Exeter Advocate, 1904-3-24, Page 6ESSAGE FOR•YOUCT PEOP
An Appeal to Them to Become Gospel
Messengers to a Sinful World
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A despatch froze Los Angeles gays:
Bet. Fraitk De Witt Taimege preach-
ed from the following text: Acts x.,
1, "And he saw heaven °polle4 and
ft, certain vessel descending."
Theory i often little more than the
fine 'tit of guessiug. It is sometimes
the way M eencealing the fact that
e'em do , not know a thing, by using
scientific langange-. It is the verbal
meats we have of dress -Mg ep Sperm-
lation to make it look plausible. But
there are certain causations impose
sible to analyze, and learned answers
only make the plienomeoa the more
mysterious.
SPIRITUAL PHENOMENA,
As M the material world, so in the
inental and spiritual world there are
facts and phenomena which we know
to be certainly true, though we cane
not expiate them, We must recognize
rational results as such, although we
cannot tell the "whys" and the
"wherefores" nor the causes Which
produced these results. For instance,
we are nearly all ready to grant the
power of human telepathy, or the in-
fluence of one human mind upon an-
other human mind even at a die,
twice. Sitting In plane ineeting
some night you exercise the power of
will upon a person, and soon he will
turn ronnd and look at you, al-
though that person could e give no
rational reason why he turned and
looked. 'Indeed, so powerful some-
times is this influence of one human
mind over another that many stu-
dents of criminology have come to
the belief that some murderers who
wield the dagger or aim the pistol
may be merely the helpless and pli-
ant instrumenes of unknown crimin-
als who have impelled them to com-
mit their murderous deeds. Mesinexa
ism, hypnotism, bewitchery, michant-
meet, are merely long narnes defining
- this mysterious power, which almost
everywhere M the intellectual world
is beginning to be recognized, and
leen are asking whether it may not
sometimes dethrone the supremacy of
the individual will,
GOSPEL TillT,EPATHY.
As one human mind has an influence
over another human mind, wo also
know that there is a spiritual tele-
pathy, a subtle, mysterious influence
which the other world exerts upon
our own. Visional messages as di-
rect and unmistakable as that which
came to Peter epee the house top of
Simon's house in derma may also
come to us. We may be nna.ble to
explain how the divine manifestations
come ta the h.umen mind. God will
speak to us now it we will only lot
him, as surely as he spoke in many
• eases to his servants of Old, If we
look to God continually for guid-
ance, to us, too, shall the promise be
"Tbine ears shall hear a
word behind thee saying, This is the
way; walk ye M it." The purpose of
this sermon is not to analyze the
causes of divine telepathy so mach
as to suggest ways in which God
may be speaking to his children in
these days.
Gospel telepathy, in the first place,
comes to God's children as it did to
Peter upon Simon's house top, in
broad daylight: By that I do not
mean that it necessarily comes to us
as it did to Peter at the sixth 'hoer
or when the sun, is highest, in the
meridian, but I do mean this: When
God speaks to man he speaks to him
when be is rational, when he is. wide
wake, when his senses. are on the
atert, not when he is cooped up in
sonei dark, deceit/el retreat of a Spir-
itualistic medium or when he is toss -
Mg about on his couch at midnight
in uneasy slumber as the result of his
digestive organs haying been over-
loaded. There is ,a vision 1 -the spir-
it and a vision of the flesh. There
is a vision which conies from God
and one that is like the nightmare,
thm product of our own brain under
the disturbance of physical or rnental
conditions. There must be careful
discrlinination lest we accept foolish
fancies and mischevious impulses as
the voice of Go& That which is
born of the flesh le flesh, and that
which is born of the spirit is spirit.
GOD SPEAKS.
I speak very" emphatically on. this
subject. What right has any man
to apply to hinaself the Ninety-first
Psalm of David, as did a man some
time ago le one, of our eastern. cities?
