our last, for she does not care for me, that's evident, fool that I was." And lie pulled the bell so savagely that Polly, the maid, fairly Hew to the door. Phil's eyes <1 topped as he met the beaming gaze of Polly, the maid, Polly, who had opened the door so sympathizing!)' through all the stages of his courtship she. at least, would he sorry there wits to he no wed ding, and Phil's voice faltered a trifle as be asked for Miss Lawson. "She Is In the library, sir," Polly said in her usual encouraging tones. Phil hesitated. The library was the private sanctum where Gladys received only her Intimate friends VYarlug felt that It would tie a hard mutter to end his euaagentrul In that loom "I think I will wall In here," he said, going toward the drawtug room "Oh. sir, Mrs. Imwtuu has a mother's meet tag In there," said Polly, and led th • way to the sacred precincts so familiar to him of late No u«« was there sad Waring sat down In a remote tor ner. feeling lit at u « with these stir rounding* When Mt lase« bad Uftuniv a flHB ID4I w »ra«i«« u»HH • a* In tunaiant retain I Hun of meat la#* fur #11 »nr<« a»4 run lltlwna «f »«»»•» UU4>* M «trana*»t a ltd In »f In «*» !• i»m * •tunlul apart amnt « full ul k*i M< »«4 fan*Inn Hud )uu l*» run ba4 B*.» laban tniu Krt tuatt t-n.. lb* Muaa- il l«4 *nl*r»4 I bn tuuar Muoaium tat 4aBa In Ik* aiB'lun* l»* «limbn<i a4««aluruual> *nnaf4 lbn natiina Ibn •«M al«»> bo a I nn I an >«M luabn tabk* •a* mukuami ailb taur a#4 buil> bHtlM ib« baaadiul ba4«* at I'krW ■aa* aaa bi iMt **aH*r«4 li*l| • bar* A a**#** tuna !*•*«b *t» b i • *»J i«a| r*a«H* aa lb# *#•• It bai never been known to tell the right fltne ’ and Philip hart learned to love It for Its happy faculty of insisting it was only 10 o’clock, when well-regulated 1 time pieces were mildly hinting it was nearly 12. Gladys was studying Greek history j and sculpture, and the usual pictures in the room had been removed to give place to her attic treasures. The Par thenon had the pdace of honor over the piano, and the gods and goddesses were assembled on the walls In almost as great numbers as in the days of old when they had gathered on Mount Olympus. Phil grew uneasy as a flood of asso ciations rolled over him, and he moved restlessly about. There on the desk was that mummy hand paper weight which old Van Tyle had sent to Gladys at Christmas. How Jealous he had been of Van for the pleasure his pres ent had given! He remembered how cuttingly he had remarked that It was Just like Van’s meanness to offer her some other fellow's hand! On the table w*as the novel they had been reading together. Phil had used his scarf pin as a bookmark, and It had been left undisturbed. From Its place on the chandelier a little sprig of mistletoe suddenly dropped on Phil’s hand. Christmns eve ho had stood In this same spot, and Gladys, shy, reserved, undemon strative Gladys, had softly stolen up behind him and actually Phil shook himself Impatiently, put j Ills hands In his pockets nnd turned j to look at the dying embers In the grate. Yes, Gladys had evidently Just left the room—fled, he supposed, when she heard his voice. Drawn up cosily in front of the Are waa her favorite lounging chair, in which she curled herself comfortably like a cat. f Tn tho flinthu iif thn cliiiir n nmnll white object attracted Phil's attention. Mechanically, from pure force of ha bit, lie stopped to pick It up, and a wretched little specimen of moueholr It was. It looked as If Telemachus had wept abundantly upon It, and Nlobe added her ceaseless tears. It was ns damp as a cobweb left out over night In the dew. A great light came Into Phil's eyes. Gladys crying! Gladys unhappy! Rap turous thought she must care for him after all! Philip drew a long breath that sounded like a soli; then, with a boyish, happy laugh, he walked toward the door. There was a light Btep on the stair, a rustle of drapery In the hall, and she entered. “Gladys," said Philip, pocketing the tell-tale treasure, “I came to tell you how much 1 love you." Tim Florlil* 1 millin'. The Indian question, says a corre spondent of the New York Evening Post, is so associated in most minds with the west that few persons recall the fact that we have a good many red men still In the east, living in charac teristic Indian fashion and their prog ress in civilization subject to the same drawbacks as that of their western brethren. The most Interesting of these are the Florida Seinlnoles, of whom there are between four hundred and six hundred scattered through the Everglades. Until