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PROOES OF We Enter the Future Very Much as We IMMORTALITY ae ats the Present Life. Wh hath brought life ai te li ght. —If. Tim. i. vigor of new life, and in this alter- nate series the process goes on for- | ¢, s cee Ras ca shrouded in pease can tallow: nue veairit's yeuk? Are # re, then, any means by which we can ight, on this trust that Ney shall survive death? ilosophy is not against it, for the ian Bcience bin have ae, lieved in it. ience anes affirma- tive testimony to THE eon LAW of the conservation of force shows Evolution points to a con- stant unfolding” a Progra te higher forms of Bei The mastering desire for aedictaliey: ie one of the ae ge grounds for the ey a of the taunt us with false prom- The vitality of the spirit in advanced years is ment. the wrote Em normal man or ipa son. another argu- “The soul dees ee age “ae antag grows a ave, S & g they are not decisive. for Rinciuta assurance upon a are h vital moment. And i 18 ol rom one source— 8 au bali God ine has don Bbolished ‘death and brought Ste and pomanyeube fn to light.” He clared the great truth that ‘“‘all lives unto God. OUR EYES SEE DEATH, in view of this fact, how importan inj aliens in the Rivone: Srerinaade as are these Ji CONTRAST IN Japanese and Russians Commem- orate the Battle of Chemulpo, The dismal city of C! hemulpo, e west coast of Corea, aan 0, On thi witnessed two strangely contrast- ceremonies, each conducted by las making the da} of their hae land. All of it|panese quarter in the ae blos- somed with bunting, flags and lan- ‘as out behind a brass band, trailing his enthusiasm through the naeey. streets of the mongrel tow teen Were ‘Jong speeches in the high sounding formal oratory of @ Japanese, a pari rill of some of the Japanese neers still retained in Corea, for the good of Corea and a long night after- of saki drinking and dancing by "the nee Russians who came down from Seoul, had no p: Japanese festivities, Somow, the Russian Consul-Gen- eral, there were 5 ae irukoff, eo the Orthodox ecomes the state a as we en- ter | pital the servants f the evil one. sensual os of God o: gran- snoneee under the aspect of a care one should reaching out into undying ages Howdiseront become our-aims an plans when they are not to be piss by death but Pa be carried on larger scale hereafer! Junius B. Remensnyder. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, Lesson IY. after Stephen’s marty: 4 disciples were ttered Erbe. The Greek verb is based upon the thought of seed-sowing, and indeed of truth. foe ifr or The Broad pssere. of Chris. Wh; andria). phen men preached also to the Gre What selves, and ntimate of D: ne What is a Christian? I. The Tribulations of Christians | °° —V. 19. What befell the Etat lom h when y does this verse (R. os nin reasons for this broader are in them? They spoke - them: could break down prejudice. The jew-| noted ii ad phaeckt Jerusalem Christians do when they heard of the Gentile Christians at Goubtful Shen: (2) encourage the them tile converts, of ich the sequel showed the reat danger (Acts 15: 1-25). They might have sent a let -|ter, but dace te tne methods are al- ways best V. The ‘Christian’ 8 eee Ee ance.—Vs. 25, y did Bar- nabas need ‘help Bees te his true worker builds n he is alone, re benefits the ravi by creating work for others. did he seek Saul? Because of his acquaintance with him = ul’s wonderful ex: ence. Besause Sau! was pronely adapted to the Because he was di nabas, more logical better teacher, and the Antioch was ready for instruction. a8, A large part of any Prater 8 success con- sists in the wise choice of assist- nts and co-workers. He found {his cuene fro: (Act: 30), Por iebesed’ together in Antioch for a whole year . . . and taught much pes What i a the most component fact regar this Antioch That the saisciploa were -|were those who a om the consulate ‘and half a doz- en Russian merchants and travel- lers. They went ont to the little foreign burying ground on a hleak, treeless hill back of the town and there, where all of the dead sat een recovere . | Variag and Korietz after the battle d|was buried, the a1 wehmandrite con- ducted the