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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-4-23, Page 3—See IB FooLis VIRGINS. They Were Forced to Endure Period of Tribulation. tEnteree accenting to not of 1.118 /lament of oneatio„ in the year one Thousand elite Il 1,300(1 und Three by Wm. limey, of Toronto, at the Department of egrettiture, Ottawa.) A despatch from Chicago says ;- Pete Prank De 11ILL Talmege preitch- ed Mom tho following text :-"And a 1. initial igh theto Was 0 Cry Made.' Matt 25, Some of tho most tragic and most moinentoue evente in profane and sacred hietory bete veneered dar- ing the quiet hush of the midnight hour. Alan has frequently chosen that [withal to plot and to plan, to work find to exeente, anti Cod hal often :onto! it a convenient season in which to move amone' luta and covey out his eternal purposes. The words of our text aro taken from the parable of the tea viegins, and mark the advent of the Bridegroom as Go comes to claim Ills bride and go into the marriage supper. (tut it must not be supposed that they ilx definitely the hour of the emend coming of Christ, for Christ Him - eel). declaved thee "of that day and hour knoweth 110 Man, 110, not the angcle which are in Heaven, neither the Son, bet the Father." The wait i ng church, Christ's bride, represented by the ten virgins, hears the cry and trims the lamps in read- iness to receive its coming Lord. The five wise virgins, with the oil of the Italy Spirit tilling the' 1. hearts and kepitg the flame of their faith burn- ing brightly, pass gulekit on le meet their coming Lord and go with Him into the mileage supper. The five foolish virgins, whose heads have re- ceived the truth in regard to ills Christ, but. Whose hearth have not. opened up te receive the Holy Spirit find that the lack quenches the flume of their faith in the crucial 'Gine of the coudng, and while they go in engerness, apparently, to sup- ply that defleichey, the door is Phut and the wail of disappointment and anguish bursts from their lips. THE, MIDNIGHT HOUR. It was at nildnight that the Bridegroom canto. Darkness, grim darkness, sat on her throne, the conqueror of the any. Strange hour tor the 13riclegroom to come 1 It is not so with man. The king of day is at the zenith of his glory when the bridegroom of the fashionable church wedding collies to claim his bride at tho altar, But, Christ, the Bridegroom, is coming at the black hour of midnight to take to Him- self Ms bride, the church. It is significant. B. is declared of Jesus upon Hie first advent into the world that He came as Light into darkness but "the darkness coinprehendcie it not." it was dark at Jesus' first 0001- ing. It will be the blackness of midnight which will wrap the world in its folds when Ho comes again. Tim morning light may bo just breaking in the east, awaking the world to another clay, but if it marks tho advent of the returning Lord, it will ho the midnight of the world's Pin. The sun may have sailed majestically up the blue of the heavens and be riding gloriously in ite midday splendor, but if the Lord, cotning in the chariot of the cloucts and heralded by thu "voice of the archangel and the blimp of God." shall then come, it will be the mid-, night of Satan's greatest triumphs `over mem The birds may have caroled their last good-niglit to tho mighty king of the, day as gor- geously robed in 'scarlet and gold 110 withdraws into his palace behind the western hills, but it the hand on the dial of God's eternal purposes has moved to the hour set by 0 od for the return of Christ, the Chriet will come Winging upon the fullness of God's time to earth, and His advent will find the world wrapt in the midnight' of its own thoughts and plans and purposes. "At midnight there wes a cry made : Behold, the bridegroom (10100111," WE CANNOT KNOW THE DAY on the calendar of time which will echo with the Ileatonly shout and mark the flight of the trimnphatt chureh from tho earth to meet its Lord in the upper air, We May not discover the wonderful secret by searching 00e1' so long and diligent- ly 111 God's Word, for it is not there, but is locked in the innermost re- cesses ot the heart of God, We ma' not even dere to guess the hour, for when Ooct sive no man knoweth the clay nor the HOUR, neither the angels, and not even the Son, but the loather only, it places the ques- tion absolutely ottteide the pale of Mullen reason or the right to deal with it In an olTort to fathom its mystery. It is worse then folly ter attempt to Dore out a problem that the mighty angels of Maven are tot able to solve, and of which oven the Son on the throne is kepli in ignorance, and which He htte 110 desire to know, as Ito abides in the WIll of the Fathee, It is enough to :know that God knows, and that ill the fullness of ells time the joy and hope of the Ceristiat heart will be realieed. It Is euough to know that this 8111110 tY08118 is coming again, awl that then Ito comes tho dead in Cbriet Jests will rise from their graves, and with the living sainte will be caught up into the air to Meet their Lord, It is enough tor 8)5. 