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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1904-9-1, Page 3THE NYSTERY OF TIIE S An Enchanted Realm Beneath the Waves of the Deep Entered necording to ect of the' Sere ttament of Canada., tn the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Four, by Win. Deny, of 'roseate, at, t110 elepartmeet of Agriculture; °stew.% ) A despatch from eteas Angeles, Cal., says: Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preached the following- text:—Revela- tions xxi., 1, "And there was no more sea." , . Who was ,the welter? Where weee his feet . planted when be .eatS ' the spectacles :Which he describes in his ' divinely inspired, apoealypse? These two conditions must be clearly under- stood before ozie can in any true way grasp the _meaning of the words of -tiny text. Indeed, to properly aP- Nreciate tbe words or the actions of any man we must first put ourselves in tied: men's place. , To -day, 'in order to righely inter- pret the words of int. -text, we must first, . put ourselves in St. John's place. In the first instance, we no- tice, he is an old mani•Iis life's work was nearly done. A man at eighty looks at conditions in heaven and onearth differently from the way • a young 3nan at twenty look's at theta The struggles of life were to St. John very real and intense. " For yea.re he had been a• resident of Ephesus, in Asia 311inor. He had been a mighty factor in tihe spread- ing of the gospel through all those regions. He had sulthred for Christ; he had alniost been -martyred. • The second fact we must notice, is that Stjohn is tot exile. Under the Do - initial persectition, he was sent to this lonely, rockbound island of the Mediterranean. Therefore the sea meant more to him than it might encan to some of us. It Meant, as I zinal try to show, first, the "Sea of Mystertio" secondly, the "Sea -of Hate:" thirdly, .the "Sea of Separa- tion'," and fourthly, the "Sea of he looks over the Mediterranean wa- 'Spiritual Struggle." By putting ters to Asia Minor, where he knows .ourselves in Stjolan-s place as ex- his Cheistion colaborers • are work- -hes upon the island of Patmos, 1 ing among the churches of Asia. 'believe We can symbolize all these "Ah,' says the old. patriarcb, "in -facts. heaven I shall never be separated GOD IS A MYSTERY. from those I love. 1 shall never be compelled to have the silver cords fell on its head. I endetsvored to What the mysterious sea was to of affection snapped at the grave. i pull it up, but found the animal was the lonely exile looking oil upon the These waves of separation shall for- unable to move, its foreleg baying eta' Mediterranean God always has been ever and ever be licked up. There been blown off. I left my wounded and always will be to es on earthshall be no more sea." cbarger and forced my way on foot, Ile is a inystery. We linOW, that he Is not this rdunion tesfhe, of etea when I was attacked by -Russian ca -v- -created the world, but how? We isle of Patmos to you a transcen- alry, through whom I succeeded in •cannot tell. We know that in the dent thought? is it not an uplift- cutting my way-. No sooner, how - beginning eChriet was, and yet he Mg hope that those Nvho were once ever, had I got clear Of my foes than -was born a helpless babe. How? We snatched away from •us by death I was knocked down and ridden over cannot tell. We know that John, shall be gie,on back in all the beauty by a: number of rieleriess .horses.• AS the beloved disciple, 'walked and and love of the redemption ? Not Having regained my feet, I observed lived with Christ. Yet concerning long ago the groat battleship Of the one of the Thirteenth. Light Dragoons many facts about the personality of. United States naVy named after the ender his horse, which had been he Jesus, John was as mieu much in- the dark State of Missri was threatened killed. The rider (Trooper J. 'Ma- , r.its was Nicodeentls when he said, with annihilation. By a certainomis- lone) not being able to free himself HOW can these things be?Paul hap the powder charges on the decks I succeeded in dragging the horse ., " were ignited and exploded. In. an in - ••compares our knowledge of God to a on hint and set him at liberty. La.t- little child's knowledge' of a human stant a sptxrk might fir into the mag- er on I assisted SergtaMajor Far- parentWe know that our babies azin,e room; and then 'the whole 51111) 1011 of the same regiment, to carry :. would be destroyed and six hundred •cannot fully understand ,us. There- Captain Webb who was badly wound - fore Paul says: "Now' we look mon might be