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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-12-13, Page 6THE SOURCE OF TRUTFil THE NOTVS AND CONUVIENTS view of declarations made recently be Si' floury Caumbeliniannermate•the Prime Minister, and Me, Asquith, Chan„ Geller or the Exehetmer, there seems to bo no doubt that the Liberal tetvetele mein is determined to alive an C.1c1 Age Pension bill through the House of Com mons before dissolving the present Par- liament, Replying to a deputation ol members of the lower House, the Pre, mier announced that the matter of old age pentons would be taken up as soon as lime and money should permit. In- asmitele as objection on tee there of a lack of funds weeld naturally be pressed most strongly by the Chaneellor of the Exchequer, the same deputation re garde(' as peculiarly encouraging Mr. Asquith's assurance thatenothing was • nearer his heart, than the desire to alb - Mit a financial plan for such pensions. He added that the elinistry eleemed the question one of extreme urgency. There are more and tactical reasons why the expediency of taking up tbe • matter or pensions for superannuated workmen should commend itself to the Liberal Government at this time. To glance at the mesons in their order, it is evident that England cannot much longer afford to lag far behind Ger- many as regards onsideration for that large section of the population which -.Veers itself out in the service- of capi- gal. She cannot, afford much longer 'to legislate on the egoistic principle taken tor granted in the query: "Am I my brother's keeper?" Especially would an ellitude of indifference be inopportune lust now, when the remarkable results 4! Bismarck's pension legislation have been given to the world on the twenty- Efth anniversary of the formulation of his programme. The intention em- bodied in that programme was, it- will be recalled, that tele State should sys- tematically assist working people by accident, illness and old age insurance. Now it appears from the statistics publithed last month that no less a sum than $555,000,000 has been paid out .in Germany during the last twenty years for illness; $232,000,000 for accident, and $13,500,000 for old age. If the' last amount seems comparalively small, we should bear in mind that the great ma- jority of the workmen insured have not yet reached the age limit at which pen- sions begin. If frona the total expendi- ture we turn to the 'number of benefi- ciaries, we find that since the pension acts became operative, two decades ago, no fewer than 60,000,000. persons have profite.d by Bismarck's legislation. Of • course, the Socialists ,criticise these re- sults, ,partly because in their opinion much more might be accomplished, and partly because they allege that by mak- ing any move at all in this direction the old Chancellor tried to steal their thun- der. Unbiassed onlookers, on the other hand, recognize the tranquillizing ser- vice rendered to the nation by the pen- sion legislation, and credit it with be- ing the principal cause of the measure of contentment with which the working population of Germany bears the griev- ous burden of conscription. In England recent events have made it plain to leaders of the old political parties that the working popueation must be reckoned with, and that if its • discontent and restlessness are to be allayed they must take a leaf from Die, marck's book. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain awakened to the fact some years ago, end he is personally committed to old -age pensions, while other conspicuous Unionists have said that they would not oppose pension legislation •but for the strain to which they feared it would subject the imperial exchequer. It is, however to the Liberals that the neces- sity of conciliating the working people of Great Britain by substantial and im- pressive concessions has been brought directly home by the unexpected and severe reverse which they encountered the other day at the municipal elections, not only in Greater London, but all over England. The reverse means that the Liberals must postpone a dissolution of Parliament until they can appeal to the electors on an issue more relevant and telling than the Edueation bill, which only the Protestant Nonconformists favor in its Government. form. An Old Age Pension bill would he More popular with. the foiling messes of the British people than any other hill that could be framed. Especially would ties be the case if Prime Minister Ban- ner/nen should carry out his expressed intention of proposing a law freed from the eentrihutory feature of the 131s- marcician sebeme, to • which German, workmen have objerited on aocount of the inquisitorial machinery lavraved. Obviously, the establishment old ago pension. in Great Britain would give a notable impetus to the agitation for Minna legislation in Frantic and else. where, :finks:, °Why are you for ever bother - 'rig me about that bill I owe you ?" Minks ; "I need the Money," jinks "then you ought to be ablo to Sp/ma- nlier: with Me, 1 need the motley, too," KnaMedge of (iod Is the First Re= quisite of Virtue . Know thou the Cod of thy fathers end serve film with an entire heart and with a willing soul.