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Exeter Advocate, 1904-7-7, Page 3111ENT411 IIIONSTROSITIES In Heaven "I'llere Will Be a Perfect Mind in Harmony With a Perfect Body Entered according to Act at the xers liement of Venetit . in the year nee Thousand Nine Hundred and Few, by Wni. Bally, of Toronto, at tee Department ot A.gieculture, ottem s A (Despatch from Los Angeles says: Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preach- ed from tho following text: Revela- torts xxii., 15, "Without are dogs. "I never could sympatnize with the I olur which, the Bible casts upon my canine friends," once said an old man to me. "St. Iona in that pas- sage of ncripture, 'Withoet aro •slogs,' seems to despise the dog as aespise tete buzzard or the hyena. He seems to Picture, the infernal regions as the only euitable piece for their kennels. Ile insinuates their com- panionship for man to be a nutimna- tion •and a degradatioe. Now, in •contrast to that assertion, I have far more respect for an honest dog a' than I have for a dishonest, deceit- ful man, 1 count among my dear- est friends some ot the representa- tives of the canine race. Indeed I go so Par in my respect for dogs that if in that heavenly land I found one of the beautiful dogs nave owned on earth sleeping at my feet in that.abode of bliss or looking • up into my face with thn expression • of love and fidelity I have seen so often I should not feel it any blight, but rather an enhancement of my lappi nesse • We love to look at the masterpieces .of Sir Edwin Landseer, the painter of dogs. •-There seems to be some- thing even more than human in his "Highland Shepherd's Chief Mourn- •er," something more than mere brute ferocity in bis ”Stag at Baye• ' something more than a sportsman's hallno in the "Return frau Deer- :st alethg." But the flashing eyed, powerful chested, clean limbed, glos- sy coated models of Landseer are entirely different physical specimens from: the outcast dogs of the east. Have you ever stopped and looked .with pity upon a- poor enangy •cur crawling along the street? Have you ;seen disease like porcupine quills :sticking out all over him? Have you seen • the people shy off as he came along and heard the passersby -sey: 'Poor 'dog! Why do not the dog catcbers come along and put him •out of his misery'?" Have you ever -seen dogs with their ears torn off .and their tails amputated by some •carriage wheel el, hopping upon throe legs because the fourth has aeie been cruelly broken by a stone? Well, there are lots of such dogs in the -eaet. There are hundreds and thou:. sands of those poor, /miserable, phy- sical mutilations that cower in the dark corners of the Palestine cities esr san themselves upon the hard stones like the blind •or the. crippled beesears' who there seem to be every- where. And so when St. John do - Anion, s. "Without sue dogs;" I be- 41ieve he means that in heaven •we shall have no blinded eyes, • no dis- eased elcins, no crippled limbs, no 'deaf ears and no physical disfigure- ments. All the hideous physical .siglits which one seas in the wards of the hospitals shall be forever done Away. PHYSICAL INFIRMITY. How much this transformation 311CaTIS to many sufferers none but they can realize. It is very hard :for the deformed ahd the cripples to ana.intain spiritual and mental sweet- ness• and serenity. It is easy for a man with a fine constitution and a perfect physical form to be cheerful .and happy, but how difficult for one who has to suffer continual pain and is shut, out by deformity from the sports and exercises of companions -to he sweet tempered and genial to all about him. "What is the mat- • ter with So-and-so?" I once asked et dear friend of mine about a mutu- al acquaintance. "He is so touchy estrid sensitive that the least wind enfrom the east will twist him all out of shape." "Yes," answ ered my friend, "that is true, hut perhaps you have forgotten that that man was born. lame. If you ever stop to think, you will also find that meetly all men'and women born with physical infirmities stee cross and , crabbed and touchy and sensitive." "I never thought of it," I answered. "1 believe—yes, I Isnow you are right." Physical infirmity is ac- companied by and, in fact, involves mental pain and anguish, All this will be done away with in the ce- lestial city. There will be no de- fects or deformities there ,to sadden the soul and try theatemeser of the redeemed. The withered limb, the dietorted spine, will be left behind with the mental and spiritual • de- formities they have produced.. The cripple will rejoice that the gnaw- ing agony that made his life on earth a period of humiliation and suffering is gone forever. "Without Tern HOWL OF WARNING. Roaming again through the crowd- ed streets of. Palestine, I find that the same merciless tribal bitterness and mortal enmities which were once rife among the North American 1n - din s ere prevalent among the clogs of the east. As each Indian leibe ownea its oWn territory and in time of war it meant death for a menaber of otie tribe to be found wandering about in the "land 'of strangers," so the 'dogs of the east take possiession of the different streets Sef the great titles. Each eanifte 'tribe has its ientinels standing guard at the Old aeof the streets. Then if 'one dog of eenother tells° enters that street the emsvl of warning is given. Ati once I the other dogs of that tribe leap • their feet and, as a, pack of hungry' svolven make ,a Mad rush for that stranger to tear hini Urals