A WARRIOR BOLD.
By ST. GEORGE RA TTIRORSE,
Author of "Little Mist Millions." "The Spider's
Web," ' Dr. Jack's Widow'," "Mist Capriceetc.
C*Pjrlfht. 1801, Street anil Smith, New York.
CHAPTER IX.
Lady Arline’s Secret.
This assurance on the part of tho
powerful baron was as balm to Char
lie’s troubled soul.
He believed Capt. Brand must
speedily find himself in hot water.
The conversation took several
turns.
Indeed. Charlie found the baron so
congenial that ho was easily led into
relating many reminiscences connect
ed with his past, so that, eventually,
I’eterhoil had a pretty good knowl
edge of the young man s character.
At last they separated.
“You can depend on me. At the
same time keep your wits about you
when dealing with this Brand. Some
thing will presently drop,” said the
, baron.
When Charlie drew near the hotel,
after visiting his own room and im
proving his appearance to some ex
tent, he was conscious of a nervous
condition of mind such as was entirely
new to him.
And he was obliged to confess that
it had gone pretty far when the pros
pect of an interview with a young wo
man could have such an influence
upon him.
The next thing on the program was
to find a chance for a quiet talk,
where the captain could not intrude.
So he asked again for Lady ArPne,
and she presently came down to the
same bijou parlor, rosy and smiling.
Charlie had heard the voice of Capt.
Brand somewhere about the hotel,
and he was more or less concerned
lest that worthy come in upon them
ere he could make his arrangements.
Hence he speedily opened the sub
jeci.
"I have much of Importance to tell
you, and we must be where Capt.
Brand may not Intrude. Suppose I
get a nice vehicle with a quiet animal
and we can go to take a look at the
suburbs of Antwerp.”
Arline did not hesitate.
She knew that she could trust thisi
frank-faced gentleman with her very
life if need be.
So she quickly agreed to his plan.
“In fifteen minutes, then; and be
sure you wrap up well,” said Charlie,
hastening away to secure just the out
fit that would suit his idea as to the
right thing.
True to his promise, he was back in
good time.
Near the parlor Charlie ran across
Brand, who greeted him rather effu
sively, he thought, and would have
detained him, only that the young
man refused to be held up, and laugh
ingly pleaded an engagement with
Lady Arline, and the impatience of his
noble charger outside.
Thus it came about that, after run
ning the gauntlet in this way, Charlie
was at length given the proud pleas
ure of driving away with the fair girl.
Charlie knew it was only proper for
him to open the ball with an account
of the strange things that had befallen
him since last he said good night.
One thing he intended keeping to
himself for the present, and this was
the name of the young fellow who
had been his companion in the dun
geon. At least there was no necessity
of bringing it forward until he had
heard what she wished to tell him,
and discovered if his suspicions were
confirmed.
“Now that there is no longer a
chance of our being overheard, I'm
going to make an awful confession to
you, Lady Arline,” he said.
She turned a startled face toward
him. and, immediately seeing the
quizzical smile, felt relieved.
"I shall fortify myself to hear it.
Pray proceed.”
"Where do you think I passed the
night?”
She believed she could account for
n fair portion of it, but confessed her
ignorance as to the remainder.
“In the lockup.” he said calmly.
"Do you mean the jail?” breathless
ly
"Yes. Please don’t draw away from
me, or imagine I was engaged in any
street brawl. It all came to me be
cause I chanced to make your ac
quaintance yesterday morning.”
“Why, Mr. Stuart!”
“Because, forsooth, you chance to
have a carriage like a queen; and be
sides, possess the most charming of
golden hair and blue eyes.”
She blushed crimson and still sur
veyed him with puzzled as well as
startled eyes.
"1 confess I do r.ot understand you
at all. You will have to explain fur
ther.”
raraon ma vs nen i assisted you
Into the carrlago at the Steen I was
observed by Baron Peterhoff. He be
lieved you were the Countess Isolde
Brabant, because In several ways at
a little distance one might be de
ceived. My interest in the baron’s
plans induced me to loiter about the
hotel last night when he was making
his wholesale arrests, and by accident
they caught me in the dragnet.”
