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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1903-10-29, Page 3EPUTATIONS .-^ Rev. Frank Frank e Witt Talmage Tells U$ of the Truly Great Mitered According to Act ot tho Par- auditors cried, "Lot us go end fight Dement el Cainala, in the year One , • so Pnilip ! out llama! e, rt ay y Thousand Nine Benched and Three, by 1911%, Bally, of Toronto, at the "Come let 1,114 enlist under theoban- epartmnitt of Agriculture, Ottawa.) net, of joeus..?" A deepatch from Ohicago nay.e A FAMOUS PERSONALITY, Bev. Frank .De Witt Talmage preach- But let us inquire a little more ed from tile following text 'Matthew closely how John the Daptiet sub - xi, 11, "There bath not risen a merged his life in Christ. Jesus greater than Joint the Baptist:" was an unknown man at the time "Great men, great events .an'd 3 ohn, the hermit. and recluse, was great epoehs grew. bigger and more making the very palace walls at colossal LS the years ))ass away Jerealent shake, Up to thirty years front thetue" once wrote the Mogen- ef age jestts was an unknown 'dwell- pher of Robert BUMS. Like the er in a emintry village. The whole mountain shadows they increase in extent: of Ohrtet's eurthly ministry oleo and their reputations lengthen extended over only a short period 11) importnnee as the sun of their of three OP four years. We read of day sae end the long eight of their Jesus when he was born. Then ho root separates us from them. Like disappear% We read of him twelve the mythological heroes and beroines years later, when'as a boy, he talks ef old, their leaders' 'brows become with the doctors in the temple, Then luminous with crowns of gold. No be again disappears for eighteen long eatheilral impresses us so much e.s years. Up to thirty years of age the venerable pile that is covernd ed Christ was politically asociologi_ with m°58 ax01 ereelthig cally, an unknown factor in aStern IS Se1d0111 00,11011 great and -truly we, great until Jut leuf been dead at least in •tho meantime who was this twenty years. John the Baptist? This second But standing to -day under the young mao, of about the SU -1110 ago. lengthenm lengthening shailews of any great reputatiome these imminent questions as Jesuswas the most famous per, naturally arise in many minds : sonality in the east, De had lived What is true greatness ? What aro as a 11'i1. nut But the voice ho lifted the elements which distinguish the reached, not only echoed throughout truly noble from the merely selfishly the villages, but also throughout tho fatuous ? great capital itself. The rich and JOHN TETE .11A,P'DIST'S GLORY. the poor, the old and the young, the TJie purpose of this sermon is to government officials and the peasant alike left their homes to silt at his show why J 0110 the Baptist was fed, Great crowds swarmed about greater than all other men before Christ's J orsianic baptism—John the 11118 strange teacher wherever he Baptist greats although lie was so went. They pressed into his caves 1,00„. his 1101110 was among 018 luessttinough they were tentides. As a rocks and sands of the wilderness, result John built up a great school lying befWeen the capital end the , of devotees and baptized his follow - Dead. sea; els by hun so poor that his only gar- ctredk and thousand°. Many molts wore the coarse skin of the of them, were ready to bow down wild beast, through the holes of and Worship hint as a temporal as which stretched Sis long limbs ass' well as a spiritual king. Yet when heirs; ebesi; so poor that his only Jesus appeared this illustrious man food 10011 the grasshoppers or locusts was ready, and gladly ready, to set- tled the honey which hart been sal_ render all for Christ.Like john den by the bees amoms the . caverns the 13aptist, eve we willing to lay and the hills -our fame, our wealth and our entire Front the world's standpoint this lire work at Jesus' f°°1.7 is a strange portrait of g great man, FEARLESS FOR RIGHT. But how wonderful is its setting. Great was John the Baptist! At The fabled portrait was of a g face with a silver frame, buttolltel the risk of his life he was ready to portrait of John the Baptist is et det,to?nce and attack the intrenched silver face with a gold frame. Like ane the practically invulnerable alas a ruby, stewing red it is set in a of that day. • Be was not one of et vele of UMW, preC1OUS .!.,hose men who always stop and ask. Like a mirror of burnished brass, Does it pay?" before they attempt. pure and spotless, seesess she to do what they ought to do. He light of a rising sun. It was John Preached on. the duties of men and the Baptist's glory that he waS 11110 waged war against wickedness in harbinger of a greater than himself, logo places. ITe declared against As the direct