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Exeter Advocate, 1904-5-26, Page 7TO DUB ANIMAL Because in a Sense They Can Love as We 'Ourselves Can Love tleatered necording to Act el iee 1 sr- . banunt of Canada, the year Dee More I think they are like men. • Thousand ei ine liundred and Pe utt, by Wm. Daily, of Toronto, at the Department of Agiectilture, ottewe A despatch from Los Angeles, Oale SaYs --11.0V. Frank. De Witt 1.Y•eel. skill' 'would not your nerveS be continually unstrang ? Would you not always be ready to mini), to shy and to rear ? Supposing you were in a stall with ,yOur head tied to a halter, and the hoetler wanted you to move over to 'the other side of the stall, and instead of• placing his hand gently upon You and saying cittietly, Now move over," he gives you a savage kick in the stomaeb.01 a cuff upon the side of the head Unit made your ear ring and your brain (tWly. with pain. What would you do ? Would you bite and Rick him il you get the 'chance? 1 .doubt whe- ther human nature would be as long suffering as equine nature under such provocatien. But if every time that hestley ciune around you got a caress orea piece of apple eve* time he applies the currycomb and a kind, reassuring word every time A shriek- ing engite came past I think that hostler or driver would be loved and trusted and obeyed just as my little child has, theough nsy kindness, learned to. love end trust and obey me.. "The More I see of men the moee I love dogs 1" Oh, no; the philosopher was Wrong. But the raore you ace of horses, and. dogs the more you ought to learn to treat them with the same gentleness with Which you should treat yonr fellow Man. Curses and blows and yells and growls never - made a nervous horse trustful or an obstinate horse docile. Ieindness whi subrais- for their oats, is to -day the friend and. protector of the dumb brutes ae sion in an animal, where tel and fear can never produce it. well as of 011r fellow men. JUSTICE FOR THE BRUTE. ..,ORTIELTY DEGRADES. Did you ever Stop to sthink how ' A man's nature is degraded by ine much you and I are indebted to all dulging in cruelty to animals,. He those 'Skier footed beasts on the loses his manliness) and acquires. the earth and wild beasts and creeping nature of bru Les. He undergoes rn things and fowls of the an which his , lifetime the metamorphosis, th at Peter saw in vision let down from the orientals believe be suffers .after the heavens in a great sheet when death. In the fer east there 'is a, he lodged with Simon the tanner? peel:dor belief held by multitudes; it The horse! How many of our bur - is a belief it the transmigration of dens he has carried! Mow many souls. This 11/e011S, ill popular in- haPpy times we have had When being terpretation, that alter a man dies his soul passes into the bodY of a. drawn. by him over the country babies have a, herd thne; yet, there eo teasing, whinning and other en - dog or cat or a. •horse or a lion roads! in how many scenes of mer- are no healthier children in the world. Males of self-restraint, then when rymalcing has he bem an essenteal The Japanese baby is dressed and s testalig tune comes, as come it ages.' If he is a mean man then he .and so lives on through the coining part! And often in. times of sad- undressed in a frigid temperature' in will, the youth becoines an easy • becomen meem beast like a jaclsal ness he has come to our help. The birds! Yes,, they, too, are worthy e , winter, and in summer no care is prey to unworthy `impulses, or must or a hyena; if a good man then his Lassen to protect its tender little eyes fight a desperate battle to gain the eoul-takes upon itself the form of a of their hire. They nee our wood- frpm the full 'glare of the sun. In power of sell -master -y. noble beast; ' but though in Chris- land prima. donnas, our songsters and winter the small head is covered with How suggestive the story of that lionized America we do not believe songstresses; that make the day, a.s a lvorsted cap of the brightest rmd bright little lad who said "-Mother in the transinigration of souls ere well as the night, vocal with music., ,griseeet cfesign and color. The black I don!t have to cry when. fall down may seo us an. analogous The fowis of the barnyard and the phenomenoe. When a man stisnses cattle of the fields—they, We, are hair is cut M all sorts of fantastic I can make irlyeeif stop. I just say, ways. hist Elie the hair of the Japan- stop that and make Inc mind nee. ' ,denab brute he is not punished by worthy of their hire. The bone cuid ese dolls imported into this country. The narrator adds, "The boy had having his soul at death pass into muscle and brain of man' coine from Tlie babies of Um lower classes are