"Then she—that wonderful woman
—has been arrested?”
When he nodded in the affirmative, i
strangely enough Arline gave a little j
sigh of relief, as though some unex- \
plainable burden were removed from j
her heart; but Charlie was too obtuse !
to understand that the first little fire
of jealousy had been kindled in that
gentle breast, because she knew the
reputation Isolde Brabant had as a
sorceress among men.
The Jr* haring row been &»oken,
he started In to tell his strange story.
Arline listened eagerly.
Indeed, Othello, relating his aston
ishing adventures to Desdemona,
could not have had a more deeply in
terested listener than this fair Eng
lish girl proved to be.
Wnen he described his companion
in misery he was careful not to say
too much, lest he betray that which
he wished to keep a secret a little
longer.
The story was done.
Arline had hung on his words eag
erly, and his assurance that Baron
Peterhoff wrould take care of Capt.
Brand, discovering the truth with re
gard to his claims, and relieve her of
his presence—if. as Charlie suspected,
the other proved to be an arrant im
poster—was comforting to her trou
bled heart.
Still Lady Arline showed no signs
of nervousness.
“Perhaps I may shock you, Mr.
Stuart—perhaps you have such strict
notions of honesty and a name upon
which there has never been a stain,
that you will hardly be as pleased to
look upon me in the light of a sister
when I confess that I have a relative
In wnom I am deeply concerned, and
who has broken the law of his native
land—who took what was not his own
and fled. In plain language, Mr. Stu
art, my cousin betrayed a trust and
stole money.”
She was scarlet with shame as she
turned her blue eyes appealingly to
ward him.
"Let me tell you as briefly as I can.
I knew him quite well. He was young
er, and a son of my father’s only
brother, now’ long since dead. We
were good friends up to the time he
took this false step, and I was the last
one he saw before he fled from Eng
land. Poor boy, if he had only con
fided in me, I could have easily settled
the matter, which I did soon after
ward, at any rate.
“I have been searching since last
October; at times the trail would
grow warm, and then I lost sight of
him completely.
“By mere accident a friend wrote
me that she believed she had seen
him in Antwerp, though he had not
answered her smile and nod. I could
very well understand why, since he
believed the officers from London
were looking for him.
"That is wny I came here—to find
this boy, to reclaim and make a man
of him.”
“And I shall endeavor to assist you
in your search for this Alexander
Brand," said Charlie eagerly. “As it
chanced I have some knowledge of
the young chap. In truth, I have seen
him face to face.”
“Here—in Antwerp?” eagerly.
“In this city.”
"And you can take me to him?
You will, Mr. Stuart?” laying a hand
upon his arm.
"If you so desire; but that will ne
cessitate a long journey—across the
sea, in fact.”
“Then he has returned to England?”
“No; to America—New York.”
“How very strangely it all came
about!” she mused.
“Almost incredible! Indeed, I
should have been loth to believe such
things could be possible if I had not
gone through the experience myself.”
Everything had now been told, so
that there was no more secrets.
The rest of the ride was occupied
in enjoying the features of the scen
ery, in so far as these points could
be discovered from a vehicle.
And Charlie’s mind was made up
ere they returned to the Hotel de la
Paix that, God willing, he w’ould serve
and win this peerless girl.
The curiosity of Artemus had been
whetted to a degree that demanded
satisfaction, else his peace of mind
was forever gone.
He asked many questions regarding
Aleck.
Evidently the young fellow had
aroused the strongest interest in his
mind, for he saw in him the elements
of a strong character that must at
tract attention from the public.
“Where is he bound—Hong Kong,
Nagasaki, Singapore, Cape Town? I'm
ready to go to the uttermost parts of
the earth to interview him!"
“Try something easier—something
nearer home.”
“New York?” with a little, almost
inarticulate shriek.
