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FRIEND OF THE FRIENDLES
Christ Is the Defender of the Weak and
Helpless Man
(Vetere(' according to Act el the Par-
liament of Oaths(la, in the year due
ThOURSLIld Nirie Hundred and lour,
by Wm. )3aily, of Toronto, at till
Department of Agriculture, iattawe )
A despatch from Los Angeles says:
Rev. Prank De Witt Talmage preach-
ed from the following text; John
xiv., 12, "Greater works thau these
',hall he do."
Man increases not his gospel faith
by lowering the standards ef the
cross. You might as well expect
Water to run uphill of its own, ac-
cord, or violets to grow during mid-
winter in a, anowbank, or daylight
to follow after' the sinking of the
sun in the west, or the flush of
health to be seen on the pale cheek
of a corpse, or a humming, bird to
voluntarily make her nest in the
dark labyrinths like a ground mole,
as for a radiant faith capable or
transforming character t,o exist is
any tomtple unless the chief corner-
stone of that temple is Jesus Christ.
"And I, if I be lifted up from
earth, will draw all mon unto me,"
said Josus Christ just a short time
before his crucifixion. "I am the
way, the truth and the life. No man
cometh unto the Father but by me."
speaks' our resurrected Redeemer to
the gospel workers of the present
day.
Let it be -clearly understood at the
oiltset that by no word or thought
would I seek to depreciate the pow-
er and influence of Christ's personal-
ity and work. He it is who fills all
created things; he it is who gives
life, natural, mental. social. He is
the inspirer, the spring from which
conic all our triumphs. But I want
to show you that the promise which
be gave to his disciples. 'Greater
works than these shall he do," has
bcon fulfilled and that man inspired
with his spirit has with the natural
forces at his disposal clone more for
-uplifting huinanity, as Christ said
he should, than did Christ himself.
Man has taken hold of the power
which Christ bestowed and has ap-
plied it beyond the opportunities
which Christ had to complete the
work that he initiated. Christ fed
the multitudes; Christ opened the
blinded eyes and straightened the
crooked limbs; Christ assuaged pain
and ,stopped the chronic issue of
blood. Christ was a great preacher
and drew the multitudes about hint.
Christ •fought against the heathenish
doctrine that "might .is right."
Christ was the greatest of all work-
ers of wonders that -the world had
ever seen. There was only one
Christ. There will never be another.
Yet there are senses, natural as well
as spiritual, in which his promise has
been kept to his followers, and they
4S, have been enabled through the pow-
er emanating from him to do works
whieh surpass -those he did in his
life on earth. But let it never be
forgotten that these ''greater,
works" which man has done have
been accomplished only because Jesus
• bas lived and Jesus' prophetic
words 'have been fulfilled. In order
to get a better grasp of this theme
let nie read to you the full verse in
which the words of 'iny text are
found. "Verily, verily I say unto
you he that believeth on. Inc the
works that I do shall he do also,
and greater works than these shall
he do, because I go unto my
'
AMAZED TILS GENERATION..
Jesus Christ was the amazement
of actmeeinents to the people of his
day and generation as a worker of
eatural phenomene. He seemed to
his time , superior to all natural
taws. When he went 'out to visit
his disciples in their ship, he aid
not have to use the land, as other
people had to do. Ile stepped upon
the crystal pavement of Lake Gali-
lee as easily as an Alpine climber
might rest his foot upon solid rock,
as easily as a hind's feet might glue.,
themselves to mountain crag. When
he spoke, the homage of obedience
was rendered to him, not alone by
men in the synagogue, by beasts of
the field and the fowls of the air,
but by the winds and the waves. Ile
called to the Galilean torapest,
"Peace be still." At the glance of
his eye the "conscious water blushed
to see the face of its Lord" at the
wedding in Cana of Galilee. At a
Word from his lip the fig tree dried
up and withered away. All he had
to say was, "Let no fruit grow on
thee heneeforward forever." At his
call came .whole schools of fish to
be caught by the Galilean fishermen.