Orthodox service for the repose of the dea e re- sponses were sung by Corean con- verts. mi some of the foreiguers who stood in the cemetry with un- covercd heads while the priest of- fered up prayers for the brave dead remembered the day when the Variag and Korietz came limping back into the harbor pace haying stood off for more than punctured like a sieve, was listing to such an extent that the blackened snouts of some of her starboard guns was dipping in the wave! The Korietz, a little gunboat hard- ly bigger than a revenue cutter, had been under the protection of her bigger sister and was practical- ly unhuri ihn sess that, as the foreign- ers who ranged the hillsides back of the town and the knobs of the harbor islands saw the conquering Japanese squadron coming in | take its prizes, the roar of the fired little ships "| magazines smote town and the two Russian mushrocmed out in the higher air strata and the bay’s waters were peppered with falling fragments of the fighting ships, the band on the Italian cruiser, lying at anchor in the inner harbor, struck up the heayy cadences Russian national hymna in a requiem. ———_ tk —___ MR. MACBLINK ON BOOKS. Gems in All, Though Often With a Good Deal of Setting. “Té is some satisfaction to me to think,’’ said Mr. BacBlink, ‘‘that if ever I should be cast away on a lone desert island I could get along ro) come under the influence opted Christians feasts in aaa omfortably if I had b of the Heralominded P Paul. ; what. man or s body of Se ee zu YaE A ‘ower of'men eit cal is agora sii nsioeat: “T say book: ith th * Oltistions tas they OVE The Christian's Practica Shas Rice Cee ae result of this ocl A great number believed, and turned unto the hl for this had the ntioch piaehtug ac kudl- = Loud. The rea- were The Christians eh rautublinied eee been Helpfulness.—Vs. 27-30; What which they had met, ies unflinch- lity. is bravery and ti of a 08; turn from them. s live fish ‘3 & new religion, they rried into it} this is involved in the eas of e same activity that had brought] the church whose members were th success in the worldly enterprises| first to be called Christians. of Antioch, In his college religious work, Professor Drummon Peitee itse! . But the ‘chief reason for ntioch church is a little Broun despised, p sone acher, said population were ~The rgd Source of Strength.—V: What ye: the| one ‘of Antioch purifying el, and doubtless many were isgusted with them and eager to. The Pioowst and Cy Christians often pero up amid cor- 0 | starvation. Witness the Are You a Christian? This} re: ians develop- of the Fi-/ mirror in which w sagacity always! jy, the | dicine . 44-46. aoe tells us that the Syrian que of Adiabene, a. equal: ‘provalyte who was then in Jerusalem among the people to save them from account of the mle church is selves. Are we tr trials ——+- GOOD TIME. In an Irish daily paper there-re- cently appeared this advertise- nted——A gentleman to nd Ss sale of a patent me- tl it will be peattahis to the under- taker. FORGETFUL. of Felubeds; Books told “Thats 60 bad,’’ the young sae replied an’t you have som thirtg done for your memory.’ —k. — SHOWERY. “As soon as some men gits a Be ptation to knock off work an eae foh a shower.’” cau + opportunity to show the trait n Helena| may | far ertiser guarantees | an book that did not have at least of their Chispiahily came to the}something in it worth reading for Antioch great dearth|the pleasure conveyed by it or for throughout all in| the knowledge it coontiineds Ths pie ys of Claudius, ae Roman | dullest of us haye happy thoughts taperer who reigned 41-54.