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Our Church Directory. Amon« The Worshipper* of The Different Denominations. p. *. cHrhcH or rus aovkkt. Her. IVIwin C- Alcorn. VlnWer-in-ch»ru«v Uun Uy S«r«H>r« 7 .K>* m. Holy Com tBunlou: to. »> • m. Mnrnlnt: Ihsyrr and grtnion. S00 p m. Aundsy-achook00 p in. Srrninn Ih-avi-r and Srrmou. Krcoinn I*rayer. Vrldav rvrntagiatH.oO. ' Other mrrlc^. a* annomior«i.

rRKalIVTKRIAK CHUnCH. Rev. Arthur W.Spooner, I). E

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Prtyihig a

rrloc in thr Ireurrv room every ®ahhiih morainjcvn 10 o'etork. M'>rnlii« Otr' kie at M SO Kvenluii service at 7 K). Mid an-k pravvr meeiivit at T.SO. Junior Undent or Friday nlternoon at

«. a’clock

• Senior Ksdravor Friday evrninR *1 ..!• i?Uuday-«rh<K>! at i-SO. All are cordial I v luvltul. Seat* Free. KlfWT M. K-'CHCRCH. Rev. S. F. (iaaktll, l). D . Paator. I'rvadSiui: on Ssnday morning at 10.S0. In theeveninj; si *.4d. Meetinua at » * M. and C.3D r. *. oti

Sunday*

Sunday at S V. u Epw'rth L -a-iru • M oday, vventof; #t, ^1 »Vl.a li. . • M»d Sveic prayer m.rvu>e We«n.-a<lJly

g at 8 .•Vl.wkr’

Tuesday, Th irfaday Sod Friday eveuinja.

stmar cantm.

Rer. WilHatmC Pa.»^ Preaching on Su-’day na->nt>nt; at dkSJU. lo the evewHijf at 8.03. Sunday stortiitiK Wi.rker* MeeChtc at

no.00 a. m.

Sunday School pt S.0S p K Wetiureday eveuiti Prayer MeeJkig at

: So'elock.

Y'outn: People’s M«*tin{ Fricloj ev»mInj; at 8 o'clock. Mrn'a Meeting Sa'nMay eeniitn; St 8

•'dock.

sr. makt’s x. c, mcncH. Rer. Rolher D. J. Kelly, Hector. Houra-dftlirine -emce on ■fteuduya, Masses st 7 sod V a. x Sunday School at «. at. Kosar*. , sermon and henedktion vfi the Moat Blessed Sacrament at7.30T M. All are inrited to lUtemd the Sunday •Veuin>; instructloni* at 7 30

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tbenuore. be saw that among their owners there war* a *raat many mean men In thaae day*, aa there are In our own daya. He aaw that these mean men neatly alwaya Unit allowed their meanoeas to their beasts. They not only overworked their oxen, but they underfed Hind. Their meauueaa was moat emphatically demonatrnted when tbrnahlu*. Fearing lest their hard ! worked oxen might reach down and pick up from the thmahlnx floors a stray mouthful of grain to eat, these mean fanner* would tnuxxle their bsasta so that the hungry nulmala could *w the food and yet not eat any. Now. Mopea says In a practical way: “These mea must hr tai)gbt to be merciful te their lieaata. 1 hare nutde a law requiting tham to ©bey God and U* Just in their denllnga with their neighbors. Now I will make another law miulrtng them to he liberal ta thalr provision for the animals which work for them." Then the great lawgiver ttf the Hebrews alts dosn and writes these words of my text : Thou

possible for the rlrlllsed American to ' a horse can lore aa a man can tore, fully graap. When the famous Francis- and a bird alao. tVe should be very

ro Romero de Honda taught the Spanish, people how to scientifically abuse aud madden and torture to death a four legged brute be made it |ioaalble for the |M-(iplc ibernwhes. by looking upon such scenes of horrori to bwome worse than brutes. No human being can l«e tmuicrclful to a boast without himself after awhile growing tuerelless In his dealings with his fellow men. ■ The Hrminne Society of A meric*. In

