Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 285, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1903 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAX, OCTOBER 12, 1903.

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To-Dny's Schedule. ENGLISH'S. "The Beauty Doctor," 1:15 p. m. GRAND. Vaudeville, 2:15 and S:13 p. m. PARK. "James Boys in Missouri." 2 and S p. m. EMPIRE. Burlesque, 2 and 8 p. m. UNIQUE. Variety, S p. m. At the Park this afternoon the sensational melodrama, "The James Boys in Missouri" will begin a half week's engagement. This play, with Its stage coach robbery, Its exciting exhibitions of heroism and its vllllanous deeds, has been seen at the Park several times before, and has always appealed strongly to the kind of audiences that are fond of having thrills hurled at thera In chunks over the footlights. The production thls'seaeson is said to be more pretentious In a scenic way than In past years and an effort has been made to provide a very meritorious company of actors. Charles Gardner plays the leading partthat of the outlaw, Jesse James and Is considered the best interpreter thf role has ever had "Hearts Adrift," another melodrama, is booked for the latter half of the week at the Park. The "Gay Morning Glories" Extravaganza Company will be the Empire's drawing card this week, beginning with the rr.atlnee this afternoon. The show is nnder the management cf the Scribner-Drew Company, which has sent a number of good burlesque combinations to this city in other ecasona. The Empire enjoyed good business all of last week, as an excellent attraction was presented, and if the present aggregation of burlesquers Is up to the standard of its predecessor the attendance at the home of burlesque is likely to continue to bo heavy. There are some well-known performers with the "Morning Glories," including the Mario-Dunham trio of celebrated acrobats. The chorun is said to be large and beautifully costumed. XXX Fred E. Wright's new musical comedy production, "The Beauty Doctor," by Howard Shelley and C. Herbert Kerr, will be given Its only Indianapolis presentation this evening at English's. This piece is brand new, having been produced in Philadelphia three weeks ago, and little is known of It aside from the fact that It has met with euccess In the cities where It has already been seen. The music Is said to be partic- " ularly meritorious. The principal comedians are Will Fhillbrick and Harry Stanley, the former an eccentric dancer of much ability and the latter a funmaker of the Weberfleldlan variety. Percy Walling is the leading singer among the men iu the cast and he is said to possess a fine baritone voice. It Is understood that Manager Wright has provided an unusually attractive aggregation of feminine entertainers, headed by lnlsy King. Delle Stacey. Lillian Rhodes and Mollle Egbert. Other well-known people In the cast are James Monley, Harry Walters, Adolph Adams and the Cardowne Bisters. Seme of the musical numbers that have been scoring hits in the East are "Loved One, So Pure and Tender," "Where Was Moses When the Light Went Out?" and "The Lobster and the Mermaid." The opera Is said to b lavishly staged, and it Is understood that the electrical effects are especially noteworthy. XXX The Grand offers a very Inviting proCramme as its current attraction. Robert Hiliiard, one of the most popular young meters on the American stage, will head the bill, presenting, with the assistance of three other players, a Utile drama called "Number 973" which has scored a great hit elsewhere. It contains both comedy and pathos and has attracted more than the usual mount of utteution among the vaudeville audiences of New York and Boston. Max Waldon. a "tranforrnation artist," who makes lightning changes of costumes, will be the feature next in importance on the programme. He comes from the European music halls ami has never been seen In this city before. Mr. and Mrs. Watrous, old time favorites among Grand patrons, will play th?ir annual engagement, rendering a number of new vocal solos and duets. Other entertainers on the bill will be Harry Thompson, a comedian who Is billed as "the man with the goods." Anna Caldwell, a monologuist. the Musical Westons, with a new act and the Brownings in a novel specialty. The bioscope will have a new series of moving pictures, some of the views belng of unusual Interest this week. XXX Two of the most Important events of the theatrical year In New York will take place to-night, when Richard Mansfield will open his season with his great production of "Old Heidelberg," and E. II. Sothern will present "The rroud Prince" In the metropolis for the first time. Mr. Sothern went directly to New York upon the