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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1904-10-13, Page 6OF fill ME • A Call to Arms to Al! Who Are Eager for Spiritual Conciuest. Gentarce according to At of the Par- ENEMIES FROM WITHIN. Moneta to remote, ill tee year V10( Theueeed Neel Bemired nee Four, / find -11 , ..1 f d e. - by win Batty, of Pinnate, at the • a e t le ,or , Depertment of Agricenure, Ottawciel A despatch from Los Ang&es, Cale MSS:— Ii0V. Frank lie Witt Talmage preached front tho totem:lug tet: Iteveletion 111., 8, "I have set betore theo an upon dour, and eu man can &hut it.'' Months before an inveding ariny moves for llio subjugation tif a emus - try trained. military minds sttely its natural features and intuitively set- tle the strategic points which it is essential to capture and to hold und the course which the Vilri011S eOrFS must take to Cu -operate he the gen- eral scewme. Thue coming campaigns or the mili- tary lines of summer operations are planned for the most etart by the dif- ferent commanders of invading armies while thole armies are en- vollMed ia winter quarters. Therefore the question which at this season na- turally forces itself upon my mind Is this: "What is the goepol campaign ahead Of the Christian church for the ensuing ten months? I am a eaptnin in the army or Christ, }low ain I to lead my people? Where am 1 to go?" In the beginning of this win- ter's work I am exactly in too same position no the military leader of an invading: army who is about to break up winter quarters. Suannee is real- ly the time for winter quarters in a city church. When July comes limey of the Christian soldiees in a largo city paetarate hie themselves away to sea beach or to inountoin stroani for rest. Tbey are very tired from their winter's labor. lent by the time the middle of September Is here the schools are all opened and the members of the city congregations are back to their winter homes and are idling thew chtirdh pews. When they arrive and start out for gos- pel work the Christial eoldiers of each church nnturally expect to know the kind of a gospel campaign which is ahead. Christ is our groat commander. and as a captain under him I would here and now point out to you the 'nighty opportunities which are before us. I would sketch the line of campaign we as a. church are about to enter. And, furthermore, I not only want to show yott how we are to light, where we are to fight, but also to try to encourage you by reminding you, of the great agencies of our time which are going to help us in this coming year's struggle. The glorioas twentieth century is opening wide its doors to let tho church of the Lord Jesus Christ pass forth into elect's conflict, aided by scientific and social facilities that 110 other ago possessed. whereby eiteli man elm double and treble and quad- ruple the amount of work which his grandfather or his great-grandiathor was able to do, Tt is saying to us: "Man, if the length (11 your life is to be estimated by the amount of work you shall be able to accorn- plish I will let youlive longer than did Jacob, who died Of old age at one hundred and forty-seven, or 15000, who lived one hundred and eighty years, or Abrahoin, who lived to be one hundred and seventy-five years, or Noah, who lived to be 11 1110 hundred and ;iffy years, or Methu- selah, who only lacked thirty -olio years of being one thousand years old. I will let you live NO long that what your ancestore accomplished in the course of their lives will seem to be as nothing to what you shall bo able to accomplish." The twerdieth century speaks thus not to, one mon, but to all. AN INVENTIVE AGE, This inventive an has literally doubled rind cmadrupli,c1 and alntost infinitely multiplied the material pro- ducing power of man. Think of the fad/Ries of communication! eteuppos- Ito I wish to plead the cause of COrist with some friend clear across tho American continent. 1 sit down and on my appeal. In a few min- utes it is in the postman's hands. A little Otter it is In the mail wagon on its way to the deport. Soon it is in the mail crir guing et lightning ((peed over the inoentains and across the alknli deserts and across the riv- ers until it is dropped in the eastern home. It has taken only n few cfays for that message to reach its destin- ation in the east, and in a few clays longer an nnswer comes back to me that my appeal has been read, and under Cod's blessing it has teem made effectunl to the salvation of a soul. Tbink how many times such :In effort might be 111111 iplied and bete largely the facilition of rota- municntion might be milizcid for the eprocol of the gospel! I 0)111 to -day send0 letter from Californin to New York, 8.110 miles away, quicker then in the beginning of the loot cotteiry my New jersey 'investor mulct send a