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Exeter Advocate, 1904-2-11, Page 6.1‘ COLPANIONSEU .1p.te,tijret the: c):4drao.ter.- of th-e. Inner Man, Whether -Goocl or Bad t he home1 a mocking' bed, who.se re- , putation far the most part reets parely upon his ability for minlicrY, ' fill a, whole eieht with sweetest music, Upon the tree just outside his opened window the president saw and heard him. ''Soniatieneee' wrote Mr. 'Roosevelt, "he would Perh Motionless for many• minutee, his body quiVering and thrilling with the outman, of music. Ti en he Would drep eoftly from twig to twig until the lowest limb was readied, eters he welled else fluttering and leaping through the bine-Lel/es, hie song never ceasing for an neetant, urail he reached tee summit, of tee tree and 'mulched into the warm, scent laden air, filoeting in spirals with outstretched wings, until, as if spent, he sank gently back into the tree and down through the branches, while his song- rose into an eestasY , of ardor and Paesion." That mid- night sting seems to have given the presiiient a higher appreciation of the powere of the mocking bird, The , songster, warbling in the darknies and silence of the night, showed that it had Mare harmony and melody in its being than its hearer had pre- viously supposed. Page unhappily, the converse is generally tree of human, beings. It is their better na- ture that they show under observe - ane Tt is \vlleu tbcy— think tliat their friends,,clo not sed or hear them that teeir worst dearacteriste s are klisPlayed. Many a man Whose life when under observation is irre- proachable shows, when the ve- stments of public opinion are remov- ed, a capacity for bemous and bestial sin. . WORSE TITAN THEY SEEM. As a wicked person is nearly al- ways worse than he -seems, I put this blunt question to you: "Oh, shmee, with froward lips, how dare you desecrate God's holy eeebbath? How dare you, without a blush -upon e our dieek„ bp seen entering the sa- loon or be kaown to pass your even- ings in A disreputable haunt; where the mune of Christ is sneered at and ridiculed? now dare you gleefully emest of these sins about which I dere not speak in. public? !Do you not know that by your "language of aation". you are not .only destroy- ing yourself, but others also? Take ' the advice once given to Thomas Paine. After the noted infidel had written his book, "Age ef Reason," he took the inanuscript to Benjamin Franklin to ask for his criticism. Af- ter Franklin had read it he cone- . mended its literary qualities. Then he said: "Thomas Paine, I would neeer print that book. I would threw that manuscript into the nee. If the hernan race IS so sinful now, how greatly magnifzed those ins will - become if the bulwarks of Christian- ity are taken away. By that work you will not only destroy others, but yourself. He that spits against the . wind seits in his own face." Like i Thomas Paine, by the "language of poeitive evil action," a man not only destroys himself, but others. Inevi- table the world suspects that a man's inner life is even worse than its outward expression. IMAN'S -RESPONSIBILITY. "Oh," says the candidate for office, ; "I am an honest man. I never let a dollar stick to my hands which did not honestly belong to nee. I never spoke an untruth in my life." Are ;you honest, zny brother? Hew about Ithat $10,000 .subscription which you made for campaign purposes? How 1 about that other $50,000 donated by your party friends? Are all those moneys intended for circulars and speakers and legitimate campaign ex- penses? If they are You are honest. If you expect to keep your lips sealed and have your lieutenants bribe the, voters at the polls you are . dishon- est. Your "language of action' Proves it. "Oh," says thee merchant, i "I am an honest man. No customer •ever heard me break nay word." Aro you honest, my brother? Do you forbid your clerks to make wrong 1 statements in reference to your goods? Do you see that your ad- vertising agents print within the ;right limit short of exaggeration. If ; ,you do you are honest. You are dis- honest if you allow other lips to ' falsify in your nein°, that con- espireiy makes you a falsifier ' too. i "Oh,' says the capitalist, "I am , an holiest man. I am not response ; ble for what my agent dace. ,If he rents my house for illegitimate per - 'poses Inc goad name is tarnished, not ,mieo." Vag', nay capitalistic friend, 1 You are responsible for what your agent does. The some dogs that Meted Joenbers bleed licked Ahab's blood, Sin of allowing others to do a crime in our mune may „be jest as conclemnable as though we commit- ted the crime with our own banes.. 