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THK NOIlKOIjK WKKKIA * NKWH.JOrilN'Ah , FRIDAY , .lANUAKY 28 , 1010. \ If Jeff Does the Leading , New York , Jan. 22. William A. Brady , who rose from the ofllce of a huHtlor on a train to that of one of the leading theatrical managers of the day , using as a stopping stone to fame and fortune the managerial berth of two world's heavy weight champions , has spoken and given an opinion on the outcome of the meeting next Fourth of .July between Jim Jeffries and Jack Johnson. Physical culture experts , fight managers and everybody almost whose names appeared In a sporting page at one time or another have had their little say , but none were so lucid in their deductions as Is Hrady. Ho In the one who knows a lighter from his shoe laces lo the last hair on his head. He saw Jim Jeffries when the latter was only a sparring partner to Jim Corbett and was the llrst to pick the big fellow out as a coming champion. Hut. anyway , here Is what "Hilly" says of the two men : "The talk about Jeff not being able to come back and get Into shape lo light Jack Johnson Is ridiculous. Jeff has a hotter chance to 'come back' than Corbett did , and the latter surely 'came back' when he traveled twenty- | three rounds with Jeffries at Coney Island three years after he was knock ed stiff by Fitat Carson City. "Eighteen months before Corbet t mill Jeffries he was pronounced 'all In' by the shrewdest judges of the fistic game In New York. Corbett had been running a thirst parlor In the tenderloin for several years and going all the gaits. Not even , hls best | friends thought he could 'come back. ' I but he gave Jeff the light of his life. ' "Now , If Corbett could get Into con dition there is no reason in the world why Jeffries , who never dissipated much , can't regain physical perfection. I He's now at the age of a man lu the prime of life and I look for him to enter - 1 i tor the ring with Johnson better than ho ever was. Hut he will have to be ' better than over to beat Johnson. The big negro Is the greatest lighter Jef fries ever faced , 1 have seen Johnson fight , and take It from me that he's there with everything. He has the best loft hand of any big fellow the ring over produced. "Won't let them 'gull' you with the stuff about the negro having climbed to the front at the expense of little men. The little men he boat are pretty shifty lighters. I think Stanley Ketch- el could have whipped Tom Sharkey in his best days , and you know that Sharkey went twenty-live rounds with Jeffries and gave the big fellow about all he could attend ( o. "Johnson Is a better man than Peter Jackson ever was. and the big Austral ian black had them all buffaloed in his day. You also hear a lot of talk about Jeff having gained the cham pionship at the expense of the great est crop of heavy weights the ring ever saw. FitCorbett and Sharkey are pronounced superior men to Burns. Ketchel , Lang and Fit/ Johnson defeat ed. This kind of talk don't appeal to me. I can't see any logic in it. I think the big fellows of today are cleverer , faster and can hit just as j hurd as the big 'uns that Jeff flattened out. out."I don't think Jeff is the kind of a /N man that will suffer from nervousness. He's of Pennsylvania Dutch parentage and has the phlegmatic disposition of a Holland Dutchman. Nothing ever feazes him. Jeff Is the greatest natu ral fighter the ring ever produced. He was endowed witli all the physical qualifications of a champion when I saw him work out with Corbett while 'Pompadour Jim' was training for the Fit ? fight. It was no trouble polishing Jeff into a champion. The ring never saw his equal as a defensive fighter , but I'm afraid Johnson will force him to do the leading , and If he can make the white champion come to him it will be interesting to see how the big boilermaker conducts himself. "Corbett , FitSharkey and Uuhlln carried the fight to Jeff. All he had to do was to crouch down and let the other fellows pound themselves to pieces against the armor that Nature endowed him with. If Johnson can open him up and make him do the leading- and you can never toll what is going to happen in a pugilistic con test I'd hate to predict the outcome. "The negro is as crafty as they make them. He has never been thoroughly tested in the ring. All his fights have been big gallops for him. Crowd a negro hard and he'll fight back like a tiger. 