Exeter Advocate, 1904-5-5, Page 6L.5,00.1
EAGER 'DESIRE FOR WEAL
Gad Does Not Want Us to Make Foolish
Sacrifices
Metered eccorclingto act ot tee Pstr.
iitunent. oteienada. in the yr Ore
Thousand Nine liendred and. Feese
by eem, natty, of Toronto, ea the
Departmeue of Agriculture, Otteweo
A despatch from Los Angeles says:
Rev, Frank De Witt Talmage lereaott-
el from the following text; duclgas
311, "Alas, nay daughter!'
An old trite saying declares, "What
is worth getting is worth poging,
foe." But the payment demanded tor
what we want is often more than
mere silver and gold. It mate cost
the pound of flesh near the heart 'of
an Antonio, and it may mean allver
or gold, crimsoried by having been
dipped and rusted and dyed in human
Well, to -thy we fiml General •Jeple-
theh herring a great ambition. He
was not, only seeking a noble and a
legitimate goal:, but hewas rashly
and recklessly ready to pay any
;Alice to reach that goal. Jephtliah
had two objeets in reaching this
goal of his ambition. The first, to
wine out the stigma on therecord of
his birth, Like Alexaedre Dumas, he
• could never mention the name of his
mother without brining a blush.. of
shame to his' cheek, Secondly, eleplog,i-
_, thali wanted to drive out. the 11-zeta's:elf
, ing Ananaltish hosts. who were
threatening to destroy hie people. S'o
the night before the great battle
opened General sleplithali in his mili-
tary tent made a pledge something, -
like this: "0 Clod, if to -morrow thou
wilt order give anci success, if thou
wilt allow inc to atone for the awful
record of my birth by being a deliv-
erer of my people from these invading,
herds of cut-throats, I promise thee
that whatsoever cometh, forth of the
doors of iny house to meet me when
I return in peace from the children of
Ammon shall surely be the Lord's,
and will offer it up for a blunt of-
fering,"
Hardly had the roar, and din of
battle ceased when the messeugers on
swiftest of horses sped everywhere.
Everywhere the hard riding couriers
shouted the news to an exulting peo-
ple: "The land is free! 'The land is
free! Tho laud is freel Jephthah
hag won! Jephillab has won!"
all reformatory inovements, but he
one of the pillars of Rev. S
and-So's church." did h
• ' o • o
make Ills money? al ell, ho
swors, end with :het be looks aroun
to SOO UP 0110 is 110:11A110; cli
eauce, "them is a dark story col
nected with his life. People do ea
he got his start by dishonest means.
tio is said to have been once a very
poor young enaa and a clerk in his
Miele's office This uncle was the
• Owner of some -very valuable coke
lands, Thie uncle was a director ili
one of our large private banks :fend
had his name, with six or seven
•other dieoctors, upon notes aggregat-
ing some millions of dollars in value.
The bank failect These directors wore
,responsi Lor the notes, orde
to lineidate thoee notes that anal
would have had to hand over mos
Of his property. What did he do? I
order to .es0ape 'those legitimate obli
gations he placed his coke propert
,in the, hands of his mob= feed the
,wenti into court and .swore he .wa
penniless. After he had perjere
;hinaself thus this uncle went. to hi
!MINIM and said, eltl'oW, my ben dee
one back ,my Coke laods.'
it.eigleethe• gotirig .xii-rfru. ',yap ga.-Ve then.).
tQ rne, arui 1 •will keep them. I
you are dishonest I can bo dishones
too,' That is the way -Mr. So -and -S
,was supposed to have had his financi
al start in life. Put, of course, as h
is so' rich and generous with his Mon
ear the church and the world ar
ready to overlook this sin of hi
youth." .A. greet temporal sueces
is held by some to atone for the sin
ful moons by which great success is
won.
