m a A. .J lately!”
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andashesowed somefell by the wayside,
and it was trodden down, and the fowls‘
of theair devoured it." In verses ll and
iii we have ills own. explanation . _
verse ii and will therefore take them here
and seen through the lesson. The seed is
the word of God. In 1 Pet. i, as, it is called
ineorruptibie seed which liveth and abid-
eth forever. In Math. xiii, 87, He that
aoweththegoodeeed lathe Souof man,
but in the next verse the and seed lathe
children of the kingdom.
6. “And some fell upon a rock, and as
soon as it was strung up it withered away
because, it lacked moisture.” Matthew
and Mark say It had not much earth and
withered when the sun was up because it
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terday and is laughed at by his fellows,
who want to know when he turned his
back on them and how soon he intends to
depart for the foreign field Thus he is
offended, and eaten conquers.
7. “And some fell among thorns, and
the thorns sprang up with it and choked
it." Mark iv, 7, says it yielded no fruit.
14. This verse, with Math. xiii, 29, and
Mark iv, ill, 19, gives light on the thorny
ground hearers. These seemed to be really
saved people. The failure with them is
fruit not salvation. The cams and riches
and pleasures of this life, with the lusts
of other things, choke the word, and they
bring no fruit to perfection. There are
many who think that if they can only
make sure of heaven that is everything,
and having received Jesus as their Saviour
they are burdened with business or house-
hold carcs or carried way with pleasures
or other things, as studies or pursuits of
various kinds. They accept Jesus as Bav-
iour, but not as Lord. They expect to
crown llim Lord of all when they get to
heaven, but know nothingof it here. They
are described in I Cor. ill, 15, as losing
their Works and saved auby a fire. They
are not abiding in Him for fruit bearing
and would be ashamed if He should come
(I John ii, :28; John xv).
8. “And other fell on good ground and
sprang up and bare fruit an hundrcdfold.
And when lie had said these things he
cried, lie that both cars to hear let him
hear." Matthew and Mark say that this
seed brought forth some thirty, Some pixty
and some a hundredfold.
15. This, with Math. xiii, 23, and Mark
iv, 90, lerrvcs us in no doubt as to who are
meant by the good ground. The honest
and good heart must indicate the new
heart born from above, which was proba-
bly also in the last class of hearers. Those
hear the word and receive it and keep it
and with patience bring forth fruit to the
praise of life name who redeenieth them.
While all true believers are equally ssncti~
fled in Christ by ills one offering (Hub.
1, 10, it), it is equally true that We are
daily being sanctified as to our daily life
by His word of truth (John xvii, 17). All
God’s dealings with His people are in or-
der that they may hear more fruit, for lie
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of the is glorified when we hear much fruit (John
xv, 6, 8). To this end we must remember
that Jesus said in this connection, “With
3* Blue M out Me or apart from Mo ye can do noth-
ing,” or, as in Hos. xiv, 8, "From Me is
thy fruit founi ." l! we as believers
ever find ourselves trying to abide or try-
ing to bear fruit, we may be sure that we
arenot right, for quietlyaii the branch
abides in the vine and as quietlyss the
vineiieors fruit, through its branches so
quietly will lied by ills Spirit bear fruit
through us in .lesus' name when we are
fully yielded to film. We need not plan
anything for God, for “we are ills work-
manship, created in Christ Jesus unto
goodworks, which God hath before pre~
pared, that we should walk in them" (Eph.
ii, 10). if we simply and whole eartediy
yield to Him, lie will work in a both to
will and to do of iiis’good pleasure these
things which are well pleasing in life
eight (Phil. ii, iii: ileb. xiii, ill). Home
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tion and want to know why (led gave us
brains and common sense if lie did not
want us to be self reliant and plan and
work out things for ills glory.
9. “And ills disciples asked Inn, say-
ing, What might this parable be?" In
Mark iv, lo, it is written that “when lie
was alone they that were about llim with
the twelve asked of lllnr the rabie. " So
in Mark xiii, ii. i, we find that ter, James,
John and Andrew asked.llim vately
about certain utters. lie all] has an
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limitations and hindrances are on our
side, not on tile.