1.0 enoW this mid to "comfort, 0110 at other With theSe Words," But let as heed Christeg warning word : "WATCH," and in faithful service be patient 11(130 His muting, loon ;hums gews on to say, "be- hold, the Mithandrnen weiteth for the fweeione Inuit if the earth, and halt) long patienee for it, until he Medea the early and the lettee rain, the Be ye also patient', establieh your hearte ; fm• the coming of the Lord clarwoth nigh." But although we may not entity the flue nor the hour, God in 1110 Word has sot certain sign posts which will Militate to the believing heart, that the day ls approaching, Bitt, Paul decht008, "that clay shall not. 001110, except there come a falling (-may first, and that man of sIn be revealed, the son of perdi- tion ; who opposeth end exaltoth himself above all that is called God, or that itt worehippece so that Ile, as Clod, sitteth In the teniplo of Clod, showing himself that like Ood." The disciples altered to know the eign of the ecnning of tho Lord, and Jesus in the twenty-fourth chaptet of Matthew outlined to them 001110 of the conditione wbich would pre- vail in the world previous to His ow one cotning, met closing with the dataration that "this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preaclied in all the world for a witness unto all, na- tions; and then shall the ene 001 10." Awl these weeds of Jesus open up to 118 tWO COrtailltieS 111 conuection with the second coming of (Theist which help 1111 to more clearly 00(301" 83)10(1 the significanee of tho mid- night Innir ELS marking' the athont of 18e Bridegroom, in ti'e parable before us. First, the unbelief of the world will be hill, and second, the Unwell, the body of Christ, will be enmplet 'ITO 1110E0hillg of the (Melee, of Jeons Christ alwnys floes ot o of two things; it eitlen brings suleation to the soul, or it hardens 1,110 soot to the point of at last 3m - illy the Christ, 01.1 W0011,11'32 MIDNIGHT, It will be marked by two greet tit cenistances or 0011(11110m, rs fol- low:Le 'el 0 withdrawal of the Spirit of (Iced, in fulfillment of the early eeettration of God in Genesis 6:8, etly Spiiit shall not always strive 80 11 11 Ilion." And the unrestrained power of Satan Which will teed him to "tit in Lie temple. of God, and thew bilusell that lie is Coil." What this will mean. is hinted at in the ole; 11,101.00, antl is referred to as the tiree of the tribulation. The ex- pression "hell on earth" will thei cestainly hate its full realization. Truman wisdom, litman virtue, 1181)11- 0 )113.01101115)4, sociology, /Paternal- ism, philanthrophy anti at the other lauded bulwarks Of civilization will have their boasted strength Meted. The claeitfulness of the human beart will be laid baro in the pres- ence of the unreetreined Power of the atoll deceieer, for there will be nothing then to hold him in cbeek. The human arm tvill be shown to be too short and too weak to wrestle with (.bo arts and devices and skill of the 'fleet]. Man is not yet ready to give up the task of overcoming and controling the evil in the world. 110 otlll thinks he can succeed tun1 Will ultheately triumph, but If one will be honest, with biniself and read the newspapers he will have to ad- mit that there are no present indi- cations that stecess is any nearee than when the Babelites sought to build to Heaven clod link the two in lasting union. But in the time of tee tribulation the power of Satan will be manifesto'cl and realived, and man will see the utter folly of hop- ing to forge the chains which will bind him. Christ forgell the chains during Otis forty days in the wittier - miss which alone aro strong enough to bind Satan, and when Ito returns at the end of the tribulation period to rule with Ris saints over the world the chains will be put Into full 1.180 and Satan will be bound. it prophetic vision saw this when Ile wrote; "And 3 SELNY an an- gel come clown from Heaven, having tlie,kee of the bottomless pit attl a great chain in his 1100833. And he laid holcl on the dragon, that olil morpent, which is the devil, and 'Sa- tan, rind bound him a thoustuni yeas s, and meet him :into the bot- tomiese pit, and shut Mtn lip, told tot a seal upon him, that he stunted deceive the nations no more, till the thousand yeere shoeld be fulfilled." That