•OF TEMPORAL SUC-
•• e
Think not this illustration Purely
inn gin ary. I am. epoaking about
0110 of whom Drone Rumor is telling
this story at this momeirt. And
set, nay brother, as I relate this in-
cident, I want you. to answer this
question, "Does God ever allow us
to make any successes. true in his
sight, at the expense of our Chris-
tian integrity ?" Will he forgive
as our past sins because we bring to
him our gold and silver and precious
Salols that have been stolen ' from
the coders of another's treasure
vaults ? What is worth having is
Worth' payieg for; but we alterayS
pay too high for our temporal' suc-
oesses when we pay for them with
the coin of deceit and dishonesty and
theft aed. with. gold smelted by un-
lawful and immoral fires. "A good
hemp is rather to be chosen than.
great riches." That ineane, though
you pile upon one side of your scales
all ehe gold- buried under a • , then -
sand hills, and all ,the securities
that make the Money markets fawn
at your feet, and all the dienionds
taken from a Golconda miee, and
yet put upon the other side of that
moral scale 000 dishonest act by
which those riches were won, in the
sight Of God and Christian men you
have paid for your wealth at too
high a price. You have paid for
them at the expense of your Chris-
tian integrity., -
But there is still another very
foolish sacrifice many meu Med woe
men make for temporal .successes of
ife. That is the respeet and lova
vhich ell good Jinn, aud whmen
should feel toward their fellow moil.
It is one thing to be careful about
our Christian integrity, and others
may think well of 11S. But it is an-
other and a more iraportaett thing,
hat we. do not foolishly sacrtfice
our Christian integrity, lest wo, lose
L22' respect and love foe our neigh -
Ors.
TIM PRICE TOO HIGH.
cords of family births geueration
after generation end century 01.01'
cautery, I can imagino this mighty
man of war 1111Pnisively and haSttilY
saying, "Oh, Uod, if. I only MeV be
honored among my people I wal
givo to thee as a barat ofiering the
first person that conlea ,out of my
house to welcome Inc." Put when
hie beautiful eleughter, robed in
white, wee being beend to a stake,
and when the lighted tor& Was
flung among the fagots piled around
• her beaati Blabs, and when the
Je tresses of her hair floating in the
°- winds were eaten up by tho hot,
hissing flames, and when her dying
11- shriek was heard photo) the wailings
d L of the multitudes that surrounded
se 1 her funeral are do v h 11 v the
1- death of his only child could in any
3' way make Jeplithith • happier •be-
cause the disgrace oi his birth Was,
forever wiped out? bestead of
deplethah being the head of bis fam-
ily, now, by the death of his only
child, he was the last of his race.
I can imagine how a man reared in
poverty mid one • who knew the
ghawings of hunger might long for
unlimited wealth—aye, and be ready
to make almost any sacrifice to
achieve wealth—but. when wealth
must be purchased at the price of
his own life's blood is that wealth
worth the struggle and the death?
RENOUNCE SIN.
THE PARENTS' DUTY,
First, Clad Would never have us,
like jephthah, destroy the spiritual
and physical and temporallives of
0211' cleileren. He would never gee
us so engrossed in eur work that we
would neglect our own "flesh and
:dead." end care not how Olfi` boge
and girls might turn out. 'He would
not have the minister or the lawyer
or the, merchant or the inventor say:
"I have no time to look after the
rensery. I must work arid work and
work. I must work and work eyen
though my OW11 boys and girls have
to etiffer." IXc woeld not let Abra-
ham oe'er his boy Isaac upon his al-
tar, neither ' will he ever recline° us
to sacrifice the spiritual and temporal
livesof our children upon the altars.
of fame.
