The Exeter Advocate, 1898-1-8, Page 7MARTHAS AND MARYS
REV.
2F.,Ps saamos ON
HOUSEHOLD OAAES.
Itertba in the Kitclien and Mary in the
arler-The aerials Q the (toed mouse,
beeper-4ton- They May be Overcome-
Irotne Infinente.
(QapyrIght,, late by Ateericae Press aeseet
atiood
Washingten, TainiageOs
'Kneen i,. -day gees throtigh home life
with the trate or one who leas seep, t_ts
.depertmenis and sympathizes with au ea
mew and leis words of eheor for all wive.%
mothers, daughters and sistere; text,
Lake x, 4u; "Lord, dost thou not cave
that my ii:eter heti) left roetoserre alone?
Bid hre therefore, that she hoe owes
Yonder I. a beautiful eilioge homestead,
The man of the houee is deed, end his.
widow Is .taking eharge a the promisee.
This is the widow Martha of Bethany.
-
Yes, I win show you also the- pet of the
heueeithold. This is Mary, the younger
eistee, with a book under her arm and
her feels hating no appairance of auxiety
or ceee. Company ha i eome. Chrise
stands witode the door, and ,of course
there is a geed deal of excitement lOside
the dor. The diearrengeil furniture- la
hastily put aide, and .the bair brushed,
beck, and the dresesee are edjusted_es well
as, in so, shore a time, hiary, aud 31erthe
eauattend to these =flume. They did
not keep Vhrist standiuget thedooruntll
they were newly appereled or uutil they
elabo.rately orninged their teeises,
thou coming ,out with their effected eine
prise as 'though they had no heard the
WO or Ore Pretioui inweleings, Saying,
"Wheale th.a your Na. ',Chey wereladiee
and west) alwaya preeentable, although
they pew net have always. hail 04 .thoir
best, for muse of Ile always has on -our
'hest. If we ilia, our hest 'would not be
worth ha-. �*. 'rhey- threw opn the
doer h .16 levet t„"itrist. -They say: "(hee4
morn' xi eteeter I ("owe in and he seated."
Christ did net come alone. Ho had
.groupf friewis with him, else such at
influx of eity vielters would throw any
_countey "eime into perturbatiett.
I ettpleis ale) the Walk trent the eity
* twee re good appetizer. The kitchen
depareeeeit that (ley Vras4 very important
.depirtmear. and I suppose *hitt hlarthe
bee no ‘,111:171er greeted the gueeti than
the ihei te- that reline Aimee lind no wor
rbutele teelitt hotieehold affeirs. She had
full canlieleneu that 731;trtha ,could get up
the Peemu,e u Bethany. She seems to
*ay, "Now let, us have a ilivleionotelabor.
Martha, y,w cook and I'll titlewa and
be good." So you have often seen a great
differeneo iietween two sisters.
erar,y soul Martha.
There k elertha, hard woriting, peins-
taking. a good manager, ever inventive
of seine new pastry or discovering some-
thing the art of rookery awl bowie -
keeping. There le Mary, alio fond of eon-
veraithat, literary, so eugeged in deep
questions of ethlei she has no time to
attend to the questions of household wel-
fare. It is noon, hhiry ie In the perlor
with Chriet. Marthe es in the kitchen.
It would have been better If they had
dividea tine work, and then they could
have divided the opportunity of Retelling
to Jeeue. But Mary monopolizes Christ
while 4uv. insweltere at the fire. It NM
a very importaut thing that they should
have a good dinner that day. Oiliest was
hungry, and he tlid not often have a lux-
urious entertainment. Alas me, If the
duty hail devolved upon Mary, what a
repast that would have been.! But some-
thbig went wrong in the kitchen, Per-
haps the gre woult not lmrn, or the
bread would not bake, or Martha scalded
her hand, or something MS burned
black that ought only to have been made
brown, and Martha losther patience, and
forgetting the proprieties of the occasion,
with besweated brow, and, perhaps, with
pitoher in one hand and tongs in the
other, she rushes out of the kitthen into
the presence of Christ, saying, "Lord,
dost thou not •oaro that 'iny sister bath
left rne to serve alone?" Christ molded
not a word. If it were scolding, I should
rather have his scolding than anybody
else's blessing. There was nothing zelerb.
He knew Martha had almost worked her-
self to death to get him something to eat,
and so he throws a world of tenderness
into his intonation as he seems to say:
"My dear wonum, do not worry. Let the
dinner go. Sit down on this ottoman
beside Mary, your younger slater. Mar-
tha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled
about many things, but one thing is
needful." As Martha throws open that
kitchen door I look in and see a great
many household perplexities and anxie-
ties.
