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The Brussels Post, 1903-2-19, Page 6CARPING ELDEk ROTI1ER Ready to Take Every Advantage Over His Fellow Men. Watered meets:hag to ,eaft 01Ule raness without 000 110011 of human kindness 18101180 hame"110 Yen.r, -7,7" in y011 hearu m t. You be•so 11101, 1'1 WO dithered end lima. by Wen. /Sally, in Toren.), at tee Mess in your dealings with man - 'Department ot egricesture. Mtn."' 1/.11111 Oa you will not stop for one moment to consider the sad causes A despateh from Chicago gas's: , which led your friends into sin. or in - Rev, Frank De It Ta101,10 to financial difficulty. And, elder ed from the following text: Luke 'brother, if your faults are mean- xv, 28, "And he was 11,110:0Y. COSS and 11Vol'i00, though you may Who was the prodigal's bre- have never violated the criminal tiler? "I know who he 18, an' code of your state, sou 0.041 at heart SWQrs some one. "I see him. ,11101r„8,1 a sinful mn oster, financial tz,,rant; every d113 of 103' lire. "e you aro at heart a merciless collets - honest. upright son who etaye 111 niator. Clod despises your mire - home OW1 gets no credit for tieing pentt,d sins just as much as he de - good; he is the respectable t-ludder epises the sins of of of the .10, the prodigal in the the family who does most country. hard work in the Mike, in the store and on the farm and then has the A DESPICABLE SMUT. extreme pleasure of seeing all the young girls run after his dissolute younger brother merely because. that brother is driving fast horses and sowing his 'wild oats.' 'the older brother is the sou who is always will crowd mhim out of some room sober 0.0111. yet receives it:, eat one which rightfully belongs to him, extra dollar from Ids parents as a Ha Ile sys to himself: -Thm oas that inwerd, while the drunken son of drunken loafer -of bey. tie hos the family is continually receiving taken his one-half of the propertY; extra money to get hls clothes out give part of my righteul Inheritance of pawns so that he may have an- now he is coming back to eat up -other start in life. The elder is the part ef my half, I know that fa wh- *good bey' upon om m the other thee is so kind-hearted that he will depends to help give his sisters new to this lazy spendthrift, this boon dresses for the winter parties, yot companion of dissolute charaeters. he nevor has a party given for him. lf he has spent his all, thee let him Be never had a fatted calf killed starve. That is just what he &- that he might entertain his friends, servos. He has no right coming though for years he has cared for back, to lie a vanipire upon my pro - the cattle by day and has seen that perty," So the selfish elder brothers they were properly milked at night. in many of our large churches refuse He is the 'good boy' who never had to let the prodigals come among . a fine ring put on his finger. Tate them and will not allow them to be toles laugbed at Mk horny lingers, received as equals in their Father's which W000 1400110d from handling house. They seem to think that tho! the plow and wielding the hoe and advent of the poor and outcast I the ax. His feet wero nr mils- eveoeans their own socinl extinction ured for dancing slippers because his and theft spiritual debasement. sandals were always soiled and dirt Where can the despicable, pharis- begrimed. Re *as 01101130 working aical spirit of tho elder brother be in the fields. The drunkards, the found more conspicuous thee in profligates, the midnight carousers, some of your modern Sunday school the libertines 111113 the associates of classes? "Oh," say the well dressed lewd companions are the ones 101)0,210101g girls of that class, "you are when they reform have the smiles not going to put that poor girl in and the dancing parties given to our class. Why, 11 will ruin the them, not tbe elder brothers who whole class! You can't expect the have never done any wrong." daughters of millionefres to associ- TWO KINDS OF FAIWTS. ate with sewing girls even in a Sun- day school." Where can you find a But neither of the brothers is p01' -m s ore despicable, pharisaical spirit , than in the 1111.881011110V life of some of our large city churches? There are ma any large nd wealthy churches The elder brother thinks that bis Divine Father's house is not big en- mesh to hold two sons. Be feels that if his brother is allowed to come back the returniug prodigal trayed as an example. Both were bad, though in different ways. We easily see the faults of the younger brother; they were open and scan- that are supporting missions in the dalous; but tho faults of the elder foul slums of the city, yet whose brother, being decorously covered tip members would not for one instant by dutiful conduct, ad: not so easily allow the poor to sit in their own recognized. 