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And after some years the result is that she seems to be happy
and prosperous. People call her fortunate. Another complaining
woman said to her, “Oh, it is well enough for you to talk, you
who have never known a trouble in your life.”

“A trouble in my life!” the cheerful woman said to herself, and
stopt to think. “A trouble! Perhaps not; but now, thank God,
those which I thought I had seem no longer to have belonged to
me, but to some other person living centuries ago.” And she felt
sorry for her fretful friend.--M. O. SIMMONS.

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See DEATH, CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE TOWARD.

TRUST

It is a pleasant sight sometimes to see a child and a father at
a crowded London crossing; to the child’s imagination the street
with its rattle of horses and vehicles is the picture of danger
and death--to attempt to get to the other side alone would be
certain destruction; but as the father stands at the edge of the
pavement, the child looks up to him with a glance of perfect
trust and puts its hand in his, and goes with him through the
tangled maze of traffic without a thought of danger or fear.
This is just what the converted soul does with regard to the
Lord Jesus Christ. It looks up into His gentle face with trust,
and goes with Him whithersoever He will lead it; there can be
no danger and no misgiving; sin and temptation have lost their
power; the soul shall pass through the tangled maze of life
safely.

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* * * * *

When the writer was visiting a certain school, a little fellow
came up and spoke to the teacher. After he had returned to his
seat the teacher said, “There is a boy I can trust.” Think of
that commendation! What a character that boy had earned! He
had already what would in the future be worth to him more than
a fortune. It would be a passport into the best store in the
city, and what is better, into the confidence and respect of the
entire community.--JAMES T. WHITE, “Character Lessons.”

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=Trust Disarms=--See CONFIDENCE.

TRUST IN DEATH

Mozart’s dying words were, “From heaven’s mercy alone can I hope
for succor; and it will be granted, Emilie (his young daughter),
in the time of my utmost need; yes, in the hour of death I will
claim His help who is always ready to aid those who trust in Him.

“Take these notes, the last I shall ever pen, and sit down to
the instrument. Sing with them the hymn so beloved by your
mother and let me once more hear those tones which have been my
delight since childhood.”

Emilie closed the second stanza,

“Spirit, how bright is the road
For which thou art now on the wing!
Thy home it will be with thy Savior and God,
Their loud hallelujahs to sing,”

and waited for the mild voice of her father’s praise. But he was
gone.

How beautiful is the soul’s farewell to all that is mortal, when we can say as one of old, “Yea, tho I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”

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TRUST IN GOD

I recently came from my summer home to New York by the night
train. The night was dark, foggy and rainy. I did not know the
engineer. I was not sure he could see the curves, the switches,
the grades. It was possible that he might fall asleep at his
post and ditch the train. And yet, believing he was trustworthy,
else he would not be in so responsible a position, I went to
my berth, undrest, slept soundly, and when I awoke the bright
sun was shining into my window, with my destination reached. I
did not feel I did a foolhardy act, tho engineers have slept
at their posts, have missed the switches, have ditched their
trains. And yet I trusted my life to a man I had never seen, and
under most unfavorable circumstances. Thousands are doing that
very thing daily. How much more should we trust an overruling
Providence guiding His children through all storms and darkness,
when our hearts bear witness to His fidelity.--ROBERT
MACDONALD.

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TRUSTWORTHINESS

“Are they fine berries?” asked a lady of the fruit-peddler,
who had just rattled off the usual formula, “Blueb’ries,
blackb’ries, huckleb’ries, strawb’ries.”

“Well, pretty good,” he answered. “Not so to say the best.”

“I don’t want them, then,” she answered shortly. “If you can’t
recommend them yourself, they won’t suit me.” A moment later she
opened the window to speak to him on the sidewalk. “You may come
to-morrow, tho, or the next time that you do have nice ones.
It’s something to be able to trust you to tell the truth about
them.”--_Selected._

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=Trustworthiness, Human=--See CONFIDENCE IN MEN.

=Truth=--See LYING.

TRUTH AND CRITICISM

Once Mr. Beecher, preaching on war, and the tax burden, spoke of
Russia as having a standing army of fifteen hundred billions.
One hearer laughed, Mr. Beecher grew red, stamped on the floor,
and exclaimed, “I say Russia has fifteen hundred billions of men
in her standing army”--that settled it! Well, but Mr. Beecher’s
error in mathematics did not invalidate his arguments for
patriotism, or duty, or home, or the love of God; nor need you
be disturbed by the geology or astronomy or history of the Old
Testament.--N. D. HILLIS.

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TRUTH FATAL

Of the great caution with which truth must often be handled, I
can not give you a better illustration than the following from
my own experience. A young man, accompanied by his young wife,
came from a distant place, and sent for me to see him at his
hotel. He wanted his chest examined, he told me. Did he wish to
be informed of what I might discover? He did. I made the _ante
mortem_ autopsy desired. Tubercles; cavities; disease in
full blast; death waiting at the door. I did not say this, of
course, but waited for his question. “Are there any tubercles?”
he asked presently. “Yes, there are.” There was silence for a
brief space, and then like Esau, he lifted up his voice and
wept; he cried with a great and exceedingly bitter cry, and
then the twain, husband and wife, with loud ululation and
passionate wringing of hands, shrieked in wild chorus like the
_keeners_ of an Irish funeral, and would not be soothed or
comforted. The fool! He had brought a letter from his physician,
warning me not to give an opinion to the patient himself, but
to write it to him, the medical adviser, and this letter the
patient had kept back, determined to have my opinion from my
own lips, not doubting that it would be favorable. In six weeks
he was dead, and I never questioned that his own folly and my
telling him the naked truth killed him before his time.

Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of
the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as
suddenly as a drop of prussic acid. An old gentleman was sitting
at a table when the news that Napoleon had returned from Elba
was told him. He started up, repeated a line from a French play,
which may be thus Englished:

“The fatal secret is at length revealed,” and fell senseless
in apoplexy. You remember the story of the old man who expired
on hearing that his sons were crowned at the Olympic games.
A worthy inhabitant of a village in New Hampshire fell dead
on hearing that he was chosen town clerk.--OLIVER WENDELL
HOLMES, JR.

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TRUTH, GIRDLE OF

It is the universal custom among the Parsees of the Far East
to wear a girdle around their waists, which is twisted into
three knots in a most complicated fashion. In performing their
daily ablutions this girdle must be removed, and in replacing
it certain prayers are repeated for each knot. The three knots
represent good thoughts, good words, and good deeds, all
constituting a threefold cord that is to be not easily broken.

A good companion to the “girdle of truth” which the Christian may wear. (Text.)

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=Truth in Men=--See CONFIDENCE IN MEN.

=Truth not Static=--See CREEDS, INSECURITY OF.

=Truth, Standing for=--See ARGUING FOR TRUTH.

=Truth-telling=--See TRUSTWORTHINESS.

=Truth Withheld=--See DISCRETION.

TRUTHFULNESS REWARDED

I remember once hearing of a boy who was very, very poor. He
lived in a foreign country, and his mother said to him one day
that he must go into the great city and start in business, and
she took his coat and cut it open and sewed between the lining
and the coat forty golden dinars, which she had saved up for
many years to start him in life. She told him to take care of
robbers as he went across the desert; and as he was going out of
the door she said: “My boy, I have only two words for you, ‘Fear
God, and never tell a lie.’” The boy started off, and toward
evening he saw glittering in the distance the minarets of the
great city, but between the city and himself he saw a cloud of
dust; it came nearer; presently he saw that it was a band of
robbers. One of the robbers left the rest and rode toward him,
and said: “Boy, what have you got?” And the boy looked him in
the face and said: “I have forty golden dinars sewed up in my
coat.” And the robber laughed and wheeled round his horse and
went away back. He would not believe the boy. Presently another
robber came, and he said: “Boy, what have you got?” “Forty
golden dinars sewed up in my coat.” The robber said: “The boy
is a fool,” and wheeled his horse and rode away back. By and
by the robber captain came, and he said: “Boy, what have you
got?” “I have forty golden dinars sewed up in my coat.” And
the robber dismounted and put his hand over the boy’s breast,
felt something round, counted one, two, three, four, five,
till he counted out the forty golden coins. He looked the boy
in the face and said: “Why did you tell me that?” The boy said:
“Because of God and my mother.” And the robber leaned on his
spear and thought, and said: “Wait a moment.” He mounted his
horse, rode back to the rest of the robbers, and came back in
about five minutes with his dress changed. This time he looked
not like a robber, but like a merchant. He took the boy up on
his horse and said: “My boy, I have long wanted to do something
for my God and for my mother, and I have this moment renounced
my robber’s life. I am also a merchant. I have a large business
house in the city. I want you to come and live with me, to
teach me about your God; and you will be rich, and your mother
some day will come and live with us.” And it all happened.
(Text.)--HENRY DRUMMOND.

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TUBERCULOSIS

For the following facts and suggestions we are indebted to “The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis,” New York:

Consumption, or tuberculosis, is a disease of the lungs which
is taken from others, and is not simply due to catching cold.
It is generally caused by germs, known as tubercle bacilli,
which enter the body with the air breathed. The matter which
consumptives cough or spit up usually contains these germs in
great numbers, and if those who have the disease spit upon the
floor, walls or elsewhere, the matter will dry, become powdered,
and any draught or wind will distribute the germs in it with the
dust in the air. Any person may catch the disease by taking in
with the air he breathes the germs spread about in this manner.
He may also contract the disease by taking into his system the
germs contained in the small drops of saliva expelled by a
consumptive when coughing or sneezing. It should be known that
it is not dangerous to live with a consumptive if the matter
coughed up by him is properly disposed of.

Consumption may be cured at home in many instances if it is
recognized early and proper means are taken for its treatment.
When a member of a family is found to have consumption and can
not be sent to a sanatorium, arrangements for taking the cure at
home should be made as soon as the disease is discovered.

Open-air treatment is the most approved method of cure. Rest is
a most important part of the open-air treatment, and exercise
must be regulated by the doctor. Always have at hand an extra
wrap, and never remain out if chilled. Cold weather should have
a bracing effect, and when it does not, go into a warm room
and get a hot drink, preferably milk, remaining indoors until
comfortably warm. When going out again use more wraps, and keep
behind a shield or screen that breaks the force of the wind,
Always be cheerful and hopeful; never waste your strength in
anger or by being cross. Lead a temperate life, go to bed early
and get up late; do not use alcohol in any form except when
prescribed by your doctor. Do away with tobacco if possible, and
use only weak tea and coffee in small quantities. Never swallow
the matter coughed up, but always destroy every particle by
spitting in a paper or cloth which can be burned. Never allow
the hands, face or clothing to be soiled by sputum, and if this
happens by accident, wash the place soiled with soap and hot
water. Men who have consumption should not wear a mustache or
beard unless it is trimmed close. Particular care must be taken,
when sneezing and coughing, to hold in the hands before the face
a cloth which can be burned. Soiled bed-clothes, night-dresses,
other washable garments and personal linen should be handled as
little as possible until they are boiled prior to their being
washed. The dishes used by the patient must be boiled after each
meal.

