Exeter Advocate, 1904-4-7, Page 7AD' 0
ENLISTIENT
When Once You Have Given It You Are
No Longer Your Own Master
(Entered actoralpg to act of tho nide
Inmate, of (anada, the yew. ore
Thousand eine Hundred and POW,
by Win. /luny, of Toronto at the
Department of agriculture, 'Ottawa.)
A desWeitch from Los Angeles, Cal.,
says: Rev. Frank 1)e Witt Talmage
preached from: the following text: II.
Timothy U., 3, el:endure hardness as
a good soldier of Jesus Christ."
What is war? War is a river of
blood flowing into a river of blood.
War means sicknese and death, wid-
owhood and orphanhood, mangled
bodies, devastated harvest fields and
peuperisee. War is a mortal grapple
when nation says to nation, "My
quarrel with you eannot be settled
but ley fightieg, and now we will see
which of us two has the power to
crush the other," and then they pet
their armies in the field commission-
ed to kill one another. War ds a
grave trench dug with bayonets. It
is the heavens deluging countless
tears. It is man with clinched fist
and flaming eye—inan with an artil-
• lery wagon for a carriage and with
the surgeon's operating table for a
couch. War! It is the most brutal
the most fiendish, the most terrific,
the most blasting curse of the ages.
• We have the right to hate It' with an
intense natred and to pray that the
• Prince of Peace may give us more
aritipathy to it and a more intense
• horror of the awful suffering and
death that it entails.
WHEN GOOD MEN MAY FIGHT.
It is proper and right at certain
times and seasons for good men to
go to war, if they go evith the right
motive. The qualities which go to
make up a good and a brave soldier
are those which should characterize a
good Christian, The courage and
self sacrifice and devotion to a righ-
teous cause which have been display-
ed in the field are needed- in the
Christian's daily life. Tlierefore,iPaul
aptly and powerfully uses the figure
of my text for a gospel comparison.
He is *practically saying to young
Timothy: "Look ,upon your Christ as
a great leader and general. Enlist
in his service. Implicitly ebey his
orders,. Charge in Christ's name if
the order is ginen you to charge. „Do
sentinel duty and trudge weary
marches if that is your. order. Be
ready to fight on battlefield, or
starve in trench, or suffer in hospital,
as duty may command." All young
people are delighted with a military
parade. Let me in this sermon re-
count for you how a gospel soldier
should obey Christ's bugle call.
What does it mean to, be a gospel
soldier? First and foremost, to take
.the oath of enlistment. The differ-
ence between an arney and a mob, the
difference between a collection of men
governed by one brain, ruled by one
voice, directed by one order, and a
lot of men running hither and thither
like a, flock of sheep, or frightened,
stampeding cattle; doing as they will,
• is the difference between the oath of
enlistment and no oath. Before a
• man takes tbe oath of enlistment he
Is a • free man. After he takes the
oath of enlistment he is no longer an
independent individuality. Ine is a
soldier, subject to the soldier's or-
ders, and is liable to be shot if he
'deserts or disobeys his superior. offi-
cers. The oath of enlistment practi-
cally says: "I will, if necessary, let
others do my thinking. I win go
where I am told to go, aud do what
I„am. told to do." The oath of en-
listment is more binding than bands
of steel.
A GOSPEL WARRIOR'S DUTY.
The soldier must be able to answer
roll call in a certain company, of a
Certain regiment, of a certain bre-
g,ade, of a certain division, of a cer-
tain corps. So the gospel soldier
must have a distinct place in which
he has his name upon the muster roll
of the church militant. There should
be no "free lances" in the gospel
army, no guerrilla bands. Guerrilla
• ranks are filled -up for the most part
• with iconoclasts and anarchists and
cutthroats. But the gospel soldier
must be a regularly enlisted man, de-
tailed for work to some one Bible -
class, to sortie one Sunday school, to
Borne one prayer meeting, to some
ono church. A gospel soldier is a
Christian who 'obeys orders. Hove can
you obey Christ's orders unless you
have taken your individual place in
tlie gospel ranks of Christ's great
army, called the church?
