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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-7-24, Page 7SO ENG THE GOOD SE Great Rewards Will Come From Casting It Abroad. it000relnit to tot of Viallaineut of Clam a, Is 7oar ”oThotinan4 lee Rue dm! Bud Two, by WIllemi 1117,oz rarqnto, ""s till 1,1.1p13ctum13t of A/sleeker% Mem., • • A deelietch from 'Ohiesigo says Frank De Witt 'I'almage preach- • ed from the follOwing text : Psalm cxxvi, 6, "lie that goeth forth and • weepeth, bearing procioue seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves, with him." Almost every home is adorned with ' compani on pictures. If upon one side of the room we see the wayward boy gathering all together and tak- ing* his journey into a, far country upon the other side we want to see the returning precligal being wel- comed home by a forgiving father. If upon one side .of the 700111 WO hang, a pletere of the twilight, upon the °thee side we want to see the picture of the dawn. So this morning* the sermon which I Preach Srom the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Psalm of David is a conmatilen sermon to the one recient- ly delivered upon the text, "He that soweth ,to the flesh shall or the flesh reap corruption." It has a. com- panion text chosen on account or its vivid contrast. The text Is se- lected to prcive that .the Christian sower has a right to expect his gospel harvest fields to be stacked high with golden sheaves of many blessinge, to exrect his seed to brieg forth some thirty, some sixty and, some a hundred fold. It is the pic- ture of a Christian winker gathering - the sheaves of his Christ love. It Is the symbed of reward, the symbol of glerilled hope and joy. It is the sweeter text because in it we hem tre triumphant songs of heaven in- stead of the bitta• gongs of despair. A FRB:IC:JOLTS SHEAF' garnered by the Christian sower and reaper, Is the joyful realization that. by his personal acts he has been made the human means in the di- vine hantls through which immortal souls have been saved by Christ. There is a natural desire inborn in almos1 every human heart to help those who are in trouble and who cannot help themselves. If at the sununtr seashore 11 bather is taken with a cramp and begins to sink and calls for help, all up and down the beach runs the cry, "There is a luau drowning I Look, Look I Cannot somebody do something to save hint ?" rhoo the women weeP and wring their hands, Then the men run out the lifeboat caul stout arms pull at the oars, Or if there is no boat near, four or five strong swimmers Will dash into the surf and with powerful stroke they will battle against the waves. Then they drag the unconscious bather in. Friendly hands will roll bun upon a,. barrel. Then the doetors will work over him, and the Word Will be pass- ed around, "Stann back and give him air." And when at lest the suf- ferer. opens his eyes and begins to breathe regularly, this sentiment will be heard everywhere, '"Pliank God, he is saved I 110 will live 1 He will live 1" 'rho) when the people crowd about the rescuers to con - grate lite them and ask them. if they Wtre hurt, the brave fellows may nosiest., "Well, we aro pretty well used .p and exhausted, but it does not matter much as long as we saved long as we saved libn." NOV. as Joy is nothing* more or lees than the pleasant emotion pro- duced in the heart by the gratifica- tion of any desire, as we have shown in reference to the .physical man, that the desire to help those who are helpless is implanted In almost every heart, what greater joy could come to Oa Christian reaper than the realizaticm that he has been made instrurnettal in the saving of a soul 7 What earthly joy can be compared to the hol,y exalta- tion that comes to us when we real- ize that by prayers and pleadings we have been able to bring a sinner face to face with Chrlst T What greater joy than to realize that our humble efforts have been blessed 'to THE SAVING Ole A sotrL which will live on and on through the coining ages, and on through eternities, on and on until the last of the lights of the stars shrill be snuffed 'out and 1.11.110 Sh0.110 be no levee ? So, on account of this transcend - 0p1 joy, We find that soul saving has become a passion with some men. Just as a mechanic's wife, who has 11 little back yard. digs and plants and hoes and hovers over her gar- dens because she loves flowers and never tires of her beds filled with pansies and sweet peas and govan- hues and nareisses and nasturtiums, so the true Christian levee men and women in order to Will them to Christ. Ali, there is no joy on earth Hite the rapturous joy of soul sav- nig I It is One of the most precious 51105V08 ever garnered by the Chris- tian worker. lify brother, If you have net this passim) for • saving souls you have not yet boon blessed with the holiest joy of tvhich the hu- man heart Can conceive. Another precious sheaf that is gar- nered by the Christian reaper is the gentitiole of those whose immortal sot& he has been Wile, by the power of the Holy Spirit, to win to Chriet, No true Christian has a right to Swerve one inch front the path of rectitude in order to win the approbation of his fellow men. Ile should be 1011 ling to do his felt • duty tinclee All Conditions, No Mat- ter what obstaelee may confrrnt him, he should be willing to drese the plumb line ol principle end go Straight ahead whether lic is praieed or blamed, eyed or hated, honored or despiSed. But whs.)