|that please ourselves, and some- The famine probably Sruied i mes we fancies bright enough to please others; and we to put into a bushel of chaff a grain of Apron Dice that will be of real value. “T have never yet talked w-- rap: Daroally hopeless, from which I did + gain some pleasure an ore aah itely I have read a that was all talk a thing to it, but having started led on, the ‘middle of more. than repaid. is not a method of reading that you can, as you might say, apply. backward. For instance, remember reading once two lines fe poetry sige impressed me great- and I thought to RNs that then man arte ras like that must be a id so uy orkey in two volumé e few ortep Hans, 3 aoe his yt ma 5 n| thon thst os ‘a can get ses away on Heads foe. sane island I ‘ood books, Toa: of bread, trim o! Ty ce over with a “fork 4 as new milk, toast sufficient to anes it thorough- sixty |" grea in Corea, a few attaches | write poetry |; epend ae Mair rather were cast | mak The Home SOME DAINTY DISHES. ist. Serge ome squares ff the, crust, prick and season Boil some our over the ith butter and 8 salt. ist Serve very hot. Treacle Pi —Line some small saucers with pasti ry, put in so treacle gad cover w th a th'ck eget of very fine breadcrumbs, wit! & | little sie mixed in them. Orna- | «mo ment the top with bars of pastry and bake in a sharp oven, Potatoes Fried ole.—Peel and a parboil potatoes in salted water, Y: take from the fire and drain - Brush each over with beaten egg, roll in breadcrumbs, drop ani boiling fat, and fry a golden co! lor. on paper by ee fire and anes Beat up eggs and half a teanupal ae finely chopped fried or d a dessertspoonful stir carefully until the consistency. of custard. Pour on to hot butter- ed toast or into scallop shells, and serve at once. Portable Lemonade.—Take half Mix all ehorouehly and pass tice through a clean wire siev teaspoonfuls of this sunder Call make a splendid glass of lemonade at a sm: Black Bee ‘to servo with fi Serve at once in ‘a small sauceboat or jug. Water Melon Jam.—To every pound and a half of melon add one juice of one Add n hour the overwhelming squad-|seeds, and pare thickly so as to re- ae under Admiral ite ‘The | move all hard parts. Cut the melon Variag, her unprotected sides |up finely, put all ingredients in a ing all the time. This is a delicious am and one that keeps well Mutton in a Brown Pot.—Line a greased brown cooking-jar (that has a cover) with a wall of cooked ee some cooked mutton the lid off the pot and return to the oven until nial t browned. to table ‘n the po! USEFUL UL HINTS. A stiff paint brush is much re for. Sorgen down stairs than ous eoekioes Lan lw. “tou minutes to the pov and when thick ten minutes 0 Hang away in Ain Secrest before you sleep garments you have worn in the evening. ‘A great many blemishes may be temnored with arubber on a lead “A “Title borax boiled in the coffee pot twice a week, tate minutes, sweetens and purifies Combs soon warp a break if washed in water. d stiff nail brush cleans them well. water is excellent for cleaning mud stai after being boiled it is Wrapp buttered paper and baked for an r, ‘able linen in order to bring out the bright gloss that makes it at- tractive should be dampened con- si deme Before mixing canned tomatoes with any dish try putting in a pinch at soda. Will prevent many a failuri Tene reiki anid cooldeed gar- men should be ironed on the wrong Preeikelitve aun ne iat piece of brown paper, blow out the smoke bath bottom of the bath it ee pre- vent baby from sliypi When boiling sa bane meat or bom allow aad minutes ound. meat should aiaayk e put on in cold water. bakin; le never leave the door opety but coo! , or removin; att one earthen and tin ware. wih Sika and scour the yess on regular Beas - aks n_ on tontor minutes stiff brushing twice will do wonders for thi Unpainted wire netting sie only es a good for Agtisobe bath aoveral splice praen are used, es ig hair. scould get alon, if Thad any bod S ue ate for I hav ever yet seen any oh that di not Seale somethin, ipemens Lots no! ching than speak a kind of people would rather say word. clean them tirely. Do not turn irritable when the ust be prepared as follows: Put ounce of butter in a sai ant} leave it on the stove till-the butter comes a dark color, but no! burnt. Adda tablespoonful of chopped ‘parsley, a li arragon vinegar, some ketchup, salt, and : Enormous rips } owner of ships while working for from fat and gristle and chop it|the newly formed Cunard Com- fin Season to taste. pany. little onion juice, and moisten all |?” qemay, the founder of the thoroughly with gra ver| great White Star Line, spent his with a layer of rice, place the lid |Sortics, working years as an ap nthe: ppt, nd. hal moderate | Prentice toa frm of Liverpool