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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1904-9-15, Page 6THE AUTY OF THINGS King Solomon Says, "He !lath Made Everything Beautiful in His Time:' *Entered according to Act of the rale • liament of femme.. in the year Dne Thousane eline•Dundred and Peer, by Wm. liany, ot Toronto, at til3 Depertment ot egrieniture, °Wee%) A. despatch from LOB Angeles says: -Rev. C'rank De Witt Talmage preathed from the following text : leccleelastes iii, 11, "Ito bath made everything beautiful in eis time." The Solomic writings are often epigranunatic in style. Like Pelee - loss jewels cut and polished by the lapidaries and collected hi caskets, ir- respective of Sin or color, his verses as verbal gems aro clusterea into chapters, with but little ettempt at consecutive arrangement. Indeed, King 8o1omon for the most part moms to ole to be like a writer of notebooks. In the king's judgment hall or on the street 01' out upon the hillsides under the blue dome of the sky, when a great thought is divine- ly inspized within his brain, he, jots that thought down in memorandum, Then at the end of the day or the week or the month or the year he collects these different thoughts, ir- respective et their logical sequence, into a chapter or a book and has the court stenographer write them out again in full. In other words, King Solomon's verses for the most part Etre like freight cars that caa he side tracked or uncoupled from one cue and attached to other ears. Each verse stands out as a distinct entity. An average verse is as appropriate in the sixth chapter of Proverbs as in the twentieth chapter. The verse is the car. The chapter is the freight ' train. They are often as unconnect- ed as the definitions of Webster's Dic- tionary. They change their subjects very often. They are like nuggets of gold sometimes found by' the Austra- lian miners in the dust by the road- sides or in the river beds, entirely Christ's life. Olf, the beatety of blending colors! From the brilliant pietorials of an elite:meal leaf let u$ /earn the spiritual lesson for =En that Clod hath made and ean make evelything beautiful in its time. EXPRESSED I.N SOUND. The symmetries of straight lines and curves in sculpture end arelittec- ture also form analogies for man's spiritual beauty. Wandering, among tho famous building's of Europe, 1 find that, arelot Mei:ally, a great building has a symmetrical unity, just as a perfer•t statue is chiseled after the physical formations of a Perfect man. Moue, years ago there was exhumed front the buried ruins of old Rome a marble leg, broken from off ono of the statues of old, That broken fragment is :dell pre- served in the Vatican. Michael An - 08 a sculptor, esed to study that leg by the day, • the week, the month and the year, "because," said the greet Italian master, "I con- sider that piece of stone the most perfect formation of physical ana- tomy over carved by the chisel of man." So symmetrically perfect may the lines and the curves of a groat group of statunry be, tliat when you, look at soave of the best Oxamples of sculpture in the Moore, the Vatican or the British museum, the figures almest seem as though their lungs are breathing end their lips are ready to speak. Let us loiter foe a tittle while in tbe "poets' corner" of Westminster Abbey. As we listen the sweet) bards of the English language seem to lift their heads from their pil- lows of dust and begin to sing, and we find man's spiritual beauty in the analogies of poetry as -well as in separeeed from any gold veins. They painting and music and svalpture are like great round bowlders of reek imbedded in the sands. These bowl - der verses in a glacial age have been carried by the ice from afar and have found a reeting place amid en- tirely different elements from thoso among which they were created. The modern critics tell us that King Solomon did not write the book of Ecclesiastes, that its style and and architecture. For as painting is rhythm in color and music is rhythm in souud and sculpture and architec- ture are rhythm in stone, so poetry I s illythm in words. Aye, poetry is moi•e than mese rhythm. An Eng- lish writer once well said, "Poetry in the flower garden of human langu- age is the blossom and the fragrance of all human losowledge, human diction belong to a later date. It thoughte, human passions and eine- appears to me, however, that its depressing refrain aro characteristic tions." It is man's most transcend - of a man who led such a life of easo ent hopes and noblest ambitions, and self indulgence as Solomon led, with the highest peak of the Mount and that at the end of it, satiated of Ascension for a footstool, or it is tvitli pleasure and study, as ho must man'swail of eternal 'despair when, s have been, it wee precisely the kind 88 '-,'1° res9'11s 01 his sths' 11e