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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-3-10, Page 6ESTERS RUM Rev, Frank De Witt Talmage Urges Their Acceptance By Faith ilthitered eceoreing to Act et the 'Par- liament of (Meade., in the year oee %%oilseed igine eimaireli and lecetr, bY wre. Baile. of 'roseate, ea the Departnient of Agriculture, Ottawa ; desPatch from Los Angeles, Qat., says :—Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage iereaohed from the following text "rnothY 111, 16,'• "great is the neentery of godliness.' • Flew often Iwo the pure white gar- ments a wisiclom been beepatte cid and befouled by blatant, bombastic ignorance L Bow often bas the phil esopiter and the truth seeker beei taunted with his faller() to solve the problems of tee univeese Ile does not know everything; no man more conscious of the fact than be. But should he on ti at account desert the fountain of wisdom and refrain al- • together from drinking at tte Pier- •ian sieving ? Should the scientific student be so discouraged at his lim- itations as to destroy the telestope because it does not reach the limits of space? Should he throw away his microscope because it does not znagnify enough? is he to burn out with senseless paeeion eyes that are not omniscient and wreck his ear- drums because they fail to detect re- inote harmonies? Isaac Newton, himself the greatest philosopher of his time, was one of t e humblest of men. At the end of his life lie said . I know not how I may ap- pear to others. As for myself, I seem,to be like a schoolboy playing at t•he foot of the sand. dunes ath- ereng here a white shea and a entoother stone than ordinary., while the great sea of knowledge lies all unexplored before me." Be a.use man does not know everything that 18 2o reaeon why he should deseise the "temple ef wisdom." :Because here and there a veil or a mist can- not be penetrated, :that is no reason why he should become a ground mole and not try to follow in the self revealed footprints of truth. MYST1.R1ES OF TFIR GOSPEL. There are two purposes for this sermon. The first is to talk about some of the great mystelies of the gospel. I would show you that about every church altar there are :great Appalachian ranges, great towering mountain peaks of myster- ies. So high they are that the mind of man cannot attain to them, yet each ars Ihe mark of divine certitude, the mark of the cross is stamped upon them as the Mount of the Holy Cross in Colorado bears the sign of the cross. To this sign we bow •and believe, even though we cannot understand. 'Peter could not understand; John of the Apocalypse could not tuaderstand, and Pe.ul, be- holdiug them, extlaimed, "Great is the mystery of godliness !" What those mighty iutellests could not grasp must be a .thystery to us until it is fully explailied beyond the grave. The Eocene' purpose of the sermon is ti e practical side. It is to re- mise' you that, though we now "now only in part," that part is sufficient for ell the great purposes of salvation and iedemption. It is to prove, as E. H. Chapla puts it, that "although we see through a glass 'darkly, we do see something" and that "something" is sufficient if we welcome it as a gospel handmaid to lead us into perfeet peace and to 1 lead us to that throne of God, where i each can say, "I shall Lnow even as I also I am, known." The mystery of the Trinity: How can there be three persona and one Godhead? "Three in One and One in Three ?" That is an inexplaiee , able mystery. "You must be -very! careful," wrote a dear ministerial . blend to me when I was preaching a. series of sermons upon the Holy': Spirit. "You must be very careful not to convey the -false idea, to your people that there are three distinct and soparate ti ." It is a mystery to be reverently ac- cepted beyond the pewee of the hu- man mind to understand, and that it should be se is. not strange, for God himself has declared., "As the heav- ens are higher than the earth, so are ' iny ways higher than your ways and . my thoughts than your thoughts." We cannot explain the personality of , God any mere than you can tell why the grass grows or the sun shines. But we do feel and know that, like the grass and the light, the leinety of the God -head is a great divine fact. And, furthermore, we do fee),, cad know that as God. the Fatliel: Hem so Christ was born into this world not only to save us from eine, but also to prove that God the , °teeter is a God of love, lgyetery, mystery, mystery 1 A high, "deep, impenetrable and overpowering mys- tery. 1 Yet the mystery .of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is a fact revealed to us,• to be accepted by faith and brining, to