Exeter Advocate, 1904-2-18, Page 2'Sae
ENEFITS OF PRAT
We Are Judged By
Our Private
the Earnestness of
Devotions
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by wee. Belly. of Toronto, tit the
useartineat of agriculture. Ottawa,/
A deeenSch from Los Angeles, Cal.,
says :—Rev, Prank De Witt Talmage
preached from the following tent z1.
Thessalonians v, sax, "Quench not
taw. Spirit.''
We would, for our present lesson,
US e one at Paul's impressive, signine
cent words. His "quetteh" has a
Superletive meaning. It is one of
those sherp polutea •verbal chisels
which Can open adamantine rock and
in cutting pewee outdiamond the
diamond. It is one of those intense
lurid words winch inctere, thole
thougleia. in colors of blood, "To
quenet" means to Mother.; s e,
mother would extinguish the Names
consuniing the dress of her burning
child by wrapping about the flierisy
garments a heavy, wet • blanket., jerk -
3:011.1. off the clothesline. La that
word "ceitench" Paul startlingly
warns. all believing Christiaus
against the sin of extinguishing the
power of the Roly Spirit; which is
now burning within them as a living
flame. , "Quench not the Spirit" is
the commands to the Thessaloonms.
Smother not the divine flames.
A PISACTIOAL QUESTION.
Now comes the practical question:
How do many believing Christians
open the floodgates of sin and drown
out their spiritual fires? Row do
many of our new :converts chill their
holy enthusiasm and dry their
cheeks, wet: with penitent tears, and
harden again their hearts in sin?
First and foremost, by neglecting
God's place of public worship, By
turning their backs upon the Sun-
day church servines. By clainnag
that they can pray to God just as'
well at home as in the week night
prayer meetings. By asserting - that
the "commuaion of the saints," in
buildieg which has been dedicated
to Cod as a "house of prayenn is
not easential for true spiritual life.
No true convert should ever be guil-
ty of costing a. slur upon the oublic
altar of Jesus Christ. As Ponce de
Inon, the explorer, crossed the seas
expecting to flud a, spring of "perpe-
tual youth," which was 'different
from all other springs, so when we
come to a cousecrated Public ser-
vice tilled with Christian people we
should • expect to find :there a rich
blessing, different from an other
blessings. It is hard work for a
live coal to keep warm and• to re-
main a live coal outside of the
grate. It is hard work or a warm
hearted, loving Christian to remain
a spiritual "live coal" unless he con-
tinually lives in close contact with
other loving Christians. It is by
the commingling of: prayers that the
but prayer is produced. It is by
the commingling of testimonies that
thebeet testimony springs from our
lips. It is by "the foolishness" of
preaching that sinners are saved.
Yee ! And also by the foolishness of
preaching that they are brought
nearer week: by week to the person-
elite- of Jesus Chant,
PUBLIC 'WORSHIP ESSENTIAL
DeWitt worship is absolutely essen-
tial for the spiritual life of the av-
erage inan. Sonne years ago a coun-
try boy was riding in the cars to -
wiled Pbiladelpbia. In the seat sit-
ting next to tarn was an old man.
After a long conversation. in which
the young man told his seat. mate
that, he was going to Philadelphia to
find Work, the aged man asked him
for his letters. "Oh, ye" said the
young fellow, "here is one from my
old employer. Here is one from
my schoolteacher. Here is one from
my physician." "Ts that all? Have
you not one from your minister ?"
asked his seat mate. "Yes. I have
that also." "Well, my young
friend," said the end man, "I would
advise you to present that letter to
some church at once. I am an old
sea captain, and I have found ezint.by
bitter experience • that it is safer
when in harbor to tie my ship up to.
a wharf then to anchor it out in-
mfdstreann to be floated around in
the tides., By bitter experience I
have also found out that no young
Christian is safe unless he is bound
up in Christian fellowship with other
Christiana in Sunday services and in
the ween night prayer meetings,"
The old sea captain's experience has
been mine. I never saw in iny life
a church member go astray unlese
. you could first trace bis spiritual 'de-
generacy in growing absence from
the prayer Meeting and Sunday ser-
vices. If you want to keep close to
'God you must keep close to his
praying disciples. Never neglect, un -
loss compelled, a church service: For
your spiritual. welfare especially,
never ne,gleet your Week night prayer
meeting.