1.n estimating character pews or kneel at their communion on God's lines we have to ask not only what a man has done. but what he is. :Weariless and unbrotherliness and cruelty he the heart deface a man's character as indelibly as open iniquity. They ntake men, as Christ said, like "wbited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful out- ward, but are within full of (lead moll's bones and of all uncleanness." Therefore I place my chief emphasis upon tho sinful life of the elder bro- ther, to show that the so-called re- spectable sins of self righteousness are of all sins the most to be dread- ed and that it is the duty of the preacher to warn his hearers against them. The elder brother is the modern Pharisee, who thanks God that Ile is not as other men. He complac- costly looks upon the drunkard and the social outcast and the pauper and says to his friends: "Just look at me. I never had any ono., ad- vantages than those people have had. I was of a highstrung, impe- tuous nature, yet X never would let my evil desires get the better of nte. I have never been drunk. I have never run up a bill I was unable to pay. I never was a frequenter of the clubs, nor a convivial associate of midnight carousers, indeed, to be frank with you, X have just about as good opinion of my moral attain- ments as Prince Bismarck had of his skill in statesmanship. When some one asked the Iron Chancellor who he thought was the brainiest statesman in all Europe, Bismarck replied: 'Modesty forbids my stat- ing who is the brainiest, because Ilion I might have to mention my otvn name. But I am perfectly will- ing to state that Benjamin Disraeli is without doubt the second ablest statesman in ' all Europe,' Other saints," remarks the pharisaical elder brother, "fluty be my equal in moral attainments, but I am sure there is no superior in all the world to my humble self." A DEFECT IN CHARACTER. Elder brothers, you have no ground for pride if the restraint that has kept you from prodigality is itself a defect of ohmmeter. It, is true that you have not gone off as a prodigal into a far country. You have not given a midnight banquet and started your young friends on the path to a drutkard's grave by teaching them how to bury their lips in the red p01500 of the wine cup. You have been too stingy for that; yott may have been so mean and stingy that that there 18 no fear that 30011 would drink a glass of wine or smoke a cigar unless sonic one else paid for it. It is not prin.- eiple that saves some num from go- ing to destruction by tho broad highway of dissolutenesS, but pe- nuriousness. They hold on to every dollar they have and are too stingy to spend a cent. They keep their Money as long as they can and nev- er give a cent to a, friene 'Unless Uiey Make that friend give them a first class security a»d 'my full in- terest. But, my so called rest/eata- ble and upright pharisaical friend, though you are not a prodigal, you ina,v be a usurer, an extortioner istid a slanderer. You may be a robber of the poor widow's Mite and a Contemptible tyrant in your deelinge With ,yotir debtors and your entriloyee. , You may be a peddler of evil repoeti and a, nanalerer 01 your neighbor's reputation, You May 110 0110 of thee° keen, cold anteinatolle tables. And, mark you, this phar- isaical spirit of old is not only found among the rich, but also among the poor. THE TWO SONS, The elder brother never longs to satisfy the divine craving's of his father's love. I have no sympathy with some of the excuses that are made for that prodigal son. I have no sympathy with those who de- clare that young Jaen are led astray into the far country of sin beectuee they have generous intpulsee and abnormal affections and therefore cannot sus/ no to the tempter. That prodigal was an ingrate, every way you take him. lie was a selfish, contemptible, dissolute rake. No man is large hearted who will take a friend to a saloon or open a bottle of 101110 at a club when in order to do it he makes his 01011 C1111411'011 go hungry and dress in rags, blo gen- erous hearted young man will go into the far country of sin and reck- lessly squander his money when at the some time he knows that his old father is weeping ot home, with his eyes a fountain of tears ; but, though that younger son VMS a sel- fish, despicable chaxacter, the elder was just as despicable. When the elder brother hefted the. music which signaled the parental joy over the repentant prodigal's return ; 'when he saw the eyes of his father glisten- ing with love and his cheeks flush- ing with a holy thankfulness, he would have rejoiced for his father's sake lf ho had not been selfish and would not have tried to stab the old man to the heart, Did he not say in effect 1 "Yes, we shall