<*areful lest we trpmpte ni>ou hearts of the dumb brutes, as some of us too ofti-n trumple upon the hearts of men. “What! A dog love as a man f loves? AJisimV' says aome one. la It | absurd? _llayr you never beard of a dog dying from grief t>eenuae his inns ter died? My father once had a noble greyhound. When he went far away from home that dog liecame so lonely without my father that he refused to eat. and literally died from grieving for

teaching man to he kind to tlte dumb I l»l« mashf. Absurd! Did you never brute. Inis a second practical mission, see a dog grieving among the chief It teaches that harshness nnd bitter- j mourners at a funeral? Again and oess nnd cruelty do absolutely no good- again we tried to drive Beauty* % little In the training and the true subjuga- 1 *ky terrier, out of the room of death, lion of Jin animal. A cruel muster '* “ * " " * ’

never was able to get the best results out of a horse. Blows nnd kicks and cuffs only make n stubborn horse the more stubborn and tb^balky animal the more art In bis tract's. 1 never

learned this le**ou In a more Impt slve way than when I passed two sum-

k PLEA FOR ANIMALS Mev.TJr. Talmage Asks Justice For Dumb Brutes

Che PreaeSer Buts *■» **m+M VSise the Affeetloa of Creatasaa .Dleise Has Placed la His Caeak

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(Qpprrlght. 1804. by Louis KJopachJ LOS ANGELES. C*L, May a-K10S-and consideration for all of God% Creatures Is the preacher’s tlteme, anil he pleads that man should value the affection of the dumb cre*tk» we lea* than be should respect its right*, since •Ivlne wisdom has placed R la hi* e*rc. The text Is Deuteronomy xxr. 4. "Tbon aha It not muzzle the ox when

be trewdeth out the corn."

This ks the age of machinery. TMa M the time when man Is not limited la Ite operations to the work of his nae bAds. hut with his little fiager cam lift a lever which has the strength «f * thousand bands; when. Instead of his being content with seeing only *u<3i things as’bis eyes perceive, be rail* \o tils aid the telescope and the microscope that multfply his power of vtaion * thousandfold. The old fashioned splnplng wheel has l>een developed Into the mighty Belfast linen mills. The old fashioned scythe has ewolated Mo the ■wlTt mowing machine, which goes Mnging through the harvest field*. The old fashioned prairie schooner has dsng since given place to the Creless Afelocity of the lightning expresa. which Merer stops by day or by night except. (Ike a thirsty monster, to take a drink. The old fashioned messenger, wha on Morseback ns»«l to carry back t* a king the news of n l»attle won. haa superseded by :the telegraph wires I the electric eabla*. which in alraoat instant can put continents within

inee and hare pnt the to1 the seas Id communleatloa

mainland.

ttent office* In 'Washington are with Innumerable inventions aarlng of labor and time. la of them, however. Is the contrast een modern and ancient methods narked as we see it when the flour mills of Minneapolis rapared with the custom referred the text. In that great city of lortbwest aot only la the grain ab instantly changed Into flour by boat of modern machinery, but t one grain la lost Fpoa khloned thrashing floor every* '•rent. There a team of would he harnessed tr a collecof boards aa 11 ad together. Then

the kernels of wheal. Then would blow over the thraab* and separata the chaff from thrashing floara of tha Now, as Moaea want In and Ow country be saw a gnat tbiMmt r*

-shall aot muzzle the ox when he trend- | men almost within a stone's throw of •Ui oat the com." j on, ‘ of •*♦*"• «t«K-k farms In thla Muses was the first great staler man ! country. What magnificent animals tbdt I know of who recognized the those were! Knciug horses wen* not rig!** of dumb animals. It la a tdg-| raised tliere. but the best blood for nl fir lint fact that In this earty code of I carriage horses and nmdsters of all