close Of his Indianapolis engagement last Friday night. It will be interesting to observe the manner la which the new McCarthy miracle play Is received there. There is a great deal of curloßity among followers of theatrical matters regarding Mr. Mansfield's new proSuction, as the distinguished actor has kept the details of his forthcoming performance from the public. It is understood that he will make "Old Heidelberg" vastly different from the play on the same themo produced m New York last season by Aubrey Bouclcault. Mr. Boucicault played the part f Prince Heinrich as if the prince were but a youth. George Alexander, the EngUsn actor, showed London a prince that had lost the first flush of manhood, and Mansfield will follow his example. Unusual tare ha been taken to obtain faithful and Impressive scenic effects, and with a remarkably strong supporting company there bs every reason to believe that to-night's production will be a great success. xxx The engagement of Charles Frohman's Empire Theater Company at English's in "Lady Rose's Daughter" la for to-morrow and Wednesday evenings and a Wednesday matinee.' Fay Davis is being featured by Mr. Frohman as the heroine of this dramatization of Mrs. Humphrey Ward's most popular novel. Miss Davis made a very favorable Impression upon local playgoers when fche was seen in this city last spring s William Faversham's leading woman in the delightful comedy, "Imprudence." it will be remembered that her impersonation f "Billy." the young English girl, was one f the morft artistic performances seen In . Indianapolis during the season. Miss Davis ins the able eistancc of many competent flayers in acting "Lady Rose's Daughter,"

Including Guy Standing, William CourtleiKh. Louise Drew, W. II. Compton. Maggie Holloway Fisher, Arthur Elliott and Ida Wetherman. XXX The Unique Theater, the new Indianapolis amusement house, will open Its doors to the public this evening at 8 o'clock. After to-day there will be a matinee every afternoon, beginning at 3, and hourly performances every evening of the week, beginning at 8. The entertainment will be made up each week of an olio of vaudeville specialties and an attractive series of moving pictures. The principal performers of the opening bill are little Grace Morrison, a singer and dancer; Richards and Carlyle, In a musical act; John Doan, a balladlst, and Irving and French, comedians. The Unique Is located on East Washington street, opposite the Pembroke Arcade. It Is patterned after little theaters of the same name now running successfully In Minneapolis, San Francisco and other large Western cities. x x Mary Shaw, as Mrs. Alving In Ibsen's "Ghosts," Is said to present a finished and well-balanced work of art. One critic recently had this to say of her performance: "In her quiet, modern methods that sway the will and play upon the emotions, Miss Shaw indicates a refinement of intellectuality that appeals keenly alike to the connoisseur and to the multitude. With a grace and simplicity that is truly delightful she adds to the character an interest that is absorbing." Local literary people will be especially interested In the two performances at English's next Saturday, as this will be the tlrst time that an Ibsen play has been presented In Indianapolis with such a meritorious company. XXX Seats are now on sale at English's box office for the performances Thursday and Friday nights of "Lady Berinthla's Secret," by Mrs. Lo Moyne and her company. The play Is the work of Stanislaus Stange, author of the books of the successful comic operas, "Dollle Varden" and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," and Is said to be

f a very attractive comedy of London life In the year ltDS. IV 13 DO TOO MUCH. Even Wall Street Acknowledges We Are Too Strenuous. Wall Street Journal. This is the age of the men who do things. They are our leaders and heroes. We adore achievement; we worship success. The "strenuous life" has become our ideal, and the President of the United States, whom we all admire, is the exemplar of that life. There is a lack of great thinkers. The glory of our time is the men who do. We have no poets like those who inspired and charmed and soothed our forefathers. We Import our best music and our best art. If we produce some great painters and musicians they go to Europe, where the "atmosphere" Is more congenial. The air of this country is too bracing for fine arts, and the best thinking Is done in France and Germany, where life Is less rapid than In the United States. The types of our nation and time are the skyscraper, with its frames of steel, tho electric motor and the stock tape. We have now no great philosophers of calm, serene lives, like Emerson, who never did