within a little while no one thought of disturbing them there, for they were living on land be longing to the United States and in a district which no one else cared to oc cupy. Various speculative schemes for redeeming the Everglades have been pushed to the front of late, how ever, and, to crown all, the United States government lias decided to make a gift of this tract to the stale of Flor ida. With the prospect that the land occupied by the Indians might become valuable, there arose a local demand I for their removal to some spot where ! they would be out of the way of white I development of the country; and a i hoard of trustees appointed by tin state government to select a site for u permanent reservation has reported to , the governor. ■trace Attempt* at Kngilsli. From the New York Tribune: The following notice is displayed in a hotel in Norway: "Bath! First-class I hath. Can anybody get. Tushbath. i j Warm and cold. Tub bath and show er bath. At any time. Except Jatur- i day. By two hours forboie." And this Is the notice that was posted up recently in an art exhibition in Tokio, Japan: "Visitors are requested at the entrance to show tickets for Inspec- I lion. TIcketB are charged 10 cens and cens. for the special and common re spectively. No visitor who is mad or ilitoxiealed Is allowed to enter In, If any person found in shall be claimed to retire. No visitor I* allowed to car ry ill with himself any parcel, timbrel- I la. stick and the like kind, except his purse, and I* strictly forbidden tu take within himself dog. or the same kind of besits. Visitor I* requested to take good rare of himself from thieveljr.’* HU ksssIMit ml Iwls While Meades artu> as marching out of the Wilderness drum corps lu passing Utaui » he# | tarter* caught sight of the chief and ht oite* (truck ■ip a then popular negro rump meet. t lug air Kverycme Iwpit to laugh What • the fith *“ Inquired the gen- , erst Wh> til (he r< pi*, "they air placiag t**t I tlllil to (let Oct oh ds WrilJ<*rneaa' The geaetal i • miied at the ready *il of the mil- j - tans and *atd Aril with me * mu- ! so *t Juh* wiwai a restate** ssplanatma I know' stity iss tunes sat t* Yanks* Iksstl* and the other Isn't * H.e flea ! ref tie newr*I and t hroat4 te. ssecakst fMWMt I .'Uefu- igh I tnM ran what It t*. j i these a some funny things happen ta ! Ihks w«»id K'spei t hat a a task t i list tong ago del im happen tn f j j Moat on Court THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VIII.. FEB. 20 MATT 1(> 2-15 — APOSTLES DEPART. (Golden Text: “Freely Ye Have Ho* «elve«lf Freely Give" —Matt. The Disciples Go f orth for the Salvo* tloa of Met). The section Includes the chapter, the Instructions to his disciples us he send* them out to work for the salvation of men. Tima,—Autumn of A. D. 28 atid winter of 28 and 2Jt. Place.—Some village or town in Galilee. The exact place la unknown. The Third Circuit of Galilee was begun at this time by Jesus with his disciples, the instructions for which are given in the chapter of to-day's lesson. Review briefly the gradual development of the work of bringing in the kingdom of God. as seen In the first two years of Christ's ministry. Our next Interest Is In the persons se lected to be the intimate friends and pu pils of Jesus, to he Instructed In his truths and trained In his work, and fill ed with ills spirit, ho that after ids death they would be prepared to build up tho church und spread tho gospel over tho world. This work Is very practical for us all. Jt Ih full of instruction, inspira tion, and comfort for us all. We are to look at the principles Involved, and fol low those principles. Bo far as our cir cumstances are the same, we can follow the definite Instruction given lure for those circumstances. Ho far as our cir cumstances differ, we can only apply tho principles. Jesus did the same with Ills disciples, and later bade them preach to those to whom he now forbade them to preach. We cannot work miracles as tie dlHelpIcs did, but we can do good and help the sick uud afflicted even mom than they. Their Great Variety of Character. “Je sus chose twelve disciples, that every man, in all time, might find himself rep resented among the apostles. The doubt er finds himself In Thomas; the fierce, hot-headed, quick-tempered man finds himself In John, the Hoii of Thunder; the opinionated, Impulsive man in Refer; the hard-headed, practical man, desiring tho first place in the kingdom, In James, etc. We arc all there. And to all of us can come Iik«* fitness, worthy <f upostle shlp.