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rh. Mount.,nx Of Life.

The Mountains of Life.
There's a land far away, mid the stars,
we are told,
Where they know not the SORROWS or
time
Where the pure waters wander through
valleys of gold,
And life is treasure sublime
IT'S the land OF our God, It's the nome
of the soul,
Where the ages of splendor eternaliy
roll;
Where the way-weary traveller reaches
his goal
On the evergreen mountains of life.
Our gaze can not soar to that peauti1ui
land.
But our visions have told of it's bliss,
And our souls by the gale of its gardens
are famed.
When we faint in the desert OF TINS:
And we sometimes have longed for us
holy repoSe,
When our spirits were torn with terhp'd-
tions and woes.
And we've drank from the tide of the
From the evergreen mountains OF lie.
Oh, the stars never tread the blue heaV-
ems at night
But we think where the ransomed nave
trod:
And the day never smiles from his palace
of light.
But we feel the bright smile OF our
God!
we are travelling homewarL through
changes and gloom,
TO a kingdom where pleasures uncess-
tngly bloom,
And our guide is the glory that shlnes
through the tomb
From the evergreen mountains OF NE
j. G. Clark.
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According to Your Faith"


Matt tx. 29-"According to your
faith be it unto you"
The measure of our belief is the
measure of our blessing. The wider
you open the door, the more angels
will crowd into it. with their white
wings and their calm faces. The bore
of the pipe determines the amount of
water that flows into the cistern. Ev-
cry man gets in the measure in which
he desires. Though tremulous hand
may hold out cup into which Jesus
Christ will not refuse to pour the wine
of the kingdom, yet the tremulous
hand will spill much of the blessing;
and he that would have the full en-
joyment of the mercies promised and
possible must TASK in faith. nothing
wavering." The sensitive paper which
records the hours of sunshine in a day
has great gaps upon its line of light
answering to the times when the
clouds have obscured the sun; and the
communication of blessings from God
is intermittent, if there be intermit-
tency of faith. If you desire an I'M
broken line of mercy, joy and peace.
keep up a continuity of trustful con-
fidence.-Rev. A. Maclaren. d. d.
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Speech.


Like whisp' ring shell that whispereth III
vain,
All rosy -hearted on the barren coast
attain
The simple things that he would say
the most
Alas! each small and simple thing on
earth
Locks in the truth no tongue may evar
free;
Through life to death and death to other
birth
What unsaid things-ail known to you
and me.
The happy mother with the newly porn;
The parting grief that batters at the
breast;
The deep regard of those who muteiy
mourn,
And loves fulfilling look-ail uncon-
feSSed,
The upward look of cen the fawnine
brute.
The saddened beast that toi5eth all the
day,
O'er-riseth speech and finds that we are
mute
As oft they ask: And what hast thou
to say?"
The pensive heart hath knowledge of her
own,
The mind hath hers in words by words
explained;
Unto the things that most truly
No learning worldly wise. hath e'er at
Charles d. Stewart.
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1t begins to look as if strong
popular temperance movement in the
City of Mexico would result in favor
of closing the pulque shops of this
capital from Sunday noon to the fol-
lowing midday. The better class OF
wage earners have taken the matter
up and will petition the governor of
the federal district to put in force a
Neutrality-suspicious. closing regulation
which, it is believed would tend NOT
only to the improvement of the public
morality, but to prevent the observ-
ance of the ancient custom of San
Lunes," or ST. Monday. VIGOROUSLY,
great numbers of wage earners squan-
der their weeks pay in the drinking
shops on Sunday and are unfit to go to
work Monday This observance OF
"St Monday" is not common in Next
co, but to British towns and cities as
we'll.
Alcoholism has become public
curse in the City of Mexico; there
were never so many barrooms, liquor
Joints" and low ''fgones' as at pres
ent. Almost every grocery store nova
days has it's barroom, of which it is
said there are 410 in the city. all pay
ing stiff license tax, bu> all making
q fair amount of money.
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AS the two sat talking on their
horses only a few steps from u.s. we
had full opportunity not only to note
their bearing, but to hear most of the
conversation. / had not seen Lee for
about six years, and his appearance is
thus described in letter written the
next day:
soon after our arrival Gen. Lee
came riding up, attended only by two
orderlies He looks pretty much the
same as usual, but older, and his race
has a very sad expression. I did not
see him smile once during the inter
view. He has the same quiet, subdued,
eentlemanly manner for which he was
always noted"
As the two generals sat talking to-
rether. Gen. Grant turned and beck
oned to Cen Seth Williams, his adju-
4ant general. who rode forward.
spas curious to see the meeting be-
zen Lee and Williams. Some years
the war, when Lee was super
~ OF the military academy
vas hie adjutant, and was
a great favorite with him
. approached. the TIVE
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A new company is being organized
to publish for the Shautauqua institu-
tons the publications which are now
issued direct by the Chautauqua as
sembly. This assembly is the parent
Chautauqua in western New York, and
the publications include the Chautau-
uuan Magazine. which now bears a
Cleveland imprint. The imprint of the
new company will be the Chautauqua
Press, New York, Chautauqua. Spring
field and Chicago. The president of
the Chautauqua press will be Mr.. d. j.
Thomas of Springfield, Ohio, president
of the Floral Publishing company. Mr..
Thomas will manage both enterprises.
The editorial offices of the Chautau-
Guan will be located in chicago. In
connection with the educational offices
of the Chautauqua Institution. Mr..
Frank Chaplin Bray will continue to
edit the Chautauquan Magazine. and
other publications of the Chautauqua
PRESS. This change of management
viii snfxlseA the qualifications represent
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Load, Kindly Light.