'King fear' will never bother Johnson. Ho lias a big bump of ex aggerated ego of a different kind from 'ring fear. ' The big black conducts himself in and out of the ring with the confldeneV of a man who can do anything better than anybody else. Hut don't forget the fact that ho has been going the pace pretty rapidly himself. I think ho will have every bit as much trouble conditioning him self as Jeff. "Tho fight looks like a pretty even thing to me. If I thought Jeff would strip fit as a fiddle and run the fight to suit himself , that is to say , make the negro do the leading. I'd like to have n small wager on Jim. On the other hand , If he fails to enter the ring fit and ready and tries to carry the light to the black. I'd prefer to have n small ticket on the nogro. " They have been figuring on putting up a one million dollar home for the sweet and heavy warblers of old and now masters' music. The men who could make such an enterprise possi ble and profitable had to bo shown. They wanted to know just how grand opera would pay and what chance there was to make a gigantic enter \ prise of this sort self-supporting. The test came on the night set for the scrap between Frank Klaus , one of Pittsburgh most popular young maulers , and Jimmy Bergor. They wont at it for six rounds In the old city hall , not far from the Nixon theater , In the latter place Mmo. Ltpkowska waa singing the lead in "Lakme.1 The prices for Hcrnp and grand opera were the name , ranging from the humble dollar up to three dollars. Klnal Hcoro : C.lovo fighting , $ I.17U ! ; grand opera , $2,111 Those figures are said to have shown the once plcblan and still hardli headed PlttHburg men of money that , the time lu not ripe for springing the one million dollar home for grand optl era In , the home of the world's basetl ball champions. All of which brings up the question Is there any sport or form of amuse ment or vehicle of excitement that quite classes with a glove light when It comes to separating people from their money ? Prices considered , it Is doubtful If there Is. Perhaps at different times there Is the most widespread Interest In a series of baseball games , or In an In ternational yacht race , or a horse race , that stands out as something excep tional. Hut could promoters get people to spend an equal amount of time and money on them as will be spent in seeing this combat between two single gladiators of the ring ? It Is extreme ly doubtful. Jelfries and Johnson are lighting for a purse of $101,000. It is going to cost another $ , " 0,000 on the side to stage the battle when expenses of the arena , advertising and the like are considered. The promoters , of course , are figuring on a prollt. The public at so much per skull will have to pay the freight. With California as the battle ground It must not be constricted that California is going to furnish most of the specta tors. New York and Hoslon , to say nothing of other eastern cities , arc to send big delegations ; Chicago cage alone will be represented by the do/ens , and every other largo city In the country will send its sporting followers. Prom London , ICugono Corri , prominent stock broker and the leading referee of Great Hrltain. is to chaperon a party that will be ticketed - eted from London direct to the arena. Hugh Mclntosh and a party of friends are to make the trip from Australia. Pigurc out briefly what It will cost all of these delegations for railroad transportation , fittings , living expenses and tickets to the battle. That would he merely the actual cost and would not show what it might mean to these men in loss of 'time. ' It is almost astounding. SOME MORE WIRES CROSSED. Manager G. Little and Attraction J. Johnson Talk at Random. New York. Jan. 22. There appears to be a Jittlo difference of opinion between Jack Johnson and George Lit tle , his manager , as to where the cham pionship fight Is likely to occur. John son was quoted here today as follows : "If Ulckard says the light is going to take place at Salt Lake it will be Salt Lake. He is the man with the dough , and that Is what I am after , Jeffries and I are In this business for money. Hickard is the man with the dough and what he says goes , "As far as I am concerned. I'm willv Ing to fight Jeffries anywhere. I have no personal preferences so long as Jeffries is on hand and in his best form. " But here is what Little had to say regarding the controversy , a few min utes later : "You can take It from me that the fight will never be pulled off in Utah. The site which has been agreed upon is at Ocean View , a short distance south of San Francisco , A temporary arena to seat HO.OOO is to be constructed - structed and a railroad company has agreed to deposit the ticket holders at the gates within twenty minutes after they leave Fort and Market streets , San Francisco. I'm ' willing to bet $5,000 that the fight takes place in California. " TO EXPEL JOY MILLER. Michigan Student Council Recommends Dismissal of Football Star. Ann Arbor. .Mich. , Jan. 22. The student council of the University of Michigan , organized to assist the fac ulty in maintaining discipline , has commended to the engineering