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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-7-5, Page 7••••••oreamorau. eareeraaaaasseeeeresea -aasaa-- "Thou Haat Kept Back the Good VVine Until Now.), 'A FEAST OF HOLY MERRIMENT. Dr. Talmage Clearly Presents the joYfiliS Features of the Christian Ileliaion- Christ supplies All Things In Abund- anceI ChAistians Will Only Ask For Them. Washington, July 1.—A remark- able illustration of the ubiquity of English epeakiug peopleis fitruished by the requests that have reached Dr. l'almag.e, in northern Europe for senhon in out of the way places where he. cad' not expect to find a single person who could uaderstand h an. There, as here, 'ire presents re- ligion as a festivity and invites all the world to come as guests and join in its holy merriment; text, John' ii, 10, ' 'Thou hest kept the good wine 'until now." 'Phis (theater invites us to a mar- riage celebration. It is a wedding in common life, two plainpeople having pledged each other, hand and heart, and their friends having COMe in for congratulation. The joy is not the less because there is no mre- tetssioa, in each other they lied all • the 'future they want. The daisy in the cup on the table may moan as much as a Score of artistic garlands freea from the hothouse. When a daughter goes ma from home with 110 al g „DLit a plain father's bles- sing and a plain mother's love, she is missed as much as though she were a princess. It sesms h.ardi af- ter the parents have sheltered her for 18 yeavs, thaa in a few short Months her affections should. have been carried off by another, but • mother remembers how it was in her Own 'case when she was young, and , so she braces up until the wedding • has passed andl the banqueters are gone, and she has a cry all alone. , 'Well, we are to -day at the wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus and his mother have been invited. It is evi- dent that there are more .people there than were expected. Either some people have come who were not in- vited or more invitations have been seat out than it was supposed would Ie accepted. Of eouree there is not a Sufficient supply of wine. You know that there is nothing more em- barrassing to a housekeeper than a scant supply. Jesus sees, the embar- rassment, and be comes up immedi- ately torelieve it. He sees stead- ing six water pots. He orders the servants to fill them with water, then he waves his hand over the wa- ter, and immediately it is wine -- real wine. Taste of it and see for yourselves. No logwood in it, no strychnine in it, but first rate wine. I will not now be diverted to the , question so often discussed in my own • country whether it is right to drink wine. I am describing the scene as it was. When God makes wine, he makes the very best wine, • and 130 gallons of it standing around in these water , pots—wine s so good that the ruler of the feast tastes it and says: "Why, this is really better than anything , we have had. Thou haat kept the ,good wine until noev.'Beautiful miracle! A prize was offered to the person who should vrite the best essay about the miracle in Cana. Long manu- scripts ,evere presented to the come . petition, but the poet won the prize by just this one line descriptive of 1, the miracle: "The conscious water saw its 0.od and blushed/' We learn from this miracle, in the e a 'first place, that Christ has sympathy t with housekeepers, You might have s thought that •Jesus would have said: i "I cannot .be bothered with this household deficiency of wine. It is e not for me, Lord of heaven and. of earth, to become caterer to this t feast. I have vaster things than, s this to attend to." Not so said t 'Jesus. The wine gave out, and .Te - sus by miraculous power came to `. the rescue. Does there ever come a c scant supply in, your household? s Have you to make a very close / cuiation? Is it hard work for you' a to carry on things decently and re- l• spectably? • If so, don't sit down and cry.. Don't go out and fret; but go to him who stood in the house in t Cana of G-alilee. Pray in the parlor. Pray in the kitchen. Let there be• no room in all your house unconse- crated by the voice of prayer. If you have a microscope,. put under it , one drop of water and see the in- sects floating about, .and when eau I see that God makes them and cares for than and feeds themcome to the conclusion that he will take