all who so receive it: a Message of joy . and • Peace, MYSTERY OF T.FUEI TRINITY. Thus the mystery of tba Trinity mystery, deep and. high ad over- powering, it is a zny,etery so simple that a, little child can rove once the xruejest3r of the Fatter., Can reali the love of the Soil and eau yield to the influence of the Holy Sr.ivit. Great and yet beautiful and simple is the the rayster3r of gocllinces iiiJus Christ. The conflicting, doctrines of God's omnipotence. and man's tree. agency cue an inexplainazn ble yetery. Yes, we know teat God is infinitely' great- - er than, man. We know that the 1 Creator, who holds tile seas in t•••0 Palm of his • hand and at Winne/ touch the volcanoes. smoke and the ea. th trembles and whose voice is the voice of the storm, has supreme control over the creatures lte -has raade-. He can say to man, "Go, and he goeth; come, and he cometb; do this, and he doeth it.". But, though God the Omnipotent is truly all p.owei ful, gOow Lean resist his I know. as a •free agent, I can raise my hand or lower it. I know that I can clinch. my fist with hate 01' have the open palm of lave. I now I can walk across this puleit to the right or to the left. I know I can choose betweee right and \rone4. 'Free, free I Free, am 1, g - c e A. 1i:watery—a. great unfathomable mystery ! Witl God the Omnipotent I am still man, the free agent. A DIFFICULT TASK. The harmonizing , of the two doc- trines—Cod's omnipotence and man's free agency—is a task that many , have attempted in vain. But it is a . glorious inestery that should make of believers of the different .Iiotest- ant churches brothers and sisters at !the foot of the cross. 'Therefore, my Chrietian brother. if you are living in a small country town do not make the mistake of trying to run in that village five or six different churches when there are only enough inhabitants to support one. Do not try to run a Congregational church and a Methodist church and a Luth- eran church and a Baptist church and an Episcopalian church and a United Presbyterian church. Do not keep on continually talking about "my church." All Christian church- es ougbt to belong to yen and you to them. The direrence of Protest- ant creeds is merely that of 'extra emphasis upon some one of • God's great attributes. Remember here- after that you ought to • be able to worship Cod just as devoutly and earnestly before' a Methodist altar as at an Episcopalian chancel or as in ,a Presbyterian. pew. God has many gospel sheepfoids. These sheep are 'all fed by the state Divine Shepherd, although at times they are Separat- ed froin each other by the sectarian :fences built by man's creed and by !infinite ignorance. "Other sheep Shave. I which are not of this fold" applies as much to the Protestant church across the street as to your own chapel. NEED Or CHRIST'S LOVE. We cannot explain why sin was eY- er allowed to come into the world. but after we accept its advent as a fact, then the cross, on account . of our eternal danger, can become our all in all. With the sainted Gott - hold we ma.y say before the flaming fires of eternal death: "For my own part my soul is like a hungry and thirsty child, • and I need Christ's love and consolation for my refresh- ment. ant •a wandering and lost sheep, and I need him as a gond and faithful shepherd. My soul is like a frightened dove iiiirsued by a hawk, and I need his .wounds for a. refuge. am a feeble vire, and need • • y o an wind, myself about. I am a sinner, and I need his righteousness: I am naked anh bare, and I need his holi- ness and innocence for a covering. I am in trouble and alar.m, and I need his solace. Sirctple and foolish am I, and need the guidance of his Holy Spirit. • Am I arraigned by Satan at the divine tribunal, he roust be my advocate. Am 1 in afiliction. he must be nay helper. • Am I persecuted by the world, he Men defen.d When I- am forsaken he must be my support; when .dying, my life; when! moldering in the grave, my resur- I motion." Why did God let sin come into the world? We eatinot under -1 Seenci it. • But after we have accept -1 ed the 'fact that a good God has al- • lowed sin to come into the world for , a purpose, then, on account of the , eternal, danger threatening us, we see as never before, glorious sacrifice es,• both human and divive. We see On account of salvation from sin, how Christ's blood will not only lift ! uR above the angels, but how, I through Christ, we may becorne part of Gocl himselfA nlyeitery! An .1 , • means simply this : God the Father comes to us and says TO explain to you all things, my child, would be to set before you what you could net comprehend. Your mind is too Weak to graap it, any more titan a little: child in his father's laboratory ear) understand or grasp the chemi- prineiple of the allheeion of the basic elements. But if you see the • Godhead veiled by a human form, if you Sec the Spirit of Clod artimat-; ing a being like yourself, if you come , in, contact with the diviee perfee- tions, active in human environment, you will then have n glimpse of to glory of the Ciodheed and realize sornethitig, of the supernal mystery of i rather, Sort arid Holy Spirit. 