faculty that Joy Miller , who is alleged to have played on the football team last fall knowing that he was ineligible , he expelled from the university. Miller's whereabouts are not known. The council criticised the engineer ing faculty for lax methods and gave Miller a record for uprightness of char acter up to last tall. Says Jeff Has Wind. New York , Jan. 22. Frank Gotch , the world's wrestling champion , de clares that Jeffries will outlast Johnson - son in their fight in July and will win easily in a long go. "Johnson's defensive style of fight Ing will prove his undoing , " says Gotch in a statement given out hero today , "Jeff's endurance is as good as It ever was. The other day wo wrestled for half an hour , and ho finished fully as strong as I did. I was able to pin him down only once. This should show how great is his strength , because ho knows little of the wrestling game. "Two months ago I was one of the ! doubters. Hut I have grown to know that Jeff is honest and determined and is working as hard as any man can to get into shape. And ho is getting into shape so rapidly that It surprises even ills best friends. Jeffries not only will he right when the light begins , but the longer the light goes on the bettor chance he will have. " WILL NEBRASKA DICTATE ? , I Cornhuskers Keeping Conference Football - I ball Schedules Muddled. Iowa City , la. , Jan. 22.An unusaul mixup has resulted in the formation of the Micsouri Valley conferonc foot ball schedules , as Nebraska , with Its declaration that it must play Kansas on November n , has complicated the situation. ! Also the declaration of the affect every college In the conference. Nebraska wan forced to omit the Amen game last year In order to ac commodate Kansas and she Is demand ing that Kansas make the concession Cornhuskers that they will play Ames on November 12 has not aided In set tling the dllllcultles which materially this year. In view of these rather arbitrary declarations there Is a gen eral disposition among the conference members to brand the Cornhuskers as dlctorlal. The stand of Nebraska Is giving Drake unherslty of Des Molnes con siderable trouble In Its schedule. If the wishes of Manager Kager are ac ceded to , Kansas cannot play Drake on November " > , as originally planned , hut there Is a chance that October 22 may be the date decided on. How ever. Drake Is planning on playing Illinois on October S in view , of n letter - ' ter from Manager 10. T. Ingold of the Illlnl to Manager John L. Grllllth of Drake. Therefore , Illinois and Kansas - sas In the name month , two weeks apart , Is not an alluring proposition to tin1 blue and white. Iowa's hoard is holding up most of the negotiations pending the settle ment of the Wisconsin situation. If the Hadger authorities decide on the seven-game schedule without the stip ulation that the additional two games be with state teams , then Iowa will probably play Wisconsin next year. A game with Purdue Is a certainty and thi > .Minnesota and Iowa manage ments are sparring for a date. WHERE IS THAT $25,000 BID ? Nelson Says He Hasn't Received the Freddie Welsh Cablegram. Memphis , Jan. 22. Battling Nelson says he will select holidays for future clashes in which his llghtwelnht title will he at stake. Nelson made this announcement yesterday when deny ing the published cablegram from Kreddieelsh , the Hritish lightweight champion , stating that an offer of $25- j 000 had been made direct to Nelson for -Li-round fight with Welsh at Cardiff. Wales. "I have received no offer from abroad. " said Nelson , who is here training t with Kddio Lang. "I meet Wolgast on Washington's birthday , however , and it would suit me im mensely to follow that victory with a contest with Welsh , the Hritish fight er , on Decoration day , which also is a holiday dear to Americans. " A NEW TRICK BY R. DE ROUEN. French Wrestler Clung to the Mat Un til He Was Disqualified. Hnffalo. Jan. 22. Zybscko , the Pol ish champion , last night wrestled down Haoul do Rouen , the Krench champion. The Frenchman lost the first fall , be ing i disqualified for clinging to the mat. after twenty-six minutes. In the second end i bout the Polo threw his man over his head to a bridge , which he broke In I twonty-oiiiht minutes. H was rough wrestling , and the Frenchman gave the Pole a terrific battle. THE FIGHT FANS WILL JAR. It is Going to Cost a Big Roll to See the Jeffries-Johnson Fight. Chicago. Jan. 22. With what other form of amusement or entertainment now would you classify that type of man handling known as glove fighting ? Will people spend as much money as they l will on boxers ? Did you ever feel in a mathematical frame of mind and figure it out ? It is going to coat something to see that battle in July between Jim Jef fries and Jack Johnson. No