care of you !and feed. you. ' A boy asked if he might sweep the snow from the steps of a house.' The lady of the household said, "Yes; you seem very poor." He says, aI am - very poor." She says, "Don't you sometimes ,get discouraged and feel that God is going to hit you starve'?" The lad looked up' in the 'woman's , face and said, "Do you lhjnk God will let me starve when I trust him and then do the best, dars?" Enough theology for . older people' Trust in God and do the best you can, Amid all the worri- ments of housekeeping' go to hail; he will help you control your tem, per and supervise your doniesliics and entertain your guests and man- age your .hom.a economics. ' 4 learn also avoin this miracle that Christ ,cloes things, in abanclarice.i think a smali supply of wine would laive made up for the deficiency.; I • think, certainly, they must have had eimugh for attic ,the guests: One gal- lon of, wi»e will do; certainly ?five gallons sv ill be eo °nail; certainly ten. But jest:a goes 'ore •and he giv- es them .30 gallons and 40 gallons. nd 50 mil o es 11.21 (1 70 ea 11 on s and 100 gallene and 130 gallons of the av best 'Wale. It is just like i het —doing everathing' en the largest Iised most; geneemis scale. Does (",hrist, our Creator, go forth to. make Ileeyee? life makes thein by the 40,rho1e foreat full; notched* like the eeseeassesareearaaaaaeseassesseasesa --aesseare-e-aaaagaeargeseesseeeressigegarergaeseeersesaaseseseeeeseaseasaaaaasees. fern 'Or eilaered like the agaien o broad like :the palate thickets in th tropics, Oregon forests. Does le g forth to snake flowers? Tie leek° plenty of them; they flame frola th laidge; they hang from the 1 op of th grapey 1110 ia alossoins, they roll in the blue wave of the vieleis, they toss their , white surf in tile spiraea—enough for. every child's hand im flower, enough to make for every larow a chaplet, enough with beauty to . cover up the ghastliness of all the grade. Does he go forth to create seater? Fie pours • it out, not, by the, cupful, but by a river full, a lake full, gevacean fulle pour- ing it out until all the earth has eta °Ugh to drink, aspd enough with which to wash. Does :lases provide redemption? It is not a little saliatian. for this one a little for that anda little for the d 'other,. but enough for all. "Whoso- eaer will, let lam cornea' Each ripen an ocean full for Mr:Isola 'Promises for the young, promises for the, old; promises for the lowly, Premises for the blind, for, the halt: for the out- cast, for the abandoned. Pardon for all, comfort foe all, mercy for all, heaven for all, .Not merely a cup -- ail of gospel supply, but 180 gal , , Ions. • bye, the tears of godly 're- pentanoe are all gathered up, into (aal's bottle, and some day, stand- ing beforethe throne, we will lift our cup of delilebe and milk that it be filled with the wine of heaven, and Jesus, irom that bottle of t.ears, will !main to pour in the cup and we will cry: ' "Stop, Jesus! We do not want to drink our .onei tears!" And :le - sus will say,. ''Know ye not that th tears of earth are the wineof heav en?" Sorrow may 'endure for a night, .but joy- cometh in the 01050 remark, 1 urther' Jesus does no shadow the joys ofothers with ill 0\1111 griefs. laci might have sat dowi in that we cid ing and sa id: , "I have SO much trouble,' so much poverty so much persecution, and the cross is coming. I shall not rejoice, aud the gloom of my face and of my sere • rows shall be cast over all this • group." So said not Jesus. ale soicl to himself: "Here are two persons star t•ing out in married life. Let it be a joyful occasion.' I will hide my own griefs. I svill kindle their roy." There are many not so 'wise as that. I know a household where there or many little children, -whei•e for tea° years the lams i cal instrument has been kept shut because there. has berm -tvouble in the house. Alas for the folly! Parents saying: "We evin have no Christmas tree this coming holiday' because there has Leon trou- ble in the house. Hush that laugh - Ing up stairs! How can there be any joy when there has been so much trouble?" And so they make,•every- thing consistently doleful and send their sons alld. daughters to ruin with the gloom they throw aroand them, Oh, my dear ri en ds, do you n ot knoW these children will have trouble enough of their own after awhile? Be glad they cannot appreciate all. yours. Keep