10. "And He said. Unto on it is given
to know the mysteries of t e kingdom of
God, but to others in parables, that see-
ing they might not seemed hearing they
might not understand." This is not a
some think, who suppose that He taught
in parables in order to make Ills teaching
moreplsin. Observe, He says that they
might not see and not understand. lie
had taught them plainly and without per-
ablee until they refused Him and sought
to lrill Him, but new that the kingdom ls
tohspee’t ed till Ills return Retellsln
parables characteristics of this present
known as the period of the mystery
tb'ekingdorn. A parable is like the
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‘0 BIMWIJ, goers receive the word with joy, possibly
, NOW '0“: N- 7- talk it over on the way home and at the
Department. Room “0 “an dinner table, but some one says something
~ » ' against the preacher, a slander old or new,
. or perhaps one says that higher criticism
' . has disposed of the whole pmge which
, . the preacher spoke from, and the foundai
. I tion of his remarks is thus swept away.
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, .UPl DON'T [08E COURAGEI momma: talkie! u... soon sermon or yes-
Iiay ride pestltwe or three. hundred nul-
aud nevseliaveeaidesthetthereie
belies!“ toriskaehctatyou. As you
DI- the seaweed he works his body
around soaeto keepit alwayeialiaewith
the plant and you. Even on the ,
prairie. with no more eheltbr than
aflorded by some little inequality of ear
he will sift dust over his body,fiat-
tea innit outrfaoe downward, miner
the ground, and. lying as motionless as a
stone; will escape the observation of say
except sharp and practised eyes.
“A queer experience of this kind ooi.
curred to me in my service in Ariaona
during Geu.Cmok’e last campaign against
theApaehee. Tom Merriam of my troop
and myself were detailed to carry des-
patehee from Camp Bowleto Camp Grant,
up on the Rio Benito. It was a dangerous
service at that time, and we had to keep
a sharp lockout and be ready to fight or
run at a moment’s notice. for there was
“no knowing at what point on the route
the Apaches might not be lying in wait to
jump us as we came along.
“We were on our i.turn to Camp Bowie
and had just crossed Xhe wooded canyon
where the cold spring a, and were coming
outvupou the open prairie that stretches
down" tilt the San Pedro River, when
through the branches of a low tree I saw
what I took to he an ludisu on the plain,
about a half mile ahead. iiut on spurring
my horse forward so as to get a better
look, nothing was to be seen except the
bare prairie, with no sign of man or beast
upon its expense.
"As we rode along I spoke of the matter
to Tom, who laughed at what he called
my scare, which he said caused me to see
imaginary Indians. We came opposite a
low, gray boulder upon the prairie two
hundred paces or so from the trail.
“ ‘I don’t remember.ever to have seen
that rock before,’ said Tom, who had been
over the route several times. 'How in the
devil did it get there? l‘li ride over and
take a look at itl’ And be ruined his horse
and rode toward the object. I followed
him; a few yards behind.
“His horse had scarcely taken a dozen
steps when the seeming gray rock moved
slightly upward and there came from its
lower edge a flash and a report with the
scream of a big calibre ball that (lapped
Tom's coat with its wind and caused his
horse to pillage so suddenly that Tom,
one of the best riders in the troop, not
being on the lookout for such it happen-
ing, was thrown. At the some instant
an Apache leaped from beneath the gray
blanket that had served him to lllllfiqllt'l"
ads as a boulder. and ran like a deer for
the canyon, leaping to left null right as
he went to avoid the shots that Tom and
i sent after him from our repeating eur-
blues.
"We knocked up the (lust about his
feet and made him do mine lull (lodging
to the whistling of our bullets, but that
was all, for we didn't hit him. To have
chased him would have been folly, first,
because we were hearing despuiches in
haste and needed the lastouuceof reserve
force in our horses, and. secondly, because
with the start he had we should not have
overhauled him in his run for the canyon,
into which we could not have followed
him. So we took the trail again and rode
our way with another wrinkle added to
our experience of lndisu trickery and
cussedness."»-N. Y. Sun. '
A BRAVE BOSSY.
