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THE BKOQKLYST DAILY EAGXE. NEWVITOPK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1900. MISCEX.r,ANEOtTS, NEW DEVICES FOR THE ARMY HISTORY'S THREE FACTS. Christ Was to Come, Is Come and Is to Come Again. CATARRH Is a constitutional disease.

It originates in a scrofulous condition the blood and depends on that condition. It often causes headache and dizziness, impairs the taste, smell and hearing, affects the vocal organs and disturbs the stomach. It afflicted Mrs. Hiram Shires, Batcheller ville. N.

twenty consecutive years, deprived her of the sense of smell, made her breathing difficult, and greatly affected her general health. She testifies that after she had taken many other medicines for it without lasting effect, it was radically and permanently cured, her sonse of smell restored, and her general health greatly improved, by MONOTONOUS. The sweetest thing in the world is the baby not a baby, the, baby and the sweetest i thing for the baby, when she's "a little off" is Scott's emulsion of cod liver oil, to get her on and she likes it. We'll send you a little to by, If you like. SCOTT BOWNE, 409 Peul street.

New York. PIiEASANT AND INEXPENSIVE. "We are going to economize this winter and have a rummage Christmas." "What's that?" "Why, everybody give everybody else something real nice that they want to get rid of." Indianapolis Journal. Ftm garments altered or repaired, in a faultiest rp'aaner, lonff experience and practical rnetbodn In niy work room insure good work. Many handsome articles In furs on sale.

F. O. UNDER. Practical Furrier, 695 Fulton St. PiJWNBBOKEBS T.

NEWMAN SOU, 1,076 Ful ton dt, between Classon and Franklin a vs. Liberal Xoaihs on Diamonds. WatrhM Apnfarel and Personal Property of evervdeertnnr. CA8T0BIA Bears the signature of Obas. H.

FtKioKan. In ua for more than thirty yean, and Tlie Kind You ham Alwayt JiougM. Liberal Loans made on watches, diamonds. Jewelry, at old established house ef Goodsteln Son, 279 Bridge st, near Johnson. Private thoroughfare.

Thb Fisest fob Salads. Antoninl celebrated Italia. Balad Oil. Once tried always used. For sale by all grocer.

ENGAGED. WILSON VAN CLEVE The engagement of Miss LOUISA BARRETT VAN CLEVE and Mr. HIRAM ALEXANDER WILSON, is announced. Both parties are this city. MARRIED.

JOHNSON GLOVER In Brooklyn, N. De cember 24, by Rev. J. M. Carson, ELEANOR ROWENA GLOVER and Mr.

LEONARD LAYNB JOHNSON, both of Brooklyn. MARTIN LE VINSON On December 23. at St. Mark's Episcopal Church. New Britain, by Rev.

Mr. Bodley, BRAY D. MARTIN to MIRIAM H. LEVINSON. DIED.

ANSTACH Suddenly, on December 25, 1900, at his residence, 938 Putnam av, JOHN ANS TACH. Notice of funeral hereafter. (Bridgeport, papers please copy.) BREWER On. December 25, of pneumonia. Captain WALTER BREWER, retired New York and Sandy Hook pilot, bom In St.

Albans. England, in the 80th year of his age. Relatives and friends, also New York and Sandy Ho "VUots, are respectfully invited to attend funeral services on Thursday, December 27, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. William Duncutt. 570 Park place, Brooklyn.

26 2 BROWN On Christmas eve. DAVID CROWELL. son of Wm. Foster and Marie Raymer Brown, in the 12th year of his age. Funeral private on Christmas Day.

26 2 DAVIS On Monday, December 24, FRANK B. DAVIS, beloved son of Mrs. L. E. Lyon.

Funeral services at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning, at hlB late residence, 13 Lee av. DE VEAU On Monday, December 24, 1900, CHARLOTTE K. widow of Edward A. De Veau. Funeral from her late home, 325 Hancock st.

Wednesday. December 2, at 8 P. M. Inter "WU. frt conveDi.cnce of.

family. papers please copy. DE VEAU Stella Ch'apter So. 20, Order of the Eastern Star Members are invited to attend In a body the funeral services of Sister CHARLOTTE K. DB VEAU.

FARRELL On December 5, MARY FARRELL, at her residence, S9 Steuben st. Funeral from the residence of her sister, Mrs. Joseph J. Ryan, 164 Ryerson st, on Thursday, December 27, at 9:30 A. from the Church of the Sacred Heart.

GRISWOLD Suddenly, on Tuesday, December 25, WILLARD F. GRISWOLD, in the 70th year of his ag. Funeral services at his late residence, 158 Decatur st. Brooklyn, N. at 5 p.

M. Thursday, December 27. Interment at Evergreens Cemetery Friday mornlns. HASKINS On December 2G, 1500, ELEANOR, daughter of Ellas and Angela Hasklns, aged 6 years 4 months. Funeral from the residence of her parents, 43 Sherman st.

Windsor Terrace, Thursday, December 27, at 2:30 P. M. HOBBY On December 24. CLARISSA, daughter of George T. and the late Clarissa Hobby.

Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral services, fourth floor, Eagle Building, Thursday, December 27, at P. M. Elevator from main hall. Interment private. HOWARD At rest, Christmas Day, PAMELA ATKINS, widow of Samuel Emerson Howard, at her residence, 1S2 Amity st, Brooklyn.

