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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-7-3, Page 6SOWING A EAPING The 5eeds of the Flesh Always Pro. duce Great Harvests. r1 cco8p °thg t 4440 ViVeg. cles. Pia.. Loot lutes', et 'remits et the bsesreseie aseileicere, meant) detipatch from Chicago eaYs Iov lerank o Witt r.l'allinage Preach- ed from the following text c--Galtto Cans vi, 8, "Re thtt. soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap eorrup- tion," Seel* fainiliar texts; ore like power- ful tonics. They ' have a snop and and strength which we do not al - Ways find in tho water of life when It is held in strauge and peculiarly labeled hottles. They are like the leilabies with which we wore sung to Sleep in childhood, They have been repeater) ovor and over again by tho lipe of our departed loved ones, so that each word is made sacred by holy assoclittions, Every time we emetic thorn it Seems as teeligll these words aver() the ushors welcoming us into the vestibule of the church in which the serviso was held when we gate our hearts to God. Or these texts aro associated with the ser• =tone of some famous minister, which we have either read or heard. But though many great moochers have spoken from this text and though many holy accsociations gath- er around its words yet I would fain scads upon it for two reasons : First, because I am passionately fond of the countre. Therefore any toot which hos In It the ()gine of the sower and the reaper, any simile which is scented with the email of. tho new mown hay or of the clover to s, any figure which eaters the song of the wood robin or the call of the nightingale, •any text which is glinted with the golden colors of tho wheat fields or reddened with the; hectic flush of the autumn leaf, has I for me an inienee and suggestive !inton. natiolily heart never beats more exultantly than when it is kce, ing tline to the muse of the mowing machine or to the swish of the swinging soythe. The second reason why I speak from this text to -day is because the springtime of the year, when the American sower went forth to sow, Is only a few weeks past. The plows only a short time ago had the rust of many merit's rubbed off thc ir sharp noses. Tho hairow's teeth are yet white from chewing and breating the sods. And the sower, with his bag of soca hanging upon one arm and his handful of seed swinging at the end of the other m arm, only a short time ago, with measured tread, went across the I fields, scattering ,the seeds to the it: right and to tho left. May Cod help I US to teach the lessons of a sinner's retribution in the language of the spring plowing, TIILI SEED AND THE HARVEST. The seeds of the flesh by the in- exorable law oi the fields can only produce the harvests of the flesh. This statement is an axiom, a self evident fact. So self evident is the law that the seeds which are plant- ed only produce harvests after their kind that a United States agricul- tural department has been establieh- ed, the chief purpose of which is to introduce into the different localities the right kind of seeds for the best detelopment of the different kinds of crops. The official hotel of this de- partment is a member of the Presi- dent's Cabinet. Every year at pub- , hc est ense thousands of seed pack- ; ages are scattered over the country. I s F,ach Congressman has an allotment for gratuitous distribution aniong his rural constituents, As there is 0 spiritual Mw in the 1 natural world so there is a natural u law in the spiritual world. And the c sower to the flesh has no more right , to expect to reap •the harvest of the " sower to the spirit than a farmer has a right to expect to gather a crop of barley from wheat seeds or a crop of oats from corn seeds or a CTO) of rye from cotton seeds or a crop of potatoes from muskmelon seeds. Auy sinner who is trying to argue himself into a different spirit- " nal belief is not only mocking Cod, but making himself ridiculous. 6 "A FEW WILT) OATS." 00 vvhere you will you will find s that the sower to the flesh always t reaps a harvest of corruption. Sit s al eine he must up to the grave's edge suffer from has past misdeed». God may torgiee the sinnerend all tho reeult's of the past evil 'may ceaSe when the sinner robes himself in the white garments of the redeemed, bet c11 through the remaieder ob the sinner's earthly career be must suf- fer for' tho evil which he has done, The minister will tell you that one of the Saddest sights of Christian work is to see an old man who bite been Converted al, the eleventh hour hobbling along upon his cane through the barveste of corruption whichsurround him everywheve. Ile stumbles through the harvests which hove come from the seeds