BOYS, in your play be very careful not to leave the garden-gate open. There are some pigs running about, and if the gate is left open, my fine garden will be ruined. Now be sure to remember."
With these words and a parting glance at the weedless rows of beans, peas, and potatoes, of which he was justly proud, Mr. MacOwen sprang into his buggy and drove to his office in the city.
Mr. William MacOwen was a prosperous business man, and his suburban home was ideal in its arrangements and surroundings. The garden was his special delight, and he had spent much of his leisure time that spring in caring for it. It now gave promise of rich returns for the labor bestowed.
The determined nature and rather austere manner of Mr. MacOwen made him distinctly the head of the family. His sweet-faced wife, with true Christian grace, had done much to soften the hard lines of his character. He loved her devotedly, and her womanly influence was exerted with so much tact and in so gentle a manner that he was almost unconscious of its power. The two boys, John and Will, feared the respected papa, and loved mama. They were manly little fellows, full of fun, but possessed of a true sense of honor and justice.
That evening when Mr. MacOwen returned to his home, what was his consternation to find the garden-gate open, the beds uprooted, and his fine garden plants torn and trampled into fragments. He stood at the gate a moment looking upon the ruin that had been wrought, then turned toward the barn, where he heard the voices of his boys at play. As he passed the low boughs of an apple-tree, he carefully selected a suitable switch, and trimmed it to his liking. His air was that of a just man about to inflict punishment upon the guilty.
Dry Dock, New York Navy Yard. There are three dry docks at the New York (Brooklyn) Navy Yard. One of wood and two of stone. The largest is 650 feet long, 70 feet wide, has a draft of 29 feet, and cost considerably over $2,000,000. The great steam pumps of this dry dock can completely empty it of water in about four and one-half hours.
When John and Will saw their father coming, they stopped playing and held a hurried consultation; then John, the elder, stepped forward and said:
"We are sorry the garden is spoiled, father, but —"
Gun shop of the Navy Yard, Washington, D. C. The cut shows the monster traveling cranes overhead that can pick up any of those large guns and place them in whatever position may be desired by the workmen. It also shows the work of turning and boring the guns.
"No explanation is necessary. I must teach you boys to remember what is told you. No excuse can justify such disobedience."
"But, father," began poor John.
"Not another word," replied Mr. MacOwen; and strong and steady were the strokes that fell upon the unresisting boy.
Little Will stood by with white face and trembling lips. When his turn came, a hard look crept into his little face, making it resemble in a marked degree the older, sterner face that bent above him.
When the demands of justice had been fully met, Mr. MacOwen attended to some work about the barn, and then went to the house. He entered the pleasant sitting-room, and found his wife in her easy rocker, with an arm around each of the little culprits. After a moment or two had passed, she quietly asked:
Courtesy of the Scientific American. Interior of shell-house, showing pile of loaded shells for U. S. Battle-ship "Rhode Island," incased in rope slings ready to be loaded on board.
"Why did you whip the boys?"
"Why did I whip the boys?" her husband repeated in a tone that betokened much surprise. "Have you not seen the garden, Mary? It is completely ruined. Not a thing left. The pigs have utterly destroyed it."
"Yes; but why did you whip the boys?" the mother again asked.
"I have told you why I whipped them. I warned them this morning to be very careful not to leave the gate open. Such carelessness is not to be tolerated."
"But, William, why did you whip the boys?" This time particular stress was placed upon the word "boys."
Mr. MacOwen looked at his wife in amazement. Slowly the thought forced itself upon him that in some way he had made a mistake. His wife rose, gently placed her hand upon his arm, looked up into his face and said: "Husband, it was I who left the garden-gate open."
Ship's Company, U. S. Battle-ship "Indiana." "A ship's company is divided into two watches, port and starboard, and the watches are subdivided into divisions each in command of an officer. Certain portions of the ship are assigned to the care of each division, including the guns located in that part of the vessel. The subdivision of labor and duty is carried out to the last degree so that every man in a great ship's company has his own particular bit of work to perform upon all occasions. Everything in a war-ship is done with an absence of noise and without confusion."
The color left the man's face for a moment, and then returned, flooding it with shame. As he remembered John's attempted explanation, he realized keenly the injury done the boys, and sinking into a chair, he buried his face in his hands. His own heart condemned his whole course, and he felt that the mistake was a grievous one. He loved his boys, but it was difficult for his iron nature to humble itself and admit the wrong. However his sense of right pointed out to him that acknowledgment should be made. Then, too, he had been taught by the example of his wife upon many occasions the Bible doctrine of confession.15Yielding to the good influences which were working upon his heart, he called the boys to him, and in choking voice asked pardon for the wrong he had done them. Unused as they were to this display of feeling from their father, they were shy at first, but John soon threw his arms around his papa's neck, and laid his tear-stained face against the bearded cheek. Little Will was slower to make response. His face was still white and stern in childish resentment. But when mama knelt by him and tenderly told him the story of how Jesus forgave those who did Him wrong when He was upon earth, Will's heart melted, and in it all the father gained the wealth of his little boy's love.