Oh, parent, it is an awful crime to
endanger the physical and temporal
and spiritual welfare of your chil-
dren! No crinte. aineug all recorded
crimes ought to be more shunned or
condemned. And Yet this crime we
seeflaunting itself everywhere. Par-
ents seem' to be too busy seeking 1
earthly Same .and temporal success to I
'care for their own flesh and blood, ,
Said a prominent English judge to a
young man standing in the felon's
dock; 'Do you remember your fa-
ther?" "Perfectly," said the
youth. "Whenever I entered his
presence he would say: 'Run away;
run. no- lad, and .don't trouble me. I :b
meet weite now; I must write.' " Who
was that father? "He was the great
lawyer," said De. Potter; "who was
the author of the famous work on
'The Low of Trusts.' and his cnely t
son in due time rurnished peaetleal
commentery on the way in which. his e
father had discharged the most sac- , c
• recl of all trusts eonmeitted to him in t
the person of his cam child." i
"Ed, where is your another?" ; s
once asked a young school friend 1 d
when dining in the Piorne of his ino-
• tiler. "Oh; mother is not here to 1.1
dinner to -day. Mother is very pet- • g
dom. at, home. She always off act- s
• .dressing these religious meetings." • ll
Do you wonder that in this flamer I
read the future doom of that son? Do I,
"yon wonder that that boy turned out ,L
badly? What right had that Mother 11
to attend any series of metetinge r,
Which would compel, her to systemati-
cally neglect the spiritual treining 01
her offer:ring by her own firesidee, No 0
temporal succese of life should be al- b
loWed to demand for its altars tho s
sacrifice of a man's children, the sac-
rifiee of a inother'e home.
It must be an awful sensation for
a man who has sacrificed his Chris-
ian integrity to Cecil that he always
as to live in the "City of Dishon-
sty," upon the "Boulevard of De-
eit." It meet be an awful thing
o fed that every person who domes
n touch with you is prompted • to
oak your friendship with a sinister
esire. I once read of a heartrend-
ng scene. During the bombard -
t of Charleston., S C. , a young
ill in one of the principal man -
ions of that fair city of the south
'as standing with her soldier lover
gsfore the marriage altar. dust as
he chaplain was about to pronounce
he twain one, there sounded a ring -
1g of a shell. It burst into the
oom, and the young bride dreepPed.
ead.est -the Met of her lover, Oh,
hat death was horrible, terrific !
That was a tragedy. But the scene
1 horror which met the young
ridegroom's eyes that night is not
o horrible to nie as must be the
tauntingly agonizing feelings of a
had man who thinks that eVera
marriage altar is built upon the
hard rock of selfishaess, that • all
friendly greetings are merely the
fawn ing words uttered by hypoerisy,
that every' one with whom, we walk.
is trying to overteach us as we are
trying to overreach them. God pity
the man who has lost his Christian
rtegrity ! God pity the man who
ele be haft to five upon the "Street
f Self Love" and to associate -en-
!rely with neighbors who belong to
he great faintly of "Hard 'Hearts."
But temporal success is again
ought cit too , high a price when
10 deeire for one earthly goaf
eb-
temats all the temporal and spirt -
blessings 11 all which we are
urrouuded, It is botight at too
gh a price when a num to rain
that end', is Willing to sacrifice
everything. elee he has on earth,
arid, in the end, may loee the prize
for which he hale struggled.
I gen imagine how Jephthah
rooded ever the evil chapter of his
thee'S d mo tiler's life which
ave him birth.. can imagine
OW he Wanted to wipe out that e
• etpegially to wipe it mit
racing a people that kept the ree
onmszrAN INTEGRITY.
Fee temporal success, matter
how great, God would never have us
destroy our Christian integrity, Ha
10011:21 never have us mix an alloy en
with the pule gold of Christian char-
acter in order to Make it harder and
to give it a louder ring. • Ile would
never say to us, "011, cbild of aod, 12
• you can tell just one big lie or come fe
mit one big eie if by that means you
can win a. great earthier success, and t
then you wth be ready to incomes -
crate your wholo life to nee" And
gee there are manse men and Women el
who believe that in the eight of God
and man af great temporal suecese
in one way may atone for the Mogi- s
timate and dishonest meats by Which, bo
that success is won. To them the
cloven foot of Satan may be allowed
to stand in the front rank of the
world's honored °nee ff it be only
eovered with the shining kid �f
patent leather ghee,
ho is that gentleman riding ea
clown the street?" I ask. "Oh," be g
answers, "that is one of the moot. h
fluenelal and reepected Mon in our st
toter. Wet is mot anis at the head of a
The human and divine sacrifices of
life 1 Who tan overlook' them? We
glory hi the fact, when a hero fpleye-
ically dies to physically sage nem.-
kind-. when pr. llobert .Koch, the
noted discoverer of the bacilli of tee;
berculosie, advocated the idea that
the talieeculosis •cattle WaS. net
ideal:lone.. for Mane and a yoting
bacteriologist, prove that theory
false, inoculated himeelf with the
cattle tuberculosis germ and died as
a result of the inoculation, we said:
"That in glorious, that:, is grand
That young Man died' in Order that
tve might physically He died
in order to pro-ve the necessity of
our guarding •against 1:13,e tubercu-
losis of the dumb :brute." But this
young maiden of iity text did more
then to die in order that her father
liVe. I tan imagine, that in
tho crude belief Of these days it
may hone been. held that the man
who 'failed to fulfill 'his deliberate
vow would perish ateenallY. It may
have been that Jealitha,h's dauehter
yielded her life to avert that dread-
ful fate from lier, father: If so,
how heroic1 . t*
he: Must have loved her for doing
so, while he 170*f:died the rash vow
that had Made it accessary ! Have
WO 110 love for Christ, whose death
was rendered acces,eary by our trans-.
