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Conditions of Real Discipleship.

How quickly and wonderfully the sub
ject broadens. Christ could win His
kingdom by the cross only. How start
ling the announcement must have been
to Peter that this was the only condi-
ton of real discipleship in the new king
dom. The language used is extreme.
Deny himself. take up his cross What
can that mean? Listen. 1t means that
as with Christ. the cross, with its shame
and agony and death. was the cost of the
worlds redemption: with fidelity to
and life is the only road 10 the kingdom
of heaven here or hereafter. The time
was coming when men might save their
lives by a denial Of the Master. but the
result would be the loss of the soul, now
and forever.
Then follows the question that has
fronted men from that hour to this. 1t is
a question that one cannot read without
shudder. But it is question that
every one, young or DID, should ponder,
and settle: What shall it profit man.
If he shall gain the whole world and
lose his own soul?' What profit is the
world for few fleeting years, if after
ward the soul is lost forever. But no
mar can win the whole world, but any
man may lose his soul. This is a per-
sonal and practical question; it should be
decided now.
The Son of Man is coming in His glory
Consequently Christ announces this truth
The hour of that coming to each of us is
the hour of doom. After that it will be
either reward punishment forever
Which shall 1t be?
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were gathering about His path OF the

| were gathering about His path. OF the
! multitudes that had hung upon His words
| and that had witnessed His miracles
there were left to Him only this small
| company of twelve, and in the heart of
| one of these was already ranking the
| spirit of treachery. Besides. there re-
| manned to Him but few months before
| the final tragedy that should end His
| earthly career.
| He had retired to this lovely place for
| the purpose of forming His church-the
! church that can have but founda-
| ton. Gathering His disciples about Him.
| He put the question frankly. Whom do
men say that l. the Son of Man amp
The answer to this question awakened
no surprise Jesus knew that the specu-
lations concerning Him had been run
ming in various directions Compelled to
account for Him, and unwilling to ac-
knowledge His Messiahship. nothing was
lett them but to suppose that He was
the resurrected Baptist. or Elias, Jere-
mlah. or one of the prophets But the
answer of Peter prepared the way for
the eearching question. But whom say
We that | am?''
The answer to this question is mem
orable. Whether it an inspirat ton
of the moment or the settled conviction
OF the disciples we cannot tell. Peter
was man of quick perceptions and
though his nature was streaked with
cowardice he was man of good i'm
pulses and. occasionally. of great daring
Twelve and instantly he replied: Thou
art the Christ. the Son of the living
God. This confession is both frank and
fuil 1t acknowledges the Messiahship
and 1t acknowledges. too, the Deity of
Christ.
1t was this claim that brought upon
Him the hostility of the Jews Trypho,
the Jew. in his dialogue with Justin
| Martyr declares that his nation expected
human Messiah; such a claim he SAYS
might nave been admitted: it is the
claim to Deity. not to Messahship that
rouses the popular fury John. SOS. 80,
and decides the Judgment Of tho san,
hedrln CMatthew. 26:64.G5). This declara-
tion OF Peter has been the faith of the
church through all ages since that day.
inns Is the condition of true discipleship
III you are Christian you must be able
to say with Peter. Thou art the Christ
the Son of the living God"
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| who was once writing to Young man
| IN the navy. who was almost a stranger
! to her. She thought: Shall | close this
| as anybody would. or shall I say word
ior my Master After lifting up hcr
heart for moment in prayer she wrote
telling him that his constant change NJ
scene and place was All apt Illustration
| OF the word. Here We have no contin-
| ulng city" and asked whether he could
say. II seek one to come" Very soon
| back came an answer:
Thank YOU much for those kind
words, I am an orphan. and no one
| has spoken to me like that since nv
mother dled, long years ago. That let
! ter was the means OF his becoming
Christian
little girl in school who had lately
given her heart To Jesus was much
troubled over the mischievois actions of a
PLAYMATE who was in the same grade.
| AZ last she wrote little not" and handed
| II I" him AT recess. 1t read: Dear
George 7 wish you would he a CHRIS
tan. ard signed her name Promptly ~
noon an answer laid upon her desh
Dear friend: Nobody ever said such
things To me except my mother Thank
you. | will try That hoy today is =
missionary i'm China. Who shall say how
much the little note had To do with his
going?