By his touch 'whole ovens full of
bread seemed to be miraculously ere -
cited. After the sermon opon the
mount he fed the multitudes by- sinip-
ly breaking five loaves of bread into
pieces. He kept on breaking those
pieces again in twain until at last
all were fed with bread, as much as
they caeed to eat. Christ was a.
Wendelworker in natural phenom-
ena. He could tell Peter just where
to go and catch a fish which had in
its mouth the "piece of money" by
Which the disciples should pay the
just taxes to the Roman govern -
Mont. In the hour of his suffering
and death the earth tremble& and
the sun was ehrouded in darknese.
Tn him was the power which the
pealielet ascribed to the Most High,
"He loolceth upon the earth and it
trembles; he toucheth the hills and
they Make./1.
Not only did Christ astonish the
41/61k people in his clay by hie power owe
the romes Of tature; he revealed his
divine neture by showing his pewee
over physical diseases. tiri tried to
corivinee the people hi his day of
his oosseir oe a licalev or spiritual
mill: el lee liy proving h I eneel f the
defined. or leper epets, the opener of
A
blinded eyes and tlie only one .of his
time who could send the sluggish
blood Of health coursing through the
withered limbs of him sick with the
palsy. Yet to -day, as 1 study
°Mist, the healer of the siek, I see
that the work he did has been taken
up by his followers and its tri-
umphs multiplied. By the word of
his Power he gave sight to a few
bliaci men, but in. our day the Chris-
tian surgeons, by their operations,
are giving sight to thousands. The
Virtue from his garment, stopped one
issue of blood, but in our day the
Christian physician, with his medi-
caments, is stopping thousands of
issues, Christ's touch relieved a, few
sufferers of pain, but in the hospi-
tals of our time thousands pass
painlessly through suffering which in
former times would have racked
then'. With excruciating torture.
MODERN MEDICINE.
But to -day are the "wonders of
modern surgery" any more marvelous
than thed'svonelers of modern medi-
cine?" Is the pima of modern med-
icine to cure disease any more mar-
velous to -day than the power of
modern bacteriological investigations
to prevent disease? You see Christ
stopping here and there to .open
blinded eye or to unstop a deaf ear
or to loosen the heavy and labored
breathing of the asthmatic sufferer.
But to -day the achievements of the
Yells belief to becolne au enthroned
king? You bear on your soul the
marks of sin, but if you will come
to him he will take you into his em-
ploy and will send you Sorth to
bless and help the world. As the
apostle 'bore on his body tae marks
of the Lord Jades, ea you may wear
the badge of his service and in leis
name and by his power carry on the
work that he began. To you, too,
the promise is given, "He that be-
lieveth on me the works that I do
shall he do also, and breeter works
than these shall he do, beco.useI go
unto mn rather."
4.
KQW POLICE DOGS WORK.
Remarkable Intelligence of These
Animals.
During the four years M. Louis
Lepine has occupied the position of
Perfect of Police in Paris he has dis-
tinguished himself not only on ac-
count of the energetic manner in
which he has labored to improve the
working at his department, but also
because of the originality of his ideas
in connectioa with the prevention of
crime. It was M. Lepine who organ-
ized. the 'special corps of "agents
plongeurs," or "plunging poll:coulee,"
whose duty it is to patrol the
banks, quays and bridges of the
Seine, and rescue persons who have
been flung into the river or who have
thrown themselves in with a view
to putting an end to their real or
imagined miseries.
