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ROME AND THE
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The Two Most Important Figures in the
World
entert,r1 aceorcling to Aet of ebe
iiaruent of ()anoxia, in the year One
Thoesand Nine 'Mildred and roar,
by Wm, Daily, of Toronto, at the
bepartinent of Agriculture, Ottiwa
. A des,patch. from Los Angeles, Cal.,
sa:3'41:---Rev, Frank De 'Witt Talmage
pi -molted item the following text
lexcept the Lord build the hokl8e, in
vale do its builderstoil thereon. -
Psalm
".Ntan is More the creature of en-
vironment than of inheritance. The
doettine of innate evil is at vas-
- iance with the teachiegs of science
and of. higher theolo,gy. Tn ome
Subtle imouier cliznate teed food • af-
feet and even sentrol the spiritual as
well as the phyeical life of a people.
a. :dallier way the character of a
man is, conditioned by the home in-
to which he as a child WaS first
uehered, and where was unfolded to
him all I,,leat be for many years knew
of tile, of laimanIty, of the world.
„. The child Hew like a. new ; star
born from the .confliet of nature's
elements and burseing as a new light
through the bleck: curtain of the
night . upon a, world it had never
linewn I The deld ! How like a.
dower, kissed by the light and dew of
Lea‘ en, it opals; its eyes in wonder
at the strangc beauty of its home
'What. may this home not be ? A
frcnen snowhouse in the Klondike or
an orange grove in the tropics, a
tent upon the arid deeert, a lodge
in some wrest, a hut on the Mona-
tain top, a. mansion by the sea, or
a dingy room in a congested tene-
ment. It may be a habitation
amoag temple, honest peasant folk.
among rough, sturdy mountaineers;
among the pioneers of the West, • of
the blase denizensof a metropolis;
among, the ignorant or the wise, •
• SINNERS OR. SAINTS.
Whatever home may be and wher-
er situated there is always the
same sweet, pure bundle of uncon-
stlousnes that would make man be-
-come a prince in .a royal house, a
pauper among mendicants or a crim-
inal among outeasta. The child re-
evinbles oft the seed which the wind
now casts upon the barren rocks,
-where it decaysand dies; .now upon
*fertile soil, Where it takes root and
flowersinto beauty. • Let Us bow in
, reverence before the child; • the • em-
bodiment of all possibilities. •
The child and the home are the
two most important figures of the
world -the very. Corner stones of he -
inanity. The ehild-the picture - Of
sweet lielplesseess• and wonderful po-
tentiality. The, home -its creator,
its protector, its providence, its 'all ,
hut Cod. These two, the child and ;
the home, are the makers of poster- '
ity and will condition the: Weal or
woo of unbope generatiens.
Why,. then, are we SO busy with
crops and Stock, with commerce and
industry, polities, arinies and navies,
effete monarchies. and new republics,
while millions or babes are being mis-
shapen, myriads of children are grow-
ing into bad ways, because thou-
sands of hothes are schools of ignor-
ance and nurseries of weakness .and
wickedness? Let. us withdraw for
awhile from the Maze of political
scramble, business struggles and soci-
al strifes and look into.. our homes
and attune them to the sweet her -
!monies of heavenly Virtues.
I The home is the preliminary battle -
;ground where evil is to be fought in
'its ineepiency and conquered. There
!Satan must first be met and over-
come, and the young soul taught how
to retain
ITS NATIVE INNOCENCE.
From, the sacred precincts of the do-
mestic hearth every inpurity or taint
must he'exoelled. Let no word he
breathed there seize that which the
angels may unblushingly hear. Truth,
simplicity, love and modesty are" the
weapOnseof the fireside with which to
fight the demons of unrighteousness.
The home in which the young are
taught gambling by precept or by
example is not a true home, but an
agency of the gainbler's den, prepar-
ing the recruits who shall later be-
come its patrons: The real home is
an exeinplarof pimple and holy liv-
ing. It must beCome also. an Intel-
lectual centre, where thought quick-
ens, ma.kes life real aed happiness
secure.
