HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-4-21, Page 7TO KEEP THE HEART PURE
Warfare Against the Sins of Life Must
Be Waged Unceasingly
(Entered excerding to net oft the Per.
Dement of eanade, in the yeer ore
Thousand Nine Hundred and Pave
by Win. Balky, of Toronto, at the
Department of Agriculture. Ottawe)
A dednetch from. Los Angeles saytd
Bev. Frank De Witt Talmage preached
froin the following text: Blessed are
• the pure in heart, for they shall see
God. Matt. v. 8.
God in dealing with man gets
• down below the surface. His all -
searching eye penetrates .to the hid-
den recesses of the heart, and He
knows man as he is and not as he
appears. Man is governed almoet
wholly in his•oPinion and estintate of
others by externalities, but God never
for the inner condition of the heart is
of infinitely more concern to Him
than the occa.sibnal outward expres-
sion in the life of that which is with-
• in the heart. For this reason, Jes-
• us, Who "knody what was in man,"
denounced the scribes and Pharisees,
and called them whited sepulchers.
Outwardly to the eyes of men they
• were intensely religious and devout,
faithfully observing the rites and cere-
• monies, and carefully yielding obedi-
ence to the letter of the law, but as
Jesus looked within He saw the true
condition and likened it to a molder-
ing, putrifying mass of deed men's
bones. Ile accused them of being
careful to cleanse the outside of the
• cup and platter, while tho inside was
full of uncle,anness. When Jesus came
Ho brought men face to face with
their real selves. , He startled and
and convicted by 'declaring and show-
ing that the sins of the heart were
more real and more terrible than the
sins of the outward conduct. Tho
murderer was not only he who put
forth his hand and actually took hu -
Man life, but he who was angry with
his brother. The adulterer was not
only ho who actually indulged the
lust of the flesh, but he who even
looked mien a woman to lust after
her, for in so doing he had commit-
• ted adultery with her already in his
heart. The thief was not only ho
who took that which belonged to an-
other, but he who in his heart covet-
• ed aaother's possession, for lie who
• is a thief in thought and heart needs
only the opportunity to make him
• such in very deed.
THE PURE IN HEART!
g Just what did Jesus mean? Who
-`90 are the pure in heart? Certainly
Jesus never used words carelessly or
with vagueness of meaning-. When
He said "pure in heart," I take it
_that Ea meant "pure in heart." And
if such is true, it can mean nothing
short of a heart fice from the taint
• of sin. • If I say that the candy I
offer you is pure, I mean that not the
•nicest adulteration or harmful ingredi-
•litnt has entered into its manufacture.
e -To say that it is pure defines its con-
• dition. If I have enteral lots of
• candy, not any one of which is pure,
I may say of one which has less adul-
• teration in it than another that it is
gurer than the other, and of a third
which has the least adulteration of
all that it is the purest of all, but
• if I say the candy Is pure, there is no
• need of comparative or superlative
• degree. If it is pure, it cannot be
more pure or most pure. And so I
believe in our text Jesus is not using
a relative term, but an absolute one.
A pureheart—a fixed and certain
quality, and not arranged upon a
sliding scale to suit varying grades
and conditions. There is a disposi-
tion on the part of some people to
•gualify the declarations of God, and
• try to bring them down to man's
• level. This is reprehensible. It is
perilous. When God says: "Be ye
holy, for I am holy," "Be ye perfect,
• even as your Father in Heaven is per-
fect," He meant exactly whet He
• ;guild, and could not possibly mean
*anything else. If one begins ta quali-
fy or weaken -the statements and corn-
• rnands of God, where will he end?