'Your "language of action" proves HOW milt, Is rixposEn. , (lentered according to Act 01 the PZ:Nr- 1,,1u1ch1 Oi Vallada, in the year Cite e teemed Is ine Lettered and leave nt leely. of Termite, at the le:pat-tuna of Agriculture,: Otteeete, A. deepatcli from Los 4Ingeles, Cal.. eeyelov. Fyne% Pe Vet Talmage preathea from tee lorlovene text e•-• le ON tel)S 1.3, m"1‘tket1i ids te)e.e, Ito epealeeth with his feee, be newierth with Ids fingers.' Teis is the last text and the last &eremitic ception X31 either 01 03' wrote. When I was summoued Wushington dtuieg Inc mortal iancss Lound upon his study desk. 0, plain uneet of paper, plated there with these nineteen eores upon it, Met as bei always wrote down hie theme and text Lefore be started his eer- . mon. That brief memoranclum prov- ed : to me that had he not beea aukkly suneumeed away be the mes- senger of death the text :armee Ile purpoeed to have written; would have been upon "the lauguage of ac- tion." There were DO ineisations ot the manner in which he intended to treat the topie, but I bnow that the ettbiect had teen melee in his mind and that be had team inapreesed by the mischief that is often done by gestures and at Lions without the ute termite of a word. I wieh we could hose had that Fermom for the warn- ings le would have ette:ed reed to .be seoken. I have therefOle VIOnght it a. filial they te NILE, as far as 1 am able, the intention- my father wee Prevented carrying auk A MAN'S . Tilt! E LIFE. A man's tree life can nearly al- In- jueged by his sarroundiugs. If I enter your home and find upon your pallor table a well used Bide, if I see upon the walls pure and ele- vating pictures and °specialty in 'conspicuous places such religious pic- tures as Raphaers "Sistine Madon- na' euid, Rube/ s"'Tesceut From tho Cram" and Merino's "Abraham and tee Aegeis or Lorreggio "Reeen- taut Magdalen:" if I see upon year library • shelves among the Well earthed boots such works as 'Thom- as a Kemple' "Imitation" and Far- rar's "Life of Christ" and the bio- graphies of Lisingstone and Brainerd aed Coition and a set of Parker's -People's Bible;" if I see your music reek filled with the masterpieces of the g: eat religious compositions, such as ITanders "Messiah!' and. Wagner's "Pareifal" and Flotow's 'Mee tha" end Mendelssoluf s `'Eli- jah" or 'Paul:" if I see standing in the corners of the library the plaster caets of such pieces- of sculpture as that of eielchael Angelo's "Dasid" or "Moses," I am conpelled to believe thet same pure, noble spirit has been living ia and dominating that home. ao. by . the ••lenguage of action," when 1 lind a inaa longing to be in the bouse of God on the Sabbath day, when I see that man, week after week,• eating in a conspicuous place at the midweek prayer meeting, where .T tad :dm continualy seeeing the great xeligioust gatherings which 0. ery late while take place In a large city; when I find him, 0/Lily and weekly and yeaily, associating with men and women no fed for their Chris -teen integrity, I am com- pelled to believe that that snan wants to be good and to live a pure life. On the other hand, when see a man conspieuous for his ab- •reree from all good affiliations his actions infOrM 3110 as plainly as his !• words could do that his character is just the opposite of what it ought to he. jUDGED I3Y ASSOCIATES. Tee father of a great English preacher taught this lesson to his son, then a soy young man, was married his father 'visited him. After. Jin e es0d through and oxtunined the difeereat rooms of the house he said : "My son, there is one ndstake about your home. I Fee nothing ia the furniture, in pieturee upon the •wails or books upon the table to • lead me, if I was a stranger to this home, to judge whether you belong- ed to God or to the devil. In every room and upon every wall you. should always have something to prove to your guests that you are a child of God. A maxes Christia.n life should be manifested in the fur- niture of his house as weU a by his outside surroundings." What that Christian parent said in reference to 11 nmn's domestic life is eesentially true in reference to his outside hum- an affiliations. A wicked man's in- ner ammeter can nearly &Ways be judged by his conspicuous evoidance of noble associates. 13v your inti- mate friends your Chieetian life is to be judged as Well as by the words ! that you speak!. But a wicked man's actions have a ; polite as well as a negative licence. 