of his own planting: INEXORABLE LAWS OF THE le [HILO. The seeds of the flesh by the look- orable lows of the fields are expect- ed to produce more of a harvest than the original seeds which have been sowa, lt would be folly for tho forme to sow DUO kernels of corn if he could only remise in re- turn half a doeen ears of corn ; to plant twenty or thirty peas if he could wither In return but a few pode, or to labor at all if for every tlanted seed there would come up only one kernel in return. But when the farmer has a small bag of wheat. seed he says to himself : ••Now, if I properly plow :Old harrow the ground and plant those seeds right I will be able to gather a whole field of golden grain. One of my seeds will be able to reproduce itself many many times' Benjamin Franklin once said that the repro- ductive power, tho prolificness of vegetable life, is simply inconceiv- able end without limit. Wo all re - lumber Daniel Do lecje's story of the shipwrecked sailor. Ile found half a dozen small wheat seeds. From those few seeds he was able to de- velop all the wbeat he wanted, both or himself and his negro servant. It would be a happy solution to the sinner if when he sowed ono evil seed be should get book only one evil result. But that is not the way the harvests of the fle.sh grow. One evil seed will become the parent of many evil seeds, the grandparent of o host of evil seeds, and the great- grandparent of a lifetime of evil horvests. A sower unto the flesh al- ways reaps more corruption than he expected to gather. And if the evil remits of tare planting are so awful in reference to our own lives how much more awful must be the results when we plant those tares in the lives of oth- ers. Awful must be the remorse when a converted man realizes that by his sinful sowing he has develop- ed a harvest of corruption in the hearts of his neighbors. If he hits planted there the evil seeds, some of them will come up. The natural and spiritual laws are the same. HARVEST COMES SOONER or LATER. The seeds of the flesh do not neces, sarily produce the hArvest of the flesh instanter. A. long time may Intervene between the time of plant - lig and of reaping. Twice during he year the farmer goes forth to sow. There is the srulng pianting Theo the ryethe barley, the oat seed is scattered. Then the corn seed is placed in the ground. Then Ile timothy seed is thrown over the field, so that the farm stuck can ave hay Miring the winter months. lordly are these seeds placed in the round than tho spring showers Doke the little tender sprouts conut p. Then the fields everywhere are aipe treco. Some of the tares or the sins of he flech which we have sown in the past may seem to take avery long thee in developing. We may think because We have shined and never yet been punished and have kept on sinning five hundred, a thousend, tlen thousand times that we never vill u • h 1, are to gather our harvests of cor- uptiom But we will! As the Lord od Omnipotent liveth we will! lu•ist 111 the parable of the. lttres xplieitly states this fact. As the ouseholder he bade his serVall1S let he tares continue to grow by the ide of the wheat but with the judge upon the bench, and be will toll you that she young man standbm before him for sentence did not think that the seeds of sin, width he platted in secret would ever take root and begin to sprout. . sae did not think that his sowing a few "wild oats" would ever cause his downfall- Yet God was watching John sow those seeds. His employers wore watching him. Almost every large business house in the great cities has spies detailed to follow the tracks of its employees. So when the money disappeared from the safe the detectiN es naturally bunted up the young man who spent his Sundays at the races, the one whose companions were not what they ought to hove been. They na- tutaily came to that young man and put the hands of the law upon his shoulder, saying ; "Come, young man. The convict's eeul. awaits you, C 111 The physician in the sickroom will teach you that the sower of the flesh always poops the corruption of the . flesh. 