And if one has the privilege of adjus-
ting Seriptural declarations to his
own views all have the same privi-
• lege, and the result is that we have
• as many different standards as there
• are Christians. But this is manifest-
ly wrong, and brings confusion and,
N'itiatos God's Word. It is infinitely
• better and safer to attempt, to recone
cilo and harmonize our views with
God's Word than, it is to try to •ac-
cominodate God's Word to our viovvs
• and conceptions. And eo, when
Jesus speaks of the pure in heart, it
was not with the thought that each
was to decide for himself just how
much that terrn implied, but it was
with ono definite and fixed condition
and; Standard in intact The pure in
heart—those • whose hearts are sin -
free,•
With this inteihretation, however,
the difficulties in the way seem eal-
most, insurmountable. Slimly, if the
pure in heart are those in whom is
no taint • of sin, there can be • none
suchand hence no ono has the hopel
'Of seeing God. But wo know that
THIS LAST IS NOT TRUE.
We know that the infinite purposes ot
Goc1 ceriter about than, and that it
is IDS longing, loviing desire that all
should come into MS presence • God's
Wend teaches of a 'Heaven which He
has peepared for man, that ho might
dwell with Him forever. We know
that from Genesis te Revelation, as
the sin and failure and depreVity of
inari ere unfolded, the mercy, love
end forgiveness of God aro gneidually
detrealed in the marvelous redemptive
r, ethnic. And knowing this we believe
e #
that when Jesus epolo of the pure
leart Ihe epoke'of a condition pos-
si1t to man,
If he said : "BieSeed aro tho pure in
• heart," there mils', be Such among
Men. And it there are thoera who
• aro really end truly before God pure trout fiVe to &Oren and a half times
pure, not by nature, not by, Self
cleansing and purifying, but they
have been made so by a higher and
mightier power than his own. We
have, then, three prepositions which
we want to got clearly fixed in mind.
First, that pure in heart means a
heart tree from all sin and sinful
thought and desire, Second, that
there are those who in God's sight
aro pure in heart; and third, that
the pure in .heart are such uot by in-
herent possession, but because they
have been made so by Divine trans-
forming power. With these three
our text again : -"Blessed are the
pure in heart, for they shall see
God." Does it not begin to mean
more to us, and does not the har-
nomious relation of the promise • of
the last half a the verse to the con-
dition named in the first clause be-
come raore apparent ?
That man cannot become pure in
heart by his own effort is demon-
strated by human experienceand the
teaching of God's Word, The heart
under man's management and con-
trol is "deceitful above all things
and -desperately wicked." Man is
sometimes deluded into the thought
that • he can carry on the heart
house-cleaning alone, as the man to
whom Jesus referred who clreve out
the evil and swept and garnished his
heart and then flattered himself that
he had done a splendid and enduring
bit of work. But it was the same
old heart with its sin -scarred walls
and there was a fatal emptiness
which invited back the evil re -on -
forced by other evil spirits more
wicked than the likst. And the man
woke up to find his latter condition
WORSE THAN THE FIRST.
No, man cannot clean his heart so
that it can be called pure. 'He can
polish up and cover up and "gar—
nish," but he cannot purify. The
alchemist of the middle ages had no
more hopeless task of transmuting
the baser metals into gold than has
the man who tries to make of his
sin -stained, sin -scarred, sin -breeding
heart a pure heart Each as ig neces-
sary to admit to God's presence,
David realized the utter hopelessness
of the task of trying to purify his
own sinful heart, and so in helphees-
noes he cries out : "Create for me
a clean heart, 0 God I" What man
cannot do for, himself, God is able
and willing and anxious to do for
him. "Blessed- are the pure in
heart," because they bear the etamp
of nhe" Divine touch„ • because they
come fresh and clean and spotless
from the , marvelous laboratory of
God, where the foul has been • made
clean, .where the base metal of hu-
man conditions has been transmuted
into the pure gold of Heaven. The
'pure heart is the handiwork of •God.
And "Blessed," indeed, then "are
the pure in heart, for they shall see
God."