First there is the trial of nonappreoia-
tion. That is what made Martha so mad
with Mary. The younger sister had no
estimate of her older sister's fatigues. As
now, men bothered with the anxieties of
the store and °face and shop, or coining
from the stock exchange, they say when
they get hoine: "Oh, you ought to be in
our factory a little while! You ought to
have toeetinage 8 ur 10 or 20 subordin-
ates`, and theta you would know what
trotibleideffeanedety oial" Oh, sir, the
wife and thekkettleet hits to conduct at
the same time a university, a clothing
establishroent, a restaurant, a laundry, a
library, while she is health officee, police
and president of her realm! She must do
a thousand things, and do them well, in
order to keep things going smoothly, and
so her brain and her nerves are taxed to
tbe Ut132013t. 1 know there are housekeepers
who are so fortunate that theysan sit in
an armohair in the library or lie on the
belated pillow and throw off all the care
upon subordinates who, having large
wages and great experience, can attend to
-• all of the affairs of the household. These
are the exceptions, I am speaking now of
the great mass of boteseiteepers—the wo-
mote to whom life is a struggle, and who
at 80 jeers of age look as though they were
40, and at 40 look as though* they were
60, and at 50 look as though they were
60. The fallen at ()Wens and Austerlitz
and Getajsburg and Waterloo are a small
number compaeed with the• slabs in the
pat Arma.geddon of the kitchen. You
gtiout tto the cemetery and you will see
that the tombstones an read beautifully
poetic, but if those tombstonos would
speak the truth, thousands of them would
say: "Here lies a 'woman killed by too
much mending and sewing an baking
and scrubbing and scouring. The weapon
wit,h which she was slain was a broorct or
ofb g mediate or a ladle."
rionseiceeping Cares.
You think, 0 man of the world, that
you have all the cares and anxieties. If
the cares awl anxieties of the household
should come upon you for one week you
would be fit for the lrisane asylum. The
,tealtalf rested housekeeper arises in the
morning. She Jrnust have the morning
repast prepared at an irrevectible hour.
What if the fire will not light; what if
the marketing did. not creme; what if the
clock has stopped—po mater, she must
have the morning repast ea an irrevocable
hour. Then the children must be got off
to sehool. What if then, garments are
torn; 'what if they do not kieetv their
lessons; what if they have lett a hat or
sash—they nutst be ready, Then yen hav
all the diet of the day ana perliaps es
several days, to pima but what if the
butcher bas sent meat taranasticable, or
the grocer leas sent artierdi of food adul-
terated, and whet if some piece of silver
Le gone, or some reverie() chelice be
teaeked, or the roof leak, or the plumb-
ing fail, or any one of a thousand things
oceur—you tnuet be reedy. Spring weather
comes, and there muse ba a revolutioa in
the family wanirobe, or autumn eomee,
and. you meet shut out the northern
blast, bee what if the moth has preceded
you to the elieet; what if, during the
year, the ebildren bare outgrown the
apparel of last yetr; whet if the fashions
have changed! Your house MUSD be an
apo,hceary s shop; te muse he a dispen-
eery; there must be medicines for all ail-
wents—soraething to loosen the croup,
something to cool the burn, something to
poultiee tho attlionmation, something to
silence. the taaeolag, tooth, :emu:Vs:Mg to
soothe the earaelie. You must be in half
a dozen pleee's at the aline time, or you
must attempt, to be. It muter all this
weer an E tear of lie, Martha melees an
hanatient rueh upon the library or draw-
ing room. be eretieet, he ilententi 0 AvO•
W411, though I may foil to stir Up
en appreeintion in the souls of °there in
regard to your household Mils, let me
aseure you, from the kindliness 'with
whleit Jesus Chriit awe Martha, that be
appreeiatei all your work from garret to
cellar, and thet the Cod of Deborah, and
Ilminele, and Abigell, aud Grandmother
L014, and Erizebeth Fry, and Hannah
More le the God of thohousekeeperi Jesus
wae never uterried, that he inighe be the
especial friend and confidant of a whet°
world a treiiiiied W0111411110eil, 1 blonder.
Christ was luztrried. The Bible gays that
the church le the Iamb's wife, and that
mites sue know thrst all Christian women
eve a right te go to Christ and tell bine
o their anuoyaneee and troublee, since
by his oath of eenjugai fidelity he Is
sworn to epee:WON. George Herbert,
the Christian pint% wrote two or three
versee on this sulitert:—
Tho.,iervant by this clause
eloskee drudgery divine,
Who sweeps a room, as for thy hays,
Makes this ;mot the aetiou line.
A. young woman of brilliant etlueetion
and. preeperous eirellitiStaliCOS Witi called
clown stalta to help in the kitelten In the_
absence of the siavants. The dourberl
ringing., she went to own it and found si
gentleman friend, who Sabi as he came
in: "1 thetwitt that I heard mete. Was
It on this photo or on this harp?" She
answered: "No. I Wse, playing on a. arid -
Iron, wIth frying pun aeemnpanionent.
serrents are gone, and I nut leerning
how to do this work.." Well dente When
will women in all terries iluti out that it
is houorablo to do anything that ought
to be done?
seePIT neolionly.
