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'1 he Old Testament Doctor Lives in the
Kemory of Our Childhood.
(Entered according to Act of the res.
Ilan:teat. of Canada, in the year Ore
Timesend Nine elundred and roceo,
e'Y Wxu Belly, of Toronto. at the
3)epartment of Agriculture, Ottawan
eeelu telt from Los Angeles says;
—Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage
preached froze.. the followMg text :
Genesis xxx, 39, "And the flecks
brought forth cattle, .ringstraked,
speckled aad spotted." .
Lillian, thought a man 'or wealth
end influence among the Hebrews of
his day, was yet, like Wally rich men
in our time, mean. and unprincipled
where a bargain. was .involve& In
his compact with jaeob the weak
points of his cbaracter were strik-
ingly revealed. He had two daugh-
ters. "Leah WU S tender eyed, but
Rachel was very beautiful." li other
worde, the older sister was hoznely
und unattractive. She was a- maid-
en lady whom no one cared to
marry; her eyes were inflamed, or
watery, or "cast;' her disposition
was evidently as much askew as her
eyes. Jacob was deeply in love
with the younger sister, but alter
he had served seven long years for
her old Laban Cheated him out of
his promised bride and palmed aft
upon the young man. the unattrac-
tive elder sister. • Then, in order to
win the younger sister, Jacob had
to serve seven more long years, and
es a result he had two wives instead
of one.
POWER OF THE MIND.
At the end of his fourteen years
of service Jacob prepared to leave
his father-in-law's employ. He want,
ed to take his two wives and go off
and build a home of his own some-
where. This, however, Laban did
not wish him to do. Sp the crafty
Laban made a contract with Jacob
that if he would stay and continue
En charge of his herds of .arittle and ;
flocks of sheep he, Lateen, Would
give to the young men aspayen.ent
for bis services all tbe citives and I
the lambs and the kids that were
born ringetraked or speckled or
spotted. Jacob agreed to tbe bar-
gain. But when he agreed the
young man was craftier time the
old men, As the father-in-law had ,
been ueprincipled with Jecele so
Jacob was unprincpled now with
Laban. What did Jacob do ? Did I
he allow nature to simply take its
usual course? No. He began to
scheme and to curium:Rey influence
the colors of the calves, the kids
.the priests, And it earn° to paeS
as the g went they were cleansed."
Did not God compel the leper Naa-
Maa to leave the faroff Damaseue
and dip seven times in the Jordan
before his flesh -became like unto
that of a little child, 1 am not
here advocating any heretical idea
that Chriet cannot and will not in
many cases heal our physical dis-
eases, but I assert. that as a people
se have no more rght to expec
.the :Diving Physician to answer our
prayers for health without any co-
operetive effort CM our part than we
have a right to expect our Divine
Commissary to give us our daily
bread without our working for it.
We have just as much right to kneel
down at night and say the Lord's.
Prayer, "Give us this day our daily
bread," and then in our eagerness to
expect next morning a viclionary
breakfast to jump out of a vision-
ary fire and sizzle upon a visionary
broiler anci the water lancet to fill
the pot with visionary coffee or the
yeast - to tumble the empty bread
tray down .the dummy filled with
visionary hot toast as we have to
ee.-pect the sick to be made well
without our own effort upon which
divine blessing has been -invoked.
Faith to react upon works; works
always in the invalid's room to go
hand in hand with faith !
JOB'S COMFORTERS.
leaith cure teachings, pure and sim-
ple, are not only contrary to Scrip-
tural common sense, but also antag-
onistic to the conunendations with
!which the Bible again and again hon-
ors human medicament and the physi-
cians' prescriptions. The only pas-
sage in the Bible which in any way
;might be construed by the casual
reader as a slur upon doctors and
drugs is that one so often quoted by
faith curists from the words found in
the 1)f:ink of Job: "Ye are forgers of
lies. Ye are all pnysicians of no
value." But job is 'not here allud-
ing to true physicians at all. This
sentence is a figure of speech. Job
had lost patience with his three
friend.s, Eliphaz, Zothar and Elided.