To create such a home of love, hol-
iness and intellectual 'life, to make
of it a battery where our children
can be charged with that, spiritual
force that can fortify them against
ail the temptations and allurements
of the world, something more is
needed than is found in the average
home. Wealth, culture, music, liter-
ature, education are not enougli.
"Except the Lord build the house,
in vain do its builders toil thereon."
In too,: many instances has that ;
spiritual life that made our tutees- '
tors proof against the encroachments
of worldliness been lost. The old
familiar device. "God Ble.ss Our
Home," is disappearing- from its
wonted place. That is the secret of
imhappy and inefficient homes.
May God come to His own again!
Parenthood is but a feeble eubstitute
to the child for deity. The heavenly
father and mother meet stand by the
earthly parents to aid in the :veered
work of preparing the child for true
manhood or womanhood and develop-
ing it for life and eternity.
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HINTS FOR HOME LIFE.
Tannin stains on teacups can be re-
moved by rubbing with a damp flan-
nel dipped in whiting or prepared
chalk.
To keep ice in a sick, room over
night set a pitcher in a newspaper,
gather up the ends, twist them tight,
and snap on a rubber band.
To prevent cakes from burning
place a little bran at the bottom
of the tins. This will save a lot of
grumbling and vexation. Try it.
When using dried apples, soak the
dried, fruit over night, in cold water.
Cook slowly till tender. Then sweet-
en and flavor with a little leinon or
clove syrup,. 6
Fragile glass and china, to prevent
chipping, should always be washed in
a wooden bowl. Failing this, anoth-
er plan is to line your bowl by
spreading a cloth in it. '
To take pain away from a cut fin-
ger, before binding up dip the finger
in turpentine. This 'takes away all
soreness, and causes the cut to close
and heal rapidly. -
When frying meat, if a little salt
is sprinkled on the bottom of the
pan heroic putting in the meat, the
fat will he prevented from splashing
on the grate or stove.
Never use tea leaves for laying the
dust when sweeping a.light-colored
carpet, unless they have •been pre-
viously rinsed in water; otherwise
the carpet May be badly stained.
Meshed potato left over from a
meal should be at once packed into
cup Or small bowl. When needed
for Use Giltit into slices, dip into .egg
and bread crumbs, and fry in deep
• fat •
• To, keep cauliflowers a nice color
tie, them up Separately in o. piece of
rriuelin and put them in plenty of
boning water, to which has been
addeei a table opeoeful of Californian
bora.X. •
Plum puddings are versr nice baked.
The pudding, should be put into a
deep buttered baein and covered with
plate-ne elOth required --and
al-
luwod to bake in a slow oyenfor
font or five hours.
After the juice ha 8 been : squeereed
from; ri lemon, the pool and pulp'
ehoeld be SaVed 'for cleaning brasses,
•Dip tho lemOrt first in milk and then
beieh duet,and rub it Well on to
:the tarnished bras.
AlWaye keep cheese Well covered in
elieettedlab, or it .will beconte dry
and taeleteSe. '1f the cheeee is wrap.'
pod in. a cloth nteietened With vine-
gar it Will keOP beautifully motet ;and
,Petain iteilaver.longer
.,.ACCorditig .to the 'best. taltheritieS,
.the following are Ilia best articles Of
feed tte cantalaing the leaSt ,e1 earths;
ly salts:- Fruit, fish, poultry and
young mutton of beef, because of
their being less nitrogenous.
Remember to sweep the carpets the
way of the nap; to brush the other
way is to brush the dust in. Attend
to all stains as soon as possible. If
left they will soak" into the carpet
and he very difficult to renacrve.
BOLLAIt'S Ma.I.
canna).
