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SOCTlESTEIS Sim DHHONICDE SUNDAY; ura isyn Patriotism is Her Glory mm. nave never Known such a union wonderful, tender, pitying love. Just tell Him how sinful find cold and dark all is; The Morning's Prayer. Exchange. Pad me good speed this Thou who.

beholding (Calm and content for me) All its unfolding, Whisperest. The day Is Mine, I have prepared it; TVhat it shall bring thee I hare declared it; Thine all the daily need. Mine the providing; Mine the unchanging love. Thine the confiding: Mine angol in the way. Heaven's bread to feed thee; Thus, until the close of day, Shall thy God lead thee." Send me good speed this day I Kest in believing; Eves lifted up to Thee, Uev'rent receiving; Shade for the sultry march Thv care supplying: Life for its life in Thee.

Grace for the dying; Here, 'mid decay and death, Heaven-set affection; Might to live out on earth, Christ's resurrection: Free heart and hands to-day For all who need me; Thus I being in the way Lord, do Thou lead me Then, when the night is nigh. The rough march. over. 'Lights in the Father's house Let me discover; Hone into visions fair Fond nieni'ries wreathing; Voices of I'aradise Hymn-welcomes breathing: ud sweet and low and clear, One Voice from heaven Whispering. "Forever Mine Ransomed Forgiven His.

who through life's long day, Loved, guarded, fed me. Unseen was in the way While the Lord led me I and I have seen hundreds of them--result in anything but sadness and dlsascer. Let no young girl think that she may no able to accomplish what a loving mother cr sympathetic sisters have been unable to do. Before there is any contract of mar- ri.ige there should be convincing proof that there has been real and thorough regenera tion," A Sign of a Better Day. Evidently there are some clergymen in the established Church of England who elo not look upon, the clergymen of other communions as ministers of Christ.

The report is being circulated that Bishop Sheepshanks, of Norwich, England, has invite-d Dr. G. S. Barrett, the leading Con gregational clergyman in Norwich, to read the Scripture lessons at the fortheoiuiug services in the cathedral in honor of the epioeni's jubilee. Doubtless the action of the bishop will be the occasion of severe and uncharitable criticism within his own communion, but the man whose vision is as broad as his appears to be need have no fear as to the estimate that will be placed upon his exhibition of true catholicity by the religious world at large.

Notes and News. The action of Bishop Fallows, of Chi cago, in ordaining Booth to the ministry has been indorsed by the General council of the lie-formed Episcopal Church. Kev. John Harrison Hartman, Ph. former pastor of the Wilson Avenue Baptist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, died Mon day, June Viih, aged years.

Dr. Hart- man once held a pastorate at Amesbury, Mass. Bev. Thomas B. Slicer.

pastor of the Church of Our Father (Unitarian), Buffalo, has received a formal call from All Souls Church, New York city. Should he accept, no change will be made before newt fall. Bev. G. E.

Lovejoy, of the First Con gregational Church, Stoneham, preached his farewell sermon on Sunday, June before a large congregation. He nters upon his 1 lttsfaeld, N. pastor ate July 1st. Bev. S.

Massey, for many years the rector of St. Simon's Church in Montreal, Canada, died in his home in Montreal on Thursday, June Hth, in the eightieth year of his age. He and his wife, who is still living, celebrated their golden wedding in 1S01. The will of the late Lewis E. Gurhy, of Troy, N.

gives $3,0 to the Ameri can ISaptist Missionary Union, to the Hudson Itive-r Baptist Association r.r.d to the American Baptist Home Mis sionary Society. Tlie Fifth Avenue nd South Baptist Churches of Troy, Ben selaer Polytechnic. Institute, Troy Orphan Asylum, Mohawk and Hudson Il.unane Society and Troy Young Men's Association receive generous gifts. The Be-. B.

Meyer, the well writer and evangelist, recently expluned how he is able to acocniplish so much work. "It is only by keeping at he said, 'by using what time I have, and because of a faculty of concentration. I write on the cars, on the trams, wherever I have a few moments of leisure and I find that I can I ways take up the train or tnougut where it was broken off. My mind seems to work right on in the same line, and I can finish out a sentence that I began yester day, and carry out the thought without a break." Bev. Dr.

Frederick O. Ilolman. D. former pastor of the Hennepin Metlnxlist Episcopal Church, MinnapoIis, and one of the mowt brilliant und best known pulpit orators in the Methodist Church in dn-d on 1he ilth instant, of lung trouble, aged 40 years. Bev.