He pondered over these verses day
in azid day out: "For he shall give
his angels charge over the to keep
thee in all thy ways. They shall
bear thoe up in then' hands, 'vet thou
darai thy foot against a stone." Then
in order to dernonstrctte his belief in
this saying, that men jumPed from
the top of a four etheey -building and
broke nearly every bone in his body,
Do yon suppose a, vision like that
came from God or from the devil?:
Whet right has a man to imagine
thut he ran get a vision from Cd
o
by using the Biblerts ,a fetish or an
amulet, °peeing at raridom ant
exPeeting the Inert verse his eye falls
Upon to be God's judgmeet, in tenor -
once to some undecided Matter, as T.
lieve known in my owe experienve
two ,or throe 'kelpie being in t•he ha
hit of doing? What right has a man
When in doubt about any Matter te
go to a fortune teller or to a soscer
er er a professor of divination aro
to 'regard the: voice. of a profesidona
ellarlatan as the voice of God.? Oh
Speaks as he did to Peter in Joppgi—
on the' boase top at Mitleoon, nt
broad daylight. Ho Speaks to Mau
in a rational way and at a rational
time,e,
THE TELEPATtHY OF SATAN,
There is a vision sent by God.
There is also a. Setanie telepathy.
.Christ, bone of -our bone and flesh.
M our fleele wee tempted by the
visione of sin as well as we, In the
fourth chapter of Luke We read that
Satan took Jesus •eip to a higia
'mountain and in vision showed:unto
him all the kingdoms M. the -World
and said: "All this power tvill I give
thee and the glory of them, foe that
ie delivered Mita. tne, and to whom-
soever. I will, I will give it. If thou,
therefore, will worship nie all shall
be thine," Then Satau took Jesus
to tho pinneele of the temple • and
asked him to cast himself. down trent
thence, to Prove that he was tlie Son
of God. ButtJesus, instead of obey -
ling the Satanic *lawn turned. unto
et,he devil and anstered, is write
;ten, thou shalt iiot tempt the Lord,
!thy Go&" if being so pare and
iholy as our Lord was approached by
I temptation and assailed by a tenip-
lter who based his wicked seggese
linens on passages of Scripture, .how
;careful should we be when a visien
;comen to 115, as it came to Peter on
nthe house top, to make sure that the
I vision is heaven sent for our geld-
' Once and not a temptation from the
!enemy sent to our own deetruction.
I Divine telepathy, as with Peter, is
;often Manifested with Clod's children
latter some great trial or sorrow or
,earthly misfortune has come uponIthein, When the casket is Placed in
ithe home it is apt to be felt, as
Christ appeared unto Mary on the
;first Easter morn. It is very apt to
lbo manifested vividly in times of be-
reavement.
CALL FOR PRACTICAL WORK.
This gospel call for practical work
is the more imprescive and immanent
because God's visions are never hap-
hazard; they are never purposeless
or meaningless • dreeMs. They an -
ways have a very practical interpre-
tation. When Peter looked eV hem
Simon's houee top he saw a great
sheet let down from the heavens, fill-
ed witls "all manner of four , footed
beasts of the earth, and wild beasts,
and• creeping things, astd fowls of
the air." That vition was a ,ssenbol
of the fact that Jesus died to save
the gentile as wen as the Jew, the
despised barbarian. as well as the
ciretuncleed. Hardie. had the vision
ended when Peter heard a loud rap-
ping at the lower gate. "Who is
there ? Who is there ?" was asked.
ani a messenger from Cornelius,"
is the cutswer. 'St am not a Jew,
but a gentile, sent by a holy angel
to thee. \tilt thou come and tell
hint about Jesus Christ ?" The :vi-
sion and the knock at the door were
one summons. Then it was that Pet-
er knew that his vision was 'divine
and that he was called to a duty
which he might have shrunk from
if he had not seen the preparatory
vision. No tenger was the offer of
salvation to be made to the Jewsi
only; no longer were the messengers
of Christ to regard the gentiles as
common or unclean. So much the
vieion had taught him, and so Peter
went with the inen and preached
Chiist to the gentile centurion, and
he found that gospel was the
power of God unto salvation to the
gentile as well as to the Jew.
GOD'S VISIONS NOT HAPHAZ--
' ARD.
God's visions are rover haphazard
ingruities. When the good Ananias
one day in the city M Daraascusehad
the command ,a vision that he
should place the hands 61 holy on-
dination upon the bittereit et:emy of
the Christian disciples be at fleet
doubted. the divine authenticity of
the vision; :Ananias looked up at
first into the heavens and in eh:exist'
said : "Lord, I have heard by many
of this man, how much evil be hath
done to the saints at Jerusalem.
