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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-5-12, Page 2INESTYTOALLWROREPE A.n Offer That Puts Human Forgiveness to Shame by Comparison, (leetered accessing to Act 'o Uo ler- liconento sainaeas in the year Oat Timusand Nine 1-lundred and Veer, by Wei. Belly. of Toronto, at the Department of Agrieultere, Ottawa. A despatch from. Los Angelee, Cala eays :—Res'. Frank De. Witt Talmage preached from the following text :— Psalm ii,7,. "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than Snow." - Absurd sirulle," you say; "that et at (anent cannot be scientifically true. There is nothing whiter than. snow, any more than there is any- thing deader than death, or blacker than black, or redder than arterial blood or emptier than a vtieuum." Snow, front a chemist'standpoint, has a superlative whites. The purest ot cs,li vapors is that found far tip in the heavens. Along comes o sudden. cold wave and it freezes that vapor iato saosvfiakes, just as that cold wave can freeze failing raindrops into hailstones which pat- ter upon the pavement. Then as that snowflake slowly drops through the alt' it comes to as as white as it is possible for anything to bea And yet there is a sense ia which the psalmist is right in saying titat God can wash away our sins inttil we become "whiter than snow," the pure snow, the spotless, wind driven snow. THE DRUNARD'S We do not bind the imagination of the poet with the rigid bonds of scientific accuracy. He is accorded a license to see and hear with his spiritual eyes and ears scenes and sounds not scientifically true. Though these words of my text may not be literally true, in the figura- tive language of the psalmist they aro poeticelly so. They may mean in the common lananag-e this : Though your past lives show stains that see.m to you indelible a:s scarlet, though you have committed sins which have not only corrupted your own soul, but.have laid the souls of others, like the human sacrifice of the Aztec sun worshipers on the fiery altars, yet even for you. there are pardon and cleansing, if you will ac- cept them. Like the prodigal in his rags and tatters, there is a home for you in the Father's house. Though,. like Paul, you have to acknowledge yourself the chief of sinners, like him you may find grace and have the honor of toiling in Christian service. Christ is •ready to cleanse the drunkard's sins. s These aro neither few nor small, 'for the drunkard's sins can drag a man down so low that he will lose all sense of decency and respect. They can change a man into a. condition more imbruted than that • of a wild beasts. The drunkard after etc -bile seems to be- come .as unquenchable in his pas- sions as the patient whose voracious appetite is insatiable after a long at- tack of typhoid fever.. The -drunk- ard's craving will make a man lie and steal and destroy his home and his business. The drunkard's sins svill eat out a mart's heart as well as his brain. The drunkard's sins. are like the legion of demons which' took possession of the poor maniac who, naked and alone. haunted the tombs of the Gadarenes, aod, like. them, they may be exorcised by the same divine power. They are the direct and indirect cause of countless other sins. REDDEST OF ALL SIN'S. The drunkard's sins, without doubt must be classed among •the reddest of all scarlet sins. Now* comes the practical question, Will God cleanse the drunkard's sins ? When Nye say he is a loathsome, heartless, good for nothing drunkard do we, mean, "There is no hope for the drunk- ard ?" Some of us have such a. lack of faith that we do mean this; but God never meant nor sold it. "Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow, is a threct re- futation of the tharge that Christ will net forgive the drunkard's sins: Oh, man, though by drunkenness you have sold your home under the sher- iff's ha/inner, though you have wreek- edayour business and had your eyes horror struck with the kaleidoscope of delirium tremens, yet there is ever; pardon and peace for you ! There is the same message of salva- tion and rescue for you that there was for Francis Murphy, or Gough, or Captain Barbour, or as there is for the scores and hundreds of re- formed drunkards who every night ere found testifying- to the glorious rescuing power of the gospel of Jens Christ. "Though your drunkard's sins be as scarlet. they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool," CHRIST READY TO FORGIVE, Christ is ready to cleanse also the debauchee's sins. By that I Mean Christ is ready to forgive