The true gospel soldier always con-
siders the posts of danger the posts
of honor. He wants to hearthe
• singing of 'the shells, evea though
that martial song may nave to be
accompanied by his own death rattle.
Ile wants to be as meet of the sol-
diers were after they had enlisted for
the Spanish-American war. Oh, how
anxious the offieers and privates alike
lOnged for the front! They wanted
• to have a glorious part in the liber-
ation of downtrodden Canine S'ome
Men had to die for that liberation.
Then the brave' fellows of the differ-
ent regiments, by telegram upon tele-
gram, sent to the governors and to
the officials at Washington, practical-
ly said, "We are ready to go to the
front—aye, to Sacrifice our lives, if
need be, in our country's service."
So eager were those soldiers for
dangerous service that when some
of their colonels received the tele-
gytuns that, switched them from the
transports at Tampa to Saeicsonnille,
Plan there Were sorrow and disap-
pointmerit in many hearts.
POSTS OE 'I/E.FFICULITY,
Poste of danger and diffierilty are
always poets ofhoiior in the United
INStates arinn. And yet to hear scene
Chrietiati nolcliere talk you would
suppose that the posts. in Christie
army where inure are difficulties. are
the posts to be avoided ter deserted.
"le
Even some of the ordained ministers
of Jess Christ feel that way. "Oh,"
etaye a visiting clergyman, "1 in so
discouraged. Why, there has been,
nothing but friction, and trouble in
my church ever since I came to it,
The people have fought and misrep-
resented every minister who ever oc-
cupied this pulpit, and they 'have
been, finding fault with and misrepre-
senting. me. I am so discouraged, I
wish God would end me another
place." Well, my brother, I confess
you are having a hard time of it. I
confess that some churches have a
bad record. know of one church
that for forty years has madeits
chief fame in breaking down its dif-
ferent ministers. One Pastor after
another has been destroyed in regu-
lar order as he came to its parson-
age, • One minister was so tantalized
and attacked that under the persecu-
tion of its members he committed
suicide. But, tell me, you who have
been having a hard time in that
church, do you not think you are
getting along there as well as any
one else could? "Oh, yes!" you an-
swer. "T know I am. In spite of,
three balking elders and two obstin-
ate, * g trustees, we are
•taking in new members all the time.
Never in. the church's history has it
been doing so much good." Then,
ray brother, instead of complaining
about your lot you should be con-
gratulated. Go ahead and do your
work. God has honored you above
all others. He has put you in a dir-
A FACT TO REALIZE
But there is 'another great faCt
which the good soldier of Jesus
Christ should realize. 'The ditties of
'the camp rightly • performed are
sometimes just as essential for,Godis
work as duties rightly performed at
the front. The work which is done
by the commissary and the surgeon
• has sometimes a greater part to
!play in winning inertial victories
!than the spectacular color sergeant
has in leading the charge before the
enerny's breastworks. What defeat-
ed Napoleon Bonaparte in his fam-
ous Russiau invasion ? The bayonets
of the haughty czar? No. The
conqueror of Gernia,ny and Austria
and Italy could have brushed those
guns aside as he had done in former
campaigns. It was the haversack
empty of bread which made the
"Little Corsican" run like a fright-
ened hare toward home. It was
Moscow in flames and his men with
nothing to eat that made the French
commander tremble -before the stony
glance of death.- .
UNRECOGNIZED HEROES.
• Christian soldiers, who are the stay
at homes? I have recounted these
deeds of the unrecognized heroes of
war for a purpose. I want to en. -
courage you in your ordinary duties
of life. It is not possible for every
Christian to be a Chinese Gorden or
a. Stonewall Jackson. It is not
possible for all Christian soldiers
to stand in tlae conspicuous places
and win the plaudits of the Chris-
tian world. But remember that the
humble private in Christ's arniy—she
who as a mother living in the home,
as a sister working bebind the coun-
ter, as a daughter teaching school
to support an aged parent or to
give an education to it. young broth-
er—is in God's sight one of the es-
sentials for Ms great army. You are
the power benind the main line, mak-
ing it possible for other Christian
soldiers to fight in the open. Paul
is saying to the soldier in the rear
as well as at the front, to the in-
conspicuous as well as the conspicu-
ous soldier alike, "Endure hardness
as a good soldier of Jesus Christ."