Again, there le the trial et severe econ-
omy Nine hundred and ninetynine
irmeeholde out of the thousand arts sub -
pate to it, tome under more and settle
under leai striate of eireturtstancee, Repeal -
ally if a man smoke very expensive ears
and take voryenetlyallnuersat therestau-
rante ho will be severe in demanding
domestic evanonties. This is what kilIs
tens of thottettauls of women—attemptbag
to make $3 do the work of $7. A young
woman ibout M enter tho married state
said to ber mother, "How long dots the
honeymoon laste- Tile mother answered,
"The honeymoon lasts mall, youttelt your
hueband for money." How some rolon do
dole out money to tbeir 'Wives! "How
much do you want?" "A. dollar." "You
aro always wanting a dollar. Can't you
do with 50 mete?" If the husband has
not the money, let hint pltunly say so. If
he has it lot him make choortul response,
remembering that his wife has as much
right to it as he has. How the bills come
in! The woman is the banker of the
bousehold. She is the president, the
cashier, the teller, the discount clerk, and
there is a pante every few weeks. This
30 years' war against high prime, this
perpetual study of eoonomics, this lifelong
attempt to keep the outgoes less than the
income, exhausts innumerable house-
keepers.
Oh, my sister, this is a part of the
Divine discipline! If it were best for you,
all you would have te do woulti be to
open the front windows, and the ravens
would fly in with food, and after you
had. baked 50 times from the barrel in
the pantry the barrel, like the one of
Zarephath, wouia be fall, and the shoos
of the children would last as long as the
shoes of the Israelties in the wilderness -
40 years. Besides that this is going to
make heaven the mora attractive in the
contrast. They never hunger there, and
consequently there will be none of the
nuisances of catering for appetites, and in
the land of the whiterobe they never have
to mend anything, and the air in that
hill country makes everybody well. There.
are no rents to pay, every man owns his
own house, and a mansion at that. It
will net be so greau a change foryou. to
have a chariot in heaven if you have been
In the habit of riding in this world. It
will not be so great a change for you to
sit down on the bansk of the river of life
if in this world you had a country seat,
but if you have walked with tired feet In
this world what a glorious 'change to
' mount celestial equipage! And, if your
life on earth was domestic martyrdom,
oh, the joy of an eternity ..in which you
shall have nothing to do except what•you
thoose to do! Martheams hadno drudgery
for 18 centuries! I quarrel with the theo-
logians who want to distribute all the
thrones of • heaven among the John
• Enoxes and the Hugh Latimers and the
• Theban legion. Some of the brightest
thrones of heaven will be kept for Chris -
than housekeepers. Oh, what a change
Prone here to there, from the ' time wheu
they put down the rolling pin to when
they take -op the scepter! If Cantsworth
park and the Vanderbilt 7inansfort were to
be lifted hip the celestial city, they
would be _eoffsidered extinliabitable rook-
eriee, and glorified, Lazarus would be
ashamed to be going in and oat of either
of them. s •• • •
sickness and Trouble.
There , are many housekeepers wild
could get along with their toil 12 13 were
not for sickness and trouble. The fact is,
one-half of the wotnen of the lane are
more or less invalids. The mountain lass
who has never bad an ache or a pain may
consider household toil inconsiderable,
and toward evening, she may skip away
miles to the fiolcts and drive home the
cattle, and she ma3r until 10 o'clock at
night fill the house with laughind racket.
4
But, oh, to do the wort of !Veleta, worn -
Constitution, When whooping cough
has been raging for six weeks in the
household, making the night as sleepleas
as the day! That is not so easy. Perhaps
this copes after the nerves have beeu
shattered by some bereavement tbat has
left desolation in every room of the house
and set the erib in the garret beeauee the
oecupent has been hushed. into a slumberwhida needs: no mother's lullaby. Oh,
she could provide for the whole group a
great deal better tban she Can. for i, Part
of the group, now the rest are goPel
Though you may tell her God is taking
cure a those who are gone, it is mothers
like to brood both flocks. and one wing
she puts over the geele hi the house; the
rehaev,
rewing she Puts over the flock 10, the
g
There is nothing but the old feshioned
religion of Je3US Chise that will take a
woman happily through the trials of
home life, At /het there inaY be n To -
/name or novelty that will do for a
substitute, The marriage hour has just
mewl, Mal the perplexities a the itousee
hold are mere than atoned by the joy of
being together and by the feet that when
it is late they do not have to discuss the
tittestion as to whether it is time to go.