--Chronieles xxii„ 0. From a scriptural point o!view, know- ledge at God is the greatest ana sub - tiniest virtue tbat man ellould strive to possess. Prophet Isaiah looked forward 'to that glorious time "When the earth will be fu'l of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea," Prophet Hosea, expostulating with his people, said to them: "Hear the word of the Lord . . . • for the Lord has con- troversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth nor kind- ness nor knowledge of God in the lands." All the ancient prophets from Moses etaltichi, made strenuous efforts to impress their people with the necessity et acquiring knowledge of God because such a knowledge is the fountain from which flows the highest attainments wh:ch make up the sum arid substance ef MAN'S SPIRITUAL LIFE, e A wise son who knows his father's integrity, bis good neture and character, hie self-sacrificing devotion to his fam- ily, will never tire in the fulfillment of his filial duties; will prove his affection to his father by respecting, revering and obeying him and by acting up to his wishes and desires. Sti will he who known his heavenly Father contemplate His wonderful works and the ways of His -merciful providence, the care and watchfulness which He has always ex- ereised in behalf of Ills children, and, above all, the perfect good qualitiea which constitute the eseence of Ills be- ing, never cease to venerate and adore Him, to love truth, justice and kindness end to live up. to the teaelengs wlech He has revealed to us through His great and distinguished men, The knowledge of God as father or Mankind necessarily must lead to leu - minty and quality. Hence, when Moses addressed King Pharoah in the name of the Lord to set the children of Israel free from bondage, he arrogantly re- plied: "Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice? I know not the Lord.' IT 1$ A TRUISM which cermet be gainsaid that those in- clividuals as well as nations who know not the Almighty, yes, who form a wrong and erroneous conception of Hini, are never exempt from prejudice, barbarism and tyranny. • King David, • therefore, very oppor- tunely at, the time when his son Solo- mon wile' about to succeed him as ruler or' Israel, brought home to his heart a wholesome lesson in the words: "Know thou the God of thy father and serve Him." Tee God of thy father is the Creator or all human beings, hence thou must not lift up thyself in pride and vanity above thy fellow men. The God of thy father /eves all his children, so must thou treat all thy subject e alike. The God of thy father is the source of truth, justice and mercy, so must thou endea- vor to be just, truthful and gracious and by so doing thou will serve, and worship Hen faithfully and loyally. HOME. )1 40**********4 SELECTED RECIPES. Tomato Soup -One pint of beer,. broth, half cup of sweet milk, hall cup strained tomato, one tablespoonful butter rolled in flour, salt and pepper to taste. - Dumpliegs-One pint of flour, two tea- spoonfuls baking powder, a little salt, one scant cup milk; make a soft dough, drop quickly, and cook ten minutes without lifting the covie. Orange Pudding -Six small, 'sweet oranges cut Up, one cup sugar poured over them and let stand. Make a cus- tard of one pint of milk, a little salt, yolks of three eggs, well beaten, two tablespoenfuls flour in a little cold milk add to boiling milk and pour over the oranges. •Beat the whites of eggs to a stiff broth, add one tablespoonful pow- dered sugar, pour over the the custard; set in the oven- to brown. Eat cold. Seet Pudding -One cup suet, chopped fine, one cup raisins, half cup molas- ses one cup Milk, half teaspopnful soda, one teaspoonful cream of tartar, two eggs and salt. Steam three hours. Cottage Pudding -One egg, one table- spoonful of butter, three-fourths cup of sugar, one-half cup of milk, two cups cif flour, two teaspoonfuls baking pow - 4r; flavor with lemon extract and bake in a. hot oven; serve with hot liquid sauce. Fried Cakes -One - cup sugar, one cup sweet milk, two eggs, three table- spoonfulsmelted butter, two teaspoon- fuls baking powder, flour enough to handle well; fry in hot lard. Vanilla Cookies -One cup sugar, two- thirds cup butter, tevo eggs, one and