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GEORGIA.
The Brooklyn Eagle says that within
a radius of ten blocks of his office there
arc twelve abandoned churches. The
population In the same era Is greater
than it has been at any time in the his
tory of the city.
There is a passenger steamer on the
Elbe where the warning against speak
ing to the man at the wheel is display
ed' in four different languages. This is
tho English version: “To the helm
marlno gentleman, try conversation
not"
The sale of recent translations in
Japan indicates that foreign authors
rank as follows in the estimation of
tho Japanese: Zola, Doyle, ( Oosse,
Lang, Bret Harte, Stevenson, .George
Meredith, John Morley, Pate{, Thomas
Hardy, Henry James, Ian Maclaren,
Buskin, Steven Phillips, Tennyson and
Mark Twain.
Minneapolis Times remarks that
medical expert testimony in suits at
law has fatten in such disfavor that
judges, lawyers and physicians alike
are casting about for a way to restore
it to respectability. Expert testimony
should be candid, impartial and scien
tifically true. In practice the reverse
la too often the case.
The New York police arrested a pro
fessional “fake fit thrower” the other
day. It was his practice to fall down
on tho sidewalk in front of a flno / pri
vate residence and pretend to have a
fit, whereupon he would usually be
carried into'the house, dosed with re
storatives and presented with money
by the sympathetic proprietor, after re
citing a hard luck story. By this
means he sometimes made as much as
MS or $25 a day.
Visitors to Greece are always amazed
at tho criminal statistics, particularly
at the number of murders. Ordinary
crimes—dishonesty, 'and the vices that
provajl in other countries—are not
general.but murders occur almostdaily.
Homicides in the provluce in which
Athens is located average annually al
most 1 to 1000 of the population. The
causes lie mostly in politics. Toe gov
ernment has forbidden the carying of
concealed weapons, but the law is not
enforced.
Horrors of Past Few Weeks Make
Bartow Man Sad and Meditative.
F0EIR ENORMITY CANNOT BE GRASPED
Calamities 8eem Now to Increase and
Our Hearts Should Go Out In
Sympathy to Afflicted
Humanity.
Tho recent appointment of a com
mission to consider the whole question
of Russian agriculture and the condl-
tlon of the peasantry marks a new de
parture in the Internal policy of Hum-
sta. The powers accorded to the com
mission are of the widest possible, and,
In fact, amount to a charge to com
plete tho work begun a generation ago
with the freeing of the serfs. Thus the
entire manner of life with the Russian
mujtk will form one of the principal
matters of consideration for the com
mission, which is empowered to pre
sent its proposals for the bettering
financially, educationally, economically
and In general culture of agricultural
labor In all its phases.
It is notorious that the confirmed
practical joker is the leapt tolerant of
jokes at bis own expense. He is never
able to see any fun in being duped.
This adds much to tho enjoyment ol
those who manage to trick him. On
one of the big days at the Buffalo Ex
position the hotels were forced to make
new arrivals double up. A drummer
who was an Inveterate practical Joker
proposed to have a room and a bed to
himself. Ho suggested to his friecd
the clerk that should any applicant frr
half his bed prove persistent, he should
be told that the drummer was just con
valescent from smallpox. - The drum
mer was aroused from his first deep
sleep by a man getting Into his bed.
“Hold on there!” he cried; “didn't the
clerk tell you I have the smallpox r*
“Yes,” replied th newcomer, drawing
up the covers, "but that’s all rights
I’ve got It myself!” With a yell the
drummer leaped from the bed, seized
his clothes, dressed in the hall and
spent the night In a chair, longing for
the morning so he could get himself
disinfected. In the meaning he discov-
I that the man was a joker hlmselt
k The drummer was Infuriated by such
treatment.