forerunner of the S011 evils as mighty in his (ley as the of Goa he canfe at the suPreme crisis liquor traffic is in ours and never of the world's histoey. Nis nettle condoned crime though the criminal was thus linked with the most mom- was asking. He was ready to look eetinik 'of Ail eVentS and 'derives a the hideous monster sin squarely in luster from the conncetion, There the face and then hit at that sin, seems to he n natural law that great though his arm might seem to bo as 111e11 should always be identified with helpless and weak as the Mind of a great events. • yoUng girl striking at the wild beast TRAINING FOR GREATNESS. leaping upon her in the Roman are - There must 00 a training for great- na. He called a spacle A spade, a nese. The occasion 'does no1 create lie a lie, an adultery an adultery, eassetness; it only 'develops and pro- blasphemy blasphemy. and hypocrisy duces it. [1. 00.1111)11 treat° or make hypocrisy wherever they were found. gentleness out of common clay. We Ho denounced and excoriated the sins do not assert that history can play of the Jewish church. When Herod, it Minders "Messiah" upon a dinimr the governor, fell in love with his piece or blow a bugle blast with a evil brother's wife and murdered jesony whistle or catch thunderbolts Phillip that he might marry 1100, with a straw hat or shoot masto- John instainly hurled the divine dons with pins or strangle volcanoes cendemnation against the ruler. Ile with spider webs. The old poets' raised such it storm of popular in- suld that when worlds are used fOr dignation that Herod flung him into slaittlecocke and tile universe is a Prison and afterwaid, at the behest playground and all Infinity is ablaze of his step -daughter, who was dtum- with the conflagration then the very ing before him at a detinken feast, gods themselves must take pert in he beheaded John and gavo to her the sport. It needs stronger al%mts tho bloody, trophy upon a charger, thee yours or mine to piteli islands oh, nty brother, daSo we 151t11 for quoits, to bowl down mountains for tenpins, to swieg hemispheres as an ethlet 0 hurls the hammer, or,. with etamp of foot, to make the submerged continent Atlantts, which 011C0 stvetched between the old world and the 1100', with a. dying gurgle sink and .dlsappear. But crest needs hring great 01011 11'0111 ObSEUP- ity into prettlnenee. The occasion Purnishes the opportunity. Great men are produced only by great entergericies.- This pr,crelse 1)11- -Ing granted, what gloater event is there in all history than that of the corning .ofthe. promised Messiah 9 Now ninth it meant to the world midi to us 1 'Mat life of eternal joy have we except that which. reserves about the . personality 01. 11110 who. was once,baraised by John the Bap- tist in the river Jordan 9 What hope haveitwe of ever meeting: our loved ones, our parents and 001' Mends Who have gone beyond except through the Divine Being of Whom John the Baptist was tile 'direct fore- runner ? Oh, My Mends, as John the Baptist's. namo seas great • by bee hag linked to the name of Jesus Christ at his first Minting, will- yons not instke yotir name great by doing your part towata 'proposing the world for Christ's second ,comilig ? A FORERUNNER OF GOOD. ;Min the Baptlat 1511.8 a direct fore- runner. He was more than that; He was ready to sink and submerge and entirely cover hp his individual- ity with the personality of 'Jesus Christ. Ito was ready' lielet be all in all. •Sife wanted to be merely a footlight to make the di- vine face shine forth Ole more clear- ly. He Wag willing to iteereriso so ;Mot the glory 01 3118 Saviour might increase. 00 weS 1ik Johh the 13eptist„ sink oUr 10 Chritt'S or do we, like some of the ancient forerunners of the elist pre- coalng the leing's chariots„ W1811 t bo 'C1POBa01l so gorgeously end 'to make so rauth noiSe that people will be wetchieg us end achnirmg our Strides instead of terming their eyes tewara the royal Master whom we tiee proelaiming ? Are 150 %visiting that all eyes shall be turned upon ite Nett:ad of tmon Jens ? Are tve trying to Vrettelt so that nien may my. te a fine sermon ?" or We110 'LryAflts te •3)1e0.111 1.0 'that, as thitt . tido 01 1.110 grAVe We May still When Denseatititellee harangued, MS eohtimict tet liVe• In influeece for John's eourege, attack intrenclied sin wherever 1,1. may be found? :Like John the Baptists are We great enough and brave enough, no matter wiSat the direct cost inky be, to up- hold the great principles of gospel truth in the store, the home, the factory, the city through the sacred aisles or the church It- self? Dare we do this even though the eitrthly "powers OM; be" should unsheathe the glittering sword of death and wave it over our heads and the heads of our loved ones? • GREAT INBEAM, But, though John the Baptist was great in life, he was also great 11n cloo,th, Like the pionew who enters the American forests and cuts away the trees and pulls up the stumps and builds tho home and plants tho corn, in order that, hie,thildren may reap the harvests after the father is gone, so John the Baptist, not for himself, but for those who should come after him, lived his life rintl at last laid 11. down a martyr. John's death was as beneficient in its re- sults as that mother's death might bo which would bring togethee the warring factions of her family anti reunite them beside the altar of her casket. 