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UNCLE RAM’S ORDERS
OF KNIGHTHOOD.
Don’t Carry Titles--They
For Heroes of Battles and
ers of Lives on Sea and
Uncle Sam is not averse to
ing decorations. While the
tion prohibits Government
from accepting orders from
governments, the President has
power to award insignia which
considerably more than most of
stars, garters, etc., of the old
These are medals for bravery.
Besides the medals for
bravery in battle, and.the
for life saving on the water, the
Executive can now honor men
•women who display heroism on
railroad lines of the country.
Award of the decorations is
by the Chief Executive on
mendation from the Interstate
merce Commission. Applications
be accompanied by affidavits from
witnesses of the heroic deeds,
they must be approved by a
tee of five of the Commissioners.
A bronze medal and a button
goid and enamel are the
given.
The medal Is about as big as a
ver dollar. On one side—the
—there is a figure of a man upon
railway track, with one knee upon
rock which blocks an
train. He is warning the
by means of a brand.
On the reverse side is a
wreath—symbolical of heroism.
inscription, “The United States
for life saving on railroads,”
near the medal’s rim, and within
wreath is the following: “For
ery. Awarded to-
phia Press.
Can Science Abolish War?
In line with the argument of the
President that a powerful navy
the surest guarantee of peace, is an
article in the Contemporary Review
by F. N. Maude. In it the author
states, and builds a plausible argu¬
ment In proof, that the more
the engines of war become the fewer
people there are killed in war. The
point of greatest interest in the ar¬
ticle lies in the author’s serious
statement that Mr. Simpson, “whose
name is already known in connection
with his metallurgical researches and
discoveries,” has invented a device
capable of firing “a few thousand
projectiles of all dimensions with an
initial velocity of 30,000 feet per
second from London to Paris without
recoil recou smoke smoke rr of fffish Hast. ”
Such a device, were it to become
operative, could not be successfully
resisted even by itself. A war waged
with it would be impossible, for it
would continue until both countries
were destroyed, The statement of
the article is probably too good to be
true, but it might be well for us to
stop spending money on our navy
until the invention has been tried.
If it should by any chance prove prac¬
ticable, the nations with big navies
would feel about as foolish as a man
wearing a straw hat in a snowstorm.
Increase in Coal-Mine Deaths.
According to J. A. Holmes, chief
of the technologic branch of the
United States Geological Survey, re¬
ports regarding coal-mine accidents
of 1897 show an increase of about
fifty per cent, in the number of men
killed as compared with 1906. From
the information already received Mr.
Holmes says:
“It seems probable that an increase
of twenty-five per cent, in the number
of fatal accidents will be shown for
the year 1907 over the figures for
190S, without taking into considera¬
tion the disasters of last December,
in which 694 men were killed.
Counting the big disasters, the deaths
will be more than 3000, which will
be a fifty per cent, increase over the
year 1906. The figures regarding
injuries, as far as received, show an
increase of more than fifty-seven per
cent, in the number of men injured. >*
Best Work at Fifty.
In the industrial world it has be
come accepted , . that ,. . a man , is too . old ,,
at forty, and the London County
Council Works Department decided
last year not to engage men above
thirty-five. How is it in the intellect
ual world? Despite all the evidences
of precocity, Mr. Dorland arrives at a
conclusion which gives an average „
of fifty for the master work of great
men.—T. P.’s Weekly.
Advertising Reduces Cost to Readers.
A very high authority says that
over five hundred millions of dollars
a year are expended in the United
States in advertising, over half of
which sum goes to the newspapers
and magazines, so reducing- very ‘
largely the cost of reS’dingTmatte'r to
most people. The whole sum ex- ! j
pended for advertising just about j
equals the value of last year’s wheat j j
crop.—New York American. 1
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Balloonists say that birds’ flight is
limited to 1315 feet above the surface ,
«f the earth. ________ j
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON
THE REV. J. A. R. CAIRNS.
Theme: The Glory of Death.
Belfast, Ireland. — The
Presbyterian divine, the Rev. J. A.
Cairns, recently delivered the
ing sermon entitled. “The Glory
Death." He took as his text:
“To die is gain.’ Phil.
“0 * * The victory.”—1 Cor. 15:
57.
Is it not remarkable that the
chat haunts us like a terror is
thing that burns like an inspiration
the men who wove together the
ing of this Book? What we try to
forget, they strove to remember.
