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The Brussels Post, 1902-7-31, Page 3iee a' step from Cadear'e throne when tee A A i_iicTED c R s IANs saint of God is P0Meted to Meth- , 0 tbrone of God, where the redeemed . elY elentb by the pOWer ot ein •e0 the i . . sable, is steers everlesting life, li, is essateteeseeteateseseeesseatee dile a step from the Roman arena, where the toddle saints were torn , Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage Gives tId i t 0 pieeeS by the wi beaste, ti 0 the green paeterefo by the side Of fee still waters where the glorified saints shall forever dwell with the Lamb, et, is only a etep-a short step. Are Wo ready 110 ii1,0 for Ch est i pl eo wl ere eve may ulti- Them Encouragement. ego you with. the fact that, just as 11 a a 3 ome of the greaeest of moral he- ,rnotely take Wet step, although to ;oes ltave been physical weakilugs, take It we ehall pass through the Ho some of the greatest; of Christian tiresof eteethly persecution ? It hi leroes have been theme who bey° such n,short step for tho stelnin of einned even worse than you have God from the palacee of Nero to the siened. .Artcl ]bring to you who Paleces width Christ, has prepared neve an evil past this message from for his men that, it does Kern Lai the steinte in Onesee's palace, be- though the palatee ol perseention Cause the euta Who has publicly sin- are but the vestibeles of the palaces 1011, the man. who, baS been loath, Of reeve's& May God help each one somely vile, 10 tee men who has an of us to be true to lite faith while esPecial Mission to save souls for we dwell for a little while on earth Jesus Cerise. You know as no in oee Of Caesar's earthly palaces I one else ltnows how awful is the q. s iower of Lemptation. You know as no one else knows bow difficult it lo • Oactmel .wcoroce t Lot asta ei,1 rseene -et e 141 tee pe ow Tweeter sew awe itaggtilbVettgYiirt°,414eieta,dacts te, sPatch from tehicego says( Rev, Prank Do Witt Talmage Preach- ect from the following text; Philip. Plans iv, 224 "Ail the saints collate' you, chiefly they that are of Caes- ar's household." . Now, as Para sent the salutations of the saints he Caesarte palace to the members of the Philippi= church for their encouragement, :I: am going to bring tile selutations of the saints who live in Conearee modern palaces for the elecourage- Ment of every man, woman 11011 ebild. I am going to docker° to the young and the old, the rich and the P001, the high and the low alike, that though some of you are baying a hard time to maintain your Chris- tian integrity against the bombard- ments of seemirigly overwhelming worldly difficulties, yet there are rem anti women 3(110 an maintain- ing their Christian integrity against troubles infinitely geeater than your(. There are men and WOrnen Lam to God to -day who have shoul- dered upon their backs a whole Zatemtain range of misfortunes and Sorrows and pains, while you, com- paratively speakieg, are going forth into the gospel fight weighed down old/ with a little knwpsack. There are Christian men who, leguraLively speaking, have bon ihnig overboard In mid-Atlantic anti told to swim ashore while you have only a shal- low brook to cross. There aro Christian men who- tire ankle deep, knee deep, waist deep, shoulder deep, chin deep in the cielchsands of difficulties, who can yet look up arid see the face of God, while you, com- paratively epealcing, have only a stony path to climb. If the saints in Caesar's ancient and modern pal- aces, could be true to their gospel faith, surely their spiritual examples ought to rouse every one of us to better and truer and purer and nob- ler elTorts, no matter what our men- tal or physical or incidental difficul- ties limy 130. I WOULD ENCOURAGE those Christians, in -the first Place, who are struggling against the phy- sical depressions of ill lumith. Life oven ontler the brightest of condi- tions 10 0111 awful struggle. Alexan- der Pope once compared the cease- iess struggle of 1100 20 a, continuous journey over the bridge of time. UP - on one ond of this bridge the Eng- lish poet started the different gener- ations. Then he kept them moving on end on, never allowing the tired and footsore and heada.ching and heartaching traveler to halt for an instant.. He kept them moving ou and on over the bridge of time until every boy and girl or young Iria131 and young woman or middle aged Man and middle aged 3(01(101) or sexagernarian or ocLogenerian or tottering centenarian had tumbled through the broken planks of time bridge into the dark waters of the river of death flowing below. But though life is such an awful struggle for the broad chested