gresstens ? Ho who died to save
us from -the penalty .of •our sin
'asks us for our grateful love: Can
we withhold ? Let ,us Mew hate
and renounce the sin which he died
to wipe away, and let ne give to
him our heart's Adoration (Ind. con-
secrate our lives to hie lservice.
SPECTRUM OF SUNLIGHT
N -RAYS • MAY BE USED rim
• BRAIN. TROTTheaef.
Use to Which Arm; Blendelot and
Charpentier's Discovery ..
May be Put.
• Since M. ,Blondelot's discovery of
N -rays the scientific papers of Eng-
slcaTinehdnece:::yds Franco ha.ve teemed witE
tier have meanwhile been steadily ac -
beyond question the fact that the dis-
covery is a valuable contribution to
as a result of repeated and careful
experiments that the rays do not ex-
ist, but MM. Bloridelot and Charpen-
cuinulating facts which have placed
discussion. It has even been asserted
are now proved to be no-
thing more nor less than part of the
invisible spectrum of sunlight, a lit-
tle more ultra than ultra -violet rays.
They are somewhere between heat and
electric rays, slower than ray § of
radiant heat and faster than Hertzian
wayee. They can pass through alum-
inum as sunlight through a glass and
con be focused by an aluminum lens.
These rays traverse lead, tinfoil, pla-
tinum and copper withoot difficulty
and do not require complicated ap-
paratus as the Roengten rays.
• They stream from an ordinary in-
candescent gas lamp. More remark-
able still, they can he spontaneougly
produced from a number of substanc-
es such as wood or glass when twis-
ted or subjected to pressure. Untem-
pered steel does not produce the rays
but tempered steel cootintadly emits
them.
• TIME HAS NO EFFECT,
knives tempered over 1,000 • years
emitting as freely as steel tempered
yesterday.. When thrown directly and
solely upon the eye they enable it to
see in a darkened room objects whith
had previoesly been invisible.
Prof. Charpentier discovered that
the huinan body emits the rays in
quantities proportionate to the activ-
ity of that part of the body whence
they come. Ire has also proved that
they are •emitted from the speech -cen-
tre of the brain whenever a person
sPeaks. • When the speaker emits rays
they vary according to the pitch of
the note,
Dr, Bruce of Edinburgh hes taken
up the subject. Ile expects that
when it is known exactly what rays
come from various parts of the brain
in normal conditions it will be pos-
sible to ese variations of quantity
2(114 clitality as a means of detecting
1110 injney or disease of different parte
of the brain. The Roentgen rays are
not tisocl so much for brain troublee
because they do not cast appreciable
shadows except, of the bones.
31. Blondelot has inore recently dis-
covered more rays, not finlike the N
which irideeaSed the poWer of vision,
melting. and hearing. The new rays
dimiuish the activity of the eenses.
"How long sliall I boil the eggs,
rnit'ane?" asked the cook, "I don't
xnetly know," replied the young
houtewife., "but cook thane until they
are quite tendert"
AleAtei Ne.w 1/,o
ME
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TB3Dspran PAPERING.
