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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1903-12-31, Page 7BE POINTS On 101111FA1114 True Mission of' a Friend Is to Encolirage and Commend Virtues Metered! according to act et the Pate nauteat of Osteadain. the veer thee Tbousaed nine _smeared eerie Three. by Mina Bally. of Toronto, at the Department or egrieuttere. °Rhaetian despotc from Chicago says Be Frank De'vitt notimage preeth- ted from the folloe ing text: 11.1 Jobe in„ "Greet tOeWeeds LW name," Etymology is tlie tiatoriao of PAP, n IS tte tug° wardrobe in winth ore hung' up the veraal gar- Ments, enelent aard Modern, with whieh Thought bas been and is ete- cesionted oclethe bereelt It is the internetional tool inter-raeial labor- atory in wilt* one elphobet ts, Men to a more or less extent to be la hertentot, with, all other alphabete. the same as the study ef biology peeves tbot the physical sutureo of all tiling greetings, both entanal And "Vegetable. booe been evolved mimes* flora tho eaten) plan. Thui wo Mut tint ea eoeial Merles mdretn cbauge so ti e verbal gorrnonts for ten thought Are sometimes discerd- ed, and new thougtts me found to Ile Wearing the castoff oorbol clothee of ether thoughte. MEAN= OF "FRIEND." Time we &NO And that the wor "triende" of my text hens an entirely different meaning ;tom what the cas- ual reader might ttt &St euppon. The modern word "friend" in popu- lar ditcourse weeps an acquaintence. one witb whom we eon sociatly as a pleasant tour, one who is upon eur calling list, OM who invites US to his home AO We mar invite hint to our Catigliterte wedairig Party for tie cOMpanse Bet in auelent times the Biblical word "Weed" bed a deelekt toiler mowing, It meant one Mot in ti truest and purest Foefie bad his WO wrapped up in our life. -As John Wesley gave the defini- tion t moot (me who was hoono to us by felt sairrifice and the blood relatitotit Hui Atoning cos.' It itteant a Christian brother. Tie modern dentition of the word "Mend." is as different tom, the Bib- lical as A wolf traveliug arOund in eheep's clothing is at t eart different from a hunb. Therefm a 0 man and Nyonnue In this sermon I would try to deoeribe for you who aoe your true Mottle and also stow you it/tether you aro truo friends to otters. Frona among ti it scores and butteredst your aequaintanges ivottl angle out a fete noble whits whose love you ought to vultivate and whose affections you should treasure in the holy of aolies of your t most innermost heart. TIM DIVINE' FRIEND. The true friend, in the first plate, is always the one who levee the Lord his God with all Ids bettet and mind before 1 e tiles to joVe 1119 brattier us hintself. ITe is tee Om who would traaelete into his own life in a spiritual sense the aft quot- ed advice which roionius gone to his departing son Laertos, "TO thine own. mall be true, and It must follow as the night the day thou. eanst not uot then bo false to any maxi." A true earthly friend must, itt the first place, be a, true ftiend to his lIettvenly loriond, as was Isaac New- ton. /re so impressed, every one *with who're he came in contact with itis table loyalty to Ilis Divine Alas - ter that when his friend, tec great philosopher, Gottfried Leibeitz. was dying ho erica out again aud again in his last sickness. "Co thou God fa` Isaac Neton, wton lucre mercy upon erre 1" And yet, strange to say, there are saores of us who seem to think tied our true friends can bo true to us while bc.ing untrue to their hotter Selves. If ttey drink with. us !Jot:ousts we get drunk and gamble with us because we gamble and :in- tuits* f.itter away their lives because Ire, as spendthrifts, are squandering ours, we tall them. friends—true friends. CHOOSE 'ASSOCIATES. S. advice for this classificar doe : From the bad men turn away your face with- Erin resolve. You cannet associate with scoundrels without you yourealf becoming a party to their infamies. With the 'doubtful class" of associates be very chary of your friendship. Never allow any one to enter the inner chambers of your heart until he has 'proved his virtue and nobility be- yond all doubt. The third class of your acquain- Latices.. 