one-half teaspoonfuls baking powder, one teaspoonful vanilla, one tablespoon- ful sweet Tank, add flour enough to roll out. Ginger Snaps -Put one teaspoonful of soda and one of ginger into a teacup and fill with molasses, and beat until very light, then put three tablespoonfuls of lard into a cup and pour three table- spoonfuls boiling water over il; mix with enough flour to Toll out well and bake in a quick oven. Drop Cookies. -One cup sugar, half cup butter, one cup milk, one egg, two cups flour, two heaping teaspoonfuls baking powder, oneefourth nutmeg, drop in tins and bake in a quick oven. Cocoanut Pudding -Grate one cocoa- nut, three dried biscuits, rolled fine, or the same quantity in stale bread, eight egg, one-fourth pound butter, a little salt, one quart milk to be boiled and poured on the dry bread, the cocoanut to be poured in the last thing. If the puddirig is plainer, put in less butter and more bread and milk, according to your own judgment. Rice and Apple Pudding -Core as inany Moe apples as will fill the dish, boil them in light syrun, prepare one- fourth pound of rice in milk, with su- gar and salt,put some of the rice in the dish, then put in the apples and fill up the intervals with rice. Bake in the oven till it is a fine color. • Boiled Leg of Lamb -Plunge the joint into a pan of boiling water, and when it boils up, draw it to the side of (he fire and lot it cool a little. If the joint weighs about five pounds eook it gently for an hour and (Marten When cook- ed pour white sauce over it and garnish with boiled carrots or cauliflower. - Delielotie codfleh balls are made by taking 1 cupful of codfish, 2 cupthis of raw potatoes,, cut. into smell places' 1. egg, Xteaspooraul of better and a, dashef pepper. Put the raw potatoe,s and Cod- fish in boiling water and boil till tee potatoee are tender. Then drain ore - fully and rnaah, adding the beaten. egg, butter and pepper. 'rake a rounded tablethocniful of this rnieture and push elf into hot, deep fat. Frieased Steak.--Clit, the steak from tbe round et mime inn) small squares, and flour them lightly. Put three drip, pinginto a frying -pare Slice into it a, SOMA Onion, and add some coOked tothatOeS, if in ficasOn (1f nOt, half a tea- cupful of tomato pulp will do); lay i/1 the pieces Of steak and fry then3 a nice ill/ ONO brown. Put the pieces of steak into 4 saucepan strain the contents of a fry- ing -pan over, add a teacupful of boil- ing water and stock, and simmer gent- ly for a. good hour. Serve with boilea rice, as if /or curry. The slices of onion can be left in with the steak if liked. HINTS FOR THE HOME. To Harden the Icing on Cakes -Stand them when iced in a dry place for four or five days. The icing should be mixed very stiffly and flattened with a knife dipped into boiling water. To Remove Stains from Flannel: - Take the yolk of a raw egg, mix it with a tablespoonful of glycerine, and apply to the spot; let this soak in well before washing the garment in a lather of boil - Make Celery Salt. -Procure seine eel - ed, soap. ery seed, dry it thoroughly on a baking sheet, pound it in a mortar till quite fine, and add two parts to one of dried salt. Scratches in varnish will entirely dis- appear if a coarse cloth that has been saturated with einseed oil be laid over them. This.simple remedy is invaluable th those who have the care of carriages and Other highly polished furniture. To Make Boots Wean Well -When buying new boots. never wear them be- fore putting on the sole two coats et vernish. This treatment makes, the boots last twice as long, besides render- ing them watertight. Never throw away egg shells. for they should be washed and added to the .thockpot to clear the soup. Clothes pegs boiled a „few minutes and dried quickly about once a Lionel be- come more durable. On Bruises.. -When the skin is not lacerated, ereat them by applying a pad of lint in eau -de -Cologne and keeping the pad in eeasition by a bandage. -To clean plaster of Paris ornarnents, cover them with a thick layer of starch and let it dry. Remove with a ,stiff brush. When cooking fruit, especially &bid prunes, apples, eta, add a pinch of salt and you will be surprised at the ',re- proved flavor. A pinch of salt is suffi- cient for a fruit tart. When making stock never allow it to stand in the saucepan all night, but strain off into the basin -while still hot. Remove the fat before adding the meat and liquor to the bones again. To Clean a White Fur Rug. -Put the rug on to a firm table and rub it well with bran moistened with hot water. Rub next with a flannel till the fur is quite dry, then with a piece of book muslin apply dry bran in the same man- ner. Afterwards put some magnesia into a muslin bag and well rub into the