and the stout limbed and the powerIully phyeiqued, yet, wonderiul to say, some of the mightiest Christian he- roes have been men and women who were physical weaklings. Some of the most famous mental and spirit- ual giants of the ages halm been those whose physical frames were so frail that they could have been de- stroyed ahnoet as easily as tt dew- drop could be flung from the sur- face of a leaf or a humming bird's life °mild be crushed out between tbe thumb and forenngor of a. man's hand. I would encourage those Chris- tians &so who are trying to nettle - tato their Christian integrity in spite of an evil past. 3331 this state- ment 1 moan those Cliristions whose past 'sins have been heralded over the world, even as Califs sin was knows by the black mark which had been stamped upon the murderer's brow, If it is hard for a yonng girl when she is living in a Chris- tian home anti has practieally never been out of her mother's care, how much harder must it, be for a young girl to be good and true and pure when she has had her feet cut and lacerated by treading the crooked and stony peliewey of sin and has had her fair narne blackened by the condemnations of te dissolute life" If it is difficult for a young man to hold an honorable position in so- ciety when his record is CLEAN AND GOOD, . for one who has been a, socialout.- cast to try to live again among rouse:treble social surrounding's, You can speak as Mary Magdalene could. ePeale. You eau plead us St. Delia could. 'Meese who was once the not- ed Blue Bird, the filth of the New York elume. AlthosIgh St. Delia had such an evil puet, yet her life, under the power of the Holy Ghost, bectune so pure and sweet and in- fluential, that the rich and the poor, the pure end the depraved alike, the old as vell as the young, SOBBED OVER ITER CASKET. You can speak from the heart as John 33. Gough spoke to the druok- netts, because you yourself have seen the phentorns of delirium tremens moving themselves aright in the cup -until at last they Ivould bite like a serpent and sting like on adder. Struggling Christians, you have had an evil past, you can plead for Chriet in the eighways erect the hedges of sin, as the saints who had au evil past could speak in Caesar's palace, Those seente to -day are now placing their hands of holy ordiaa- Lion upon your head that you may go forth and save your sinful fellow I would also ' encourage to -day, those ChrisLians who are compelled by force of circumstances to live and work with evil ossociates, Per - baps the young man 3(110 is standing behind the same counter with you in the store, is an laildel; perhaps some of your classmates at school and in college are out and au2 ecoffers against the word of God. Perhaps, what is worst of all, you find that you are married to ct Man who nees hoW much more difficult must it be for tt man to attain en honoreblo 'life when he 1003 Serlred Cnit 1110 term 131 te felon's cell, or has had his little croppeS by tho conetices shears =et leis clothes Striped with- the meek of the pealtentiterea If it is difficult for a Christian to live right tvlioso nearest neigeboes can find nothing but good to szy of him end his past, how much more difficult must it be for a luau to live 11, good life wee had been a detail:teed, a liber- tine, n thief, a social outcast! Would you, 0 Christian, to -day be willing to have reformed ex-con- viets ne occupants of your office? Would you, ()mother, allow reform- ed servants in youe home whose past lives have beca dissolute? "No," in all probability you would both easwer in tan me -Christian way. "1 do 1101 bear any such people any 11) will, bet would prefer not to have them around my person, They might etc& or perhaps they might lead my children astray, and Were such alliOng iny help 1: Would die- -mine thole& at once," Bet though Itis so clifficelt for a Man to load a Christian fife Who has had an oVil past, yet if there are any here tglday 3 bringetoeyou sallitaticslis .01 the sante of erieScir's palitee, I Want toyerlecter- , COURTING IN HOLLAND. Holland is a place where primitive oustoms abound. Traditions rote sacredly handed dowo and observed, and this veneration for ancient things has kept Alive in the country what are known tee eourtIng Sun- days. 'Throughout Holland the four Sundays of November ine kept as Otto daye. They are named severally Review Deeittion Purchase and Pos- session Sundays. On 'Review Sunday every one goes to church, and after $ervice there is a, church parade. when all the young men and maid- ens look at each other but, forbear speaking. 