The light falls for the hesitating
stem. and a wavering allegiance leads
to the confusion issuing in darkness
ours is not to reason why; ours is
but to do and die" if necessary, as
sured that being obedient unto death
is to enter into an abundant life. This
cannot be too strongly insisted upon.
Obedience is the law of service. and
obedience to this moving Light is the
means whereby it becomes clearer to
us.
The Light is moving on. The night
darkens before the dawn. AND then
with the dawn the moving Light be-
comes transformed for us into the well
coming Presence and we find the Light
has led us home, to go out no more
forever.
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OF! P'flrsIdles

shook hands. but there was nothing In
Lees face. as he gravely and courte-
ously received him, to indicate that
he had ever met him before.
After talking little while Gen.
Grant beckoned me forward, and on
approaching Gen. Lee pretty much
the same scene took place as with
williams. Gen Grant said: Gen.
Lee is DESTROYS that his ondcers and
men should have on their person some
evidence that they are paroled prison
ers, SO that they will not be disturbed.
and Gen. Lee remarked that he sim
ply desired to do whatever was in his
power to protect his men from any
thing disagreeable. l said l thought
that could be arranged, as l had a
small printing press and could have
blank forms struck of which could be
filled up and one given to each omcer
and man of the army, signed by their
own officers. and distributed as re-
quired. To this he assented. He then
turned to Gen. Grant and said: Gen
eral have you accepted private horses
for the surrender. Now, most of my
couriers and many of the artillery and
cavalry own their own horses. HOW
will it be about them?"
Gen. Grant replied at once, speak
ing to me: "They will be allowed to
retain them" Turning to Gen. Lee
he added: "They will need them In
putting in their spring crops" The
remark struck me as peculiar, and l
have no doubt it did Lee, for Grant
could have said nothing which demon
strated more completely his idea that
| the war was over and that these war
| like men and horses would go at once
| to work planting corn.-From POS
| thumous Paper by Gen. John G1bbon
| in the Century.
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Religions In Cana da.