A. P. Baldwin, for the last year as sistant to Bev. Thaddeiis Wilson, at the Presbyterian Church at Shrewsbury, N. has resigned.

Mr. Wilson, for over forty years the regular pastor at the church. tendered his resignation several months ago of failing health due to his advanei-d age. Bishop Goodsell. of the Methodist Id is.

copnl Church, met Switzerland contcrence at Winterthur on June and South Ger many conference at Stuttgart on June 10th. lie was to meet North Germany conference on June at Cassel, and is prob ably there now. Writing from Freiburg, under date of June 3d, he says: "I am here for a few days, after a ten days campaign in Central Germany, to rest a little. I am on my way to the Swiss conference, preaching next Sunday at Schaffhausen, find the conference- oions the followiug Wednesday. It is beautiful here a fir-clad Berkshire, with quaint villages in narrow valleys, and everyone at Work carving cuckoo clocks and bears.

Dr. S. L. Baldwin expects to leave San Francisco August fith by steamer China, awl join Bishop Joyce in Peking early in September at North China confer ence proceeding with him to Central China. Foo-Chow, and Hing-IIua.

Mrs. Baldwin will acocmpany him. After spending some time the old held of the Foo-Chow Mission, where they labored for many years, they will visit Japan and Korea on their return, the missionary board having instructed Dr. Baldwin to make report ou the misisons in those eouutnes, as well as in China. Dr.

and Mrs. Lowry, of Peking, return to their work by the same steamer: T- and 3liss Jvei.vn i lntney, wno goes out as teacher for missionary children in Foo- Chow, will also be in the party. The statistics of the Reformed Church for the past year show an increase of five churches, two ministers and 3,250 com municants. Nearly all the churches report progress along the usual lines of work, with an ordinary degree of interest and prosperity. summary appended says there nre 031 churches, (151 ministers, seven candidates, and 4l families; 5, 585 were received on confession and 5,572 on certitiicates; were dismissed, and 152 suspeuided: nave died; total com municants, infants baptized, 283; adults, l.oio; napmed non-communi- canes, lmw, nuun-un, tsun- day-schools, 015; total enrollment.

120. 80S: contributed for denominational benevolent objects, other objects, congregational purposes, No Special Privileges. Puck. First Populist I see some of the railroads are carryin' bicycles free. Second Populist They are, eh Then they ought to be made to carry folks that don't ride wheels free, too jest to eTen up things.

it is the Father's loving heart will give light and warmth to yours. do what Jesus says: Just shut the door, and pray to thy Father which is in secret. What a Kiss Did. Christian Herald. The power of Christian kindness owr the young is well illustrated in the following incident, related by a mission worker: "I had been making one of my regular visits among the poor and distressed, and on leaving was followed to the door by a ytunggirl, little more than a child.

"Unconsciously, or perhaps rather ns a matter of course, I put my arm around her and, kissing her, took my leave, and thought no more of the incident. "A few weeks later this girl arose in a testimony meeting at our mission, and in a voice trembling with emotion said: 'I love the Lord, and want to tell you how I camp to be a Christian. One day a lady ccnae to where I live and talked alxuit Jesus. It wasn't so much what she said, but as she was going she kissed me! It had been so long since anyone had given nn? a kiss or -a kind word the first time since mother died and somehow it seemed to soften my heart, and I felt that this lady must have something that makes hor feel different from the other folks that haven't eared anything about me, and the mere I thought about it the more I wanted it myself. And so I came to God and asked Him to forgive my sins for Jesus' sake, and I know that I am saved.

Hut in the first place, it was the dear ladv's kind look ad touch and the kiss that did A Creed of Guidance. A Day's Time Table. I believe absolutely that, having been bought with a price, I belong to Christ, and that every particular of each day has been foreseen, planned, and prearranged for me with perfect love, perfect wisdom, perfect power. The "covenant is ordered in ali things, and sure." I believe the Saviour's promise, "If any man will do His will. He shall know," and neMieve mat lie has itt liis footsteps as a way for us to walk in.

I believe that the Holy Spirit dwells within me to le my Teacher and my Gimk. I believe it to be His office to lift up for me viou word as the living word containing directions for every ste-p of the way; and I believe that He will enable me, if I listen to IIU voice, to apply divine principles to the minutest details of daily life. I beliee Christ's word, "The ery hairs of your head are all numbered." I believe that "all things work together for good to them that love God." When I see no definite guidance, let me not doubt that it is there. My circumsLines, my calling, my relationships, my ilv lealth or lack of health, are provi.len?"s. The possibilities of my present position r.re indications for service, whether suffer ing, waiting, or working.