PRAYER TN PUBLIC.
It is necessary for true spiritual
life to pray in publie. Oh, yen But
it is just as neeessesy to pray in
private. "Tho Lord thy God is a
Jeannie Geed." That meatie in one
sense that there are times when, God
wants • tuf to be alone with nine
alone as Christ was elorre with the
Heavenly Father when Jests again
and agent went off alone to PrEinn
He wants Us to ne alone with him in
holy fellowship, an some of us hane
often been alorie, with Out. mothers,
Blessed arid tender were those hones
• of fi-Weet communicea with our moths-
ers wit have now gmie beyond. After
the rest of the family were all 'in
beck we used to sit up toward
TOid-
iiight, telling her what we Wanted.
".te do. and asking her if she thought
ft wee beat for tie to do it. SO God
the Herizeentn Father, wants us at
times tocOme to him when we aeo.
alone, Tre Wente no to tell him all
onr planet: . George Whitefield wetdd
never accept aey invitation to do
anything of aey iuiport unless he
. bad first talked it: (ever with his
'best friends" In the " darkneee: Of
the bedroom andin the solitary
walks through the streets and in the
quiet of the office or in the kitchen,
God wants us to frankly and freely
and lovingly talk with him. Ile
wanite us to (Kane to him with the
abiding faith cif Et. little Weld. And
the Heevenly Father, "Who seeth, ia
secret, shall reward thee openly."
TIM DIVINiI1 COMMAND,
Our public Christie:a usefulnessto
a great extent is dependent, upon the
intensity of our prances utLeved ni
secret. Christian brother, never al-
low your prayer closet to become
(lust covered and musty. Never let
a time come when •you will break the
telegraphic, communication with the
heavenly headquarters for prayer.
Ia God's great whispering gallery
May your lips learn to utter the
divine pleadings so softly that they
shall sometimes only be heard by his
ear and answered directly only by
his loving voice.
The closed lids of God's Bible are
often used to extinguish the divine
flame burning within the Christian's
heart. They can become the barred
and bolted doors of superstition,
barre'cl and bolted by gross ignor-
ance, endungeoeing the most mon-
strous of heresies in the darkest of
• cells. They may become, redhot irons
putting out the calm, deep blue eyes
of faith and love, 13y an ancient
eastern law no blind prince is allow -
ad to sit, upon the throne el :Persia,
By a divine law no Christian can
reach that stage of enlighterunent
ntting him to occupy one of God's
spiritual • thrones without earnest
and prayerful study of the Ilible.
"Tolle. lege I Tolle, lege I" ("Take
the divine command given in visioti
and read! Take and read !"1 was'
to young Augustine in refereace to
the Holy Scriptures. "Take and
read ! Take and read 1" is the di-
vine command given to the young
Christian of the present day.
My friends, how are you going to
find out what is the law of God and
the will of God unless erou read. his
holy word? In Isaiah he distinctly
says, "nly thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways." Are you and 7 trying to find
out by studying the Scriptures what
are God's thoughts and to harmon-
ize our lives with his life? Are we
trying to find out what is the deep-
er, richer meaning of the Saviour's
name? Are we seeking to under-
stand what is the mission of the Iliely
Spirit and how God with the weak
things of this world is going to
confound the mighty? Or are we
going around day after day singing a
senseless, silly, siren song: nJosus
will save! Jesus will save! Oh, 1
aan so happy; Jesus will save!" when
some of us merely look upon the
mono of Jesus as an amulet, because
we do not know or care who Jesus is
or take the trouble to read the
words which he has spoken for us?
Are we going to look upon the closed
lids of the Bible in a superstitious
way, as did the peasants of Europe
during the dark ages, as though they
were something they had no right
to touch? Shall we continue to be
as ignorant of God's word as that?
