The Exeter Advocate, 1896-11-26, Page 3r.
PASSION FOR SOULS.
A REMARKABLE DISCOURSE ON A
COMMON THEME.' ,
A ettssion for Souls Uncommon -Only One
Being Thet Ever Lived Willing to Give
Up Ileaven for Perdition, and That Was
the Galilean Feasant.
Washington, Nov. 15. -Clear out of the
ordinary style of sermonizing is this re-
markable discourse of Dr. Talmage,
which we send, out to -day. His text is
Romans ix, 3, "I could wish that my-
self were accursed from Christ for my
brethren, my kinsmen according to the
netilen'
A tough passage, indeed, for those who
take Paul literally. When some of the
old theologians declared that they were
Willing to he damned for the glory of
(node they said what no one believed.
Paul did not in the text mean he was
willing to die forever ta save his rela-
tives, He used hyperbole, and when he
declared. "I could wish that myself were
micursed from Christ for my brethren,
my kinsmen according to the flesh," he
meant in the most vehement of all possi-
ble ways to declare his anxiety for the
salvation of his relatives and friends. It
was passion for souls. Not more than
one CI ristian out of thousands of Chris-
tians feels it, AU absorbing desire for
the betterment of the physical and men-
tal condition is very common. It would
take more of a mathematician than
ever can be to calculate how many are,
up to an anxiety that Sometimes will
not let them sleep nights, planning for
the effielenoy of hospitals where the sick
and wounded of body are treated, and eye
and ear infirmaries, and fur dispensaries
and retreats where the poorest may have
most skilful surgery and helpful trot-
:neut. May God encourage and help the
thousands of splendid men and women
engaged in that work!. But all that is
outside of my subject to -day. In behalf
of the immortality of a man, the inner
eye,the inner ear, the inner capitoity for
gladness or distress, how few feel any-
thing like the overwhelming concentra-
tion expressed in my text. Rarer than
four leaved clovers, rarer than century
plants, rarer than prima donnas, have
been those of whom it may be said,
"They had a passion for souls." You
could count on the fingers and thumb of
your left hand all the names of those
you can recall who in the last -the
eighteenth -century were so characterized.
All the names of those you could re-
call in our time as having this passion
for souls you can count on the fingers
and thumbs of right and left hands.
There are many more such consecrated
souls, but they are scattered so widely
you do not know them. Thoroughly
Christian people by the hundreds of mil-
lions there are to -day, but how few peo-
ple do you know who are utterly oblivi-
ous to everything in this world except
the redemption of souls? Paul had it
When he wrote my text, and the time
will come when the majority of Chris-
tians will have it, if this world is ever
ne to be lifted out of the slough In which it
" bas been sinking and floundering for
near 19 centuries, and the betterment
bad better begin with myself and your-
self. Some one whispers up from the
right band side of the pulpit and says,
"Will you please name some of the per-
sons in our times who have this passion
for souls?" Oh, no! That would be in-
vidious and imprudent, and the mere
mentioning of the names of such persons
might cause in them spiritual pride,
and then the Lord would have no more
use for them.
Some one whispers up from the left
band side of the pulpit, "Will you not,
than, mention among the people of the
past some who had this passion for
soul?" Oh, yes! eamnel Rutherford, the
Scotchman of 30,0 years ago -his impri-
sonment at Aberdeen for his religious
zeal, and the public, burning of his book,
"Lex Rex," in Edinburgh, and his rea-
lest arraignment for high treason and
e other persecutions, purifying and modi-
fying him so that his works, entitled
"Trial and Triumph of Faith" and
"Christ Dying and Drawing Sinners to
Himself," and, above all, his 215 unpar-
alleled letters showed that be had the
passion for souls; Richard Baxter, whose
"Paraphrase of the New Testament"
caused him to be dragged before Lord
Jeffreys, who howled at him as "a
rascal" and "sniveling Presbyterian"
and imprisoned him for two years -
Baxter, writing 168 religious books, hiS
"Call to the Unconverted" bringing un-
counted thousands into the pardon of the
gospel, and his "Saints' Everlasting
Rest" opening heaven to a nest innu-
merable; Richard Cecil; Thomas A.
