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Many a Blessing Is Lost By Habitual
Unpunotuality*
Metered aqcordlng to Act of the eetest kayo in our
liameet of ingeade, be the you Ciee sinful hearts, May not
by Wm, Baty. o 'loran Q, for the time
Thousancl Nine endred clad Foe-, be perfect hands;
Department of AaricuUltra Mute -ate)
A. despatch from, Los Angeles, Cal.,
says: Roy. Frank Do 1Vitt Talmage
protiched from the following text:
TirnothyjiL, 15, "'Diet thou may-
- est know how thoo oughtest to be-
have thyself in the house of God."
If redned social manners are essen-
tial in the home, they are- equally
forportant in the house of God. So
nettatintiat are they to rt. consecrated
Christian lifo that Paul wrote a long
epistle to his young lieutenent, Tira-
othy, concerning them. In this let -
being at least, such hands. should be
considered ese representing the hand
of Cod.
"Not criticise the church music or
the mielater's ,preaching 1 Why,"
some one says, "that is almost an
impossibility. Boom church choirs
smash every law Of musical •har-
mony. Some ofinistere are absolute-
ly stupid. They are impracticable
men—men of no force, without any
two logical, conseoutive thoughts.
That is true, my brother, Some
choirs are noted more for their dis-
cords than their' musical perfections.
Some ministers' mental depthit
ter, wherein, are found the words of does not trace a very lotig line to
the text, the great apostle tells how fathom. But I. can give yen this as
bishons and their wives should act, my own personal expaience—S, never
end alse how deacons and deacons' entered any church with the spirit
wives. But to -day, instead of my of- God in my heart, to try to con -
showing how our ministers and sider the leaders of that service,
church officers should behave in the God's representatives, 'without re-
house of Gad, I woulcl preach a. ser- ceiving groat spiritual good out of
mon on church manners directly to that service, In contrast to this
the pew. I would try tia, inculcate statement. I never enterect a church
the reverential spirit with -which our building with the spirit of criticiem
congregations should assemble for M my heart but 1 found something
worship, I would try to teach this to critiriso about the minister and
reverence bemuse more and more in the E-erviee before I got throogh with
,
this irreverent age there is a tend- it, andfurthermore, when I did en-
ency to look upon church buildings Or a, service in tbe spirit of criti-
cism I always found that I received
as Plahos fitted for secular enjoy-
ments rather than as sanctuaries more harm from that service than
conseerated to the presence of Jesus good. If William E. Gladstone.
Christ. "The Lord loved tho gates with the greatest bruin in all Eng -
1
of Zion mare than all the dwellingsand, could sit Sunday after Sunday
of Jacob!, No man ought to place in the little church of Hawarden and
get spiritual food• from youree,
foot in God's sanctuary unless he
expetienced rectors who came there
itt-
can do it with the solemn feeling of
to break for him the "broad of life,"
Habakkuk, who declared, "The Lord surely you can afford to honor the
is in his holy temple; let all the ministers of Jesus Christ an Godjs
earth keep silence before him." representatives.
First, the church building is the
trysting place where Clod promises to RESPECT GOD'S PRESENCE.
meet his children at certain tiros. But behaving yourself aright in
That means it is a place of reodez- church implies not only due respect
vous, where you have an appoint- to God's presence, in whose sanc-
ment to commune with Christ at tuary you assemble, and to his re -
least twice every Sunday and Perhaps Preseutativee there, but also due re -
once or twice during the week. One spoct to the strangers who come in
inference from that fact is that when to worship with you at your church
a congregation assembles on the altars. It not only means that we
Sabbath day the worshippers should should bow before Goa's altars and
always be on time and be ready to in reverential tones say, "Our Fath -
lift tkeir voices in praise at the first cr," but it also means that eve
word of the first line of the doxol- should give a warm; loving; Chris-
ogy, as well as with bending head lien welcome .to Cod's children who
listea to the last word of the last would sit by our side. I means that
line of the benediction. no church is a conseerated Christian
church unless all the men and wo-
C.W.11)tC11 NO PLACE FOR LEVITY men alike, whether clothed in silk' or
The Episcopalian rector begins leis itt homesPun, whether ach or poor,
service in this wise: "Lord, I have whether master or servant, shall be
loved the habitatioa of thy house cordially. greeted with an open
and the place where thine church door and an open church pew.
