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Praotioal Lesson. to Those Who Have
Made a Failure of Life
=Peered' According to Ace of elle tyre
nutrient of Canada, in the year One
Thousand Nine Hundred Ana Veen
by Win Batty, a Toronto, at tee
Department of Agriculture, cnitewe
A despatch troll.). Los Angeles says :
Rev, Frank De Witt Talmage preach-
ed front the following text : Exodas
xiv, 13, "Stand still and see the
salvation of the Lord."
To fall back, in order to go for-.
ward; to retreat, in order to ad-
vance; to evacuate, in order to con-
quer; aye, that .is the course most
military chieftains have to take, at,
least once in life, before they, wen
their ultimate triumphe. • •
Very easy it is for most of us to'
go forward in the battle of life when
the divine command is given clearly
and distinctly : ' "Charge! Let the
Whole line'charge!" Easy it is for
most of us to retreat when the com-
mand is given clearly and, distinctly:
"Fall back!. Let the whole line fall
back!", Bub it is another matter to
patieatly wait. 'Yee waiting is a
very great element in spiritual suc-
cess, as • it is in temporal seccees.
How much, a factor is "the waiting
crisis" in the .successes of life can
,• be- Well learned in the words which
• Dr. Cuyler taught a few years ago,
when. •lie said, "I have beei. conver-
sant in my time with thousands of
failures of talented men, both in
New York and Brooklyn, and. I can
bear testimony that ninety-nine lima,
dreths of all those failures were,
without doubt, due to the lack of pa-
tience, both in a spiritual sen et as
tvell as a temporal." It is to
teach the important lessons of sanc-
tified patienc,e that I ara preaching
this sermon.
The waiting crisis comes to thou-.
sands upon thousands of faithful
erten and women in the struggle for
a financial existence. It comes not
)ci the lazy, good for nothing human
'dings, who think the world owes
them a living, and, theefore, they,
do nothing. It comes not to the
tramps, the loafers, tho deadbeats,
Who, as derelicts on the great high-
way seas of life, are ,a menace to all
with whom they como in touch. But
It eneues to the young inan who gets
.up promptly at 6 o'clock and goes
to the store punctually on time. It
collies to the conscientious lawyer
and. doctor and 'mechanic who are
striving with all their power to do
. right. It comes• to men and *omen
who in every sense are noble, who
always seem to ,be on the verge of
making a great success and yet nev-
er seem to be quite able to reach
the goal.. •
MANY ARE UNFORTUNATE. •
These men are true and good men,
eat unfortunate men. • They are
what worldly people call "unlucky."
We know there is no such thing' as
luck. Men are not lucky or un-
lucky-, but there are some who seem
to , have more misfortunes than
otbers; who, through no fault of
their own, miss the good things of
life. The strong man triumphs over
them, but as the world witnesses
his struggles under successive strokes
of adverse fortuue it calls him "un-
lucky."
You 'are unlucky, in the fact that
just as you were about to go to
college your father died and you were
taken out of school and had to go
to work. You are unlucky in the
...fact that just after you had saned
up a little money and put it in the
.:natle. the cashier became a defaulter
and you lost all. You are unlucky
• in the fact that just after • you had
leavned to be a good drafstman and
had a fine position about to be of-
fered you fell and broke your arm
or had your fingers cut off by having
-them caught in the coge. of a fac-
tory wheel and you had to start e
all over again. You are unlucky, be-
cause just as you were about to be
appointed to a certain position an
enemy lied .about. your character as
an enemy lied about ft young friend
of mine who -was about to become
pastor of a prominent church in the
east. Though your character in one
. sense was vindicated, yet the dam-
age was done. 'Another stepped in
aad got the place, even as tbe poor
airier:lid at the pool of Bethesda, was
itughed aside by others again and
again when the angel of health
"went down at a certain season into
the pool and -troubled the waters."
After having been. repeatedly, struck
. down by misfortune after nrisfortune
you are to -day on tho verge of com-
plete despair. You are eaying to
yourself : I am always unlucky!
