THE POWER OF KINDNESS •r. Tabaafc S«y« a Spirit of Amity aad Qaod Fcclioj U to Be Commeadcd.

and Kood feclmi and n *-xample* of that epiriti 2,''The barbarous people showed us no little kindneee." Here we are on the Island of Malta, another name for Melita. ThU Wand, which has always been an important commercial ssldrt&r" Ssr .nw; to Spain, to France, now btlonn to Kn*land. The area of the island is about 100 aquaie mile*. It is in the Mediterranean Sea. aad^af^mcb darity of atmosphere

bait aa hour, a be struca at wnat is ailed 8t. Paul’s Bar. Practical aailare taken up the Bible account and oecaoed beyond controceray the place of the ahipwreck. But the ialand, which has ee roufh a coaat. is for the most part a warden- Bicheet fruits aad a profusion of hooey eharacterimd it in Paul's time as ' well as now^The finest oranfes, figs and Wkan Pan! and hia romradea rrawleo nn

worded for all thra^TofU^ and etc puty to read and hear in rejtard to the ii hahitants of Malta, ‘Tlie barbarous people ■bowed us no little kindness." Kindness! What a great word that is! St would take a reed aa long as that which the apaeatpptic angel used to measure hearen totehtbe length, the breadth, the height of that munificent word. It U a favorite Bible word, and itisearlylannchsd in the book of Genesis, caught np in the book of Joshua, embraced in the book of Bath, sworn by in the book of Samuel, orownsd in tbs book of Psalms and sogentle than mighty.. I expect it wiIt wrestle me down before I get through with it. IK is strong enough to throw an archangel. But it will be well for us to stand •round it and warm ourselves by its glow /as Paul and his fellow voyagers stood around the fin on the Island of Malta, .where the Maltaae made themselves immortal in my text by the wav they treated these victims of the sea- “The barbarous people showed ns no little kindness." Kindness! All definitions of that moHipotcnt word break down half way. You «y it is clemency, benignity, generosity; it is made up of good wishes; it la a contribution to the happiness of others. Some on* else says: '‘Why..! can give you a definition of kindness ft is sunshine of ~~ tKbjcul^ it-is afieclion perennial; it is a climacteric grace; it is a combination of all the graces; it is compassion; it is the perfection of gentle manliness and womanliness.” Are you all through* You have made a dead failure in your defini-

' ness wishes everybody well, i well, every bird welC every every dog well, every cat well.

' Give this spirit full siring, snd would have no more need of aodetie

prevention of cruelty to animals, no

need of protective sewing women’s ssao«"i*tioEj, and it would dull every sword til it would not acst skin deep snd nneel every battery till it could pot roll

rotechnic celebration.

But are you waiting a.., one to be bankrupted or ex; comfited or in some way Then kindness has not taken Tour nature. You are wreeke.

r -of no more Use in rock blasting orjiy- : and booing for same

ness. It will ^settle a thou It will change the phase of will mellow through and t tire nature. It * '

It is not a feel but oer-nnUI

It will transform a lifetime. J’r&tu S^^mSTfiaS; ■ettar than morning glories) —; much alike, and ii I should 1 '

inch the morning gl

petunias bettor t They look very mud put in your hand a |

glory you could hardly MU wbic petunia 'and which the morning the morning glory blooms only a aad then shuts up for the lay, petunia is in as widespread a f o’clock at noon and fl o’clock in in. >. ,i And this

iodic, it is

o^clock u stv.

not spasmodic, it

Mat, it is not for a little radiates the whole nature clear on till the sunset

ratew hours ‘ViK-Vr, ck in the eveni grace of kind-

i it not intermiti while, but it iri til through and if our earthly exresolved to - get it.

yen resolved ti '»l 11* Tt doit not i by haphazard, but through culture it divine heir. Thistles grow without culture. Rockv Mountain sgge grass growl without culture. Mullein stalk* grow without culture. But that great red rose in the conservatory, its leave* packed on leave*, deen dyed as thaugh it had been obliged tn fight for it* beauty and it were still rtsking with the carnage ol ths battle, that rose needed to -be cultured, and through long years it* floral ancestor* were cultured. O God, imnlant kindness in all our souls, and then give us grace to watch it. to enrich it. to develop it! The King c! Prussia had presented to him by tbs Empress ol Russia the root of a rare flower, and it was put in the royal gardens on an island, and the head garHerr FinUeman, was fid to watch ad one day it put foith its glory.