deed reached a great epoch in his 111 - the' body of a jackal, but he takes their flesh. Even the humblest crest- generally mailed on the back. of the life, and he had gained a great the character of those cruel, be- tures are sometimes of great value mother or little sisters sometimes -dm tory. Many fail in the battle of life because they never come to that self-mastery, which they can make themselves mind themselves." it hardly need be said that youth is habit-forming time, a parent's op- portunity to mold the plastic life of Childhood, naturally and easily. Contentment, cheerfulness, gentle- ness all so neceseary to the happi- Supposing you were 0 herse hitched to a carriage. Supposing' everY lime yoa made a misstep there was a whip like, a knife ready, to cut intel Tarseage preached from laus following •text ; Deeterononly xxv, 4, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn," Moses was the first great states- man that I ltseow of who recognized the rights of dumb Animals, lt is a significant fact that in this early code of Jaws he should have given legal rights to animals ae well as to men and women. It was a sound and righteous course, and I am glad to remember that we, too, have not only laws to prevent the 111 usuage of animals, hut also iri the Humane society, an organization to see that those are enforced. I want to show you this morning why every Christian should be in touch with that society and that its principles dhould be applied to all classes and all roses. There is no reason why the a.dmonition should be limited to the farmer, The hoes should be taught to be good to his pet dogs and squirrels; the drayman should be compelled to lighten the load if his horse is too weak to draW it the hackman should be required to ,blan- ket hisesteed shivering in the chill blasts of winter; the sportsman should he prohibited shooting 'the mother bird in nesting time. 1 would try to show that the Christ who was born amid the lowing of the cat- tle and the bleating of the sheep and the neighing of the horses, whinnying that everything lie created in the oniveree WaS geed, Yes, Clod "hath inade everything beautiful in his time In his eye,e the tront spring- ing out of the brook fend sporting In the eddy is good; therefore We should not catch it for mere. Weston portto let it rot upon the bank. God tuned the throat of the nightin- gale and the lark to sing after the twilight, and M Cod's sight their inemie is sweet, As our Father lost•es the Weds we should not think it sil- ly to throw e fesv crurribe into the snow bank for the snoivbiz•ds which have been caught la the blizzard, nor to leave. for our lea-thee-0cl friencle ,a (.111) of water upon the window sill in times of a, dronght, God loves the lambs, He made the sheep's gentleness the symbol of a divine gentlenesie, Christ was led as a sheep dumb before his shearers, and as a lamb at the slaughter he opened not his mouth. Cod made the horse and saw that he was good. On that great day of the triumph of righteousness over sin Jesus, the eter- nal conqueror, ellen come ridiner down the heavenly heights upon the 'white charger of victory, 011, my frieeds, 11 God created the beasts of the ileitis and the birds of the air and the fish of the seas andsaw they were good, we should be kind and gentle and loving toward them all! From the dumb creatures es well as from the sweet voices of the woods we may learn some of the best les- sons of Christian love. God bless the Humane Society •of America! Cosi bless all those risen - three tableepooefuis of sour milk in 4 * whie pea have dis,sols ed half a teen l'i oivit E nieg, a, teaspoorifid of cinnanions put epooriftd of soda, half a grated fiat: - all together 0.0(i WOrk witit the hands. until you hose a batter , cie smooth 0.9 pallhd. Cake, The, rhiXhig is the important feature, illen add raisins and other fruits as desired, in about the same proportion as in other calses. Place 111 a loaf Pan * gar, half a ettp of warmed leatter, **********# HELP -RESTRAINT. Among the graces of character which contribute to happy' home making, self-restraint stands pre- eminent. Few qualities are so sel- dom recognized, in the training of children in these day e of over-in- dulgeece, a neglect which results in no slight unhappiness to the indivi- dual later in life.. , Sone) years.; ago it was the writer s • , fortune to visit home where -two elyildren, beautifal in behaviour as in looks. So „charming were their manners to each other and at the table that commendation was 010 pressed by the ,guests, who all won- dered what caused Fetich uncommon rehaement and gentleness. Their father's Answer to several questions waft eignificant and worthy of con- sidcration : "They have