HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-4-8, Page 7BREAD, POTATOES and MILK.
A Dyspeptics daily diet.
Dyspepsia is one of the most prevalent of
,diseases, Thousands of people suffer (rout
it in a more or less aggravated form, Few
diseases are more painful to the individual
or more far reaching in their effects on
human life and happiness, What the dys-
peptie needs is not local treatment, not
mere temporary stimulus, The real need
is the toning up of the entire system. Far:
tffy the system and it will do its own fight.
tog, and Jarmuptly eject any intruding
disease. The success of Dr. Ayer's Sarsa-
parilla in curing indigestion and dyspep
sia is due to just this quality which it
possesses, of -renewingthe vital forces,
repairing the waste anloss of the body,
The ordinary treatment brines the food
down to the level of the weak stomach..
Dr. Ayer's Sarsaparilla puts strength into
the stomach, and hrings at up to the level of
the strong food fit for men. It does this
by strengthening the entire system, The
stomach cannot stay weak when all the
other organs are gaining"strength. 'what
Dr, Ayer's Sarsaparilla will do for dyspep-
sia is best illustrated in cases like that of
M, S. Shields, Meridian. Miss. 1fr. Shielels
had got down to the last level of dyspepsia,
But let him tell his own story tee
"For years,' was. afflicted with dyspep
sia toll -►eh gradually grew worse until 1
could eat nothing but bread and potatoes
seasoned with a little salt, and drink only
a little milk. I became so bad that a trifle
too much of even 'these caused terrible
suffering in, the regions of the stomach,
darting peens back of the eyes, attended,
with dizziness and partialloss of sight.
Theonly-way I could get relief was byvam-
icing. Penalty 1 had such a severe attack
that the entire left side of my body felt
numb and partially paralyzed, and in this
eopdition, I was taken to any room unten-
scions. The physicians failed to help Inc.
and none of the limey remedies I took did
eee any good. At last a friend presented
rine with a bottle of Dr. Ayer's sarsaparilla
and before I had used half of it, I could see
a decided change for the better. I used
three bottles anal was se completely cured
that for four years I have not been troubled
with the old complaint, but ani rugged and
hearty and able to e..t anything; that can
be eaten. It would be impossible to say
too much in .,raise of Dr. Ayer's ;oarsa a-
ilia, and I As..'tid not give one bottle of it
ts,r a dozen of any other kind," -7,d. S.
S>lx a ps, *Meridian. Mies,
Try r.. Avers Sarsaparilla if you are
dyspeptic. If you avant more testimony to
titevalue of the medicine, get Dr. Ayer's
Carebook. It is sent free on request by
the Le, Ayer Co., Lowell.
WOOING AND WEDDED
SeFORE AND AFTER MARRIAGE AS
VIEWED BY ONE MAN,
The Young Fellow Who le Trying to Get
need to a Pa TOM to Explaiaie
now Sunportlag Two Pentons Moro
Cheaply Than Ono Works,
"It Iseurious what a difference there is
between befog and after tuarriage," said
the young rnata Sha is trylugr to get used
to being a pa. "Beforemerriagettllseems
so ba1;*yon and bright, to epee]; Lifter tbe
manner of the golden jubilee. Yott meet
a girl. Pet=silly the is a very oa slinary
*ore of a girl. but yen tiou't think ee. To
you it secants that the attars shine in her
eyes and that the sunlight loves to nestht
in her hair, You are more than half 1n-
ellned to believe that she is an angel, but
youdo not quite admit to yourself that
this is so, for you think bow an angel
'could loop trapsing around with you if a
you should bit fortunate enough to get
eser, The your; man who is trying to
get used to being a pa paused and tig;hed.
Then he re unled a
"After a time there- comes an evening,
when you stuntnott your courage to the
Welting paint and propose, it is am hard
job, Muth the battiest, in fact, that you
ever tackled, and you a erre brought up on
as farm too. Ie would have been vastly
a"asier if you could have knownthat the
dear girl had been waiting;, hoping and
praying for this very denouement for tomo
months then past. But you do not know
le, for she dors not coyly confide the fact
to you until later. So you take you heart
iu your throat and propose. Joy, great
joy! She accepts you T e earth is yours,
and you do not care whether it is fenced in
ter not."
Again the young man slggbed.