'Upon the bed of suffering lies. an invalid, Ito may pray, be may groan, he may promise to do right in the future, but the physician says "No, My friend, good inten- tions do not eradicate tho physical wrongs of the past. You intuit reap the seecle, of gluttony, the seeds which once sparkled in tho wine CUP, the seeds cif tato hours, the seeds of the defiance of moral lows. Dying man, you must reap the harvest of the sins of the Deal.' which you have SOWe." Stand with the minister in hitt pulpit, and he will teech you the eeine leseon. ITewill b.oll yon that tnoneh a. man May repent of his rcrupers come they will first gather the tares into bundles and destroy them. Sinner, do not deceive your- self. God is not mocked. Do not think because the duy of retribution has been postponed that the seeds of the flesh are dead when they are merely dormant. As the loeg de- layed wheat harvest is tho strong- est harvest, so the longer the pun- ishment of the sins of the flesh is postponed the greater and tho more awful will be the harvests of cor- ruption. A. MOTHER'S REAPING. I once saw a woman reaping her harvest of the flesh which ehe hod wanted a fifth of a century before. It Wile 111 our old Brooklyn hotne. The doorbell rang, I went to the door and ushered into the parlor a lady dressed in deep mourning. Her face revealed the marks of intense suffering. When my father came down in answer to my sununons, the lady began to plead wilt him to in- tercede with the governor for the life of her boy. He was a young nian under senteoco of death. Ile was to be and WEIS eleeireellted within six weeke. "Dr, Talmage," she said, "I want you to plead with the governor because my boy's life is all the result of iny past sins. When he. WEIS a little child, be was very sick. The doctor e gave him up and said be had to die. Then I knelt by my son's bed and defied God. I said: '0 God, I will not, let. hint diet Ito shall not died You can de- stroy his soul, you 'Can "destroy mine, but I will hot and shall not give him Up.' Then, strange to say, Dr, Talmo:so, the boy had a sudden thong° toward physical re - ooyery rio &pita 'el all the doetors eald he got well, .33ut, liSein that, glimete My life was changed the weed opa, ct,no 1101V I 11111911 reap •the ritenitS of my past, eins is my Isey's exeetition, Oh, sir, will you not Plead, with the gaVernor to pardon leY boy on account of his niother'S Sins?" l'inte Wongst reaped the luirveitt of Iter corraPtion twenty- two years aftor the Iced of sin was sown, Se when we sow to the flesh 0001105 or later WO shatl all reap our **tidy and eternol harvest: al oge Who are the reapers engaged be- forohand to help thesower to the flesh gather in his greatest, harveet, which Is to be garnered at tho brink of the peen grave? They are the cleinonctie reapers. ThOY are Sa- tan and all his evil spirltS.• They are the demons that live 1» tho irapeao- trable darkness of a lower world, TheY aro the demons who will gath- er only the most corrupt of harvests. THE WAY Ole ESCAPE. "Well,'' eay,9 some discouraged said, convicted of his past sins, "what mu I to do? I fully realize my eyil nast. Must I die an eternal death? " Yes, my brother, there is hope for you if you repent of your sins sued throw yourself, upon • heist's mercy, as wide as the for- giveness of Clod, I only quoted one- half el the verse from which my text was Laken. The last half of the vet•so reads thus, "Bot ho that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting." Ube first hall is et red light of warning noshed far out over the troubled sea of sin. The second half Is u beacon inviting you up the Narrows to the harbor of ,Peace, First, my brother, you must get your heart 'right for the spiritual seed planting, ln the fur oust the ancient, plow was made out of wood and not from iron, You must let the beam of the cross plow up your sinful hearts Then'having prepared the ground for the spiritual seed planting, you must go to work for Clod with ten times, one hundred times aye, with a thousand times —the zeal you have ever frit as a disciple of sin. You must enlist yourself, body, mind ancl soul, for the gospel planting. As I said be- fore, you cannot change the pest. The past is deed. But, oh, by the power ot the Holy Spirit you can spiritualize the future! You can make your last earthly days honored days in heaven and on earth, be- cause they have been livoel for God and to help your sinful fellow man. "Whosoever will, let him come and take of the water of Ufa freely." That means you; that means me. We can all come. SOW TO Tim SPIRIT NOIV. But, my sinful friend, even with all your sinful past, is that right? Is that what Christ would have you do? If you had a wayward boy, and be had run away from home and trampled upon your bleeding heart for many years, would you want him to stay away and die hardened against you and bitter ; merely because be hacl been sinfui! and wnyward? Not If you knew I where he was dying to -day, you would take the very first train to I him, You would go, if necessary, without even a change of garments.' You would walk up and dowu the train while it was in motion, be- cause your anxiety would not let! you sit still, and you would rush in - and throw yourself by his bed just to the hospital and rush to the ward' to give him a kiss of love and par - me to him. My don. So Jesus to -day begs