1•1 you follow the teachings of the Bible very carefully you will Snit there was a war, a rivalry, a jeal- ousy, between the followers of Jesas Christ end the followers of 'Sohn, There Was po war between John and Christ, sooner clicl Jesus appeal' than Joint bent the knee and render- ed unto 111111 full and coin/dote obedi- ence, But this 01)0011(111015(0) 1101. 0110 111 1'0t01'011110 to the jobrinnian sehool. In ,the fourth chapter of John We find that in order to still Ibis rivalry Christ with his followers left tho &althorn regions of Juartert and travelled north and went through Samaria. But no 8001100 Was John the Bar1.1st dead than his disciples took the headless {stink of his body and buried it and "went and told Jesus." Alf, yes, by John's death all these factions were healed. The Johromian wheel be- aten) 111 tOtO the "school of the Nazarene," Is it not a. Mottled thought that 11 WO liVo ter Christ Christ after We /WO deed? John the Baptist, great before hie sacrifice! John the Baptist, great after be WaS martyrecll A TTIOUCIIIT ILLUSTRATED. Perbaps 1 can illustrate the Bible thought in a simple way. A great wall or fortress has to be built. The work must he pushed, One group of workmen amend the seaffuldiug and I0 y on one layer of atone and thee go to their rest. Another group lay another layer of stone npon the pre- ceding layer and then go to their rest., And so the work upon 1.110 wall grows higher and higher, each group of worIctnen standing upon a loftier scaffolding than that of the prereding laborers. Well, the great wall of progress has been builded in this way. Each generation repre- sents a batch of workmen, each lay - OP Of S101101110 001111deled work of the preceding generation. The col- lege boy of to -day linowe more of geography, more of chemistry, more of astronomy, more of all the scienc- es, than the ablest man living three centuries ago. Why? Because he has absorbed the compact knowledge of the last 300 years, which the great who/ars of those Dare cen- turies have laid at his feet. But as the wall of mental end spiritual progress mint on growing higher and higher century after cen- tury suddenly about 1,1)00 years ago spiritually it took a miraculous llft. Christ's sacrifice was laid imon the top of it. Tho Calvary ,9'1ones were the layers of the year 30 A. D. Those stones will lift all succeeding generations higher in knowledge and in possibilities, higher than all 511) and higber than ail future condemna- tions. I once heard a worldly man say: "The best man that ever lived never went to heaven on his own merits, If we ever reach the city of the redeemer], it must be through what Christ has done for us and not through what we have done for our- selves." This statement contains tho kernel, the essence, the heart of all the gospel. John the Baptist in his own life great? Yes! "Yet, notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he." LOTS OF WORK AnEAD. Snrveying of the Empire Takes Time to Accomplish. "There are many parts of the Em- pire of whith there are 710 Suit:IMO 11101118," Lieutenant -General Sir W. G. Nicholson informed the War Commis - mom "They lutse not even finished the Ordinance Survey of the United Kingdom, on which they haVe been at work for the last 118 years, I wonder," added the witness, "how much they have spent on that ?" The survey of the United Eingdom, which is proceeding as briskly 1100' as it WaS over a century ago, is costing the country £230,000 a year. During the past decade the work has involved a total expenditure of 42,e 300,000. The stall' comprises 847 °Meet's anil men of the Royal En- gineers, and 2,254 assistants and labourers. The uninitiated might be excused Nor supposing that such an fanny of workers would be equal to preparing a reliable map of these 1511111(1s in something under a century,. But in- quiry in official quarters justifies the assumption that they, or rather their ' successors, will be still engaged 111 1t,heielee.undertaking agother century The explanation is that the larger scale Mape show such details as the number of steps to a hoose, the po- sition of fire plugs, and the arrange- ment of trees in fields aad allot, melds. Obviously these maps can be rendered inaccurate and out-of- datewith utntost facility, necessitat- ing a, resurvey and a recount of the dom.