That tuberculosis is particularly fatal to the working men
may be clearly seen from the fact that at least one-third of
the deaths during the chief working period of life are caused
by pulmonary tuberculosis. Every other workman who becomes
incapacitated must ascribe his condition to consumption. Dr.
Lawrence F. Flick says: “Tuberculosis is peculiarly a disease
of the wage-workers, and this is so for the very good reason
that one of the causes of the disease is overwork.” In some
trades, such as the metal polishers, brass workers, and stone
workers, from 35 to 50 per cent. of all deaths are caused by
tuberculosis. Dusty trades are particularly dangerous.

Appropriations of over $4,000,000 for the suppression of
consumption have been made by twenty-eight State Legislatures
in session during 1909, according to a statement issued to-day
by the National Association for the Study and Prevention of
Tuberculosis.

In 1909–10, forty-three State and Territorial Legislatures
were in session. Of this number, 28 passed laws pertaining to
tuberculosis; eight others considered such legislation, and in
only seven States no measures about consumption were presented.
In all, 101 laws relating to the prevention or treatment of
human tuberculosis were considered, and out of this number 64
were passed.

That the “white plague,” as it is often called, is a national
concern is shown by the map on next page.

In 1909, out of the $8,180,621.50 spent for the prevention and
treatment of tuberculosis, $4,362,750.03 was spent from public
money, and $3,817,871.47 from funds voluntarily contributed. For
the carrying on of State, Federal and municipal tuberculosis
work in 1910, over $9,000,000 has been appropriated. Of this
sum, the State Legislatures have granted $4,100,000, the
municipal and county bodies, $3,975,500, and the Federal
Government, $1,000,000.

About 800,000 women under the Health Department of the General
Federation of Women’s Clubs in every State and Territory of
the United States are banded together against this disease,
and more than 2,000 clubs are taking a special interest in the
crusade. Not less than $500,000 is raised annually by them for
tuberculosis work, besides millions that are secured through
their efforts in State and municipal appropriations.

Over 4,000,000 churchgoers, nearly 40,000 sermons and preachers,
and more than 1,250,000 pieces of literature, are some of the
totals given in a preliminary report issued by the National
Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, of the
results of the first National Tuberculosis Sunday ever held, on
April 24, 1910.

The report states that fully one-eighth of the 33,000,000 listed
communicants of the churches of the United States heard the
gospel of health on Tuberculosis Sunday, and that the number
of people who were reached by notices and sermons printed in
the newspapers will aggregate 25,000,000. Hardly a paper in the
country failed to announce the occasion.

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=Tumbles Unimportant=--See DEFEAT.

=Turn About Fair Play=--See TONGUE, THE.

=Type, Fixt=--See ENVIRONMENT, ADAPTATION TO.

TYPES, DISTINCT

Suppose we had Christ’s spirit as an ideal would we not also develop a distinct type? It is this type that is going to conquer the world.

It is said of the actors in the Oberammergau play that through
loyalty to ideals the villagers have developed distinct
types--the Christ type, the apostle type.

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U

UNBELIEF

Years ago, in my Sunday-school, a young fellow came to me and
said: “I have come to the conclusion that there is no God, no
future life, no heaven and no hell. When you are dead, you
are dead, and that is the end of you.” My reply was: “My dear
fellow, these opinions will wreck you before you get through.”
Before long, he left the Sunday-school, and I saw no more of
him for years. Then one evening a knock came at my study door,
and behold! the young man appeared. He was much run down, was
blear-eyed and bloated. “Is that you, Fred?” said I. “Yes,” he
replied. “Is it drink?” said I. “Yes,” he replied again. “Do you
remember that I told you your opinions would wreck you before
you got through?”--A. F. SCHAUFFLER, _The Christian
Herald_.

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* * * * *

The waves of unbelief mount and recede,
And jar the century with strong unrest;
They carry back the sands of many a creed,
But only leave the rock more manifest.
(Text.)

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=Uncertainty of Life=--See PRECAUTION.

UNCONSCIOUS GREATNESS

If John Wesley himself, the little, long-nosed, long-chinned,
peremptory man who, on March 9, 1791, was carried to his
grave by six poor men, “leaving behind him nothing but a good
library of books, a well-worn clergyman’s gown, a much-abused
reputation, and--the Methodist Church, could return to this
world just now, when so much admiring ink is being poured upon
his head, he would probably be the most astonished man on the
planet.” For if Wesley has achieved fame, he never intended it.
Seeley says that England conquered and peopled half the world
in a fit of absence of mind. And if Wesley built up one of the
greatest of modern churches, and supplied a new starting-point
to modern religious history, it was with an entire absence of
conscious intention. (Text.)--W. H. FITCHETT, “Wesley
and His Century.”

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UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE

A Persian fable says: One day A wanderer found a lump of clay
So redolent of sweet perfume Its odors scented all the room.
“What are thou?” was his quick demand. “Art thou some gem from
Samarcand, Or spikenard in this rude disguise, Or other costly
merchandise?” “Nay, I am but a lump of clay.” “Then, whence this
wondrous perfume, say!” “Friend, if the secret I disclose-- I
have been dwelling with the rose.”

Dear Lord, abide with us, that we May draw our perfume fresh
from thee.

It is nothing wonderful that men said of the early disciples that they had been with Jesus. They had in their life the perfume of the rose--the Rose of Sharon.