'If by the abseece from all ! good associates a man'e &tweeter ' rests under e, dark cloud, then by his ' bold and reckless defiance of all the great moral influences of the day his ivicked life is to be Judged also. It 15 ote ant to sin in secret and to be ashamed of your sins. It is a far more heinous act to publicly parade your sins and CODIO to a depraved condition, in which you do not seem to care What people inaY saY in re- ference to your life or how by your bold example they may be led astray through your .evil condeet, DEPRAVITY HIDDEN. This indietment against the Aetions of an evil man'e Me is the more poeitivo becansee even in the lowest fortes of outward Vie°, by the "'lan- guage of action" the wicked man nearly always wants toappear te MOO better than he really ie. 'Theo- dore Reosevelt, who has been a awe dent of bettete and birds and flowers, saye teat this charaeterietic to tITY Pear better than they ere is not al - WAYS tree of all the inhabitants ot the riatural wored as it IS of Men. nee, When Visiting Nadrville, Tenn., A wicked inall'S avil actione are again manifested in his unwillingness to puhlady protest agaiest, evil whenever he may see it, Silence it- self tan soreetimee make a matt a party to a crime, although personal- ly he may in no way be benefited by that crime, For instance, a feel weelts ago the three noted Chicago bandits, Van Dine and Niedermeler end Itoeski, flee to Indiana and lived there in a dugout. While refugeee from juetice those, three men one day enteral• a couhtry store to purchase some food. A eountry sehool-teacher saw them and xecogaized them by. their publiehed pleteree. Dad that eehoOl-teachar not telegraphed his intelligence to the Chicago police in one sense Ile would have become party to their alines. So, my bre- thee, if In public you hear the name of Chriet blaspienried, if you 000 Iyour* • manhood, young womanhOod about to be degraded and utter rt preteete if you ewe an inO. jUStICal.)011 to be done another and lift eo ware ing volee, then by your. "language; 0 action," you bowline a party to Sa tares infamies, As an honest man speak when God bies you to speak As an 1100081 1110,0, keep silent whet yea please, provided ao ono is to b injured by your far reechieg S11(0100.A wicked man's evil .actione •eree again manifested in his Ivillingnees to take advantage of a helpless' brother or sister through e eeehnicelity of the law,. By that I mean that through a technicality he is' willing to *eerie° a moral criminal, (1 u5331- 01', a swindler, % deetroyer, e vam- pire, if he Can only do it and .escape the "fine, tooth eoznb" `of the law. ... A MESSAGE OF HOPE. When ' vette one asked the greet Atheman orator what were the three most effective essentials for success- ful public speech, Demostheees. an. .swered. -First, action; .second, ac- tion; third, action." So let the los 500 of the text be translated into your lives. Let your actions, public tuid private, be of such a character that your influence will be one that 'stimulates, ennobles and spiritualizes 'the lives of others. In secret and. in the eyes of men se act and .so live I ;that year associates, your neighbors, the community and the world will i be the better for your having lived. illy your Christian example you may leaei others to become Christians By ;your gospel handehake you can win `soils for Christ. By your welcom- ing and encouraging ...eye you can cheer up the oppressed and the down- trodden. • By your gesturing finger you me point out the right . path !wherein the sinner can forsake • his sin and weak in hand with God. . My brother, my sister, always let , your influence be cast upon the safe side of every debatable moral ques- tion. Let your "language of action" , always in Christ's name be a mee- sage for hope and never a guide lead- ing toward eternal death. , --......e.--- A SAILOR'S ADVENTURE.. — Bivalve Three Feet in Diameter Catches Tar by the Legs. Sailors are proverbially' fine ro- mancers. One who recently returned from a voyage in the South „ Pacific tells this story of a narrow, • escape from death when caught in a living trap on one of the little islands there. "The ship," he said, had stopped at the island for water, and I was walking along the beach at low tide, looking or e s ' and other sea, curiosities. I reached a rock which at high tide was under water • and started to clinib around it, .without thought of danger and without pay - leg much attention to the 'surround- ings. As I turned the corner of the rock I felt my loot slip on some- thing soft; there was a snap, mid the next instant I discovered that I had carelessly walked into one of the great mollusks of sea clams, , which are to be found at low tide along the, coasts of those islands. "These clams are over three' treat in diameter, and the muscles ;which hold their great shells together are like steel springs. When I stepped into the open clam the two shells shut up with a snap, imprisonleg me as ie a, vise. The edges of the shell caught me above the knees,•and at first I thought I would. faint from pain. Then 