"An ability and an opportunity to do good ought to be co'i- sidtred as a call to do it. If I am to follow in, the path of God's guidance this day, let me beware of five things: 1. Of losing sight of the glory of God as the object my life. 2. Of substituting my own will for God's guidance, and of mistaking a so-called "feeling led" for "I delight to do Thy will, my God." 3.

Of looking to second causes (Genesis 4. Of burdening myself as regards the results of any steps which it may be my clear duty to take. He is responsible. 5 Of any indulged sin, or neglect in maintaining habitual communion with God, lest, in emergency, there be any drawback to actual and immediate tel. graphic communication with, and direction from, the throne of grace (1 Samuel 14:37 Nehemiah "The Lord shall guide thee continually." Catholics and Protestants in Mexico.

New York Christian Advocate. In Penjamo, "Mexico, the cathedral was robbed of gold ornaments. A parish priest delivered a furious sermon accusing Prot estants of being the thieves. Great was the excitement. One Paz went out into th- street and attacked a Mexieau Prot estant at work in a chemist shop; in fact.

he hreu on several I rotestants with a pistol, and missed them all. One Protest ant returned the fire and killed him. If the Protestant thought his life in danger, he pursued the proper course. It was i ot a case of attempted martyrdom on ac count of his religion. The man was mere ly running amuck.

Mexico, until liberal ism gained the ase-endancy, was the direct result of nearly four hundred years of Roman Catholic domination. Beligious liberty exists there now, and Catholicism is slowly improving. But for many years the Protestants will have to contend against both open and disguised suspicion and hatred. We can affirm, however, that the Methodist Episcopal Church is "there to stay," proposing to maintain its own legal rights and respect those of Kouiaa Catholics. Manitoba School Question.

This vexed question appears to he ap proaching a settlement. It is said that ihe papal representative who has been invest! gating the complicated scnooi situation Canada has decided that all hostility to the present law on the part of Boman Cath olics must cease. Ibis decision is due in some measure to the fact that the clergy and those who side with them against the schools settlement are but a small part of the minority, and that most of the French Catholics prefer to follow Premier Laurier in his political poliey without interference from the church. I hen the recent elections in Quebec probably had something to do with the decision. A Vain and Dilusive Hope.

D. L. Moody points out in the "Ladies Home Journal one source of domestic in felicity and of divorces. The fact indicat ed by Mr. Moody is by no means one of re.

cent discovery; ni-vertheless, the warning utte-red by him needs to be given. He says: The most subtle and deceitful hope which ever existed, and one which wrecks the happiness of many a young girl's life, is tne common ueiusion mat a woman can best re-form a man by marrying him. It is a mystery to me how. people can be so blinded to the hundreds of eases in everv community whre tottering homes have fall en and innocent lives have been wrecked. because some young girl has ia marrying a scoundrel in tbe hope of caving FAIRY OF THE FIRECRACKER.

Queen indeed, though all uncrowned, Save with our devotion: Let our loyal praise resound Unto either ocean. She shall be our inspiration; Praising her, we praise our nation, So, to her, all hail I Blare of trumpets, roll of drums, Fireworks' golden shower; Glory-circled, lo she comes, Patriotism's flower. Fair of face and calm of mien, Fit to be a nation's queen, Hail to her, all hail! Sabbath Observance. Christian Work. The four'b, commandment require ns to reireniber the Sabbath day to keep it holy.

Centuries ago, when God delivered thi command by Moses to bis people, it was considered divine nuthority. Is this God-given command any less obligatory to-day We profess to be a Christian nation, and yet we are reckless and inconsistent enough to u-surp God's authority. It Is a painful fact that the tendency of the times is to violate this same command and to desecrate and dishonor the holy day. We are told to remember the seventh day. Surely we are reminded to do this when the glittering spire of handsome churches point heavenward, and silvery chimes peal forth a Sabbath welcome but do we remember to keep it holy? Far from it, when we deliberately plan to ignore (rod's sacred time, and when for our own selfish gratification we make a common holiday of the Sabbath.

Does Christ's example count for nothing Why must we his disciples grieve the heart of cur blessed Master by sinful indulgence in worldlr cares and treasures which lie has itrictly forbidden? Our Puritan forefathers ould scarcely recognize the Sabbath of to-day, and could but feel righteous indignation in the manner of observing it. They approved of and planned for the Sabbath; we are in attendance at fhe theater or are absorbed in hiet until a late hour on Saturday night. What a fine preparation for fte Sabbath! We have made a mistake in driftiEg so far away from the habits of our taibem in Israel. They were punctilious and conscientious in their attendance -ipon divine worship. eW allow the most trivial excuses to detain us from church-going, and arrange to say, even the weather affects our piety.

