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Exeter Advocate, 1909-08-12, Page 2► •1 • l► 1 • • • • 1 ► FAIT11 IS FORWARD LOOKING It Is Confidence That Life Holds Better Things Farther On "The just shall live by faith."— Romans i. 17. There can be no faith without freedom. It is out faith to attempt • or pretend to believe the things which you are told you must be- lieve. Even to seek to °simply is t( prove your fear rather than yc.ur faith, your apprehension of some dread consequence attendant on failure to conform. To say "1 believe," lest a catastrophe attend the honest denial of such belief is to play tho liar and the coward. It were better to have no faith at all than weakly to submit to the stootrine that, the universe lies in the hands of a creature so unjust as to arbitrarily decree our eternal damnation unless we subscribe to statements we cannot indorse, or blindly to insist on the historic ac- curacy of incidents which we would discredit in any other relation. The real difficulty in religion for the average man, however, lies not hi the credibility of the historic statements of the faiths, not in the logic of their syllogisms; he is even willing to take many such things for granted; the difficulty lies in seeing any particular value or use in such articles of creed and his- tory; he cannot see why their ac- ceptance should be regarded as the most vital thing in life. At heart every man who lives above the brute is roligious—that is, he desires to realize in some way those soul and character ideals that grow within him and shine before him. HIS DEEPEST NEED, one often unconscious and seldom formulated, is to discover the agen- cies and aids which will clarify his ideals, strengthen his resolves, and secure their realization. He will be satisfied with no faith that fails here or does less than this. Ile cannot see how the per- functory acquiescence on his part with the formal statements of the creeds would aid to this end. Sup- pose he throws aside other consid- erations and accepts the Mosaic cosmougery--what light will that throw on the struggle in his own soul between the dust and the di- vine? In what way will that help Mtn to altruism 1 Tho truth i. that ''tho faiths" aro of yesterday. while faith is always of to -day and to morrow. It is life's onward pressing in full as- surance that there is a goal, that the universe does not mock us, that the hopes and aspirations that. burn within are but reflections and pul- sations of the law of the fullnesa of life that runs through all the creation. The faith that there was once a Ferfect man is an empty thiug un- less it becomes the power that push- es me on to yet nobler perfections; unless the facts of the past become for me the prophecy of the future. All the history of the soul has value only as it indicates the soul's direction toward its promised coun- try. I believe the past whenever the past shows the race coming in- to the fuller present, rising from lowlier levels. The forrnal statements which men call faiths are commonly but the dead shells that once contained glowing life; they are like photo- graphs of a sunset; the form is there, but the glow, the color, the life has gone from it. EACH AGE HAS ITS VISION; facing the futuro, looking forward with high hopes, it sees the prom- ised land ; then comp the cartogra- lhers, who caro nothing about the and so long as they make its maps. They draw lines and lay on colors; they describe, prescribe, bound, and limit that which their fellows of larger heart and hope have seen as a living, glowing glory. Thus from the visionless minds we get cur creeds, our descriptions of yes- terday's faith. That which has been can never le enough for that which is. Relig- ion is to creed and forms of faith as life is to works on physiology and anatomy. Religion is the love of life, the faith in its fullness and meaning; it corn find expression . my in terms of life, in life coning pieces sera. TOWNS NEAR NORTH POLL #***********iaIp o Jlt person, score well with sharp knife, plaoe in a roasting pan or E • * skillet, staxun, and dredge with 1'ENTt'RLSOJIE EXPLORERflour; add a few bits of butter, WA\TS G.1 RDI.\. omook slice an onion or two over the >� meat. Now nearly cover with we - FOR THE tsOOK. ter. Place in the oven and bake slowly for ail hour, or until tender. Paring Fruit.—Grease the first, This makes round steak good and palatable. Manch St 'ak.