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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-7-1, Page 2ley WILLIAM RHYCIONO 'When the,cariy spring set in Audine was allowed to come downstairs. The first sight of Mrs. Neville,. shortly after her return to consciousness, had so dan- gerously excited her, that they were not allowed to meet again; and' without the comfort of feeling that she could be of use, the time seemed preternaturally long ,to the poor woman. A mild, warm spring set in; there were brilliant days, suoh as often come for a short time in March, when Andine first came down into the drawing room. Mrs. Neville did not venture to ask her whether she might see her; and Colonel Fitzjames, having forgotten the fact of her seclusion, did not say anything about it; and, as the hour drew near at which the little invalid was to appear, she felt her heart beating very fast with anxiety and anticipation. She had rearranged the room completely —it hardly looked the same: a large sofa, flanked by a screen, was drawn up to the window; a little table covered with books and suowdrops close to it; a pretty lace quilt -all to look as bright and cheerful as possible. She was stili standing inspecting all her arrangements, when. Burns game in to see if everything was ready. When she saw Mrs. Neville she stopped and would have r etrcatedith a w very stiff curtsy; but Mrs. Neville stopped her, involun- tarily twisting her hands in her nervous- ness. "Burns, do you think I might see Miss Fitzjames? Would it hurt her now?" "I can't say, ma'am." "But what do you think? I do so long to see her! but I would not do her harm for the world," "No ma'am, halm enough has been done already," said the nurse. "Oh, do tell mel I dare not do it on my own responsibility"—and the tears rose to her eyes. "I can't take it upon myself to say, ma'am," repeated Burns. "And has she never asked for me? never mentioned my name?" "She talked of you incessantly, enough for me to understand perfectly well what she meant, bat never to ask for you." Burns, why are you so unfriendly to me? you are changed." Burns was trembliug with suppressed feeling. "I can't gay, ma'am; things have changed, and t em as causes things to change, should not wonder, to find therri so.'' "But In nothing have I changed to you," said Mrs. Neville, haughtily; but ' Burns's feeling would no longer be 'con - ' trolled. `Mien are not like women, ma'am, and I can see it's all dead and buried like with the Colonel; but I can never for- give you—not if a thousand years passed. ' over my head, and you asked pardon every day of the thousand. To take and deceive my young lady, and she a motherless child! I beg your pardon, ma'am; and if you are offended I can- not help it, for you brought it on your- self"—and without waiting for an answer • Burn,: curtsied and left the room.. Mr. Neville's first feeling was intense indignation, but to her crushed spirit soon came the relief of tears: she was reaping the sad fruits of ill -doing. She would not attempt to see Audine after that, until one day she recieved a mes- sage from the invalid herself, begging her to a mne to her. As she, was going, Colonel Fitzjames met her and asked her to speak to him in the library first. He looked nervous and hesitating, as if he hardly knew how to begin. "What have you got to say to me, George?" she said. "If it is to warn me not to agitate Audine, I will tell you be- forehand that I will 'he very careful." "The fact is, Mrs. Neville," he began, fixed, , "that one stro g idea has remained in Audine's mind, teat she is in fact, that her engagement to your son stands as it did." Mrs. Neville started; he went on: "It is a difficult thing to say, and I would not hurt your feelings if I could help it, but I cannot allow such an engagement. I was a fool to trust her out of my own sight. I do not mean to distress you," he said, seeing that she had covered her face with her hands, "but I must beg of you to do all in your power to undo the mischief—to make her feel that she is absolutely free. Do not speak to her about it unless she begins. Now, shall we go?" Mrs. Neville followed him; her heart was too full for speech. Just outside the "THE FACT IS, HES. NEVILLE," HE BEGAN. door she paused to take breath. How would Audine receive her? What would she say and do? In another moment she found herself kneeling by the sofa, warmly kissed, and struggling hard to suppress her tears. Not till she was seated quietly opposite to her did Mrs. Neville see how much Audine was changed; it was more than the lose of her long hair and the soft pink of her cheek could effect. Though she was as ,charming as ever, perhaps more so, her life had lost -something out of it that would never come back --she was no longer a child. They passed a quiet still evening to - ether, Colonel Fitzjames reading the " ,e Antiquary aloud, Audine pretending to knit, but leaving the white wool idle in her lap, When the clock struck nine, Colonel Fitzjames went away to pall Burns to help him to carry her upstairs; he hadc S serol left the y room when Au - dine held out her thin little hand and said, "Where is hfr. Neville, aunt Mary?" Mrs, Neville never had much presence of mind, and now she lost it altogether; she oovered her face with her bands, say- ing piteously— "Oh, Audine, I do not know!" She was terrified out of her senses, for Audine fell back heavily and fainted away. To call for help, to be hastily pushed aside out of the way, was the work of a momeut, and she found herself alone, Audine did not again leave her room for seine days; she was incessantly ask- ing about Godfrey, and they invented all sorts of answers. Her anxiety made her too acute for deception,- and the doctor considered it a matter of grave import- ance that her mind should be set at rest, and still there was nothing to say. Mrs. Neville, no longer admitted to Audine's presence, became so miserably, irritably atudous, that at last she could no longer bear it, and she made up her mind to go to London to Garwood, and wait there for tidings of her son. All agitation and excitement were to be kept from Audine; the doctor warned Mrs: Neville that this was of paramount importance, and it seeemd to strike her with an additional pang, she had so longed to unburden herself to Audine, to entreat her pardon. She passed one whole morning in bitter tears, theu she deter - pained that she would go away in the night without any farewell. She told her plan to Colonel 1 itzjames, and he thanked her with a warmth which it was sweet toher e to remember afterwards. So when all were asleep but her own ser- vants and Colonel Fitzjames, Mrs. Ne- ville stole up to Audino's room for one last look, She felt as if her heart was bursting as she looped on the sleeping girl,, her little face so white and fragile, the slender hands clasped over her head, so thin and transparent that every blue vein was vis- ible. Her chest heaved with sobs, she fell on her knees and prayed as she never prayed before; and as Colonel Fitzjames led her away to her carriage, she groped with her hands, as if blind to all but the intensity of her own pain. CHAPTER SIV. The keen cold air blew on Mrs. Ne- ville's face as she . drove up the Thames embankment; it was so cold and chilly that she drew her shawl tightly round her. The river stirred and shivered under the air, and as yet there was no busy life, no hurrying to and fro in the shadowless twilight. Gaunt and grim rose the great figure -heads in Girwood's Yard. A strange wonder passed through Mrs. Neville's mind, whether, when the whole city slept, these great figures re- ceived the power of speech, and told each other tales of the days gone by. She rang the bell, dismissing her cab, and the door was opened at once by the owner of the house. He seemed to show no surprise at seeing her, but said in a whisper, • "I have brought him home; will you come to him at once?" "Ah, thank God! and how—" she stopped, for Garwood shook his head sor- rowfully and walked on before her. It was dark in the passages, and the candle ho carried across the yard seemed a strange contrast in its red garish light to the cold blue air.. On to the studio they went;, then Gir- wood whispered, "I have had the ring removed; do not contradict a word he says, I beseech you." He slid back the door and went in. The studio was brilliantly illuminated, as it used to he, and all the vases were full of tulips and other spring flowers. In the midst of it, before the fatal statue, stood Godfrey. He was in deep mourn- ing. When he saw ' is mother he smiled a strange pathetic :mile, and began to speak in a voice as if he were speaking in a dream— "When the world was young, Hera came down from heaven, divinely beauti- ful and good, and I wed her with a golden ring, two thousand years ago, mother—two thousand years ago. And while she remained upon earth . all was joy; wars ceased in all the lands, and sor- row vanished away." Mrs. Neville watched him in tearless agony. "But when the ages rolled on, and daylight merged into evening, and the twilight of the won i began, her spirit left me and she is now a cold and lifeless stone. Look" "God help met" cried the unhappy mother. He paid no heed to her words but went on:-, • "I cannot tell how it was—whether it was a dream, a wild vision of the night —but the room was all fuel of faces and a voice cried 'She is deed. I heard them call her name once, tvtire, thrice! 