“Exactly. I have a sort of engage
ment with him at the Windsor Hotel
in your city.”
“But that is not me.”
“Well, you can make one of the
party. Arline—tha, is. Miss Brand,
or rather, Lady Arlirv*— is bound to
find Aleck. She is possessed of an
idea that since fortune was so bounti
ful as to heap favors ia her lap, she
should respond by taking care of this
half-brother, or cousin, who seems
balancing between a bright career and
going to the devil.
“Circumstances drive us sometimes,
don’t they, Charlie? But there’s one
party I rather guess you’ve overlook
ed.”
“Who's that?”
‘‘Her father,” chuckling.
‘‘Capt. Brand, you mean. I believe
I have arranged a berth for him.”
“Where—on the steamer?”
“Rather in the place where I spent
part of last night.”
“Oh, ah! then he's a fraud, sure
enough?”
“I have every reason so to believe.
At any.rate, my friend, the baron, has
promised to look after him.”
“I've no doubt PeterhofT’s intentions
are good; but there’s a prospect of
his being fully occupied in another
quarter,” Artemus said, sagely.
“Meaning the Countess Isolde."
“Well, she has seldom missed her
game—the most wonderful woman
outside of Thackeray's Becky Sharpe
I ever heard of. You’re lucky to have
just missed her, my boy. Men Jeer
1
at her pow“*-s and boast about Qi«»li
Invulnerable qualities: yet no soonei
do they come In touch with this mod
ern Circe than their knees grow weak,
and one glance from her bewitching
ayes charms them even as the rattle
snake does its prey.”
"Your advice is good. I had intend
ed depending on my own ability to
checkmate this old reprobate; and, on
the whole, it may be best for cae tc
keep my hand at the plow.”
“And I'll stand by, ready to give
what aid I may. Don't hesitate to
call on Artemus Barnaby if you are
bent upon some dark and desperate
business that stands for the right
You know 1 have some sort of a claim
upon this affair, seeing that only for
my pertinacity in dragging you on
that wild goose chase in search of the
new Man in the Iron Mask, of whom
old wives in Antwerp gossip, you
would never have gone there to the
dungeons of the Steen, and ergo,
would never have had the pleasure oi
saving Lady Arline from her distress
ing position.”
The words of his companion aroused
within Charlie a sense of the great
debt he owed Artemus, who had been
an instrument in the hands of Fate to
bring about the result upon which his
whole future now seemed to hinge.
So he seized his hand and squeezed
it with fraternal zeal—squeezed it ua
til the owner was fain to appeal for
mercy.
“Yes, I owe you everything, my dear
fellow; and if I can at any time do
you a favor, try me. There are few
things I could refuse you.”
After that there was the fullest con
fidence between these two. Charlie
confided to Arteinus his plans for rout
ing the enemy, and was glad to adopt
some very bright and sagacious ideas
advanced by the latter.
Everything seemed as usual. Yet
under the calm exterior forces were
working that threatened a speedy up
heaval.
Capt. Brand had taken the alarm.
Keen-eyed man of the world that
this great traveler was, he read the
writing on the wall, and it plainly de
clared his reign had neared its end.
Hence he detested Charlie with a
venom such as could only be compared
with the enraged cobra, seeking to
bury its poisoned fangs in the object
of its hatred.
In brief, this fine old plotter began
to cast about him for some method by
means of which he could get rid of
Mr. Charlie Stuart, either temporarily
or for all time.
He was not alone in his scheming.
Other harpies there were who hoped
to share in the glorious plunder—men
whose past lives no doubt could pos
sibly show almost as great a variety
of adventure and bold schemes as his
own.
Accordingly tnese precious worthies
laid their head3 together In order to
devise some brilliant scheme whereby
the obnoxious interloper—this young
Lochinvar who had come out of the
west—might be defeated ere he could
carry the girl off on his fleet steed.
And when the conference was ad
journed. it had all been arranged just
how Charlie was to be dropped out of
sight.