The household where strict econo-
my is practised, is wriere the mo-
ther cook, or presiding geUIUS, Should
make a scieetific study of how to buy
cook and serve meats in a Variety of
ways so as to get much out of a
little, One very soon tiros of a
roast, or boil, a fry, if served in
succession clay after dctee It's the
dainty fixed left -overs that tempt
the saPPetite and keep down daily
expenees.
Mesh carefully a nice piece of beef
that has been in corn a few hays on-
ly, then put it on to boil, covered
with cold water. Have a kettle with
fresh boiling water ready and when
the beef has boiled one hour stead-
ily, drain off the water and add the
fresh. When done let stand cooling
in the watiir one hour, then serve
with boiled potatoes, mashed tornips,
Pickled beets and boiled cabbage if
desired.
The next dinner have the meat cold,
sliced thinly and preceded by a to-
mato soup; for vegetables, mashed
potbtooe, boiled lima beans, with but-
ter dressing and stuffed eggs. Next
conies a, "coarse hash." Take a por-
tion of the meat and cut it with
knife and fork' into small pieces. Add
cold boiled potatoes, beets and tur-
nips in equal portions, making one-
fourth meat and three-fourths vege-
tables. Mix all together, adding pen -
per. salt and a dash of sugar. Have
the frying pan hot with a gerenous
lump of butter in it, then let the
hash heat slowly. If a little More
moisture is needed add a cmarter of
a cup of boiling water, then stir on
a hotter place until done.
Chop line the remainder of the
meat, add double quantity of cold
boiled,potatoes finely chopped and a
fine tart apple also chopped; an on-
ion may be added or not, according
to taste. Season and cook as with
the other hash. If desired beat into
it two eggs, a handful of cracker dust
and bake a half hour in shallow but-
tered dish or pan.
We think our readers will agree
with us, that this is all one could
expect to do with a dollar's worth
of corned beef, no matter how econo-
mically inclined.
7 THE POINT. OF VIEW.
After all, it isn't the thing itself
that influences; it's the way welook
at it. We can ail of us live eter-
nally under gray skies if ,we so
elect. And the other fellow will
have sunshine and blue sky, and
roses .and fragrance, and music of
birds. His face reflects his happy
nature -and happiness is a germ;
it's contagion. The happy fellow
is_ radiating good cheer and smiles
and laughter wherever he goes.
1 -Te snaps his fingers at tlie dog he
meets; he says "Hello!" to the child,
carries a bundle for sortie old auntie
and steadies an aged man's steps
across a strip of ice. Everybody is
the better for meeting him.
There is no place under the sun
where good nature is more etTectiv.e
than in the home, and yet people go
right on committing murder every
day. Isn't it murder to spoil an-
other's life by. -disregarding every-
thing that is beautiful and soulful,
blighting all the birds and tearing the
petals of the flowers of fancy and
ambition?
Many a bright career has been
checked because no one sympathize.
ed with it. Many a poor, tired body
lies under the snow on the hillside
be
tmany pictures, ornaments, it
For avoiding dust in a room where IF,
here are
etc.; instead of sweeping, wipe ho th
caroet over daily with a flannel dip-
ped in tepid water with salt in it and
wrung fairly dry.
An excellent method for cleaning
glass bottles and narrow necks, and an
also decanters, is vinegar and salt. la.
Shake the mixture in the bottle and Iro
rinse with cold water, and the glass
should then be as clear as crystal.
To clean soiled papier-mache, trays
wash with a flannel and warm soap
suds -never in hot water -dry well,
and sprinkled Ivell with flour. In a
little while shake off the flour and
polish the surface With a silk hand-
kerchief.
Cabbage and sauce is a good vege-
table course. Boil a nice head of
cabbage in the usual way. Squeeze it
very dry and chop finely. Make half
a pint of melted butter sauce, put
the cabbage into it to heat, and
serve on . buttered toast.
For a headache an excellent rem-
edy is to ,add a teaspoonful of good
toilet vinegar to a pint of very hot
water. Wring a cloth out of this,
fold so that it will be on the forca
head, and apply as hot as can be
borne. changing often.