But if sin enter the heart the sec-
ond method of maentaaning a pure
heart is to be applied. The heart
must be cleansed from the impurity,
the sin, And blessed be •God, He
has made ample provision for such
condition. For "if any man sin,
we have an Advocate with the Fath-
er, Jesus Christ the righteous, and
He is the propitiation for our sins,
and not Per ours only but also for
the whole world." • And because He
Is the blood sprinkled mercy seat,
for that is literally what propitia-
tion means, "if we confess our sins,
He is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins and cleanse us from all un -
righteousness." And how we have
to keep bringing to Him our sin-
staiaed hearts that He may forgive
and cleanse. But He does not re-
buke or chide us as we feel that we
deserve when we come to Him (and
Oh, how often the fear that He will
do so keeps Us from bringing the
gn.ilty heart for cleansing), but true
to His promise He does cleanse
from all sin, and tends us away re-
joicing, for . what heart is so glad
as the pure heart ! How the sweet
music of Heaven fills the chambers
of tho heart from which have been
removed the disfiguring marks of
sin. And what a chamber of hor-
rors and unrest it is when filled
with sin. But does not the Saviour
grow weary In the task of purifying
the hearts of His followers? Do
the cleaning. weeks grow weary of
cleansing the soiled garments
brought to it ? Do the • ore mills and
smelter ever grow wearo taking the
credo, impure rock and turning out
the yellow stneam of pure gold?
Never ! Than is exactly what :they
'have been established • for. And
Jesus Christ has 'come for the speci-
fic purpose of cleamsing us from all
sin. and He longs.tee•make the heart
clean and to " keep it clean as we
daily and hourly bring it to Him
for cleansing. It is the privilegeof
afl to • be pure in heart, for the
blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from
all sin, and "blessed," yea, thrice
blessed, "are the pure in heart, for
they, shall see God.""
•
RUSSIA'S ARMY,
Russia's ,arnay on a war footing at -
counts for $5,600,000 a •day. Her
peace expondituin on her navy is $40,-
000,000 a year which sum may be
•Multiplied indefinitely for war time.
The stira mentioned for the fume re-
fers, of COUT'Se to mere maintenance,
and is liable to infinite extension,
War prices and peace rates are as dif-
ferent as famine and nicety. In the
Crimea, feed rote from teh to twenty-
five theeti its normal rate, fodder was
up to sixteen aud a half times ordin-
ary price, milk, grein, and wood five
to nine tittles, mad transport • was
ha heart, it ie evident that they aro lite ordinary rate.
EMOTE 1111LLIDI4IRES
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SOME OF •THEM LIVE WORSE
THAN LABORERS,
Mr, Scriod.ovnikoff Existed Like ot
Miser, and Left $45,000,000
for Charity.
It is one of the little eccentricities
of human nature that while there are
thousands of men to whom it would
be the height of worldly bliss to ha,ve
a few millions to spend, there are
others who have the millions to coin -
mend and yetare content to live
worse than laborers.
Such a man was Mr. G. J. Solo-
dovnikoft who, a very few years ago,
was the richest and also the most ec-
centric man in Moscow. He was
known to be a man of fabulous
Wealth, made by daring speculation on
the Stock Exchange and iel lend, and
if he had liked he could have spent
half a million a year in living like a
King and yet have added to his rich-
• But Mr. Solodovnikoff had •not
made his money by spending it, and
when he had it he meaot to keep it.
So he made his homein a dilapidat-
ed two-storey cottage in a sordid
quarter of Moscow, and conducted his
gigantic concerns from the very heert
of a slum, his greatest pleasere being
to watch his small staff of girls hand-
ling his coupons, and to boast of
his riches while sitting on it shabby
couch clothed in a tattered dressing -
gown. The stories of his miserly ha-
• bits were for years the talk, of Moe -
cow, and yet when the old man had
at last to leave his money -bags be
left something like $45,000,000 for
charitable and educational purposes.
• Only a few months ago Mr. George
T. Cline died in Chicago at the age
of eighty-three, leaving more,, then
$5,000,000 to be divided
AMONG ITIS RELATIVES.