The Cow Saved Ker Calf by Whipping a
urixely Bear.
"L’suailyncow does not stand much
chance when she engages in a hand-to
hand conflict with a grizzly bear.” said
Michael Ayers, a Colorado stockman,
“but several year» ago one of my cows
killed one of those animals and came out
of the struggle without a «crutch.
cow had recently given birth to a calf. It
being her firstborn, the mother was ex-
ceedingly vicious, and it was unsafe for
a stranger to approach her. as her horns
wore long and pointed. 'l‘iie cattle shed
had a thatched roof, and was scooped
out of the hillside a short distance from
the house.
“One night a bear, having smelt the
presence of a cow and calf. mounted the
roof of the shed and proccedcd to force an
entrance by scratching through the
thatch. ’l‘he cow at the some time de-
tected the presence of the hour, and held
herself in readiness to receive the intrud-
er. The noise of a terrible struggle
aroused me, and grabbing a lantern I
rushed from the house, and opening the
shed door found the cow in u frantic
state, butting and tossing found fro some
large object, which evidently had lost al‘
power of resistance. it turned out to b
a goodmlzed grizzly, which had been run
through and through the body by the
courageous mother. The little calf was
nestled In a corner, sleeping peacefully,
and seemed uumindfui of the maternal
struggle. lsuppose that as soon as the
bear gained an entrance through the roof,
it was pinned to the ground by the
cow's born» before it had time to do any
damage."
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lately been achieved by the Commercial
Cable Company. A message and the re-
ply to it were transmitted in ninety see-
ends from Manchester, England, to Vie
terla, British Columbia, the total distance
being 13,000 miles.
Wilson liedklnson, sCansdisn produce
worker of liyde’s Cross, Withy Grove,
.lanehsster, knew several weeks before
but it would be absolutely necessary on
lept. 94 to communicate with his men-
agei- at Victoria and that every mend he
had to wait for the answer would cost his
company many pounds. .
Be notified his agent and the cable
company of the facts. and on the eventful
day sent hln message and received the su-
swer in a minute and s half.
‘l‘he Soldieriy Way.
The lady was seeking to be disagree-
able to the young army officer.
“i suppose." she remarked, with a faint
user. "that sometime in your career you
have beateira retreatl"
“l have madame," he admitted without
ablusli. '
"Ah, indeed? Will you tell rue how
yea did it!"
“Certainly, realism. fold ilbynahiug
fl Whilst. rm lists a retreated to
steels." ‘ . « - v
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In a recent issue of the Sunday World
that was a remarkable story of a white
El: queen who rules against her will in a
tb Bea island. Thutery aye:
The pen of that prince of modern
reissue-rs. Louis Stevenson. never wrote
a more strangely interesting tale than the
one brought to the World from the South
Sea Island by Capt. Luttrell, of the trail.
lug hark, Helen W. Alley, which arrived
the other (is in San Francisco. «
The Captain tells of meeting a white
Queen of a race of savage black men,
daughter of a white father, who was
the son of an American named Young,
who early in the century was cast ashore
on the island of Mona.
This beautiful young woman, through
her grandfather’s marriage with a cat vs
cedented chain of circumstances been
placed on the barbaric throne against
her‘wlll, forced to fullflll the‘functlous of
saovereigu, according to u'ative custom
with Queens, kept almost constantly in
confinement in the palace. '
This charming white South Sea Queen
is furthermore in love-in let's with a
handsome young Samoan chief whom she
met while perfecting her English educa-
tion at Apia, and whom she hopes tore-
joiu when she can succeed in making her
escape.
The Queen in her story of berlife, told
to Captain and Mrs. Luttrcll of the Helen
W. Almy, said that about 75 years ago
her grandfather was cast on the island,
and the‘nativcs, who had never seena
white man, took him for a god. He mar-
ried a native woman, and a son was born
who married the sister of the ruling
monarch.