'Ail this r1 Will show to prove that I am: • God, the Losing rather, and ye are I any children.," 'reedflY" we and tie • Trealey a myttevy flut thOtegJii grzWe, giving. it over ta Corruption, ever be revived? We dro kOOW LAWN, 'bet we belieVe God and exelafia In triumph with the Patriarch, "•E know that my Redeemer liveth, and at lest he Mizell etand upon the earth, and after my Akin, elrell this body, is destroyed, then without MY flesh shall I see GO," Nor are we left exclusively to. faith, for nature hermit gives , ue Wet of ,a formation so sigelificant as to be oe- couregiug. 'rite other day my little girl brought to me a paper box, in whichestie had confined a caterpillax. This caterpillar liedm wrapped le - self up in • a cocoon. The cocoon looked eXactly Nee a shroud. After awlla hile the caterpir will emerse retell that cocoon transtormed Into a beautiful butterfly- you canuot explain that transformation, Neither can I. Shall we witness the wondee- ful prar ocess or tbe Caterpill's, meta- morphosis from worm to butterflY and yet r . efese to believe that,• t-lod van, will, tiansform the physi- cal body into a heavenly body? mArtvELotTS TRANISFORIllivrfors We see • marvelous teansfo rie at i one in the natural world -taking place all round us. We cannot explain them. Shall we therefore refuse to believe them? Pick up in your hand, if you will. a coM111011 oh estrat t. bas within its 'simple shell a soft sub- etance, which Janke for all world. like a lump of nerd ilour pressed to- gether. Yet in that simple ,sub- stance in miniature is every known part of the chestnut tree. Within that shell is the root, the hark, the branch, the leaf. If that simple nut can change into the branches of the wide spree ding tree, may not we be- lieve that, 'our physical bodies, under the divine chemistry., may undergo an equall3r woedrous change which • '• we cannot Comprehend any more than we can •tell how or when the transformation is to take place? A mystery. a mystery! How 'do we go .down mortal and come up im- feortals go down - corrupt and come 'up ineerrupt? It is a myStery we cannot explain. Yet it is a mystery which has its analogies in the na- tural world. It is a erYstery which promises each one of us a personal- ity and an individuality in the eter- nal mansions. . Grand, glorious, hopeful and blessed is thumystery of the resurrection. Brother, sister, for many years troubled with mysteries, wash your eyes to -day in the "water of life" and look and live. Accept Christ as your Saviour and then leave all the inexplicable mysteries to be explain- ed to you in a better world. "We now see as through a glass darkly;" yes, but, thank God, we can see enough • to perceive the: pardoning love of God ia the face of Jesus Christ. NEW BULLETPROOF CLOTH. -- Wonderful Things Related of -an Italian Invention. The world. is at present intensely interested in a new Italian bullet- proof cloth, and since the Italian • Government is negotiating for • its use it is of importance that we see • just what the results are, although it is necessary to state that the in- vention remains a secret, and this notwithstanding attempts to discover its deteils. Thus we shall have to deal with a general description and with the results. of experiments. The armor is. a sort of felt, the stuff being capable of adaptation to any form whatever; for example, • a breast plate with a collar of -a sort of coat which completely envelops the wearer ind absolutely guarantees him from. gunshot eyoun.ds. The thickness of t he protector varies from one-six- t1eentli to seven -sixteenths of an inch, accerding. to the aim the .effects of which it is designed to destroy. Ageinst the armor of seven -sixteenths of au inch the regular ordnance re- volver with steel covered ball is pow- erless, and also the gun of the 1891 model charged with smokeless pow - • In the numerous experimeats • which have been nia.de—in. firing at a, distance of several yards—the ball, whether it be of lead or steel, when it strikes the protector is arrested and deformed, in some cases rebound- ing and in others being almost •reduc- ed to a pulp. Thus there is not only an arrest of the ball, but 'deforma- tion as well, and in this deforxnation the • force