back the cup of' bitter- ness from your daughter's lips. When your head is down in the grass of the 'tomb, poverty may come to her, betrayal to. her, hereto...anent to her, Keep back the sorrows as long as you can. Do you not knew that that son may after awhile have his heart broken? Stand between hine and all harm. You may not fight his bat- tles long. Fight then while you may. Throw not the chill of your own despondency over his soul. Ra- ther, be like jesu5s ,who came to the wedding hiding his own grief and kindling. the joys of others. I learn 'from this miracle that Christ is net impatient with the hike iries of life. It was not neceseary that they should have that wine. 'Hundreds of people bave been married vithout any wine. , We do not read hat any of the other proeisions fell hort. When Christ made the wine, t was not a neceseity, but posi- live I 1 1: ' e vants us to eat hard. read and sleep on hard mattresses miless are like hem the best. „I think, if circum- tances will allow, we have a ' right 0 the luxuries of' dress, the luxuries of diet and the luxuries of residence. ['here is no more religion in an old oat than in a new one. We can erre God' drawn. by golden plated larness as certainly as When we go foot. Jesus Christ will dwell with is under a fine ceiling as well as un- der a thatched roof: ' I learn, further, from this miracle hat Christ has no impatience with estal jay; otherwise lie would not axe accepted the invitation to that wedding. Ile certa.inly \You'd not ave done that which inereased the hilarity. There may have been many in that room who were happy,' but there was not , one , of them that did so much ,for the joy of the wedding e part!, as Christ himself. He was the chief of the banqueters. When the . . wine gave out, ,110. supplied it, and So, I take it, he will not deny us the joys that are poSitively festal. I think the children of ,God have more right to laugh than any other people, and to clap their hands as leedly. 'There is not a single joy de- nied thene that is given to any other people. Christianity , does not ' clip 'the wings of the soul. Religion does not frost the flowers. What is Chris- tianity? I take it to be simply aM proclamation frothe throne,of God of einaecipation far all the enslaved; and a• a roan aecepts the terms of that proclamation and becomes free has be not 'a right to be merry? Sup- aose a father has an elegant man- sion 'and ,large grounds. To .whom will he give the first privilege of these grounds? Will he say: "a:1y children, you meet .not walk through these paths oe sit down under these trees 'or pleek this fruit.. These are for outsiders. They ma.y Walk in thetia'' No father. Would say ally - ,thing , like that. lite Would say, 'rhe th•st privileges in all the grounds and, all .1ay house shall be for My own children„'", And yetena e try to make us believe that God's eh i 1 d reit are oil the te and . the &fief refresheiente, end enjOymeets of life are for outsiders 01131 not for his own ehildreh. lt is stark atheian. Taere is no innocent beverage 1.06 ,rich for God's child to drink, theta: Is no robe 'too coetye han l, fo,10 wear, aliere n I o hilarity' tap &teat 0 for him to iddilige in and aa 110050 - 1 J "Jack- Roaeli af a-are:Laos Bank' too ealeudid for to live in. Ile a robbery fame, wile seat to penitenti- has a eight te the joys ai earth; lie . emy fee 20 years by Chief justice Sir aiexaader Lacoste, heits'en. Though tribulationnd. s airri the Court of • hardship may come unto hail, let TeasOF aearEREaT aRoga ARouND Qucen's Bench at Montreal on Tama - him rejoice. "Rejoice in the Lora, Ye righteous and again. I say rejoicea' remar:le, again, that Christ- ccrnes to us in the hour of our extremity. ale knew the wine was giving' out before there, was aby emberrassnamt mortificatioe. Why did lie not perform the mira6le sooner? Why wait anal it was till gone, and no help could come ft. 4,1 SO 121 00, am 10 1 then come 111 2121(1 perrm fothm e ire a cl e? This is Chriet's Way, and when he aid come in, at the P001 of eat:rein-10a he amee first rate 'wine, so that they cried out, "Thou hest kept the good wine until 11.010.'';Jesus in. the hour of extremity He seems to prefer that hour, In a Christian home in I:soh-tad great pov- erty had come, and. on the week day the man -was obliged to move eta of the house 101111 his whole family, That night he knelt with his family