hurled into eternity. ed, out of danger. I once more re - At once a• gunner's mate who stood 'through a glass ' darkly. •Now I turned to -the open under a heavy fire Do -you woe_ near jumped through the open door 'know only in part." and brought out Trumpeter William ..der that when John began to use the - shut tbe the magazine oom Tand slammed Brto etton, who es very seriously iron doror. he magazine. einieterious ocean as the symbol of nd woded. I then caught a stray room was flooded athe ship was un a naysterious God he cried out in the saved; not, however, before the brave horse belonging to the Eighth 1 -1 -us - words of my text in reference to g . unnel s mate sus was nearly drowned in which I mounted and returned • .• . , heaven, ".And there was no more that magazine room as a rat might up the Valley, galloping through 'sea? " All the mysteries of earth be drownecl in his holegAs with scores of dead 'comrades and horses :shall receive heavenly solution when that • ' • • is • that lay strewn oe-er the ground. unner s mate , sometimes it the seas shall vanish away. ." our duty to face dangers. Some- Later on I found that out of a Tu. ea sea of mystery is to be scat- tunes tve. meet, as it were, turn air deed and forty-five men belonging to tered. Yes, but the great "sea of backs upon our friends and slam shut the. Seventeenth Lancers oho went , MAC,'" is also to disappear on the an iron door, called the door of the into the charge only thirty-five could =millennial dawn. That se -t of blood tomb, which sepaxates us from, our be discovered. Some were on Reis- -shall forever disappear, the drinking dear ones. Sometemee we must be se- elan horsesand the i•est on horses •of N,Illeh turns a human heart into parated from those we love, even as belonging to other British, regiments, that •• of a wild beast's when . he is St. John on the island of Patmos whose riders had.been killed. On the willing to trample upon and destrwas separated 'from his friends in morning ol the battle there were oy 'hie . weakerfellows. That sea of Asia Itlinor. 13itt in heaven. God thirteen. 'of us lancers in one tante bleed Shall bo • licked uP which mal will give tis back ourloved onoe. and at night I was the only one marl lawn at the feet of man onl h Yes, there will be no :separations, no left." • • " ' 'because, like a tiger's cub, his claws partings there. For in heaven, ate lain nations have been and are sep- arated frorn other nations by , the barriers of mighty mountain ranges. The Pyrenees separate France front SPaila and the mighty Alps form the northern botinciary of Italy and' the western boundary of /Lustre% and the southern boundary of Germany, and shut up Switzerland as with a Chin- ese atter all, the great- est .separtilars of nations always have been the mighty sees. Thus, when St. John looked on uporei the waters of the Mediterranean and said, And there waken() more sea," he meant practically this: in heaven there shall be no hate, no, bitterness, no fault findings, no bloodshed, no Jew hating Roman, no :Roman hat- ing Creek, no Japan fighting Russia and no Spain sucking the lifeblood of a prostrate Cuba. Then love and kindness and sympathy and mutual self sacrifice will blind the lumen family to-gether, because the "sea .of hate" shall forever disappear. But as the "zee oi separationt'et sometimes the sea of hate," so it may be also the impassable barrier which separates friend Rom friend. Napoleon, fretting life' away in• St. Elelena, or Captain ,Dreyfus, suffering on Devil's island, or Victor Hugo, in. on the island lef Guernsey, were no more separated from their friends than was St. John, on Patrnos, se- parated from his friends.. Legend tells us that he was sent to work in the Patmosmines as dm Russiai exiles are put to work in the Siber- ian miiies. But, when the elay'e work was done St. John was allowed to freely roam .over the Tatinos rocks. No prison walls were more secure than this prison of the apostolic ex- ile. And now, methinks, I can see him, his white hair being tessed by the winds. He strains his eyes as "mountain of 0411447" eliall not only be a wide moonteia, but a high mountain. It shalt lift LIS up and U1) until it lifts us to the very gates of heaven tteelf. Oh, my bro- ther arid sister, will you tand anon this mountain, this blood red Cal- vary moteetain? Will you not to- day let the ielancl of Petrnos be to you it stepping stone to a heavenly throne? There you will never again hear the surging waves of temptation berating against the rocks of sin and aad theentening to sweep you out into the unfathomable depths. May