those who have immorally broken up the sanct- ity of the home. He forgave the sins of Rehab, who coneealed the T-febrew spies; ho forgave the sins of David, who stole the poor man's ewe/ he forgava The sins of the diseolate woman -who talker) with him at the Samaritaa well: he for- gave the sins of the woman denounc- cad by the scribes, to whom he turned and said : "Won -tan, Where are thble accusers? Doth no inan eondemn thee? Neither do I toriclemn thee. C40 cold Sin no more." Christ is ready to forgive the social outcatt,'S sins, es he was ready to forgive the scarlet Sinn of the dying thief and the Murderer. Ilut, though the Bible clecleree there it hut one tinpartiorieble and that iS the Sin against the Holy etheet, yet, ttrange to say, most peeple ere not willing to forgive the Sine of libertinism, etipecially if the soeial otiteaSt Waage to the female sex. Alae, a1a 1 Hveri the best of Men, the leaders in our ehurches and %misfits, ara Often rencly to look upon the breakers of the seventh cons - Utensils -tent as moral degenerates who have no chance for ultirtaiste rescue either in this world or in the next, Many people are apt to look upon immoral outcasts in the sante waY that the stern old Scottish elder looked upon the aetions of his way- ward daughter in the beautiful story in Ian Maciaren's "Bonele Brier Bush." Elo professed to believe in the unlimited power of God's for- giVeness, s'et when bis only daughter, his Motherless girl, his one child, who was all to him, had been led into sin ho turned to the chiele of the village kirk and said; "Aye, blot her name off the book e She is my child, but blot her name off the books 1" But, oh, my brother and sister, though man is hard upon fallen mart, and woman especially hard upon fal- len wonmn, yet God to -day offers pardon and peace for °Very penitent Magdalene. Though your sins against morality may be as scarlet, they shall be whiter than the driven snow. PARDON FOR ALL. Christ is ready to forgive the mur- derer's sins. By that do I mean that he is ready to forgive the high- wayman who, with lifted gun, shoots down the husocent pedestrian? By that do I mean that Christ is ready to forgive the fiend who poisons the helpless child or who in the dark night drives the knife into the heart of his sleeping adversary? Yes, Jes- us is ready to forgive the convicted murderer though he may be standing upon the scaffold under the hang man's noose, about to expiate his sass ful crime. "Pardon for all" is the meaning of my text—pardon and peace and eternal life for all, no mat ter how vile, if in sincere repentance they will come to him and plead for his mercy through his atoning' sacri- fice. NO SINNER, NEED DESPAIR. ' But among the murderers who are to be pardoned I would also class those who have slain their victims by false signs, as well as by bullet or by gun. Be is ready to forgive those who hove slain by the lip as well as by the hand. In olden times the pirates along the coast of England used to change the positions car the lights. Then the sea, captains, watch- ing the beckonings of the false lights, would drive their boats upon the rocks and be wrecked. Tlie pirates would rifle the drowned bodies as they would,be floated unon the shore, and gather 'together the wrecked par- goes- They were murderers—nem-dela ers whose weapons were false lights. So God will forgive even those mur- derers who, have destroyed their fel- low inen by false examples as well as he will forgive those who have murdered them with the 'dagger or the gun. • "What!" some murderer says. "Par- don for my scarlet sins? Oh, not It cannot be true. Why, you do not know what you are saying. My sins are worse than scarlet. They aro chock with the hopelessness of de- spair. There can be no pardon for nte. Let me tell you my awful story: When I went to college, 1 was a very wild boy. I had there a roommate who was the son of a min- ister. He was a ruddy faced lad and as pure ,as a little child. I taught him how to drink and liow to gam- ble. I urged him out of his belief in the Bible. I led him on, step by step, into the paths of sin. One night —I can remember the time as though yesterday—he sat upon the corner of his bed, and, with a strange light in his eyes, he turned and looked at me and said: `Jim, do you really believe that rny mother's Bible is only a pack of superstitions? Do you be- lieve there is no hell?' 