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|vi ft if wry jpkd&L l[f <or is. maU aU* a Ttn <r . .) o fa Gravel Roads in Danger. . Recent observation and experi¬ ments have shown that automobiles are a serious menace to stone and gravel roadways. In some States, particularly New York, civil engi¬ neers and road experts have made an extensive study of the effect of self propelled vehicles upon the roadbeds in the country districts, and in re¬ ports recently issued by them they unanimously declare that the dam¬ age caused by the rapidly driven cars is far greater than one would surmise at first thought. One report says: “In the past three years the in¬ crease in the number of automobiles and in their weight and speed has ma’fle their effect vary noticeable. The fragments and powder formed by the grinding action of traffic, which serve as a necessary binder to the stone of the macadam, are lifted by the broad rubber tires of a rapid¬ ly moving automobile and scattered. »» The broad, elastic tires of an auto are pressed down by the great weight of the machine and then lifted with such quickness that the loose parti¬ cles of dust and grit are literally jerked into the air, having the effect in time of practically removing-this important part of the road’s surface. Most people are familiar with the appearance of a gravel or macadam road after It has been washed across by a swollen stream. All the lighter material is gone, sand and dust are carried away, the binder is cleaned out and the road is visibly damaged. Something of the same sort of effect is caused by the automobile. The process is not so rapid, but it is going on day after day, and has already caused so much damage in many States that the question of preserv¬ ing the roads from this peril is puz¬ zling the experts. Mr. C. A. Kenyon, qn engineer, of this city, has investigated this ques¬ tion in Europe. In an interview in the Indianapolis News he says: «« Ten years ago countries like France and England boasted of thou¬ sands of miles of the finest perman¬ ent macadam roads, as smooth as a floor, clean and sightly, easily and cheaply kept In repair without being a great burden to the taxpayer. Great Britain alone had nearly 30,000 miles of such roads. The advent of the motor car and the motor trucks, and their marvelous increase in numbers has produced such a stupendous change in the conditions of their roads and streets as to create a feel¬ ing ahnost of panic among public of¬ ficials and engineers, as well as to taxpayers upon whom will fall the burden of meeting these new condi¬ tions. The beautiful and cheap ma¬ cadam and gravel surfaces must be abandoned. The rubber tires suck the fine material out of the road and throw it into the air in great clouds, and the road or street pavement is soon destroyed. The most liberal appropriations of the local authori¬ ties for road maintenance and repair are so soon exhausted that taxpayers have become affirmed, and those in charge of the up-keep of such streets and roads are in despair. Thousands of miles of roads that for fifty years have been considered as ideal are going to pieces under these new con¬ ditions, and every one at all inter¬ ested is inquiring, What are we going to do about it? How are we going to meet it? I heard eminent engineers estimate that if the motor traffic con¬ tinues to increase in the rate that It has in the last ten years, all of the main roads in the United Kingdom will have to be reconstructed within another ten years, entailing an ex¬ of $700,000,000. t* pense over There is another phase of the prob¬ lem that is of vital interest to farm¬ ers, and that is the damage to crops caused by the clouds of dust thrown into the air and carried over adjoin¬ ing fields. We have seen fields of timothy so covered with grit and dirt in this manner that one could hardly tell the color of the grass. The subject of the motor car and the roads demand serious attention. The auto has come to stay. Also, we trust, the roads will stay, hut if so plans must he devised whereby the motor car and the road can get along better together than they have been doing up to this time.—Indiana Far¬ mer. Deserter Heir to a Fortune. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.—Under sentence of two years in the federal prison here for desertion, which is to be accompanied by a dishonorable dis charge from the army, Gerald Fair child TA aged 23, 1 is one of two heirs of a $300,000 nn estate nc at Duluth, Minn. \Tinn Million Doiiar insurance Policy. New York City.