fur. It is an improvement to stretch the skin before beginning this process. To accomplish this, first sponge the hide with a mixture of salt and water, taking care not to wet the fur, put the elcin, fur dowewards, on to a table, and, with the hand, stretch it as far as possible. Keep it in the desired position by nailing it wee, tin -tacks on to the table. To Make Paper Stick eto Metal. -Dip the metal into a strong hot solution el Washing soda and wipe it dry with a clean duster. Then apply onion juice to the surface of the metal, when any paper will adhere so firmly that it'will be found difficult to •separate them. To Restore Scorched Linen. -Add 1(1 ball a pirit of vinegar half an ounce f soap and tvvo ounces of fuller's earth, boil till thoroughly mixed. Spread some of the paste on the scorched article with O knife; jet it dry on and the Scoreh will disappear. The mixture should bd kept in a cevered jar for ase. For Chilleeins--These iwo recipes have been sent me by a kind correspondent, - who saye they are excellent: (1) For unbroken chilblains: one ounce of gly- cerine, one ounce of sulphurous acid (not sulphuric acid), and twe Ouneas of roseWaler, Mix all together thorotighly, end apply night, and morning. (2) For broken ehi1h1ans Loeatellis balearin four drachms; eitrine ointMerlt, one drachm: balsam of Pau, ten drops. Spread this salve ori cotteh wool or lint and apply eight and morning. IIe-"Yotere getting your hat rtitinedee She -"Well, its en old hat, and I do hate to wet tity new untrella." 10. . GREATEST MARKET MUNI NOVGOROD FAIR IN ITS OLD GLORY THIS YEAR. Remarkable Gathering of Mussulmans of the Great Ressler' Empire, During the last two and a hall years neither the German cernmercial traveller nor his ware,s have had nauth chance to get along the Siberian railroad. Now that the twin line of steel, running for six thousand Miles frpin Moscow to Vladivostolt, is free from the conveyance or troops, the Siberian towns, which have been starving for goods, are de- manding large supplies and speedy de- liveriee. In the disturbed condition of the countee, however, German firms have shown no eagerness to risk the lives of their travellers ie a region where the value of life is decreasingly regarded, nor to forward goods for which there is a very problematic prospect of payment. Accordingly, Mehemet has had to come Lo the mountain, and this year, writes Foster Fraser in the London Standard, Nijni Itheirgorod is basking in its old glory. The fair has provided opportunity for a remarkalee gathering -a congress re- presenting twenty million Mussulrnans at the Russian. Empire -Moslems from South Russia, men who bave talten„ to the garb and custdins of the West, and who, with their hair cropped ala Fran- caise and imperials, dark gray iounge jackets and patent leather boots, might easily be mistaken for Parisians; Mas - lane from Mongolia and Bolthara, men slim and sallow and sedate, with shaven heads and henna dyed beards; men in long flowing and embroidere(1 sheepskin coals, boots of red and turbans of green, who, for sitting, find -the floor more corn- fortable.than chairs. THE SHREWD TATARS,. The Tatars are the cleverest mer- chants who come to Nijni Novgorod. Whether it be .in the selling of "over- land" tea -believed by the evluecovite to have been brought by caravan from China, but which has been sent around by ship to Odessa and trained to Nijni- or in making a fuss with precious stones which he hints have been stolen from the mines, and therefore are to be obtained at a bargain, but which are imitation, made in a Parisian factory, the Tatar scores. He stands by his shed or stall, look- ing cold and grimy, his fur cap down over his ears, aritl his hands hid in The sleeves of his skin coat, which is badly termed and most 'unappetizing ixf odor. He has wondrous stacks of skins, from silver fax down to rat. You can walk the better part of .4 mile past shops crowded with skins, most requiring to be cured. For a year Siberia is hunted for skins to supply the Nijni Novgorod mart. The tribes of the north stalk in the winter; colOnies of political exiles have sometimes little other means of winning •a livelihood than by getting skins. • Over hendreds of Miles of trackless snow the skins are hauled till a river is reached. Then by boat they are brought to some place where the Siberian rail- way can be touched or are taken to some affluent of the Volga. The Tatar merchant has his buyers everywhere. In his slothful but still methodical way he meets the skine at certain points and arrives at Nijni Novgorod with perhaps a couple of thousand pounds worth of goods. • CONDUneneNG A SALE. The market is coereeticeecl on strictly ,astern °principles. Thae is no fixed