These three friends, instead of com-
forting him in his time of trouble,
came around with enough groans and
whines to make a well •men sick or a ,
sick man still sicker, They asserted I
that Job's boils were the results of
his sins, and Job-, in disgust, plainly
told them 11 they could bring •no bet-
ter comfort than they they had all
better clear out. Instead of groaning
around Job as they -did they ought
to have spoken words of true com-
fort to him. as did Christ in his re -
!marks about the blind man when he
said, "Neither hath this man sinned
nor his parents, but"—he was born
blind—"that the works of God should
be made manifest in him."
AN HONORED PROFESSION.
If the Bible does not honor the
medical profession why did Christ use
as illustration this sentence for one
of his sermons, "They that be whole
need not a physician, but they that
are sick?" Does not that divine
statement mean, `"rhey that are sick
need a physician?" When Hezekiali
was sick unto death he prayed to
God to give him a longer lease of
life. God answered that prayer. But
how? Through huinan medicament.
Isaiah, the prophet, told the nurse to.
make a poultice out of figs and put
it upon the king's boil and he-recov-
ere.d. Hezekiah Prayed. Oh, yes. But
in arnaver to that prayer God told
'him to use a sanctified poultice.
What did Paul mean when he wrote
to Timothy to ”take a little wine
for thy stomach's sake." Paul was
merely prescribing a" dose of medicine
for a sick colleague, Paul writes
thus to. Timothy, because the Holy
Land with but few exceptions, is not-
ed for its impure waters; therefore
Paul, as e common. sense Christian,
prescribes a little medicine when he
says, "Drink no water, hut use a lit-
tle wine for thy: stomach's sake," All
through the Bible we find commenda-
tory passages like these in reference
to doctors. In DO case do we find
the medical profession anathematized
an ridiculed in the Bible. Tyndall,
the noted synthetic philosopher, once
hurled at ehe Christian church his
famous pra3rer challenge. Said he:
"Let us set apart two wards in a
hospital—one to be filled with men
who do not take any human medicine
but prayer, the other to be filled by
sick patients under the care of com-
potent physicians. Then let us com-
pare results and see which is the most
effic.acious—a Physician's prescription
or a clergyman's prayer." My bro-
ther, that challenge of Tyndall's was
about as foolish and unscriptural as
any thallenge that Could possibly be
issued. No man has a right. to bar
the Christian physicians out of the
hospital ward. God honors the phy-
sician's Work all through the Bible.
Faith should go hand in hand. with
works. Works in the hospital should
go hand in hand with faith.
THE POOR MAN'S HELPER.
To most of us the old fashioned
doctor yet lives in the memory of
our village ehildhood, ITaltnew every
family secret for milee around. He
had heard the family skeleton rat-
tling in many a dark closet. 1.1e. was
at every birth, at every marriage al-
tar and at every fttneral. With him
the village clitiech bell Sotincled a dirge
alumet es often ae it chimed Rilea
weeding, We knew not when we lov-
ed hint the most—when he was gath-
ering the rosebuds in the garden of
the nativity or intevining the orange
blossoms or plaeing the white lily
cilangfiteet of the pale cheek in the
casket. There was a idnd of teligi-
elle rattle in his old gig, That,ehild
Wes tbe most envied of the village
who cotild sit by his eide and hold
the rein e over the brick Of the Old
and tha lanibs about to be born 13e
took some rods of green poplar andi
hazel and chestnut and laid those
-rods of White and black be the wa-
iering troughs of the herds and the
Locke. Then, when the cows and
the sheep and the goats came- to
drink out of the watering troughs
the black and white rods reflected in
the water made such a startling im-
pression upon them that the calves,
kids and lambs born thereafter were
influenced by that prenatal shock,
and most of them were ringstraked
and spotted and speckled. Thus
Jacob's herds grew larger than
Laban's, and the craft of the un-
scrupulous son-in-law overreaching
the dishonesty of the father-in-law.