i of book that would come from. his heading toward a Dante's "Inferno ' pen, and the conclusions uttered in or he is compelled to join in the that book, just such as would be mea"e ef a 111-iltme's "Paradise likely to be reached by a man who, Lost." having strayed from God, was dis- TILE REDEMPTION OF JOHN. appointed and dissatisfied with his life. In the absence, therefore, of Are you and 1 ready to become definite knowledge I shall assume Part of God's beautiful creation? that the nest verso of t.he book in- Are wo ready to become beautiful in dicates him as the author, "Tho son ourselves by becoming bemitiful in of David, king in Jerusalem," him? Even Pio lowest :aid vilest, COLER1DGE'S DEFINITION. j saved by his grace and redeemed by- ; his blend, can become a true part We flnd an analogy for man's spitecif Christ's beautiful life, Many- years itual beauty la the painter's brush ago when the yellow fever plague and the artist's easel. According to ' was raging in Memphis, Tenn„ a Samuel Coleridge, the English poet 'rouge), looking man applied to the and literary critic, the tree detinition 1 city relief committee and said, 'I of "beauty ' is "multitede 111 unity." wish to nerse." It was at a time When standing before a. great .'"F- when meet people who could were tura like that of Leonardo cia Vin' l s f!ooin' from the stricken and deso- "Last Supper,"' or elurillo's "Mir- let ed homes, The death carte aclo of tho Loaves and Fishes," or Raphael's greatest picture, his eise,seemed to be going everywhere. At tine "Madonna," 110 find that thei•e first tho .physicinn declined the the many lights and the shadows, the rough titan s services, but as he gold and the silver and the green ancl could. get no one else to do the the yellotv and the blue Eincl tee see.! work this num was sent to ono of Iran and the violet and the purple, the meet filthy and dangerous wards all blend in ono common purpose. of the city, Wherever he went he Tousands, perhaps tens of thou- WEIA o meeeenger ef lever He we'll(1 • sands of tbnes, 'Michael Angelo, with not tell his nettle; he said simply, his brush, may have touclied the "Call me John.'' Time passed on, wall in the Vatican, where to -day is and after awhile John. whose name seen his "Last Judgment." But notwaft now famoris through tlin city, one of all of those thousends of sickened and cited. While liis body times when he luiEl on the paint did was being prepared for nn unmarked he do so without having one great 'wave, suddenly upon his arm was idea in his mind. "Perfection Is bound a livid mark, which proved composed of many trifiee," Wrote he, ; that John was an ex -convict. John "but perfection in met is not aiharl been one of the west, dangerous trifle," A greet picture is always; criminals of all the south. Gine he "multitudes of different colors in:was a intirderer, but now thimegh blending unity." That unity is the the blood of Jesus, Ile 'Meanie a • cause of beauty, when seen upon the ministering angel. Once lie was hole canvas of the roasters of old and the 11131e in his depraved malformation. masters 01 tbo present. day. I Now he wan made beautiful by "A MULTITUDE IN leNITY." inging his life in syntmetricul An artist's beauty is a "multitudetouch with Jecnis' life. In unity," We know that Samitel I My friends. will you not let Clielet • Coleridge's definition in reference to 011 you with his spiritual beauty? the painter's easel is true. We see, Will you not only in the future be 11 "ineltituele of colors in unity"' s;piriteully beatified, but beautiful when Tullio, the most brilliant 01'-1 now In your present life? Will yon tistic colorist England ever produced, ; net :mecums transformed as wag makes the sea a creature of eamv rroenthe redeemed nurse, laboring • ft is a beautiful boulevard oi gold, 1111' lite st,r lo plague strickea paving its way to the throne of Et!ereeineee setting sun; now a perfect panilemon- - tuna of furies; now it le a bused scene, when Shr Davie Willvio finds a sepulcher in the mighty chrep, whew waves beat themselves into pieces on . the Gibraltar crags. We see nn ar- In o le lure on "Girt Age," delie*- test's "multitude in unity" in the erect ty Menehnikeff to Paris roe - portraits of e Sie Anthony Van ently, the elle:deer peeress/el the opin- eDyck and in the mighty mountan n ion that senility was produced by peaks of a Pierdstadt and in the paS- certain physiologicel 8111105 nditell tokal dreams of a Millet. But, cause the benencient species of ed- theegh there may be ninny referent czars called "macrophages" tor bi- llets blenelleg in the colois of a elreso ino rapidly. Then in theie raiebow or in the hectic flush of n, turn they become injurious. These rake, did you ever stoP to retthee paraeitre firetrieb in tlio large intee- that all colors come from but three lino, whiih inconmels possess, whore - primal colors? Just, the sone as all • • ; 1 4r. m1 1 7.. 