price. Everything is worthwhat it will latch. The Tatar asks twice as much as a thing is worth, aware all the time that you know he is asking double what he will accept. You offer half what the thing is worth, aware that he knows that you intend to increase the offer. So, much time is wasted by him regretfully lowering his price and you grudgingly raising .your offer, until at the' end you come very neer if not actually to the price you both know to be about right. There are splashes of the picturesque about the people who attend the fair. Tney have come from all points of the compass, by the slow and dirty Russian trains, by the huge, commodious, shal- low draughtetl, nephtha driven Volga boats-quee as big as the notorious floating towns on American' streams - and by caravan. Russians from the towns are dressed in the European style, on the German model; Russians from the country are in wide trousers and top boots, flapping red shirts and thick belts; they are bearded, while the hair is cropped short and the back of the neck shaved; their women are plain-, stout, figureless, and have shawls tied about ,their heads. There are the brown cloaked. sheep- skin netted Persians from below the Caucases mountains; there are almond - eyed Mongols, shrivel faced and wisp whiskered; there are tawny Buriats and gray robed Men from leolchara; there are innumerable Tatars, some accom- panied by their women folk; fat, swad- dled, wearing collar box tate of velvet decorated with pearls. ' THE FMB GROUND is a mud flat -lying across the Volga from Nijni Novgorod proper. There are rows upon rows of Cheap. brick sheds, orie storey higle yellow delved, with a pavement of sorts, The roadway, once cobbled, is a mass of disgusting mire. Peasant caiitens, in charge of inconse- quent teams hauling-miscellanecnis mer. chandise, yell arid bawl, , A jolting cheeky attempting to dash . by splashes - the uniform of a 'Russian officer with filth, and as the Ressler' language is 'en stored with expletivee, there is violent cursing. Russian eoldieree uh- washeci ancl 'in unkempt clothing, trudge sullenly in the gutter, carrying big loans of black bread urider their, arms. A cadaverous, long haired, black downed priest 'goes berrying Ine Old women dross theniselves'and young men n th oon e ground. A buneti er Porcine Chinesie in blte jackets end with swing- ing pigtails wee over the Wedge from thenato'wn, wilt:re all the Windings hav& eaves that leer, end on the doors are .painted rampant dragons of fearful de- sign, intended lo friglitee away thieves -which they probably do. entikte, tin- t Ide and an awkward heave and bump eleetrie,tremear comes sizzline along. Some 1140eleins are teeing tile east, hireeying they look toward Mecca, wheel), thry do not, and are performing their devoinnie in the street- Moscow mer- client8 aro in au adjoining cafe, and a gramophone blares "I wouldn't leave my little wooden -hut ear you," There is the constant click of the elia- cus--beads on wires, • on which we learned to count as children, and with- out which the lluesian, inheriting its iso Teem Tatar ancestore, Cannot reckon how rnany TWO AND eeilEE TOTAL. A playbill on the side of a rialtety kiosk announces a performance -in Bus- sian, of course -of "The Geisha." No- where 'have 1 seen such a jostling of East and West. , One likes to thee( Nijni Novgorod fair is Oriental. It is custcrnary to associate • the Orient with the dazzling, But there is nothing dazzling about the fair, The Eastern practice is followed of having all the shops selling particular wares in ono district. I looked for aid silver and found eartloads of crude Austrian electroplate. I soeght antique rugs and got a headache hooking at the eile, high- ly colored and grotesquely patterned mats manufactured in German Poland. The only embroideries Were imitation rubbish from Switzerland. In a dirty cafe I did come heroes some melancholy Persitips who had turquoise and opal stones to sell, and wd spent a rainy afternoon in haggling. Yet there is a fascination in tee multi- tude of articles. At times one can ima- gine that all the manufacturers of shoddy arliales have dumped their things eu Volga -side. Try to picture 0. third of a mile of tombstones for sale -though, Hibernian like, most -of the stones are of wood. Here the merchant...from the far interior may acquire a really striking monument which will make him the envy of his neighbors who have never been to the fair. A whole street is de- voted to the sale of ikons, pictures of saints set out in Byzantine style in flam- ing gilt, end to be found in every Rus- sian house in the right hand corner at the upper end of the room.' • There are streets sacred to the sale of Russian boots -there must be millions of