anything except to write a few thousand words which have left their Impress upon the life of tho world. We do not love money more than our forefathers did, but we love the making or money far more. We work fewer hours, but with more intenseness and nervous energy. We measure our labor, not by degrees and diplomas, but by horse-power units and kilowatt hours. The men who do things are not content with small achievements. They work on a scale of continents. They are the captains In the conquest of the markets. They build immense railroads and canals. They consolidate industries. They create big banks. They bridge oceans with ships. They regulate competition so as to reduce it3 weight. They are ever seeking new ways of making consumption keep pace .with the productive energies of the country! They are the men who keep labor employed. There is reason, therefore. In the admiration which we give to these men. Admiration is the coin which the world pay3 to its leaders. It is a great thing to be able to do things, not as most of us are content to do, by laying one brick upon another, but by waving a magic wand, or, like Aladdin rubbing a lamp, rear vast structures almost in a night, thousands of hands doing one's bidding. It is a great thing to be able to do one thing supremely well, to be able, like Stevenson, to say, "one thing I do." In this age we have specialized endeavor. Each man does one thing, and If he i3 of the right kind seeks to do that thing suüremely well. The result Is an astonishing rapidity and high quality of production. But it will be observed that the keynote which is always sounded Is, "do," "do." So intent are we on doing that we give ourselves very little time for thinking. Even In our recreation we are forever doing and never resting. With our nerves at the highest point of tension, we do not allow ourselves time for repose and thought. This ia the great defect of this tge. We not only do, but we overdo. We work, but we overwork. We play and we overplay. We eat and we overeat. We speculate and we overspeculate. The most pressing need Is more time for thought. After all, it Is not action that keeps things moving, but thought, and that nation Is not the greatest and the most powerful which does not produce men who think as well as men who do. This fact has a vital bearing upon the business situation. Much of our present depression in Wall street Is the result of overdoing and underthlnklng. We are too eager to get rich quick, and too eager to crowd Into half a decade what should have been the legitimate achievements of twenty years, that we are now paying the penalty of overpromotlon. And fact- Is that as a nation we have become a trifle too strenuous. HOME DRESSMAKING HINTS. By MAY MANTON. 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THE CHRISTIAN MOTIVE

SUBJECT OP SERMON BY THE REV. ALBERT Hl'ItLSTOXC. Xew Pastor of Roberta Park Church Delivers nn Interesting: Discourse to Ills People. "The Christian Motive" was the subject of the Rev. Albert Hurlstone's sermon at Roberts Park Methodist Church yesterday morning. He took his text from John vi, 26: "Ye seek me not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves and were rilled." Dr. Hurlstone said in part: "These texts bring before us the different motives which actuate people in Christian service. Indeed there are two incidents in the life of Jesus which indicate the varied motives which moved men to be His healers. In one instance multitudes Hocked about Him because of material interest; they did eat of the loaves and were filled;' and again we read, after Lazarus was raised from the dead many of the Jews came to the home of Martha and Mary in Bethany, where Jesus loved to be, and they came, 'not for Jesus' sake only but that they might see Lazarus who was raised from the dead.'. We set over against these motives the supreme motive of our second text as being the watchword which moved the great heart of Paul the apostle to his life of toil and privation for Christ's sake. "A man may become a follower of Christ because Christianity solves many problems and quickens the intellectual life of the Individual and the race. Like Zaccheus, hi3 curiosity may be aroused and he desires to know who Jesus is. Or he may be like the Athenians, who spent their time in search of some new thing. Many Hocked about the Nazarene because He was a worker of signs. Christianity feeds the intellect and attracts men of thought. Macaulay, the historian, was a man of this class, writing of Christ and Christianity, yet occupying a neutral position as to the surrender of his life to the Savior. Neutrality and indifference characterize many who are only drawn to Christ from an intellectual standpoint. Many, like