lews be should have given iecnl rlghta 'to .nnlmals as well as to mea and worn■eu It was a sound and righteous • esurac. and I am glad t» Temember ithat wa too. have not nady laws to •prevent the 111 usage of animals, bnt A lso In kbe Humane *«* Wy an orgnnt.xation «to sec that those laws are enforced. I want to show you this morning Why every Christies should be In touch with that anckety mid that tta prlnch>lcs should be «g»i>lled to all clu»■-s and all ajw*. Tiiere U no reason why the admoaWoi. -should be limited »,o the farmer- The boy should be taught to be good to hie pvt dogs and squirrels; tbe drarro** -*limild fie peD--d to lightem the Juad If WT' la too weak to draw It; itie backman abr uld he rnpitrcd To bhtnket bis steed shivering la tbe ekV bhuH' 1 of winter; the .-i>orTKnt»o dboiild hr prohibited ■booting tbe zudfluer itlmi in nesting tame. I wstdd try to *bow that tbe Christ who wae born it in Id the lowing of the rntae anfl The IB eating of tbe sheep and tbe neighing Vif the horse*, whinnying #nr their ogaz. is today the 'TTriond and protector df tbe dumb 'tbrute* as waril n«-sT ourlWlow men. The Hmeanc kloriety of America -shonM be aacomtted one <if the beat of sodette*. Ta< work ha*-a dc<*per ai wider Mgnfflcanre than aome of «a mayabavp 'herctofon* impiioaed. Tbe evil of cmeity to -anlraitl* does not end with tbe trtfilcting of -pann and lajnsttev «a tbe <dunib brutes. But aa the amaB tUrroua tumor. m>«tBng under tha fair otta iff tat :gtane. assy reach out Its fatal roots toward tint* , M-art, so tbe evils of crueky against dumb anliaaia may mt last -reach unit for. the heart sf man tts«fff. Tcjuxtlw against the dumb brute tDerituhly paves tbe way for J»lustko asm)me tbe .Cumh’-krate's ter. If a bay tlellgte* toborture a dog sr a cm *rr a mouse, tbetv will n come a fcue When that boy. cro#n a man. will ddDgbtJa toruiring hla tH-

k>w bebuat.

A Basifa -natnre :le -fiegiOCed by dulglng la icrudky "to-anlmala. He looea his fcurzrtkscKK aid acquires tbe nature of brute* He undergoes to hla lifetime tlie anetmaorpb'o In tliat the orient ab tteDrre 'la* sufftra aftvr death. In tbe far cant Xhere ite.a-fwfiular belief laid ip mtlltltudea; lit la;ia belief In tbe trauamigrutiuD .»T -aooh This men ha. la popular lnt«yr*ta tion. that after a mica -dies his soul-passes into the body *»f * vlu* or a eat er* home or a Use mat so Rves a* through tbe oomlng age* If tie la a> .mean man ■then be bemuiea * mean Iwast like a Jackal or a hyena. V a good man then Ills soul takes upon Itself tbe fonu of « noble beast: but though do CbrisUanilzed America we de not believe la Jhe (transniigralloa of mu Is we may eee around us an analogous phenomenon. When a man abuses a dumb brute be Is not punished bj baring Jiis soul at death pass Into the body of* jackal, but he takes on the character of those cruel, bestial four legged scavenger* of Cbe desert, and he becomes one of

them In hla natnre.

What la today one of tbe chief oauses of tbe moral and spiritual as well aa tbe temporal degeneracy of BpaisI It Is without doubt d&e to tbe bestial and brutalizing tendencies of tbe merciless bullfight. When on tbe Sunday following Easter and on subsequent Sundays tbe 1L0O0 spectators gather about the arena of Seville or the 12.800 watch the arena of Madrid and the 17,000 encircle the arena of Valencia, they are glorying In the rice which has been tbe moral and spiritual death of their country. These Spanish bullfights always take place on Sunday because they are held to be tha sacred national

American traveler

teUs us that at each bullfight between Sir and eight of the flerceat kind of bulls and from twenty to forty bones art killed. The waving of tbe red mantle*, th* s booting of the darts, tbe arewia blood, tbe screams of tbe dylsg her*** dragging tbemaelvea

Tbrir clean lluibn, tbrir flaah

Ing eye*, tbrir high strung, nervous

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson In the International Series for May 16, lOOWb# Prodi-

gal Son.