05 111 111.1(11, ..u.S 1111110f, eney ittee nature. All the aniinal and Vegeta- mg, The twain. Was shown in the ble and mineral kingdoms have but DOMR(111 of the doctor's own hog, eixty-six different basic elemente, of hirei as i rt'rePit et eighteen; while which they are all composed. So in. ' the (111111)0 world 110. end that all e fl theetera 's perroe, ged seventy, 'colors originally come from but three 0c colorse.-the red, the yellow and the blue. Now, if God 00(1• forte tho artistic beauty of the eks, the eett, the lend, ont of the sim- • pie red, ' the simple yelEseey and the relriple violet, is it absurd to applies° that God can spiritually • Make tls artietically beautiful, no matter 1)011 (1* de tied ferried ego may be, if Wo •only allow our thoughts , tend to be eellabitled le sym- ',Mary With hite thengetta Orel Via CI.D- AGE MICROT1 Mee TICKETS AT ANY nucE, what Japandse Railway Traine Are Like. The railway 10110101' In japan beye a first, second or third class ticket; or, if hel wishes to go cheaper still, ho can get a ticket antitheft' him simply to stand on the platform. Many of the cars can. be entered either from the stdo or the end, Tho principal difference) between tho first and second-class coaches is tho color or the upholstery. None of the cars are very clean. Many of tho third-class coaches could serve, with- out much alteration, as ordinary pig- sties. This is all the more remark- able whea the incompe.rable elean11- 110S5 of the Japanese 1101110 life, even of the humblest, is taken into consid- eration. An explanation of this may lie that the Japanese have little re- gard. for the cleanliness of 11113' 1)111(0 where they keep their shoes or clogs on. The European room, for exam- ple, which has been establiebod in n 11÷1,444,104.444 444 iHriketcleit4+ smile' and loving glance, rt neat fold '4 tidy table, and tempting euppoe- therm are what every (1111(111110 knows :ern her husband likes to come Mime to t eel' For bathe the ear in e 0.4 in the pruning, and is loath to leave, :tr4 ...Irs° Nom, eep earache, strong decoction or camomile flow- ers, then drop a few drops of warm sweet oil into the ear, nod keep ih, there with a 111110 eottenwool and a, strip of flannel waggled ana tied round tlio head. For gooseberry jolly stow a couple of • pints of gooseberTies till tender, with sugar to taste, and a few drops of 10113011 juice; pass it through a ad sieve and d an ounce of gelatine dissolved in half a pint of water: color with a, little carminer and pou into a mould. To warm cold potatoes put a des- sert -spoonful of butter in 0, sauce - pen and let it melt; then put in the cold potatoes, 1(001) the lid on, and place over tho lire, frequently toss- ing the potatoes. When Heated through put ie a vegetable dish. 0.1111 with choPped 1)015103'.Before using new china, glass, or 141101) 0111013)0301, wrap each article loosely but eetirely a cloth, place them in a kettle end cover with cola water, Bring to a boil; continue the hean t teor fifteen minutes and thee cool off. 13y this tempering they are toughened. Curtain rings can be made to run easily by rubbing the pole with par- r:111ln until thoroug hly smooth, To keep flies out of the 1011101',sponge the windows daily with a week solution of carbolic acid and writer. You will never be troubled with flies If you do this. Vreees aud ornctmenis, if soaked for a fow minetes in water to which a little soap Powder is added, will need very little washing, People with tveak lungs axe re- commeneed by medical men to read alottd, as this strengthens throat, lungs and chest muscles alike. The reading should be delibernte rine the enueciation distinct, the body being hold in an easy, unstrained, upright position, so that tho chest will have freo play. WATER AND TOBACCO. 4.44,14+++4444.444+44++++++ DOIVeleSTIO RECIPES. Doeilled Dane -Take lean, boiled ham, chop it, very fine, .season with red end. black pepper and a little mustard; proms solidly into (1 1)011, weight., and leave over night. Slice ham when wanted. Mee for leech. Spiced Sult..-A spiced salt that is an excellent seasoning for soups, stuffing and veal loaf, requires one querter ounce 011011 of thyme, hay loaf 1.11111 1)01)1)01; one-eighth ounce each of sweet alerfetOraM and cayenne popper, and a. lialf ounce each oC cloves and nutmeg. Grate the nue. few Japanese homes, is the only meg, dry, powder anil sift the other apartment in the whole house that ingredients, mix 1110100(11)13' and add is not kept scrupulously swept, dust- one 01.1110 of salt to every four ounces ed, oiled and burnished. So, too, or the naixture. Keep tightly- bet - with the Japanese 111118. Those that tied. An ounce will 8008011 three are niaintainecl in native style are pounds of stuffing. sweet culd clean; those that have be- Coolieborry Swim -Five quarts of 10111(1 Europeanized aro usually lit- gooseberries, Nue pounds of sugar, tered with cigaret stumps, fruit a pint of vinegar and two table - peelings and cores and other debris, Spoonfuls each of cloves, cinnamon A. Pullman, with its crowded and soul allspice. Put vinegar and spices unavoidable iatireacies, is a decent together, let come to a boil, put in and polite bermitage compared with the fruit and cook one hour, 31ote a. packed coach in Japan. All sorts sla' and seal. Nice for meats. af unexpecteel things happen. Daring Fried Oysters.