They heartily enjoyed the privileges of worshiping God in His sanctuary. The nominal Christian frequently 'gaores it altogether, or attends only for appearance sake. They were unswerving in their loyalty to God, and rendered implicit obedience to the fourth commandment by their reverence and love for the holy day. We pass ti the other extreme, and sin in willful disobedience, striving to please ourselves rather than God. We must have amusement and recreation on the Sabbath, so we find on entrance to the concert hall, the ground, and the skating rink.

We enjoy pleasure rides and the popular x-cmsicn; make the formal call and the visits; we peruse the Sunday newspaper and indulge in light literature; 'perhaps we transact business and dispatch letters. I there any reverence in nil this for Gcd's holy hours? Sunday dissipation is not confined to city limits; it has spread 'itwly hut surely until it has reached rural districts. Must we meet our business engagements early Monday morning, the 1'iiet Sabbath hours are utilized to save bme. Are the country roads blocked with oee drifts of snow, frequently a force wen are employed to open them to the public on Sundav. under the nlea that the requires it.

Is Ihere not a higher "aw ''filch requires us to honor God's day, and Prohibits all labor which might better be Postponed? Does the ice ctop threaten to jw a failure, extra wages are offered as an indocement to work on would be ashamed to be found ly-fog. stealing or swearing, but we openly defy God and abuse his holy day. We frequently hear it pleaded "there is no other time." Away with the flimsy, trivial excuse! It is a meager, stereotyped apology. What is the remedy for all this evil? We need to pray that the Ixrd will create In us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us, that we may spend theSabbath to meet hif. approval, that our minds may be elevated from worldly cares and pleasures and fixed upon Christ, that the blessed influence of Sunday may with us through all the week, helping over the hard places of our every -day life.

It is manifest that the world is full C( halfhearted Christians who follow Jesus from afar off. Wo need more spirituality, more complete consecration to Christ on bonded knee. If we love God we will revere and defend His holy day by our influence and example. Prayer in Secret. The Rev.

Andrew Murray. Christians often complain that private Prayer is not what it should be. They feel weak and sinful. The heart is cold and dark; it is as if they have so little to Pray, and in that little no faith or joy. They are discouraged and kept from Prayer by the thought that they cannot eome to the Father as tlwy ought, or as they wish.

Child of Gm1, listen to your Teacher. He tells you that when you go private prayeryour first thought must ce: The Father is in secret; the Father ahs mo there. Just because your heart is cqld and prayerless. get you into the 7y-pnv of the loving Father.1 Do not be ininking of how little you have to bring i woo, but of how much He wants to give yu. Just place yourself Wore, and look Ei uito His face; think of His love, His atomist is completed, the skeleton is takt into an adjoining apirtinent and mounted on a stand attached to an iron rod, or the ring which is inserted into the skull ia placed upon a hook at the end of a rope which depends from the ceiling, and hangs suspended.

The showroom of the factory indicates perhaps better than all else the exceedingly business-like methods of the establishment. It is very large and light and lired with glass cases containing specimen skeletons of giauts, dwarfs, negroes and strange races discovered by travelers iu foreign lands. Then there are skeletons of criminals wTith the name, date of execution and a record of the crimes on attached labels; skeletons of males and females of all ages; shelves of baby skeletons, huge of head and small of body, and others of all sorts. It was a strange place, and the strangest of nil things to me was the absolute nonchalance of everybody about. They appeared to consider the skeleton business nothing more out of the ordinary than' the selling of dry geods or the manufacturing of toys.

I do not believe that one of the persons in this place over which, it seemed to me, the shadow of death and the funeral pall always hung, had any of that physical fear of the discarded mortal Now the least important feature of the skeleton factory is the task of the Workmen who make it possible for the anatomists to wire the bones together. It may easily be understood that in fvery bone there must be bored a hole at each end of sufficient size to permit the passage A JOB LOT SKELETON. From a I'hotograpli. through of a wire. This is a very delicate task, for the bones split easily, and, ordinarily, when once split they are useless-.

In the workrooms where the more delicate portions of the task of placing the skeletons togetlier is performed, the sight is so odd that one really forgets its grew-scmeness. Here an anatomist is engaged in putting together the various bones which go to make up the hand. Another is putting the finishing touches on the botes of the foot, just as the shoemaker carefully examines the 6hoe before he terns it over to his assistant to be mada presentable. When the task of the an fell he saw and has learned authoritatively, is conducted on as strict a system as the most punctilious business house in the I'nitcd Kingdom. Never was the old "A place for everything and everything in its place more strikingly exemplified.