Not him I Not Saul cannot or-
dain Saul of Tarsus." But hardly
had the good Ananias entered the
house to which God had :directed him
when they brought him stagger-
ing, stumbling blind man. It was
Stmt.! it was the arch enemy Saul!
Then Ananias' knew that his vision
was divine. When Simeon had • the
V1,.1011 that he should not die before
he had seen the Lord's Christ he
knew the vision was divine, when
. Mary the Virgin placed in his a.rms
the infant Christ. So, 0 man and
woman, the divine gospel work. You
feel it. You know it. Why? Be-
cause while I speak there arises be-
fore your mind some one Main some
one woman, 503110 one child, you can
Save. Yon are like Peter standing
upon the house top, You are listen-
• ing to the messenger of Cornelius
caning you to cane- the news of sal-
vation to some waiting soul,
I311t there is sent another fact
about God's tieions which it would
• be well for us to dwell -upon. The
divine telepathy conies to the des -
Weed nme's home as fregeeetly as it
doe to the reler's palace. Who was
Peter's host at the house where he
hod this divine vielon? He was
Simon the tamer, lXe wns in alt
pro b abi ty the mos t despieed man
in all the coast capital at that time,
Among the Jews the dealer In cured
hides of animate was Melded upoe ae
a, serial outcast, The harlot, the
Murderer-, the insurrectionist, were
more respected then be. • T
mhe con-
demned eriminal might be pardoned
of lus crimes even though he was the
thief who we/yield the poor man on
the road to Jericho; but the tan-
ner'S calling WaS 3101701" corgiV011. As
f men shrank from contact with. the
tepee, whose touch 'eight co:minima
cate his loathsome dleeaSh to the
heelthn person, se the JOU' shrank
from creetact With 'the tanner, whoee
preeenee ie a home brought cere-
monial contaminittion, ".13he door ol
hospitality \V0.0 always 401410 Agri,
in the lace of the teener. ,
THE DESPISED TANNER,
By the old Jewish taw, if a. hue -
nand (lied. withoilt any children, his
bristlier was cempelled to niarry the
wieow. But a, Widow was not come
pelted to marry that brother he
Wag a. twiner. 'Not even the h
Jewis
law eenlia compel a, women; to softer
sath ignerniny, If a Man married
womaia without telling her he was
a %Mier, she Could have the Meta-
puinial bonds instantly annulled, as
soon as the deception, was . foetid
out. Of course, there had to be
tanners among the Jews, as there
must be hangmen for thuspr,esent
generation; Yet; pe bitterly were the
tanners deepteed in ancient . times
that by the eastern law no tannin.
was allowed • to bead his tannery
newer to the outskirts. of a 'tone
then fifty .cubits, It Was to this
deepised home that the heavenly vie
shin came opening the gate Of the
Chen istiachurch to the 'gentile na-
tions. hoax,' 0 Man, 0 wo-
man, may be humble; it may be loca-
ted in, what the aristocratic people
call the elume; it May even nave*
been assOciated with the vicioua'pol-
letion of eoeiety; but even there the
voice from the heaverily ineesions
May he heard: 'SI mule not," said
the compassionate Saviour, "to. call
the righteous, but sinners, to repot -
theca:" You man be .re 'sachet out-
cast, as mach shunned as- Sheen the
teener, but in 'yeare bouee, tee, you
may hear a • .isieice saying, "Come
now, and let us reason together
thovell your sins be as eeeelete they
shall be white as snow; thciugh they
be :red like .crimeone they shall be as
wool."
A MESSAGE OF SALVATION.
One more thought is ,Suggested by
Peter's experience. This. Vision of
the ehhot coming down 'from. the
heavens Jilted with all naannee of
four. footed beasts and treeping
things ' and :fowls of the .air Came to
Peter whea he was comparatively
young man. It, came to him not
only as a meesage of saivation, but
oleo a. command, especially foe yourrg
men and women, to go to Work. The
Apocalyptic vitions of St. John
were otirely different. When John
had his visions upon the island of
Patmos he was a feeble, .Ny01-float pa-
triarch of ninety. Most of his.friends
were hi heaven. He was dreaming
for the most part of. the life beyond,
His earthly work was peactieelly fin-
isted. But the vim
slOn came to Peter
while he was in the stalwart prime
of manhood. He was then a young
man in the thirties: .My young
friends, note the importance of this.
fact. It meens that God's appeal-
ing to the young and the physically
stalwert to • consecrate our O&M'
and vigor to his serviee. Something
we may do. for him before physiccd
and mental decadence manifests it-
, self; something we may -do before we
ourselves shell joie the great "'silent
Snajority" beyond, .
