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The Belding Banner,
Oowdln IjapliAUi,
Editors ud Publishers.
HELPING.
MICHIGAN.
The X. rays may prove the new wo
tnsa haa a marble heart.
The best corks come from Algeria.
Inhere are 2.500,000 acres of cork forests
In that country.
After thirty years of secrecy Keely
Is to hare the motor patented. Look
But for vibratory engines.
Two thousand bicycles were de
stroyed In a Boston conflagration the
Dther day. Scorchers, indeed.
ENGLISH ANECDOTES.
THE LATE INDIANIAN WAS
RATHER ODD OLD MAN.
Darin the Annotation of Teiaa the
Foundation for Ilia Great Fortune
Waa tld Ilia Charity Waa Always
Silent U Oratory.
The world didn't come to an end and
neither did the comet strike us. Thus
It is with many calamities that peo
ple foolishly anticipate.
In Mr. Astor's case Lady Henry Som
erset has demonstrated that she Is
"enough to make a man mad," while
proving that she will not "drive him
mad."
Mr. John Jacob Astor has "sworn
off" paying taxes this year to the ex
tent of a trifle over two millions.
That's the kind of leap year John Jacob
says it is.
With the approach of warm weather
it does seem as If Mayor Sutro was
right when he said that Collis Hunt
ington would not carry away anybody's
red-hot stove.
Bismarck is superstitious, but we are
not likely to hear that he is keeping
any rfxtra number of black cats in order
to inrure the success of the young Em
percf 8 new navy.
TJe weather bureau service costs the
government $900,000 a year. Of course,
It It a good thine, but it sometimes
as if we ought to get better
er for the price.
Is perplexing to learn that the
'sh Government has promised
safei, to Americans until Minister Ter"
rell ruurns from his trip to the T d
States. J Why should the promi.
contlnuJyafter that?
Feen
wcat
It
The Tennessee centennla' Hon
to be held in Nashville ne ille
celebrating the 100th an he
admission of the state ,
be national and in ts
r. Every sta n
's Invited to -d
Indianapolis Letter.
ILLIAM II. EN
glleh, one of the
stalwart figures
among Indiana's
best men, Is gone,
lie seems to have
kept his lifo well
squared.
He was a lonesome-looking
man,
and was as lone
some as he looked.
He doubtless found good company In
himself, for he was the sole counsellor
of his own acts. Had he been less se
cluded ho might have lived longer. He
lodged and ate at a hotel on the Circle
which he owned. It was there he fell
sick, and there a few weeks later he
died. To an old roan who has known
tke minute attentions of home, sickness
and death at a hotel are not ideal reali
zations. When Mr. English's Illness
was Incipient he Indulged the delusion
of robust men that It was a trlflo,
though warned not to do so. His only
daughter lived but a couple hundred
miles away at Chicago, though she was
not sent for until her father's condition,
I believe, was critical. Mr. English had
ample fortune, of course, to keep a man
sion and pay servants to wait upon him,
but the ease and comfort of such a life
were never a part of his calculations.
Economy seemed to have grown Into a
passion with him, and perhaps he prac
ticed it to extremity. I don't know.
Of late Mr. English had become stout,
and yet with his Increase of rotundity
from year to year he never outgrew that
of absence as quickly as possible and
went back home. There he drew on the
town for all the money he could borrow,
Dut the town was poor. One of the rich
est men In It was a merchant who bad
made a snug sum by swapping prints
for produce, and who liked Bill English.
He was asked for a liberal loan. He
wanted time to consider. But time was
money then or nothing. No golden
dream had ever suggested to him a
speculation in bonds, but on English's
assurance he shelled out a thousand or
bo. He knew that, make or break, it
would be returned to Mm. That was in
1845. English went back to Washing
ton and put every dollar he had in
Texas bonds. The Lone Star Joined the
constellation, the bonds went to par,
and Mr. English made his pile. Like
the peach, It grew, and It grew, and it
grew. But some of it returned to the
old merchant at Lexington. Enterprise
had pushed him to the wall, he had
made other loans that were lost, and the
bank that held his money collapsed In
a panic. He lived four years, surviving
his wife six months, withr-it a shelter
or a table of his own, and during all
this time Mr. English cheerfully mp
plled him with both.