It is utterly impossible for a man to
grasp the horronf of Martinique. Ev-
erjr individual case has Its heart-rend
ing anguish and there are 40,000 of
them, and 1,600 more at St Vincent
Here are 300 in the coal mines near
Knoxville and three thousand mourn
ers outside, and every day tells of
some new disaster. The world seems
to be getting used to calamities and-
terrible things. They are now a big
part of the battle of life, and If we
are not reconciled to it we do not stop
a moment to ponder the suffering and
crime that Is going on. No, we cannot
take it in and the head lines In the
daily papers are all that we have time
or Inclination to read. Last night my
wife and I read the pitiful story of
Captain Freeman, of the Roddam, as
he told It at tho hospital at St. Lucia
while tenderly lying upon pillows, his
face and handscharred and blackened,
his flesh raw and his eye balls bloody
and how one after another of his crew
sank in a fiery death until there were
seventeen of them dead upon the deck,
and this was the only vessel of the
sixteen that brought aw.ay a living:
soul. Ot, it was horrible and filled our
hearts with sorrow and our eyes with
tears. But this was only one case and
there are thousands who would have
had as pitiful a tale to tell if they had
lived to tell It. It Is good for us that
we cannot know but a small part of
the horror^ of Martinique and St. Vin
cent and on the seas and rivers—one
case Is enough. One case of a mother
trying to save her child on a burning
boat on the Mississippi river a few
weeks ago saddened us all, but the
memory of such things soon passes
away and wo forget it until another
comes. Only last week the papers told
of a man, a brute, who got angry with
his little boy of sly years and after
slapping him to the floor picked him
up bodily and raised him above his
head and dashed him down and crush
ed the life out of his little body and
his mother picked him up a corpse,
while the life blood spouted from his
mouth and nose. The recital made me
tick and sad. The little boy, I believe,
Is in heaven, but the poor, heart-bro
ken mother has to stay and keep guard
over the other three. Merciful Father,
when will these things cease to be;
when will woman learn that it Is bet
ter to live and die single than to chain
herself to a man whose character tor
loving kindness has not Ijeen estab
lished In the community. Girls, let me
beseech you to take no chances. Be a
shop girl, a typewriter, a seamstress, a
book agent or anything that is pure
and honest rather than the wife of a
heartless brute and the mother of his
children. Take no chances. The young
men ot this generation are a hard lot—
not more than two In ten are fit to
marry. Count them up in your own
community and ask your brother about
them- How many does he know who
he would be willing for his sister to
marry.
But I was ruminating about these
horrible disasters and the grief that
follows in their wake. Death Is not so
terrible a thing. Very ofttfn It comes
In mercy and is a blessing. A peaceful
death to the aged is a triumphant
change—the end of trouble and the
beginning ot happiness. But it is the
time and the manner ot death. Fits
Greene Halleck never wrote a more
beautiful verse than his apostrophe
to death:
“Come when the blessed seals
That close the pestilence are broke
And crowded cities wail Its stroke;
Come In consumption's ghastly fdrm,
The earthquake’s shock, the ocean’s
. storm;
And thou art terrible—the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
And all we know or dream-or fear
Of agony are thine.”
It looks like some of these awful
things are getting close to us. These
Windward Islands are on our side of
the wor\J, and not so far away. Even
now the wind is blowing their ashes
on our coasts, and the earth is quak
ing under Florida. The explosion-of
coal mines at Coal Creek is the first
horror ot that kind in our southland,
and no pen can picture the scene of
those Imprisoned men writing their
last loving words to wives and chll-
dhen as they gasped for breath—may
the Lohd havo mercy upon them and
temper the wind to tljo shorn lamb.
To all who are in peril and all who
are bereaved, we would breathe the
poor fisherman's prayer: “Oh Lord,
good Lord, I am a broken down poor
man—a fool to speak to Thee—I am
too old, too old—my lads are drowned
—I’ve burled my poor wife—my little
lassies died so long ago that Y forgot
what they were like. I-know they
went to Thee, but I forget*the'lr little
faces, though I missed them sore. Mer
ciful Lord, please comfort those who
have heavy hearts. I cannot pray
with finer words; I have no learning—
too old, too old; but, good Lord, have
pity on them all."