After Jacob placed the rods of
green poplar and hazel and chestnut
in the watering troughs the •startl-
ing and far reaching effect produced
upon the animals is not to be won-
dered at. If you place a stick in
the water, by the laws of reflection
that wood may seem to become_ it
creature of life. I remember. when
a lad once dropping my fishing pole,
rind as it lay at the bottom of the
brook the ripples_ made that rod
look like a long serpent wriggling
upstream. As these cattle Stoop to
drink I see them start back as
though '11 venomous hissing snake
was lifting up his :fatal fangs to
etrike. My text presents one of the
best inatances to be found in litera-
ture of the far rein:bine effect of the
min& over the physical body.
WORKS A..ND FAITH.
But, though the whole trend ef the
Bible teaches that works and faith,
as twin sisters, sboeld go eand in
hand ni search of the. waters of .phy-
isical health, yet faith curists blind
their eyes and stop their ears to
these Biblical teachings. They get
a hold on one' little passage. of
Scripture and separate it from, all
its surrounding connections. As a
sweet morsel they turn it over and
over again. They magnify it, They
distort, and then they rest .their•
entire belief upon it. These people
may be good at heart, but. they
treat Scripture soniewbat es a fan -
013S reformer did in the noted ineete
ing he had with John Calvet in
Munich, 1 believe, in about Hee year
1540. After he had valiantly help-
ed to fight the battle of the refor-
mation to it glorious and a succees-
fel issue he still clung tenaciously to
tbe doctrine of transubstantiation.
That doctrine, in plain language,
meens that whorl we drink of the
• communion wine and eat of the com-
munion, bread we literally are drink-
ing of Christ's blood and eating of
Christ's body, The other school of
theological thought held that When
we assemble at the communion table
we only eat of Christ's botetr and
drink in symbol. We eat and driek
en evinbol, as the lamb's blood shod
upon the jewieh altar was the sym-
bol of Christ's blood ebtiut to be
shed for us. Thin battle over tree -
subs tan t ict t i on raged bit tarty for
yeare betweext the two schools of re-.
ligious thought.
THE BIVINE PHYSICIAN,
Did not Christ eompel action ape
ten the part of him that tees 'blind'?
After he had anointed the blind eyes
with it Moist clay did he not erty
unto ,the young • man, "(.4o wash in .
the Poor of Samna ?" Ire went his-
veay, therfere, and; weebed tied came
wing: :Ind jif Christ eon -trice C-
tien Wien the part or tba tojl ISp
tis ? Allow :iomeiveo un.to
Mare, that ROOMOCI, to bo JOS( as old
as the doctor and to knear Just as
many family eecrets. Yet it could not
goseiP cow more than did its wester,
When the boy was in trouble this
kind doctor would place his fatherly
hand upon the lad's shoulder and
give him advice. The young maiden
would smile under the twinkle of his
fatherly eye as he chatted to her of
her first sweetheart. leveri the bees
would buzz louder and, the dogs bark
more happily, end their tails would
wag fester as the'doctor drove along.
We remember the old black bag 1w
always carried and the long white
bandages he placed about the spliuts
when we fell off the bayrnow and
broke our arm, The strange looking
bottlefilled with pills—bottles that
all looked alike—arid the pills, too,
seemed to be the same.
Will you not believe in ,such a con-
secrated physician? Will you not be-
lieve thee by the sick jted faith can
go hand in hand with Works and the
surgeon's knife and that the physici-
an's prescriptions hate a part in the
civilization and the Christianization
of the world? And will not you, 0
physician, be a Christiau doctor, as
well as you, 0 layman, a Christian
patient?
All honor, then, to our Christian
physicians, whose calling and office
are thus divinely consecrated, and
may a blessing rest upon their earn-
est efforts for the alleviation of the
physical afflictions of the human
race.
RUSSIA AND THE WE.
There Is a Popular Longing for
DeSeat.