1 tried to push the shells open. I might as wen have tried to pry open the doors. of a locked iron safe with my bare hands. "I had a clasp knife, and, drawing this out, I attempted to eukthe mus- cle which held the shells together.. But I couldn't quite reach it, and ev- ery time I made a stab the shells would close tighter • than ever. I haee sailed the seas a good. . many years and been in had name before, but never one where things looked so hopeless as they did then. There was no use in calliug for help, al- though, of course, I did, for I' had wandered up the beach nearly a mile from where the rest were. • "But what et nrst looked like 'ray greatest peril preyed My salvation in the end. The tide was corning in, and unless I could escape from this living trap I would be drowned, I thought. So I redoubled my efforts w th the • knife. They were useless. The tide kept creeping up. Then it finally -reached the part of the giant clam where was the muscle which con- trasets and expands the two shells. To nay surprise and joy, when the water reached this muscle it relaxed, only a little, to be sure, but enough •so that I could manage to pull out my leg. It was the tightest squeeze I was ever in, you may believe." We all know the dam -eating man, but this is the first heard of a man - Gain g claire .. • . Welk ..e.k. .1k lesseeee lee ate e•-' &le,' te Little Pigs in Blankets.-Fif teen Jeep oysters, fifteen 'very thin sliees t e * of Imeon. Sprinkle each, oyster f . ,, * Tv'tilli athev°11•Yinell, 1 ttolleI °-1,141.431t liditeedn,peppaenid , . - gp ' w , rap each oyster in a elite) and pin k it tightly on the back with a small .wooden toothpick. Have ready a 1**'4*EtosmFl,ot!1154IN12S*1,4"4r brown, turning 0)1011 one over 01100.i hot frying pen ane lay in five oys- e tors end cook till the 1111000 IS 0010118 edey be vecied eueeesesew, Put these in the Oven on a hot plate leaving On odour 00 the hands, by that is without causing tears or with the door °Pen and cook five more, and oo on tell all ale done, the cord water Seucet. hoidincy them under a streem from Put them cm a long, narr°11/ Platter with pieces 01 lemon and parsley To . wax a uew noor use era a mound. Or, you can put each good wood "filler," weld), muse be "pig" 011 a narrow strip of buttered g wore it bee toast. If comes too hard, and then a prepar- toast first and keep it hot, for the you do this, make the thoeoughly rubbed o ed wax, It is better to purchase oysters will not be good unless they deal of experieuce in mixing it. Ap- a relit are eaten SOOn after they, axe coole- ed. this wax unless you have had ply the prepared wax with a thin woollen rag and pollees it in with a 'THE' USEFUL LEMON. heavy brush or brick, rubbing the floor across the grain first and with ee0direeeefdetii,nle, abnedstb3Alfl-arrelitiod ehlei.aoptet- the grain afterwaed. The wax meet le be applied in a very thin coat and an • ordinary sour lemon, which thormagely rubbed into the floor, can be bought for a few cents. 11 After the floor has been filled - and you hay° ii" tr"bl'es°112e aim' give Id a hot bath and cut away as much dried two coats of NVaX areneces- sary to finish it. as Possible of the corn, rub well with a slice of lemon, and, bind on Considelsable difference will be the corn the lemon slice. Repeat found in the wearing qualities of 4 two pairs of shoes of the same Val-botor three nights and you will never without, to lemon. ity and make. worn by different per- •,es a bee or other insect stings .you, sons. Shoes wore, continuously ill eat the - house and outdoors will never the spot ara few drops of lemon juice on give as much wear as it worn 000 id you will be quickly re - day and left to rest a day. It eaves If you ha.ve dark hair and it seems money to wear cheap hous„e shoes to be fallieg out, rub the scalp with within dooro and let the shoes worn, a slice of lemon. It will stop that outdoors rest ahd get into shape. trouble promptly, 0 ' Keep an old pair of shoes to • wear 11 you have a bad headache, rub under rubbers. The perspiration ef slices of lemon along your temples; the feet which indiarubber excites you will find the pain 2110011 easiee to ruins good leather. . Selects strong calf's skin, arid keep it wen oiled in bear, and not long in disappearing. Squeeze the juice of a lemon into a winter for outdoor wear. Low sboes. are better for house wear 1100111180 drink of water every morning and they permit of ventilation. The drink with very little sugar. it will keep the stomach in good order hand is free from many of the ills of aild' keep away dyspepsia. the foot partly because of its con- tinuous exposure. to the air. Sq`ileeze lemon juke into an equal quantity of glycerin and rule on The water in whieh coined beef is chapped bands. Put on loose gloves cooked shoend en no account be and in the morning there will be a thrown away. • After the hot corned • decided improvement, after thor- -beef is taken from the table, to be ougaly weshing them in warm afterwards eaten cteed, put it in a water.