Or are you going to look upon the
Iroly Scriptures . as a divine letter
written by the Heavenly Father 'tie
his children, which letter ought to
be carefully studied and its com-
mands to be •strictly followed eat?
DEVELOPAIFINT Or CHARACTER.
"But," some new convert says, "if
the knowledge of the Roly S.criptures.
is essential to a truly developed spir-
itual character then. I ant not a true
Christian.I practically know no-
thing about the word of Godexcept
that 'Cod so loved the World that
he gave his only begotten Son that
whosoever believeth on him Should
not perish, but have everlasting life.'
That is all I know. Cannot I now
accept Christ, as my Saviour?" Oh,
yes, -my brother, you can. You are
now. a Christian, if you want to be.
If you accept and teuly believe that
one verse just quoted, you are as
much a Christian as a little fiedgen
ling just hatched out of an egg is
a bird. If you accept truly with
your whole heart that profound
truth and should die to -night, he who
promised salvation to every soul who
believes and trusts him would take
your soul into his safe keeping. But
if you live you should grow and de-
velop. You are saved that you may
serve him as an example and as a
soul tvinner, and this you can never
do unless you learn to know him' and
his teaching through the study of
his word. Remember you are • now
a • Christian only as the bird just
hatched out of the egg is a bird.
You are a spiritual fledgeling:. yOu
Must eat spiritual food. That spiri-
tual food is to be found, in the Word
of God, as the breathfor yourspiri-.
that lunge is to be found in the at-
mosphere of prayer,
THE FIRESIDE STANDARD,
Every inan's home to a Certain .ex-
tent is his own castle. He can' lift
what standards he pleases over his
onto fireside, He can emphatically
say, as did God's servant of old,
"Let others do as they will, but a.8
for me and my heitise We :Snell serve
the Lord," Or he can open his own
home to shelter and entertain evil
teinptatione of all sorts, But' it
no matt think if he • surrenders his•
house to evil pea:0tice:4 and yields
himself and his home to the sedue-
thine Of the WerIcl that he can at the
same time live a spirituel life, nor
can he 'expect that -those around bine,
Who are bound to hint by ties of
blood. and love, will lead spiriteal
lives. He Must, if he would live
right, not only Consecrate his °We
life ewes: morning to God, ,Init itt
the preeeace of his children he must
Offer a petition, to God for them to ,t
cOasecrate their liege to .0Iertet aleo. **********YaMt
IN TOUCH •wit•ft 04w:wt. •
By coining tit touch with..Christne
life shall we neee the Spirit's tlttine
leap and glow •and resistlessly Move
on. and, scatter' ana enaneoesunie otir
ante and Otle brotheine pins, even ,as
the prairie fire makes serpent, prairie
flog !terse., buffalo andneer tura :and
Io e for their lives. .
In welcoming the churns member§
to Christ's altar 1 have but Oae
more (pestles' to Ask end. to :answer.,
In What, 0 struggling friend, does
the c,hief dennitiOn ofbeing a Cletis-
tian coneist? Ought you to een,
want tn•be a Christian to °seep the
evil effects of- Sin?' "F want to be
Cleinsinaa to be happy?" nI want
to be se Chrieticiat in maim. that Linay
reach heaven?" .01i, no. You
should want to be a. Chriethen, not
for near own benutineetion,. but in
order that God May be giorified. 10
order to glorify God we. ehmanneork
for "him. In order to glorify God
We should give to him of our tem -
renal substanee. Itt cieder to glorify
Godwe should pray to nini. We
sboula lead the. Bible that WO Cart
further find out how Clunst may con-
tinue to be glerined]fay our lives
be filled with holy zeal for the glori-
fication of the blessed Saviour on
earth and in heaven. I 'congratulate
you in this, the supreme moment of
your hie, when you .start in the ser-
vice of Jostle Christ, , Christie/1 bro-
thels give me thy hand,
TO 'CUT OR SPLIT GLASS.