will mark the 'dawning; of a tiew day for the world. But the midnight must yet come bringing i11 the woes of tribulation before the millennial ago can come, THE 01111ISTIAN'S MIDNTGITT, It is bright with hope. It is filled With joy, for its stillness wilt be broken by the thout of triumph of the lieenending Lord; it will ring with the heavenly voice of tee arch- angel, it will thrill \\nth the awak- ening trump of Gott, 0110 bride longs fer the return of the bride - 4)0001. encl rejoices exceedingly when She hears his /millet tread 11/1i1 feels his love clasp rthout ber. The chtlreh, made up of the true believ- ers, by whatever mote or denomina- tion dalled, is the brie° of Jesus Christ. She is expectaet of her eontiug Lord. }Ti' joy will be com- plete when 110 does come atid takes her to 110 foreVer With Hint. 0110, delicately adjusted veceiving instrument of the wirelese telegraph wilt readily respond to the vibra, tions of the sending instrument tteross the ocean whieh 18 tuned to thO Salne pitch, but all the thistru- ments which are not so tuned, would be as insensible to the ether waves flashing over the 010011. as a clued body Is Insensible to pain, Tho Christian *Art, white 314 tune'cI to the expeetant hope of a returning Ixord toed not fear that the thrill of tho midnight try will not, be felt. The seout pi' the 00101114 Christ will set the chortle of the true bellevere' hearts to vibrating, end they will reolmt ott the Wings of faith to joie. thee Voices with the voice et the erchengel while the trtnnp Of Cott tills tee Heavens Witil its triumph-. ant netaie, Ale at midnight; What .----seeesses • hope to make the dark hours wailing bright: Ab, what need o wettelfulnese, that the heart mai, ht tUrned to hear the cry: Al), whit stet appointment to be among' tilt lito foolish vitolne who aro shut. ott or Hut teetering), support 011, Chris tian, W4T011 YE! You tow b ready to go with youe Lord whet Ife conies if yOtt will, TWO TON 1e1,EPIPANTS, The average term of an elephant' life - although there Is 00 precise information on the point •- fs 70 o 80 years, Tho elephant is not. in full vigor and strength till thirty flee, The most ready way of form ing an approximate idea of the tes 18 by the amount of turnover of ti,, upper edge of tile ear. in young; an eines, SOMetilneft Up to) tIlo age eight or 11i1)0 years, the edge is gulls straight. lt, however, then begins to turn over, And by the 11)e the (1)1111)41 is thirty, the edges lap eye) to the extent of an inth, anil between libig age and sixty tills Increases to two inches, or slightly more. 3'1)- 3.000041411 ideas aro hold as to tin height of an elephant, Such a thing AS 1111 elephant measuring ton feet at the shoulder rarely exists in Melo, or Dentate Satmilereon, Who is ad- mitted to be the best etithority 01 the subject, says the largest mate he ever met with measured 9 feet 1.0 inches, and the tallest female 8 foot 5 Inches, The majority of elephants, however, are below 8 feet, aud 00 animal rarely reaehes nine feet, the female being slightly shorter than the male. The CEL1'CI1SS of an ele- phant, 7 feet 4 inches tall, weighed in portions, gave a total weight of 3,000 pounds; so an elephant weigh- ing two tons should be 00111111411 en - peel. The skin was about three- fourths of an inch thick. 1 f hunch) Ur the genitive. girdle and 0103.11 deliVer 11101 into 1310 '.11) UN test/Mal Al/aline, a prophet te trent titelitett, and title lo the 4 ;801ee (a the Hpiric tkt Tyre (verse .1) L ;maker; me inellited to believe 81101, Pant was not. journeying to Jer- o 081110111by contented of the Spirit 1 turd that tile yours of 11apr1e00131e1l3. anti 81)1110 0t1)or things might bars been avoided had 11" been Moro o bed hal 1 to he Hpirit. There is euly one perfeet man, fully eontrolled by the Spirit, net befor0 118 111 Hc1'ipture--1110 man r twist, O J081,10. lin lieVer failed. All others hallt, IVO Flo /aft prelotal to Hay - that Paul 1805 in the wrong in Ales xte ele but, we do !mow Diet the O 'time came when he wan glacl to have Mark (II 'Pint iv, 11.).Wo do 1)03 - know why Pant \vented to go lino f Asia and 131thynin when the Npirit did not want him to (Aets xvi, 0, .7) and the twice. is. Jutted me lc et 'front the Spirit 111 our lesson makes ' us somewhat perplexecl 1114 3,) wily insiste1 on going. to Jimilealent. 19. And when we heard these thinge both we and they of that ' place besought 113.111 nut to go lip I to 1 eel:melee.. So in spite of the warnings of the idrit and 111,1 tint '0,81. 