drive that dissolute debauchoe back to his swine trough. Then wo can have the pleasure of seeing fathee again restlessly pacing the floor through the long, weary hours of the night." Did Ite riot Want to hear that dear, old, gentle, forgiving father again moan 0V00 his wayward boy as David mourned over his dead son Absalom ? If that elder brother had been the right kind of a son, he would have seen what joy None into the father's heart at the return of his repentant 1400. VO WOUld havo innnediately said ; "What difference does money make if 1 can only. make father happy ? Away with the question of dollars and cents if my brother's re- turn is only a true return." So ev- ery Christian to -day, 1( 110 is the right kind of 0 Christian, does not think about the social condition of his repentant fellow man. Ile im- mediately says, 'When the publican bows at the mercy aeat ; "Oh, the look of teluMpliant love tvhich is upon My Divine Father's face. Oh, the celestial rnusio which in great tidal waves of sound is rolling through the golden boulevards of tho New Joeusalexa. Oh, the angelic voices in 'heaven which are every - whore shouting the glad tidings 'The prodigal has returned to his rather's houso 1' " There ought to be joy on earth aS Well ae joy in heave)) over one sinner that re- penteth. There ought to be the same joy Which the good shepherd felt when he found his nheep that was lost ; the same joy which the once 'Tattle wife experienced When she recovered the lost piece of silver, 10111011 11/00 pert of her wedding clotvry, THE LA.CIC Or FAITH. The elder brother's conduct also shows 1.1 11101c of faith in his father, lie refuses to believe that his Di- vine leather's love is powerful en- ough to change a sinner into n saint, Infidelity often intrenehes R- eel( in the jam aud behind. the church pulpit. Nome church mem- bers, and some miuisters of the gos- pel, are only theorizing whe11 they profess to believe that jesus Christ can pardon ein, They profess to be, that Christ ran transform the secen deviled Marys into the Marys who ere willing to sit at lds feet and worthip, but these skeptical elder brothers go forth into tile great, wide, sinful world and by their practical behavior scatter thole ideal spiritual theories te, the four Winds. When the reformed drunkned mines home, they cry out : "What is the good of letting that unprincipled lower into the house ? He is just like other drunkards. He is ouly repenting for a little while so that he limy get some money out of us and ge forth on another spree. Driest him out at once, Let him go 1,1 the poorholise, where he belongs," When the young girl who has led a dissolute life wants to lead a pure life, instead of finding the willing arms of iorgiveneem held out to her by her elder sisters she !Inds only the shut doors of a contemptuoue rebuke. Why 3 Because the cynical elder sisters do not believe diet a prodigal woman with a black past can ever, even by divine power, be changed info a sainted woman with O spotless future. The criminal has vowed his penitentiary term and is libernted from the stone cell. Is the great world at large ready to for- give him and receive him back into honorable employment it he repents? 011, no ! The elder brothers and elder sisters are so bitter agaiust the ex -convicts that many ri repent- ant one has deliberately returned to his crimes because he could earn a living in 110 other way. THF: FATTIER'S FORGIVENESS.' The other day a person asked me what I considered the most beauti- ful sentence in the parable. This was my answer : "It is not to be found in the good father's dealings with the younger, but with the elder son. When the servant came in and told the good father that his elder boy was acting unfilially and unbrotherly, the father did not lose his patience. Ile did not send a peremptory command to his elder son to come to him. at 01100, as ho had a right to do, but,. 118 a ser- vant, he left the banquet Indl. Ile went out into the darkness of the night and placed his arm gently about his sinful elder son's neck, as he answered in a, pleading, yearn- ing voice, "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.' That is as much as to say boy, my dear boy, I am not trying to do you any injustice. I shall not take away any of youc inheritance. All that I have is yours. What X long ler is for the love and the purity- of my- children. I want my two boys to be always by my side, Come, my child ; come back to your father's love. Come back into the old homestead which I have prepared for you.' " Oh, that answer to me is beautiful 1 That answer is the sweetest, gentlest., most loving and yet most plea,ding rebuke ever sTeken by the lips of any Of the characters of the Bible. That is Christ love pleading for you and