The agents plongeurs" have for
some tune past been assisted in their
unenviable work by a small flotilla
of steamboats, which scour the Seine
at night and, with the aid of power-
ful searchlights, discover river poach-
ers or other marauders and crimin-
als. M, Lepine, however, has pro-
vided the "plunging policemen." with
further assistance in the shape of a
healer include more than here and corps of dogs, who have been specie
and there an. isolated physical
cure, ally trained to carry out the work
I see the lights in thousta.nds of hos- o' rescuing drowning people.
pital windows gleaming like the
stars in. the heavens. I see the
white robed nurses and the doctors, es, possessing the black hair and
coming forth as did the angels of heavy paw of the Newfoundland sire
health who troubled the waters at and the slender snout of the Eskui-
the pool of Bethesda, crying to the
sick everywhere, "Como and be cured
of your ailments!" I see thousands
and tens of thousands of strong men
and women who would bave died
twenty years younger than they are
now had they lived and been sick in
the days when Christ lived and he
had seen them not or touched there
not. Christ as the physician of the
body
to -day was as a wonder curer workoferphysicall. But Van Wesemad, the Chief Commission -
man a.
ailments ia• accomplishing far more er of Police at Ghent, has also or -
than ,Christ ever did, Man 13 not
only opening the eyes of those born
blind, but lie is making, by the thoe-
sand and tens of thousands the
deaf and the dumb speak until this
ancient miracle has ceased to be a
wonder becarise of its commonness.
Now, study Christ 'from another
standpoint. What did Jesus come
down upon earth to de? He came to
save the world? 011, yes; he 'came
to save the world by drawing men
unto himself and banding them to-
gether as Christians. That means
d•dummy figures made to resemble
men were to become followers
himself. Yet, after he came to thieves and characters they would be
Ocely to meet. Great patiences is
earth and was born. in the manger 1
animals niust be train -
and lived in Nazareth, he literally
needed, as the aned to seek, attaeko seine, and hold
became the "despised and the reject -
t
ed of men." After he had lived and without hurting seriously. The firs
Suffered, preached and worked on and
on until the day when he was cruci-
fied, the converts he had won were
only a little handful of followers at
the foot of hiatross.
CHRIST NEVER visiTER INDIA.
These dogs are a cross between the
Newfoundland aud Esquimaux- speci-
=aux, mother. The dogs have been
trained not only to rescue the drown-
ing and to recover bodies, but also
to assist in the capture of thieves
and other ne'er-do-welle who frequerit
the river bank. DT. Lepine proposes
supplying each "agent plongeur"
with one of these class.
Paris, however, ie not the only city
which possesses .dog -policemen. NI.
ganieed a corps of canine criminal
capturers. Some time ago an °pi -
deltic of robberies. occurred in that,
city, which the authorities found ex-
tremely difficult to cope with on ac-
count of the isolation of the places
where the crimes were 'perpetuated.
M. Van • Woman therefore obtained
the permission of the burgomaster to
institute .a service of dogs.
The Commissioner carefully ar-
ranged every detail of their training,
which is entirely done by kindness.
The dogs are taught by means of
All India was yet to give up its
widow burning and the tossing of its
helpless girl infants into the Ganges
to be eaten by crocodiles and the
heathen worship of idols, but Christ
was not, in body, able as a man to
set foot soil of Indlit. Will'
Carey and Alexander Dull eiud Bish-
op Thoburn were to do that. Africa,
with its murder and rapine and can-
nibalistic orgiee, was to build its
altars to the worship of the "true
God," but Christ, as a physical
mane Was tenet. to penetrate into
temp" dark missionary rtchri. A Live
instone, a Taylor and a, Hartzell
were to do that. Europe at that
time shaking under the tread of the
Roman legions; North and South
America utterly unknown to ..civili-
zatioe; the ishoids of the sea, most
of therm unvisited—all are yet to bow
to Christ and come uncler the reign
of love and gentleness and purity
and truth. These are to be won
through the instrumentality of men.
Men energized by the Holy Spirit are
to gain the whole world for him.
Truly, as we look at such a conquest
and :compare it with the work that
he accomplished in Paleetine we see
what he meant when he said"Great-
er thinge than these ellen ye do."
Christ salsa all this future conquest
of the world, but as a man he never
went away from. the Paleetine hills.