One Of the housekeepers "big
jobs" during the spring house-elean-
ing is the repepering ef those rooms
that require such a freshoeinge It
is a, trouble and a task at best, and
if she is obliged to rely on the coun-
try store for her paper, is apt to be
a perplexieig. if not indeed an OXIIS-
perating one,
Ada Stirling, writing in Harper's
Ottani., says there is nothing at once
SO hygienic and satisfactory as oil
painted walls, surmounted by a bor-
dor of paper or stencilled burlap. It
le in.destructible, save by nails, and
may be wiped every day necessary
without injuring • its appearance,
She calls it the ideal finish for halls
bedroom and the dining -room when
done • in rich • and well -combined
tones. It is, however, mare expen-
sive in the first case, though most
economical in the long run.
In selecting wall paper, we are to
remember, says Mrs, Stirling, that
the wall is to he treated from the
baseboard upward. there is a
dado it should represent the darkest
tone of all employed for the wall.
The midclle should be several
shades. lighter; the border, if any.
still lighter, and the ceiling lightest
of all, and for this 1'0215011, Which
Always OXIStS; •.the coiling receives
less light -than any, other portion of
'the room and the border less, than
the wall below it. The effort. then,
'must be to counteract the darkness
above, by • supplying the missing
light. "Cool yellows, deep creams,
a.nd golden tans are the best ceiling
colors, though there are occasions
on which a soft blue or rose -flushed
ceiling' is to be advised." A dark
ceiling, is always oppressive.
.Borders aro freely used, and yet
tire as often. dispensed with. If the
ceilings are high the border gives
balance to the room; if flow, its ab-
sence acts in the same way. "All
borders save those in rooms eleven.
feet high," says our writer, "should
be delicate in tone and soft, in de-
sign. Clearly marked patterns are
vulgar. They shorten the appear-
ance of the walls and often spoil
the contour of the room. As a rule
the best borders are those having tin
open pattern upon a light hack. -
ground. • Wreaths, festoons, and de-
corations of the Greek key or geom-
etrical designs softly printed are
among the meet permanently satis-
factory. •- Borders are rarely in
good taste with wide -striped papers
or those having large highly -colored
designs. When so compared they
remind one of old-fashioned handed
calico."
What Mrs. Stirling has to say
about the treatment of irreg-ular
walls is of particular interest and
value to those who are refurnishing
cottages or upper rooms with slop-
ing ceilings. Even good papers
'lyre/ugly applied iii such rooms ,look
cheap and ugly. "The commonest
fault," advises our author, "in
treating sloping walls, is tho failure
to define a true line for the ending s
of the wall paper where the walls t
meet the ceiling. If an attempt be t
made to follow the uneven side walls h
the appearance of the room will be s
ruined.. The covering of the side
walls by a patterned paper should
cease at the top of the lowest wall,
even if this extend but time feet
above the wainscoting; but in case
of so lenge, slope there is always a
secondary slope, and the wall in
such instance will bt best treated if
two papers are used, thus : strip-
ed design for the portion that ends
at the three-foot wall, which will
he carried vac around the room,
forming a dad.o, and a lightly print-
ed design for the long slope above
which must cease at the point
where the long slope ends at the
ceiling. The end walls that rise
still higher must be covere.d with
the same tone as that used upon
the ceiling."
It is easy to see that this scheme,
carried out in a room with irregular
walls, would result a harmony of
lino and color that would be emi-
nently pleasing to the eye.
Mulled Buttermilk,—'10 made by
adding the WelPheaten yolk of an
egg to the boiling buttermilk, or by
simply thickening the, boiling butter-
milk with. Hear and eold bettermille
blended together. This is a dish for
the invalid's tray,
Lemon Mince Pie—This •pie is
vouched for as "exceedingly good,
by Margaret Hamilton • Welch in
Harper's Bazar; Stir together two
tablespoonfela of cornstarch. thor-
oughly 'cooked with one cup of wat-
er, 0110. Cup sugar, one cup neolasseee
one cup chopped raisins, a little eit-
Von, the juice of two lemons and the
grated rind of one. Bake with two
cruets.