—Frank T. Heffel finger, president, and Frederick B. Wells, vice president of the Peavey j Grain Elevator system, have conclud- ! ed contracts by which their lives are jointly insured for $1,000,000 for the benefit of their corporation. ■sar . ( r Op __ INTEREST ^.TO THEr“ GOOD MARKET FOR GEESE. Why don’t more men go into goose farming? Thousands of acres of land in many of the States which are not now profitable might be made so by raising geese, for they can be kept at lower cost with less trouble than any other domestic fowl, There is always a good market for g P — Farmers’ Home Journal. / MARKING TOOLS. Take a little tallow 6r beeswax, melt it and spread it over the place on which you want your name. Write your name down ihrough the wax with a big needle or awl and pour a few drops of nitric acid over the let¬ ters you have made, Leave a few minutes. Then wipe off the wax and your name will be on the iron.— American Cultivator. SHEEP BREEDING. A successfu! sheep breeder says: Do not breed a dry-fleeced ram. The sire is the proper improver, but in order to be such he must be a good individual and descend from the best lineage, Study sire, dam and blood lines. Have a right idea and breed to produce it. Honesty is of as much importance in sheep breeding as it is anywhere else.—American Cultivator. t THE SWEET POTATO BELT. The northern limit for sweet potato culture is roughly indicated by a line drawn from the border line of Massa¬ chusetts and Connecticut on the east coast westward to the northeast cor¬ ner of Colorado, but the area where it is profitable commercially would be considerably south of this, except in the Mississippi Valley, where it ex¬ tends well into Iowa, Illinois and In¬ diana.—Weekly Witness. MENDING TUBS. A tub or a barrel often drops down for want of a hoop. If everybody knew how easy it is to make a hoop from a wire—perhaps a piece of waste telegraph wire often seen by the roadside—the work would not wait. Simply bend the wire around the tub to measure it, remove it and twist it fast, Then drive it on like a hoop; drive it fast, It will not break, and being galvanized, will last in¬ definitely.—American Cultivator. PROTECTION OF WOUinDS. No artificial medium can be applied to the surface of a tree wound which will induce it to heai more quickly. The activity of the healing process depends upon the character and posi¬ tion and the time of the year when the wound is made rather than upon protective coverings, but where a large surface of heart wood is exposed it is advisable to protect it from de¬ cay by a coat of white lead or other satisfactory covering.—Weekly Wit¬ ness. i EATING UP SHEEP. The world is eating up its shesp. The number on foot is steadily being diminished, and the same is true of cattle and poultry, says the London Meat Trades Journal. From the avail¬ able statistics it is said that it three years should there be no increase, at the present rate of consumption every head of cattle, every hog, every sheep and every chicken in the barnyards would be eaten up. It has been no¬ ticeable for several years that the number of food animals raised throughout the world was steadily de¬ creasing. The question is, unless con¬ ditions are modified, and that shortly, from where are the meats of the future to come? PLOWING GROUND TOO WET. I never get in such a rush that I am tempted to plow or cultivate a field when it is too wet. The May rains caught many farmers with only a part of their corn ground plowed— and there really has been no decent weather for plowing now for nearly two weeks. What is best to do? I do not believe that much can be gained by plowing wet ground, The ground bakes, and you simply cannot secure a proper seed-bed for planting. It will be cloddy all season, and when the trying weather comes on in July and August, you will find you have dissipated all the moisture which should have been conserved for grow¬ ing the crop. I have seen much of this plowing of wet ground this spring, but I do not know of a siDgle instance of a fine, well-pulverized seed-bed. A wait of even a week, un¬ til the ground is in fit condition, is much better than plowing when the ground is too wet, and then have trouble for the balance of the season. —L. C. B., in the Indiana Farmer. """A . |1 (.-■tYE— / /'y/5 ----------------/ J'-'l Jl/Ofi -—J1 II - * GY A TAB SERMON REV^~ " 4 Wit b B Why call ye Me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”— Luke <i: HI. Jesus is either a force or a fraud. Kis word is truth or it is nonsense. His gospel is either the supreme phi¬ losophy of life or the quintessence of silliness. He is either to be fol¬ lowed or not to be followed. If He is to lead we must do His will. He is a captain whose commands are commendable and practicable or an untrustworthy leader to obey whom ts the sheerest senselessness. There is no middle ground. Christ is a wise man—the eternal wisdom of God— or a fool; a visioned statesman or a visionary; a religious leader beyond compare, or the most illogical and fantastic enthusiast who ever lived. The church of the living Christ through near 2000 years has pro¬ claimed Him the incarnate mind of God, the glorious embodiment of the eternal wisdom, the supernal leader, ! the only true guide, the mentor of ! the mind as the Saviour of the soul j of beauty, man. philosophers Saints have