This was but one or tne millionaire's
kindnesses that the world knew nothing
of. He despised ostentation In charity,
yet was greedy of fame. When Chicago
burned down Mr. English gave a thou
sand dollars to the relief of Its people,
though it is believed he gave only ten.
He wrote his name on a subscription
paper for a round thousand. Though
carelessness or inattention he put the
last two ciphers In the cents column, or
at least too. far to the right to be In line
with the dollars. The subscription list
was given to one of the newspapers with
directions that proof-sheets be sent to
the others. There were no subscriptions
below a dollar, and only a few to vhlch
cents were attached. So the editor eli
minated the cents column, printing only
the amounts in dollars, and away went
Mr. English's last two ciphers. This
represented him as contributing only
,o.uy clerk. A wealthy young man was
very much taken with the face of one
of them, and lost no time (knowing that
delays are dangerous) in obtaining an
Introduction. It Is now announced by
telegraph that "the parents of the
young lady have found that ho will
make a desirable husband and have
consented to the match." Girls, get
your pictures in the paper.
Some Idea of the terrors of a burst
ing volcano may be gained from the
account of the last eruption In Hawaii.
The crater of the volcano was filled
from COO to 1,000 feet deep with molten
lava, which finally forced its way
through a subterranean passage. It
wa3 forty miles from there to the sea,
yet this avalanche of molten rocks
reached the waters In less than two
days, destroying every thing In its
track. It continued flowing for three
weeks, heating the sea water twenty
miles from shore.
In 1891 the legislature of Nebraska
passed a law forbidding the ownership
of reil property in that state by any
corporation not incorporated under
state laws, and ordering all property
so held forfeited to the state. The first
suit under the law has been brought
against the North Platte Land and Wa
ter company, a corporation whose
stockholders are principally English
men, and which has not a Nebraska
charter. This company holds about 20,
000 acres of valuable land, and before
they give it up the supreme court of
the United States will probably be
asked to rule on the validity of this
Nebraska law.
A floating mining camp Is now being
fitted up at Ellensburg, Wash., and next
spring will ply up and down the Snake
river. The camp will be perfectly ap
pointed In every way with a full bat
tery of mining appliances and quarters
for the miners. It Is being constructed
on an Immense flatbottorned boat es
pecially built for that purpose. On the
boat Is a big stationary engine and
boilers, dredgers, and pumps of various
sizes, and all the appliances for extract
ing gold, end a boarding and lodging
house that will accommodate at least
150 miners. The camp Is an experiment
by a Chicago syndicate, and It will be
moved up and down the r'er, working
the banks and bed of the stream for
gold.
A wealthy Japanese gentleman who
came to this country a few weeks ago
to study its civilization has seen one
lynching, "vatched a football game, at
tended a meeting of the Chicago City
Council, witnessed an afternoon fis
sion of the Kentucky Legislature, and
then started back to Japan.
The De Castellanes have not parted.
The controversy between George Gould
nnd the New York tax department over
the size of the estate has been explained
satisfactorily, doubtless, to Mr. Gould's
French brothcr-la-law.
TAL MAGE'S SERMON.
"GOOD AND BAD RECREATIONS."
LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
And It Come to Fata, When Their
Hearts Were Merry, that They Bald,
Cell for Kaniaon, that He May Make
V PpoU" Judgea irl., S5.
WILLIAM 11. ENGLISH.
brown frock coat his tailor made him.
forae seventeen years ago, for a visit to
Samuel J. Tilden. It was In that coat
pants and vest to match that he had
the famous Interview with Mr. Tilden as
to campaign expenses, and about which
Mr. Walter Wellman has spun some If
his wildest romance. Mr. English cer
tainly did not get cheated In that coat,
nj matter what price he paid for it. It
must have been made of good material
to have kept its dressy look so long,
even if handled with the best of care.
I should say, from observation at differ
ent times, that the goods was north of
England worsted. Mr. English seemed
attached to the coat as an old friend;
and, like Napoleon, he could never
tolerate new faces about him. It wa3
all he retained of the campaign, and
kept it as a relic, though he paid for It,'
as he did for everything else he got at
that time. I saw him last in the early
Ofjs of December. Ho waa without an
overcoat, after the manner of Hannibal
Hamlin, which was very Injudicious, for
the weather was Inclement. The brown
frock was wide open In front. Possibly
It was a little too tight to button then.