Three days of every week the people were admitted, to these gardens, and a young man, p rot ably not reannn* what a wrong thing ha doing, plucked thia flower and put it iu hi* buttonhole, and the gardener arrested him as he was crossing at ferry and asked the king to throw i no more hi* g*rdaw#_to_ the- pohbc.

one visitor ha* done wrong! No: let them come and see the beautiful ground*. And

when the -

king the i taken th«J

memory is very tenacious, ai want to have in ray mind the offender, lest it should hinder

the beautiful groum— ___ '??,V'“K,d2K;.SS ll ^ 0W *s££.*^nd i N /o "Jt

of th*

j—.vj that by a divine gift and not by purloining we may pluck this royal flower and not wear it so tk* outaids ef our nature, but wear it tn owr soul and wear it forever, it* radiance and aroma not more wonderful for time than woadgr-

lu! for eternity.

- On your way to noon luncheon you inset, an optimistic merchant, and you say. "What do you think of the commercial prespseta?" and be aaya: “Glonousl Cropa not so good as ugual. but foreign demand will make big price*. We are going to bare such an autumn and winter proaperity aa we bare never eeen." On your wav back to your store you meet a pessimistic merchant. "What do yon. think of the commercial oroopeeta? von ask. And he answers: ’‘Well. I don t know. Wheat and corn crop blasted ; ~

* Missouri, and the grait

and the grain gamwUI get their 1st in. and the bay crop is short in some places snd in the southern part of Wisconsin they had W hailstorm, snd our business is aa dull as Yotf wiU find the same difference in judgment of character. A man of good reputation it assailed and charged with i—> a. .1- a-rt .tory tbs

'Tbs papers Down with

at for twenty vegrt track like that. There are two *ido this story, and I wffl wait to hear other aide before I condemn him.” My hearer, if you ate by nature a

esotofl tides to

My bearer, if you are by nature i si mist, make a special effort by the grace of Uod to extirpate the dolorous and the hypercritieal from your disposition. Believe nothing^against anybody until the When yon can speak a good word for some one. speak it. If you am conscientiously give letter of recommendation,

give it. Watch for opportunities for doing good fifty years after yon ar* dead. All my life has been affected by the letter, of introduction that the Rev. Dr. Van' ~ - " ii » New Brunswick Tbeolo ' ~ Seminary} wrote for me. a boy under when I was seeking a settlement in w to preach the gospel. Tlmt letter gave — my first pulpit. Dr. Van Vranken lias been dead more than thirty yean, yet I 1 feel the touch of that magnificent old pro-

. of Baltimore, the great Methodist, orator, six week* after hi* death. By way 'of the eternal world? Oh, no: by -way of this world. I did not meet the friend to whom he gave the message until na two months after Thomas Guard had eroded. So you can start a word about some i— that will be on ite travels and vigorous! long after the funeral psalm has been sung at your obsequies. Kindness! Why. if fifty men' all aglow with it should walk through the lost world meth would almost abolish perdition!

-J to MrpMl ..aathan’s sake. That is what Onesipherus showed to Pan! in the Roman penitentiary. That is what William Cowper ree^ ognized when he said be would not trust a man who would with his foot needlessly crush a worm. That is what our assassi-

nated President Lincoln de when'hie private secretary foi

the capitol grounds trying to get a bird back to the nest from which it bad fallen and which quality the illustrious man ex ; hi hi ted some years before when, having, with some lawyers, in the carriage on the way to court passed on the rood a swine fast in the mire, and after a while cried to his horse*, “Ho!” snd said to-the gentlemen, “I must go back and help that

bog out of the mire.” And he * * - and put on solid ground that

terosUng quadruped..

Suppose all this assemblage and all to ’— •*-— *- " coos by printers'

* 1 «h»H come by printer ok should resolve to nuke kindness i overarching, undergirding and all perra. ms that the world is getting to be a better piase to live i- '■'* * , **''* n

is worth living, my neighbor, has of foreclosure aga

zn, and bein hi* fambouse for one

...

• " —-ney is hi

taken pUoe in the pul- ” ‘ .i 1 ™ !**¥“«

big for the young — * white-haired attorney is hunting up previous decision* and r ’-'

brie! for ^the boy. Do you

mtVznd'alfthc old ministers are helping ! the young ministers, and all th* old docgathering the harvest, and lor that farmer who is sick the neighbor* hare made a bee, as they call it. and they have all

turned in to help him get hi* c

And 1 beard this morning sf a poor old man whose three children were in hot debate as to who should take car*' of him in his declining day*. Th* oldest son - declared it -was his right because be was the oldest, and the youngest son said it was his right because h* war the youngest, and Mary said- it was her right because she better understood her father's vertigo and rheumatism and poor spells and knew better how.to nurse him, and the only way the difficulty could be settled was by the old man's promise that be would divide the year into three part* snd spend a third of hi* time with each one of them. And neighboring (tores in the same line of goods on the same block are acting kindly to each other. It seems to me that those words of Isaiah ar* being fulfilled when be says, 'The carpenter encouraged th* goldsmith, abd he that smoothed with the hammer, him chat mote the anvil, saying, it is ready for tbs soldering.' 1 }\ hat is th* mat Ur! It sssms to mt our got the victory. - ■

THE SABBATH SCHOOL. International Lesson Comments For

September 29.