-steps and tho trees. The plans- 01 01. SUrVey of Ireland at ProSent being nuirle indicate every tiny holding iu the country. There are as many as 1,300 of these small enclosures on one of the plans, "No such labounious work." it is stated officially, "has been 'met with on the Ordnance Survey of Great Bri•taiin." Ti1ills 10i01 another great obstacle. It takes from four to six months to Make E, hill drawing from the lield sketches. Almost microscopical though attention peid to Great Britain is, the Ordnanee Survey practically ig- nores the rest of the Empire. There are 3,200,000 sque.re 11111es of Aus- twins New Zealand, ana adjacent islands, which have not yet been 0)11" b'11,011, and an accurate inttp Of tho former country is unobtainable. The less populous ilistrietS ol Canaila, and the whole of South Africa north of Cape Colony 0.10 in rt, strictly geo- graphicAl seese, unknown to this day. :What detailed maps exist have been prepared front sketches Made by trusiellors and explorers. NOTES 15110)1 PROM ;5,1:ANYWHE1TE. Tattooing is 11015 110110 1E101 a needle driven by olectricity. The number of murders per million inhabitants is in England 5.13; ia Gerinnny, 5,45; in Prance, 11.58; in Austria, 15.12; in 3.taly„ 76.11; and in Spain, 44.70. The letense love of the Filipino for music is 110tably shown in their funerals, then. home entertaimeentS, and in their theatreft, The litilipino voice is smolt and thin, but it makes up the deficiency in shrilleess. TO PREVENT COLLISION, A Russian inventor has clovised apparatus which is intended to pre- vent collielons at sea. The apparee 1115 is operated by the use of cOntent deVices which he calls "feelers." The feelers move in a1,1 0(100 of the ship, end n.1, such a depth as not to be materially interfered with by the Weves. are so tlittposeil and Coenected as to indicate an Obstrue- (Son, stationary or floating, betieath the reirittee, whether 111 the direet coarse of the ship Or 011 0110 Or the other side, It, is easier for n WOrtiall to conceal her love than it is td hide her indi.f. Terence,. ' iSeesesetSoglesaoSituSSeepeariellt • FOR THE HOME T. ea eseeesseecoomeeemacoso TESTED COOKERY. Strolled Sirloin Stealr.-1-T.ave tin steak cut ono and one-half 1110110thielc and eut off the flank end, a it will not be goo'cl bred oilbut Call be used profitably in other ways Grease the broiler with some of 11)fat, then put in the steak and turn as often aa you count ton w slo's until both sides aro seared, then hold each side to the fire longer at a time. Four minutes will give rate steak and longer (-11110must b aliowed to make it well (MEM. Do not take out the bone betore broil Ing bat after the steak is laid on a hot platter ran a sheep knife along next to the bone so that the Mee. can be cut across for the bone to serve. Sprea'cl with 50118011011but tor. To one-quarter cop of buttei creamed arld one-half level teaspoon of , .p pp p , • spoon of finely chopped parebiy and one tablespoon of lemon juice. Creamed Oysters.—Scald 'two cups of cream in a double boiler with a slice cut from a large onion. Mix a rounding tablespoon of 110111. Wilk a little cord mak and add to the not cream mid coolc une til it thickns. Cook a pint of oysters in their own liquor ;until they begin to curl, sklin them out and drain, add to tho cream and season with salt mid pepper,to the taste. Serve in tim- bal eases or in bree.'cl esionstades. Split Pea Soup.—Pick over and wash one cup of dried split peas, soak over night in cold water, drain. and put on to conk in cold water and lot them coolc until entirely broken u,p. Ada boiling water as neede(1. Rub through a strainer and prit over the fire again. Add stocks milk or boiling water to make of tho right ,consistency. Rub 'two level tablespoons 05.01)di flour and butter together and turn into the boiling soup, cook until smooth and season with one level teaspoon of salt, one-half as much sugar and a few dashes of popper. Lichen Sweet Apple Puchling.—Pare ance d slitwo sweet apples thin. Scald two cups of milk; two round- ing tablespoons of corn meal and one rounding tablespoonful of flour with one-half cup of molasses, a lovel teaspoon of giager and pinch of salt, one egg beaten and two table- spoons of nielted butter. Mix apple, inilk and other ingredients and turn into a buttered pudding 'diels Add two cupd m s of colirk, but'do n o ot stir it in, then bake in a slow oven three boars, ,Cocoanut Puttcling.