What is the use of my trying any
longer?"
Pe'
•
BE PATIENT, NOT DISCOURA.C4-
ED.
•
Discouraged, aro you? "Yes," •you
mutter, "fearfully discouraged!"
You have conscientiously done your
level best? •"Yes, I have. done my
levelr best. can do hothing more."
Oh yes, you can, my brother. You
cart let God now come_ and do the
rest. You are simply "encamped be -
Joe° Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and
tho sea, over against Baalzephon."
God is goieg to open a, way for you
through the Red :sea to escape the
pursuing Pli ilisti nee . Hole? do
not know. This, hOwever, I do
know. ood will rosette you if you
are patient, only patient. He evil!,
if like Job amid the tragedy of a
evrecked hone and amid a ruined for -
tette and in the agonies of phypical
ag well as meutal pain, you can say,
and still continue to say, "Though
he sla•y me, yet will I trust him."
Gad will show to you a Weed mettris
of escape if you will Wily stand atilt
just where you are and continue to
look for the salvation of the. Lcad.
You may not now think it, but all
things, even amid the greettes dis-
couragernents, all things are Working
together for good to them that love
the Lord. , After the darkeet • of
nightg theta always comes the Wet-
ness of a Agin giering dawn. Amid
the blackeet of troubles there Will
alWays come a pillar of fire to lead
God' e children to a promised land.
Trust him, brother. Continue to
trust God. 13e patient. Juet go on
and continue to do your level best,
All things will ultimately, come out
right IS you do.. That is the teach-
ing of this grand old text, "Stand
still and see the salvation. of the
Lord." •
But there is another class of hear-
ers 3. lied to -day eneemped among
the Israelitish hot e near Piehabi-
eoth. They are the Men and the
-women who are not necessarily
struggling for a financial existence,
but who are unhappy ad dissatisfied
with the fields in which God has
compelled them to, labor. They
linow they could da beets); work -amid
other surroundings, Or they are
laying to themselves : "I do not
know why it is that all 'Iny labors
should be misconstrued and unap-
preciated. lf God does not open to
me another field of work soon I shall
drop this position anyhow."
P0 yowl wo:4K THE BEST, YOU
CAN. ,
Going to give up' your present pos-
ition? You :say you are •not happy
hi it? Don't you do it, my brother.
What you need in life in this waiting
crisis of yours is a great big invig-
orating doge of patience. Stand
till just where you • are„ and do
your work the beet way you can
and see the salvation of the Lord.
God does not, as a rule, call his
workmen from nothing to something
great, but from a, amain position of
influence to a, higher position.of in-
fluence. 'When Christ wanted to eel -
cot his cabinet and to fill the apos-
tolic Positions of the "fishers of
men," he did not go into tho mar-
ket place, where he could/1nd the
loafers idling around. 'He went
down to the shores of Lake Galilee
and found two stalwart men casting
their nets into the sea. He said to
Peter and Andrew his brother, "Fol-
low rne, and I will make you fish-
ers of men." It is nearly always a
hard struggle for a man in a small
position to climb up into a higher
position. But it is nearly alway,s
an almost impossible struggle for a
man out of a job to be called to a
fine position. Christ uttered sound
philosophy when he said in his para-
ble : "Take therefore the talent from
him and give it unto him who bath
ten talents. For unto every one
that hath shall be given and he ehall
have abundance, but from him that
hath not ghall be taken away even
that which he WW1." It is easy
enough for the pastor' Of a success-
ful church of New York to be called
to a prosperous church of Chicago.
But a • miniater Without a pulpit,
though be be a giant. periwig preach-
ers, has an almost insurmountable
undertaking to . be called to any
strong pulpit. The man without a ,
job is a man whose failure is stamp-
ed upon his brow, and- every one
looks at him with suspicion. Be pa-
tient. Everything will come out all
right. Just be patient.
NOT • AS IMPORTANT AS WE
THINK.