In Indiana Mr. English was thought
a rich man. He left an estate worth
three millions, half of which goes to his
son. It Is of fifty years' growth and be
gan with the annexation of Texas. Mr.
English was then 23 years old and
clerking In a department at Washing
ton. He was richer in character than
In purse, and had his reputation at his
home not been of the very best, that
floodtlde In affairs that Shakespeare
sings of would probably have dashed
past him and been lost forever. He had
seme money at Lexington, his native
town, and had saved all possible from
his salary of two years for Mr. English
was a born saver, though not then domi
nated by his genius for acquisition. The
bends of the Texan Republic were at
very low price not above seven or
eight cents. Jesse 1). Bright, who an
ticipated Texns becoming a state, was
a friend to young English and told hlra
that he might lay the basis of a fortune,
If he had ambition that way, by buying
Texas bonds. "But mind," said Mr.
Bright by way of caution, "this Is only
my opinion. You must not hold me en
tirely responsible if annexation fails."
Young English asked that the situation
be more fully explained, which was
done. He was then prepared ror the
consequence of his own acts. Here was
clearly his opportunity. Ho got leav
ten dollars. It was a small sum for him,
and gave people a wrong opinion of
him. But he would not correct the error.
The last time the Ohio river flooded Itw
valley h gave a hundred dollars down
and fifty each week while the destitu
tion lasted.
I know a man who assisted Mr. En
glish In his third race for Congress,
That was before he came to Indian
apolis. They ate at the same table, slept
In the same bed, fpoke from the same
platform. Mr. English is not the only
Indlanlan of renown that has been
helped by thl3 man. He Is a big oak in
the Intellectual forest of Indiana, and a
great many twigs hang on him. He
has made reputations at the price of his
own, and In his old age says It 13 an un
profitable business. As an orator for
the people he laid Mr. English in the
shade. He had a new speech for every
HERE were three
thousand people as
sembled in the tem
ple of Dagon. They
had come to make
sport of eyeless
Samson. They were
all ready for the
en ter talnment.
They began to clap
and pound, impa
tient for the
amusement to begin, and they cried,
"Fetch him out, fetch him out!" Yon
der I see the blind old giant coming,
led by the hand of a child Into the
very midst of the temple. At his first
appearance there goes up a shout of
laughter and derision. The blind old
giant pretends he ia tired, and wants
to rest himself against the pillars of
tho house; so he says to the Jad who
leads him, "Show me where the main
pillars are!" The lad does bo. Then
the strong man puts his right hand on
one pillar and his left hand on another
pillar, and, with the mightiest push
that mortal ever made, throws himself
forward until the whole house comes
down In thunderous crash, grinding
the audience like grapes in a wine
press. "And so it came to pass, when
their hearts were merry, that they said,
Call for Samson, that he may make us
sport. And they called for Samson out
cf the prison-house; and he made them
sport."
In other words, there are amuse
ments that are destructive, and bring
down disaster and death upon the
heads of those who practice them.
While they laugh and cheer, they die.
The three thousand who perished that
day in Gaza, are as nothing compared
with the tens of thousands who have
been destroyed by sinful amusements.
But my first text Implies that there
Is a lawful use of the world, as well
as an unlawful abuse of It. and the
difference between the man Christian
and the man un-Chrlstlan 13, that in
the former caso the man masters the
world, while In the latter case the
world masters him. For whom did God
make this grand and beautiful world?
For whom this wonderful expenditure;
of color, this gracefulness of line, this
mosaic of the ground, this fresco of the
sky, this glowing fruitage of orchard
and vineyard, this full orchestra of the
tempest, In which the tree branches
flute, and the winds trumpet, and the
thunders drum, and all the splendors of
vir.td L-atWio uUuJ,:iU.45 tiir'i -A, iA v "rZs V.lgr.t ..inj-purh. syh an institu-
hoie Fr whom did God snrlne ' thoW T"f1 . " 'V ""T 1:
'ilcn, be benefited in their spiritual re-
rnuslc at the start, there shall be music
at the close. While this heavenly art
has often been dragged Into the uses
of superstition and dissipation, we all
know it may be the means of high
moral culture. Oh, it is a grand thing
to have our children brought up
amidst the sound of cultured voices,
and amidst the melody at musical in
struments. There Is In this art an Indescribable
fascination for the household. Let all
those families who have the means to
afford it, have flute, or harp, or piano,
or organ. As soon as the hand is large
enough to compass the keys, teach it
how to pick out the melody. Let all
our young men try this heavenly art
upon their nature. Thoso who have
gone into it fully have found in it
illimitable recreation and amusement.