Inempis, writing his "Imitation of
Christ" for all ages; Harlan Page,
Robert MaCheyne, Nettleton, Finney
and more whom I might mention, the
characteristic of whose lives was an over -
towering passion for souls, A. B. Earl,
the Baptist evang,elist, had it, I. S. In
skip, the Methodist evangelist, had it.
Jacob Ennpp had It. Dr. Bathos, presi-
dent of Hamilton college, bed it And
when told he had only half an hour to
live said: "Is that so? Then take me out
of bed -and place me upon my knees and
let me spend that time in milling on God
for the salvation of the world." And so
he died upon his knees.
But the most wonderful one of that
characterization the world ever saw or
heard or felt was a peasant in the far
east, wearing a plain blouse like an in-
verted wheat sack, with three openings
-one for the neck and the other two for
the arms His father was a wheelwright
and house builder and given to various
carpentry. His mother at first under sus-
picion bemuse of the circumstances of
his nativity, and he chased by a Herodie
mania out of his native land to live
awhile under the shadows of the sphinx
and pyrionie of Gizeh, afterward co -
founding the LL, D is of Jerusalem,
then stopping the paroxysm of tempest
and of meciman. His path strewn with
slain dropsies and catalepsios and oph-
thaintlas, transfigured on one mountain,
preaching on :mother mountain, dying
on another mountain and ascending from
another mountain -the greatest, the
loveliest the mightiest, the kindest, the
most self-sacrificing, most beanflifal be
lug whose feet ever touched the earth.
Tell u& ye deserts who heard our
Saviour's prayer; tell us, ye seas that
drenched him with your surf; toll us, ye
multitudes who heard eina preach on
dock, on beach, on hillside; tell us, Gol-
gotha, who heard the stroke of the ham
met on the spikeheacis and the dying
groan la that midnight that dropped on
midnoon, did any one like amiss have
this passion for sonIst
But breaking right in upon me is the
question, How can we get something of
this Pauline and Christiy longing fpr
saved immortalities? I answer, by better
appreciating the prolongation of the
sona's existence compared with every-
thing phyeicel and material. How I hope
that surgeon will sumessfully remove
the cataract from that man's eye! It ie
much a sad thing to be blind, Let us pray
while the doctor is busy with the deli-
cate operation. But for how long a time
will he be able to give his patient eye-
sight? Well, if the patient be 40 years of
age, he will add to his happiness perhaps
50 years of eyesight, and that will bring
the man to 90 years, and it is not prob-
able that he wiii live longer than that,
or that he will live so long, But what 14
good eyesight for 50 years more as com-
pared with clear vision for the soul a
billion of centuries? I hope the effort to
drive back the typhoid fever from yon -
dor home will be successful. God help
the doctors!
A stranger desired to purchase a farm,
but the owner would not sell it -would
only let It. The stranger hired it by lease
for only one crop, but he sowed acorns
and th mature that crop 300 years were
necessary. That was a prectised decep-
tion, but I deceive you not when I tell
you that the crop of the soul takes bold
of unending ages.
I see the author of my text seated in
the house of Gains, who entertained him
at Corinth, not far from the overhang-
ing fortress of Acro.Corbetlaus, and wed -
Mating on the longevity of the soul lend
getting more and more agitated about
its value and the awful risk that some of
his kindred were running concerning it,
and he writes thie letter containing the
text, which Chrysestom admired so
much he had it rend to him twice a
week, and among other thiugs be says
those daring and startling words of my
text, "I could wish that myself were an -
cursed from Christ or my brethren, my
kinsmen, according to the flesh."
Pitt on the left side of the largest
sheet of paper that ever came from paper
mill a single unit, the figure 1, and how
many ciphers would you have to add to
the right of that figure to express the
soul's value, each cipher adding tenfold?
Working into that scheme of the soul's
redemption, how many angels of God,
descending and ascending! How many
storms swooping on Lake Galilee! How
many earthquakes opening dungeons and
striking ontaolysms through mountains,
from top to base! What noonday sun was
put on retreat! What omnipotence lifted
and what Godhead was put to torture?