A. marble in a kettle prevents fur-
ring. A large clean marble boiled in
milk porridge, custard, sauces or
stews will automatically do the stir-
ring as the liquid cooks. Any chance
of burning will be prevented, and
thus the fatigue of constantly stir-
ring and the cook's time can be sav-
ed.
cause of the word never spoken.
very word, every deed, has its echo.
reaches farther - than we think, like
e ripples in the pool, growing wid-
er and wider until they lap the shore.
Put your hand -glass in the window
some bright day and let it catch the
sunshine. Tilt at et some certain
eel and note the effect. You have
beautiful rainbow spanning the
()in.
A man can be a curse or a blessing
in his home. He can be an inspira-
tion or a wet blanket. Life is short
at its longest. We might hetter
plant flowers than ;thistles', and let's
not be chary in passing on praise. A
little ef it .in lire is 'worth heaps Of,
flowers- and long eulogies after death.
Then it is pleasanter to remember, af-
ter one is gone, the kind word we
spoke, the cheer we gave, the sym-
pathy we showed. View life from the
right point, and pass on the praise.
Pleanty of soap and cold water,
and no soda, are the secrets of suc-
cess in washing board doers, and the
wood must be scrubbed the w,fty, of
the grain, and not round and round,
if you want to get the dirt off.
Change the water oftee. 'Yon can't
expect boards to be a good color if
they are rinsed in dirty water.
Hundreds of people have ruined
their teeth by using salt instead of
powder to cleat them with, and
hundreds are continuing to do the
same thing in exactly the same marte
nee. "Undbubtedly salt will 'clean
the teeth not wisely, but too well, It
soon cleane the enamel off them, and
inoet people know What that means.
There are ninny objections to the
tie° of poisonous articles to keep /nide
out of a house, and a hint may be
usefUl for those who are troubled
With these little pests, Mice have
L great antipathy to the smell of
peppermint, alid 0 little ell of pep.
permiet plaeed tinned their haillite
and boleti Will Suecesefully keep thene
away.
LICK TOMMY.
Teacher--I3obby, if yottr ftither gave
pen three Cents arid gave your bro-
ther ',Pommy five cents, what would
. •
lt make?
Bobby -Trouble,
Jones : "t thought your friend
Smith was a believer in the faith
'cure," Beown : "So he is. His
wife was ill last week, end he
ed to call a physicia,r." iloftes
"But X SaW .Dr, Pillsbury coining out
of his house thin -morning." Drown
"Well,. that's glifreeent. Sraitli is ill
hire:501f hOW.
SOME BRITISH FORTUNES
•
ONE rgnuatED or MGRE
£1,000,000.
Largest Estate of Last Year That
of Samuel Lewis, the
Money Lender.
What is a fortune? 410,000, 220,-
000, or 2100,000? It has been esti-
mated that the ea,pitai of the nation,
if equally distributed, would give
to every person in the United Klieg -
dem, including women and' children,
nearly 2800, says the London Daily
Itt ail.
The average income of• earnings of
the whole population -again including
women and children -has been esti-
mated at 233 per head per annum,
and the average annual saving or ad-
dition to capital therefrom at 82
per head, This last estimate is, per-
haps, too high. A vast number save
nothing. Those who attain to the
possession of 2300 of capital are in
small minority. Not ten in a
hundred of those who die leave
enough to make administration
through the Probate Registry needful.
During the year 1902-03 the Probate
Department dealt with 62,310 es-
tates, with a net capital value of
2270,473,307, made up as follows:
Not exceeding
2500 ..
Between 2500 a
21,000 .
Between 21,000
210 000
Number of Capital
Estates. Value.