THK VKMaOK TEXT. (I.uki U:ll-M.f OOLDKK TEXT -Com*, and l*t us return tmt-u lb* Lord —Hus *:1. OUTUKE OFSCHIITVKE SECTION Psrebir ul Barren FI# Tre* l.uJte n.I-* Mveilc# Infirm Woman Eok* U.U>-21 TtacMng About lh« Kingdom Ixik* 12 2-JU^-Warn.d Agalntt Hvrou Uukv Dlarourxr at I't.ari*-. > Tabb-Luke J#:I-*4 Dleciure. on count r.g the Coat Lake 14 -ZS-tt Pscabio, l>u»t sfceep Uf.d

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Parab'.e Ix>«t Son .-Luke It

TIME —Januar). A. V. ».

PLACE.—Fvraea. tbe tam* aa tbe

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But he woukl nut go. Under the casket he lay. hour after hour. Mournfully he. went from room to room after the undertaker had carried the precious !

burden away to sleep among the flow- j notes and commENTS. era. For daya and week* Beauty wa« j**,# baa *o tar (va. 1-11) Illustrated hunting. He was always hunting. He tro1n (blnt> now lt u a ^noo. a wk» hunting for the dead. Have you , ^ an(J u u # f|aher ., he , rt lbal

I for him. In ihla, the greatest of all

never had a Beauty lu your home? |

1« It absurd to suppose that tbe horae ; ...... Ih. dw. and tbe Urd. ra.mot | J'“< e™** l»<* >« H, ‘ love man love.! Then . hj did th.t lllu.truit.il ot the rel.tton between God little i>et of Mr*. Thomas A. Hendricks, and man. and pictures It In the simplest the wife of the rice president of the | and moat b4»uitlul and most winning Unlbvl States, give a frightened cry possible. Most of us are not and

_ and fall off her perch and die when 'need not be theologian* In the ordinary organization, made thoxe animals the her mlntr*-** one day iMt iter patlenc* j sense, but we may all matter the theolprlde of almoxt every atable they eu- and cried out to the feathered singer, logy of the parable of the Prodigal Son. tered. Yet the whip w«* never used , to whom she had never before spoken i and with that we have the essence of upon them. They were trained almost ! a cTmui word: "Be still! I tell you, the theology of Je*us. There are acrentlrriy by klndmua . j be still!" Ab. those who have had lov- eral varieties of theology to be found An old, grumpy, dyspeptic phlloa- ] lng,|»ct« know tp some extent tbe In the 66 book* that we call the Bible,

oplier once hi:id. "Tbe more I ace of height and the depth of their affec-

tions! Y'ou should l>e kind to tbe dumb brutes and the feathered companions of your Urea because lu a sense they can love a* we ourselree can love.

la fall Hew of th* excited populace; *• mad charges of the enraged bulla,

Md oas which tt is taa*

tbe better I like doga.” That la not my Idea. But tbe more I nee of dogs and horses and cattle tbe more ! think they are like men. Supposing you were a borne hitched to a carriage. Supposing every time you made a misstep tliere was a whip like a knife

cojd- fendy to cut into your akin, would not hone your nerve* be continually tmatruag?

Would you not alwaya lie ready to Jump, to shy nnd to rear? Supposing yoa were In a stall with your bead tied to a halter and the hostler wanted you to move over to tlte other aide «f tbe stall, and instead Of ptoviag Ids hand gently upon yon and saying qnletly, “Now move over “ be gtvos yon a savage kbk In the stomach or a cuff upon the aide of tbe bead that made your ear ring and your brain dlrgy with pa hi WTint would you do? 'Would yon bite and kick him If you not tbe rtwncc"? 3 doubt whether human wntwe would be ns Umg suffering as K pi hie wflttirr onder each jiro vocation. Box if evtry rime that hosttar came arrnmd you got a caress, or a -piece of opple ewery lime be itpjilUri the curryooruh. and a kind, reassuring 'whrd wry rime a obririctog englm* came -past. I think that hostler or driver would lie lovell nnd tmated Rndribeyed )o« aaugy little child has. through my ktodneaa. learned to love and trust and obey me. "Tlie more 1 oee of men the gbore 1 tore doazT' Oh. no; thephilosojthrr woe -wrong. But the mope yoa •ee of horses and doga tbe mow yon <nqBt to learn To treat them with the Maine yentleaewi wHh o hick you vdimfld treat your Tel low roan. ' Curses and blows rad yells and -growls -never ■unde a tiN-vous tiorze tTiistfdl or aa ribMtinale hone docile. XI ml ness will win ctihmiwdan h. an -animal. ©Tiers •error and fear ea* never produce It The Humane Society of America demands Justice for tlie dumb brute bo esaoe the equine laborer la alwaya worthy of hi* hire. Tbe bone has Jut aa mndb rigts to his •oats aa tbe Tam hand has to hla noonday Jooch. the .ox te Ms mouthfnl of grain as .the owner of the Thrashing floor ha* go his loaf of bread After tt la baked. The robin that slugs hi uur -cherry tree has m right to bis Bring as well as fbe little ebOd that eats at our dining ‘btble. la the great cwonaany of nature every creature was created Tor n (impose, and If that creature fulfills a gaod purpose then yon and I should try b> make Ha life happy, m that rauiture Jo try-