'Au - dine I Audine l Audine!' and then when I looked they had borne her away and I was alone with that." He stretched out both hands to the statue. "And that lives not, breathes not, speaks not; it is a life- less, soulless stone. But twilight grows into darkness, and the night of the world will soon begin." The great dread of her life had come upon Mrs. Neville, reason had forsaken her son. She took rooms close to Girwood's Yard, and spent every day in that agon- le watch for some sign of improve- ment, some gleam of hope in his condi- tion. They telegraphed these short lines to Colonel Fitzjames: "Found Godfrey here; shall remain with him." The relief was veer great. He hastened at once to Audine with the news, and it was wonderful to see what rapid progress she made towards recovery when the anxiety -was over. The doctor now strongly urged that they should go abroad. To Audine the idea of journeying iu Italy was perfectly delightful, She had never traveled and her anticipations of all the wonders•ehe was to see made her brother fear she might be disappointed; but this new turn to her thoughts was a great boon, and made her almost forget' her troubles. Colonel Fitzjames sent for books for her: Mes.Jameson's "Lives of the Saints," Murrays, and Baedekers. All were, how- ever, thrown aside when she had got pos- session of "The History of Christian Art, which she studied with extreme delight. There was no reason to put off their start. They proposed to spend the rest of April and all May in Florence; and when it grew too hot to remain in Italy, to go up to the Lakes and. finish it by a tour in Switzerland. CHAPTER XV. The brilliant sun shone down on the streets of Florence, a cloudless sky of exquisite blue, and the air full of the in- effable_ sweetness of an hall ee May.. Audine had enjoyed herself beyond her greatest expectations—scenery, gal- leries, all was one continued source of delight. Her health t had improved, her mind developed, and Colonel Fitzjames had every reason to be proud of the ad- miration his lovely young sister excited wherever she appeared. It was growing too hot for Florence, they must turn their steps to the cooler and Moro bracing Switzerland; but yet they lingered on—these hot days were so delicious. They lied finished their self- appointed task of sight-seeing, and now had only to enjoy • themselves; going again to each favorite resort when and as often as they pleased, Two days before the day appointed for their departure, Colonel Fitzjames re- ceived a long letter from Mrs. Neville. Its black seal made him at once hide it from his sister's sight; but after reading it through, he determined to conceal nothing from her, : but tell her as gently end considerately as he could that poor Godfrey's troubled spirit was at rest. Audine was seated at ilio window look - Ing on the sunlit Arno; her eyes were dim with crying as her brother read %loud her dear old friend's letter:— "My Dear. George -Perhaps you may have seen in the papers my loss—the 3eatb of my .Godfrey. Perhaps Audine buows, or it may : be that you have thought it best to conceal it from hor; Tome day you may be able to show her this. If I write incoherently you must not blame nae. He is lying iu the studio, end I have justbeen in there to say my last good -by, and a. this vory moment ihey are hiding him away from my sight. After to -morrow is over I shall be better. He looks so beautiful in death: calm and still as marble, and all the wild pain gone from his face, the deep lines from his brow. You heard, perhaps, of thea awful ever that came m on of the o de- lirium of indescribable horror. Three days before his death the fever left him, and when the sanity came bank to his eyes, the doctor said, 'He must die.' My heart would have broken then, but it has become like . a stone in my breast, and I seem to have outlived its life. "On Friday morning the delirium ceased, and all day long he lay holding my hand, now and then saying soft lov- ing words, always watching every move- ment that I made. "All Saturday he lay half asleep, and his pulse growing very faint. On Sun- day a clergyman Dame in, and Godfrey seemed to listen to his words, but he did not speak; perhaps he no longer had the power. "Garwood brought in a great nosegay of flowers, and about eleven o'clock the church -bells began to ring, far and near, and all down the river side, and Godfrey listening smiled. They had not ceased when the priest knelt down and read that prayer, the last: when the last words were said, his lips were moving. I heard three times, 'Audine I Audine l Audine 1' and all was over. "They have laid him in his coffin, they are hiding hien from my sight; he was all that God had left to me on earth, Oh, George, do you think He will let me die soon? "Kiss Audine for me. You will not. keep me from her when you both come home? Oh, what shall I do? what shall I do? Your affectionate MARY NEVILLE." Colonel Fitzjames laid. down the let- ter, for Audine was sobbing in his arms.. "What