However, these worthies in planning
so neat a campaign failed to take ,'nto
consideration several elements which
had a positive bearing upon the ulti
mate outcome.
There was the baron, for example.
Besides—there was Artemus.
No doubt this latter individual, with
his peculiar notions and his apparent
ly inoffensive appearance, would have
been looked upon by the hoary old
fortune-hunter as very much in the line
of a freak, and must be brushed aside
vdthout ceremony.
But they made a mistake. Under
that simple exterior beat a bold heart
and a keen brain.
For Artemus had taken a room next
to Capt. Brand’s, and during that cele
brated conference his eye and ear did
noble duty at the keyhole of a con
necting door.
(To be continued.)
WHERE DEATH REIGNS HIGHEST
France, Though Favored by Nature Hal
Heavy Mortality Record.
M. Papillon has lately printed a
striking array of statistics on the re
lation between public hygiene and
mortality, from which the following
instances and remarks are taken.
France (he says) is favored by cli
mate and in other respects. Why is
its birth-rate the smallest in Europe,
its death-rate among the greatest?
The cause is not in nature, but in in
stitutions. From the 38,000,000 inhab
itants of France 150,000 deaths from
tuberculosis annually occur, while
there are but 60,000 among the 41,
000,000 of Great Britain, but 90,000
among the 56,000,000 of German^.
In every nation of Europe save
France the mortality from tubercu
losis has diminished, and, at the
same time, the consumption of alcohol
has retrograded. The results arc that
in France, between one census and
the next, the mortality from tubercu
losis has increased 68, while in Ger
many it diminish d 109 in every 100,
000 inhabitants. The difference is 77
per 100,000—or in the total popula
tion 68,000 lives were lost during the
last census period in France that
might have been—and ought to have
been—saved.
Hyprophobla is stamped out in Eng
lang, and is still common in France
The case is similar for other diseases
Typhoid Fever Kills Soldiers.
During the months of January and
February there were 800 deaths from
typhoid fever in the British army.
Notwithstanding the regulations re
garding boiled water the soldiers con
tinue to drink out of brooks and
rivers.
RAISING SNAILS FOR FOOD
Snail raising for profit is the unique
jceupatlon of a California man, anil his
snail ranch at Los Angeles is supposed
to be the only place in the United
States where snails are bred and raised
is an article of food. This odd indus
:ry is little more than a fad in this
’ountry, but in France the succulent
jscargot is in high favor with the
gourmet, 800 tons of them being con
sumed last year in the city of Paris
Bone.
A few years ago Mr. A. V. Pernot of
Los Angeles, a native of France, im
ported two dozen of the variety known
ss “escargot Bourgogne,” and attempt
ed to found a colony of the slimy and
repulsive appearing creatures. He
knew their food value, and he also
knew that “sirup d’eseargots” is es
SiniU Feeding on Cabbage I«oaf*
leemeu or oeneni in me treatment 01
throat and lung affections. The var
iety imported is carnivorous and they
lived but a short time on the vegetable
diet to which they were subjected.
Later Mr. Pernot received a con
signment of the variety “escargot
Bordelaise,” which is herbivorous, and
the success of his experiment has been
phenomenal. The colony has Increased
so rapidly that in breeding season the
services of one man are required con
stantly in the care of the thousands
of snails that crowd the confines of
their pens.
Snail raising is beset with few dif
ficulties. All that is needed is a small
enclosure in a moist place, eo protect
ad that the crawling gasteropod can
not stray away with its shell house
on its back.
In the Los Angeles snallery the pens
ire built under a large windmill tank,
where water is plentiful. Several long
boxes, two feet wide and one and one
half feet in height, are arranged about
in open space, and the tops are cov
ered with wire netting fitted with
hinges. Inside the boxes are numerous
lengths of drain tile, in and upon
which the snails cling in great num
bers and in all stages of development.