Although Mr. Cline had ae least half
the income of the entire British Ca-
binet, he lived for years—in fact, to
the day of his death—in a single
rooxo devoid of all comfort. So pen-
urious was he that for days together
he would go without food in order to
economize the $8 a month he allowed
himself for this perpose, and when
at last hunger got the mastery he
would steal out • to a neighbdring
cheep restaurant and spend 10 cents
on a meal, tatting his own tea with
him. And yet this man of 55,000,-
000, who starved on 75 cents a week
had by no mea.ns an unhappy life, for
he lived with and for his beloved vio-
lins, eight of which, including an
Amati worth $1,500, he kept under
his apology for a bed; and often all
night long the strains of his fiddle
could be heard.
One day last August a man named
ICerki was found • dead M his bed,
clasping a stuffed monkey closely in
his arms. To his neighbors he had
always been known as a very poor
man, and, M fact, for years he had
been in receipt • of outdoor relief.
When the • monkey, which had been
• the iniseids only companion and his
bedfellow, was examined it was found
to be stuffed with bank -notes and se-
curities worth -
A FABULOUS AI/COUNT.'
But a stranger man eveh than M.
Kerki was M. Blanc, who for the last
thirty years of his lifo lived in • an
attic within a stono's throw of the
Rue d'Allemagne M Paris. Br • his
neighbors M. Blanc was thought to
be a beggar, for every morning he
sallied forth from his attic, dressed
literally in rags and looking a piti-
ful object, and returned only at
nightfall. Ho held no intercourse
with any of them, and himself attend-
ed to his own wants. At last for
some days ho failed to make an ap-
pearance, and when the door of his
room was broken •open by the police
he was found dead in bed. There was
not a particle of food in the room,
which contained only a few • peer
sticks of furniture, but M his pillow
and mattress were found securities
worth nearly 80,000,000 francs, and
hidden under the floor were half -a -
dozen bags full of gold coins.
A much more admirable typo of
millionaire -recluse • was Mr, Henry
Mileaten, who lived for many yenta in
a tiny, dilapidated cottage on the
outskirts of Brooklyn, N. Y., with
an old woman to look after his
•
VERY MODEST WANTS.
Mr. Milman had inherited a fortune
of $6,000,000 from his father, but
as, in his opinion, the money had
not been honestly gained, he refused
to spend a cent of it on himself more
than was absolutely needed to keeie
body and soul together, and this sum
he fixed at $5 a .week.
He made it the business of his life
to seek out cases of deserving need,
and for this purpose he would spend
his days wandering about. the streets
of New- York, a shabby, forlorn fig-
ure. Whenever ho discovered deserv-
ing objects of his charity— and they
were iilentiful—he would either, send
a substantial sum of Money anony-
mously, or leave it at their homes
and walk rapidly away as if he had
done a discreditable act, Ire thia
way Mr. Milman gave 'aivey • untold
sunis to others, while leading himself
•a sordid exegetic() on 55 a week.
.
BUTTONS OUT OF FRUIT SEEDS.
In Central 'America there is a fruit
producing palm which has quite met-
amorphosed 'the buttoh business and
formed the nucleus of •one of the
most important industries. Tho seed
of this fruit contains a milk that is
sweet to the taste and is relished by
the natives. The milk, when al-
lowed to remain in the nut long
•enough, becomes hardened, and turns
into a substance as hard as the
Ivory from an elephant's tusks. The
plant which produces these nuts is
called the ivory plant. Most of the
buttons esed in Anierica, whether
called ivory, pearl, bone, horn, or
rubber coine from this source. The
Ivory plant is 'ono of the • wonders
of the age, and is rewarding its
growers with vast, fortunes. The
nuts aro exported by the ehipload to
big; factories, froth; which they issue
forth in every conceiVable design,
dolor, grade, and elabsificatieet of
blithe*.
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HINTS FOR HOME LIFE.
Before laying a carpet rub the
boards over with turpentiiie to safe-
guard if against
The best way to treat headaches id
to avoid them—to refuse to over, -
tax the eens, the nerves, or the
srtglinsencallu'd ba:ctlhignigv! attention to ex
e -
Stuffy bedrooms aro responsible
for more cases of anaemia and early
consumption than is generally be-
lieved. Windows should be opened
wide, top and bottom.