'represents God's noblemen. Those can be numbered among the blessed few Nebo are spiritually try- ing.to eeeke the most out of their lives. Tbese seek, these trust, theee bind to yOu by tl:o unbreakable 'ties of affection. These cherish all through life, up to the brink of the grave.' These are the ldnd of Biblical friends to whom the apostle John sent his gospel sa,lutation. The true Mead corrects his brother's faults a.s well as commends his virtues, , He warns him of a moral danger, as he Would warn his friend of a physical danger if ecru a Nvinter's-day he saw hina sitatieg too near an airhole in the ice or if While boating upon the Jiver ho.saw hint rowing too near the dan- gerous dam or if he saw him bath- ing too near the "sea puss," toward which the treacherous undertow was trying to drag him. The Ten Com- mandments Of Moira Sinai whach, Gad, with his finger or a pen, wrote upon leaves of stone, are filled with "thou shalt nots." • Therefore one of the gi eat Missions of true friendship is, as Paul described it, to "reprove, reb e ice, ' as well as to "exhort, Ivith all long suffering and doctrine." A MISSION OF LOVE. But though the missiOn of true Gricadship consks not in peddling evil 'repot ts it does have a mission lovinoV and tenderly correcting the wrongdoin. of cow dear ones. °hallo Ooethe, the most famous , poet and l'irame,1 1.-t of German liter- aarirre; Onee oxpreF,sed beautind itl ttnnetto ; "'Ram wlin e el'e yeg 1st shall build palaces for the gods, but at last we are glad if we have dug away some et the rubbish at our feet." Ab, that statement is true 1 When we are young we have an am- bition to reform the whole universe. but when We grow olaer we have Mote:owed down the hope of our life te this Ample dots e ; We impe that we may live right oureelvess We hope that we may be alae to ran:rove from our friends' paths Some of the ine- pedimeeis Over Whidi we ourselves l'ave amiable:a We hope to do tho ..ante as Forbes Mitchell did during the atotal *lege ef Luelinow. Atter I e was nearly blotto to Ineten by powder magazine concealed within the rodenney by the mpoys he ha - Mediately warned his English friend lest thee, might beediessly ran int tho sante danger. And, my brotbe mark this ; If you are not greteritilA willing to bo corrected b a. morel fault by a true ft loud thou you are not fit te 'hove any Christian man for a, cloee Associate. Tho true friend is one who rejoices With us in our atIcee$Sea as well as sympetbizea with us in our failures. "Oh,.Yeti fitly. "that is It universal, eleovident desire. Tbere is no danger Of any friend net rejoicing with tt$ when we succeed in lite. The only danger is that these friends will tura their backs upon us when we aro defeated" Seeady, brother. eteatly. I am surprised at your att- ester. I an amazed. Area that you are such a poor analyzer of harlian etareoter and, secondlythat yoe have not found out the error of your belief by personal expertence. THE DEMON 01" ENVY. Ready are you to grunt that e40- mies rejoice at your overthrow and are sorry at our triumphs. But in one SCUSO malty of our acquaintances are actuated by tbe Sankt 2110tiVe3, When tripped up in the race of life many of our friends are ready to say: "Poor fellowl is it not too bad that my friend So-and-so failed In businees? Is it not too bad that John lost all the money ho inherit- ed front hi a father?" But they often sympathize with us in the self cam- placent way WhiCh, translated in the ordinary language of life, memo: "It Is too bad, but if John had only been as smart as I am he would nev- er have lost his money. Now be i just as poor as the rest at us, and be can no longer live in a fine hous But let a, man make a success: lc him strike a big profit in ureel es tato investment; let him have et $ri. 000 incolne when we lutve only $1, 000 and it will tako a mighty