for 0110 to come Into the Father's house and nestle es a lamb in his 1)050111. , But, after all, tate most Impressive part of the elder brother's history is the abrupt way in'which the par- able ends. There no doubt the younger son was foegiven. No doubt the repentant prodigal was able to enjoy the rest anti the home plea- sures of the father's house. But how about that cynical, self satis- fied and complaining elder brother ? Did, he ask forgiveness of his father? Did he go into the banquet where the feast was being eelebrated 3 I do not know. I cannot tell. The parable ends with the earnest plea of the father. We must take the rest as we will, Personally I have my doubts about the ,ealvation of that elder brother, It is sometimes far easier for the sinner down in the slums to come to Christ than for the rich son living in a luxurious palace. A London missionary was ow night called up to go -to a dying girl, This wayward chilat the time was living in a dissolute house. When the missionary entered the room, he found a sinful sister hold- ing in her arms the head of the dy- ing girl, and slut was saying niejt is all right, Put your love and trust in Jesus. Ile died for just such sinful girls as we are. Jennie, put your faith in Jesus Christ." -Yes, we can all feel that Christ died for the prodigal son, but 11 'is awfully bard for 800110 of the sinful elder brothers and sisters to feel that it was necessary for Josue Christ to die for them and their sins. My elder brother in sin, are you going to Stay out of your Father'e house 9 Aro you going to refuse to put your faith in Christ and come into the marriage banquet of the Lamb ? AWKWARDLY F,XCRESSED, She IVENS a 1 ELMO 100011011 and not what you would call handsome, but then she tvas on heiress. Still, the des15,ning youth might have been more diplomatic, "Miss Tubbs," he 5a113, Wheli Ile thought it wail about time to bring matters to a. boad—"Saralt — for months: past my thoughts lend aspir- ations have been centered on one great objeet—" She smiled Mtrouragingly, "Miss Tobbs — Sarah — need t say IL? You are that great °Weal" 13101" And a (ow Is Inter the would-be -suitor crept dejectedly from the 1101100. 0e0oeseo0o0etiltheeeetepeee Oev FOR THE HOME & Recipes for the Kitchen. W o 0 Hygiene and Other Netee to. 0 for the Housekeeper,• 11 64/ ae/1/({1 1/00000080000061000 TESTED Barley Soup. — The two follow- ing soup reelpes ore especially recent - Mended for the sick room; Take one pint of slightly salted boiling wade' and into this stir (slowly) about two-thirds of an oven capful of barley flakes, or enough to make thick 1101511 when it is swollen. Stir constently and cook until the large bubbles have ceased to burst. Theo set the boiler (wee boiling wa- ter and cook e lialf-hour. Turn it into a bowl, smooth off tho top and pour over it a little col(1 water to prevent the formation of a crust. When the patient is ready for 0 por- tion smooth It in cold it is desirable to have it very fine—sift it. Then thin it to the desired consist - envy with hot milk, or cream, and add a pinch of salt. in this way a small portioa of gruel 111030 be pre- pared quickly tine often. Enough of the mush for one day only should be cooked at one time. This soup has been given with satisfactory results in severe eases of dysentery. It is also soothing and nourishing. Muttoa Juice.—Cut 011e, pound of raw mutton, from the leg, into thin shavings told carefully remove all the fat, Spread 1110 slices, close to- gether, on a long fine piece of clean cheesecloth; sprinkle with fine salt, roll up the cluth Lightly and tie it. Then place it in a meat press or be- tween heavy weights and thus squeeze 001 all the juice. Servo with broken ice, or heat it slightly and serve without straining, A Simple Nourishing, Dieh,-13read and milk, and crackers and milk, are classed as very simple dishes; yet, nevertheless, these do not agree with all people. Those who cannot eat them without an uncomfortable sen- sation o'f fullness may like to try the following dish: Have some perfect- ly made and baked Graharn.or whole wheat bread, slice it thin and Pour over it a little thin cream—about three tablespoonfuls to each slice; sprinkle sparingly with salt. Person- ally, X would prefer this for iny des- sert to either pie or pudding. Oystee Itolis, — Shape some well - risen light bread dough into small round forms and put them into well- greasocl muffin pans. Lot them rise tomtit very light, then bake them in a quick oven, decreasing the heat when they are brown, and lot them remain until very thoroughly done. Wbon cold cut a small slice from the top and scoop or pun out the Inside, being manful not to break the crust. Don't throw away the in- side, but put it in a moderate oven and let it dry and