Renan, write brilliantly of Christ who never bow the knee to Him in prayer. It la very good to say, 'Whatever may be the surprises of the future, Jesus will never be surprised.' It is better still to devote the life to Him in loving service. Is it not a fact also that many are found in our churches to-day who are drawn thither by the customs of the age? Christ is now accorded a social standing hitherto unknown. The church draws to Itself the best and brightest men and women of our day. The motive actuating us may be merely fashion, or custom. It is well to worship and work and give from still higher motives. THERE FOR MATERIAL, GAIN. "I have also met people who seemed to be in the number of Christ's followers because of material gain. And if business was not patronized as much by church people as was expected they became sour and critical. AS as, if trade, position, society are the highest motives alluring us to the church of Christ we shall be doomed to disappointment. Christ says, 'Come unto me,' not for policy, Interest or business, 'but seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.' It costs something to be a follower of Christ, It is true, but while the Master only calls for a tenth of our money and one-seventh of our time the enemy Is only satisfied when we have spent all, for the wages of sin is death. Religion is not a mere matter of aesthetics. Aesthetics or the science of criticism assumes that man is pleased with the beautiful and elevated by the sublime. Canons of taste lead many to ally themselves with Christ's followers. Many nonChristian writers testify to the moral excellence of Christianity. It Is a system of ethics. It enriches the literature, the art, the music, the life of the world. The church should be supported because its educational value is great. "Rut I submit there Is a loftier motive for Christian service. It is expressed in the words with which we close our prayers, 'for Christ's sake.' It is a personal motive. Every day finds us doing things for somebody's sake. It Is the secret of every kind of leadership. A favorite teacher, or soldier are familiar examples. For Arnold's sake the boys In Rugby School did many noble thlng-s. Truths and principles become quick and powerful through some person. It was a new era in the church's history when the followers of Jesus began to pray as He taught them in 'His name.' The name of Jcsua became the watchword of the whole Christian camp. It became the supreme motive of Paul's life, as it Is of every true Christians."It is an unselfish motive. Unselfishness Is the life and soul of what we call heroIsm. The unselfish are Christ-like. This spirit has created our Christian civilization. Across our churches, hospitals, orphanages, reformatories, asylums for daf and blind and poor shine the inscription, 'for Christ's sake.' This motive fired the souls of Livingstone, Carey, Judson, Taylor and the hosts of workers In earth's darkest places to-day. INTENSELY PRACTICAL. "This supreme motive is intensely practical. 'Do it for his sake.' 'Do it for her sake.' 'It will please him.' This moves the Christian to sacrifice and service. The nurse whose life is consecrated to the service of humanity receives the call of the bell In the hour of midnight as the sign that the 'Master' has come and calls for her. The power of a simple action done for Christ's sake is seen in John B. Gough, the renowned temperance orator. Ills whole life was redeemed by a gentle tap on the shoulder by Joel Stratton, who saw in the actual drunkard the possible saint. We have this motive In the epistle to Philemon, which is a simple plea by Paul asking that kindness may be shown to Onesimus, a converted slave, for Christ's sake. It may be an unconscious motive. Is not also a man's love for home and family? Does not this impel him to many a noble deed in the battle of life? Unconsciously this moving power is framing the life according to - tho divine ideal. This supreme motive fired the soul of Athenesius against the world. It has created great thinkers like Augustine. Aquinas and Calvin; It has led the reformers, such as Luther, "Wesley and Knox, to rise up and bless the world. Love to Christ is the greatest force in the world to-day. Judged by what it has accomplished and' is doing among men. Love is as old as Eden. Christ found it in the world when He came. For it man leaves home, country, friends; by it lover to lover has been made clear. In loving Christ you do not love a person simply; you love humanity. For Christ's sake we love all men, we love the possible saint in the actual devil, the Immortal soul within the sinful, temporal body. You give a cup of cold water for Christ's sake, and Jesus