And why should we all endure
hardness as good soldiers of Jesus
Christ? For two reasons. First,
because it is possible for every pri-
vate as well as Christian officer to
receive the highest of all soldier's re-
wards, What is the highest ? Yea,
the very highest? We have read
how the Duke of Marlborough was
honored. Not only was he created
a duke, but on account of the Blen-
heim victory ,parliament voted hira
the magnificent manor of Woodstock
and his royal mistress gave him
$1,000,000. We have read how Ar-
thur Wellesley was raised to be
Duke of Wellington on aecount of his
victory at Waterloo. Lord :Roberts,
recently the commander of the Brit-
ish forces, and Viscount Kitchener
were raised to the peerage for their
services rendered to the British
crown. But all these offerings and
honors, these dignities and fame,
given by a grateful country to
faithful sons, will be as nothing
compared to the greatest gift which
is given to a Christian soldier. The
gift which is the smile of a,pprotai-
lion from it loving Divine Com-
mander. The "Well done !" which
goes to the Christian hero of the ,
name of Adoniram Judson. The
"Well done I" which is given to the
humble servant girl and to the hum.
ble clerk and to the litunble nurse
and to the humble missionary.
Titu sounrat's pACIUMCg•
But why, again, should we all en-
dure hardness, as good soldiers of
Jesus Christ ? Betause in So do-
ing we are following his blessed
example. He who spered apt Nel-
sen, nut suffered freely for us, has
the right to expect fortitude from
us. /Prom none of us does he ask
such service as he hialeele rendered
to us. When the army of Alexe.hder
the -Great Was sco.ling a noted Moan-
taiii pass the streegfle of the sold-
iers became exhausted. Many threw
themselves upon the 'ground to die,
The great continander saav the con-
dition, Ile did net curse or up-
braid. Ite quietly disitounted from
P15 war charger'. He threw aside
his heavy clook. Ile lifted a pri-
vate soldierie pickax, thee vigorous-
ly went to Work aliggieg away at the
Ice. Hie soldiers saw hint, Then
knew he Was as tired as they, Tbee
they jumped to their feet, By the
POWer of a brave example they arose
and went again to work, and itgairt
won a new vietory. Christian sold-
iers, wherever we go, we eau find
our Divine Leader ahead. Otw baeles
may acne, but he is carrying our
burden of sin. Our feet may grow
tired, but front his feet and bands
and head end heart are flowing
streams of blood, in. olden times a
gOldier was said to have gathered an
armful of pointing spears and prose -
ed them into his own breast, that
eller his prostrate body his coin-
rades Might find a breach in the
enemy's ranks and charge to victory.
So over Christie body we may win
eternal life. And here and now up-
on the foundation stones of a
Christ's mausoleum may we build
• the great "white temple of a Chris-
tian soldier's sacrifice." '
Errs or INFORMATION.
Interesting Items About Almost
Everything. ,
The largest whales give as much as
twenty tons of oil.
The weight of the average -sized
man is 140 lb, of the woman, 125
pound.
The -longest slam of life is that of
the elephant, which will survive two
centuries.
Canada's 3,000 cheese . factories
make on an average thirty tons each
Of cheese a year.
Of all newspapers in the world
sixty-eight in every 100 are printed
In the English language.
A man turns 112,000 spadefuls Of
earth in digging an acre, and moves
in all a weight of 850 tons.
At the birth of a child in Cyprus a
Irene/ of wine is• buried, to be served
up afterwards at its marriage.
A Swiss watchmaker has invented
an electric watch which will go for
•fifteen years without being rewound.
' The shark holds the record for long
distance swimming'. • A sbarn has
been known to cover 800 miles in
three days.