'Yes, Harry,' I answered. Then 1 went on to con- vince him. of it. Then he laughed a horrible laugh. Then he turned and said: 'Well, old Superstition, good- bye, good-bye! May you live long enough to ,soften the dying pillow of my mother and father, but as for nae, good-bye, good-bye! Come, Jim, let's go and take a drink.' . READY TO Isom:ay& ".From that Moment, sir, that young fellow let loose all his evil desires. He seemed to leap into a very whirlpool of sin. Within a few months he wag expelled from college. Within two years he committed sui- cide, and this is the letter he wrote on the night of his self murder: 'Dear Mother—This is the last letter you will ever receive front me. I have broken your heart, but try to forget and forgive. If there is no hell, as Jim says, this world is a hell enough for me. Front your disgraced and dying boy.' " " 'Ihd you do all that?' " " 'Yes,' he answered. "Well my friend, I know net. how God will forgive, but he can and he will. The blood of Jesus Christ will evert pleartse you, if You will only ask for Christ's forgiveness. 'Whosoever.'. Alt that is the word. 'Ithosoe.ver, who- soever!' That -,ineaas you. Yes, it means you. 'Though your sins be as scarlet they Shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crim- son, they shall be acl " Christ is ready to forgive also tho morcileas thief's Sing, even as he for- gave the thief -upon the cross. He is ready to forgive the thief's Sins, whet/ter you have by evil jealousy 5101011 away a trian'S geod reputation or have rifled a wirlotv's pocketbook; whether you have stolen a good name or a financial incoine, Man, you knew that was, la &spar - racily mean Etat for you to ciretilate that evit reaort about that physici- an's life. You know that there never Wag a equarer, truer Maa1 than he, yet you did it in order to ruhs 1118 Practice—aye, and you have eucceed- edt From 0, worldly standpoint you cost never make atonement for, that clantages But GOd will forgive you, even, yoti, if yeas will come end esk for his pardon. Woman, that was aa awed statement you made abseil the character of that sister. You 44Y that you are sorry, that you did not look into the facts before the evil was done, and she died of a broken heart. It is now too late to bring her back to life. 'But God will for- give you. Yes, whether we are thieves who have robbed men and wornea of their good names, God will forgive us if we only repent. "Though your sins be as scarlet,". That raeans you; that means you, Will you, 0 man, 0 womon, accept the emnipot- ent and. endless and eternal forgive- ness of God? Willyou have your sine stained garments washed in the blood of the Lamb? LEoPoLD or BELGIUM. King a Money-maker, Especially in Rubber Trade. • Ring Leopold u.; or Belgiurn, who denies that his daughters have any claim to the money left by their, mother, and who consequently is a defendant in the law courts of his own country, has devoted much of his timeto money -making, He has also a great capacity for spending it, :Although an olcl man, he is said to be extremely fastidious in his toilet. According to "Le Ori de Paris," no society'butterfly could take more trouble over the care and arfangment of her • com- plexion than. King Leopold does over the cit and appearance of his long grey beard. It is said that before tho Ring sleeps his valet carefully envelops his master's beard in a silk bag to prevent it getting disarrang- ed. "So in.uch care does he expend' on his personal appearance, that his dressing room resembles a hair- dressing establishment, stocked as it is with pontadee, perfumes, oils, pastes, and brushes of a thousand and ono varieties." ' According to a tharacter-sketch in the "Review of Reviews," the late Mr. Rhodes declared. that Ring Leo- pold was the hardest man to deal with he had ever met. "I -re is a regular Jew," said Mr. Rhcidei, and he declared that one could more easily get blood from a stone than any concession from hira. As Mr - Stead says, the success of the King from a financial standpoint is with- out precedent, but he is not content. His profits arise almost exclusively from the ivory traffic of the Congo, and the exaction, by methods which have been sharply criticized, of the India rubber which is required to furnish the cycle and motor ' trade with tires, Mr. Vandervelde, a Belgian Social - 151 leader, declared in the Brussels Senate that the Ring of the Bel- gians was the greatest India rubber merchant in. the world, and charged the Ring's agents with employing methods for collecting the rubber that resulted in untold horrors. The modus operandi by which the na- tives are induced to. bring in the stipulated amount of rubber is very simple, according to report. A vd•-• lege is ordered to produce