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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1902-9-25, Page 6CO :111 AT TIIE WARM Multitudes in tile Palaces of tile Melt mid Great Rave Perished From indifference •Ititterd a000rdloo to Act of che malaise of is -in a, condition favoroble for tlzo moose, :a no roar Me eleneetul mot MIS. 4ro1 TM 14.1,111ilies Mile of Memo, evvemPreent of TEAT LEPROUS GERM. sae metemoot SPLosikurs, peewee Thus in the Meer house establish() A despatch from mileage sao, fn NeW 13runewlek, Canada, in Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage penmen- 1805, it woo found by investigation '81 frOln the folloNviee text: 11 that averY one of the ninety emeas, "Bat he was it low. , Meets confined within that, leprous The Syrian nation wee militarY hospital had coutracted the disease nation, with ins thm, eho word erne of leerosy within a, radius of seventy miles Mom the poiet where the first einem and Oapteln Neaman eves the eentmendemin-ohlef of an ite armies, elm 'of Caradien leproey Was (115 - the headquarters of which were to covered. Convieced of its infeetioue he found in the Damascus eapitiei. character, Dr, Emersor, who wpm 3311t Noon= wieldea a higher intim ler main, years in the employ of the mice them that widen belongses his 4.sere Itawellan Governmentgave , to the greatest soldier of e, military testimony that it is utterly useleSS kingdom The pbrese (mod by the to fight the leprous disease in ene, iusymed historiam gnat man other way then by isolation, "'no • with his , master, and houorable," exPeriment," said he, "with this implies that he held a position More scourge on any other theery than powerful in the kingdom than. um the infectious theory is dangeroue, head of the privy council, the prime reckless insanity.' minister or the secretary of state As the disease of leprosy is fatally or secretary of the treasury, and he infectious, so eee the leprous germs may have held through the prestige ef sin. The evil which is within of nie milltatm successes, some or shall dwell within others. The all of those offices in his own person, wrongs we do against our own as great pashas often clo in Oriental Selves are truly apt to become the Made. Bee occupiecl practicelly the sins which others shall do unto same position in the Damascus cap- themselves also, and as this infec- ital that the Duke of 'Wellington cm- tion implies that to scatter the copied after the battle of Waterloo, germs of sin we must come In 11011 The Duke of Wellington, by the tact with others, Is it not a start - overthrow of the Napoleonic, dynas- ling reflection that the people whom ty, not only became the prime min- we aro most liable to destroy by our ister of England, but for awhile the sins aro those who may be nearest most influentiEn etatesman in all and dearest to us? It will be the Europe. another, herself stricken with the Leprosy, humanly speaking, is an leprosy of sin, who will destroy her incurable disease. Scientists ever own daughter; the fatter, his own since history began have been study- son, the brother his own brother, the ing the onward march of this fatal Wife her sister. Kindred ties and destroyer. Although most prove- companionship will only serve to lent' in the east, it is confined to no facilitate the transmission of the climate and is peculiar to no age, deadly infection. race or condition. A man who has Leprosy is to be found in the the leprous poison in his system has homes of the rich and the poor no hope from medicine. He must alike : in the palace and in the grow worse and worse until he hovel •, at the king's banquet table COMES TO THE GRAVE. as well as ir, the gutter. For many It is as incurable as that disease years the world smmosed that lep- which we call cancer ad which is rosy Was able to thrive only in the only a little less fatal in its hideous pestilential 'alleys and filthy dens of and repulsive results than leprosy. the oast. That supposition was ROW terrible are these diseases totally wrong. LeProsY may origin- ally start among the low social out - that phycicuis confess themselves unable to cure! How startling, casts, but the leprous germs can then, is the divine statement that live and thrive leader the dazzling lights of a brilliant bEillroom the soul may be inflicted with such well as in the stifling air of the 09 a disease similarly beyond human medleament. Sin is a. leprosy. Sin dark hovel ofA CRISHINTAISS RETREAT. is a cancer of the soul gnawing at its vitals. Sin is the forerunner of By handling the coin which is pub- eterrai death. There are men to- liely used in India a traveler may day within the sound of my voice become infected with leprosy, some who in their own strength have been leper having handled the same coin, .fighting sin for Lhe last twenty or By simply touching a rock at the '7 thirty years. But as you grow foot of which a leprous beggar had weaker the power of your sin is crouched, a prince, arrayed in all the growing stronger. God have pity brilliant robes of royalty, may be - upon you, for you are a doomed lep- come a leper. er. You are doomed by leprous Reckless and indifferent was the at - sin. titude of the people of London dur- But though from our standpoint ing the -great plague about two con - leprosy is incurable, yet the leprous turies ago. Ainsworth, the histor- scales were cleaned by Et divine pow- ian, tells us that during those hex- er. 