All that for the soul. No wonder that
Paul, though possessing great equipoise
of temperament when be thought what
his friends and kindred were risking con-
cerning their souls, flung aside all his
ordinary modes of speech, argument and
apt simile, and bold. metaphor, and
learned allusion, as unfit to express how
be felt, and seizing upon the appalling
hyperbolism of my text cries out, "I
(mould wish myself acoursed"-that is,
struck of the thunderbolts of the omni-
potent God, sunk to unfathoined, depths,
chained into servitude to Abaddon and
thrust luta furnaces whose flees shall
never burn out -if only those whom I
love might now and forever be saved.
Mind you, Paul does not say, "I do
wish." He says, "I could wish." Even
in the agony he' felt for others he did not
lose his balance. "I could wish myself
accursed." I could, but I do not. Only
one being that ever lived was literally
willing to give up heaven for perdition,
and that was the divine peasant whom I
mentioned a few moments ago. He was
not only willing to exchange dominions
of bliss for dominions of wretchedness,
but he did so, for, that be forsook hea-
ven, witness the stooping star and all
those who saw his miracles of mercy,
and that ho actually entered the gates of
the world of perpetual oonilagratioe the
Bible distinctly declares. He die not say,
with Paul, "I could," but he said, "I
will, I do," and for the souls of men be
"descended into bell."
In this last half of the last decade of
the nineteenth century the temperature
in the churches is very low, and most of
the piety would spoil if it were not kept
on ice. And, taking things as they are,
ordinary Christians will never reach the
point where the outcry of Paul in the
text will not seem like extravagance. The
proprieties in most of the churches are
so need that all a Christian is expected
to do on Sunday is to got up a little
later in the morning than usual, put on
that which is next to his best attire -not
the very best, for that has to be reserved
for the levee -enter the church with
stately step, bow his head, or at any rate
shut his eyes in prayer time, or close
them enough to look sleepy, turn toward
the pulpit with holy dulness while the
preacher speaks, put a 5 cane piece -or
if the times be hard a 1 cent place -on
the collection platter, kind of shoving it
down under the other coin so that it
might be, for all that the usher knows,
a $5 goldpiece, and then, after the bene-
diction, go quietly home to the biggest
repast of all the week. That is all the
majority of Christians are doing for the
rectification of this planet, and they will
do that until, at the close of life, the
pastor opens a black hook at the head of
their casket and reads; "Blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord. They rest
from their labors and their works do fol-
low them." The sense of the ludicrous
is so thoroughly developed in me that
when I hear these Scripture words read
at the obsequies of one of the religious
do-nothings in the churches it is too
much for ray gravity. "Their works do
follow them." What works? And in
what direction do they follow them -up
or down? And do they follow on foot or
on the wing? And how long will they
follow before they catch op? More ap-
propriate funeral text for all such religi-
ous dead beats would be the words in
Matthew Xxv, 8: "Our lamps are gone
out," One would think that such Chris-
tians would show at least under whose
banner they are enlisted. In one of the
Napoleonic wars a woman -Jeannette by
name -took her position with the troops
and shouldered a broomstick, Tbe col-
onel said, "Jeannette, why do you take
such a useless weapon into the ranks?"
"Well," she said, "I can show, at least
which side I am on."
Now, the object of this sermon Is to
stir at least one.fourth of yon to an am-
bition for that which my text presents
in blazing vocabulary --namely, a passion
for cools To prove that it is postiblo to
have much of that spirit, I bring the
consecration of 2,990 foreign mission
cries It is usually estimated that there
are at least 3,000 missionaries I make a
liberal allowance and admit there may
be 10 bad missionaries out of 3,000, but
I do not believe there is one, All Eng.
lish and American merchants leave
Bombay, Calcutta, Amoy and Peking
as soon as they make their fortunes.
Why? Because no 'European or American
In his senses would relay in that climate
after monetary inducements have ceased.