The mishaps of the household, bistead
ef belog o, matter of anxiety and repre-
hension, are a matter of merrimeute-the
loat of bread turned into a geological
epeeimen, the lashy en d., the 4tont-
Idiced or encesly biseutis. It is a very
p height sunlight that falls on the cutlery
and. the mantel ornaments of anew home.
f- Bat after awhile the tomenee is all
I gene, ami thee there le something to he
1prepared fur the table that the book
Called -Cookery Taught In Tivelve Les -
NM" Will 110t teach. The reeelpt for
making it is not a heedful coe this, a OUP
Ot that and a spoonful oaf something else.
It is nor something sweetened with
; erdinery itevore or beked in Ordleary
ovens. It is the loaf of domestio happis
ness, and all the ingredients come deian
. from heaven, and the frits aro pluoked
from the tree of life, and le 13 sweetened
with the new wheo of the tincalont, and
le Is baked in the oven of home trial.
•Selonioa wrote out of his experience.
Uwe* infinencoo.
TIOW great are the responeibilities of
houseteepers! Suntettmee an indigestible
article ef food by ite effeet upon n. hiug
hes overthrown nu °aspire. ,A. distheg-
, nished statist keen says of 1,000 Unmarried
men there are ee erimitials, and a Loa
married men only 18 are criminal& What
a suggestitm of home Let the
• meet be made tta them. liousaiseepers by
the toed they provide, by theemiebeee they
spread, by the boots/ they introduce, by
the initueneee they heing around. their
home, are decidlug the pbysival. intellect.
moral, eternal destiny of the race.
You say your life ie we of sacrifice, 1
know it. Bats my sisters, that, is the only
life worth living. 1 hot Wateetlerenee
life; that wee Ihteesou'e
life; that Vali Clirlet's life. We admire it
in others, but how very hard it is for vs
to exenese le ourselves: When In Brook-
lyn young Dr. Ilutehinsou having want
a whole eight in a diplaberitio room for
the relief of a pat tone beasine saturateci
with the poison anti Med, We all felt as
if wo would like to nut garlands on , his
grave; everybody appreelatee that. When
In the burning betel at St. Louis a
young man on the MO% story broke open
the door of the roma where his mother
wits sleeping and plunged in tunid smoke
and ilre, crying, "Mother, whore are
you?" and never value out, our heeres
applauded that young man, But how foot
of us have the Christine) splrit—a
w111-
lngness to suffer foe others.
A „rottgli teacher In a school called
upon a poor, half starved lad who had
offended regains& the laws a tho school
and said, "Take ell your coat directly,
sir!" Tho boy refueed to take it off,
whereupon the teacher said Again, "Take
off your coat, sir!" as he swung the whip
through the air. The boy refused. It
was not bee:ease howl's afrind of the lash
—he was used to that at home—but it
was from shame—he had no undergar-
mont—and as at the third command he
Pilled slowly off hie ettat" there went a
sob through the sehool. They saw then
why he did not want to remove his -pent,
and they saw the shoulder blades bad al-
most out through the skin and a stout,
healthy boy rose up and. went to the
teacher of the school and said: "Oh, shr,
please don't hurt this poor fellow! Whip
rue. See, he's nothing but a poor chap.
Don't hurt him. He's poor. Whip me."
''Well," said the teacher, "it's going to
be a severe whipping. I am willing to
take you as a substitute." "Well," said
the boy, "I don't eerie You whip me, if
you will, but let this poor fellow go."
The stout, healthy boy took the scourg-
ing without an outcry. "Bravol" says
every man. "Bravo!" How many of us
are willing to takethe scourging, and the
suffering, and the toil, and the anxiety
for other people? Bountiful tbings to ad-
mire, but how little we have of that
spirit! God give us that self-denying
spirit, so tbat whether we are in humble
spheres or in conspicuous spheres we
may pato= our whale duty, for this
struggle will soon be over.
The Christian Housekeeper.
One of the most affecting reminiscen-
ces of my mother is my remembrance of
her as a Christian housekeeper. She
worked very hard, and when we would
COMO in from summer play and sit down
at the table at noon I remember how she
used to come in with -beads of perspira-
tion along the line of gray hair, and how
sometimes she would sit. down at the
table and put her head against her
wrinkled hand and say, "Wen, the fact
IS, I'M too tired to eat." Long after she
might have delegated this duty to others,
she would not be satisfied unless she at-
tended to the matter herself. In fact, we
all peeferred to have her do so, for some-
how things tasted better when • she pre-
pared them. Some time ago in an express
train 1 sheb past that old homestead. I
looked out of.the •window and tried to
peer through the darkness. While I was
doing so one of my old schoolmates,
whom I had not soon for ntany years,
tapped me ori the shoulder and said, "De
Witt, I seo you are looking out at the
scenes of your boyhood," "Oh, yes," I
replied., "1 was looking out at the old
place where my mother lived mad. died."