and prayed to God. While they were kneeling in prayer there was a tap on the 10111(1010 pane. They opened. the 20121(1010, (1.11(1 there was a raven that the family had fed and ,trained, and it had in its bill a ring all set with 'Precious stones, which eves fouad out to be a ring belonging to the ro,yal family. It was taken up to the king's residence, and for the honesty of the man • in bringing it back Ise hada house given to him and a g.airden and a farm. • You mourned over your sins. Yo could not find the•way out. You sat shall 110.1.00 a right to tise joys of 11 e down rind said: "God will not be . merciful, lie laes cast me offa' :But' in that, the darkest hour of your - history, light broke from the throne, and Jesus said: "Oh, wanderer, came t home; I have seen all thy sorrows. s In this, the hour of thy extremity, 1 I offer thee pardon and everlasting li e. ., Trouble came. 'You were almost torn to pieces by that trouble. You braced yourself up against it. You said, I will be stoic and will not care. But before' you had got through making the resolution it broke down under you. You felt that all your resources were gone. And. then Jesus came. "In the fourth watch of the night," the Bible says, "Jesus eame walking' on the seas." Why did he not come in the first watch or in the second watch or in the third watch? I do not know, He came in. the fourth and gave de- liverance to las disciples. Jesus in the last extremity! I' wonder if it will be so in our very last extremity. We shall fall suddenly Siek, and doctors evill come, but in vain. We will try the anodynes and the stimulants and the bathings, but all in vain. Something will say, "You must go." No one to hold us back, but the hands of eternity stretched out to pull us on. What then'? jesus will come to es, and as we say, "Lord Jesus, I 11111 afraid of that water; I cannot wade through to the other side," he will say, "Take hold of my arm." And wo will take hold of his arm, and then he will put his foot in the surf of the wave, taking us on down deeper, deeper, deeper, and our souls will cry, "All thy waves and billows have gone over me." The wedding scene is gone now. The wedding- ring has been lost, the tankards have been broken, the house is down, but Jesus invites us to a grander wedding-. You know the Bible .says that the church is the I,aneb's wife, and the Lord will af- ter awhile some to fetch her home. There will be gleaming of torches in the sky, andthe trumpets of God will ravish the air Avail their music, and 'Jesus will stretch out his hand, and the church, robed in white, will put aside her veil and look up into the face of her Lord, the King, and the Bridegroom will say to the bride: "'Thou hest been faithful through all these years! The mansion is ready! Come home! Thou art fair, my love." And then he evill put upon her brow the crown of dominion, and the table will be spread, and it will reach across the skies; and the mighty ones of heaven will come in, garlanded with beauty and striking their cymbals, and 'the Bridegroom and bride will stand at the head of the table, and the banqueters, look- ing up, will wonder and admire and say: "That is Jesus, the Bridge. groom! But the scar en his brow is covered with the coronet, and the stab in the side is covered, with a robe!" And "That is the bride! The weariness of her earthly woe lost in the flush of this wedding triumph!" There will be wine enough at this wedding; not coining up from the poisoned vats of earth, but the vine- yards of God will press their ripest clusters, and the cups and the tank- _ THE WORLD pruned, ictuated aryl Preserved Pithy Paragraphs for the Perusal of Practical People - Personal, Politica-1 and Profitable. UNCLASSI PIED. Canada has been awarded first prize for its display of timber at the Paris Exposition. The Australiaa Commonwealth 13111 passed. through the committee stage on Thursday, at i,ondon. Light rains fell at a few points in Manitoba on Sunday. The intense heat bxperienced for several days has abated, House of Lords an Friday passed the colonial marriages bill in- troduced by Lord Stratheono. and Mount Royal. It is understood that the ,marriage of Lady Randolph Churchill to Lieut. George Cornevalls West of the Scots Guards will take place quietly in London on Wednesday. The steamer Grand Lake, which has just returned from Labrador, re- ports immense bodies of ice