What we call calamity, they called
blessing and deliverance, What
makes us cry, made them rejoice.
The clearest teaching of this Book is
that death is glorious. It is an in¬
spiration. And that teaching makes
the uniqueness of the Christian Gos¬
pel.
Let us gather the incidents that
seem to present this teaching:
The great Teacher is going to die.
The hints at death grow clear and
unmistakable, and the hearts of the
disciples begin to fail them. The la¬
bors and prayers and denials of those
busy, ministering years appear as
though they would issue in nothing¬
ness. Even friendship is going to be
taken away, and out of all those
years only a memory will be left
them. No other issue seemed possi¬
ble. They had uo knowledge and
they had no power.
And how did Jesus face that?
What does He say? What can He
say? He seems shut up by a logical
necessity to admit the dark forebod¬
ings of His disciples. But it was just
there that the opportunity for the
new truth came—just at the point
when human effort seemed to fail and
human inspiration to die—that its
meaning could be vaguely felt if not
clearly understood. And His new
truth is this simply—“That death is
glorious.” It has a glory all its own.
John 14 gathers about that single
truth. That Is its meaning, its pur¬
pose—“I go to prepare a place for
you, that where I am there ye may
be also.” “Let not your heart be
troubled, neither let it be afraid. y »
That friendship and that inspira¬
tion and that teachingthat they loved
so much and feared so much to lose,
would become deeper and fuller and
eternal because of the coming of
death. They would lose nothing,
they would gain much. “If ye loved
Me ye would rejoice because I go.”
But J' 011 say Christ was somehow
unique. He was tempted in. all
points like as we are, and yet without
sin ' Wlth Hls s P' ri tual vision and
power we can see how He could be
fearless of death, and find in it a rich
and a kj d j n g testimony to the truth
0 f His Gospel, but what of the bur
j dened men—the men who walk in
mists and mysteries, who lack the
vision and the power? Can death
ever be less than a terror and devoid
of glory? Let us see. Take Paul.
Our text, is his testimony and confes¬
sion. “To die is gain * * * the vic¬
tory. 11
Paul’s life was hard. His years
were crowded with labors and de¬
nials. How little response there
seemed to he for all he gave! And
what was it that burned before him
as the shining goal to which he
longed to come—what was the inspir¬
ation that warmed his weary heart?
It was death. “I am in a strait be¬
twixt two—having a desire to depart
and to be with Christ, which is far
better. Nevertheless to abide in the
flesh is more needful to you.” “I am
ready. * Henceforth there is
laid up for me a crown.”
And what is the glad note that Pe¬
ter strikes to cheer the hearts of
those who suffer and pray and weep
and wait? What light does he throw
across the dark pathway of tlieir
tribulation? “Nevertheless we, ac¬
cording to His promise, look for new
heavens and a new earth wherein
dwelleth righteousness. Wherefore,
beloved, seeing that ye look for such
things be diligent, that ye may be
found of Him in peace, without spot
and blameless.”
And what consolation stole into the
heart of that lonely thinker on Pat
mos — shut away from work and
friendship, and suffering for the
cross? Who are these that are ar¬
rayed in the white robes. “These
are they which come out of the great
tribulation, and they washed their
U? d ma d ® t Jf em ^ h,t ® in the
blood of tll the T Lamb. T Therefore, are
they before the throne o{ God / and
serve Him day and night in His tem
pie. They shall hunger no more,
neither thirst any more, neither shall
the sun light on them or any heat,
V *', C , b } i? s e d l n them, tbe m and ’ ds t
shall lead them unto living - fountains
of water> and God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes, »i
Such, then, is the view of death
that was taken by the disciples of
Jesus and the apostles of the early
Christian church. And I think it is
abundantly clear that most of us are
far away from such a view. Death is
to us the last calamity. We meet it
with fear and uncertainty.
How is one to account for this
strange dissimilarity? How has a
joy become a heartbreak, a.pd an in
sbfration betonre' a terror? if we
can answer this we shall answer
many lesser questions, and discover
how it is that not only in death, but
in sorrpw and sickness and disap*
pointment we are missing the con
solution and the glory that ought to
dwell evermore in our hearts.
It is clear, I think, that the men
who found and held to the glory of
death were free from many of the
subtle temptations that surround
lives. The atmosphere they
was pagan. The work they did
unpopular. The Gospel they
fessed was bitterly ridiculed and
posed. These men could not
Christian lives as “of course."
had got to live it deliberately,
sionately, earnestly. They were driv¬
en back to'draw out of Christianity
the very richest that it would give.