The Canadian census bureau has is-
sued a bulletin giving the results as
regards the religious affiliations OF the
people.
The grand total of persons is 5.371.-
o51. of whom 2.22S,997 are Roman
Catholics. Of the Professionals the
most numerous are the Methodists
with 916.S62; the Presbyterians. with
S42,30l, and the Anglicans, with $780,
BIG. The Baptists are fourth with ~
4S5. All these denominations show
substantial increase in the ten years
since 1891. The Congregationalists.
with 2S. 2S3. have increased only 126 in
ten years, and the Salvation army has
lost 3.642 on the 1891 figures of 1898.
Unitarians have gained 157 on total
in 1891 of II, and Universalists have
lost 597 out of their 1891 total of
31S6.
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FI ~. f 1G,

counties of Erath, Baylor, Wise. Ham
ilton, Dickens, Sabine, Collin and
Sherman, and one precinct of Bosque
went for Prohibition by large MAORI
ties. On the other hand. the liquor
men carried only one local option
election in the entire state, one small
precinct in Waller county.
These elections have proved SO
clearly the popular sentiment d favor
of Prohibition that they have fred
the Anti-Liquor Leagues from the Sa-
bine to the Rio Grande. In nearly
twenty counties petitions are in circu-
lation calling for local option cleo
tions. April saw dozen of these
elections, and in view of the present
strength and enthusiasm of the Pro-
hibitionists, the chances are that they
will carry every county or precince
election.
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w. Mus. Know What Is Right.

Doing as we'll as we know how is
hotter than not doing even as we'll as
that But doing as we'll as we know
how is not enough. Gods commands
are positive and exact. We are told to
do this or not to do that. God never
tells us merely to do our best, or ac-
cording to our knowledge. 1t is our
duty to know what is right. and then
to do it. Even under human govern
ments. it is said, that it is every mans
duty to know the law. And divine
government has as high standard as
has the human. We have RESPONSE
bility for knowing as preliminary to
doing Do we realize that's. S.
Times.
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:apt. Samuel c. Wright

ifved to relate the story of their pri-
vations and sufferings, after having
been wounded so often and so severe
" as has Capt. Samuel G. Wright, a
United States inspector of customs at
Boston.
The story Of his life reads like a
romance. He was thrice reported
dead, and twice promoted upon the
field "for conspicuous bravery in ac-
ton"
His right eye was shot out, and the
ball entered far into his head, but n
lives to tell the story, and shows the
bullet dangling from his watch chain
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To r,eh. Temperance work.

The need of more aggressive tenn
perance work is emphasized by the re-
cent announcement that the National
Protective Association of liquor deal
ers has been revived to wage war
against the prohibition movement and
show that prohibition laws are in
effectual'' 1t will have its headquar-
tiers in Louisville, and will be support
ed by a fund to which the d1stlillng
and liquor jobbing interests OF the
entire country are expected to contrib
ute. The money will be used IN en-
ploying speakers to conduct cam
paigns in states where Prohibitlon1sts
are strong. in distributing printed
matter in employing statisticlans ana
writer's on economic subjects, and an
ti-Prohibition arguments particularly
Rams Horn.
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= A state temperance law was strong
Nv urged before the Mississippi legisia-
ture at it's session last month. It
failed mainly because the church peo-o
nile were somewhat divided as to the
timeliness of state prohibition. A
large number of Prohibitionists in
Mississippi think it ill advised to
PASS a state law Just now and favor
carving on the campaign against
liouor on the local option basis for the
present, letting each county or town
decide by popular vote its wishes In
this matter 1t was made very clear
however. that the Prohibition senti-'
ment is an overwhelming majority In
the state, and that whenever 1T wants
state prohibition there will be little
difficulty in securing it.
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Early PietY.

The command of God is to seek Him
early in life, and the promise is that
He will receive and bless those who
thus come to Him. Youth is favorable
to grace The mind is not yet filled
with worldly things. habits are not
yet confirmed, associations are not yet
settled. The child is more in sympa-
thy with the finer and more spiritual
things, because it is not warped and
perverted by the evil that surrounds 1t
and develops within. A life thus un-
der the grace OF God from childhood Is
purer and stronger in later years. 1t
has had solid growth, and is firm in
it's texture and grain. 1t works up into
whatever it is used for with more
beauty than if part was spent in sin.
1t is a sweeter life. for there are no
memories Of sinful days which left
their mark on the soul. 1t is life
nearer to that of the Child Jesus.
whose unfolding was divine.
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Glorious Gettysburg.