oven for half an hour. Then take tes eter ed in | tl cakes or biscuits burn. Wait until they turn cold, then gently grate trouble will be saved when ae dress begins to wear. nee a mustard ee ina mld kitel use @ ane the nails. cles with a flattened orange aa or ivory nail cleaner, to av peas furrows on. the he ie oe of ‘alt to it before pouring on the ae eke of kerosene in boiled starch keeps it from sticking, but pes it smell. When ironing a ched gar- ment and part of it oceans dry do not dampen with water, but with a cloth wet with a little cold the veil which is ae washed ad a tiny bit of sugar to the rinsing ter. curtain on the floor in, fame’ vas spread ire tail on m carefully, and-they Sul Rea their plas cab any deatecinge vio! dae SS MOST SUCCESSFUL MAN|« HOW THEY STARTED THEIR GREAT GAREERS. Proportions to Which Their Businesses Havo Grown. Sir Donald Currie, the great shipowner, who has done more than any other man to make South Atrica, began his strenuous life on a stool in a Greenuck shipping of- fice, and saved the small capital on which he himself started as an shipowners, gota dn tlaitey. hia at twenty-five he was able to start in ees BLACKSMITH TO A KNII ineer, and builder of the Tay and ‘orth bridges, was working in cotton mill at nine, and spent many y' gery as blacksmith, in sight of his thirtieth birthday when he was able to set up in bust ness on his own account on savings amounting to £85, £43 of abial he. spent on engine and boiler, At fifteen Sir Alfred een “man who made Jamaica, the Fletcher and Co., who managed the African - Steam- ship Company. aoe pay, and plenty, of work we vie Shae eonuued ia ies the eyenings at the Liverpool Col- eg Cassel, Epes a ent tl chant before migrating to London more years as clerk house. Here his great financial talent started him on the road to fortune, and while he was still in — thinties he wa: negotiating im reign loans, was Bolt of the most astute oe successful fin- anciers in Euro, THE TANGYE FORTUNE, * At fourteen the date Sir Richard ee and lodging ; and four years rich’’ on in, ant Engineers, which was tes AS ok the most fam: id, was ee cradled. | Tan Tit-Bits. i PR Sa SAP GRIEVOUS OFFENOE. lodding Pete; stop another minute : ugly words : 2 Sgovht f sharp instrument | Remove all parti- |’ making coffee aad a pinch |\ - | cultivation. Sir William Arrol, the foes en- | ma: pair ane me ie cad faa’. VERY STRANGE NATION away the burnt part with an or- ish cheese on ‘i aa = sone 2 ‘o clean a rying pan, fill ~ with cold water Eas aes “the NAPE OF BUREDE Woks fire to boil, When boiling put a CLOTHES. » | red hot cinder in, then wash in eNtS usual way. at If when making children’s areas: Tlave a Wonderful System of Culti- es a double piece is placed uapee vation — Every Man for bows and under arms a lot o! Himself. In a Colonial Office report, writ- ten by the well-known writer and t | Governor of paaae) Central At- th Bel ie. vica, lesket is a vi- (ae a aoe around the be after- |-vid description of a cannibal race, ward. with cold w: who a pbanh t-apealutely naked, and Keep aime § musi Boal leaves | yet ai the most skilled ag- where you can get them quickly in qicutencata: a the face of the earth. the night. a case’ of ost of the Eastern Province of pneumonia oe sere from | Uganda is densely populated b: eard already the enormous ee a me popula- Hoss eth Bell, vation of the land, my trip Siro the Bagishu couutry in August filled me with amazement. travelled for four days through en- chanting scenery, and traversed a country the like of which is, pro- avd not to pe seen in any other art of Afric: ie Qf Mount EF); feet high, | w' sere up into the clouds, and its mighty buttresses stretch far ott into the surrounding plain. Be- tween these spurs lie broad and gently sloping valleys, each with te Te flowing stream of Hee # massif weiBub instead of the tangled lux. | almost ui Right see gir the smiling valleys, and up to the vast cultivation, es of grass that one could see here and there had evi- dently only ben spared a as to provide pasture for the herds of vattle and goats. The whole of this arden’ is cut up into small rect- angular lots, eae carefully defined ‘by hedges