SONE KODERN UTOPIAS.
Where War, Poverty and Dishones-
ty Are Unknown.
Denmark claims that there is not
a single person M her domain who
cannot read and write. On the
northeast coast of New Guinea, the
Island of Kutaba., surrounded by a
wall of coral three hundred feet high
on one side and from fifty to one
hundred feet on the other, maintains
thirteen villages of .natives, to whom
war, clime and poverty have theca
unknown since the beginning of their
traditions. The most peaceful and
aomfortable 'community in Europe is
the commune of the Canton Vaud,
M Switzerland.. Nearly evety one
is well off and there are no pauper's.
Finland is a realm whose inhabi-
tants are remarkable for their in -vio-
late integrity. There are no banks
and no safe deposits, „for no such se-
curity is essential. You may leave
your luggage anywhere for any
length of time, and he quite sure of
raiding it untouched on your return;
and your purse of money would
'be just as ..eecure under eimilier. • cir-
cumstances.. 'The Finns place their
money and valuables in holes in the
ground and cover them with a. .trig
, Such teeasere. is sacredly. re-
. hpeeted by .all Whitt pees it, but, -in..
the rare etent of. a man wishing to
borrow. . of his neighbor during his
absence, he will take only the small-
est sem he requires and place a mes-
sage in the hole telling of bis urgent
need, promising to repay the mount
on a specified date. And he will in-
variably keep hisword, for the Finn
is invincible in his independence.
Agneta. Park, near Delft, in Hole
land, is another Utopian example. A
tract cif Mu acres has upon it 150
houses, each with its little garden
and with certain. common 'buildings
and cern:Mon grounds. The houses
are 6ceupied by the employees 'of a
groat distilling company, who term a
corporation which owns the park.
Each member owns shares in the
corporation, and pays' rent for his
is
The 'surplus, after all o-
1)011805 have .been paid, comes back
to him as dividend.. If' ne,w1shos to
go assay, or if he dies, his shares are
boright. 1111 by the corporation and
eold to the nian who takes his place.
110, nee friende, GO'S yoke 15 not
tweed in the dark jimmied roonem
-:nin. It is trot heard from .the 1ili o
; theme who are leading dislioneet lives
it is Mit heard ; amid fanatic -vane"'
legs. Whee God fpeak g to man 11
INNOcgicrr THIEF,
It will eurpriee many to lihOW that
Washington .trving, the American
author, was a confessed orchard
thief. Once while picking up an
apple ili bis own orchard he was
accotect, by an urchin in the ne,igh-
borhood, who not recognizing him t.ts
the proprietor, offered to show him
a tree where he could get some bet-
ter apples than Ilene. "Bat," eaid
the boy, "We must not let 'the Wel
ma11 see us," "1 Went with Iiiie,''
eaid Irving, "oril we stele about a
dozen or two of iny own appies and
then went ilarOS
,,elfie petty, of pride may hide the
creek but it, cannot heal Its
,
Ifoire,ved 'lips cannot overcome 11
vi 15gar 11fe... ,
pootee withoet eeverterie are' iiever
successes;
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HomE *
SOME GOOD :RECIPES.
Chocolate Blanc Mciege.--Beil 000
mina of milk, stir .in, while 'boilieg
frier tablespoens of (W111 starch, one
quarter pound. of chocolate, 000 cup
of sugar, ancl flavor With vanilla.
Serve cold with cream:
Care:Mel 0110oe cup-
ful of brown sugar imx a frying pau,
pour in tine quart of ni1k and heti
cupful White sugar', let it get well
heated, then 'stir in three tablespoon.-
ruts" of corn starch dissolved 111 a
little ereare.
Carrot Pudding,eedhake cine fal
of grated carrot, one cupful. of grat-
ed potatoes, ehe Of grated suet, one
of grated bread crumb's, One of brown
sugar,. one Of syrins, 14,- 'teaspoonful
baiting powder, one griped ef raisins
and °lie Cupful euerants. Stearn for:
tent. hours and :serve .hot with a
Scotch Baked Apples. --Core eight
apflies, fUling .the cavities with a
mixture, of half a tableepoon of but-
ter, eight teaspoonfuls of sugar and
six teaspoonfuls of orange marina-
lacle. ' place in en agate ..ware pan
and bake. Melt, a tablespoonful .