says: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these ye have done It unto me.' "Is this the motive of your life? Recently I 'wrote a young man who had left his home to take a situation in a large city. I urged him to purity of life and steadfastness in right doing. His reply to me was beautiful. He said-: I do not forget my mother's prayers and teaching, for her sake I shall endeavor to keep a clean record.' As mother's love is an Incentive to many a noble soul to-day, so let the Christ's undying love impel you to do Justice, to love mercey and to walk humbly with your God." FIRST FRIEXDS' CHURCH. "Heroes of Faith Described by Rev. Morton C. Pearson. Rev. M. C. Pearson, pastor of the First Friends' Church, yesterday morning preached on "Heroes of Faith." Hebrews xi. He said in part: In the chapter selected for our consideration this morning there is a series of illustrations or character sketches of the great men of faith in ages past. The author is not here attempting any general description of faith. His mind is full of a particular class of people who were under peculiar circumstances of temptation and difficulty, and yet mastered all their cares and perplexities in the power of their faith. His message to his readers seems to be that what has been done in ages past can be done now. What has been done, we can do. The writer does not deal here. with belief, or an assent to particular statements of truth; nor does he mean saving faith or the acceptance of Jesus as Savior; nor yet to trust or confidence, which Is a personal feeling or relation to God. But the faith to which he does refer is that power in man which makes "real" to him that which is generally considered "unreal." By unreal we mean the unseen. Men usually call material things real and spiritual things unreal. The deeper truth of this

chapter is that the spiritual is, after all, the real, while the material is but as its shadow, and hence unreal. What he would make clear is that man has within him a power that is altogether higher than s-nse. He can come into touch with that which cannot be seen. He can hear that which the ear does not hear. He can, by the power of faith, feel the unreal. The power in man to live in the unreal, to have spiritual environment, is man's high calling and dignity, and thus he is lifted above the animal, the creature, which has no upward look. Faith makes man a new creature, a nobler creature, a higher creature. He lives in the spiritual, hence God is real to him. Righteousness is real, heaven Is real. By the power of this sublime faith he endures, he suffers, he conquers. Ho is Influenced, not by the material world only, la so far as he is legitimately related to it. but his life is influenced, his conduct controlled by the spiritual world where he really lives, moves and has his being. This is the faith which Christianity cultivates, develops, ennobles, purifies, and which is impressively and attractively set forth in the lesson to-day. This faith is essential to man's highest and best interests. This is, after all, a life of faith. By faith we understand. By faith we live. Not a day passes by without the exercise of faith. The early pioneer came into this State when all was forest and swamp and wilderness. It was not then peculiarly attractive. But he looked into the future and saw the beautiful landscape that meets our vision to-day. His faith took hold of the unseen, the unrealized. By faith he clears the forest, he drains the swamp, he cultivates the soil, he rears his family. He lived in the unreal, and we to-day are enjoying the fruits of his toil and sacrifice. We exercise the element of faith in all our relation to men in business and social life. A man places in your hand a bank note. You do not see the money for which it stands, nor the food and clothing which may be purchased with it; yet all these are yours and you rest satisfied that all Is well. In some such way these heroes looked up and recognized that God was real and near. They saw Him face to face and were satisfied. They heard His voice and talked as with an earthly friend. God taught them the lessons of life and the mystery of divine discipline. By faith they moved, by faith they triumphed. Faith was understanding and did for them ail that understanding could do. No man ;an estimate the worth and Influence of lives like these. "He being dead, yet speaketh." Their influence increases with the years. David, Calvin, Knox, Bunyan, John Howard are all gone, but wherever Christian people are their lives speak forth burning messages of love, faith, courage, truth and good will to men. George William Curtis said there were three orations which would live through all time. The first by Patrick Henry, celebrating the valor of the 1.0U0 martyrs to the cause of liberty. The second by Abraham Lincoln on the bloody field of Gettysburg. The third by Wendell Phillips in memory of the martyred Lovejoy. All these tell us of faith and sacrifice. They lived and died for others. . t Ah! This is life! To live, to give, to believe, to labor, to die for the good of the race. " THE FOUNDER OF A RACE