Services at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Montague and Clinton sts. Brooklyn, Thursday, December 27, at 11 A. M. Kindly omit flowers. (Boston and Portland papers please copy.) KOJAN On December 26.

RIENE, daughter of CharleB and Clara Kojan. aged 7 years 1 month and 4 days. Funeral Thursday, December 27, at 2:30 P. from her late residence. 129 Adelphi st.

Brooklyn. Please omit flowers. LANG On Monday. December 24, 1000, JOHN LANG, husband of the late Louise Lane, aged 59 years and 7 months. Funeral services will bo held at St.

Peter's Church, Bedford av near DeKalb. on Thursday. December 27, 1900. at 1:30 o'clock. liYONS December 23, LAWRENCE LYONS, age 51 years.

Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, 219 Bond st. Brooklyn, on Thursday, December 27, at 3 o'clock. MARTIN December 25, 1900, MARY J. MARTIN, beloved wife Peter J. Martin.

Mineral from her late residence, 622 Quincy st thence to St. Jhn the Baptist R. c. Church, comer of Lewis and Willoughby ave, Friday morning. December 2S, 1900, at 9:30 o'olock, where a solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose of her soul.

362 MORAN On Monday, December 24, HENRY MOHAN. Funeral on Thursday, December 27. from his late residence, 1,131 Fulton st, to the Church of Our Lady of Victory at' 9 A. M. Relatives and friends are respectfully Invited.

BEARLE On Christmas Day. GEORGE SEARL.E, in the 75th year of his age. Funeral services at the residence of his son, John 324 Decatur st, Brooklyn, on Thursday evening, December 17, at 8 o'clock, 36 2 TEBO On ChriBtmas Day, WM. M. TEBO, aged 72 years.

Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral from his late residence, St. Pauls place and Woodruff av, Flutbush, Brooklyn, N. on Thursday morning, December 27, at o'clock; thenco to the Church of the Holy Cross. East Broadway, near Rogers av. Flat bush, whero a solemn requiem will bo offered for his oternal rest.

Burial In Greenwood Cemetery. Rome, Utlca and Oswego papers please copy.) "WAGNER On Wednesday, December 26, MYRTLE MAE WAGNER, aged months. Funeral services and interment at Springfield. O. WHITE Of pneumonia, at hln residence.

121 Madison av, Manhattan, on Wednesday, December 26, JOSEPH THEODORE WHITE, In the 89th year of his age. Notice of funeral hereafter. WOODRUFF On December 24. 1900. MARY ADELINE WOODRUFF, mother of A.

Val Woodruff. Interment at her lato home, West Bridge water, Pn. CYPRESS HILLS CEMETERY. Reached by Brooklyn Elevated and electric cars from bridge and all ferries; plots 176 and upward; to Installments If desired. New Ammunition Wristlet and a Flying Machine Two of the Important Ones.

TO. ANNIHILATE THE ENEMY. Persia After Ten Tears to Have a Representative at the Capital. 1 Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street. Washington, December 26 The Board on Ordnance and Fortiflcation of the War Department has under consideration a number of unique inventions that have been submitted for adoption in the Army, Some of the devices arenow being tested at Sandy Hook, while others have been tried and returned to the Inventor for further improvement and development.

Among the novelties that the members of the board have before them is an ammunition wristlet, invented by Thomas O. Orndorff. II consists of a strip ot leather or heavy canvas, to be worn about the left wrist as an ammunition holder. Small loops are made to contain cartridges, the idea being that the soldier will have at hand a dozen additional shells which can be adjusted in the rifle without the loss of time involved in taking them from the ammunition belt, as at present. By the use of this device it is not necessary for a man to lower his gun In reloading.

Army officers speak well of this scheme and say that i it would doubtless prove a good thing for the Army. While on the march the shells are carried in the pocket and are only adjusted in the wristlet when going into an engagement. The efforts of Professor Langley of the Smithsonian Institution, to produce a serviceable flying machine, are still continuing, being paid for at present by money allotted by the War Department. Fifty thousand dollars have recently been sat aside by the Board on Ordnance and Fortification for the purpose of enabling Professor Langley to perfect his military flying machine. Th9 Department has the use of an island about fnrrv milaa Hrwn the Potomac.

whprA th scientist Is pursuing his work. A soldier remains on constant guard and keeps visitors at a safe distance. It is not known what progress Professor Langley is making, but as the $50,000 was provided in two allotments of $25,000 each, with considerable time between them, it is presumed that he is making headway to the satisfaction of the Army authorities. No less than eight or ten schemes were presented to the War Department last year for the speedy annihilation of an enemy by the use of drugs, acids and gases in shells. The idea was to confine some poisonous substance In huge shells and then fire them into the ranks of the enemy.