Review si the Twelve Lesssis of the Third Quirter. Oca. xvilt,' 17-21: xxxll, 24-28 -Ooldea Text. Pss. cUL,

17- SBinairy.

Lesson 1, Topic: The creation. In the ieginning God created all things; afterward He came to the earth to act it in orlor; He performed six days’ work; on the irst day He made light; on the second :be water* were divided; on the third the . y land, sea*, gross and tree* appeared; >n the fourth He made the sun snd moon; in the fifth, fish and fowls: on the sixth, rreeping things, beast* and man; on th*

icrenth God rested.

2. Topic: The fall of min. Place: The Harden of Kdsa. The serpent beguiled :he woman; said, "xe shall not sure/ a SK_“sjrs; beautiful; would make one wise; the at; the fruit; she gavt to Adam and b* «id sal; their eye* were opened; they made iprons and hid themselves; God eame; make to them; the serpent was cursed;

:be Redeemer was promised.

3. Topic: The dslnge. Place: Aaret mountains. Noah built an ark; took beasts snd his family into the ark; the waters were sent; ths earth waa covered; Noah tent out a raven, and thro a dove: th* ark rested; the earth became dry; God told Noah to go forth: he built an altar unto the Lora and offered burnt offerings; th* Lord was pleased with his offering, and promised never again to curse the

ground for man’s sake.

*. Topic: Abram’s obedience. God •peak, -to Abram; •'Get thee out of thy country:" “Go to the land I will show thee;”'God made great promises; Abram waa to become a grant nation; waa to have a great name; he would be blessed, and would be a blaming. Abram obeys God: Sarah and Lot aad all hi* substances and left Haros and went to ”

essiiF.

Canaan. Here

it to him for righteousness. Abram preto appear; God gave instroction, mad. a

, aham stands before this an-

the ei

ARSENIC FACTORIES.

flablts Acquired, by th* I'eopl* Whs

Work In Them,

White graenlc the form In which arsenic la taken by the peasants of Styrla and the Tyrol. Prof. Schall-

grueber of Gaetx was thfc first to call

atte

ch he ma

n government on the caus<

numerous deaths from arsenic polson-

ttlon to this practice In a report

1822 to the Ane- > the cause of the

attentloa to this pi

which he made In 1822 to the Aus-

trian govern mi

: The trial of Abraham's faith. ■ 'VEjn'SS.'S::

" xir—'

2SJ! UTaS 5

Places: Beeribeba

start* for Monsk. Isaac asks a question; Abraham answer*. An altar is biliH; SSSl » ...Tiri, Jacob and Esau are born; Isaac u pro*their country: the lord appear* to him sirs; a, ss-cs earth to heaven and sec* angel* on the Udder. God speak, to him and make*

E# 5

to G<

U.

Places:

z 6

friendly meeting with Esau. was apparently unnoticed by

12. Topic: The effects of wine drinking. Solomon, the author of Proverbs, was endued with an unusual degree of wisdom. That we might behold the value of true wisdom God has preserved some cl the wise sayings of Hi* servant for our study. This lesson has been called the drunkard’s lookin -glass, and is set before those whose faces are toward the drunkardi habits, so that thry may set what they will be tf Teaching*.—God, our Creator, is al

lent* bald out by Sftan I obeyed God snd accepted ‘’the winch fit. John say* consists in “the lust

EXiS'iiiJ.'SXXr'JX 1 we can expect to be forgiven. Although God’s judgment* may seem severe, yet in the rod^they can not fail to accomplish good result*. God’s promises are great

good results. G^ffomUa are^grsat step outnpon them with confidence. Those who allow selfishness ri> control their

v ^e will the door irtes 1

a the fai Sod is n

with every mnni y will be doted

lives cannot ratals —, of God. While God is merciful, yet

with. 1

r of mercy __ —-

its of God will be mete toted; the testris not for th*

hen the zith

destroying faith, L.