the eunriee of a gospel hope shed to- day its yellow beams over lire's trou- bled waters and have for you a gold- en boulevard which shall load up to the streets of a new ,Terusalern, where there shall be "no more LAST OF LIGHT BRIGADE. Sergt. Nunnerley Receives Meritor - ions Service Medal. Itt the recent birthday honors list were a number of veteran officers who received marki of roYal favor in commemoration of the jubilee of the Crimean War, says tile 'London Tele- graph. His Majesty, at the same time, was not forgetful of the splendid heroism displayed throughout the campaign by the rank and file of the British .ailey, and he has con- ferred on Sergeant Nuunerley, lona- erly of the Seventeenth Lanfiers, who took part in the charge of. the Light ade at Balaclava the medal for meritorious service. r.fhe Secretary to the .Army Council has intimated to Sergy Nunnerlcy that King Ed- ward bestows this honor upon hint, together with the annuity, as a is for his long and highly merit- orious service, including the Crimean Nunnerley is a man of splen- did physique, standing six feet two inches, and, in spite for his years, retains a fine soldierly appearance. Two brothers also served, with him in the Crimea. The 'gallant old lancer gives it viv- id description of the daring charge of fifty years ago. Ile says:—"We had not proceeded far before the men in the left division of any squadron were nearly all mowed 'down, includ- ing a sergeant, who had his head blown off, but afterwards rode about thirty yards before lie fell from the saddle. Every shot from the enemy's guns came with deadly etTect, and I had many hair -breadth escapes from death. Within a few yards from the Russian guns my horse was shot and + - cordihg to, the inspired Apocalypse, • are not yet sharp enough and his WHAT. THE JAPS READ. "there. is no inore sea." jaw not yet strong enotsg,h to 'teax DTIVARD SPIRITT_TATa STRIFE. limb from'. limb tile being he noty , Russian:is the Favorite Language saletes as master ai.1C1 king. But the Mediterranean waves beat -o But perhaps We had better ao. mg against the Patmos rocks were Studied in. Japan. :scribe how the words of iny text not only symbolic of external treillb- may mean ' the "sea of hate" before les, but altso of an inward spiritual Until forty years ago an English N,vas practically unknown in we make our application to this ,strife. t ?:31,illettt. St; ..rohn gaze his 1:Jgampkan truth. God made of one blood all 1 the only foreign literatuee eirneamrtciPoeted "freniall scgo solliftli mations, to dwell upon the face of caVtie,a1,1 studied was the Chinese, and the the earith. ,He never intended Jews first language to be taught in the never for an instant, this side of the bare a g•ospel stronghold. The' Bible cap- schools Was the 1/uteli. Notv, while English., is the xaost grave, leaves on his struggle to -to be antagoeietic to gentiles or'lrue man governments to be arrayed against human -&-r, declares a Chrietian shall not be conunon among the people, and is g°v°11"ilent's' '—'" tempted by a sM greater than be can studied by all high-school pupils, never intended the dividings al of color to sepaeate the white races \c' 1 - - bear. But Christians always have (Seeman and French are favored gen- ii= the black, or the yellow skins to be going to Christ for more spir- pettily by scholars and physicians, itual strength in order to repel the There is It foreign -language echool in of the Asiatics to be at war with Satanic onslaughts which axe daily Tokio, where ahnost all laeguages the combined forces of the civilized being made against the sti•ongholde are taught,. and, curiously enough, world. But the oceans, perhaps, of their hearts, Russian is the favprite. • move than any other means, have been the cause which has produced Can we not find the symbol of a The study of Extglish litera,ture in theee much to be deprecated results. spiritual struggle in the never ending .5aptin is represented by Professor restlessness of the sett? "Oh," said Yuzo TstiboUelii, who has translated Great seas have flowed in between a lady some time ago to me, "I am into Japanese some of Shakespeare's the Continents. For thousands of so tirecl al hearing those waves beat plays—'Othello." "Macbeth," and years the navigators were unable to up against the rocke." Yes, those the "Merchant of Venice." cross thein. The ocean beds see so wave:: have been beating up against The most widely known English broad and long that though the -Os- those recta; for thousands of yearswriter in Japan is Carlyle. All stu- tralia n continent, wi tit: an . area of When