It is sad to have to write of sad
things, but the wise man said: "It Is
better to go to the house of mourning
than to the bouse of feasting." It Is
good for us all to stop and think and
let our hearts open wide in sympathy.
Man is to blame for most of his own
troubles, and "man's inhumanity to
man' makes countless thousands
mourn;” but that Is not tse darkest
side of the picture. It is man’s in
humanity that brings most all of the
distress that women and children suf
fer. If everybody was good and kind,
what a blessed world we would have.
May the Lord pity us all is my prayer,
and we all die the death of the right
eous and our last end be like his.—
BUI Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
PAUNCEFOTE NO MORE
Ambassador From England and
Dean of Diplomatic Coips Dies
Dies in Washington City.
Lord Pauncefote, the British ambas
sador to the United States, died at the
embassy at Washington Saturday
morning at 6:35 o’clock.
The Improvement which had been
noted In his condition during the past
week received a sudden check about
6 o’clock Friday evening, when it was
noticed that he was experiencing dif
ficulty in breathing. He rallied some
what during the night, but soon after
3 o’clock Saturday morning a distinct
weakness of the heart developed and
his pulse began to collapse. He died
so peacefully that it surprised- even
his physician, who feared that the
asthnfatlc affection would prove trou
blesome when tho end came.
At the bedside when the distin
guished diplomat passed away were
Mrs. Paunccmote, the Hon. Maude
Pauncefote, Misses Sibyl and Audrey,
Dr, Jung and Mr. Radford, one of the
clerks attached to the embassy.
AH through' the past winter Lord
Pauncefote had been a sufferer from
intermittent attacks of asthma and
rheumatic gout, but he bravely attend
ed his duties so far as he uras able.
Immediately upon being notified of
the death of Lord Pauncefote, Secre
tary Hay dispatched the following ca
blegram: ‘ ,
“Department of State, May 24.—The
Marquis of Lansdownc, London: Per
mit me to express my deep sympathy
and sorrow at the death of Lord
Pauncefote. His majesty’s govern
ment has lost a most able and faith
ful servant and this country a valued
friend. JOHN HAY.”
The secretary had fully expressed
his sentiments In the above cablegram,
and all that he cared to say in addition
of the deceased peer was:
“He was not only a man of very
high personal merit, hut he was a good
friend of ours.”
President Roosevelt drove to the
British embassy at 1 o’clock, as soon
aa he had'become disengaged from the
ceremoniek attending the Roehambeau
exercises. He expressed his deep
sense ot bereavement at the death of
the ambassador, not only in behalf of
the government, but also for the peo
ple of the country, to whom Lord
Pnuncefote had become endeared In
many ways. Secretary Hay and the
other members ot the cabinet also
called at the embassy, leasing their
cards and expressing their condo
lences. The foreign ambassadors and
ministers also left their cards.
The late Lord Pauncefote will have
a state funeral in Washington that is
demtnded Dy all precedents. It will
be determined later whether or not a
United States war ship wilt carry the
r<rains to England. ,
A large number or messages of Con
dolence from all over the world were
received at the embassy 8unday, but
they were not made public.
LATEST FROM FERXIE.
Fortj-Mno Bodies Recovered and
Eighty are Still Mlsstiff.
Two dispatches from Fernle were re
ceived at* Victoria, B. C., Sunday night
In one A. Dick, inspector, of mines,
says:
“AH bodies in three mine and high
tying positions of No. 3 (49) recovered.
Air turned Into west division where
other bodies are.”
Mr. Armstrong, the government
agent days: “Fort/ other bodies re
covered; eighty still mlsuing; twenty-
A>ur escaped alive; no fire In mine.”
DR. CHAPMAN’S SERMON
A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
PASTOR-EVANGELIST.