Xf You Know How, it Can be Done
• Done Without a Dienion.d. -
It often Mem* that glass tubes of
various dimensiobs have to be cut
a. fele a diamond is not at hand; as
in shops and posy& plants where oil.
and water tunes must to neatly fitt-
ed'. The usual niethoil ancieted is
to file a sutali groove around the
tube and ,separate the glass with a
sharp rap at the plate weakened by
the file. The result ie not always
satisfactory, because- the ends often
break unevenly owing to the
Iiftt-
culty of making a straight groove
with the filo. Better reeelte are ob-
tained when only a small incision is
made with a file, 3ust enough to cut
through the enamel of the tube, on
one side, and not an around. While
the tube is still Warm from the We -
lion of the file, the tube is then
taken between the thumbs and fore-
finger, the thambs opposite the filo
incision, and the forefingers around
the tubing,dose to but not covering
the incision. Pressure of tbe
thumbs inveriebni ceases the tube
to break in as straiglit and clean e
line as though cut with 'a diamond.
Another method is to ese a fine
saw blade, (the finer toothed the
better, for a saw is only another
form of a file), and this shetiln be
kept fed with fine emery, ember:ta-
d-um, or pulverized Silica send of
herd grit, moistened with camphor,:
oil, turpentine or waeer.:-A,nstraeght,
steady and even stroke should be
Made, and when the work is care-
fully .done against a gauge the, Mit
will be as true as though it • had
been ground. , Nor is 'even a tooth-
ed blade necessary, if a suitable
heed and finely gritted abrasive is
used and regularly fed between the
glees and fine wire, watchspring, or
blunt but even blade of an ordinary
table knife. The latter will be
somewhat slow, Of course, but a fine
steel wire run at high-speed like a
bend saw, if regularly fed with Atte
emery or carborundoM, will give
very satisfactory results, not Only
for cutting eitle0S straight lines or
curses in window, but niete or
Optical. glass, ne such thickness as
makes cutting with a diamond diffi-
cult, precarious or imposeible.
Window glass, especially single
strength, can be accurately " split
either in straight or Carved lines by
first Making an incision through the
enamel of the glass, and then hold-
ing a hoe iron close to the iacision
till a fracture is started. The frac-
ture , will follow the hot iron With
remarkable fidelity. The nem snould
be preferably round and somewhat
bleat and with a bulky head, (like
an ordinary fire poker). sa as to re-
tain. ite -heat well' for twig guts,' .es-
PeCiiiely for thick sheets; to keep
the fraeture goieg, when once started,
even if two heated irons have to be
BREATHING AND COURAGE.
Get More Oxygen Into Your
Lungs.
The importance of learning to
breathe properly has often been in-
sisted on by medical men, who tell
Us that WO shall be healthier if we
and einnamoa„ a (Mirth one, teaspoon
411 cloves end a lovel teaspooa of
Al I sea% Sifted together, eta. urita th,or-
mi
afa ghty Mixed, then th
stead in e cold
1-1 E ,,,1 over night, Next morning roll out
ON1.. • * about a fourth of an inch in thick-
: nig ness, sprinkle with a cup of finely
****At, ato %to A At, Ai..,, A& AbotP". chopped walnuts aad press the rolling
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A GOOD HOUSEKEEPER,
To be a first-class housekeeper re-
quires ability of no mean order, It
implies a knowledge of food, &mita-
tient house decoratioe, and econo-
mics, It demands the power to ccia-
trol and direet servants, not to speak
of managing the members of the
household, Housekeeping is, in fact,
a business, and calls for executive
ability and a constructive mind,
states "Harper's Bazaar.'' But home-
making is more than a business; it is
an art, end higit art, at that Many
a clever women, systematic and
strong, who conquers all the prob-
lems of housekeeping, who controls.
and retains her cook, who never has
fly or a moth withia her four walls,
whose rooms are in perfect taste,
*hose plenteous table is faultless in
all its appointments, is an absolute
Philistine as regards home -making.
She provides all the environments of
a delightful homeabut leaves a blank
where the home itself ought to be—
produces the frame and leaves out
the picture, "Her house is a dream
—but her home is a nightmare!" was
a comment on one household.
Rome is made by considering, its
essentials and putting them first. • A
home is a place where the happiness,
the freedom, the health, and the COM -
fort of the family are provided for.