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=Understanding, Perfect=--See FUTURE LIFE.

UNDERSTANDING, SYMPATHETIC

If I knew you and you knew me--
If both of us could clearly see,
And with an inner sight divine
The meaning of your heart and mine,
I’m sure that we would differ less
And clasp our hands in friendliness;
Our thoughts would pleasantly agree
If I knew you and you knew me.

--NIXON WALTERMAN, _Epworth Herald_.

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UNEMPLOYED, PROBLEM OF THE

The problem of the unemployed is emphasized by facts and comments such as these from the metropolitan press:

James Kelly, seventy years old, a homeless wanderer, was found
frozen to death within a few feet of the General Philip Schuyler
estate, near Irvington.

Wilson Meyers, seventy years old, and homeless, was found dead
in a stable near the Long Island Railroad tracks, at Rockaway
Beach.

And 2,000 people in the Bowery bread-line on these freezing
nights.

At the extraordinary meeting held in the Bowery Mission, where
five hundred men from the bread-line met at the invitation
of the Rev. J. G. Hallimond to talk over the facts of their
situation, it was made perfectly clear that a large proportion
of the company had nothing whatever the matter with them as
individuals. They were skilled and sober mechanics and clerks,
capable of rendering valuable services to society and eager to
do it. (Text.)

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UNEXPECTED, THE

At the critical period of the American Civil War when General
Hooker was succeeded by General Meade, neither Meade nor Lee
desired or expected to fight a battle at Gettysburg, Lee wishing
to have it at Cashtown and Meade on Pipe Creek, but both were
drawn into it against positive orders to the contrary, and yet
that battle proved to be the turning-point in the fortunes of
the war.

Many of the greatest results in history and in individual lives turn on circumstances wholly unforeseen by man, which some call accident or chance, but which the wise know to be an overruling Providence. (Text.)

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=Unexpected Value=--See APPRECIATION.

=Unfaith=--See CONFIDENCE, LACK OF; TIME BRINGS FORTUNE.

=Unfaithfulness, Penalty of=--See RESPECT, NO, OF PERSONS.

UNFORGIVING SPIRIT, THE

La Tude, a young Frenchman, for a trifling offense, was seized
and thrown into prison by order of Madame de Pompadour. There he
remained until her death in 1764. Two years before she died he
wrote this unfeeling woman: “I have suffered fourteen years; let
all be buried forever in the blood of Jesus.” But she remained
fixt in her determination to show him no mercy. This young
Frenchman remained in prison almost thirty-five years. (Text.)

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UNFITNESS

A man who weighs one hundred and fifty pounds on the earth would
weigh only two pounds on the planet Mars, and so could hardly
stand; while on the sun he would weigh two tons and so would
sink, like a stone in the sea, into its hot marshes. Each man is
too light for some places, too heavy for others, and just right
for others. Failing in a work for which he is unfitted often
brings him to his true place.

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See ATTAINMENT, SUPERFICIAL.

UNHAPPINESS OF THE GREAT

How well do the instances cited below illustrate the oft-quoted sentence of Augustine, “Restless are our hearts, O God, until they rest in Thee.”

Sheridan, idol of his day, had for his last words: “I am
absolutely undone.” “Take me back to my room,” sighed Sir Walter
Scott; “there is no rest for me but the grave.” Charles Lamb
said: “I walk up and down thinking I am happy, but feeling I am
not.” Edmund Burke said he would not give a peck of refuse wheat
for all the fame in the world.

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=Uniform as a Preparation for Fighting=--See DRESS AFFECTING MOODS.

UNION

Where such things can be done in nature as are described below there should be hope of a time when the varieties of human nature, varying sects, creeds and practises may be merged into a common Christian type.

An orange-cucumber, or cucumber-orange, as the name has not yet
been decided, is a freak combination raised by Howard S. Hill, a
cucumber grower of Gardner, Mass., which he is cultivating as a
new dish to tickle the palate of exacting diners.

The new fruit or vegetable resulted from an experiment made
by Mr. Hill. At that time an orange-tree was in full bloom in
his cucumber hothouse at the same time that the blossom of the
cucumber vines first appeared. Mr. Hill transferred the pollen
from the orange-blossoms to several cucumber flowers.

The first appearance of the fruit was the same as that of an
ordinary infant cucumber, but as the fruit grew, the result
of the inoculation became apparent. The cucumber, instead
of lengthening out, remained round like an orange, with the
orange-bloom scar, but the skin was that of a cucumber, with
the same corruptions. When ripened the new product assumed a
bright orange color, and from a distance appeared the same as
an orange.

With the seeds from the best specimens Mr. Hill is growing
a number of vines and thinks that the new fruit will become
established and prove a favorite, as the taste of the orange
and cucumber blend in an excellent manner and make a pleasing
combination.

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UNION WITH CHRIST

There is an operation in surgery when an organ has gotten
detached; the only way for it to be kept in place is to cut
it, and cut the near-by muscles, and then sew the two wounds
together. In process of healing, the organ grows fast to its
support. The surest way for a heart to grow fast to Christ is to
bring its own bleeding side to the side of the Christ who was
wounded for it, and the two will become one. (Text.)--JAMES
M. STIFLER, “The Fighting Saint.”

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See CHRIST, UNION WITH.

=United States and China=-- See AMERICA’S ATTITUDE.

UNITY

The Rev. S. Miller Hageman predicts the unity of all human designs in this verse:

All things yet shall work together, and so working, orb in one,
As the sun draws back its sunbeams when the dial-day is done;
All things yet shall gather roundly, and unite, and shape, and climb,
Into truth’s great golden unit, in the ripe result of time.