Subject: Flute’* Question-Xenons Drawn
From HI* Failure to Belie BsWstton—
In Bight of the Kingdom of God. Be-
laird to Enter It.
New York Citt.—The following sermon
It one prepared for publication by the Rev.
J. Wilbur Chapman, America’j best-known
evangelist, who is now preaching to over
flowing congregation* in this city. It U en
titled “Pilate’s Question,” and i* founded
on the text, Matt, xxvii, 22: “What (ball I
do then with Jesus which i* called Christ?
It would dot be possible Ior us either to
understand or appreciate this passage of
Scripture without studying that which im
mediately precedes it, and' likewise that
which follows. Next to Jesus Himself the
important character on the scene is Pilate,
who asked the above question. f
One never thinks of him without a shud
der, because hd is one of the men who
came so very near to entering the kingdom
of God, and yet, after all, miserably failed.
He came very near faking his place with
Joseph of Arimathaea and with Nicode-
mus. If, when be knew that Jesus was
the Son of God, he had bared his own
back to the smiters, or had gone himself
to be crucified, there would have been no
name in the early history of the church
to outshine his. But instead of being in
the presence of.God to-day, he is undoubt
edly in the lost world.
When Jesus passed by the cross and
went through the tomb of Joseph of Ari-
roathaea, and made His way to the place
of ascension, not far from Bethany, and
left His wondering disciples, He took with
Him into the -skies His hands that had
been pierced, His feat, through which the
nails had torn their way, His side, thrust
through with the spear, and against which
the beloved disciple had leaned. In a
word; He took with Him His body. But
there was, one thing He left; when hang
ing on the cross; from His head, His hands.
Hu feet and Hia broken heart the blood
came trickling down, and not only stained
the rocks upon Calvary, but left its mark
upon the world as well, and leaving His
blood there, the world ia to-day responsible
for it. That same blood is upon both the
world and men, either for their condemna
tion or for redemption. .
In a remarkable book which came across
the seas some years 'ago, bearing the title
of ."Letters From Hell.” and having an in
troduction by George MacDonald, the cele
brated Scotch preacher, there is a story of
Pilate in the loat world stooping down to
wash his bands in a running stream. He
keeps on, it would seem, almost’ for ages,
if time were measured as in this world.
Some one touches him and says:
"Pilate, what are you doing?”
Lifting •**« hands, which become red like
crimson as soon as they leave the water,
he cries out with n shriek, which eohc:B
and re-echoes throughout the world of the
lost:
"Will they never be clean! Will they
never be clean!"
Poor Pilate! they never will, for the
blood of the Son of God is on' them for
condemnation forever. He began to wash
his hands when he said to the angry nob:
"Take ye Him. and crucify Him, for I
find no fault in Him."
Ho is still washing his> hands to-day, but
in vain.
There are special ways of treating texts
of Scripture, one of the easiest of which is
to take certain words in the verse and em
phasize them, and make each word define
the outline of the sermon. My text can be
treated in this way, and the first word tj
emphasize would be,
“WHAT.”
Reading the text with this in mind we
find it saying:
“What shall I do then with Jesus?”
The inference is we must do something.
Wc can not be indifferent. The man who
says that ho will not accept Christ, neither
will he reject Him, has rejected Him in
the very position he takes. There is no
middle ground in this matter.- We are
either for Christ or against Him. and we
must decide which position it shall he.
The next words to emphasize would he
"SHALL I DO."
The particular part of the expression
that is emphatic u tho personal pronoun
Religion is a very personal matter, and
judgment will be, too. There is no one
whose eyes shall light upon this printed
word but who shall one. day be called to
an account for his rejection of the Son of
God if he fails to acknowledge Him before
men. Rich and poor, high and low, wise
and ignorant, for all comes the question,
“What shall I do?"
Tbe next emphatic word would be
“THEN."