In Russian schools pupils are al-
lowed to choose between learning
French and German, and 70 per
cent. .choose German.
I Bronchitis is the most fatal disease
in England, next consumption, and
tben bein t disease, pneumonia, and
scarlatina. •
,. It is estimated that the Kafras in
the diamond . mines at _Kimberley,
South, 'AL ica, steal $1,250,000
worth of diamonds a year.
RaM falls more frequently- between
three •oicloalt and eight o'cloek in the
rimming than at any other times
daring the twenty-four houf s,
Although about 4.5 per cent. of
married couplecelebrate 'their silver
wedding, only one in 1,000 live to
celebrate their g-oloen anniversary.
The Lord Chancelor of England,
• on retirleg from office, has a pension
of $25,0(10 a year for life, whether
his term of office has been long • or
short.
A German 'innkeeper on the Swiss
border has undertaken, as a result
of a, wager, to roll a barrel full of
wine across Switzerland and Italy
torromfzire. 0
f the sea -otter is the..most
valuable in the world. Though only
4 feet. long and' at most 2 It. wide,
$750 is sometimes given for a choice
skin. • .
Sturgeons are the weakest of.- all
fish in proportion to tbeir Size. A
sturgeon weighing over a 'ton is
perfectly helpless if attacked by a
small swordfish.
So vast has been the improvement,
in engine boilers and fire -boxes that
the power derived from 1 lb. of coal
to -,day is nearly three times as great
as it was Efty years ago.
In England and , Wales one person
in every 301 is an officially notified
lunatic. In Scotland one in every
247 and in Ireland one in every
206 is officially notified as insane.
The most expensive fur is that of
the black fox of Kamchatka, the
skin of which, when dressed, becomes
a very attractive blue. A single
skin is worth as much as $1,000.
• The heart .of a vegetarian beats on
an average fifty-eight to the minute;
that of the meat -eater seventy -Dye.
This represents a difference of 24,-
000 beats ,in twenty-four' hours.
The biggest monkey ever exhibited
is a gorilla 6' ft. 10 in. high, with
an arm -spread of 9 ft. 3 in., from
the Cameroons, West, .Africa,,
stands with. his skeleton beside him
In the nuiseum of Hamburg, ,
New regulations 'are about to be
ititroduced in Russian nelsons in.re-
gard to the application of the bas-
tinado. :Henceforth this terrible
punishment will only be applied to
persons over thirty. -rive years of age.
Li 'Abyssinia, it is, the law that the
raurclerer be turned over to the re-
latives of the dead person, and they,
if they please, may put him to death
in the same manner in which the
murdered person was Ifillecl..
The diversity of tongees to he
found in one country is often a mat-
ter of surprise. Last year the 131ble
Society's agents sold the Scriptures
in fifty-three languages in the Res-
iian Empire, in twenty-eight lan-
guages in Burma, In thirty in South
Malaysia, mid fifty-three hi the Egy-
ptian agency.
•
LHEY ram TO BE TJCI,Y,
As if nature ha.d riot been unkind
enough, the Tibetan woman.' height -
CDS her uglinese, by smearing her face
with it horrible bled( ointment to
keep her elfin from tracking itt the
dry wind. Her dress is not different
from her husband's, Effie croweing
glory is her haie. Plastered dowii
With butter from the part to the
earn' it goes off behind into e SIVA-
1*It8t of small braids to which . is
fastened a great lanshoned headdress
fallieg to tne hem of ilgr gaeinente.
It is of spreading stripe 'of ree end
blue 'cloth joined 'horizontally by
Iran belide and ornameeted , With
!ountlese 'weal .MI(1 mainehite beftne,
ilvee -collie, end tient bells, The orie
reetie thing about a Tibetan lady is
the wend of hoe getige,-,,a sone mein-
dicein 'fiekle, belying the grotteceute
less of 'het face'
HOME.
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000D RE awns.