Chocolate Pudding --Scald togeth
one quart of milk and three ounc
of grated chocolate, and set aside
cool. Add, when cold, uearly et
of suger ancl the yolks of five egg
Bake and when done spread whit
on top, beaten stiff with sugar a
brown. ,
Salt Cod—Choose a nice thick
piece of salt codfish, • about four
pounds, and leave it in the water
(to which has been added a little
vinegar) all night. Put it into the
fish kettle with enough cold water
to cover it. Bring it slowly to the
boil, and strainer gently for half an
hour, and serve garedshed with slices
of hard-boiled eggs and parsley.
• Rhubarb and Bread Pudding--T3ut-
ter a pie dish and spread the bottom
with a thick layer of bread crumb
place on this some ehubarle cut it
sinall pieces and sprinkle well wit
sugar'. Fill the dish with alternat
layers of fruit and bread errant)
letting the latter form the topmos
layer, place, small Jumps of •butte
on. the top, and bake in a 'Model -at
oven.
; Spanigh bun -a -Mix well two cup
of brown sugar. and three-quarters o
a cup of butter, then add three eggs
leaving out the white of one fo
icing, one-half cup of sour milk, a
scant teaspoonful of baleing soda,
two teaspoonfuls mixed spice, and
lastly two and a half cups of flour.
Bake in a shallow pan. When bak
ed, ice and put in the oven to brow
er
es
to
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SUlfDAY 801100
Text of the Lesson, Luke xii,, 35-
48. Golden Text, Luke xii.,
37.
There i$ a vast amount of religion
or religiousness which ie not mai.
It la merely outward form, • like the
chaff which has the form of the
wheat, lint there is liethaig within.
• The Scribes and the Pharisees of our
Lord's time had an abundae, or
that kind, and .110 called them hypo -
("rites, those who play a part, like
actors on a, stage. In Matt, xxiii
ho so called them sevea times,
1P an in the first veree of our lesson
0, chapter Ho Said, "Beware ye of the
es leaven of the Pharisees, wbich is hy-
nd
pocrisy. Leaven, in Scripture is
invariably sonlething evil, dorrept'
and corrupting. Even in Matt. xiii
and parallel passages it refers to
the corrupted food of the church in
this present age called the mystery,
of the kingdom, the teaching which, ;
according to the hest part, of our
lesson, • encourages those who pro-
fess to be servants, but scoff at the.
coming of Christ and mingle with
the world. '
A true child of God and serve.
of Christ is heartily "with
s; hears the word of God and keeps it,
0 bas a single eye .tci the glory of
li Goa lays up treasure 112 hea-
van, m • all things seek5.
s, the kingdom, has.no anxiety about
tr Teleematpho.rnce_iff.mniarsiv, oafmithe.,;rifdearof
0 the hypiierite, on the contrary, a.ro
alS`aaYS" seeking nun e - of this amid
s and living • unto themselves. See,
f chapter xi (23, 28, 34) and the por-
tion of chapter xii up to where our
r ' lesson begins.
As the redeemed • of the Lord,
risen with Christ, our affections aee
there where Be is, at the right hand
of God. We believe that our lffe is
e- hid with Christ in God, that He has.
II given us His kingdom tind glory
and that wo aro here as His Wit-
110SSOS to testify of His grace • and
show forth His praises, ministers or
Christ and stewards of the myster-
- les of God, (Col. iii, 1-8; I These. 11,
f 12; I Pet. it, 9; I Cor. iv, 2). • As
r such we aro decidedly not of this.
13 world, but with loins girded and
e lights burning we wail for our _Lord
1 from heaven --"waiting for the com-
1 ing of our Lord Jesus Christ,"
, "serving the living and true Go21.
and waiting for His Son froin heav-
en" (I Cor. i, 7; I these. i, 9, 10).