There is another story told of Young
man who had left the southern army
and Joined the nor; bern. one dav letters
came for every one in his regiment ex-
cept him. He said: Il wish | were
dead; no one cares for me. NJ mother is
dead and my father will not own M,
because I've Joined the northern cause
Another young man heard him and wrote
his own mother about il, and in a few
days from Wisconsin a letter came ad-
dressed TO the lonely southerner 1T
isn't for me-" he told the chaplain who
brought il. Nobody would write to NE
But at last he was persuaded to omen T.
and ii began My dear SON. The Other
mother wrote him that she wanted him
to be her son and she would be his
mother. He cried. Boys I've cot A
mother. and when the war was over he
was as eager as any of them to 60 and
Sc his mother
Henry Drummond says: Every char
acter has an inward spring. Let Christ
be it. Every action has a Keynote Let
Christ set it. Yesterday you got q certain
letter. You sat down and wrote a reply
which almost scorched the paper You
picked the cruelest adjcctives YOU know
and sent il forth, without a nanc 10 do
its ruthless work. You did that because
your life was set in the wrong kew You
began the day with the mirror set at
the wrong angle. Tomorrow at davhreak
turn IL toward Him. and even to your
enemy tie fashion of your countenance
will he changed. Whatever YOU then do
one thing YOU will find you could not do
YOU could not write that letter Your
first impulse may be the same your
judgment may be unchanged. but if YOU
try 1t the ink will dry on your pen and
you will rise from your desk unavensed,
but a greater and more Christian man"
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ror of their end, their married daugh
tiers. Nine. 6. Paraf Nine. Rithelot and
Mrs. Ostheimer. deposited $4,000 with
the Conservatory Of Arts and Trades
to found an Anthony Pollok prize for
a device to prevent accidents by drown
ing.
The terms of the foundation seemed
liberal.
What il asked from inventors was
Leither small apparatus such as trans
a tlantic tourists could carry with
them. or some larger device to be car
ried by the steamships: but it must be
"a completely satisfactory device.
-
Is such an invention difficult? Or
was the Pollok prize forgotten? Ger
tain II is that for fifteen years there
We're so few attempts to win it that
the Conservatory of Arts and Trades
became finally alarmed for its credit.
The money on deposit had been &C
cumulating handsomely all those years.
So this summer. they decided to issue
a new call to the world, open an An
:hony Pollok exposition of competing
devices. and award $1,000 worth of
prizes annually to the two best among
them.
The winning possibilities are even
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The New Gospel.

1t Is a remarkable fact that up to this
time Jesus had RETAINED from spec king
OF His death. Until now the disciples
were not abe 10 bear H. The result
showed that even Yet they were not pre-
.ared to receive, ii. But the time had
come when 1t must be announced And
no better time could be chosen than now
when they were elated with the joy of.
their confession OF Christ and Of tie
Masters approval and bencciction. We
cannot wonder that the disciples were
not prepared TO receive the new doctrine.
1t was SO unlike anything that they had
ever heard or Of which. they we're able
to conceive. A Messiah Yes, but dead
Messiah: what could that be but utter
failure. A Messiah who was to die and
yet 10 be q victor: that was a thought
too great for their comprehension. 1t
would have been too great for ours had
we been in their place. 1t is probable
that the disciples did not grasp the whole
OF the Masters statement He was to
die. That they heard: but the resurrec
ton on the third day! Well, it may be
that this was not heard, or that 1t was so
vague and incomprehensible that It made
no impression. However that may be.
the one thing that startled and bewildered
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ago. and embellished through the CEN
turtles by kings. In the cool silence of
its gothic halls the Paris apprentice boy
works up from perfect models the next
lessons of its night schools His old
father takes the mother TO his trade de-
partment to explain its rich collections
nothing lacking. halls without end. 1t
is the Conservatory of the Arts and
Trades.
IL the models of our patent office We're
grouped with intent to teach it would be
something like. The night schools form
a veritable university of seventeen pro-
fessorships of sciences applied to work.
where common people can start with the
solid basis of their trade and go on add
ing learning on to knowledge up to the
philosophy of things.