'Therefore, it is to Christ and rowing and gruesome months the to Christ alone, that we must look London stores were nearly all closed. for the cure of sin. The moral lee- The doors of the private homes were er may go with confidence to Christ, nearly all barred and bolted same who cured the phyeicel lepers by a when they were opened at the ap- word. When the tee lepers came to preach of a bell ringer who was the Savior, pleading for help, Christ seated upon a pile ' of stenchful turned and said: "Go show your- corpses .because he was out driving selves unto the priests. And it the dead cart and collecting the (111 - came to pass as they went they were ferent bodies of the 'dead. Yet at cleansed. Newnan, the great cap- that time in Loudon there were men tain, was helpless in the hands of and women who whistled and laugh - his human physicians. On account ed and deemed and sang and blas - of his wealth and fame Naas:taxi pherned under the very shadow of must have had the hest doctors the these horrors. The noted wine cel - royal court of Damascus could sum- Ines of the aristocrelle homes were mon; but when Naaraan, obedient to broken into and • tined. The churches the divine command through Elisha, and the cathedrals were robbed of went and dipped seven times in the their pews and pulpits, and turned river Jordan his flesh became like into dance hells. There the young the flesh of a. little child. 0 my bro- men and young women would ca- ther and sister, you who are cursed rouse clueing the long hours of the with leprous sin, will you not come night and day as ebough this awful to the divine fountaie? • Will you London plague WeMed itever strike not bathe in Christ's blood? Will you them. They would dance end sing not to -day by the Calvary cross seek and blaepheme even Nvhile the driver of the dead cart was wending , his supernatural medicament? Leprosy 108.7 take a, very long time way through the deserted street in which to fatally develop, al- ringing the bell cold crying 1 "Bring though such is not always the way out, bring out your dead I" They the disease progresses. Sometimes would laugh and sing and blaspheme the scourge in a. few months meg even when one of the dancers would change a beautiful body into drop at their feet with the fatal A HIDEOUS CORPSE, mark of death on his brow. They would laugh end sing and blaspheme but the quick result is the exception even while they were throwing the and not the rule. At this first deed bodies of their late companions touch of leprosy usually there maY out of the open church windows only be a hardness, or rather a where they would fall into the gutter numbness, of the skin in a. spot and lie there poisoning the air until about the size of a. ten cent Piece. the dead cart made another round. The skin at that one place merely So there are men and women spirit. turrs as white as SnOW. If you nal lerers living in the homes of the know nothing about the disease, you rich e.ncl poor Mike who are as ut- may not Napery about it. You may, terly indifferent to the approach of foe a long time, be indifferent to eternal death caused by sin as were the numbness. Then, some day some of the inhobitants of England when you are in a physician's ofIlee during the wholesale slaughter of seeking advice for some other cause, human life in the great London you may turn to the doctor and say: plague of "By the way, doctor, I have a very ABOUT TWO CENTURIES AGO. peculiar soNnething the matter with myhand. It does not hurt me, but But, though the leprosy of the i it s numb in one place." Then the soul, like the leprosy of the flesh, be physician with it greete fen° will a disease beyond the reach of the look at your hand, Then Ile will take a pin out of the lapel of his coat and prick that spot. Then he Will Lure and say: "You are a len- eel You Etre already doomed, al- though death may be mary years away." But, though leprosy 'may come in a seemingly harmless Way, the di - settee for four, five, ten, even fifteen yeens will keep on steadily spread- ing. It Will spread van the fingers fail off from the hands and the toes from the feet, It