have sung yielded of His homage to the purity and profundity of His thought, sages have reveled in His wisdom, martyrs have died for Him. We have declared Him Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the ultimate both as to inception and finality. And yet we fail to practice His truth, to apply His principles, to obey His mandates, to trust His word, to live the life that He counsels as the only life that eternally is worth the while. We elevate Him upon a pedestal of dominating prom¬ inence, and then we laugh at Him. We join His church, and then we misrepresent Him. We swear fealty under His control, and then we de¬ sert Him in every hour of the test. And then we wonder why men of the world have no use for eccleeiasti cism, though they cheer the Christ. We are amazed at the paltriness of the church’s grip as an organized in¬ stitution uoon humanity compared with what it ought to be; while the sweep of the influence of Jesus is be¬ coming universal. We are astounded that in an age when the Lord of Life receives greater homage than ever in the reach of years, the church of the Lord—the organized body that bears His name—is being weighed in the balance of intelligent criticism and declared wanting. But it is not strange. Too long have you cried, “Lord, Lord.” The world demands performance as well as titudino’us. protestations. It tires of the pla It expects men who pro¬ fess to love the good to be something more than pious. For the piousness of the day is almost synnoymous with the most dangerous impious¬ ness. Bad men have a suspicion that had men will be bad. They expect good tnen to be good. They detest pious talk and a pious mien that gets no further than words and loo cs. And they are right. Laodicean Christianity is as trait¬ orous as it is inefficient. It denies that in which it professes to believe. It betrays its Lord with a kiss. The world has no use for it and we ought to have none. A world that could contemplate it with equanimity wouldn’t be worth saving. What shall we say of a church which too largely practices it? Too much have we cried, “Lord, Lord. Jesus says, “Ye are My friends if ye do whatsoever I com¬ mand you.” Have we done His will? Jesus says: Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; him that laketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also, >» And Jesus prac ticed His proclamations. He was the friend of God. He did the will of the Father. They crucified Him. He be¬ sought forgiveness for His persecu¬ tors. And yet in a land blessed as is ours with the heritage of twenty cen¬ turies of Christian teaching, cultured and controlled under the gospel oi Jesus, the best theory of peace that we can practice is that which bids us to be prepared for war. The very church which sings the praises of the prince of peace is strangely silent be¬ fore the militarism of our age.’ Pre¬ paredness for war has yet to be pro¬ ven a guarantee of peace. Indeed it has been quite otherwise. It is neither effective nor necessary. It is purely expedient and never final in theory or in practice. Jesus’ way is a better way. If all the armaments of the world were wrecked there than wi^jjld there be a is surer to-day guarantee and greater of peace pros¬ ! perity. Jesus’ theories have never had an honest opportunity to prove their worth. Those that have been tried, however little, have revealed the wis¬ dom of the Lord. Where nations have ceased to war and have brought their difficulties to the bar of divine¬ ly guided counsel there have they found the best results. The individ¬ ual who follows in the footsteps of *> is Saviour and forgets injury, for S ivp s injustice, requites good for evil, ™ ay aPPm impractical, but he is the h a PP iest as the most honored among th e so ns of men - The P an Z h °. Bub : mIts , + t t0 P eraeca Gon while his trust remains , in God may lose his head; he will not lose hls BouIf External forces cannot steal away that life eternal which is the gift of God. The church must either follow Christ or it must cease to be. The reason for its existence is resident in its recognition of His authority. The secret of its ancient power lay in its willingness to do His will. And as T the guiding spirit in a larger era I gives her visions of wider ministry j which and impulse she has to a service known the she like must of never move on with fidelity and fervor or be discredited and disowned. The church is not the kingdom save as the church labors for the consummation of the kingdom. It is | not an end in itself. It is a means to the attainment of divine conclusions. The trouble has been and is that wo have mistaken theology for Chris¬ tianity, the organization for the life, the membership roll for the test of membership. Quite otherwise is the mind of Christ. The test of member¬ ship is not how warm we make seats, or how loud we sing, or how vehe¬ mently we pray. The final testing is the testing of service. Do you work as