Now, the missionaries there are put
down on the barest necessities, and most
of them do not lay up $1 in twenty
years. Why, then, do they stay in those
tends of intolerable heat and cobras and
raging fevere, the thermometer some-
times playing at 130 and 140 degreemot
oppressiveness, 12,000 miles from home
because of the unhealthy climate and th
prevailing immoralities of there region
compelled to send their children to Ene
land or Scotland or Amerioa, probate)
never to see them again? Cm hlesse:
Christ! Can it be anything but a passion
for mule? It is easy to understand all
this frequent depreciation of foreign
missioneries when you know that, they
are all opposed to the opium traffic!, and
that interferes with commerce, and then
the misilonarles are moral, and that is
an otteuse to many 'of the merchants -
not all of them, but. many of them -who,
absent from all home restraint, are so
immoral that we can make only faint
allusion to the monstrosity of their
abominations. Oh, I would like to be at
the gate of heaven when those mission-
aries go in to $08 how they will have the
pick of coronets and thronee and man-
sions on the best streets of heaven. We
who have had easy Pulpits and loving
congregations, entering heaven, will, in
my opinion, have to take our turn ant
wait for the Christian workers wht
amid physical sufferings and mental pri
vation and environment of squalor, has
done their work, and .on the principi
that in proportion as one has been sell
sacrificing and suffering for Christ's salt
on earth will be their celestial prefer
zneWito is that young woman on the
worst street in Washington, New York
'or London, Bible in nond and a little
Package in which are small vials of xnedi
eines and another bundle in which are
bisomte? How dare she risk herself
among those "roughs," and where is
she going? She is one of the queens of
heaven bunting up the Mak and hungry,
and before night she will have read
Christ's "Let not your heart be trou-
bled" in eight or ten places, and counted
out from those vials the right number
of drops to ease pain, and given food to
a family that would otherwise have had
nothing to eat to -day, and taken the
measure of a deal child that Rim may
prepare for it a shroud -her every nab of
kindness for the body accompanied with
a benediction for the soul. You see noth-
ing hut the filthy street along which she
walks and the rickety stairs up which
she climbs, but she is accompanied by an
unseats cohort of angels with drawn
swords to defend her, and with garlands
twisted for her victories all up and dawn
the tenement house districts. I tell you
there was not so much excitement when
Aline Boleyn, on bar way to her corona -
Mon, found the Thames stirred by 50
gilded barges, with brilliant flags in
which bung small bells rung by each
motion of the wind, noblemen standing
in scarlet, and wharf spread with cloth
of gold, and all the gateways surmounted
by huzzaing admirers, alled the street
hung with crimson velvet, and trumpets
and cannon sounding the inbilee, anti
Anne, dressed In surcoat of silver tissue,
and brow gleaming with a circlet of
rubles, and amid fountains that poured
Rhenish wine passed on to Westminster
hall and rode in on a caparisoned paltry.
Me hoofs clattering on the classic floor,
and, dismounting, passed into Westmin-
ster abbey, and between the choir and
high altar was crowned queen, amid
organs and choirs chanting the "Te
Deum"-I say there was not much in
all that glory which dazzles the eyes of
history when it is compared with the
heavenly reception which 'teat minister-
ing spirit of the batik alley shall receive
when she goes up to coronation, When
she goes in, what welcome on the river
of life, its banks of pearl lined with
splendors seraphic and in temples of
eternal worship, whnse music is com-
manded by swing of art:hermetic scepter
and before thrones where sit those who
have reigned a thousand years but have
just begun their dominion, Poor Anne
Boleyn, in two years after that pageant,
lost life and throne by one stroke of
beadsman, but those who on earth have
a divineprission for souls shall never lose
their thrones. "They shall reign forever
and ever."
Bunafter all, the best way to cultivate
that divine passion for souls is to work
for their salvation. Under God, save one,
and you will want right away to save
two. Save two, and you will want to
save ten. Save ten, and you will want to
save twenty. Save twenty, and you will
want to save a hundred. Save a hundred,
and you will want to save everybody.
And what is the use of talking about it
when the place to begin is here and
the time is now? And while you pray I
will in one minute tell all there is of it.
Full pardon for the worst man on earth
It he will believe in Christ, whose blood
can instantly wash away the foulest
crimes. Full comfort for the most har-
rowing distress that ever crushed a
human being.