will keep on epreading until the skin bloats and Greeks and the hair falls out. So leprous sin, coining in a seemingly harmless way, will keep or spread- ing until it melees the face hideous, the body deformecl. It may keep on spreading for years until at last the fatal leprous sin will destroy the body as Well as the soul, Leprosy is an infectious disease. It is infectioes as the searlet fever germ is infectiout. It is spread throughout a conuriunity only by the leprous germ on .one physical body beteg brought into Contact with an- ing of the Callao of Istaarcian'S tram other physical body when the letter Ma So one day she timidly pulls at her inn:tress' eleirts end says tress, wile' de you aot have 1115 81101' seek the prepbet 'of :tempi ? Ile would cure bim ot Jib leproey I" Time the Items were hitcbea to the eheriets. Then tne journey wee telts en to the hereon' prof/110'13'14MM, Here my brOther, is the Ghrist- ian'e duty, The humbleee ehiln ef God eall Perform 11. The Exervice tieredto the vette genern1 by tide ceptive child you can ruder to the morel lepere (mound you, I am do- ing no more than elde from the p01 - pit. I um tllbng you where there is a Qum for this fatel disease, How- ever great you Amy be, if you have In Yeur nature THE GERM OF SIN, say, as did the Ifebrew Budd "Would God you wciuld go to Jesus,. for He would restore you." 1 on/ to you Eis did that humble preacher, who ono stormy day, elseeted Char- les .1.1. Spurgeon 'upon his glorious 00000 40Q40,0,041090. 011,0 FOR HOME ReelPee for the Kitchen. a tiyfliene and Other Notes se ler the 111014,seiceePer, a • (MOSSO ittO f$ 0411 fta$ 900 0 *65f9 1N TIM NURSERY. Witell the baby'e head every day and brush with it soft hair brush. It is a great wrong' to believe the wild Mare, grotesque feemies, and namelees doubte width ballet the Minds of children are passing whims, So vivid are those, they. often come to us in middle life, or old ego Lead, cause us an Involunteny entalder. A disiedvaetage "'in having too many clothes for children he that, we.,,01;k: whea„,he criscl "Young mea' they can only bo worn ono season ow- omieted W1tn MAIMS and troubles, ing' to rapid changes of fashion 'oven look to Jesus I Look I Look I" if them is another oomin'gs , thud Will you bathe in Camist'S blood ? to step into its older sister'eupclothes Will you bathe now 1 Will you ge tl ere look out 1 styl ancl require' to Christ and be spiritually cured'? e; Smicli troule °Mid 1,11L to re -alter The seCOnd feet about the cure of the leper Newnan with which 1 a t I t' •N • eA o mace an en nely new outfit. would impress you eves that Bindle, ci handsome baby's afghan is the prophet, told hira to go end mado of light pink. eider -down flan - bathe in theHnee It is tWo-thirds covered with river Jordan, e not tell Namnan to go and batheera"' white 11500, 'rhe edges of, in a POQ1, na did not tell him .,.o the lace, ' that is the embroidered e . edges, are placed toward the eon - wash out et a small basin, Blisha ter, leering a space there te be em - tole Neaman to go and dip in the broidored. The lace is caught down. Jordan. There he would have plenty of room. The river was eo wide end on the flannel, with silks of shades of pink end olive green, the most deep that Naaman ceuld wade into prominent parts of the lace being it up to his thighs, his shoulders, his chin. He could dip into it again worked over with the Mike, giving it and again and again. elo to -day, as a most beautiful °Sect. The fringe on the ends is made of pink worsted with Newnan, I would bid you who are covered with the scales of lep- tied in. • ' rosy, to waddown into the m • ,em , o f A moher whotretains the Gentle e , life. I would bid you to clip into 110050 of hor children can guide and that t•iver which flows from out of help them, though ehe cannot con - in their 0110150 of life, witb- the throne of the Lamb, I3ecause it inand, is a wide river, lt is a river so out milking- them miserable &levee. wide and deep that all of us can Don't tell your child the happiest enter it at once, side by side end days he will ever know are ids clays therewill yet be enough water to of childhood. Don't say with ree.