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apartments. where they would chat about
the mans friends, relatives. and his crude
romances. which Pavel told with the
naivete Of an overgrown boy.
Every evening before the Gar went to
bed he asked Pavel to scratch his back:
but Pavel performed the duty very shyly.
~Pavel, scratch harder There-up on
mv shoulders" would say the Gar
But, your Majesty, | am afraid to hurt
YOU
"\eyer mind stronger, the better
Ah, that good!" the Gar would exca m.
DERING the late evenings the Gar
- would call me in and tell me stories OF
ghosts and the haunted parts of his numer
ouS palaces. He told me that he was So
afraid Of Ropsha Castle where Peter Ill.
was supposed to have been killed by Gen
eral Orloff a favorite of Catharine H.. and
the palace Of Gar Paul, where the latter
was stranged in a palace conspiracy, that
he never visited them.
DO YOU believe in ghosts?' the Gar
asked me.
VERY slightly, your Majesty" | replied.
But how do YOU explain the supernatural
phenomena, the strange voices, whispering
,obs the mysterious faces, that have been
seen by the people and which | have seen
personally? Last winter when | was taking
a bath late at night and Pavel was prepar
ing my bed in the adjoining room, | heard
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Grand Duke Constantin
Talking to Prince Orlof.

of the palace. To my great surprise |
found there the Chamberlain and a spy. |
at once realized that | was facing an official
inquiry; but | had no idea of any offens. |
might have committed. The face of the
palace General was very grave when he
asked me:
did YOU tell Princess Louise that YOU
saw the frau of the court, Countess Lleven.
sitting in the lap of Grand Duke Boris ore
evening in the Winter Garden"
"No, Your Excellency. | did not tell that
young Czarina 1t is a fact. | saw that
lady sitting in the lap of Grand Duke Boris
| made drawing of the incident, and TIL,
Czarina said it was beautiful piece OF
work.
did you make drawing of his Majesty
when he was entertaining Kaiser Wilhelm
on board his YACHT
Il did, but no one else has ever seen that
drawing.
Il accuse you of having abused the conf
dence of the Gar and the Russian people
and ask you to resign said the General
gravely.
| nodded and wrote out my resignation
Handing it to the General. | bowed and left
| packed my things. ordered an expressnan
to take them out. and walked up to bid fare
we'll to the Gar. But the Chamberlain
stood at the door and said that the Gar
would not see me.
"The Gar does not know at all of vour
intrigue to get me dismissed from the palace.
| exclaimed, and left.
The next day the police came to my pr
vate apartment to search my document
and to confiscate the drawings | had made;
but there was no trace of my drawings. AM
they did not find anything that would Civ
them reason to arrest me. A few days later
| decided to leave the country. although |
was innocent OF any wrongdoing.
THE Gar is kept in ignorance of real condi
tions in Russia. the misery and demands
of the masses. He is neither Nero nor a
weakling. as he is imagined abroad. Al
though afraid OF outside revolutionists. he
is more scared of a palace revolution. With
many good qualities and many vices and
weaknesses. he is and remains a prisoner n
his luxurious palaces.
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LOVE FINDS IT'S OWN
Cont:nasd f1oS glS D

rather solemn moment. Bessie trembled,
not knowing what confession was to be made.
He reminded Bessie that she had asked
him what he wanted Zouthetou to tell her
at their first interview, and Zouthetou
fused. Il will tell YOU now. | wanted
Zouthetou to tell YOU that | no real Indian.
white. I-stolen when little boy: adopt
ed by tribe They teach me all Indian ways.
want to find old home-Father, Mother
p 'raps little sister.
That put quite different complexion on
the engagement. and lifted a great weight
from Joe Cromwell's spirits.
The following morning early Music in
Voice and Zouthetou bade farewell to the
group assembled to see them off. An
reroir!" shouted the little old man. Back
tree day"
"Goodbv! GOODBYE" cried Music in
Voice. and he added something in the In
dian language, words he had taught Bessie,
which she alone of those on shore under
stood.
The two had a perfect day for their long
paddle across the lake. The weather still
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were received in the small hall of the palace.
the Ministers in the Cars private apart
nlents, and foreign visitors in the hall OF
Alexander l.; but members of royal families,
Grand Dukes, and his relatives were re-
ceived in the Hall of Honor The Ministers
usually called in the afternoon; but the
Grand Dukes or the doWager Czarina were
guests at dinner or sometimes at luncheon.