of the ball is converted. WhLIe there should be a high degree ,of temperature at the point touchd. e by the ball, it seems that the ball ;alone feels the effects, for the protec- tor does not seem to be burnt in the slightest. • These results are not limited to ballistic: effects, for in the recent ex- periments it was sought to pierce the armor with a dagger driven with all possible force. The point of the arm, however, could not penetrate the felt and was bent into a shapeless mass. It is natural to suppose that the foece bf the hall would be communi- cated to the armour and, that this woeld be driven violently backward, resulting in a disagreeable shock and one which at times Would be danger- ous to the wearer. To demonstrate tha incorrectnese of this view Signor Bendetti attached his protector to a boreci and fired upon" the animal only with six feet away an ordnance' re- volver, the ball faIhng at the feet of the horse while, he freed from his halter, walked away as if nothing heel hanpened. it Js to be noted that with the same revolver ei piece of steel had been previously pierced, The same experiment was made. With a, chic:ken covered with a 'breast piece of the felt, the cock, after being rid of his new shell, quietly pursuing the even tenor of his way. unfathomable mystery! Yet -a mye- tery which inakas heaven blaze with 1 triumphant and far reaching light' MYSTERY OF THE RESURREC- Mystery of the resurrection: How is the transformation between earUs and heaven to take place? We knew not. We oannot explabe The more We study it the deeper becomes the mystery. But thotigh the resurrec- tibn is a mystery, though We can- not by human' reason understand how these Poor bodice of ours Cali be transferee:el that they will live forever, We can When reasori halts proceed tuider eite higher guidance of feitli and actept the assurance of ihe Scriptures, that "this mortal shall put on immortality," and. that "if our earthly house of this taber- merle be dissolved we have a budd- iesor Cod, a hoise. not merle with hands, eternal in the heavens." Hew ean this body which we lay in the HOW MONEY IS WASTED, An instruetive iittltt Item, going to show how public money is waeted by "the Services," is mentioned by, a cxemnittee which has been inquiring into WaSte at elibraltate The com- mittee discovered that $42,000 was spent to build an aminimition store, Law ,,C47,000 more to make it into a cold -meat depot. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL IN".CERNATIONAL I,ESSON, 31I.A.Itca 6. Text of the Lesson, lilark. iv., $3- 41. 0 -olden Weeet, s. cvii, - While the leseon committee seems to have had no regard to the se- quence or order of events, there is no event in the life of °heist, nor is there any record in all Scripture, in which we may not find undreamed -01 breadths and lengths and depths and -heighte of eteraal. realities for our soul's neurishmeat and •growth. After the events ol the Sabbath day leeson which we had tivo weeks ago 'it is probable that Jesus chose the twelve,a,postles, repeated part of the sermon on the .enount on a plain, healed the centuvion's servant, raised the widow's son, answered John's messengers ancl was anointed in pi- nion the Pharisee's house. In the latter ch,apter the account of the stilling of the storm is im- mediately preceded by His wonderful Words. "My mother an,d my brethren are these which hear the word • of God and do it" (Luke vile, 21), and soinewhat similar are His weir& in Matt. xii., 130, "VVhosoever shell do the will of .My Father which is. in I , th brother and sister and 'mother." Lot us yield fully to •the will of God, to do or to sufier, and enter into the joy of this marvelous relationship and hear IF 1 b d a to NW "Let , us pass over." "Let ns go" (verse 85; John xiv., 31). • He leads, we follow. He commands, we obey. He works; we yield ourselves to Him that ilarnify Ark in us and through us all His good pleasure.' • It was evening ,when they started to cross the lake, and He had just finished speaking many parables and teaching them many things and was evidently weary la body. That may possibly be the significance of Mark's' remark, "They took Hint 'even as. He Was." As they sailedHe.feIl asleep, loop, while communing with His Father about the events of the day, for Ho was truly a man and the great storm that suddenly swept down upsei. the la.lce did not awaken Hire. "'There was nothing in His soul but perfect peace, and such a mind can sleep quietly ein.der any cir- Cumstances. Even I, a sinner saved by grace, •have. proved it in storms at sea .and dangers on land. He has told us that we shall meet , storms as we journey day by day, but, peace through all is our privilege (John xiv., 1, 27; xiv., 33; Idatt. xxiv., 6). Ofttiraes He Seems to us to he in- different as to what is happening to us, but He does care always; and I. Ger. x., 13, stands, and no trial ever continues 'longer than is really neces- sary for His glory and for our high- est good. As to perishing, it is impossible for a vessel to be lost that has Christ hi it. • It is impossible, for oee of" His. sheep to perish, and His own- word stands to that • effect in John x., 27-29, and there is nothing in .the word that can possibly centradict those preciouS woods of His, for all is weetten • by the Holy Spirit, and the H'oly Spli it cannot Contradict Himself. Let Phil. i,'6;.II Tim. i, 12, confirm the above pa.esage, and let I john it, 19, ex- plain why some who sedn: to be Eis wander away. As to Heb. vi, 4-6, some one. has well said that each statement there might have emit true of .lialaam or Judas Isear- iet, who, certainly. never were re- deemed. Calmly our Lord slept enrougli ell tbe storm, . calmly He roost; when they awoke Hine and calmly He 'ut- tered His Mighty "Peace, be still l" and there was: a gseat calm. •The first Adam was given dominion oier all things, but he soon lost it. .In the last 'Adam all shall be fully roe stored., and this is but a sample of , the dominion that shall be .ours with Himover all things, and even.' over (loath itself (I. ,Cor. xv, 24-28; Rev. v 9, 10), One has said that the destructive powers of creation are, because of man's sin, in the service ot evil 'spirits, but our Lord has ell power in heaven and on earth. is tile -Prince 'of Peace. Be is the Pectee of God, a.nd where Hp rules there will always be a great calm, (Col. iii. 16; Isa. ix, 6, 7; xxxii,' 1, 17)• Why, troubled ? Wey fearful? Why weeping? Why so little faith? (Verse 40; Matt. viii, 26; Luke xxiv, 38; 'John eet; 3:3.) 'These are the questions Ho asks of Hie disciples and they are very per- tinent questions always, and per- haps for you just now. 'Phi) answers might be various, sueh as : 'Lord, I can't see that Thou lovest me when things are as they are with me. I can'tseem to feel thy presence', Lord, I have prayed earnestly, and there seems to be no answer. 1Vfy enereice 'threaten me, my friends farl me, ray hea.ith is gone,I have no as- surance of Salvation, ,etc. Whatever the cause of unrest, you see it is I my, me, self oecupatioie, or seeing the waves,. and the .storne. • The ree reedy is seeing Jesus; hearing His voice, seeing Him work, believing His love and resting in it, our hearts crying, "Behold, G'oil is My satire - tion;• I will trust and not be afriticil." or "What time I am .afraid I will tenet in thee" (Isa. xii, 2; Ps. lvi, 3, 11). Yes, even the wind mid the sea obey -Him, all creatu1e:1 obey Him, fishes great and small, lions and all beagle and 'birds, all angels and all theorbs in the ueiverse, end ()illy men and arkt„TI011f.i are in rebellion; but yet to Hitu every knee seal] yet bow to the ,glary of God the Fatties (yhti, it, lc), 13.). ,:riAo lost shell acknowledge that lie is Oise as they are sent away by Ilea to tie_tie own place, while all the redeemed. shall rejoice in His righteous reign, What manner of Man is the: ? ile ie the Son of Men, Son of flaviil, son of Abt abtan, God manifest in the desk, .• 4 • 4010K3f0K4C******* HOME. * HYGIENIC PUDDINGS. Lt eliscesgitlabkliedlc"llettiltadii b Pellee'd.dlyingesve4rer-e an e one. bailee,' good digestion and a sweet tooth, but are they., good food? This all' depends on how they are made anti of What ingredients. Boil- ed fruit windings after the style of our .ahrietm.as pudding, may be good to the taste, but 'is too rah for the digestion of many. Per those who have poor digeption only simple milk and egg puddings should be made, It itt, linweVei, a fact that to some people an erag in a sintle baked pudding will make Om quite ill for a time. 'The most wholesome of all eladdings are undoubtedly those cern-- posed of milk; eggs, arid, some feria- aceous product, such as rice, tapio- ca, etc., lightly baked in the oven and partaken of with good fresh cream, or a well -made nieltecisbuttet sauce flavored witut lemon juice. Then again, wheat meal mace) into pudd- ings,. 