sailing upon the ocean, some dents of English literature in Ja- 2,044;628 ttquare miles, was discov- days its surface seems as calm as pan read his works. Next to Car- ered by the Dutch explorers iis 1606, Loon 'lake asleep, as a smiling child tyle collies Maeciulay, and the new . it wee practically . lost 'for nearly' ih the broad lap of the AOironback Ifanyaku, or transla.tion style, was two centuries, as it pebble might be mountains, nut that ie onlY a practically' created by borrowing his 100, in the bottom of a lake, It lind eluniber. Within a • fete home; she lan to be rediseovered by Captain Ca Cook may awke ttco •ith a scowling face, gerarY uage by the atinyushamen, a lit- band in Tokio, Emerson is in 1771. Thus widely separated with the hoe of the liggs htninin her grently a:Indeed, . and his writings peoPles gteaw up with eeparnte inter- eye and with the shriekiegs of 'the have influenced many notable ,Tapan- ests. The.y spok.e different Jangle tornadoes he her voice. In our lives , ages, l'ileh countenances were , es e j ot ir n a li s ts to -clay, Mill and the spiritual eteuggles keep 011 tO t,,,1130 ',Torbert hpouccr &thee also hotheeed "euc).(1 tulgst`''' the thought of modein ,JePan• bleached by Ile snows of the frigid end. 'We Have the a zone or darkly tanned by the teopi- whispetting in one ear to be good; cal heats. Becauee they had no pre- we btive .the "bad an,gel" sti 0 Tennyson,. T,ongfellow, Wadsworth, yi oti 0 in t ere our se ' they a seoei at ed Nvili ' critlb Inttrort, and :Milton ase the most pia - then ts el vets in tea n s or banded them- selvestogether in nations. When they confronted each other, they canne not , aS friends, but as armed fees. . TH111 SEA OTP ITA'Phi Rome Do yott suppose itienne would have ever pyiced hoe iron heel of tyronny upott die itecle of the prostrate lie- n the other ear to be bad. St, Tohn eVen tip to the end of His life, !Pi,3'nr poets, and in fiction lineng, heel to fight by the power of the Trio braY, and 'Dickens 110 la t IToly Spirit '1,1)111 '1 the restless sea 1.111).91'n• TlellernY's "Looking' I/eeke of Letnptatiorts. So bawl we, ward" has been recently translated !`1111.38 teXt 211 ea 118 1 a ore then. it 'tate Japanese, mere figure of pooch 1 1 h more than a inere literal interpretation a„, that Ileac:et is to be a phace without Alother---"I'M SerpriNed at. you! atn1OS1)herie 11101stta.0, it means Couldn't yon tell ho wits going to bPew 11 ad +Ter usal cut itot been sena rs that the "motel tale e el' Calvary" hiss Y0111" Da ugh ter —" SOs, • 311.11 at ecl from the capi t ti of the. Geezers shall be largo enough o hold all ; but theint, was 9119 olio for me to by the :elm:: Wrives. 'which separai ea peoples who g•ive their hearts to ten ioceept, him, and lie knew it el - Rome from ChIrtilage? Of coUrse cer- Jestel Christit means that this heatiely," ************* * HOME. PLUM JAM AN.D JELLY. While the fluor varieties of plums make beauthul dessert fruit, rich and hisciaus of flavor, they aro not no wholesome tmcooked as their next of kin the peach arid pear. When it conies to pickling arta Pre-' serving •the plum runs a very close usual, and it will be diced very fate. found in nearly all parts of the coun- is Onion jiving Can be Obtained by ruble inn a cut, onion over a lare grater, second to thee peaele The fruit try and the provident decidedly lack_ heeding the grater tipped :sogthat one ing if lier ,etore closet of pserves corner of it rests 111. the Spoon. and the other is held above it; by prees- has not Rs usual good re supply, of ing the onion -against the grater eine Plum jani, jellY and cheese. soon 01.1.11105a supply ef juice, which Damson Oheese.—Damson cheese is really flavors many, -things much aa old English preserve, made much more delicately than the onion it - stiffer than either jelly or jam. It, is self, , used as a dessert and keeps well if sealed up in a cold place. Put An old remedy for hiccoughs is to, sound plums in an earthetu jar, set ap.ergetsislaiir1711Yw0itnhthtehePithrnoaunt(111 tightiv in a pea of cold water and bring to closed. Try this IT troubled, a boil over the fire. Cook. until the Mille will rarely prove indigestible fruit is . soft, then run the pulp if it is sipped slowly. When Mal - through a sieve to remone pits arid lowed hastily it forms a solid mass s] ins Foe each pound of the pulP in the stomach, thus causing' indiges- allow half a pound of lad or granu- tion. • lated sugar and boil to a thick paste Lemon hake and sugar thickly. mime Crack some of the pits from the ed will remove hoarseness and cure fruit, take out the