letter to his missionnry min lit Mg among, the Georgia plum 'Mat is one astounding fact, But. 11101,1110 inure money is in circulation to -any than over before and n pen- ny in olden times meant morn than it does note, 1 rem send my letter clear ! acmes the eontinont for 'Iwo penhies, While my greategreedfather had to pay 110111 0e101 0 to 60111 MS leiter of one skeet of paper only n few linplred It utttil to tole 0111' atto Mors (1(11111 1(110 hones In ride le the nearest church, Now the eliurch of our I.ord .lesus Christ 114 at almost aVerV street rooter, and 1 lie i ci us papers ere Sea 1.1 twine: (1101!' print a everywhere. grin 1. o-1111 y 1 tole quadrupled his opportsmitios of , 'life hosntise he eon necomplish four 1 timer, the wintitint of tvoek which his , atteeslora Wore able 10 do in Um tame time, splemlidly equipped mated:01y end temporarily Inc this winter's cam- paign agaiust sin. nut, more than then I iind that there IleVer 10118 it 0)1110 wima the gra t eve. ngel lea 1 churches wore so thoroughly in 1(0' 0(11 on the fundamental cloterinee of Christionity, In the pulpit and 10 the (1010 1 110Se 1100-11.11W4 are held lirtnly. intelligently and devoutly ruol Christ as the Saviour of the world has tie, whole soulod allegiance of his people, Before a general goes forth to invade an enemy's email ry it is very important for him lo know Gilt his own soldiers are loyal to his countre"s standards and are of I ono heart, one mind and onti our- , pose. When a Christian church goes forth into a winter's campaign agninst sin it is just tts important for its pastor to know that his peo- 'phi aro of one thought and one mind in referenee to the great cardinal !doctrines of the churth. A thousand enemies outside of a general's camp i!are not so dangerous a matinee as :one traitor inicide of the guerding sentiners lines. A thousand blatant inadels attacking the church of Jesus ; Christ in infidel convention hall or illy saloon counter are not so for- omidable as the so canoe freethinking liberal who is attacking the church of Cod as a membee of tbat church or as an ordained minister of that church. Now, for tho inost part, the chureh of the Lord Jesus Cheist has boon Purged of those members who do nn lielion in the great cardinal dootrines of the bible. It has been bold enough to Oay to such members, -It yoU do not believe in .1 4101(10 Christ as the Son of God, if you do not believe ln the cilicacy of his sacrifice, then yea had better transfer your allt,giance to some other church with whose erecel ?'on are in sympathy, for in this church the doctrines which you renu- (Hate are repo:de:I as the essence of Christirtnity." The greater part of the heretical teachere have accepted the advice. and, like the army of Gideon, the men who renwin are row- er 110 minim'', but are el one heart nnd one 111111d, Tho church of Christ throughout the land enters upon the wintees campaiga with unbroken front. all the stroineer for the elimin- ation of its half hearted members, THE DEST YEAR FOR A NEW START. But I take a step further in this mighty subject. We have a wonder- ful time in which we are to enter the comiag campaign for Christ. This is the youngest of the centuries, but in- to it aro gathered the ripe fruits ef the past, The thought and exper- ience of all the centuries that are gone have in these years come to fruition. It is the mighty move- ments end trials and struggles of Past generations which have made the present time possible, Frew the triumphs and failures of the past, from the wisdom and the mistaltes of our forefathers, we have learned lessons which should make us Mus- ters in the art of soul winning and successful leaders in the assault on the intrenclonents of sin, This is the very best year of all yoars to start in a gospel campaign for Christ. llut take another step further iti, this momentous subject, Ole have another campaign blessing in addi- tion to these two of which we have spoken. We have a. church With all Of its great lenders as well as thou- sands of members moved to hole entnrsimen by knowledge of the strength of the Satanic commies we are about to meet in combat. We know that ns the church of Christ. is strong the Satanic enemies Pro strong also, so strong that unless we go foeth to this battle with a fall endowment of the Holy Spirit 101 fight ns we ought to tight for Christ WC shall fail ignominiouely, as WO deserve to fail. Outside of lois own intrinsic: strength »othing brings out the hid- den prover of a general more than the realization that his enemy is strong and wily—an adVersary whose noWer it WOUld be folly tO underestimate, agaiest whom he must nmrshal Ids forces with all Ms skill and develop ' their lighting: qualities to the highest , efficiency, • When Goliath 'caw the ' puny form of David, who WaS to give him battle, the