The eggs of the snail, tiny in size
ind whitish gray in color, are laid
in May or June, when large numbers
of the creatures gather in sunny
places. When about to lay the snail
uurrows into the damp soil, sheltered
from the sun’s rays, and deposits from
thirty to fifty eggs that look like small
pills. Three or four similar deposits
are made and abandoned in a season.
Ordinarily the young snail gnaws its
way out of the shell and to the sur
face within twenty or thirty days, but
instances have been noted of eggs that
have been dried and kept for many
years and then returned to a moist
place, where they hatched in the usual
period.
The snails are liveliest in the early
morning. This is their feeding time,
and they come out in myriads to re
ceive a shower bath from a garden
hose and to feast on the cabbage, let
A California HddIIi rj.
nice ana grape vine leaves umi com
mie their diet. They are voracious eat
rs, and when several thousands of
them are eating the noise they make
with their horny jaws and cartilagin
ous tongue is not unlike the champing
of a horse on its bit.
In their native haunts the snails
are great pests, resembling grasshop
pers in their destructivity, and In
stances are cited where entire gardens
of cabbage and strawberries have been
devastated in a single night.
The snails raised on the California
ranch vary in size from that of a
pinhead at the time of hatching to the
dimensions of half a dollar when full
grown and inclosed in the shell. The
animal's body Is translucent and of a
light brown hue. As the snail crawls
on a log all that can be seen is the
square head, bearing two long and two
short horns with a muscular base tap
ering behind. Extending under the sur
face of the body is a tough corrugated
disk on which the animal creeps. This
is the last part of the body to be
drawn into the shell, and to It is at
tached a horny valve that Just tits the
opening, completely covering it when
the snail is Inside.
In preparing the creatures for food
they are kept, for about four weeks in
wine-soaked bran, where they fatten
rapidly and are freed from all extran
eous and slimy matter. When this pre
paration is not possible the snails are
taken from their shells and washed
many times in salt and water or vine
gar and salt. Then they are placed in
a stewpan and cooked in salt and wa
ter or boiled in milk. Another method
is to place them in a vessel, shells and
all, and to boil them with herbs, cloves
and whole peppers until they fall from
the shells. Then the tails are clipped
off. the shells scrubbed, and a paste
made of parsley, butter, bread crumbs
and white wine. The meat is replaced
in the shells with this paste, and then
the mass is placed in a baking dish
and browned In a hot oven.
Ordinarily they are fried In a pan
with the shells on, and they taste not
unlike a clam or mussel, although
they lack the fishy flavor of the bi
valve. Like the oyster, they are best
in the month of which the letter “r”
appears.
Forty or fifty snails constitute a
meal for a hearty eater.
In addition to the food value snails
are thought to be efflacious in the
treatment of pulmonary troubles, ami
the water that comes from the creat
ures by distillation is considered an
effective "beauty wash.” The belles of
,' “/// OOPOE1.LAI3C onAlU
two centuries ago ascribed beautify
ing properties to “eau d’escargots.”
claiming it made their complexions
white and fresh.
Acre* of Foliage.
Tlio beauty of the Cryptomeria as
seen in Japan has often been de
scribed by travelers both when seen
wild, forming large forests on the
mountain sides, and also under culti
vation, the Japanese having used it to
a great extent for avenues along the
sides of the public roads, says the
Garden. One of the finest of these
avenues is recorded as leading from
the town of Namada to Nikko, a dis
tance of fifty miles, every tree being
a perfect speciment, quite straight,
averaging from 130 feet to 150 feet
in hight and 12 feet to 15 feet in cir
cumference. In this country it has
proved, on the whole, a disappointing
tree, fine specimens being extremely
rare. The species, or one of its num
erous varieties, is said to have been
first introduced into England by For
tune in 1844, who sent it from Shang
hai. Although usually spoken of as a
Japanese tree, it is also found widely
distributed in many of the mountain
ous parts of China.
tJ. K. Area S,600,892 Miles.
The area of the United States, ac
cording to the twelfth census, is 3,
690,822 square miles, including the
“outlying districts” of Alaska, Hawaii,
Porto Rico, the Philippine islands,
Guam and Samoa.