-leoz• one dozen and ablutions are performed and come a half of oysters beat two eggs and 111010 change of raiment ie frequently season with stilt and pepper and two etTected, tho constantly recurring ton- tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup if nets serving to screen the astonishing the flavor of the tomato is desired. diameter of these programs. Drain the oysters and season with 'Hie floor of third-class coaches is salt and popper. Dip them in bread an ensivept riot of the flotsam and (Tenths, then into the beaten eggs, jetsam tbat usually follows in the and egain in the bread crumbs. Have wake of certain kie of human ernft the world over. A. Bow-ery picnic crowd abandoned to Peanuts, PoPeorn, bananas, never marked. a More Con- spicuous trail than a lot of Japan- ese peasants on route, Only, with tho Japanese, it is all a very solemn affair. Travel seems to afford fitt- ing opportity to 'discard all kinds of personal wreckage. All forms of abandoned odds and ends of things begin to identify the itinerary from the very start. Of course, the for- eign .thaveler who wades through this car -strewn waste does so to gain experience. It is not a pursuit of happine.es. KILLED BY CIGARETTES. — • Boy Succumbs to Nicotine Pois- oning in England. That cigarette smoking by boys is a dangerous babit has formod tho text of many a. medical sermon, but it is notorious that the• evil has greatly increased within the last few years, Now, however, that a schoolboy, Patrick Snee. aged 11, living at H.alifax. England, has lost his life through emoking eige-retttes-"poisme ed by eicotine" was the verdict of the coroner's jersr-the efforts made by clergymen, 'doctors, and publicists to diecourage this vice may meet with 001110 111100055,After :molting several cigarettes on Saturday afternoon the lad became sick on the following day, and died on Monday after partial paralysie had e:et in. 'elven a doctor was coll- ect ho at. once diagnosed the ailment • as nicotine poisoning. In cvery town and village boys of ;frora seven to twelve years of age i may bo seen smoking cigarettes with ; apparent enjoyment. Penny peteleets !containing, live and six ae•e, it would !seem, put up with the idea of at- • tracting the cuetom of them children ;and, Worse still, small children pick I tip half -consumed cigarettes from the :ettects, beg a match from a by, 018(1 end then puff contentedly. Discussing the dangers of cigar- ; ette-smoking 001101) indulged in by boys, a physician attacliect to one of tho great London hospitals said the I evil 1"1l1*none the less real because 'the ceests were not as a rule very noticeable at first. "Cases of chronic. nicotine poison - ling among boys," he said, "are be- coming more and more common. The heart is tee 01(1011first affected. ;There is a rapid pulse, daegerous • weakening of the heart, the digestion is impeired, and teere is trouble h the eyes. "In ttrUie cases, welch are more 1001', the poisen is exceedingly ra- pid effA in its ects. s to the evil caused by juveeile smoking, much 'de- pends upon the constilastion of tho boy. Some latts ere peouliarly 1*08- 10111 ible to nicotine poisoning. Then needle the dangerous habit becomes more 111111(1010115 if the smoke is in- haled." TALKING AT IIIPIAL-TIMES, 'Thu old theory that it was rude to talk at meal -lanes, which has 00010 down to vis (rein out• ancestors, scents to have received a severe shock, a -cording to a medical man. "elalce sore, in paetalcing of hcispi- 1 al 1 1y," ho says, "that you aro able to clistharge the obligations it int- IvOsee, otrt conversational coin Own the crannies of your brain." I koow a family in which, from the yottngest child to the eldest, each member Is requieed to contribute 60111(11hing to general conversation at 13)001-11110.5, They have 1101e4* been allowed to regard this as a, mere stop for stoking the physical erigine, to be made as brief as possible Ecteh 110111111105 01) some incident of tho • day. no one forgetrz that, he has met appeared 10 the. .1;141e:we hale and an old friencl, or even watched a flre- lively. "It etands provocl,'' eel:vs the, engine, • and tho excitement it denten. "that 1011811 113' is an infeete. aroused, "They have become more o118 disenee, necl it should be porteible cbtervant; tight settee of humor is to treat it