- . stone jar reed pour the pot liquor Last but not least, a good cup of over it. Keep the beef in the liquor tea, without sugar, but with two until the last of it has been eaten. slices of lemon and chipped ice - If h.:1de is made use the liquor to moisten it in the spieler. what is better on a hot summer day ? Coley is ea' ily kept in perfect condition for several dayat our house. • It is washed, then put in a cold place. The tops will have to be ettrimmedtllmmo? to allow its being p A. chemist says that to e remove glass stopper from a bottle, hip it to one side and hold a lighted match under the neck of the bottle tile the bottle, but not the stopper, is hot. This expands the bottle so that the stopper may be removed. Or give the stopper a sharp tap with a knife, holding the finger on the op- posite eide to modify the jar. "The proper way to dry wool- lens," • says a large nuenufacturer of woollen goods, -is to hang the gar- ments on the line dripping wet with- out waiving out at all. If dried in this way the slminkage will be so slight 'as to be almost unnoticeable." 4- IN MEMORY OF VICTORIA. The women's memorial to Queen Victoria, being the endowment oa Queen 'Victoria's Jubilee Institute for Nurses, which she herself found- ed with the £70,000 presented to lier by the women of Great Britain at the jubilee of 1887, is now com- plete. '1120 annotint collected by the ceetral 'committee was, in roe 73 a figures 1 -Elie -nand, Wales and the colonies, a6(1,000; Ireland, £6,000; Scotland e S co this's `Nurses' lend o w - Ment Fund), Z1 2,000 -or Z84,000 101 all. Added to the Z72,000 of the Women's jubilee Offering to Queen Virtoria, this makes a total of Z156,000. The committee etate that about four million ecople coetribut- ed to the fund. The bulk of the 10021017 was de s maup of small sums, ranging. from one penny upwards. MOTOR PLOUGHING. At the annual ploughing match, open to .all England, orgarezed by the `North Xent Agricultural Astro - dation, two of the 118 ploughs' Were dralvn lty motoeS, and were seed to have done ee good, work as any horse -drew -6 ploughs, and in much quiekee time. It is claimed that a motor' can Pleflell eie acres a lay. , A. HAPPY HOME. Six things are requisite to create eappy home; Integrity /mast be the architect, and tidiness the upholster- er. It Must be warmed by affection, ligeted up with cheerfulness, and in- dustry souse be the ventilator, re- newing the atmosphere and bring in fresh salubrity day by day; while over all as a protecting canopy and glory nothing will suffice except the blessing of Cod. 4 USEFUL KITES. Mr. S. F. Cody Tellsof His Experi- ments With Them. 'The first record of the practical ese of kites is said to date back as fax as 206 B.C., when they Were utilized Camphor, as is well • known, is for military signaling purposes dur- useful in keeping away moth; hut it ing war by Han Sing, a Chinese gen- should never be placed near sealskin, eras,and, according • to history, as it causes .tit fur to change proved valuable. Me.. S, F. Cody, color, producing streaks of grey whose kite has been recently and yellow. Grind horseradish in a meat - chopper; it beats the grating-irone and there are no sore eyes. Hain soaked in milk over night will be found exceedingly tender and sweet when used for breakfast the next morning. If the water is blued when cleaning windows, they will retain their bril- liancy longer and polish much more quickly. Some one ought to write an article upon how to keep a tea- kettle clean, 'so few people ever wash teem. (on the inside), but keep putt- ing water in with the . water that has been standing i the kettle for is held captive by a small rope or no one knows how long a time. We wire, which is made fast to a galvan- think the kettle should be washed on ized wire cable. This aeroplane is the inside at least once a- day, and allowed to carry the cable as high fresh water put in every time it is to 'be 1180(1for tea or. coffee. First pour out all the water that has been standingla the kettle. Bra adopted by the.. British Achniry. tells in Pearson's Magazine the story of his experiments with kites that can lift a ream "All my life," he says, "I have been interested in kites, but only dur- ing the last two years have I con- structed them for practical purposes. But already hundreds of. successful ascents have been. made, and I ant very sanguine of more success in the future. • "When an ascent is decided upon, a pilot is sent up, that is, one of 'the smaller grade of aerop1ane:4 and this • DOMESTIC RECIPES. Orange elarmalade.