—Get a thick round steak and gash both sides. Rub in all the flour you eau. (Use the bots you want to rush the contents in tum of a teacup to forces it in.) the inner vessel of your double Brown in hot bacon fat. Season boiler, add some salt to the water, one-half teacupful to two quarts of water. Boiling salty water gener- ates quickly a strong heat. NOM finger and thumb before paring fruit or vegetables, and there will be no stain on them. 11'hen Usiug Double Boiler. --If Preparing horseradish.—Do not buy horseradish by the glass. Get a farmer to sell you a basket of the large horseradish roots. Put them through the food chopper, season with salt and onion, and you will have a delightful relish. Cream of Asparagus Soup.—Take one pint of the hard rejected por- t -ons of asparagus; cover them with pint of water or stock. Cool( slow- ly one-half hour, press through a colander, add pint of milk and pint of cream mixed. Thicken with a tablespoonful flour, season with salt and pepper. Stir well until mixture reaches the boiling point, then add large tablespoonful butter and sprinkle with two or three cut, seeded chili peppers. ('over with hot water and stow slowly. Can bo cooked nicely iu the hay conker. Sure good. USEFUL HINTS. White paint, if washed with milk, or milk and water, will look like new. Dishes that have become brown from being left in the oven may be whitened and cleaned by soaking in borax water for a short, time. To get comfortably -fitting shoes, buy ahem in the afternoon, when the exercise of the day has spread the muscles of the feet to their largest extent. To Remove Fat from Stock.—If you wish to do thig without wait - and strain through a sieve; add ing for the stock to cool, wring a parsley before serving. cloth out of cold water and strain Tomato Toast.—Make a pint of the stock through it. The fat will well seasoned tomato sauce. Toast remain on the cl trustless slices of bread, butter, If ui lamp is upset and the burn - and dip each toast into hot salted ing oil runs over do not throw water milk, then put the slices in a pud- ding dish. on it, but throw on flour, earth, Put a spoonful of tomato sand, or ashes, Fling it first 011 the souce an each layer and when the foremost flames, and go on back to dish is full pour the remaining the place tho flames started from. sauce over it. Cover and sot in the This will at once prevent the flames oven ten minutes before sending to from spreading further. table. Tender Chickens.—Whether the chicken be old and tough or young and tender, it is greatly improved by this treatment: After it, is kill - who has no curtain stretcher if you To Stretch Curtains.—For one ed let it stand some fifteen minutes, will leave the poll in one end of to allow the animal warmth to cool, then submerge in a vessel of cold LITTLE HELPS. Propose! to Raise Vegetables on au lee Inland in Frozen Norte. Novel plans for wresting the final secrets of the Arctic regions have been made by Evelyn Briggs Bald- win. The venturesome explorer purposes on his next expedition to drift straight across the uncharted Arctic Sea abroad an ioo island. Established on this island, with portable houses, ponies, dogs, tons of whale meat and equipment lie will not care much what happens to the ship that brought him there. The ship may be crushed; it will not mutter. FARM ON ICE. During the four years of drifting from Behring Strait to the other aide of the world, at the rate of two miles a day, the diet of canned food, sea shrimps, gulls, walrus and bear meat will naturally become monotonous. The members of the expedition will crave and need fresh vegetables. How can they he had in the frozen wastes of the Far North? Mr. Baldwin plans to raise vegetables right on that ice island. He will have a garden patch, with artificial soil and ar- tificial haat, supplementing the rays of the six months sun, and will raise onions and cabbages in close proxi- mity to the North Pole. To farm on ice and plant crops in a section where the thermometer may sud- denly drop 80 degrees below zero is a feat that none but a scientific agriculturist would attempt. DIRIGIBLE BAi.LOONS. Mr. Baldwin intends to use cap- tive and dirigible balloons as ac- cessories to scientific observations, while a wireless telegraph outfit wul keep him in touch with civili- curtam and pin the other end firm- ►►ester; be aura that every part ►a zation through an intermediate ly to clothes lino you will be sur- under. Put a weight over it and station in Alaska. The dirigible prised to find