honor divelleth." When we enter the Christian etiquette sitould x an ex -
house of Cod, do we one and all .feel actly along parallel lines with social
that we bre coming into the presence etiquette. Suppose I am invited to
of the Lord? If we do, would eeo your home to visit a week. Sup -
come laughing and talking and nod-
ding to eack other, like a lot of
schoolgirls entering their class rooms?
IT we do, would there be so much
whispering among the neon -there, both
in the pews' and in the back of the
tharch? If we do, would there be so
much turning around to watch oth-
ers who licappen to come in late, ani
clisoosition to laugh- when any-
thirtg goes wrong? People who have
visited European courts writ° that
there the King is first and last in
the there -Ms of all the waiting court-
iers. As soon as the icing e. titers the
room, ell the waiting nobles ,erise
and' i1CW. When the king speaks, the
waiting, nobles listen, When a mes-
senger enters, he not only kneels,
but when lie leaves the throne room.
posing .at this country house party
you should have ten or fifteen guests
including some of your - own children.
Supposing at thie house party I
should be rude to one of your gueets
or make fun of your old mother be-
cause she murdered the hiag's Eng-
lisit or because she once did her own
washing. What would you do?
Would you corisider me one of your
friends? Would you say "Well, if
you • don't liko my mother or myt
children 1 will turn them out of
doors in order that you may feel a
little happier ?" Oh, eo; you would
rather say: "What is good enough
for My mother ancl my children is
good enough for yoit when you are
in my house. When you are rude to
my kith and kin and loe-ecl ones,
thon yoia
he never turns his back upon the memboes of a congregation cannot
seated king. When we enter the honor God unless at the same
sanctuary of Clod, which is filled with they are ready to welemne aod honor
-the presence of God, do we bow as all of God's children, no Matter to
'before a king? Do we try to keep
our face always toward the divine
face? Do we earnestly try to make
the prayers of the psalmist our pray-
er? "Let the ivords of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart be
always acceptable in thy sight, 0
Lord, my strength and my =tom-
er." The church of God ought to be
something more sacred than a coa-
cart hall or a theatre. It ought to
be it place where a joke and a cach-
ination and a chitchat should be just
as much out of place as a minstrel
show would be at a funeral, by the
casket of the dead.
IN THE HOUSE OF GOD.
bat a joy, a happiness and an op"-
portaeity for eolith:mons gospel
pleaeure. Let us worehip "the Lord
in the beauty of liolineas' with re-
flood end consecrated church. maa-
nerS,
BEGINNING OF GAS..
Sir Walter Scott it Better Novelist
Than Scientist, 7
Jan. 28 marked an interesting an-
niversary in the history of street
lighting, for it was on that date in
1807 that:are:11 Mall was lighted' with
gas—the, first -street of any eity so
illuminated, The Idea of usirg gas
for purposes of illumination Bret oc-
curred to Mr. William liffurdeck, it
oative of Ayrshire, who worked in
the mines of Redruth, Cornwell.
He made his first experiments in
1792, at Redruth. Removing in
1798 to the machine making works
of Messrs. Watt and Boulton at Bir-
mingham, there folloived up his
experiments, and succeeded in light-
ing up the building with gas for the
celebration of the Peace of .Amions.
7,1ni merit of brifigiug gas light in-
to use in London belongs to a Ger-
man named Willson who somewhat
retarded the success of his schemes
by the extravagance of his pamphlets
Sir Walter. Scott wrote from Lan-
doll that there was a machnate pro-
poeing to light London with—what
do you think ?—wley, with smoke.
Even the liberal mind of Sir Hum-
phrey Davy failed to take in the
idea. that gas was applicable to pur-
poses of street or house lighting.