“—Bp. If. W. Warren. All kinds of nun can become Christians; all kinds can serve the Lord In some good way. This great variety In Christians enables Christianity to meet the vast variety of nun in the world. Rut all were one in heart, in the love of Jesus, In seeking tho higher life, in building up the kingdom of heaven. Counterbalances. “One of the ways Je sus takes to overcome their imperfection In doing a work, which called for per fection In the workers, was in his group ing of the apostles. Our imperfection very commonly is of tlie nature of half ness. We see one side of a truth, and not the other. We feel the greatness of some quality so strongly that we depre posed to it, but is really complementary. Our Lord seems to have acted with care ful reference to this in sending out his apostles two by two, In the order Indi cated In Matthew." Peter, the bold. Im petuous man acting on the spur of the moment. Is joined with Andrew, the apostle Instinctively chosen by the Scotch as their national patron, as far-seeing, cautious, careful, full of the sense of dif ficulty. James and John differed greatly in age. John must have been very young, for he outlived Jesus nearly saver*ty years. Ho the Master paired them off. old and young together. Philip, the slow witted, was paired with Nathaniel Bar tholomew, the quick-witted. Thomas, the doubting, skeptical intellect, was joined with Matthew, one of the heroes of faith. James, the author of the epistle, the most practical of men, was united with Jude, the man of doctrine. Hlmon, the Zealot, a man of '/.cal, enthusiasm, Independence, and patriotism, was with Judas Iscariot, the business economist. “So the Master made one whole man out of two half men. And so his church should go forth, two by two, each with the one most un like himself, and therefore best able ir> help him."—Pres. H. 13. Thompson, H. T. I>.. in Sunday-School Times. Two by Two. They were sent out tw'O by two (Mark 6: 7). (1) Because thus they were complete and well balanced. Each would BUplement the work of the other. They would reach different classes of minds, and where one failed the other would be ready with the right word. (2) They would aid and encourage one an other. keep up each other’s courage in time of difficulty, be suggestive of plans, and aid one another’s warmth and glow of spiritual life. “With two there Is warmth.” (3) Two Is the best number. More would be a hindrance, and would be divisive, while two would accomplish nearly all that more could do. (1) This Is still one true and effective method of Christian work. Two are more than twlca one. Their Personality ami Possibilities. They were plain n\yn who had not been perverted by the false philosophies, tra ditions, and morals of. the day. They were mostly working men. business men. practical men, hut of great variety of early training. ami or iiutonem me. home were poor: some were comparatively well off; some belonged to country villages, some to the city; several were fishermen. •There were two, at least,” says Ur. Gibson, "the choice of whom seemed to violate all dictates of wisdom and pit donee Matthew the publican, of a hale'* class, inviting hostility: and Hinton Him Zealot, a radical revolutionist In poli tics.” Vet the choice of these showed the broadness of the gospel, and Its power. They were men uf ability; there were greut possibilities In them. Christ transformed common men Into apostles, the foundation stones of the New Jeru salem. the leaders of the kingdom that was to transform the world. The char , oal was changed Into diamonds They were far from faultless hut the faults were llaws In a Jewel, not the crudeness of the charcoal. Illustration It Is very noticeable In all history that the larger part of th« great men In every department ha»w sprung from the common people, so tar as the absence of wealth or rank or great ancestry ran make them common VERBAL. BRILLIANCIES. Speech Is the smalt change of site (•••#. Observation la the most enduring of the pleasures of life. What a woman thinks uf women I* the teal of her nature. Me women atlas life unly when ww have never met the man to reverence. Thera la nothing th* budjr suffer* that the vuul may not profft hjr Th* future not being horn, my ft tend, we w itl abstain (rum Isapuatn* II, Aft** hr man have wanted the r habit* and w»»»a are uaiy so l»»m l«v the Mat. awl wot th* mui Important That email motive* at# at th* hot* tom uf many illtMithm* aeiMm ta A modem dWeovtry The hero of twa woman moat iff aad be wept «>«i ia «e«ar~~ “