He grew up in Nazareth. fle jour-
neyed from Nazareth a few times to
Jerusalem. There at the Davidic
capital be was at last led as a
guilty criminal out to the Calvary
heights to ignominiously die. To
his followershe left the stupendous
task of evangelizing the world,
promising that he Would be with
them to the- end that through his
PQWer they should be able to win
More souls then he had done.
But though, we have been praising
man's "greater works" would
have you bear well in mind this one
tremendous fact. No work of man
is tally greater than Chriet's work)
begat's° all of man's greater Works
aro the outcome of Jesus' wark. If
you read the Yore° le which my text
is Mond you will find the whole
trend of the thought in the one word
"because," "He shall do greater
works than these becauee X go to
iny Father:" Became Chriet, is in
God and God is in ue is the reason
man is able to accomplish greater
works than did ChriSt.
To -day will you not feel that you
eat only accomplish the greeter
work Chriet bas given to yell to do
by living and workien iri Christ; ?
Oh. My friend, Marked with the
:ogee of Wanly upon your heart,
marked with the signs of rebeliOn
against. Christ, win noil not change
step is to Mint n man attempting to
hide, which is soon leaent. Four
months' training is required, howev-
er, before a dog is allowed do take
his place for service.
The dogs are taught to swim, to
seiee their quarry in thc water, to
save life from orowning, and over-
come all obstacles. Ghent has six-
teen of these accomplished dog -po-
licemen, .which all belong to the
sheep -dog breed. They rest during
the clay and go on duty at 10 p.m.
Their uniform consists of a leather
collar, strongly bound with steel,
and armed with sharpened points
to repel attacks, Their keep costs
about 6 'cents per day, and the total
cost of the dog -corps is about 1,500
frs. a year.
PROFESSOR AND THE WAITER.
In Berlin the waiters in -beer -gar-
dens are very sly in seturing tips.
When a guest pays his bill and the
waiter has to give change, the latter
returns all the change correctly ex-
cept ten pfennigs. The waiter
searches industriously in all his pock-
ets and displays ostentatiously all
his' money, but he has no ten -pfen-
nig piece. As a general thing the
departing guest becomes impatient,
and, tired of waiting for the small
amount tells the svaitee to keep the
change.
A celebrated professor who was a
frequent visitor to the beer -gardens
had his curiosity excited to find out
what the waiters did with the ten -
pfennig pieces, so he watdhed them.
He soon discovered that the waiter
put all the ten -pfennig pieces in the
left-hand pocket of his vest, while
the rest of the money went into his
trousers pocket. When the profes-
sor's turn came to 'pay for his beer,
as usual the waiter could not find a
ten -pfennig Piece to complete the
change.
"I am afraid," said the waiter, go-
ing furiously through his pockets,
"that I haven't got a ten -pfennig
piece,"' •
"Suppose you feel in, the left-hand
pocket of your vest," replied the pro-
fessor, suggdstiVely.
The Waiter did so, and, as he
handed out the requisite coin, he
whispered in the professor's ear, "I
guess you were it waiter yourself
once upon a time; but keep the Irick
clerk,"
OIL Or TIRPENTINE.
Oil, of turpentine makes a good
dressing for old sores that have de-
veloped a teintenc,v•to gangreue.
The pure oft of toepentine shoOld
be applied by saturating a clean
eloth and spreading it ori the sore.
Xi the sore is yety large, a little of
the oil ofterpentine can be adraina
istered internally, ray half a toa J
spoorlul Shred or our times ad day, t
Proportionately leas foe chitchat), is
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HOME.
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AS HIS MOTHER 'USED TO BO.
tie criticised her puddings and Sound
fault with her cake;
Ile wished she'd make such biscuits
as his mother used to make;
She didn't wash the dishes and she
of the rivet Japanese army to Lieut.
didn't make a stew,
Nor even mend his stockings as his
mother used, to do
Ali, well! She was not perfect,
though she tried to do her best,
Until at length she thought her time
_ had come to have it rest;
So when one clay he went the same
old regmerole all through,
She turned and boxed his ears, just
as Lis mother used to do.