! a Christian wother can sow the good yeed and not ouly, gue Mier for i.hrlet a harvest of immor- tal souls, but gather 11100,the sernti- tilde end love of those whom he has been able by the power of the Moly Chost, to 104c1 to salvation, the re- ward of that love 18 very sweet. 14. is as sweet as the' attention which D. L. Moody used to ;Mower upon 11, little old 330111054 • 130(31111(113' (111111(4 Mother' Cook, whose ProYere 'wen the means of giving to 111r. Moody a spirit filled life -a little oicl woman whom perhaps you have never heard ei, Yet a woman whom the whole Christian world ought to love on ac- csiunt of THE WOBK ,SHE rAs DONE. It le 110 sweet as • the affection which *the Sunday school scholar givee to his teacher, becaues tbat teache33 has led him to Cloiet. It is ao sweet as the look of giettitucle which the dying man turns upon one Who, has pointed him to the e1'0S5 and to divine pardon, It is as 81C041t. ELS •the affection which a child showers upon 11 mother's life, an af- fection which is developed not alone from the temporal care whieli she devotes to the child, but also from the spiritual care, whereby echo has been able to put her child'e hand into the hand of a loving Christ, Another 13110101)8 sheaf which is garnered by the Christian reaper is the sheaf of contentment and will- ingness to live happily in that field of life in which he has been placed by God. 31 a. man does not mingle with the poor and the troubled, the sick and the suffering, lie never fully realizes how good and kind the lov- ing Clod haS been to hint If a 1111111 does nOt visit the sick room and try to carry there comfort anti goocl cheer to the wan invalid, he never fully appreciates the blessings of health. ledees perhaps Ile himself has been cerried into it hospital. Then, while recovering from a serious sickness, hp has seen intehse suf- ferings and agonies 111.1111 WS may be witnessed in almost every ward of a large hospital. lf a man has never entered a home where diphtheria has played havoc with the nursery, ' or where coneumption has made the young mother cough her life away, he never fully appreciates the blee.s- ing of •having his children and wife by his side. If El. 331511 has not tried to carry 1110 gospel to the outcasts and the vile, he has never yet real- ized the blessing of being born ia .ft Christian cradle and surrounded by a Christian. childhood. All, the Christian sower who scatters the good seed upon. the troubled sea of restless humanity, while Ile May be carrying a blessing to others he is also planting in his own •heart the seeds of gratitude to God and of contentment with IIIS OWN SPILERE /APE. Another precious sheaf which is garnered. by the Christitin sower is the joyful realization that the re- sults of the seed planting will never die as long as the world lasts. As we have before said, one seed pro- perly planted will neoduce many seeds. And these in their turn will Produce many seeds more. So a Christinn's early influence does not cease at the grave, but, will multiply Tor good so long as the world lasts, It will go on increasing until the seas have, been licked up and the mountains and the valleys have been cremated in the last cenilagra- Mon. But the most precioue sheaf gar- nered by the Christian sower and reaper is the joyful realization that all the harvests which result from all the different Christian plantings shall be gathered at last into the granaries of .heaven, It matters not how many inunortal men and wo- men old children may be saved, nor whether they are rich er poor, black or white, Jew or gentile, Protestant or Catholic, they shall all ilnel room for thennielves in heaven. All who will accept Christ and throw them - sullies upon his pardon and love can come, The sower ol the gospel seed might heeitate tr. east the bread of life upon the troubled sea of sin if he thought the gospel .avitation Was to be in any way circumscribed. 