Yet, Winser haviag succeeded after
all in obtaining some supporters,
"the ion line betWeen. St. jarnesj
Palaee and Cockspur -street clid blaze
out in a burst of gas lamps on the
night in question. to the ho small
admiration of the militia"
In London, about 1810, before any
conneany
had been established, Mr.
Ackerinann's shop in the Strand was
regularly lighted with gas. It is
said that a lady calling there one
evening was so delighted with the
beautiful wbite „icos she saw on tho
counter that Sile offered. any money
for permission to carry tiorn. homm.
to light her drawing -room !
' Gas lighting had it ricliculoos ob-
jection to coetend with, worthy to
be ranked with that, which insisted
for years, without expaOment, that
the wheels a steam locomotives
creating any forward movement. it
was generally assumed that the pipes
conveying gas would be hot and apt
to produce conflagrations. People
nsed to, touch them el,utiously with
their hands, under 'no belief that it
carelesS touch would Initn, them.
' 1 " ti
Behaving oneself aright in churcli
implies rot only due respect to the
four walls of the edifice or to tho
habitation of the divine presence, but
also due respect to God's ministers
who preach itt the sacred pulpit and
due respect to God's musidans who
sing itt the church choirs. When the
members of a church choir ariso to
sing the praises 01 God they become
part of that mighty host who in
every Christian land on earth and in
the heavenly mansions are occupied
with the scone theme. When the rain -
niter rises to preach he conies as
messenger from God to utter the
words that, the Misr Spirit has com-
missioned hibe to speak. The truly
consecrated Christian minister is a.
repreSentative of the Most High and
is entitled to the deference that Was
pcdd tei the representatives of the
European kings when they entered
the United States senate and were
given the foremost, fleets. They were
not welcomed as men. They were
honored in their offieial capacities as
persoeel repremeritativos of the Brit-
ish. the German,' the Italian, the'
%Mien and the Austrian thrones.
Nerer forget when you criticize, the
-preacher'm message that yett inay be
criticizing the very Words that God
has given him to deliver to. you.
AVOID FLIPPANT ontnotsx,
Honor God'e representatives in the
Chrietiati pulpit mid in' the Christian
choir bolt if you would honor Ohriet
the chureh. The ministering
hands e4 the elturell service, sc
ing the ge.eel tweet Width m
what social caste they may belong.
HONOR THE cnuncre.
But, though Christian etiquette in
the house of God should mean much,
how many chorales are sinfully try-
ing to become the churches of class
instead of the churches of a greet
Christian democracy? Call we not,
ono and all, he large hearted enough
to know that there is only one true
gospel aristocracy, and that belongs
to the noble serNing class which
Jesus described when he said; "Who-
soever will be chief among you, let
hinli be your servant'?" As you
would never be rude to my child be-
cause you love me, so may eve in our
church etiquette never east a. slur
upon Cad's children. May we never
jostle or push any one away from
us 1 We sh.ould all belong tri the
gospel clan, We should feel that. we
are ali brothers a.nd sisters in Christ
and that, therefore by the gospel
fireside there shall be plenty of room
for all the members ofthe gospel
faittily
Lastly, refined and consecrated
Church behavior is demonstrated as
much in the way of a congregation
disperses as in the way it assemblee.
If 1 make it social call upon you and
you aro Polite and respect me, you
do not try to -show your impatience
even though 1 do stey a little long-
er time than I ought. You do not
gape and yawn and take out, your
watch again and again to look what
time it may be. You do not get
up anti go out into, the hall and put
on your overcoat and then hold your
hat in yore' hand as though yoa
Wore ready to run away at the Bret
opportunity, If yeti acted thus
would certainly take. tho .hint and
leave as soon as poesible. Neither
shoulcl yod be rude in claureb ell-
quette.