At your first moment of belief, a pro-
cess by which the whole universe of God
will turn clear around for your eternal
advantage. For the mere asking, if the
asking be in earnest, and you throw
everything into that asking, complete
solace and helpfulness for the few years
d this life, and then a wide open heaven,
which you can reach in less time than it
takes me to pronounce that Imperial
word, flashing with all the joy that an
infinite God knows how tb bestow -hea-
ven.
If you have been in military' life, you
know what soldiers call the "long roll."
All the drums beat it because the enemy
is approaching, and all the troops must
immediately get into line. What scurry-
ing around the camp and putting of the
arms through the straps of the knapsack
and saying good -by to comrades you may
never meet again! Seine of you Germans
or Frenchmen may have heard that long
roll just before Sedan. Some of you
Italians num have heard that long roll
just before Bergamo. Some of you north-
ern and southern men may have heard it
just before the battle of the Wilderness.
You know its stirring and solemn mean.
Ing, and so I Sound time long roll today.
I beat ths old gospel drum that has for
centuries been calling thousanos to take
their places in line for this battle on
one side of which are all the battle,
beatific and on tho other side all tbe
force demoniac. Hear the long roll call,
Who is on the Lord's side?" "Quit
yourselves like inOn." In solemn column
march for God anti himpinees and heaven.
So glad arn I that Ido not have to "wish
myself accursed" and throw away my
heaven that you may win your heaven,
but that we may have a whole carmen -
thou of heavens -heaven added to heaven,
heaven built on heaven. And whine I
dwell upon the theme I begin to experi-
ence in my own poor self that which I
take to be something like a passion for
souls, And now unto God, the only wise,
time only good, the only great, be glory
forever Aniell
ITandyWith the li,n1 re
"What makes you tell ine Martin 'was
the career of his own fortune, When he
got every pointy he bas by marrying an
heiress?''
"Hurnphl He had to out out half-a-
doeen fellows to net her, didn't bet
11bL1SLHOLD
A Smart Tea Jacket.
A tea -jacket is always a joy. Moire
veloure, crepe de Chine,and old lace, put
Smother as you will, must make a happy
combination, hut a tea -jacket of these de-
lightftil materials manipulated by a mas-
ter hand, must be seen to be appreciated,
The richest grey moire velours com-
posed one jacket, which is cut open in
front to display a crossover front of crepe
de Chine, which could of course be varied
according to taste, but in this ease is of
a delicate shade of pink, which harmon-
ized in the most delightful way with the
grey of the jacket. A lace collar adorns
the neck, and the same material is cas-
caded down the edge of either front, be-
ing wide on time eh/tinders, and becoming
gradually narrower, until its termina-
tion at the waist. Below the lace on
either side are two old enamel buttons,
two being just at the waist, and the
others a few inches below.
The jacket is cut fairly long, the
fronts being pointed, thus adding greatly
to the long -waisted appearance so much
admired at the present time. The waist
is encircled by a belt of jewelea passe-
31i:enteric, in which the predominating -
color is blue.
The sleeves of this tea -jacket are ex-
ceedingly graceful in appearance but
eminently comfortable' and, after all,
this is one of the mostnecessary points
to be considered in a teaijacket. They
are made with two puffs, the larger
reaching from the shoulder to just above
the elbow, where the material is noniened
in a wide band of the material, the
smaller puff, which le really a continua-
tion of the first, appearing below, mid
hanging loosely just over the elbow,
where ibis finished with a ruffle of fine
lace, matching that used on the neck.
There is no garment quite so delight-
ful as a tea -jacket, and, when, as in this
case, smartness is combined with com-
fort, nothing further can be desired.
A llieo need
Among some of the pretty, quaint cus-
toms of our grandmothers which are
being revived is the "reticule," thepet of
the grand dame of the past,
Time small but nseful article is worn
over the arm or hung from the belt at
the side and allowed to follow its own
sweet will.
Any rich stuff is employed in the mak-
ing of these trifles, from time costliest of
brocades to plain or chameleon velvet,
ALWAYS vSEPUL.
or, as is the case in the one thown in
the sketch, alternate stripes of taffeta and
velvet ribbons are used, the silk orna-
mented 'with sewn sequins. A full knot
of ribbon or a bunch of tassels forms a
finish at the bottom, while turned -back
ears of velvet decorate the top tastefully.