In this way it has been proposed to use aiitro glycerine, ether, poisonous gases and sleep producing drugs. One Inventor proposed a shell made of glass which was to explode and cut the enemy into pieces, while another suggested that shells filled with snuff be fired. The danger of canteens becoming rusty aud thereby poisoning the drinking water of the troops, has brought about the necessity for finding some substitute for the old time water carrying receptacle of the Army. An enameled steel canteen is now beinz tested by the members of the Board on Ordnance and Fortification, and as it possesses many Cesirable qualities It may supplant the old canteen. The extensive military operations of the past two years have set the inventive genulses to work with the result of producing a great many crank inventions intended for use in One of.

these is a monster magnet, which lai to be 'erected in the midst of a fighting army for the purpose of drawing off the bullets of the enemy. Another Inventor devised what he called a scheme to' Interfere with the enemy's aim. It consisted of a series of mirrors which were to be so arranged as to throw the rays of the sun Into the eyes of the enemy. No provision was made for cloudy days or for use at night. Several portable shields were presented to the board last year, all being based on the general Idea of the construction of a monster steel plate to be pushed along In advance of an Army to protect the men from bullets.

A dirigible torpedo, invented by Lieutenant N. J. Halpine, is being considered by the board and is said to possess many valuable and practicable features. The impression prevails at the Navy Department that an understanding has been reached by which Con To Seward gress will make pro Spanish Tion for th delayed rewards for war Heroes. officers who served with distinction In the Spanish war.

It is said that the suggestion made by Secretary Long will be adopted by Congress, that of bestowing extra rank and pay on the war heroes, without, however, advancing them on the naval register. This will premlt of the reward of an officer without prejudicing the chances for advancement of others In the service. Special war medals, suitably inscribed, will also be provided to be worn as a badge of honor. The understanding is that as soon as the House disposes of the regular na val appropriation bill, a measure embracing this proposition will be introduced and passed. It is not thought that the Senate will oppose it.

So far as can be learned, no attempt will be made by the friends of either. Sampson or Schley to reopen the old controversy between their adherents by proposing their advancement. Unless there should be overtures for a compromise from one side or the other, so that there could be equal reward for both men, the chances are that the matter will be left as it is now and that both men will retire with their present honors. The dx Mnr.tn brothers, doing business at Seattle' under the name of Moran Brothers, are doing their utmost to induce Moran Brothers i Secretary Long to give Want them a contract for I construction of one of aw arsnvp. the sheathed battleships, bids for which were opened at the Navy Department about two weeks ago.

The bid of the Western firm was considerably lareer than those of the other competitors. and even considering the allowance which the law gives to them in the matter of price, it is hard to see how the department can award a battleship to them. Owing to the great distance over which building material has to be shipped and the greater cost of labor in the far West, a special act of Congress gives an advantage of 4 per cent, to Pacific coast shipbuilding firms in competition for warship contracts. That Is to say, If a bid of a Western firm is only 4 per cent, more than that of the lowest accepted bidder, It shall be entitled to one of the vessels. In the case of the battleships now about to bo disposed of Moran Brothers' bid was more than 4 per cent, larger than that of three other firms, the Cramps, Newport News aud the Bath Iron Works.

The Seattle people are willing to scale their bid down to within 4 per cent, of the lowest proposal, hut there is doubt as to whether this can be legally done. Secretary Long has the matter under consideration and considerable pressuro Is being brought to bear In favor of the six brothers. The Moran brothers have built one warship, the tnrpedo boat Rowan. Although a comparatively new firm they are hustlers? nnd are making a good fight to get one of the big battleships. Quite a ripple of laughter wns creato1 on the diplomatic surface a few days ago when the announcement was Recollections of made that the Shah of Persia had sent a an new minister to Wash Eastern Diplomat.

ngton. The newcomer Is General Isaac Khan Mofakhamed Dooleh, and prior to. his arrival Persia had been without a representative at Washington for about ten years. The mirth occasioned by Dooleh'a presentation was caused by the recollection of the experiences of his predecessor. The latter was on odd personage, with a name as Ions SERMON BY DR.

MASON CLARKE. Christmas in Eirst Presbyterian Church Not Deism Aloof Erom the World, nor Pantheism That Dissolves God in the Universe, hut Christ Who Is God in Man and Man in God, Who Will Draw All Himself. The numbers gathered in the First Presbyterian Church on Henry street, Christmas morning, left few vacant spacea in the edifice. While the Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Protestant Episcopal orders long monopolized the day for religious service, the recourse of other denominations to its observance IB increasing. The observances at the First Presbyterian Church have in late years drawn unusual throngs to whom the superior music and the uplifting sermons have ministered In signal degree.

Before the sermon, the pastor, Dr. Mason Clarke, who was aseisted in the service by the Rev. Gaylord S. White, earnestly thanked the people for the gift of a beautiful writing desk and chair, which a committee smuggled into his house on Monday while others had skillfully lured him away from home. The short aermon which followed was on the three thoughts, "Christ Was to Come, Christ Is Come and Christ is to Come Again," which, the preached maintained, sums past, present and future history.

The discourse, which was notable for originality, power, suggestion, reverence and elevation of thought and beauty of structure, waa as follows: Text, I John "God sent His Son." twofold character of the gospel of Christmas is never more deeply Impressed upon us than when we gather to celebrate the glad and beautiful festival of Christmas. "Here on the one hand is a story that simply refuses to die out of the heart of the world. "On the other hand here is a mystery that refuses to disclose its secret, though nineteen centuries of thinking have been working at the problem. From one point of view here is a tale so simple and so charming that the little children take iz into their minds as naturally as a violet half hidden in the grass drinks in the sunshine, which perfumes it through and through. "From another point of view here are difficulties that no one can solve, questions that no one can answer, and truths that.no one can find out unto perfection.