you pray? Do you warm hearts as well as benches? Do vou make souls to rejoice? Do you regard yourself not ns your brother’s keeper so much as your brother’s brother? Are you true to Christ? Have you keenness to serve the King? "Whv call ye Me Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I sav?” The question is as timely and applicable as it, was when it was propounded. For there never has been a time when the church more largely was cognir ant of the ineffectualness of lip serv ice and convinced of the need for re sultful and helpful labor than she is to-day. The Protestant church is in danger nf becoming nriest-ridden—the worst that can befal the organization of the church; ridden, with a priesthood shorn of compulsory authority and in whom the authority of the Christ is too precariously admitted to re side. The laity of Protestanism are too largely guilty of hiring men to do their wor’.; for them—at salaries on the average that are an insult to the Lord whose work they send their employes to do—rather than of call ing leaders whose business it shall be to direct the energies, rebuke the sins, vitalize* the virtues, clarify the thought, inspire t.he minds, intensify the spiritual conceptions and percep tions of the sons of God who are members of the church of Christ, The church of Christ is lull of men and women who have their names upon ’.ts rolls for no better reason than that it is politic or proper or polite or profitable socially and com mercially so to be enlisted. And the consequence is that enthusiasm has gone out of the most oi the meetings of the church, the gatherings for prayer are generally so dry and cold and uninteresting that, they are a distress to earnest pastors and a re flectlon not only upon the inteH gence and spiritual experience but also upon the gratitude of the church. The reason for this is not far to seek. The laity, and not infrequent y the clergy have been so busy seek K fha “ s v s tLw X™ the manner oi the Masiei. ihe do... lar has supplied so many wants that men have ceased to feel the pressing need for spiritual supplies. It has been declared impossible for a nation to believe Christ, disarm and be pre served against the rapacious agree sions of the armed. Business men have declared it Impossible to follow Christ and succeed. The best we have done, till very lately, in the management of criminals has been to jail or execute them. The spirit of the lex t.alionis—the lowest law of Judaism—is rampant in the settle ment of disputes between nations and nations, society and its members, in dividuals and their fellows. We have forgotten the God of life in the ex cellency of our livings. We have prayed for reforms that we have neither advanced, expected or de sired. We have thanked God for the might of His power while fearful to trust His sufficiency against the on slaught of Satan. Wo have talked brotherhood and practiced an indi vldualism that has brought sorrow where there is no need for aught but joy, and strife where co-operation would more thoroughly fulfil the plans of God, by and with the con sent—tacit or active—of the church. The situation cannot endure. The church must reform or relinquish her claim to primacy and to the privil eges of leadership. Saying "Lord, Lord,” will make her acceptable neither to coming generations nor to her bridegroom. Vain repetitions are valueless to produce results. Ac tion only is qualified to transmute ideas into achievements. To do His work we must do His will. Jesus gives us a picture of the end of the institution or the man guilty of lip-service or of lukewarm adher ence to the propagation of the truth. “Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king dom of heaven, hut he that doeth the will of My Father.” He forecasts the fate of those insincere and paltry Christians who stand before Jehovah at the great assize. It is to be hoped that Jesus’ pic¬ ture will not prove a photograph of us. It is not necessary that it should, We shall be recreant and without ex cuse if it shall so prove to he. No man and no church need call upon the iLord in vain. Hd who hath called us jand upon whom we call Is both will png and able to perform through us j (effective service for the welfare and (the salvation of individuals and the [supreme jrace. God labor. summons He provides us in Christ contem- to poraneously the power necessary to succeed. He energizes and verifies j and inspires and enthuses every soul ' and every society that with high de sire and dedicated purpose calls upon His name. , ; Not “Lord, Lord,” but “Lord, here 1 am I, send me,” “What wilt Thou have me to do?” Brooklyn, N. Y. He Is All in AU. God is all to thee; if thou be hun¬ gry, He Is bread; if thirsty, He is water; if in darkness, He is light; if naked, He is a robe of immortal¬ ity.—St. Augustine. ‘Jilt 1 ^ r.pssoN roM MENTS FOB OCTOBER 4. Subject: David Brings the Ark to Je¬ rusalem, 2 Sam. fi—Golden Text. Ps. 100:4—Commit Verse 12—* Bead 1 Chron. Chapters 1 ft, 15,10. TIME.