But there, is still another reason
I d
why o no wan you to give up
queer. One clay jack comes in and
tells us he it going to teaeh winter
Sch001 in order to go to college. We
think then he is crazier etill, After
awhilo Jack, by working all his sum-
mers and, all wintors, gets through
college, and then comes home and
tens us that he is going to the law
school. We think he is crazier still.
Altor lf-
tee awhileJack, by years of se
Sacrifice and hard work, is graduat-
ed. Then he goes to New York city,
After awhile my brother Jack pushes
his way to the front of the New
York bar, What is the result? Do
We boys praise Jack for his labors?
Do we say, "If we hact worked as
he worked we could be whore he is?"
Pelhaps, But that is not the gener-
al role of the average family. We
immediately begin to complain, be-
cause Jack does not send us meneY
and help to sapport us. We take
from him all we can get. And so,
when any man honestly tries to
mako a success out of life, he im-
mediateler has a lot of indigent, sel-
fish, lazy folks about bim, trying to
1107_ off the results of his hard-earned
THE RIGHT TIME TO DIE,
But when the advancing years pass
on, and by sickness or old age we
seena to be laid away upon the shelf
as useless by a busy world, then
most of us do not appreciate the pe-
tition of that song prayer. We do
not want to be "nothing, nothing."
We want to be "something, some-
thing.," and have that something a
very active "something." SOme-
times at the funeral of a strong man
we see a suggestive floral tribute in
a broken column. That means the
man died in his primer' That means
most 01 us say, "Is it not too bad
that he had to go when he had so
much to live for." But I do not
think it takes nearly as much divine
grace to diet in your physical and
mental prime as it takes to live On
in physical invalidism or in. decrepit
old. age. In the first instance a
Christian man like a warrior is
struck down at a blow. In the sec-
ond instance a man is like an aged
veteran in a soldier's home like a
Job's war charger smelling the'bat-
tie from afar and yet not able to
answer the bugle call for the grand
charge. The saddest scene. during
all my study in the west was when
in the Methodist Episcopal confer-
ence five noble 111.021 who had served
their church as bishops long and
faithfully wore retired and placed
upon the superannuated list. But as
God has *placed some of you upon
the great "welting list" as physical
or mental ineffectives, 'be patient.
Trust him. Even in your retired
field of waiting you have a work to
do. It will all come out right. Yes,
sick one and aged one, it will all
come. out right. You may not be
able to understand God's ways now,
but it will all dime out right.
Thus to -day, as tho "waiting" les-
son is the hardest of all gospel les-
sons to learn, I.am going to close
in the beautiful words of ono whose
poem has been very near and dear
to me. I ant preaching against my
own impatience jpst as I am against
yours. I know that a parent can
never bring his child up right unless
he teaches that child to learn to
trust him and wait; therefore, no
child of God can ever trust God ern -
less he is at times ready to "stand
still and see the salvation of the
Lord."
that position whichseems to fret ,
you. As far as I can make out, you ARMY REFORM IN ENGLAND.
are getting in life, just as much as
you deserve. Instead of complain-
ing, you ought to get down on your
knees and thank GO for the posi-
tion which he has given to you. Why
should you expect' God to make you
his favorite child ancl allow you. to
rest upon a bed of roses? Are you
any difTerent from any of his other
children? Are you so smart or so
good or so humble that you have a
right to expect more than they? In-
stead of grumbling. about your small
position) you should see men,in
every Way your superiors, physically,
mentally and spiritually, occupying
smaller positions than you. Be pa-
tient in that, work God has given
to you. Most of us—aye, pelhain:
all of us—have all eve deserve in life,
and more too. If God wants us to
go higher, he will open the way. If
he does not open the way, then'lee
us do what he wants us to do. You
and I are not so important or • so
perfectly sanctified as some of us
think we are. In order to impress
upon you this fact, 1 would read to
you: a quaint piece of poetry by
James Whitcomb Riley. It has help-
-and encouraged me much in 'life.
hope the reading will mako you con-
tented in -the field of labor to which
God has called you to work.