Long ribbon ends are attached under the
ears, through which the arm may be
slipped.
lio.tv to Eat.
There are many ways of giving that
much -abused organ, the stomach, a rest,
no one of which is the perfect one [for
everybody, though each has its fitness
for somebody. The actual needs of people
in the matter of food vary. Some have
tested and beconin ardent advocates of
the "two -meals -a -day" plan, while others
find even one meal per day sufficient for
them, and seemingly best to maintain
health. The over -fed brain worker who
dines to repletion in the evening, sleeps
late and gets up with no appetite, may
well breakfast on a cool glass of water
and an orange postponing his first real
meal till lunch time, while the nsan who
rises at four or five in the morning and
completes half a day's work before break-
fast, will find his digestive functions
ready for it. Fond should not be taken
after severe exercise, nor very severe ex-
ercise follow a hearty meal, Too much
food overweighs the eigeetion and over-
taxes the nervous system.
Children's Cares.
It is only by love and gentleness and
undoubted confidence that a child can be
taught to find real enjoyment In extra
cares. Exact it as a duty, sternly com-
mand it, watch with constant suspicion
end faulinending, and labor is a drudgery
and carts of any kind a terror to the
young. The child either becomes stub-
born, or if timid and loving is so ner-
vously fearful of being blamed that this
very fear .ensures the dreaded results.
If young mothers could know how
many hours of self-reproach the grand-
mothers pass when they look back to the
time when their little ones were about
them and see too late how many mis-
takes they made, simply by their own
impatience, over strictness and lank of
confidence in their children's desire to do
right, it might save them from much re-
gret anti their children from whey temp-
tations,
Cooked Turnips.
If any one will feed a flock with grain
(say ground corn toad .wheat),enc poand
to a certain number of fowls, and then
feed the same number of fowls in an-
other yard on three-quarters of a pound
of grain mixed with cooked turnips or
potatoes, the best results will be obtained
from the flock having less grain with
the turnips, Ibis is due to the fact that
the grain, being concentrated, is not an
well digested as when the lowls have a
diluent (bulky food) in tho form of
cooked turnips or other roots, or even
pumpkins.
Sadness,
Sadness serves but one and, beteg use,
ful only in repentance, and bath done
its greatest work, not evilee it sighs or
Weeps, but when it hates and grows
careful . against sin; but cheerfulness
serves charity, fills the Soul with har-
mony; aim metes mid publishes gloriel-
cations of God. -enters:my Taylor.
A BABY BASKET.
Easily Made for the Advent of the New
Corner.
Before the advent of each newcomer
the mother is especially anxious that all
the small belongings should be as dainty
as possible, and they usually are. A
"baby" basket is one of the first consid-
erations, Nothing should be oilmen for
its construction that cannot stand the
wear anti tear. An oddly shaped nasnet
is the first consideration, and here one
BABY BASKET.
may follow one's own fancy, only let it
be as ornamental as possible.
A pretty model has the basket lined
with padded rose pink sateen, covered
with plain white book muslin gathered
eoftly, and showing a rnche along the
edge. A deep frill of the muslin over a
similar on of pink falls over the outer
side, anti flares out like a ballet girl's
skirts, Small pockets in the muslin bold
all the small toilet articles, and full
knots of rose pink satin ribbon decorate
handle, side and foot
About Fans.
The little folding fan which you slip
into your pocket came originally from
Japan.
In China and Japan fans are used by
both men and women, the former carry-
ing them, and, of course, using them at
functions of state, and in their every -day
lite, just as women do among ourselves,
In Oriental countries social life is not
(married on under conditions like our own,
and the lady has no monopoly of the
beautiful fan, with its carved ivory or
bamboo sticks and its artistic decorations.
Large feather fans are occasionally carried
In processions of stiste at Rome -a sur-
vival of the custom whith prevailed
when, in the Middle Ages, fans were
used to keep flies from sacred shrines and
relics,
During the eighteenth century much
fine workmanship was bestowed on fans.
of which the sticks were carved, with
great skill.