011 Decision Sunday each would-be benecliet tepproathes the maiden of his choice with a three monious bOW, and from her response Judgee whether he is acceptable as a suitor or not. On Purchase SendaY tho Consent of Parents and guard- ians is sought, if the wooing daring the week ilaS been happy, PosseSeion Sunday witnesses the erst appear- ance of the various lovere befoee the world MS nettle.' or prospective brides and bridegrooms. FUEL FARMS. The warning recently uttered by Prof. John Perry in England against the waste of coal, and his somewhat gloomy picture of the future conse- ciuencee, have led to the suggestion that the time is coming when 1111.411 WM raise his fuel, as he raises his food, from the land. The basis of fuet energy is heat derived from the sum The supply co this heat, is con- tinu.ous, am' vegetation transforms ite into an available shape. A.lready, In Germany, a neat industry, which seems to point the way, is growing er ileglects an opporteunty to rids up in the production of crude sririt cule your Bible. You have found from potatoes, for use as a cheap out also that your husband is hav- fuel in intermit combustion motors. ieg a pernicious and spiv -Weather de- By ealei farming," at erst with strewing influence over your children, plants, and -ultimately with purely What are . you going to do -leave chemical agents, associates Sometimes hain Mr. Waller II 00011- these evil thinks the problems coneected such a course is possible ; sometimes with the exhaustion of coal may be 12 is not. elt evidently 'was not pos- solved, 44(11(0 for the ancient saints to have while Professor Perry sug- sigests- that the teassormatIon of left Caesar's palace, else they woul solar energy promises a fitture for have done so. It is most natural to the Sahara and other cloedless suppose that those saints would have instantly fled from the Roman capital during the thne of Nero's persecutioe if they could have run away with honor and self-resrect. But in all probability mose of those saints said to themselves something like this : "No, 1 cannot, I will not go 1 It would be cowardly for me to desert my Lord and Master, 1 will stay here, and keep ma testify- was not carried out to his satisfac- ing for Christ, if need be, until ray ticte he sued for 'Manages, claiming body is burned at the stake or eaten thee the person at the other end of by the wild beasts in one of the arenas." And stay in Rome these saints did, and die a martyr's death most of them also did. So it may be your Christian duty to keep 014 living for Christ and testifying o.f as a rule, the person who goes first his love in a place of persecution tn a. telephone and asks to be put and among connanions who make in connection -with another person Christ an object or daily ridicule, as must bear the coneequences of alee did the persecuted young Roman lose which may be the result of such officer whose epitaph can still be a conversaLion. Tho court admitted read in one of the Roman cemeteries that the person to whom an order in these words: "Ho lived long en- might be sent in this way might not ough to shed his blood for Christ." catch all the words, or Might fail 'to Now, I want, you, my Christiaa eindeeetand their full import, but, it, friends, you who flre experiencing insisted allot it, won't' be contrary these daily persecutions, to fully re- to all the principles of law to hold alize that not one cleop of blood him responsible on that account. which- fell Senn the Christian near - tyre of Caesar's .ancient place 1141401 SHED IN VAIN. regions. ODD 'PHONE - DECISION. ' in I3erlin a legal decision was re- cently madde11 which is of interest to every business man in every coun- try who (1005 8. telephone. A mer- chant one day sent net order by 'tele- phone to a firm, and as the order the telephone to whom he had grven his order 10(18 1015130051b30 for the loss. The court, however, deckled against him, ancl refused to award any damages, on the ground that, - -s-,-...-- HPW TO PAIR GUESTS. From those persecutimis the great Parisian hostesses have invented a iefluence of the church of Jesus the principal difilettlties incident to 110111 method of dealing with one of Christ WaS ..st,rted. Prom -those canner parties -that of pairing MI persecutions were lighted the gospel the guests., 013 deriving 111 the torches weich are to -day sheddieg their glorious rays all round the drawing room the guests find two world. From those persecutions bauRet8 full of flowers. Hidden in the death of tee saints in Caesar's atealutrtiaktiaitealr Caine not SO ilinch Paul's death and 7%e° lenlioeiroalmmsti.accriouesntodenabteor ._„ eyes, put it, halal into one basket, ,P,alada as tile ,s,tesrnai Wee ,Qf lee, 1: adorned with forget-me-nots or some