"You sit dawn close, very close, togeth-
er, and after a time—it may be on that or
another evening—you fall to talking of
the future. You will be married soon, of
eourso, but the matter of finances must be
considered. You consider it, you and she,.
You prove that two persons can bo sup-
ported cheaper than one, and you demon-
strate it by several different columns of
figures. It is arranged, on her suggestion,
that you aro to go without smoking, which
will save 81365 a year to the firm and that
yon never are to get out with the boys,
'which will, sbe says, save $730 more. 011,
it will be easy enough for two who love
-each other to live on your income! Curi-
,aus, is it not, that she and you never fig -
ore on what' it will cost to support three
,or four or even more—curious In a world
where the three or four or even more fro-
•quently report at headquarters and de-
mand board and lodging. It also Is curi-
ous bow different it is after marriage.
"Then, by way of diversion, you talk of
your mutual faults. You admit that you
are slightly quick tempered, but never,
never, you vow, could you be dross with
Jour own pet. She acknowledges that
-she is a trifle selfish, but henceforth, sho
shyly says, all her selfishness will be for
you, bot highest and bast self, and then
you both assert, emphasizing the assertion
to a pleasant way which you are apt to
:adopt at such times, that all human frail-
ties and imperfections mustbe lost in such
great and unexampled love as yours (more
emphasis). You Lave a slight quarrel, in-
deed, over tbe question which ono of you
will most bury Itis faults for the sake of
the other.
``After awhile you are married, and
then you begin. to notice how different are
the before and after of marriage. It is
not alone that the gold, chilly facts demon-
strate that your demonstration that two
(three, four or more) can live cheaper than
one was badly warped, but other things
also bappen in ways that are not accord-
ing to the a :nteweddingprograinnie. For
Instance, hardly 8 month has passed when
you get up in the night, fall over a chair,
bark your shins and immediately say,
°Great guns, Henrietta, what is your ob-
jeot in piling implements of death and de-
"struotion in the middle of the fioor every
night before you go to. bed?' Then your
wife weeps, and you tell her how dread-
fully sorxy you are that you allowed. your
'temper to master you, and all is well again.
"But the rift is in the lute, and only
three mornings after that you and s,lte
dsave a long argument concerning which
*shall get up and build the fire. She bas a
headache, she says, and you tell her that
if she wants to discover a desperately sick
man all sho need, do is to feelof your
'pulse, Finally the matter is compromised
by your getting up and building the fire.
But you feel hurt, for you wanted to com-
promise in the other way,only sho would
not And by this time you begin to doe
that heaven does not lie on the forward
side of the marital lin and that both you
and she took a good Ileal of common, or
,dinary clay into tbo domestic relation,
"Tbon the baby comes, and—and"—
The young man who is trying to get
used to being a pa gulped throe times,
sighed deeply and lapsed into silence"
And no one else spoke, for all in the
room were tarried.—San Francisco Ex-
aminer.
Beason B+nougli.
Reading and writing are not really iii
necessity of life, whon there are other pec,
pee who Bat read and write,`
"`why," asked Mrs, Dooley of Bridget;
Flanagan, "do you go to that old Mrs
d emith to read your letthers from
you l�'
t.
swateheart? Sure, you don't be knowln
her at all well."
"That l: deni, but she do be deaf ea a
post!"
"Au what's the good of that?"
"The good of it? The gime of it? Why,
thin, not one weird of thou letthers do
she heari",,.,Youth's Companion,
TALK WASN'T CHEAP,
Which Explaiue why Smith Felt In a
Faint on the :Floor.
Smith went to Chicago. This shouldn't
be charged. againstwith. lie had to go.
Some men are born Tucks, some aro born
In
Chicago and some are obliged to go
there.
Smith had instructed his wife it any-
thing of imlumrtance happened Shue he
was away to call him tip by the long die -
tem tei.'ph"ane,
There was where Smith made :mistake.
Smlth'ei attention hadn't been called to
Chicago's tall buslnes blocks but three
times whon he was cumtouned to the tele-
phone teem.
In other words. when Smith arrlved in
Chicago he was called for,
"is that you, dears'"
It was Smith's wife's voice, and Smith
nerved himself to hear that the baby was
elead or the house destroyed by fire,
"What --what is the matter?" began
Smith.
"How nice,," cooed his wito, "I canhear
you as if you were in the house. Are you
really in ill reag e?"