Pnillistine ioent laughed hint to scorn, He sneering- ly cried, "Am 7 a dog that thou comest to me with similes." That, contempt lost him the hotly. Not: so with DnOicl. Ilte weepous were those with which fie was familiar, , end he employee the skill developed by long experience in might end cruel and retentive's, and he nerved hie 1 strength for the unequal struggle, Ihe Orwell of Chriet is made reset-. lute by the knowledge that it is to meet n etrong erne& fee, We knew ; We mied fled Mad to win. And We also know that uelees like Davit, , the elieplierd tiny. We go forth in en - faltering faith in the divine re-on- forcement We Filial) Mil In the bottle. A stalwart foe always out I the beet that is in 11 worthy oppon- ent. eif:ST Me ALWAYS oN Mut the rhumb of Chrlit only craven hearted foes to fight it would become aS indili,r,mt to (non its wits toward that sneaking emeote, whores werst depredetions nre found in the 1,41rnyard nalong the dew) chickens. thiless :envying end in numbers, he never 'Mucks, n (1L)ong foe. TIM toedny the church of God lins no coWardly enemy. 7.ike Ininter stalking tho man Wing mow Mere of India or ,‘ Men, the church in and must be colitinuolly on its gunrd. As it goes forth into the etweiloe winter's eumpaign to do the beet it 00101 and with the help of the Italy Spirit to do all it can Tor Christ, the coneeiousness that Os Inc him made 1(110t0:4 unlimited prow - ors 11111 11101010 110 church et.rong and confident. But where is the gospel eampaign of thin ehurch during the (0 111 ter to lie fought? Wo have ttoLk- ct 1111(1)1 1-. tlw time. Wit het spoken about the 101e01et:8 of purpose and the divine strength in which wo are to 141 1(( the eoltilict. We now ripen]: aboltt tho geogeaphieel region in Whiell We aro (0 light. IVO 111,18t 11(1)1 0111' 0111100118 Plain Of 1.:StIri10101l and its 'Marathon pasn. America is to lie the geographical plain of gno- me maneuverings for the Alluvium thumb. It is the foreinnstnation in the world to-cley, and ite power mid influence wit: rapidly growing, ln energy, in wealth, in enterprise, it takes the load among the Do 10115 of tho world, ll it boldly thees its stand for Chriet nod doe:arcs thet the principles of Christ aro Its guide and that he is Dts supreme ruler the effect on the world will he over- whelming. An enormous step will Ilten a t ten towat conquest, of the whole world for him. I Olt, my friends, with such a glor- 1 10114 otelook for cow coining gospel callienign, should not the chereh of I di\ ideal churches go forth into this I winteenc campaign steong in God, strong in fnitto strong in holy 7,,al? For the most part 1 have been tall: - lug 11 bent how Goa is going to bless the groat American church as a whole Will ho bless oer own bit 11111101 churches ,to which we terve given our allogience cis he will lass other churches ? Yos, if we go' 11110 thin gospel conflict as we ought to AO. Are y011 and 1 willing hy (nit. own consecrated lives to let 0111. dear niche:Muni (1111rch, with its glor- ious past, take the position in the chureh army on the front licie of bat- tle whc:re she aught to stand? Re- menther, the open door which Cod opened for the Philippian church' wits not a doorway off in the distance, but neer at hand. And so the 0 pen door of gospel oppertnnity of our church is right nt hand. As :1)11- sec:retort, Holy Spirit inspired, earn- est Christian eburch members will you and 1 join to -day hi the foie ward maech for C.hrist. I would enlist you nee and all in this glorious war. Your trialS May be (006 0.11. your labor arduous, but in the encl victory is certnin, lt may be yours to share in the (1'! 111111)11, but if you perish in the struggle you will yet be able to soy : "I have fought to motel fight. Henceforth there is laki up for Inc a crown of righteousness." GHOST STORY PROWL INDIA. Truthfulness Vouched for by TWO Women and. a Man. Tho latest ghost story is recorded in The Friend of Burmalt and it is attested by several oye witnesses, who saw the ghost, 1101. Charing the night, OS is usually the case, but in ,broacl daylight. It happened in the Monyinzu (pewter of Pekokku. In that quattcr of the town liv0 a mar- ried 00111the the hushancrs name 18 ,Maung Yun and 1118 wife May Neain. They lutd a little son two years old, who, alter a serious illness, clied. The baby was buried in the cemetery out- side the town, his cradle serving as a collIn. 