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not yet to produce life. The album 

 molecule is complicated. Science does not 

 know yet how the various atoms of carbon- 

 oxygen, and so on, which compose it, are 

 united, and all attempts to solve the prob- 

 lem of the albumen molecule, what it 

 really is, and how the elemenns are joined 

 with it, have been so far without avail. 

 But I believe firmly that this great question 

 will some day pe solved. If it is, then the 

 artificial production of life will be a 

 possibility. 



"I PRAISE THE LOARD, AND ASK 

 FORGIVENESS." 



The United States Treasurer has re- 

 ceived the following letter, inclosing a 

 contribution to the Conscience fund: 



"GRAND ISLANDS, NEB., Aug. 29, 1899. 

 Auditor Treasurer, Post Office Depart- 

 ment, Washington, D. C. 



Dear Sir and Brother: Since I became 

 a Christian the loard has shown me that 

 many years ago, when I was postmaster at 

 Lodge, Platt County, 111., that I fell into 

 a snare of the devil and yielded to temp- 

 tation by raising my cancellation, and 

 wronged the Department out of 65 cents. 

 He has also led me to make this statement 

 and ask forgiveness. Inclosed 65 cents in 

 coin, which I send you as restitution mon- 

 ey. 1 praise the loard for salvation, and 

 I leave the results with Him who doeth 

 all things well. 



I am now engaged on mission work. My 

 wife and I travel together. We visit jails 

 and preach to the prisoners, also we visit 

 county poor farms, and carry the gospel to 

 the poor as taught in the Word. I will 

 say to you, if you are an unsaved man, let 

 me exhort you to give your heart to Jesus. 

 May God bless you, is my prayer. Inclos- 

 ed find one of my tracts and some others. 

 Please read all of them with a prayerful 

 heart. Will praise the loard your salva- 

 tion full and free. Your brother in the 

 work for the Master blessedly sacred and 

 sanctified." 



MCCLURE S. 



McClures Magazine for January. The 

 first in a series of memoirs by Miss Clara 

 Morris. 



There is a careful and vivid pen-picture 

 of the Emporer William, that most inter- 

 esting figure of contemporary royalty. 

 A third article of merit is entitled "Great 

 Achievements of Modern Bridge Build- 

 ing." 



A second installment of Mr. Rudyard 

 Kipling's new novel "Kim," appears with 

 illustrations by Mr. Edwin Lord Weeks 

 and Er. J. Lockwood Kipling. The 

 short stories cover a wide range, and they, 

 are splendidly illustrated. 



LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. 



"The Baltimore Belle Who Made the 

 Most Brilliant Match of any Girl in 

 America" is the title of an article in the 

 Ladies' Home Journal for January. 

 "Housekeeping in a Millionaire's Family" 

 "The Little Woman's Play," adapted for 

 Miss Alcott's charming story, for stage 

 presentation, and illustrated by Reginald 

 B. Birch, and two pictorial pages, "A 

 Winter Service at Church," by W. L. 

 Taylor, and "The Town Meeting," by 

 A. B. Frost, are some others of the 

 leading literary and artistic features with 

 which the journal begins the twentieth 

 century. "The Forehandedness of 

 Lucinda Smith," by "Josiah Allen's 

 Wife," Elizabeth Stuart Phelp's "The 

 Successors of Mary the First," "The 

 Story of a Young Man," by Clifford 

 Howard, and another "Blue River Bear 

 Story," by Charles Major, are also among 

 the many excellent things presented in. 

 the January journal. 



SCRIBNER'S. 



iScribners for January contains "The 

 Sinecure," by E. W. Horning, "Russia of 

 Today," by Henry Norman, "A Compari- 

 son of the Armies in China," by Thomas 

 F. Millard. "The Plague Ships, ""by 

 Stephen Bonsai, and plenty of other 

 interesting reading. 