While receiving the Ministers. Governors.
Senators, or other great functonares. the
Gar was cold, gloomy, and taclturn; but IN
his private life and within the family circle
he was buovant and humorous. One OF his
favorite arn1sements within his family was
to play chess with the court women or with
the Chamberlain and to play lawn tennis
with his daughters, teachers. or with the
Minister Of the Court, and to tell stories
When there were no guests the imperial
family dined in the small Egyptian dining
room, which was furnished in ancient
Egyptian stvle. The service was of rare an
tique china, rock crystal, or chased gold.
The dinner began after grace was asked by
the court chaplain and lasted half an hour.
The Czarina was fond of English dishes; but
the Gar liked Russian cooking. especially
fish and meat pies buckwheat kdShd. and
Russian fish dishes. After dinner the Gar
spent an hour or two in the Czarina apart
ment, reading foreign magazine or listening
to music played by an artist of the Imperial
Conservatory. The Gar usually sat in a
rocking chair before fireplace and smoked
a cigarette or PLAYED with the children on
oriental pillows on the floor. vt half-paSt
seven or eight he returned to his own rooms
and worked until midnight.
|nNE night during the last year of my SER
- vice, when the Gar had gone to sleep
and | was reading magazine in the room
next to the Cars bed chamber heard 4
peculiar noise and then as if window was
being opened. looked at my watch: it
was one o'clock and the wide halls were
silent as a tomb. Soon | heard cry. and
then a noise as if something fell to the floor.
| rushed out to the corridor and asked the
frightened sentinel what it was.
at came from the closet next to the Gar
ROOM" he replied.
pulled my pistol, told the sentinel to
stand on guard with his bayonet, and opened
the door Before me stood a tall man whose
face was covered with a mask. He was
washing blood from his hand while in the
other he held a long knife.
"Throw down your knife. or I'll fire. |
ordered, and the sentinel pointed his bay
onet at his head
The stranger raised his knife as if to stab
me. The sentinel made furious lunge and
with groan the man fell dead.
| called the Chamberlain and the aide
de-camp. Apparently a burglar a revo-
utionist who knew the palace well. he had
used the moment when the sentinels
changed and nobody outside saw him climb
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ing up by ladder to the closet window
which was generally unlocked. At the mo-
ment he was passing through the window
the new sentinel came. saw him. and fired
wounding him in the arm. His body was
taken out and his pockets searched. Besides
a pistol and extra cartridges he had nothing
to identify him. Even the careful inyestiga-
ton of the police did not reveal his identity
The Gar was never told of this incident.
THE Gar was not usually familiar with
the workers about the palace: but he
was very intimate with his body servant
Pavel. a vicious looking Alongolian peasant
from Siberia. Pavel dressed and undreS5ed
the Gar. and was always with him in his
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LESSON IN BOOK 16.
Text: Matthew Ais: Mark IT; Luke 40.
Memory verse from Luke beginning with
'sU''
Review of the last lesson.
l. What place was headquarters for
Jesus work throughout the Galilean min
istry?
2. Where was the first Missionary Con-
g. When Jesus rest time" was spoil
ed by the multitude, how did he act?
4. How much did each person set at
the feeding of the five thousand?
5. What did Jesus do when he was left
alone after the feeding of the multitude?
6. Who persuaded the disciples to go
" :. How long did the disciples fight the
storm?
9. what caused many of Jesus dis
cipleS to leave him. 49, -,
10. Why does Mark explain denied
hands and "Corbin," as well as other
Jewish terms?
u. What did Jesus call the PnarlSees3
49, What quotation does he give them
IA To whom was the last part OF the
address on defilement given?
15. Where did Jesus say that evil orig
iiid'eo LESSON XVII. OUTLINE.