"The angel heralds and their flaming chorus, the shepherd watchers on the plains of Bethlehem, that manger cradle, the wise men following the Star in the East, the dark angry face of Herod peering into the scene like a tempest that threatens to blacken a perfect summer das' all these varying lights and shadows combine to form a picture that, next to the passion of our Lord, enchains attention and evokes love, more than any other story the world has known. "But while I say this, I also say that the story of the birth of Christ presents an entirely different aspect. "Concealed within this marvelously beautiful drapery, there is a truth, so strange, so startling, so baffling, that the wisdom of ages has not yet explained it, nor all the sin of the world overwhelmed it. It is none of my purpose this morning to enter into the metaphysics of the person of Jesus Christ. I do not desire to discuss to day the delicate and disputed question as to the sense in which Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

My object is much simpler and much more to my liking. Whatever may be the metaphysical value which you attach to Jesus Christ, His spiritual value I am confident you will gladly own, and it is this that concerns me now. "You may eliminate if you choose every supernatural element which shines and glows in the Christmas narrative of St. Luke's gospel, but Jesus Christ remains. The character He bore no more depends upon those angels and their song than Mount Everest depends upon the clouds that sweep around its summit.

And when all is said and done, you will never find any explanation of the birth and life of Jesus Christ that covers the facts so fully and that answers all questions so completely as this statement of St. John of old: 'God sent His That declaration leaves us room enough to differ upon a score of interesting questions pertaining to the nature of this Son of God's love. It also expresses with sufficient clearness the essential truth of His glorious character and life. Let me to day turn this statement before your thoughts, that we may see afresh certain phases of its profound and immortal significance. "First of all, it has been said with a good deal of force that there is no better summary of human history than is contained in the three phrases, Christ was coming, Christ is come and Christ Is coming again.

analysis we recognize in part by our very mode of reckoning the years. This birth of Jesus at the very outset divides the whole story of the world into two vast sections, which we designate as before and after Christ. "The singularity of the fact seldom makes its adequate impression upon our minds, because of the simple commonness of the truth. But the moment you begin to probe it to its depths you discover the tremendous conclusions which it must of necessity involve. "Here by universal consent of Christendom this coming of Jesus marks such an epoch that it elicits this unconscious homage of the world.

"You say it is a mere arrangement entered into by men for purposes of convenience. You say it really proves nothing that men choose to date the generations of time, both backward and forward, from this particular event. "Ah, but the consciousness, deep and strong, that this arrangement is justified by the character of the impulse which came into the world with the birth of Jesus this abiding consciousness, I say, alone has made such an arrangement the permanent thing it Is. "It was but a short life three and thirty years at the most and of it we have a record that has been estimated to cover about fifty or sixty days of that career, and yet somehow, unconsciously, we pay to Christ an unspeakable tribute when we make all of history to own His coming as the one event that deserves to divide the ages of historic time. "I think you will find no answer to this fact except in the conclusion that in some unusual way 'God sent His But this Is not all.

This analysis of history is Justified Uy the facts themselves. For it at once lodges in the life of the world one supreme purpose, it makes intelligible those ancient days when, by slow processes, the preparation was being made for this stupendous event in Bethlehem. "I refer not alone to Jewish historv and to the record of the Old Testament, "but I mean as well the total life of the world he fore Jesus Christ. I mean the evolution of the material universe the slow development of the forms of animal life. I mean also the gleams and glimmers of truth and faith which here and there appeared like isolated stars trembling in a midnight of darkness.

I mean the gradual ascent of the soul into higher and even higher atmospheres of longing and hope and duty. You are compelled to search for some majestic purpose that underlies and controls such a movement as this. We Christians answer that fact today by saying that Christ was coming in it all. In no narrow and conventional sense do I use that splendid phrase, but as St. John used it when he spoke of Christ as the eternal Word of God I.

God's mode of self exnresslon from eternity, God's uiierance of Himself, which in one way and another has been going on from the beginning of all things. I ufc it in the sense in which I believe Paul used it when he declared that Christ was with Israel in the wilderness fourteen centuries, before Jesus of Nazarethand 'they drank of that spiritual Rock which followed them and that rock was "What can he mean but precisely this? The essential character of Christ was slowly coming forth during all those dreary, desolate ages. The gray shadows were falling toward the west the light in the east was breaking the fullness of times was drawing near Christ, the word from eternity, This great medicine has wrought the most wonderful cures of catarrh, according to tes timonials voluntarily given. Try it. was preparing to come in human flesh at last.

"And then we know He came, and men handled and saw and heard the very word of God, dwelling among them, full of beauty and of truth. "But when He passed away from human sight (no matter how) He left behind Him in impulse and a potency that furnish the succeeding centuries with their largest an'dl richest motive. I am taking no controversial ground in this. I am stating no mere heological position. I am simply saying that the world has no ideal before its eyes and no momentum in its heart that is not compassed and surpassed by the magnificent truth contained in this phrase, 'Christ is cominsr I beg you not now at any rate' I beg you net to convert that phrase into the expression of some dogma that may perhaps suit your particular mood and temper.

Let us not reduce it by making it mean a material spectacle at some time in the near or distant future. Rather let ua now, at least, keep it to express this great purpose which we believe we can see in history Christ is coming again. "As James Freeman Clarke used to exclaim with his passionate faith, 'We have) not yet equaled Christ, but we shall, we Not that we shall rival Christ ngt that indeed, God knows. But it means the goal toward which things are moving. It means the kind of life which we believe we) must finally attain.