on slaught of Christian grace in our hearts to throttle the demon of envy gnawing within our breasts. Jona- than was a true friend of David. He loved the poenstAtcsinan, the shop - bent boy warrior, in spite of the fact that David and not be, the na- tural heir, was to sit upon Saults throne. Many o poor man ceases to love his brother merely becaose that brother can now ride wbile be him - soli is compelled to walk. Why do X state this truth? Because, my hearer, I want you to realize the reason you diger° some of the friends of your youth. It is not be- cause they are untrue to you, but you are untrue to them. It is not because you have matte a failure that they reluso to have anything to do with you. It is because they have made a. success that you refuse ta haVo anything to do with them. Oh, the poisonous fangs of Satanic ennYi It is a fiendish enemy, which does its deadly work in the poor MITI'S hut as well as in the rich meet's palace. REMEMBER TIIE ABSENT. But, oh, how easy it is to forget our absent friends! How easy to get careless about sending the tender salutations of affection which St. John sent to his beloved Gaits when he wrote, "Greet the friends by name!" How easy when sickness comes or death comes into the home to neglect the written words of sym- pathy! When we are afar off, how easy amid -pressing cares not to send the letter of encouragement - and ad- vice and warning which would help keep that young man 'from turning to the left into the path of sin when he should keep straight in the nar- now path of virtue! My brother, are you doing your duty, your Chris- tian duty, to that absent friend? You know you had a mighty influ- ence for good when you were by her side. Shall you drop that influence for good merely because you cannot touch his hand or appeal to laim ex- cept through the influence of the written page? STRONGER TILIN DEATET. True friendship is proof, also, not only against absence, but survives death itself. The widow of your friend and his fatherless children, his brother and sister and all whom he lo cd will, if you are a true friend, have claims on you which you will recognize. When David became king of Israel, one of the fast things he did was to send fiebasengers through the' length and breadth of his king- dom to see if there was any of Saul's family living to whom he could show kindness, for las friend Jonathan's sake. You can 4do. no- thing for Jonathan dead, butli, for those whom he loved better then his life you may do mirth. How litter can you prove yourself a true friend than by helping them. • for his sake? He may be a.waiting their arrivalin the land Pi bieSSOd reunion. ;Let them go there to tell liim how your love for him brightened their 1i s. alms the alove altar" is not-tothe despised altar. We should lcive le Lord our God with ell dur rength and our neighbor as ur-• selves. Ilut that does Ina meen all the members of tho humaa femily ehould oecupy 'the same Peered -Cargoes M our heerts. Christ crime to sore world„ but Christ agate an ogain wended his wey out , of Jerusalem over the Judean hillto iodge in Bethany with Mary Ewa Martha and Lazarus, wile were his true friends. Ohrist canto to save a, world. but when he partoelc of the last skipper he gAtbered about tim the twelve, ewe though he knew one of these was traitor. Thus you should have your eacred friends in Christ. Yon ehould halo the%) See* red frid o as r aul had theta and, John bad them. and Peter bact then). Wo should have those Cbristioa friends about ue who will lift es up instead of dragging us down — friends with whom we can laugh and sing and romp end play; frlends with whom we can while away o vacation. tut also truo friends„ with whom we can rejoice in their prosperity, and with whom wo eau, weep over the easret, and witb, wtere, we can ram' in prayer—true Weeds, who ore true to us becalme they are true to - Christ. Thus I bid you do as St. John commanded Gabs, "Greet the friends by Timm." Greet Mena COI•• leetively. Hold fast to them as ine