so many baskets of rubber, and it is said that if the deliveries are not up to the mark 15 punitive force of the native standing amity of 15,000 men is serit out to burn down the. houses and shoot the natives or cut off their hand. The wretched natives "sell" the rubber to the King's re- presentatives for a farthing a poun.d and it is resold at Antwerp at about, thirty times as much. More than 2,000 tons of rubber are sold at Antwerp every year. STRANGELY .A.FFLICTED. Yosmg Woman Staggers as Though She Had Been Drinking. A remarkable case was recently brought to the attention of the p0 - lice authorities in the City of Oma- ha.The story is told by The Sum- ba Worldellerald in this way: "To get drunk without arinkleg may be economical, but it dees not keep one out of jail. Such at least is the experience of Miss Nora Clem, a yoUng woman of Thirteenth and Chicago -streets. .She contends that sho is the victim of a Strange. afilic- tioe. She tells the court that both her father and mother were addicted to the liquor habit, and that from her earliest girlhood she steggerod in her walk as though she had been drinking, While .going down the street Thursday afternoon she was reeling from one side of the Walk to the other, and her speech.. was - maudlin, For all that, her state- ment about having drunk no intox- icant was substantiated by the fam- ily with whom she lives. The fam- ily of F. A. Robinson, who came here over a month ago from South Dakota, says that at times the af- fliction of Miss Clem is 'Much worse than at other times. There are periods when, if permitted to do so, she will sleep for 24 hours at a time. After waking up the will complain of her rnoeth ,a,ncl throat being very dry, and will (batik a glass of water. 'rlien ler some time shoe will walk steadier than usual. In other words, she scorns to have a normal mind. „She reads a, • great deal, 'and don carry on an intelligent conversation. ITO.wever, there are intermittent periods when her speech thickens, so that the caa ecarcely talk at all, Sometimes, too, she will be seized with aa un- reasonable gaiety, and sing As thotigh the were oat -upon ,a wild carouse. For her cliffieulty aim has been treiited by a number of doe - t0)5, none of whom seem 1.0 be able tO coirtprehend her caSe or' to help her. After her examinatiim in po- llee court, Miss' CIIM WAS dis- Charged." Ile Tied ()Wiled it dog, and:this' taas . the Eitory 31e told:— "Yes, ,sir; the way that dog teas devoted to me w0.0 amazing, .1.3b heard me Say (Ai my ;Wife that la Watt pressed for *.inonciy, sO Weilt, mut did the day bgere the deg-li0e0We. wet due." OM E * ***********# SOUTHERN RECIPES. have jest taken frora the oven an -old-fashioned pound cake, fro - grant, light and when cut, ehowing no more of a grain than doee a PieCo ef , golden -hued velvet writes Mrs. /leery Wight, Now es 1 tested this perfeet cake, 1 reflected that al- though all cook books hove recipes for pound cake, they all omit the eorreCt Process of mixing, without Nviiich the cake can aevee have that exquisite texture ana that indescrib- able taste which ie peculiar to the properly constructed pride of south- ern baking clay. Now 15 Cert0.41 01* timer taught me how, and 1 am. go- ing -to pass it en,- and can guarantee its reliability. The finest I have ever made, I baked Ina big old iron oven with a lid, and the rule I was taught was to keep this oveit cool enough for Inc to tura the cake pan with my bare hand, anti' the cake had risen about to the rim, but lately I havo. done my baking in fey stove, and tried to keep the oven pietty cool* for the first half hour, at least. It was an axiom with "Mammy," that a pound cake could not be .success- fully compounded with less than three pairs of hands. She first set her good heavy pound of butter in an earthen bowl ever some boilina water until it was eufficieutly soften- ed for her to beat it to a smOoth cream, but she was careful not to allow the least bit of oilinees, When the proper consistency was obtained, she stirred in it pound of flour, and the rnixture was beaten assiduously. Another hand was beating the yel- lows of 12 eggs to a. light yellow cream, and then adding it little at a time a rather 'scant pound of pow- dered sugar. The beating process was well done, because the only "raising" in the genuine pound cake is from the amount, of elbow •grease that is put into its making. The flour and butter, the egg yolksand sugar are put together. after each ia as smooth and' light as it can be suede, and less than a halS hour's work will never do. But after the