'rho !ether was very much dejected at the loss of his little one, and, Un- able to repress his geief, went to the cemetery two days after tho burial. It we's about 8 o'clock in the morn- ing, At the entrance of every Bur- mese burial place there is a eayat, of rest hoes', wherein people gather and chant, and smoke and take &totter from the Sell 01' roin whenever they accompany a funeral. On entering the graveyard afaung Yun was not a little surprise.] to see his son, or at least someone looking exactly like his son, pleving in tho covet, near the cradle. He WaS at first horror- strucn; but, paternal election getting the upper Ciand, he approached the babv, and to entice Wm gave him ono pice. The boy took the coin readily and offered not the leaet resistance when the ftther took him in his arms and carricd 11101 away. Mating 'S'iin could make nothing out, of It but that the child had been buried alive and that somebody, attracted soon after by the sounds coming feom the grave. had dug him out and placed him in the 7111'at. 101111 of joy, he carried his treasure home, At the entrance of the town, and about a call's distance front his house, ho met rt, neighbor, 111.61 Sete Pwln, who, wondering at what Cho saw, screamed Olt: "Is that you, No Yen, carrying Home your little son?" As soon as tho child heard the voice lie began moving about in Ws hither's eons Malt Sein lewin and nnother woman 001)10 to take it, and a ehort struggle ensiled between them out tile boy, and inetung Yen suddenly lost his senees and fell lion - oily to the ground. The two wo- men made a dash for the little one, hut, In! nowhere was ho to be found; he load disappeared completely, Mell- ing no trace behind. The onfortonate Inno was carried home by 501110, kindly neighbors, but 110 WEIS it long time in recovering his settees, 'rho ehild was n ghost, and the man hall bran cerrying nothing hut on apparition from the Other world. 'Mutt 11 nliPertred real enough tlo, 1 wo women are rreicly to swear, &nee they not mile' sute, but touched it. Tt wee lio ',make or vapor, but soonloct to he flesh and brine, An norm rut Thiene Yen was woll enough to ,x1,141111 how it liad 1111 Inn ponod, n Ince:rivet 0 bIt WeS mule 1,, the ceme- tery in the hope a 1erli,11,1 1.,,,,ing the boy in he vaynt . 11,1 t i .5 wet o dieetIllo1111 neTther child we: crndle Was 1110'. rind the grove 0: I.. 15 (is it Itati ht.tri loft nn hewed day, uot in the least disturbed, '(1 (30l'(1((, dear, you, remember that lovely sideboard that r told you I should like to buy hecauee it was NO cheap? Well, I've discovered ft plan io make room for it." T "IToW. my dear?" She --"By inning a larger beuse," tit"t444.1÷,1.1.44+,...„.44.41 f onie "Thq. 1,4 .1÷14.7.14414444.14.1,1.44.44.1.144 DOOIESTIC RECIPES, Sweet Cuctuelew pickle,—Ctioose 101 11"Si0Ci1 green cucumbers awl Pilt them in it Mine that will boar up 1111 ogg for three clue's, Then soak three days in cleat. cold water. To raven pounls of ettounlicee allow 11 tputries of vinegar and three pollute of oval' and one ounce each of cinnamon, ad - spice rout celery seed, Add a email piece of alum. Ifea1 the vieogar and tuini er the cecumbere. 1 hte three times and they aro reatly for use, Tomato elincemeal.-0110 peck of green tomutoes chopped fine, two peunds of raisIne seeded and dwe- lled; tWO pounde of brown 9000; juice and grated rind of two lemons, two tablespoonfuls of eillnll111011 11)1.1 two-thirds of to tablespoonful each of cloves and allspice, a tublespooaleil 01 6111 01111 ono pint of vinegar, Boil tho tomatoes, vinegar and sugar .1.11' three 11 011,rii, then add frith, and 911C. 00, Cook tWenlY minutes and cum Makes di -4101011S Ries 111 Winter. Crab -Apple tho fruit with water enough so it will show just, through the Truit. 'When soft pour in a jelly bag. Measure the juice, boil twenty minutes, add equal measure of sugar, boil 5 minutes, skim 01111 pour into glasses. Itub the residue in the jelly bag throueli a sieve, add two-thirds us much su- gar as there is pulp and cinnamon le taste. Cook tun minutes, stirring constantly anti you have a very foie quality of apple butter. A useful pie—Talte all pieces of meat left from any cold joints—the greater variety the botter—chop Lute- ly seits(ol with pepper, salt and a few bits of butter. Dredge the whole lightly with flour, line a We- ttish with short crust, fill it with minced meat, pour ovee some zooid ginvy, cover with a paste crust and bake for half an hour. 'J'o boil lish well.—To each two quart; of weter add a tablespooncul of suit and when the water is wenn put in the fish. The reason foe us- ing warm water is that boiling 100 - ter ceacks the skin and spoils the appearance of white fish. Salmon, on the contrary, needs boiling wat to set the color, :Boil .11Sh very ;ye- tly, allow from eight to tell minutes for sole, accomling to its thickness. When quite done, take it up, chola all the water of', slip carefully on to a hot dish, and garnish with parsley and lemon. Jugged Beefsteak is a useful dish, and in hot weather may Le seevoi cold, with a garnish of aspic idly and sated, Cut a piece of beefsteak into nice square pieces, roll these t11 seasened flour which herr herbs 1111 00.1 in it, add a little onion, a glass of red wine, pepper