That eight in the ears the whole scene
came back to me. There was the country
home. There was the noonday table.
There were the children on either side of
the table, most of them gone never to
come beck. At ono and of the table, my
father, with a smile that never left his
countenance even -when he lay in his
cofau. It was an 84 years" ernile—not the
seine of inanition, but of Christian cour-
age and of Chrietian hope. At the other
end of the table was a beautiful, benign-
ant, hard working, aged Christian !amigo -
keeper, ray mother. She was very tired.
I am glad she has so good a place to rest
itt. "Blessed are the dead who die in the
Lord.",,
Drama An Bible.
The latest volume of. Prof. Richard
Moulton's series of 'Stormy studies pret
eented in the "Medere Reader's Bible"
es announced. as an “intrOodOctlOP to
the series and to the literary study ot the
Bible, although a nunther have premed
It in appenring, Tills shows wisdom on
the Part tif the man from English Cd111,-
bridge, now at the head of the study of
literature at Chicago University. Vor
the present volume, which may very
properly take the place assiggea it by
Prof. Moulton in his completed series.
presents a eataftil study cot drama in the
Bible. Tbat weld(' More been rather toe
startling for a Rut book, TAM oeeded
no adjusting to Ire prenaises and conclu-
sions; but popular prejudice woul4 have
been agalust it. Now, however, %heel^
whole bands these admirable Utth
books,' have come have reached a eompre-
hension of Prof. eloultou's rammer of
suety of the Scriptures, and admiration
et his leadership in restoring them to
their literary form and structure. "In
the Loek of Job, one of the world's liter-
ary inervele, men's varying attitudes to -
yard the inystely of life are repreeented
in various speakers, and drawn together
into a unity by the movement of a dra-
netre plat." After discussing^ briefly the
oratery, history and eyries Qf Hebrew
!evacuee, Mr, tioulton says; "Of the
fantichuentel dieleions of literetire there
yet remains one, the drama. The relation
of dale to the Bible Is interesting. It 13
impossible to reaa the Scriptures of the
Clti Testament without feeling that the
genius of the lichrew people is strongly
oreraatio, aet the natural laatrOuteut
for the expression of dm -ea -tie creations
--the theetea—is not u Hebrew intake-
tiou. Accordingly the &emetics instinct,
denied its reediese outlet, is found to
leaven all other literary forms. The
priephets of 'mei were not only stateet
meet and preachers., they were also poets,
Nal front them has come down to us a
form et spiritual drama to which may
be given the moue Rhapsody Thees
spiritual dramas of the prophete ere oe-
cupled with the funciamenthl topic of
Hebrew thought which Is explossed be
the word pot:glued ; the eterntd eontraet
between good and evil. and the divises
overthrow of wrong. They aro dramas
which no menet theiter could ever ext
street, for their region covere all space
and all time. Their personages intend°
uot only the prophet ulna the elation of
Israel, lett ease teal tolinsele and the
celestiul tests. The working of events
toward the ettigment is breuabt ettt be-
fore us with tt,. general Inipreaeinn of
(trauma!, eve -emote," The arrangeneoet
of "A Cry of Comfort for Jerusalem"
with the explatietien of the "bueluess"
of the greet epirlatel drama fram Iseirth,
which colleted a the new volume, le a
geed One se get an idea of Prof. Moul-
ton's inetboa. IT Is truly now "open to a
person of average culture to add to his
other mental poteastione the whole ex-
preselontof iteete witleh a great people
bus made in poetry ant prose through-
out all the period 1st Its development.
And if quaetion 11A Mtktb of went is
higher than literary impreielon,no reader
need fear Oust the more atered lama of
the Bible will be imperiled by ills read.
ing, not Willi the spirit mile, hut with
the untierstandling also."
now to ,11311e u nrieeeeke.
The 'correct brioteetate is now it simple
loaf spiced and feedlot, heel and wreathed
in natural towing() torments, and only
large enough to eeaetly supply the bridal
party, Of course the ring, speou and
thimble will be halted Into tho loaf, and
the center of the table coupled by the
gorgeous plaster and nougat edifier,
meant for ornamentation, not for food.
Than for guests at the reception the eon •
fiseur sends tiny bridal loaves. Every one
is a minature cake in itself, appropriately
spiced, out square, in a chola, or heart
form, iced, wreathed with artificial
orange blossoms and hearing in MO
sugar relief the couple's initial in the
center. Every one of these toy cakes Is
to fla at the costly wedding, in a box of
watered white silk, baying a binged top
and fastened with white wax, stamped
with the bride's seal.
111 es3ed Prrlen cr.