His mother had six childrer, but by
night her work was clone;
His wife seemed drudging alsvays,
yet she only had the one.
Ws mother always was. dressed, 'his
wife would be so, too,
If only she would manage as Ids
mother used to do,
DOINGS WiTkI RHUBARB.
Stewed, Ithuhard—Wash the rim -
barb well in cold water, but if
young and tender de not skin, other-
wise peel oh the outer skin. Cut into
small pieces and put into a porce-
lain-heedor earthenware dish. Cover
with halt the weight of the rhubard
fie granulated Began and place where
it will cook very slowly until tender,
adding only enough water to keep
from burning. Do not stir. When
the juice begins to come out, cover'
the dish, and let steam until thor-
oughly cooked. Serve with whipped
ea
Rhubarb Custard --Make a plain
custard with 1. pt. of milk, 2 egg
yolks, a pinch of salt and sugar to
taste.' Line a deep pudding dish
with very thin pastry, cover with a
layer of chopped rhubarb, spread
thickly with sugar, and add the cus-
tard mixture. Bake in a moderato
oven until the custard is set. Cover
the top of the pudding with a mer-
ingue made with the whites of the
eggs cmd 2 tablespoons of sugar, and
browa very delicately in a slow oven.
Rhubarb Sagod-Cook 2-8 cup sago
in water to cover until clear, Then
add 1 cup rhubarb sliced very thin,
a pinch of salt, 2-3 cup sugar, and
a small piece of singer root. Turn
into a buttered bercing dish and bake
an hour in a moderate oven. Add
it little more water, if necessary.
Serve hot with cream and sugar.
Rhubarb Dessert jelly—Peel enough
rhubarb to fill, when cut small, a
quart measure; add to it 1 M. moist
sugar, the grated yellow rind and
juice of 1 lemon, and 9 drops of es-
sence of lotion. Let -cook rapidly,
stirring frequently, until the rhubarb
becomes e, rich marmalade. Rave
1 oz. gelatine dissolved in cold wa-
ter (e, pt.), add this to the rhu-
barb, and stir without ceasing until
the gelatine is thoroughly melted.
Pour into a wetted mold, and serve
the following day, or when quite
firm. Turn out of the mold on it
shallow glass dish and surround
with a. wreath of whipped cream.
USEFUL HINTS.
Pieplant and tapioca make a very
appetizing dessert. Use the pieplartt
as you would apples or peaches, and
serve with cream. It is delicious.
It weakens and wears the fibre of
a carpet to beat it over a lino.
spreadit on the groun,d and sweep
and beat it till it is clean. This
is more work, but avoids damage if
the carpet is much Worn.
To clean looking-glasses—First rub
the 'surface with methylated spirit,
carefully removing every spot. Then
dust a little powdered blue over, and
polish withea silk handkerchief.
A wet umbrella should never be
stood ferule -end downwards to dry,
neither should it be opened. Instead
shake it well, close it loosely, and
stand handle downwards to dry.
To remove freckles—Take ono outce
of lemon -juice, a quarter of a
drachm of borax powdered, and a
half a drachm of sugar. Mix thor-
oughly, and let it stand in a bottle
for three days; it well then be fit for
use, and ihould be rutibed on the face
and hands at night before going to
bed.
Bran water for washing. Should be
made as followe: Make sonic muslin
bags, using half a yard of ueuslin
for each bag. Put a large handful of
bran into the bag and soak it in the
very hot washing water. Experience
will teach you how much bran is re-
quired for a tub of water. Wring
out the ban after ten minutes, paid
tbe water will be softened.