J. Ct'MMIXG SMITH TALKS ABOUT ABRAHAM THE PATRIARCH. 1 He Was a Grand Old Chieftain, Essentially Human-Lessons From Tfce Old Testament. "Abraham's Supreme Moment" was the theme of J. Curamlng Smith's sermon yesterday morning at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church. The text was taken from Hebrews xl, 13: "And the temple of God was open in heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His testament, and there were lightnings and voices and thunderings and an earthquake and great hail." Dr. Smith said in part: "The advantage of inspired seers in the Bible was a close view of God. They lived in the presence of sublime realities which never dawn on the gross souls of clay. They saw the beauty of every-day things as common men never see it. Most men are like automobile racers who rush with thunder down our finest avenues without any glance at the sloping lawns or sightly houses; they make so much noise and dust that they never hear the sweet, beguiling music from happy social circles. Most men tear and race through the world and never stop to see the best or hear the best, and such men venture from their vulgarity to despise the opposite type of men with rich souls. How can mud appreciate white marble? ESSENTIALLY HUMAN. "The disadvantage, however, of having been inspired to write the Bible is that because they were inspired we infer that they were not human. We canonize the saints. We read of their courage at the martyr's stake and we fancy that they never wavered or felt the twinge of pain. They become superhuman, celestial, translunar almost, and, therefore, we lose the real secret of their struggling lives.. "Now, Abraham was a grand old chieftain, an Arabian sheik, hardy, Impetuous, chivalrous, proud and ambitious to found a long line of heirs, who should rule the world. To make a seraphic being of such a splendid type of ancient robustuess is to lose the key to his life. Indeed, we say, pause a moment to observe that to love a good man is a proof of a good heart, but to overpraise and deify him, to lift him up off the ground and ascribe imaginary excellencies to him, is the cruelest unklndness. You raise too high expectations. He cannot live up to your eulogies. You may bestow an overdrawn panegyric on the. dead, and that is bad enough;- but to exalt a genial, lovable neighbor to too high a rank is to doom him to be disappointing to critical observers. "As a proof of the undue loftiness and vagueness of the Bible characters, it is only necessary to mention the names of Abraham or Daniel or Amos in any circle of culture, and then to see how little weight or charm those names carry. They do not appear concrete, historical or worldly. A mythical element enwraps them as the smoky haze bedims the autumn laudscape. "Of recent years the Bible ' has grown more real and domesticated. Mention an eagle or lioa to a farmer and It excites only an abstract Interest; but tell him that an eagle has swooped on his back yard, or that a lion prowls back of the barn, and at once there Is the keenest Intensity of interest. You bring things near and the farmer realBIBLE SPARES NO ONE. "The Bible is matchless for its tender or every-day realism. It paints human nature just as It was and spares nobody. Its heroes and heroines are flesh and blood, not ghosts cr spectres or emaciated monastics. So of its theology. It is the unveiling of a God close to us in nature and constructive genius, and we know Him as we read the long, long story of His treatment of the Jews. To make himself more tangible, more corporeal and matter of fact, He became incarnate and assumed the thorny programme of our common history. The entire philosophy, therefore, is a movement of the infinite love downward with sweet pressure upen our regular throbbing, careworn world. He did not require to change His essential self as the avalanche pressing and grinding downward has to melt Into pearly streams before the floral meadows could welcome its down coming. The avalanche must change to be accepable. God does not need to alter or metamorphose himself, but only to exhibit His intrinsic nature of love and wisdom to allure our humanity. However, theology takes the great concrete manifestations and mystifies them, surrounds them with endless cobwebs pf speculations until all the reality fades from the