lanes. So if yole, p pothethted card. The ladien perforro a, like blue flower, and pu11 out a lions upon iniaions Or Immortal ether Cbristian, only keep true to the gas- pal Reith in the 0111110(212 places whore teremony, &awing their tickets from ' a bower of pink bl osomsgenerally you are s aeioed you ine, ot wilyroses. T le core spending numbers win econ; lather and mother and hus- band and children for God, Iset you then look for each other, and, hue-- Mg sorted thertiselves out, pair off may win thoueande upon thoesande and ue hi ea ei,mee, of humortee souls for Phrists-beings 4 - whose names you have never read, and whose .glowieg Mites petthaps SI'LENDID ISOLATION'. you shall never see until you loolc . team them among the redeemed be- .CO211)0211)2(1111 in the lKing's Namete" is80the-bing of a foating Crues lore thegveat *white tercels pee eve3101e1 0 01 cn!St tutes a moss wale of lifeemay be, will* you to -day I sair where wort 11104115 man on terms of 'MY hoard's, 'no Matter What be a saint of God, cued throwyotet- ieethee,ei being, equality,. but the captain ie ten self upon the pardoWand the mercy Even when he 113)11105of Cheist 1 W111 you here and now on cheek he le severeler (2(0130 grilses dedicate your life tie the ,elaviour ev- 130 dills someone to him. 'Phis ia all 'en if that 111(11121(101) means the conducive to tee majesty of the Crown which lie is supposed 1.0 re - shedding of ('011131 1008 blood ? (Vitt you be willing to sillier for- Chniet as present, bat it makes things 21 little Wel1 as to hare the pleasttre and the ' lonely for the captain. joys thee come from the Christian life ? Are you ready to shoulder for vern„ ,1, \ii. on,AsT,,, sTsAN • I .1 ,s....f Chrhit the bailey beeden, Aro yea - ready, for bins to hove the feet itelit A teilor named Prone Dolezal haa the hands ache, the back ache, the .paleittecl a 'device foe measuring a head oche, and the heart ache ? person for ct, suit of clothee by pho- I would plead with you to be will- togrtephy, A coarse 3(11313 notivork leg to Moleo those eacrffices for 'with femme meshes 10 photograeshed Christ, as did the ettints 113 Ceesar's with tile telbject as n, stemlasel, teed inelacee, beaten° ii. ie on accomit of the person Lo be measured WourS a their fitteridCeS that Jestis is going sort of tuneless, intended to meek certain importent points on the body. The relative positions of subject, tonere, anti entevotec, me carefully eceueted, arid teen 1403) - 010.! photogetephe are ineteu from different poitts of elate. I•000.000,000.6.40.0.9.0 I THE e FOR HOME 0., • e Recipes for the Kiteheii, 0 O 11,10ene and Other Notes 0 O 10F the lietietheeper. 0 eseoes11000004100.6o00•On P113A11 331010110, . 00xnpoto of Peare-Select One, largo penes ore, pare and halve. Make a syrup with 2 oups sugar and 2 dips water'. Cook the pewee slow- ly in thes until -tender, but not broken. Whoa done, lift them out carefully pn rt, flat gales dith, cover lleene with thersy jelly,, and pour arounO the Veep, belied down until verythick, e Candied Vestal -a -lover ible, rine pears with water, and simmer slow- ly 11111.11 tender but not broken, leift out carefully into cold water. Mea - elute the water they were cooked in, and to each * pint, put 13 cups granulated sugar, and let come to a • Sidra well, pet in the peers, and simmer gently five minutes, Put tele pears into a stone jar, POW' the syrup over them, tend let stand until the next, day. In the 'amenieg bring *Pee eye= to a boil again, put in the peeve, and let simmer live min- utes, then once again pot into the stone jar Repeat for three days, but allow the pears to simmer 10 mloutes tee third 'day. Keep the syrup over the ((00.0(3 11) et stone jar, closely covered. The day before they are to be used, remove the Peare from the syrup, and let dry in a cool oven. A mos6 delicione sweetmeat for festive occasions. Baked Pears -Core indlienissized pears and fill the cavities with a. mixture of cherry jolly and ceoppeel English walnuts or almonds. Ploce in a deep balms dish, pour in 1 dip hot wad; in which fr cup sugar bas been 'dissolved, and brake elowly until done. Baste frequently with the syrup,. and serve with rich cream, Pear Trifie-Pare, oore and dice fine, ripe pears. Cook in e. little rich algae syrup until clear and ten- der. Line the bottom of a deep glass dish with slices of stale sponge take, pour aver a thick layer of the pears, cover with another lay- er of the sponge cake, and the re- mainder of the pears. The dish eihould be two-thirds fulljust be- fore serving, fill with sweetened whipped cream flavored 3(121) 0.1)130111!, and serve with 'delicate ealce. Pear Salad -Pare and core