dividuale. TRAIN/NG GIRZS FOR w0R4. Womertfo Commercial Schools r oleo in Germany. An educational movement width begau in 0 outlaw two oeor 5ago le Mating rapid progrees, and Ito re sults ttil not entelm ite. charnher ot commerce la the leadiug cities took up the toteslion of tte odueote tiou of women for 'wetness. It was argued that tIze advent of women la stores ouri factories, as bookireoPere, stottogranbess, and in otter eapool- tlem,. izad become ehru.o,ctoristie a husents life; that ttero mo Moro womour than men to Geretany; tho.t, the number ot UnMarried Wolliea is on tho increase, eutetinlir 1n the' large citiee et the moire, and thot tbe Om of employing girla in bust- N ileSs betteee eliould be eecottraged, an a moral as well as &aide]. grounds, Bolin tot the pace In the estab- lishment of commercial eehools for women. The Berlin chamber of CoMillerCe took the ground tho.t the hotter young women ave treleed to 1111 butleets pieces, the better ttey will serve their employers, ard tlzeir remineration and social etanding will be iMprovech Three commercial zsehools for wom- en, with tt. total attoulatee of 800 students under the control of the It chamber of eonnuerea lia.ve been opened in Berlin. Tho *albite ts taught o.ro filmography, ttTewriting, o bistory, bookkeering, correspondence, r e. =NTS Fo' ants of ()lett wit 01 lin glYkceen.inT T clean whit ,shoes, eponge wit benzin.e, a.oti, NVilen,`,;(1z7 they bo-. eora tetw. • Bub "o, little dry etarch " •the dirty parts if tho whole dieSS iS Aot., reody tor the cleaner. Tpluve a wart scrape eerrot Atte and aPPIY Poultoot et it for eeven or eiget tights to the affected Never put fat Away while it retain water; it will won quietly, And to - sires will not be in A, eeneatican tO Also for aying. A cooing teather Advisee against wasbieg or soating slited potatoea before tr,volug ttem. SOakillg taaaa ttbocesettaortrcolth.fetit. lent itutUan "tte Patas Stains on light dresSes Can often Ii' realevati by rUbbieg With a little dry Pill,0Jay. They abOuld Of ens worde bo Noshed eft with clean Ittnborreuditult. oil and it mixed Win torten o Iron ruet, T U54' will also clean tins eerie ti ••• w ammo...nor [water to which one teaspoonful of r1inuill amounda hes been added. Wring a elean (loth out of this, gat- : ilea. it as dry as povable, and with it coteitill wipe both caret, and floor, turning and rizetng nte cloth, and change -1g the water, as it be - IcoAkos scowl, - - To clean light see glovies get a pound of otterneel, put some Of it into a basiu, plate it vear the gm or in tte suattite to dry it put °a the gloves. and rine your bands well in the oatmeal as if wastitiaotnem. If the oatmeal becomes diaty throw it away, and take eome eesli and rub well again. Tbis prceoss will not rernOVe stains or disegiodeg from preseiration, and should be tit -at bef.no the gloses became ex- nemeltr ditty'. And Ivill remove ettolue tern pore - lain batting 4 ieltes. 1 Wicker taitleo chaits are easily clemed nod ntat le to look lite t.ow by tieing F,erUbbed with salt told wa- ter Arol then vet in the lien and air to dry. LeAther bags can be ftestened by rating with a cloth sligk tly mot ened with tellatt. oil. Polish, with dry (limbos ofterwrerd until every ves,ige 01 oit is removed. After washin the beIr-bruolme in warm water in which Veep boa been ni-aalvea. litisla Inistles thel ()Ugh^ then dry as otiff, aa when Peon. IY little Vold Milli; Uwe' wall Tit Coln' titoten wails. dissolve , vating in water and then add enciegb, el -Suited eetreattganate of lottat to inatat it a pretty :node. Put on with a common whitewash b"Tozsb.briglateu a adorer, rub with o. eleen *loth tipoed in a cream made of whIting and cold watort to width a few drops of mumble ate added. Polielt well with ole newsparer. To Meta pewter pots scour there vitt a paste of diver eand, utiug an old bung coveted witlt legator. Uinta them NVOU COM Water and volls4Ingt with fineltopowdo ed dry When cleaning tte bora ot o. row It rough stove, If tiny are first ubbed O'er with a cloth dipped in boom rand Neater, Vie blacklead will o Mum' to adtate, and a brilliant tollth be tee result. 