1(5 of Luke and others of 1118 own party and of 1111)1 his 11111)4111 l')'$ aml the other disciples Paid. determines 'to go on, expressing his ['mante5:1 to he bound and to dle at Jerusalem fur tile mune of the Lord Jesus. The others could therofore only pray the Lord to fteconeeish Ills will 01111 cenninit all to 311»). Ho in duo time they cierited at Jerusalem, a,nd the inothren received them gladly (verses 1 3-1 7). I know of nothing more necessary for a child of Clod than to be filled With anti controlled by the Iloly Spirit, but that eertainiy rneans obedience to the Spirit in all things, it moans a event deal to humble 010'13(4re:4 tO walk With Cocl (elite vi, 8) and have no rill of our own. THE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATIONA.L LESSON, APRIL 26, Text of Lesson, Acts xxi., 3-12. Golden Text, Acts xxi., 14. 8, .Ane, fieding ilisolplos, we tarried there SOInn dayS, who said to Paul through the Spirit that he 81101) Id not go up to derma/en). 1. cannot but wonder 10 it was through the Spirit that the lesson committee selected the portions as- signee hi this and the following two or tivre leixons, cis they seem to have 0110; en the least helpful por- tions and. omitted the best; but We 1111114 Make 1.110 best of the portions chocen. Paul and 1115 party, having laaldd at Tyre on their way to Jer- usalem, end Magpies, with whom they 8ee0.61 a week, and, knowing Paul's gusto -al, we cannot but rejoice in the speolal Bible elealies which they intst have hail in the blessing 88113011 luest have come to them, Knowing that Paul's desire was to batten to Jerusnlem for Pentecost (chapter ix, 1)3), we see hint in 'the eohool of patience) as he jOurneyS, 01. is a great victory when We learn to Peciettee 3 Salon x, 7 -"Do as 0000.- 81011 serve thee, for Cod is with thee" - and not to fret because the occaeion does nut hapeen to be to cser liking, 5, 35. We kneeled down on the shore and prayed, and when we had taken our leave 0110 of another WO took ship, and they returned home again. The men'women anti children with Paul's parIty, all kneeling on the elltore IstoyIng, mutt have been a tesi- timany to ell who witnessed them not soon forgotten. The faithful- ness and fearlaSsaiess or those 'oho under ilo circumstances omit their Uovotions are always to the glory of God axed owned of Him. EVen the heathen contemn 115 by 'their faithreltess to their imagenctry gods. The faithfulnees of a Hendee on the dock of a pilotbocet as W0 veiled up the river to Calcutta and of a Chi- nantat on the wharf at Singapore neeele 0 great iniereseion on me, not easily forgotten, 7, 8. Wo came to Ptolemais and sitkited the brethren and abode with them ono day, anti the next day we * * C11.1110 unto Caesarea, and we entered Into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the 508'- 11)1,041 abocie with him. 33. is very refreshing to meet the retleceneil of tee Lord .hel 1.8 aud there ns end journeys front place to place. There is no bonti that cat be com- pared to it. Thooie who think that the bend of Flee Masonry and Odd leelloweldp min such ordore ie the best bond of travelers either am not CHristiarts or if they aro they 'do not know Ilim as they T as O professing Ohriatinn tried tho ilest 1111,1110(1 order Saithfully, and, while I have nothing to eay agnitet it for them who have nothing bettor, T tun glad 1 lieve foone something better cent have proved it for more than thirteen years and around the globe ankl ill 11101131 latest. It is that bond of oneness with Christ which so. bounel together Patti and hie party and the believers at TYre anti Ptole- mais toed Cameroa arld makes true believers one everyweere to -day. 9. An'd the same man had four daughters, virgins, which pro - Demo. The last we hoard of Philip woe that after he baptized the treasurer of Queen Candace he was fottad at Azottis and thief, he Matched In all the cities till he came to thiouttest. We are nOW glad to flnd 111111. still WitIleSS.ing and keeping open house for Christians And that hie (tweets term are 'so ono with hint. It must have been a happy home, a etre dos lighted place, to sojotten, and wo do not Wonder that Paul was able to overcome his haste to bo at, cTertiaaleiti in. Order to tarry there meny days. As to Women 101.0- 1111057014, being the Lord's lumen - gees, see .Tool if, 28; Ps, lxvili, 11, ILY.; Phil, iv, 8, end think 00 Deborah, IItilttah and others and See further tudorstainent in 3 Cote xi, 5. 