• To prevent a bruise from becoming
discolored apply to it a cloth
which has been wrung out of water
as hot as can be borne comfortably,
and change it as it becomes cold.
Glycerine is now recognized as 'a
cure for thickened skin on the feet.
Bathe the feet in warm water, rub
with a rough bath towel, and when
dry rub a little glycerine well into
the shin.
A. good china content is made by
mixing with a strong solution of
gum arable and water enough plas-
ter of Paris to make a thick paste.
Thia should be applied to the broken
edges with a camel-haer brush.
To remove grease from clothes
uso hIcohol and salt. Dissolve a
tablespoonful of salt in four ed
Apply when needed with a
piece of clean flannel or • sponge.
Keep this mixture tightly corked,
and do not use it near a fire or
light, for it is very inflammable.
Anyone can have parsley, as it
may be readily grown in any warm,
sunny window. Soak, • the seeds
about 24 hours before planting (the
water should have the chill remov-
ed): after planting, water plentifully.
Don't pull the plants up by the
roots, but cut the springs; it will
then grow more curly.
To cook eggs for an invalid the
following way is the best. Put on
the •egg pan and boil the water.
Then put it in to the side of the
fire and put the egg in. Leave it in
for ten minutes, but do not allow
it to boil. When taken out it will
be found to be most digestible, as
the white of the egg will be so soft.
• New brass bedsteads are finished
with a coat of lacquer, and while
this remains intact the brass will
keep clean and bright. Care there-
fore is necessary, so merely dust
with a clean cloth every day, and as
soon as it begins to look dull or
soiled rub with a soft cloth slightly
moistened with sweet oil, wed after-
wards polish with a clean chamois
leather.
Dr. Robert Hutchinson, of Lren
don, has declared oatmeal to be one
of the most excellent articles of diet,
particularly for children. It is rich
in fat, iron and phosphates, and
properly prepared, to his mind it is
food presented in a most finished
and digestible form. A great deal
had heou written against it of late,
the lecturer said, but the writers
were wholly and entirely wrong. If
it had been so bad the Scotch race
would have long since died out.
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COOKING RECIPES.
• Tomato • Soup—Put one teaspoon-
ful butter in a frying pan, cut one-
quarter of a small onion in small
pieces and brown; add one can to-
matoes and cook one hour; pass
through sieve; then return to DrA
and add one•pint of beef stock and
two teaspoonfuls of flour. - Season
with salt' and pepper.
Steamed Pudding.—Mix three parts
of breed' or crackers cute into small
pieces, one part tart apples cut in
small pieces, • and one part dried
sweet fruit—raisins, dates, ligs, or a
mixture of them—chopped flue; add
sufficient water to prevent the pud-
ding drying while cooking; mix thor-
oughly and steam four or fiere hours,
according to quantity.
. Potato •Mgt—Take two cupfuls of
mashed potatoes end two tabda
spoonfuls • of melted butter. Stie.
these with a seasoning of salt, to a
light, fine, creamy consistency. Beat
two eggs—yokes and whites separ-
ately—and mix with six tablespoon-
fuls of cream. Beat all together,
well and lightly. Pile in an irregu-
lar, jagged terra in. "a dish. Bake in
a quick oven till nicely colored.
Scotch Broth is all excellent and
rake one pound
aourishing soup.
and a half to two pounds of scrag
end of mutton, cut it tip small,. put
it on the fire in two quarts of water.
Carefully wash three ounces of pearl
barley and add to the soup. Sim-
mer gently for three hours and then.
add a cabbage, cut small. When the
'vegetables are cooked, the soup
should be served. Add pepper and
salt. • ' - •
Rumford Biscuits.—Sift together
thoroughly. one quart flour, one tea-
spoonful salt and two -heaping tea.
spoonfuls of baking-imilitcier. Rub in
one large table -spoonful shortening.