—Put three rbunding tablerpoons of toprioca. in cold water to soak over night. Scald four cups of inilk anti add the drain- ed tspoica. Cook five ininutes, then add • tlici yollcs of four eggs, three rounding tabiespoons of sugar and three tablespoons of prepared cocoa- nut. Cook ten minutes and turn into a dish to cool, Beat the whites of four eggs and four level table- spoons of powaered sugar, together to make a meringue, and spreaa 01W the top. Sprinkle lightly with cocoanut and brown slightly in the oven. Pea Sonp with Tomato.—Neat two cups of cannedm tomatoes 0)011 3)1088 through a 01)0.1000 to take out the seeds, adict a few 'drops of onion juice and. add a pea soup made from above eule Recipes for the Kitchen, • liyglene and Other Notes ? for the Housekeeper. Sit at your work whenever pos- sible. Do as much mending on the Revving MEEM1110 CM possible. live the sweeper„ When "dead tired," stop alai est; 7700\Oh accomplish more in the encl. SOME OSE.S OF BORAX. 1.11 sudden hoarseness or lofts of 1'0100 from colds relief may be ob- tained by iliSeolving and parlialls rtwultowing a luny of borax the size of a. pea. Borns may be ilitstiel on 5 a (Wald 01' Wet bUr/lod surfsce. it 5 Is nice tor decodes the teeth and 1.0 sweeten the breath, ate addo litled t hard water readers il, meth nicer o for batithig purposes,. Ewe'', parte of powdered orris -root, borax pre- ' pared 111101110mtied one 0110111 01! feud:, Poop ato rt. 11110 dentifrice. Ther 110 better remedy for danklruff o than a smell of an ounce ('11011 0! borax and camphor to one and one half pints of cold water, Scurf 1)10)1be removed from the baby's head by rubbing on u, little borax and then , washing with soap and water. Use one triblespoonful of borax to one gallon of water for washing xvordion fabrics; it makes a better lathet when diesolved f11 110t water. For washing silk handkerchiefs and gloves bornx may be used instead o somp. It is also Mee for cleaning hair -brushes, When meat, is ready to hang up, wash it in water 101 hot as yo0 can bear it on you, hands, then carefully cover the flesh side with powdered borax, MEd 9'01 will 110E be troubled with bugs or worms, SAVING STEPS. The woman who 'does 1111 her own work should make her "bead save her heels." By a little foresight and skilful managing she may 110 in au endless variety of ways. The fol- lowing are some means of saving steps and labor : First of all plan aboaa-1101.50 re- gular times for all work, and thus be ndstress of your. work and keep at the heal! 0(it, When conking green beans, cook enough for•two or more meals. Seine once with a plate itressing of buttes, salt ancl pepper, then re- heat aad serve some 11101.0 With a cream sonce,„ and again servocold with turisionnalse or Preach dres'sing. Make enough pie -crust for two baSings at once, and sot the umisect part in a, cord place until wanted. Slie last will bo better than the first. Let the boys or hired nirin Wash a 'bushel or more of potatoesout- doors—at one time. Cook the breakfast cereal the day before, Cook enough for 'WM • Or more ntrals in a doable boiler and reheat any number of times, ThiS should be coolcoid on ironing 'or bak- ing. 'clay to savo fuel. Those who object to having 'the same cereal two mornings in succession ean still al- ternate, as the cooked cereal will keep several 'days in a, cold mace. There ere many fruits and vege- tables which need little or no pre- paration for the table, • T_Tso 'these generously 111 season. Serve simply, neat (int nnl.i.dgiolyost 0 od-thopper anti *ttse it. Keep a supply of bread erambs ready MP 1180. Keep kitchen utensils 111 convenient Places. Doit't spend time ideating , Sheets, underclothes, 'towel% or stockings. They are More sanitary `unfrosted, For every day 15041` Make .010 11 110 girl's dresses 1111d bloomers of some ilark material—flannel in win- ter and chambray or den0111 in sum, nifizri—anddo away with the drawers al alit8. Cleae thoroughly as you go, and then keep clean. Insist upon the feet. being clettecid outside on some - 'thing provided for this purpose. Don't ellow tho 'dog te track up your porches, Clhain .111111, linve a palee for everything in the 11011110 and Hee that each member of the fondly puts the article he neefl in its proper place. Make 'every trip tlp doWn Stairs •count make no unnecessary ones. niE s. s. LESSON. •••••••••• the senility school INTERNATIONAL LESSON, NOV. 1. Text of the Lesson, II. Sam, xv 1-12. Golden Text, Ex. xx,, 1011 Afler the everhisting, unconditional covenant envie with David 1,10115 01111)151 his sop, who %void(1 be inrael's Mers slats and the kingdom of righteous - ;tees, as recorded 11) our last lessen 111 this book tehapter vli), we read of David's great prosperity and righteotie reign (5111. ,15). Then coinett the record of his great sin and repentance, the sin of Amnon and hie death at 1 110 Minds of bis brother Ahsalom, niter which AbseJom fled 'to the