matter where the fan lives , he will have to dig deep into his jeans to satisfy the transportation tab and the fan , no matter whore he lives , is going to see j that battle even if he has to figure I pretty close from now till the middle ! of June to do It. That's a pretty good I I vacation time , you know , and the trip' ' is just about satisfying , furnishing as it will a jaunt through the grandest scenic section of this glorious land. The Umpire. Kdwards , one of the "Aggies , " took a soak at "Morloy , " the big K. C. A. C. referee. Well , they can't accuse Ed wards of picking out soft ones. Morley - ley is Ji pretty fair sized young man. The Tic r baseball squad is to have a training table this year. If they'll serve egK ami butter there should bean an awful lot of competition to make the team. "Cap" Anson refuses to die. If he postpone his demise much longer the number of men who remembered when j he played with Chicago will not be as great as tho.-e who went to school with "Abe" Lincoln , and at that Chicago , has about three million population. If "Joe" Tinker is right in his state ment that the "Cubs" must have Kling to win the pennant this year It would be j 'a good idea to wager a few beans that the"Cubs" will not cop the rag. Murphy will not get Kling , according to John. He ought to know. Christy Mathowson , the Giants' star pitcher , objects to the slavery con tracts which prohibit a plavor from engaging in indoor baseball , basket ball or hockey during the winter sea son. If Matty holds out the chances are the magnates will listen to reason In his cas * . An entire day elapsed and none of the eastern export * ; succeeded in hang- Ins walking typhoid or smallpox on poor Jeffries. Some mistake about this. If the big mill is to ho a moving pic ture fight , as many declare , why not hold It in Hohoken ? Wo understand the sun .shines there every now and then. "Hilly" Papke Is going to Paris to pick a few Icrnons. Too bad that Will iam doesn't like "tar babies. " Sam Langford U aching to have someone choose him Supposing ' Al" Kauffman docs whip "frame-up" Philadelphia "Jack" O'- Ilrlen and there's no harm hoping that he doesthe public will have to stand for him hurling challenges at the winner of the Jeffries-Johnson light. MACKAY DISCUSSES TELEGRAPHY Claims Postal Is Last Competition , When That Goes , a Trust. New York , Jan. 22. "The Postal Telegraph company will be the last competitor lu telegraphy , ami when that competition ceases there will be a choice only between monopoly and government ownership. " This Is Clarence Mackay's view of the telegraph situation in the United States today , before a committee of the state legislature , which Is trying to , determine the advisability of plac ing telegraph and telephones under state regulation. Mr. Mackay said : "We have no objection to being placed } under the public service com mission t If that Is desired by the state. I would , however , call attention to the fact that the telegraph business is very different from the telephone business in that our records show that about seven-eighths of telegraph business in New York Is interstate , over which , I suppose the public service commission would have no jurisdiction. " HER FATAL GIFT OF BEAUTY. Good Looks Cost a Pretty Waitress Her Job. New York. Jan. 22. That same sort of discrimination which has resulted in the discharge from certain railroad workshops of all men weighing less than 150 pounds and the discharge of all street car conductors weighing more than 1'JO soon may bo applied to the waitress. A beautiful , real hair blonde was missing from an uptown Uroadway res taurant last night. When a reporter noticed the blank space and asked alter the reason the manager simply said : "She's tired on account of her looks. " "Looks ? Why , she was the best looking girl you had. She was a reg ular hearilinor here , a bill topper. Wasn't that bad business policy ? " "Stop right there , " the manager In terrupted. "Business will be better without her. What's more , I'll not try to hire a successor who looks any thing like her. This is why she and all others of her stamp are time wast ers , though not always because they like to be. Nearly any plain waitress can cover twice the ground. The beau tiful , golden haired , big eyed creatures lose fifteen minutes in kidding before they can get a Broadway sport to cen ter his attention on the bill of faro. "But in the case of the plain girl how different. There's no 'please-give- me-some-angcl-food foolishness' then. Our reputation for quick and elllclent service is the gainer by it. "I won't go to the length of saying I'll never hire another blonde. Hut I will say this , 'Let the chorus girl typo stick to the profesh. Them's no room for her in this beanery. ' " EIGHT BELLS" OUT OF TUNE. John F. Byrne , Author of the Big Suc cess , Sued for Divorce. Norwich , Conn. , Jan. 21. John F. Byrne , author of "Bight Bells" and head of the four Brothers Byrne , co medians and acrobats , has been sued for divorce by his wife , formerly Helen L. lladley , on the grounds of mis conduct and cruelty. Mrs. Byrne asks for $70.000 alimony. She asserts that her husband is wortli more than $200- 000. 