Christians might avoid moth trouble
and inconvenience if they would only
believe what they profess—that God is
able to retake them !tepee' without any-
thing else. They imagine that if such a
dear friend were to Ole. or such and such
blessings were to be removed, they would
be miserable; where ts, God can make
them a thousand times happier without
them. To mention my own case: God
has been depriving me of one blessing
after another; but as every one was re-
moved, he has come in and Ailed up its
place; and now, when I am a cripple
and not able to move, I am happier than
ever I was in my life before, or ever
expected to be; and if I had believed
this twenty years ago, I might have
been spared much anxiety.—Rev. Dr.
Payson.
Put to Many Use.
Sharks furnish a number of valuable
products. The liver of the shark contains
an oil that posesses medicinal qualities
equal to those of cod-liver oil. The skin,
after being dried, takes the polish and
hardness of mother-of-pearl. The fins are
always highly prized by the Chinese,
who pickle them and serve them at din-
ner as a most delicate dish. The Euro-
peans, who do not appreciate the fins as
a food, convert them into a fishglue. As
for the flesh of the shark--tbat, despite
Its oily taste, is eaten in certain coun-
tries. The Icelanders, who do a large
business in sharks' oil, send •out annu-
ally a fleet of it hundred vessels for the
capture of the great fish.
Laughter Adds to Beauty.
• Laughing is said to produce email
Wrinkles about the Month, but no one
need have any anxiety about -wrinkles
thus formed, for they are rather pleasing
than not, and often add to the attrac-
tiveness of a face, for they show it light
and merry heart. "With mirth and
laughter let old krinkles came," as
Shakespeare says.
Cheerfulness and bright, happy looks
always add to beauty, so laughing
shduld certainly add to beauty, even at
the expense of a wriekie or two, It is
the lines that come from a peevish, dis-
ecotteuted frame of mind that disfigure
*be eace, and have to be fonglit against,
Sheitees When It is Worn.
Concerning porpoise leather, •the Shoe
and Loather Reporter says that itis pecu-
liar in this that instead of strotehieg 11
shrieks when it has been worn. It is
prhetically waterproof, and iS. therefore,
as hard on the feet as robbers would be
when worn constautly, It is made up
into shoes for winter wear and shoe laces,
its strength and other qualities fitting it
•patticularly wefl for this purpose.
TILE SUNDAT SCHOOL
LESSON II, FIRST QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, JAN 9.
Toter the T.easou, Math.
017 Velar's, 4.11—Golden Teat. Heb.,
18 -.- Commentary by the Rey, D.
Steams.
1. "Then was Jesus led up Pf the Spieit
I of th
be teMpte
Into the wilderdeviL " From the beginning to the end
rsees, to rt e
He was under the guidance and control of
the Holy Spirit meet fully. Tbe Father
having te.stifted to the fact thet Ile was
His beloved 1 -ell pleasing S00, the Spirit
new leads Him into this great cot:Latta
with the devil, at the very beglunioa of
His publie work, thee He may meet the
adversary face to face and orer0Onie him.
And now, in that no Himself hath suf-
fered, being tempted, Jlis is able to succor
the that are tempted. (Het). il, 18). Ile
had been subject for 80 years to all the
temptations of an ordinary human We
1 but this is something special, and, as Dr.
1 ' Weston says, has to do with Him as Son
Of "Man," Son of God and the Messiah.
2. "And when Ho bea fasted 40 days
and 40 nights, He wee Afterward an bun-
ne,red." Luke iv, 0, says, "Ila those days
Ie
thindlgdoenattPliciet'beallig" h,Tterhis wtrosellsot a
pZsceird
through it twice and Elijah onee (Dent
1,-; 0, 18; 1 Kings riX. 8). On the Mount
of Transtaniration we find the three whe
fasted 40 days, There must be same wore,
drew signifIcanee eenueetod with it whieh
we bee° not yet bad revealed to us. In
Mark. xi, 12, we road of another OCCASi011
On which Ile was hungry, and One Of BIS
last utterances on the cross WAS, "I thirst"
Veins xix, 20, but what an awful thirst
thr til"Annstehtaerenthe
beeultetepter came to Elbn
he &eat, If thou be the Son of Gad cona
mend that these stones be made bre.ad."
Geo este tee:tilled, "This is My Beloved
SOD," but rite devil questisms it to Ills
face, with thee "it" As in the garden of
Eden he gutations the word tit Unil with
his "Yea, bath Goa said" t(len. ill, 1), and
haa ever eluee been doing the saute thing,
So he does not hesitate to face the Son et
Thlak it not strange, then, if be oft aia
Ood Himeelf with his devilish doubts,
proaeliee you in this way, but receive uot
hie doubts; it is better notto listen, to hira
4. "Rut He answered and saki, It Is
written, man eball not live by bread aleue
,
but by every word that proceedeth out of
the mouth of God." Not the gratification
of our desires, but the will of God, is the
'r great thing Just AS in our words we
show our loved ones our hearts, so Gad In
His word hag given us fii5 heart for us,
fuel God is love. Shall we be satisfied with
tits heart and Ills wey and thus live on
His word or shall we insist on having all
• things minteter to our comfort at all casts?