Of the total area just given, 2,970,
230 square miles lies within "conti
nental United States” and the balance
in the sections named, which range
from 590,884 for Alaska to 201 for
Samoa, and 81 for the Isle of Pines,
not mentioned separately above.
The areas for continental United
States include land surface, only, but
for the outlying districts they include
both land and water surface.
How Ralpli Connor Got Hla Name.
Literary pseudonyms come into ex
istence in curious ways, as is once
more illustrated by the case of ‘ Ralph
Connor.” He is the Rev. Charles W.
Gordon, a young many occupying a
Presbyterian pulpit in Winnipeg.
When he first began to write of that
•part of the world he sought a nom de
guerre. He took two syllables, “Can”
and “Nor,” from the name of the Ca
nadian Northwest Missionary society,
with which he was connected. How
ever, the editor under whose eye this
signature came read it for “Connor,”
and thought it would sound better if
“Ralph" were added as a Christian
name.
Gifted President of Harvard.
Thirty-three years ago Charles Wil
liam Eliot, then a young and compara
tively inexperienced professor of
chemistry, was elected president of
Harvard college. Now, nearly 70
years old, he can look back to an ad
ministration longest in the history of
the university, conspicuously most
successful financially and materially
and the most active and revolution
ary frcm an intellectual point of view.
Nearly every man actually believes
that other men are interested in hla
troubles.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XII, JUNE 22: ROMANS 13:
8-14-TEMPERANCE LESSON.
Golden Text—"Let C*. Therefore, Cast
Off the Work of Darkness, and Let
l!s Put on the Armor of Light"—Rom.
18:18—Lvtla of Intemperance.
I. I-ove Keeps the Commandments. In
temperance Tends to Break Them.—Vs. 8,
9. 8. "Owe no man any thing." “This
does not forbid contract* to pay at a fu
ture time, hut a violation of the contract,
or the violation of any obligation to pay
when Justly due. We must avail our
selves of no technicality of law to avoid
what Is equitably due.”—Whedon. “But to
love one another.” "The believer should
keep no other debt In nls life than that
which a man can never discharge, the
debt which Is renewed and even grows
In proportion as It Is discharged—that of
loving. In fact, the task of love Is In
ti ulte The more active love Is, the more
it seeks its task to enlarge; for, inventive
as It ls.^it is ever discovering new objects
for Its activity."—Godet. Leave no debt
undischarged, except "the undying debt
of love" (Bengel), "which you must al
ways owe, because this alone holds the
debtor even after It has been discharged."
—Augustine. "He loves not truly who
loves for the purpose of eeaslnn from lov
ing "-Philippi. "He that loveth another
hath fulfilled the law. The law ex
presses In words w'hat is the natural fruit
of true love In the heart. Perfect love
would prompt exactly those actions which
the law comiminus.
!*. "For this , . . nnil If there be any
other commandment,” etc, "If I love my
friend, will I steal from him? No. Why
not? Simply because I love him. and love
forbids me to do so evil a thing. If 1
love him, will I envy him bis good for
tune? No. I will rather be glad that ho
Is so prospered, and will wish that ha
may go on In the same line. Love will
lead me to rejoice with him when he re
joices. and not Indulge In the spirit of
*'iivy. F.nvy Implies dislike, or even hat
red. which are the opposite of love. If I
love my friend, will I run him down In
my conversation about him with others?
No; for that would harm him. and as
love never hurms. It would forbid me to
talk In that way about him.
“Love thy neighbor as thyself.” In
measure, not as he always does, but as
he ought to. In manner, after the same
manner, freely, deeply, sincerely, tender
ly. constantly, wisely, without end. The
heart of lovo Is a fountain of living wa
ters, and the commandments are the
ehnnnelB through which the stroams flow
out. The commandments are the fences
by the roadside which show love the way
In which It should go.