It might be nsed in two ways. Wc have
made a choice between two things, and
choosing one then it naturally follows that
we must do something with the other, It
is easy to understand that choozing one
implies the rejection of tbs other. But it
might also be taken as a word describing
some future time, and I would like to have
it mean, "What shall I do in the day oi
judgment with Jesus Christ?" When the
moon shall he turned into blood and the
sun shall be black as the sackcloth of hair,
when the “elements shall melt with the
fervent heat”—“What shall I do then?”
In tbe sixth chapter of Revelation wc read
that in tfcc last day men shall cry out aud
say to the rocks and bills: “Fall on us,
.aud hide us from the face of Him that sit
teth upon the throne, and from the wrath
of the Lamb: for the great day of Hit
wrath is. come, and who shall be able to
stand?" But in the closing part of Reve
lation we are told, that there will be no
rocks and no hills to fall upon the lost and
shut out the vision of the face of the Son
of God, and they must see Him whethei
they will or not, Him whom they have re
jected, Him from whom they have deliber
ately turned away.
_The next emphatic word ia ths name
Jesus. “What shall I do then
WITH JESUS!"
That was His earthly name, and de
scribed His earthly life. “Thou sXalt cal
HU name Jesus, for He shall save HU peo
ple from their sins,” and HU earthly life
came to its climax in Hu sacrificial death
upon the cron. To pay the penalty of cin
HU life waa given up, and if we fail to ac
cept Him as a personal Saviour, we delib
erately take our atand with those wbc
have nailed Him to the cron. When we
atand befere God we shall be railed to ae
account fer this chiefett of all fins. Foi
to reject the Son of God U to crucily Him
The . last word to emnhasize would be
HU. anointed name, which ia
‘'CHRIST n
As Christ Ho stands at ths right hauv
ol Cod, oar Mediator and Advocate, loi
fear that tome one should ny, "If I should
becom-i a Christian, I could not hold out/'
Cod teems to sweep away every false {mo
ment and false hope whe i He tells ut that
liter we have accepted Him aa Jesus, He
be-'cmti Christ for tu. and' takes His stand
weakness, ard ever bringing to (Joe. s re-
membranes His atoning death, tha: put
many siu3 may be warned uway and for
gotten. ...
But another cutline tas also been sug
gested as being a proper one to grow put
of IbU text. The Rev. R. A. Torrey has
made the suggestion that there arc certain
things that naturally depend upon wbzt
we do with Jccut. Of these I make brie’
mention. . . „ „ ,
I. Our acceptance before GoJ cepcnui
upon what we do with Jesus. "He that
believeth on Him is not condemned, but
he that believeth, not is condemned al
ready, because fcc hath no! believed in the
name of tho only-begotten Eon ef God."
^ll? n we* accept Jesus, God accepts us. it
we reject Jesus, God rejects us. these are
short sentences, but each one is worth a
lifetime of study. The vilest sinner in the
world accepting Christ U immediately ac
cepted of God,
... The most upright man re
jecting Christ U instantly rejected of God.
The moment we accept we are justified
from all things from whifch we could nol
be justified by the law of Moses; 'and jus
tification is more than pardon, for in par
don there may still be the memory of sin,
but when God justifies He “remembers
against us our transgressions no more for
ever."
II. Our becoming sons of God depends
upon what we do with Jesus. “But a*
many as received Him, to them gave He
: -inem that believe on His name.” John
i: 12.
There is a very insidious kind of heresy
making its way through the world to-day,
which declares there is such a thing as the
universal fatherhood of God and the uni
versal brotherhood of man; that God is the
father of all His creatures, and that every
man is my brother. This is certainly con
trary to the Scriptures. We become sons
of God, not by the lives we live, nor by
doing good, nor by reading the Bible, nor
by praying without ceasing, but wc become
ClOQ 8 " nns Vixr vAnatiarfitinn Tliis is f lip
’a sons bv regeneration. This is the
work of the Holy Ghrfgt, and is wrought
in us the very moment v/e by faith accept
-Tesus Christ as a Saviour. It is not possi
ble for us in any other way to come into
this world than to be born into it; it is
not possible for us ever to enter the king!
dom of God except by the new birth.