13ut it is not. The invitation is so wide that it takes in all who are ready to be cleansed of sit. The invita- tion is so 3711(0 that the welcome comes from every direction: "The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will Id, 111113 take the water of life finely." That surely is a broad enough invitation for all. And what a haevest home that will be when all the gospel sheaves shall be gathered into the granaries of heaven; the rejoicing Will be every- where. Some of us have seen the noted picture of the painter Seifert, calIed "THE HARVESTERS' RETURN." We have seen there the Joyful looks upon 1.110 faces of the men and the women who have been working in the fields. Perhaps We OlirselVOS have lived in the country. We lutve shared in the joy of the leborers when the last sheaf of wheat has been Laken to the thrashing noore, but the Joy ot earthly harvest hoine is nothing eompare.d to 11111 heaven- ly joy when all the gospel sheaves ehall be gathered into the heavenly granaries. Now, as the gospel soWor Who Casts his bread upon the water shall reap sech glorious harvests, 8111311 We no1 veclouble osir energies and pleat 11$ ninny good seeds as we can 101, Christ? Shall We not do as much good as WC C011 in the Jetv years that semain for es'? Shall wo not thaek God that le has given to 3(0 on opportunity to Work and to live tor him? Shall we uot find our joy nlul reWnrd In sowing awl in scat- tering; our gospel seed tinier 1,110 ileld or sin; to scattering- our good 4100110 over the gnai troubled sea er aline ni ty? Mould that we all might be will- ing to go forth to this 1)051101 13111111" Irtgr Would that we all might, got Our heaels 111 touch With Christ, sti that WO might eoueecieGe Ohl' iiV05 for the mighty week Of silreetdilla the 111)81101 '(111(3 for gathering in a harvest of neverstlyiog Souls! Thle is no idle hope offer to you. 111e smelted word emphativally Flays. that if any Christian SOWer ga0t,I1 forth beering preeious seed he shall come again, with rejoleings briuging his sheaves with. him al the earthly and heavenly harvest hem°. 4 LORD LISTER. • Something ,Allsout King Edward's Physician. Sir JoSoph (11010 Lord) Lister, stir- gee13 extraordiectry to the Kliegs who is chief of the itlysicians now at- tending Edward 1/11., was the !lest medical elan to receiee 33 peerege. Sir Joseph is the Inventor or els- coverer of the widely known an. tieeptic preparation culled for him, '"listeriee'la giving which, to the world he did much for 'cleaMiness. HO is the great interpreter or ex- pellent of the school of surgery whose meadmvs are know1l as an- tizeptiste. Lister is the father of the antiseptic method. Ile was re - Warded for his beneficence 1,0 human- ity by Queen Victoria In 1883, Whorl ho was made a baronet. Lister's antiseptic methoe, liIoe. all new prin- ciples in science, erented ninth con- troversy when he announced it, but it soon won its WEIY, and the neces- eity of extreme eleanliness 111 surgery is now everywhere recognized. Before Sir joeop11 made his • dis- covery the suppuretion of wounds and the inflammation of the Paris adjoining the marks of surgical operations were supposed to be na- ttn•al and neceesary instead of re- sulting from the introduction of germs into the wounds from the out- side air Or from the iestruments themselves. Lister's method or prin- cil le of cleanliness has had growth with the development of the germ theory until a physician or surgeon in this day 10110 1701.11E1 1101. matte ego of the proper aatiseplic remedies would be pronounced ignorant of the first peinciples of the science. Lord Lister fell in to the scientific 1011.3' naturally. From his birth he was environetl by the surroundings of science. His father was an Ie. R. S. and a great microscopist, and young Lister 10,313 50111. to the uni- versity college of London to study the arts, After his graduation lie took up mmlicilie and surgery. His best lessons in operative surgeey were learned under the greet, Liston. Ile was home surgeon in the famous hospital at Edinburgh under Pro- feseor Syme. In 1869 he 101.1.5 made regius professor of surgery in the University of Glasgow, and it was while engaged thus that he developed his researches on antisepsis, a me- thod that revolutionized the practice of surgery over all the world. leis lectures were brilliant, 511(1. 