shall we do, Audine?" "George, she must come to us I she must never leave us nowt" And so it was. Thepoormother, broken in health and spirit, rejoined her friends to be comforted by their loving care. Girwood, no longer young, took a morbid horror of the stone -yard near the river, and he sold the business. Mrs. Ne- ville, who could never endure the sight of Godfrey's ill-fated statue, entreated him to find a purchaser for it for his own benefit, which, after some years of hesitation, he consented to do. The new owner carried the statue far away to dis- tant lands; but wherever she was seen rose up a tribute of admiration for the genius that had created anything so beau- tiful as Godfrey's White Queen. THE END. The Unexpected. Noted Anarchist (in midst of violent harangue)—We come to dis country to better our conditions, and vat do dey offer us de very first ding? Vat, I say? Voice (in the rear of the hall)—Soap.— New York Weekly. Herbert Was Rash. He -June is the month of weddings, isn't It? She—Oh, Herbert, why didn't you speak earlier and give me more time to get ready?— Cleveland Leader. The Large Part. Chollie (who has tried on the professor's hat)—Aw, professor, my head is larger than yours. Professor—Yes, on the outside.—Chi- cago Journal. Too Expensive. "Why did you discharge that last girl, wife?" "Because everything she cooked was eaten right up. Mine lasts."—Detroit Free Press. It Was Only Natural. She—He toldthose jokes verydramatic- ally. He—Naturally. He got them from the theater programme.—New York Journal. Her View of Gas. ` 'Ow much do you charge for pull- ing out a tooth, young man?" "One shilling -and 5 shillings with gas." "Five shillings with gas! Then I'll come again tomorrow when it's day- light. "-Punch. A SUMMER MILKHOUSE.: Convenient In Localities Where a Natural Spring Is Wanting. For any of our northern states in the summer time a milkhouse built like the one in the illustration would be very tonvenient. It is adapted to situations where there is no natural spring, but where the water must be pumped around the milk. A man who has tried a small' house of this kind says of the one he built: It is 6'feet square and 6 feet high at the eaves, which is large enough for the milk of two or three cows. The house is 'built under a large grape arbor, about 20 feet from my kitchen pump. The milk tank, which is 12 inches deep and 14 inches wide at the top, ex- tends along the north side. It has a screen Dover, which may be covered with cloth in very hot or dusty weather. A table with a shelf underneath occupies the southeast corner. :A space just above the level of the tank, 2 feet wide and SUMMER tIILEHOUSE. extending on all sides of the house, is covered with wire screen. Shelves above the screen and below the tank give snffioient room for milk and butter dishes. The milk is set in pails. A gal- vanized iron pipe leads from a small tank at the side of the pump down 18 inches below the surface of the ground, across the 20 foot space and up again to the level of the milk tank. An overflow pipe at the other end of the tank oar - ries off the water after it has reached the proper height in the tank. .Another pipe, at the bottom of the tank, is used for emptying it when desired. The door in the southwest corner is of wood, but could be of screen if preferred. Board shutters cover the screens in rainy weather. The water in the tank may 'be changed at any time by pumping water into the small tank at the well. Pasture Not Enough. Fresh and succulent grass stimulates the production of milk beyond what the nutriment it contains will warrant. It is juicy and watery and lacks substance to such a degree that this large produc- tion of milk will rapidly reduce the strength, vitality and carcass of the Dow, so that she cannot long continue this extra flow of milk unless she has some more substantial food to go with this fresh grass to keep her np in condi- tion. The farmer makes a great mistake when he abruptly drops off his hay and grain feed as soon as the cows go out to grass in the spring. He would probably see very little difference in the amount of milk given for awhile, whether he fed grain and hay with the grass or nit, and for that reason many have Dome to the conclusion that when they did feed grain on early pasture it was thrown away, and they received no ben- efit from it. But the one who does so feed will find that his cows will keep np their strength and condition much better than those not fed, and later in the summer and fall and even the next winter will be giving a much better Sow of milk, so that when he comes to foot up his account at the end of the year he will find that for every dollar's worth of extra feed his cows had while on fresh grass he has received back at least $2. It has been our practice for years to feed to all