To drift was impossible. They were
definitely out of it. And as they
faced it all with the Spirit of Christ
in their hearts, and with a great, he¬
roic faith in Him, they discovered
how true He stood and what rivers oi
strength outflowed from Him into
them!
The foundation of their fearless¬
ness was experience, and so personal
experience of Christ and their utter
inability to find joy in the world made
the glory of death.
Out of their circumstances and ex¬
periences can’t you catch a gleam of
something that is not ourown? Can’t
you see something in their circum¬
stances and in their hearts that we
lack? 1 think both are abundantly
clear.
Take our circumstances. We live
in no pagan atmosphere. The
churches consecrated to the program
of Christ are the most visible objects
or our cities. They flaunt themselves
in our faces. The bells peal out glad
notes above the din and clash of
traffic. And what of the Book that
gathers up the teaching—the words
and works of Jesus? All may pos¬
sess and read it.
To be a Christian is no longer to
be heroic. A man may confess Christ
without apology. Nay! The under¬
lying assumption behind all our ac¬
tions is that a man is a Christian.
To be otherwise a man must specific¬
ally and ostentatiously deny it. We
start our life with Christian baptism:
we are hid away with the undying
words of Christian hope ringing above
our sleeping place. We join our life
to another, and rear our homes upon
the Christian foundation. But all
has degenerated to an idle form.
It has come to be taken for grant¬
ed. Men ask for baptism for their
children and burial for their dead,
because it is the usual, the expected
thing. And, brethren, don’t you see
where it has led us to? To a Chris¬
tian formalism that contains no vital¬
ity, no power. We are living lives
devoid of experience. We do not feel
the power of Christ, nor do we see
the glory of His living presence. We
mumble words that have no deep,
abiding significance.
It is tragic: it is horrible. But it
is the spirit of the age. The Chris¬
tian life is losing much because of the
success- of Christianity. Because it
has meant and has accomplished so
much, it means and accomplishes so
little to-day. Its success is the cause
of our personal lo’ss. It is an old his¬
toric truism that success is the be¬
ginning of defeat. It has happened
in empires and religions. It is the
man who has to fight for his faith
that holds that faith as his most cher¬
ished possession. We take Christ as
we take our daily bread, without
one thought of all it means, of all it
represents.
And what of our experience? My
dear brethren, it is because we find
our joy in the world and miss the joy
of Christ that death has been changed
from a glory to a fear, from an in¬
spiration to a dismay. We have
grown to love the world—this fading,
dying world—its joys, its music, its
Rewards. We have grown to forget
the sacred, eternal words of Christ as
to what life is, and duty, and God.
And the years race on — busy,
crowded years of labor for place and
money and success. When the night
grows dark and lonely we cry for
comfort, and when the day breaks
with golden beams of light we hasten
away and we forget. We forget! We
forget!!
Ah! it is the man whose night has
been the longest that knows Christ
the best and fears death the least.
There are -worse calamities than sor¬
row and defeat. One thousand nine
hundred years ago Jesus warned us
against success. It binds us and it
holds much from us. In the day of
our own sufficiency it is hard to see
and plan for Christ. Is it not impos¬
sible?
And then the days come when the
strength grows weak and the body
fails and the clash of the world goes
back and back, and we lie and watch
and wait and think! What comes.
then? We grow afraid! We have
had no true fellowship with Him.
We don’t know Him. We can’t fear¬
lessly trust Him. Others tell of His
keeping, and of the great, dear love
He gave. Others go into the mists
singing and crying—Victory! But
we—we don’t know. He hasn't been
experienced, and we miss the cer¬
tainty.
Oh, my beloved! I warn you to¬
day! That day comes. You are
grower older and weaker and tireder!
You will lie down one day. And
when the tiredness is very great, and
the world has got your best—will you
be able to say, “I am ready.” "I have
gotten the victory?”
This certainty only comes out of
faith in and service to Christ, out of
experience of Christ. If inthemorning
you have no rich memories of Christ
inside your heart, if you have no ex
periences of Him gathered inside
your character—oh! face it very ear
nestly, for the faith that changes
death to an inspiration, and makes
& l g?e sr,r.d“t tet“hinlin ssrrss? 5* worM.• t
th a
Death has another ’side. Of all it
means I cannot tell. Jesus uses ter
rible imagery that ought to startle
us. The worm dieth not; fire is not
quenched, and a great gulf opens. 1
have seen the face of men who mis
spent their youth 'and years, and
when manhood came it was hell! But
what may lie behind years and years
of forgetfulness of God? Who can
£ay? One thing it is—it is the loss
of all that life can be satisfied with.