Simple Desserts.—Stew one pound
of Prunes and when cool enough
stone and put three or four in each
ono of your jelly moulds. In one
p.int of boiling water dissolve map
package of gelatine, sweetening
slightly, and then fill up the moulds
and let cool. Serve with whipped
ereaCernra Carse,—Beat to a cream one
tablespoonful of sugar, butter the
size of an egg, and two eggs; then
add not gene it quart of milk; use
enough flour, into which you have
mixed two teaspoonfuls yeest pow-
der, to make it as thick as egionge
eake, then add a large handful of
Indian meal.
Baked Omelet.—Beat three gills of
milk with a dessertspoonful of but-
ter in it; beat thoroughly four or
five eggs; then wet a, tablespoonful
of flour and a teaspoonful of salt in
a. little cold milk. Mix the eggs with
the flour and old milk, then add the
hot milk, Stirring fast. Bake in a
quicR oven fifteen or twenty minutes.
Plain Dark Calce.—In one nnd-a-
half cups of sugar and two spoonfuls
of molasses, mix well one cap of but-
ter, then add the yolks of two eggs
well beaten, one teaspoonful of soda
dissolved ia one-half a cup of sour
milk. Fold in the whites of the eggs
beaten to a stiff froth then add
two and one-half cups of noun a lit -
tie of all kinds of spice, currants and
raisins.
To Stiff and Bake Fish.—Soak
bread in cold water until soft; drain
it, mash it fine, and mix the bread
with a spponful of drawn butter, a
little salt and pepper (two raw eggs
make the dressing cut smoother), and
some spices if liked. Fill and sew
up the fish; nut a teacup of water in
a bake pan, and a little butter; place
in the fish and bake for about forty
or fifty minutes. •Bass, shad, and
fresh cod are good fish for baking.
• Birthday Cake.—Take a half a
cup of sugar, a half it cup' of mo-
lasses and a heaping tablespoonful of
butter and mix wen, then stir in the
well -beaten yolks of two eggs and
one-quarter cup of milk. Then add
to this the whites of two eggs, beat-
en until stiff, one-half a cup of raisins
and one teaspoonful of ground cloves.
Lastly, add one and a -half cups of
sifted flour with two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder well mixed through it.
Bake in a moderately hot oven.
Chocolate Custard.—Heat one quart
of milk almost to boiling—same as
for soft custard. Beat thoroughly
two eggs, then add two and a half
heaPing tablespoonfuls of corn starch
d work it in till free from luinps;
then add two tablespoonfuls of grat-
ed chocolate, then six tablespoonfuls
of sugar, and wet the whole with cold
milk—take E3u1licient milk besides the
quart to have it thin enough to pour
—then pour the whole into the hot
milk and stir until about as thick as
soft custard. Let it cool it little and
pour into glasses.
Apple Fritters.—Quarter and slice
your apples; then make a batter of
two eggs, one cup of milk, a little
salt and flour, or the same as for
fried oysters; put in your apples and
fry in hot fat the same as oysters.
Take two tablespoonfuls of sugar,
half a cup of melted butter, one cup
of sweet milk, two teaspoonfuls of
cream tartar,. and one teaspoonful of
soda, each dissolved in a little cold
water, and two eggs. Thicken this
with three cups of -flour, into wnich
you nave put a little salt; then bake
In small cups for twenty minutes,
-USEFUL HINTS.
Tough clucks or fowls ought to be
steamed for an hour, then roasted.
Making starch with soapy water is
the best way to Produce a gloss, and
prevent the iron from, sticking.
Never hang a mirror where the
sun's rays will fall upon it. The san
acts upon the mercury., and clouds
the glass.
It is said that' syrup or cream will
not drop from a pitcher on to the
tablecloth if the nose of the pitcher
is rubbed with butter.
Try saving every scrap, of tissue
paper that coniesinto the house for
wiping looking -glasses. It gives a
peculiar lustre to the glass.
It doesn't follow that because we
cannot smell the drains they are not
poisonous. Drains that cause fever
are often perfectly odorless.