One OF the most pleasing sights | saw
there was vigorous old mechanic illus
trating to his family that the earth re-
wolves by means of the immense pen
Guium swinging from the chapel dome.
Here was times revenge those who
forced Calico to deny il, Any one can
grasp the pendulum demonstration by
supposing 1t TO swing at the north pole
As II goes back and forth. always in the
same line. the earth continues to reyolve
beneath II. So. a given point say an
iceberg, at the pendulums right, rides
r"und-with the whole earth-to the left
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of the pendulum in twelve hours: but as
! folks move with the earth, it is the pen
dulrm's swing that seems to change d.
rection.
Another charming sight I saw was a
proud young stonemason whispering to
his raptured girl a scheme to work up
to the job of architect, explaining by
old models that the builders of the
chateauX of the Loire were just stone
masons who had got on In the old days.
In this world of arts and trades no
halls of models are so pitiful and worthy
as those of the special Museum Of De-
vices to Prevent Accidents in Trades:
and in the midst of them is great hall
entirely devoted to an American.
II is the new Anthony Pollok EXPOSE
ton. just opened for the first time. And
connected with 1t is the curious story
of $4,000 American money that has been
going begging these fifteen years for a
device that no one seemed able to invent
to prevent mortal accidents by drowninw
The late Anthony Pollok, chevalier
of the Legion Of Honor, one of the
great patent lawyers of Washington.
had his Industrial scientific education
at the Ecole Centrale of Paris, and al
ways kept a warm friendship for the
French people who had treated him so
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Christ's Rebuke of Peter.

How near the highest heights are to
the deepest depths. Isaac Watts sang
We should suspect some danger nigh
Where We possess delight
One short moment ago Christ Him
self testified that Peter was a petros
He possessed the same nature as petra
on which the church was to be founded.
Now this same Christ turns from him
with the exclamation: Get thee behind
me. Satan: thou art an offense unto
me: for thou saVOurest not the things
that be of God, but those that be of
men. Here we have the antipOdes of
the spirit life. and yet how quickly the
distance is travelled. Can it be that in
all of US there are the elements of both
Jekyll and HYDE, However that may
be. there is enough in this instance to
cause the best of us to heed the ex-
hortation of the apostle: Let him that
thinketh he standeth take heed lest he
fall" Il Cor, 10:12).
AT this distance it seems to that
Peters blunder was natural, almost in
evitable. But how strange that the
generations which have followed have
not been able to learn wisdom by his
fall. No mistake has been more com
mon in the church than that of sup
posing that the interests of the church
may be advanced by temporal power,
that worldly wealth and greatness can
secure spiritual success.
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torpedo sha ped-''lifeboats are exhibited
in small, models. and have excited strong
interest in the jury. They may be con-
structed on a large scale and heard from
next year.
One is the egg-shaped Trad. a CON
trivance in which the Norwegian Capt.
Brudes navigated from Aalesund to New
York in a three-month voyage between
, August 4 and November H. 1904
The second is the double cylinder keel
with cork waste between, invented by de
Givray of Cannes.
And the third, from Arrow river. Man
itoba. is the double torpedo Mitchell con-
trivance that recently went through
sensational trials at Liverpool
All are designed to be carried in num-
Der by transatlantic liners In case OF
shipwreck, twenty or thirty passengers
would be packed into egg or cylinder
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folio: With a single touch it automat
| ically swells and swells until you have
, great taut balloons cinched tight Owe
stomach and chest in the exact position
to maintain you floating in the water
! slanting backward upright?
| Experiments prove this to be the
| only position that keeps the head wei
| out of the water and the mouth ano
nose free from the dash and roll o.
| waves.
| Such is the Perrin life brace. winner OF
.'he first Anthony Pollok prize awarded by
the minister of commerce. industry ant
Trades depends. Its central features are
alright pockets of the strongest rubber
| layered dirigible balloon tissue. Ac
cording to the Official catalogue. the
because when it swells. suspended to the
body. it gives the volume in front. over
chest and stomach. necessary to stability
in the water Of a human body frank ~
inclined backward. Cinched by strong
suspenders. it can be put on only in its
proper position.