fine, ripe mellow pears. Cut in thin slices but leave the slices in posi- tion so that the pear retains ite thape, Pill the cores with canned cherries, (drainect very (1ry) mixed with chopped blanched almonds. Sprinkle with powdered sugar, and pour over a dressing made of 2 tablespoons nut butter thinned with * cup of the canned cherry juice, and the Juice of 1 lemon. Pew Chips -Select hard, winter pears. Pare, cnitu-ter and core. Then cut into thin slicee. To 6 Ms pears allow 4 'Ms best granulated :agar and 8 oz ginger raot,• cut in small pieces. Place in layers and let stand over night. In the morning a.clel 3 lemons cut in thin slices, and cook very slowly, scarcely simmer- ing, for three hours. Ski'm well, awd cover closely. This maltes a very rich and handsome preserve. to roWard nett In another plata Whieh he hes inflicted for you, not in Rome, but Upon the golden boule- vard of heaven. it is oely a step !Item the palace of perseeution iiito the palaee of retvard. It is only a neither hopPY their Wedded Me nor yet unhappy, saye 02 Writer. They bate) failed meet Wreeehodly, Yet they are not aware of It, just as before they married, they boogie, ed that they had felt the touth of love, go nOW they Miley tbat they have attainecl to all there Ite in mar- riage, Tbey "elo ith everybody elee dins," aml if they, Mal that life ie eolorleee tend thole, they just except it es thole lot, and ne being the let of all the reet. They have tbeir eompensations-the bome 01 wIlich they ested to 21111110 00 hopefully, end Perhaps (Michell 113 wheel they fled coneolation for their dillusionment. Souletimes tbey wonder what it is thee they have lose or wbether there is anything which others knoW and which they have not known them- eelvee. The memory of their old roinentle dream oornes beak to them at intervals. Perhaps they feel vague 1034133gs for something to which they cannot give a name. But they do their duty, and they stole at last into it doll, ocenrnosplace ex- istence mail they reach the cage when nothing matters any more. 11. clever English writer has said that once at, leest in every method pair there comes a 31101110331, wben they look into each other's epee and feel 11. geotetly recognition 00 1110 fact that they infest always be together, month &ter month, year after year, until life shall end for one or both of them. I think it is oftenest the wife wbo has this flaeh of miserable consciousness, and I think sbe bas it very many times. PICKLE- PlIeleCIPLES. 'The nicest way to pert up pickles is to pot them in bottles and seal while hot. Never put op pickles in anything that has beld any kind of grease, and never let them freeze. If pickles axe put into brine, it Should always be strong enough to float an egg. ITSe ecoree ,511.12, 111 proportion of 1 heaphig fit to 1 gal of water. All plekles should be tightly seal- ed, to prevent air readhing,_the Vine- gar, as this ldlls ft. It should al- ways be poured on hot, as it, conies to the first scald -never allowing it to boil. To keep pickles from ,ghtting. Soft when ia brine, 1,0 1 bbrpickles add it bu grape leaves, thiseeviil keep them sound and firm. To Clarify Picklest-The scum which often rises on the top of pickles can be rem -Slice' by putting a slice or two or borSe-raaliall in the jar. It, soon sinks to the bottom, taking all the scum with it, thus leaving the vinegar clear. To Seal with Ware -Melt 8 oz bees- wax and 4 oz rosin in a tin pail placed on the bate of the Store. Stir until well mixed. Put the corks in, the bottles and press firmly, then invert the top of the bottle in the hot liquid. Bottled Pickles -Pour boiling wa- ter over them and Itit stand foue hours. '1'0 every 1 gal of vinegar take 1 teacup auger, 1 teacup salt, 1 teaspoon p•ulverized ohne, 3. oz cinnamo11 bark and te oz whole Boil ;mice and vieegar and Pour civet' the Males. Seel while Cucumber Pickles -About 100 green etteumbers 2 betties long will till e glass lecit jars. Soak 21 hours in rather strong belies Then pour off tho brine, and rliiSc 111 clear water. To this number of cucumbers, use 8 qts pure eider vinegar, 1 cup setgar, 1 oz whole cloves, 1 oz etick cin- namon, 1. oz small black peppers., a little horse-rtudish sliced, and a few 'small red peppera. Scald the cu - (lumbers irk Lhe vieegar. Assone as the vinegar is scalding hot, dip them DIA, 1111 the cans, and theo pour the 4ee033:411' over them till the can is full. Seal hot. Ripe Cuctinelier Sweet Pickles - Pare 12 large eueumbers and take out the pulp. Cut them ht series about 2 inches wide and 8 or 4 inchee long. Teem 2 Um sager, 1 pt vinegar, 1 oz einntimon tend oz cl wee.