. 32,295 £9,719,638
nd
. 9,767 8,269,351
and
16,419 61,769,224
Between 210,000
and 225,000
Between 225,000
and 2100,000
Over 2100,000
58,4812,79,758.213
2,212241,230,963
.. 1,337 68,857,361
.. 280 80,626,770
Totals ..........2.31011270,473,80
There are probably about 300 pe
sons in the United Kingdom wh
have at their own absolute dispose.
over 21,000,000 each, and 400 oth
ers who have between 2,500,000 an
21,000,000 each. There may be 1,
000 more whose wealth is at presen
under 2500,000, but more tha
2250,000 each; and of those who ar
now absolute owners of estates
which, in the cciurse of time, will be
valued for probate between 2100,-
000 and £250,000 each, the number
queen' El Gate, was verged' at
868, but her property in rittsburg
ia estimated, --in the Usiited Statee-
at about 22,000,000. Very few Eng-
lish women possess in their own yight
AS MUCH AS ONE MILLION.
Fortunes Made in the learned pro;
fessions seldozu exceed a quarter 0! a.
millioa. The estate of Lord Justice
Sir John Rigby (69) was valued at
£205,588, gild that of Mr, Laundy
Welters (76), a solicitoe, a,t 2821,-
108. Dr. Henry Oldham (87), a la-
dies' physician, left 2203,018, and
half a dozen clergymen oath dispesed
by will of more than 4100,000, but
tliey had presumably inherited wealth
and perhaps increased it. Ainong
landowners, the estate of Lieut. C. P.
letcher (43), of Lethara Grange, N.
11., appears in the calendars as
2018,682, and that of the -Marquis of
Salisbury at 2310,336; but the value
of settled real estate is not disclosed
in the public records of the Probate
Registry, and this 111 some cases is
of much greater value than the estate
which is entered.
The high average of age -over sees-
enty- attained by persons whose
large fortunes are charged with the
death duties is noteworthy, People
do not nuich alter their habit of life
after they have obtained middle age
and it may ahnost be said that some
grow very rich becarrse they cannot
help it. The great bulk of the
wealth which passes probate each
year has been made in business by
people whose names outside of their
business were . little known. The
names of most of the people best
known in the world must be delight
for among the estates under 114.0,000
each, and, of those of many highly dis-
tinguished public servants among
the estates under £1.000 each. The
number of persons of this class hav-
ing official incomes of from 2750 to
1.500 a year, who at death leave
less than the amount. of a year's in-'
eems ately to have increased.
7 It is an honora.ble distinction that
re no one in this country grows rich in
the service of the State, and it seems
1 as if the exigencies of modern life
- rendered even small savings more dif-
d ficult than formerly.
•
n PRIVATE HOOK'S FIGHT.
How He Earned Medals Aneid.st
Bullets and Flame.
I was coming out of the British
Museum reading room when I niet
is
PERITAPS ABOUT 5,000.
If all the people who have a glare o
2100,000 or more each in the. capita
of the nation were assembled in th
Albert Hail, there would still h
room to spare for onlookers and at
tendants. It has been said by some
who have amassed great wealth that
any man who at twenty years o
age can earn 21 a week and save out
of it may be worth 2100,000 or more
when he is seventy years old. Yes,
pernaps, but any man As not every
man. A tenth part of that sum is
now, as at any time during the last
hundred years, , a considerable for-
tune, and 220,000 a handsome for-
tune. Any one who possesses, by
earning or inheritance, so much as
2100,000 is among the limited num-
ber of owners of great fortunes.
How have fortunes been made? The
largest estate reported in 1903 is
that of Mr. Samuel Lewin (63), the
money lender, first valued for probate
at 21,000,000 and remora at £2,-
572,658. It is said that he began to
make money by pedling jewelry to of-
ficers in barracks, but stories about
the origin of fortunes are not always
accurate. The next largest estate of
the year is that of Col. Harry M'
Cahnont, M. P. (41) valued .at 22,-
000,000, and perhaps also to be re -
sworn. He inherited wealth from his
great-uncle, Hugh M'Calmont, a mer-
chant, who died in 1S87 leaving over
23,000,000. Other estates over a
million each were those of Mrs. Al-
exandra Ralli (61), widow of a
Greek merchant banker, and Sir J.