It means the divine purpose which holds in its omnipotent grasp the) ages of men, and which slowly pushes the world nearer and nearer to the kingdom of God. "Christ, then, is coming, in laws and la government. Christ is coming in society and in learning. Christ is coming in ministry and in charity. No, we have not yet equaled Him; but, cavil how you will, laugh at Christianity as you may, expose the errors of the) Church and the blunders of ecclesiastics, yet, your most exalted imagination will not add.

any grace or any beauty to the character of Jesus Christ the child of Bethlehem, the) man of Nazareth, the victim of Cavalry teebly followed, but passionately adored by those who dare in humble love to call themselves after His matchless name! "Again, I say, you will find no explanation of all this, that so unlocks the secret, as this phrase of St. John, 'God sent His Christ was coming; Christ is come; Christ is coming again; this is the epitome of history; this is the completest summary yon can give of the ages that are gone and of those that are yet to be. Yes, glory to God in the highest, for God hath sent His Son. "But, once again: If, now, what I have been saying is true, or even approximately true, then there arises another question which confronts us at once as we stand beside the Bethlehem manger. We are compelled to ask ourselves, Why did God thus send His Son? and in asking such a question I am anxious to find some answer where all men who love righteousness and who hate iniquity may stand together, however at variance they may be on sundry points of metaphysical speculation.

"Can we not, then, unitedly confess our faith in Jesus Christ, in these three essential and vital relations. God sent His Son, first to reveal to men the character of God Himself. Say what you will, the fullest information we have up to this moment pertaining to God and relating to His nature and disposition, is information, given to us by Jesus Christ. Only life can reveal life. Only character can disclose character.

The words of Jesus are absolutely true where He said, 'No man can come unto the Father but by One conception of God to day is due to Jesus of Bethlehem. And in that fact alone we surely can discover the first logical reason why God sent His Son. It waa to give accurate and adequate knowledge of the character of God Himself. But another reason follows close upon this. Try for a moment to put out of your mind those philosophical abstractions which are continually trying to interpret for us in dogmatic? terms the interior mysteries of Christ's per son and divine relationships, i "Let us simply say, if you please, that I Jesus Christ was a man.

Grant it, but re member that He is the ideal man. No life I has ever revealed the capacity of human i nature to contain character as His life has done. I He has not told men what they should be, I but He has shown men what they can be! I This very same human such as yours and mine, once contained and carried an I ideal life a flawless man nay, moTe than flawless, a man so powerful and so migniy that St. Paul calls him the power of God, the power par excellence. "Well, then, this is a revelation of the capacity of human nature.

Human nature, then, is not the worthless mass we have sometimes been told it was. Jesus Christ has revealed what this nature is. He has raised it to its highest power, and as you see this same human nature which clothes vou, also clothing the man Christ Jesus obedient to Him and responsive to the last, does it not also disclose to you new heights and depths in the very life you now are living. "Here, I am sure, is the second reason upon which we may agree, as to why God sent His Son. namely, to reveal the capacity of human nature to contain the ideal, the mighty life.

"But even so, another Teason succeeds quickly to the other two. Between this Christ life and our own there Is a woeful distance. "Revelation of God is well enough. Revelation of the capacity of human nature is also well enough. But here am and what can help me to become like this Jesus, who lived so gloriously on the earth in the great days of old.

"Define Jesus of Nazareth how you will, my question is, does this Jesus help men to live the life He lived? I answer, He does, and. He does it in these two ways, at least. "First, Jesus helps men to live His life, by showing them that He has in Himself successfully resisted and overcome the sia of the world. Listen to what that mean: This curse of sin, therefore, is not the omnipotent thing we have been sorely tempted to believe It was. Sin has once on earth met its master and its conqueror, and never afterward can it be quite so defiant among men as it was before.

Sin has once been defeated and slain, in the life of Jesus Christ. That of Itself is help for me. If I know that my adversary has once been overpowered, I can go out with better heart to fight him again. He is not omnipotent. His strength is not unfailing.

He has been met and conquered once, he can be met and conquered again. But, in addition to this, Jesus Christ helps me to live the lire He lived, by stirring In my heart the strongest impulses I know. Ah, brethren. He makes me love Him. You can not deny that.

Jesus Christ by His life and by His death somehow makes men love Him and we become like what we really love. "There, lodged in that blessed law or it may he a cursed law but there in that law. Is the secret of Jesus help to us. He makes us love Him and we become like what we love. "We love Him for what He has revealed to us of God.

We love Him for the disclosure He has made us of the capacity of human nature. We love Him for His kindness, grace and truth. We love Him for His precious death and burial. We love Him! On this high day we own it with brimming hearts. Jesus Christ, Thou King of Men, Thou Son of God, we love Thee, and to secure the love of men we believe that God sent His Son! "My brethren, on the one hand is the sterile and cold deism which banishes God from the world: on the other hand is a reactionary Pantheism which buries God in the world and dissolves Him there but between the two extremes, here on this Christmas Day wo rejoice that Jesus Christ has come the Jesus, conception of the eternal; the Jesus, revelation of men.

This i6 why our hearts are glad. "This is why our love for one another is all aflame this day. We have caught the fire from the altar that never goes out. We love because He first loved us. "God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwellcth in God, and God dwelleth in him.