A place that offers bodily comfort
annehealth, bat neither freedom nor
joy, is not a home. To call it so is
to take the sacred name of Immo in
vain. Rigidly fixed rules, Which nev-
er take account of the need or con-
venience of members of the household,
may be good housekeeping; they are
bad home -making. Freedom and
sympathy have been well called the
foundations ,of home life. "Not
things, but souls," is where the stress
of the home -maker's activity should
be laid.
This does not mean that eliminate-
ality should be the rule or that dust
and disorder should be tolerated. It
makes a child—or a husband—n,o nap -
pier to be habitually untidy or late.
But just as in buildinn an iron bridge
room inust be allowed for the ex-
pansion and contraction of girder and
pillar through all sorts of weather,
so every part of housekeeping must
be elastic when the need comes.
• ILLS OP THE FEET RELIEVED.
Probably no part of the human
body receit-es so little care as the
feet, and yet how necessary is their
well being. Shoes that are either
too large or too small produce corns.
When these first appear, rub them
with pumice' stone. Treat in the
same way the callous spots that
form on the bottom and sides of the
feet, Should the corn be very sore,
soak the feet in w,arni water and.,
then apply camphorated vaseline. In
paring a corn a very sharo knife
sbould be used, and the operation
most cautiously conducted. A poul-
tice cautiously cunducted half an
hour in vinegar- will often remove
a corn in a night.
Bunions should be. rubbed with lan-
oline and then protncted byes, piece of
oiled silk. Ingrowing toenails may
be checked and cured by _forcing back
the nosh from the nail and inserting
a tiny wad of lint under the edge of
the nail. When the next toe presses
the flesh down on the nail, ,bind the
two toes together with adhesive plas-
ter so as to prevent the pressure in
the wrong place.
For perspiring feet, bathe the feet
in water containing a little borax,
and then powder with lycopodium.
For tired or aching feet use a hot
salt water bath and rub the feet
dry with a rough towel. Swollen feet
And ankles am benefitted by a bath
in water in which wood ashes have
been boiled, the water being strained
before it is used.
For women with sensitive feet,' that
blister easily, a simple remedy is to
rub the sole of the stockings with
castile soap, and to soften -the soap
in water and rub it over the bottom
aed sides' of 'the feet. Chilblains can
be cured by persistent bathing aight
and morning with witch hazel'. Three
parts vinegar and one part camphor-
ated brandy is a preventative of chil-
blains if used during the fall menthe
and ‚before cold weather comes.
• DOMESTIC REorpts.
Pumpkin Pie Without Eggs.—Cook
habitually take deep breaths and thus tho pulnpkins which should be fine
completelY fill our lungs; but !Jeep grained and solid—the pie pumpkin is
• breathing is now put forward as a:best—till it is rich and dark and
courage -reviver. „ I dry. Put through a colander, return
4%Vhert the prospect looks rather,to the ere and stir into every pint
black, and there is an insidieus sugn' of the pumpkin a tablespoonful of
gestion somewhere within you that flour wet with cold milk, sugar to
the best thing you can do is to go taste, salt, cinnamon and ginger dit-
to the Aritipodes and make a fresh to, then thhi to the consistency of
start; when you have an attack of thin mesh with rich sweet, milk. Put
the blues, and dread to open your into the crust -lined tins, grate nut -
morning letters lest one shall con- meg over the top and bake. This
taininformation.that will upset some recipe is given by, Alice Chittenden in
of neer happy plans; then you. Ilea the Country Gentleman,
better go into the open, or aPProachr, 'Chocolate PieenLine e deep pie pan.