kernels, 'blanch sore throats. Lemons may be kept and add to the cheese. When the fr 1esa for weeks . by, covering .them pulp elings to the spoon in a lriaSs daily with fresh Water.. A little pour into pots and cover, or pour o11 lemon juice in a spoon, then a, dose a cold dinner plate, cut into neat of castor oil and a little more lemon pieces ance,d17 for deseert. juice over the oil, will mask the, Da.111SOn Jane—Damson jam is an- disagreeable taste. other sweet essentially British. It If baking soda is shaken thickly is a great favorite with children and O'er n, burn as Soon ete poseible, with plenty of bread is allowed ad will ease pain and prevent blistering. lib. It as very inexpensive doue up It should be made into a paste and at home, and 'trill keep for years, spread thickly over the injury. Wash .the fruit from dust and cook A cupful of rice left from dinner, if in a, jar set inside a pan of water added to 'thie batter for flannel cakes, until sort. When perfectly: pulpy will make them both tender and mare rub through a Siert: to remove the easily digested. It may also be add - pits. Return to the preserving ket- ed to waffles. Stale bread, if soak - tie with sitar in the proportion of ed for two hours in milk, then added three-quartere of a pound to each to the batter, will prove a pleasant pint of pulp. Siminer until of a change from the plain cakes. thick jelly-like consistency, stirring almost constantly so that it will not scorch. Pack in little pots Or tura- CANNING HELPS. biers, cover with paraffine and set in Crack a few peach pits and cook it cool, dark closet. Green gage jam the kernels with the fruit, addirge is made in the same way, and though few to each can. not quite as rich as the elainson it A rose geranium leaf in the top possesses a superior delicacy of fla•te. of each can of pears gives them a or. . most delicious flavor. Preserved C4 reen Gages—Do not If you run. short: of new rubbers attempt to peel plums; merely prick for cans use two old ones to each the outside to prevent cracking. Ae, can and the result will be safe. lo•w one pound of sugar and a, small • Save the skins of feuits fOr syrups, cup .of water to each pound of 'fruitrejecting all decayed 'spots. Skins of :Boil the sugar and water ten Mina- Peaches, Pears, phuns, and also of tes before putting the plums in; slum pineapples, if thoroughly scrubbed, then cook until the plums are tender make delicious syrups for pancakes enough to pierce with a straw. Do and other eses. Barely cover with from the fire and let them etand Strain and add to the juice measere tvater and cook until n,early done. not let thein cook to pieces. Take over night in a cold place. The next for measure of granulated egar and day bring to a boil, adding a few of boil down until quite thick. Put up the blanched kernels taken from the in bottles carefully sealed with par - stones. Pack the fruit in glass jars, afflue cover with a paper wet with brandy, The juice of pe-ach ekins, if boiled and seal. down very strong before adding the sugar, will Make a soft jelly .of verY Plum Jelly.—Use for this -the fruit pre_ fine flavor. In making any syrup or which is not perfect enough for serving. Cut it a little and 'put in jelty, lse particular- not to cook the ;ruin done. It should be barely a jar set in a pan of boiling water. soft, for if it boils to pieces at all When thoroughly cooked so that the juice exudes strain through a coarse linen cloth and measure. :Allow one pound of auger to one pint of juice and put •the sugar in ehallow• pans in the oven. 'to heat while the juice is cooking. Boil twenty minutes, add the sugar, stir until dissolved, take at once from the fire and pour in bowls or glaeses relic(' in hot water to prevent breaking. Put rounds of brandied paper over each glass and seal when the jelly is cold and firm. and line closely with hread as if erith Suet crust, Pour in the Plums and cover the top witli more bread, Cover with. a, Plate and a heavy Weight and set in a cold, place for Several hours, Serve with cream. U9E101./L HINTS. An easy way to seeelre it table- spoonful of chopped or diced onion SouP is to cut a slice from it "large oilion, and then with a sharp 1 knife out deep into the onion itt straight lines; cut another: sot of lines across these to form tiny squares, and thee tdice the onion as Candied Plums.