brown slightly and use it as you do pulled bread, or roll it for crumbs. • Pick over one Pint of oysters, strain the liquor, put it with the oysters, and parboil until the edges curl. Skim out the oysters, remove the scum, add 1 the hot liquor an equal amount o cream, and pour it gradually over a whito roux made by cooking OTIO ta- blespoonfal of hot butter until well blended. Add a few grains of rnace, one-half of a, teaspoonful of celery salt, a dash of cayenne and a few drops of lemon juice. Out the oy- sters in bits, put them in the sauce and when hot fill the bread shells, put on the crust cover, and if there be any sauce left, pour it around the rolls. Serve very hot. Escalloped Oysters. — One pint of oysters and six pounded crackers. Drain the liquor from the • oysters and wash theni in a bowl. of clear water. Put a layer in a, small dish, sprinkle with salt, pepper, a pinch of mace and bits of butter. Then cover with a layer of bread crumbs. 'Repeat this process till you have used the oysters. Have the top lay- er of crumbs thick enough to hide the oysters. Strain the liquor and poor over it, arid let stand for a, few minutes, Tben pour over all half a cup of milk, and bits of butter at intervals to make a rich crust. Bake fifteen to twenty minutes. Macaroni. — TNVO ounces of cheese, one pint of milk, a scant ounce of butter, a pinch of salt, a. little pep- per. ' Boil the macaroni ten min- utes, turn off tho water and pour on the milk with 11011 the cheese and butter and boll for five minutes. Then put the whole it a dish with the remainder of the cheese and cov- er the top with a layer bread trumbs and bits of butter. Brown in the oven and servo at once. CAKES FROM BREAD MUGU. A dainty produced from the bread - pan is a light cake that is delicious for tea. 'l'ake one cup of the light dough, add half pint of warm milk, three eggs, sugar or syrup to sweet- en, one cup raisins, a few spices, and flour to form a thick batter, as for cake, Pour into a gemmed tin, and allow to rise until very light, then bake slowly. In place of rais- ins, dry cherries stetved and sweeten- ed with maple syrup aro nice, Cit- ron may be used and dried apples are equally good. The ttpples should be soaked for on hour in warm wa- ter, and used in the cake without previous cooking. Another favorite rellshecl by the Mlle folks, as well as "children of tut older 'growth," is to knead up a quantity of dough with a little better. Roll out very thin. Huttor a flat till, and lay in the dough, so it will cover the bottom and Aides. Cut a long, narrow Strip or dough, 1000. tho 0dguu, und press the strip along them firmly. 111111 the center With apples, peeled, sliced, and sweetened with sugar, dotted with bits of butter, and flavored with 011111 WTI On.. T110 flavoring may bo varied. with lemon juice, vanilla or mitmeg. AllOw it to boeome very light, then bake in a 'Slow oven, Tide forme a favorite clemsert, whon serv- ed warm With cream, oe 0 sweet 5111100, Dried or canned fruite may' be gubstitotoil itt phtee of appleS, When Heasonable fresh currants are nice. Cinnamon roses are afro for the children's luncheon; Boll out some bread (1013511 quite thin, spread with it little bu (ter, and 51)1.11114 11111)1 >15 O little batter, and sprinkle thickly with sugar and cinnamon. Sow roll it up as for roll jelly cake, 'moisten the edge el th wider, so It will ad- here 110m13', With 11. sharp knife cut off slices from the roll ebout ono inch thicln. Lay them in a greased pan, and whoa 115111, bake, WATERING irouSle PLANTS. Many plants are sthrved for want of water, but nwre aro ki1led by having too touch. The 11.11' 4/1) tell is to tap the pot with the knuckles, if 11 rings oat it is a call for water, if it gives out a. quiet sound 11 18 11 right; but if the sound is dull and heavy, the soil -is too wet, end you must look to the drainage, By moving the soil on the top ot the pot with a knife or trowel, it is easy to tell if the ground le dry, for if so It requires water, hut any one must use judgment in the case. If water is given from the tap, let it. stand in the open air a few hours before using. Of course rain water is the best for this purpose, and add a little 11140111 water, so as to be nearer the temperature of the roo111 than the cold water would likely 10 be. Nerer let 1/10 water stay 111 the saucer, and about once in three weeks put in a bit of lime about, the size of a walnut in the wa- ter, for it helps to sweeten the soil and gives the leaves a healthy ap- pearanee. At this season of the year when the days nee cloudy and cool the plants require much less water than in February and March when the sun is 111000 powerful and the plants feel the heat, and start into new vigor. plant lover can generally tell when these window treasures are Buffering, and when they' are blossoming in contentment With their environment. 