- cleanse us all from our sins. / turity wane cares and work and would have you wade to -day into troubles and fears that make life a the river of life because I want to burden. take ,your hand in mine, and, as It is a, dangerous thing to deceive your pastor and friend, I want to a child in even a trifling Matter. It enter this Savioer's river, so that I Is the seed of distrust which maY also can be cleaned ' of iny own sins grow to such dimensions as to poi - by your side and have my flesh and son the whole nature. If a boy or yours, like Newnan's, become' as girl is called on to bear the pain pure es it little child's, My , dear of a slight surgical or dental opera - friends, leprous with sin, will you tion, which does not require an let me lead you to the river of anaesthetic, it is always better to eternal cleansing ? tell the truth firmly and quietly, It ----se is wonderful how much courage it gives the child if he hos learned to FROM TREES TO NMWSPAPERS. trust your word implicitly, A trial waS recently made in Aus- A physician, speaking out of a trice to decide in how- short a space deep arid, practical mind, said: "If of time living trees could be convert- Yoe • hear a mother refer to her ed into nowspapere. At Elsenthal, daughter as nervous in the ,da.ugh- at 7.85 in the morning, tlmee trees ter's presence, if you cannot speak, Were sawn down ; at 9.34 the wood, glare at her, but if you can speak, having been &tripped . 01 bark, cut say, "Madam, your conversation up, converted into pulp, became see would make a wooden girl nervous, per, and passed from the factory to to say nothing of a flesh -and -blood the peels, whence the first printed person like your daughter." • , ., Boxing of the ears should not be and folded_copy was issued at ten o'clpek. So that in 145 minutes the indulged in even in play, for one trees had become newspapers. cannot gauge the effect of the con- -, se.-- mission, SOME GOOD RECIPES. INGENIOUS POSTAL BALANCE Cream Oysters.—One pint cream, a The most recent triumph of the little more than one pint oysters, French postal administration is an one tablespoonful flour, salt and ingenious little machine which not pepper to taste. Let the cream only autoluatically weighs letters come to a boil, mix the flour with a and samples, but. records on an in- little cold milk and stir into the dicator at the side the amount re- boiling cream. Let the oysters come quired for stamps. When the article to a boll in their awn liquor, then deposited on the balance exceeds the skim carefully. Drain off all the regulation weight the indicator liquor, and turn the oysters into promptly hoists the sign "Too the belling cream. heaven" . Sweet Corn Pudding.—One pint corn, two tablespoonfuls melted but - SWEDISH CHILDREN. ter, two tablespoonfuls granulated The Swiss show the world a good 0U5 os' sugar, two eggs beaten light, two example in their constderation for • ilk, salts oon It, a mall children. In Geneva there is a Chit- name 1 o so a. lop the corn ne, P I f d PC1 scfi dren's Holiday Homes Society. As (id eggs sugar butter, salt and soon as the schools break up in July nailk ii 1, h' 1 'soda has b xi' th 1 iv ic II h . ee s . '- the poorer children are sent off to rod.' 33,t :a Mt f an our an ci. 005 '- the spots in the Swiss hills and eeed pudding dish, then uncover and. valleys' to lay in a fresh store of bi,iserim. to Catsup.—Out health and strength. and boil one peck good ripe red tomatoes and wilERB Tr4.5.1. Bums Turavs., , then press through a Sae sieve. 'Add eine oup strong vinegar to one gel - The birds are not forgotten by the ion of the' tomatoes and two heaping Swedish peasantry: At the door' of tableepoons ground Mixed &pieces every farmer's house is erected a Boil again and bottle. This will pole, to the top of which is bound keep a year if placed where it is a large, full sheaf of grain. There cool. is not a peasant in all Sweden. who Grape Sweet Pickle.,—Use full will sit down with his children' to grown green grapes. Take seven dinner until he has first raised aloft pounds grapes, four pounds sugar, a meal for the birds, one pint vinegar, two to three ta- blespoons clovea. Scald the villager TEE PARADISE OF ROSES. and sugar together, cut the grapes The "paradise of roses" is not in once and seed them. Scald them in Turkey, Bulgaria, or Persia, it swum, but at Sces.ux, near Paris, where, in his garden of L'Hey, M. Grovereaux has collected 6,000 dif- ferent species from all parts of the world. The • clambering roses are particularly fine, and are trained over espaliers as well as arcades. Latest experiments show that the speed of birds is overestimated. Pig- eons rarely travel over 40 miles an hour. The record, and that for a comparatively short distance, is 55 miles an hour. The °metric storage battery weighs Muncie soul, I would again draw your attention to the fact that iteasarlY 100 pourche per horse -power. The best form of steam motor gives yields to the touch of the Divine' Physician, as the affliction of Newel- a horempoWer for 14 pounds weight an yielded ot the Jordan waters. And there are especially two or three incidents about the physical cure of Namenen with which I would drive this truth home and lead you to the lounlitd11, of life. 