'either baked or boiled, fornis the basis of 'the iritest,subdtantial sweet deehes that we have As wheat meal is a great aid to diges- tion, it, is rare that such will hurt anyone. • ' .When puddings are composed prin- cipally of milk and egg's, such as custard, they should be very gently cooked, as a stroeg heat . will cause tbein to curdle, spoiling the look as well as the flavor The suetpudding should always be well cooked, as suet takes such: a long time to com- bine with the other materials. With such puddings -.milk or erectih should never be served, as these at e Imablo to congeal the fat and render it un- pleasant to look upon. Sir • Watisin Wynne Pudding : Mix together 1 cup minted suet with-- 4 cups bread crumbs. Beat 4 eggs with S one. best white sugar, add 8 tablespoons Scotch xuarnialatle. Mix the whole together, pour into a. well buttered nicht and boil or steam. for 2e. hours. Then turn out on fancy dish. Sauce for same is as follows: Out the peel cif 1 lemon into straws very .finely, put them into pan with lumps of sugar and 1 teacup wa- ter. Simmer very gently for 20 minutes; or until straws are tender then pour over pudding, leaviug straws on top. Eve's Pudding Pour cups brea,ci crumbs, 4 . cups minced apples, ' 8 cups currants) 2 cup's minced suet, 1 cup sugar; mix with theee 4 well beaten eggs, put into buttered shepe and boil for three hours. .Fig Padding : Rutter a mold well inside and sprinkle sifted sugar ell around. • Line the mold with figs split in halves, placing the seeded sides against the inside of mold. Have ready a. medium sized sponge cake mixed with boiled ' custard, grated rind of a lemon and eons° minced figs, sufficient to give it a eigge• appearaneee Sweeten to taste, then fill the mold with this and steam for two hours. • Rice boiled in intik: instead of cake is very good for a' change in the filling. UncleeTom Pudding: To 1 break- fast cup flour, add 1 cup minced suet, 2 oze, brown sugar, 2 cups ar. 1110 1gintlperf slodonf. c'inElleamatoun.p1), 12onoefggagsli:lsoiliinice With a cupful of milk tuidadd to the other ingredients. Mix all to- gether, and pour into a buttered mold. • Boil 2 hours and serve with sweet better sauce. - Atholsbane Pud'cling . To 1 teacep flour add 1 teacup minced suet, I teacup bread crumbs, I cup sugar, 1 teacup 'chopped apples, 1 teacup cur- rants, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1 of soda, 1 of cream tartar, 1 glass ;sherry. Mix to a proper consisteney with milk. Boll in .buttered mold for 2 hours,. Servewith boiled cvs- Dud poured ever it, and sprinkled witli pink sugar. the Paste remain leug aeaugh harden. If the mixture should ail, here to the furniture, it may be ecn moved by rubbing a little clear ale() hol on the spot. EIDGPs FOR YOU'bTaelflOTIIIIIRSe .Don't be afraid to usa. conunor sense in the ceo of your baby, p'tegulatity niearttimefailfejtusttitilast fols1 your little ono as for yourseln Deal stuff the bitby until nature z•ebeis -by 1111 emesis, Don't expeet the baby to be pole -Neely well Unless you feed •ie on na- ture's food—mother's milk. Don't .forget that it wants 'cool water to drink' occasionally. Don't keep the baby in tbe nonse one minute thatis poesibie to hake it out of doors. A baby Loet °et' in the air end .sunshiee will not be cross and irritable-. At night, be;sure the room is well - ventilated. its susceptibUty to sickness is in inVe se ratio to the aisment of good, pure air you pro - Vide for its lungs. ' • l/on't put too many clothes' on the baby, and, above all, don't Millet it with long clothee. 1,east of all • ehould this be done during its first few months of liie, whea it is weaker than at any other time, -.Don't fasten its clothes' like a. vise and then think it is ,going to, be comfortable, A child can't be haPPetili unless it can move every muscle oi ' its.body freely. . Don'.t bundle up its liead to suffo- cation . Don't cover up its head ex - cape in a blast of wiad. - " Don't be croes and iaitable e.boui the baby; rind then be.surprised that it reflects your .inOod. • Don't let peopki outside the fam- , ' ily kiss the baby. Never so tram- ple on your child's rights is to sub- mit to an unwelcome caress 'fi.oni any ,ope. A child has a natural didike for "showing off," and if you make it acquire a taste for such a. -proceed- ing. you will have to spank it later for beteg forward and impudent. 13e calin anti self-contained always in the Presence of 'our little one, from its days of earliest babyhood. POINTS ON HOUSEWORK. To bring out the best flavor mince meat should • be allowed to ripen and blend the spices two or three weeks before it is used. Little leaks sink great ships. Ex- pensive dishes often cause the farmer to borrow money to pay his geoeerv bill. Many of the e:•ononeical dishes are the most healthful, besides be- ing easier prepared. Study to find a more convenient place for some things, Perhaps you can save steps by putting up a small cupboard near the stove to hold dredging boxes of salt, pepper, flour and other seasonings Used in cook- ing.