6. "Then the devil taketh Ilisn up into
the Holy City and eetteth Him on it pin -
nacho, of the temple." Up to Jerusalem,
the elty of the great king (chapter v, 85).
Do not stop to n.sic how, but simply believe
and consider the temptation and the vic-
tory and ask the Spirit to apply it to your
own soul. The wilderness, and. the hun-
ger, and. the stenee suggest the hard ana
lonely and commonplace things in, daily
life, hut the Holy City, the temple and a
pinnacle thereof suggest holy things and
the heights tlwreof not so common, but
far enore dangerous ground betause more
holy.
6. "And. satth auto Him, If Thou teethe
Son of Goa, east Thyself down, for it is
written, Ile shall give Ills augels charge
concerning Theo and in their heads they
shall bear thetaup, lest at any time Thou
dash Thy footagainsb a stone." The devil
can quote Scripture, and sometimes quite
freely and at great length, but never to
glorify God nor to help a soul to know
Hine Ile &ways perverts it with the pur-
pose of working ruin. The num who
thinks that because he is it child of God
and controlled by the Spirit therefore
he cannot sin, nor even make a mistake,
Is on a pinnacle of the temple listening to
the devil. He would do well to consider
these words, "If a man think himself to
be something when he is nothing, he de-
ceiveth himself." "If anyman think that
he knoweth anything, he knoweth noth-
ing yet as he ought to know" (Gal. vi, 8;
I Cor. viii, 2).
7. ".Testts said unto him, It is written
again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord. thy
God." Scripture never contradicts Scrip-
ture, but explains it and instructs us how
to avert its abuse. Jesus quoted it from
the heart to the glory of God, believing
every word, but the devil uses it only
'ickedly. We may be said to tempt God
when we make a self willed demand for
His help, or in any way clahn His prom-
ises for selfish erds. Our Lord lived tbat
the Father might be glorified, and taught
us that when wc are willing to live thus
we can ask what we will and receive it.
8. "Again the devil taketh Him up into
an exceeding high nibuntain, and sheweth
Him all tho kingdoms of the world, and
the glory of thefu." T.he iirst temptation
was to satisfy His physical need, toaatisfy
Himself, on the ground that He was en-
titled to it; the second was to show Him-
self and what a great one He was; the
third was to accept the world without the
way of the cross. The prince of this world.
offers it simply on condition that it be ac-
cepted as from him and that he be thanked
for it.
9. "And saith unto Him, All these
things will I give Thee if Thou wilt fall
down and worship me." The time will
come when the antichrist, the man of
• OW, the beast of Rev. xiii, will accept this
offer of satan and for a brief period will
do wondrously, but, oh, how brief his do-
minion, how fearful his fall and how aw-
ful his eternal doom, the lake of fire and
brimstone forever! (Rev. xi.x, 20.)
10. "Then saith Jesus unto him, Get
thee hence, satan'fcir it is written, Thou
shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him
only shalt thou serve." "True worshipers
Worship the Father in spirit and in truth,
for the Father seoketh each to worship
Him. God is a Spieit, and they that wor-
ship Him must worship Him in spirit and
in truth" (leahn iv, 28, 24). The word of
God is the only guide, the Holy Spirit the
ooly teacher, she Lord Jesus the only way
to God the Father; so to worship in spirit
and in trnta metals that in all things
Jesus is acknowledged. as Lord to the glory
of God the Father, and that all is done in
accoedanee with the word and be the pew-
ee of the Spirit.
11. "Thou the devil Jeaveth Him, and
behold angels came mad ministered emto
Him." Luke iv, 18, says that the devil
departed from Him for it season. How
thankful we should be that our Lord did
not conquer eaten in what we might call a
miraculous way, out in such a way as He
will through us conquer him also. He
has left us His eword, the Word of God,
and we aro told in Eph. vi, 16, 17, that
these, the shield of faith and the sword of
the Spirit will ;surely overcome the adver-
a
eery. y
t
D -O -D -D -S
THE FECUL *ARITIES OF
THIS WORD.
1I0 Name on E .rrh Si, FAMOUS
4—No Name More Widely
Imitated.
No name on earth, perhaps, is So -well
known, more recullarly conetoueted
more widely imitated than the ward
DODD, It possesses a peculiarierlhee
makes it standout prominently and fast. -
ens it in the memory: conMins leer
letters. bin Only two letters of the alpha-
bet. Everyone Isuews that the first kid-
ney remedy ever patented or sold in
forma was named DODD'S. Their diseov-
ery startlea the medical profession the
world over, and revolutionized the treat-
ment of kidney diseases.