never known anything else, for their mother end I resolved when they came to us that they shoulcl hear and .see only gracious and loving words or con- duct front us. .As they have sowed), we treat them as courteously as any guest would be ' treated, and sve never relax our eelf-restraint." Born and bred in such an atmos- phere, could these children ever out- grow the influence of that home ? and women who are taking oil um, Self-resiraint• for them Would. be MI -- cruel collars galling the necks .01 the tura] cued eaey, their enjoyment „ of horses suffering with sores and un- life fissured while their relations' With those outside the home would be devoid of self-conecious mbar- ], assment. Wi Gloat being priggish men treat their doge at least as or prematurely old the conduct of kindly as they would treat their hu- this brother and sieter was a beau - man enemies! Cod bless all MOVe- tiful illustration of the old saying meets that would respect the inalien- "Exmnple is better than PreeePte" able rights of the sheep and tbe True excellence of characthr witho.ut horses and cattle which stood about 'elf -mastery is a misnomer. This the manger on the night that Jesus flower of conduct which thrives in was born! 0 od blese all. those who the atmosphere of such a home lan- guishes and dies when subject. to ne- glect and indifference. What a price one must pay to, acquire self-restraint when the home has failed to implant it in childhood; sorrow, difficulty, fric- tion, even physical suffering must do their ches.tening work before this grace can abotind. Ono often grieves to see. how innocent children are be- ing started on a life of difficulty by the unthinking, reckless indulgence of parents. To avoid a trifling pre - Judging by Western ideas, jai:dines° sent; annoya.nce such parents yield hitching horses that • are hobbling. along 011 decayed feet! God bless the Christlike movemente which makes would rationally and with Christian feeling translate to the human heart the commandment of my text which says, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn!" JAPANESE BABIES. How They Are Brought Up in the Flowery Kingdom. tial, four legged scavengers of the desert, and he becomes ono of them in .his nature. E'very time the •old Illexican skinned a lamle alive, think- ing that thereby the meat was Made the sweeter, he destroyed that moral sensitiveness; which enabled lain to distinguish between right and wrong. Every time a 'boy transfixes a fly with a pin and then laughs to see it wriggle and squirm in 3ts death egonies that boy is fitting himself to become a monster, a murderer and a dostroe-er of men. Nero, the Roman demon, became the inhuman monster he Wall by first, as a boy, learning Id . take pleasure in the sufferings of hie nursery pets. Every, man takes upon himself the heart of a savage animal when be abuses the helpless not only leave the ox unmazzled hp - dumb 'brutes that God gave to him on the thrashing Iloor, because the as dependents. 'laborer is alsnays worthy of his hire, but the sheep and oxen and cattle and horses and birds and fishes, and sometimes even the snakee are among the hest and the most faithful labor- ers we have. s THE LOVE OF ANIMALS. ' aissert that we should hon- or the Humane Society of America because I sometimes think that the birds of the air, as. well as the beasts of the earth, may have an ardor of affection even greater than that of man if that loving power of the heart is ever allowed to develop. 1 believe that a dog can love as a man can love. I believe a horse can love rio a‘.'selisin can -love, anti a Weil also. We should be veey careful lest we trample upon the hearts of the 'dumb brutes, a,..9 /30711e Of 11$ tot) often. tram- ple -upon the hearts of men. "What! A dog love as. a man loves? Absurd," says some one. Is it absurd? Have yott never heard of a, dog dying from grief because his master died? my father once had a noble greyhound. When he went far away from home that clog. became so lonely Without nier hither that he refused to eat, and literally died from grieving for his master. Absurd! Dicl you never see a dog. grieving among the. chief mourners at a, funeral? Again ancl again we tried to drive Beauty, a little sky terrier, out ef the. room of death. But lie would not go: Un - (14 the cresket lie Jay, hour after lio u r. 0 u rn idly he went • from room to room after the. undertaRer had carried the precious Maslen asvasr to sleep among the flowers. For days and weeks Beauty was huntIeg. Be was always hunting. He was hunting for, the d( 1(1 rave you never had a Besuity in your lionie? to man. "1 saw a hideous snake this after- noon," I said last' summer to a far- mer. "It seemed to be all colors and I