AS We began with the words,
"That thou mayest know how thou
oughtest to 'behave thyself in the
house of God," let us close with the
psalmist's words which he Wrote for
the temple when David sang, "1 was
glad when they eaid Unto me, Let
us go into the house of the Lerd,"
he meaut it. I.At eel prove by our
actioes and enit observance of chttreh
n'tiquCtici that public, Worship is not
rudgery and it repulsive slavery,
would go on whirling without
QUEEN AND MAID.
How They Appeared Dressed for a
Mountain Climb..
The healthy and handsome young
Queen of Italy is fond of athletic
pursuits.. Her majesty excels u:g a
walker and mountein-clitaber. As the
Princese Helena, of _Montenegro she
spent whole days and nights in. the
hills, and it was only natural, there-
fore, on her first visit to her native
land after her marriage eo Victor
Emmanuel that she should announce
her intention of revisiting on foot
the momatains about Cetinje.
The announcement was received in
iorrified silence by her Itatlitm ladies
in waiting, to Whom the wild nature
of their surroundings -seemed barbar-
ous. Then. they gathered themselves
together, and with one exception all
begged to be excused. Ono ProttY
woman, particularly daintyd. anele-
gant in her ways, ambitious of the
favor of her mistress; determined to
brave it out, and smiliegly said she
would make the climb.
The. next morning at six o'clock the
royal party had assembled, and were
awaiting the adventurous lady in
waiting. She appeared in a silk
gown with a long train,—carefully
pimped up,' to be sure,—a coquettiph
hat of roses, a scarcely perceptible,
sunshade in one hand and a smote
bottle in the other, and wearing thia
kid slippers with high heels.
Sbo was well pleased -with herself,
and seemed to have come to sone°
sort of understanding of what a,
mountain parade demanded, for she
immediately produced • jeweled opera -
glasses, and explaieed that they were
to help her exijo3r the scenery-.
The coma in the garb of a moon,
taineer, hobnailed shoos and all, look-
ed for it moment as if shc wanted to
laugh. Theo. she said gravely:
"You look pale, my dear. I am
sure you are not Well, and I really'
cann,ot let you undertake so ardu-
ous a trip."
The queea's hint was accepted, and
the lady ill waiting remained at the
palace. It was not uotil some time
later, when the young queen and the
young maid of honor were close
friends, that her majesty confessed
that she had been greatly amused by
the contrast they presented on that
occasion. ...
"Never forget again," she added,
"that you are ornamental!"
RAPID BEADING.
At the meeting of the French, 'Aca-
demy of Seiences, held recently', 11tf.
Andre Broca and M. Sulzer com-
municated a, paper ori the subject of
rapid. reading. They sho•Wed that
the different letters of the alphabet
are not all apprehended with the
same quickness. For instauce, the
time taken to recog,nise E is
elearler oneethird longer than that
talree to recogeise a T. They con-
sider that the alphabet is badly de-
signed Irani a physiological point of
view. It should be composed of very
simply designed letters as T or L.
Vapidity of reading would thus be
increased and "brain fag" would, be
notably diminished, it would also
be better to have tile lettere pleated
in white on a blaek groinal than the
system which obtains at present,
The time takea to ree.0.4eise it letter
printed itt black on a Wrests 5eonact
was nearly tee 'Owes loeger than
that white on 0 black ground.,
*****Wc-',Zfeetenfe..Nefais, perfectly clean veseel such as -e, White
ply pre China aqua bowl, and with a small
htS It white cloth dipped in the gasoline,
rub the seiled pertions of the gar-
ment thoroughly. The dirt will go
through into the pad, as that takes
up the dirt. After a thorough rtib-
bing of the soiled portions with a
cloth, throw away the sediment in
the vessel end Pour in enough ga-50-
line to rinse the material. Dip it
up and down several times; de not
wring the good '
s but take it up and
shake lightly sod hang on the line
in the sun.
For cleaning dark goods use a,
dark pad. Also use a dark or black
cloth to rub with. Be sure the
goods are well brushed and all dust
removed in wool or velvet goods.
T.Tse plerty of gasoline.