and salt to taste, a few peppercorns but no water. Put in o, jar, cover down tightly and set it i11 apan of hoiling water to stew till tender. IVIten done, color to a good brown, place the meat cm a '101. dial], add fried seasoning balls, and 501,70 with red currant jelly 10110,1 hot. Omni plum cake can bo mado quite inexpensively at this time of oettr, Cream, half a, pound of butter with eix ounces of caster sugar, nod told yolks of four eggs. Boat the whites to a stilt froth, Sift one pound of dried pastry flour, in which a tea- spoonful of baking -powder has been mixed into the butter, etc., then half a pound of picket' and cleaned Mr - rants, ditto sultanas, and a quarter of a pound of choppecl candied peel, Flavor all with a. little ground gin- ger and sonle cinnamon. Lastly cold tho beaten whites of eggs. Line a cake -tin with greased paper, put in the cake mixture, and bake four hours In a moderate oven, Necessary ingredients for an Do dian curry recipe—One pound of I ere or mutton, ono tablespoonful of mild curry powder, two ounces of bother, 0110 0111100 of green ginger, two small onions, two rod chillies, salt 'to taste. First melt the butter in a deep enamel pae, put in a few slims of 001011, when nice end brown take them out and put aside' then mixi the curry powder, the ginger, chillies' and 01110118, all ground to a nacte, Let this cook in the batter for ten minutes, stirring it constantly. Now add the moat, cut in. small Pieces and fry for ten 01. fifteen minutes. Pour over sufficient cold water to, Clover and let all remoter on a steady' fire till the meat Is quite tender, tho gravy thiekens and is rich looking. When serving scatter the sliced onion on the top oetri hand a dish of boiled rice with the curry, A CTIlAI1That ON PICKLES, Mustard Pickles. --One guart or small whole cucumbers, large cucum- bers sliced and small button 011)005: ono large cauliflower'. divided awl four green peppers cut fine,. Make a brine of four quarts of water encl oue pint of salt. Ptiur it owe the mix- ture of vegelablee and let etime twenty-four hours, 'Teat just ormilieh to scald it, and tern into ti eoluinter to dram. ARO ono cup ot flour, sig tablespoonfuls of ground mostord tool a tablespoonful of tumeric with enough cold vinegar to mane emooth paste; add ono mot sugar and suffi- cient vinegar to make two quarts in all. Boil this mixture until it thic- kens and is smooth, stirring con- stantly, Then add the vegetoblee and cook until well heated through, Celery Pickle.—Ono &wen heads of celery cut fine; one-quarter poend of Mustard Peed; one-quarter pound groend mustard; two tablespocnifels ealte throe (i)1tone cet fine; ono 1.11,1,1- 131'! (1111111 retold pepper; one leble- V1,001110 cUrry powder; one-han I ;it spoonful tilmoric; two mile eme two rmarte eider vineger, Mix alt the dry ingrorlictifs with a httle eold vint,gar, nail to 111, renotholer of the obit:ger, then add eldons 4,011 celery nrel Shateer 0110 hMlr. Mixed rickles.--One 11a11 pound mestard; ono -quarter polled 0010- 5t412'cb; 0110 out a half telncee tuaistee le; ono ounce Lelia curvy powchr; one-quurter cayenne pepper; two gal- lons vinegar. Mix all ingeo..ients together with a little of the cold vinegar and stir into the remaining 11011ing vinegar, tctirring and cooking half an hour; pow over tho pichruA. HINTS TO IMIISICKEEPERS, Brass that has been Very 11111)111 ethined and discolored may he eostly brighteneo hy the use of oxide) odd ansl chantols. Slight ecoreh 11111rliS 01111 be tahon out by exposure to strong sunlight alone, When the scorch has Pene- trated to the wrong side, it may ( 1- te11 he removed by onion juice ope plied in illie manlier : Slice awl equeeze tee juice of two onionet nov with half an ounce of shaved while soap, two ounces of fullers' ow th atpi a half pint of vinegar. Boil this and spread iL over the scorched place. Leave till the stain is re- moved, then wash out. h. delicious vegetable scrup is made , by cooking lima beans with the tin- iest speays of ounion, adding 1 1,11 mills and a bit. of Mittel., passing. through EL (11000 and thickening with a very little flout, Whereas the prettiest ancl most np- propriato dress for a. bed is un- doubtedly white, there are occasions 011 Which it 15 desirable 10 1180 801/141 - flung that clues not soil so easily, Nothing is better for the purimeo than a pretty cretonne. The sprawl May be simply hennned and large enough to just 0:4001)e the floor, un- less a flounce is used, in which ease it should come just a little below the lop of that. If a flounce is weer' it, may be gathered or pleated and should be sewed to a picots of cheap unbleached muslin covering 1110 spring. The fIcrunce is divided at the corners and put behind the posts. Simms aln 011t2 Of fashion, and in- stead the berl is dressed for day 11130 with the hatel, long, round holnter which lins come clown to us liege. Louis Ilts time, and which is covered to match the spread. A BREAD -STARTER. 