• • A lam -di -swell of Paris has 'die: covered a method of cleaning line linen anti other fragile textures with- out using soap or their chemicals. Instead of these he uses boiled Po- tatooe, which he rubs into the goods and then rinses out. It is said that , this method will make solid linen., 1 silk or Cotton much whiter ond purer than washing in the ordinary way. A. woman who has trice] it says that she pvt a good cleave toad in her cellar and in the course of a week it had eleaned out all • the roaches in that part of the house. She wouldn t take four dollars for that toad if there was no chance to getThaenkoittheelilenonseink becomee a hotbed of disease limiest it is carefully vatched and flushed out every day t vith st solutioe of borat-water. t Every hoose -wile should keep a box d of bOraX in her lcitchen, to rid her- t elf of ants, rooehes mad all Such b TO POLISH LINEN. Topolish or .glaze limn, after the linen has been carefully starched, have ready at hand a basin of cold water, demi-covered ixoniag board, a piece of soft rage andel well -heated polithing iron. Te eolhee collars, talte one at a Urea place it flat on . the board, dip the clean rag into the coM water, and then lightly wet the !a_milit eseee or the cellar. On no account !must be madestoo wet. or it will !blister, and be.careful that no drops I of water fall on it. Hold the edible !in position with the left hand, and l the polishieg iron up ad down with the right. At first the linen will have a streaky appeerauce, bet the smoothing must be continued we: ea til the surface is &seed all • Over. -1 Diffetent kinds of glazes are to be - had for polishing linen. which are used instead of the potrelung iron, but they do not give such a high gloss, and aresometimes injurious to the linen. crar,HLAr..m. These may often be Prevented byI: rubbing the feet and hands with cam- phorated spelt, mixed with a. little vinegar, or a little spirit rabbed on every niglit 'is soinetirnes sufflcinllv to prevent their apeearance. If they are bad, however, great relief may' be obtained by applying a mixture composed of loz. of spicits of wine and ten drops of tincture of arnica. - Turpentine, too, is .very good, and altboegh the skin will peel one , this simple relneely is often as effectual as the more costly mixtures. • TO CLEAN FEATHERS. Not More Difficult Than Clea.nini • Lace. "Hardly any wouian who owns as , ostrich feather.thinks of washing if at home," says:an expert. "She:be- lieves the cleaning of the feather in- volves some intricate and difficult process, and is withal such a delicate matter that it con only be accom- plished by a professional cleaner. But 1 . is she only knew it, cleaning an os- trich feather .18 not any more difficult than cleaning a bit of lace. All there is; to it is the knowing how, a,nd that is what Ill tell you, "A suds of soap and lukewarm wa- ter must be prepared and thea the soiled feather shpuld be dipped into it and drawn through the hands a fee times, as often as necessary, nail the feather appears cicala Under no circumstanced. should it be allowed to remain in the soapy 'water; just clin it in and then draw it through the hands to squeeze the water and soap from it before dipping it ,again. If it is very dirty it ought to be washed in two suds; theme when the cleaning process is ever, it must' .be rinsed . through several bowls of clear, cool water, tho rinsing 'method being the same. as the cleaning, dipping.. the feather in the water and then, draw- ing it through the hand. 'When it is thoroughly rinsed it must be drawn through the hand re- . peateclly until it is &poet dry; then it should be placed on the thigh and slapped with thehand, to bring it out fliiffy. That is. the whole opera- tion, The fluffing of the feather may 'equire a little practice and it .would be Well to clean a poor feather before eking a more expensive one through hie cotirse of heine cleaning, in ors er •that thenecessary dexterity, a hing that readily comes to one, may e obtained. pests, for ie. city homes they infeet11 Pan t ry, el osets , Ic licl eti shelves, etc. 11 is safe, effective end cheap—no danger of aecidental poisoning, like from carbolic acid, copperes and other such lotions. For your bath- tub there is nothing equal to borax for cleaningeand pureeing it. To rellION'e tea etains from china, rub the spots with a little whiting, 0111 fut•niture inny be cleaned with • anixture of alcohol and flee Whit- ing blended to form a erectile. Apply /ittle at a 'time and do ttOt let WITHOUT TROUBLE. In South Americon waters mullet re taken in enormous quantities by oats which go out with wire bas- ; cets at the bows filled with blazing etchpine, For the purpose in view he craft is leaded as to bring the unwale on One aide nearly to evel with the Weiler, and the fish, ate reeled by the light, jump on boar( r Wendt:Tea,