like other ninladies,-to sharpened in little street comedies cure it or prevent it." TIM hope became) of the applause of the fem- me expreeserl Menclinikoff ily cirele. They aro always sere of tenet eerion would shortly he ells- a friendly Interest in their individa- covered te relinterac•t the "nmerop- ni advebtores and intatclventeree, :Igoe' and erelong berenn Mee mean- TNT all keep in touch with 00,eli t11110, 81415 the "Figaro," he recoil). others' trmsells. Mealtimes atm Mended the Conseuteption of curdled not doll in that family. Tho mind, as Wall as the body, is refroshcefee Olive oil about four inches deep in the frying kettle, and when very hot place the oysters iu tbe teeing lets, ket (a single layer on the bottom) and pimp late the oll.. Cook for ono initiate and a half and servo im- mediately, Pea. Soup -One pint split peas, 4 anions, 9 heads of celery, 2 turnips, a haneful of shaved cabbage, * el* ground peanuts, salt, pepper and sage. Soak the peas over night in plenty of water. la the morning remove all the peas that swim on top, pour off the water, wash through fresh e-ator aid pet over the fire in salted water, simmer for two hours and a half, adding water as needed. At the end oE this time add the vegetables, pared and 011)10- d, and tho ground peanuts. Let cook 1e or two hours longer, ad(1 tho seasoning and serve with fried bread cm toast. Tomato Fingers-Roduco by boiling ene cupful of stowed tomatoes to two tablespoonfuls -or buy tho to- mato paste, put up in small tins. Cream two tablespoonfuls of better, acla the tomato paste, and three tab- lespoonfuls of crusheel peanuts. Mix and spread on narrow strips of stale bread, sprinkle with the crush- ed nuts, and crisp in a. hot oven. Fish Savary.-Crecun 0 teaspoonful of butter with the same quantity of flour, thin with a cupful of nallk, to which a, pea-sized lump of balelog sada has been added; cook until smooth, .0.3111 then add half a cupful of strained tomato juice, three drops of onion juice, and a, seaeoning of Stilt and pepper, SLir in three- quarters of a pint of cold flaked fish, heat thoroughly, ane serve on zwieback slightly moistened with For baked tomotnes, make a dress - Ing of fine crumbled bread, pepper, Salt, and 51111111101' savory, marjoram, thyme, or a trifle of all three. Heat in the frying pan with a liberal amount of butter, about a tablespoon to three cups of dressing, If not sure tf your seasonings, taste and make just right, a, little 011 the high- ly seaeoned side. Now take ille top of the tomatoes; just a litho lid, re- move the watery insides, and fill with the dressing, Replace the lids, and bake half an hour more or lose, according to the heat of the oven. By having the dressing heated it is not thesoggymass usually found in this otherwise delicious dish. Corn Vinogar-Take 10 gals fresh, deem rainwater and add to it 10 lbs, brown sugar; next add 1 gal. hop yeast sponge, which has been "set" the same as for broad, end let get light. Cut froni tho cobs 1 gal, green corn, put it into art open kog or jar with the water, yeast and mi. - gar; tie 01000 Of double cheesecloth overtho top and let stand in the sun or in a warm room for two or throe weeks, when you will have the best of vinegar. Shaking or moving (trotted does not Indere this vinegttr, end It, is best to pour oft the clear liquid and remove the COrtt end other (bogs from the bottom of the veseel at the end of three weeks. If only a small amount of vinegar is wanted, it may be masle aa follows 1 Cut from tho cobs 1 pine green corn; Put into a jar 3. gal, clean rain water, add the corn, stir in 1 pint molasses or sugar and place in the sun or near the stove, Vinegait mede by either of those rules will be found quite as good as the best virroome ITINTS le011 ImArn Never shake or rumple the table- cloth, Vold every time in the orig- inal creases. Soo that tho Platen and dishes aro wipod underneath before they are placed on tho table. Pieces of broad should be subetitit- tecl for the ordinary Antes at a din- ner or Innelmon party. If the handles of table knivos be- come discolored rub , them with brleictlest and vinegar. When giving a iltinner party ar- range that every alternate COU050 can be, at any rate, partially pre- pared beton:haled. To clean bronze ornements tako one drachm of eweet oil, one melee of aleohol and one OUnce and a half of water. 