Intemperance, on the other hand, tends
to make men break all the command
ments. It dulls the conscience. It Inten
sifies the passions. It destroys self-con
trol. It distorts the vision.
It. Love works no III Intemperance
works Perpetual Ills—V. 10. “Love
worketh no 111.” etc. The Ills which Ire*
temperance works are without limit and
without number.
III. Awake. Awake. Intemperance puts
the Mortal Nature to Sleep.—Vs. 11, 12.
11. “And that, knowing the time.” "The
nature and character of the period in
which we now live."—Hodge. This Is In
terpreted by the clause, “for now Is our
salvation nearer than when we believed."
They themselves wer*f nearer the goal,
nearer to Christ, nearer to their Immortal
Inheritance than when they first became
Christians; and their cause was nearer
Its triumph; the kingdom of God had
made grout progress. It was a time of
warfare, a time of hope, with the goal
and the crown in sight, a time for new
zeal In the Lord's work, a time when ev
ery gift and every labor told on the re
sult, a time of crisis and turning points.
"It Is high time to awnke out of sleep.”
Sleep Is the condition of Indifference, of
unconsciousness of these great opportuni
ties and Inspirations. The sleeper does
not know what Is going on In the great
world of realities, but Is either dead to
all these things, or has a dream world
of his own In which he lives for the time.
So Jonah was asleep and dreaming while
the storm was raging about him.
12. "The night.” of past Ignorance, of
sin. of the kingdom of darkness, "Is far
spent, the day Is at hand." the day of the
kingdom of God is rising upon the world,
the dawn of redemption for the world.
Its rays tinge the clouds of the morning,
and touch the mountain tops. The view
"on the whole, to he preferred, Is that
which refers ‘the night’ to the season of
pagan ignorance, Immorality, and
wretchedness, In which the Romans had
formerly been living; and ‘the day’ to the
season of Christian knowledge, purity,
and happiness, which had begun to dawn
upon them, and which was destined to
grow brighter and brighter. We must re
member that they were living In the
transition period, when the light of Chris
tianity was struggling successfully with
tho darkness of pagan Idolatry.”—A. N.
Arnold, D. D.
IV. The Armor or Light versus xne
Deeds of Darkness.—Vs. 12-14. "Let us
therefore cast off the works of darkness."
such as are described In the next verse,
all the deed.-, of evil which hate the light,
which are ashamed of their own faces in
the light of righteousness, which darken
the world wherever they rule, whose end
Is eternal darkness and despair. "And
lei us put on the armor of light.”
The separate pieces of this armor are
truth, righteousness, zealous but not pas
sionate witness, faith which concerns the
whole personality, hope which exalts,
and God's Word. The first three pieces
betoken the garments, the next two the
defensive armor, the last the one only
weapon of ofTense und attack adapted
only for single-handed and close combat,
which belongs to the Christian warrior,
to the Christian assailed by the Evil One.
and yet courageous and assured of vic
tory. No one piece can be undervalued
or neglected: each one requires the other;
they together form one whole."—Lange.
13. "Let us walk" (live) "honestly," be
comingly. In a manner worthy of our vo
cation. "As in the day," in an open way
which we are willing all should see and
know, with nothing to be ashamed of,
nothing to hide.
Workers for temperance need the ar
mor of light, with no defense for the
back, for they cannot turn their backs
to the foe. Especially must all strife and
envying be avoided, but self be lost In the
great cause.
Intemperance puts off Christ and his
character, and employs itself in making
provision for the lusts of the flesh.
The power that will overcome It is that
of Christ. Temperance workers will suc
ceed by putting on Christ, having his
character, his teachings, his power.
The Small Boy Again.
It was down South that a woman
going one morning to call upon a
friend was met at the door by the
small boy of the family who opened
it for her politely.
"Good morning, honey,” she said,
“Is your mamma engaged?”
That was a poser, and the child
thought for a moment, forgetting to
Invite the guest to enter.
“I fink," he said finally, having se
riously considered the matter, "I find
she’s married.”