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* * * * *

One of the Greek poets sings of two devoted friends who visited
the shop of Vulcan, and desired to be joined in a closer and
indissoluble union. Vulcan took out their hearts, accordingly,
laid them on his anvil, and with many sturdy blows with his
hammer welded them into one.

A mightier power than Vulcan in a gentler way joins human hearts to one another and all to Himself at a forge whose fire is love. (Text.)

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* * * * *

J. D. Freeman, in “Concerning the Christ,” says:

A building may include a multitude and variety of compartments.
The town hall of Leicester you will find a building of this
sort. The town council room is beautifully decorated with
fine paintings, and the light streams in abundantly through
stained-glass windows. It is an inviting place. But in the
basement you will find apartments with bare walls, cold stone
floors, plain benches, and iron doors with padlocks. These rooms
are occupied by a less attractive set of people. Yet all the
rooms above and below are part of one scheme, and the beautiful
council chamber can not disown the repellent cell of the prison.

The same principles hold true of our life. You can not dismember your soul. You are not a lumber-yard where materials displace each other as they are carted in and out; you are a structure. You have your council chamber where reason and conscience deliberate, and also the dark cells where unholy desires lurk and lawless passions rage. (Text.)

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=Unity Broken=--See SEPARATION.

UNITY FUNDAMENTAL IN NATURE

As the glass reflects the face, so the creation reflects the qualities of Him who made it. Among other attributes, It speaks of His unity.

Notwithstanding the wide diversity that presents itself to our
view in the countless varieties of living beings, it yet is
true that all vegetable and animal tissues without exception,
from that of the brightly colored lichen on the rock, to that
of the painter who admires or of the botanist who dissects
it, are essentially one in composition and in structure. The
microscopic fungi clustering by millions within the body of a
single fly, the giant pine of California towering to the height
of a cathedral-spire, the Indian fig-tree covering acres with
its profound shadow, animalcules minute enough to dance in
myriads on the point of a needle, and the huge leviathan of the
deep, the flower that a girl wears in her hair, and the blood
that courses through her veins, are, each and all, smaller or
larger multiples or aggregates of one and the same structural
unit, and all therefore ultimately resolvable into the same
identical elements. That unit is a corpuscle composed of oxygen,
hydrogen, nitrogen, and carbon. Hydrogen, with oxygen, forms
water; carbon, with oxygen, carbonic acid; and hydrogen, with
nitrogen, ammonia. These three compounds--water, carbonic acid,
and ammonia--in like manner, when combined form protoplasm.
(Text.)

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=Unity of Christendom=--See CHURCH UNION.

=Unity of Knowledge=--See KNOWLEDGE, UNITY OF.

UNITY OF LIFE

I was greatly charmed last summer by a sight in the mountains
of four stately chestnuts growing from one root. I loved to sit
in the shadow first of one and then of another, and to watch
them swaying in the wind and kissing each other through the
interlacing branches. So I have thought it is with the drama,
the finer arts, and music, and with religious aspirations--each
separate in some sense from the other, and yet, down in the
deepest, one, blossoming alike and bearing fruit, shooting up
into the light together, and glorifying the land where they
grow.--ROBERT COLLYER.

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UNITY OF MATTER

Theism is gradually being reenforced by the discovery that apparently diverse phenomena are really one.

The division of bodies into gaseous, liquid, and solid, and
the distinction established for the same substance between the
three states, retain a great importance for the applications and
usages of daily life, but have long since lost their absolute
value from the scientific point of view.

As far as concerns the liquid and gaseous states particularly,
the already antiquated researches of Andrews confirmed the ideas
of Cagniard de la Tour and established the continuity of the
two states.--LUCIEN POINCARE, “The New Physics and Its
Evolution.”

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UNITY OF MIND

Spirit and foot rule have nothing to do with each other. The
same light comes out of a dew-drop that comes out of the
sun. The smallest bird that trills its infinitesimal melody
utters occasional notes that would blend with the voluminous
progressions of the grandest oratorio, or that would even
chime in with the anthem of the heavenly host praising God and
singing, “Glory to God in the highest.” And as the little note
of the bird fits the splendid symphony of the angel-choir,
so thought is still thought everywhere, mind is mind in both
worlds, the sea-shell yet hums the murmur of the sea whence it
sprang, the younger star still moves in the orbit it learned
while one with the parent star from which it was born, God and
man think in the same vernacular, the Father and His children
understand each other, the hills and the mountains are divine
thoughts done in stone, and in the heavens the interpreting mind
of man calmly fronts and steadily reads the meaning of God, and
in the scintillant paragraphs of the star-dotted sky, with a
divine genius, spells out thought that lay eternal in the great
Mind before ever He said, “Let there be light.”--CHARLES H.
WINTHROP PACKARD, “Wild Pastures.”

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=Unity of the Soul=--See SOUL A UNITY.

UNITY, STRENGTH IN

These (cedar) roots so twine and intertwine that the original
sap, drawn from the tender tips, must have nourished any one of
several trees indifferently, for heart-wood joins heart-wood in
scores of places near the stump and far from it, showing that
each tree stood not only on its own roots, but on those of its
neighbors all about it; not only was it nourished by its own
rootlets, but by those of trees near by. No gale could uproot
these swamp cedars. United they stood and divided they might not
fall.--PARKHURST.