'Apply quickly with a, etift even then all Pio ankere was bloWn oportge, but do liot Wet umbrellas, Should be prie on oft 'is billions. That waS e. NOW them handles to dry, This alloes for yet', Why, (Alma" But her the Water to 1111* out of them, ill, this time the ettrious ptteeenger tea - stead of into the pave Where the ribs heed Unit he Was being "guyed," and the silk meet, teem eeesing the and he did not geed tho Imaginative Metal 1,6 rust: end the eillc to• rot. tar tele chance of fittlehlog his inter - The hetet bright end choorfelt reefing tuteretive, It is undoubtedly true that the ma- jority of men =eke, and when We soo how much contentment and pleas- ure a man gets out of his eignr or pipe, and especialler how it tranquil- lizes him and pronieteri amiability, it will Seem a foolish wife who objects to the habit and drives her husband off down town because she will not permit hint to indulge his favorite vice at home. A good many girls who never said a word about dislik- lan, ing smoke before they were" married pulled up out of their band which I develop an antipathy to it afterWarcl have given them, saith the Lord thy and make things unpleasant in con- Clod" (Amos ix., 14, 15); jor. xxxil, the habit grows on a man, and there 41; Ezek, XXX1,11., 2 , 9 ). to "the Indian weed" in spite of They make a 11111,11 an offender for their wives can say or do. Moreover a word and lay a snare fur Ititn that com precious few who will not cling nagging only nardono a man aanidi. ornegysr.ov,e,th in the gate and then aside makes him more obstinate. the just for a tlimg of naught. They Xt isn't Very pleasant to licEve the tilings;Prophosy not ludo us right, room full of stale smoke, and it epeale unto us • smooth seems to linger In spite Of OPen doors things. Prophesy 'deceits, cause the Holy Ono of Israre to mere from be- coiff 011.verymettlleeretailm end windows. We want to tell you lfo3.7. u's1;esraskaaoe7rriNt-te!-It;hxoxtixg14slkolf, neitlier utelerstated .1 II zete e‘ervaeriirt°g1 goefLtisiniguakraid, the. L°1 -vi; His 000 Ilbel. moo , tv., 1.2). alloy are" remove all the cigar ends and ashes, Sell of unrighteousness and °pores - then place a large boWl—Washbowl— Men. yet Vim Lord loved them and full of wctter in the room. Tty morn- pitied them. and by Eis prophets ing the water will have alisorbed the urged them to turn to Him. that He smoke (If you. don't believe it taste Might have mercy upon them, He the water), and the air will be free had compaseion on Hes people and from impurities. on Hes dwelling place and sent them This is a good 'omen"' to us not to Ills messengers, but they mocked the drink wo,ter Dolt, has stood ia the messengers of Clod and deepised Eis house cal night, ....-e---4.-. words and misused His prophets Un- til the wrath of the Lord aeon WOMEN IN' WAR TIIVIE. against Els people till there was no Praying f or Peace. Namely (31. Chron. xxxvi, 15, 16)-- - In Russia and japan They .Are that is, there was no remedy or, sis tle-field and tho liospital, they do not in Um mnegin, "healing" in nnything that they could clo. Yet 13e cities, equal the heart-wicker:Mg suspense "Deliver from going down to the Terrible as the miseries of the bat - which is the lot of women in. timo of xx'111' 21') pit; I have 1 ound a ransom (Job inaction is of itself paralyzing to tho The pain which must be borne in iniquiteS (Amos ill, 2), and allowed After Eo had visited upon their war. will and to high resolve. A man the caeteetter them to return to their land from in Babylon tre in due overboard in Mid -ocean, for example, time seat them the Ransom, the De - the battle -field is a trifle, Tho bray - suffers a fear beside which that or mover, tile Lord, thole Righteousness est of mete alone in the waves, we.' the long promised Messiah, but what is the record? "I -Te 111.15 111 turn coward, although ho may have a the world, and the world V/115 Made life -buoy and practiectl certainty of by Min, ana the world !mew Him rescue. But the heart which fainted nat. He came unto His own, ancl at its own powerleseuress before the His own received Him not." (John Enorselessly on may riso to s great forces of nature moving re- i, 10, 11). NOW, is VIM still any feats of bravery on the field of bat- of such great sin and crying "His oletalid hoPe for such a people, who because blood be uozsit us and upon our child- tle. . To women war must he always like reit" have been scattered a byword the untamable sea -a succession of and a, reproach among all nations? billows, rising each above tho other, We could not believe eit if He had and. each capable of engulfing' the not said it, but since He has said depth, No woman's hand can stay woeld of love and hope in its bitter that for llis own Name's sake He theue, No woman's voice cm calm Tsaas and '1e1011 Nie• vii. 12-20; will fulfill Ills pi'omise to A131011001, them. 'And so, on the steppes of Ezek xxxvi, 22). Ile will do P., and elussla and in the villages of japan wo must beleieve it. ,"rbo gifts and strange tong•ues end vvith fantastic tanco. to -day, 110111011 are praying, in callieg of Clod aro without repell- ed cownrdice and courage, of love of of Clod 1 How tineearchable are His country and bathed of war, that the Judgeeente both of the wisdom and knowledge Oh, the depth of the riches rites, but with a world -old mingling and 1-1Ie ways past finding angel of Mere May' agate fold 1118 out!" (Itom. xi, no, 85.) wiags over the earth. 