811(1111115 from many climes sat 11,1 his feet and eagerly took up his ideas. In 1 869 he succeeded Syme as srofessor of clinical surgery, and ten years later removed to London to fill a like chair. in King's College. He is the resident of tho Royal Society and president of the British Association fqr the Advancement of Science. • Lord Lister has received the degree of LL.D. from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cambridge and of D.C.L. from Ox- ford. ' Lord Liter visited Montreal in 11107, during the mectieg of the 131'itish Medical Association, 1.111d Was given the honorary degree of 111.13. from McGill University. • ANCIENT TAX ABOLISHED. When this year dies an eld city pri- vilege enjoyed by the corporation of London since the ciceys of King Ed- ward IL will die also. On Decosn- ber 81st the corporation discontin- ues ,"the metage and porterage" of fruit, potatoes, and other produce brought into the port of London. This is in 111.11`5110.1100 of all Act of Perlitunent passed in 1872 giving the city thirty years' warning Of the cleaning demise of thls ancient right. It, was a revenue of three -sixteenths f penny ' upon every huodred- *weight of certain kinds profillee 1n:ought into port. This abolition will mean a loss to the city corpor- ation of about £14,000 a year. PREVENTING THE 'INCONVENI- ENCE. Cadley-"I'm awfully fond of. beef- steak and Nee onions, but I dare not eat them, because they make one's breath disagreeable." Waciley-"Pll tell you how you 0011 manage that right enough." Cacti ey-"Wel how'?" Wa.dley-"just, go to that. new, fa sh enable restaurant that has been. started and order beefsteak and onions, and they will bring you something to take your breath away." Cadley-"What is 01" Wasiley-"The bill," A LITTLE 111NT. Tommy had been quiet for fully five minetes, He seemed to be en- gaged with some deep problem. ho said. "Wel I?" " 'llo unto others at; you would have others do unto you' ---that's the golden 15111'i it, 131013(3.?'' "Yes, nay son." "And it's quite right to fellow the golden rule, isn't it, 1)0011117" "Yen, indeed." Tommy rose, wont to the cup- board, and returned with a knife and a large apple pie, The latter lie placed before hie astonished 51(0 with great solemnity. "Pat it, papa!" he void. Miss Emma Whitmore, the gallon ttgent at Wantagh, New York, has been hi the employ of the Long Island Rail - mad for twenty-five consecutive years. 81te commencea working for the com- pany whim 0. very young girl, assists Mg her lathes, who wee an 'agent at Bellmore and afterwards at Wantagh, 'Miss Whitmore received the appoint. ment ns station agent Rites the death of her fatties. Besides selling tickets, she takes care oi the freight and bag. gage and is ceesidered an excelloot telegraph operator. 81te is thoroughly wenutuly end is eteceined for her geni- al and graelous Mantels. 0..0.... ?, FOR TB IIONU3 * Recipes for the Kitchen, . filoyrgtileinee matunt43ehOetelipeerr,Notes 2c; 11 113 ifilsecteasetegass cs@otteellOtfbielget (30011.1 511 IX EST ioNH. Illanquette of Liver-Parbold Jiver 10 minutes, Palo) it from the water, put Into a clean kettle with 53 qts boiling water. ,ilipluer Llitee hours. Let it cool In the water, and When quite 01)1(1 cut into 511101 pieces. Put :3 tablespoons butter into a frying 131111, 111111 1.0011 111 it 2 slices 0111031. Take 0111 the olden, title in 3 tableepootie flour, mid sea- son with salt and peppes. Add the' chopped liver, cook a few minutes, add e teacup thin cream and when it boils, 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Send to the table st 'ince. Fried Barley--Soalc I. cup barley over night. In the morning wash in a. strainer, put into the double 111341- 01' with 1 south qt. water, 1 teaspoon salt and sevefal shalies of pepper. Boil about five hours -be sure it is thoroughly cooked. lt, doesn't re - glare 50 many hours as when not first soaked. Let it get cold and slice into pieces half an inch thick. Dip 11110 beaten egg, then bread crumbs and fry in deep fat, or it can be fried in a little let in the frying Pan. Evaporated Apricots 0.1.0 nice for P110. Stew them gently ((Mil thor- Oughly cooked, adding the sugar 1(1 minutee before taking from the fire. Ilse 1-3 cup sniper to 1 0119 dried apricote. Cook the lower erust of the pie lirst. Put in the apricot sauce into which has been stirred a small teaspoon cornstarch. Cover with a crust., or put itips across the toe. • Tomato Bisque -To 1 can 1301)15." 13005 add •fs tettspoon soda. Boll, strain, and stir into it 1 tablespoon butter and 1 thblespoon flour rubbed 'together. Reture to the fire and boil a few moments, to cook the flour, adding salt and pepper to taste, and a little pinch of cinmunon. 10 not entirely free from lumps, as it should be, strain again. Pour into tit of het boiled milk and serve at once with croutoes. Graham Wafers -Take cup got - ham flour, e cul entiic wheat flour, es teaspoon baking powder, e tea- spoon salt, a tablespoo-ns sweet mecum, 8 tablespoons sweet milk. Roll thin. Summering Smoked Hates. -When hams and shoulders arc smoked, with it very sharp knife slice the meat from the bones, i;ernove rind and all distolored parts, and pack in a, large Jar without cooking, preesing well, as it is peeked. Cover with an inch depth of lard and tie up. This will keep through the hottest weather if imniediately, when aey is taken Otrt, the fat is heated, strained, and re- turned to the jar, adding more from time to time. if necessary, to keep the requisite depth. Take What is Left from the table, the potatoes, meat, bread, and onions, grind them all together, sea- soning With salt and pepper. Mold into cakes ancl fry. White Sauce -Melt 1 tablespoon butler, taking care not to lot it browe. Stir in .1 table•spoon flour. Add this to 1 pt boiling milk and cook a few minutes. Season to taste. This is a standby for mitten- ing over meats and vegetables. Chestes Sponge Cake -Take 2.1 coffee cups flouts. 