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UNIVERSAL FACTS

The religion of science will demand that a working faith shall
have the universal note, rather than that which is local,
temperamental or transient. All nature’s truths are universal
truths. There are seven colors in the sunbeam--here, in Mars--in
all worlds. The whole is equal to the sum of the parts, for
Newton and Euclid and Moses. The laws of light and heat are the
same in all zones. Psychology that can be taught in Yale or
Harvard can be taught in Peking and Calcutta. A physiology with
the story of the circulation of the blood in a white man can be
studied in a college for brown men, and red men, and yellow men.
The multiplication table is not American--it is for all men.
The Ten Commandments are not Hebrew--they are for men who live
and work and die, without regard to color, education or race.
The master, therefore, whose music is to be a world music, must
teach that which is universal, simple and democratic.--N. D.
HILLIS.

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=Unkindness=--See LOVE’S CAREFULNESS.

UNKNOWN REALITIES

We can not tell why of two exactly similar bulbs put into
precisely similar soil one should bloom out as a tulip and
the other come up as an onion. We do not know how the flowers
receive their color or perfume, nor why it is that while we can
catch the shadow in the camera we can not imprison the color.
There are many things, too, for which we have not been able to
frame laws. We can not agree as to the cause of earthquakes, the
origin of volcanic fires, or the birth-throes of the whirlwind.
We do not even know our own origin, and the thinking world is
divided between evolution and creation. We do not know even
the normal color of man, whether we are bleached from the dark
original, or whether the dark races are sunburnt editions of the
early whites. Was the flood local or universal? Did Atlantis
exist? Were there giants in those days? These are a few of the
many questions that might be asked and remain unanswered.--San
Francisco _Chronicle_.

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See IGNORANCE OF ORIGIN AND DESTINY.

UNKNOWN SAINTS

With golden letters set in brave array
Throughout the Church’s record of the year,
The great names of historic saints appear,
Those ringing names, that, as a trumpet, play
Uplifting music o’er a sordid way,
And sound high courage to our earth-dulled ear;
But, underneath those strains, I seem to hear
The silence of the saints that have no day.

Martyrs blood-red, and trodden souls, care-gray,
In hierarchal pride no place they boast;
No candles born for them where pilgrims pray,
No haloes crown their dim and countless host;
And yet--the leaven of their humble sway,
Unrecognized, unguessed, avails the most.

(Text.)--KATHERINE PERRY, _The Reader_.

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UNKNOWN, THE

It is unsafe to deny the existence of things merely because we can not see them. Here is what Prof. Simon Newcomb says of invisible stars:

The theories of modern science converge toward the view that,
in the pure ether of space no single ray of light can ever be
lost, no matter how far it may travel. During the last few years
discoveries of dark, and therefore invisible, stars have been
made by means of the spectroscope with a success which would
have been quite incredible a very few years ago, and which even
to-day must excite wonder and admiration. The general conclusion
is that, besides the shining stars which exist in space, there
may be any number of dark ones, forever invisible in our
telescope.--_Harper’s Magazine._

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UNKNOWN WORKERS

Edward Everett Hale pays this tribute to the pioneer:

What was his name? I do not know his name;
I only know he heard God’s voice and came;
Brought all he loved across the sea,
To live and work for God--and me;
Felled the ungracious oak,
Dragged from the soil,
With torrid toil,
Thrice-gnarled roots and stubborn rock,
With plenty piled the haggard mountain-side,
And at the end, without memorial died;
No blaring trumpet sounded out his fame;
He lived, he died; I do not know his name.

No form of bronze and no memorial stones
Show me the place where lies his moldering bones,
Only a cheerful city stands,
Built by his hardened hands;
Only ten thousand homes
Where every day
The cheerful play
Of love and hope and courage comes.
These are his monuments, and these alone;
There is no form of bronze and no memorial stone.

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UNLOADING THE USELESS

The burglar hesitated. Back of him was a sheer drop of
twenty-five feet to the ground. In front of him was a determined
woman, grasping in her hand a huge revolver. She covered him
steadily.

“I won’t shoot,” she said, “if you will remain still.”

She advanced upon him and poking the muzzle of the gun in his
face reached into his pocket and pulled out his revolver.

“Come in.”

The burglar obediently stept inside the room. All his courage
was gone.

“Sit down,” said the woman.

He sat down.

She got a huge ball of heavy cord from her bureau and spent the
next twenty minutes in tying him up. Then she pointed out of the
window.

“Is that your wagon out there behind the barn?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

“Thought you would carry away my silver in it?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

The woman called her husband, who was hiding behind the baby’s
crib in the next room.

“Here, John,” she said, “take some of this furniture out.”

John came in and got to work. The burglar watched with curious
eyes. Suddenly his face blanched. He looked out of the window
and saw in the light of the moon what John was carrying.

“What are you doing to me?” he asked.

The woman began cutting his cords.

“I’m going to load you up with all of the old eyesores that
we have had in the house for these many years,” she said,
merrily--“all the furniture presented to us at Christmas
by kind-hearted relatives, all the prizes we have taken at
card-parties, all of the things we have bought at sales, all the
family portraits--everything that we have been simply dying to
get rid of.”--_Life._

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UNNATURAL EDUCATION

President Butler, of Columbia University, made the following reference to his friend, Dr. James H. Canfield, before the National Education Association at Denver, in July, 1909:

How patient he was with the typical errors of the pedagog,
yet how fully he understood them! I remember a story that he
told of himself when he was chancellor of the University of
Nebraska. Toward the close of the college year a young tutor of
mathematics who was completing his first year of service came
into the chancellor’s office and asked whether he was to be
reappointed for another year. The chancellor said: “Well, what
do you yourself think of your work? What have you done that you
are proud of?” The young tutor answered, “Mr. Chancellor, I have
just held such a stiff examination in my course that I have
flunked sixty members of the freshman class.” The chancellor
looked at him kindly and said, “Young man, suppose I gave you a
herd of one hundred cattle to drive to Kansas City, or Omaha,
and you came in to tell me that you had driven them so fast and
so hard, and had made such good time, that sixty per cent had
died on the way. Do you think that I should want you to drive
any more cattle to the Missouri River?” “No, sir,” said the
tutor. “Well, I do not think we will let you drive any more
freshmen.”