Part VI. Third Period of the Galilean
Ministry. 1e,,.,,o,,
Section 70. Journey toward Tyre and
sidon: the syrophoenician woman's
Mt. 15:21-2s. Nix. 7:24-9O
Section IL Return through Decapohs;
many miracles OF healing
Mt 15:29-31- NIX. 7;31-S7-
Chapter 81. A Brief Return to the sea
q section IL. The feeding of the four
'l'o U7AA' Mt. Is :s2-ss. NIX. s:1-s-
Section 70. The Pharisees ana Saoou-
Gees demanding a sign from "a heaven 95
Section "a. The blind man near Beth
saba. %, DC
MIS- C. Il. MENNlNCrER.
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coNsEcRATIoN IN THE TEMPLE
Luke Il. q 39-Ian. "a.

sFor mine eyes haze seen Thy edz0atto,, 40hic1
Thou hast prepared before the face of ali
peopIe.''-Fs. so, 81
When Jesus was forty days old,
Joseph and Mary took Him to Jeru-
salem and presented Him in consecra-
cordance with the custom which re-
lated specifically to the frst-born in
each family.
Although the first-born of the entire
nation were passed over at the dellv-
erance from Egypt, they had been ex-
changed for the one tribe of Levi,
which had been specially devoted to
Gods service; and the same principle
was exemplified in respect to the first
born of each mother. It was to be de-
voted specially to God and His service.
The significance of this we see when
we remember that the elect Church.
being gathered during this Gospel Age,
is styled the Church of the First-borns.
Again, st. James tells US that We are
"a kind of frst-fruits unto God of His
creatures The clear intimatiOn of all
this is after the church shall have been
gathered to heavenly glory by the
power of the First Resurrection, the
Kingdom then to be established will
the earth, giving them also the oppor-
tunity of becoming sons of God, on the
earthly plane by restitution processes.
Acts iii, 1921.
''Set for the Fall and Rising Again of
Many in Israeli
At the time of the conservation cere-
mony at the Temple, an aged Prophet
came forward and took the babe Jesus
in his arms and praised God.
BY some power Divine this aged
Prophet recognized Jesus, and, after
saying, Nov Iettest Thou Thy servant
depart in peace, for mine eyes have
seen Thy salvation'-the way in which
Thy salvation shall come to Israel and
to all the families of the earth-he pro
ceeded to say, which Thou hast pre-
Light of the world and the Glory of
Thy people Israel
Simeon. addressing Mary, declared
prophetically that the Child was ''set
for the fall and the rising of many in
Israel, and for sign Imark or stand
ardl, which shall be spoken against,
that the thoughts of many hearts may
be revealed
How wonderful prophecy 1t re-
minds US of the words of ST. Paul,
that our Lord is ga stone of stumbling
and rock of offence to many in
Israel, that many stumbled, being dis
And st. Paul told also of
the rising again of many who STUN
bled He declares, Israel hath not
obtained that which he seeketh for,
but the election hath obtained it and
the rest were blinded stumbled
turned aside from Divine favor.-Ro-
mans XII, T.
Not a sufficient number of Israel |
ties indeed were found to complete |
the foreordained elect, and hence the |
invitation went beyond Abraham's nat
uraI seed to gather during this Gospel
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| Age the sanity of every nation, peo-
PIE, kindred and tongue.
s4AH Israel Shall Be Saved,
A sanity woman, Anna, a prophet
ess over a century old, resided in
Jerusalem and in the precincts of the
Temple courts. She. also, moved by
the~ Holy Spirit, recognized the Babe
and gave praise to God and mentioned
the matter to the sanity ones who
were waiting for the fulfllment of the
Abrahanic promise-.for the con-
ISOLATION of Israeli
If the seeing of Jesus as a. babe
was worthy of praise and thanks, still
more was it a cause of gratitude to
God for those who beheld Him at the
age of thirty, consecrating Himself a
who realized that He had been begot-
ten again by the Holy Spirit to be a
New Creature, of the divine nature
Those who saw the Masters faith
fulness in performing the sacrifice of
His conservation during the three and
still more for which to give God
praise. And when He had finished His
course at Calvary and was raised from
the dead the third day, and forty days
was before, happy were they who rec
ogniZed that further development of
the Divine Plan for mans salvation
the blessing of all the families of the
earth.
Still more blessed were those who
at Pentecost received the Holy Spirit
as begetting power and those who
since have received the same evil
dencing that they are the children of
God, and, "if children, then heirs of
God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christi
their Lord to the great inheritance-to
the oathbound promise made to Abra-
hame, that through them all the fami-
lies of the earth shall be blessed.