Years after, in relating this incident to an intimate friend, Mr. MacOwen said that in this turning of his heart toward his children, dated the commencement of his yielding his heart to God.
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Here and Hereafter, or Man's Nature and Destiny. By Uriah Smith. This work is a thoro canvass of the great questions of a future existence, and the nature of man in the present life. Every text in the Bible which has any possible bearing upon these points is taken up and carefully explained. Cloth, 444 pp., $1.00. Address this office.
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Praying in Half a Room.
In a large and respectable school near Boston, two boys from different states and strangers to each other were compelled by circumstances to room together. It was the beginning of the term, and the two students spent the first day in arranging their room, and getting acquainted. When night came, the younger of the two boys asked the other if he did not think it would be a good idea to close the day with a short reading from the Bible and a prayer. The request was modestly made, without whining or cant of any kind. The other boy, however, bluntly refused to listen to the proposal.
"Then you will have no objection if I pray by myself, I suppose?" said the younger. "It has been my custom, and I wish to keep it up."
"I don't want any praying in this room, and I won't have it," retorted his companion.
The younger boy rose slowly, walked to the middle of the room, and, standing upon a seam in the carpet which divided the room nearly equally, said quietly:
"Half of this room is mine. I pay you for it, and I will have it. You may choose which half you like the best; I will take the other, and I will pray in that half or get another room. But pray I must and will, whether you consent or refuse."
The older boy was instantly conquered. To this day he admires the sturdy independence which claimed as a right what he had boorishly denied as a privilege. A Christian might as well ask leave to breathe as to ask permission to pray. There is a false sentiment connected with Christian actions which interferes with their free exercise. If there is anything to be admired, it is the manliness that knows the right and dares to do it without asking any one's permission.—Selected.
Overcoming.
"THIS is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." 1 John 5:4. Our faith is the victory. And he who has faith has victory. He does not have a partial victory, but he has "the victory that overcometh the world." That takes in everything against which we have to contend. And note that faith is the victory that overcometh. The overcoming is in the present tense. It is not a victory that has overcome the world or that at some future time will overcome the world, but that which overcometh the world now, this day. We can not overcome the world in the past, for the past is gone forever. Neither can we overcome in the future, for the future is always ahead of us. To-morrow is always a day in advance. That which we call to-morrow when it arrives is no longer to-morrow but to-day. "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." Put off your salvation and victory over sin until to-morrow, and you will never be an overcomer. Attend to this work to-day, and you are safe. Many professors lead a lame Christian life all the time because they do not get the decided victory over sin to-day. This text plainly says that the King of Kings and Lord of Lords—even the Saviour Himself—is the only one who "hath immortality." Other texts throuout the Scriptures show that He bestows this immortality upon those alone who will accept it as a gift in exchange for their worthless sins.
A Laugh.
By The Friend
A LAUGH is just like music,
It freshens all the day
It tips the peaks of life with light
And drives the clouds away;
The soul grows glad that hears it,
And feels its courage strong—
A laugh is just like sunshine
For cheering folks along.
A laugh is just like music,
It lingers in the heart,
And where its melody is heard
The ills of life depart;
And happy thoughts come crowding
Its joyful notes to greet—
A laugh is just like music
For making the life sweet.
—The Friend.
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This Issue and the Pacific Fleet
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Many will purchase this paper for the illustrations it contains. They will get their money's worth. Others will buy it for the statistics and information it offers the reader; and the information will be cheaply purchased. Still others will desire the religious and spiritual instruction and helpfulness contained in its pages; and spiritual gifts and blessings can not be valued in money. From any one of the three view-points the paper should be desired by the mass of the people.
The latest program announced as this paper closes its forms is that the fleet will reach Santa Cruz, May 1, leave there May 4, reaching San Francisco May 6. The fleet will enter the Golden Gate in single line formation, hold a direct course to north of Alcatraz, passing to the west of Goat Island, make a complete turn in shore on the San Francisco side of the Bay, and drop anchor, in division formation, in a space reserved opposite Potrero Point. Receptions and official visits will follow. The next day a grand parade in the city; Friday, May 8, an off-day for officers and marines; May 9, a grand review of the fleet by Secretary Metcalf, illumination of ships in the evening; May 10, children's day on the fleet, etc., etc., etc., up to May 16. There will be entertainments and banquets galore to the officers. Surely they will need steel-armored, asbestos-lined stomachs. The gastronomical things to be endured in this post-Lenten season will be worse than the battle of Manila or the defeat of Cervera at Santiago, and attended with far more risk. We pity the men of weak digestion.