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
Milk can be sterilized at home. Ab
solutely clean bottles are necessary
Soak them in soda and hot wate
before using and scald just leder
the milk is put into them. Th
milk should be perfectly fresh. Fil
the bottles, cork them tight witi
antiseptic cotton, lay them in cold
water; heat slowly to the boiling
point, boil for an hour and let them
cool in the water. Do not uncork
until the milk is to be used.
Jelly can be cut into fancy shapes
with a knife dipped in hot water.
Dripping may be clarified by heat-
ing and pouring • it into boiling
water. Stir it three or four minu-
tes, then leave it to get cold. The
impurities will sink to the . bottom
and be easily removed. Dripping
may be used for frying purposes
many times if clarified -every • time.
It is the morsels of whatever has
been fried in it that cause it to be-
conao rancid.
Suet may be kept entirely fresh for
several days by surrounding it with
In cooking meat there are two
imple principles to remember. First
lint with a temperature higher than
he boiling point (212 degrees) the
brine and albumen ok the meat
brink and become hard and indiges-
tible, whereas with a teraperature
at or just below the boiling point
even a tough piece of meat becomes
tender. If you don't think so, try
cooking one piece of corned beef in
fast boiling water and another by
simmering •it, and compare results.
The other principle is that the less
tho juice of meat escapes in cook-
ing the better its flavor, therefore
subject the meat at first to a heat
sufficient to sear its juices, then re-
duce the temperature to about the
boiling, point.
PASTIMES IN JAPAN.
DOMESTIC RECIPES.
Creamed Sardines—Melt one large
tablespoonful of butter and add half
a pint of cream, three tablespoonfuls
of bread crumbs, four finely chopped
hard-boiled eggs, a box of boneless
sardines, without the skins, large
saltspoonful of paprika. Serve on
hot buttered toast. •' .
Celery and • Veal Loaf—Mix two
cupfuls of chopped, cooked celery
with the following sauce : Cook two
tablespoonfuls each of butter. and
flour, add one cupful of milk, three-
quarters of a teaspoonful of salt
and one saltspoonful of pepper, and
at the last put in two well -beaten
eggs and a cupful of chopped veal or
chicken. Turn into an oblong mold
and bake in a dish of hot water for
thirty • (30) minutes, When firm
turn out on a platter and serve
with tomato sauce.
Rocks.—Take a cup of sugar, two-
thirds of a cup efebutter, one and a
half cups of flour, tivo eggs, a pound
each orchopeied Englinh walnuts and
dates or raisins, and one teaspoon-
ful each of cinnamon, cloven and
soda, the latter dissolved in a little
hot water, Dr!op by teeepoonfule
on buttered tine and bake. 'Almost
ne rich as fruit cake; easily kept --
if well hidden—and improved with
age,
Tutti-Feutti Cake—Two cups sit-
.
gar, one cup each of butter and
meet milk, whites of five egge, four
cups flour, two teaspoonfuls bakieg
powder. Cream the butter and su-
gar, end beat the eggs to a etiff
froth. Divide the batter into four
parts. Leave on0 plain, add a half
CUP of chopped nuts to one part, a
half cup of chopped raising to an
other, and a hall cup of grated co-
coanut .to the fourth, Wit 11 the
grated 'hid of a lemon, Bake, and
put together with white icing, plac-
ing the layers in alter ordcie you pre -
ler,
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How the Japanese Children Amuse.
• Themselves.
The pet pastime for boys and men
at holiday times in Japan is kite-.
flying. The kites of Great Britain
may be scientific, but the kites of
Japan are gorgeous, and they sing.
Little contrivances fastened to the
strings cause strange, whirring
sounds, which remind one of the
aeolian harp Some of them are of 1
enormous size, as big as two doors
and require a group of men to raise
them.
In ancient Japan, it is alleged,
large kites played the part of the
modern balloon in estimating the
forces of the enemy during war time.
The kites are in a variety of
shapes—birds with expanded pinions,
ogres, flowers, butterflies. A favor-
ite style is a simple square shape
with the face of a national hero.
The lads glue bits of glass to their
strings and wage aerial wars, en-
deavoring to manoeuvre their kites
so that the pieces of glass sever the
strings of those attached to their
rivals.