“I am the eldest child of the son, and I
was named Margaret," she said. “My
grandfather in his declining years took
an interest in me greater then in his own
son, and he taught me the language of
his youth. l showed an aptitude for study,
and one day, when l was quite a big girl
my grandfather took me to Apiain one
of thelittle trading vessels that had then
commenced to call at Muus at long in-
intervals.
“Thcy were all manned by Summer,
and my grandfather was the only white
man that i ever seen, and [did not be-
lieve him when he told m'e that there
were more white men of his kind where
he came from than I could count. Apia,
I thought, was a wonderful place, and.
after showing me the few things of civil-
ization there, which aflected him as much
as they dill me, he left me in a convent,
and, with a sigh, he turned from the few
recollections of his youth and returned
to his adopted home.
"i was a favorite with the sisters. Ll‘hcy
took a great interest in me, and l became
an apt pupil. Two years ago i returned,
and when i left Samoa this tortoiscsheil
ring was given me by a young chief, to
whom. as he put it on my finger, I
pledged myself to return. That was two
years ago. and here lam, kept a prisoner,
yet a queen. The chief came to Mona a
little while ago, but they would not let
him see me.
“Shortly after I came back the King
died in a plague that swept over the he
lands, and l was chosen the ruler. My
father and my grandfather tried to have
some one else chosen, but the chiefs would
not deviate from the custom that has for
years been honored by the natives. '
“it is the custom of the people of Muna
not to choose the sues-ceiling monarch
from the direct lineal descent of the ruler
but to take the eldest child of his or her
brothers or sisters. In that way, through
marriage, l became Queen of the islands.
A queen has not the right to marry, and,
if the eldest daughter should be married
the next in line is chosen.
"My people claim that a Woman by
marrying becomes subservient to her bus
band, and the— appoiuted ruler in that
case is not the ruler at all, but simply the
slave of her husband, who is really the
King, but has no right to hold that oflice.
The Queen is not allowed to entertain
company our allowed herselfto be seen,
except by two virgins, who are appointed
to keep her company.
“Shela not allowed to walk outside the
palace walls, and if_ it should bri‘her de-
sire to visit any psrt of the island two
chiefs appointed by the council place a
“large box on the veranda before the door.
The maids carry it into the palace and
into it the Queen gets. The maids then
carry it‘buiside and the tvvo chiefs sling
it on a pole and carry it wherever she dei
sires to go. l’eep holes are provided in the
sides of the box, through which she can
look without being seen.
Ever since she has been forced upon
the throne she has been looking for a
chance to escape to Apia. Her father,
with the assistance of the young chief
from Samoa, was preparing a plan by
which she could be spirited sway, and
some of the lumber taken down by the
Aliny was to be used in building a vessel
Thoughts for Reflection.
Others are affected by what I am and
say and do. And these others have also
their sphere of influence. So that a single
act of mine may spread in widening cir-
cles through a nation of humanity.-
William ii). Charming.
The devil never knows just what to do
with the man who keeps his religion when
he loses his money.~ltsnr’s iloru.
Look (oil into thy spirit‘s self;
The world of mystery scan!
What if thy way to faith In Nod
Hhouhmle through faith in maul
~Bright.
It is not worth seeking the kingdom of
God unless we seek it first.-—Philipe
Brooks.
it takes a considerably more piety to
make a mun thankful to God for what he
hasdone than prayer fully dependent upon
God for what he would like to have him
do.-C. ll. Psrkhurst.
New. this is what l‘d have you learn,
The darkmms world for light doth yearn.
Bo try to make ycur whole life seem
Unto the «fifth a bright sunbeam.
God is tiw Author bf ell light;
lint you run make yenrilfe so bright
That it ii iii help you every day
To be. infirm. Hell‘s iruanl ray.
wh‘errrr Marlyn.
Ila lip-te-date Bey.
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Nobody has ever mm success by sitting
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