"YeR. What is the mat"—
"Wbo invented the telephone, deter? Mr.
Edison? Alm. ;Tones says that it was Mr.
Bell."
"See here!" yelled Smith, "don't you
know that this thing costs" --
"She was in here this morning. She
worn sue'h a lovely gown, it"—
"-- ---1 --l" (Eve minutes).
"Out bias, with"—
--11 -1] ----11 (ten min•
Ates).
"Shirred down the back"-
---111 ---IU--111" (15
minutes).
"Trimmed with jet and"
"--11!1 —1111----1111—,1111" (20
minutes).
"With pink lining and fin"—
"-- 11111 --11111 --111.11-11111"
(25 minutes).
"Just from Paris"
"--111111 --Will —1111! —
111111" (30 minutes).
"Seventy-five dollars and"—
"-- 1111111 —1111111 —1111111
--1!11111" (35 minutes).
"But I don't be"—
" --!!Illi!! —11111111 —11111111
---11111111" (40 minutes).
"Her bonnet was"—
Smith fell in a fit on the floor, and three
hours later, when he was found by tbe at-
tendants, bis wife was still talking..
It took all the money Smith bad with
biro to settle the bill, and the next morn-
ing bo received a postal card from his wife
saying that she had called him up by tele-
phone the day before to tell him that baby
bad out another tooth, but the was afraid
that she bad forgotten to tell him.
Smith is in the hospital, and there is an
anxious woman in New York, She is
afraid that she left out some of the details
and that Smith does not fully understand
bow Mrs. Jones was dressed, --'New York
Sunday World.
A Fairly Fatal Affair.
"So you want to sell that mule?" said
the Georgia farmer to an old darky wbo
was leading a dilapidated, forlorn looking
animal.
"Yes, suh; times is hard, en Iebleege
ter part will him. It burts me powerful
Mr do it, but—I needs de money, en go be
anus',"
"Lias he any good qualities?"
"Ob, yes, sub 1 He got so many it take
too long ter name 'em,"
"Does he kiok?"
"Well, sub, I mils' say dat be bas kicked
In his day en time. He once kicked a
member er any fambly."
"Did it prove fatal?"
"I reckon it did, sub, Ease what wuz
lef' er him whon we gathered bim up
looked party fatal!"—.Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
Shades of 01d Romans.
The .forum of Augustus is the cats'
hotue of Rome. There the superfluous fe-
lines are dropped ovor She wali 50 join their
numerous follows inthe forum below.
Every day charitable people throw scraps
of food into this open prison..
Dunno What He'll Do,
Bf the country goes ter fightin
i dunno what I'll do.
'Course 'cu'd fin' me standin
Fer the',recl an white an blue,
But'spose they hollered ."Charge 'eml1
An we had ter go like funs
I've; got the rheumatism,
Ani Jest
Can't
nun!
7aa tnun!
Fe' the country goes ter fightbe
I dunno what I'll do.
Ihelped .'cm in the trouble
• When I went in 'sixty-two,
But s'pose We lose a battle?
It won't be any fun,
Kase I've got the rhe iniatism
AnI
Jest•
Can't
Runt
an tRunt
—Atlanta Constitution
EASTER BONNETS.
Aa over, the Easter bonnet for the
year is a Cluing of beauty. There ate:
brighter colors en it than for sonic years
past, and alit-gethcr it is a dainty ,pito
of millinery, fir for the trams of n coven
of fashion.
The attempt to force the Salvation
Army style c f bonnet as a node, though
pushed by diplomatic monster the past
18 months, has proved a complete fail -
z brim of chenille and silk braid wovetl
togetler: Teague:-, turbans dud l.erret!as
will a till retain a a slight hold upon those
who l::s not care to fellow the latest ex-
act auca!e s, t.it tate forst mined a steccess-
fill a t1at, caval shaped toque
covered with dc-ep. china blue shot taf-
feta place, run with a series of in-
umtrt(taal`,lee toe tucks drawn up closely
to form tinny upstanding; reifies, A full
!eau of velvet, Hauch uplifted at the
ide, has this fiat, capilli° crown set
o it. In the division between the Fill.
and velvet three ostrich ,plumes are
placed, one falling to the front, two
drooping low to the back, their stetut
couceal'.'d with a large velvet rosette
having a steel ornament in the center.