On board ship the timid passenger can
put on, adjust and take off his life .sus-
penders at will. He Tor she) can come
to meals in ii. or sport it on the deck
where it affords topics of converse ton
and precious opportunities for lonely folk
to make acquaintances. Pardon my curl
osity may | ask NO, it is not a new
detective camera, but ifesaving APP
paratus. Thus it works
Pfff-fff.
Every body jumps.
You press where. there is concealed in
side the hermetic bag one of those long
Sparklets fire extinguisher cartridges of
liquefed carbonic acid gas. Pff-ff! AS
by magic. the fiat portfolio suspended on
your chest sWel!s, and instantly YOU have
two great balloons right in front between
the arms. Experiments of the conserva-
tory jury shown that they hold their gas
and sustain a party in the water thirty
six hours.
Don't fear to show off. You can easily
reCharge the apparatus. tnScrew the
exterior cap of the metallic cartridge
holder fixed inside the balloon. Put in
the life suspenders are ready to swell
again.
The cartridges are the long. heavy ones
of Sparklets fire extinguiShers. whose gas
makes preston to spray a chemical liquid
over the fire In other eXtinguishers he
carbonic gas is produced by a reaction
from mixing carbonate of soda and sui
break a bottle. but the Perrin life sus-
penders prefer to swell their balloons
with instantaneous gas from a cartridge
and of far greater sustaining power in
the water than common air.
While this first Pollok exposition has
drawn quite little hall fun Of models
from wOuld-be inventors only two others
have received an encoura cement award.
One is an Italian life belt. whose gases
differ from those of the Perrin suspenders
by being chemically generated by con-
tact with the water after you fall in
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and iaunched-ker-f flop, over the side.
into the ocean There they would float,
almost as in a submarine that stays on
the surface. until picked up.
Such are the superior results OF an eN-
position over mere announcements OF a
"aluab BILE prize.
For fifteen years the greatest arts
and trades conservatory Of the world Of
fered the G5u.0pb OF its Pollok prize for
a satisfactory device To prevent acct
dents by drowning; and there were no
applicants.
On the other hand, the first Pollok ex-
position has attracted a hall full OF
models. made known the Perrin life Sus-
penders. and held for study five devices
for collective saving that may yet de-
velop into something like hope for those
who go down 10 the sea in ships
STERLING HELLO.
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Peters Blunder.

We scarcely wonder at Peters blum
der. His intimacy with the Lord to-
gether with the Lords commentator
of his faith. had bred in him freedom
and boldness that others did not pos
sess. For the moment he forgot the
relation existing between them and he
dared to rebuke his Lord. 1t is kind
ness. and perhaps Justice as well. to
say that he knew not what he said.
We must remember that Peter had no
conception that the MesSiah'S kingdom
was other than temporal. He believed
too. that it was to be established by
force. When Christ spoke of the com
Ing conflict of Jerusalem Peter thought
that he was speaking of the political
conVulsion by which the kingdom was
to be ushered in. Bold. impetuous
daring Is he was, he could not brook
the thought of the Masters death: and
doubtless with impassioned vehemence
declared. BE it far from Thee, Lord ,
this shall not be unto Thee"
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Christ's Confession to Peter.

How quick came the response of Christ
II SHOWS how Christ yearns to be appre-
hended in His real nature by His dis
cipies. But 1t teaches more: this appre-
hension comes through the aid Of the
HOLY Spirit only Blessed art thou
Simon Bar-Jona. for flesh and blood hath
not revealed it unto thee, but my Father
which is In heaven" The meaning of
this is that the Holy Spirit flashes the
light of eternal truth upon sincere souls
Truths undiscoverable by reason are
made plain by His revealings And
blessed is the man whose mind is pre-
pared to catch the message from heavens
wireless station.
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! a rather close calculation. The second is
d kind of giant umbrella.
Imagine vast umbrella floating han.
| die UP in the water. If it were made
| boats crew inside it, clinging TO the
| ribs at the bottom where they hinge or
the stick, would ballast it deep and
steady.
1t Is the idea of a CancaIe cod fisher.