The fan has sometimes a pathetic in-
terest, as where it belonged to the ill-
fated Marie Antoinette,or to some rarely
lovely woman of Napoleon's days. Fr -a-
gile possessions, like fans and One, sur-
vive the changes of empire and the
wrecks of fortune, and generations after
their owners are dust they are passed
throbgh other hands, in alien lands, im-
perishable through their 'very deflation
while towers and castles crumble away.
IlIffeet or Example.
One of the strangest things parents
ever do is to punish their children for
what they have not strength of tharacter
to overcome in themselves. If the eider,
with his reasoning nacuities matured,
and with the full force of will power his
own, cannot overcome a fault, how can
a child be expected To?
Mothers often seat their little ones at
the table containing food injurious to
both parent and child, compelling time
child to abstain while they pattatinafter.
wards remarking in the presence of the
child: "I ate too much of that rich food,
hut I could not leave It atone, it was so
good."
What kind of an influence does such
an example exert over a child? Does not
the child feel that it hos been wronged,
and that as soon as it can have its own
will it mill indulge in the same food, or
language, or other forbidden thing that
seems to be considered so very wrong for
the child but all right for older people.
Many times will the child say some-
thing before a caller for which it is re-
proved, and in extenuating its conduct
will say: "Why, mamma, I heard you
say so." It is important to lie very care.
MI of words and actions before those lit-
tle imitators, and do not punish for -what
we cannot overcome in ourselves,
Trainl,ia Child.
Almost one of the first things that
should be taught a young child is obedi-
euce, and this habit can be gradually
developed even from earliest infancy.
Quite a little baby can be taught that
there are certain timings it must not do;
for instance, many a young child, when
put down on the floor before the lire,
will at once snake for the fire -irons and
begin to pull them about. This habit
should be checked at once. It must not
be allowed to play with them one day
and then be checked the next. This does
not teach obedience, and the little one
soon finds out that if it persists tong
enough in trying to do what it is desir-
ous of doing those in anthcrity got tired
of chocking it; it will soon learn not to
take any notice, finding that it is sure to
get its own way if itpersists long enough.
Tone of the Home.
As a rule the whole tone of a home
depends upon the woman at the head of
it -the average home, not the poverty-
stricken home, nor the wealthy home.
In this average home, whether sunshine
shall enter the rooms, whether the table
than be invitingly spread, whether light
and bright Ares shall give warmth and
cheer 'on winter nights -whether, in
brief, the home shall' be nterneable or
eisagreeebio place, is usually what the
woman determines. Men are powerless in
the matter. Sonic find solace for a dis-
mal home In study, some, occupation in
business,mine submit with what pa-
tience tey can. Others are attracted by
the them of their clubs, and it is espedi-
ally
young men who are apt in cense.,
qualm° to drift into bad company and
bad babies.
Salted Almonds.
Blanch the almonds, put them into
boiling water for few minutes, then into
cold water and rub eft the skins; dry the
nuts thoroughly; pour over each cupful
one tablespoonful of melted butter; let
stand for one hour; stir into each cupful
of tints one tablespoonful of fine salt, and
place them in a shelloW 'pan in slow
oven until they dolor a light brovve stir-
ring occasionally; turn out on soft paper
Ito finish drying; shake off superfluous
salt before serving.
A GENERAL'S STORY.
HE RELATES THE NARROW Ati,
CAPE OF HIS DA:UnilITER..
Weakened and gam Dow's by the Ortreree,
stye climate of India,. She Ret0rned to
Entziand.-Witen for Tallier Poihalised
Re round Her to a Serious Gooditwo.
From the Hampshire Independent.
There it nothing more interesting than
the talk of our brave defentiere, who
have served their Queen and country in
far distant lancis, To talk withan Indian •
officer, hearing his reminiscences and
adventures, is what those who have en-
joyed it always appreciate. Consequently
(writes a special reporter of the Hemp -
shire Independent) I was delighted to
receive instructions to interview Lieut-
enant -General Shaw, who has won his
Spurs in India, and is now living, with
his family, in honorable retirement, at
St Paul's Vicarage, Shenelits, Isle of
Wight I had grasped the door bell and
given it one tug when the door opened,
and the General stood before sne. Yon
knew he was a soldier at once. His man -
len upright bearing, his smile, his plea-
sant voice -alt told you that you stood
in the presence of one of Nature's gentle-
men; but, alas! be held a time -table,
and I felt that the interview must needs
LIETITENANT-IMNERAL SHAW,
be short However. be ushered me in and
at once put me at my ease by his affable
conversation.