But, roaming in and out among
the Israditish hosts encamped at
Pi-hahiroth, I find the ranks of the
Mosaic army cursed and retarded
with hangers on. There were many
bravo men in that army. Men there
wore like Joshua. and Caleb, but
there was also a host of lazy, good
for nothings, as in every army, who
expected others to do all the work.
When the tents were' to be lifted,
they were not there; when the man-
na was to be collected; they Were
like the five foolish virgins Who
wanted to borrow the oil of the five
wise virgins: And so to -day when I
flee a strong, Willing man I inevit-
ably see a lot ef human leeches
dinging' to that man as barnacles
stick to a ship's hull. Furthermore,
to -day I See scores and hundreds of
you hardworking Men and Women re-
belling at the injustice by Which
Others are trying to live Oil the re-
state of the sweat of your brow.
SUCCESSFUL MAN'S Bultrak.
But I have a brothee leek. The
young folks say' he is queer and
Mean and stiagy. Some people say
Ito is certey. My brother .Tatle is
not lazY. He Woeks just as hard as
we do, but when he Makes a dollar.,
instead Of spending that dollar as
Wo do, he stenos it or gee§ and btlya
Drastic Measures Said to Be in
Contemplation.
The London Express says : The re-
construction of the army, which is a
counterpart to war oflice reconstitu-
tion, is still engaging the attention
of the governmeut, hut an ea,rly
statement will be made by Mr. Ar-
nold -Forster on the subject. The
most drastic measure contemplated is
a general reduction among regiments
possessing more than two battalions.
The Guards are included, and it is
likely that the whole battalion of
the Third. Scots will be struck ofT
the establishment. The reason lies
in the paucity of recruits, the bri-
gade of Guards being 1100 men and
over 30 officers short. The Irish
Guards are not to have their con-
templated second battalion, and the
Grenadiers and Coldstrearns will pro-
bably lose 100 men each. Great ef-
forts are to be made, under the dir-
ection .of Major-General H. S. G,
Miles, to reorganize the -recruiting
for the army. He will be assisted by
Colonel Crutchley of the Guards;
Captain C. Mansel -Jones, V. C., and
Major Dykes. Tho general improve-
ments which will be effected include
the following : Bettor barracks and
more allowances; greater freedom to
soldiers; lodging list to be extended;
khaki to he euperseded by a more
becoming cloth; a better head-dress
for walking out; long and short ser-
vice; a new territorial organization;
coMpletescheme for hodefence
work; creation me eation of a real army re-
serve. roe the present Mr. Arnold -
Forster will be unable to make any
satisfactory statement with regard
to the application of the Esher re-
forms to the regeneration of the war
office. The deadlock with the treas-
ury continues, and the scheme for
the establishment of a general staff,
or brain of the army for war, is suse
pended, becauge the treasury have
refused to find the mOney. No fur-
ther appointments are, therefore, be-
ing gazetted at present.
"Madam, you've already overdraWir
your account." "What's that?"
"You havea't any more money In
the bank." 'rho idea! A fine bank,
I think, to be out of money because
Of the little I've drawn! Well, I'll
go sotheathere else,"
One trouble with the cddeet inhabi-
tant IS that he reinenibers too many
inciderits of hie litoyhoed days . that
Setue " boolss. Instead of loafing never happellet
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A SPARF, :LIEDROOM.
Eyery houeehold h.as a ghost in,
it. closet so they- say. Thera celw
tainly 'is a ghost that haunts almost
every home and causes more illiserY
and homesickness and trouble gener-
ally for every guest that enter the
door.s1i)t0 b1,Aeirromtolia,tdismal ,ghost is the
,,
If the whole houen should be
searched it ig doubtful if a drearier,
more anconifortable corner could be
found than this sarne "spare room."