cows giving milk a small grain ration all summer. The advisa- bility' of feeding grain on pasture after the grass has come to have plenty of substance in it may, with some show of reason, be questioned, but not so in the spring. At that time it is folly not to feed. We have experimented to some extent to try to determine what grain food was best to feed on pasture. We have tried wheat bran, but many cows do not seem to care for it much when the grass is plenty, and some will refuse to eat it. They seem to crave something more concentrated. Corn and oats they liked muob better than bran, and clear cornmeal better yet, but best of all gluten feed. Now, what we think is the verybest feed fcr cows on pasture is about five pounds of cornmeal and gluten feed— half and half—daily to each cow giv- ing a fair flow of milk. Besides this they should have before them every time they are put in the stable to milk some good early cut clover hay. They will eat some every time, no matter how good the pasture is.—Exchange. Tub Silo For Twelve Cows. In answer to a question, The Rural. New Yorker says: To keep 12 cows on ensilage from Nov. 1 to April 1 and feed them 40. pounds each per day would require about 72,000 pounds. A tub silo 12 feet in. diameter to contain this amount would need to be 16 feet high. The inch boards would not be practicable • to use in the construction. They would be so elastic that the weight of the ensilage would be likely to cause springing between the hoops, and this would allow the air to enter, and the ensilage would be spoiled. If the hoops were put close enough to prevent the springing of the inch !boards, the cost would be greater than the additional expense necessary to se- cure the 2 by 6 plank. Purchase 2 by 8 plank 16 feet long, and have the edges beveled for .a silo 12 feet in diameter. CREAM SELLING. A Profitable Part of the Milk and Butter Business. One of the most profitable features of dairying is selling Dream, either to the ioe cream manufacturer, who will take a large dairy's total output, or to a retail trade of one kind or another. While a good cream trade is very profit- able, it is one of the most difficult to bold unless the utmost care is exercised to supply a sweet, pure article in every ease and to know exactly what your particular trade demands. For an ioe cream trade the cream does not need to contain more than from 18 to 22 per cent of fat; cream for dessert purposes needs from 25 to 30 per cent fat, as cream containing less than 25 per cent fat will not whip, and extra, heavy cream for special purposes varies from 85 to 50 per cent fat. When the per- centage of fat demanded by a particular trade is known, care must be taken to meet that demand, but it is obviously unnecessary, and the dairyman cannot afford, to sell a richer Dream than he guarantees. To be surethat one is liv- ing up to his guarantee, it is necessary to test each run of cream, as there is almost always a greater or less varia- tion in the richness of cream as it runs from the separator or as it is skimmed day by clay. The most convenient man- ner in which to do this, perhaps, is to skim the cream rather rich, and then re- duce it to the required percentage of fat lk the addition of skimmed ml by h The formula for this is very simple. Divide the totaluof (obtain- ed nt fat a (o n ed b multiplying the total pounds of Dream by its fat test) by the desired percentage of fat in the cream. The quo- tient will be the pounds of cream test- ing the desired percentage of fat. To ascertain the amount of skimmed milk to add, subtract from this amount the original pounds of cream. Example.—Seventy-threepounds of cream testing 33.5 per cent fat is to be diluted to cream testing 21 per cent fat. Seventy-three times 88.5 per cent equals 24.4 pounds of fat. Twenty-four and four -tenth pounds fat divided by 21 per cent equals 116 pounds of cream testing 21 per Dent fat. One hundred and sixteen minus 73 equals 43 pounds of skimmed milk to be added to 73 pounds of cream testing 88.5 per cent fat. It should be borne in mind that in testing cream an 18 cubic centimeter pipette should be used instead of the 17 cubic centimeter used in testing milk, otherwise the results will be too low, and not quite so much acid should be used as in testiug milk. If the fat chars or burns, it shows that the acid is too strong or that too muoh is used, and in this case less should be used. --H. Hayward in Na- tional Stockman. Milkman Carried Scarlet Fever. A case has been recently reported where an epidemic of scarlet fever was traced to a certain milk route, and an investigation showed that a son- of the dairyman who supplied the milk had had an attack of this disease, and when he was recovering (the most dangerous time as far as spreading the disease is concerned) he was allowed to help