of gi thistles. “Dotted all gee in prouere us ‘profusion, are ing like immense hives, each one flanked by one oe two smaller huts servi .g as gra “So clearly yer marked are the boundaries of a plots that countryside me of e vineyards of Seltveriand or of Bout France, whole © an impression of, alin security and pea “In this dense A 400,000 negroes, liviag in’ an about the size of Yorkshire, there ‘is barely a trace of organization It is ev. ‘or it case: and against his neighbor. ey eschew cloth- cularly see ki not hunt and people for the sake of their flesh, but they con- sider that burial is a wanton waste food. NOCTURNAL EXCURSIONS, ‘The northern people take amus- ing precautions with ard to aa dea All the vied y to sleep in sail Bete constructed huts raised posts. The doors of these Bae are so small that the occupants have to wriggle in on their stomach “Access is only gained by a lad- ae which is carefully eens as oon as the young men have been safely Kae es of for the night. “Twas told that, among some of indie: any atte! polygamous, cures as many wives as he can pur- chase or capture BRITA Less Last Year by £7,529,913 Than in 1907. DRINK BILL. The drink bill of the United Kingdom for 1908, as estimated by Dr. Dawson Burns, shows the od in 1907, fell By Aware ages do not indicate the amounts led. The saline. the juvenile’ nothing to the drink bill; and among those who contribute the differences large provortio: population AN oe ot 0 igus s consumed differ oh in their alcoholic strength, applying the alcoholic test ay several kingdoms. Englan shows an aver: of |w lads and unmar- | ceed: tion s than seven and o{drunks are wont to fo half millions 909 13). Spirits, |own shame in public, or if the in- rT, ant all shared in the re-|toxicated person should be in duction. The pM rage expendi. rge of a vehicle or of children, ture per head. ich was 15s | then I think the magistrates should ing = peepee es will ie Pee esttistons af = e drink bil for 1908 still stot OF, LANDING A GIAXT PIKE. 45 Inches .in ‘Length — - Largest Caught im British “Isles. % A giant pike, which 3 is for E s lish and Scotch streams the vt I on tl roun ya shelved gradui ally ur towa Cres from the pone a the is- as pikes tok me fairly quistly. old and h aad anage' shelving bank. eeper, ith excitement, plunged into the congratulation is that she [have b been one a ane worst thieves in our duck dee There is no close aaa for ae on the Stour, therwise she might long ere sur- x) wild g ; Has there mer and have missed in uses quantities.” HAGGARD ON DRUNKARDS. GREAT ENGLISH AUTHOR STATES HIS VIEWS. ‘Comes Into Contact with Many of ‘Them, in a Professional Way, of Course. | Rider Haggard is at present tal drunk and disorderlies. cently is view on intemper- ‘ance py fe British government. re- port. Some of his suggestions are. puns Agree Fo ney ees among 0 gets quite certain that it ublig intoxi- cation cea: 0 kind of troublesome and m: OR EVEN Saunt FINE, we should hear and see a great deal towing drastic measures for era- dicating this vice “First offense, dismissal, with a Us second ‘offense, the prea fine; third otfense, committal without the option of a Jom- fine. mit hould not be to an ordinar, spe he says in his report, “but to a special greatest teduction’in any one year| mation.’ i that has yet been een aey ihe that goes in for makin; difference between 1907 very strong. “If the was nearly six millions (25,0 58,719), should be coniplicated with, vio while, taking the increase of popu- | lence,” ys, ‘for lati a ap ewes nt, 1e sbi of that commit upon the second, if not up- on the rt Offense; and to the commo! drunkards n With sib itual he woukl resort to incarceration whe- ther their own consent or that of: their rn were obtained or not, In Eng! 5 ren: DRUNKARDS cannot be put away without their a Rennes ie any length of time, ~ 2 af a recom ndat mat ine econ for the ‘. ae love: owing ‘bowl ne’ wisely, ut ae well. As the rigkes Question in. one of t) biggest sociological anes Ride Haggard is much to shes ront id, Scotland 1 3, pro 3 hand in it ee The miperee of the expenditure his so taken a prominent Spar a Pi ancl agitation sonics a@ great expert on