you to live for him and col brother, will you let the cross be the plow to change your heart? Will you take the good seed in your hand and go forth to sow to the Spirit, so that you may reap life everlast- ing? WALL, PAPER FROM OLD SHOES. Old shoes are not waste froni the standpoint of modern induetry. After they have dono their service and are . second-hand dealer restores the worn shoes to something like their for- mer appearance, and they are sold again, to be worn a little by the poorer ',Misses. When the shoes are finally discarded by them, they are still good for various purposes. In Franco such S11.0eS 1.1A'e bought up in quantities by rag -dealers and sold to factories, where the shoes are first talon apart and submitted to long processes, which turn them into , paste, from .which the material is transformed into an imitation leath-1 er, appearing very much like the fin- est morocco. Upon this material stylish designs are stamped, and wall -papers, trunk coverings, and similar articles are manufactured front it. • AUDIBLE RAILWAY SIGNALS. The Northern of France Railway makes use of a system of audible signals to indicate when the distant signal is at caution. Between - the rails is placed an insulated brass plank about Ci feet 8 inehei long. This is so arranged that when the distant is at caution a wire brush fitted to the engine paws in contact with the plank, and operates whistle in tbe cab. This requires the fitting of each distant signal with the necessary batteries and their up - keen, as well as the engines them- selves ; but they do not seem to find this very meth, and Ore quite satisfied with the system. LUXURIOUS HANSOMS. A compendious hansom cab has just put in an appearance on the London streets. In addition to the most puffy padding, it is fitted with a 'velvet hat dad, it clothes brush, an electric light which can be switthed on by the faro, and a tube ending in an india-rubber ball, which When squeezed, blears it Whistle ia the Colman's ear. *The last time torture Was used itt England Was 101640, When it glover mimed Araltee Woe put on the rook, este* 000000,0•09000 O 99* • c, t7. FOR .11014E • ReePlitels for the Kttdien, ilygiene arid Other NoteS ler the tklelstlicCePer. • • 000100 0* 0 00*0*00e00.0191 5011113 GOOD REOIVES, Spinnth and HorSe-Ilaclish Soup, —I -loving washed the eplanch and horse -radish leovee carefully, place the picked leaves or sPinacli and the IttAjoinve:danlidozo•soe-ord Icattili xineicutvuoisea.c) li 11 When tender, drain, remove from fire and chop lineile sure to save the wa- ter and replace all in it, adding one tablespoonad onion juice, salt ancl PerVer to taste. Mix two table- spoone flour into it little cold milk till creamy, ' then earl this to One quart milk, Plaee this in kettle With tho greens and lot it come to the boiling point, stirring constant- ly, Add butter just before removing from stove, Serve with saltines. Sweet Dried Clierries.—Thie is an old-fashioned recipe. To every one pound pitted cherries allow one-guar- sugar. Cec'se°fT''. fruit and stout; apro toe ngcle heving kettle until cherries aro lender, but not soft. Skim out the cherries, spread on plates, cook the juices down to a thin syrup, pour over the c.herries, and dry 0)1 together in a warming oven, or in the stove oven where tho fire is low. Stir the frit every two or three days, Pack in JEWS 01: tin boxes. Very nice for teudding saucea If, when used, the cherries are rolled in granulated sugar, they will separate and make a good con- fectionery; or the cherries can be cooled in the sugar until tender, skimmed out on plates, and dried, using the juice for other preserving, Butter Beans and New Potatoes.— Just before the potatoes are (mite clone, remove from Dro and place to cool. Take ono pint cooked butter beans, cut into small pieces. When the potatoes are cold, cut into dice. Into a deep dish arising° potatoes and beans in alternating layers with bits of butter, salt and pepper. Pour over this one cup cream and sprinkle top with rolled cracker. Cover, and bake in oven long en- ough to get thoroughly hot., Then remove cover for a. few minutes, to brown. Green Pea So;up,o-Take ono quart shelled green peas, two sprigs mint, and two quarts water. Boil all to- gether until the peas are very soft, then press them through a sieve. Put the liquor thus obtained in. a stewpan with o small cuctnriber par- ed and out into thick, square pieces, one dozen green onions, and three ounces butter, which lute bee11 rolleej in two • tablespoons flour. Lot it boil up, season to taetes and servo at once. White Fruit Cake.