how nicely curtains leave some ten or twelve hours, balloons may furnish a means of escape to the explorers in case their island become untenable. Tho wireless system will inform the world what discoveries have been made, how the garden is get- ting along and when the party ex- pects to reach Spitzbcrgon, while it will keep the explorers from be- ctrttling lonesome by providing them with the daily news of civilization. A searchlight for hunting bears during the six months' night, and a deep sea dredge with a bomb which will by explosion hurl marine apoci- mens into a net, are other novel features. A cinematograph will take pictures of scenes and incidents of interest or importance. will look. then remove, scald,pick off the into its richness, beauty, and tlse- To Purify Air in Sickroom.—Put feathers, and trussho toughest fulness. absorbent cotton in a pan and It is the height of folly to quarrel cover the cotton with sugar, then chicken will be good and juicy after over forms, descriptions, and ana- set the cotton on fire and the smoke this treatment. lyses; it is but cowardice to listen will be pleasant to the invalid, also to the croaking voices that tell us leaves a sweet odor in the room. we must subscribe to their forms, must see through their myoptic eyes Good cooks know the value of a few drops of glycerine added to the or be forever doomed. It were bet- tor to be doomed for loyalty to flour in cake making, in the proper - truth than saved at the price of tion of a teaspoonful to a pound of compromise with our own souls. flour, this making the dough light and feathery, while three tease. HEN13Y F. COPT,:. THESUNDAY SCHOOL C'hristiantJewe tngreat eloquence (v. 23) knowing only the baptism of John, the gospel of repentance and forgiveness, and Christian morals, and of Jesus who pro- claimed the kingdom of heaven at y home. hand, and worked many miracles using wood alcohol, with shellac, A friend, at whose house we were of love, and died on the cross. and (lyes. Dissolve the dye in wood visiting, had a small eel of the eloc- The story which was told in the alcohol and mix into it n little of tric kind, which he kept in a tub earlier gospels. the shellac, dip each globi in it, of water placed in the yard. A and hang to dry. It is a it imi- thirsty duck in rambling about in Life on tho Rockies." Master and But of the t spt•ism of the spirit tation of frosted glass. H at any search of water, chanced to soe this dog had been out on a four days' at Pentecost, his marvellous gifts time you wish to have tie clear vessel, upon the side of which ho tops, when a littleon the labkcenti►nber- o( power and light and salvation, globe again soak it in wood alcohol. perched himself and began very line Mr. Mills stopped to take some of rich experience, of fulness of Beene Made Nater Filter.—Place ir:considcrately to drink. In a rile life, which carne in overflowing . a wine cask on cud, fit a faucet at meat he received a shock which photographs. To do this he had abundance, for some reason the bottom, and remove the head. mode All his feathers to stand on to take off his sheepskin mittens, Apolloa had not heard. In this bore holes all over it with end, and which magnified him twice These things Priscilla and Aquila a smell bit ; place four clean bricks his ordinary size. Ilut tho duck expounded to hint. Then he went on the bottom of the tusk, and on was more valorous than any vile to Greece ((v•. Y;) end helped them these rest, the perforated top. On would have supposed, for he re - this which had believed through this perforated top put about four turned to the attack with such vio- inches of charcoal broken into hits knee that he +world have soon de - the size of peas and over this a lay- spatched his slipeery enemy had cr of clean sand six inches deep. not a servant interposed and pre - Water passing through this layer of vented co tragic a torminatiou of sau(1 aucl that of charcoal under it the battle. still Leave its impurities behind it Two incidents as amusing as the and run through the faucet clear foregoing took place on board our and sparkling. Once in two or three vessel while wo were en our return months the filter should be renew- voyage to the United States. ed.' Among our living curiosities we had INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUGUST l.i. Lesson Vit. Paul's Third Mission- ary Journey—Ephesus. holden Teat, Arts t9: 17. I. I'aul Enters Upon His Mis- sionary Journey, and Strengthens the Older Churches.