13011 two medium sized potatoes, 1110,111 fine, add two rounding table- spoonfuls of flour, a large spootonl of salt and one half cup 01 sugne stir all together, to proveut lumps In tho flour. Now scald with the potato water: mid about three quarts of water (have R. just nicely warm), break in a fresh yeast olio': and leave till morning, when it mill be all foamy on top Now SELVO Out a pint to start with next time. Stir in flour enough to mottle into a large loaf, knead for one-half hour and let rise, knead :town agEdn, let rise and mould into loavee. About the third baking the brond will ho just fine. Save out the start- er every time and do not use any yeast, as the starter takes its Weer. Keep the starter In El Cool place, DON'T WHINE. "If there is anything I hate it, is a whining W0111011." Said 0 physician who is cheeriness itself. The major- ity of people are 01 1110 opinion; no- body likes ono who goee grortnieg through life. IVomen who would scorn being beggars for money or for food go from place to place—lieggaes for sympathy. They Pon as Mar- tyrs, and feel aggrieve1 if they do not receive the sympathetic nttentioo which they fancy is their due. 11 you cannot be happy matte op Your mind at tenet to be cheerfully unhappy. Whatever your circum- stances or your condition, don't be a, baby. Don't 00111110. A TERRII3LE PREDICAMENT. He was in doubt. He didn't know whether he should be angry ur pleas- ed, and a great deal depended upon it. They were sitting 011 tho sofa to- gether, and once, when the conversa- tion seemed to drag a little, he had suggested: "Don't you think it rather close to -night?" "It might be closer," she replied. It was n: terrible predicament in which to pinee a nom who Was nnxi, otts to Make the best of his oppor- tunities. Sheuld ho take ncl,vantage of whet seemed to be an invitation to get a little nenror to her, or should he be angry at being termed ntt "It"? THODGITIT DE WAS SAFE. A smart youngster ttirned up at sohool the °titter mooting with his face boend up, and all the evidence of a bad attack of toothache. Perhaps the teacher knew Ills boy, for he wasted no time in exproseion of sympathy. "Whore wore you yesterday, John - he demanded. John mutely pointed to hie band- aged Ince, but the questioner was merciless. "Dici you hear me? Where Were you yesterday?" lie repeated. "Hunting," blurted Johnny. "Inclood," ejncolated the teacher. "So you played trtjant in order to go hunting, and so contracteef tooth- ache?" Jolinoy Watt silent for El, 111011101A, and then, perhaps under tho impres- sion that he couldn't very well make it:letters worse, ho candidly replied: "I contracted nothine sir, littt. thought If I tied up, my head yo'd be axing no questions, ' —s. Comisel—"Po you drink?" le'itness —"Well, that clope0018 whet you call cleinlc," Counsel—"I call drink 'drink': what oleo do you expect?" Witness—"Well, in that eatiO 1do t'ounsel—"Ilo you drink hoaoilye" Wiletess—"Well, that eguin Is n. question ae to what you call hen:0y." Counsel—"Do yola ev- er tako more than hi good for you?" ' ,n 111 are sat, 5 - fled," Counrcel—"Ooes that, take loner Witness--"elo," Couneel— "Do you oldie Ittke leo Ennehr WI 1- (15'114'-''N0', unleee yoti CO/Udder rele 00111:11111„nr(s.fai nt6,1(1,(0.1111B; t;,1,./rti,e,,orinTiyt,ciocr:nnlItitg71010411117:1,11pic,111/11,11:17. ing of Mtn/dee Ling Meows." Wilmette —"Oh, 1niri a thatotalcrl" THE S. S. LESSO INTEIOTATIONAL 1,2SSON, OCT, 16. Text of the Lesson, II, Kings itr„ 26-37. Golden Text, Itom, vi., 23. AL least ton tlines in 1.1116 ehaptee wo have the mime "man of God" ap- plied to Jelisha. in I, Ringo Mile it in used at least fourteen (Imes in reference to ono Whose motto We know not. D. le applied to Mosee old to others and to my mina Is a title much tO be coveted, or, rather, /1 thing much to be desleett—Lo be wholly foe ChM, ln communion with 111111 111waYe. set apnet for Ilimeelf, all Ills for 1111) pleasure, bearing Ills voice only tool doin(1 1116 wile His messenger with His message. As Ellsbn passed: to and fro through Shuman 0, woman of wealth suggested to her husband thni. they should prepare a room in their house for this holy 1111111 of Ood, who coil- tintintly priseed by them, that he might feel at liberty to turn in thi- ther 11 often ns 110 chose, OBI"; they did nun furnisbed it with a bed, n -table, a seat nnci a c.endlo-stick, and the man of Cod was wont to rest himself there. Whet n contras1 even thee, to am, mind, liumble room and scanty farniture to the stable where our Lord was horn or -to the Met that. Tic. (diem liad not where to lay Ilis head. Elisha would fain recomper.se her for her kind care of him and a81(0:1 her whet, he