Dark days, stormy nights, seasons of
6lckness. business disasters, will do lit
tle toward depressing the soul which
can gallop off over the musical keys,
or soar In Jubilant lay. It will cure
pain. It will rest fatigue. It will quell
passion. It will revive health. It will
reclaim dissipation. It will strengthen
the immortal soul. In the battle of
Waterloo, Wellington saw that the
Highlanders were falling back. He
said, "What is the matter there?" He
was told that the band of music had
ceased playing, and he called up the
pipers and ordered them to strike up
an inspiriting air; and no sooner did
they strike the air than the Highland
ers were rallied, and helped to win the
day. Oh, ye who have been routed In
tho conflicts of life, try by the force
of music to rally your scattered bat
talions. I am glad to know that In our great
cities there Is hardly a night In which
there are not concerts, whtre, with the
best musical instruments and the
sweetest voices, people may find enter
tainment. Patronize such entertain
ments when they are afforded you.
Buy season tickets, if you can, for the
"Philharmonic" and tho "Handel and
Haydn" societies. Feel that the dollar
and a half or two dollars that you spend
for the purpose of hearing an artist
play or sing Is a profitable Investment.
Let your academies of music roar with
the acclamation of appreciative audi
ences assembled at the concert or the
oratorio.
Still further, I commend, as worthy
of their support, tho gymnasium. This
Institution Is gaining in favor every
year, and I know of nothing more free
from dissipation, or more calculat
ed to recuperate tho physical and men
tal energies. While there are a good
many people who have employed this
Institution, there Is a vast number who
arcs Ignorant of Its excellences. There
are men with cramped chests and weak
sides and despondent spirits who
through the gymnasium might be
roused up to exuberance and exhilara
tion of life. There are many Christian
people despondent from year to year,
try." Yon push It up on the curbstone
for him and pass on. He wonders who
that well-dressed man was that helped
him. You did a kindness to the boy,
but you did a great Joy to your own
soul. You will not get over it all the
week.
On the street to-morrow morning,
you will see a sick man passing along.
"Ah," you say, "what can I do to mako
this man happy? He certainly does
not want money; he is not poor, but he
Is sick." Give him one of those twen-ty-flvo
hundred cheerful looks that you
bave garnered up for the whole year.
Look Joy and hopefulness Into his soul.
It will thrill him through and there will
be a reaction upon your own soul. Go
ing a little farther on, you will come to
the 6tore of a friend who Is embarrassed
in business matters. You will go In and
6ay, "What a fine store you have! I
think business will brighten up, and
you will have more custom after awhile.
I think there is coming a great pros
perity to all the country. Good morn
ing." You pass out. You have helped
that young man, and you have helped
yourself.
Colonel Gardiner, who sat with his el
bow on a table, spread with all extrava
gant viands, looking off at a dog on the
rug, saying, "How I would like to
change places with him; I be the dog
and he be Col. Gardiner;" or, those two
Moravian missionaries who wanted to
go into the lazaretto for the sake of at
tending the sick, and they were told,
"If you go In there, you will never come
out. We never allow anyone to come
out, for he would bring the contagion."
Then they made their wills and went
In, first to help tho sick, and then to die.
Which was the happier Col. Gardiner,
or the Moravian missionaries dying for
others? Was it all sacrifice when the
missionaries wanted to preach the Gos
pel to the negroes at the Barbadoes,
and, being denied the privilege, sold
themselves into slavery, standing side
by side, and lying side by side, down in
the very ditch of suffering, in order that
they might bring those men up to life
and God and heaven? Oh, there is a
thrill In the Joy of doing good. It Is
the most magnificent recreation to
which a man ever put his hand, or his
head, or his heart.
But, before closing, I want to Impress
upon you that mere secular entertain
ments are not a fit foundation for your
soul to build on. I was reading of a
woman who had gone all the rounds of
sinful amusement, and she came to die.