"I am afraid," be said, "that yen
have come a long distance; but
let me know the precise object of your
visit"
I explained to the General that I was
most anxious, with his consent, to ob-
tain some personal explanation as to the
narrow escape I had heard one of his.
daughters had recently experienced.
At that he brightened visibly. "Yon
must know,"be said, "I'm just a bit of
an enthusiast on this point; but the tale
M very short. My daughter came home
from India, and when I joined her in
London T found her ill in bed. She lied
rheumatic and neuralgia pains; she was
perfectly bloodless, (Wiese and in a gen.
crane' weak and prostrate condition. A
doctor was seen, but she remained abso-
lutely colorless, was in great wretched-
ness and suffering tram anaemia or
bloodlessness. She had a kind of fever,
nervous headache, and other pains.
Well, I beard of Dr. Williams' Pink PIM:
for Pale People. My daughter took some,
and the first box had a marvellous effect,
She regained hex' color, lost her pains,
and became altogether different. She
had quite a glow upon her. She went on
tatting the pilliennd I am glad to tell
you that she reenvered completely. I
have recommended Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills to ell with whom I moue in con-
tact, and all who take them derive
great benefit therefrom.
"I have a sister at Jersey, and she has
taken them for a very long time, and
has always recommended them; and I
myself, when I have beard of people
being ill, have taken or sent them some
of these pills."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills directly en-
rich and purify the blood, and thus it is
that they are so famous for 'the cure of
anaemia, rheumatism, scrofula, chronic
erysipelas, and restore pale and sallow
complexions to the glow of health. They
are also a splendid nerve and spinal
tonic, and have cured many cases of
paralysis, locomtor ataxia, neuralgia,
St. Vitus' dance, anti nervous headache.
A specific for all the troubles of the
female, anti in men rum all cases aris-
ing from worry, overwork, or indiscre-
tions of living.
GIRLS IN THE COttliniNG HOUSE.
B!. Coulhieutial 1.1 ith N.. One, aud Do Not
Ruth Ashmore in the Ladies' Home
Globe.
"Be confidential with no one," writes
Journal, advising "Tee Alone in
the City," whn twee n enarding-house.
."Do not allow yoarseli t, become the
victim of the bile youALT examen who has
not yonr need for work, who has a great
love for gossip. anti who is only too
willing to tell you an unplefieant story
about your landlady, to hint at the vari-
ous people who owe her money, arti who
joys in seeing you shudder as she hints
at some awful story which she supposes
is true, anti which makes you think less
of some One who bad seemed agreeable.
I do not advise you in the evening to
seek the solitude of your gloomy tittle
room, but I would suggest that. you be
careful, even in your choice of acquaint-
ances A lively game, some pleasant
music, or an interesting chat may be
possible, even in a boarding-house par-
lor, provided the game is not allowed to
become too entrancing, the music: to con-
tinue too into, or the agreeable talk to
degenerate into gossip.
"Do not permit yourself to discuss
whether the pale young .man at the end
of the table pays four or five dollars a
week, whether the landlady's rent is
properly attended to, or whether, in
dividing, the most palatable dish, she
gives larger portions to some people than
to others. She would be more than an
angel if she did not find pleasure in
showing some courtesies to those who
aro considerate of her. It might be wise
tor you to think that the atertme board-
ing-house keeper le trying to do4hee best;
that the chances are that she once made
a home only for those who rsere bound to
her by ties of love or kindred, and that
now, it.ls stern necessity that forces her
to make a home for all sorts and ecudi
Mops of amen and, women, and- that she
deserves sympathy, rather than 'harsh
oritieism. Put your mother in her plasm,
and try to decide whether she would do
better or worse,"
The intelligent edieor of , a Western
paper entitled an accountmeltbe death of
au aged watolonimer, "AW Old Thiaer "
Gone.' '-Jewelers' Weekly.
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