America was honored last year by the
Frenelt union syndicate of flowers and
feathers, and the leading group, the
American, which is a charming combi-
nation or the tones of the exquisite vio-
let color, three in number, and shade:,
from a delicate light to a rich and dark
violet, will still ba a popular fancy it
the sprite" trade. The bluets, the lighter
shade of wis1/2 is called pervenche, else
the constant blues known as oiel and
matelot. still retain their well won fa•
vor. The glacier isa beautiful mingling
of light shades embracing ivory white,
silver (called argent, the lighter tint
nickel) and a medium sbade of drab
bearing tho name chinchilla..
Tlten many of the green shades of last
fall, Russian the darkest, nile the
lightest and the intermediate ones of
palmyra, siberie, emeranda, mmnguet
and perclogant will again be used in the
making up of that which is, in conjuno-
1
are, It suits the type of sweet 1liadon ,
nalike face, light or dnrk, but it has a
significance so remote from worldliness
that swelldom frowns upon it, and the
Fifth avenue and Broadway milliners
have given up the straggle. They can -
9 not afford to run counter to the express-
ed desires of those whose word is law in
certain well defined„ circles of society,
for be it known the social leaders are
not dominated by the mechanics of art
or trade, as has generally been supposed.
1 The mandates come principally from the
buyers and not from those craving pat-
ronage, The suggestion or praise of the
popular Mrs. --- of Forty-sixth street
or the recommendation of the exclusive
Miss -- of Lexington avenue bas',
more effeot upon determining the pre-
vailing style than all the cajoleries of
the insinuating little Frenchwoman
who confidentially tells her customer'
that a selection of her own—upon which
possibly there is a larger profit—is "so
becoming."
Thus it follows that many will recall
the popular minstrel air and the refrain
of 20 years ago, "Site had a darling
bonnet with a flower garden on it,"
! whenthey see these new creations of
headgear surmounting the brows of
those who dress according to presoribed
and scientific regulations.
1 ` The English walking hat with larger
Drown, lengthened in the back and roll-
ed closer at the sides, will be worn to a
great extent, and the light hats of
spring, to be in vogue, will be a relief
to those who have been troubled with
the burdensome weights of the past
winter. The ' modified gainsborough
with the victorian side flare will pass
from view, to be resurrected in another
two or three "seasons," for it willal-
ways remain a desired style and le
moreover suited to almost every varia-
tion of facial contour" "Short back"
sailors will also be, place$ before; the
feminine public.
The new hats and bonnets will be in
ssryang shades of gray, the former with
tion with well fitting gloves and a fash-
ionable shoe, the pride of every thor-
oughly dressed woman and devotee of
fashion, "a lave of a bonnet."
ALBu1.T P. SournwaoL
EASTER SONG.
When the sun a broader are
Marks across the April sky;
When the days, so cold and dark,
45 the thought of summer fly,
Crocus buds above the green
Of the dooryard croft appear,
,And birds in copse and tree aro seen,
.And resurrection days are near.
See! Tho spicewood's yellow bloom
On the gleaming knoll is set,
And tasseled beds and flowers have room
To fringe the jocund rivulet.
What was that? The bluebird's note,
Caroling so rich and free,
Fits no other song bird's throat.
'Tis his anarvelons minstrelsy.
The south wind's soft and balmy breath
Wafts its chrism from southern seas.
111 comes to lift from wintry death
The earth and whisper hope and penes.
fee pathos of time robin's song
Now is nevor far away,
While in the fields and woods a throng
Of birds repeat their roundelay.
Who shall doubt that life, not death,
Drowns the swift circuit of the year;
That not a soul of mortal breath
Shall miss at last its heavenly sphere?
Then let the bells of Easter ring,
Tuned froom Bethlehem's faroff sky,
Por summer's new processions bring'
Tho proot that only Death shall. diel
Jots. Borisov.
!Koons. and Their Colors,
There are colors that are refreshing and
broadening, others that absorb light and
give ► boxed up appearance to a room,
others that make a room with a bleak
northern exposure or with no exposure at
all appear bright and cheerful, some that
make a room appear warm, some that.
make it cold,
If a ceiling is to be made higher, leave
it light, that it may appear to. recede.