caught it in the middle of the road." "Did you kill it?" ''Of course 1 killed it. What are snakes for but to kill." "No, my friend," he answered. "All snakes are pot to old enougth to toddle burdened with a • s'• cet stst et sleeping peace- ness of a home are almost wholly kill. °The poisonous snakes are to small brolier kill, but not those that nen not pois- .le . fully on ia backs. At first one dependent on one's power of self- onous. The snakes we have around control. The habit of self-restraint expects to see the child stagger and hete!, for the most part, are a great once established, all the forces of . fall beneath the vveight, but apparent - blessing to the farmers. '1 he id" ly. none of its movoments are imped- one's being march in orderly pro - the bugs and insects which destroy cession with ease mid precision and ed, ancl it plays with the other &li- the crops. Snakes are not always dren tte unconcernedly as if it were the atmosphere of kindliness which the enemy, but often the friend, 1 surrounds hina, wins friends and aded clown with anoher snem- ." Yes my brother, we should not lot91100059- man . , leer of the family. Without self-restraint the finest At Nagasaki, among- the women gifts prove of slight value, while coalers who coal the ships, one sees moderate a.bility capable of .self - many who carry babies ou their backs mastery outruns great talent Which in this way. The mothers wierk all lacks self-control.; How few know day in the rainor the sun or the the joy of self -conquest ! The power 1311012, the baby seems Andifferent i;0 withhold Wor,ds when engry, to to everything,. The top of its -head pass cut ,affront in. quietness, to re - alone is visibl4. ile the ovements pass the desire "to get ei,-en," whmand of/the' mother do pot seemin the the wish to get Mere thaui is fair least, .1sinclered, and she. acorn/Mils/tem from others; to possess the desire to aS 112111!tWOrk the men. ' hell) the erring to a better life, these are the measure Of self-restraint which 0710 maY clainu IMPROVE THE -ROAD. • We should encourage ourselves In prance every caroere and eve. ry with remembering the inunense aid market cart, inatead of injuring me we can derive from the record of highway. improvei it. Many nr 1.110 the lives of the men and wonien who have made 111-01 oality the finest of all tsx'es are ten Ina" wTide' '11' 1.110 human arts by heroic perseverance four -wheeled vehicles of that-contry the rear axle is fourteen incues long- in self-control. small brother is obliged to be the nurse -maid. The Isimono is snide extra large at the back, with a pocZ- et of sufficient size to hold the'baby, whose round head reaches the back of the neck of the person who is car- rying it. It is not an 'uncommon sight to see children who arc barely TRAINED 13Y KINDNESS, The Humane Society of 'America, in teaching man to be kind to the dumb brute, has a second practical 11141,02021 1• it teaches that harshness 1!.initcloyliintoteign.aeosg n thend ctruell,tayinidriog a „asylici- the true subjugation of an animal., A cruel resteter never was. 'able .to get :the best results out of a horse. 'Blows and kicks end cuffs only make a stubborn -I -torso the more stubborn end the balky animal the more set in his traces. I never learned this hissen 121 11 more impressive way than when 1 passed two summers al- -most within a stone's -throw of one of the beet stock farms hi this 001111- 1. 1-33. What magnificent animals those were 1 Racing horses Were not fees - ed there, but the best blood for car- riage horses and roadsters of all sorts. Theirclean limbs, their flashing eyes, their ,high strung, ner- vous organization, made those nui- mals the pride of almost Avery stable . they entered. Yet ' the whip was never used upon them. They wore trained almOst entirely 1.1y kindness, 'After the cons had been allowed to run in. the fields for about three years, always, however, , being petted I)3, their owners, they were ready for thetharriees. 'first dtiy, on Whicb 'the' bridle WAS' put upea them. it 'etiaer Was faatened on the fore hoof to teach them that they meet mind. That was all. After the Melt, two or three days the horse learned that if he plunged the strap wotlid be ape plied to raise his forefoot and keep him on three legs. Having learned 1he lesson he ceased te plunge., end hea use of the Strap wee disContiii- 114(1 Then these colts were SuietlY. hitched be, the sides of the older horses and driVe11 ()lit lo J11011,. The dri vers never j eteced theln, bat, al- Wayt4 talked t.ill(Ity to c0n,21d 1110111, And though' those' horses' seemed tO have within tbent dill the Pentup ambition of ,fob's war (Starner, "smelling the battle feom 111111','' `yPt, in the ho ado of their