along the coast, and extending far east- ward into the Atlantic. TheFox Bay settlers have arrived safely at their new hoine in Dauphin, Man. Rev, Dr. Griffiths has reeeiead a cheque from Senator Cox for $4,000 to be applied to their use. Princess Aril:lett , of Anhalt, gra n cl dough ter of Queen Victoria, saildd on Thersclay on the North Ger- man -Lloyd steamer Frederich der Crosse, under tha e name of Countess Munsterberg, from Nesv York. The World's Women's ChriStian Tenmerance Union proeeediags on Saturday at Edinburgh, Scotland, in - chided an impressive meraorial ser- vice in honor of the late Miss Frances the former president of the americau W'onsen's Christian Tem- perance Union. Mr. J. 11, ]booth has decided on a general increase of from sia to twelve 'per cent. to his employes in hunber 'business at Ottawa. 'rhe increase :will amount to about $17,000 more for the working men during the rest of the season, anal will enable them to rebuild their homes. Tnmber he uof atiaths reported in Ontario for May was 2,162, compar- ed with 1,767 for May last year. The increase WaS ill contagious cases, which numbered 81S of the whole, or SS more than in May, 1899. The death rate per thousand was 1121 per cent., compared with 10 per 'cent. a eear ago. Abbas Hama, the Khedive of Egypt, arrived in English waters on Thursday on his first official vrsit. The Royal Yacht Osborne brought His Highness from Flushing: to Port Victoria, where he -was received with a salute from the fleet anchored at Sheerness, but he was prevented by sosickness from continuing the jour- ney. James Mullett and James Fitzhar- ris evere on Thursday taken from El- lis Island to the immigration station in the Barge Office, New York, and officially notified to prepare for de- portation, the United States Treas- ury Department having rendered an adverse decision to their appeal from the verdict of the Board of Special Enquiry, which excludes them. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. Evangeliste Joly was sent down at Montreal on Thursday for nine years for robbing the C.P.R. station at Joliette. A special from Texarkana tells of the murder of Col. Gardiner, a promi- nent Red River planter. A negro, said to be Moses Williams, held him up and robbed him. Six-year.old Joseph Pollio, a hand- some child, and the nephew of a wealthy diamond setter , of New York, has been kidnapped, accord- ing to the New York police, to be held for ransom. Edward Baker, the 19 -year-old bur- glar who burglarized the Michigan Central Station at Niagara Falls Cen- tre on the 1,9th inst., has been sen- tenced to one year and 364 daYs in the Central Prison and a second term of six months. James J. Herbart, the ex -teller c,f. the Ville Marie Dana, who confessed to having stolen $38,000, has been allowed ,off at Montreal OD suspend- ed sentence. Judge Wurtelle said that by turning Queen's evidence he had been o,great service to the State. in day moraing for entering the store of P. Itooney last, winter, holding the proprietor 011 robbing 111(21 of ta.tWithI,)ou ao rarlerii00ylveor f nactdi d_ Wiiuiam ford afillS, an the 'Rideau Carla', met death at Jayville, Y,, by tie- ing taroevn out of a rig. He was intoxicated. John Youngs, ais companion, hes disappeared, suspicions are that the men quar- relled and Youngs threw Stott out of the rig. A evidoev and seven chile drea at Bedford Mille are left to mourn. The French authorities lia,ve cern- fully, concealed the fact that an at- tempt upon the life of Prince Albert of Monaco last, Thursday morning„ just as he was leaving Paris. The would-be murderer was a wealthy German, whose only son committed suicide last March at Monte Carlo, after losing all his personal property mariodneya large amount of borrowed cAsItataarsES. Fred Hadskiss, aged 1 7, son ol Tax Collector Hadskiss, of Winnipeg, was drowned Thursday night. I-larry Belser, aged 14, 10115 drosvn- ed in the Neebing River at Fort Wil- liam on Saturday evening while bath - 1001 Joseph 1-Iarrison, a farmer, who re- sided about three miles from Nor- wood, Ont., went Thursday morn- ing with his 13 -year-old son to Trent Bridge, on the Trent River, for a day's fishing. His licitly was 101.10(1Nvaslaed ashore lifeless. The boy's aodv has not been found. Charles lernapper, engineer •en the steamer Glengarry, was iii-owned-ownedSaturday- night at Buffalo. He was ifiangstonian, aged 30 and