—acts 18: 22, 23. When Paul had completed his second missionary journey he went up to Jerusalem to pay his respects to the mother church there, and doubtless, as at other times, he told the wondrous story of the work of God in bringing so many Gentiles grace. Of this Paul on•'e speaks into the kingdom. Here he would in his letter to Corinth, "I planted, remain long enough to complete his :1ppollo watered, God gave the in - vow, the apostle to the Gentiles in crease" (1 Cor. 3: el. loving accord with the mother 11'. Paul's Preaching and 'I'e•aeh- church of all. ing.----Vs. 8-10. As usual. i'aul be - Then he +►cut down to the home grin with the Jews who were hest church 'bleb had sent him forth. prepa►ed to receive the gospel. 8. Hero he was always welcome. Hero And spike boldly. It required no he told the story of his missionary little courage to take the unpupu- adventures, and the fruits of his lar side, which had so often br..ught labors. It. is ever a blessed thing him into trouble. Every prea( her for the home church to hear from ( mint sometimes risk his life and her missionaries, and the mission- reputation and worldly support, Aries need to come in contact and and preach boldly at any cost. But fellowship with churches. The Mis- m:ist see to it that he risks theta sionary Boards are wise in having in the cause of truth. Disputing, their misisouaries come home every R. V., "reasoning," arguing with few years. "logic on fire," and persuading. This is probably the last time using every legitimate influence Paul was able to visit Antioch. and motive, to induce them to re - 11. Ephesus: Which Paul Made '('ei►e the gospel of the kingdom of His Headquarters for Nearly Three Cod. the real kingdom which all the Years of Missionary Work.-- Jews were expecting, and which Ephesus was not only the capital had already begun to take on its of the province, hut was the city of perfect from under Jesus our the greatest inlpertnn••.' in a:I Asia Kiiig. Minor. nhd the prieeipal empor- V. Two 1C nd< of Testimonies to sum of trade in the East. It was the Power anal Value of the Gospel. Called one of the ryes of Asia, Smyrna. forty miles to the north, tieing the other. The city ,toed nn the south of a plain about five Wiles long from east to west, and three miles broad, washed on the west.hv the Icarian Sea. an arm of the Aegean. The Colosseum, or Amphitheater. Was the largest ever built by Greeks. and the Temple of Diana was in its crowning glory. and one of tl;. aevcn wonders of the world. I11 Paul finds an I-ndes eloped Whurch at Ephesus. and ltringe hen into the Fulness . f the Gos- W1 Lizht.--.feta 18 . 24 --in : 7. hen Paul left Corinth at the close f his second journey. his frien,is Aquila and Priscilla went with him ELECTRi(11EELS. A Traveller Tells Amusing Stories of Them. Among t, he curiosities of natural fuls with every pound of fruit in history ar the electrical eels. Tiley jant-making prevents the ferments- belong to the tropics, and their tion of the sugar owing to install- Power of giving an electrical shock tient boiling, and obviates all risk is what makt s them of interest. of the latter crystalizing. Mr. J. E. 1Varron, the author of Coloring Light Globe`'Para, or Scenes and Adventures s.—When a color seteme is desired during a !el the Banks of the Amazon,„ tells party or entertainment the rlcctric :n his book some amusing stories light globes can also bo colored b ci tho specimens which lie brought se "SCOTCH,” A ('%NINE HERO. Story Showing the Faithfulness of a Dog. It is a touching story of canine fidelity which Mr. Enos A. Mills tells of his dog "Scotch" in "Wild DOUGHNUTS. "Es a Ever" Doughnuts.—Mix two cupful, of hot mashed potatoes with two cupfuls of sugar, add .me cupful of milk, three eggs beaten separately, a little salt, nutmeg f..r fla►ouring, and lastly three table• spoonfuls of melted butter. Add flour to make a stiff dough into which five tablerpoonfuls of baking powder haws been sifted. These doughnuts are dife rent, absorb less fat and keep more moist than the usual kind. Snowball Ilosighnuts.