Every bone of the human body has its particular place, but when I had completed my inspection, the fact was forced upon me that hardly a single skeleton nrcug the countless ones that we see fiom time to time is composed of the' bones which nature originally placed together. In addition to the bodies that are sent to the factory from the dissecting school, I learned that travelers often have the cm ions desire to secure what they know are genuine skeletons of inhabitants of far away countries. Therefore, they obtain bodies of such persons and after having them embalmed, send them to London agenta of the skeleton factory, who at once see to it that the desire of the shipper is carried out. Many such skeletons are to be seen today in the anthropology ical museums in different parte of the world. It takes twelve months to put the human bones in pr.wer condition for wiring.

The first step, after the subject reaches the factory, is to cleanse the bones of the flesh. The subjects are therefore placed in tanks filled with water phonic acid. The next process is that of boiling in strong soda water, after which the subject is" consigned to a tank. When the bones have been thoroughly cleansed, they nre turned ever to skilled anatomists, whe wire them together so strongly that each Is sure to retain -its proper place. It is not always the case that the bones are wired together by the anatomists as scoh as they are in proper condition.

A tisit I paid to the stock rooms of the factory indicated that. There were shelves upon shelves on which were arranged With "grewsome regularity skulls that seemed to represent every type of humanity that has ever existed. Some of them 1 ad been, for one reason or another, broken into pieces and were held iu proper semblance by fine brass wires. Beneath these shelves ranging upward to a height of about four feet, were huge drawers filled with bones of every description, although they were not mixed to-gither, but the different sorts scrupulously kept bv. themselves.

There were vast nt riK and thigh bones. Lvcry ne of the bones in these dtawers was lettered and numbered, so that when the anatomists desired to wire a skeleton, they would simply write out an order for exactly what they wanted, by number anfl letter, and the component parts of the skeletons were son brought to them by one of the workmen. VISIT TO A LONDON SKELETON FACTORY It Does a Flourishing Business in Human Bones. A GRUESOME BUSINESS Its Location a Secret and This the First Authentic Story Concerning it-The Human Form the Stock In Trade. Written for the Democrat and Chronicle.

London, July keletou factory has been discovered in London. I rom ate procured the majority of the skeletons owned bv doctors, uuatoimeal museums etc It has existed for seme time, but rev" before has the public been made aware of the Uct. Its story told here for the hrst time, and the facts presented explain in large measure what has here-tetore been one of the mysteries'. Never was Masonic secret more carefully guarded than thi. one which included ih location and methods of this skele on it is certain that many of tlie medical men, in fact the greater propor-Uon who are customers of the skeleton factory are in absolute ignorance of its existence.

They know that certain perils can supply them with skeletons all wired and ready for use They ro i. no Questions, lor if tlte enougu Ma story that lie's wumu twij a inle of savagery and of wan- told. deseeiation would be revealed that ton it is better should be kept secret. At l-iiclish hosoitals. dissection i in.

allowed, so all unclaimed bodies are, nf time, transferrer! to the not uner ji medical schools, wlun-e, in the dissecting pcvilions, they become "subjects," and the students are taught the science of urtitomy by means of these realistic object lessons. The medical schools have no means of utilizing the bones of the subjects and so, when the operation of dissecting is completed, the subject is turned over to the representatives of the skeleton factory and promptly shipped by them to the place where the skull and cross-he nes are truly emblematic of the institution's character. The factory, which was visited by the writer, who therefore tolls only that which after tenement that exists in the heart of almost everyone. I learned in the course of investigating the matter that the London skeleton factory is an offshot of a parent, establishment in Paris, which has existed for nearly a century. I also learned that a similar institution was in full operation in New York and that both places were as busy as they could possibly be filling the orders.

This is perhaps accounted for by the statement to me by well-posted men that skeletons a year are needed to supply the demand. think this is nn exaggeration, but the demand is certainly very great. The Parisian factory is under govern, nieut supervision, but its secret, is well, guarded and few persons know of its ex-' istence, outside the pale of those who have daily business connection therewith. The factory in New York is located on, I have been told it is called, the East Side, though I am sure I do not know where that region is. It is said to employ nearly a hundred persons.

One of the most curious things about these establishments is the fact that all about them is kept secret so well. One would think in employing so many persons the facts would leak out, but they do not seem to. Certainly the skeleton factory is one of the most curious of modern institutions. I would not recommend it, however, to any one who is inclined to be nerrous..