Master Mariner Tua, one of those hardy
Bretons who make the long trips to
Newfoundland and Iceland in their crazy
tarred canvas over steel ribs, almost as
high as the mast. must be kept dashed
to the mast-like an umbrella in it's rack
In time of shipwreck it is cut loose,
opened hy a dozen men pulling on a
rope. This maneuver "opens the UNI
brella' until it floats. stick in the air
and partly submerged. beside the shin-a
great pear-shaped receptacle of steel ribs.
iron and black canvas. into the bottom
of which the passengers can tumble
Then the good ship may capsize. Every
one is safe. The weight of the passen-
gers huddied at the bottom gives a center
of gravity that permits no capsizing. A
nag of distress waves at the top
How will they get out" | asked the
inventor.
They won't want to- he replied proud
ly. They'll he glad TO sit snug till help
comes. in the bottom of my trick-the
only one ever devised for saving whole
crew.
The minister OF commerce industry
and labor actually thinks SO we'll of the
brave cod fishers device that a full sized
one is to be constructed for trial at the
Toulon arsenal: but the inventor has only
to look among the exhibits to perceive
that his "umbrelia is not the only de-
vice for collective saving.
Doubtless the floating dechhause" ex-
hibited by Colineau of Rouen would have
to be tried on large scale to ascertain
its value. In case of the ship sinking it
will ''disengase itself automatically and
float safely away, there being no mech
anism to get out of order in a moment
OF emergency
Several such floating deckhouses could
might be capable of supporting 500 per-
sons, says the inventor. To avoid rush
and panic he suggests that every pas
senger should have his place in one of
them allotted in advance officers and
men would be distributed so that each
floating deckhouse would have a proper
crew as it floats away with its 800 pas
SengerS, who we are assured would
have no need to feel nervous" In case
of wreck in midocean a mast and sails
can be fixed while waiting for pass
ing vessel to pick them up.
OF course, the floating deckhouse de-
mandS appropriate construction. 1t APP
pears to be more suitable to steamships
to be built than fer adoption on old
vessels. The inventor suggests that l.
be included in the plans, so as to serv,
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some useful purpose under ordinary cir
cumstances, dining salon, for instance
All this may sound strange, but the in
ven;or seems to have so well studied the
technical details that l hesitate to smile.
Nor should smile at the insubmersi-
BILE mattresses coming from Nantes pho-
vided with straps and buckles, several
can be fastened together to form a raft
capable of sustaining several persons in
safety for a considerable time. Yet they
received no prize or encouragement
Neither did the numerous belts or cush-
ions, either to be blown up with the
breath or permanently filled with floating
kapock. There are even tin canisters to
be strapped under the arms. There are
life collars, corsets and Jackets of cork
or otherwise bulky, yet all of proved abil-
ity to sustain the body
Meanwhile, three remarkable egs-or
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kindly during his studies. COM
memorative tablet in the Conservatory
of Arts and Trades states that his
beautiful home in Washington was al
ways open TO travelling Frenchmen. and
that young engineers and scientists
coming to America to win place
found in Anthony Pollok their most
powerful helper.
When the steamship La Bourgogne
went down with all hands off New
foundland, Anthony Pollok and his wife
were among the missing.
In memory OF them and Of the hor-
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greater. The same apparatus can con-
tinue winning one of the annual prizes,
in case it remains the best which
amounts to a yearly income. and final
~. if worthy. it may get a good slice or
a whole of the principal sum.
The first two prizes have just been
awarded, among exhibits from England
Canada, Italy, Belgium, Germany and
France.
leather case like camera. or worn
like suspeRders between vest and coat,
what seems a fat light canvas port
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Peters Confession of Christ.

They were in Caesarea Philppi. This is
a beautiful spot. 1t is supposed to be the
most northern point visited by Christ dur
ing His ministry. IT is about twenty-fi five
miles north of the Sea of Galilee. 1t is at
the foot of snow-capped Hermon; and
amid it's rocks is found one Of the sources
of the Jordan. 1t was in every way suited
to the purpose of Christ. The shadows
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now at the park and before the confer
ence opens number of others will have
arrived, according to expectation
Rev. Henry Ostrom of Indiana, re-
garded as strong evangelist in many
parts of the country. will be in charge.
"A number of others prominent in evan
SellZatlon work will assist him. Rev. DR.,
j. Wilbur Chapman is scheduled to de-
hver an address. Others in the list are
Melvin Trotter. Chicago; Fred Taylor In
annapolis; F. l.. Willis, Worcester, Mass,
and George Heber Jones of Missouri