111E S. S. LESSON, INTERNATTOTAL LESSON, snrr, 38, Text of tbe Lesson, Amos V. 4- 15. Golden Text, ArrtoS • v., 0. Seek ye ale, and ye Shall leye; seek the Lord, and ye Shall live; seek good and not eel' that. ye may live, and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall lie with you, for thus Ranh the Lord unto the lunese of Israel (verses 4, 0, 14). Thie seems to bo the central tbouglit of our les- son. It reminds us of lealjah's "If the Loyd be Coe, follow 1 1 i in" (I. Kings e.v111., 91). anx1 rtf Joshua's farewell oxliortnt on, "Clhooso You. this day whom we will serve" eToole xxiv. 15), and of tho words of Mos- es; "'.1. have Het before you life and death; therefore choose life. Love the Lord, thy Clod; obey llis voice, cleave unto 11 m, fon He is thy life" (petit- sax., 10, 20). Whether it be for Israel or the church or the individecti, there is no life apart front Dim writ is ere, who said, "I am the life" -(John xi., 25; xiv„ 6). Dead io. tree.pesses awl sins, without Clod and withciut hope, is the condi- tion of all othree 3, 19). In the days et Amos, es now, men would do anythit If rattier than re- ceive freely from cod Els gift of life, They would, under pretense of wor- ehip, trrategress nt Bethel and Oil - gal and at Beesshel and their sac- rifices of thanksgiving west) full of evil; therefore the Lord said, "Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with lea- ven, for this Moth yott" Oise 5), lea- ven being eignineant of evil every- where In the Bible, even in Mutt. ;die, 33, where our Lord in describ- ing this present age, the mystery of the kingdomr-tbrit is, the condition of affairs while the Ititigdom is re- jartecl and postponed -told us that UM woman (the (hurch) would thor- oughly leaven or corrupt thee food. Never was tbe food given to the church more corrupt than now, when nerveleee every fundamental truth is 'denied by ninny preachers ad our Lord Si uses leielseif is not counted O safe teacher, vitae less the Son of God; so we know that tho ago is 'drawing to a close and the time of Israol's restoration elrawetli neat*. The word of the Lord through 4111105 era' eVery other prophet shall be ful- filled. "I will plant them upon their 'd and they 11111111 110 mere be sequence. Better not merry a smok- er unless yoU can stanki smoke, for But those who are meek enough to belleVe what, He has said hy the lf a 11015011 13 bitten by a &epees- prophets shall know His ways and eflly mad dog let him call a pliesici- Hie purpoees, which aye sure to be an, and in the meantime apply lent- performed, for "surely the Lord God onetutee to the Wound. This is the will do nothing, but, Ile revealeth 0[11'110 Of Dr, Lagorto, of the Pas- ll)s secret unto Ills sosvante the 0), seientists Will place the evils of su- prophets" (Amos iii, 7). Tho tour Inetitute. gee (111111011)' on n, pedestal as con. Spirit through Peter says that prop- Profeesor Ometon says that allure spicttous as tho drink question, as 0°1• 1 1)00)0y is a light in a dark place. 111-1 00,05111(1 0, cleterioitaleon of fildivicho to which *10 do well to take lieerl i marts (H. Pet. 1, 3.But in'e9";iie5:1 Iti7cimPassellger worse gales 111011 this'?" asked an you lioya amounterva who, though WIND in thole own esti- _ 111011011, 000 foolish 111 the Lord's es - there are many teachers in our day, als and raceS, blow. 'Illiis yero ain't fi, gale," ro- of the sailor- ItT7Stei:Vba,' Ilbt:CathUOWlett'ohpeYlletwsi.l(11,11111.: xzebi0-1 hove what the Imed has spoken by ,,. men during a very moderato bit of a 95), (met in the Day 0' Biscay when the means OM earnest heed to the suro 1 zninanTrthiWallica to f -to, `11‘citSeus0 tbytlal Ill eponded the salt. "Why, I Was tecNrrolc wind blow all the paint off the but- word of propheey, for "the tesbirooniy Werke. It took four on us to '0111 of JeetiS is the 8pirit of preIlemel/ ' the captain's 'at on 'ig 'cad, mid (TOY. xis, 10), Py all Means) read often the book of Revelation, for it Is the only one of all the books that hos a vary Special blessing for the reactor and bearer (MN-, 1, ). --4.