Sebag.Monteffore (80), both of whom
also inherited part of their fortunes,
as did Mr. E. L. Raphael (73), some-
time a foreign banker, and as did
not Mr..Samuel Paliner (82) of Hurt -
ley & Palmer's, biscuit makers, who
left 29713,714, and whose brother
Gleorge, who died in 1897, aged 79.
left 2961,577. Mr. John Port of
Manchester, maker of iron safes arid
iron bedsteads, formerly a working
blacksmith, died worth £532,562, and
probably began to save out of
A POUND A WEEK;
hien first -a short, broad -shouldered,
1, kindly -looking man in a uniform!
sonrething between that of a recruit-
ing sergeant and an undertaker's [
e mute says a writer in the Loncloni
• Mail. He was handing me back my j
umbrella in return for a check, wiled I
one of the two medals shininp; on
the breast of his dark uniform I
S'
"hello!" I exclahned, and my ex-
citement - and interest must have
been very boyishly in evidence for
the old man smiled at me as • I ;
spoke. • "Isn't that the Cross you're
wearing ?"
"Yes, sir."
"And the Zulu 'medal beside it -
why, you must be Seargeant Hook?"
He smiled again -a pleasant, tired
smile. "I'm all that's left of him, I
What a cliiTerence ! This naan
who handed my umbrella and ;-
called me "sir." was the same who,
with blazing rafters overhead andi'
all hell loose in front, stood fighting x
single-handed in defense of the
wounded and dying on the long ago
clay in the little hospital of Rorke's
drift. The story of the fight Is well,
known. I wi.1 give Mr. Hook's ac-
count of it, as `near as may be, in
his own words :
"I was placed in one of the corner
rooms of the hospital, the Zulus
kept drawing closer and closer, and
I went on thing, killing several of
them. At last they got close up,
setting fire to the hospital. There
was only one patient in my room.
He had .a broken leg and was binn-
ed, poor fellow; for while I was
shooting the flames becambeso. &Tee.
that I could not save him. At- first
I had a comrade, but he left after
a •time and was Isilled on his way
to the inner intrenehmentse '
"When driven out of this, room. I
retired by a partition door into the
next room, where there were several
patients, For a few minutes I was
the only fighting man there. A man t
of the Twenty-fourth cnme. to me11
from another room with a bullet c
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but all the other estates over half a
million each, and most of these over
a quarter of a million each, belonged
to people who had not themsple-es to
make the first -2100, which is cont -
wordy supPosed to be harder to get
than all the rest of a large fortune.
Fortunes are made in nattily wayis.
Steel and iron gave L•922,512 to Mr.
C. W. Mitchell (48), of the Elswicic
Ordnance Works, and £536,437 to
Mr. R. F. Crawshay (44), of Cyfar-
thin,. Ex -Provost Sir John Muir
(74), of James Finlay & Co., mer-
chants, "in Glasgovs, left 2896,133;
Mr, Janes Mason (78), of the Ma-
son & Barry Copper ConepanY, 11819,-
815; Alderman S. R. Platt (57), of
OldhaM, maeltinist, L616,697; Mr,
P. B. Denger (63), allemist, 314-20,-
807; Mr.. W. T. Owbridge (59), inven-
tor of Owbridge's Lung Tonic, L112,-
214; Mr. J. C, Mellin (72), 2114,
218; Mr. W. Holcroft (76), iirebricX
maker, £277,215; Mr, W. 'TIouesell
(83), maker of fishing nets, 2186,-
548; Mr, *Robert Heath (76), of
Kniglitebridge, hatter, L191,955; Mr.