—Cream one cup of butter with two cups of sugar. t'l vct'y I' I ld the benten yolks of nine eggs, and theee-quart- ors of a cup of sour milk, if you have it on hand, mixed with half a teaspoonful of soda. Stir in four cups of flout: sifted before measuring, then a teaspoonful of vanilla. Have a pound of raisins seeded and (shop- ped, half a pound of currants elen.n- ed and dried, and quarter of a pound of citron s.iced thin; flour these well and stir into the batter; then stir in the whites beaten to a white froth. Bake in a moderate oven for two hours. At home this cake Was a stand-by. Instead of putting the fruit in the batter before tho whites oh the eggs, some add it when put- ting the batter in the pan, having the first and last layers of the bat- ter. This makes a large cake and can be easily divided if you want to make et small Cake. Cream Rolls.—Put a half pint of niilk into 0 double boiler and heat to a scalding point, then let it get cold. Then stir into a, quarter of a pound of sifted flour, to tablespoon- ful of sugar mixed with two table- spoonfuls of liquid yeast or eighth of a mike of compressed yeast. Put three-quarters of a pound of sifted flour into a mixing bowl with quar- ter of a teaspoonful of salt. Make a hollow in the centre and pour in the sponge mixture. Cover well and Jet' it stand in a moderitte tempera - lane over night. In the morning work in alt ounce of butter ,softened, but not oily, and again cover and set to rise in a warm place for six hours. Then form into oblong rolls, lay far apart in the baking pans so they cannot yen together, and Jet them rise three hours longer. Bake in a quick oven and glaze with the white of an ogg. These are nice Tor tort or luncheon. If for the lat- ter meal, make them up the night before and keep in a cool place until morning. STRAWBERRIES. Sherbets—For strawberry sherbet shortcake worthy of its IMMO and noble ancestry is to put the washed and hulled berries in to bowl, out them up with to silver knife and sweeten them to taste. Then, while the Mager is saturating tho fruit and extracting its Juice, bake a rich hie - cult crust, split it (mem butter the inside of both pieces generously and spread one of them with the harpies. Pot the other piece on top, with the buttered side uppermost, and pile the fruit on it nntil it will not hold another berry nor a teaspoon- ful more of juice. If any of the juiey berries are left serve them as a sauce with the shortcake. Many people prefer them to cream, thatigh the latter could not be scorned by the veriest epicure. Sherbet,—For strawberry sherbet mash two boxes of berries and add to them the juice of one lemon. Make 0 syrup by boiling together four cupful» of water with two cup- fuls of Forger until it spins a, light hair, Cool the, syrup, turn it over the fruit and run throUgh a, sievi. just before putting the mixture bit - 10 the free:Mr' add tho well beaten whitti of an egg or a tablespoonful of gelatine previously, dissolved in Wel- ter. The syrup is preferred by mot good cooks to 'melted sugar because it tends to give more body to the sherbet. The eg or gelatine is used for the same purpose — to pre- vent the undoSirable waterY taPPetar' Mace sad eitey melting of the ice, Cianned.—Nalce a syrup In the per. portion 'of ono pint of water t0. three-fourths pound of sager. Boll the sugar until it roPeS. Turn in the berries sbowly Whon the syruP boils again skim out the berries to glass jars, packing them else; fill two-thirds lull of berries, flail the sYrup until it ropes again and fill up the Jars; seal while boiling hot. WM(' BABIES ORY. It will probably astonish NM Young mother who has not yet out- lived the happy novelty of possoss- ing to baby "of her very own." to learn that a certain amount of eryo ing is a physical necessity for, all young babies. Tho eland who does not cey upon its entrance into this thoublous world., and who cannot be made tsi cry, soon comes to the end or its span of existence, for Its in- ability to ery denoces.an •equal in- ability to breathe. With its first pitiful cry the newly -born baby ex- pands ith little hinge and inhales the oxygen necessary for a proper start In We, and with every cry that fol- lows it acquires an increase in vig- or. Hence, to hush a baby's cry is not at all times a wise or seneible thing to do; indeed, provided the child does not cry from pain or hurf- ger -- a point which the vigilant mother can very easily determine 7-• it will (.10 it good, rather than harm, te lot It cry as long as it lain, even though the noise be somewhat of a tax upon. the nerves and patience of the rest of the household. Of course, the cry of ill- ness -- which is generally a fretful wail — and that of pain or hunger— which is alwaye sharp, intermittent and insistent — should receive im- mediate attention, for both are very exhausting to tho little