'rho first was that he was induced to travel from Da- mascus to the home of the Prophet Elisha through the influence of a of machinery; but 'the gasoline en- gine weighs only eight pounds per h Green) o wer Is 1881 Cardin`, Wales, with a population of 80,000, had 62 con- victions for Sunday drunkenness, Lost year, with 170,000 people, there were but nine cases. The 011- planatior is that the public -houses little captive Jewish slave lying are now closed on Sunday. nevalte upon her humble couch as Ono of the oldeet clergymen in night after night she hears the gi•eat England is an ettrl—thvenera Syrian general tramping up an. Earl of Devon. Ho is one of 'ble the e down in his Pdlace retails' She few members of the House of Lords Iteers hire groan When he is awake. ‚151,0 Woe born before Waterloo be- cause beare liiin me' i" his eleeP be' Caine a. name in history, and Who 'cause he is a hopeless leper, She has Heed in four reigns. hears him testi Mestlesely about upon his bed. She kettrs him the It is interesting to recallthat more readily became She is sleeping the Wes of the fall of Sepaieopol in a nearby rome, at the foot of remelted Eegland 015 a Monday, 10th Neamates wife'a bed, or in an acne. September, 1855. It WAS conveyed cent room to her mistress. Then she by express to the Queen at, Bet- imes tha general and his wife talk- Morel, and eho caused it huge bola - fire to ha kindled on the smninit of CraigoWall, the vinegar and sugar. Skim out the grapes; bring vinegar to steed as a relic, either 1 or sentimental and pour over the grapes two mom- reasons or because they think it 11 eOrte ond eandition Of diet and MIA; fOr of ail bothernelnel thinna 0110 Of the 140111 disegreiNable le 1,119 threwillg of She ‚)entente ef dust-. pane, eta, into the Wood box. A chewer ftlx inthee deep shoeld be 14 the hett0111 of the box, end thie Will be alWaye filled With nice The bettelet 01 the wood bex proper Met nboVe thie drawee will be of slate, fer enough apart to elloW no wood to go through, but wide en- ough to allow all duel, to sift into the drawer, winch may be easily emPtied• On One end of the box will be hooks to hold poker, 8110Ve1, (AM,. alld 94 the wall above can be a. large tin Match box, provided there ie no clanger of little ehildree get- ting at In PREPARING POTAO.`01:1S. Where are few !mimes in width the potato does not form part of the daily menu, therefore it is of Met imPOrtenee to consider, suye Einem 3. Gray, in the LaMiee' World. The befreeleled, sodden condition in. which this vegetable is often placed on our tablee testifies to tbe im- portance oE care. The average cook peels the potato with the one thought Of , get- ing through with it as soon as possible. She cuts the peelings usually from au eighth to half an tech deep and the result is a Jagged, ill-shape'd potato. 11 an eye happens to be cut out, a quarter or half the potato has been sacrificed. Her next move is to throw them into a pan in which they are part- ly eovered with cold water, Whisk- ing them around a xnornene, she gathers them in both hands, ond with the dirty water trickling from her fiegers she throws them into a pot. Her duty is now over. When the dirmer is ordered on, she will take the potatoes up in whatever condition they happen to lee. A few overconsciems cooks will test whether the potato is done through, and when boiled to their .satisfaction will pour oil' part of the water and set the pot where the po- tatoes will soak up the rest of the water and keep warm until served. DAINTIES FOR INVALIDS. An ordinary fruit, vegetable or meat may be quite transformedby ttie manner in which it ie being serv- ed. 'An orange may be out through crosswise and served with a very small dish of powdered sugar, and an orange spoon, or, it may have the whole cut in carpels or sections from pole to pole and the skin drawn beck from each enough to 'loosen it, and then again drawn in- to shape. If a baked potato form a part of the meal, cut. a Mice from the upper side, take out the potato With a small spoon, ma& with but- ter, Cream and salt, Whipping light with a forlc, till the skin again' and stand in the oven long enough for the little cone of potato exuding from the top to take a golden brown tinge. Fruit foams are digestible and dainty for invalids. Any sort of' stewed fruits, apricote, apples, peadme or prunes should be whipped smooth while warm, and when thor- oughly smooth beat in the white of an egg whipped to a stiff froth; serve in thin glass, a pretty cup, or low Japanese bowl. FINE FLOUR AND TEETH. • Why do colored people as a rule have such fine teeth? Mostly be- cause they have lived on coarse food, which made demands on the teeth. People as a rule now do not want to do any chewing. They de- mand meat which is so tender, that it will melt in the mouth, etc. Na- ture, prodigal as she is, never be- stows a,nything where it is not used; and the result