—Drop the plums, which must be large and perfect, in boiling water and cook eight minu- tes. Make a' syrup of one pound of sugarand one pint of water and let it, come to a boll, but do not stir, as it would granulate. Test the sy- rup by dropping a little in very cold water. If it forms a ball that can be worked it is done sufficiently. Put in the „fruit, using a pound of plums to the syrup mentioned, Take from the lire and let it stand over night in a .slow oven, turning the fruit occasionally. Sweet Plum Pickle.—Wash and prick large egg or blue plums. Make a syrup in the proportiou of five pounds of sugar to a pint of vinegar: spice to taste with cloveshcinnamon anll mace, hring to a boil, skim and drop in the fruit. As soon as the plums are scalded through take' out the fruit and pack in jars. Cook the eYruP until quite thick and pour over the pianos: Seal. If during the first month the plums show any signs of fermentiug, Which they seldom do, set the cans, uncovered, in a kettth of cold water, bring to it boil, then seal again. , Plum Tart—To make this tart be- loved of our cousins across, the water either blue plums or ripe green gages may be used, Stem and remove the pits and pack in a pudding dish. Sprinkle well with sugar and cover with a rich cruet, cutting slits to al- low for the eticape of steam. Serve la the baking dish, or lift off the crust, ley upside down on a largo plate, pour the plums on it and !cover with whipped .cream. Plum and Barerna. Tart'.-111alse rith view by bouling' together one - hal f cup of water with one-half pound of sugar for five Minutes, .then, add one and a, hall pounds of plume and $law gently until tender. lOake out of the syrtip and set aside to cool. Take the skins from eix sound bananas, cut fete moderately thick slices, and cook in the plum $yrup five minutes, Place the plums and. bananas in a deep (belt, pout' in syrup to pertly fill, :adding more su- gar it the plums aro veey Ma. 'Cover with a light pun paste ancl Nike in a hot °tan, A Short time berore re- moving from the oven tartish the crust eveo with the white, or ail egg tuel dust 913 111 suge o give the cr tist a gI ti ce appearance, • Chatiotta—Plare the teeth 111 TIIE SUNDAY SCI10011 INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AIM, 28. Text of the lesson, I. Kings xix., 1-8. Golden Text, rsexx. p 1r alert and wonderfully well inforhied• The adversary 15 alweys, on the How much the great adverealor, who goeth about as a roarieg lion, seek- ing whom he man denour, klIONee of the .afilabsi of God eind UM people one cartnot say, but his knowledge is not to be made light of, and we must not only have on the whoth ariaor provided for us, but we must dili- gently watch anci pray that we may resist 'Min and not be overcome by, him. He is neither omnipotent nor. omaiscient, but our Great Delivei•er- is both; therefore we may always be -victorious. So weak arc We in cur- t:elves, however, that the moment we`, take our eyes off our Lord we will be sure to fail, as Simon Peter did when ho saw the winds and wee-eS and at once began to sink instead of walking triumphantly on the water, as he might have continued to do had he continued to see Jesus only (Matt. rite 28-31). Elijah had done nobly, wonderfully, and a mighty victory had been grant - eel him, but he is seen fleeing for his life from a wiekea woman1f could trust God to care for him by the lonely brook and in tbe poor widow's home and securely to hide him from the wrath of Ahab; he could stand fearlessly on Carmel against all the prophets of Baal, but now, seeing that Jezebel was determined to take hi life, he semis to forget the power and care of God, the living God, be- fore whom he stood, and, leaving hie servant, at Beersheba, he flees to the wilderness, In ourselves we aro ut- terly nothing. It is only in thh Lord that we can be strong and over- come. eizziah was marvelously help- ed till he was strong; then in hie own strength he failed (II. 0191011,xxvi, 15, 16). Poor Elijah, overcome by the ettraie that had been upon him, weary in body and in mend, needing rest and perhaps not knowing what ailed him, sat down under a juniper tree and said to God : "It is enough. Now, 0 Lord, take away my life, for I am not bettex than my fathers" (verse 4). Many a one has wished that he was dead, but it was a foolish wish for the Lord knows what is best for us and has assured us that we shall never be tried beyond what we are able to endure (I Cor. x, 13) and that trials are among the best things that can come to us and will make us sure of the crown of life if patiently borne (Jas. i, 1.2; Rev. 11, 1.0). It is easy for us to see the folly of Elijah, but this is written for es that we may not be guilty of sinO11,tlie 111arfolljessed nthiistry of angels, who excel in strength, doing His conunandments, he,arkening unto the