'When Seeking* bread for boiled pud- dirgs or any tind of cooling, al - wooer bleak it small Mid soak in cold wetter or milk. If sealed la water squeeze it very doe beano adding to the otter ingredients, fro make a ree.hoo,any commit molt beet:tea.% four ounces, then add In - dim red, me ounce, and enough yel- low ovine to prodaeo the requieed tart. Use enough to fill Up ItOleS and aels.s ia the mahOgazi,r. Aikidos contain a. larger ereentage of phosphorus than any other of our fruits. For this rumen tiny form 'ore of tile most taltiatle foods, for phosphorus is useftil in renewing the nervous raatter oteential for tile food of brain and spirv. When deerring teentings, if you tome to a. maanmotlx halo it is a good plan to run a thread all 'round and draw it elightly together before beginning. This makes it eatier to darn And more cotillion. Thumb -sucking- is a habit which children should not be allowed to acquire. It makes the thumb very sodden and soft, and alsa tends to spoil the shape of the upeer jaw. This habit has been Oilmen to weaken the grow of the thumb so much that children have Suffered all their lives frozn tte effects. To clean a feather boa mix equal quantities of flour and bran. Heat in tho oven, stirring often. Then rub tte boa, thoroughly with it. A capi- tal plan is to put bran flour and boa late a clean print bag and well rub tne whole. Shake thoroughly afterward, and if riecessara brush Nvith 15. clea.n soft brush. The saucepan used for boiling pud- dings should be three-quarters full of water. Suet puddings are the best cooked in a cloth—though they per- haps look better if put in a basin or mould : but they are Much lighter and more evenly cooked if tied in a cloth. Care must be tincen to allow room for the *pudding to swell. To remove an obstreperous grease stain put two taicknesses of blotting paper on an it wing board. Place the grease .stained material on it, sa- turate with benzine, cover it with two or more thicknesses of blotting paper and iron with a moderately hot iron. But iorneniber that ben- zine is eiglily hiller:tunable, and thei efore must not be treed near a fil°enir lilightd. leiecanters and water bot- tles is often difficult to accomplish. First aad always try filling the bot- tle with potato peelings cut small, a and cold water. Cork up ancl stand for 21 hoitra before rinsing. The following plan has often been found sueoesiful when others have failed : Rinse out the decanters with cold water, make a spile of brown paper, set light to one end of it, plare it arf the eecanter, put tn he stopper i, N aud when all tiaceJ of smoke have f clisappea.rcr e 11(1(0 the decanter c lean. w Some housekeepers use flour -starch for curtains, prints, ete. IVIix. two large tablespooefuls Of flour ;to a smooth paste, and pour oil boiling Waterku extly as you would sta.rch. m It will be found to 'last Stiff much 1.1longer, aed is very psefel for the V bottoms of print &Arts. Stir it with o wiee e a1 a, ad e and it will not 5 tick , it to LI.e icon. lby Nvell 0.1 (1 s)rint;le, a arid ro:1 up 'tie, t. h • To cleait an invalid's room rover VI sweep it t1 11111 1.1 FQ Of the ti Avoid. Jrateito, cie: pet aed floor ti commertial law, coMmeretal geogra- e or have his daughter taking rammi a pity and otter subjects that are lite- lessonstor his son go to college.' l• y to Inert/est the ellieleney of wom- enIn bltairet's lunasemi. litany otter titles 'taw allowed the example of Berlin. Not a few of - the applicants are rejeeted because they bave not sufficient knowledge to take the CoUlTeS or ate under the tequited age. Many of them girls ate beired, if evee a tsary, to tat longtr course in the common schools to proper° them Mr the work of tho commercial sehool. chool in Cologne bas 200 pup- ile, reed a museum colititining Many artitles of Inanufaetere and materials of eonnueree has been provided through the generosity of the