She said, "I will dlo to-night at six
o'clock." "Oh," they said, "I guess not;
you don't seem to be sick." "I shall
die at six o'clock, and my soul will bo
lost. I know It will be lost. I have
sinned away my day of grace." Tho
noon came. They desired her to seek
religious counsel. "Oh," she said, "it
Is of no use. My day is gone. I have
been all the rounds of worldly pleasure,
and it is too late. I will die to-night
at six o'clock." The day wore away,
and it came to four o'clock, and to five
MRS. ENGLISH,
occasion, and his thoughts burst Int
words with the strength and freshnesi
that only new thoughts can. In ontllt
tle town, where the people had deter
mined on tn ovation, they gathered
about the stand after speaking to com
pliment the orators. It Isn't a tribute
to their interest in political affairs to
say that after Mr. English had been In
congress four years they took the other
man for the candidate. They did
though, and wished him success. He
explained to them that he was not tun
ning. "Why," raid the spokesman with
surprise, "Ben't you the congressman?"
Most men do not knww opportunity
when it stare3 them la the fat.
bals? For whom did God spring tne
arched bridge of colors resting upon
buttresses of broken storm-cloud? For
whom did he gather the upholstery of
fire around the window of the setting
sun? For all men; but more especially
for his own dear children.
If you build a large mansion, and
spread a great feast after it, to cele
brate tho completion of the structure,
do you allow strangers to come in and
occupy the place, while you thrust your
own children in tho kitchen, or the
barn, or the fields? Oh, no! You say,
"I am very glad to see strangers in
my mansion, but my own sons and
daughters shall havo the first right
there." Now, God has built this grand
mansion of a world, and he has spread
a glorious feast in it, and while thoso
who are strangers to his grace may
come In, I think that God especially In
tends to give the advantage to his own
children those who are tho sons and
daughters of the Lord Almighty, those
who through grace can look up anJ
say, "Abba, Father." You cannot make
me believe that God gives more advan
tages to the world than he gives to the
church bought by his own blood. If,
therefore, people of the world have
looked with dolorous sympathy upon
those who make profession of religion,
and have said, "Those new converts are
going down into privation and into
hardship. Why did they not tarry a
little longer In tho world, and have
some of its enjoyments and amuse
ments and recreations?" I say to such
men of the world, "You are greatly mis
taken;" and before I get through 1 will
show that those people who stay out
of tho kingdom of God have the hard
ships and self-denials, while those who
come in havo the Joys and sati&iac
Uons. In the name of the king of heaven
and earth, 1 serve a writ of ejectment
upon all the sinful and polluted who
have squatted on the domain of earth
ly pleasure as though it, belougtu io
them, while I claim, in behalf of the
good and the pure and tho true, the
eternal inheritance which God haa giv
en them. Hitherto, Christian philan
thropists, clerical and lay, have busied
themselves chiefly in denouncing sinful
recreations; but I feel we have no right
to stand before ncn and women In
whose hearts there is a desire for rec
reation amounting to positive neces
sity, uenouiicing luis and liiat and tho
other thing, when we do not propose
to give them something better. God
helping me and with reference to my
last account, 1 shall enter upon a
sphere not usual In sermonizing, but
a subject which I think ought V bo
presented at this time. I propose now
to lay before you some of the recrea
tions which are not only innocent, but
positively helpful and advantr.eous.
In the first place, I commend, among
Indoor recreations, music vocal and
instrumental. Among the firr,t thl.igs
.aeated was the bird, so that the earth
might have music at the start. This
world, which began with so sweet a
rrenade, U fl'.nlly to be demolished
amidst tho r.nglng blasts of the arch
angel's trumpet, o that as there was
lations. There are Christian people
who seem to think that It 13 a good
sign to be poorly; aad because Richard
Baxter and Robert Hall were invalids,
they think that by the same sickliness
they may come to the same grandeur of
character. I want to tell the Christian
people of my congregation that God
will hold you responsible for your lu
validism if it Is your fault, and when,
through right exercise and prudence,
you might be athletic and well. The
effect of the body upon the soul you
acknowledge. Put a man of mild dis
position upon the nnimal diet of w hich
the Indian partakes,' and In a little
while his blood will change its chemi
cal proportions. It will become like
unto the blood of the lion, or the tiger,
or the bear, while his disposition will
change, and becorr.e fierce and unre
lenting. The body has a powerful
effect upon the soul.