Deepening; the .color used on tbe ceiling
would snake it lower—an effect desirable
if the room is small and the veiling very
high. Various tones of yellow aro substi-
tuted for suulight.
The thermometer seems total' 6 degrees
when you walk, into a blue room. Yellow
Is au advancing color" Therefore a room
fitted up in yellow will appear smaller
than it is. On the otber hand. blue of a
e.ertain shade introduced generously into at
room will give an idea of space. Red
makes no diliereeee In regard to aizo,
Green makes very little.
If a bright, sutlny room gets its light
from a space obtruded upon by russet col-
ored or yellow painted houses, or elro
looks out ul.on a stretch of green grates, it
ebould be Oatmeal itt a color fiery dif-
ferent from tl'o shade chosen if the light
comes trout only an unbroken expanse of
If oilve or red brown be used in eton-
junction wlth mahogany furniture, the
result is very different from what it would
be if Blue were used. I3Iue would develup
the tawny orange Ittrkiner in the alahile-
alny.
Red brings out in n, room whatever hint
of green lurks in tho cowpoatttion of the
other colors employed.
Creep needs sunligbt to develop tido yet.
low in it and makes it seem cheerful.—
Exchange,
A Good $Snelc Pot,
Vor economy and improvement of the
tohls at tbo. some tltue start a good stock
pot, net in the ordinary way. The enols
and trimmings of lege of mutton, which
can be bought for not over 6 cerate a
pound, furnish the foundation. Five or
ten I-'oundeof these pieces, outdo very ek'au
by ser.:ping and rinsing in boiling water
an instant, should be put to boil in as
many quarts of euld water as there am
pistols of meet, et, carefully skimated as it
comes to a lioal, Then Hiatt t hours till
the flesh Saile from the bocce. Then strain
the liquid into a jar, add a tea petonful of
salt for each quart, but no other flavor,
alai sec It in a cold jlaeo eo kt>:'p, elosely
covered. 1':ek all the bones out of the
meat, chop It, which will bit very easy, , Felt
and tapper r it. :Set It away In a jar and
latep your mind easy about the cacti;"a
sool;in;; to come. You wont soup. Sint -
user all the daily banes and meat trim-
mings iu a s tueepan, strain and add a
pint of the jelly found in tho first jar.
with any desired ilavoring, and tbicken-
ing. Teen, i'¢ a rich, tempting soup, not
tho dllvtlou iiavored with, turnips which
turns the appetite at most common tables.
You have a scrap dish, rissoles, croquettes
or plain. honorable hash—half a cup of
the savory jelly a ill snake a piquant dish,
instead of the usual flat tasting Iuess. Tisa'
znineeli anulletn can be &tit'red into some
melted jelly and meted in molds for a de-
lightful luneheon dish, very acceptable to
lovelies. With bread crumbs, potatoes,
jelly and sweet herbs most savory sausage
balls are mach', and a dcsen other dishes
n ill suggest themselves,—St. Louis Be-
pubiio.
How to Clean Diamonds.
Nothing is more noticeable than dull or
grimy jewelry, and, no mutter how valua-
ble the diamond you wear, It will not
sparkle and gleam unless kept clean. A
few maments spent upon these adornments
once a week will neap tbem clean and
bright, declares the Now York Observer.
Plain diamond settings are kept bright
by rubbing them with rolled tissue paper,.
worsted or white cotton yarn. I consider
the yarn better than worsted or other
woolen threads, as It can bo so easily
threaded into the small apertures. Hold
the wisp of paper or yarn betweonthe teeth
and your left band, and with the rigbt
band push tho ring back and forth. Pro-
ceed until every opening bas been 'brushed,
holding it in such a position that the back
of the stone is brushed as much as the
sides. Polish the top with a bit of tissue
paper or clean chamois. Intricate settings
will need to be washed, but on no account
should common soap or brusbes be used.
Even the softest of hair bristles may mar
the luster of the jewel. 'Use a teacup and.
soak the diamond for half an hour or more
in a strong suds of warm water and pure
soap, setting tbe cup upon the back of the
stove, where the suds will not get cold.
,After this clean the jewel by moving it
briskly about in the cup, when the collect-
ed dust will bo washed away, rinse in
warm water and polish by shaking about
in a box of jeweler's sawdust until bright
and perfectly dry. .A soft brush is valu-
able when cleaning chains and other jew-
elry entirely of gold which has much
obasing or filigree.