hind insteetOSS they: became ,gentle, lovable rlk docil 0 WE 11 01P EN ',ILENE S S An old, grumpy, dyepeptie philos- opher onee said, '"flie more 1 eee of men- the better 1 like doge." That is hht my idea. lint the More I eee WORLD 'NOT FOR MAN ALONE. But, lastly, we should be kind and gentle and loving tow,ard the dumb brutes becateae Cod loves them, and What , God loves we theuIti not de 9p180 uSed to think that God ere- eted this World for man. I Used to think that all other wmade Were merely elepty, berned out Worlde like the moon. 1 used to think that the othee 1201 Ido were not wateli the decorating and upholstering heeattee 1210.11 Wafi 7101. there. But 110W 1be- lieve all Worlds are created nS our cr than the fore, and tee a result the rear wheels run •in a line about SELECTED RECIPES, an inch outside the 'level rolled by the front wheel. Alter a few loaded Apple Fruit Cf-ike.--Wasii thorough - waggons have passed oyes a road the ly in cold enter and soak over night highwaY looks as if a. steam roller three clips of dried apples. In the bad been at work. A national law morning chop line, and stew gently in Germany prescribes -that weggens for two hours In (1 pint of New Or - heavily loaded must, have tyres not leans molasses. Beat half a pound less thren four inches wide. In Aus- of butter to a cream with a pound tria the minimum for similar vehicles of sugar, one cuP of milk and tWO 15 ;six and a half inches, in Switzer- well -beaten eggs. To three and one-half cups of sifted flour add three teaspoonfuls of ha/tines pow - GERMAN SERVANT'S. der, sift and add to the other water - then add a. pound of seeded It is difficult in Germane -for a lam! and floured raisins , and the aPples, professional rept° to enter as a .„ es, domestic servant. There every sera w°" st1-11011 111- 3'0111' _in a Pan lined with oiled P311201 and bake ono and vent has a charaeter-book, in, which one-half llotir in it moderate oven. the mistress rauet enter the dates of the coming and leaving of the serFruit Loaf—Put five eups of siftede vant, with her chitracter while in the tIonr in a crock or mixing bowl, mix svith it two tea,spoonfols of cream eeevice, This the girl IS obliged to of tartar and it teaspoonful of soda; take to the nearest police -station and have it dated With the official mak° a 11010 in the e01)110 ond stir stone etip of butter end one cup arap, thus preventing the manuface i xew Orleans mohis;es, mixed to- tnre of boges recommenclatione.oI gether and slightly warmed; then 4-- two cups of brown 0110 cnp S SIAN PAST DA50 S . of sweet milk, and three well -beaten eggs. Mix together like coffee cahtl, ra.St. daye in :Russia ape; nume1 otte. then add one and one half pound of PeeideS the erdinary Lenten period, raleins anti eurrants Well floured. which, however, iti Ituseia, lasts forty- Mix Well and turn into a loaf pan eight days instead of forty, they have lined with oiled paper, Bake two three shorter periods of fasiting—one hours in a moderate oVe21. of nineteen dayo in Jene, one of foms Poor Man's Fruit Ciake-jrake one teen days in Auguste and anothee of cold oneehalf cup Of brotvn sugetr, thirty-three day a in No:Wernher and Decemb?r, There are in addition Gime single daye of fasting, eggs, three tabiespootfuls I:5f sour Milk, half a tetispoonftil of soda, and half a cup of bia.e.leherry jam. A very !exe-ellent and eeononlical cake. Bread Cake, --Take ft cep of light bread douglio add half a cup of au- cover, and let rise about half an hour, or uetil. very lighte then bake in a 'bread oven.' HIWPS TO HOUSEKEEPERS:a Now that the time. for warm wea- ther is in sight, it is well to remind housekeepers that the .care of the re- frigerator is inepoetant item. in healthy living. The znaid, if there is one, 'should not be trusted too , An evil -smelling, dirty refrigerator is a frequent source' of sickness. 'Pim refrigerator ought to he wiped and dried every day. If ice is wrapped la a 'woolen cloth to retard its melting, bear 121 111121(1 that the cloth needs a weekly scalding and drYing. Do not put warm, food into the ice chest. It will not only make the refrigerator "smeliy" bat the food will absorb the odors of other foods. Milk and butter should be kept in a separate •compstetment, since both absorb other odors. Weep the but- ter covered; it deteriorates more re- Picily if left exposed to the air. A correspondent has' an original idea, toward . discouraging mice from "making. tracks" through holes they: have already gnawed. She fills the holes with common laundry soap, which must be soft enough to be pressed in tightly. Then she sacri- fices Part of a paper of cheap needles pressing, them into the soap near enough together to deter any mouse that