one. — • DINTS TO II OIJSNKEEPERS. When sweet milk has just been brought in from the cow and is still warm, it is said that it will keep sweet much longer if the pan or pitcher into which it is to be pour- ed is scalded and partly cooled so as not to chahge the temperature too abruptly. Sometimes •• 'mused kettles, gem- gims, dripping -pans and other iron utensils get covered with rust if un- used for a long time and the weath- er happens to be damp. In such case, grease them thoroughly, set them on the stove or in tho oven and let the rust burn off. Cucumbers are excellent dressed with a, little sugar in addition to the usual salt, pepper and vinegar. They are vory "tasty." A few drops of paregoric will at- tract all the ants on the premises, according to a correspondent. It is certainly an easy thing to try. A. deliciousindividual omelet is a change. from •the eternal fried and Is/ached eggs. Beat five eggs tacit; add 511t tablespoonfuls of milk end a little salt, pour into a very hot buttered spider and as soan as set cut in quarters and fold each over like a tiny omelet. This quantity will serve four people. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSO N, JULY 6. Text of the Lesson, Ex. xvi., Golden- Text, Nett., vi, 11. 1. And they took their journey from Ellin, and all the congregation of the children of Israel c.ame from the wilderness of Sin, which is be- tween Elim and Sinai, on the fif- teenth day of tho second month af- ter their departing out of the land of Egypt. We turn back in our studies to the great redemption hook of the Old Testament and in God's own pic- ture book we see not only reel hap- penings but also. the foreshadowing of ninny things (1 Cor. x, 11-13). The deliverance from death and from the bondage of Egypt in con- nection with the blood of the Pass- over lamb and the glorious power of the.Lord's right hand sets before us God's redemption provided for us by Christ, our Passover while the succeeding events suggest the too common experience of the believer in which there is apt to be more murmuring than rejoicing. 2, 8. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel mormured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. At Morph it woe because they did not like the water, and now it is because they cannot soo what, they aro going to eat, failing -to see that He who delivered them from Egypt and clividerl tho sea for them would surely not fail to care for them io every way, 33ut in them We seer ourselves, for width of us con say that Rom. vill, 82, delivers us from all murmuring? 4,5. Then said the Lord ludo Moses: Behold, I will rain bread from hertiven for you, end the people ehs.II go out earl gather a certain rate every day (the portion of a clay in his day—margin) that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law or no. So it is written in Ps. lxxviii, 26, 25, "And had rained down manna upon them to eat and hod given them of tho corn of heoven. Every ono did eat the bread of the migh- ty" (margin). Just, think of it, food, for millions day by day right from heaven' II° would, teach them to Toole to Him alone and be content to live by the day, 6,8, Ye shall know that the Lord hall' brought you out from the land of Egypt. Youe murmurings are not against us, but agaiust the Lord. As to their murmurings. it Is writ- ten lit Ps. cal, 14, 24, 26, "They lusted execedingly in the wilderness al3C1 tempted Clod in tho desert. Thoy believed not His word, bel, mirei ht their tents and listkened not unto the voice of the Lista," They pcieSibly. Ma pot tlilnbo that ha antIrnatlking against MOsee they were MurneUring against Nod, bait when delnanded a, king In the cloys Of Salantel the,LOrcl Raid Unto Sean- uel, They have not rejected thee, but they have rejeeted Me, that X eltnuld not reign avec thole," (I Sem. Vitt, 7), .L 9, 10. Como near before the Lord, for Ne heath heard our reurnauringe. Thus. Noses' cononhasioned Aaron to speak unto all the congregation and as he soak° to the people they looked towsoel tiac wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord ap- peared ha the 'cloud. Thus the Lord Nifeiself appeared to Omni, asstiring them that they wore dealing with Man and not with Moseil and Aaron, 11, 12. And the Lord spoke unto Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings Of 'the children of Is- rael, Speak unto them, saying, At even ,ve shall eat flesh and in the morning ye shall be filled with broad, and ye shall know that I ana the Lord your God. What groat grace on His part to- ward these unbelieving murmuring hosts I They had coMplained that in Egypt they had flesh and broad to the full, so ne will give them in the wilderness flash and bread to the full (voise 3), Truly 115 