4 THE COMING CENTURY. Events Supposed to Occur in. the Year 2002. A. writer for the London Outlook has been aanushm• himself and his readers by a long glimpse into the future, and made a record, in the Zoom of a diary or news report, of events supposed to occur in the year 2002, As will be seen, his imagin- ation is of a scientific order and his mind ttader the spell of modern in- ventions. A gentleman, he says, recently un- dertook to walk on his electric boots through the passenger tunnel front Dover to Calais within an hour. He accomplished the feat in something over fifty-nine minutes, The daring man arrived in a comatose condi- tion, the last quarter of the dis- tance having been accomplished by the boots alone. A curious accident happened to a gentleman in Kensington yesterday. Ile was wearing one of his usual week's supply of the well-known nine -pence, brown -paper overcoats. The tails of the coat caught fire in the street, and the garment WEIS burned to the waist, where the fire- proof impregnation took effect. No doubt somo careless workman had omitted to dip tho tails of the coat. The other day the government in- spector found that the nine-year-old son of a Mr. Drown was one inch short of the standard height. He was accordingly put in the electric elongator. Bat unfortunately he was forgotten, and when taken out he was fottnd to have been stretched to six feet. He Is 11000 in a very weak state, and' some time must elapse before he can be subjeeted to the contractor treatment. Mr. Electrisimus Smith was mar- ried to Miss Algebra Junes on Tues- day. The happy couple started im- mediately after the ceremony in a three -roomed aeroplane for the Bra- zils. GRAINS Ole GOLD. He that can have' patience, can have what he will.—Xeranklin. An extreme rigor is sure to men everything against it.—Burko, Every man is a volume, 0 you know how to read him.—Channing. No hand can make the clock strike the 110015 11101 are past. —Byron. , The sure way to miss success is to miss opportunity.—P. Charles. Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.—Vol- taire. A room hung witb pictures is a room hung with thoughts.—Sir Jos- hua Reynolds. To be good and disagreeable, is high treason against the royalty of virtue,—H, Moro. A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill-manners.—Cbesterlield. We are all excited by the love of praise, and it is the noblest spirits that feel it niost.—Broadhurst. When a num has not a good rea- son for doing a thing, he has one good reason foe letting it alone, — Sir Waltet Scott. The gain or lying is, not to bo trusted of any, nor to bo believed tots- 01.14.1ainlelg01015,0r00 when we speak the truth.—Sir Wal- ls a deist to pett- demo, as freedom and simplicity of convetsation ie a debt to good na- turrrehgShiadeimpossibility to him Who stande prepared to comoter ev- ery hamard—the fearful ate the fail- ing.--Satra,h J. Halo. +-- - A SITOCE-PROOF SUIT. Sir Humphrey Davy put a wire - gauze envelope around the Miner's lamp, and thus retuoVed the great- est danger 01 fire -damp explosions. Profeesor .Artomieff, of the Eief 1Tni- va1'sity, Russia, has doVlsod a suit of clothes, likewise made of wire - gauze, which tvill protect the wearer from electric shocks of every kind, Wearing suell Ct suit he rocelVed a shock from a, condonsee tharged to 130,000 Volt.% and attracted apatite mom ihren a yard long With We hand% without burning himself in the least, THE S. S. LESSON, PEB, 22. Text of the Lesson, I ,Cor. xiii. Golden Text, I Cor. 13. 1-11. '111011511 I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, mid have hot love, I 11/11 become its weed- ing brasor a tinkling cymbal, in the next two verses Ito snys that no manner of testimony oe mer - vice araounts to anythlog apart Zoom love. As ''love" and not "charity" is the proper word, and it is so translated the IL V., we will use it through this lessoo, These Ilrst three verses might be summarized as—Love versus proph- CHIOS, tongues, knowledge, faith, goods, etc., and 11/0 N1'11010 0110.13101' might ho called, Lolls contrasted, analyzed, defended. It is said to be the only chapter In all Paul's epis- tles that does not mention Jesus in one or other of Nis titles, hut it is a portrait so wonderful that one cannot fail to recognize the likeness even without the name. Tho Lord. Jesus combined all in ITImeele, the picture is 1118, and without ilim we are no ng and ban do nothing (Rona N'il, 18; John xv, 1), Until NVO are born again and thus become ehildren of God nothing counts that we do, for "they that are in the 110511 cannot please God" (Rom. 011, 8). Then after we are born again only that which Cocl works in ns will