10, 11. Thus saith th 1I1y Ghost So shell the ;TOM at Jeruattlein bind the Men that 001103.31 Ole PAINTING TETE WORLD, I Indian Legend of the Way Spring Canso Into Existence. Once, long before there were men in the world, all tile earth was cov- ered with snow and ice, White and frozen lay the rivers and the seas; Mete and froven lay the plains, The inetintains stoocl tall am! dead, like ghosts in white gowns. There was no, color except while in all the world except in the sky, and it was ehnost black. At night the stars looked through it lilco angry eyes. Then Clod sent the spring down in- to the world - the spring with red Hee and curling yellow hair. ln his arms lie bore sprays of ap- ple blossoms and the first flowers - Teets, anemones and violets red pink, blue, purple, violet anti yel- low. The first animal to greet the spring was the wbito rabbit, The spring droppe(1 a red crocus on his head, ancl ever since then all the white rabbits have rod eyes. Then the spring dropped a blue violet on a white bird, the Mist bird to greet the spring, and that is the way the bluebird was made. Ever since then it is the Ilrst bird to arrivo when the spring 0011108 (101011 11'0111 heaven. , So the spring went through the world. Wherever he tossed the leaves from bis fragrant burden, the earth became green. Ile tossee tho blossems on the frozen 50115 1111d the ice melted and the fish beceme paint- ed with all the tint of his flowers. That is the way the trout and the 'minnows alit 80101011 became gau'cly. Only tlie high mountains would not bow to the spring, So their SUM - mite remain white and dead, for they would lot the spring paint, only their sides. The snow owls mid the white geese and the polar bears fled from the 1 spring, so they, too, remain white 1 tO this day. se RICHEST CATHEDRAL 308 0sQ rt: FOR T.ILE HOME 031 Recipes fOr the Kitchen.o i& 0 ilyalene and Other Notes wThee 31 for the Housekeeper. 15 41 01 e0006060e043060 03900000 liomEsTle it4cipb:s. cuiiinige—Mitlal to Catilidower.- lielnore the outer leaves front a flolld, tonali-sized head of cabbage and cut the -remainder fine as for SlaW. Have 011 the lire a spider 00 deep ekillet, and when it is hot put in the eidetic/se and pour over it in- .ny 0. 311111 of boiling watel Govee chexely and allow R. to too rapidly for ten minutes. Draw o the water ant add half 0 pint of nes c1)11110 ant t (.1111. -11.'11 11 bolls stir in a tableepoodul of flour that hits been wet with a little tied 11111k, season with salt und pepper, 1121(1 WrVe US soon as it eometx to a boil. Calentge is very delicate cooks 111 this wee, and is made so (11- 4)0111111' that it may be eaten with 1111(211)13 13'. Fried teirrots.-Wanh and partly boll the carrots whole, cut them ntto thin elieee, clip in egg and then lit :firmly grated' broad C1.1111111S and fry tot mitutes in hot lard or but- ter, Cold boiled carrots may be warmed up in this way, and be made more palatable than in their iirst (state. Onions a la Grome-Pcel four Span - 15)1 0111011S, boll hi salted water till clone. Drain on a sieve, put into a stew -pun with three ounces of but, ter rubbed innonth Will, a, table- spoonful of flour, rule a little salt. and white pepper. Shale, the pan coustantly and stir in by degrees a half pint of coeum oe new milk. The onions »my be served on toast with the sauce pelmet] over nd 11 0- (11000e1 onions cooked in this faehlot are as Mee as the Spanish, Walnut Souffle -This is made by soaking a sponge coke of medium size In 3 pt boiling milk. Break us and 1111.1 111111 them a small piece butter, 1 desseetspoon of sugar, a few drops of any flavoring desired 4 oz ground widnitts, the yolks of eggs well beaten, and the whites o 4 thoroughly whisked. Place in a plain mold and steam for e 011 hour. Turn out and servo with cream. Pancakes without Eggo-For family of five, use 13 qts- buttermilk, or sour mill: will answer, 2 heaping tea- spoons soda dissolved in cup cold water, 2 cups graham flour and, 2 cups white flour, salt. !Ise the kind yell get when you take wheat to the mill. These pancakes eaten with butter and a syrup made by boiling coffee C sugar dissolved in water, until it syrups, are the best we have ever had. Molasses Cake -Take 1 cup MO-. lessee, 1 cup sugale 2 tablespoons lard, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, e tea- spoon cloves, 1 cup buttermilk, 1 teaspoon ginger, 3. teaspoon soda, 1 cup raisies, flour to make a stiff batt'ocin Oige Cream -Take 3. pt good C1'00111 whipped to a Loth, the juice of 8 oreng'es, 13 tablespoons white sugar atcl the juice of 1 100011. Rub the rind of 1. orange smooth in the sugar, then serape MT with a knife, Mix all together and add 3 table- epooes gelatine, boiled In e pt Wfl; ter. Stir till together and set away in a mold. When wanted, turn out as for jelly. Eat with or without cream. Breed Cake -Half a cup butter creamed with 1 cap sugar. into which add 2 wellesertten eggs I beat, and add 1 cup bread sponge (bat- ter), Stir in 1 Ctli) 110111', with which has been sifted teaspoon soda, 13, teaspoon cinnamon, 1. tea- spoon cloves, 13. teaspoon nutmeg ; astly add 1 CUp -raisins well 1110(1. 