mer- chants and MaittlfartUrers Of the city. Sixteatix girl pupils are takiag the course in the 'Duesseldorf comniercial school. There are nearly 500 stu- derits in the school at Munich. Cas- sel and several other cities lave es- tablishecl similar schools, winch are under tbe Control either of the chamber of tommerce or the Munici- pality. Germany is thus endeavoring to educate and train girls :as well as boys who cae seeking to improve their busiress Opportunities. Thus many of the women of Germany rale° will be cible to joiu the trained army of ea -ports that has done so much to develop the conunerce and indus- tries of the German empire. . NASTY ONE FOR THE LAWYER, A man was brought up in a pro- visional court on a charge of steal- ing a sack of flour, and was very severely handled by the prosecuting lawyer, who had once made himself notorious by going het° bankruptcy, which was the only means by which he could escape his debts. "You admit that you stole the sack of flour?" questioned counsel sternly. "Yes; but I took it honestly and in broad daylight to save my chil- dren frora starvation,” pleaded the prisoner. "You call that honestly, do you?" sneered the lawyer. "I call it amaz- mg impudence. Stealing is stealing, from whichever point of view you care to look at it. "Just so, mister, but it don't al- lus bring the sane punishment," re- torted the man in the (lecke,' "For instance, I shouldn't have been here now if I'd -done as eou used to do— bought, or ordered, the floor and never paid for't!" ' And even the magistrate chuckled behind his pepere at the bellying lawyer Ei discomilture. PROM ANOTHER VIntin. In a railway carriage a youth 'had disturbed mat annoyed the other pas- sengers loud and foolish remarks during a great part of the journey. As they passed a certain lunatic asy- lum he remarked: al often think boa nice the asy- lum looks from the railway." "Some day," growled an old gen- tleman, "you will probably have oc- casion to remark how nice the rail- way looks from the asylum." Some live men‘remimi es of dead ones who forgot to get bun ed I-Ieed the' teachitogs of aEll-ersity, if you would evoicl a second lesson. eas Tette FATIntHlt GIRL SHOULO ENOW HOW. TO melte good blend. To cook all tends of meats, veg- twee otd fruits. To rriala tte antest buckwbeat cake tho woad. To cut aud mate lier own drestee. To core for mint ar4 nialie good butter. To sweep a room aPd never oegiezt, the COMM Or ti.e apart) beltind the doora To mato tte beds fit for a king to eleep in. Tie read and enjoy the papers of the teak, espetially -those publisited for fointerto To get toady for vozopeuy if motto er is away from Mute or linable for any reason to do it herself. To read end elzeolt in pablie if called upon. To bo well enough posted in overy day doings of the world talk or write about Until wbee noteesary. To lead good boots and to know ttent wi en ete Fens them, To millt a. cow if help le altort o work pros:Ong, To hanteta heave and drive it anYwile To write a, letter 'and sign her IMMO to it so that no nuttter who receives it le may rave no doubt who his correopondeet is. To keep ter own room in order. To te 1 a man when ane sees but 0114 waste no time with those who are not wortbo the route. To mato O. good home for souto lu good au, 10 31:MGR'S Tam DEGazz. Xb isse$ a Murderer Crazy Atte Confession. The gide justice ot engulry In. Ana - Wu, Mathias Lauesit, died on, the eve 01 0. scandal provoked by his third-deg:see praetices. His last exploit was to drive a murdeer c and thus, against tis calculations, coved lint front the gallows. It ap- rams thnt o. certain Janos. accueed, of having merdered a shepherd and his son, woeld not confess; so tte judge sent for biza one might, short- ly before 12, while seated In a, sub- terranean chamber, dimly lit by two -tallow dips, between which a. crucifix had been pieced. To mato the thing still more grotesque, tin primmer was mitered in at tbe stroke of ,mid- night, and as be waited to, tte junts tattle les honor held