Theyare experts in piloting their
kites, and can raise them as far as
their cords will reach without shift-
ing their position more than a yard
or two.
The lasses. reinforced by their eld-
ers, gather in bevies to play battle-
dore and shuttlecock. They are pow-
dered perfectly white, with a bit of
vermillion on their lips. Their hair
iS wrought' into bows and butterfly
shapes, They Ie -ear brilliant heavy
girdles and gay robes.
No RED-HAIRED GIRLS.
A San Francisco man advertised a
few weeks ago for "320 red-headed
ghee, must be good looking," and
not one response 1005 retelved. A
fetv days later lie advertised for
"820 golden -haired beauties," and
befote the paper had been out two
houre the street in front of his of'
lice was crowded with just the style
of beauty he wanted,
It's always difficult to make a fool
of a ,sharp man.
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In verses 37 and 88 of our lesson..
the attitude is not only waiting,
!but watching—that is, expecting, for
we will riet be apt to watch for
what we do not expect. It is writ-
ten in Heb. x, 12, 13, that after the
Lord Jesus had offered ono sacrificget.
for sins forever He sat down on their
right, hand of God, from henceforth
expecting till His enemies he made
His footstool. In Rom. viii, 19-23,
not only the whole creation, bet be-
lievers also who have the first fruits
of the spirit, are said to be waiting
eagerly and groaning for that re- ,
demption time when He shall come
again.
We must note the difference betwet
His teaching to Israel in the gospels
and the teaching to the church in
the epistles concerning His coming
again. In the gospels it is generally
Itis coming in glory, as in the Old
Testament, with special reference to
Israel and the nations, but in the
epistles it is Hie coming to the air
for His church (the first stage of His
coining), or, if it IS the last stage
His coming in glory, then the church
is represented as coming with Him.
Verse 86 of our lesson cannot be a
!message for the church except in so
far as the "waiting" is concerned,
for when our Lord returns from the
wedding the church will be with Him.
The last part of our lesson is de-
voted to the "faithful and wise stew-
ard" or the opposite, and the mat-
ter of personal responsibility is set
forth. Four Vence we have the
phrase "that servant," referring both
to real servants and to hypocrites
whose portion' will be with unbeliev-
ers. The wise .servcoit is exemplified
in the five wise virgins of Matt, xxv.,)
and, the faithful servant is seen hi' I
the men with the five and the two
talents in the same chapter and in
the men whbse pounds gained ten
and five pounds in Luke xix. The
faithful servant is not only rewarded,
but veho can tell how much is
inoiud-
ed in the words "ruler over all that
he hatle?" (Verse 14.) We cannot
but think of "with xne in my
throne" and "we shall reign on the
earth" (Rev. iii., 21; v., 10).
That which our Lord gives us Ile
expects us to use faithfully in His
service, giving • the gospel to every
creature and rightly dividing the
word of truth to His redeemed, keep-
ing in view that we must render an
account . of our stewardship.' Ile
wants a people rooted and grounded
in love, rooted and built up in Him
and established in the faith (Eh.
ifi., 17; Col. 11, 7), and this can he
accomplished only by the word or
God faithfully ministered by the Tioly
Spirit through His servants. Dread -
full will be the loss of those who have
given stones for bread, things intel-
lectual and ethical instead of meat
In duo season. The stripes will be
in proportion to knowledge and op-
portunity abused.
The servant who is cast out with
unbelievers never was a true servant,
but one like Judas recariot, who was
only of the number of the twelve,
for a tree child of Ged can never
perish (John x., 27-29; Phil. 1., 6).
All are lost, whether professors of
religion or Openly ungodly, becausfe
the,v have not received the Lord lase
118 Christ as their Saviour, bet mine
iehment shell be according to desert.
All are saved who are redeemed by
life precious blood, and all ecnixillY'l
saved, for there are no degrees in
sofety. hut rewards avail he accord-,
Ing , to faitKil service, even as IT
said, "Behold, I come guickly, ant
0137 reWard In tvith me to give every
one ficeordieg as hie win 3i.." ellen be"
(Rev. acid', 12), See also IT. John