To wash while or light ribbons
put them into a, Preorve jar, pour
in gasoline to almost cover thorn,
screw the top on and let stead 15
minutes, shaking occasionally. Theu
r. our off gasoline, take the ribbons
out into Et. clean Turkish towel, rub
them in it for it few moments and
hang thena out in the air. 11' very
much wrinkled they can be pressed
with a warm, but but not hot iron,
OME.
***********#
GOOD THINGS TO EAT,
German Rye Breade-BUt in a breal
pan at night yeast and warm water
enough to make two good, loaves of
bread, and a • good handful 0:f salt.
Stir thoroughly and add rye graham
flotir enough -to .nialce it pretty thick
dough. Set in a, warm place to rise
till morning, :When mix it Still and
wortt till it no longer sl..:As to the
hands. Fr two, loaves of bread I
take' tiro hea,ping pis, white flourand the rest rye grahain.
A Good Apple Pudding -7 -FM a but-
tered baking dish with sliced apples
end pour over the top a batter made
of haig euP sugar, 1 egg, 1 table-
spoon batter, half cup sweet m '
ilk 34
cups flour, 1 teasPoon 6
of baking
powder, raitmeg and pinch, of salt.
Bake in it moderate oVeri beosen
and woe with liquid sauce. Other
fruits are nide. served ha the emnie
way. 4
Sweet Potato Pie—A good substi-
tute for squash or puenpkin pies, of
whi h. we are extremely fond,. are
those Made of sweet potatoes. To
1 pi,lt cooked sweet potatoes, mashe
ed fine, add 2 well beateri eggs, Ono
pint sweet cream and half pint sue
gala Flavor with nutmeg or ground
cinamnern and bake in one crust the
same tie custard pie.
Cocbanut Pie—Take half cup se -
gar, ban cup flour; 1 egg; beat Vim
egg. stir , in the sugar and flour,
and then Stir in hall pi -tit boil-
ing milk and 2 tablespoons cocoannt.
Beat white of 1 egg to frost the top
after pie Is baked. Frost top and
return to oven. to brown just slight -
!y. Sprinkle cocoanut over froste'
Apple Tapioca—For 15 Minutes
-
cook half cup tapioca, 2 tablespoons
sugar and a, pinch of salt in 1 pint
hot water in a double boiler. Pour
this over (1 good pared and cored
tart tipples; fill the holes with sugak
and a little nutmeg, cover the dish
and bake hell aa hour. Serve with
cream and sugar.
Apple Marmalade—Peel and core 2
lbs, rather acid apples and put them
in an ermeneled eaucepan with 1 pint
sweet eider arid 1 lb. lump sugar.
Cook over a gentle heat until • the
freit is very soft, and teen squeeze
through it sieve. Put away in jars
made air -tight. This ie delicious
when. eaten with cream e
ana a. littl
powdei ed sugar.
Creained Sardines—Mat 1 large tee
blespoen butter, and add ;3,- piat
cream; a tablespoons head crumbs,
5 finely chopped hard boiled eggs, it
box of bonelees sardines,' Withoirt the
skins. Salt and. paprika to taste
Serve on hot toast.
SILLY NEATNESS.
One hears so much nowadays about
hygienic housekeeping and .sanitary
matters generally thee it seems im
possible that any woman who Cf1.11
read ordinary printed matter can
fail to have some knowledge on this
important question. But for all
this it is certain that the woman
whoie botts.ekeeiing may be described
as ' t.Yenice, ' 'attd. Whose methods
are of fifty years ago, has by no
11100115 Sled out in the land. She
lingers here and there with her old-
fashioeed prejudices and preferences..
She prides herself, it may he, on
the fact that every article of herself
or her children taken off at night is
carefully folded, one piece upon the
other, before ehe gets into bed. This
is a piece of folly exacted by elders
in poet days—a remnant of old-fash-
ioned early \fit...torten tidinees. , Al-
most better the methods of the av-
erage man who flings one, groment
he.e an.c1 another there. At least
they get some chalice to ventilate.