"There is within Russia herself,i'
says a writer in the Birmingham
Gazette, and Express, "an almost
universal longing for defeat at the
hands of some foreign foe, One of
the ' acutest observers of national
life in inodern Russia says that this
ominoue aspiration may be heard
not only in Northern but in South-
ern Russia, and it makes no differ-
ence whether the speakers are Rus-
sians from the east or the west.
"It is scarcely possible to imagine
a. more instructive symptom than
this of the deep despair that grips
the national life of Bessie, or of the
hopeless gloom which prevails, as
to the present condition of the coun-
try. The only possibility of libera-
tion from the overmasterin,eg ,misery
and depression which presents itself
is that which- would be furnished by
the ruin and disorganization such
as an unsuccessful war Would bring
upon the ruling system.
"The truth is," continues the
writer, "that Russia is as a house
divided against herself. The growth
of a natione,/, as well as an imper-
ial policy, to which it is inveterate-
ly opposed, has recently become an
organized fait accompli, by the co-
operation. of the artisan and agri-
cultural classes, which aro no longer
capable of repression. It is the i
slow but remarkable development of
this national policy, despite all the I
efforts of imperialism, which affords
the Most useful measure of the ac-
tual strength and weakness of Rus-
sian political aggresion. And it is
the dangerous possibilities of this
national movement in its present
advanced stage which is haunting
the bureaucrats of Russia with the
spectre of interbal disruption as
they stand face to face with the
struggle against the well-trained le-
gions of Japan. Its most impor-
tant effect is already to be seen in
the creation of a spirit of socialistic
sympathy, merging quite recently in-
to co-operation, between the educat-
ed and uneducated classes, which
can point to nothing else than the
final overthrow of oligarchic despo-
tism in Russia."
GENERA.1, BIRTHDAY.
Japanese Families Pool Their
Celebrations.
Japan is the land of topsy-turvy,
and so, perhaps, it is only to; be ex-
pected that individual bIrtbdays—with
the exception of that of the Emper-
or—are not taken any notice of, but
it sort of general birthday of every-
body altogether is celebrated with
great rejoicing.
There are two of these general
birthdays, one for each sex. The male
birthday, which is known as the "ce-
lebration of the boys," occurs on the
third day of the third month, and the
"celebration of the girls" takes place
on the fifth day of the fifth month.
These days are general holidays for
the young. All studies and work gen-
erally axe put aside, and boys and
girls respectively receive presents ac-
cording to their station.
The birthday of the Emperor, .or
Ten -o, as he irx more properly styled,
is also a general holiday for the Jap-
anese everywhere. The houses aro all
decorated with flags, and in the
evening the streets are gay with the
lights of innumerable colored lan-
terns. In the morning the highest
authorities go to the palace to offer
their congratulations hi person, and
the lower degrees offer them vicari-
ously to their superiors. All the .1a/e-
at-lase would, soinehow or other, con-
gratulate their monarch on having
added another year to his age.
OPINIONS CHANCE.
First T3aby.
Fond Young Mother (to proud
young father) :--"Albert, dear, did
you hear the sweet, precioes darling
cry his little eyes out last night?"
Freed 'Young Father :—"I thought
heard our angel twitter."
Second Baby.
She :—"Albert, you unfeeling
wretch! To hear that child screech-
ing all night lied never offer, to take
1111.2.6-10 1:---' "Let the little demori howl!"
It's worth thinkieg about that, a
man's cite= of an ideal state neve
rote nearer tie a woman than a boato
a pipe, and it flahline,
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SPRING PACKING.
With the spring moving or hoese
cleaning comes the old, Yezeiug ques-
tion of disposing cif winter gar-
ments, To the presielieg gennie of
a real house, with well arranged cel-
lar and attic, the problem is com-
paratively simple; plenty of moth
balls and newspapers from ;which to
evolve shapeless bundles—old boxes,
barrels and trunks, and the thing
is done.
The fundamental principle upon
which to work is to ,discard every-
thing that is not worth saving.