-M:of
better, ix with eight tablespoons
fuls ottbread erarebe .andbrown ia
the, oven, stireieg oceesienally.
Sprinkle the apples lei the .crumbs,
to Whieh has been: added pulverized
segar. Serve hot with cream.
Plaine Ceins•Soak half a 7powid . of
prones, drain, stone and cut up. the
.pelp. Separate the - whites arid
yeilks of two ' eggs, beat the yolks,
adding one-half teaspoon of salt,
one• -•and -a -half tablespoons of 'melted
Bl,
butter said half a cup of sugar. ea
well • adding a email cupful of Milk..
Sift in one-andea-half cepa of. finer,
Silt
in the. prunes and a little nate
meg. Whisk the whites .01. the eggs
and fold in with one teaspoonMllol
baking -powder. Drop: into greased
pan and hake, thirty minutes in a.
moderate oven. Serve hot.
Date Waffles—Separate. the yolks
and whites Of two eggs, beet the
yolks till thick Mixing ia half a tea-
spoen of salt, one tablesprion of
sugar, and one of melted butter.
Pout' in one cupful of milk aud sift
in one-andea-half cepa .of flour, heat-
ing until smooth: Add to this one.
CU p of- chopped dates. Beat • the
whites of the eggs arid fold in with
one teaspoonful of bakingepowdee.
Bake in hot waffle iron. Spread
with butter and sprinkle with pulver-
ized sugar in which hes been grated
the nud of a lemon; .
• Baisin Pinwheels -Mix one inin of
seeded and ellopPed raisins and half
a cup of chopped walnuts. Sift tteo
cupfuls of deur into a bow), ball a.
teAspoon of salt, one and a half
teaspoons of sugar, and pie teaspoon
ef baking. powder: Rub int9 „these
half a teaspoon of ,butter or lard,
d,
then .stir in half a _cep of .
Bell into a, thin sheet, sprinkle with
the nuts Lind raisins, and then roll
up etempactly. Cut crosswise into
slices and place in a bake pan. put
over the top one-quarter cup of su-
gar ad • one tablespoon of better
chopped. Pour a cup of boiling
Water around and bake in a brisk
over for twenty minutes.
Poached eggs and onions make a
good supper dieh. Cut up finely
three or four good sized onions and
fry to a light brown in -a little pork
or beef dripping. Spread -this on a
deep dish, season with peeper and
salt; over all pet a layer of fried
breadcrutabs a,nd a few spoonfuls of
good gravy. Poach some eggs, lay
them on the onions, etc., set in the
Oven a minute or two and serve.
Potato cakes will be sure to find
fever at teatime if you make them
as follows :--Take some cold boiled
•potatoes, . roll tbeina-finely, moisten
with, a little milk, and work in suf-
ficient flour, in Which baking powder
has been Mixed, to Makea firm
doegh. Roll out the ;potato • paste
• tlithlY, terming and sprinkling itewith
(11•Y flour. Cat into shaphs and bake
On a hot. griddle for •tea minutes:
Butter hot and serve. •
There are many ways of dot:rising a
potato, but few people know .hotv
te set about it Properly, ' •Instead
of wasting half the tuber try. slicingoff the whole of the skin, which is
what the majority of otherwise care-
ful housewives do, just try the
farmer's own particular inethod;
known to himself. ae "bolting." Rein
theknife lengthatire retied the. pota-
t9, taking off a thin, narrow strip;
curb -the natural inclinatiou 10 sok
the 'tabors in water, .its soaking does
but spoil the "eating," and • steam.
By serving the potatoes in their
"jackets" the, heat will be retained
up to the last and the delicate flavor
hest preserved.
• govv. ONE WOMAN DOES IT.
keep an accoent book with '.three
columns. One is the eXtrense column,
one is for what we receive, and the
third is for unpaid • accounts or
notes, and :when duet I set (Wive
everything. we buy and sell: 1 keep
each month on a. sepasate like, the
date Of ' eacb day and the transac-
tions. the beginning of each year
alTanga 'Separate pages - for stock,
one for erettle, one for bogs, one for
scs and orre for vale. .The, num-
Pct- and age of stock are. Set down
at the beginning of the near, oleo
number and date of irierdase, and if
any stock the I make note of 11.