-The season for the making of this delicious preserve is at hand again, as testified by the quantities of oranges in the grocers' windows, The Seville oranges are accounted best for this marmalade by litany, but others prefer the less bitter flavor of that made from our 'lame-grown oranges. Here is a re- cipe from 'Harper's Bazar that is ceaeona,blo Slice very thin, removing the seeds in the process, the 110(1113131meat of twelve good mid not too sweet oranges,,am and of six lemons. To every pound, of f:1 Heed fruit allow three pints of cold water; pour it over, and let all stand for twenty- four hours, thee boil about an hour, or until the peel is tancier. Put it aside for another twenty-four hours, weigh, and to every pound allow n oe pound of sugar. Boil about an hour, or until it will jelly, stirring very carefully to prevent breaking the rings of peel, Put et. in ',jelly- glisasiesonsum or sonm110.-jaAfr jars. stmnone is one of the most delicate ways to serve salmon, and will be a revelation, 'to the housekeeper who has contented herself with turning the contents of a can of salines) on a platter , and sending it to the table. Make a white sauce of two tablespoonfuls, eagle of butter, and flour, one tea- spoonful of salt, a 'clash of white pepper', and one pint of milk; add one cep of stale bread. crumbs, grat- ed, a few drops of onion juice, a teaspoonfel of chopped parsley, • and the salmon from a single can, freed from skin and bones, and rubbed fine with a sillier fork. Bent the in- gredients together thoroughly, then at bein the yolkof three eggs, and, lasely, fold in the,''whites of the eggs, beaten stiff. Turn the mixture into a, buttered baking -dish; bake in a moderate oven, the dish standing in hot water, about twenty -rive Min- tttelI Serve at once, either with or Without a Fialece., as itwill. Then'other air -ships, sim- ilar on construction to the first, but somewhat larger in size, are attached and sent floating up the main haw- ser until they reach the height assign- ed them, when they immediately take up flying positions. This process is repeated until a sun -Went strain or pull is attained on the main cable to bear the veight of the aeronaut, who now ascends to the desired point, from which he is to make his obser- vntions. "He • conducts these observations from a basket chair, the position of which is tilted back to an angle of about sixty degrees. The rnan's po- sition i0 the chair is as if looming back, thus rendering it practically im- possible for ,him to slip or be thrown out by passing currents. He has round him all the necessary steer- ing -gear, together with :mending argl descending lines, and brake for con- trolling the movements of the aero - realm during the` upward and dosvn- ward journey. These are attached to the eross-bar, immediately in • front and above the rieronaut's head. He has also with, him a (genera, a tele- scope and a quick -shooting small arrn. "Besides its practical utility for reconnoiterieg purposes in the event of war, the aeroplane has proved available for towing boats in cur- rents where steam. or sail would be useless, and also for scaling high walls without building ladders or trestlework. One of the most -import- mit uses to which the. aeroplane can be nut is that of aiding the new and all -import Ant wireless telegraphy. The machine can do this by taking 'the apparatus higher than it could possibly he conveyed by any Other 11103108, and so can add considerably to its range, ewe to the geeent of hundrede of miles," 4- gEVILIt FORGOTTEN. She : loVe old trees; they seem to rethind one of the past, somehow. Don't yout thiek so ?" ITe : 'Well, there is only one tree Oat ' renal -Ids Me of the paet-the THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB. 1.4. Text of the LeSSOD, 11., 1-' ! 12. Golden Text, 3.Aearle The healing of the ksPers which) seems to follow, in the order of events, the Sabbath dee, Catiere :mum of last weds'sleseron, sdows, tie the pewee cif God over ad -utterly ingerable disease, Nthicb in the Old ;Testament is eery Suggestive of sin In us. How mighty and wonde ful I.tvelr‘ethotcoe fiveee lee.ople'dA of our Lord in ,lsyer be thou clean," (i, 41). and instant- ly he was clean. &nee as long, and no longer, does it take to save a eniner. The loper's joy 'was so great that notwithstanding the Lord's command to say nothing to any rnan he so blazed abroad the matter that Jesus could no more openly en- ter into the city, but was without in desert places, and they came to 'Him from beery smarter (1, 4.5). As soon 118 Re returned to Capernaum and the