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AN ATTRACTIVE FAITH. By Henry F. Cope. "'J"lie beauty of holiness." Psuluis, Otl :U. Kelljriou ought to be the most nat ural, desirable, and attractive thing to man, for it simply mumls tor the de velopment of the best lu U8, the com ing Into the full and rich heritage that is ours an spiritual beings, and the realization of our highest possi bilities of character and service. He who ignores religion Is cutting himself oil' from the best and most beaut it ul possibilities In his lire. Some have talked of the necessity of making religion attractive. It does not have to he made attractive; there Is nothing more desirable than the peace, jiower and prosperity of the real life which It confers. It is the imitation, (he laise and prejudiced presentation of religion that men endeavor to dress up attractively. In that they never miiveed, for cramping the soul anil twisting tli( Intellect ever Is opposed liy the best In us. I'nmi the caricature of religion we turn with loathing. Mummeries and mockeries, lads and forms leave us empty and impatient. The heart of man goes out to things fair, lovely, Joyous and uplifting,, anil they who tlud no lixl in the elaborate sermon or the service in the church somehow are thrilled wit.li the reeling of the divine mill Inspiring In the woods and Held mid iniiuiitalus. All things good, nil tilings attractive mid lovely, uplifting and sublime have lint one source. They touch our hearts lacnuKe they come from the heart of nil being; they reach our spirits be cause they are spiritual. Deep calls unto deep when the divine in man answers to the divine in the world nil bout, In human affections, in noble (lHpiiallnns, and In glorious deeds. Too long have we believed that only tlie unpleasant, the gloomy and repel 1 tint could be right or religious. There Is i tye of conscience that determines fiction by the rule that if n thing Is pleasant or beautiful It must he sin ful and wrong. To such souls It is a 8iu to be sunny In disposition, to de llghl In the Father's fair world, with Its glowing riches and bounty dropping dally from his hand. It would be safer to say that sin must be somewhere lurking wherever there is deformity, pulu or discord that, as a common phrase has it, the bleak and barren Is the evidence of that which Is forsaken of Qod. Things desolate are not divine. Religion Is not repression but development Into a fullness and beauty fur beyond our 1 reams. It Is n good thing to see the divine In nil things fair and lovely; to take them ns evidences that the love that once pronounced this world good lu Its primeval glory still Is working, still Is seeking to enrich our lives and lead them out In fullness of Joy, Why Hhould not we, like the poets and preachers of ancient Israel, taste again of the gladness of living. Character may need for Its full de velopment the storms and wintry Masts of life, hut It needs Just ns truly nnd Just ns much the sun si line, the days when the heart goes out and Joins lu the song of nature, when something leaps with in us ut the gladness of be ing alive, nnd we drink In of tho In finite love that is over all. Just ns the sun seems to call the (lowers out of the dark earth nnd draw out their bounty, calls forth the buds nnd brings the blossom into perfect fruit, bo there Is a spirit of divine life In our world calling as out to the best, seeking to woo us to the things beautiful. Mini needs not to repress his life, but to learn to re siioiid to every worthy Impulse, every lilgh hoiie, to tlud the life beautiful. The beauty of holiness is the beauty of character. It Is the adjustment of life to nature nnd neighbor nnd heaven o that strength and harmony ensue, no that duty becomes a delight, labor n song of praise, and out of life's bur den and battle the benuties of godli ness, of love, and tenderness, Joy nnd gratitude begin to bloom. Lay hold on everything good nnd tme, on all things glad and elevating; cherish every fair thought nnd asplra tlon; learn to see the essentially re ligious lu whatever lifts up life. In whatever helps humanity, and so make life rich In heavenly treasure ami glow ' lug with the glory of other worlds. VALUE OF DISADVANTAGES. By Rer. Charles F. Aked, D. D And Moses put forth bis hand and laid hold of the serpent, and It be came a rod In his hand. Exodus 4:5. lie put forth his hand, and the ser pent, dangerous, destructive, deadly, be came a rod, a stay, a support, a de- fense. In the hand of a strong man the precious tblug became beneficent. This is God's way In nature. The supremely destructive forces of the universe are among the supremely great and supremely blessed of the educative agencies of life. Man has entered Into conflict with them, and, contending with them, has grown strong and wise. Where nature Is prodigal of her bounty, where a suit of clothes grows on every tree nnd a dinner Is found under every bush, man slumbers. Where nature enters Into conflict with man, bids him try conclusions with this old eurth, Its storms and seas, surrounds him with hardship and hazard, he finds himself. He puts forth his hand and the serpent becomes a rod. Hut these forces of nature have their terrors. They crush, malm, blind, burn, destroy, overwhelm, appall. And no man becomes not only a stronger and cunninger man, but a better man. He Is educated by adversity, and his heart is educated not less than his head. lie learns pity. He enters Into compassion. He develops philanthropy. The shipwreck launches the life-boat. The