Mix quickly with sufficient milk or
water to make a dough as soft - as
can be handled. Roll out one inch
thick and cut with small biscuit cut-
ter, then place in heated biscuit pan
Arid bake in a very quick oven for
tvi601.1•11etYEngtgit'luCteas.
k6.—Beat to a cream
one 01.115 sugar and two tablespoon -
rule of butte. ,Beat one egg very
light; add to it one cup of cold wa-
ter and beat entil it foams, Mix
with the sugar and butter; add a
little Salt, and one heaping teaspoon
Of baking -powder sifted through two
and a half cups flour; add flavoring
mix all together •thoroughly •
end
bake • in 9. moderately quick oven
senteelive minutee. •
Hoof and Ham Rolls,—Trini some
slices of cold • beef into the uniform
shape and size and sprinkle with
popper and salt. Take as many
thin slices of bacon and ham, as
there are slicee of meat, mid on to
the baeon put a •little &topped par -
• &4 suspicion of anchovy Sauce
and a few drops of mushroom ket-
chup. Now put the meat, on a
board, on each piece place 0 elicit of
the beton, roll up tightly'. and .fakten
with a, small wooden' skewer, Dip
the rell into egg and breacicrumbs
and fry le deer) fat till a good gold-
en color, Praia. Very dry, and serve
hot. , •
Kisses.--13eat the whites of four
eggs to a etiff froth and stir in 14
lbs. powdered sugar. Flavor with
vanilla, or lemon extract. Continue
to beet imtil it will lie in a heap.
Lay the mixture on letter paper in
heaps the size and shape qf half au
egg and about an inch anion. Place
the Paper on a piece of hard wood
and put into a quick oven without
closing the door. Watch them mei
when they turn yellowish take out
and let cool for three or four minu-
tes, With a thin -bladed knife lift
from the paper and join two by the
eides that lay next the paper. They
aro very nice. •
CARING FOR Tun
There is nothing that affects the
appearance more than the arrange-
ment of the hair, and whonee woman
finds a style that is becoming to
her, she should not change it to fol-
lew every caprice of fashion. • If
parting the hair in the middle look's
better than a pompadour, wear it in
that way. 'rhos° who are Nested
with curly hair need not worry
about waves and ringlets about the
forehead, but if it is necessary to
use crimping pins, a good bandoline
is a great help. • It may be made by
evaking a doeen quince seed in two
or three tablespoonfuls of water all
night. Remove the seeds in the
morning, wet the hair that is to be
crimped with the water and roll it
up while it is wot. It will • stay
'crimped a long time.
• If you wish to have pretty hair,
it is necessary to keep it clean, yet
it is often injured by using • strong
soap or chemicals in washing it.
Fill a wash bowl half full of warm
soft water, and dissolve a table-
spoonful of powdered borax in it.
Wet tho head with the water, rub
enough good toilet soap on it to
make it strong lather, and wash the
scalp vigorously, Immerse the long
hair in the water aud rub it be-
tween the hands as you would a
soiled garment to wash it. Rinse
the scalp and hair with warm wat-
er, wipe as dry as possible with a.
towel, then spread the hair over the
shoulders and sit near the fire so it
will dry quickly. Rub a little vas-
eline in • the hair to keep it from
flying about. This restores the oil
that is removed by washing, and at
no other time is any oil necessary.
The hair should not be rolled up
while it is damp.
Dandruff may be removed by the
frequent application of a solution
of borax using a teaspoonful to a
small cupful of water. Rub it into
the scalp. then comb and brush it
carefully to remove the- dandruff.
Bay rum and quinine make an excel-
lent hair tonic, stimulating the
scalp to healthy action, and causing
the hair to grow. Fl. J. C.
WHEN HOME IS SWEET HOME.
Dissension in • families ofteu rises
• from a lack of mutual consideration
among the members of the family.
The "soft answer that turnoth away
wrath" is forgotten for the hasty
reply, the unkind retort, that kind-
les the fire of ill -feeling.