an open window, stand with you' with a rich crust and bake in
arms akimbo (in order to give yourn quick oven. Cirate half a teacup of
chest full play), and take deep. chocolate, place ,in a saucepan with
breaths, Ione cup of hot nutter, a piece of but -
Breathe through the nose and ex- ter the site of an egg, a tablespoon -
hale through the mouth slowly. Do'hil of vanilla, a cup of sugar, the
this several times, inhalitig till your, heated yolks of two eggs and two
lungs will not hold mere; every time tablespoonfuls of cornstarch dissolved
you do it, you will find that you can' in as much cold water. Mix well
'take iri a little more than you did th I and cook till thick, stirring constant -
last time. Go back to your letters lee into the pie shell oral let
again, arid you will be inclined to cool. Make a meringue of the two
laugh at your fears. De this as a whiteof eggs, beaten stile with two
regular thing, Arid fenr will not teen- tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar,
ble you, -e spread over the pieand slightly'
In verification ef this stateme,nt, ',brown 111 the oven. This is a deliei-
everyone knows how a walk in the Ous Pie.
open will "Mit lire into you" on at Ginger Nut Wafers.—Put a fourth of
fresh morning; it is because lAbra 3. cup of huttee, a fourth of a cup of
oitygeti gets into the lunge. Tit you' lard, hall a cup of moliteeee and half
practise deep breathing, you get more's, cep of brown Sligar together over
oxygen ee a regular thitig, and your the, fire and heat to holiness Remove
couvege deee not Plar teicks With from thenetote, add three cape flouts
you. rounding teaspoon each of ifiliger
mY It .
strips three inchee long and one incb
wide and bake in a Moderate oven.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Doughnuts or biscuit may be beet -
ed se as to bee almost as good as
at :first by putting them in a whele
patper bag, sprinkling there with a
trete (trope Of -water, twisthig the ends
of the beg and putting it,iii.the ov-
en .en the grate. The Dena must be
quite hot,
Itt buyieg a cookstove Or range, be
sere tnat the oven has' en asbestos'
lined oven insteed ef olie :of sheet
lroa SitieS. The asbestor lining. means
4 coal kitchen and a hot stove.
Some economically inelined soul has
discovered that potatoes may be ban -
ed in the ash pain of the nese burner
by givieg them tittle .ellottgli, -Empty
the ash pan, put in the potatoes, put
on a cover and have nice baked po-
tateee for summer. • "
Iodine Sias always been regarded as
one of the worst of 'stains to re-
moVe. A Woman Who seined seem
oa the front of fagiegham goWn seek -
ea the spots :in Cold Water for half
an hour„ then. covered thickly • with
common soda. It wes then sent to
the wash and came out without
stain,
It is .said that if one burns • the
coarse brciwa paper that butchers
wrap Meat inand hold the hands itt
the smoke, the odor Of onions and
Other disagreeable things will disap-
pear.
Salted almonds axe even more de-
licto a.nd appetizing if ...they are
blanched, and then roasted slowly in
the oven till golden brown, •without
the addition of the usual, bettee Or
olive oil. When brown enough dust
with •Sne salt.
FOR 174111 YOUNG WIFE.
One of the most difficult questions
for a young 'wife to decide is how she
shall treat her new relatives.. Some-
times, of course, her husband's and
her own family have been friends for
years, and she at once slips into her
place as the daughter of the house,
only changing dear friends into dear-
er relatives; but this is not always
the case.
More often she meets her husband
far away from his family, and is only
introduced after her.menriage.
A bride should try to ,remember
that overy-thing depends on a first
impression, and should therefore be
careful to create a favorable ono at
once.
She must recollect that, whatever
their failings and peculiarities are,
they are her husband's people, and
as such to be treated with respect,
even if she cannot feetfor theni • the
affection she is desirous to give.
Let her try to love them as her
own people; but if this is impossible
she can at least treat them with
courtesy.
As a rule, however, the young .wife
will find her new relations only too
ready to love her for her husband's
sake at first, eventually for her own
sake, and she ought to have no
trouble about returning it.