1-1.-Lirigard ((31), of Bradford, dealer
bit tents, sionietime pedlee, £174,-
s
Alisioet every trade has its repree-
etitatiVee among the fortunes of over
41100,000 each, The largest fortune
of the year made la retail trade is
that of Sir 13. Illaple (58), whose
estate, temporarily valued at Z200,-
ooa, May prove to be Worth four
tinieS that amount, Mr. Alfred Webh
Miles (80), tailor, left 2808,850, and
Mr. Charles Zemmol (82), tailor,
£87,04,
The liinglish eatate tif ant .A.rnerlcan
wt.. Uri, Mar* Sclienley
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
INVERISTATIONA.I0 LESSON,
FEB. 28.
Text of the Lesson, IYIatt. 21;29,
Golden Text, Tas.
The gospel of Nfatthow is specially
the gospel of the kingdom, that
kingdom of which the 01c1 Testament
has so much to tell us, when a Xing
hall reign in eighteousnese and the
Work of righteousness shall be peace
and the effect of righteousness, quiet -
ewes and• assurance forever. The
name of the Ring shall be Jehovah-
Isidkena, the Lord our Righteous -
nese; Ile shall reign and prosper and
shall execute judgment and justice in
the earth. His throne snail be the
throne of David at Jerusalem, and
Ho shall he King over all the earth
(Isa. xxxii., 1, 17; ix., 6, 7); jer.
iii., 17; xxiii., 5, 6; Zech. xiv., 9.
If any one would be truly thrilled
and lifted above present things and
circumstances, let him become ac-
quainted with the King and the king-
dom, with whom and to which every
redeemed person is a joint heir, the
kingdom Which shall include all the
kingdonis of this world, with a Ring
before . whom all kings shall fall
down and whom all nations shelf
serve (Rev. xi., 1.5; Ps. lxxii., 11).
Nothing .more thrilling or inspiring
was ever "written and the God ol
Truth Himself wrote this (II. Tim.
iii., .16, 17). In Matt. v., vii. the
King lifts given us the laws of the
'kingdom, that kingdom which is not
meat and drink, but righteousness
and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost
(liorn. xiv., 17). '1'he opening words
assert that poverty of spirit is a
characteristic of those who belong to
it. Compare Isa. lvii., 15; bxvi. 2. -
He also said that the righteousness
necessary to enter it must exceed
that of the scribes and Pharisees (v.,
20) and must be such as meets the
requirements of the true spirit of .the
law not that of
deeds -which are righteous before
God, who seeth in secret. "Not ev-
ery one that saith, * * but he that
doeth the will of My Father which
is in heaven," are the opening words
of our lesson and the beginning of
the close of His address.
mere words, but
That We may more fully appreciate
the words we must remeanber wlia
the speaker is. Note His oft repeat-
ed "I say unto you," corresponding
with the "Thus saith the Lord" of
the Old Testament, for He is the
Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, the
Creator, the only Redeemer, the
Judge of all mankind. He is the one
of whom the Father said at His bap-
tism, "This is My Beloved Son in
whom I ant well pleased," and at
the transfiguration He added, "Hear
ye him (Matt. iii., 17; xvii, 5). He .
Himself said, "The Father judgeth
no man, but hath committed all
Judgment untO the Son" (John v.,
22). I seek to emphasize this be-
cause there are so many teachers,
and preachers who, professing to be
His friends, not only dishonor the
vord which Ile so honored, but dis-
honor Him, not believing Ms words,
nd thus dishonor the Father, too,
or all His words were just what
he Father told Him to say (John
48, 49).
But however much people may pro-
fess to be His friends and to do
works in His'name, here is His own
testimony that He will have to say
to them, "I never knew you; depart
from Ma ye that -work iniquity"
(verse 23). Ile has told us elsewhere
hat Be will have to say to some,
"Depart from Me; ye cursed, into
everlasting fire„ prepared for the
devil and his angels (Matt. xxv. 41.)
After the solemn warning that He
win have to say' to some, "Depart!"