ing to raokr oara.

Did yoa ever atop to thMc how ranch yon and I are indebted to all those “four footed beasts of tbe earth and •wild beasts and creeping fowl* of the air*wh»cb Petey saw la vision let down from the heavens to a great sheet when be lodged with 81tbe tanner? The borsel How of our burden* he baa carried! How many happy rime* we have had when being drawn by him over tha country roads! In how many of merrymaking has be been an tlal parti And often in times of sadbe has come to our help. Tbe birds! Tea, they, too, are worthy of tbrir hire. They are our woodland prims donnas, oar eongsten stresses, that make tbe day, aa wall as the night, vocal with muaic. Tbe fowls •f the barnyard and tbe cattle of tbe fields-they, too, are worthy of tbrir hlrs. The bone and muscle and brain of mao com# from their flesh, the hum bleat creatures are sometime* of great value to man. J Again. I assert that we ab the Homan* Society of America b* easfid I aometlmea think that the birds of th* air, aa well as.the beasts of the sarth. may have an ardor of affeetto* teas greater than that of man if. that taring power of the heart is ever ah tawad to hardtop. I boUsre that a iag

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but whether they took shape before the birth of Jesus, or after His death, they must square with His own teaching with regard to God and man and salvation or we cannot accept them for ourselves.

But. lastly, we should be kiud and - "A certain man had two son*;" The gentlt* and loving toward the dumb ' whole point of the parable is In the r

brutes bet-anae God love* them, and what God loves we should not despise. I used to think that God created this world for man. I uned to think that all other worlds were merely empty, burned out worlds like tbe moon. 1 u*M to think that tlie other worlds wen* not worth tbe decorating

lationsblp; father and aoa. "The younger of them:" He was Inexperienced and headstrong. It la the old story of a boy wlth a hankering, In Itself natural and right, to *&■ tbe world and a broader life than that of the home of bis childhood; he supposed he knew the world— had probably bragged of It; distance

and upbolxteriug becaum* man was not had Hnt enchantment and be was wild there. But uuw 1 believe all world* are to enter Ha varied and fascinating life, created as our own world wa* created I "The portion of thy substance that fallbecauMt* God loves the beautiful and j eth to me." One-third of the property has declared that everything be created would be the “portion" of the younger In the universe was good. Yea. God |son; two-thirds that of the elder. A "hath made everything beautiful In hla boy's desire to realize the freedom and time." | activities of manhood becomes wrong Gad loves tbe lamb*. He made tbe ; the moment It forgets to have pons Id eracheep's gentlenew* tbe symbol of a oh tion for the rights and feeling of other*. Christ waa led as • and the restraints existing because of

hla relationship to home or society or God. “He divided unto them his living:” Not because he had to; not because he was convinced that his boy would use the mosey wisely; but perhaps because he saw that a time had come In tbe boy's life when be must be thrown on hla own responsibility. Men are creatures of free wilt and this boy. was become a man. “Took bis journey Into a far country:" He wanted to get away from all who had ever seen or known him. from the restraint that their presence would be to him. “Riotous living: ' Perhaps be bad meant only to see It; perhaps “seeing life" to. him meant seeing low. Immoral, abnormal life, as H does to so many; perhaps be thought he could plsy with lira and not be burned, or perhaps it was a ■case of the candle and the moth—the life of gay revelry had an almost irresistible attraction for him. and he flew,