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=Unrestrained Religion=--See INADEQUACY OF NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS.

UNREWARDED INVENTION

George Dawson, in his lecture on “Ill-used Men,” notes the shameful neglect that befell the famous inventor of the spinning jenny that revolutionized the textile industry:

Poor Hargreaves died in a workhouse; his wife, a widow, sunk
into that black mass of under-current which ever underruns the
tide of England’s prosperity; and thus the man whose labors gave
England the greatest wealth she ever possest, sunk into oblivion
unrewarded.

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=Unseen Forces Trusted=--See TRUST IN GOD.

UNSEEN, RESPONSE FROM THE

The materialist says: “Scientific history seeks the discovery of
facts.” The Christian answers: “It is not so; scientific history
seeks first the discovery of the forces which shape facts.” And
the first wireless telegraphers conveying a message that saves
the world were the apostles of Jesus Christ. After His ascension
into the unseen from that wireless station named the upper
room there went out the call C Q. (“This is the signal that
something important has happened and that all other stations and
vessels in the wireless zone must instantly stop sending and
give attention. The next flash came C Q D. The added D meant
danger, and the three letters together are a cry for help, a
general ambulance call of the sea.”) And it was in response to
the disciples’ call upon the invisible Christ there came rolling
across the spiritual seas the ships of Pentecost. Those same
wondrous vessels, thank God, are still pushing out from port in
the unseen, not only to rescue, but to greaten and eternalize
the life of every storm-lasht pilgrim! Truly, with a fresh and
vivid power wireless ships publish the reality of the unseen.
(Text.)--F. F. SHANNON.

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UNSEEN RESULTS

Dr. Buchanan, of Randolph-Macon College, tells of a lady who
planted a rare rose-bush, worked around it, fertilized it,
watered it, and yet saw no reward of her labors. But presently
it was found that shoots from this bush had pushed through to
the other side of the wall and were blooming in splendid beauty
there. “Work on, undiscovered ones,” he says. “In the unseen
world you may find your unseen roses in full bloom, scenting the
air with fragrance.” (Text.)

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UNSELFISHNESS

There was a party of twenty-five boys and girls going upon a
picnic, and when about to get into the carry-all which was to
convey them to the picnic grounds, it was found that, with
the utmost crowding there was room for only twenty-four, and
one little girl was left standing on the ground, and was to
be left behind. The disappointment was too great for her to
control her feelings, and the tears began to fall, when one of
her companions, named Alice, jumped out and said, “Don’t cry,
Sadie; you get in and take my place; I have been many times,
and do not care so very much.” The children had a very happy
afternoon, but what do you suppose they thought and said about
Alice?--JAMES T. WHITE, “Character Lessons.”

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This helpful poem is from _The Outlook_:

I thank thee, Lord, for strength of arm
To win my bread,
And that beyond my need is meat
For friend unfed.
I thank thee much for bread to live,
I thank thee more for bread to give.

I thank thee, Lord, for snug-thatched roof
In cold and storm,
And that beyond my need is room
For friend forlorn.
I thank thee much for place to rest,
But more for shelter for my guest.

I thank thee, Lord, for lavish love
On me bestowed,
Enough to share with loveless folk
To ease their load.
Thy love to me I ill could spare,
Yet dearer is thy love I share. (Text.)

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See PATRIOTISM, DISINTERESTED; SELF-FORGETTING.

UNSELFISHNESS, EXAMPLES OF

When Peter Cooper, who founded the Cooper Institute, New
York, had completed his apprenticeship, his employer esteemed
him so much that he offered to give him the capital to start
in business, but Cooper refused because of his invincible
repugnance to debt. At the end of three years he had saved up
$500, but his father being prest with debt, young Cooper gave
the entire amount for his relief. He purchased a glue factory
and soon obtained the reputation of making the best glue in the
country. He became interested in many successful enterprises,
employing thousands of men, and conceived the idea of an
educational institute for the advancement of the sciences.
Abram S. Hewitt, with a son of Peter Cooper, took over the
father’s iron business, and at one time over 3,000 men were
employed, and for six years they ran the business at a loss of
over $100,000 a year rather than bring upon their employes the
distress incident to shutting down the plant. Partly for this
reason the business was run for forty years with only sufficient
profit to pay the men, and still by judicious foresight in
buying iron the firm cleared over $1,000,000 in one year. Their
policy toward their workmen was always to take them into their
confidence.--JAMES T. WHITE, “Character Lessons.”

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UNSELFISHNESS IN BIRDS

Sidney Lanier tells of a mocking-bird six weeks of age being
kept in a cage with another young bird who was so ill he could
hardly move. One day food happened to be delayed in coming,
and Bob got furiously hungry. He called and screamed and made
a great row. At last it appeared, and he took in his beak the
ball of egg and potato, snatching it out of the hand, and then,
instead of eating it, ran across the cage and gave the whole of
it to his sick friend.--OLIVE THORNE MILLER, “The Bird
Our Brother.”