Beauty Preservers.
To preserve personal beauty observe the
following rules: In the morning use pure
water as a preparatory ablution, after
which ono must abstain from all sudtion
gusts of passions, particularly envy, us
that gives the skin a sallow paleness, It
may seem trifling to talk of temperance,
yet must this be attended to, both in eat-
ing and drinking, if one would avoid
those pimples for which the advertised
washes are a cure. Instead of rough use
moderate exercise, which will raise a nat-
ural bloom in the cheek, inimitable by
art. Ingenuous candor and unaffected
good burner will give an openness to the
countenance that will make: one univer-
sally agreeable. A desire of pleasing will
add fire to the eyes, and breathing the
morning air at sunrise will give the lips
a vermilion hue. That amiable vivacity
which one now possesses maay be happily
heightened and preserved if one avoids
late hours and reacting by candlelight.
To Color Soup.
•, A fine amber color is obtained by add -
Ing finely gratedcarrot to the clear stook
when clear of the sown. Red is obtained
by red skinned tomnatoes, from which the
skin and seeds have been strained out..
Only white vegetables should be *Used in
white soups, as chicken or veal soup.
Spinach teams, powdered in a mortar and
the juice pressed out and added to the
soup, give fine green. For brown soup
use clear stook.
Bedside slippers.
Leather bedside slippers can very easily
be made at home. The leather Is of any
color that is dosired, and it is often a vory.
gay one and is mounted over the toe of 'a
lamb's wool insole. A bit of fur finishes
the edge, and thus is evolved a comfortable
toe dipper. A comparatively small piece
of the slain maker two or three pairs, and
the expense of both money and effort las
very trifling.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
L.ESSOte II, SECOND QUARTER, INTEI4-
NATIONAL, SERIES, APRIL 1Q•
'.Text or the 1.esaon. Mark srf. 1-$—M -
ory verbs,, 6. Z — Golden, Text, 1G Coe.
LRP, 24—COMPlont,5ry by the Rev. D, • ,..
Atearoe.
ICopYright 1$98, by D. ]k[. Stele -me -j.
We bane Our eboice of two lessons for to-
day, either the reeg ulai• lesson its the series;
Math. xvi, 21.28, or this resurrection les-
son, but as the latter, which we tmhooseti, is
a brief section we eau with great profit
devote a third of oar space to theformer,.
Malmo, werrusi His disciples against the
leaven, or false doctrine, of the Phariseeq,.
and Sadducees, filo drew from Simon Power
the confession, "Thou art the Christ, the
Sou of the firing God." This, Jesus said,
was a revelation toSWtnonfrom the Father
and was the foundation on which 8e
would build His church, which He now
mentions for the area time and only on
one other itceasion (;#lath. rein, 17). He..
then told them plainly that Ile mast suffer
and die and rise from the dead the third
day, and, when liter. taught by satan,
objected to this, Chalet then taught the
disciples that not only was death the only
Ray for Hine but the only way for there
ad a as His followers. After His resume,
tion. He called their attention to the feet
that all the prophets had taught this, say-
inw "0 Mete avid slow et heart to believe
ail that that prophets have spoken I Ought*
riot Christ to have suffered these things
tel to enter Moto Hts glory?" (Luka ;adv.
28. 21L) It is the great truth which is aver
being spoken by the Spirit through Pout.
as when be says: "I am crucified witiz
Christ. Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but
!Christ liveth to me." "Wo who live aro
alway delivered unto death . jor Joann'
sake, that the life also of Jess might be
made maeiiest in our mortal limb."
"That I may know Iran. and the power
of His resurrection, and the fellowship at
His sufferings, being made oouformable
unto His death" (tial.. ii, 20; II Gen iv, it t
Phu. in, 10).
1. "Anti when the Sabbath was pest
'AI.ary Magdalene, and Alary, the mother of
James, and Salome, ball bought sweet•
spices: that they might come and anmtnti
Illaa. Theses wumneu loved film, followed
Him and nUnlstert ii unto Him, They else
watched Mina tothe end and saw kits body
laid to rest in Jesepht'a tomb, then re-
turned and prepared spices and oiutraexttar,
and rested the Sabbath day. weal-dislg to
the
commandment (Luke xs3ii, 115, 0;
Marl: xv. 41), to them and their rninlstry'
is seen great devotion to Blot, the nowt-
fs cation of true and be'artfelt love, but In
thin vaso their lova lathed faith, for bad
thWY believed ills oft repeated words, tire*
Ile would rise again the thirddap, they
would not have prepared to anoint ins
dead body on that day..