The battle on the first day was re-
markable not only for the acts Oh
great personal courage. but also LOT
the most heroic fighting on the Part
of organizations. The l41tn ne"
York was the first regiment to make
the great record at Gettysburg. Gong
into position on the right OF cutters
Brigade, and becoming holly engagen
in the very beginning OF the ngnt'
Lieut.. Col. F. C. Miller, Its command
er. fell almost at the first nre, snot
IN the head Maj. George Harvey <nen
commanded. The regiment fought the
Forty-second Mississippi, and when
the position became untenable and the
brigade was ordered to the rear, the
command to retreat was not received
by the 147th until the other regiments
of the brigade had gone. The 147th then
stood alone, and not only fought the
regiment to its front, but was exposed
to the fire of the Second Mississippi,
and the Fifty-Ninth North Carolina
on the right flank. The fight was
close and deadly, but Harvey and his
men stood up to the work until the
orders reached them to retreat, which
they did in good order. with colors
1870
was appalling, but hardly had the
splendid organization reached the new
position than it became engaged in
resisting the attack of Ewells corps
and assisted in capturing a part OF
lverson's Brigade. But the 147th waf
not yet ready to rest; on the evening
Of tho second day 1t was rushed over
to Culp's Hill to reinforce Green's
Brigade, and until long after DARK
fought in the dense woods among
rocks and fallen timber, locating the
enemy by the tongues Of fire that
aeaped from their muskets. This regi'
ment was recruited in Oswego coun
ty, New York, and it left the great
record on Gettysburg's field OF sixty
per cent killed and wounded, more
than twenty per cent being killed out
right.
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Sowing Time.

That every moment of the present
has relation to every moment of the
future. that what we SOW that we also
shall reap-these are truths that the
science Of the day is as insi.tent in
proclaiming as ever was the morallst
of old, or was the Master in his par
able of the sower, Repentance for sin
and atonement for sin in no way alter
the effect of it. The wasted moment
,s forever wasted. The youth misspent
cannot be re-lived. The bloom re-
moved from the peach cannot be put
back. The slashed tapestry can be re-
naired. but not made as good as new.
And the pathos of it all is that the
deciding moments of life are difficult
to anticipate. 1t is easy to believe
that the rain falling on high peak
will divide, some going east and some
going west. That is obvious. But
when the rain falls on the level, and
vet finds it's way north and SOUTH the
grades being so slight that for a time
the water collects in pools. and only
later decides to be feeder of the
Pacific or the Atlantic, then it is diff
ficult to use our liberty of choice a:
becometh the part of wisdom. Ant
the difficulty does not decrease, bu
rather increases, as life grows NOR,
complex. as the world becomes trans
formed into an ever increasing like
ness to Gods ideal for it. But thu
law still holds Sowing the win,
| causes a whirlwind harvest-alway
has, always will.-Congregationalist
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Repose.