He speaks again in grace that all
who will may flee from the wrath
to come. All who bear 'the gospel
either obey or disobey; they either
take ' refuge in Christ, who is the
Truthror, turning from Him, they J!
accept some, of the many. prevailing
delusions, 'of the devil and Make lies
their refuge. '
The latter passage gives; the furth-
er truth that even those who are on
he sure foundation and are there -
ore eternally safe have need to be
areful of that which they are build.
lg day by day Jut they may see
mit- works burned. up and they
mmselves saved as by fire. The
'<irks must he "God working in us"
le works which :Fre bath before pre-
ared for us (Eph. ii, 10; Phil. ii,
8; Col. 1, 29), elee all may prove
ood, .11 ay and stubble
Returning to the first part of tan
leeson and the matter of. "doing the
will of God," we must remembei
that our Lora was talking to dis-
ciples (chapter v, 1, 2), fel, rfe never
talkS to the unsaved of "doing.
When tin:: unsaved asked Him one
Fri
datyglit '11Vvloiartk sittatilel N‘vvoed,18o, of
iliaato wre,
Ilie 'reply' was to the effect that the
only work for there was to believe
on Him whom God had sent (John
vi, 28, 29). Ori salvation by faitb
apart from any worlis of ours .Ftel
Rona ill, 21; iv; 5; Hale 11, 8, 9:
Tit. iii, 5; then on the workwhich'
.tiat.
aed will follow oce.F401. ii, '10;
it. iii, 8; Jae. 11, 14-26.
wound in his arna I tied it up.
Then John Williams came and made
a hole in the partition, 'through
which he helped the sick and wound-
ed men. While he was doing this
the Zulus beat in the door and tried
to enter. I stood at the sale and
shot and bayoneted several -I could
not tell how manY, but there were
five or six lying at my feet. They
threw assegais continually, but only
one touched me, and that indicted a
d
scalp wounwhich I did 'not think
worth reporting. In fact, did not
feel the wound at. the time. One
Zulu "sezed rifle and tried to
drag it away. While we were tussl-
ing I elipped acartridge in and pull-
ed. the trigger -the muzzle was
against his breast -and lie fell dead.
tie
Every now d thati a Zulu
would make a rush to enter --the
door would only let one man in at
a tithe -but I bayorteted or ehot
every one. When all the petienis
Were out except 611e -who, owing to
beoken leg, could not move -X
went, too. dragging him after me, in
so doing whic.h. / again broke his
leg, I then st0pp6d at the hole to
gnard it While VilliamS was making
a hole through the prertitioe into the
next room. 1 stuck to my particular
charge and dragged him out , and,
into the Hiner line Of defame. .1 then
took my post behind the parapet."
PROHIBITION STATE, TOO,
A Kansas paper tells Of a colliSiOn
"between a fright train and a heav-
ily. loaded passenger," When a pas-
oehor gets heavily loaded he ehould
not walk en the railroad track.
Etliel--"LO yeti really think the
lietitenant will propose to ilethl,"
dith---"Oh, yes; he has several' *med-
als for bravery, you knowt'!
Mtty. we over listen to the word
of the Spirit iti this infallible book,
whether they come to ns thrOugh
proplictes apostles or Chalet Ulm -
self, as worSls of authority, even tht
authority of G61, Thete are beton
US a glorious morning and art a,wini
night, bu't there is no morning foi
those who 'despise the word of God
xi, 11, 12, viii, 20, revised
version). NO ono is , child of God
and 0 joint heir with Christ who hat
not received Chriet ns his own 8av.
iour, putting all hie truet as a. Sin•
her in the pree50118 h10.o8 Of the
atorietnent (Jo1,11 1, 12; 1, John v,
12; Lev, xtW, 1,1; Ireb, iX, 22); but
having thus beconie a part, of Ilitt
end 1,:ing8om Ills works in 10
Must be so ntanitest that t:tionma
glorifir Tih0 In us (ehttPtSt v 10).