S. "And very early in the teeming the
first slay of the week they caauo unto the,
sepulcher at the rising of the sun," But
they came looking for what they would
not fled, for they had no authelt+lty to look
fora dead body in a toutb, We may 1*
perfectly sure that we shall find everything
exactly as Be has raid, and therefore it be-
comes ua to hold fast these words: "1be-
lieve God, that It shall be aeon as 10 was
told mo" (Acts xxvii, t'u).
8. "And they said among themselver,
Who shall roll us away the stone from the
door of the sepulcher?" Had they bean
consciously sontot God on this erraudthey
might have haat the vuntfore of Dcut, xxxl,.
8; .iohn x,. 4, but Ile had tot sent them,
forth this time. It was 1st itself a good
work they had in view. and great love wan•
in it, and they were true disciples, but this.
errand was nae of Clod. It was a labor of
love, but nota work of faith (I Thess. i, 8).
If we walk in the ;good works fie has pre-
pared for us 'Eph, ii, 10). we shall dowel',
but all others, however seemingly good.
may turn out to be vain works and just
nothing, for Ho said, "Without Me ye can
do nothing" (John xv, 5), which I take to:
teach that not only will our work be
nothing with6ut Ills blessing, but .it will
be as nothing unless Re has done it all
from tbe first.
4, "And when they looked they saw
that the stone was .rolled away, for it was
very great." It bad nut been rolled away
that He might coma forth, for a resurrec-
tion body regards no obstacles. Neither
bad it been rolled away that they might
accomplish what they bad in view, the
anointing of His body, but an angel had.
come from heaven and rolled back the
stone (Math. xxviii, 2) that they might
see and believe that Re meant just what
He saidwhen He told them that He would
rise again the third day. Blessed are they
that have not seen and yet have believed
(John xx, 8, 29).
5, "And entering into the sepulcher
they saw a young man sitting on the right
side, clothed itt a long white garment, and
they were affrighted." By comparing the
accounts it is clear that there were two an-
gels—some saw ono inside and one out-
side, and, again, both were inside. There•
is no discrepancy or contradiction. To
send two is generally His way. Two went
with Him to visit Abraham and to rescue.
Lot. Two were sent to the heavenward
gazing disciples. The twelve and the sev-
enty were sent by twos. Sometimes He
sends but one, as when He sent Gabriel,
or when He sent Philip from Samaria to
the Ethiopian.
6. "Ansi he saith unto them, Be not
affrighted. Ye seek .Jesus of Nazareth,
which was crucified. He is risen. Ile is
not here. Behold the place where they
laid Him." They sought ignorantly, but
sincerely, and those who seek find. The
word even to such is, "Fear not." There
is no ground of fear to those who are in
Him, and from Gen. xv, 1, to the end of
the story it is one oft repeattad "Fear not;"
"Be not afraid, only believe; "Rave faith
In God." The ground of all peace, how-
ever, is ,Jesus crucified and risen.
7. "But go your way, tell itis disciples
and Peter that He gootb before you unto
Galilee. There shall ye see Him as He
said unto your" In Math. xxviii, 7, it is,
"Go quickly and tell.''. One has said that
the watchwords of Christianity are: "He
is risen. Go tell. " We have not to make
up a fine story and put in perfect form and
deliver it in eloquent language, but go
where and whon He send% us and in Hme,
wards tell of Him, His own message to
Biala was, "Go to My brethren ;and say
unto: theme, 1 SSoond unto My Father and
your Father, and to My God and your
God" (John set, 17). He told lam; the Very
words to say, When in answer to the cry,
"Whom shall I send and who ,will go for
us?" Isaiah said, "Dere am I; send too.
8. "And they went out quickly and fled.
from the ;sepulcher, for they trembled and
were amazed; neither said they a
nythmg
to any man for they were afxwd„ Pose -
haps
, .
if they bad been walking and serving
by faith they alight not have been afraid,
but we had better look at home; flow is it
with me? Am i, without fear going quid-
ly to to11'the good. news , whether teenwill
hear or forbear?.