When -we bay or sell I put down the
price, also when We, thresh and bow
many bushels we have, I keep a 60 -
parole.. reseed Sr poultry and eggs
and butter, 'Ail this takes Mit a
few minutera each dont „end at the end
o tte,.year I can tell hew many dot-
lars' worth we have .sold in cal bY
leoking otos the actio.uet book rind
what, each ken:wain industry ha8.
brought ire' I aleo keep a diary
showing .wilitt work tees done daily
11)111 exchange, of work, -oleo if oily
one enine or went to towil or chit --
whore: This Makes it convenient foe
friture reference end lees SCitled
good many q Mee Oe i),ter t
have kept a book of this: hind for
teventeee years,
Dims SIN G WELL.
It is every weinan'e duty to dress
just. L‘,8 well as she eixs iiy dressing
Well ores does not mean elaborately
or exPeusively or conspienouely, The
little word "well" conveys fan more
than Many syllabled adJecitivee, ' It
08 anProPriately, wil It good
taste and good edect. No woman
can be graceful, no woman en do
justice) to her conversatiotral Powers
and other aceomplishments when
painfully aware that the hue of ber
dress is fatal to Iler c0111P1exi0m (Ina
that its cut carieaturee her ,figure.
The consciousness of looking' Ler
best undoubtedly has much to do
ivith her power to charm.
HINTS FOR HOME LIFE.
Sett is useful i'or taking ink stains
ougefii(:eltol tic:lettings should be washed
with soap and water,
The juice of a lemon in 0 op of
black coffee is excellent for in Ants
helatdeitel°
ilnber that, though utilk
inerid, it increases the thirst ditect-
-Sig,estion cornrow:0e.
Copeerae mixed with 'Whitewash,
used for store -rooms, etc., Will keep
itsect life away.
•
To lime eggs, Werth them over
with thin num and pack in dry salt
or charcoal.
Oil paintings 00 11 be el (2;1 nsed by •
rubbing with a piece of raw potato
and, when dry, varniehed..
Water that has simmered long will
never make as good tea -as that
whish has boiled ono and `then bech-i
poured ou the tea.
Flanuelette steeped in alum and
water bootees practically non-in-
(1111.)ille'
itid Citrus value of dr; ed beef '
is said to exceed that of fresh.
The beet way to clean brass chains
is to place the articles in a jam jar,
cover them • with paraffin, let them
stand for five minutes, take them
out, and rub with scouring soap.
To cleen and polish furniture, soak
a, clean piece of flannel with paraffin
oil and rub it wet loll the furniture;
dry off with a cluster, and polish
briskly for ten minutes with a 0000
of chamois leather.
Grate some best chocolate finely,
and make. into a stiff paste with
whipped cream. Add a few drops .of
vanilla. Spread on thin bread an,c1
butter and cut into fancy shapes.
Cut as many slices of meat from
the joint as you require. Arrange
them on a dieh arid put e small
piece of butter on each sliee with a
little salt and pepper. Pour over
two tabfespoonfuls of 'Worcester or
other sauceacover with another dish,
and place in the oven for half an
hems
TRY A SAFETY
When you have occasion to pass a
tape lineortwine through a hem in
a lace :curtain or any such opine
flimsy material, stry Teeing a safety
in after threading the. Cord through
the ring and -clasping the pie at the
opposite end. You will find it „far
more. satisfactory than tieing the
tape needle ar hairpin, the ends of
which .are constantly catching and
holding in the Open work.
CHINESE ARE DRILLING.
Have Special Aptitude for Mili-
• tary Exercises.
One of the spesial correspondents
of The Morning Post. London, writ-
ing from Pekin some timeago re-
garding 'conditions in, China, said in
part -
At • various Points withia the
boundaries of the Chinas() Empire
the reigning Manchu Dynasty .estab-
lished Camps of soldiers to make its
governing presence felt among the
natives. These encampments subse-
quently became walled cities. Thus
the Manchu soldier and his eornely
spouse, large of foot ancl staanie of
coiffure, may be see in the vicinity
of these Tartar tides, even in south-
ern Canton. The supreme chief of
such establisinnents ie the Tartar
Geheral, -whose rank is higher than
that of the highest local: Mandarin.