It is better still when clothes are se-
parated and hung for the night near
the open windows. '
Then there is the woman who
prides herself upon the fact that her
bed is never seen unmade; that be-
fore she goes down to breal•fa.st it is
immaculately remade, with its
French bolster and its starched
"shams," and its interior, alas I
still warm. It rimy be a radiant
piece af furniture, but all the same
it is a fusty, uuhealthy sleeping-
Pilehen there is the housekeeper who
goes out against dust as if she were
it London policeman ,and dust a
street gamin. 'She has bot one idea
—it most be "moved on," lend eo
with a flapping cloth or that ridicu-
lous helusehold utensil, the father
duster, she stirs it up and whacks
it from lace to place, bot never
learns to gather it up into a , soft
duster and remove it to some Place
where it will not be rehreatheti.
The. care of clothes in a closet i$
anothet matter often anismenaged
Vvery one knows how quickly ward-
robes grow fusty, and the happy day
may come when architects will fumi-
ng() einem method of ventilation for
euplabards other thefl by occasional-
ly leaving the doors Wide open., io
the meantime, if all clothes are per-
fectly tooled and aired before ' they
are hung hp, arid if they are carried
out from time to time and hung in
the open air for a few houre, . this
difficulty will be very largely'lnet.
The lives of women who keeP
house will be amplified and 'sweeten-
ed when. they all learn to "use their
braina to Save their bodice."
CLEANSING WITH, a A s arrNr,
Cleafiiros delicath fabries with gas-
oline should, always be done on
warm, swirly day out of doors!, or if
it, must be dorm •indoors, it should be
done la a room where there is neith-
er fire nor light, The former Way is
best for there is no datiger ot ex-
ploSion.
To clean White or light, silk lay
several tidelenesses of clean 'white
goods on e, boatel, Place the. gar-
ment or goocts to be cleaned smooth-
ly over the , pah of white geode,
wrortg side down. Pour gasoline, a
entail gszatitity at ik ti.04,, into a
LOOKING etieHEAD,
Now M trie mme eo get, the spring
and snminer sewing out of the way.
Make several every 'day dresses for
each child. Use pretty, not too
light, colored gingbams and percales.
it is not economy to buy cheap
goods here.
For dresses for the housewife,
whether the working suit is to be
abirt waist 'suit, dressiOg rack or
wraPPer, do not buy calico. It doe's
not pay. Selett emrie of the pretty
blues, or blood reds, steel grays or
black, and whites in percale, ging-
ham or chambt ay. These colors aid
mateidals all wash beautifully clear,
ilion easily and wear well. Of these
same materials but of dark colors
make pleety of plain work aprons
for young and old with. a few light
ohes for "slip ons." We would also
liko to speak of dark deranis and
ducks with a. fine sttipe for aprons
for the roughest work. ee
It pays te make the shirts for the
Men's daily weer. Three and a half
yards of good gingham, petemle or
seersucker will inalke a splendid gar-
ment. With a good pattern of cor-
rect size it is one of the easiest of
garments to make.
In doing all this work do not put
on any extra frills. It takes more
time ,in the making, makes washieg
hat,der, iroeing more ditficult and in
the end it is a question whether it
looks any better.
..coLD WATER. STARC,H.
The following method of making
and using cold. water starch has
proved very satisfacaory. Have
some good white' soap cut down
thinly axid Melt it in a., little hot
water. Put in a basin three small
tablespoons starch and wet it to a
paste with a large teacup of cold
water. . Put into a cup a teaspoon
of the melted soap and a teaspoon
powdered borax and diseolve them
m half a teacup bolting water. Pour
this into the basin with the starch
and mix them. well till a nice froth
gathers' on top.- Have the collars,
cuffs, etc.. wrung out from the blue
water. Take a few at it time and
waeh them in this starch, rubbing
them , well and then wring tightly.
Keep stirring the starch up, from
the bottom of the baein as it has a
tendency to sink. "When all are fin-
ished fold, take it few at a time and
dry rub them. This rubs out any
rouglmess the unbolted starch leaves.