Is El- Shadelai, the mighty Clod who is all sufficient, and in Him dwelloth all fulluese. His presence insures all sufficiency in hall things (II Cor. 8), and Ile would have us find in Nina our x01 and know that overy goo4 gift and every perfect gift is front above and cometh down from tho Father of Lights,, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning (Jas. I, 3.7), 18-15. And Moses said unto them. This Is the broad which the Lord hath given you to eat, So they had the flesh of quails in the evening and manna in the morn- ing. all .they could oat, not misuse they deserved it, but simply by the grace of Gods The manna was like coriander seed, white, and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey (verse 31). They were to gather it every reaming, every man according to his eating (verses 16, 18, 2)), and so they gathered its some mere, some lcss. On the sixth day they *gathered enough for two day% for none fell on the Sabbath. If they gatherell more than enough any other day, it bred WOrnIS and stank, but not so the surplus gath- ered on the sixth day. All thatOod asked of them was faith and obed- ience, yet in everything they ;trans- gressed. Some gathered more than enough on the ordinary days, and somo went out to gather It on the Sabbath clay (*verses 19, 20, 27, 28), and they found to their sorrow just as God had said (Ps. lxxviii, 12, 22, 37, 39). In the great gospel chap- ter on manna, our Lord says .aniong other things, 'My Father giveth the true, bread from heaven, for the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven and glveth life unto the world." Manna is 'sugges- tive of Christ in that it came down from. heaven. It was tho only food, it wss free and sufficient for all, it must be gathered fresh every morn- ing and each must eat it for him- self. An omer of it was to be laid up before 'the Lord to be kept, emd It would seem that it was placed in a golden pot in the ark of the covenant. (Bleb. ix, 4). 4. IT DUGAN WisLL, BUT— , They bumped into each other in the street, and both started to do the polite thing. "tI. beg your pardon," said the firs • "I beg yours," replied the sec- ond. "It was unintentional, I assure you." "And. I beg you to believe that it was purely accidental on my 'part." Ltrust you have taken no of- fe"None at all, and permit 1:130 to feel th8'01:'—' '11, Certainly. Beautiful day?" "Positively splendid." '• "Ever see nicer spring weather?" "Never!' ."Why, by. George, but you aro Andy Slathers!" exclaimed the tirst, in tones of contempt. "And you are Dick McQuirk I" re- plied the second, as he backed off. "And I was addressing you as a gentleman!" thought you were one!" "Y ah " 4 - ANOTHER SOLOMON. A horse dealer in et Scotch town having hired a horse to a solicitor, the latter, either throligh bac) usage or some other cams, killed the horse, when the dealer insisted upon p:yrinotnettopay ntbybifietta.97.,n inn net 1111111111 payment by bill if no it were t con- vThe lawyer had no objection to grant a bill, but said it must be at a long date. The dealer told him to fix his own Gine, when the seen of law drew ti Promissory. note, mak- ing it payable on the Day of Judg- ment. An actioil was raised, when the so- licitor risked the presiding judge to look at the bill. Having done se, the judge replied: "The bill is perfectly good, and as this ithat ss•oth0p—arlyLtoo-IntijiLdrg--cALatn't 33 acere° PROOF OF A REAL I,ADY. Little ldiss Meggs (haughtily): "Your mother ain't no lady. ' Little Miss Freckles; '"Why ain't shr" itLle MISS ggs. ; Seen her pouring hot water from the ket- tle into a big pail, rind she had an apron on, too. She's no lady. lady would rather eat off dirty Plates than wash 'em herself, So till6rTea:'. "I can't ti.nderstand your ex- tietvitgance, for when I made your nose e Ce you were a poor What would you he now, without ine?" She: "Without you Del now be .a rieli young' widow and a very good match !' ' 14,11,RIED SAVAGE CHIEFS. FOO=SH YOUNG WOMEN IIXANN $4NGE FIAT ONES , pUf311 narriageet- Do Not N'Onerall'm Have nappy Nesults.—Sorae Notable Cases, There are limited numbers of pe- ettlierlY eonstitti•tod young women to Win 01 t 0101:Q4r rernarnerktrIctengfEetliyt that is brought to mind every •110W .alla thee by some wild and foolish yeexig woman eloping with some eaeage or semi -savage tribesman, • says Pearson's Weelcly. The case of Miss Florence Madden is probably the most recent, but it aitisanntQitc,byDuainiYrigrntTens twilntiellaFotf lets"t- year, Miss Madden,her mother and ideter were staying in Cairo for the liw enefit ol tito latter's health, their home being in New Brunswick, ancl Mae Florence fell, in love with a dervish chief or leader, wlio used to COMO int() the town for the pur- pose of bu,slness. The ena of it was that the pair eloped as soon as the dervish's business was settled,- and went off to the plains, to ho vveelded in dervish fashion. Mrs. Madden ivas adquainled by letter of her daughter's intentions after the couple had gone out of Oairo, and she sent messengers after the young woman begging her to abandon her mad design. But the messengers failed to track' . the lovers. One hardly dares venture to hazard a guess how this strange romance, will end, for so many similar have closed in murder. 