If the borne Maker doubts this state-
ment it will only be necesgary for
her to pack a hand bag with what
she would consider articles needed
when making 'a visit, and then step
across the hall froni her own, little
nest and spend the night in her
spare room,.Thi is the only way
she will ever be able to fully realize
the agonies endured by her guests in
that gilded cage of misery to which
they are consigned. When she comes
down to the table the next morning,
stiff and tired from lying awake half
the night, and fuming over her toilet
because of thelack of toilet, requis-
ites, she will be a sadder, but wiseg
woman, and will doubtless set to
work at once to make her guest
chamber more inbnbltablC.,
Do not dress the bed in the* guest
ebamher with dean gheets as soon
as your visitor is gone. If you do
the bed will grow chilly and damp •
and ,musty. The old fashioned plan
was to air fresh sheets and put them
on the bed the same day -the, guest
is expected to arrive; thus insuring
a dry, sweat bed and no etiff joints
the next morning. The old fashion-
ed way in this, as in so many other
things, is after all the best way. An
extra pair of blankets, , even. In sum-
mer, should be kept in the closet of
the guest chamber, and the pillows
should be one hard and one eoft
stuffed, so as 'to insure comfort for
your visitor, for if you become used
to a certain style of pillow it is im-
possible to sleep on any other, and
no other thing causes so much dis-
comfort to a person who has been
accustomed to sleeping on a soft pil-
low as to Sand the pillows of the,
guest chamber large and hard.
As soon as your guest depart have
all the water poured out of the pit-
chers and jugs, and donot allow
them to be refilled until shortly be-
fore the next visitor arrives. 'Put
yourself' in his place," and think
how refreshing you would find it,
after perhaps days of weary travel,
to be shut up in a room to wash
yourself in water a week ale, with
a heavy scum of dust floating on the
top of it. See that the towels are
thoroughly dried, for a 'damp towel
has a depressing. effect. Do not
keep moth balls in the dresser draw-
ers in yonr guest chamber. Remem-
ber, they are positively. nauseating
to many people. '
If there is a bathroom communica-
tion with your spare room, be heed-
ful that a perfectly fresh cake of
soap is provided, and plenty of dry
towels. If there is no bathroom, do
not forget the pitcher of hot water.
Do not load the dressing table
with -cast off toilette articles from
your own dresser that are no longer
of personal value ste you, and are at
the same -time of no value to your
guest: Women usually carry their
own precious little instruments du
toilet about with them, and men de-
test the "effeminate playthings."
Leane the cushion bare and the
shelf and dresser free for the guest's
own pins, brushes, combs, etc. See
that the room is provided with a
stand or table to be placed by the
bed to hold the lamp, matches, and
a pitcher of water. Provide a night
lamp, You would be surprised to
know how many people require a
light in the room while sleeping.
An ordinary lamp smokes if turned
low, and it an act of great
thoughtfulness to provide a night
lamp •for your guest.
DOMESTIC RECIPES..
• Cheese Wafers.—Maka a good but
not too "short" pie crust. • Into a
small quantity_ emix as myth .dry
grated cheese as it will take, adding,
if necessary, a teaspoonful or two
of water. Season with a dash of cay-
enne pepper and a Mile salt, Roll
thin and exit in wafers four inches
long and an inchwide; pride thickly
with a fork and bake. Nice to serve
with salad.
Mint Sauce.-allint pauee is the pro-
per accompanimentsnof roast lamb.
Wash the spriggs of mita, pick off
the tender green leaves, chop fine
and add a tablespoonful of sugar,
two tablespoonfuls of vinegar and
half as much ice water.
Creamed Mushrooms—There are
many edible species of mushrooms of
which we do not make half the use
we ought, eince they are both pala-
table and nutritious; indeed it is
claimed that, weight for weight,
there ig as much nutrinient in mush-
rooms as in beef, To prepare them,
peel large, froth ones ,and sprinkle
with salt and popper. Put in a
stewpan with a little water. Sim-
iner ten minuteg. Add a small lump
of buttey—a tablespoonful to a quart
of mushrooms. Then pour in a pint
of sweet cream, in which you hare
stirred a tablespoonful of cornstarch.