"hiring Illy •late sojourn at clhirige
cheer'', in accordance with it ' coure
teens Melted:on-from! the' 11 101 -Man-
darin in charge cif Manchu interests
at that tstation, I repaired '010 line
evening at 5 o'clock to witeess, , a
Parade of, his ,Sereignedrilled troops,
arranged for my. special benefit. For-
eign -chilled soldiers are becoming
fashionable all over China. At the
place to which I wept there was one
camp of Over a thousand men, who,
I was told, had been instructed after
the fashion of 111 000Y tiluenshikai's
northein army. -
THE pARAut catou:NP
was a diminutive Curragh, with a
touch of the Penchestonn hills'
thtown in to complete the back dis-
tance, The troops, who were under
the command of a smart young ofile
eer invented on a white, charger,
broke into coluinn and marehed past,
German feel -doe, stePping out in: an-
Pearance as one man. Then a series
of manoeuveae; followed by physical
drill, \vele executed in as good style
as any I have seen carried out,
good foreign troops. It woe really
a wonderful performance asthe re -
stilt of less; than two nears" traieing.
The .Chinese. are keen students end
have a special aptitude for learning
military eeereises, The men 1 aw
at Chingiehaufe had been instructed
by native officers educated at the
Tientsin Military Academy. Their
preseet standard of excellence makes
one try to imagine what China may
be in a fewyears more when the
result of the foiteign (trill is beginn-
ing to malce itself felt all over the
einpire, for in every province this
fieretem of drill 15 being inaugurated.
Chineee troops stiffer t1111011g other
things fvoni want of limper and ade-
quate meeketty trainieg, the 'Luther -
Mee being meet nittga dly le doling
out, anuminition foe ball peace:lee.
Were they giveri a, chance to shoot
they NvOahl Make eXC011011t
arum, The possibility of China creat -
leg such a formidable army that
outside ti1ltiollS would 11 ase topen ffe
end think twice before wane:ring
their pietent aggressit0,inethods of
procedure is tteeet„ 111111 the marvel
is that the Mandarins do not !itl'Cn-
llOillJly
endeator te being itbeeri, eueh
a eearrit,
HIE SUND-Ai SOHOOJi
IhTTERNATXONAL LESSON,'
• 111.6-11,CIi 27.
Text of the Lesson Quarterly Re. .
view. Golden Text,
Matt. iv., 23.
LC$F1()11 1.--111.0 boyhood of., Jest's
(Lake ii,, '40-52). Golden Text, Luke
it., 52, "And Jesus inereaeod in wis,
dopi and stature ami bit fa„ver with
God and man." The heart cof this
loosen is, to My mind, His first and
91113" recorded utterance until Ile en.
tered lump. Ilis peblic ministry—'l
Ultlet be about my Father's buei
ness." '
Lesson II.—The preaching of' 'John
the Baptist (Matt, iii:, 1-12). Gold-
en Text, Matt. iii„ 2, "Repent ye, for
the kingdoni of heaven is at hand."
It had been foretold that the Messiah
would have a herald, even Elijah .the
Prophet, who would prepare' His way
before Win. Gabriel told Zacharias
that his son whom God would 'give , •
him Should be called John and that
he would herald the. Messiah in the.
.spirit and power of Elijah (Luke le
17),
:Lesson baptiein and temp-
tation of Jesus (Matt. iii., 13; • iv.,
11). Golden' Text, , Matt. iii„ 17,
• "And, lo, a voice from heaven, flaying
This Lie my beloved Sony in whom 1
QM well pleased." Consider the age -
red 'words asthcse of the Golden
Text in Matt.. xvii., 5, With the ad-
dition "Hear ye Him" and .see how
inipoesible•it is to please God enless
we gine.heed to His Son! With Hie
first words in this lesson put His
seconch recorded words of ‘,01'se 15 of
this lesson and concerning all tenip-
tation.trike 'comfort from I. Cor. x.,
13; and overcome as Jesus did.