frothed whites are dalatily folded in, the batter is only stirred until it is well mixed, then • it wineglass of French Cognac is stirred briskly in, and the cake i put to bake as quick - as it .can be poured into the pan, and this pan should be deep enough for the cake to show its quality in the thickness of its slices. I never put any flavoring in mine, hut in the plain boiled icing with which I coirei: it while it le still warm, I like to squeeze it few drops of lemon lut TYPICAL OF rrn„til SOUTFL Another southern dish, which is especially flue, Is sweet potato cus- tard. -Well made, it is not nearly so plebeian it dish as one might think, and is quite worthy of being baked in. puff paste. It is made with 1 cup boiled and strained sweet potato, 1 cup butter, 1 eup sugar, 43 eggs, juice of 2 large lemons, 1 teaspoon lemon extract. Beat yolks of eggs with the sugar and butter until light, add the potato and juice of the lemons and extract, and last- ly the frothed whites of the eggs. T3ake in. custard plates, lined with delicate pastry, and, serve cold. 'Sliced sweet potato pie is a good dveryday dish, and is easy to make. Boil four .Meditan sized potatoes, skin and cool. Line the sides of a two-qnpart baking •disk with • good of butter, sprinkle thiekly with sit - gar, raisins and spices. Repeat ra,y- ers, until pan is full. Cover with plain pastry, put in a layer of po- tatoes; sliced thinly, cover with bits hot, water, with enough of lemon juice hi to make a, pleasant acid, put on Cover of pastry with erase 'cut ia top, and bake slowly for an hour. • As children, we southern. 'topple:an retain pleasant,memories of the thickened milk estards Which were considered the best Of o11 desserts for litt1 folks,' and for the older 'cases when they could not eat the rithey puddings and pastries in which our grandmothers delighted. For these, you set a quart of rich' milk to boil. Mix 2 tablespoons sifted flour with enough cold milk to thin, stir, into the boiling milk,,,let cook 2 minutes. Add a. small teacup of batter and stir till cool. Bat the yolks of 6 eggs with a cupof sugar, mix with the cooked milk, flavor with grated dried orange peel and lastly- stir in the frothed whites of the eggs, and bake in pull:paste, with a delicate sprinkle of nutmeg over the top. PECULIAR TO DI*T.E. Jelly- flip, is a light and simple de8- sert, wbich is pretty to rook at, and nice enough for any Use. To make it, yen beat the whites of 3 eggs to a froth, add lightly a teacup half full of sugar, and then a little at a time, a glass of grape or ineyhaw jelly. Serve in thin glass dishes, with a few bits of bright jelly, dot- ted about over the. top, •Speaking of mayhaw jelly, ' fancy this is a delicacy wbieb is peculiar to ' the eXtapme southern sietes. Along the last of Apait -and from then until ui]leu irmi‘,,etrat) telt*. cleenvi inodn. bdeaeti: Ries from woods • coned s toe ggli ng in to the towns withapails and dishpans of the scarlet haw e oa their heads, to ex- change for old clothes ue les n small cash consideration. The bows look a great deal like evanberries, but their flavor is a clOSS between 11 very tart apple and a plum. There is alWays a, demand for every lieek of them, for they 'ate 001 vela, plea- tiful, Ancl wo think that '1100)1)1g 0150 makes S0 Ch .30.1.131. The preparation is abeat the same at that of any other fruit, and the jelly is a ben:el-A- M shade of red, and of it. Splendid acid, Which makes it' as good 1314 31(1 311r(n)1111(1;rirry,ft,1001 tvg00nuttv11.1 eLISg'Se°Iltiliten gets1 10 the towns while°. winter visitors come frorn the aorta, Ma E1W Jelip fe,4 q. p rein lulu, on aecou at of, the fine dement' that is muted as soon its charms become known. WINDOW TBANSPAI-GENOTE$. gandSonie window "transnitrenciee can be easily nsade at horse With lit- tle, Work and ,exponse. • Sem° eau he made with pressed leans .and autuuM leaves, Which should be prepared some time before the actual work is to lie done. "Use two panes of glass the/same size and on one of them stretch smoothly a piece of Swiss Matslin a little larger than the glass. It can be kept in place by sthreed drawnfrom side to side across the glass. Fasten the, ferns or leaVee..in position, with a drop of clear muai- lage, fastening them to the eloth. Rub tho muslin around the edge with mucilage so as te faeten it to the second pane of glass when it,a, piec- ed hi position. Bend them firmly together around the edges with, a strip of cloth wet with mucilage and fasten a loop at the top to hong 03) by Steel engravings can also be easily transferred to