10(1, over which were sprinkled 2 even tablespoons flour, Bake 45 min - nes in a 51088 Oven, pound 61 ehoppell walnut (or ;)(ean) meats, beat again and turn Into 11111- tell1d peas. ASPARAGUS IN AMBUSH. Cut a elle, of bread an 10011 thice from a square lone 001111 off the crutite nett then ecrape email pieces out of the venter. Brush the little eases thus fornuel lightly with but. - ter and toast theta in the oven until goldisti brown. Gut a bundle of asparagoe into half -Itch lengths, soak with Melling witler, acid 1 teaspoon Salt and Siiiinier gently for tbreeepturtere of the tispnrugus. Save 3 pt of the water 111 which It Well rooked, Bring tide to the boiling point lc again, and pour it while hot onto cr the ;troika of 4 egget wen beaten. Htir v over hot water until thick and jelly - 111"1";1111. from the tire and add care- fully 2 tablespoons Miller that has born rot lino bitS, 0110 bit at a time. Add 3 teaspoon salt, a Muth of pep- per and then sloWly 1 tableSp0011 tarragon Vinegar. Add to this the cooked asparagus. Fill into the bread boxes antl eerve at 01100, ThIS wil/ provo a delicate entree for a luncheon. • USEFUL IIINTS. Beat eggs very light, yolks and whites separately, for omelet. A small onion, chopped flue, is a pleasing addition to hash. When curing your meat use good, old-fatchioned honest smoke from hickory chips. The "no parlor" idea, that is, the plan of using the pleasantest rutin in the house for the room of 011 the faintly, is becoming popular. To clean the zinc under tho kit- chen stove, dampen it all over with spirits of turpentine and after•e few 2111 11 utes wash it with water) 1 soapsuds, Nuts have many of the qualities of meat and are very nourishing and wholesome if very well chewed before , swallowing, and eaten' with tory r little salt. Be moderate as to quan- tity. I 11,111eN THE MOUSE COMES. f Of the many suggestions to pre- vent mice from entering the pre- mises, the best is to paste a cloth over the mouse hole, first freely sprinkling it with red pepper. This will effectually stop them for all time. The Cathedral of St, Isaac, in St, Petersburg, which wali recently rob- bed of about 525,000 worth of dia- mends, is considered to bo the rich- est cathedral in the world, It cost more than 4312,500,000 to build, The gold alone used for gelling and minententing the interior amounted to about 8-3cwt. All the vols of this sacred edifice ere composed en- tirely of gold ancl silver and weigh tthout four tons. The interior of the building is most gorgeous, and Captains a, geeat 1101114301' of statue, mosaics, bas-reliefs, atd preelous "Ikons," or holy pictures, which are of great age, and are supposed to /lessees miraculous powers. KILLING PAIN, A Russian doctor, cilia of ono of the military hospitals of St. Peters - bum, hag made a discovery which he claims eliminate many of the risks inciclent to the nse of chloro- form in surgical operation),. Re has arrived at the coteliteion that blue light, possesses the properties of killing' pain, :leis first experiment was made quite reeently. During the operation he, so to speak, steeped his patient in tt fleocI of blue electric lightThe operation lasted fully twenty minutes, and the patient, who had tot been put to sleep by any artificial means, feared it almost (20.1 )11005, Young Wife - "I want to 1.18137 het for my husband." Hatter - "What S1r.0 clOOS 110 Weal'?" Young Wife - "I 'cleclere I forgot to find See - "Do you thiale women have no sense of Milner?" 01 •-• "011, I don't 1(11081. hard to 111118150 O girl who 1001(8 pretty whet sho .1alliC'I'Dos''7.011 want w)r?" aeked the 01011110 Minister, "Certainly not," an- swered the King, '"Phen why do you assume such 0, delimit and bellicokie attittiller "Bemuse I lute° reagen to euspeet that the other ceuttry ia Mon inore 5,90080 tO War than artt." 10E010E01 FOR CANDIES, To mem marshmallows, dissolve half a pound of stunt arable in ono pint of water, strain it., add a half pound -one cupful -of granulated sugar ; place over the fire end stir constantly until the mixture is like honey. Add gradually the whites of four well benthn eggs, stirring the 1111A:3.0re steadily until it will not ad - bore to the fingers. Pout' into 0 pan dusted with starch, and when cool cut in sine 11 squares, Some new touches are being added to the college girl's Invorite "fudge,' The 311(140 10 the same, but just after it is taken from the stove, bits �f chopped fruits, candied or ciry, may be stirred into ft to afford variety. Nuts coated with chocolate are thonght a special dainty. To pre- pare them, first blanche the nuts -if almonds, etc., by pouring boiling water over them letting them stand it minute or two, then rubbing the hard brown skin off. Cook together a potted of granulated sugar and a gill tont a half of water. Do not stir after the sugar le cliesoltted, but boil until a fork dipped in the mix- ture hee a floating thread or fine hair froin the tip. Now test by dropping a little into cold water. 