"No wonder the angels sang. No wonder you and I are singing to day. No wonder the old, old story refuses to die. God so loved the world that He sent His softl" JOHN BULL as that of General Dooleh. His visiting cards bore this inscription: "Hadji Hassen Ghoull Khan Matamed el Vessare." Hadhi Hassen was a wealthy gentleman of Teheran, and on retiring from business he became possessed of a desire to see the world.

He persuaded the Shah of Persia to appoint him as Minister to the United States, and soon formal notice was served on the State Department that the Shah would have a representative at Washington. Announcement to this effect was made in the papers of this country, and the arrival of Hadji Hassen was anxiously looked for. Weeks passed, then a month, but no Hadji Hassen appeared. The matter soon became a sort of national joke, and all sorts 01 suggestions were made as to the whereabouts of the missing diplomat. It was learned that he left Teheran weekB before and had been nearly a month on the road.

It was suggested that he had tripped over his name somewhere. Finally six or eight trunks were delivered at the State Department, and were carried into the chief clerk's room. They were the property of Hadji Hassen, but there was no explanation of the whereabouts of the owner. The trunks were placed in storage, and just about the time It was thought that the Shah's representative was no longer in the land of the living, he arrived in New York. He had spent a couplo of months seeing the sights of Paris incog.

Hadji Hassen got a bad start in his diplomatic career, and found life at Washington far from a path of roses. He clung to the picturesque garb of his native country, and wore a long white beard. He was a little man of odd appearance, and was a target for the gibes of smll boys. He was also a mark for the funny papers and even became a figure in comic opera. Finally Hadji Hassen could stand it no longer, and he called on the Secretary of State one day and Informed him that he would be compelled to withdraw to Persia.

He said that he had been taunted and made fun of everywhere, and that the government had failed to protect him. His dignity had been offended and he could stand It no longer Hadji Hassen accordingly returned to Persia, and it is said that he took with him a big bundle of American papers containing humorous pictures and paragraphs of him. He showed these to the Shah and indignantly demanded redress, but It Is said that the Shah laughed heartily at the pictures and dismissed the matter as a joke. The marked success of the Germans in commerce at the present time is undoubtedly due to the thorough training given to the Commercial young men of that country in the many Education Institutions scattered in Germany, throughout the empire that, make a specialty of commercial education. Consul Harris, at Elbenstock, in a communication to the State Department, explains the German system of educating young men for commercial pursuits.

Especial attention is given to instruction In English and French. The currency, weights and measure? of foreign countries are thoroughly studied In the language of each country. A rangements are made with most of the German mercantile houses, by which all their employes are secured from these schools, and many business houses permit their employes to study half of each day in the schools. No man who has held the position of superintendent of public buildings and grounds of Washington has fulfilled the duties of the office in 6uch a capable manner as the present incumbe Colonel Bingham's Erne Record. Major Theodore A.

Bingham. He has not contented with seeing that the parks have been kept in good condition and in maintaining in good repair the various public buildings under his charge, but has done much to improve and beautify the city. Colonel Bingham has progressive Ideas of what should be done to bring the White House up to the requirements of the present day and he has designed proposed additions for the executive mansion, which, if carried out, would provide a home, with ample room for the President, for both official and private uses, something that is eadly lacking now. Colonel Bingham has won over many public men to his plan for the improvement of the White Houee and, if a change is ever made in that historic structure, It is likely to be along the lines suggested by the capable engineer officer. Among the other recommendations made by Colonel Bingham for the Improvement of the city le that an electric fountain be established in the big lake, just south of the White House.

Colonel Bingham also has a big scheme for the conversion of the Potomac fiats into a monster pleasure park, embracing a driveway, cycle path, foot ball field, tennis and base ball grounds, a speedway, croquet grounds; in fact, a recreation park, where people of all ages and both sexes can find enjoyment. A. B. A. PARIS FASHIONS TJP TO DA1E.

From the Eagle Parts Bureau; 65 Rn Cambon, through the courtesy ot Abraham Straus Gown of gray taffeta, trimmed with a dotted gray Bilk jind narrow gray braid. Fancy Bteel button in front. THIS THING IS GETTING BATHER octet Christmas Day's coming yesterday momentarily broke the thread of social occurrences, of course. Monday (Christmas eve) being in like measure a nox non for society. The programme is resumed this afternoon, however, if anything more briskly than before.

There is to night the dance at the Art Association Rooms given by Mrs. James H. Williams and Mr3. Eben J. Knowlton, promising to be a very charming ball for the younger Heights set.

Two weddings are also to be numbered in the evening's events, one, that of Miss Mabel Sherman Kalley and Benjamin John Kellum, at Miss Kalley's home, 07 Oxford street, at 8 o'clock; the second, a large church affair, the marriage of Miss Evelyn Haigh and Raymond Nelson Kellogg, in St. Luke's Church, on Clinton avenue, with a reception following at Miss Haigh's home, ISO South Oxford street. A somewhat unusual interest attaches itself to Miss Haigh's bridal for it will be that event seldom seen but always to be witnessed with enthusiasm, a "rainbow wedding." Eight bridesmaids and a maid of honor will be required to present the scene. Like the bride', this maid of honor will wear white. The bridesmaids will be ranged in pairs, each pair garbed in a different tone.