% 'Bell together and slchn. Then put tit the cucumbers Let them cool till tender. Theo take them out and Mt. the limner took 15 minutes Pour this over the 00- 112111111(40 end 010i_,00 tightly, THE WOMAN'S 4*113131, Tim great irinjority of WOMen aro MAGAZINE PICTURES. It there is a dearth of pictures, in the household, beautiful 01108 may be made by moanting halftones, tak- en from magazines, on large cards, such as slat eurface photographs are peeled on. The mounts should be • third larger than the pictures for best effect and for te clear, Oars, pic- ture 14. dark -colored mount is to be preferred to white. Carefully cut away all the white around the half- tone, and if it, is bounded by a black line trim it away also. Pre- pare a paste by moistening a, little gloss starch with cold water, and pouring boiling water over it to clear and thin it. Place the picture face downward on a clean paper and apply the paste with a Inures Ile careful to covet; every part of the surface, and especially the .corners. In handling do not touch the edges more than is absoletely necessary, as it is desirable to have'the edges and corners adhere perfectly to the mouse. When the picture is in posi- tion, smooth each way with FL soft, cloth, and press in a book or under a heavy weight until dry. This, rule will apply' as well in mounting kodak pieturest; the only difTerence is that the latter, being taken directly from the fixing bath, are still wet when applied. PIMP Skiii.UB. Now that the season for canning fruit is here, I save all the surpMs juice and make slumb, says 11. writer. I never hove very good jelly made from the juice of these fruits, as it does not harden but is stringy. Pee plenty of sever in the Slices left over, boil up, skim and then can this juice Just the 501110 215 fruit. It is nice to dilute with water and serve in a tumbler with cracked ice and pfece of spauge cake or cookie. You can partially freeze this Juice, first diluting with water and adding more sugar, and serve in glass lemonade cups. This is nice for evening entertainments when light refreshments are to he served. It is also a refreshing drink when tired and feverish. 3(30013)0010 IUM HIM COOL. When wa Arab woman intends to Marry after the death of her hus- band, she comes in the night before her second marriage, to the grave of her dead 1105band. Here she kneels and oxeye to him, and entreats him not to be offended, not to be Jeale otos. As, however, she leave he wilt be jealous and aligrn the widow brings with her a. donkey, laden with two goateskins .of water. ITer pray- ers and intreaties done, she proceeds to pon0 on the grave the water to keep the first husband cool under the irritating cirthinstances abon t to t ake place, and having well saturat- ed him, she departs. DIFFERENT. Ple,RT, AND EXPERT, TIRE 4S). ,S. I,ESSON, INTERNATIONAI, LESSON, AITP-UST 13. Text Of the Leesoxi, Ex. xl,, 1-88. G -olden Text, Ps, e. 4. 1, 2, 17-19. And the Lord svelte unto Nome snying, On the first day of the first Month shalt thou sot up the taberaaele of the tent of tho eongregation. Thus /dorm was commanded, and teits he did in every Particular just ite Se was commanded. See -verse 36 and compose the eovenfold olio - (Home ist versos 39, 21, 138, 115, 27, 2e, 82, This whole chapter gives a twofold statement of the cortiMetioll and erection of the tabernaele-ver- See 1-16 the Lord's command and 17- 11113 Isfoses' obedlencea-after whieh the Lard approves tunl accents the work. About three months after they left, Egypt at Mount Sinai the Lord said to Moses, "Let them make Me a sanctuary, that 3 may dwell amoeg them," and the full instructione 0011' 11011111113 it and the priesthood aro found in chapters xxv to xxx, while the account of the work as it was done ie found in chapters xxxv to xxxix, sad In the lesson to -day eve have the erection and dedication on the first day of tlie first, mon0211 of the second year. As with this build- ing, so with the temple of Solomon -God Himself, and God alone, was the architect (1 Citron. xxviii, 19). A very peculiar thing about the ma- terial of the tabernacle was the will- ingness of the people anti the &bun - donee of the gifts, so that Moses had to restrain the people from bringing (chapter xxxvi, 6, 7). 