Lesson IV.—Jesus rejected at Nan
areth (Luke iv., 16-30).. Golden
Text,' John i., 11, "He came unto
His.own, and Ms OWn received run
Tot.- Declaring Himself tie be thr
one 91 whom the Spirit. by Isiah
spake, they would hot accept Him,
but were so enraged at Him that
they would fain have killed Hien
a word Ile could have killeci
them all, but the day of etengeance
was .not ycit: Be name to eave, hot .
to destroy. •
Leeson V.—Jesus calla four die-
ciples (Luke te, I-11). Golden Text,
John viii., 31, "If tre continue in my
word, then are ye my 'disciples." Not
His first, but. His second or third,
call to these men, as we saw when
studying thelesson„ and °eels time
a c,all to followhmore fnlly. Our bod- •
ies are 'vessels, and if fully yielded. to
Him He will not fail -to fill them.
It is. ours to trest and obey.
turiLe, sclor:riVt A21 S- laid
1:101 (.1110Cinclirresreixioatii:
Luke iy„. 40, "Ile
ever37 one of them ,and healed them."
Anointed with the Holy .Glaost and
with power going' about. d.oing good,
con -Yeas all Iris daily life (Acts..
38); teaching, healing, comforting, al-
ways full of compassion;••neeer. con-
sidering :Himself; in the synagogues
in private houses or by the wayside
revealing God to sinful men; , the,
works of God main:feat in Him that
He might WM, 11,1011 to God.
:Lesson V71.—Jesus forgives eine
(Mark ii, 1-12). • Golden Text, Mark
ii, 10, "The Son of Man hath power
on earth to forgive Sins,"' The man
carried by his friends and let derten
through the roof into the presence of
Christ as Ho • preached to a crowded
house certainly needed healing for •
his body, but our Lord saw that ho
needed more the forgiveness M. hie
sins, and this He attended. to .firet.
Lesson VIII.--jeses and the Bob -
bath. (Matt. scii, GolSen Text
Matt. xii, 1.2, "It ie lawier) to nio,
well on the Sabbath .day." Thess.
self righteous., . rellgioue people Were
making a god of the Sabbath . day
instead .of worshipping the living cold
true.Go'd on that day, and our Lord
by Hie healing" on that day would
teach them .that ,tee. know the Lord
of the -Sabbath, :who was in- their
reidst,, was. better •than all their self
i,ghteous doings Nes. ix, 23; 24).
;Leeson IX.—Hearers and doers of
the word Watt. vii, 21e23). hIcilden
Text, Jas. 1, 22, "I3e ye doers of the
wordand not hearers only." A lot 11
of so called religion is mere talk and let
an offense to God and man. It is
true .that there is no -ealvation' 'by
works revealed in Scripture, but only
salvation by the precious blood of
Christ as God's free gift to the pen-
itent sinner.
Lessen' X. --Jesus calms the storm
(Mark iv, 35-41). Golden Text, Ps..
0111, 20, ."1 -le maketh the storm a
calm, ' so' that the waves thereof aro
'still," Fear and should have
no place in the heart of a child of
God, for • the perfect love of God
casts out all fear (I. ;Tone iv, .18).
But, like the dieeiples in the boat,
WO ' are 'apt to see with tbh,na,tural
eyes only and merit His "How' is it
that ye 'have tio „faith ?"'
Lesson ,„ XL—Death of .701)/1 the
Baptist (Matt. X11,,, 1-12)- Golden. .
Text, Rev, ii, 10, "Be thou' faithful ,
unto • death, and I will give thee a
crown of life.," 'the ungodly pros, -
per in this ,world, . tor the %vivito
World Roth in the. Wieked orie,
lxxiii, 32; I; John v, 1,0): The right-
eous aro hailed to Walk ivith
who has, chosen them and to stiffer •
with eilden and ' not to think it
strange tel'ohn xv, 18-20; I Pet, iv. '
12, 1-3; Phil. 1, 20). Seeing Jesus
only, in His hand for 'Nis pleaeure,
•end saying, "Ewe so, Father," this
• is tlre believer's way.
Lessee XIT,--jeses feeds the ilte
thousend (Matt. 'de, 13-23). Gold-
en Text, john 1, 35 "jester eaid
unto them, I ton the Bread of Life."
Fell of compassion, seeing Die multi-
tadee as 01001) baying me.eleephetcl..
'feeding thein es to their bodies and
speaking to 1110111 of the leingdons oI
God,• this was His Way and . shotild
ho ours, for Ile is still. reiyieg.
"Give ye them to eat." We may etf
soie to 110170 no reeourcee, power
to do areithing, but He who, ueed
end taidtiplied • the loeVee -fetsleefeN
fibers still livea,