them. Battalions of sacks laden with raisins block one thoroughfare; another road is a maze of beteg of wool. A row of shops i giveen up to TIIE SALE OF UMBRELLAS, and there i merriment watching the astonished countenance of a simple pea- sant Woman having an umbrella opened in her face for the first time. Miles upon miles of cotton goods are here, with no nonsensical half shades about them, but strong and unmistakable reds arid greens and blues and yellows. Half a street is given up to cheap German toys. In the centre of the fair is a large red brick arcade, with shops selling the usual tinsel and expensive things, with the usual beed playing in the afternoon, and the usual row of wooden feced iu- divlduais sitting on benches and stolidly enjoying the music. There is the usual pestering by importunate dealers. And there are literally billions of postcards. Lest evening at sundown I climbed the hill of the 'quaint ;Walled 'fortress which guards Need Novgorod. The fall- ing Sull•waS burnishing the domes of innumerable churches, a hundred sweet toned bells, beaten -with wooden ham - niers, made ,.the evening melodious. There was the heavy tramp of full kilted Russian soldiers mounting the hill to the fortress' there was the distant babel of a city doing business at the top of its *ice; down below on the Volga was Rio scurrying of tugboats hauling mam- moth cattle boats and snakelike rafts into place, and the constant Will warn- ing hoots of the sirens; away, eastward, Siberia-werd, stretched a flat and urn broken land to the very horizon, with a lowering purnle sky deadening to black. - ptoilanebest, bourt rneeoni;eeteoifitets71, Jw.egolgrenrush1yin :24:ic single tomb, like te Modern vault, oftei contained several separate eliantheie with notches or sbelves in or on whia, Rio bodies 11cern placed. A large Orem lar stprie whieli could be rolled to end from its place closed the low (Menthe to the tomb. Sometimes in level place' graves were sunk in the surface of tie rock and covered with a closely ilttini slab. e* Verse 1, Late on the Sabbath day -In reality, after the Sabbath • day , which closed with sunset on Saturday evening, had ended. Leto is careful to mention Rio fact, that "on the Sabbath day they (the women who hadecome with him out of Galilee) rested according to the cone illandmerit." l'ovvartl. the first day of .the \leek -To- ward morning . of Sunday, "at early dawn" (Luke' 24. 1). Matthew, here uses the word "day" in the sense of the oppo- site of "night"; but counting theday of tweeter -four hours as beginning' either, as the Jewish day did, at sunset, or as we now reckon, at midnight, it was "on the fleet day of the week' (Mark, Luke, John) that the two Marys, with Salome, came to the sepulchre. Mary Magdalene -Mentioned in, Luke 6. 2 an one of several women who min- istered unto Jesus. She was &aired Mag. dalene, probably because from Magdala, a place in Galilee. (Comp, Matt. 15. 39). The °Hier Mary --Mary the mother 01 James, and Salome (Mark 16. 1). These three women, having conscientiously waited until the Sebnath should end, bought spices. (Mark 10. Wand spent' the night in preparing ointrrients with which they intended to anoint the body of Jesus. Perhaps they were not aware of the action of Joseph ofe. Arimathrea and' Nicodemus, who had taken "the body Of Jesus, and hound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the custom of tie • Jews is to bury" (John 19. 40); or per- haps they were anxious to add ,theit mite also to the more costly and elabor ate gifts of these wealthier disciples. 2. A great earthquake -Not mentioned by any of the other evangeliets. Mat. thew alone explains how the great stone, the thought of which bad vvorried. the women on their way from the city, was removed from its place at. the open. ing of the tomb. An angel of the Lord -Luke and John both mention two angels: "Two Inept - stood by them in shining germane"'• (Luke); -"Two angels in white „sitting"' (John). Mark (16. 5) speaks of "a young man. sitting an the right side" of the place where the body of .Jess. had lain arrayed in a white robe." These? dis- crepancies may be accounted for by the agitation of : the witnesses of this momentous. scene. - 4. The watchers -The Roman guard' granted by Pilate to prevent the removal of the body by Mends or elisciples 01 Jesus. 5. Fear not ye -The original Clearre. places the emphasis on the pronoun , "ye." They had notehe same cause for fear as the Roman soldiers. - 6. Even as he stied -Two distinct pro- phecies; of Jesus that he would rise epee from the dead are recorded by Matthew' (Comp. 12. 40;• 16. 2e.) In Matt. 26. 3 also :New refers to the fact of his res - erection. 