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| er and Redeemer, only two young
pigeons. Thus early was he identified
with the ordinary men and women OF
the world.
This is the gospel of labor.
/ Oh. ring il, We bells of the kirki
| For the Lord of Love.
Came down from above,
To live with the men who work
The Babe at the temple has its mes
sage The old fashion of dedicating
children in infancy to God is not as
prevalent as it once was. One reason
given why there are so few young men
offering themselves as preachers is
that they have not been dedicated to
God since infancy, and reared in the
atmosphere of conservation. Modern
parents want their sons to be rich and
great; whereas the one supreme re-
quirement is that they be Gods, seek
ing to live the life that corresponds to
his will.
The Maryelling Mother.
whenever you lay your hand upon
child's head you lay it upon the
mothers heart" says a wise man. The
words of Simeon at the presentation
of Jesus meant most to Mary She
and Joseph marvelled at the things
which were spoken of him. What light
these wonderful words shed upon her
own deep dreams and desires nobody
knew Who has plumbed the depths
of a mothers heart?
From this career of motherhood
many women are wilfully turning aside
in our time. They do not want to be
troubled with children. The best of
them (if there is any real difference
in the whole, selfish, thoughtless lot)
want time for books and music and art
and public service-as if any education
could be equal to that impaired in
Gods own school of motherhood; and
as if any public service could for an
instant compare with the rearing of
sons and daughters into noble men
and womenl The worst of the lot
avoid motherhood because they want
to be free to pursue pleasure, and the
vanities of life; little foreseeing the
and hunger Of heart that
await in the days to come when there
are neither children nor grandchil-
dren to drive away the loneliness of
age. When God ordered human soci-
ETY., and set the solitary in families, he
knew what he was about.
True, a sword was prophesied for
AIary's heart: for mothers suffer more |
IN chiIdren's sorrows than children |
suffer themselves. What of that? Who |
hat knows life would exchange the |
;ufferings of love-the. fears, the sep |
arations, the physical pains. the be- |
the barren ease of a !
oveless life? The very sorrows of
owe have joy all their own. Well |
,ould the widow Anna, and the prophet |
simeon, and the childless Elizabeth |
lail Mary as blessed among women |
She was mother; and her Son was
llso the whole worlds Saviour.
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SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant,
who finds peace in his own home
Goethe.
If there is a harvest ahead. even a
distant one, it is poor thrift to be
stingy of your seed corn.-Carlyle-
Aspire, break bounds, I say:
Endeavor to be good, and better, still,
And best. Success is nought, and en-
beavers al.-Browning.
X
To spare a step in the path of piety
is to spend money in the rocky road to
misery.-Th0nlas Fuller
X x
Genuine greatness is marked by sim
pIicity, Observation-Disclosures, self-forget-
fulness, a hearty interest in others,
feeling Of brotherhood with the human
family
< < =
The secret of life is not to do what
one likes, but to try to like that which
one has to do, and one does like it
in time-Dinah MulOch Craik.
Sad will be the day for any man
when he bee ONES absolutely contented
with the life he is living, with the
thoughts he is thinking and the deeds
Re is doing-Mhen there is not forever
heating at the doors of his goul some
great desire to do something larger
which he knows he was meant and
mao to do because he is child of
God.-PhillipS Brooks.
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lty upon Islam, a young American,
rev. samuel M. Zwemer, d. D., whose
voice and pen have both been brilliant
weapons in the present strife between
Christianity and the faith of the
Prophet. Although at home far off on
the lonely island of Bahrein, Dr. 1--WE
mer IS still welding a world wide in
Iluence- Those who know him person
ally love him for his rare character as
much as they admire him for his great
talents.
A volcano slew John E. Hail of
Japan last summer. There was some
thing grand, as well as pathetic, about
the lonely death at the edge of the
crater of Asama-yama, of this young
American missionary who had so won
all hearts by his grace that he was a
foremost citizen of Tsu, where he was
for long time the only white man.