Vold again awl wring very tightly
within the folds of a towel, or bete
ter still, put into the wringer. Then
put aside to iron. If to be kept
any time let them he rolled In
damp towel. They are best . ..ironed
..seeaa
THE SUNI1AY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSDN,
APRIL 8rd,
Text of the 'Lesson, Nark vii., 24e
37. Golden. Text, I-Iela, zio
Or Easter Lesson, John,
xx., 11-18.
As each of the lessons assigned Rif'
to -day has, next to our blessed Lord,
woman as the central figure, and
the topic in ette,h is faith or the no,
cessity and power of faith, wo will
do well to consider both lessons. In
each we see. a wolnan in trouble, the
SYrePhenieinn because of her claughe
ter's affliction and Harr Magdalene
tecause of her own heart's sorrow,
hut in each case the Lord Jesus by
His word gives rest and joy and
peace, reminding us of that g,rea.t
word, "Come unto Me, all ye that
labor and are heavy laden, and 1
w 111 give, you rest" (Matt, 28).
Woman is 0 notable type of the
church., the body of Christ, and
throughout this age of ,the Bride-
groom's absence sorrow is her poa
' tion, but Ho will come again, and
she will then be glad forever more
(11fark ii, 39, 20;' John xvi, 22, 33;
Bev. xix, 7). To the people of Niue-
areth Jesus was only the Son of
'Joseph and Mary; in His own kin-,
dred He was as one beside himeelf/
to the religious leaders among the
Jews He was a Samaritan and had
a devil (Luke iv, 22; Mark iii, 21;
John " vii, 20; viii, 43), but there
were some who had eyes opened to
see Him as the Son of David, the
Lord of Israel. Ilis own received
Him not.
The woman of Tyre and Sidon hao •
a real trouble and was in great need
of a deliverer. She had somelicee
heard of the Great Physician, so full
of compassion, but probably could
not go Him. Now that ho has
comes near to her she at once hastem
to Him, and, having implicit confi-
dence in Hint, she will take no denial
frora Him. What a reward fore hei
in. His final word, "0 woman, grewl
is thy faith; be it unto thee even as
thou wilt" (Matt. xv. 28). She
who was willing to take the dog's
portion received the children's broad.
Consider our Lord's commendation
of the centurion's faith and that et
the four who brought their palsied
friend, and contrast 1 -lis rebuke of
the disciples for their lack of faith
(Matt. viii. 10; xiv, 81; xvi, Si
Mark it, 5). Then remember His
command, -"Trove faith in God"
(Mark xi, 22; John eav,1). Turning
for the rest or our meditation to the
Easter lesson and keeping the neces.
sity of faith as the central thought
we note that our risco. Lord up-
braided the disciples for their onbe-
lief and hardness of heart because
they believed not them which had
seen Him after He was risen (Marls
xvi, 11-11). Right here in our les-
sor, it is written that even rater end
John as yet know not tee Scripture
that He must rise again from th4
dead (John XX, 9), and, tithough
had so often said plainly that Ile
was to be crucified and that He
Would rise again the third day
(Nett. xvi, 21.; andi, 28; xx, 19), :
they bad not received it.
What shall'wo say of the Woman
who so loved Him, followed Hire
and ministered unto Min when we
see them buying spices that they
might anoint IIis dead body when the
Sabbath was past? That would be
on the third day (Luke xxifi., 55, 58;
xxiv., 10. Although tlee3e loved Him
much, they did not believe what He
said concerning- Ms &path and resur-
rection. The love of God is the
greatest thing we ever heard of, bat
all our part the greatest thing is,
in same respects, faith, for."without
faith it is impossible to please God"
(Hob. xi., 6). Faith in Gad is also
the only way to he filled with joy
and peace and have an untroubled
heart (Rom. xv., 13; john ale..., 1,
at onto.
27).