Thus the first two girls will appear in yellow, the second two in pink, the third two in green, the fourth in blue, all these being pastel shades, the very faintest tints. Holly and mistletoe will make this a decidedly Christmas wedding, and one of the holiday season's quaintest and prettiest events. The afternoon has upon its schedule the fourth and last of the receptions given by Mrs. William H. Stevens of 134 Columbia heights to present her daughter, Miss Jessie Stevens.

In the evening Mrs. Edgar F. Luck enbach of 54 First place gives a card party. To morrow there will occur Mrs. Sturgis Coffin's and Mrs.

William J. Mathesou's dance at the Pierrepont Assembly Rooms, a holiday tall again for the Heights younger set. The same evening the first of the Bedford Heights cotillons is on the cards, while in the afternoon Miss Julia Barr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Barr of 109 State street, will be introduced.

The week, besides, on its concluding days, has among its events the holiday dance at the Navy Yard, the concert and dance of the Cornell men at Memorial Hall and Pouch Gallery, Miss Car hart's large dinner at her home, 45 Kemsen street; Mrs. Charles Pfizer's and Miss Alice Pfizer's at home, 295 Washington avenue, and Mrs. Jesse C. Woodhull's and Miss Carolyn Woodhull's at home, 198 Berkeley place. Wednesday afternoon, January 9, at 4 o'clock, in Christ Church, at the corner of Clinton and Harrison streets, another of the midwinter weddings will be effected.

Miss Lucy Dalrymple Rogers, niece of Mrs. George Lee of 122 Amity street, will be its bride and Francis Dominick Mead its bridegroom. Both have been most prominent in the Southern set of Brooklyn and are widely popular. They have been important folk in the Tuesday Evening Dances at the Pierrepont Assembly Rooms as well. A further wedding of the early days of January Is that of Miss Rachel Lilian Smith, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. F. G. Smith of 197 Washington Park, and Charles E. F.

Lewis, set for next Tuesday evening, January 1. The reception following will be between the hours of 8:30 and 10 o'clock. A Brooklyn man, well known in club and social life, a member of the Crescent Club and of the directory of the Amphictyonic Roswell Shepherd Nichols was wedded on Thursday of last week noon. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride, Miss Margaret Pellet, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

W. M. Pellet, Watkins, N. Y. The Rev.

Louis Ruf was the officiating clergyman. Miss Pellet wore a frock of meteor CTepe, trimmed with lace. She carried bride's roses. Her single attendant was Miss Elizabeth Russell of Watkins, who served as maid of honor. James Swan, of Brooklyn, was best man, and the ushers were Robert Pellet and William Pellet, the bride's brothers.

The decorations were of Christmas greens, palms and holly. A feature of the bridal party that gave a yet further Christmas touch to the ceremony was the scarfs of red Mr. Nichols' attendants wore. White pinks decked their coats. The bridal colors were thus red and white.

A wedding breakfast followed the ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols will reside in Brooklyn. At Homes are announced for Tuesdays in January by the Rev.

Dr. S. D. McConnell and Mrs. McConnell.

at 126 Pierrepout street, afternoon and evening. Receptions of the near future include those of Mrs. John Walter Chapman and Mrs. Lewis WItherbee Francis (Miss Sarah Dimon Chapman that was), on Thursdays, January 10, 17 and 24, from 4 until 7. Oscar Pouch of 315 Greene avenue, the youngest son of the late AKred J.

Pouch, announce. his engagement to Miss Gertrude May Sargent of 221 Greene avenue. So far as announced to date, the patronesses for the muBicale and dance for the Rainbow Cot at the Pouch Gallery, on the evening of January 24, are: Mrs. Peter Bogert, Mrs. Henry C.

Bainbridge, Mrs. H. V. V. Braman, Mrs.

Marcus L. Bailey, Mrs. Edward C. Cockey, Mrs. L.

M. De Witt, Mrs. J. H. Dyk man.

Mrs. James P. Eddy, Mrs. Edward Graef, Mrs. John B.

Greason. Mrs. A. D. Goddard, Mrs.

St. Clair Hester, Mrs. William G. Hoople, Mrs. Calvin Edwards Hull, Mrs.

Clarence Irish, Mrs. Abner C. Keeney, Mrs. J. Eliot Laugstaff, Mrs.

Miles McNamara, Mrs. Emma L. Pratt, Mrs. W. E.

Parfitt, Mrs. Frank L. Sniffen, Mrs. Estella T. Snow, Mrs.

Harry L. Thompson, Mrs. John B. Van Every, Mrs. St.

John Wood. The talent will Include Miss Julia F. Ayer, reader; Miss Grace Wells Heagle, contralto, assisted by Miss Laura Wheeler, violinist; Miss Helen Marie Burr, harpist; Miss Mary Colson, accompanist. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Edward Porter (Miss Edna Dare that was, whose wedding of the early fall is yet distinctly remembered for its pleasant incidents) were at home at 888 Park place last Wednesday evening between the hours of 8 and 10. The house was profusely decorated with laurel and holly. Receiving with this bride and bridegroom and the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Henri Dare, were: Miss Katharine Jones, Miss Amy Woodruff, Miss Gertrude Ashfield, Miss Josephine Schuller, Miss Emma Small, Miss Ursula Banks.