A good preparation for the hands
is made as follows, -and strongly
recommended by one who has used it
for years: Put into a bottle half an
ounce of glycerine, and hal( an ounce
of lavender water, and shake well to-
gether. Then add half an ounce of
=indica. water. Shake thoroughly,
and keep tightly corked for use.
triderdone bread is unwholesome,
being hard of d iges ti On . Single
loaves bahe molt perfectly than
double mice. Where three are baked
together the middle loaf is apt to
be undeedone unless the end loeves
are baked too much, Bread should
be baked about fitty-five minutes,
To mend ;Brussels carpet, 4t1t alVt1S7
a squese Or oblong pieta Where the
Metiding is necessary and buttorilitle
the edges with yarn to match the
color,' taking care net to ravel or
flettee the edges, Cut a plate of
carpet to eetattly flt, this place,
matching the pattern. Buttonhole
thee° edges ohm, Sew together ov-
rhancl etitth on the wrong , side,
>ampen the Joining and press with
hodpoint of it ilatiron until the
eam is
WITH STALE BREAD.
Canadian housekeepers, antike their
French sisters, scaveely dream of the
innumerable uses to whie,h stale
bread stay be put, not to mention
the attractive ways in which it may
be served. In a well -regulated house-
hold it shoold be considered a neces-
sary adjunct,
Amongst ite uses, it forms the
chief ingredients in several kinds of
puddings, and is necessary for dress
-
tags for all kinds of liaised fowls,
as well as for escalloped oysters and
outlets. When eut into squares and
toasted on buttered tins, it inakee
most acceptable croutons for soups,
and when dried and roiled, like
cracker crumbs, sealed in an air-
tight jar aud put away is always
ready for fish balls, croquettes, ome-
lets, macaroni and any of the num-
erous distms which are made more
palatable by its use.
Bread Omelet, Baked—Soak 1 cap
stale bread crumbs in 1 cup sweet
milk; then add 6 well beaten eggs.
Pour into a shallow bettered baking
dish and bake 15 minutes. Serve at
once.
Bread Crust for Balls or Dressing—
Save the scraps and broken crusts,
which cannot be toasted, soak in
warm water till soft; to I pt. add
e teaspoon salt, a pinch of pepper
and 1 tablespoon butter, mold into
balls, like an egg, and lay in the pan
with roast of beef or mutton. When
brown serve with a rich gravy.
Egg Bread—Ono-half cup bread
crumbs soaked in 1 pt. sweet inillc,
2 eggs, 2 cups corn niced, tablespoon
each of lard. and butter, axed 1 tea-
spoon salt. Beat eggs light, then
add crumbs, lard, etc. Stir all to-
gether and bake quickly in shallow
tins.
Cheese Toast—Remove crust and
toast thick squares of bread. Work
together 1 tablespoon made mus-
tard, 1 teaspoon salt and pinch of
cayene pepper, mid 1 cup grateri
cheese; add to this 2 well beaten
eggs and 1 teaspoon lemon juice.
Spread the toast with this raixture
and place in oven to brown.
PANSY TRAY -CLOTH.
A serviceable and handsome tray -
cloth may be made as follows: Take
a piece of butchers' linen (common
duck may be used instead), ,and
cut it oblong in shape. Baste tile
Pansies, which have been cut from
cretonne, around one half inch freno
the edge. Buttonhole the edge of
the pansies to the linen with hong
and short stitches. All colors of
the pansy should be used. When
finished, cut the linen from the out-
er edge, thus leaving the outer edge
of the pansies to form the scallop.
The white centre, with its heavy
border of purple pansies, makes it
very neat and pretty tray -cloth.
TO RENEW VELVET.
To renew velvet, cover the face of
a flat -iron with a wet cloth. hold
the wrong side of the velvet next
this cloth until thoroughly steamed,
then brush the pile with a soft
brush.
STATE INFANT NURSERY.
New Zealand's Latest Socialistic
Reform, Proposal.
State Socialism in Nen- Zealand
is to be carried still a further stage,
if Mr. Seddon is able to give effect
to his views next session, says it rec-
ent despatch. He intends that the
State shall, in future, take steps
to protect the lives of infants and
administer to the sick poor of the
colony. Two years ago an attempt
was made by act of Parliament to
minimize the decrease in the birth-
rate by prohibiting the sale of cer-
tain nostrums; now Mr. Seddon in-
tends to .save the lives of as many
infants as possible by estgbleshing a
huge nursery clepertment.