NEW SOURCES OF RUBBER.
of a Plant Found on the
African Plains. /
Roots
'A French botanist, in the - course of
bis explorations, says the Scientific
American, a few weeks ago. in" the
sandy plains of the French Congo,
discovered a plant the bark of which
contained it large quantity of fibrous
rubber. At the time scarcely any
attention was paid to the discovery,
but owing to the scarcity of rubber
.o• •
and its high commercial value, Which
is in reality so prohibitive as to pre-
vent a very wide employment of the
substance, attempts are being made
in England to turn this new dis-
covery to commercial use.. The
plant also thrives profusely in
Northern Nigeria, and it is these
forests which are to be exploited. • A
sample of the plant has been anal-
yzed by the botanical authorities of
Kew Gardens, London, and these in-
vestigations • show that the rubber
exists in the roots in sufficiently
large quantities to warrant develop-
ment. • The name of the plant is
Londolphige thrallonii. R is to be
found in many places on the west
coast of 'Africa. One firm which is
already engaged in the manufacture
of this rubber is placing it upon the
market, at 75 cents a pound, and it
is in every nespeet eqUal to the or-
dinary rubber.
• India, rubber has become sueli an
indispensable material in the arts
and seiences that users will be gleui
to learn that a fresh sperce of sup-
ply is sand to have bete fouled-. in
the white mangrove tree, which
grows plentifully ' in the swampy
lands along the. coast ,of Central
Queensland. The sap is 'obtained by
making incisions ia tlie bark of tbe
tree and allowing it to rtin into tins.
Some samples of the rubber thus ob-
tained are said tohave brought n1
a pound in Inngland. Aa idea of the
importance of the rubber trade may
be learned froni the statement that
the United States and England alone
aneorb owe fifty million pounds an-
nually,
ELEPHANTS FEAR MICE:
An elephaut is usually afraid of
any small animal te which it is ea-
itectistomed. A clog or ten, ann
sometimes even a 12101150, will cauee
him 0.n/10e/once, especially if it runs
between the animal's legs. The
noise of a, mouse MI 11 through
the hay will often cause ail elephant
to become excited, The terrors of
the mouse to a target. animal ie an
old story, and massy foolish •seper-
stitioas have arisen from ite •
TJTE SUN.D,AY 8()40)1;.:t''
LESSON,.
Text 'Of the LesZte—, Mark .i.,. 21-
34., Golden Teict, inutee'.i.v„ 49,
Tbe °viteulelittsestiofettellIsi. linsh0e1olciNtvaieSrfet Pr0
babiy t;1.
those of . last wca. wen iiIIeii
i'Snabt?te
Sabbath
denion ,poSeessed roan these; theti tin
lest of the clay at Sinum's home,
where Hes healed: 'reiraorn8
MOthOr,' SAW at 'sunset all tilo seek
who , gathered about Slimea's 'door,
The record of the first part of the!
(fey is , feuncl in Luke iV, WO1.1 ad
itt Mark, aud the record .of the rest
of the day is felted, in Mann viii. es
'well es. in Luko 'IN', The record of, .
this and eveey day Of His public iniin
istey Le well .seinuartrized in Acts x,
38, ,".Anointed with the' Holy G•nost
end witn politer He went .abontdo,:
ing good and heeling all that :were
oppressed' Of the devil, for God Wes
vine Him." : This,. alsO ought to , ,
teue,ie sonic measure of (worn bottom
er, for the :lilo (Oaf• Jesus ivo
s sholtt,b
should 11;
manifeet'ia Us
On has said ,that the eye .61 the
world takes .itt more than the eat
ead that aChtestians , lives are 'tin
only religions books the world. 'mane
Therefore there is not so powerfal
SorlXlon in world as a consietein
hilstian lne.
}Living been cast out of nrazeuetin
He made .Ceperneenn Hie • home,
which is . spoken- of ae "His 6.wz
city" (kat.. ix, 1), and there one
throughout all Gel:nen Be preaclief
the gospel of sionnees" and disease
(Mett, iv, 23).. John the Baptist
was new in prison', and our Lore
wee probably in Use latter parts cif
Rio ;fleet year's ministry. AS 'He:
taught :the people beard inlet whien
they were notacciesteined to, for YU
taught with authority. He said, onn
what the Father told Rim. )is text
nook was the hew. the Prepnete nee
the psalms, and nie expounded: inth an
japeohjatlus"dtih8, things c4o9t;iceiLnauin,4
aniv, 27, 44, 45). just -the saint
teaching . enclexposition are needed
to -day, and those Who teach °then
wise than, accoecillig to the Scrip.
tures are not 'following our biessed
•
:anti spirits still, possess and spea
and ant through men, WOMOD ha]
tlitilq1.1311,- and.' 's.uch are .soneetirries
Recand in amen and 'Sunday schoen
to this day. They want to be hit
alone concerning eighteousnesi and
temperance and. nidgm.eat to come.