8,20, 21. And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony and cover the ark with the veil. This was the only vessel in the holy of holies end spoke of Chriet, in whose heart WaS the law and who is the end of the law for right- eousness to every believer. The wood and gold' suggest His humanity and divinity. He is indeed our mercy seat Glom iii, 25, R. V.), where 1210110 God can meet the sin- ner, and the 91,E1,1 wsphoiadkie colcea141eicla body (H 0 eb. x, the glory while 11e WaS here on earth. The cherubim beaten out of the same piece of the gold of the mercy seat, and also figures of the same worked in the vitil tell of His body, the church, and our oneness with Hine a, 22-25. And thoueshalt bring in the table and set in order the things thtet are to be set in order upon it, and thou shalt bring in the candle- stick and light the Inm.ps thereof. Ia these two vessels in the outer or first room, the holy place, we see Him who said, "2 am the Bread of Life,". "I am the Light of the World" (John vi, 85: viii, 12). We see His death and resurrection in the sowing end reaping of the grain, and His, sufferings are also Sgst_fOrth' in. the grinding of 1.1w liaitin (John. xii, 24; 28). Ills sulTer- ings- are aiso seen in the pressing or bruising of the oliveS to obtain oil for the lamps. 5 26-28. .A.nd thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony and put the hanging of the door to the tabor- 118.010 Tis' was the third and only oth- er futiele of furniture ill the holy place, and on it the priest was to burn incenee morning and evening xxx, 7, 8). It suggests the merits and excellencies Of tho Lord Jesus in His present great Work 01 intercession for His people, for apart from lam no service earl be accept- ed. 6, 29. And thou shalt set the altea' of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernaclo 01 the tent of the congregstion. This brazen attar or altar of burnt offering represents the work of Christ on Calvary suffering in our stead for our sins. It was just with- in the coma by the entrance and tnhoetreloy'Intel', er was blood upon it and at the foot of it. It was impossible to en- ter the tabernaele except by this altar, so that any who would not caaPittIle waya! the blood could 7, 80-32. And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the con- gregation and 'the altar and shalt put water therein. While the brazen altar proclaims justification and oleo that phase of sanctification width refers to our standing in Christ Defoe° aod (Rom. v, 9; Hob. x, 10, 11), the laver points to the continued cleans -leg in daily life by the -word of God (John Xvii, 17; xiii, 10; Ps. exix, 9). 8, 88. And thou sheet set up the court round about and hang up the hanging at the coort gate. Thia linen fence hueg upon wooden pillars and attached to them by 811" 001 heroes, each pillar standing in a socket of brass and kept upright by cords attached to Mass pins driven in the earth, is all suggestive of re- domptioa by blood, the righteousness provided for us and the way we are kept by the power of God. A pillar could not 110 a part of the theme - fleet° while it stood aS a tree in the forest but it had to be cut down geld put upon a neW 1'0111)&1110U. This suggeets the new birth. WO aro plainly told hi elevxix, te, that the fine linen is the righteousness of 811(1211. 1)- . Thatli the high priest 111101 his eoro tend the tabernacle and all ith vessels hadto be anointed, for all Were set apart to be holy mato the Lord and to minister mat) Ilim Ilis spegial possession set apart for Him- self, meet for His use (Tit. ii, IL V.; I's. iv, 3; 13:. Tim, 11, 21). 014, 85. The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. So I -To will 1111 us ff we are tvilling =el obedient and wholly set apart for Himself, one bodice a living saw, Knee that Ho rimy be glorified in ea our determintition that of Paul in Phil, 3, 20; ill, 10, ete. 86-88. The pieta, of eload was to them a guide, tt light, a Sliield, an ortecle, an avenger, o coveriug for God Himself was in it. It was, the symbol of leie presence in the eight of all the people. 111AI1ELO OF PLANT LIFE. 11312401 LAWS THEMSELVES TO PEOLOhTG LIPE, Adapt TheenselYee to Their Situ. . atioele,-Vaille of Water tO Plants A single loaf of tee apple tree ilea 100,000 pores, (ma tbroligh every, one of them waxer le constantly passing off lath the' sturrouoding at, mosphere. Air has ten enormous tep- petite for Water, and the drier it is tile more it talces up. This is easily . provocl by hanging ou6 a wet clothe taxi eceing how then it bethmes (here Consieering the Wily in 3(131141 the ttemoephere is cenetantly foreleg the . tepple tree arid every oteer Piteet to give up its moiethre, the inurvel 10 that, alter a Very few daye of Met 1 squishing, every plane doee not 1 wither and dry up. 