is that the civilized races are losing their teeth. If the style continues to forbid our teeth to do any grinding our progeny of 'say 2902 A. D. will be born tooth- less, eeeser with only rudimentary teeth,m- As individuals we cannot grow good teeth in our heads by eating coarse food. We aro begin- ning t13 get bad teeth by lienenity. But there is ahnost no tooth or bone -forming material in find white flour, and "the avoidance of coarse foods undoubtedly hastens the de- caying of our teeth. Perhaps the millers and the dentists are in a sec- ret league to work for mutual inter - eta. Who knows? DATES ON COINS MADE PLAIN. Most boys have an old silver coin of some kind which they are keeping ingEe Scald all together the third morning, Graham. Apple Pie Crust.—Fill e pie plate with apples partly cookod worth more' than its face value. In some instances the date or the in- scription. has been worn away and it is impossible to mad it, even and prepated la the usual way for with a strong glass. The following making pies, cover with a crust ntakielinetliod, originally,practised at the in the following manner, one cup I mint to discover the genuine coins Grahaen flour, half teaspoonful salt, when silver was called in, -will en - one teaspoodul baking powder. Add able anyone to read an obliterated enough ,sweet cream to make a dough that can be rolled out on the board. Cover the apples with this and bake. Clinger Snaps.—Take one cup sug- ar, one cite molasses, one cup lard, well beaten, one tablespoonful soda dissolved in S cup boiling water, one tablespoonful gingee, flove to mix soft. Roll thin, out small, and bake gaickly. Place them an inch apart in the pcin to bake, ILITCHMINT WOOD 130X. A vernal: believes that the most convenient wood box is made as fol- lows: First it must stand high enough from the floor to escape' a back - twiggy foe the utter. For this is a, kitchen woodbox, you must eemexn- ber. It will be large enough to hold wood for two days' baking,. aud will etand on four strong legs with a eager in oath leg, 'so that it may be meetly moved, and Mao that. the dust and dirt may not pile up around it and so make the scrubbing and weeping of floors a menace to the eloanlinees of the edges of the box. It Must be Of dirk, or stabl- ed hardwood, end have it lIci to coer- ee the slentiere top, cco that it Inlay tiot be in seevice as a catch-all for inscription: Make the poker red hot in the fire and. then place the envoi* coin on it; the inscription will be plainly visible in a greenish hue, which will fade as the coin cools. AFTER THE ALLIANCE. A result of the Anglo -Japanese alliauce 'is an extraordinary keen - IMO on the part of the Easterners to learn English. Oely the other day a British bluejacket, belonging to the battleship Goliath, was arrested in a house at Eenagaevanmeht on the charge of overstaying his leave ashore. It cePpeared that he had been given a free lodging by the son of a village headman, who was omelette to improve his conversation- al English. CROWNED WITHOUT A CROWN, A coroetttion without a crown souncle distinctly Xeish, yet such was in effect the toremony in which Henry EL took the most prominent, part at Gloucester on Oetober 281.1,, 1216. On Mils occasion it plain circle eves used instead or a crown, which had been lost 'with -the jewels and other baggage' of Ring Johe in passing the marehes ef Lynn, or the Wash, near Wiebethe THE S. S. LESSON. IN=41N14TI0X.P..1., T.V$SOAT, SEPT, 28, Text of the Leeson, tInaeterly IlOvieW, Golden Text, Dent, viii„ 18. Lefleon 1.—The giving (Nf munna (ES. Nevi, IMO). Golden Tent, Matt. vi, 11., "Give tie this (My our daily borreC"de'cl” OilleaeweeS11'0°111,1CINveasmulti1 must ) i) 1 t2 her that in Him we live and move and blase e'er being, thet lie giveth life and breeth and ,e11 things and that ill hie band are our breath alicl ell our ways (Acta emit, 25, 28; Dan, v, 28). Therefore without a murmur WO elnetild gratefully aecept day by clay all He eends or permits to coMe and daily feed 911 Wen in His word (John vi, 57), LeeSen IL—The Ten Oorilmand- ments—chaties to Ciod (41x, xx, 1-11)• Golden Text, Luke en 27, "Timm tolcat love the Lord thy God with all thy heart." Recauee He de- livered them from the bondage of FeTYpt by His great 'sewer that they might for their oNvn happipese axed the happinees of others be 'a speeial people unto Himself Ee asks their whole heart; and no true lover would like lees from one he loved. Lessen 11L—The Ten Command- ments—duties to men (Ex. •xx, 12- 17,) Golden Text, Matt. xix, 19, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," The Golden Text tells us the only way in, which we can show to man that we love God is by toy- ing our fellow men. Leeson XV. --Worshiping the gold- en °elf (Ex. mil, 1-80). Golden Text, Ex. xx, 3, "Thou Shalt, leave no other Goels before Me." One of the most amazing things recorded in Scripture is the love. and the long stffiering of God, and another is the great sinfulness of man. These people who hod Said to God, "All that Thou sanest we will do," are Men in a few days making an idol and calling it their God; yet Pie bears with them. Lesson V.