This is not a plea for wastefulness;
for it the average woman is, frank
I she will admit that year after year
she saves articles of wearing appar-
el which she knows full well will
never be utilized again.
Before sorting out the winter
clothing, lay in a plentiful supply
of tar bags; clean newspapers, tissue
papers for wrapping delicate fabrics,
boxes for garments whose shape
must be preserved, sweet lavender to
scatter among feathers, and some
antimoth preparation. It must be
borne in mind that there is no
death -on -moths preparation.
• Some anti-moLh preparations keep
the little pests from entering a box
or a package, „but none vill kill
them if they are alreaclY in tbe gar.
merit, n a small moth �' even an
egg is in the article when packed,
no amount of so-called preventive
will kill it. It is therefore neces-
sary to have the garments thorough-
ly cleaned and aired, beaten and
sunned before packing.
Starting with the. underwear, all
flannels must be washed with more
than ordinary care, as the oil from
the skin is particularly attractive
to moths. For the same reason.
the housewife should insist upon
having the woollens rinsed thorough-
ly, as moths look with favor upon
the oils used in strong soap. Wrap
in small, flat bundles and mark leg-
ibly.
' Men's suits and women's cos•temes
should be well dusted and cleaned.
Cf in very bad condition, tend them.
to the tailor's or scourer's before
packing. It will have to be done
before the garments 'are donned itt
the fall anyway, and dust invites
moths. Collect all garments that
are outgrown, or' which for some
reason you know will be unavailable.
next year, and sell them to the first
old clothes man who happens along.
Large outer garments, such as
jackets, coats and top coats, should
be put away in tar bags. ' These
come in three sizes, 80x50 inches,
80x60, and 80x90. The garments,
swathed in tar paper and. caught
on the regulation coat hangers,
should be hung close together in the
coolest closet the house affords. At
Intervals during the hot weather
they should be taken out, examined
thoroughly; beaten and returned to
their summer quarters.
Many gowns which would not pay
for storage as a whole can be ripped
up to advantage. Select the best
parts of the cloth, clean and press
and roll away for a. winter blouse.
Lace should be clean.ed a,ncl ladd
.0:way in. tissue paper. Silks, satins
And ribbons should be rolled, and
passementeries and appliques should
be dusted, bits of thread removed,
and the trimming rolled neatly in
boxes or wrapped in tissue paper.
The same procedure should be
adopted for Millinery. 'An old
shape may be thrown away, but its
velvet covering 'can be brushed,
steamed and saved for it new shape.
Feathers should be put in boxes
and sprinkled with lavender. Heavy
silk waists should ' •be stuffed with
tissue paper and packed singly in
flat boxes. •
The most important work and by
far the most uncertain is the pack-
ing of fees. The woman who val-
ues her furs, yet cannot. afford cold
storage, should air and clean them
thoroughly, and examine them with
extreme care. Tails seem the fav-
orite nesting place for inoths, so
the tails of the nuff, boa or stole
should have 'special attention.
The more valuable the ler, the
more -danger from moths. For in-
stance, Russian sables cannot be
mended, and in four weeks a single
moth can ruin, by the help otrapid-
ly increasing generations, an entire
sable garment.
Dyed skins are comparatively safe
from moth inroads, because the
acids employed in dyeing are pois-
onous. For example, in sealskin,
the moth eats only -in spots, that is,
where there is least acid; in natural
furs it eats straight through the
gaement.
Moths hatch In March and their
work goes on inerrily during the
warm. weather. • A moth may lie
dormant in cold storage for six
months, and then when the infected
.garment is exposed to warmair
once more it promptly begins to
burrow its obnoxious way. .
It is a Mistake to suppose that
keeping mit the air is a safeguard
for lure. Far better is it to take
out the furs once in a fortnight and
look thein over, if they are not kept
in cbld storage. In so short a time
as a fortnight an ordinary moth cae
tvorle. itretrievable &image.