unmar- rie;01.11 Boyer, a switchman at Moncton, N,D., lost his life Sunday maiming. Nis foot caught in a frog and lie was mangled from his foot to his shoulder. At Swan River, Man., on Tuesday lase 1.100 men named Bell and Staples were suffocated by gas in a, well. Bell had gone down to save Staples from death, when he was himseli overcome. IR TE DEAD. Mr. john Hallam, the well-known aide, wool and leather ..merchant and, ex-alcierman 01 TOronto, passed away Thursday night. The news of Mr.. Hallam's death came as a shockto his iriencls, by whom it was unex- pected. John Hallam was barn in Charley, Lancashire, England, on Oct. 18, 1833, and was, therefore, in his 67th year. He arrived in Canada in September, 1856, and began business In Toronto in 1866, making it a suc- cess. He first entered the municipal council in 1870, and last January Naas' a candidate for the Mayoralty. He spent a great deal of money in es- tablishing the Free Library, and was the first chairman of the board. It is better to have loved and lost than never to baye loved at all -better for the jeweler, the florist, the messenger boy and sometimes for the lawyers.- Ez- ekiel' A Novelty. "'What's the matter across the way?" asked the tailor of 21 bystander as the ambulancebacked up to the door of his "A customer fell in a fit, and they are taking him to the hospital," was the re- ply. "That's strange," said the tailor. "I never knew a customer to get a fit in that establishment before." heavenly ards will G re at Cures blush to the brim with the 'vintage, and then all the , banqueters will drink standing. Es- ther, having, come up from the bac- chanalian revelry - of Ahasuerus, where a thousand lords feasted, will be there.' And, the queen of Sheba., from the banquet of Solomon, will be there. and the 'mother of Jesus, .frpm the wedding in Cana, Will be there. And they will agree that the earthly feasting was poor 'compared with this t TI 1 en , lifting their chal i- ces in that light, they shall .cry to the Lord of the 'feast, "Thou •ho,st kept the good wine until now." Pfard Lock." An English charity society/ recently Invest,igated the record of a man, who, according to his various "hard luck" stories, had lost three wives, 17 children, four fathers and two mothers; had four times been made a bankrupt by a treacherous brother; had once lost his place because he was a statinch Catholic and had once been ship -wrecked and lost all he haa In the world. Salmon. The catch of salmon in Canadian Waters last year was valued at 53,- 159,306, a decrease of 52,520;868 when compared with the realms of the previous year. Thls Is Hard r, Believe. A faster says that the discomforts Of living Without eating for seyeeal Weeks are not serious, and after the first week of fasting they art hard- ly notieeable. Brought About By the Ilse of the Famous Prescription of the Ironer. able Dr. A. W. 'Chase. Here are reported three ca.ses ,in which Dr. Chase's family remedies proved a bltessing p)f incalculable worth. There are thousands of oth- prs just as remarkable, for Dr. Chase, through his recipe book and home medicines, is the consulting physician in the majority of homes in Canada end the United States. NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA. Mr. Joseph Gr'eroux 22 Metcalt St Ottawa, Ont., writes was ner- vous, had headache and brain fag. I was restless at night and could not sleep. My appetite was poor, and I suffered from nervous dyspepsia. Lit- tle business caree worried and irri- Lted me. After having used Dr. Chase's Nerve Food for about, two months, I ca.n frankly say that I feel like a new man. "My appetite is good, I rest and sleep well, and this treatment has strengthened me wonderfully. Dr. Chase's Nerve Food terns are certainly the best I ever used, and I say so be- cautte I want to give full credit where it is due." KIDNEY DISEASE. /dr. James Simpson, Newcomb Mills, NaTtbumberland County, Ont., writes; -"This is to certify that I was sick I in bed ,the most of the time for three f years with kidney disease. I took I several boxes of pills -different kinds -and a great many other kinds of patent medicines; besides that I was under treatment by four different doctors during the time and not able to work. I began to take Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills, and since that time have been working every day although a man nearly 70 years of age. Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills have cured me." ECZEMA ON BABY. Mrs. A. 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Interesting and instructive, e.etiejents which every married :Ina those contemplating marriage, should know. SOME OF ITS TOPIDS-Physiolcgy of l'sfotherhood, Relations of Mottle': and Child, Woman's Critical Period, Care of the, Newly B(71.11, Feeding. and Clothing the Balm, What to do Till the Doctor Comes, Causes of Infant Mortalitii, Is lslarriage a Failure? Pre-ratel influence , Pain Not Necessary, The Teethiuni Period, Many Thing, Mothers Should' Know, Home Remedtas zafe to Use, UsefUl Recipes. We are giving a limited number of this eve shelling book Feel on receipt of 1(1 cents tu cover mailing. Send at once if you desire one.. Address BRITISH CNEMISIS COMPANY. 83-88 TORONTO, CANADA. . V-44. 414.1.°14:: .31,110.(1,6121=322rlinIV.I.ISET.1=11111 CHURCHGOING IN OLDEN TIMES. Attentlantm at Service Used. to Hare Very SociablesSenson. Sir Walter Beatut has written whim- sically, giving 01 glimpse of churehgoieee a couple of hundred years ago. He sem "Did you ever go to a church in 1703T I hare just come from a service at St. Stephen's, Walhrook, a Sunday morniuk service in that year. The congregatioiis began to arrive a gute'ter of an hour er so before the service commenced. The le - dies Wet(' dreased finely. A footman or a page or an apprentice walked behint them carrying their prayer books. He preceded them up the aisle, Opened tiee door of their pew aud plaeeel the books oil the (leek before the seats. This donsa he retired M. a place under the gallery where the domestics sat. "The women in the pew stood up and exchanged smiles of greeting with thele acquaintances; with those in the pews be- fore and behind than conversed openly:, the church was filled with the buzz of conyersation. When the service began, great many, to show their devoutness, repeated everything out aloud, even the absolution andahe verses assigned to the clergymen. They even read out loud the lessons of the day and the gospel a.na epistle. Some of the people continued te talk to eaeli other from oue pew to the other. A. psalm, not a hymn, was suns, and only one. "During the singing most of the people sat down. After the service was over ths, churchgoers renewed their civilities tea ward each other and their .conversatioui on things of the most worldla &hal. My companion lamented the ill thued talk of the people and the foolish habit of re-, peating the whole service out loud; as foe sitting while the psalm 10138 Sung„ he sail it was to be excused on the ground th,at the version svas miserable. Besides, it was a. `custom so inveterate' that theni W515 no hope of getting it altered. "Yet evhen I went to church with Ha. garth 30 years later the people all stooif up for the singing. How and when wax the custom changed? alOw king did the people continue readiug the service aloud 1 And when were the practice of conversa- tion and the exchange of civilities befont the service discontinued?" 011 Bitthing. Oil bathing is a regular institutioa e among 'the I-Iindoos. An experieneea masseur rubs -the oil on his patratia friends or 'relatives generally lance * week. And it is 11 fact that.moles, wart and such 'faults of the surface -ea the skin are very rare among them. The newborn infant gets the ail bath daily for 40 days: The intervals are then gradually lengthened, but be will be cots- siclered a very naughty boy wbo during his.school days tries to shirk the oil bath at least once a week. As a youngster be yells all the time he is being batbea, Perhaps it is goad for his lungs. Any- how nobody thinks of finding fault with the nurse for the hallooing of her charge, and. generally speaking, it may be said that Indians have better lungs ariti better pectorals as compared to the body Weigaf than the Europeens, and the feminiest buse is ,aecidedly.fuller and more perfeat. -C. N. SalcIrinha in Lancet. They All ‘Ohange. Mrs. Younglose-Oh, dear! Such lie life! Before we got tnarried George Wake tagging around after me all the time. couldn't get away from him for a. minute. net was three mentlee ego. Her Dearest loriend-Poor child: Wbeet has the TV/Tit:II dent'? "Ile 8aid hist night that he theiightt we'd naive next monia to ,some [de� evhere he can have a den so as to get be' himself 0006 in awhile." -Chicago Herald.