No imitetor has ever succeeded ist
constructing a name peteiessiiee the pecu-
liarity of DaDD, tetutreh they nearly all
adopt naaues as similar toe poseibbe in
sound aud constre, tion tea this. Their
foolishness prevent s them reatizinest that
attempts to moitate luerease the lanes of
Decidto Kidney Nils,
hy. ie the name "I)004'3Ridney •
Fills" Imitate:1 ? As weil ask why ON
diamonds and gold imitated. .Beeauste
diamonds are the must preeieue geMe,
old the most preeions metal. Yeedtitt
idney Pills are imitated beeettee they
e the most valuable medicine the world,
bus ever 'hump. No medic:111e ever oared
Bright's disease exeept Dodd'a Kidney
Pills. No other ineilleine has mired
many eases of libeurrediere, Plaheteta
Heart Ineease. Lumbega. Brersy, Fee
male Wealinese and eteer kidney di&
eases as Iheld's Itiitiney Pitts have. It is
ustiverselly known that they have never
felled to cure these diseassa. henve they
re so widely autt shamelessly iraitaterl.
'TWAS A DEAD HEAT.
At /meet Tbet Was the Idea of the Stable
Jimmy Howie:en is a stah'hi 4*y at.
taehed to orto of the many racieg estab-
lishments quartered at the Ilennireg race
track. The otter t,^vening dialaay onus
into town to attend the theater, bat "went
the wrong eours
ee " landing in one of our
nsost prominent e/tun:toes instead cf at the
theater. The church was brilliantly light-
ed, prettily decorated and mantled to the
utmost, the occasion being the wedding
of a young couple imminent in social °%r -
dos. In some inexplicable way Jimmy
"got in do push," as he explained it, and
witnessed the eaten -loony, '1'his is the way
he described the event to his felende the
next day;
"Well, say, de push was immense—do
grand stand bein packed an de quarter
• etretch lookin like Caney on Suburban
day. De wetider was fine, CA de prets
stand guys say, Wile as fur de track it
was lightnin fast. De Aare was fixed fur
8 o'clock, but dere was a strong tip out
dat doy wouldn't go to de poet for 880,
an fur once de talent struck it dead right.
At 8:80 de bugle sounded all right—dat
is, 1 means de organ, it fairy next to rne
pipin out dat it was frum Low an grke, /
t'Ink—an down cantered de /ally, heM-le
ors bolo all white—hisn black an white.
"She was a peach, an no xeletake, Lain
In charge of her sire an 'tended by de
whole stable, An say, sho was flt as a
fiddle, line as silk, an you could tell in a
intuit dat 'bout everybody had a ticket on,
her. De fellow didn't seem to have any
followin °Weide his trainer, who
walked wid him down te de post. Ile was
a good looker all right, but den he 'peer-
ed to bo short of work an a leetle too leggy
fur my fancy. Still, a guy 'cross de way
from me see to annuder dat he ought to
be fast enough if breedin goes fur any-
t'ing.
"De starter called 'ern 'fore him, an
after givin 'em some instructions dat be
read from . a book, be sent 'em off at de
fust break. As dey got dere stride de feller
doin de music act give 'ern a blast de self
same fairy said was Meddlesome. De pace
fur de fust 'quarter was slow, both seemin
to have had waitin orders. Bet p
quarter dey hit it up a little, an at de half
was goin good an strong. Ne.arin de three-
quarter dey let out a wrap or two, an
turned into de stretch wid a move on 'em
dat brouglat de push to dere feet.
"De filly seemed to be leadin as dey
reached de eighth pole, but he soon was
De even terms wid her, an so dey rated
'long till in a few jumps of de finish,
when both went on fur all cloy was worth.
"Dey hung it up as a dead heat, an I
tank dee, divided de money, dere beim ne
run off 'nounced."—Washington Star.
Equipped.
A young Eastport -et who shipped on
one of the small. Mettle coast sebooners,
was asked by the captain if be bad a suit
of oil clothes for rainy weather during the
voyage.
"No," replied the amateur sailor, "but
I have a new umbrella."—Boston Herald.
Worthy of Csonsideration.
"Never mind," said the legatimetsaftesee—s
tor's friend. , Peeteeisterwill doubtless reo-
ognize you."
was the reply, "but yeti forget
that so far as I am concerned posterity Is
made up; exclusively of deadheads."--
Washingeon Star.
It Was Music She Wanted.
She (In the nausio shop)—Hav you
'Kissed. Me 'by Moonlight!''
Young Assistant—No, anti:aria, Meese
have been the other assistant.. --Conde
Cuts. •
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