000.Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Byrne were married In 1SSC. Byrne purchased the former Farnum house , near the famous Bone diet Arnold place. For a time "Mine , Helen. " as his wife was known pro fessionally , appeared In "Kight Bells , " but after her husband had made money she retired from the stage. Byrne himself seemed to have settled down as a prosaic country gentleman. They had no children , but adopted a beau- - tit'ul little girl from a New York or phanage. Their friends never suspect ed that all was not peace in their household , but In her papers for di vorce the wife alleges misconduct with several persons. GREGORY CHILDREN ASSAULTED. Walking Along Street at Night. They are Seized. Gregory Times : Sunday night while going home from church Park Coburn , a boy of 15 , and his sister , Alta , aged 13 , children of Charles Coburn , were assaulted by two men who came from the alley between the Lemkor saloon and McKayden's hardware. The chil dren were running along hand In hand when the boy was grabbed and rough ly handled by one fellow who wore a short sheep lined coat with a fur col lar. The other man grabbed for the girl but she Woke away and ran down the street toward home , but seeing a light at Hagon's bakery , ran over there and gave the alarm. Mr. Hagen went back with her and found the boy at the corner , very much frightened and his assailants gone. He was badly choked and cuffed about by the men. The children think that they could Identify the men , but nothing has been done to apprehend them. How long shall this element be al lowed free course in the city ? Will It come to the point where citizens nniBt go armed to defend themselves from attack ? Has It come to pass that our children are no longer safe from abuse and attack ? How long before decent citizens will rise up and show the undesirable class of citi zens now harboring hero their choice of moving or getting something more Every trade , business or profession has its "trade Journol. " The business of housekeeping , or homo-making , has UB most valuable "trade journal" In the classified advertising columns , 1 O ooo OOCH PEOPLE'S PULPIT. . . THE COST OF Srimjn by CHARLES T. CHURCH RUSSELL FEDERATION Pastor Brooklyn Tabernacle. TO CONGREGATIONALISTS PRESUY1ERIANS METHODISTS Brooklyn. N. Y. . January 1(1. ( Today began a series of Christian Mass MeetIngs - Ings , which are to continue during four successive Sunday afternoons In the largest Auditorium of Brooklyn , the Academy of Music , undei the aus pices of "People's Pulpit Association. " The topic fur the day was : "Wlnit Vunurcuutwnalistii. I'resbylert- iitn.i unit Mithtnlist.t must surrrmlrr in the interests of Church Federation. " Pastor C. T. Hussoli of Brooklyn Tabernacle delivered the address. Tin.1 spacious and elegant Auditorium was crowded so that an overdow meeting with another speaker was deemed ad visable. On I lie platform behind the speaker were several hundred men , In cluding a number of ministers. The audience as a whole was a very in telligent one. The llonuniblo J. I1' . Kiitherfonl. Attorney-at-Law. intro duced Pastor Unssell , who said : I take for my text the Word of the Lord through the Prophet. "Say ye not. A Confederacy , to all them to whom this people shall say. A Con federacy ; neither fear ye their fear , nor be afraid" ( Isaiah vlll , 111) ) . The desirableness of oneness In the Church of Christ Is beyond dispute. The impropriety of sectarianism or til vision Is now generally conceded , al though twenty years ago many defended fended the divided condition of the Church as being helpful. They point ed to our Lord's words , 1 am the Vine and ye are the branches ; every branch In me that beareth not fruit my Fa- thcr , the Husbandman , taketh away And every branch that beareth fruit he pruiiL'th. that It may bring forth more fruit ( John xv , 1-5) ) . They claim ed that the denominations were the branches. The evident teaching of the Master hero Is that his people are related to him in an Individual sense and not as parties , sects or denomina tions , and that they are dealt with from the Individual standpoint as one Church and not many. St. Paul enunciated the same great truth (1 ( Corinthians xli. l.'ii , declaring that the Lord Jesus Is the Head of the Church , which Is his Body , and that as the human body has many mem bers under