There will be joy among the lads of the navy to "get home," as some have called it. That is, during weeks of this voyage they have been calling at foreign ports. Some of them have expressed it as getting back "into God's country." We suppose the natives of every land feel thus as regards their own country and people. Not a few of the boys will find relatives and friends to greet them in the California cities. We wish them all joy in the meeting. Every lad of them will be met by other classes, who will welcome him as the cat does the mouse, as the spider does the fly. For weeks they have been spreading their nets and perfecting their lures. They will welcome the fleet that they may prey upon the men. Greedy harpies and ghouls and satyrs and sirens are they. They are waiting to suck your life-blood, destroy your character, that they may get your money. They will meet you with smiling faces and full glasses; they will ply you with liquor till sense and reason are gone; they will lure to gambling hells till the last cent passes from pocket to till, the brain is maudlin from drink, and if you were alone, you would be thrust out into the cold street to lie in the gutter. They will come in the forms of garishly-dressed, impudent-faced, tempting women, who have sold themselves to sin, to lead men to death for gold. "War is hell," but a worse hell will meet the boys of the navy in the man-wrecking, body-wrecking, soul-wrecking dens of vice and iniquity in San Francisco. Would to God the men might be saved from the multiple curse which yawns for them. Would that every saloon, every gambling-den, every bawdy house, might be closed. But they will not be, and the marines must meet temptation and tempter in their manhood or lack of manhood, and resist the devil or weakly yield to his lures. There is strength to stand in Jesus Christ; may they find it. It was the wisest man who said that he is greater who controls his own spirit than he who takes a city.
The Word of God Our Safeguard
Speaking of the last days, the Master says, "There shall arise false Christs and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." Matt. 24:24. Any great sign or wonder that we may see is not in itself an evidence that it is from God, the Source of all good. There is just one thing that will enable us to detect these "false Christs, and false prophets" and be sure that their "great signs and wonders" are wrought by the evil power to deceive us. That one thing is the word of God. Not the Bible in our home, or carried in the pocket, unread and unheeded, but the Living Word of the living God brought daily into our minds by a continual study and reception of His Book. And one who studies the Bible closely and believes what it says, will always have the Light with him that will shield him from every one of the great deceptions. All others will be carried away by the many delusions prepared of Satan for these last days.
The Sower of Sin.—What a blessed thing it is to know that there is coming a time when there will be no more sin; more, not only will sin be forever banished, but Satan, in whom sin originated, will be utterly destroyed! The Son of God became one of us and died, came to be nothing for our sakes, in order that He might for our sakes destroy forever Satan and sin. "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that thru death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil." Heb. 2:14. And by the son of Buzi the Lord speaks: "I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee." Then will God's universe be free from the very root of evil.
There is a grand home-coming and review of the world and all that is therein in a little while. Jesus Christ, our Lord, He who died to save us, whose life is now ours, by which we may overcome sin, if we will grasp it by faith, is coming, and all the world, including each and every soul, will receive divine inspection. Are we ready for that day? Are we willing to meet His judgment? If not, we may be. He will receive and cleanse and clothe us in His own beautiful garments if we are willing. Get ready for the grand character review.
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Prophecy and Fulfilment.
EIGHT hundred years before Christ, the prophet of God, looking forward to this very time, told us what potent cry would go forth "among the nations:"
"Prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. . . . Let the nations bestir themselves." See Joel 3:9-14.
The nations are bestirring themselves. England is building more ships. All other nations are equipping themselves. President Roosevelt thus speaks for the United States, in a message to Congress, under date of April 14:
"It is mischievous folly for any statesman to assume that this world has yet reached the stage, or has come within measurable distance of the stage, when a proud nation, jealous of its honor and conscious of its great mission in the world, can be content to rely for peace upon the forbearance of other powers.
"For centuries China has cultivated the very spirit which our own peace-at-any-price men wish this country to adopt. For centuries China has refused to provide military forces, and has treated the soldier as an inferior.
"In external affairs the policy has resulted in various other nations now holding large portions of Chinese territory, while there is a very acute fear in China lest the empire, because of its defenselessness, be exposed to absolute dismemberment and its well-wishers are able to hold it only in a small measure because no nation can help at once unless that other can help itself.
"The State Department is continually appealed to to interfere on behalf of peoples and nationalities who insist that they are suffering from oppression—now Jews in one country, now Christians in another, now black men said to be oppressed by white men in Africa, Armenians, Koreans, Finns, Poles, representatives of all, appeal at times to this government.
"When a nation is so happily situated as ours—that is, when it has no reason to fear or to be feared by its land neighbors—the fleet is all the more necessary for the preservation of peace. The United States can hope for a permanent career of peace on only one condition, and that is, on condition of building and maintaining a first-class navy.
"There is rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace,—one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity,—it must be known that we are at all times ready for war."
(Signed) "THEODORE ROOSEVELT."
With these words Governor Gillette welcomed the fleet at San Diego, April 14:
"We appreciate our navy because we know that the men behind the guns are made up of brain and brawn and patriotism, and some day you will be called upon to exercise those sterling qualities to the fullest. To-day you have come into this beautiful bay of the Pacific and you find it calm and serene; it speaks for peace. But soon, perhaps, not in a few years, maybe, but some time, there will occur in this ocean the greatest naval war in the history of the world. It is coming, and the great powers of the world are striving to make their strength the greatest possible in this ocean. We shall be called upon to protect and extend our commerce with the force of our navy, and then it will be that the boys behind the guns will count."
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