:When boiling fish it should be put
into water when cold, and set to do
very gently or the outside will break
before the inner part is done.
In cases of infectious innees it is
Well to know that an onion cut into
four quarters and placed in a saucer
in the sick room takes all the infec-
tion.
An experienced housekeeper says
that a fork is superior to a knife for
ett i tin g a steamed pudding Or hot
cake. It eeparates without makin
heavy. g
A cooking teacher ,adviees against
washieg or soaking sliced potatoes
before frying them. Soaking takes
the starch out, but makes the pota-
toes tough.
Perhaps it is not generally known
as it should be that salt put in the
mouth will inetantly relieve convul-
sive Movemehte in fits either of
children or menials.
Mothers who are anximie that
their ehildren, boys as well as girls,
shall nave nne hair and keep all their
lives, are warned against too much
bruthing, illicit is the hair must be
brim/led freely, bet voicing the ten-
der Scalp with a stiff brush, or even
a soft one, is very i»jurioue.
When iteW boots ate first put on,
it tight fitting have a little vase -
line, emetteed no and rubbed briskly
for it few minutee with a etift Sen-
na, arid it will at onee expand the
loath& to easy, comfortable fitting,
and it is not so likely to crack it as
the old way of wringing a eloth out
le hot water would be,
,Te stop windows rattling on it
windy night, Se as to ensure Steen,
ia often a puzzle, and few people rea-
lize that they have the reinedY await-
ieg them on the toilet table, Take
4 dressing °Men), wrap it in two er
three thickness of soft paper, and
squeeze it teeth downwards between
the two silence, or where oite iit$ in-
to the frame,
HINTS ON DRESSMAKING.
In. the first place, get geod cloth, it
always pays best in the encl. Always
shrink all cloth before cutting, then
the garment can be made to fit right
in the beginning. To shrink woolens,
wring a Piece of lining out of cold
water (use light or dark according to
the color of the cloth), lay on wrong
side of cloth and press with a hot
won. Int sere to cover every spot.
Cloth served in this way will not
shrink or spot if eaught in a rain
storm, nor cottons, wet in cold wa-
ter and wring, pin on the line
straight, and press before quite dry.
For colored goods, such as ginghams,
add salt to the water, Next get a
good pattern from a reliable pattern -
maker. Always Tollow direetions im-
plicitly. Any one having a natural
knack can make Ono pattern do for
several garments, by cutting it larg-
er all around. In making tucked or
plaited waists and skirts baste or
pin the tucks or plaits in the cloth
first, and lege a plan pattern. In this
way one can make a large number of
different, styles of garments from one
pattern. In malcing cuffs on a shirt
waist or a belt- of striped goods al-
ways cut crosswise the same way the
stripes are on the waist. So many
people make them run around and
they look badly. The cheap purch-
ased ones are made that way. Al-
ways make t.he lining of cuffs and
yokes of cloth cut the same way, for
if it is one way and the top the oth-
er it will draw. Make neckbands and
collars cut crosswise; skirt bands
make lengthwise as they wear better.
In finishing shirtwaist, tine shirts,
underwear, etc., make French seams;
they look and wear better. The way
to make them is to baste on right
side, sew on right side of basting,
trim close, tern to wrong side, crease
down seam, then sew again just out-
side of mark of bastipas. Bind arm-
holes with strip from selvage. In
making plackett, cut fly and facing of
cloth On the lengthwise. Instead of
making French seams in back of
skirts where both pieces are gored,
'bind with pieces of lining from the
selvage. Nearly all the heavy skirts
are made without lining or with drop
skirts, Bind all seams with length-
wise strips of lining. In gored seams
of wrappers and lined skirts sew a
straight strip of lining to keep from
sagging. Cut all facing on the bias,
and also ruffle if not conspicuously
striped. For medium •fulness in ruf-
fle measure skirt all around then half
again; for real full go twice around.
In cutting circular flounce don't have
a seam in the front, but fold the
cloth in the centre and cut double,
sew on skirt before you sew the back
seain of skirt, as it, is much easier
to pert under machine.