1T WAS GRIM TRAGEDY that onded the ugly love story of Miss Robertson, a young Canadian girl, who eloped with the famous Indian chief, Red Cloud. Sae was no more than sciventeen when she MII In lovo.with the Indian's proud. face and magnificent figura so she was more to be pitied, than blamed. Certainly' her punishment was severe. enough. Red Cloud Was even more jealous than most men of his race, and to very passionate nature under- laid his calm, easy manner, so ehar- acteristic of American Indians, Miss Robertson objected to living cooped up as Indian squaws live, working lilce a beast df burden for her lazy husband '• and rather than allow he such freeelom as would bring lier into intercourse with his fellow - tribesmen he murdered her one night while she lay sleeping, and surren- dered himself at the nearest fort as soon as he Could. Somehow, he was not even detained, and he lived to attain the emibition- of every Red Lidialito die fighting, Flashlight Was another redskin: who won EL British bride, Ina ldiss Hallen's love story was more plea- sant tha Miss Robertson's. This young lady was, the daughter of a missionary, mid she became so deep- ly enamoured of Flashlight, until that time' a violent enemy of all . "palefaces," that, contrary to her father's commands, , S.w.ls RAN AWAY FROM HOME, and persuaded the redskin to marry - Iter, At first the Indian was more disposed to scalp her than go through ,a detestable Chrlation ser- vice with her, bet her pretty face won him over in the end, and the strange couple were made one. Miss Hellen not only made an excellent wife, but tho redskin made u, very good husband, In to very short time the redoubtable fire -enter ores coin- plately subjugated to his British wife's will, told was willing to do anything to please he's She convert- ed him to Christian faith, to feat in which her father had completely failed, and induced hira to become a well-mannered, peaceful person. In doing this sho converted tho whole of his band, with scarcely an excep- tion, and she lived to see his body carried to a 0,hristian burial -ground on tho broad shoulders of eight Christian redslcins, and to know that her extraordinary love for the man had saved tho lives of many U.S. troops by making Flashlight their peaceable friend, after having been for years their relentless foe.' Until comparatively recently there lived near Orenburg, Russia, the aged heroine of 0110 of there re- markable romances. Shz vas Oltee a Miss Clitford, the daughter of a non-com, in the East Indian Service. At the age of seventeen she fell in love and eloped with the chief of small kingdom near the Ili River, now within Itussian-Turkestan. The singultu• love -match would appear to ha" beaalVIERY IIADDY ONE. Nut only was she In possession of, her husband's entire conlidence and affection, but his people were so much attached to her that upon his death, about the year 1866, she was put at the head of the littlo. state in the plate of tho deceased chief, and a nude relative who claimed the succession was refused his right and even 'put to derail be- cause he persisted inurging it. On more than one occasion tbe.Dritish savage -queen led her people Lo Ma- tte ; once to qoall a rebellion, and at another thno to drive (Alt the hordes of a neighboring chief who thought to 'oveethroxv the "womitn- on-the-throne," and seize her little State. So really greet was her ap- titude for leading in war, and so immense was the devotion and loy- alty of her people, however, that Iter neighbors 'Soon learnt that She Wee 11011 a person to be lightly con- eidered. She would probably hove continued to hold her position until her death had not the Russian Cl ()v- ermeil!, had cle.eigns on the terri- tory she ruled, One day thei•e went to her a Russian envoy who offered, : her a handsome pension if she woeld cedo her coun try, ''.Vhe al ten it Li vs , was war, which could, of course, only end one wny. Doing a wiso woman she accepted the pension, and retired to end hoe daYS at Oronburg, THE BRITONS 010 WORLD.. • • • The IiIngland of to -day is no more a small Mend enn: bat the. whole British race in the. dye parts of the World.—Noue Frei° Dresle, Vienna;