A perfect mastery of the Japanese Ian
guage, an intimate familiarity with
japanese usages, an apostolic passion
for preaching the gospel and a truly
American reSourcefulneSS in adapting
the methods of the new timesAall
these gifts, combined with a life of
peculiar WhOlesomeness and beauty,
earned for him the appellation. "A
Model Missionary
No room remains to call the roll of
the missionaries known to fame, whose
lives have been an inspiration to myr-
lads. Books have been written of
Carey and Morrison and Livingstone
and JudSon and Martyr and Patteson
and the Williamses and Fidelia Fisk
and John C Patton and Moffat and
and Isabella Thoburn and Cor
nelia Shattuck and Medhurst and Gill
mour and NeviuS and Bridgman and
Verbeck and Hepburn and Washburn
and Hamlin and Crowther and Neesi-
ma and Chalmers and Coan and Btng-
ham and Egede and a host of others.
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the Scriptures lying is condemned. Sa-
tan is called "A liar from the begin
ming The character of the Lord
Jesus is the Standard of righteousness
set before US, and in all His earthly
experiences He set forth the truth and
condemned the error. He spoke the
truth at all times, and when it was
not expedient to tell the truth, He was
silent.
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ages as represented in each of the
different new windows recently in
stalled. The first as illustrated by the
front window at the south LAS the
heart panteth after the water brooks,
go panteth my soul after thee, o God"
Services at 1880 p. m, sermon by the
pastor.
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Second Presbyterian church. VIM.
G. Meeker, pastor. IL a. m. sermon
subject, Present Help in Time of
Trouble;" 1880 p. m. subject, Judas
and His Modern Followers" The
chorus choir will sing.
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CHURCH NOTICES.

central Avenue Christian church
Preaching at II a. m. subject, Ihe
onaIificafions and Duties of Bishops,
E = I5.sr pastors At 1880 d. m, 1.-THE
New Way" David Lyon, pastor.
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The Big Crowd Out of Sight
The International Sunday School Les
son for January % is, Presentation
in the Temple" Luke 2;22-3S-
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First Unitarian church, 912 Topeka
avenue, Rev J. H. Jones, pastor
Service IL a. m, sermon by the pas
tor Music, sOlo-selected- Frank
Thomas.
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NV Ideal missionary.

Terse Comments for January Is. 1.-THE
Foreign Missionary Whose Life Has
Most Inspired Ne" II Corinthians
5: 1870.
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subject, How Obtain a Revival" At
1880 p. m. Rev. o. T. Deever will give
stereopticon cartoon lecture entitled
saved to Serve" Charles Kettering
Will sing Let the Lower Lights Be
Burning. This viii be illustrated.
Central Park Christian church. cor
ner Sixteenth and Central Park ave-
nue., Ralph 9. Harding, minister. At
IL a. m. communion and sermon, "A
Call for Laborers" At 1880 ID. m. ser
mon, Purity" At the evening SER
vice we will be led in our song ser
vice by both the regular chorus and
the Gospel chorus and we viii also be
favored with solo by Mrs. Grover
Sanders.
First Methodist Episcopal church.
Sixth and Harrison streets, DR.. +. I.
Loveland Will deliver the baccaIaureate
address to the Topeka high school.
subject, THE Imperial Life" Even
ing at 1880 o'clock evangelistic SER
vices by DR.. J. W. Mahood assisted
by Professor and Mrs. George with
chorus of eighty voices.
The First Baptist church. Rev Rob-
ert Gordon, pastor Morning worship
at IL a. m, sermon subject. 1.-THE Con-
servation of Childhood" Evening
service at 1880 p. m. sermon subject.
"a Home for Every Family and How
to Secure It" organ recital by Pre-
lessor Seymour begins at 7:15 p. ~
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English Lutheran church, Fifth and
Harrison streets. Preaching at II a.
M by Rev. Markham from New Jer-
sey, who is on his way to India as a
missionary.
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"A HOME for Every Family
and HOW TO GET It"

is the subject on which Rev. Robert Cor
don Will speak at the First Baptist
church corner 9Th and Jackson sts), sun
day night, 7:30. The Mems club has
ADOPTED this slogan, Hear Gordon Sun
day night"
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First United Presbyterian church,
corner Eighth and Topeka avenues,
Rev. J. A. Renwick, D. D., pastor
Sabbath school at 1000 a. m. Preach
ing at 400 a. m. and 1880 p. m. by
the pastor.