THE CHAMPION FAINTER..
Would Faint in Frontof a Wedd-
ing Party.
A fraud on it lady has just come to
light on the details of which much
time and care must have been ex -pen.
ded, and yet the profits amounted
only to 3s, says the London Mail.
A Man, who described himself as a
ship's mechanic, called on tbe lady
at the residence at Putney. He dis-
played a most intimate knowledge of
the family, and stated that two let-
ters had been found' in a berth on
German liner addressed to her two
brothers, who were in Australia. Ile
said that he had been to the London
office of these gentlemen, the ad-
dresses of whom he mentioned, and
added that he had been, told to call
on her, as a telegram had come ask-
ing for the. letters to be forwarded
at once.
He said that the third mate of the,
liner had the letters, and gave the
lady an address in'hIamburg. to write
to. He added that his expenses had
been 3s., which the lady gave him,
promising to cammunicate with him
later. Inquiries afterward proved
that there was no such third mate
and no such liner.
It is perhaps due to universal ed-
ucation that frauds of this nature
are increasing, as opposed to crimes
of violence. There is one man, for
examPle, known as the "champion
fainter." Ile never asks for money
he merely faints on your doorstep.
He is almost invariably'taken in and
given, a, good meal, and in many
cases money is pressed upon him.
One of his feats was to faint out-
side a house in which a wedding
party was assembled. He was tete-
derly looked after, was given cbani-
pagne, and wished the newly married
pair good luck in it neat speech. .
A man who lived on his wits not -
feed that lamps were being used ha a
hawse; while all the others in the
row were burning gas. He deduced
that something had gone wropg with
the , meter; and called early next
morning "from the company." Un-
der his directions the family distri-
buted themselves in the various
rooms ready to apply Matches to the
interiors at it signal, while he stood
at the meter.
Experiment after experiment ended
in failure and the family were moved
from mem to room, while the "gas-
man" made the moet of Ins oppor-
tunities, He eventually left with tt
good haul, and instructione to wait
until he sent the workmen;
, "Your- worship," said it Solicitor
th the :f3enehe "everybody knenet that
ant incapable of lending myself to
a mean etittee." "True, your wor-
ship," chinied in his legal opponent,
"iii y keened friend never lendMine
self to a mean catiee; he eheays gete.
cash &Met"
THE SUNDAY 801100L
INTERN,ATIONAL LESSON,
APETI4 10.
Text of the Lesson, Mark
27-28. Golden Text,
Matt. xvi., 18.
This lesson is recorded, in Matt,
xvi. and Luke ix. as well tie in MarleK
and contains the first perticelar pree
diction coacereing the reeeetiten the
death and the reeurreetion of thee
Christ,. Luke eeye that He wen
alone, praying, and leis dieciples with
Him, when He asked them this quos -
tion, Whom do in say that 1 aul?
He was evidently leading up to the
followieg question: Whom say ye that
I am? The people had varioue opin-
ions about Him, some thinking Him
to be John the Baptist and others
Elijah or, Jeremiah, or orie of the
other prophets, but Peter, answering
for himself said, "Tlion art the
Christ, the Son of the living Cod"
(Matt xvi., 16). To this Jesus an-
swered, "Wles,sed art. thou, Simon
Barjona, for flesh and blood hath not
revealed it unto thee, but My Fa-
ther whieh is in heaven" (Matt:eye,
• Men cannot of himself know God
or recognize Christ. God only eart
reveal Himself to a.ny one, and this
He doe § by ills Spirit, but thero is
no hindrance to our knowing God
excepton our part, for all who will,
may acquaint themselves with Him
(Job xxii., 21; .Toh vi., 87)., Li the
words following, spoken by our Lord,
"Thou art Peter., and upon this rock
will build. My church." If our
teachers had told as that our Loyd e
said, "Thou, are "Petros,' and upon
this ipetrai I will build My clairch,"
and had also told us that "petras"
signifies a piece of rock; a stone,
While "petra" signifies a solid rock,
it ledge (according to any Greek dic-
tionary), how much idle talk and
controversy we might have been sav-
ed from concerning the church being
built upon such a piece of stone, a
rolling atone, as Peter.