Love daos not linger in the home
where rudeness shcrws its unlovely
qualities. II. chooses to 'divell in
the home where the spirit of unsel-
fishness, of self-control, of thought-
fulness, and of charitableness makes
the atmosphere sweet. The woman
who is quick to take offence is • not
like her of whom the Holy Scrip-
ture says, "Her ways are ways of
pleasantness, andall her paths are
peace." Happy homes depend on
happy hearts. Homo is distinctive-
ly a woman's sphere, and she . who
sweetens it most makes earth nearer
heaven.
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BESTS.
The best law—the golden rule.
The best oducatien—self knowledge.
The best philosophy—a contented
mind. •
The best war—to war against 0110'S
weakness.
.The best theology—a pure and ben-
eficent life.
• The best niedicine--cheerfulness. an.d
temperance.
The best music—the laughter of an
innocent child. •
The best science—extracting sun-
shine from a cloudy date
• The best telegraphy—flashing a ray,
of sunshine intna gloomy heart. •
The best biography -4h° life; that
writes charity in the largest letters.
. The best engineering—building a
bridge of faith over the river • of
death. •
The best navigation—steerieg clear
of the lacoratin.g rocks of personal
contention.
The best matheiriaties—that which
doubles the most joys and divides
the most sorrows.
BONPME SIGNALS.
The Korean War Office has a, simple
and effecti-ve way oi signallingby
moans of bonfires. Every night four
htige beacon fires are lit on the sum-
mit Of a high -hill near Seoul renown
as the Cock's Comb, • This signifies
throughout. Korea "All's well." An
extra fire 'signifies that an enemy has
been signalled off some flr,rt of the
toast. TWo extra lights mean that
•the enemy has landed, three give the
informatiOn that tho enemy are ,mov-
ing inland, and four give the dread
news that they aro pushing on to-
wards the capital,
MANY TAXES,
'In the matter of taxation the Isie
of Man is uhique. There is no
come -tax and no 'Succession ditties
chargeable against the estates of de-
ceased persons; roads aro Mallipulet-
ad by the Revenue from Vivo' soutnee
—a smell tax upon every wheel and
shod heof and -a lever toxin every
Male inhebitant,who must give a
day's work on the road- et. ita
valent in caeh. There are no stamp
duties on receipts, cheqUee, pronlis-
sory notes; etc.; in fact, stamps are
used only for Postage. " The inland
has no paWnehops. „
THE SUNDAY SCI{00t
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
APRIL ,
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Tort of the Lesson, Luke x., 1-16:
Geldee, Tet, Lulte x fe
Between' the transfiguration aed the
:sending forth of the seventy wp must!
pot only consider the events of Luke
lx„ 37-02, and the more full account'
of some of these in Vattheer and
Mark, but according to Minapriss
"eldr'saersmony," we must insert between
v
50 and 51. the whole of Matt.
viii. (found only in that gospel) and;
the whole of John vile 2 to xi., 54
• (found only in John), That will,
bring us to this les,son, which, is re-
-corded only by Luke. The time hav-
ing come or drawing near th,at He
should be received up, He steadfestly',
!set His fa.co to go to Jerusalem (lie,'
51), although He knew all that'
',awaited Him there. It would seem;
that the sending forth of the seventy;
was a last appeal ere His crucifixion.
They were to -go before Him unto
every place into which He Herneelf
was about- to come, showing •
His
power and stirring up a spirit of ex-
pectation.. • •'
In Ths prayer He said 'concerning
His followers, "As Thee ?gent sent
Me into the World; oven so have I
also sent. them into the world"
(John xvii., 18). Our great business
Myer is to go before His face euid pre-
pare His way, believing. that He
sends us and is with us. That the
number twelve, the • number of the
apostles, suggests all Israel, neecle no
c.onunent, but that the number sev-
enty suggeetnall nations may not be
so clear unless you have counted an.d
found the nations of Gen. x. to , be
juet seventy. These eeventy of our
lesson were the Lord's appointing
and uniese. Re appoints and ordains
all is useless (John nve, 5, 16). The
command which He ga.ve to the dis-
ciples in Matt. ix., 37, 38, and now
repeats to the seventy- that they,
should pray the Lord of the harv-eat ,
that Be would send • forth laborers
into His harvest, is still sounding in
our ears, *for the harvest still is
great, and the laborers are few. The
Loed is. still saying, "Mom shall I
send and who will go for us," • (Lea -
vi., 8). But there feiv who answer
"Here am 1. E3encl rae." .