up the suspender with wbich tbe old they - herd had been Wangled. "Janos, be .soid. "I just had a tonna() dream. Two dead men, an old„und yomig- er one, appeared before rue in their shrouds, claiming that you killed them, and in proof .they left this SUS - pander with. me." "What have I got to do with oour worship's dreams?"" reolled tl'e pra soner, doggeelly. The law well fes that I be allowed to amp nite t; and beg your worship most hutiably not to disturb me again." "You shall hate your night's rest hereafter, as far as X am concerned." answered the judge; "but I want to sleep, too, and because I waat to sleep, I must ask you to wear this halter for the spectre threatened to come baek night after eiglit uuless Ou did." Janos begged and pleaded, but the judge ordered his hands bound aud the hk. alter placed around his nock Then he was returned to his cell, and the light usually kept burning in the hall was extinguished—this to in- crease the suspeeted man's fright. An hour later Janos called the guards. 'Tell the judge that I am ready to confess„" he said. • He was again conducted:to the subterranean clamber, where he threw himself up- on his knees, howling with fright. 'Take the halter away: it is stran- gling men' he cried. "I will not answered the judge, 'That ueektie suits you exceedingly, well, Janos." Janos, matt with. fright, then con- fessed that he killed Simanei and his son, and signed papers to that effect, having first obtaioed "the judge's :promise that the halter would be taken off his neck when the forms had been "complied with. His honor, however, did' not keep his word, for fear that Janos might re- tract, ,and the prisoner went insane. THE DUST OF IDLENESS. "How dusty these chairs are, Nor - ab!" said the mistress of a rogy eltic treaaare, lately acquired. Nor- li disturbed for a moment, but quickly recovered. She ran her linger along the scat of one of the chaire, and then re- garded it closely. "Now who'd Isar think 'twud make all that difference to have nobody sit in 'eur just the wan day, mum?" said 0)0.11, ip `amazement. "If 'twasn't or visitors Oi'd have to, be at am ic1 a cloth all the toime!" e LL LOCAY BELIEVED. The Dakota indiesis then: time tbe oon at its \veiling is eaten by lit- e mice., The Polynesians belie\ -e lot it is clevoined by tho sPirits fthr dead. The Iaallits say that wanes when, suffei ing from a head- che, it pets its hand to its fore- ead and 1 tees the latter froni our ew, The Easimo iniagi-e that .0.01001) haraesed by fatigtie, re - res for a moment to take 1 est aed should 1)o Oleated to a ''1 'y of cold food. THE StiliDAY SCITOOL iNTERINTATRYNAL LESSON, JAN. 3. Text ef tbe Leeson, Luke ii.. 40- 62 Poldozt Text, LagN Whether we atudy wbot is celled the Ola Testament or tifeR/4;ew Testa- ment Our alin should. be t,o4nour God, ler. aa Dr, Murray Soya: X"rao central thought of this book is 0011. It$ one object is to reveal Geri. Hie glory, His with 'lie Jove. Itt reade no it our thief desire ought to be to' o , new God. May our tile atol boort he as full of God as this book is!" As uo Man hath seen God at anY time except as the, ouly begotten SOn who is in the bout of tho Father hath (teetered Him, and as no man kneweth the Fetter SaVO the Sop, rid he to whomooever the Son will reveal Mot (Jam to, 38: Mott xi., -27). WO cea only know God in Chriet, end must me the Son of God in alt the revolatiOns of Gott front Gen, 1.. 1. onward. It is well to remember these things aa We begin again e, study of the life of Rim who WAS "CiOd manifest le the geoid' (L Tint. Ili., 16). Two weeksao in our Christmas Immo t we SaW.