milk. Such cases as this cannot be too strongly condemned. Not only is there danger of sickness and death, but every dairy man feels to a certain extent the effects of such things, for the public is easily frightened, and a decreased de- mand for milk almost surely follows any epidemic that may be traced to the milk supply. While as a matter of fact we believe that there is far less danger in the milk supply than is supposed, yet we cannot be too careful in things of this kind. - Dairy and Creamery. - For farmers in upland regions where the soil is poor either the Ayrshire or the Dexter cow is suitable, although there are as yet practically no Dexters in America. The Dexter cow is always red or black, with white upon her ud- der and underbody. She is a good milk- er and also makes excellent beef. This breed of cattle are in shape like the Shorthorn In size they are about like the Ayrshires. When starch and glucose are made from corn, the refuse left becomes what is called by dealers in cow feeds gluten meal. It consists of the seed germ of the corn grain, the bull and so much starch as has not been taken out at the factory. Gluten meal contains the most, nutritious part of the corn grain and is one of the richest foods in nitrogen that is at command of the dairyman. It is one fourth protein, or nitrogenous sub- stance, one-half sugar and digestible starch and a little more than 11 per cent digestible fats. The rest is refuse. But gluten is a highly concentrated food and must be fed with its own weight of something else. A mixture of four to five pounds of gluten meal with as much wheat bran makes, in addition to ensilage and bay, a very good ration for a dairy cow. There is no doubt that gluten meal is a profitable feed for dairymen engaged in milkmaking. There are those, however, who declare it injures the flavor of butter. Only ac- tual, experiment can determine this. It is to be remembered, too, that the care- lessness and uncleanliness of workmen at the starch or glucose factory some- times ruin the gluten and make it ut- terly unfit for the cows' food. In such ease the cows themselves frequently, understand their business well enough. to refuse to eat it. .Again, gluten meal Is adulterated by dealers and rendered unfit for feed.` Here is a mixture that will keep off the horn fly for some time. Into a quart of fish oil stir two tablespoonfuls of crude carbolic acid and apply to the parts of the cow moat infested by the fly. Remember that the flies deposit their eggs upon fresh manure heaps. Break these up or sprinkle lime upon them. In case of large herds of cows a dipping vat with the mixture of oil and carbolic upon the surface of enough, Water to swim the oattle through would be the. best arrangement. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON 1, THIRD QUARTER, INTER- NATIONAL SERIES, JULY 4. Text of the Lesson, Acts avi, O-iS-Mem. ory Verses, 13-15—Golden Text, Ps, cxix, 130—Commentary by the Rev. b, bis+ Stearns, 6, 7. "Now, when they had gone through- out Phrygia and the region of Galatia and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, after they were come to Mysia, they essayed to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit suffered them not." Our last lesson in this book intro- duoed us to the apostles at the conference in Jerusalem, from which Paul =dB nabas, with Silas and others, returned to Antioch and continued there teaching and preaching the word of the Lord (Acts xv, I 85). After some time they start on their; second missionary tour, Barnabas taking Mark and sailing for Cyprus, and Paul taking Silas and starting through Syria, and .Cilioia, confirming and establishing the churches. At Lystra, where Paul had been stoned and left for dead on his first tour, he takes Timothy with him, of whom he afterward says, "I have no man so dear unto me" (Phil ii, 20, margin). As they continued journeying and preaching through Phrygia and Galatia they thought to turn southward and afterward north- ward and give the glad tidings in Asia and Bithynia, but were in each case pre- vented by the Spirit from so doing. The Spirit sent them forth on His business fox Christ, and, being willing to be controlled by Him, He controlled them and for some good reason kept them at this time from going into these two provinces, that He ih sendtheme. m t elsewhere. 