happens to have a, taste for . soap, If there is too much juice in, a tan of fruit and you don't need it for your mincemeat or for pudding sauce, pour it off into a granite bas - ha boil till of the proper consistency add sugar, tern into a. mold, and you have a glass of nice fresh jelky. HTINTING OCE AN VAMPIRES. Sometimes Reverses the Role and Becomes the Hunter. When the possible exception of the basking shark, the "Sea Devil" or Ocean. Vampire" is the largest of all the monsters of the deep. An un- born , ocean •yreepire, taken :from the mother, preserved at the British Museum, is 5 feet broad, ctnd before mounting weighed twenty pounds. The mother measured some 15 feet in length. and quite as 311.11011 111 breadth. It as at all times a dangerous on dertaking to attempt to capture on. of these monsters, says the Sunda Magazine, but particularly so in th case of a mother accompanied b her offspring. She is quite capabl of reversing the role of hunter an hunted, attacking and capsizing th boat containing her would-be captor and of seeing that none of them e capes alive. "Imagine," writes the Hon. Wil 3iam Elliot, in describing the excit ing - sport he has in hunting (meal vampires, "a monster from 16 to 2 feet across the back, full 8 feet in depth, possessed of powerfun ye flexible flaps or wings with which he drives himself furiously in the 2521 ter or vaults high in the, air, through which he skims like some. enormous bird; his feelers (C01133.11011iy called horns) projecting several feet beerond his mouth, and paddling all the small fry that constitute his food in- to that capacious receptacle—and you will have an idea, though an imperfect one, of this extraordinary The so-called "horns" to which al- lusion is xnade are a singular feature thia animal. The pectoral oi breast fins, ninth elongated, pointed, arched in. front, concave behind, stop short at the head, to reappear as frontal appendages projected 071 each side of the head. These appendages take • the form sand character .of lintbs; being- flexible- and- cabable of grasping prey and carrying it to the mouth. The "feelers," a,s they are cal/ed, are sometimeS three feet or more in length; rinel are curiously ar- ticulated at the ends so as to resene- ble the fingers of the human hand when clenched. In this way fishing boats and ves- sels of a much larger size have been dragged from their moorings and some cases capsized by 'the ocean vampire's having Jaid hod of, the anchor. An instance of this kind occurred in the harboreof Charleston. A schooner lying at anchor, sudden - Ty and seenringl,y of its own volition to the amazement. and alarm. of those on board, started at a furious rate across the harbor. Upon near- ieg the opposite shore its courSe elianged so abruptly as almost 'to capeize the vessel, and it recrossed the harbor to its former moorings. These mysterious nights across the harbor were repeated a number of times in the presence of hundreds of aNtonished spectators, who were site terlsr at a loss to account for the phenomenon. The migrations ceased as' auddenly es they begea. Not till thee did the back and undulating flukes of en inuriense ocean vampire appearing above the water of the harbor, disclose the Motive power .that caused it all. One of the curious habitti of- the fish is to throw semersaulte, state- tiMee at a, conSiderable distanee be- neath the surface, sal:oath/1es, at the etirface, and sometimes in the air above the ettelece. The Veason for this Peculiar practice, which is- kePt up for hours, hos 50 far tm the ,serite or knowts, never beeit conjectured. At times the great fish will throw hire - self bodily perhaps as much as ten or twelve feet into the air, A Yolleg men etudelit of Columbia University, Writing front Port of Spain, describes two of fleur, one ee,ch of' buttexe and „a monsters, the flight of otuivoonfottitepseas:endorriceoolt seeded and 011°Plled rsishis thr00 pletely' over him and the.liglit' beat die was eowing. THE SUNDAY SCI1001; INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NAY 22. Text of tie Lesson, Matt. zxvi.4 17-80. Golden Text, I. Cox, v,, 7. Between the last lesson, en Muni] ity, and this passover leeson we have enatte,c1 nearly all the eveets of the last week of Hie life and have come right up 1.0 1.110 very laet evening be- fore Ills crucifixion. It seense 6^0 an- satisfa.ctory to get so little where there is so much, but this is tree of, even the c/inalleet portion of Ser ture, and . we must rely 'upon the Spirit to give us ell that ITe eees We cam receive. In a sentersce, let ue glance at enane of 'the things; we have passed over—the healing of the blind ;IS he entered and left jerichse the 'visit to the house of Veaccheue, the supper end anointing at Bethany, the „tsublic entry into Jeru,salem, the. temple cleansed, the fig tree cueseel, the poor svidow offering ooinnianded and many parables and discoursea. Happy are the believers who' can find time to meditate much upon them and -upon all Scripture. The eventa of our lesson are recorded by .Mark and Luke as well as by Mat- thew, am! Lad& mei/. 