to It the moment be was free. “When he bad spent all:" That be

spent all indicates the sheer madness of his course. - He ignored almost every consideration that should Influence a young man beginning life. “There arose a mighty famine:” The “famine" usually comes to tbe one who has thrown away bis opportunities. It Is neither good economy nor good morals to learn wisdom only from the bitter experiences of foolishness and sin. This young man had not sense enough to learn it in any other way. He did not begin to see the point till he was “In want” Then, when the terribleneas of his mistake came to him. what did he do? Did be say: *T will arise and goto my father?*' Did be admit that he had been wrong and go back? Not yet It la bard to do that Ha became a swineherd. “Husks:" The nutritions pods of the carob tree; somewhat like locust pods Tbe last resort of etarvlng Syrians

even to-day.

"When he came to himself:" One of the most significant sentences In th* whole parable; Jesus did aot assume that man la naturally depraved—a child of wrath, but the reverse. Tbe far country, with 1U drunkenness and misery, be is In, to be sure, but it U not hla borne and that life Is not bis life. It to unnatural, abnormal and Insane. When tbe prodigal came to bts sengea, to himself, his real self, he realized it, too—that though be was with the swine

.. ha toai not oue of them—that he was tha

urea on Friday evenings upon the subject ebOd of bts noble father, that “Ms bettor

■Sir was hla true arif and that in leaving that nightmare land he was return-

Tlooent Chapter ef the Epwortb League lag home. la calling men to follow Him of the Find M. E. Church will be tod on Jtow U not calling them to leave their T. Moat smith ova Uf» to a?9pP that to xgb their The subject will be “Whai Jea*(to aud own. but from ‘ About Brotherly Loro.” Mflatofy Ms of

sheep dumb before bis shearer*, end Tks a lamb at tbe slaughter be opened not his mouth. God made the bone and aaw that be was good. On that great day of the triumph of rlgbteons--neoa -over sin Je*ua, the eternal conqueror. shall <-ouie riding down tbe 'hea%-«*uly height* upon the white dhsrger of victory. Oh, my friend*, if Gofl created the beauts of the fields and the birds of Die air and tbe fish of the suns and-saw they were good we should be kind and gentle and lorlqg toward then ail! Frun the dumb creature* as wen aa froa the sweet voices sf the woods we may team some of tbe

beat lessons of Christ Urn love. Go-1 bless the Humane .Society of

A merit*! God Wes* all tboee men and women wbo an* taking off the cruel editor* galling the necks of the horses suffering with •ores and unhitching berms that are hdbhl'ng along on decayed feet! God Meaa tbe Christ like monanent which makes men treat their doga at least aa kindly as they would Heat fbelr human enemies! God bteea all movement* that would respect tbe InaBeaable right* of tbe sheep and tbe home* and cattle which stood about tbe manger on tbe night that Jesus waa barn! God bless all those who would ration*Hr nad with Christian feeling Translate to the human heart the comritandmetit of my text which says. -Thou ahalt not muzzle the as

when he greadeth put the coral"

Local

—The Pariah Aid Society o! the Church of the Advcwt netted CM at their festival last Saturday evening. Mr. Frank S. Sheppard preached, at First Baptist Church last Svoday, In the abaeoce of Pastor George Williams. Mtoa Ethel Lynch will lead the Y. P. S. C. E. at the Pint Baptist Church to-mor row evening. Tbe subject will be "What. Jeaeph aod Benjamin Teach About Bro-

therly Care.”

Crowns Trodden Under Foot" will hr the subject of the meeting of the Y. P. 8. C. K. at the First Presbyterian Church tomorrow evening. Tbe leader will be Skis*

Emily Shaw.

Rev. Edwin C. Alcorn, priori In charge of the P. E. (Jburoh of the Advent ou Lafayette street, to giving a aeries of toct-

—The toap year girl should realise that «NB of <M. Hconly four years Is a k»K time to wait for an » fljWtotaM. tor that