Did your heart ever say, 'Thank
Con', neither" thewisdonl nor the
power of hell Shall ever maven,
against the church of Christ?' As
Peter was privileged to open triO
door to the Sews at Pentecost and
to the gentiles in the house of Cor-
nelius (Acts if.. x.: xi.). we can see
his use of the keys, but we must bear
In mind that while the kingdom in-
cludes the church the church is not
Che kingdom. Whoever heartily be-
lieves that Jesus is the Christ rand
understands it cannot but rejoice to
be used to the utmost t� help com-
1Pcteetgedoitnh.e church and hasten the
The Jewish leaders having rejected
Him as their Christ or Messiah and
having determin-ed to kin Him, thn
disciples are forbidden to declare to
any ono that Me is the Christ. He
then declares. plainly that not only
have the elders, chief priests and
scribes rejected Him, but He is to
suffer many things at their hands ,
and be killed by them at Jerusalem
(Matt. xvi., 21), but the third day
Be will rise again. When he, the
third time, .told them that He was
to die and rise again He told -
thori more fully of His sufferings
and also the manner of His death;
that He would be mocked and
scourged and crucified (Matt.. xvii.
28; xx 19). They do not receive
His sayings, and impulsive Peter says.
that it must not be. 'According to
Matt, xvi, 22, Peter said, "Be it far
from Tieee, Lord (margin, pity Tity-
self); this shall not be unto thee." -
From this rejection nf the cross on
to Peter's denial heseems to be in-
creasingly out of fellowship, but the
love of Christ was unchanged to-
ward bim (John xiii, 1). The Lord
Jesus told him that now he was
representing Satan and not God.
How strange that from the same
mouth may come blessing and curs-
ing, sweet water and bitter • (Jas.
iii, 8-12), but Peter, although sav-
ed, was not yet a Spirit Plied man.
There was much of Peter, When we
are Spirit filled self is reckoned dead
and the Lord Jesus alone has the
right of any in as, and Gal. ii, 20,
is our experience. .
He now called the people to Him
and gave them a message as well as
the disciples. I will quote it from
Luke ix, 23, for the sake of one
word not given by the others, "11
any man will come after Me let hiin
deny himself and take op his' cross -
daily and follow Me." This.. cer-
tainly means following fully, like
Caleb and Joshua, and not following
afar oft like Simon Peter; not merely
denying something to oneself. , but
actually &eying one's own self and
treating it tts dead and buried. The
cross never suggests flowers or jei
or jewelry, but always prolonged
suffering., daily fining (II Cor. iv,
en; Rom. viii, 36). The saying con,
corning losing or savieg one's life
was often usecl by our ,Lord. See
two other occosions in Matt. x, 30;
Sohn xii, 25. There is the 'Present
and there is the future of glory- or
of torment. To insist on pitying
and pampering and indulgiug and
living unto self itt this present Iife
may mean eternal poverty and tor-
ment and surely will mean that if
the precious blood of Christ; is de,
spised and not trUsted
To w.erm us from self and present,
things and lead. us to seek treasine
in heaven and, have our affectioue
there He sets before us His glory
and His kingdom, assuring us of l'fir
tiesire to have es share it and that
:He has given. it to us (John :will
22, 24; 1 John. iii, 2, 8; Phil. 111, 20, •
21). We must d stingei sit bet wool
gur meeting Him in the air As He
leaves His Father's throne to re,
turn t� earth to restore ell thiega
of which the prophets hese sPekeA ,
ancl our enteen with Him. when :eh
than be matefeet in Ede glory to sil
on the three° of His ,glory to judge
the nations (T. These, he 1
Acts iii, 20: 21; Cal, tie 4; iiTatn
xxv, 81; Ilev. iii, 21), It will xt'ell
repay tO look up °Very reforenc(
wan:1'1'1111y, • .1.:faels one Top himsa
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