They• sine "Speak unto us smooth
things, propliesy deceit*: catiee the n
Holy One of lerael, to cease from :be- ,
fore us" (ina. xxx, :1.0 1.1.). • Saying
true thine. about Jesup ()twist am
this man did or as the, women ail
at Philippi (Acts xv1, 1.7), is "non no-
ccssarily
evidenee of a true, know -
]edge of .4/ MIS, 1:et thereeve people
even among the .preachers whose°
knowledge of Jesus" 'does, not Kern
to exceed that of these evil spirite.. •
Where there is no true reception of
Jesus Christ tes tee Saviour en
Sinners there is no life eternal (John.
1, 12; I John v; 12)
The Lord Jesus by Els worcloieln .
eyed this man front thnevil thing ia
him, said the men wee whole. When
peciple talk eied act tike the devil. let
'es ;remember that. Jesus still lives
-and Re is able and willing to cast
out the ovn spirit and give instead
His Own Spiritif we trusted Rini
More fully in these th h f...;'S hOw iris
fame would fenced abroad It had
been a strange morning in that syna-
gogue at; •Capernanm, Inc euch an
event had never tratiepired there 1)0 -
fore. Tho pOWer of god ha d beea
seen, for .ie$us IvaS God manifest in
the flesh. As Simeon, 'Andeeev, James
caul John walked from the synagogue
to Simeeine home what may have boob
their musings? -Possibly the healing
of the &Morn= may nave led them
to tell Him quinicler of the sick one la
Simon's, home.
As some as Be look the sick one by •
the hand, tlie fever Was 'gene, :ann,
she was able to rise end minister to
them. This is not the.• way that lev-
cw p,a-tients generally recover, but
ouch receveries ave all easy to min
who made 115. DononA cermet, abide
Prim, sickness flees before. Hann: ' He
is life and health andlight and
strength, and nothing to the 'Corn
teary can Abide in His presenceeSocet
the fang; esf Him and His Woliderfel
works spieled through the city, and
at even wheri the sun was setting the
Senbatli nay Isehig then passed!, all
the sick mid demon poseeseed withia
reach. were .to be found et Simons
Td.Totos7„*1-10:dndcasaton. .tuany demons with
.
,every one who .tt‘id
v.tas‘ His
sckelds011alatindlietile
them Luke en, •40, 4-1).. We do not
read. that they had Jaith to be heal-
ed, though their faith man Possibly
be seen inthe fact of their being
there. We do seetWo groat re•alitiee
e --On theie part:avot and felt need
and on His part a Meat , and over- •
(lowing fullness: Where thc. eeed, is
really felt and such come to 131m in
faith Iris fulltiese will be gerely seen.
: What a busy Sabbath day! - Wizen:
eutold light 110(11 037 had Caine. .'eAl
hearts and beanie which onlye, teat ,
inorning•Ited,.heren fell of, sorrow and
sighing! Free as the. -air and , sun-
shine awn showers of henven hadthe
bok:es,rih15
inns eo'ionra
eo all
hSabbath ddillillg
othisv.hcaela.when dteligtexlotaotosicn=olpinL
because tine eenie il'eees of :Nneareth
shall then be Xing, over all, tlin
earth. „ Xing of .kiegs aria Lord . of
lords .(flev. soci„ 3,•4; scnin, 14; ism,
24; Zech. nin, 9)..., After fawn
test Ireis up a greet while before
day and. always alone With Ilis
then :Joe He lived • by HIS loathe!
(verse 85; john Vie' 57): TVS werdf
and Werke "Were .01. T -Tis ratherS
(John. Inv: 19),
During the holidays . a noleereff-
Orme for this. einell ;bey., Weeld , .1
long -felt *ante