Cleanliness is the saving grace of
lure, and the housewife who cannot
afford the care of experts should
pack her furs where they are acces-
sible, clean them theroughly and
examine thorn at regular intervals.
DOMESTIC RECIPES.
Molasses 'Cookies.--Orte cup each
of shortening, sugar molasees and
water; two teaspoonfuls each cinna-
men- and gieger; three level tea-
spooreefule saleratUti dissolved in a
little Water; 'one heaping teciepeen-
fill of 'baking powder sifted in with
the flour. Mix soft, eut half an
incli thick and bake. A pinch of
salt should be added.;
Fruit. Cekee—One pound brown su-
gar, one pound flour' Sifted; three-
fourths pound of softeried butter;
eggs; one pound each of raisins
4nd currants; one-half pound eftron THE suNDAT scito
Cut in fine stripe!: one teblesoeonful 0
ground cinnamon, QUO of ground,
cloves anti ono neterieg grated, and
one-helf tlulabler Of grape or curraut ThrTnioriaxoNAL LEsooN,
juice. Bake ih one pan loaf one
MAY 1.
and one-half hours.
Coffee Cake.—One pint of bread
dough, creamoee eup of brown Sie-
ger, one-half cup butter and the
yolks of two eggs, adding the stiffly
'teletext whites. Now work this mix-
ture• into the dough very
thoroughly with a half teaspoonful
each of eirmainten, cloves tincl nut-
meg, a„ teaspoonful of soda and two
tinahtlews0poiconitifseleof eesWettelttprirliilek.ttin:LLk4e
rest until sufficiently light.
Nut Cutlets—Mix two cups chopp-
ed nuts (almonds and peanuts mix-
ed) with one cup meshed, poeato pr
belled rice and a, beaten egg; season
with teaspoon salt, teaspoon
paprika, aed tea,spoon mushroom
or tomato catsup; shape into cut-
lets, dredge well with bread crumbs
arid fry a golden brown. Toothpicks
may be stuck in the small end of
each cutlet to stimulate the bone.
Orange and Walnut Salad,—Navel
oranges are the best, as there are no
seeds. Out into dice from 4 to 6
aolli.adngeasdd 1C.hripa2cinsolppeeudP 0efvalenleertYs,
Place bite deep dish and mix with
mayonnaise liressing. Ren-tove to
riilNe,ors
dsd0ishta.0npd garnish with Stuffed
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Salt placed under baking tins in'
the oven .will prevent their, contents
from scotching on the bottom. Salt
and vinegar will remove tee stains
from china. •
I3efore boiling milk rinse out the
saucepan with 'a little hot water; it
will prevent the milk sticking to
the'bottom of the pan.
To keep 'tins' bright, wash well
with a little hot water; It will pre-
tv0m
e-11the
nt 01
ennpliacnetieking to the bot -
To keep tins bright, wash well
with strong hot soda and water;
when dry, polish with.a cloth and a
little powdered whiting.
Parsley may be kept fr"esh anda
good color for several days if put
into it covered earthen jar la a cool
place; it will last much longer _then.
if kept itt water, and the sameis
true oli lettuce.
Copper cooking utensils require
constant attention and perfect clean-
liness, otherwise they corrode and
produce verdigris, and food cooked
in them would be poisonous. If the
tin Ening becomes worn it `should
at once be renewed.
When milk boils over on the stove,
or in, the oven, sprinkle a thick lay-
er of salt on the burning milk; let
it remain a few minutes, then brush
off.
SOLDIERS OF THE CZAR.
•••••••••in
Spirit of Comradeship Exists Bit-
' tween. Onicers and. Men.