Mary Magdalene was so occupiee
with her own sorrow and with he
body of a dead Christ, for which sho
was seeking, hat she had. nel hei
eyes nor ears for angels nor even for
Metric System May Become Law Cerise Himself till she was startled
;in Great .Britain, out of hor stupor by hearing her own 4,
name from His lips. What a blind- If)
"An important step bas been taken •ing, stupefying thing unbelief Is! And
in the moYemeet to amens() the sYs- it is just the trouble with many be -
tem of weights and measures to the lievers to -day. There- are so many
metric system, which prevails in all 'who accept 1.11m truly and put all
civllizod countries except Russia and their trust in His preeious blood, but
the United States. A bill to make by considering themselves and not
the change compulsory in the "United tau);
Kingdom in two years' time passed , Hirn. at His word they lack
aesurance of salvation, at least wa-
its second reading in the House of .
;tinuous assuratice. '1'hen there axe
Lords by general consent. recently, !many assured believers, constrained
and, on the 'suggestion of the Goy./ b
leis love to serve Rim gladly,
eminent, was referred to a Select ,
Cominittee. OSO service Is like buying spites to
anoint a dead Saviotir—love, but not
Lord Kelvin introduced the ineas-1„,. . .
is plainly written that lit
seamy and said jaatedriamtaaSyir santys: 1:-'-'0ho•rnia.g. back
tvhcn tho. again to establish
tam was put hi farce toesro, and he kingdom of righteousness on thie
reported that the change was made v°ain%t.11, feiwivict711-altiallttiiZIYaaorde aseni'd'
over in a week.
with so little trotible that it was all
waiting for His Son from beaver
se-dlf- -.wow
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
t •
(Acts 1., 11; iii., 20, 23; L, Thoss.,
"rrattlk how much we lose in our
ccoriiinpnerce, by sticking to the present 9, 10), and therefore their service
oi
lic.ated and confusing denomin- is not the jay -oils, victorious kind
ations," urged Lord Kelvin, and he that glorifies Him arid wins other(
assured the peers that engineers and to Hint.
manufacturers would be recouped hid EEc is saying to xis as IIe said t
a month for all the trouble and ex- i Mary, ."My rather is your rethei,
pulse involved in alterations. and nty God is your God; therefor(
When a young -volunteer, Loyd Kel- go tell others." Not self occupied,
vin loaded a gun .with a certain but Christ occupied, and naming On
number of drachms of powder for an rands for Him, with 'His peace filling
exploeion. At the last ritoment he our souls, 'Vhen, &rice Cod is out
disedvered that he had weighed the Father, how can we be anxious lo1
chargo 111 avoirclupoie drachme in- I,
mote or raiment or auything, for Tic
stead of arl9€11-0°ari-cs'' The mailt- 01 who spared not IIis own Son, bid
the explosion might 'have been the
delivered IBm hp for as all, how shot
bursting of the wettpoil, he remarked ho not Nvith aiso 1,reos, ;jvc
tesether for otir good? (Stett, vi
been killed. Ared that disaster' to
Science would have 13(1011 due to the 25:83; '..13.0in.
fwortall0folautosoile)egel system of weiglIts also lay to beart Words to Tho
"Be not faithless, but believi
Lord ICelvin said'1 It would be the 1.,nas;
duty of -the eommittee to find sim-; "J3lessed are they that hall
1)10 rogi)vi,) words for elaloolotro,,, truft seen and yet have believerei
'‘eentinietre, 1`kil ogranull 0, and (verses 27, 13,9)h ci learn to say,
other long words, and to devise "Whom llaviarr '7;1' P001) 1 108.0;
machinery to call in existing' weights whorai 'though now see Him fret,t
yet, believing, 1 re,loice'' (I, Bev. 0,11
ruliti,olir8IluoZbery etvowecl that the 31.
adoption of the metric system WOulcl
be of more benefit to British traders Call a man 0 diplomat instead a
lial.allpitithet(0)::44jelv;rd imeflicial, re. a liar and lie will be. pleased; Ye
It amounts to much the same thine(
w" a ahd 110 might have all things aed make all thin wolA