11 it forme a soft ball between thumb and lingoremote immediately from the fire, turn into a shallow ditch and beat to a white cream. (Do not scrape the dish viten ,vott tent it out ; sugar crystals it the 1)1 000 Will Spoil IL) W11011 tOo halal tO stir work it to n smooth paste With the fingers. Take as welch unsweetened checolate as you have fondant ; Mott it in a saucepote add the fotdant and When, this melte, stir, remove front the lire and set the saucepett in a, dish of hot, water. Quickly roll the nuts in the mixttre, tette out quickly and spread On \VaSed paper. Mexican kisses you make by pet- ting Into tt satteepen three cupe of brown sugar and a cup of milk, When boilieg, ackl a lump of butter tho size of en egg, Boll till a little dropped in cold Water wilt almost hatelem Beat for three minutes, add It 10089000331 of vanilla Arid 4. TROUBLESOME THROAT. A reliable remedy for hoarseness is the juice of a lemon, half an ounce of glycerin and a teaspoon of sugar. Take one teaspoon every few hours. Simple, and within the reach of ev- erybody. Honey is also good for hoarseness. Another simple but ef- fective cure is the 111100 of a lemon, O tablespoon of sugar and the stiffly beaten white of an egg. A r115WENTIVE OE CRACKS. When warming the contents of a Wetter the oven, or when baking anything in a pretty dish from width it is to be served, place in or over a pan of hot water and no harm will come to the dish, A CLEAN TOWN. Tlie town of Brock, in 3.110 Hether- lands, holds the distinction of being one of the neatest towns in the world, and no municipal expense is spared to uphold that holier. The 2,700 inhabitants are so strongly bound by municipal rule that to throw e piece of paper or waste of any kind in the public street entails 5, seilling fine, and it is only recent- ly that horses have been allowed in the streets. Once a year every house is visited hy the town clean- ers, who scrub from top to bottom, inside and out, without any expense to the tenants. "ORDER! ORDER!" They haScl been trying to conduct the business of the junior debating society 111 a strictly orderly fashion; but the proceedings, which com- menced with noise, gradually became uproarious. At last, one of the disputants, los- ing all control over his otnotions, exclaimed to Ins opponent; "Look here, you are, 3. Miele the biggest ass that I ever had the mis- fortune to sot eyes Moon," '`Ordert ortfer!'' said the chair- man, a pompous little elutp with an affected lisp, "You seem to for- get that I ran in the room." DODGING 13ASZAAIR TERRORS. At the recent tharity fancy fair at Nice none of the men were worried to bile, ftS they had all purchased a badge. price 2011.. (44), which ex- empted them from all importunities from salesesomet. These badges purported to be these of the "So- ciety foe the Prevention of Cruelty to Men." Most of the gentlemen spent o good deal, but it was at their own pleasure. Bazaar IWO- rioters might Inane prollt out of this way of tallying immunity. STRANGE ESQUIMALTX TRIOle, The renniant of a strange tribe of lescruhrieux has been discovered on tionthampton Teland, at the north end of :Hudson Bay. These people had never seen a, white man until recently. Their huts are built. of the groat jaws of whales teemed With skins. In the middle is an eleva- tion, in Which is e stoto lamp teed tor 114183.1314, heating, eooking, Melt- ing 011088, and drying clothee, The tribe to almost extitct, only Some sixteen being left, onie I knew tee ofge of the eollars he woarS, though, It's fifteen, :He'd watt Omit eige eighteOn or twontv for 0, hat, Weadn't he?" THE STEAMER, 1110E11E11, ,.....- S'TORY Or A DISASTER. ON 01I44 IIIVER ST, LAWRENCE, ,---- A Steamboat Tragedy That Ilea Net BeecnanFaodiartten in It was in Juue, 13ell7 that tet steamer "Montreal," owned be Mit John Wilson. left Quebec cite warm aftiwnoon, with cieveral hundred ha- Inigrante, meetly Scotehnum, their wives and childree on board. These ' immigrants had Met ermined the moan in the ship "John McKenzie," After she hod been one 'lour 011 ber way the titei111101' took fire. What followed, told by the sue- ‘c•*titZtIt'SI i'i 1 i tseth °our. 0 i tanino mien:tannin Cr:nil sit' It pert of tho captain and crow of the veseel, When the tire burst out tind 1301•1110.1 1111e011 1 1'0110111e, the vaptain was asked 3.0 rutt the boat ashore. ;River men