the full coutrol of the head , except when diseased , so the Church , as members In particular of the Body of Christ , are all to be subject to the Lord as their Head. They are all to be so connected with their Head , and thus with each other , that when one suffers , all suffer with it. and when one rejoices , all rejoice with It. be cause they all have fellowship In the one spirit of the Head. Hence the eye cannot say to the hand , nor the hand to the foot. I have no need of you , for every member is necessary to the prosperity of the Body as a whole. And as the Joint supports and strength ens the limb and Is joined thereto by sinews , etc. . so Individually Hod's people are united to each other In the bonds of grace and truth and love. It must be conceded that Church Federation or Confederacy Is In many respects quite a different thing from the Church's oneness Illustrated by oui Lord's parable of the vine , and the Apostle's Illustration of the human body. Nevertheless since a Federation is proposed as the nearest possible approach preach to the spiritual enjoined Onion. It Is proper that we and all Christians everywhere should enquire carefully the cost and the yaln Implied In the Federation movement. As the pro gram shows , this series of meetings will consider Impartially the cost of Federation to the creeds of the most prominent denominations. First In the list today we consider the sacrifices of Congregationalism , Presbyterlanlsm and Methodism. (1) ( ) As to church government very slight concessions will be required of any of the federating denominations. Denominational liberties as respects forms of worship and methods of gov ernment and discipline arc to lie permit ted very loose rein. The Federation pro poses chiefly the regulation of home and foreign mission work and a general watch-care over the Interests of the federated systems along the lines of political Influence. The expectation is that the political power of the Federa tion will have considerable to do with moulding of legislation favorable to the Federation , and later on , unfavorable to the smaller denominations not asso ciated In the Federation. (2) ( ) It Is along doctrinal lines that tut sacrificing In the Interest of Federation will be chiefly demanded. Doctrlnally Congregatlonallsts and Presbyterians are one ; hence we may consider their sacrifices of doctrine In the interests of Federation as the same. They both accept the West minster Confession of Faith with Its Calvlnistlc foundation that God , be fore the foundation of the world , fore ordained whatsoever comes to pass : that he predestinated an elect , saintly few to heavenly glory , and equally foreordained that the remainder of thousands of millions of non-clod should be maintained In eternal life to all eternity. In order that they might suffer excruciating pains , both mental and physical , never-ending , as a part of the of the " supposed penalty "Origi nal Sin" committed by our first par- ents In Hdcn. Evidently there will bo row people In these highly Intelligent Christian bodies ready to insist , as our fore fathers did , that this clement of faith la essential to salvation. Few of us would agree with Brother John Calvin. the great architect of this creed , that fellow-Christians rejecting this doc trine should be burned at the slake. as Brother Calvin decided In respect to Brother Servetus. No. thank Hod ! We ha\e outgrown some of the nar rowness which so terribly fettered some of our hrcthcrn during the dark age * . Few any longer believe that them are "Infants In hell not a span long. " because non-elect. lOveu where ( hi1 doctrine of Election Is still blindly held , few have the temerity to state their belief that any innocent Infant was predestinated to everlasting tor ture. But Brother Calvin's conten tion expressed lu the NVestmlmitcr Confession is that there are no innocent infants-that ( he condemnation of Original Sin was to eternal torture and that Adam's children , "born In sin and shaped lu iniquity. " were therefore not Innocent , but guilty-born under the sentence of eternal torment and salvable - vable from it only through membership In the Church of Christ. Indeed we may say that this theory was still older than Calvin , for did not St. Au gustine first declare the danger of In fants to denial torture and the neces sity of their being brought info the Church of Christ by baptism In order to escape eternal torture ? And is not the force of this teaching still manifest amongst both Protestants and Catho lics , as evidenced by their fear to have an infant die unbnptlzcd-so that Borne. In extreme cases , even practice "baptism lu uteroV" Doctrlnally Methodism is indirectly opposed to Calvinism In every sense of the word. Possibly Methodists will have less to concede