—The'tabernacle (Ex. xl. , 1-88). golden Text,' Pe. c, 4, "En- ter into Ele gates with thanksgim ing and into His courts ' with praise." Although they were such as they were anS He knew them thoroughly, yet He commanded tabernacle to be built that He might dwell in it among them. The Lord Jesus was indeed the true taber- nacle, Ged manifest in the flesh (Rob. 'viii, 2; 11 Tim. ill, 16), , and now each believer is a. temple of God (I Cor. .vi, 19, 20), Isesson VI.—Naclab ancl Abihu (Lev. ac, 1-11). Golden Text, 1 These. v, 6, "Let us' watch and be sober." ' God has sent from heaveli the fire , to consume the sacrifice (chapter ix, 24) and .had appointed the way in - Whic)t everything should be clone, but these mon, like (Jain, disregarded God's way and preferred their own way before the Lord, and before the Lord they died. All in our churches to -day that is not of God may be countedstrange fire. Leeson VIT.—Journeying toward Canaan (Num. x, 11-13, 20-36). Gol- den Text, Ps. xxxi, 8"; "for thy nameM sake lead ene and guide Inc." God never left tbem although they oft provoked Him to do so, but the pil- lar of cloud by day and of 11re by night was their faithful guide and Oracle and shield. Moses seemed in- clined to lean a little upon his fa- ther-in-law, but in that he was wrong. Lesson VIII.—Report of the spies (Num. xiii, 1-13, and xiii, 25, xiv, 4). Golden Text, Ps. xl, 4. "Blue - ed in that man that maketh the Lord Isis trust." • This looking to see if God Was as good as His word and if the land was what He said it was gave no evidence of faith in God. But because they desired to send the, spies God permitted them (Deut. i, 20-23, and we see the re - Lesson IX—The brazen serpent '(Num. xxi; 1-9), Golden' Text, John 111, 14, 151 "And as Mosee ep seeimiii 'in the wilder- ness," etc. There are many fore - shadowings Of 'God's -way of redemp- tion, such as the shedding of blood and the coats of skins of Gen. 21, and the sacrifice of Isaac in Gen. xxiit but none moim suggestive than this of the serpent upon the pole to which our Lord refers. Lesson X.—The prophet like Moses (Deut, xviii, 9-22). Golden Text', John vi, 1.4, "This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world." Every prophet, priest and king, as well as every sacriflce and the whole tabernacle and its ritual, all foreshadowed tho true Prophet, Priest and Ring, the true tabernacle, the true and only Lemb of God, of whom the Father said, Hear 1111151 Lesson XL—Loving and obeying God (Deut. icor, 11-20). Golden Text, I John '1, 8, "For this is the love of God that we keep His com- inandments." The New Testament comment upote this lesson in Rom. x points us to Obeist, who is the end of the low for rigbteousimse to every one who believeth, the only ono who over truly loved end obeyed God and who becomes the righteous - noes ard the life of oveey believer, Lesson X1L—Tlie death of Moses (Deut. xxxiv, 1-12). Golden Text, Ex. xxxiii, 1.1, "The Lord spoke un- to Moses Rico to ince." The great- est of etn•thly prophets died; all kings and priests (lie; it 19 appointed onto men oece to die, but our great leligh Priest, I'rophet and King tasted death for every man, died, rose froin the dead, is now at the right hand of Clod in heaven, crown- ed with glory end honor, arel will C01110 mmin to reetore all things of width Moser, and all the prophets have spolcon (Vele 1.1-3; ii, 0; Acts iii'19-n1). Every INeliever is one wi.th Eine in tho glory, slieil take part in tile fleet remurrectioti anti reigit IvIth ITtin in TIM kingdom, Paris has double the number firelnen, and fifty more engines th London, of an SEE LIKE1'121tJIIJLJJRJiJN .44113 TAP GZAMATA,,CM. POLSN'T SXQUZ, geAge tile Mgt. Court Circles oo-d, Arist 0 crats Are Shocked. • Rlessitlel Society. of the higheet type 10 not 0, little pienied over WM • ine herentlY Obstinate traits ef °baleen: ter which the cherming Czaidea 1144 been giving full eweep both 10 and Out of the imperial pelace, .She has been frognently charged with cher- Jelling a certain member. ot deeidecily English ideas which were nut' etriet- ly in accord with Russian preeechent, and at leaet tWo of these hove brought her into sharp disfavor amon11 many of the stifY, unap- proneheble boyare. In the fleet Place, the Czarina has been. courageous enough to adinit that see le inordinately fond of her children, a eonfeselon that has tre- ated no mad stir 15140L1 