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UNSELFISHNESS, POWER OF

The way in which an unselfish example can inspire a like desire in others is seen in this incident:

We two students roomed over on the north side of the building
where the sun never entered, and we were often chilled to
discomfort and we would not stand it longer. The bishop beamed
upon us with benevolent surprize, and said:

“Why, young gentlemen, this will never do; you are not going
to leave the school. True, our mission is slow in providing
better accommodations, but they will come soon. Meanwhile, we
are bound to do the best we can for our students. We expect you
young men in the future to become the bishops and leaders in the
Japanese churches. As for yourselves in particular, I’ll tell
you what we can do. I have a good warm room on the sunny side
of the school; now you young gentlemen come over and occupy my
room and I myself will go over and take yours.” “Oh, no!” we
both exclaimed; “we would not have you do that; we did not mean
that.” “But that’s what I mean,” said the bishop; “that’s what
will be done.” We again remonstrated and my fellow student, a
Christian boy, began to weep with chagrin and brokenness of
heart, and soon I found I, too, was weeping. I never before
had seen anything like that and my heart broke under it. Why,
sir, there was a light in that good bishop’s face similar to
that which I think Saul saw on the way to Damascus.--H. C.
MABIE, “Methods in Evangelism.”

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=Unsympathetic=--See SYMPATHY, LACK OF.

UNTRUTHFULNESS

Dr. Edward Everett Hale said that once he dreamed of playing
ball with a companion, and of throwing the ball through a large
glass window, and that the owner of the house came out and
asked him if he threw the ball, and he said, “No.” Then the man
pounced upon his companion, saying, “Then it must have been
you,” and dragged him into the house and gave him a tremendous
whipping. Dr. Hale said he experienced a feeling of meanness
and degradation that was inexpressible; he felt himself to be
the most cowardly wretch on the face of the earth, and had not
a single word to say in his own defense. He stood ashamed of
himself before his own conscience. He said the impression was
so vivid that he never got over the remembrance, and through
life was given a loathing and abhorrence of all forms of
deceit.--JAMES T. WHITE, “Character Lessons.”

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UNWORTHY AIMS

When asked by a friend how he managed to wear always such
becoming and elaborate cravats a British dude is said to have
answered, “Why, my dear fellah, I puts my whole mind on it.”
Such an answer is the measure of such a man’s mind. The aim was
wholly unworthy of the attention given to it.

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=Unwritten Law Waived=--See DEVOTION TO THE HELPLESS.

=Upper Worlds=--See EVIL, PURGING FROM.

UPRIGHTNESS

Confucius, wishing once to give a lesson of supreme value in
politics, pointed one of his pupils to a lofty obelisk and
said: “Seest thou yonder tall object? In its uprightness is its
strength.” (Text.)

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=Upward=--See ASPIRATION.

UPWARD LOOK

A story is told by the Rev. Silvester Horne of a college
professor who often told in the class-room of thoughts that
had come to him in the garden. The thoughts were often so
beautiful, and opened up such vistas to the imagination, that
the students, none of whom had visited the professor at his
home, pictured the garden a very Eden--spacious, and a glory of
trees and flowers. One day two of the students made a pretext
to visit the professor and get a glimpse, if possible, of the
garden. They were received and taken into the garden, which, to
their surprize, they found was the narrowest strip shut in by
high brick walls. “But, professor,” they said in their pained
disillusion, “surely this is not the garden you are always
talking about, in which such fine thoughts come to you?” “Oh,
yes, it is,” he said with a smile. “But it is so small. We had
imagined quite a large garden.” “But,” replied the professor,
pointing to the clear sky studded with stars, “see how high it
is!”

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The solar look is not only indicative of a desire in the individual to aspire to great and noble attainments for himself, it is sure to lead him to point out the upward pathway of the soul to others. Aspiration is an inspiration to altruism.

One of the most beautiful works of the celebrated artist in
terra-cotta, George Tinworth, is his alto-rilievo of C. H.
Spurgeon representing the great preacher surrounded by the
children of Stockwell Orphanage, which he founded. Mr. Spurgeon
with a heavenly smile is pointing to the skies and the children
are gazing upward as he points. This statue is a vivid contrast
to the one which stands in a square in Northampton, the monument
to that pronounced infidel, Charles Bradlaugh, the “English
Ingersoll.” The statue represents Bradlaugh addressing the
people, but he is pointing directly downward. (Text.)

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Are not most of life’s fears due to the fact that we do not consider enough what is above us? The remedy is to look up.

When a goose goes under an arch she ducks her head; that is not
because there is not space for her, but because she thinks there
is not, and that is because she is a goose. Perhaps she does not
see very clearly what is above her.--BOLTON HALL, “A
Little Land and a Living.”

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Francois de Bonnivard, whom Byron has immortalized in his
“Prisoner of Chillon,” was for many years immured in the dungeon
of the castle of Chillon, which lay below the level of Lake
Geneva, but from which he could hear the sound of the water
constantly. One day a bird came and sang at his window the
sweetest carol he ever heard. The music awakened within him an
inexpressible longing for a look at the outer and upper world,
all so free and bright to that bird. Digging a foothold in the
dungeon wall he climbed to the little window, from which he saw
the mountains of his beloved Switzerland, unchanged, capped with
eternal snow, and that upward look gave him new patience and
hope. (Text.)

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=Usage Rejected=--See EXPERIENCE A HARD TEACHER.

=Usefulness=--See SERVICE.

USEFULNESS PLUS MORE USEFULNESS