*the wise men :rent the cost norshipping Him with their Witte but in tile teeson tottlay yeero bove Pawed since then and 110 ig NOW at tba age of twelve keeping the Pass OVer 'With lila mother and Joseph irt Jerusalem. Verses 30 ouri nil each speak of a return, to Nozaretb, but .11. the, fortuer it is Nis first, globe; to 'rozareth after Tie Was born of Mary; in the Jetted' it is. Hie return at the age of twelve to be eubjeet to Ile limitations of the Ion:table innne and the carpenter's eltop for eighteen TM more. Verso 40 gives His lstIor to the Age of twelve, and oo from twelve to thirty. All o while TM was the "salvation of " "the 'King of the Jews." "the ord'a Chritit," "a, light, to lighten e gentliee end the glory of Urea' tke11, 2,1-82; it, 11., lm the Baptist wits Allied with witit the Ilely Spirit from his birth (Luke i., 15), and surery Jesus was Iso. The Holy Spirit, revealed to His humanity that which lre wetted to tome as Ile was able to beer it, and thus Ite increased in wisdom. The grave of God must have been exceedingly remittent toward HIM to enablo Mu), linowIng whom Ile was, to sojourn meekly tool subinissively in Nazareth those thirty years. As to His body of flesh, anti blood. No grew as do others of the elkildren, wherse nature, sin excepted, ITet took upon Ulm Melo in, 14; iv., More than in written of those thirty years Mary will doubtless be glad to tell us in due Otto if 'We need to know. We do certainly need to know now more of tbo submission to cir- cumstances and limitations width so fella manifest in Irina for as one has said, "Submission is tile highest mission on earth" (Jas. iv., 7; X. Pot. v., 5; Inple v., 21; Matt. xi.„ 29, 30). As to growth see IT,. Pot. 18: X. Pet. 11., 11; IL Stun. v... 10, margin; Ezek. xli,, 7. The Paseover was One of the three great annual intuits, and not only imitated Malayand to the' deliverance from Egypt, but elm forward to a greater deliveraare from all nations of the earth, when the Passover shall to1 it 113 11 (Ex. xxiii, 14-17; xii, 1-7 Jee. :,etili, 5-8; Luke xxii, 15, 16). The Sao halal part was fulfilled when Christ our Passover was sacrificed forois (I (Jor. v. 7), but ti e full ben- efit Is yet to be teen. We who are reeeemed, being /or/oily safe under the thelter c.f his blood shed for us, aro to be found with loins girded eating the bitter herbs, emblem of our fellowship with I-lim Ills suf- felings i, 20; jotn 07).' must also beware -Of Call carelessness: in our daily walk, lee. Onto nallowlag ourselves to waneer from Him we bring serroW to our hearts as We again seek Film till we find laine 1 we allow ourselves to go a day's journey without Dint it may take mere than a day's sorrow -Sul seeking ere WO again rejoice in The:e Etre some leemingly strange things in this story which May well lead az, to consider how much or how little they onew of this unique Son among all tbe sons of niee—the only One who lived el °where before no lived or, earth, the only ono who could be called truly "the seed of the tvornan," the only one who never thought nor said nor did a wrong thing. it scerns odd that they should start for horne without being sure that He WeS with them; that the company of.aensiolk or acquale- tance to that of His own mother; that they should not go right to thc temple to seek ITim as soon as they returned to the city. But let is turat from' them to Him rind to 1•Iis fii:st recorded -utterance, tae one soli - 1 al'y recorded ottereu:'e of thirty years, .which cove.s also ills, whole sojourn in a mortal body. "i M.1;St be about My Father's bus- thesi" (ven-o 10). This is the test My Father" of human lips spoken el God lett!: ou gh -there is an ap- proach to it in Tea, lxiin 16; lxiv,' 8; Mal. ii, 10. He ever set aside any thought of the paternity of Joseph. .Nnether eldfd woold hale thought of 4110 NVOndel'S of ti e great cit)-, vilit- irg foien(Is, or the journey and re- turn, bat ITe is wh011y occupied ivitb the things of ilis Fatter", to the gi eat astonishment of tlee e verseti in 1L1 e ,things of 'Goo Siete it.e find T -Tim at 1 lliS early age mere ntereseed ip the 1 e of God, end' Ile things of God then in ail a rid rem CT/1 lier- the early 1o Sentrel, 1)avid, Joash eed why eot eice'e t our yoore..,, pew, le, to receive 01 (1 1Plin nod n to let Ilirn live in ? e, same Spirit, who li\ed and wro,e,ht and,in these others is 'willing to live' and,wory lis L-1.-,-xa in 0ur chilillren.