1 cup sugar, * eup milk, 1 even teaspoon baking powder 8 eggs. Flavor with 1 teaspoon vanilla. Success is assured if the order of mixing is observed. Sift, the sugar flee times. sift the floer i110 times with the baking powder in it, and a salispoon of salt. Next beat together the yolks of 8 eggs, and silted sugar entil light and foamy. Add to this the half cup of milk, then add :lair the • flour avid heat well again. Lastly add the re- maining hall of the flour and 70(1" 1113310 beating. 'Beat to a froth the whites, pour in and beat all to- gether ten minutee. Bake in &et/ ties 20 1111 1111100. When cool, coley with ,a-ri teing and decorate with blanched almonds. always know 'what sPirits of wino meautt, IL is an old-fushioned term for 00 per scut, alcohol, such 115 10 usually sold by druggists for house- hold pustoses. It is excellent for cleaning windows, After the whitlow frames 111.5 properly cleaned and the windeW girisSet; Watilled with Clear Water, polish theln WI I 11 a little alco- hol and a enamels skin, Plate 011.08 81111108 1501 111.11101y If It if1 rubbed over tvith whitening and 10111.18' 011 both sides, and when it. is drv polish- ed off with chamois skin. 0 1ass which has heeonte dusty 141151 be thoroughly destee off before it is cleaped in any other way, 1111110114 are easiest made clean with whitening white). 114 10We0i 10 dry on the surface of the glass and then Pollehed off. Stained gluF14 31'111dOW5 1110 ;tinnily washed off with clear 10(1" 101 after being thoroughly dusted., Wile) and polish dry with u chamois or a cotton chili'', An absorbent cotton towel is soneithnes the best thing to rub eines with at, first be- fore polishing it with the chamois. Make it a rule never to apply ttoap or soapy water to glass. Foolish people are continually trying this experiment, with 1.110 never failing re- sult of streaky cloudy panes. THE CHILDREN'S TA131.11. The individual ownership of pretty silver and china menses children as much as grown people. Hear David Copperfield testify to this on his )..e - turn home for his school vacation : "1 had my own plate with a brown 310317 of a man-of-war in full sail upon it, which Peggott,v had hoarded somewhere all the time I had been away, and would not have had broken, she said, for a hundred pounds. I had my old mug with David on it, and iny old little knife and fork." Whatever adds to the interest cold pleasure of the children's meal adds also to its wholesomeness, to which the element of affectionate gratitude toward& those who provide it large- ly conduces. ILSES OF KEROSENE. Kerosene, by the way, is one of the most valuable . of our kitchen familiars, not only as a, dirt seivent, ;but as an insect. exterminator. Beds Wiped over oceasionally with kero- sene cannot Muter bugs. Poured over aut-hills or along the route chosen by the little pests for their entrance to the house, they can be routed and put to flight. Cock- roaehes turn their backs to a kitchen whose walls are frequently wiped with the pervasive all, and mos- quitoes leave thMr chosen breeding places if a little oil is poured over the serface of the barrel or standing I pool. Title SUMMER DINNER.. Di -111101.-1110 1.11r1111.1 1 1110111 01 1.11C. day -should he at night in summer al- ways. Preferably SO 1113 all Neasoile to most people ; 111.11 03011 for those who, from choice or necessity, have a winter micl-clay (limier, it seems an !absurdity to keep to this honsehold habit, when all humanity wilts be- )1eath a burning sun, says elateorie .March. When the hrightnees of the 101161.0711 sky says its good-bye to the sun, and the feint breath of evening stirs the geass, all mankind feels 1110P0 like partaking of 11, formal meal served at a formal table. But 071311 With this hearty meal of the day, while in nember of C011P8CS It muy correepond with the dinner of cool wen:thee time, its simplicity should take the form of quality of food, not 111 absence of qpantity. Light soupe, ;whet an Li ftl. 1110015 111/d .vegetables, but less In ttbendont ways, cooling custards, whipped cream, the many ices or delicate gelatine desserts are equally 111111101)10, and more nutri- tious. All all such food has to go more then half way to meet, the eyeing° appetite So 01111)tingness should be its elder characteristic, Small vegetable dishes and fragile glass will holcl (111/ 111 cnongli food and just as much liquid ; and who cam estimate the difference in the looks of a table offering just enough ill a dainty way, instead of smigar abinulance that saticite:4 one's ap- petite before thole hes 111C11.1011 it satisfy ? Centrepieces should be 08 light and graceful as possible. A tali vase, with trailing bits of green, gives a light, airy effect, tis cluirming act the breath of air that, sifting from the WinflOWs, stirs 110 101)dri101. CIMANSING Dieeetions ctre often seen for clean- ing Windows With spirits' of wine. The Inajoi•ity•of housekceperS de not EFFECTS OF THE BOER WAR ESTRANGEMENT OF CTIRIS- TIANS IS ONE RESULT. THE S. S. LESSON. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JULY 27. Text • of the Lesson; Ex. =ii, 1.36. Oolden Text, Ex. xx., 8. 1. 11p, snake us gods, which shaIl go before US. Thu topie of (for lesson is "Wor- shining the Golden Calf," and, al- though the whole chapter 18 assigned 118 13 study, hick of space will 11000554. tate limiting 0111. 00111111tIlliS 1.0 the verses to be printed tie the leereen, , 1-6, 30-36. Some one 11118 tectid that:I wheneter we turn away from 1 timing I exclusively upon God either for eal- vation or for the neceseithts or the daily path WC UPC virtually saying', "Uss, make us gods." This ire equal to a rejeetion of Cod. These people had not soon Moses nor heard from God for 190301111 370058, und, for- getting their promise to obey, they fail to trust. 2, 3, And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings * * and briug them unto me. When Moses went -up into the mount to be alone with God, he said to the elders, "Aaron (111(111117 are with You," and lie referred the peo- ple to them 11.8 C011.110111078 111 his absence. Aaron woe Moses mouth or spokesman, and Moses 1v135 to him instead of Clod (Ex. iv, 1(3; vii, 1); but, Moses being absent, he, like a, false prophet, speaks out of his own heart tido e‘il advice (Ji'. XXIII, 1(1). He has no word or warn- ing or help for then) as from God. 4. These he thy gods, 0 Israel, which brought thee up out of the laInVd.lott1 al.'4Y1Pite., what a blasphemy, What dishonor to the living God ! Has A.aron lost his reason ? He CCP - has lost faith. in Clod. See in 11 Thess. ii, 10, 1.1, the awful 00)3» $10111(1311013 of -turning away from the truth. ins -teed of receiving from their hands the gold to make au idol, they should have received from his mouth the living words of the living God. Through him who should have led them to the God of glory they eliange(1 their glory into the similitude of an ox (Ps. c)i, 20). 5. And when Aaron saw it he built an altar before it. See this sin repeated in the case of Jeroboam and the very words of Artroti used (I Kings xii, 210, 88). This is all the work of the devil from beginning to end, and so is everything, like it in the churches and among the people of God to -day. God is a Spirit, and they that wor- ship Him enust worship Him in spirit 0.0)1 (0 truth (John iv, 24). 6. The people sat down to eat and to drink and rose up to play. Sce I Cor. x, 7, and it would be well to read the whole chapter. Is it not cm the 0115100 line of things when in houses built for the worship Of God, people bearing the mime 01 Christ meet to eat and drink and be entertained or amused ? 111 the next two verses the Lord, while speaking to :Moses, calls the people Moses' people which he brought out of Egypt and says, "They have turned'aside quickly out of the way which I commitncied them." They were not acting like the peo- ple of God; they were not in 'Us way. See I's. exix, 1; John xiv, 6; Joh, 1, 7. The Lord suggests that He destroy the whole nation, Moses Intercedes for the people as the Lord's people and is lurard. He comes down from the mount, breaks the tables, burns the calf, grbicIS it to powder, scatters it upon the aver ter an'cl makes the peopla drink. it.. 80. I will -go up unto .the'.Lorde Peradventure I shall make ale Mime, meet for your sin. Thee he pots himself between.. the- sinnees and God as a. mediator, 1611- fess11g their 5111 and seeking atone- ment, which implies jodginent mien sin. See what is written of Phine- has making an atonement. in Num xxv, 0-1)3. Remember Lev. xvii, 11., and that it is the blood that inalceth atonement for the soul and see Him, the prophet like unto Moses (Dolt, xviii, 1(3) Who, taking the 811111110(3 '1)10132 and allowing all Sin to be laid upon Min, did by bearing out sins in His own body on the tree make atonement sufficieet for the sins of the whole world, :11, 011, this people have sinned 11 great sin! All sin is great, and even the thought of foolishness is sin (Prow*. xxiv, 011, but sionie sins are rnare Count Bernstorfr Thinks Britain and Germany Should Staiid Together. Writing in the Evangelical Allianee Quarterly ou "Germany, England and the Peace," Count Bernstorft says that it has been a cause of natural sorrow to English Christians that 1.1111 370.1. 