than Calvinism , because , although in Wesley's < lay the doctrine of Free ( Jrace was combattcd on every hand , it is now the tacit faith of the vast majority of Christendom. The doctrine that Cod had premedl tated and Irrevocably foreordained thu eternal torture of our race except a handful of the Klect was too horrible a one to stand. So the Methodist doe trine of Plvine Love lor all and Free Grace as respects salvation lias ap pealed more and more to the growing intelligence of mankind. Nevertheless we cannot do otherwise than concede that It will matter little to the thou sands of millions which all "orthodox" creeds consign to eternal torture whether they shall suffer eterna agonies as a result of Divine loveless ness In foreordaining their sufferings or to Divine inability to outwork for their benefit Hie supposed advantages- of Free Grace arranged for them by Divine Love. The More Excellent Way. Our suggestion is that now , in the lapping time of this Gospel Ago with the oncoming Millennial Age. as the arc electric light casts the candle of the past Into the shadow , so the clear er light now shining from the pages of God's Word casts Into the shadow all the doctrines of the "dark ages , " relieving us of the horrible nightmare which once beclouded our hearts am ! lives and made us fearful of our Cre ator as an all-powerful , but morel less sovereign. In this blessed light now shining from CJod'.s Book have wt not a basis for Christian unionf Let us see ! If we can find In God's Word that the doctrine of Klectlon and tin doctrine of Free ( Jrace are both tme both Biblical , but that one belongs ti the Church In this Gospel Age and the other to mankind In general In thu coming Millennial Age. will not this- solve our problem and give us doc trinal union instead of a mere falcni tion based upon the Ignoring of doc trine ? We can all assent to this , there fore let us examine the fact" . The Bible assuredly declares a Dl vine election according to a Divine purpose foreordained but not such in election. as Brother Calvin outlined God foreordained the selection of : Church , predestinating the numbc who would constitute Its membershii and the character of each one win would bo acceptable as a member , llu foreordained tests of the worthiness o these members and the glorious re ward that should be theirs and a grea work which they shall bo privileged tide do for mankind llmitedly now , fullj during the Millennium. Accustomed U the election of fellow-citizens to tin Presidency , to Congress , etc. , when , they will have the opportunity fo blessing the non-elect , we should Imvi carried this same thought to the Di vine election of the Church. Weshouh have discerned that the elect Church the "Seed of Abraham" ( Galatlans III 119) ) , is specially intended to bo the channel of Dlvlno blessing to "all th families of the earth" ( Genesis xxvill U ) . How strange that we overlooked thl and the assurance that with the com pletlon of the Church Messiah wouh exalt her in the "First Resurrection to be his Bride and joint-heir In hi Millennial Kingdom , to be establish for the blessing of all mankind : llo\ strange that we did not notice tha every text of Scripture used by on Methodist brethren to substantial ! their doctrine of Free Grace belongs to the Millennial Kingdom ! As for In Ktaiu'o. the Bible , after telling us o the completion of the Church no\\ espoused to the Lord and after lie marriage or union with him at hi Second Coming , as "the Bride , th Lamb's Wife. " tells that then "th Spirit and the Bride shall say. Com and whosoever will may come and tak of the water of life freely" ( Uevelatlou 171. Ah. yr.i. we fulled disastrously i keep ( tie Apostle's coniiniind. "Sillily to show thyself approved unto tlotl a workman that iieedelh not to ! ashamed , rightly dividing Hie won ) > ? Truth" ( II Timothy II. l.'n. \\v fallen to Hum divide the Truth and to tioio the portion applicable now and tlic other portion applicable during tbo Millennium Thank God. we are nor yet too old to learn.Ve surely Imvn been thoroughly sickened by our mis taken Interpretations of the past , which miide nonsense of both the dm ir. .es-FJectlon and Free ( Snioo- unit worse than this , defamed and vllllleU our Heavenly Father , "the God ot i\\ \ [ Grace" lu I lie light now shining.wo may scu that the terms of the Divine election of the Church are In every NOIIHO of tlu-i word without partiality , except IIH te gards character and faithfulness Those now called with the heavenly calling lo be of "the elect" are Indeed Invited to eternal life on the splrli plane , lo be like unto the angels , but more exalted , while the opportunities to be granted to the world In general during the .Millennium will be Inferior , earthly , restltutlonary yet grand ( Adw ill , HKMi. Hut ibis difference ot re ward is eoiiniOrlmlanced by the HI > vercr trials and testings of those now. . called to be of the elect. They inuiit walk by faith and not by sight. They must take up their cross and follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth They must count their lives not dear unto them , but willingly sacrlllce their earthly Interests that they may be pur ticlpators with their Kedeemer In glo ry , honor and Immortality , and In IIIM great work of the Millennium- blessing ot the world ot mankind wltli a mental , moral , social and physical uplift. Cannot we all , Congregationalism. Presbyterians and Methodists , and all others of God's people , unite as a no liddif upon this Scriptural hypothesis ? Are we not satisfied with the terms of this electioii-that they are sulllclcntly stringent to exclude all except the f-alntly ? Hearken to I lie Apostle's dec laration , which we once so grievously misunderstood : He say.s of God'n elec tion , "Whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the Image of his Son. " In other words , when our Heavenly Father foreknew and predetermined to gather an elect Church as the Bride of Christ , he also predetermined that none could l.c members of It unless they attaineil through faith and obedience In the School of Christ character-likeness of Jesus heart likeness to him - hence , an nearly as possible , an obedience ot thu flesh to his Law. Surely no one will claim ( fiat any but a little Hock has ever attained to this honored condition ; hence our tor- mur ideas respecting the non-elect , would consign the majority ot our families , neighbors. Iriends and alt the heathen , to endless woe. Hut now how differently we see In God's Word that the elect class Is selected in ail vance. that in God's due time. wliM the ICedeemer , It may bless every vruu- ture with fullest opportunity ( o return to human perfection In a Paradise re gained restored during the Millenni um. This proposition ot the Scrip tures includes those who have gcmu down to the prison-house ot dcatn into tihcol. Into limits , both the evil and the good. All shall then know , from the least to the greatest , that "Jesus Christ , by the grace ot Gml. tasted death for every man. " They shall know that the redeeming blood was not shed In vain , but will sec urn to each member ot Adam's race , not eternal life , hut an opportunity to at tain eternal life either on the heaven- Jy plane during this Age or on the earthly plane ( luring the Millennium. 1 address you. dear friends , not from a sectarian .standpoint , but from a Federation standpoint ; yea. more than this , from the standpoint or those who desire to be doctrinally. as well as out wardly , in agreement with thu Lord and with each other. Have we not. iu this beautiful election ot the Bible , the basis for the grandest ot all hopes , the highest ot all ambitious to be "heirs of God anil joint-Heirs with .IOSIIK Christ our LordV" Can we want moru than this for ourselves ? Anil does ic not enhance the glory of this prize to have the prospect ot conquering the world for Jesus and for the f-ather during the Millennium , in the only way In which It ever can be conquered God's way ? Is it nut for this Kingdom that onr Itedeemer ( aught us to pray. "Thy Kingdom come ; thy will be done on earth as it Is done In heaven ? " is it not for this Kingdom that ho taught us to wait , saying , "Fear not. little flock ; It Is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom" ( Luke xii. 32i ! ? Is it not for this Kingdom th.it the world waits ? "Unto him every knee shall bow aud every tongue con less. " "The knowledge of the Lord f > hall till the whole earth. " "All shall know him from the least to the great out. " "And It shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from amongst the people" ( Acts ill. ! > ; { Shall we. then , stop merely with an outward federation or confederacy ? Shall we not rather unite mir hearts and heads and hands along the lines of the Divine promise given to us "In thce and in thy Seed shall the families of the earth be blesstd ? " ( ( Jalatlnns 111.- ' ! ) . ) 0 Needle Dust. In factories where needles arc made the grindbtunes throw off great quanti ties of minute steel partl'-le.s. with which the air becomes heavily tharg ed , although the dust in too line to be perceptible to the eye. Breathing the dust shows no Immediate effet t , but gradually bets up Irritation , usually ending In pulmonary consumption in efTeetivo attempts were made to screen the air by gauze or linen guards for nose and mouth. At last' the use oC the magnet was suggested , aud non- masks of magnetized steel wlro are- worn by workmen and effectually re move the met a I dust before the air is limit heel. London Graphic.