picture. We turn the living persons Into skeleton.. "Abraham was a rare primitive patriarch with redeeming faults. We must not put him on too sublime a pedestal lest we dehumanize him and lose the pith of the story. We read that he left his father's kindred, and as a boy I remember seeing In a Sunday-school book a picture of everybody weeping and handkerchiefs were profuse, while as Abraham took his leave of the old home and over in the corner was a nervous angel that gave Abraham scant time for adieu. "Now the historic fact Is that Abraham was a born emigrant, ambitious to acquire some territory elsewhere and lay the foundations of a clan or colony fit for war and destined to conquer the earth. ABRAHAM A COLONIZER. "So far this was the natural condition of primeval life. Abraham was a colonizer by instinct, a Brlgham Young, only perhaps more dutiful, a mighty chieftain with far-reaching plans. The tendency of higher

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FREE criticism Is not to destroy the Bible, but to remove the fictitious elements and make those old seers walk the earth like real men. As Abraham traveled he necessarily encountered all sorts of difficulties; but pioneers have always been too sturdy to be swung from their course by obstacles. And Abraham had the vision of the city eternal, the race which should spring from his loins and perpetuate the principles of righteousness. It was a vivid vision that cheered him in the darkest hours. All great men have lived by the invisible that would become visible. Obstacles are not always unwelcome to daring frontiersmen. Often they excite valor and brush away the routine of common events. By and by Abraham came to a sheer wall of granite. He could not scale it. He could not tunnel it, nor find any escape. He expected to found an empire through his son Isaac. God gave him that solitary hope. Then the some (Jod told him to slay the son and still entertain his patriotic hope of a race. It was a fiat contradiction to common sense. It was telling a man to cross the gorge and yet pull down the bridge first. Abraham quailed. He was human and the command must have dazed him. After torturing moments he rose to the exigency offered to slay his only son; the knife gleamed In the air. And lo! it found no sheath In the breast of the outstretched boy. An angel arrested the father's arm. It was Abraham's obedience Just where obedience touched the most sensitive center of his life. "Now in every man's life there is the sensitive nerve. He can endure a thousand setbacks, but when Providence draws a keen edge of steel across his cherished Idols or deep-harbored prospects, the case is altogether different. There are some men very indifferent to the breath of fame, and so long as you do not calumniate them as to Imperil their chance of livelihood they are not hurt by any whisper of depreciation.. But suppose you touch them where the nerves center in a love of money and they spring at your throat like a quick tiger. They care more for their hoards than for their families or their gardens or their reputation. They would sell their souls for gold. Such men are found everywhere. Now the real strain of life comes to such a man when he is forced to part with the wealth he hugs to his bosom. SELF-DISSECTION. "If you want to dissect yourself and discover exactly what sort of a man you really are under all the masks yon may wear, just ask what you would sooner part with, or rather what you would keep to the last if everything was to be wrested from you, and then you will gauge your character. You would be surprised at the critical analysis of yourself and perhaps shamed at the naked revelation of your controlling affection. "Then suppose the command came from heaven that In order to save yourself you must abandon your favorite pursuit or tear down your dearest idols. Could you do It? Did Abraham do it? "It is plain as day that the willingness to surrender our complete selves to the will of God is the Ideal of a Christian. A man may be saved and yet reserve a hundred sources of self-feeding and self-pampering. but he cannot be a complete or effective Christian keeping things back and offering only a fraction of himself to God. "If, however, he gives up all his dreams and ambitions in a consecration to the new Master he does not lose them. Abraham offered Isaac, but he did not lose Isaac. He possessed Isaac ever afterward and never before. A millionaire offers his millions to God and then God hands back those millions to him to use as a banshee of wealth. The artist offers God his imagination and God returns It enriched and glorified to the artist to use for the highest purposes. "This applies closely to the young men whose