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and all that It was created for. It i3
missing life—and God.
Teaching Nuggets.
His presence is our power.
To love Him is tef live for others.
None remain hungry where He is
host,
His glory has not lifted Him above
the feeling of our infirmities.
Every profession of love must come
to the test of the life of service.
The best evidence of His confidence
in us is the call to His service.
It Is always easier to discuss the
duties of others than to do our own.
Many mistake the business of regu¬
lating others for their own righteous¬
ness.
They cannot see the Father’s face
who cannot bend to serve the least f
His children.
A life is great not by the measure
of few mistakes, but by splendid mas¬
tery over all mistakes.—Henry F.
Cope, in the Sunday-School Times.
God Loves Perseverance,
God does not always refuse when
He delays, but He loves perseverance
und grants it everything.—Scottish
Reformer.
PROMINENT PEOPLE. f
King Alfonso is twenty-two.
Congressman Lilley’s friends de¬
clare hls treatment by the House will
make him Governor of Connecticut.
The French Ambassador to Eng¬
land, M. Cambron, gave a dinner In
London to President Fallieres and
King Edward.
James J. Hill, In a speech, de¬
nounced the'attacks on credit as In¬
imical to the welfare of the railroads
and the country.
The Pope has appointed Cardinal
Francesco Segna to he prefect of the
Index. The Cardinal was a favorite
with Cardinal Rampolla.
Baron Takahira, Japanese Am¬
bassador, was made Doctor of Laws
at the one hundred and sixty-first
commencement of Princeton Univer¬
sity.
Ernest Thompson Seton, after his
seven months’ exploring expedition
through the country north of the
Hudson Bay, is again at his country
seat, Wyndygoul.
James W. Van Cleave, president of
the National Association of Manufac¬
turers, declared that business men
purpose to call a halt by taking vig¬
orous part in the campaign.
Congressman Cole, of Ohio, is dis¬
turbed by the news that the Countess
of Warwick will make speeches in his
district for the Socialist candidate.
“And I've just been married, too,” he
says. 1 * r This is too much.”
Professor Alexander xx A v^aooJ/i, rvrv U .1 l ! -
rector and curator of the University
Museum, at Harvard, and world-wide
traveler, has decided to start on an
expedition to the lakes and wilder¬
nesses of Central Africa.
Major O. P. Chaffee, who was an
officer in the Confederate army and
was a brother of Lieut. Gen. Adna R.
Chaffee, U. S. A., retired, of Los An¬
geles, died at his home in Kansas,
Mo., from kidney trouble, aged sev¬
enty-nine years. He left a widow.
NATIONAL CAME.
The Cornell baseball team has
elected Robert Caidweil, a piOher,
captain for 19 09.
Neal Ball in as promising a short¬
stop as has broken into the big
leagues in ten years.
The Browns look stronger at third
base with Ferris at that station than
they ever have looked.
Bill Hinchman is playing a sensa¬
tional game at Cleveland’s short field,
and Turner is not missed.
Shipke, the Washington third base¬
man, does clean cut work with his
hands in gathering up ground balls.
President Morton, of the Ohio
Pennsylvania League, has released
umpire Goehler, of Barberton, Ohio.
Ex-Manager Ace Stewart has been
appointed an umpire by President
Crowder, of the Cotton States League.
Ernie Hjertberg is now known as
the silent man. As a trainer of ath¬
letes he ranks next to the best, never¬
theless. •
Walter East, late of Little Rock,
has been appointed manager of the
Erie Club, of the OhI'j-Penn3ylvania
League.
The Chicago, National League,
Club has loaned catcher Vincent
Campbell to the Springfield Club, of
the I.-I.-I. League,
The Cubs do not seem to have lost
of their speed, so if they are to
p e headed off this year rivals must
additional speed.
Th Aw'nria- I !
Ifom the Webb Ctty Cleb,. ■
the Western As^uation. |
Bob' HtnsVie Gilbert out for |
his turn at bat recently. The j
has not been made in many j
year in major league baseball.
r or the seventh time is succession
Highlanders were beaten yester- i
by St. Louis, 5 to 1, losing the :
series to the Browns.
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