We shall have ihc smooth and grassy
lawn, and we will call out people of
all occupations and professions and
ask them to join in the ball-player's
sport. You will come Lack from these
outdoor exercises and recreations with
strength in your arm and color In your
cheek and a flash in your eye and cour
age In your heart. In this great battle
that is opening against" the kingdom
of darkness, we want not only a con
secrated soul, but a strong arm and
stout lungs and mighty muscle. I bless
God that there are so many recrea
tions that have rot on them any taint
of Iniquity; recreations In which we
may engage for the strengthening of
the body, for the clearing of tho intel
lect, for the Illumination of the soul.
There is still another form of recrea
tion which 1 recommend to you. and
that is the pleasure of doing good. I
have seen young men, weak and cross
and sour and repelling In their disposi
tion, who by one heavenly touch have
awakened up ar.d become blessed and
buoyant, the ground under their feet
and the sky over their heads breaking
forth Into music. "Oh," says some
young man In the house to-day, "1
should like that recreation above all
otherR, but I have not tho means."
My dear brother, let us take an account
of stock. You have a large estate, If
you only realize it. Two hands. Two
feet. You will have perhaps during the
next year at least ten dollars for chari
table contribution. You will have
twenty rive hundred cheerful looks, If
you want to employ them. You will
have five thousand pleasant words if
you want to speak them. Now what
an amount that Is to start with!
You go out to-morrow morning and
you see a case of real destitution by the
wayside. You give him two cents. The
blind man hears tho pennies rattle In
his hat. and he says, "Thank you, hlr;
God bless you!" You pass down the
street, trying to look Indifferent; but
you feel from the very depth of your
soul a profound satisfaction that you
made that man happy. You go on still
farther, and find a poor boy with a
wheelbarrow, trying to get It up on the
curbstone. He falls in the attempt.
You say, "Stand back, my lad; let me
o clocK, ana sueic. c'u-iuwut mrcwi.
"Destroying spirits, ye shall not haVo
me yet; It is not six, it is not six!" The
moments went by, and the shadows be
gan to gather, and the clock struck six; ..
and while it was striking ner soul weni.
The last hour of our life will soon
be here, and from that hour we will re
view this day's proceedings. It will be
a solemn hour. If from our death
pillow we have to look back and see a
life spent In sinful amusement, there
will be a dart that will strike through
our soul, sharper than the dagger with
which Vlrglnlus slew his child. The
memory of the past will make us quake
like Macbeth. The iniquities and riot
ing through which we have passed will
come upon us, weird and skeleton as
Meg Merrlliles. Death, the old Shy
lock, will demand and take the remain
ing pound of flesh and the remaining
drop of blood; and upon our last oppor
tunity for repentence and our last
chance for heaven the curtain will for
ever drop.
Ptrnth nl WfaknM.
There Is as much kill In selfishness
as there Is in poison. Love for God
takes in everybody else. Too many
people make the mistake of belonging
to church without belonging to Christ.
The devil makes every string pull to
ward the saloon, from hunger to poli
tlca. Any kind of a sinner can be
saved to-day who will quit his mean
ners and trust In Christ. The sun has
spots on It, and yet some people ex
pect every church member to be per
fect. The man who Is anxious to serve
God can begin right away. Whatever
would have been wrong In Christ is
wrong in any member of his church.
in would not be co deadly if the devil
had to fight in an open field. The man
who is not doing his best for God is
falling ehort of what God expects him
to do. lUiu's Horn.
0
A Kay of tiunnlilne.
"If anything unkind you hear
About fome one you know, my dear.
Do not, I pray you, it repeat
When you that some one chanco to 4 )
meet:
For such news has a leaden way
Of clouding o'er a sunny day.
But If you something pleasant hear
About somo one you know, my dear.
Make haste to make great haste 'twere
well
To her or him the same to tell;
For such news has a golden way
Of lighting up a cloudy day."
The C. rot In a; Good of the World.
The growing good of the world is
partly dependent on historic acts, and
that things arc not bo ill with you or
me as they might have been Is half owV
lng to the number who lived faithfully
a hidden life and rest in unvislted
tombs. Georgo ElioL
The International character of Chris
tian Endeavor is manifested anew byp
the fact that the British National Coun-
cil has Invited the International Con
vention of 1900 to meet In the city oi
London.