Mr. Sodden admits net his scheme
may be laughed at, lint his heart, he
says, prompts him to lessen
domestic affliction and save valuable
human lives, each of which, omit a
commercial basis, he declares to be
worth $1,500 to Oho State. The idea
has apparently been suggeseed by
statistics showing that the deaths of
children under live years of age dur-
ing the past ten years numbered 20,-
000, due largely 1,6 preventible caus-
es.
Briefly, Mr, Seddon's scheme is
this, (1) The registration and con-
trol of midwives, and provision for
their attendance on the poor gratis;
the establishment and support by the
State of maternity hospitals; the es-
tablishment of State hospitals for
the' treatment of children of poorly -
housed working people, the manago-
ment of the institution to be placed
in the hands of trustees; thepro-
viding by the State of nurses to the
-sick poor in their lionies; making
Provision for the training- of steel
nurses in the general hospitals, the
State payieg the board end 'lodging
of the probationers for two years;
adoption of the lines laid down in
the United Xingdom for the preven-
tion of cruelty to children; the estab-
lishment of honies for the daily care
of young children Whose mothers.
have to go out to work; amides it
illegal to tnsure children of tender
years for sums beyond that wthich
would cover the cost of interment,
vie., ,d5, and making illegal for any
parent or guardian to coin:tete (eap-
italize) the weekly or monthly
amount payable for the maintenance
of a child:
Little Clarence'—"Papa, is there
dionot extong thieves?" Fath -
my son; thieves are just ea
bad as other people."
ele--"I got a note from Dunne to-
day, saying that he absolutely enlist
have the money I Owe him by to -
Morrow morning." She—"Ohl the
poor felloWl"
"lVhat did you buy with that mon-
ey your uncle left you?" "X bought
experience," Wasthe' rueful reply,
"Speed it all for that'?" "My dear
sir, I never Wee umirih good at bar-
gaine, and the Ordinary pviced eXper-
ietee Was what X got'''
THE SUNDAY SCROOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
AUG. 7.
Text of the LeSsian, L KIngs
xvii., 3.4.6. Golden Text,
I. Pet, v,, 7.
We ere now introduces' to :and aro
to spend six weeks with Elijah, the
Tishbite, who was of the.inhabitants
of Gilead, The first record or him
contains all that we know of his
birthplace and parentage, Like Mei-
chezedek., he stands before us on the
pages of Scripture without any re-
cord of father or mother or ancce-
try, and he appears as su,ddenly-lie
is spoken of by some as one of the
grandest and most romantic charac-
ters that Israel ever produced. His
taro.° signifies "My Cod is jenov-
ab," and before Jehoirah ne stood,
and unto Min he lived. Tito first re-
corded sentence from his lips, "The
Lord God of Israel livetia, 'before
wlioni I stand" (verse 1), gives us
his constaet attitude. 'The rule ol
his life was to please God, not fear-
ing the frown nor seeking the favor
of mortal man. His opening words
are repeated in xviih, 1.5, and make
us think of Gabriel's words in Lute
i., 19, d1 am Gabriel that stand in
the presence of CI od." They also
carry us back to the Lord's word to
Abram in (3en. xvii., 1, "Walk be-
fore me and be thou perfect" (mar-
gins upright, sincere). 'Phis is the
only way for those who would be the
Lord's meesengers.
Conceriling his message to Ahab,
"There shall not he dew nor rain
these yeara but according to My
word," we must consider Jas.