from elate • We must study my text in the 0E131- ine lenguage of the east, ()la hunt- ers tell us that no man has truly hearij a lion roar unless he has heard tho king of the forest sound his call of defiance in the dark jungles of the African continent. Then the awe - striking power of that voters scents to °onus from everywhere and yet from nowhere. The bills are sound- ing boards whicli toss the echoes as the battledores throw the shuttle- cocks baelsward and forward. Then the fawns squat down with fright, and the mother birds press lower up- on their nests, and the very leaves !of the trees seem too terror-stricken to move. Like the roaring lions in the African forests are the hosvlings of the dogs in the streets of Damas- cus and Jerusalem. • When one can- ine tribe plunges upon a dog of an- other tribe which wanders into their street or territory it • seenes ae though all the demoniacal voices of the infernal regions are let loose. First there comes the sharp, angrn bark, as though the picket line of a great army had fired a gun to call the host to. arms, then muttered growls, then the frightened bark of • the pursued dog, then a very pantie- monium of barkingsand growlings and angry, snarling canine voices. They awake the sleeping tourist so suddenly. that at first he will start up from his bed with fright. Then follows the suggestive silence as the battle evidently ends by -the death of the victim or by the escape of the pursued. NO SELFISHNESS IN HEAVEN. What is the joha,nnien meaning of this mortal combat betweeu the tribal dogs of the east? 'Why, it means that in heaven there are to be no family meannesses, no contemp- tible, merciless ways such as are often found at the earthly fireside. It means that instead of one father and one mother gathering their own children about them in one "Man- sion of Light," and saying to one of theinselves: "Shut the door and keep every ono else out. We have enough_ now. Let all others take care of themselves as best they can," all men will bo brothers., and all wo- men sisters. There we shall an be sons and daughters of one God, who is the Father, and have kinship to one Christ, who is the Elder Broth- er. It means that in heaven these' will be no •envious plebeian blood, and no distinctive, supercilious, aris- tocratic blood, because there wo shall all have been washed in the royal blood of Jesus. It means that in heaven no wealthy manes wife will be able to suck out the life of a poor se*thg gire merely be - 'cause she is poor, and no employer will be able to grind his 'employees down until it Means physical and Mental and often spiritual death. it means no vendetta or blood feud, it also means no financial vendetta or money feud. Roaming again through the dark, narrow, crowded streets of eastern Palestine, I surmise, from the words of my text, that heaven is to be a place of -honored and jubilant occu- pations. It is to be a place where the words "menial" and "servile," "scene -eager" and "scullion," "hire- ling" and "depenaent,'' "lackey" said "underling' will be unknown. All • words signifying a 'degraded work will forever disappear when the lexicons of earth: shall be forever consumed upon the funeral pyre of a burning world. It does not mean that heaven is to be a place of in- anition and stagnation and stupid- ity. But it does mean that heaven is to be se- place where all workmen shall be honored alike and where the duties of one immortal shall be re- spected as much as are the occupa- tions of other immortals. DOGS OF THE EAST. Following my first premise that heaven is to be a busy place my sec- ond premise is likewise true. lIow do I know that the busy occupations of heaven will nee-er offer despised work for the redeemed immortals'? The words of rny text prove that. The dogs of the east were the scave engem. The ,eastern people lead no Wonderful systems of sewerage as have we. They, had no means of carrying away by subterranean pipes the offal and refuse of their large towns. But alt the 'refuse of the kitchens and the homes and the barns were and are thrown into the streets where the dogs devour them. Tit heaven, liowever, we' shall have none of tbe repulsive and abhorrent occupations With which earth hag been cursed. Do you wonder that when I rode into Damascus and saw lying in the streets the dead body of a horse, ever which the dogs were fighting and gormandizing, I should catch a glimpse of a heavenly vision, where ether° shall be no loathsome occupations as is this one of the canine scavengers of the east? Heav- en is, however, to be a, place of glorious, happy, jubilant, honored occupations. Rom/sing again through the nar- row, crowded streets of eastern Pal- estine 1 know from the simile of rny text that the Christian' earthly translation is not to be nt horror, a tragedy, a terrific, a repulsive and a terror inspiring demise. When the Christiau dies he does not die like a. dog, but he ascends as 'slid the Sav- tour. Ile does not growl and whine with fear, but he mounts from joy to joy, from aublimity to sublimity, from exultation to exultation, froM glory, to glory, 'AS THE DOG DIES. The eastern dog's death ie a glootay, pictures, Ire aies the death of all wild beaste, 'and that death ie tragedy. Some yawn age the author of a historyof the beasts of the Afrieen forgets made this etetement, which' will long live in my memory ; ”No beast or bird or reptile in all the clank continent dies a ?lateral deaths No sooner doe e bis pnysical strorigth weaken than tiserts are