people knew it they gather- ed in such numbers that they not only filled the house, but 11. waS poesible to get near the floor, But only the sick need a physician, awl only thelost neecl a Saviour, and these Pharisees and &More were in their own estimation neiteer siele nor lost Met, ix. 12; Lulte xix. 1(1), so they Caine anef heard anti saw and went awey without the blessing that was to be had for the receiving. The rich Ho sent enipty away KLuke i, 58). Yet Jesus preached the word meta them (verse 2), and it was the same word that cast out evil spirits, that healed the lepee, that stilled the storm, time created theworlds, but it did these wise and learned people no good, for they did not receive it. • The god or this world had blinded their minds (II (Jor. iv, 4). Ttete wa..s another day When the people thronged Him, but one poor woman touched Him to some purpose • (Mark v, SO, 81); others might have done so, bet this une did. . While the self sufficient, soli right- eous, see in Him only one to eritcise and condemn there is brougbt to Him a helpless one for whom and in . whom Ris power can be mantle. t, for He giveth power to the faint and helps those who have no helper (Isa. xl.' 29; lxxii, 12); He filleth the hungry with gteid things. The four friends who brought their palsied friend manifested a zeal and deter- mination sure to accompliFfi their end if it beat all possible to be accomplished." Their thoughts seem to have run in this channel : (eir poor friend is helpleee, and in that house is the Man who can belP him 'if NVO can only get at Him, and we think- we can, anel we'll do it at once, for every moment is preciane. Let those who talk cf coming to Jesus in a very proper and becoming way think of the method of these men our Lord's 'approval. The people gathered in the house, those • Pharisees and doctors, saw a most unseemly thing when the roof was broken up over their heads and a. helpless man was lowered into their midst. Perhaps never before nor since did a man come to Christ aft- er that fashion. The one thing that Jesus saw was their faith, the one thing that pleases 1-Iim most, for without faith it is bnposeible to please Him (Ffeb. id.. (3). Contrast the -Great Faith" and the "Little Faith" of Matt. vile, 10, rev., 28; viii., 20; elle, 8. Probably all were surprised When our Lord said "Son thy sins be forgiven thee," for • he had been brought for healing of the body. 'Yet the Lord read the heart, , and it may be that He saw before Hine one who was more troubled about his soul than Ilia body. He at least saw, as He always sees, that t le healing of the soul is the 3nost important,for if only we are • truly saved a perfect body is assured us in due time (Phil, iii., 20 21). There are many texts which assehe US of the forgiveness of' Fens. These which help me most are I. John ii., 12; Isa. x1111., 25. Do not fail to observe • the Lord's "Be of good cheer" (idatt. 1.X. 2, 22), and let Hira make us such a "good cheer" people that He shall be glorified in us. It may be that the man was much ter- rified by Ids manner of approach to Christ and our Lord graciously quiets him at once,, as when Ile 'appeared 111 the midst of the first resurrectioe ev- ening and said,, "Peace be -unto you." For a speaker to know that in the minds of his hearers -there is unjust and cruel criticism would be very upsetting to most people, perhaps to all but to our Lord Himself, teut our Lord lived before , His Father rather than before the religious leaders of the day. Had these Pharisees • and doctors been teachable they might have said. Here is Ong who forgives sins and heals the sick and is quite midis- turbed by this unheard of proceeding. I -Te must be our expected Messiah. But, as we said before, they were blinded by, unbelieving .ceiticism, just as many are to -day. Turning again to the sick elan, see him now carry- ing that which had carried him, en sins forgiven and" his body healed, going forth before them all a living evidence of the grace and the power of the Sae of Man. No woreler that they edori tied God, saying We never saw it in this fash- ion. What a. praise meeting the man and his friends must have had! Wimp is the faith of tbese four seer; note? How much of it le there in atm? In nee? Where is the faith that takes to &meal, that saye, like Jacob, "I will not let thee go except thee blees rile? Let es not look around and criticize Others, but ask the Lord to search u according to Ps. cxxxix., 28, 2e, and bring Us into :etch mani- fest, 'mien with 'Himself that Fie power limy be seen In DS. ' J/101C--"MaInnla, papa paned our bodies are like a machine," lefrennat- my son, they aro." Jack - "Well, do 1 have to thee cod :Igor oil to Oil Up the machine?"