'Yet even those growing in liglIt soli, and exposed ' eithations, manage te withsletnee weeks of drought without losing their greennees. Moro marvellous still, aeitelaS and eaCti Will groW and 4 remain green out 011 tile wastes of • fierrizywia dNorth Africa in NorAfrica ann d i A ! Plants, like all other liveng things, have learned to adapt themselves to ' their situations, and to take pre- ; mations- accordingly. Water tq ! plants is more valuable than gold is i tio us human beings and where the 1 supply is seanty they have learnt Go. hoand it aS carotene' as a miser does his treasure. Plants cannot. refuse Lei give up water altogether, Joe otherwise they could not grow. Ao , thefr lood is taken up by their rootse I dissolved in water. This sap rise...4 through their veins and 0ee015 them1 7make use of the mineral mate 1 4 ter, arid then let the water whiobi contained it escape through ir the 1u1n1 0gs-I s , TOAT IR, THFIR LEAVES. r , But their methods of holding on ; to sufficient water to keep the* 1 green and flourishing are many and i ingenious. Go out and pick a leal from any plant or abrub-a. haws I thorn 'eat for hmeance. You eel ! notice that its upper side is 11)(1.1 ' 1 J smoother than tee under. The under side looks dull in came parison. This is beoeuse the Import side is exposed to the direct rays cie the sun. 'Me glaze prevents the hot rays socking all the water out of the eurfeee of the loaf. Some plantse indeed, refuee entirely to part with water through tillti upper side of the leaf. La.urustinue and lilac leaves have 110 pores at all 011 the shiny, upper surface oi the leaves. Pine trees inbabit dry, sandy soils./ These refuse to grow wide leaves, but confine themselves to producing thick, fleetly needles which have very few openiugs through which water can escape. Cabbages need an enormous quantity of water; but un- 1 less the supply WaS absolutely un- ! lbnited, their big leave.e.ssetreis sa,e' lep so meat' ed the air that, without t oome means of checking thice over - liberality, they Would wilt and die. Cut a fresh cabbage leaf tout ex- amine it, It leas a sort of dusty, mealy look. Fut the leaf under is ndIcli:oecope, arid wi you ll see that this "bloom" is composed of tiny needles of wax. The cabbage has proauced the wax to protect itself from the we:Lei-Stealing rays of the gu Australia is the driest of all the , continents; yet it has plenty of trees. ' They never grow any More leaves than they absolutely need, anal they take the additional precoution of i turning these leaves edgeways, so that those water thieves, the sun - rays. cannot fall dirent npon THEIR BROAD SURFACES. Australian accedes go a step fur- ther still. When thee, are fully grown they sleed their leaves altogether 1 they keep the leaf -stalks, 8.11d pro- duce two tiny wings, which present ' their edges to the sun. In spite of all these various pre- j cantioes, the anemia of watev which ' growing plants part with to the air 1 iej ahnost beyond belief. A square , foot of heng pasture grass gives on nearly 4 2-5121) Pints of water every twenty-four houre in dry weather,. I That is to say,' there rises into the i air 106 tons of water from each acre 1 of meadow within one summer day e anOcialeneiignEgle cabbage has been meas j sured to give off 23: pints of water, within a similar Period. As for the amount big trees give one it is enor- I Inoue. A. 60 -foot elm will have about seven million leaves. If spread out, these would cover 200.- 000 square feet, or ihril acres. From • these leaves there pass out into the air within Ft Slinliner day over seven tons of water in t1Ie form of vapoure -Answers. CULTIVATE TIM VACuLTY, now very few people can properly judge tho distance from one point to =other, even the length of a street' And the same remark applies, per- haps in a less degree to the sense of direction. To ilhistrate wha2 ia hero meant, suppose a 11111.11 lilted - folded and walking the length of a street he Imows well; tve will as- sume that he guielee himself by keep- ing n stick against the curb. lee all probability, he will fancy that lee is at the end tvhe11 he is only half -way., This proves that he has no real idea, of the distance he hies hitherto known 'when he was at the ond of the street ordy bethose ho 'coul(1 the that he was) This explains why people lose their way in the dark- ness or-moro especially -in a fog. 1 They always depend solely on their sense of vision, 0111), deprived of that, they are at a Joss. They eon Mega neither distend) nor direction with any appreath to accurocy, On. the whole, ' thle sense -or "bump," or Whatevee you thoose to call it, - is worth cultivating. - ivuotinamx POISONING. Numerous oftleiel terSonagcs Itt Teheran have recently fallen victims th poiSon. It is believed IMMO Steret Society is at week, The drildt- ing water has been poisoned; but in most festances the poison lats been convoyed en the sweete that every- one cote ao feseie, 111 e-elrehte