Tapioca Jelly—To prepare it, soak
one breakfaateupful of tapioca in
throe eups of cold water OVer
In the Morning pet it in a double
boiler with a cup of hot water, and
let it simmer until perfectly clear,
stirring Often. Sweetert to taste,
and flavor with the juice of baw a
lemon, and two tablsespoonfels' of
fruit jtlidQ Pour into cups, and set
away until perfectly (told. Whipped
cream and sugar nlay be served with
thisti.ali3elltr
lIoest,---Buttee slices of.cley
toast and keep warm. Boil hard es
Matey eggs as desired and sliee over
the toteet. Make a. SOUCC 1W rook-
ing together onnd
e aone-hm
alt antle
milk, One teaspooeful cora starch,
butter the size of a walnut, a half -
teaspoonful of salt Old a slight
Sprinkle of pepper. Boil till it
thickellS, etinrieg to keep it from,
fieoreleing. Pour OW the toast la
separate hot plateSt
Veal Balls—Grind or Chop YerY line
one pound of veal ante two (macesof
breakfast bacon or salt park.. Add
etlp „et l.tmead crumbs, 5teaepeene
ful of Salt, a ealeepoenful of pepper,
a teaspoonful of finely minced (mien,
one large or two email eggs and,
half a cup of stock, water or milk,
and mix thoroughly:, Shape into
balls a little larger than a wahine
and coat with flour. Put a table-
spoonful of butter' in a skillet, a.dd
the balls and Sault) to a golden
brown 011 all sidee, then. cover .with
water or etook and simmer for about,
three-quarters of, an hour. Mix a
teaspoonful of curry pewder with a
heaping tablespoon of flour. Melt a
tableePoon of butter, stir in the
flour and when blended add the broth
from the balls. Stir constantly un-
til smooth and thick; .adcl more seas-
oning if necessary and pour over the
balls. Serve in a platter with, a bor-
der of hot boiled rico.
Fruit Custard—Boil one quart of
milk in a double boiler. Beat two
eggs very light and stir into them
Lour tablespooands of sugar and one
tablespoonful of flour. . Add to this
a tablespoon of cold milk, then stir
it gradually into the boiling milk,
stirring until it thickens, When cool
flavor with a teaspoonful of vanilla.
Have ready in sauce dishes straw-
berries or any fruit in Se-aSQ21 and
pour the custard over it. Rasp-
berries and sliced peaches are parti-
cularly good.
HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
If a liousekeePer is troubled with
mud around her door, she ina,y make
a, pretty useful mat by spreading
branches of cedar, or other evergreen,
on the ground. The boughs should
be of good size and laid thick enough
to wipe feet on. •
It is claimed that by boiling nicq
fresh. corncobs, a. liquid may be ob-
tained 'which, when added to sugar
syrup gives it a maple flavor. The
patent maple syrup flavor, 'which
sells at a high price, is. said to be
made this way.
When a girl is learning to make
bread, it' will be easier if she stirs
the sponge to a good thickness be-
fore beginning the kneading.
When putting down lineoleum,
whether old or new, allow an inch
at the edge for stretching. It seems
as immovable ae so much plank, but
if cut to exactly fit it will stretch
and bulge up after a few dare' nsage.
When you have a number of plain
pillows slips to iron, spread them in
a pile, without folding, upon, the ta-
ble, having the hems all at one end.
Have a good hot iron, turn them all
hack except the bottom, one. Turn
that back the width of the iron and
iron the hem. Then lay it back and
smooth the upper side of the hem.
Do all of them the same way, and
then begin on the top one to finish
up. This is much quicker than
Ironing each one separately., and they
will look just as well.
It is: not easy to keep'grdvanized
pails, washbasins, • etc., clean and
bright looking as it is other ware,
because the same treatment will not
answer. To clean and brighten such
articles,wipe them perfectly dry,
then rub hard with a cloth dipped 111
kerosene. After rubbing till the met-
al shows bright and clean wash in
soap suds to remove the 'kerosene,
and the article will be as bright as
when new—the zinc bathtub and the
stove zinc caa be cleaned in the
same way.
Many authorities say strawberries
must never be washed, but notto do
so often means making a considera-
ble inroad on the "peck o' dirt" we
are all supposed to eat before we die.