-- Two cup- fuls of huger. two eggs, two eup- fuls of swept milk, three teaspoon —Vs.11 12. in addition to the holy fills of tanking powder. five cupfuls conduct and noble spit a exhilnteel of flour and more to make stiff bat - in the ordinary daily life. them ter, etc -half teaspoonful of salt, were two outward and visible testi- nutmeg to taste. Drop from spoon into hot lard and fry like any other monies to the truth and power of the gospel. First. Miracles of doughnut. They will be perfectly healing and Help. 11'.9"(1 wrought round, tend••r, and easy to make special miracles. "xtraordinary it is well to keep the lard fairly foil with which the deeds of the .Ire fah with the frying cakes. When cold, exorcists could net be compare -I. ' ---Exp. Greek Test. By the hands of, the instrumentality of, Paul. in Ephesus, the center of tragic arid a itchcraft. special power was given Paul to work miracles that conquered them in their strong- STE.\;C. hold He actually slid shat To look Round Steak.- Take two the sorcerers only pretended to do. The Epliesians were so — — . bound up in belief in tragic ier than lin •'e et',er peeers, rhieh roll in pulverized sugar. One-half of the quantities given can be used if no more tnan two dozen are need- ed at once. and will only take a few minutes. which he placed in his coat pocket, but nut securely, as it prowed. He goes on : From time to time. as I climbed the summit of the continental di- vide, I stopped to take photographs, but on the summit the cold pierced pure air, or they cannot give good toy silk gloves. and 1 felt for my blood to the body, and every part mittens, to find that one of them suffers. The germs of disease can was lost. not be destroyed finless the sys 1 stooped. pet an arm round tern through the lungs receives Scotch. and toed hits I had lost a plenty of fresh air. The lungs can• mitten, and that i wanted hint to not get this supply uoless the e.ir go down for it to save nuc trouble. passages are free. If ono breathes Instead of starting off willingly, through the mouth, it means that the air does not enter the lungs --- • Had I not returned, I suppose Scotch would have died beside the mitten. In a region cold, cheerless, 'ppressive, without feed, and per- haps to die, he lay down by the •lifted because he understood that I told hint to. In the annals of dog heroism, 1 know of no greater deed. 04•••••M+, teliNN1••. • HYGENIC DRESS. On the subject of lygeaio attire fur woolen, there has always been a great deal of honest nonsense talked and much misspent trouble taken fur the reason that groat number of people have the typo of mind that irresistibly associates the ugly with the healthy and the nail- seous with the wholesome. Just as they think medicine can- not be efficacious unless it is thick and black and nasty, so they thi.rk women cannot breathe and prospee unless they look like a halo of nay with the middle hoop cut; and to pursuance of this conviction thev refuse many of tee alleviations of life, among which sugar-coated pi'!s and well-mado corsets should take sigh rank. When looking at the portraits of the Spanish school of which Velas quez is master, ono is constaut.y struck by the way the women seen to bo confined in some baraharic in- strument of torture, so flat are their chests and so narrow and ttae the unconifortable-looking drawn - down waist. Surely no material lair rigid than wood could be trusted to produce this invariable effoc, iu women of all ages and degree. Now turn from these women of medieval days to a modern pictur,- gallery, and observe the freedom, the individuality, the graceful ease which, for the most part, the wo man of to -day permits herself, eni is permitted by modern sanctions. Indeed, it is not necessary to co 1 - treat her with the woman of tee middle ages. She is so much mo e comfortable and sensible in her dress than was her grandmother, or even her mother. This fact is largely the result ( 1 the general acceptance of athletics for women. With the invasion of the up-to-date girl of the tennis - court, the golf course and tho lakes and rivers. the seventeen -inch dam- sel who seemed to spend a large rortion of her time in faintiug -pelts vanished, one may hope for- ever. It is possible to knock a croquet ball about in tight clothes, but for a game like tennis, that calls for real play of muscle and free action (torn head to foot., one must he pro- perly dressed. So much has been done of late years to improve the corset that its reproach as a menace to health Las. in fact, been wiped out. Tho hest corsets no longer interfere with the breathing apparatus, and many modern corsets leave the diaphragm free, and support and restrain as they should. With their help, and provided that skirts are not too heavy and dragging from the hips, women are often better off with corsets than without