8. "And they, passing by Mysia, came down to Treas." Hindered on the right and left, they found that the open door was straight ahead, and so kept on to the sea at Troas. "Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying: This is the way. Walk ye in it when ye turn to the right hand and when ye turn to the left" (Isa. sax, 21). To be sure that the Lord has a purpose in your life, according to Eph. 10, and that Ho willsurely perform it ac- cording to Isa. xiv, 24, make one quiet before Him, not daring to murmur even though with aching heart and streaming eyes we say, "Even so, Father," "My Jesus, as Thou wilt." 9. "And vision appeared to Paul in the night. There stood a man of Mace- donia and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia and help us." In a dream or vision of the night God has often spoken to men (Job xxxili, 15) and will yet, if necessary, though Ho generally guides by His Spirit either in His word or in the events of daily life. The right attitude is to "Watch the way" and "Watch to see what Ho will say" (Nab. ii, 1; Hab. it, 1), then meekly walk in the way which He opens before us, "Doing as occasion serve us, for God is with us" (I Sam. x, 7). 10. "And after he had seen the vision immediately we endeavored to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the' Lord had called us for to preach the gospel' unto them." Being willing to be guided by the Spirit, they were sure this was the Spirit's guiding. If we are willing and earnestly desirous to be led of the Spirit, we may be perfectly sure that every hin- dranon and every opening is of Him. No- tice that they knew what help the T ee ple of-Mrieedpnbe 'needed,•and tiint_;lFas Jnee-.. what they had to give—the gospel or food tidings of the grace—tf—Gba incywere not on a lecturing or an entertaining tour, but only and wholly on business for God, to win souls to Christ. 11. "Therefore, loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothra- oia, and thenext day to Neapolis." This lesson should bo taught with the map be- fore the scholars that they may see that Paul and his company now crossed from the continent of Asia to Europe; that Ne- apolis was the seaport of Philippi, and Sa- mothraoia an island about half way from Trees to Neapolis. As in many another in- stance in the Scriptures, the incidents of the voyage or journey are wholly omitted. They set forth and they arrived aro all the Spirit sees fit to record. From the heaven- ly standpoint, journeyings take no time, for they run and return as a flash of light- ning (Ezek. 1,14). 12. "And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia' and a colony, and we were in that city] abiding certain days." There seems tp be no welcome for them, no one specially ex- pecting them, and yet they are in the land" to which they had been, called, and doubt-, less they gave themselves up to prayer that the same Spirit who brought them thither would now use them. They not only abode in the city, but they abode in Christ. 13. "And on the Sabbath we went out of the city by a riverside, where prayer was wont to be made, and we sat down and spake unto the *omen which resorted thither." It would seem, then, that the first preaching of the gospel in Europe was at a woman's. prayer meeting, Mary, the mother of our Lord, and other women were assembled with the apostles for prayer dur- ing the waiting days between His ascen- sion and Pentecost (Acts i, 14). It is prob able that upon the women also the Spirit came as tongues of fire, and as there were present in the city at that time strangers from Rome, there may also have been some from Macedonia. However, it came about, here are some worshipers of the true God who had evidently been crying to God for more light, 'and now God has sent it. The same God who sent Gabriel to Daniel and Simon Peter to Cornelius sent Paul and Silas to Macedonia, 14. "And a certain woman named Lyd- ia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thya- tira, which worshiped God, heard us; whose heart the Lord opened, that she al-- —v tended unto the things which were spoken of Paul." Here is a business woman from Asia, for Thyatira was in Asia (Rev. 1, 11), who was for the time living in Philippi, and was evidently one of those chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph. i 4; II Tim. i, 9). It was worth while going to Europe to find her. She was probably another hungry soul like Cornehue. Wherever on earth the eyes • el the Lord see a real thirst for Him, He will find a way to supply that thirst. "Blessed are they that hunger, for they shall be Elect" "He satisfleth the longing soul." 15, "Anel when she was baptized and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful, to the Lord, come into my house and abide there. And she constrained us." Her lieart be- came a home for the Lord and her house a home for His disciples. There were prob- ably four at least in Paul's party, for Tim- othy had joined them at Lystra, and it looks as if Luke had joined them at Troas. 1 Contrast the "they'' of verses 6 to 8 with the "we" of verses 10, 11. Contrast the spirit possessing the damsel of verses 16 to 18 with the Holy Spirit now possessing Lydia and her household, and remember we are controlled by one or the other, ei- ther the Lord or the devil