—1045 A „ B. C. _ I LACE. —■ Kiriatb-learlm. EXPOSITION.—!. Bringing TTf* port’s Ark in Man’s Way, 1-5. This is one of the niost solemn and searching passages in the entire Bible. It teaches a lesson needed to be learned in our day. It shows us how neces sar >’ u if! to serve God In God’s way. David’s desire to bring up the ark of God’s presence into his own eity, the vpr V centre of the nations’ life, wee most, commendable; but he should }iav ® inquired from Cod's own hoot the proper wav in which to bring it nP- It was declared there with ner tect plainness (Nu. 4:5-12: 7:9). His neglect to consult and obey the Word of God got David and others as well Into great, trouble. Neglect, of God’s Word lias gotten many a welt meaning man into great trouble, am! His friends also. The ark was t.h« svmhol of Jehovah’s own holy and glorious presence. Men must be taught to treat it, with the reverence due to His arp?u and hnlv Name. It was “the ark of Cod which is called by the Name, even the name of the Lord of hosts.” The n.rk was also a remarkable type of Christ. Christ is Immanuel. God with us. and the ark was the svmhol of God’s presence with His people. Moreover, In the ark the law of God was perfectly kept, and in Christ the law of God is perfectly kept. Further still, over the perfectly kept law was the blood snrinkled mercy seat where God met His neople (Ex. 25:18-22). Tn Christ we have our blood-sprinkled mercy seat where God meets and communes with us. David had no intention of not, conferring due honor on the arlc 0 f God. He made great and costly preparations. He "gathered together all tbe rhnsen men of Israel, thirty thousand.” It is often said that it does not make any difference what a man believes or does if he is only sin rere . David was il perfpctlv sinr9rp . but b(1 was wroi1? an d It made a t (lpn1 f dlfrfiret)ce both tn bim at1(] to TTzzab David was to blame for bis , Knorance< He bad the TOPans of enlightenment. Tf men to-dav am ignorant, of what is in the Word of God and suffer for it. it is their own fnnif rnT,~, f ennuoi •i thone-h thnv wm,M firm ^ in-’ ! ikc tf tn \ The mi® , wen_ , M a1wa ^ s WhGU J Go is wav God had given that tbe 80n 8 " f der ? a At fN ”’ ea z tkp , ark , 7:9 ’ ip " ?’ n the and ! l r a shoaI . new - ™ ” ndeir tl,e c, r f urns an ™ s Y, ap n ? ka n an a 1 David T had . . ned improved ’’If” ’ ea y ea / f JL rai ka " ,, | s he wkere keathea , al * , improvements fcf ( - 1 Sam - <j :7 upon, ’ s > Go . from, s ., God Judgment Disobedf "• s on £ n< e n,,d ^reverence, fi-9. David's f° , ! y was saon ma ^ e manifest. He aa KOWn the seed of disobedience a , so ? n rea P p d a harvest of greater disobedience , and death. A cart drawn ,y oxen, even though It was a new f a was no hl ace tor the ark; and , , aaon comps: “the oxen stum ! I J a 1 ea ‘ ,, Of course ,^° wlG they 1 drawing did, hut God’s what f' k ’. ,\ e I° r tHat was upon ' shoulders of fit, men. It was quite natural , for Uzzah to put forth his hand to steady the ark, but it was al PHmt .^^her disobedience wrong. It was to God, an act and of ex- of gross irreverence. Even the sons of Kohath, who were divinely appoint i ' )Pa i'the ark, were not permitted ’ <ou ch the ark. or even to look at it j J® v 1 * a ™® T, n '' ae en *' are ^ Nu very - 4 ill), solemn 19 , 20, words R. Wal1 /‘ which the 7th verse opens, Ir reverence towards God and His holy name is an awful sin, and God in His great mercy often deals very sternly with it in order that we may know how He regards it Ccf. Lev. 24:11-16; 10:1-3; 1 Sam. 6:19). Even in the Christian dispensation men are cut when they approach the table that ae ts forth the solemn truth about Christ’s atoning death in a thought ^ ess way d Gor. 11:27-30). We do P Qt nped to suppose that Uzzah was eternally lost. He simply suffered temporal punishment for his sin, even unto death (cf. 1 Cor. 11:30-32; 6- 5). David was displeased at God’s judgment; he might much better have been displeased with his own folly that made that judgment necessary, When he had taken time to think it over he put the blame where it be longed, on himself (1 Chron. 15:11- 13). We are often tempted to be displeased at God’s judgments when a little honest reflection would show us that we are to blame ourselves, and that God’s judgment is only a merciful way of bringing us to our senses. HI. God Blesses the Home in Which He Dwells, 10-12. We have just seen Godisdealing in judgment, and now we see Him dealing in mer cy. A moment ago all was death. now all is blessing. Obed-edom was only a heathen by descent, a Glttite (cf. ch. 15:19), but he welcomed the presence of God in his home, and God “blessed Obed-edom and all his household. ft Nothing else brings such blessing to a house as the pres¬ ence of God in it. That ark in his home was the symbol of Christ in oitr homes. Where He is there is bless¬ ing for all (cf. Acts 16:31).