count. as WO saw in last week's lesson, mad “Goil is Lovo" (1 John iv, 8, 1(1). Note the oft repealed I, I, I of these verses and contramt Gal. 11, 20; I Oar. xv, 10, "Not I, but Christ who liveth in me ;" "Not lw,lhititme, tbe, grace of God which was it 4-7. Lova suffereth long and is kind ; love envieth not ; love vaunt- ed not itself, is not pulled up, cloth not behave itself unscienfly, seeketh provoked, thinketh sto evil. What a perfectly beautiful section we have 111 these four verees, two of atich we have quoted. Such love was never fully seen on earth except in Christ jesus, end only as Ho fills an(1 lives in us can it be re - Produced. Try to imagine a person who is always patient, never in word or look or act uakincl, nover in any way jealous or self seeking, never under any circumstances provoked (R.V.), never thinking or saying evil of anyone, rejoicing only in things true and lovely and always it -moldy bearing, patiently enduring and ever hoping for tho best, with a arm faith in God. It is too alto- gether lovely to come from earth, and it is not of earth ; it is wholly heavenly. It is a description of Ilem who came down hems heaven, who while he 1.1.V0d 011 earth for over thirty years was at the same time in heaven (John ill, 13), of svhom it is written, "Yea, He Is al- together lovely"(5. of Sol. v, 10). 8. Love never faileth, but whether there be prophesies they shall fail ; whether there be tongues they shall cease ; whether there be lere»vledge it shall vanish away. He says: "I am the Lord. I change not" (Mal. ill, (3). He who says "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee" is the only Ono who said, "I 11000 loved thee with an everlasting love." And He is the same yesterday, to -day and forever Web. xili, 3, 8; Jer. xxxi, 3). There will be no snore need of prophecy, for every prophecy shall have been fulfilled. There , shall be but one langpage, and all we now know by the word of Oad. shall be actually realized in the kingdom. 9, 10, For we know i11 part and wo prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect is come, then that whidh is in part shall be done away. All that wo know is found in the word of God, and there is to eVery statement and truth in such breadth and length and depth and height that wo shall never while here grasp fully all that there is in any utter- ance of the Spirit. We may well say concerning all we have as yet 'canned, "Lo, these are but the out- skirts of His ways, and how small O whisper do WO hear of Him" (Job xeavi, 14, R. V.). "The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the per- fect day" (Prov, iv, 18), 11, 12. For 13010 WO see through a glass darkly, bet then face to face: now X know in part, but then Shall I know even as also X am known. When once the gaoler and light of heaven shthe in our solds, the things which once occupied and inteeested us 50001 as the toys of childhood, and WO wonder how 1013 C01.11(1 (lace have wasted 0110 time 011 them. Yet distil not yet appear what we shall all our knowledge Is but partial. It be, and not till He shall appear shall wo be like Dim (I John 2). The question is often asked, S111111 WO know each other in heaven? Is not the answer found hero? Wo do not 14110W 81130 0110 11000, 1101 17C1 Wall 1410037 them fully there, and those whom we know hove WO 811011, ourely know betLee there, 11 refers to people as well as to truthe. As Peter knew Moses and Elijah with - oat an introduction, so X belieye it shall be. 13. And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three, but the greatest of these is love. Faith lookfi to the great sacrifiee for pardon love to a Aeon_ Christ glves us fehowthip with Him in suf- fering' and service, Sthile 'lope. looks 10 TTis comiug again. In I Thess. 8, 9, 10, We see how they invited to God from idols, to servo tho 1131115 and true God and to wait for lUs Son from 1100/0011, 01111 80 WO reed of their work of faith, Jabot of love and patience of hope: The love Of God is the greatest thing we etnr betted of, the greatest thims over seen on earth. Whit 111, 16; I John ill, 10; Rom. V, 8), and yet of ell things the least Understood or ap- preciated, On our part the greatest 181#40,11, for faith it is impoasible to please God" (Hob. id, 6), but love is the fouadation of our faith, ite 11 is Written, "We have' knoten and believed the PM white) God hath,to Us" ,(3 John fit, 1(1) NERVOUS ORATORS, Feelings of Some Great Hen Be, fore Halting a Speech, Croat orators are almost, bisque - ably nervous with apprehension W110/1 111)011 1. to 11101c0 an Important epeech. Luther, to his last yeaes, trembled When he entered the pulpit ; the same is true of Robert 1 Fuji, . John 13, Clough, the great tem, 1)(1001100 0001011,, 00111058011 1110t 110 1008 always