It Is only when we begin to think
about life, and how we should live,
that the art of being quiet assumes It's
real value; to the irrational creature
it is nothing, to the rational 1t is
much. In the first place, it removes
what De Quincy, with his usual grand
felicity Of expression, calls the bur-
den of that distraction which turks IN
the infinite littleness of details. 1t
is the infinite littleness of details
which takes the glory and the dignity
from our common life, and which we
who value that life for it's own sake
and for the sake of its great Giver
must strive to make finite.
Since unconscious life is not posi-
BILE to the intellectual adult, as it is to
the chi1d-since he cannot go on liv-
ing. without a thought about the ma
ture of his own being, it's end and
aim-it is good for him to cultivate a
habit Of repose, that he may think and
feel like man putting away those
childish things-the carelessness, the
thoughtless Joy, 1.-The tear forgot
as soon as she'd" which, however beau
tiful. because appropriate, in child
hood. are not beautiful because not ap-
propriate in mature age.
The art of being quiet is necessary
to enable a man to possess his OWL
soul in peace and integrity-to exam
inc himself, to understand what gifts
God has endowed him with, and tc
consider how he may best emplo!
them in the business of the world
This is its universal utility. It is un
wholesome activity which requires mo-
repose and thoughtful quiet as it:
forerunner, and every man should Sc
cure some portion of each day for vol
untary retirement and repose within
himself.
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Lord Aversion on Temperance.
Founded in 1873, the Tempera ice
Hospital in Hampstead Road, London,
England. has for it's object the treat
ment of medical and surgical diseases
without the ordinary administration
of alcohol. During the last twenty
eight years over 10000 patients have
been admitted. of which 11.249 were
cured. 1868 relieved 9O4 unrelieved,
and 1897 died. The abstainers num-
bered 1851, and the non-abstainers,
S.2O6, whilst 1852 Gncluding children)
are returned as unclassitied. In the
out-patients' department, between
1873 and 1901. the total number dealt
with was 1873 .092. The hospital is
situated in the midst of densely
populated and extremely poor neigh
borhood and the demands upon its
charity are ever on the increase. The
annual public meeting, which was held
at the hospital recently. was under
the presidency of Lord Aversion,
lord chief justice of England, who de-
livered an address. in the course of
which he expressed himself as being
glad to say a word in praise with re-
gard to the work from a lawyer S
point of view. For the past thirty
years he had advocated temperance in
season and out of season; in politics
and out of politics. The particular rea-
son why he wished to support the hos
pital was because it had been a pow
erful agency in leading people in the
right way, and would continue to be
| SO as long as the walls stood. Elk
| ample and leading were worth any
other two influences which could be
mentioned, and that hospital was a
standing example of the persistency OF
those who stayed within itsCwalls fol
time. For twenty-eight years the
London Temperance Hospital had ex-
| isted and treated nearly 10000 pa.
tients, and in only fifty-two cases hao
It been found necessary to use alcohol
Intemperance. every judge in the
land would tell them, was at the bot
tom Of more than so per cent of the
crime Of the country. If they coult
put a stop to intemperance and gam
bling, their prisons would be empty
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Ammunition for the Cause.

Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Topeka
is contemplating the publication of
series of 270 newspaper clippings, tell
ing of specific instances of crime, or
other evil produced by drink These
clippings were gathered in about two
weeks from thirty daily papers. 1t is
believed that their wide distribution
in pamphlet form will be productive Of
good results.
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What whisky Does

Whisky takes away mans charac-
ter. his energy. his truthfulness, his
honesty. and at last it takes away his
home In return it gives him few
maudlin tears. a few drunken dreams,
a fictitious activity of u decaying
brain. which he mistakes for thought
and finally home in the poorhouse.
There, at the poorhouse door, whis-
XIV takes leave of friends and starts
out to find fresh victims.
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An opinion from the Army.

Lord Wolseley, late commander-in-
chief of the British army, speaking OF
the evils of intemperance, said: There
are yet some battles to be fought, some
great enemies to be encountered by the
United Kingdom, but the most pressing
enemy is drink. 1t kills more than all
our newest weapons of warfare, and
not only destroys the body but the
mind and soul alSo.
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ale1fgleuSAet9<

the new expansion policy of Chautau-
qua, with which large number OF the
most important popular educational
movements of the day have allied
themselves for summer and winter
work. Among these are the New York
state reading courses. the Arts and
Crafts movement, and the American
league for Civic Improvement. The
change takes effect October 1 next
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son~ of l3ladnees.

Som9 of Gladn0os.
Sing away your trouble and soul-disturD-
ing fears;
Smile away your sorrows. your heart
aches and your tears:
Let the sunshine follow you thro' all the
coming years,
Sing q song of gladness forever.
Look above the trials that abound on
ev'ry hand;
Keep a stock of courage always at COM
Some time In the future you will under
stand
Sing a song of gladness forever.
when the day is gloomy, songs will make
1t bright; Ill,
When the burdens heavy, smiles Will
make it light;
Sunshine will follow in the trail of dark
est night
Sing a song of gladness forever.
Just a song of sunshine-let 1t Hood the
And the bars of sorrow it will reno
whisper words that courage in some
soul will start
Sing song of gladness forever.