physician is bred of pestilence. Living men in our part hasten to die that dying men across the bar may live. The plague Is stopped because the bacteriologist has lived and loved and died. (lod's way In nature, God's way In history, is God's wuy for each of us in our own life. Let us grasp the ser pent, that It may become a rod. This is the story of nil glorious con quest of adverse circumstance. Stroll ing along the bank of my native Trent, I have seen a parable with rod nnd line in its hands. Some townsman, magnificently equipped with outfit that must have cost n little fortune, flung his Hue In vain. The shadows of even ing fell nnd his face lengthened, and there was never a fish in his creel. And beside him a ragged rascal of a village schoolboy, playing truant, with bare feet mid unwashed hands, with his home-made rod and two-penny line, and ionny flout and half-penny tackle, swinging out tiie roach nnd dace or greedy perch at almost every swim. These things are written nllegorlcully. It Is not the costliest outfit which takes the biggest Hsh. Cardinal Wolsey, Daniel De Foe nnd Henry Kirke White it would be Impos sible to name lu a breath three men more utterly unlike each other--were all the sons of butchers. Jeremy Tny lor, one of the greatest of English preachers; Hlclmrd Arkwrlght, the real founder of our cotton industries, and Turner, the painter, were all bar bers. John F.unyau was a tinker, Kob ert lSurns a plowman, lieu Johnson a bricklayer, Livingston a weaver, Stan ley a workhouse boy, Cnrey a cobbler, Copernicus was the son of a baker, Kepler came from a German Inn, Whitctlcld was a barman at the Bell Tavern In Gloucester, Haydn was a wheelwright, Hildebrand a village car penter, George Stephenson was an en gine Hrcinan and taught himself arith metic on the side of colliery wagons. Wllkle learned art with a piece of chalk and a barn door, West made his first brushes out of a cat's tail, Watt constructed his first model out of an old syringe, Humphrey Davy extempor (zed his sclentltlc appliances from kitch en pots and pans, and Farady his from glass bottles. Ellhu Burrltt mastered eighteen ancient and modern languages while earning his living as a black smith. Helleve then, thnt neither feeble health nor cramping poverty, nor crush lug sorrow, nor accomplished sin, nor evil habits need paralyze the asplra- tlons of your essential manhood, nor quench Its Immortality. Put forth your hand, my brother, and the serpent shull become a rod. Short Meter Sermons. . Truth always has met tribulation. Worry Is a confession of weakness. You cannot thluk carrion and live clean. Kindness Is the evidence of klngll- ness. Preaching down to folks does not lift them up. Sympathy Is a key that fits the lock of any heart Soul health will not come by taking religion ns a dose. lie who earns the crown needs not to put on any airs. The surest way to Impoverish your heart Is to hoard up your love. There always Is something of the boy lu the man who can lead men. The man who Is so wise that he never laughs Is the greatest fool of all, It's hard stirring the conscience that Is under the narcotic of money. Many a cloud that we call sorrow Is but the shadow of our own selfishness. Nothing makes wrong seem Innocent more quickly than to acquire an In terest in It When a man blows a trumpet to call attention to the moral screen at bis front door you can be pretty sure of fludlng the back door wide open all the thus. WOMEN'S LEAGUE FORMED. Equal SalTrase Movement to Become National in Scope. ' The American men folks are In for It. The suffragetes are coming! The move ment started in England has been taken up in New York, rians of or ganization are under way and the equal suffrage women In other cities are be coming Interested. The New York as sociation is known as the Women's League. It Is purposed to make Its Ini tial salute an agitation such as has had no parallel since Elizabeth Cady Stan ton held her woman's rights conven tion. It Is to be launched as a federa tion of the women of the State, looking to a larger national council, and a com mittee at Albany to lobby for every measure that affects the sex will be a vital part of the program. The movement Is headed by Mrs. Dore Lyon, who Is president of the Eclectic Club and one of the best dress ed women In New York. But behind her looms Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blateh, daughter of the late Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was Mrs. Blatch who fired the first shot In the proposed campaign last winter, when she organized the League of Self-supporting Women. The plans of the American suffrag etes Is to conduct a militant campaign such as the women of Loudon carried forward until they awoke nil England. At the last meeting of the Women's League Mrs. Wells, a London member of the "fighting women," told how they 'boo-ed" an obnoxious member of par liament from a public meeting. Mrs. Blatch hero arose and said that women had been Insulted by n promi nent legislator at Albany recently when they went there to secui-e certain rights. ilKS. HAIiniLT STANTON BLATCH. Mrs. Blatch remarked that this man would have occasion to regret It at his next public decloratlon because "the women would be there." That Indicates the temper of these new Americnn suf fragettes. There are ninny well-known women In the movement IS IT A TREASURE CHEST? Officers of the Alabama Make Dis covery In Cuban 'Waters, While the various battleships com prising the Atlantic fleet were at the rendezvous on