ehould do for her, but, her reply was to the effect that she net:elect nothing. della& having called F,lisha's attention to the fact that she had no c111111, Ensile assured her that in due time God would give her a son, and so it ceme to p10115, if It was supernatural, something like tho giving of 'Isaac to Sarah and Abraham; a real gift, front God., though in a natural way 'rimy had brightenecl Elisha's life by this rest chamber, and now God Meghtened their lives and home with this clear child, whom Ito spared to them till lie was old enough to go teeth his father to the field, and then sodden- ly God took him. Ms mother hied his little body on the bed of the nom of Clod, shut the door and hurried as fast as she could to Mount Carmel to lelisha. The OtOpllet, 0011011 lie 1101' com- ing, sent Chino& lo meet her and tO inquire if it was well with herself and her husband end the chil(1. Iler rePlY WAS, "It is well." Yet ehe pressed on to lelisha and 110111 him by tile feet, and when (I1Ia0.1 would have thrust her awny forbade him, saying, -Let her nlone, for her soul is vexed within Her, and the Lord liath not told nue" Then she poured ou1 her soul in these words: "Did I desire a son of my Lord? Did I not Say, MO 110t deCeiVe Me?' " Elishrt, seeing that the child WEIS dead, sent flehazi with his thilisho's) staff to lay it on the face of 1111, child, but the mother said to 111111 118 he had salt' to Elijah, "As the Lord liveth and ne thy soul liveth I will not 10a00 (line" (Veto° 110). As in the case of the poor widow, here is a real heart ftlt nem! and desire with the eonsciousness of utter helplessness, Oh, for 11101.0 of it, and of this desperate clinging with 0 peesistence the': tokes no de- nial, the persietence of Jacob, of Ruth, of Ittni, oI Elishn and of this woman! See also our Lord's own encouragement to be persistent in Luke xi, 8, 9; Isa. Ixit, 6, 7. Mishit heects the heart cry of dis- tress and Mistime to the chamber where he had often been. refresimil, and he went in end shut the door upon 1,110111 twain and prayed unto Lord (verse 83). Svc again the shut door, the secret of 111Is p108- 005(1, alone with God. Ott, the pow- er and the 'blessedness of IL! And 111, is the privilege of every believer. Now see the httenee personal desire of Eliehin Like Elijah ho stretched !limed!' opon the child (verse 84; I Kings :cent 21).His mouth and (1011018 alld 0508 11)0 111i011 t1108e Of the 111)11(1, suggesting, as Mr. Spur- geon used to gay, that to hring to a child dead in Sim or to any ono, WO meet come into the closest Possible personal contact, seeing as they see and speaking of things as they would, ret 'that from what thee: already see and know We may lead on to what they as yet neither see or know. Mishit stretched himself up- on the child, and Cod sent the spirit back to the little body, 111101 soon he WEIS again in his mother's arms, and elle WaS 01100 more 10 happy 660- 111E111, She lcnew 'Rim as the givee of life, bat note she knows Dim as one who yen give'llio hem the dead, id; ow to whom nothing: is impossible. Al- though Paul knew Min so 1115 prayer 00118 "that, .r may know Ilim, and the power of His re8111'reel1011 And the fellowship of Ms sufferhigs" (Phil, 311, 1(1), end Peter ends his second epistle with these wordS 'Orow in grace and in the knowledge et 0111' TAM nod Saviour ;Jesus Christ." Our Lei& IlimEelf tells tie that to know Cod 15 life eternal (Jelni xvii, 8). Out' 11111 '0,11 1.111 Dinle class motto 15, "TO know Itiin and to nutlet 111111 hilown," and We greatly rejoice in the fellowship or uii who earneetly desire to be whole hearted for Him. 'rwo other intrados tire reunited ill this chapter whiell (4o(I 101011511 1 throtigh this man of Cod—the healing of the poisoned pottage and the multiplying of The twenty loaves, To give life, or restore life, or suatain 1110 is equally easy to Dim, and Me alone con do it, :111 Mtn We live nntl move mid haVe our being, 011, to know and to (rest Him so ne to bo tolocl by Him to the Utmost! The lowd grant tis power with Himself Hoch all Ellielta. loul for 1Tis gloey, that We may Make Trim WWII—men and Wonme of God kept wholly for llimsolf that Ile Moy be glorified, —4 mafghboro nO WI arretteur core riet player halia 110 .11fi11 101the herrn, or ploatyt A RE MARIAM, E TIMEPIECE THRnE atT1TDRE35 0L3:1 .A111) .A. Clock Which Was Telling t10 Time 'o Day Before Crom- well Was Born. Wo learn from ilia lerencit news, papers that muting many Interesting older 1)! acquired by the State from the late Princess Mathilde'e collec- tion is wonderful alarm -clock which Wilfi 01100 1110 pride of the groat Na- polcon, and which rod. only tolls the day of the month and year, the mean solar time, and the phases of the moon. but sounds ovary quarter of ..and is nrovided with a ther- tniltitit°ettiol; Pow things