king of Gesbur and remained there three years, but through the pleat -deg of the wise woman of 're - lints, employed by Joel), he came back to Jerstileiti and dwelt whole years without recouciliation to his feller, after which, through Joab's intereeesion. the king became recon- ciled to hint, saw him and kissed f him xiv,, gs, 3:35. Absalom signi- fies 'Tattier of settee," hut his eon - duct Silite,Sta one 1010 18 of his fa- ther the devil (John 1-111., 411• The r king's Liss to A(selcan %vas 1110 los- ing kiss of a beartbroken father wel- t craning Ids erring son, but the kiss of A.bselom tif ne did kiss his fa- ther) was 1(101 1.110 kiss of Judas when he betrayed his Master. This Is the third tiine in fourteen yeare that we have bad this portion of this -chapter assigned as a lesson in- stead of the much more helpful and suggestive portion following, but vve are asked to -day to study verse 23, W11101 IN somo improvement. Tho story of Absalom is one of de- ceit and lying- and treachery and re- bellion even against his own father. Perhaps there was 110 one more wick- ed. His unscrupulous self-seeking, even at the cost of his father's life, is suggestive of the devil, who would if possible 'dethrone God, and COOKING VEGETABLES. Onions should be 'boiled in hard water salted, because they lose much of their flavor and aroma If boiled in pure soft water. String -beams usually need to boil for forty-fivc minutes. The addition of a small bit of salt pork will generally mini- mize any rank flavor, end will im- prove them. Men done, drain thor- oughly, season with salt, popper and butter. Turnips, carrots, cabbage and onions should be boiled in a great 'deal of water, then taken up immediately and drained wbon 51111- Cieally 'done. Overcooking destroys the taste, and too tittle water will &thew them to turn 'dark in color, New • potatoes are best baked, A very little sugar .adde'd 1.0 tomatoes, squash peas, corn, beets and tur- nips will improve them. Summer squash should be steamed and not !boiled. Cauliflower should bo tiea in a net to prevent boiling to pieces. Put a piece of bread the size of an egg into a cheese -cloth bag a.nd drop into a pot of boiling greens to ab- sorb the odor. SHE'D SAID TOO MUCH. "Now, Stanch" .said Edgar, with a complacent smile, I ant, ready to try that little experiment. X am sure I earl bring you tinder hypnotic influ- ence if you will agree not to resist. Just put your , mind in a passive conclition. TOY to think of nothing liktf all. Fix your eye on the light, now, and don't, forget to keep your Mind a bleak. I will count, sixty seconds by my wrath." • The girl followed his directions lit- erally. 111. twenty seconds her eyes blinked; in forty they closed. "AM I know I would snowed!" ex- claimed Edgar, highly elated. "Now Maud, I conunand you to tell inc the secrets of your heart. Whom do yeti love? Tell me, I command you." A momentary expeession of resist- ance crossed the girl's face; then sho spoke in a. monotone: "I love Edgar Popham, and—" "Yes, yes!" cried Edgar, trembling with delight. Go on. Tell lee all the secrets of your heart." "I love Edgar Popham," continued the .girl, in the saute tone, "and I would love him move if he were not so stingy. I want to go to the theatre t•wiee a week, and he takes 1110 only once in three menthe, 11 want diamond rings, one he gives 1110 rings with imitation stones in them, 1 \vent a, drive in. the Park once or twice a week, and 11 never get it, When I go out with 111111 and get hungry,ie.T_,11°never thinks of oYstors. "Enough!" cried the young man, "Awake! I command you!" And be fled, without waiting to see the re- sult of his command. As the Trent door slammed tho Young girl °Ported her eyes, smiled, and said; "I hope I did not spring too much on him at once, Perhaps I should have let the drive and oysters go till another tine." ' GETTING ON. A lady on entering the kitchen ear- ly one morning SELW a plate and knife and fork, the former of which had evidently contained rabbit pie. Tho lady strongly suspected a certain po- liceman of having supped off it, and tho following conversation took place between her and the cook: Mistress—"Jane, What's become of the cold rabbit pie that was leftr' Jane—"01),1 didn't think it was wanted, mum, so I gave it, to the dog." Mistress (sarcastically)—"Boes the dog use a knife and fork, then?" Jane (unabashed)—"Not very well yet, mum; but I am teaching him tot" SOLD BY TEM STIOCK. A farmer went on a visit to a friend. After dinner the husband- man requested to be shown round the town. After visiting several places they nosily reached the electrie lightlug works, "What d'ye call this place, Dan?" fit:wird the 111111100. "WS 1a called the eleetric plant," 17I5 the reply. "Plant! What do thoy Vote," "They groar eureenrs," 'l -Tow do they sell '010-1)91 the buehel?" 