8, eays thet 1 -Te eent Peter and 'John, saying, "Ceo and prepare us the pose:over that we,may eat." Then they asked Him, "Where wilt Thou that we pre- pare for Thee to eat the pe.seover?" He sent them into the city. telling them that a man bearing a pitcher of water would rneet them, and by folloeving him they would find the. house. Then they were to ask the goodman of the house, and he would show them a large upper room, fur- nished and prepared, and. there they were to make ready. They found as He heel said and did as He had ap- pointed them (Mark xiv., 18-16). There is a word in Prov. M., 5, 6, 'Which hes been a blessing to me for full forty yeetrs, having taken hold of ate when twae a yOung man, a clerk in a stoee. Ito not faii to look it up and eat it, and may the, "whert: wilt thou" of the leseon and the "what. wilt thou" of Acts ix. 6, he our continual attitu.de to libel who ee we are and whom we serve (Acts xxvia, 23), who has all ()ere good works prepared for us to wanes in and -who will guide us as ourelyi and definitely as He guided the cniosei ties on this occasion, and when Hei sent them, for the ass' colt (Luke xix., 80-82). See for your corolore and assurance in the- matter of guidance Eerie ii., 10; Phil. iv., 6,1 7; xxxii., 8; Isa. xxx., 21; 18; but be sure you never leen to e, ,your own -understanding nor want, YaI your own way in, anything; be good • esiclay in the puttee's hand Mae leave • 8;• . Jer. • 6). d Now let tie visit the upper .rocan, e, and see our *Lord and the twelve -At , s ithe passover. This also had been! s-iforeseen and arranged before the! 'world was. Of all the pasteovers, - from the first in Egypt (Ex. xii.), - this was the greatest, for it \17a2 the! 1 0 last, the comennination and lulf11-1 merit of all the others. Concerning!. this one He saicl, "With desire! t I have desired to -eat, this passej over with you before 1 suffer; for I say unto you, I will not anYc more eat thereof until it be I fulfilled in the kingdom of God"; (Luke xxii, 15, 16). Thus He points-, us on to a greater deliverance for Is-! reel than ever Egypt had witnessed (Jer. xvi. 34, 15; xxiii, 7, 8). All; the steps of the great atonement' whereby Israel should be redeemed,. the church gathered and the kingdom of God established on this earth had been arranged in the eternity past, in due time unfolded, foretold, lore- _ shadowed to man, and es the cip- pointee time conies all is ft:Milled, for `‘the Sci•iptare cannot be broken"' and "every purpose of the Lord shall be performed" (3 ohn x, 35; Jar. ii, 29). The institution of the -passover- (Ex. etii) should be enreful)y studied, tiled the lessons of the. laniln the blood, the bitter herbs, this unleav- ened bread, etes, he ill'ay0111131y 011 - forced. The feet washing %Ina •the teaching connected therewith (John- xiii, 3-17) should be considered be- fore :ludas Iscariot is pointed mit t. as the betrayer, II ow awful the ' words, "One of e-ou shall lictravt zne," "It had been good for that: mali if he had eo L. been bore' ' (verses 21, 24). Jesus lenew front the beginning who they were that believed not. and who should betray Ilint (John vi, (34). but that did not in the least excuse -Ittclee, for he had every opp,ortunity to believe if he.had only been willing. In John 77111, 30, we eend that Judas, bas' - received the sop, went innned- iately out, and it was night. It is s.till night with hire who betrayed 1310 :49-)1a. ster, the blackly:is of dark- ness forever, and ehere is no escape (Job xx).vi, SS; Luke xel, 26; 'Bev - TIM Pa.71$02'er being fulfilled, or ebout to be, bet not for the national benefit of Israel at that time, be- cauee they knew not the time of their visitation and 'would not liaise their Messiah, Ire in st , a new ordinance to' 1031 1.12110 ill He ehal come again, as it is Written in L Cor. xi, 126, "Ae often es ye eat this bread and drink {lie cup ye do shew the. Lord's death till Ile come." Then shall begin that pheett 01 the kingdom When Chiti8t ha1l reign till He both put ell etleinies nedes His feet', After which lie ohllii deliv- er bp the kingdom to God the Petit- er, that Cod may be ail in all (L Cor. )ns, 24-28). bluing the time of His absence. we are to be win 3)11(1 faithfel etewerds occupying till Ite conte (Luke xix, 18), The 311 me now. 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