strengthen and perfect it. God (riu appears to His people for the purpose of encouraging them and leading them to heaven. True prayer takes hold, hold* on and doe* not let go until an answer is received. The evil effects of the legalized liquor traffic are to groat that every person should stand unalterably opposed to

ft appears from the geographical gurveys accepted as a basis of the recent federal census that Texas is .the largest stet* In the country. In Uio New .England group the largest of the state* is Maine with nearly 311,000 square miles of land.surface; none of the other New England state* baa as much as 10,000. Twp states which are most nearly alike th area are New York and North Carolina. Two others which correspond very nearly are Alabama are of Ohio and VI aquare mil* la abont 40,000 i

isas and . if almost ths same alss aad trginia differ by only a few ea. Th* land art* of each

tng In those districts. He found that arsenic was kept In most of the bouses In Upper Styrla under the name of hydrach, evidently a corruption of huttenraueh, or furnace smoke. His statements made were subsequently confirmed from personal observation by a Dr. McClagan of Edinburgh, but for many yearn afterward the arsenic eaters were generally disbelieved In. and it was not till 1860 that C. Helse published convincing evidence. Arsenic Is principally eaten by hunters and wood cutters, with the object of warding off fatigue and Improving their staying powers. Owing to the fact that the sale of arsenic Is Illegal In Austria without a doctor’s certificate. It la difficult to obtain definite Information of a habit which is kept as secret as possible. According to a Dr. Lorenso. In that district, the arsenic is taken tasting, usually la a cop of coffee, the first dose being minute, but increased day by day. until it sometimes amounts to the enormous doee of 12 or 16 grains. He found that the arsenic eaters were usually long lived, though liable to sudden death. They hare a very fresh, youthful appearance, and are seldom attacked by

Infectious diseases.

After the first dose the usual symptoms of alight arsenical poisoning are evident, but these soon disappear on

continuing the treatment.

In the arsenic factories In Salxberg tt is stated that workmen who are not arsenic eaten soon succumb to tha fumes. The manager of one of these works Informed Mr. Helse that he bad been medically advised to eat arsenic before taking up bis position. He considered that no one should begin the practice before 12 yean old nor after 30. and that in any case after 60 yean of age the dally dose should be gradually reduced, since otherwise sudden death would ensue. If a confirmed anenfc eater suddenly attempts to do altogether without the drug he Immediately succumbs to the effects of arsenic poisoning. The only way to obviate this Is gradually to acclimatize the system by reducing the doee from day to day. As another evidence of the cumulative properties of anenlfc

ft Is Interesting to not graveyards in Upper Styr

the bodies of the arsenic eaten can be distinguished by their almost perfect state of preservation, due to the gradually accumulated arsenic.—Science

Gossip.

Certain Valtnre* In School Hrslone.' Probably no book on the general subject of school hygiene has hero published from the days of HoVare Mann to the present time that does not Include at least a reference to the position of the pupil at bis desk. Indeed. even Locke hinted at this when he wrote that the pulpll ‘‘should learn how to lay his Paper and place his Arm and Body to 1L” One of the blessings promised by those who Introduced the vertical system of penmanship was a correction of the crook-ed-back position of the pupils, since they must sit correctly In order to write the script correctly. -The vertical syztem, If properly used, does possess this merit as long as the child Is engaged In the writing exercise, but its Influence amounts to little beyond this. Although I visited scores of school-rooms of all grades, iu country and city, yet, so far as I can recall, the Ition of the pupil while writing apparently unnoticed by any teacher, at any time. In any room, except during the few minutes set apart for ”r\p man ship.” This Is all the more painful when we consider ;hat writing as a distinct exercise occupies only a few minutes each day. while one-fifth to one-half of the time spent by the pupil in the school building U occupied by written .work. Indeed, the spelling of the motto of the schoolroom of today seems to have beep slightly changed until It reads: “Al-

ways do write.”'

The undue amout of time given tc this work may be more or less pc da gogical; but It is most certainly

pro;

ing to note that when Upper Styrla are opened

correct position at the desk, for the greater part of the time, but the Injury to the eyes from too close attention to the script and from the careful following of the pen and poncl.' points would seem to be incalculable Incorrect posture Insidiously tends tc

Pact 11* Coast Dlsssvsrlsa.

According to Dr. Wilson, of the United States national mu«eum. the fringe of country lying between the coast range aad the fteclflc contain? many peculiarities yet unexplained For instance. It has a greater numbei of families of Indian languages than all the rest of North America com blnod. The arrow-heads and spear heads there are different from those found anywhere eMe. Pottery was not one of the arts of the Pacific coast although it was made by the neigh boring-peoples of Mexico and ihf Pueblo country. Og the other hand the finest specimens of basketry in the world, perhaps, in either ancient or modern times, Are found there.' Ii be aald,-by the way, that Dr. mi regards the famous Calaveta? as a'genuine relic of ancien!

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