in a tremor. when com- ing before an endienee. Senator Frye, of Maine, sold 1.10 never got tip to epeak before en, 011(110000 W.11110111 a, 1. acaa 00 of fear. Many of the 'outdoes of the House of Conunons have' given similer testi- °aiming said he could always toll in advance when he was about to make ono of his best speeches, by a chill running through him, caused by Lord Derby, father of the present a fear of failure. earl, 1011011 a young man, was one of the best speakers In Parliament.. He MIS kilown as tho "Prince Ru- pert of debate." aud seemed so self- possessed as to be incapable or ent- barraesnieut, But Ile said ; "When I am going to speak my throat and lips aro as dry as those of a man tvlio is going to be hanged," He also told Sir Archibald Alison that "ho never rose to spectle, even in an afternoon • dinner assembly, wi;thout experiencing a certain degree of ner- vous tremor, which did not go 011 eill Ile warmed to the subject." It is recorded of Cicero that "he shuddered visibly over his whole body when he first began to speak." In the "Life of Lord Lyndhurst," by Sir Theodore Martin, we aro told that he did not prepare his speeches. "Though like all great orators he never rose to speak without nervous emotion, this in no way interfeved with his power of thinking as he spoke, and calling into play • the attest language to express what he thought. Tric intensity with which his intellect worked became conta- gious, Ho got 1115 hearers' minds within his grasp ; be made them Mule with him, see things with the same clearness 118 he himself saw 1111111, and so ledteem in'Aensibly up Macaulay calls tolrrit,insncoort:.cwhillsoi10111.41"r ono of the most fluent debaters ever known, said he never 1'080 in Perlia- ment without feeling his knees knock togotha31 15 .. 00e of e compenn satios Of Nature that ththe 1100VOUS tempera- mont which occasioes the trembling is also 0110 of the causes of ovittori- cal success. In feat, it may almost be said that no ono can be a great orator or a really effective speaker who does not experience this feel- ing. itntrGER'S WHIPPING. -- Received It While Hunting in South Africa. Between thirty and forty elephants five hIppopotami and five lions have fallen to the gun of Mr. Kruger, the former president of the South African Republic. He also killed one rhinoceros, which he hunted in company with his brother-in-law, and thereby hangs a tale, which Kruger has told in his recently pub- lished "Memoirs." The two Yotula men had agreed that if either be- haved recklessly or in a cowardly manner he should receive a soiled thrashing from the other. With this preliminaey the hunt began. As Mr. Kruger rode past Ills comrade the latter called out : "Don't dismount in front of the beast 1 Sho's awfully wild and Call 01111 like anything." Mr. Kruger did not pay mach at- tention to the warning, knowing his brother-in-law to be rather cau- tious, but jtanped off his horse and ran obliquely past the rhinoceros. "She had" scarce caugbt sight of me," writes Mr. Kruger, "before she . was in hot pursuit. I allowed her to 801110 within a distance of three or four yards. When X fired only the percussion cap exploded, and there was no time for a second trial. The animal WaS Closo lama me, and there was nothing to do but to turn round and run for dear life. "In attempting to do so, my foot struck against, some thorn roots ancl I came down flat oil my face. The beast was upon me. 10110 dangerous horn just missed my hack. She Pinned me to the ground with her snout, intending to trample me to death, But at that 111001001 I turned under her, and got the contents of the second barrel under her shoulder - blade, right into her heart. "The rhinoceros sprang away from 1110, but fell down dead a few yards away. X (mod my life to not letting go my hold of tho gun during* this dangerous adventure. "My brother-in-law hurried up as fast OS he could, for he thought X had been mortally Wounded by my gun in this deadly eonibat. When he sate, however, that I was standing up safe and 50110, he took his 5j1)0d3010 and, according to con- tract, began to belabor me soundly, beeasise I had, to hie mind, acted recklessly in disregarding his warn- ing.'' 130Y BlifOKERS. A Dutch teacher, who recently made investigathm at his school, round that 0111 Of 111130 boys from 111/0 to ton years of ago just half could emoke a pipe or a, cigar without In- convenience. Nino boye from five to seven years old were fleece:nod smoke ors, THE HOTTEST Malan. 1,01 Guaira, *Melt has igen nem. 'Molted in tho telegrame from N'ene-, each), is ono or 11,0 claimants; to the distinction of being lile 110 11.4151 51000 on earth. Day ited 41 1511 1, 1111)11 01' and ounimor, the 1,110011101110i Or said 16 register 100 degrees 111 tho shad.