the south shore of Cuba It came to pass on one stilly morning In April last that one of these, tho Alabama, flagship of the second squad ron, must needs lose an awning stanchion by dropping It overside, says the New York Times. Now, awning stanchions are not a very Important part in the equipment of a battleship, and one more or less makes no serious difference. This one had gone overboard In about seventy feet of water, and at about the same time the crew was going to breakfast, so no effort was made to recover It But It so happened that the surgeon of the vessel, Surgeon L. von Wede klud, came on deck Just then to smoke an after-brenkfast cigar, and leaning over the aft rail discerned a white ob ject glimmering in the depths beneath. Gazing more Intently Into the limpid depth the ship Just then having swung so as to form a lee the surgeon made out the outlines of another object rest ing on the sea bed some seventy feet under foot and one which took the shape of a stout-chest, iron-bound and apparently Incrusted with the barna cles of a hundred years or more. The surgeon called others to look, and one or two of his brother officers got a glimpse of the chest before the sea breeze again blurred the surface of the water. Then It was that a re sourceful llteutennnt constructed a water glass, ami through this made a careful scrutiny of the chest, and from his observations judged that It had rested there upward of a century or more. The chest appeared to be of very stout build, bound around with Iron bands and one end of it was deeply sxink in the bed of the sea. Admiral Davis, the flag officer who flies bis pennant from the Alabama, was Informed of the discovery, as was also Captain Comly, who commands the battleship. Both came to look, and both heard with great Interest the re port of the lieutenant who had In spected what Is supposed to be some sunken treasure chest Nona on board Wh Ml ilm i I AW could guess from what galleon It bad been flung overboard, but all were quite certain that it contained many fortunes In pieces of eight. That It held vast treasure of some sort all were con vinced, and arrangements were being made by which a diver could be sent down to pass a tackle around the chest when the flagship Connecticut anchor ed a few miles away, made signal for the Alabama to get her anchor and pro ceed to the target range. A half-dozen grate bars were hur riedly lashed together, a long length of line attached, and at the other end a vinegar cask was made fast. This was thrown overboard to mark the po sition of the chest and some day, very soon, these men of the Alabama mean to fit out nn expedition Ht their own expense and go. down there, drag up that box and see what It contains. GOOD MANNERS' SECRET. Two Theories of the Acquirement, Unaelflahneaa and Conventionality, Most mothers hold, consciously or uncensciously, one of two theories about the acquirement of munners by their children. One mother says: "Manners are only the outwnrd sign of the inner nature. If my daughter has a kind heart nnd a well-trained mind she will behave In n gentle, charming fashion. I will teach her compassion, respect for nge, unselfish zeal for helping with the world's work. Her manners will take enre of themselves." Another mother says: "My girls will never get on without conventional man ners. They shall be taught from baby hood to emulate the speech nnd bear ing of ladles. They shall be Instructed UBS. DORK LYON. " In the proper behavior for every occa sion. They shall walk and dance and write and speak with graceful perfec tion." Neither method, says the Youth's Companion, produces altogether satis factory results. Unselfishness Is truly the foundation of good manners, but not the super structure. Many conventional restric tions have grown about social relations. Some can be explained by the demand of kindness and some can not Could a child Infer from his desire to help others that he should not eat with his knife? Many offenses against good taste interfere In some way with the rights of others, but many others do not. Still no set of rules to nrodnoe n polished lady will achieve a result fit for the Strain Of life. The mpmWra of the French boarding school may aaorn tne ballroom, but are too likelv to fall at the breakfast table or In tha crowded car. The woman of nerfw manners must re-enforce her unselfish ness by social rules, and conventional lty must be vitalized by the warm d- slro of others' pleasure. The best of life never "comes naturally," whether in manners or morals. The secret of charmlnsr manners la the desire for them. When the mother wishes them for her daughter ns much as she wishes the other roods of the world her daughter will have them. A Lesson la Philanthropy. A whole-souled resident of Harlem the other evening received the Jolt of his career as a parent While reading nis evening paper tne doorbell rang. ano a parcel rrom a big department store was announced. The post 30 cents, and he gave his little bright eyes, a gin or u, a two-dollar bill with wnicn to pay tne ooy. Half an hour later the subject n curred to him. "Here, Mabel," he said. "Where's that money I gave you for the ho?" "Why, papa," was little bright even' reply, "I did the same as you did yes terday with- the newsboy. I told him to keep the change." New York Globe. Balance. "Miss Fluffy would be a pretty good- looking girl If her feet weren't m heavy." "She stacka no orettr well, thone-h her head la light" Detroit Free Press. 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