The uniform of the Russian soldier
is the simplest Lehi uniform he Eur-
ope. in winter a sheepskin coat
goes on beneath the gray one. In
summer, or during campaigns in hot
climates, the itussiaes, like the Jae
panes°, fight in white dress. • To
critics who say that this renders
them needlessly conspicuous, they
reply that it is better than khaki;
for a man. dressed in earth color im-
agines hiinself invisible, and behaves
accordingly. , He gets shot; whereas
the man who knows he can be seen
keeps under cover and comes off
with a whole skin. A. writer in the
'paper describes the soldiers of the
czar as follows :
The Russian campaigner marches,
somewhat hea-vily laden. ,He' has
his kit -bag with clothing slung Over
one ' shoulder, his haversack With
two days'. rations, .of bread and salt
slung over the other, his greatcoat
strapped under one arm. Including
his water -bottle, arms and ammuni-
tion, a section of tent and the uni-
form he stands in, he carries some-
thing over sixty-six pounds, The
advantage which offsets the burden
is that at a pinch the Russian foot -
soldier is practically independent of
a baggage -train. He can transport
hie modest necessities upon his own
back
The Russian cavalryman rides so
laden with cornsacks and blankets
and greatcoats and wallets and sad-
dle -bags and things that he puts ono
In mind of the mach -encumbered
White Knight in "Alice in Wonder-
land. '? Altogether his impedimenta
weigh one hundred and nineteen
pounds. Fortunately what would
oppress another soldier is no burden
to the Russian. ' He is sturdiness
itself. Russian soldiers have been
Iceown to march thirty miles with -
put rest, and then go directly,into
an engagement.
Severity is accounted the prime
factor of Russian Military discipline.
But something better than severity
goes to make soldiers of Russian
peasants, and that something is •a
powerful spirit of Camaraderie. A
high Russian ollicer does met hesi-
tate to joke with his
When the commanding officer meets
his troops for the first time in the
morning he calls out cordially,
"Good morning !" The men reply
with a peculiar, long, rattling shout
"Your good- health, your excel-
lency
When a manoeuver is executed to
tile 'commander's satisfaction, he
shouts tongratuletions to the men,
and they respand all together, "We
are glad you liked it,"
A GENTLE HINT.
"Arabella," said old Billyuns,
he finieliecl his dinner, "1 am going
to ask you to do me a favor.
went you to give your young man,
Mr.—Mr. Whatshisnaine—a message
frAojrnabile7lia," blushed caul looked doten
at her plate
th0 bluff 03a mlifion,
aire went on, '`that 1 clen't obcSt
to his staying here tutd refining up
hly gas Mlle, but that I doobject
(5 hia carrying the niorhihs paper'
away with 'him whenhe leayes.”
After Unit' Mr. Willineeie Went
hem° etteller.,
Text of the Lesson, Luke xi,, 3 4
041On Text, puke xi., 9.
In the intervening verses between
the last lesson and this ono the pow-
er over all the power of the eneing
which was granted to the seventy,
With the assurance that nothing
ehould by Any means hurt them.
Note also what our Lord.said about
our names written in heaveu and
the blessedness of having a childlike
spirit everees'19-21): nen follows
the story of the lawyer who ,answer-
ed so correctly from the law, but
was so full of self justification,' and
who learned froin the .story of the
compassionate Samaritan what it
means to love your neighbor as.
;yourself. The law is intended to
shut our mouths concerning oursel-
ves and bring all in guilty before
God, that they may be saved, for
only tho lost Oen be saved (Rom. iii,
19-24).
As to the story of Martha. and
Mary, with which chapter x closes,
I have no doubt but that • Women
were true disciples, ,equally saved,
but Mary while doieg her full share
of housework, as the narrative hue
plies, had a living interest in things
unseen - and found time to sit at
Jesus' feet and receive 1 -lis words,
While Martha, was burdened with
unnecessary heihe cares. I 'know
some housekeepers who feel that
theY 'must rise earlier in themorn-
ing to have their hour alone with
God to fit them for the work of the
day, and they Will not let company
or any circumstances interfere even
through theday, 'with their fellow-
ship with Rim. Consequently
Christ is seen in theni to the glory
of god.,
It is refreshing to reed that John
taught his .diseiples to pray. Our
Lord had .already taught this form
of prayer, which has been well call -
cid the epitome of all prayer (Matt.
vi, 9-18), but as it was probable
that the disciple who asked this
question was not at that time, pre-
sent. These prayers were taught to
disciples only, for only the redeem-
ed can truly call God "Patter."