'Elie right way to washthem with-
out bruising them or impairing their
flavor is to drop them as they . are
hulled into a bowl of clear water.
Stir them gentlee with the finger tipsy
then lift out in a Skimmer or with
the hands, and drain in a colander.
You'll be surprised to see how much
sand will remain in the bowl.
There is,no part of the house that
innre needs thorough cleaning than
the cellar. Gases and bad air from
it permeate the whole house. If you
don't believe it, spill an ounce of
peppermint or valerian on the cellar
floor and see how soon you can
smell it in the attic. The walls
should be whitewashed once a year
at the least. No stale -vegetables, no
sour beef or pork brine, no old rot-
ten wood is permissible in the
healthy cellar. To absorb the damp -
,CSS and keep the air 'sweet and dry
it is a good plan to keep chloride of
lime in the cellar, renewing it every
three months. •
ONE FOR THE PARSON.
A celebrated man not long since
received a just rebuke. A lecturer
stated that the aforesaid knew how
to make a most excellent cup of cof-
fee: A country parson 'Wrote to
him, asking hint for the recipe. His
request was granted, but at the bot-
tom of the letter was the following
manifestation of stupendous conceit:
"I hope that this is a geniune re-
quest, and not a surreptitious mode
of securing my autograph."
To this the parson replied:
"Accept :my thanks for the recipe
for making coffee. I wrote in good
faith, and, in order to convince you
of • that fact, allow me to return
what it, is obvious yon infinitely
prize, but which is of no value to
me—your autograph."
WORLD'S COTTON crtor,
Taking the last live years; the
world's averege production of cot/
tou per annum has been 16,000,000
bales, calculated at 500 pounde to
the bale; the production during the
year 1S98 was 15,500,000 bales. This
gives on "intchreeashetsionfvlomytot5u0.80,0000r
pal) e°1-113"C:g(tilrilnl`:;11Nianig101171 (1:f bl()(tIP'1°M°6°P haatig
With, the incediee at the worlds p0 -
potation end the much greatee use
and demand for cotton fa brica, which
is a flunked feature of the times.
TITE SUNDAi St11001
INTERN/1.110;11AL LE$s01F,
JULY 17.
Text of the Lesson, II. Chron
xiv., 1-12. Golden Text,
II. Chron. xiv,, 11.
In our study of the kings eve must
bear hi mind that jeliovalli ilitneell
nate the rightful ruler OVOL' Israel
and they sat upon the throat:net' the
kingdom al the Lord ,ever fereel„
representing. Him, ebeying leis voice,
doing Hie wilt I. Sam, viii., 7; 1,
Carron. xxviii., 5). As Isaiah Bain,
"The Lord ie our judge, the Lord'
is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our
21S2i)ng ; NTho mVialinSaaTteer1160., d, s(ToSa,wn2c4xLii,i4.
was the one who did right in His.
eyes, not turning aside front any-
thing that He commanded. (I. Kings
xiv., 8; ecvne 5). The personal ap-
plicationto eacli believer is that, as
the redeemed of the Lord, we are
here in Cluist's stead to manifest
His life and show forth Hth praises
that men may come to Him (II.
Cor. v„ 20: iv., 11; I. Pet. li., 9).,
Jerusalem was the city whieh the
Lord had chosen cue of all the tribes.
of Israel to put His name there, and
believers aro the chose a of the Lord
to bear His name, that people may
bo drawn to Him (IL Ohron. xii.,
13; Eph. 1.. 4; .Acts ix„ 15).
Rchoboam reigned seventeen years,
doing evil. Abijah'bus son, reigned
three years and walked in the sins
of his father (II. Chron. xii., 13, 14;
I. Kings Scv., 3); yet in the matter
of a conflict between his army and
that of Jeroboam the Lord delivered
him in a great emergency, and the
children of Judah prevailed because
they relied upon the Lord cod of
their fathers (II. Chron. wilt, 14-
18). Notwithstanding our great
lun17e,s
0rthisaakeses. He works for n.