0110 femele members of the royal set. Tide foot of ieself was sufiletent to Amite ad- verse comment Mom the, unbending women of Russian nobility, and when the Czarina supplemented her stand with reference) to the nureery with mother even more obnoxiousher dlsfavoe inereaeed at a surprisingly rapid rate. Tbe fact ie the empress is doubly unpopular because she has put her royal feet down with un- swerving emphasis and has declared positively that elle will not smoke., "There is not a single qualifying clause in the Czarina's declaratio1l on tte use of tobacco. She has set herself up in absolute defiance of a custom that has long prevailed in Russia, and not only relemes to smoke herself, but does not counten- ance smoking by women in the palace. The Czarina's ideas on the question ol tobacco smoking are so decidedly positive that they can be well understood without lengthy consideration. She has been so outspoken and so bitter against the custom prevailing among Rus- sian women that she has even in- curred the ill will of a. Member of her own family, THE DOWAGER EMPRESS scarcely deigns to speak to MM. (Mariam, and it is generally coeced-' ecl that the tobacco question has estranged them Still, this has not altered the opinion of the Czarina, in the least, and the edict that wome11 callers at the palace 5.10 'not to smoke continues to hold good. The Dowager Empress is an invet- erate smoker in her own apartments, and the Czarina has not been rash enough eo attempt her reformation, But she has, on ethe other hand, let it be well, understood that she will not countenance the use of the weed in her presence, and this has beeit sufficient cause ' for the Dowager, Enipress to make known her excep- tions. .A. few of the younger Women nave taken issue with the Czarina on the queetion, and bave resolutely decided that they will "swear off." It has not been enough for the Czarina, simpler to declare that she is extremely fond of her children. If she had stopped with the mere de- claration it; is doubtful if the peers and peeresses of Russia would have given voice to their disapproval. But she has persisted in putting her nursery charges ahead of the most pompous affairs of court and so- ciety and in this way has brought herself into considerable disfavor. The Czarina insists in a good moth- erly way that her first duty is to her children, and with this in view she eves them every possible mo- ment of her time. There is not a de- tail of their education that escapes her active mind, and 'she devotes considerable of het time to the study of questions of hygiene and other natural details which enter into the raising of a 110.1>PY. healthy family of children. The extreme simplicity of the (Martha's costumes be another cause for offense, On this, point she has allowed horeelfAer be''treated with and has yieldedlomewhat to the arguments of the Czar, who enter- tains' moro respect ior court pre- judices. As a result of the Czar's entreaties the Czarina, has modifleci her favorite costume of white or black velvet, modestly decollete leTPHOUT JEWELRY. • Had she persisted in adhering to this rigid plainness the court ladies would have had no further use for their jewel caskets, and this wOuld have been a particularly sad' blow to those accustomed to almost barbaric dirtliasY.Ovident at the 1.3;uSSia,n COurt that the democratic tendencies of both the Czar and, Czarina have given offense to a great Many who have been accustomed to living in adherence to the most strictly drawn and conscientiously observed rules of caste. The young Czar tend his consort appear to be playing tag with custom, and are showing mock- ed atterition to the men of yester- day. They seem to /aver a. gradual demolition of caste barriers, and the imperial leaven is beginning to work in lower social strata, Court bar- riers axe More rigid in Russiathan else ewhre in Europe, but the 'Czar has no love for this retie of °Ment- alism, nor does he care for pomp like hie eouein of Germany. He works hard at humanitarian schemes which he can never realize, and passes his time as much as poesible with his wife and children, It Is evident that the young em- press, though she is something of a reformer, will not succeed in remov- ing the Mesrovite &WM' from court etiquette. Bealdes, the rigorous laws of caste extend far beyond court circles, The Russian serial World is divided into no less than fourteen sharply distinguished clays' 015, of which the Czar, his wife, and children form the first, and his brothers, 'sisters ancl uncles the owe ond. An the theatre the first tier of be:ewe ie oceupied by the highest nobles end the groat dignitaries of the court: It. is not reserved for them by Ineve but no inferior inembee of the nobility, woulcl eeer dream of intruding..