ardent life God covets and calls for. They do not give up everything, but rather get back everything to use for the highest ends of life. They are all the more thoroughly thmselves . when they become Christian. And surely our mighty land needs young men of Christian Ideals as never before. There is no room for a cowardly or self-gorging Christianity in these strenuou.s times. And when the sacrifice is made and the choice of Christ is fixed there comes the supreme opportunity for character. The very sacrifice becomes a steppingstone to moral prreatness and eternal growth. May we all have such a call from God and offer ourselves to Him." PERSONAL AND SOCIETY. Mrs. Emma Wilson, mother of ex-Senator Henry I Wilson, arrived yesterday morning from the State of Washington and will remain in Indianapolis permanently. Among those who have booked passage on the Hed Star liner Finland, which sailed yesterday for Antwerp from New York, were W. C. Allen and Cornelia Daggett, of Indianapolis. - On account of the illness of Mrs. RIdenour the meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Meridian-street Church will be chanced to the home of her daugh

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ter, Mrs. Stewart, 2018 North Capitol avenue, to-morrow at 2:30 p. m. The Lady and the Tankard. Wrapt in a gloating mood, the bargain lady sat facing her husband In the family library after dinner. Between them, on the polished oaken table, sat an old. dull brass tankard, a foot tall, bound with mellowed copper bands half an Inch wide, topped by a low-curved lid, on which were old copper hop leaves, with an old copper hop blossom as a center ornament. The quaint curved handle and the little lip of the tankard were also of beautiful old copper. The man, too, was visibly in a gloating mood. He lifted the rare old tankard and looked around it, looked Into it, looked under It; then he set it off on the brown table at an artistic distance and looked at It. "That's great," said the man. "That's great Where did you say you found It?" "At Joblots's," the bargain lady Joyously explained for the fifth time. "It had just been brought In with a lot of other old things by an old German lady, who said it was her grandfather's tankard, and that he said his father brought It from Germany years and years ago. It is more than a hundred years old any one can see that at a glance." "Of course," the man said musingly; "look at that beautiful old brass and old copper, and this riveted lid and handle. Don't yon ever let anybody touch it1 to clean It up or polish it." "No, indeed," cried the bargain lady. We will keep It right in here; it will blend charmingly with our old oak things and old brown leather books. Right on the corner of the oak mantel-shelf is the place for It-ron an old, old brown leather book, with some of your old Dutch pipes behind it" "That's so," said the 'man. "You're a clever girl, and this old tankard is great. There is not one In town like it, or in the State, either.' Then the man glanced down and noticed the bargain lady's foot extended on the rug. "Goodness!" he exclaimed, "what alia your shoe?" ,"Oh, Henry," said the bargain lady, pulling her foot out of sight and half blushing, "I've got only one shoestring In each shoe. I didn't know I was out of shoestrings, and had gone down town to buy some and some other things. But I spent every cent I had on this old tankard, and couldn't get them." "Seven dollars for an old tankard, and one shoestring in each shoe!" commented the man. "But the lovely tankard-Henry" That's so." said Henry. 'The tankard's great It's great 1" Mean for a Dar Suggestions furnished by Table Talk to housekeepers of moderate means: Farina Sugar and Cream Broiled Bacon Fluted Potatoes Date Muffins Coffee Lunch. Baked Tomatoes and Macaroni. Apple Sauce Cake Tea Dinner. Noodle Soup Beef Croquettes Tomato Sauce Baked Sweet Potatoes. Creamed Onions Cehry Mayonnaise Wafers Cheese Carrot Pudding Coffee The American Child. The Ladles' Field. My American cousin came to call to-day, bringing her parents along. My transatlantic relative Is aged exactly twelve. She is called Elizabeth, and she lives in St. Louis. I had never seen her before, and I felt that I was under the ordeal of a strict scrutiny, but all ended well, and the good understanding between the two countries is happily Intact. On the whole, I think Elizabeth approved of me and especially of my drawing room. She had a good deal to say about the water colors and bronzes, showed a suitable curiosity about my old Venetian copper, and was not above accepting a green majolica from the fortress of Gibraltar. When the whim takes her, Elizabeth

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