His ow
m
Asa; son of Abijale "reigned forty-
one years, just a little longer than
either Saul or David or Solomon,
and did that which was good and
right: in the eyes of the Lord his
God (verses 1, 2; erv1.,14)„ He did
a great deal toward destroying idol-
atty and turning the people to the
Lord God of their fathers (verses
3-5), even removing the queen Moth-
er 'because of her idolatry and de-
stroylag her idol (I. Kings xv., 13), -
but the high places were not all re-
moved. Yet it is said that his heart
was perfect with the Lord all his
days. There was one or all the
kings of the ten tribes who did
right in the sight of the Lord and
only seven of 'all the kings of Judah
who did so (xx.., 32; wxiv., 2; xxv.,
2; xxvi., 4; xxvit, 2; xxix., xxxiv.
2), and some of these only for a
time. There is only one Bible re-
cord of an absolutely perfect man
who never failed to do right in the,
sight of the Lord. He knew no sin,
He did no sin, there was no sin in
Him, He always pleased the Father.
He died for our sins, He is alive for -
over more, .aur great Priest -King at '
God's right hand.
The Lord gave Asa and his people
rest on every side; the kingdom was
quiet before lum (yerses 1, 5, (3, 7).
This leads our thoughts to the time
when a King shall reign in righte-
ousness and the work of righteous-
ness shall be peace and the effect ..of
righteousness quietness and assur-
ance forever, and the people shall
drink in peaceable habitations, sure
teachings and ranee resting places
(Ise xxxii., 1, 17,' 18). In indi-
vidual expevience, "We who have
believed do enter into rest" (Heb. iv,
rest,
bub;ttherewe
amts
isnoottcomeherNVato
ll
. onini
Begives
faith and /et Him rest us.
Such rest is too provoking to the
adversary either in a nation er an
individual (job xxxiv, 29), and he
will do his utmost to disturb it. In
this case he stirs up a million of
men _against Asa's army of half a
million, but Asa cried unto the Lord
his G'•od, and his prayer in verse 41
should be carefully memorized, not
only the part assigned as the Golden
Text, but the whole verse. Jehovah
changes not, and the heart that can
truly pray. this ' prayer will find it
not in vain. ,
With such reliance upon God on the
part of Asa and hig people, it is not
strange that we read, "So the Lord
smote the Ethiopians before Asa and
before Judah, and the Etbiopians
fled" (verse 12). But it does seem
strange that, having proved the ben-
efit of rely—ieg on the Lord, he should
afterwarci rely on the king of Syria
instead of on the Lord and thus
bring upon himself it rebuke from the
Lord through Hamlin the seer (xvi,
7-9). Whenehe trueted the Lord and
he and his people turned to the Lord
and sought Him with their whole de-
sire, encouraged by Azalea:, messen-
ger of Cod, anatthe victory over
the Ethiopians., tben the Lood gave
them rest round about, and there
was no more war unto the thirty-
fifth year of his reign We the whole
of chapter wen.
Aftee that came the fellowship ,
with the king of Syria, the Lord's ,
rebuke by Hanani, the anger of the
king with the prophet (arid therefore
with God, who sent hilt), even put-
ting him in prisoe; the king's illness,
in which be also turned away front
the Lord, and his death in the forty-
first Year of hie reign (cbaptee wen).
Taking warning- by his failure, let
us imitate him in his reliance upon
the Lord and hie "fight against Mole,
try and note that from the ten
t•ribee thera came to him an abun-
dance of people when they saw that
the Lord hie God was with him (ee-,
9), for the Lard honors those) who
honor Him (1 SAM ii, 30).
May. all who read be as muele
helped es X have been by nvi, 9, and
may we eve:. be wbole hearted for
God, for then 1170 can act upoti and
exited, a fulfilitnent of „Ter. xxxiii, 3,
and lie -e 01 the comfort of Ps, ixii,
5. The devil persistently telapts
to lean upon an nem of flath, but 4
the gnaw. of Goa .we overecnul
him andentadfaetly., lemt ort tlat
Lord alone.