17, where it is written that be pray-
ed earnestly That ibe might not rain,
and also Deut. xi., 17, where we
have the authority for such it pray-
er, the Lord having threatened to
sh,ut up the 'heavens and withhold
saM if they turned from Him to
worship idols. That the heavens
were thus shut up in the days of
Elijah is confirmed by our Lord in
Luke iv., 25. Believing prayer must
be based upon 501110 plain assurance
in the word of God or some clear re-
velation from 'Cod concerning His
will, George Muller has called tha
iformer the grace of faith and the
latter the gift of faith. In one way
or the other God will guide us.
:the brook Cherith and the ravens and
ahl was according to th.e wood of the
'Lord, which both Elijah and the
ravens obeyed. The first time this
title or expression, "The word of the
Lord,' is used is in Gen. xv., 1. It
may mean a message from God or it
may mean the Son of God, who is
called "The Word" (John i., Rev.
xix., 13). Either way it is God con-
trolling, and our part is "willing
and obedient" (Tea. le, 19). The
prophet is now tcild to hide hienself;
he has delivered his message, and
that is all that is recmired of him
at present.
May the life of every child of God
be summed up in this: "Striving ac-
cording to His working, whieh work-
eth in. Me mightily" (Col. 1., 29), for
unless it is God working in us it can-
not stand. But when we thus seek first
the kingdom of God and His right-
eousness we may be sure that all
temporal things shall be added, even.
though rayons feed us or poor wide
ows minister to us. In these days
of unbelief and scoffing, if any should
hear it said that Arabs, not birds,,
fed Elijah, just ask what kind of an..
Arab dew out of Noalts ark, for the
word "raven': in our lesson is the
same in the Hebrew as the word.
"raven" in Gen. viii. 7.By what-
ever instrumentcdity the Lord may
minister to Us, 'while truly grateful
to Him and to His ministering ser-
vants, we musk be .stayed upon Him-
self alone, lest some Cheritli clry up!
and we thereby grow discouraged.'
Hab. iii, 17, 18, is a fine word to
appropriate; for .whoever or what-
ever may fail us we can always truly
say, "Thou, 0 Lord, remainest for-
ever" (Lam. v, 19; Deb. i, 11). ,
It was tot for Elijah to think out
:ionic new place to go to. for the,
Lord who sent Wm. to Cherith and,
hid and sustained him there had his
eye upoa him (11. Chron. xvi, 9),
and saw all the circumstances, and
doubtless Elijah talked with Him
about it. Well, at the right time,
not too soon, tor too late, the same
word of the Lord who sett him to
Cherith "commands him to go to a
widow woman at Zarephatia or ac-
cording to Luke iv, 20, Sarepta, and
there is our Lord's confirmation of
this part of the story aim Zara-
pheth signifies a place of refining,
and, while at Cherith he was cut oil
from all human help, he is now to
human, ministration.
be refined still more by mossIti,reirylike11230,
journey:a for the Lord can hide us
while abiding, and when he arrives at
the gate of the city the widow is
there gathering a few stieks to make
a cake, , for herself and her son, of
the lo et handfu1 of mealet the house
and after that they expect to dice
What a boaiding house! What a
welcome•for a weary trevehod Mid
yet et is the Lord's way.
Listen to Elijah "Fear not; go
and do as thou hast said, but make
me a little cake first" (Nem' lel).
Tiad this been all, the women might
have thought him seine crezy tramp,
Rut listen yet : "After that itake
for thee and for thy son, for tints
saith the Lord . God of Israel, the
barrel pi meal sliced not waste, neith-
er Shall the prime of oil hen until"
* " Ami 00 it came' to pass)
eording to the 'word of die Lorcl, end
the meal and oil• were multiplied for
a ftill y,eat (versos 10-16 nnd margin
of 15), This poor widow gave all
te the Lord; the widow who had '
two. Mites gave all; the lad with the
ave loaves gave all. When we as
unreservoSly give all, We shall See
the Lord's ihereaee "Thera Se that
rackatil:teroth Mxi yet in.creaset.h" (Prod'.
T
)i, 24). h'M
e et Of the verse tells
Wiry 111(131y. tt,to, poot who Might, be
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