glass to be used as window decorations. Clean the glass and polieh it, then varnish one side with clear varnish; after that is dry, give another coat put on very thin. When about half dry, lay an en- graving, face down, on the varnish, the picture having been previously prepared by laying between the folds of a large cloth that has been wrung out of salt and water, leaving until it is well moistened. If surplus water appears when it is laid on the glass it must be absorbed by blott- ing paper. Press it smoothly on the glass until it is well fixed, then moisten the finger and rub lightly 011 the back of the picture until all the paper is removed, leaving only the picture. When done and the pic- ture is dry, the MS° spots left front the paper can be easily brushed off, Varnish with clear vatnish and hied the edges of the glass, adding a loop to hang by. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. 'A fresh ink stain on a carpet may he removed by munechately applying a layer of salt. The ink will be ab- sorbed by the salt, which must be removed as it blackens and fresh salt applied. Repeat -till the ink is completely removed. . For rolled sandwiches the bread Must be fresh, as that which is twenty-four hours old will break. Cut the slices thin, trim off the crust; put in the filling, whatever it be, and roll up. Vast= with a wooden toothpick and place in a deep''clish, covering it with a demi) napkin,. When the sandwiches are to be served remove the little skew - ors, and the rohlsall keep their form. • Prime beef is bright red in color, streaked with fat mad scaled with the same.. A geed rule for testing it is to press the thumb into the meat. which should elastically resist the pressure. In the way of a roast the rib is esteemed the choicest. The bones shohld be removed and the meat rolled and tied. As the pur- chaser pays for the trinamMea., _she should. claim them, and use them for soup stock. The double -boiler, thought to be a modern invention and designed to prevent food being burnt, is net so new after all, An identical utensil has been dug up in the ruins 'of Pom- Housecleaning is greatly -.expedited by devoting considerable attention to the preliminagids. (let the clos- ets and cupboards cleaned, blankets washed,'. overcoats and furs beaten and packed. away. rugs mewled, for' all such "odd jobs" count when the "troublous times" arrive. 4 CORSETS FOR FINE HAIR. The Garment Is a Sire Cure for Bald Heads. If men Wore corsets, we are grave- ly assured by a medical authority of high standing, there would he 00 more bald heads. In support of this argument it is pointed out that most women have luxuriant tresses, and they invariably wear* the much- discussed garment. The fact is. men do not, breathe in a proper manner, and the corset corrects the irregularity. The ordin- ary man allows the lower. portion of the stomach to play too ggdat part in the process of breathing, whereas this tendency is checked in women by the use of the corset. The work of respiration is eonfined more to the chest, , with tlie result that the fair sex retains its crown of glory. How is this ? In the pursuit of their investigations the mecilcOl men seleeted various animals which breathe properly, and fitted. them With an apparatus whihh forces what is called abdominal breathing, Dogs cats, lind birds fitted with these wrongly constructed corsets lose their hair or feathere atlas- a few months of wear The scientists killed two or three of these createres and examined the lungs. In every instance they found in them a crystallised substance which, when placed in solution and applied as the bodies of healthy an- imals, caused the hair or feathers to fall out I This crystalli,eed eub s tan co' . was found in the lungs of creatures forc- ed to adopt thie abdomleal breath- ing; it Is, therefore, eviclat that it was produced by that ferns' of re- spiration, Once M the lungs, it is tolerably certain that its effects will be felt in the head of mar. WITILL INSTRUCTED, Ibm heacl rested on his shoulder raid her little hand lay confidingly in "Tell me, Alfred," said the happy maiden, "how you ever came to pick me otit as the girl you wanted to marry. "Wet,. Dora," replied the ocetatic young man in a gush of confidence, "it wee Mother that put me tip 15) it," A woman tetty drive her husband to drink, but she ean't 4.44e him take w a tee. 111E SUNDAY SCHOOL 0.