-„-- A. had Man 1$ naturally suspielotta of every .good man he Meet& SDKS PAID FOR JEWELS A ICING WHO SPENT 10,000,001) ON BUTTONS. Duehess of Marlborough Owns X'oarll;,0 Niecokoo le:oceo.Worth Twenty thousand dollars for e; drop-shapect pearl scarf -pin, $15,000 for a pearl Weld, $4,000 for a cone - fastener or white bouton pearl with gold bar, $800 for 001,011 1/1110.011$ 011 ROUX, aml $775 for a pair of brit - Dant sloeve-linke-theee are a few of the ;vices realizecf at tile reeent sale of a noble znarquie's jewellery, and they coine as a revelation to the average man who has to work twister ty years for the priee of a scarf -phi, sa.ys 3,011(1011 Ti t-lii Ls. Put, after all, everything is com- parative, and the marquis's gems, retro and costly though: they are, would have been quite eclipsed by Louis efiVes personal Jewellery, rho "Grand Monarque" had many 010110.5 but for buttons he earl a posieive -mania, In a single year, 1685, he squandered $600,000 on them, and some of 1145 purehases are well worth glancing at, On August 3.st, 1685, 11 bought two diamond buttons foe 67,866 fie, and seventy -Ilya diamond buttons for 586,703 fr, The buttons for a single vest cost, Lotes $200,- 000. Of the 354 "buf.tonnieres" used 3.69 contained five diamonds etteh, while the remainder WM single dia- monds. In all, 1110 "Great Mon- arch" is said to have spent $5,000,- 000 on buttons alone. Few things 010 111010 astonishing to thio se who cannot afford such extra- vagances as costly jewels than the enormous $111115 peid for pearls. The Duchess of Marlborough has among lior countless jewels a etring, two yards long, of perfectly matched, and at the same time almost matchless, pearls, once ttie property of Cather- ine of Russia. Some of tlio pearls, for which the whole world was ran- sacked, are half an Inch in diameter, and the value of the necklace ie esti- nutted at $1,000,000. Moro aston- isbing still WAS 1110 price paid some time age by M. Tavernier for a single pearl which was the property of an Arab merchant. M. 'Tavernier travelled to Afric•a in the liope of buying tire jewel for $125,000 at the outside; but before it became his property be had to hand over no less than $550,000. The pearl is the largest and most perfect in the world. The Shah is owner of a pearl valu- ed et $500,000; and another, worth $225,000, is in the casket of a Rus- sian Princess. The Countess Monate- el has many lovely jewels, led tho gem of them all is a triple necklace of pearls for which $950,000 was Pnid• One of the necklaces was pur- chased from n Spanish gentleman for e6113000; another once adornora -the neck of the Queen of Napies-r and the third, valued nes el60,000, was part of the Seto jewellery of tha Em- press,. Eugenio. The late ropress Fred'erick of Germany used to wear o penel necklaco. worth at least, ac- cording to experts, $950,000; and a few years ago another necklace, composed of eight rows of 412 poarle the property of the late Duchess of eeto,47.itiomose, was sold by auction for si Queen Alexandra, Lady Fee Stmt., ihe Duchess of Portland, and MTS. Colgate, who married the late Lord Strafford, are all poseamors of pearls the value of whice must run into tens or thousands of dollars; and Queen Margherita of Italy lias a most remarkable collection, numer- ous enough to make a rope at least 30 feet long, and each pearl perfect in shape, lustre, and matching. But, enormouf3ly valuable aft some pearls are, they must yield the palm of costliness to cilainonds. l'Or One of his Raney lisilllants the lea.jah of Mettan once refused an offer of $155,000, two war -ships fitlly equip- ped, and a. large quantityy of ammu- nition; the Hope diamond, an exquis- ite blue gem, is worth at least $100,- 000; 'the Empress Catherine paid Count Orloff $500,000 for the stone which is known tee his name; anti the Florentine .diemond, which was once sold by a C.3w1)ss pikeinan, who had found it 011 the battlefield of (Tran- som for a few coppers, • is worth $600,000; while the value or ot,bor bestoric stoneS, the Braganma-, Re- gent., leolei-N'oor, anti so on, range u pAst om$115er 008 8 , 00400. 00 lies been paid for an engagement ring -the ring given to Miss Fair by het. millionaire fiance. And a Wonderhil ring 11 is, with its eitigle diamond so large that its owner has to have a liole cut in elle Pilger of her blove when she WearS it. Mrs. Celia Wallace ie the prou11 owner of a necklace of black clitimonds, the frult, of eighteen. years' collection in all parts of tho world. The necklace is composed of fotirteen pendonts, hung on a flee pintintort chain. Vach pendant has It blaek diamond centre set around with a row of steel-Whila cliginonds. netwoen each pair of pendante is a siegle white brilliant "henging like a *seed 'dewdrop," while directly over the larger pendant is 0 nine - care t to Itidian ,flinmond for which alone Mrs, Wallace paid $0,• 1.101t9t00.110 .0f- the (Most and costliest. cTiamond ornaments in the world is that owned by the Claokwar of Beie oda-a magnificent collet: of 500 die-. mends, many as large as walnets, ner- ranged in five rows,, edged two rows of ortoemous elevate:E. From this detzelhes collar hangs es pend- ant the famous "Star • of 1 he South" diamond, the largest end purest stone .over found in Brazil, , a. 4-- 14illiam, Mary, John, lillivaboth, Thereat, George, :Sarah, James, Charles, lieney, Alice, Mut, 1 oaePh, ,Tarie, 1(11011, 14111113*, Annie, Freder- ick, Mergaret, lemma, Robert, Ar- thur, 41154011, Edward, These, itt the order give)), are the terost t'°11" 1111 Clirktion .14