them. --Youth's Compan ion. -- FOOD, FOOD, WATER AND AIR. A human being cannot live with- out food, water and air. These are the three essentials. The lungs must he plentifully supplied with two young electrical eels, which was lie had imaria} ly done before oe in ohedieuee t•, m • tot a large tub on deck Wish-scommands, he odtil n ing one clay ti, change the water, ustill. I thought ho had mm, understood e, so I patted him, at upset the tub, leaving the crew- and then. pointing down the slope, three for a few minutes en the dry sail, ;1310 for the mitten. Scotch. hoard'. Having repleni+hed the I will wait here for you." weasel with fie sh water, we request- fie started for it, but went unwil ed one of the sailors to put them tingly. He had always toned me its As he proceeded to (10 so, he g, cheerfully that 1 could not lin• tceeived a strange thrill which derstand, and it was not until late caused him to let the fish fall from his hand in a moment. He attempt- ed it again. but with no better suc- cess. Infinite was the consternation of the other sailor+. who tried in turn ter put the diabolical fedi into the tab. sial truly letighahle were their looks of a•ondernrent occasion( d by the myslerions sensations which they had severally experienced No one. however, was more arrazt'd than the captain's mate. Heine himself wholly unnetuainted with the properties of the fish. he ISA, unable to imagine any other reason the sailors could have for dropping teem than the difficulty of ho1dinse such slimy and slippery things in (.ne's hands. Fortified with this opinion, the mate walked boldly up to the larg tet eel and seized it with a rower • fol grey) in order to prevent the possibi.lty of escape 011 the hear: the fish. He was soon forced to let go bit hold And to yell out as las- til(• as if some eine had touched him aith a her ••f hot iron. liter much leeel'•'r the captain finally pro- ev sed , .►.novel. and w e ret sieved the pa far as Ephesus. I;efor•e Paul t necc:snrc to cense from ?.;ttsn tee father of eels to their satire elein^nt with- atered upon his longer work at show that. the gospel was might- deed', Out say farther dil8calty. • hat it. teemed either in sufficient amount or in the ceeiditien that it should. 11 the children are mouth breathers their condition should be examine -I to ascertain the cause. f WHAT NEW YORK WASTES. New York City wastes officially e50,O00,000 a year—thin alert from the amount lest by theft and graft - the next afternoon that I realized ing, says Franklin Clarkin in an that he had not understood me, but article in "Success Magazine. •' that he had loyally, and at the risk This equals the losses of the Baiti- t f his life, tried to obey me. mere f ire, or the first cost of the My cabin, eighteen miles away, Erie Canal, or the national ex was the nearest house. and the re- penditures of the Kingdom of glen was utterl* wild. I waited a Swc+len, or those of the Dominion reasonable time for Scotch 'e, re. of Canada, turn, but he did not come back. As It ie more than Great Rrit.in will it was late in the afternoon. and growing colder. I decided to go on require this eardto pay its old age toward my cabin, along a route that fK n° ' nE. 1 felt sure l:e wosrld follow. and 1 It is a waste of the energy of reasoned that ho would overtake eisu Ilurid ,trap -hanger, of the lsure which better transit facili- ties would yield the every day worker. it is a waste elf the wages (.1 the poor. On these all frauds and ex- travngances of government finally bear. it is also a melancholy waste of When at midnight he had not enme. I felt something nas wrong. 1 slept two hour+ and decided to Qe to meet hint. The thermometer showed fourteen below zero. I kept 4n going. and at two in the after- noon, twenty-four hours after I human life. The income from these had sent Scotch hack, I paired en 'nfte,l million+ would slam a crag and looked below. There in p out the snowy world of white he lav ns t only tuberculosis, but also by the mitten in the snow. He had typ hiid end diphtheria. n.isunderetoxl me, and had gone cities are equally misgov- hack t.: guard the mitten instead of crned, yet in the same world, with to get it h•iman nat+:re just the same. there Astor waiting for him to eat a are many reties which admini+tcr so luncheon, we started merrily to. Ably then they reflect no taxes -- ward hump. where we arrived at come + l,irh er t„nlly pay diyidendi one o'clock in the morning. to thcir Wizens. 1 T