awl lumbermen on board 1 who well knew the nature of the river and the dangers of their situa- tion, said that the captain refused to run the boat into places whore sondy beach was visible. When the steamer finally was run eshore it was in such a position that escape Minn death by burning could not be 'made to shore, as the passengers that had not by that time jumped overboard to their death were cut off by lire from reaching the sballow water under the bow of the burning steamer. Even there they were very. far from the shore. IIere is fin ex- tract from the narrative given by Mr. Hayes, who was a paesenger, and which was published in the Mon- treal leitness of July 1, 1857 : 'In len minutes the' flames burst out' and filled the melon, and broke out nn both sides. I 18115 in the stern of the vessel when tbis occurred. I lowered myself down by the side of the vessel, and while I Was doing so, I saw one man trying to get a boat off the upper deck. Ile tolled me to his assistance. Re loosed the ropes of the boat and held one end and I the other. To- gether WE LET FIER DOWN, slid clown the rope. l,1 less than ten minutes the boat was under the water with the crowd that rushed on it ; she was prevented from sink- ing to tho bottom by the tackle, which hold her fast. Had the tackle given way, the boat would have sunk to the bottom. It also pre- vented her being pusbed off by the first occupants. In and about this boat a great many lives were lost. Parties rushed wildly toward it, throwing themselves over the side of the stemner. Ths heat became SO intense thet I jumped out of the boat into the water and swam to- ward another boat I saw coming to our rescue, but it shot past me and made for the boat at the side of the "Montreal." I swam back and got under the boat that had come to our assistance. There were a num- ber of females in tho water, and seven or eight of .them clung to me. These were taken out one by one and I was disentangled. The boat took its load to the "Napoleon" and I went with it. I was the last taken out of the water into it. • • . The "Montreal" was headed for the shore about ten minutes after the alarm was given and when the flames had broken out in the manner I have al- ready stated, I think she ought to have been headed for the shore soon- er. She. got aground in the attempt to reach it and stuck fast nearly' as far off the shore as she was when the fire first broke out. I saw no one give directions or take conunand on board the "Montreal." Every- thing was in utter confusion. I think elle might have got nearer the shore than she did with proper man- agement, and the destruction of life be made much less. NOBODY SA.VEID ANYTHING except what was ou their persons. There was no time to look back. The "Montreal" was barned to the water's edge, The boilers exploded eome time after the fire broke out. I heard the "Montreal" had been on fire twice previously during the afternoon of tho sante clay ; and that umsequenee they had a per- son to watch. I understood the furnaces were badly secured and wore not properly protected by metal sheeting. I heard this from the captait of the "Napoleon" and others on board the steamer. '0110 scene wee appallingly terrific on board the "IU:ontreal, ' and on tho "Napoleon" afterwards the scenes of distress were most heartrending, Here and there one saw parents seeking for their chili/001i ; and chil- d= seeking for their parents with terror and dismay on their faces - anxious to catch tidings of those they loved. 1 SIM a good many bodies badly burned anti disfigured and many persons In intense suffer- ing, whieh those on board tried to assuage by moans of scraped pota- toes, one There were from 450 to 500 persons on board ; about thirty of those were cabin passengers. One hundred and twenty -live bodice, lie- ing and deed, were tact out of tho water. There were sixteen dead bodies. I onty noticed one Mon- trealer, Mr. Leslie, of Carter & Kerry's. I can't tell if he is saved. A few swain In shore awl took the Ione to Quebec. The /Ammer "Na, poloon" WaS at no great distance from the "111ontreal" when the iire broke ont, and her captain imme- diately sent out boats te retteue th0 paesertgers and crew and stayed near till 1110 ill-fated boat WaS burned to the water's edge." STATISLICIA,TOAEL, A BIG Two five hundred thotteand pills and three tons of cough 107.011- 400 are 'dlepensed oVory yule at the London Hospital. leitety-two miles sif 476 miles of bandages, else x tees of cotton wool, and bine miles 'of plaster ere ese(1 annually, Every 'day half a ton ol Ito and 400) siplions of setle Weer, tewl it) year the eget use'd, pieced coil to end, would eeteed 3.0 eix ate 11 llaq m1100,