1158 greatly estranged front them. the hearts of their Con- tinental brethi•en ; but we certainly hope that alter the conclusion of peaeo the mutual understanding will be restored. The estrangement between lenglish and German Christians was always looked upon by the writer as a great misforturie. Ile thinks the two na- tions ought to stand together In true friendship, tuid this view is not nly the result of a personal sym- pathy whielt his relations with Brit- ish Christians and EL long stay in England have brought about. lt is also his opinion that, politi- 1 eally, it is required by the true in - tercet of both countries. The Ger- man press 11115 117011 very hostile to England during the war, but a fairer view of the matter will undoubtedly be titken ilow, and WC venture to hope that the British press Will also 11011) to forget the past. POL I TT CA L myymnvasTeEs. The eonsideration which led to the postponement of the international' 001101'P151PC of the Evangelical Alli- ance, intended for August netxt, shows how sudly political differences' of opinion ran endanger the unity of , I Christians. Iltit these expressions MI refusing fellowship to British 011715- 1. 113115, 'WC the,v did not pubhirly ictate their disappreval of the war, were after all 1101 general. Not only et the Blackonburg Conference, but also ut several others, spenkers from England were heartily welcomed, l'eople begin Lo feel 11010, C011ti1111C8 the Count, thet whea 11011011 15 111, 10/11' all party strife must remain sil- ent. It is an unfair demand, cape, chilly when it is to take place under pressure from abroad, that Chris- tians ehould sech times publicly disapprove what their country does. It would be unfair, 133 0(1 10 (111 1.110 reporls spread about South Africa were true ; but one begins to feel that a great deal was exanerated 07 misrepreseated. RECONC11,1 ATION DESIRED. We hope -and this 111003 to be the wish or 'English Christians as well - that. Greet Britain will try to reeon- cile tins feelings of 111080 who have at all events, been valiant foes, and if this is the ease, it will do away With the last remnant of bad feeling In other could:ries. lt is not forgot- ten in Germany how much We owe 111 I Impulses of practical Cluestianity to British Christiane, and the feet that WO servo the mune Maeter ned pray for the advancement of the same glorious kingdom Is a bond 171.11011 is, thank God, after all streoger than temporary politicel mittleiderstand- ings. We hope the coeforence of the alliance will be possible le tletmany next, year, but even if IL should be considered \visor to welt a little longer, the day will soon Como when it „can take place •Withoet aey difficulty), 1101110115 (111331 01,11078, 1(30 3054415 Himself spoke of a sin that heth never, forgiveness ai, the same time that lie spoke of the forgive- ness of all manner of sins except 11115 3151.1.101.1 PAW (T1 11 Ilk 111, 28-30). The sin that overtops all others is the rejection of Christ, the Son of God. This is the sin that causes emits to wish 01 ohn iii, 181. 82. And if not, blot me, I prey Thee, out. of Thy book which Thou hest written, He is willing to suffer in their stead, if necessary, in order to save them. The game }toilet 08 seen in Pant on behalf or the eante people Israel (tenni. ix, 8). The reality 1E4 Peen in iJesus Christ who ems netu- elly nettle a curse for 1115111 and 001* 115. an. whosoever Nail Shilled against Ale hint will I blo1 out of My book, 111 Rev. xx, 12, and Mat. 1)1, 16, WC read of several books; but what book Le refesred to in our lesson per- haps we may not knew in this our time of partial knoWledge (1 Oor. P, 12). 84, 85, Behold Mine angel shall go before Thee. See chapters xxxiti, es 13, and xxlii, 20, isa.., I1ii, 0, and thank God for Matt. viii, 20; Isa, xli, 10, 113; Dot. xxxi 8, etc. ITe 18 tlin God of eli grate, and Ifs will pot forsake Ilia people Mr Iris groat name's sake. So that we may Plead, "Though our iniquities testi- fy against es, 'do Thou it for Thy name's sake" (I Sa(11. MI, 2e; .ler, xiv, 1). CANADA'S oamAT 11. lo 4,000 Miles Long and • Miles; Wide. Many persous heve wondered It the etoriee are true about an Imineuse »orthern belt . of timber stretshing across Canada from the Atlantic to Alaska. IL -is' said thr nono of this' forest has yet been utilized by Mall, though it has immense resources in pulp wood and other timber. There O no doubt that the timber is there ti»d that 11. is a great reicerve eouree if future wealth. Ono rimy easily trace this belt of timber far across Canada on any map. : The east encl of the belt almost overhangs Atlantic waters to the iorth of the Strait ofllelle Isle, and touches the waters of the Gulf of St, Lawrence, south of that strait, it sweeps westward