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 riage—all were merry meetings in church-*yard or church which all the inhabitants were bidden to attend at a charge of one penny. Tho they had grown to unruly revels, they were not finally supprest till the time of the Commonwealth.—, "Heroes of Modern Crusades."

(1655)

INTEMPERANCE IN SONS

Rev. W. F. Crafts says:

Recently, in a New England manufacturing city, we noted a change that bodes no good for business or politics or religion. We found that the old men who founded and developed the mills were all total abstainers and had been from youth, but their sons, who were succeeding to these great responsibilities, had nearly all of them come back from college with drinking habits.

(1656)

Intemperate Living—See.

INTENSITY

In the concluding chapters of Ellen Terry's memoirs (McClure's Magazine), she writes of the last days of Henry Irving. The doctor had warned Irving not to play "The Bells" again after an illness that attacked him in the spring of 1905. He saw the "terrible emotional strain 'The Bells' put upon Henry"—how he never could play the part of Matthias "on his head," as he could Louis XI, for example. Miss Terry goes on in words almost implying that Matthias killed him. We read:

"Every time he heard the sound of bells, the throbbing of his heart must have nearly killed him. He used always to turn quite white—there was no trick about it. It was imagination acting physically on the body.

"His death as Matthias—the death of a strong, robust man—was different from all his other stage deaths. He did really almost die—he imagined his death with such horrible intensity. His eyes would disappear upward, his face grow gray, his limbs cold.

"No wonder, then, that the first time that the Wolverhampton doctor's warning was disregarded, and Henry played 'The Bells,' at Bradford, his heart could not stand the strain. Within twenty-four hours of his death as Matthias, he was dead."

(1657)

INTENTION

While "we have this treasure in earthen vessels" we can never fully manifest the best that is in us. Benjamin R. Bulkeley tells us in the following verse that God knows how much better we intend than we can do:

There was never a song that was sung by thee, But a sweeter one was meant to be. There was never a deed that was grandly done, But a greater was meant by some earnest one, For the sweetest voice can never impart The song that trembles within the heart.

And the brain and the hand can never quite do The thing that the soul has fondly in view. And hence are the tears and the burdens of pain, For the shining goals are never to gain, But enough that a God can hear and see The song and the deed that were meant to be.

(1658)

Interception—See.

Intercession—See.

INTERDEPENDENCE

Every great newspaper periodically announces its dependence upon immature, half-grown boys, whose nimble steps and strident voices secure its circulation. The brain which forges the editorial, the skill which administers the counting-room, however great, imposing, or commanding, must doff its hat of necessity to the barefooted news-*boy and confess its obligation to him in his obscurity for its chance to reach its constituency.—

(1659)

See ;.

Interest in Religious Education—See .

Interest, Intense—See.

INTEREST, SIGNIFICANT

I have often been appealed to by friends, who said: "Can't you take this young man and give him employment?" Then I will watch that young man for a month or so and see what it is that he takes up in the morning. If he takes up the newspaper and turns to the political part of the paper, and is interested in that, why that is a good symptom of his intellectual tendencies; but if, instead of that, he takes up a magazine