This constitutes us children of God.
III. Our having peace -depends upon
what we do with Jesus Christ. “There
fore being justified by faith, we have peace
with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans v: 1.
When we remember that peace is the op
posite of confusion, of strife, of unrest, we
are able to see how great is the blessing
which comes to us by the acceptance of-
God’s Son. We do not think of peace as
•imply an emotion. It is not an experience,
but it is that which comes to us with the
presence of Christ. He is our peace, and
whatever may be a man’s position in the
world, if he has rejected Christ, or (in
other words) if he has failed to accept Him,
he must go forever throughout the world
crying, "peace, peace,” but for him there
can be no peace. '
IV. Qur having joy depends upon wtat
we do with Christ. "Whom having not
seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see
Him not, vet believing, ye rejoice- with
joy unspeakable and full of glory.” I
Peter i: 8. We also remember the words
of Jesus when He said: "These words have i
I spoken unto you that My joy might re
main in you, and that your joy might be
full.”
Joy is better thaii happiness. People of
the world may have happiness, but only
Cod’s children possess joy. Happiness is
that which happens to come to us, and
those who lay hold upon it are dependent
upon their circumstances and surroundings.
Joy has nothing to do with circumstance
or surroundings, but comes to us because
of our faith' in Him who ever lives to pour
out upon His people His own presence and
blessing.
V. Our having eternal life depends unon
what we do with Jesus. "He that believ-
eth on the Son hath everlasting life; and
he that believeth not the Son shall not seo
li'e; but the wrath of God abideth on
him." John ill: 38.
By nature we have the flesh with us. and
we shall always have it with us until our
redemption bodies are bestowed upon us.
Ii is natural therefore that' there should
be n constant warring between the life of
God which comes in regeneration and the
old nature which is at enmity with God
and always must be, but it is a great joy to
know' that wo may every one of us so sur
render oursejves to Him who is our life,
that tho old nature shall be put down ana
IlPifl in tllhl'p/ifinn nrwi tvn nnvanliroa “Vi*
held 4n subjection, and we ourselves __
more than conquerors.”
Finally, let me say that there are three
sentences which ought to be written plain
ly before every one who is to make this de
cision. or who fails to make it.
First. We must either accept Him. or re
ject Him.
Second. We must either let Him come
into our. hearts, or we must shut the door
and keep Him out.
Third. We must either confess Him or
deny Him. "Whosoever shall confess Mb
before men, him will I confess before My
Father which is in heaven; but whosoever
shall deny Me before men, him will I deny
hefore Mv Father which Is in heaven.*’
Matt, x: 32, 33.
, There is no middle gronnd. God pity n*
if to-day we turn away from Him, for
IT MAY BE THE LAST TIME!
SPORTING BREVITIES.
AH of Cornell's crew are practicing
on the lake at Ithaca.
Pennsylvania defeated Columbia In
their annual dual track meet.
A. H. Fenn established n new record
of 71 for the New Havcp Golf Club
links.
The annual cruise of the New York
Yacht Club will begin on Monday,
August 4.
Lakewood I. team defeated, the Coun
try Club of Westchester at polo by
a score of 8% goals to 4.
The Mar8ellle8-Paris bicycle race was
won by Lucien Lesna, who covered
tbe entire distance In 38 hours and 45
minutes.
Kid Carler clearly bested Kid Mc
Coy In the six-round wind-up at Phila
delphia. There was not the slightest
chance for two opinions.
Thousands of people have been play-
ing plug-pong during the winter months
who have become so fond of the game
that they will naturally turn to lawn
tennis when the sun begins to boll.
Word has been received that J. Hop
kins Smith, of Portland, Me., (Har
vard, *02), Is having twenty-one-footers
built to race for the German Emper
or’s cup at Kiel, June 2R Sibhlck, of .
Cqvrea, Is building one.
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