The Baron Saturday evening cotillon class this winter at the Pouch Gallery, one of the season's most entertaining gatherings, is as follows: Miss Gladys Barnett, Miss Margaret Mitchell, Miss Etta Cosgrove, Miss Madge Miller, Mis3 Edith Haley, Miss Hester Mc Vaugh, Miss May Gelston, Miss Kathleen Montgomery, Miss Georgetta Aller, Miss Ditmars, Miss Gertrude Ditmars, Miss Edna Moller, Miss Dorothy Jenner, Miss Edith Roberts, Miss Charlotte McMaster, Miss A. M. Brown, Miss Wilma Sheffler, Miss Gertrude Schneider, Miss May McCarroll, Miss Mary Scribner, Miss Adele Schmachtenberg, Miss Matilda Schmachtenberg, Miss Madeleine Bell, Miss Kathleen Thompson, Miss Marion Pratt, Miss Lillian Ticer, Miss Grace Vande water, Miss Madeleine Bamber, Miss Isabelle Ruckgaber, Miss Estelle Smith, Miss Clara Ernst, Miss Fredrika Penni, Miss Edwina Peterson, Miss Janet Mason, Miss Saeline Shierenbeck, Miss Louise Russell, Miss Sadie Johnston, Miss Florence Brinkerhoff, Clarence C. Perpall, Harold Somers, Giles Nelson Haley, George E. Parkinson, T.

Hauf, E. "Van Riper, Le Roy Ogden Minton, J. P. Smithers, L. Elford Mollenhauer, F.

W. Schmachtenberg, Daniel Lott, W. R. Shil laber, Frederick Rawolle, Sidney Curtis, Harry M. Avery, Raymond Calvi, Frederick Northrop, Albert E.

Shierenbeck, Donald M. Somers, Charles Johnston, J. A. Smith, Harry W. Splcer, J.

Irving Glover, J. Dalund Lun, George Roberts, C. J. Wyckoff, Gustave Het bach. Some Brooklyn names are to be noted on the subscription list of the Tuesday evening assemblies, danced this winter in the ball room of Delmonico's, Borough of Manhattan.

Among them are those of Miss Leona Crawford, Miss Lillias Johnston, John C. Thompson, E. A. Olds, jr. Yet another girls' euchre club goes to swell the already great number now in full measure in Brooklyn.

This latest is made up of members of the Volente Club of the Hill, that well known organization of fifty young women. The Volente Card Club is what these eucherites call themselves, and their plans Include the calling of meetings for purposes of play once a month. The club's second meeting was held at the residence of Mrs. Frank Sloan, 251 Washington avenue, Friday afternoon of last week. The membership includes Mrs.

Sloan, Mrs. William Chandler Smith, Miss Emily Unckles, Miss Grace Edwards, Miss Lillian Allen, Miss Murphy, Miss Florence Murphy, Miss Howard, Mrs. Williams, Miss Bessie Arthur, Miss Sadie Arthur, Miss Evelyn Andrews, Miss Mabel Andrews. Miss Ethel Andrews, Mrs. DeWitt Bailey, Miss Daisy Peterkin.

The honors must be given to a Hill and Park Slope set for having originated the most remarkable name for a series ot dances thai has been known in many years. The Per petuum Mobile Club is the strange title, and the first dance will be held at the Pierrepont Assembly Rooms on Friday evening of next week. The plan is to have three dances ia the series. The patronesses are: Mrs. William J.

Carr. Mrs. Rudolph L. Daus. Mrs.

Julian D. Faircnild, Mrs. Edward M. Grout, Mrs. James Hardle, Mrs.

Thomas Jenkins, Mrs. James Kirwin, Mrs. Edwin M. Keiser, Mrs. Henry MacKay, Mrs.

John C. Reilly, Mrs. Henry Sanger Snow. The tableaux arranged at Memorial Hall for the benefit of St. Christopher's Hospital, the managers and projectors of It being the cribside committee, it is now announced will be given on the evening of January 17 (Thursday) in place of the following night.

THE CORNEL! CONCERT In Memorial Hall Eriday Evening. The Programme. A musical event of uncommon Interest will be the concert in Memorial Hall Friday evening ot the Cornell University Glee, Banjo and Mandolin clubs. The clubs, which number all told about sixty men, are considered the finest organizations of the Kind that Cornell has ever produced, the Glee Club being especially well drilled. The programme, which includes much characteristic college music, both vocal and instrumental, is as follows: Alma Mater Carm.

Cornell "The Chimes" Carm. Cornell Senegamblan Patrol Rosey Banjo Club. "The Mermaid and the Cannibal" Gelbel Glee Club. "The Ameer" Herbert Mandolin Club. "My Mother's Sonus" Hubbard T.

Smith C. E. Mott and Glee Club. "The Feller With the Drum" Dan Dore Glee Club. Campus Reverie Arranged by G.

A. Coleman Banjo Club. "The Dlxlo Kid" Gelbel Glee Club. Valse. Eonhour Perdu Glllet Mandolin Club.

"Art! What Do You Think He Said?" from "The Sphinx" Lewis Thompson M. R. Ebersole and club. "Evening Song" Carm. Cornell Glee Club.

People of tlie next century will dine oh bugs. Read all about It In THE TWENTIETH CENTURY EAGLE. Next Sunday. Adv. See how the map ot the world lll be changed In the next century.

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