'Man/ don't aell "tnn by the 1)081101; they 'em by tho shock." Sbads 811011101 be pretty • teaSe of ilielehing they feel in their bones who will yet seek to do so ere the age doses. Make a careful and pray- erful study of the following passages and be ever on your guard against all such manifestations. Ise. 1015., Li, 14; Dan. vit., 2.1; sills 24,25; xi., 26; 11, Thesis ii., 3, 4: . Rev. 5-7; xvii., 14; .xix., 19, 20. There are Many foreshatiowings on a small scale—politicians who will not lake up a matter without first con- sidering how it may affect their own political prospect; those who, for their own ends, by good words and fair speeches, deceive the hearts of the simple; those who under pretense of worshipping God have only in 51015 their 0111.1 promotion and pos- sibly the overthrow of some just person. How desperately \ricked must have been the heart of Absa- lom, who, with profession of devo- tion to God 00 his lips and his fa- ther's blessing sounding in his ears, goes forth to carry out his devilish designs against his father. Yet there is an ever increasing multitude who are disobedient to parents and in open rebellion against God (IL This iii., 1-5). But as truly as David returned and sat 0/1 1111•1 throne in peace (xis., 14) so shall our Lord Jesus return awl reign on David's throne, and the wink of righteous- ness shall be peace and the effect of righteouteleSS quietness and assur- anee 101111'er (lsa, ix., 6, 7; xxxii,, 17). There are Malty ahithophels (foolish brethren, the name signi- fies) who stand high before men in relation to the icing, but who while outwardly professing al- legience, aro really on the side of thri enemy. Let us turn from the dark picture of self and sin to the faithful few who said to David in st sis calk bout, Behold thy ser- vants aye ready to do whatsoever 1111' lord the king shall appoint," and to hull, who said, "As the. Lord thrill arid as my lord the king avetli, surely 111 what piece my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy ser- vant be- (verses 15, 2.1). To mere natural eight it looked dark for David, but God hect promis- ed that the kingdom would be estab- lished forever„ and there were some who had faith in Gocl and WePe also ready to die with David rather than live with Absalom. The time was, and in China oily two years ago: when to live menet to deny Clirist, but malty confessed Dim and clied for See in Rev. xiii, 15-1 7, a. dee seription of coming clays, and see in Rev, xis, 9-11; xv. 2-4, the future of those who deny Christ in order to live and the future of such as rho for His salce„ Aray We have the spirit f ittaf and of Ruth ana of Elisha (Ruth is 16 17; 11, Ntings ii, 2, 4, 6, 9), and only our determined stand be that of Paul in Phil, I. 20; 11L 8-1-0. Note Dasid's submission and recogettion of God in this great trisl "Behold, hero am 1,, let Him do to me as seenicith good unto Ilim" (verses 25, 26). 0101' the sante brook Nitlron (verse 23; John xviii, 1) went the see of David 011 the night, of the agony in Gethsemane and the betrayal by Jtidas Iscatiot, and the faithful followers were 'yery few, Erma the same Olivet (Serse 11(1) the rejecter' Christ returned to Tits home in ITtetven, and to the same Olivet will Ile tome again to overthrow llis tummies and establish the proms ised kingdom with Jerusnlem its a center (Acts 1, 11, 12; 'Zech. 1011r, 4), therefore lot us obey Ise. 6, 7. David's going barefoot is suggestive of his acknowlectgetnent that this was ell of God, and God must man- age it, for it is 'His affair, Ile kilows how to perform every purpose, unit it 11ee0111011 US 10 put off our shore in Hie presollee, 05 Ile sairl to Moses and to il manta (lex. ii, 5; v. 1.5), Wo have tome to 5. plaee of great rest when, Ivith true humility and -obsolete towfideeee in God, We eat go day. by dny with unshod feet,, acknoWletigieg that tlic whole life arni all its service, passive or active, aro ef Goa, Ho appointed and prepared foe us and Wit have only 10 Walk With HIM in 11, Ho the Maher and iiniSher Of all, BEN- 18 MATER THINGS AXLE LIA-, 131X TO liAPPEN, Some Captains of Vessels Malta Their Dishonesty T'ay, Thetis Vlrell, theptains of merchant Vessels have a larger field than anyone else for the exervise of roguery, and many, of them do not fall to Week the Mild to the fullest extents 'rho ways In which a elcipper can build up a competenRy are numerous. I.'irst of all there is the iniquitouit SyStem of commissions, If the oweers order the stores to be of a certain price and quality, the sup- pliers find 11, advisable to cc/Arita:to the captain, or there will be tom - plaints. To ecmmensate for this outlay, the supplier probably has to send in a part