•••••1 IN'TER NA. TIONAL ',Et -180N MAY 15. ^ Text of the Lesson, Luke xv., 114 24. Golden Text, Hosea vi., 1. The lesson to -day 15 only one part of the threefold parable Of this chap- ter, the whole setting forth the great love of God, the Father, Son apci Holy Spirit, for lost, lielplese, erring humanity, and the SYmPatliY of the angels With God in 1 -lis jey over the ;salvation of the. lost. "ilie lost sheep suggests our inclination, because of sin, to go astray from God (Ps lviii., 3; exix, 176; Isa. liii., 6; Pet. ii., 25); the lost piece of money indicates our helplessness, our inabia ity to restore ourselves and our dead, ness to asseuse of our condition (Rom.' v., 6; ROI., ii., 4, 5), while the sous of to -day's lesson illustrate the selfiehn, ess ingratitude and rebel- lion of sinful man, and also the sell righteousness and lack of sympathy with Gocl of many who profess to be Ms. It is very plain that neither of the sons in our lesson knew his father; they neither trusted nor enjoyed him. It was Clod's constant complaint Of Israel that notwithstanding all Ho had, done for them they knew ,Him hot (Ise. i., 8; jer. viii., 7; ,Hos. iv., 1,6; v.,4-; Mic. ise, 12): Most touching; is our Lord's word to Phil- ip on the night before the crucifix- ion, "Have I• been so long time with you and. yet hest thou not known Me, Philip?" (John xiv., 9). It musi be a great grief to I-lini when we talk or act as if we knew Him not. All fear or anxious care or fretfulness, .anything but the rest and quiet al calm confidence, is an indication that we know Rim not as we might. wTih.eviyereetnir gest son illustrates thee ie ( God's gifts to God Him self—a present selfish enjoyment ratia or than the love of God and the corn. fort of His presence. Cain, who 'WOW out from the presence of the Lord tq do as he pleased; Esau, who preferred the present enjoyment of a mess el pottage to his Cod given birthright, and Israel preferring rgypt and its ground fruits to the heaven sent ni na and tlie promised land are illustra- tions of some phases of the prodigal son. When we turn away from God, 'who is the fountain of living waters, and seek to satisfy ourselves with aught else, even with His best tens poral gifts, we are hewing out, terns„ broken cisterns, that can hold no water, and sooner or later we shall surely come to want (Jer. 13;. John iv., 1:3, 14). For further comment on this line of conduct, or misconduct, see Bled. fa 8; ii., 10, 11. There is a phase of the • younger sen's experience seen in the lives of those believers' who make more of the blessings • of justification, adop, tion and sanctification than of Jesus Christ Himself, in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and while such have their happy secta. sons they often begin to be in want of a new blessing, whereas JesuA Christ Himself would always satisfy. The far country 18 this' present evil world which lieth in the wicked mit (Gal. 1, 4; 1 John v, 19) and whicli allures us away from God. It is all about us on every side. Vain iaths help of man, tho citizen of thit world, when once the soul begins ta htutger for God,: but ofttimes thee( must, needs be, a deeper humiliation ere the soul will whole heartedly and persistently turn to God. First a Sense of want, then seeking help from tb.e world, then a beastly appe- tite— these are often the, develop- ments erb a man begins to see him- self as he really We i-ead in I. eel% v, 5, of onedelivered to Satan for the cleetruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 'In Job xxxiii, 14-30, we read how God dons every thing that is POssible to lead Men to turn to IIint, for -we must 1)0 brought a to the end of ourselves before wee, will think rightly of. our Pather's house and love and plenty. Having realized by bilter exper- ience something of his own heart and of the cold world into whin he had Wandered, hfs thoughts and then his feet turn homeward to tbe love and plenty of his father's house, But he does not get know his lather, and thinks only of the possibility bf ob- taining a servant's place in his lath- er. s house.' .He did not, dream of th,o welcome and the full restoration thanter- altite,adiette.sdteletidthe heart can the sin he and the free jUstificationaanrdt !Tie God acceptance which await him if he will only 'return (Rom, v, 8; iii, 24; Eph. i, 6,7) Uur Lord in this par- able tells us the heart of His and our Father in heaven and teaches us that God sees the first motion of the heart toward Hint and meets the returning one more than half oEl aCvid:rtila'.17icatilet-11(1601)alif4iI.'4olilfsfi ,:11.c21:11111.1)4. Alirtillhaceinho the robe of righteousness. fano 51U 010015 of StilVation of- Xsa Ixi, 1 0`,. II Cos. 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