None are truly children of God till
they have receiVed the Lord Jesus.
(John i, 12). It is a great privi-
lege conferred Upon tell such, 'As to
the standing of others see John viii„
44. Through the sacrifice of our
Lord all who truly receive Hint are
children of God, heirs of God and
joint heirs with Christ (Rom. yilie
17).
How often we have read it and
heard it, but how little we compre-
hend. it 1 May the words of our e
Lord to ,Mary take hold of us in 7ep
the power of the Spirit, "I ascead'
unto my Father and your Father,
aud to my God and your God" -
(John xx. 17).
When we learn to say from the,
heart, "Our Father, who art in,
heaven," then there is an end, of all,
eare and anxiety about tbing,s tem-
poral, according to Matt. vi, 25-23;
Rom. viii. 32. The prayer has sev-
en petitions—three for the things of,
Gad and His kingdomand four con-
cerning ourselves—and there is a
wonderful parallel, as suggested by.:
Steir in his "Words of the Lord,
Jesus," between these petioes and
the beatitudes.
It is to be feared that few even
among the redeemed know nineb of
the blessedness of the poor in spirit,
whose is the kingdom of heaven, and
can triely say, "Hallowed by Thy
name." Not many mourn because,
the kingdom does not come, and the
majority desire their own will rather
than His, for they seem to have lit-
tle if any of' His meekness. . The dita
eral daily bread is to them far eno.re.
than righteousness, and, not enjoying:
the conscious forgiveness or sins,
they are not very forgiving 1:,-O
ere Failing to see God in every --
thing because they lack ,purity of
heart, they are often in -unnecessary
trials and temptations. The evil
one, the peace breaker, has such con-
trol of them that they do not mani-
fest the spirie of children of God. Note/
being wholly occupied • with Him
whose is the kingdom and the power
-and the glory, they know little of the
experience of Matt. v., 10-19, nor do
they scene to desire it.
The reet of our lesson, following,
the prayer, sets before us that which
is the heart of all true prayer, and
that is earnest desire. "He will nag'
fill the desire of all that, fear
"Delight thyself; in the Lord, ,and
will , give thee the desire of -Wee:
heart." Daniel is called it mani
"greatly beloved," or, as in the mar -e
gin, "a imin Gi desires" (Ps. asiv.,
19; xxxvii., 111 an. x,, 11). So
in our ,Lord's teaching He sets be-
fore us a man itt real need, having
nothing to meet the need., and hence
he is . importunate or thoroughly in
earnest and.obtains his request. Such;
people ask till they receive, and they ,
receive beeause they eeek with the
whole heart. See carefully such pas-
. . . .
sages as John env., 13, 14; xv„ e
Jer. xxix., 13; Prov. viii.., 17,
iL, 4; i John v„ 14, 15, awl firmly
believe them. Not only are. we to
ask, but we are to expect (Pe, lxii.,
5), Mid we are to remember that tve
are asking from One Wil0 is really '
our Father in heaven, who ke oweth
our frame, who pitieth as a father
and comforteth as a mother and who
cart Withhold no good thing from Hie
ili;h1Lttlx
ea (Ps'. 1c3iiii,„ 18, 14; boccie.,
ct
If a father will give to e Need,
how much more will lie give to WI
own eon, and ho' much mere will
our Heavenly Father give good allege
than earthly perenteI ily coil -marine
efatie vii„ 11, with verso 13 of. out
lesecin you will eotice that instead 01
"good things" ;it is "tbo Holy Spine
and He is the sure of all geed
*Inge,' for only :Tee; otie mate 115efee
;kpow °hetet' end.God elMousli felireStk
arid He ',cen Watley us the eiehee• thitti
ere. tame .in Cheiet and Melee es the .
rejoiting Christiane Wei* Goe itt
tends ,tni to bit*