of the stores of coal-. Its, 11110010r to that agreed, or the exect quantity is pot always given and this ds winked at by the master. Ile has to sign for the goods or re- port on the quality, and there is 110 complaint front him. Some skippers go farther. Fifty pounds' worth of stores are some- times' sent 10, and the Master 515,05 a smaller for half as mush again; the firm pays, and half, or more than half the supplies goes into the skipper's pocket. It is surprising, too, to notice 11010 quickly certain articles in the way of cutlery ankl linea will wear out, Or be lost or damaged. Tablecloths, kuives and forks, and the like, fina, their way to the home of the Mis- trals Thu wives and fatuities of some captains 310150 0.01 abundant Slip - ply of provisions at the end of a • voyage, 10111th means that the dkip- per has pinched the food supply at seas IlOGUE'S ADVANTAGE. In these cases where shipowners allow a sum of 10011ey to the master for provisions, the dishonest com- mander will grind quality and quan- tity to the lowest point, thus add- ing to the banking account standing in Ms wife's name. The men may grumble, but the skipper has the ear of the owner, and the "common sailor has no chance. The mates havo occasionally to be kept quiet, which, 'deprives the chief of a small portton of has hard-earned pilfertngs, but that is only a small drawback. Not only the provisions, but also tho ship itself and the cargo suffer at the hands of these mem Ropes and teoltle will be sold at a foreiga port, to the common danger; but the captain pockets the proceeds and accounts for the deficiency under the head of "thrty weather," 01' 50111e - thing of that nature, Again, repairs at foreign ports run -up the expenses from time to time. BOLD BUCCANEERS. 801110 of tbe depredations of skip- pers, in connection 101t11 the cargo, are enough to take your breath away if you rue not in the swim. Par instance, it seems incredible that a captain could appropriate ten ingots of copper—yet this was ac- tually done. Tim infortnation was given by one of the men who helped to carry them ashore at an Ameri- can port. This was one of the cases where tffe mates have to be tipped; they had 122 each for the helping, and the cower fetched £28. One skipper found it necessary to throw overboard ao fewer than fifty bags of gond Russian wbeat 'during a- storm; a. sudden modera- tion of the gale saved the greater part of the cargo from the same fate. That was a loss; but it is not uncommon to throw over some of the cargo to lighten the vessel, anti there are losses as well as gains in all linsinesses. But the strange part of the affair was that those bags of wheat were thrown over several days after the gale, mid about 1,500 miles from the suppos- ed spot—en tact, when the vessel was u, lotig Way 001 011 another voyage. Now was that ? . SEEMS TO PAY, The bags had been removed and hidden, in the anticipation of being able to dispose of them at the end of the next Dip; but, to the dismay of the elcipper, the vessel WEIS sent with ballest to a port where. thero was 110 chanee of selling the ill- gotten goods. lf the bags were per- mitted to remain in their place of concealment too long tbey might be discovered, so they were thrown over the Side at Iiight. An "advauce" on account to pay to men who desire to go ashore at nport of call gives the dishonest master another opportunity of mak- ing a little by charging interest. It may be that the met are entitled to an allowence, rind thus no interest can be charged but if the port be a foreign 0110, the captein does not frail to change the money for them and charge a high rate of exchange. "lf I could get a master's birth," once said 11 mate who had held a captain's certificate, but had been unable to obtain the coveted peel - up seafaring and re- tkssl, "1 would 111-0110 enough in five years to turn Ire meent it, slid as he Was "in it„" he knew what he was talking about. Further, in support of Ms nasertion, he mentioned e captain who, in a dozen years bad acquired Property to the value of four 1110)1) - 1(0)11(1 pounds. This was more Gam his pay anioanted to in the whole period, to arty nothing Of the fact that ta. had kept a inniily in good style all the time. WITA.T MAMMA Swill. An amusing story is told of a 11118- 01.19/ old gentleman 15110 visited his relntives uninvited, Ono ntornieg his little niece of five summers (1)1110 1-13) to him unexpectecie ly with the inclignamt question: "Thiele, ale you a cannibal?" The gentleman wag' startled, and said: "No, of course not, my deer child; bet what on' earth nutkes you ask?" The little girl replied: "011, 31 thoeght yoe most be, be- cause melanin Wag saying This morn, Ing, Just ue you 0111110 111, 11111E you aiWuye liVod on your telations,"