7. Tell his disciples-eelark adds nand; Peter." Into Galilee -"But ,after 1 am raised( up,. I will go before you into Galilee" (Matt. 26. 32). , 0. eesus met them -Not, however, un- til after he had revealed himself sepa- rately to Mary Magdalene, as 'Mark ex- plicitly points out. We must also in- sert the events recorded in Luke 24. 8-12: and John 20. 2-18 just preceding verse 9 of our text.'These. passages record' the hurried visit of Peter and John to the tomb upon hearing Rio 'report of the women, 11. The important testimony relating te the bribing of the Roman guards eon- tained.in the remaining verses of -our THE SUNDAY SCHOOL ltehsson ewnarrative are peculiar to Mat, ' 13. While we slept -The penalty for sleeping at his post, inflicted upon a • Roman soldier, was death. The incident reveals the desperate straits to which the Jewish authorities were driven in their attempt to conceal facts plain to ell who cared to know the teeth. le. We wilr persuade' him -They had been successful he persuading Pilate to pronounce the death sentence upon an innocent prisener whom they hated, and reasoned that it would be no' more Mili- an in an emergency to persuade him to let men. apparently guilty go", free. . 15. This saying . . . continueth until this cl5y---1Viatt1iew. is writing for Jews familiar with the fact wbich he calls to their alten11-1-L-7-° MAPPING OUT 'CITIES. Municipality Should .Buy Land and Plan Suburbs. If new countries would learn from the mistakes of the old a valuable les. son is conveyed by the movement in England against jerry-building and the endiscriminate laying out of streets without any general planning by the, local authorities. In Birmingham a few days ago there was a rousing con- ference to disales the disgraceful con- Aition of the slums or that city. Mr. Nettleford (Mr. Chamberlain's former ,partner) declared it, was no more ri- diculous to build one room at a time without considering how all Would 111. together, than it is to build a town a , street at: a 1103e, ae the individual own- ers might desire. This has been the chaotic nrocedure in London, Beetling - ham, and all the great English cities, and pestilent slume are the result. In German towns the loan authority has power to borrow money and buy build - leg ground in advance and plan the subtirbs for the future increase of the, popuiatiOn. It is now sought to get' that system for England, whose great: cities are at the mercy of the specula-, eve builder. In Bournville, the garden city near Birmingham, built by, Mr. CadbUry for his workpeople, the death rate IS less than one-third that of the working class suburbs of Birmingham. One of the Islington oiardians, speak. . ing on the question of etrainege, siert Pitt 28 ILMO We put down our thee with loud Vole° I" INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEC. 16. Leseon XI. Jesus Risen From the Dead. Go!den Text: Malt. 28. 6. THE LESSON WORD' STUDIES. Note. -The text of the Revised Version is used as a basis for these Word Studies.. The Holy Sepulchre. -In point of loca- tion the narrative of Jobe makes it plain that the tomb of Jesus must be identified with the place of his crucifixion : "Now in the place where he wile crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new tenth wherein was never man yet laid. There then because of the Jews' Preparation (for the tomb eias nigh at hand) they laid Jesus" (John 19. 41, 4e). But the site of Calvary, at was pointed out ix the Word Studies for last Sun- day, cannot be positively identified. Under the rounded knoll of limestone rock just beyond tlie Damascus Gate - the -site keown as Gordan's Calvafy and favored by some recent authorities -a, there -is a awe eafledeleremiates 'Grotto, which was apparently once used as 'a place of burial. This may have been Rio tomb in which the body. of Jesus rested. Tbe traditional site, however, which for fifteen centeries WaS not ques- tioned, is within the Church of he lloly Sepulchre, near the very heart of the preseat city, and in oll probability also, within the outer Wail of the ancient oily of Jerusalem. IA pOint of kind, the sepulchre of Neils was beyond question identical with the more common rock, hewn tornbe which the Jews cut in the perpendicular sides of the low, soft limestone ranges in which Palestine abounds. Sometimes edvanlage was token of the natural caves and caverns or which there are many in the sort strata of limestone. These early Hebrew tombs were Marked by their eettieme siniplicity of eonstruetion and the abe sence of archtteeterin ornament, and in both these respects stood in marked contrast with Egyptian sepulchral Mon- uments. Feerpiently individuals Chose to have their last resting placee in their Own vineytd like .Toseph of Arimin luta, who had Ina own rreW garden