rouncl• the E°011thern prolongation of Hudsoo Bay, northwest between Hudson Bay and Lake Winnipeg, to Weed the Churchill River, ancl then on across the lake regions of the Northwest ferritories and still farther to Al- aska. This mighty belt of trees as about 4,000 miles long and has an aserage width of 700 miles. Of 00U1'544, the trees tend to becomo snuffler in the North. Probably Dr, Robert Bell., 'the well-known geologist, who has been eonnected with the Canadian Geolo- gical Survey for many years, has writtee more about this northern forest than any other 011111. He has been studyieg the geographical dis- tribution of the Oanadian forest trees for forty yeaes and his maps are often esed to show the extent of the Canadian timber lande. One of his maps published in the Scottish Geogruphical Magazine in 1807 shows the northern limits of the principal trees in the FOUR ORIGINAL PROVINCES. (the eastern provinces) of Canada. The great northern forest belt has everywhere the same eharacteristic features. The trees, as a rule, are not large and consist for the most part of nine species -black and white spruce, 1300n10e1a13 pine, larch balsam fir, aspen, balsam poplar, canoe birch and bird cherry, with several kinds of small willows. The spruces, spread all through the belt, thrive further to the north than any of the other varieties. There are great forest fires in this tree belt, but WC seldom. hear of 1,110111, They are mostly due to lightning in the summer time. The conditions are then perfect for great forest fires, the pitchy trees burning with almost explosive.rassidity. Some of the fires have been known 1,0 run oVer 150 miles in ten hours, or at the rate. of fifteen miles an hour. These fires account for the patchy appearance ot the great northern forestA. If a person stands at a height where he can look over a. wide region he seen that all -through the forest -are different shades of green covering larger 01' smaller areas. These shades of color repre- sent growtllo of different ages be- ginning after forest fires of different. periods. This process of 'growth and destruction is going on ell the while. Sometimes the areas destroyed em - 1173310 thousands of square miles. On the whole, however, it is believed that the new growth fully.replaces the destruction, so that the amount of timber in the forest belt is aboet the same from year to year: REWARDING AatesteNEMENT. How the British People. Treat Their Heroes. Within less than a week after the newe reached London that neace had been declared 111 South Africa, the Xyllg 1115(10 Baron Kitchener a, vis- count, ari01. promoted him -(4) a gen- eralship in 3110 1331113' ; red Parlia- ments only the Irish ineinbers dissenking, .voted to him grant of a quarter of .n million &oilers with which, ,support his now honors. Eitehener had previously received a grant of one hundred and..ility thou- sand dollars to maintain the baron- ial dignity which 17115 conferred on hi011 in recognition of Ilis athieve- awaits* in the Soudan. This is the English way of "crown- ing" the national heroes. Lord Robs efts is now an ectrl because of his brilliant service to the empire in India. The first Duke of Wellington, a younger son of an earl, began life as plain Arthur Wellesley, was raised to the dukedom after the Peninsular campaign, and received in addition to the title two and a half million dollars in cash. John Churchill was created Duke of Marlborough for his military -- achievements, and after the victory at Blenheim the royal domain of Woodstock nms given to Itim, and more than two million dollars was expended by the state in building up Blenheim Palace on it iOr MS oc- cupancy. Alfred Tennyson was made a lord because of his literary achievements, and Macaulay was raised to the peeinge cis a reward for his services in the state of literature and state- craft. 1Villiam Thomson is now Lord Net - vin because ho has made many valimble scientific discoveries. The list could be extended almost in- finitely. New peers aro made every year, and their deinendants inherit the titles conferred cm their ances- tors ror distinguished services. About 260,000 peePle bold EH- tish CoVerninent Stock, BARD ON 130103-1 01' •rulmr. An Irishman whose *face Was so plain that his friends ueed to tell him it, was an offense to the lands- cape, happened also to be as poor 9011330e 'Idea; 110110 0130130 met him end 101(043 tt 0° SPtanst,t?'; "Miglity had lis sister:a- tion that's Marin' me 111 the face," Vegorra," exclaimed bis 'neigh 110s. sotitemaponaitiltiettoicialelist,ther"oitt 31115C132I" be 't (3( 3' loather -"Well, what has Tommy 100(e1-1',11 1)03119plifee-"Yof 9" t110 11(0111(11"-'.-' caLi4t;171e, 1,1,31113 110;101'.07 a )ilviri.b(1,(4)itiv,1. abbloariclicierl(r fln L111:00 0o1toll'," 1110i. 111 1 11 'I'onimy must be improving."