are more surprising than tho skill of past generations of clockteakers, who not only made tiumpleves of tho most complicated character, but of intelt excellent work- manship that they 800111 almost made fur all thne. There 15 at Castletocvn In the Isle of Man, a clock which oots telling Manxinen the. time o' clay before Oliver Cromwell WAS CraCliedi find which might, have listened to an eccount of the Armerla, front the lips of moil who had seen the Spanish galleons; and this very clock, which. Queen Doss liereelf presented to Cas- tle Rushon 1107 years ago, is mark- ing Gino just as canselentiously for King ledward'e subjects the tWell- ti et 11 Malta ry. At the South Kensington Museum nnyone who chooses may 800 to -day the very elook which Peter Lightfoot mole for Glastonbory Abbey about 1 325, when jolut WyclifTe wns in his cradle: and another clock \Obeli was Melting Inerrily in Dover Castle In 1848, t,wo years after Crecy was fought. in 1876 this clock was go- ing as monothly as it did more than FIVE CENTURIES BET011ie; while the Society of Antiquaries has O portable clock 11111E10 nt Prngue 08 long as 11125, 114 tho town of Schramberg, 111 the Mack newt, there is an alarm- elack which Warned SleeperS it. was time to get im when Charles 11. was :King of lengland—it was made in 1080, roul is an ingenious piece of workmanship. ro rorm It reeombles a lantern in which is a lighted candle, the wick of which is ate oinntically clipped eVery minute by a pale of SCISSOVS. 'PILO earldle is slowly pushed ((weave by a spring, whicli. also con- trols the mechanism of the clock; and at the required haur of waking nn alarm Is sounded, and at tho same time the movable sides of the len- ient hill and the room is flooded with light. A pendulum clock made in 1622, and once.ewned by Cromwell, is pre- sorted to -day in tha Philadelphia 1,1billl7t and another, imulc in Ger- many in [01(0, was recently doctored by a Connecticut clockmaker, a»ct 19 nOW running for SIX MONTHS AT A I'DVIE without windiee. As long ago as 11675 a project, wns on foot for mak- ing n clock for St. Paul's Cathedral AVaS to go o. whole century without winding up, end was to cost $20,000. Tho seheme, however, prov- ed a little ton allIbitiOtia; for the 10" 81111)1.111 clock cost only 81,500, nnd declined to run more then eight days without .11 11011110n. It is interesting In connection with St. Paul's to note that ns Iong ago ELS 1 286 the cathed - red boasted a wheal -clock, the firet IN(in3110118027t.10'1s80011110111111401and. Ihod an navel:- tisement of a cloak which was war- rented to go for a year without wincling—a fent which is claimed for certain clocks advertised in England to -clay. A similar timepiece to the rine advertised in the Theme is to be seen in William ITI.'s bedeoom at Hampton Court. As n further illus- tration of the truth tlint there memo to be nothing horologically new un- der tho son, it is but a few years since bracelet watches first E,xcited the wonder and admivation of Eng- lishwomen, who scarcely could hove been aware that 1410 Illtl THAN 800 YEARS 1000 Lord I,eicester placed an almost ex- actly similar bracelet-wa Leh ; on Queen Elizabeth's wrist, In those old tittles, however, there is no record of clocks constructed from ouch strroige innterints ai some wo have read of within recent yeaes. It is not long since a native of Milun made a clock entirely of bread. Ho Was a poor man, end every day for three years he set bpart a portion 01 mu daily bread, which, by a process of which he woeld not divulge the se- eret, he was able to make as hard rdi metal aod insoluble in Wolff; and from these fragments of bread be con- structed his clock. Move ingenious still is a M. Le Bodied. of floutrowes, who seems able to make c1o01(5 from any material, however seemingly unsuiletble. (Inc clock ho fashioned entirely front old newspapees converted into pulp; an- other from large and small stielts held together Teti wires; a third from cliecarded lobed:co-tins. and so on. Some of his cloelts, however, are 11.1 - uncials of artiste,: worlonanehip-e est/et:filth one which is made entirely of got d W 1 (ti dianiond-tippeci hands and' dial -figures of rubies, garnets, pearls, opals, end eineralds.--London Ti JAPAN /41(11 1 SST& There can bo no doubt that. the $lieceNfieS thn attraTIOSn haVe had aro attributable to 1.11011: remarkable ad- vance in seientifie accompllehmenta, their astounding pereortn1 Iwnvory, and the high 511611(111 '11 of intellectual ettlture among the people et Inrge, ,Iapan tine a population of 10 (!111),- 000, the 'Russian Empire Moto then 14,0(00,000, 11114, in ;7orin 1,11112,- 1328 chlhlren (Wend f4e11001, 111 1111811111, °My 4,1 08,504, The cliftelonve Mill greater all regal:de 1,1t1 'higher ridliandinnal entehl 1141,1111111111] in Japan. compared whh Itorada. hi 0