When I last wrote notes on this
portion of Scripture in 1889 our talS<
smutty interest—that is, a. real la
tercet, something more than an an.
nual offering—was only beginning,
but we felt grateful to be able to
send that year 5553 to help obey
Mark xvi., 15, and after that il
steadily increased • from 52,000 to
54,000 a year until 1896, when from
the church and Bible classes and
friends we•sent -over 528,500. Since
then it has never been less than 520,-
000 a year, and last year, 1902, it
was over 5218,000, without any ef-
fort to raise a cent of it beyond
mentioning the need and calling at-
tention to the conunand.
The marching orders of the seventy
are very largely our marching .ordere
now, though after His death and ren,
urroctdon there' was some change in
the comma:eon.
The carnal mind is still enmity,
against God, and the whole world
cohitinues in the wicked one (Rom.
inn, 7; I. John v, 19, R. V.) Mere
aro wolves in sheep's clothing, and •
the, messenger of •Christ must be
• wise ss a serpent and harmless as a
dove. Not all will welcome the mes-
senger or the message. The para.,
bles of the sower and the -wheat and
tares cover this whole age. But the
medsengee has only to get his cies.
sego from "Ood, in the power of tba
Spirit deliver it faithfully and earn.-
eetly, and tho Lord will always aa
complish Xis pleasure (Ise. lv. 11).
We aro to have no anxiety about
outfit or expenses, but leave all that
to the Manager and Proprietor who
sends us, for He will not fail to
take eare of His own. (See .Matt.
vi. 25-38; Luke xii, 22, 81; Phil. iv.
6, 7.) We aro not to waste time
on the mere courtesies of the world
nor seek honor ono of another, but
bo ivhole heartedly the King's own.
Preaching peace by Jesus Christ to
all the world, and that as quickly
as possible, should be our one aim,
for, having made peace by the blood
of His cross, He puts in the hands
of the redeemed the commission to
proclaim it far and wide. He has
had compassion on a lest world, and
if His Spirit fills us we will show
our 'compassion, by giving freely
that which we have., so freely. receiv-
ed. The -God of Peace and tbe
Prince' of t'OaCO are calling for mes—
sengers who will faithfully and ear-
nestly carry everywhere the . good
news cd rodemptiou by the blood 0,t.
Christ that •whosoever will may ac-
cept the Lamb of God and, being
justified by faith, have peace' with
God through Jesus Christ (Hob.
20, '21; Ise. be 6; vi, 8; Rom. v„ -1).
The command "Mat such things as
aro set before you" is a very impor-
tant one if the messenger desires to
commend his message, but there are
many Christians and even evange-
lists, teecheretand pectichers who are
so fastidious About eating and
drinking, sleeping arrangements and
attendence, that neither host, host-
ess nor • serVants, who are once an •
flicted by them ever want to sen on -
hear more of them or their message
unless grace abounds exceedingly: in
their bearts.
iwere to trarhetngeele'sicktie n'
°fot(311 eicess°4
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preach peace, ler the kingdom of
God was then at hand; but, tho
kingdom having been postponed be-
cause of US eejeetion (Luke xix, 11-
13), the,miratles of healing do not
abound as they did through the
twelve and the seventy, Then there
aro still and always item° been such
miracles, no one Ott deny, but see
in verse 20 something better • than
miraeles of healing.
Talk is cheap—unless srou are nSing
long-distance telephone.
oUt the only induceinents worthy of
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