voice of His word—His ministers who ilea ilis pleas•ure 1 (Ps. chi, 20, 21). ' They sang at His birth in Bethlehem, ministered to Him fa His temptation, strengthened Him in Gethsemane, waited amen Him at Hie resurrection and ascension. They visited Abraham in company witb. the finished _product Is apt to be cloudy. the Lord Ilanself, were seen in vis - Ono of the most delicious oE the 101)by Jacob and are wonderfully prominent in God's dealing's with old-fashioned preserves is jam made men. They bring heaven* very near from equal quantities of blackberries to earth, for our Lord said concern - and huckleberries boiled 'down quite . thick with 1S; lb. sugar to '1 lb. Dent. 1WOULDER AND LINQUIST. Kr. John Tine, a German, Speaks ing His little ones, "In heaven their augels do always behold the face of My Father who is in heaven." They aro ministering spirits, always min- istering to the heirs of salvation (Matt. xviii., 10; Hub. i., 14). The Six Languages. elements bare no power over them, and they go and come like lightning. A twentieth century rival to Ernie :In our resurrection bodies we shall Durritt, thepoly-lingual blacksmith, be equal to them, but in position far is at present an employe at the Gun- beyond them.. ney Foundry Works, Toronto. John Find the proof texts in Dan. ix,,. Tinz is an iron -moulder and a. good Ezek. i., Acts xxvii, Luke -mx., Ret. ani rejoice in the presence 01 such companions who serve unseen and unthanked—not our departed friends, bet angels who were created such end alIvaye have been and will ill and ,Lattisli, and write three two are mentioned by name, and both names are found in Daniel and one mine in Luke i. Again the an- gel waked him and fed him, and. in the strength of that meat lie went one. Six feet two in his boots, he th is built to correspond, e 'beau ideal of a man to handle masses of iron. But Tinz is a maxi of culture, for be can speak six languages, Eng- lish, German. Russian, Finniss, be hist, ministering spirits. Only' of them, whic.h makes him valu- able as an interpreter round the Gur- ney works, where it large proportion of the employes are foreigners. 1.1•Ft•. Tinz was born in Stettin, Ger- many, near the border. ,tit an early forty clays and forty nights to Hor- , , age he went to Scotland to learn the eb. the mount of God (verses 7 8) iron trade. He worked 12 years there, and it wee there that he be- Whether you shall ever hear the VOiCe of en angel or not or see one gan his linguistic studies which made before you thave or not, or see one him a useful man as interpreter befold you leave the 'mortal body,i among the sailors. Like 13urritt at do believe in no thank cod for Itis blows he delved into books their loving ministry, while •engaged as an iron -moulder, How 1,2 oat the, strength imparted. Mr. Tinz has visited Russia three to Elijah by that meal! God could times, and has been practically all 'base strengthened him without the food, but Ito is pleased °Mimes to ese oedinary Meat.% in accomplishing Pis purposes. Ile bas angels enough to proclaim in sill the world the over the Russia,n Empire from St. Petersburg to Vladivostock. In '99 lm made his last journey- through the land of the Czar "as interpreter for Mr, Ballantyne, a Scotatimen in glorious gospel in 0310 day or lose, search of iroa ore. They spent see.- vessvia as we aro. Who Would .not but lie sees fit to tiee such earthee. eral months in the Ural Mountains desire to bo a vaf..Isca meet ror 00 Met s t er ' s use and ready to every good work? (II. Tinaii., 21.) But we must never be cast down nor dis- couraged, for lie whom we serve so farnilittr to our School-bookgeo- graphy days. ITere they drove hun- dreds of miles in sieclges eves the narrow trails, drawn by, three hoist% 111n' "Andsttriyilot ought to see a. Russian driver bit the lead horse, with hie r41lal3 -hot fail nor be .discouraged long whiphe said, "the bendle of (fee. x)ii, 4). Tire work is His, thitistihwi/stita is Only tafoegeilhilltogrleat lgauratpthitiec .thc' 17111,1 f00.11:1 dowelc1.19,s1v,(i).1011. clliaosrcsreiPetiTrithoer Heott7 tile Aar henectleaNvaltel iviie.:2:1n)esit learn lo 110 as 'AIONCS W a s sti:Pkied.;Vau sac anreP Dcre Nillilist8 In itus- 110911 OU) feet, for the place 1101Y, 14;1`7th"0 , a SS‘l-Cee ot1)eefibrie will poll- li,ben ,:c0,011t1,7111jostihp. 0111, 1, Tile; eshole 21 ftelers'i"r011910sorea•id Iliget'tN1)111 111 't:tc(11Y1.lues1;0‘1•9:I08• f0. 1111 tal l'1.1.;0•1 1(91C(9% our r•11oesnus tha 1: trouble to travel," ll ,, not our thuhr ' ' but • (" e "T -Tow did you like tissia? 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