some' beetiel or serpeatine cannibals or some enemy of his species ready; to feed upon his dying body and still the feeble er the quick beatings of hie heart." That means every ileer or fawn that dies, dies a tragic death, Every quick eyed and eharp clawed lynx must fall in time before a mortal foe. Evary monster leader of the elephantine herd, every shaggy maned Bengal king, must ale a vio- lent death. So dies the dog; but, thank God, so 'does not die the Christian. Sometimes 'tis true that the body of man essay cite the death of a° dog, but the Christian. has hope in his death. Though his body perish in battle or in accident, though it may be crushed or burned, so that it cennot be recognized, his soul is safe. He lias the consciousness that Cliriet is ableto keep that which has been • committed to him and whatever may befall the body, the soul will be preserved. LEGEND OF ICING SOLOMON, Ole, ye mortals, destined to • live forever either in bliss or in unease', does not the offer that Christ makes yeti stir your desire for salvation ? Accept his proffered gift, and then be your end what it may, your being rooted up from this world, with its bitter fruits of sorrow and pain and misersewill mean nothing more than your being transplanted into that supernal. garden in which you . will grow and flourish and bear fruitto the honor and glory of God.e There is an old legend that when King Sol- omon was a boy one day he begged his teacher to show him a Miracle.' Nathan 'thrust his finger into the soil and dropped therein a little seed. Immediately: that seed began to sprout. While the lad looked on the two little green leaves grew list° a round stem. Then the stem swell- ed • out with the trunk of a. large tree.' Then tbe tree, like "the seven branches, became like the seven caadlesticks ot the altars," and the birds of the air flew -into those branches and builded there nests and reared their young. While he look- ed blossoms grew upon that tree, and then those blossoms were chang- ed into the deep rich recf-lruit which blushed like the glow of the setting sun. That is merely a legend, but there is a x.oal sniraele which can be worked in your lives intieitely great- er than young Solomon is supposed to have seen. The seed of eternal life plenteel.by the Holy Spirit in your heart • can change your whole nature. Instead of those qualities which degrade you to the level of the brutes, instead of the sinful propensities which dietort and deforin your being, there shall grow from that aivine seed •a plant of beeuty, graceful and glorious with heavenly loveliness' said eternal in ever developing life. "Ye shall be line a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth its fruit in its season; and whatsoever ye doeth shall prosper." What is your caioice? Will you live a life of beau- ty and usefulness, a life patterned on that divine life which Clirist lived on earth, ending in a triumphant re- surrection, or will you choose the wickedness, the vice, the corruption, ssf the world, feeding like the east- ern dog on the carrion oflife and becoming in nature like him? Remem- ber, if ye live after the flesh ye shall die, and from: that abode • of bliss, where there are joys forever more, you will bo excluded with all whose natures have grown fierce ,and cruel and debased. "Without are Cloven THE 1,001eING-GLASS. A Doctor Advises Its Reasonable Use by Sick People. The looking -glass plays a • xn.ore important part in the sick -room than nsost nurses and physicians give it credit for. The patient who is al- lowed to look into one is likely, to be frightened into a relapse at sight of his cadaverous appearance, vehilo the one wens is not allowed to look is similarly affected by the refusal, which he attributes to the fact that his face is too much for his nerves. • "All things considered, I think it a good plan to give a sick person a chance to look at himself occasional- ly," says a doctor. " "Of coulty-sei,btohice_ indulgeace must be granted with real dis- cretion. If a patient is ing seedy a glance at the looking - glass is equivalent to signing , his death -warrant; but if • taken at a time when braced up by some stimu- lant or a natural ebullition of vital force, a few minutes of communion sesceaanreapiseswn visage beats any. tonic I (tribe. It thrills the . pa- tient with new hope. It makes him feel that he isn't quite so Inc gone as he had thought, and that possi- bly, , a nett for life, is after all, worth while. "Being thus sensitive, a persistent withholding of a mirror convinces the patient thatshe must qe too hor- rible for contemplation, and he promptly 'decides that the best thing for Inin to do is to give up the ghost and get out of the way. I still advise the reasonable use of the inir- ror, both in hospital and private practican• for 1 flaci that a little re- assurance as to the state of the Com- plexion and the appearance in gener- al goes a long way toward effecting 0,.cure.'t A FAMILY RESEMBLANCE. "So Silas Ryetop Went to the cir- cus." "Yes, by hen! An' he cable home.' mad enough to chew up a crow." "What happened?" "Why, Site bought a photograph of each Of the freaks of the side show. After that he was mistaken for a pickpocket and arrested." "That /nest have made him furi- w.ait nti1 the Wore, comea, They found the freak pictures and the local paper sitated that 'the sus- pect had a podket u1I Of family photegtaphee ***********411 HOME DomEsrad uucxrEs. Strawberry: Ice Oream..--Sprinkle ebllPerri:et alUgar over a quart of id let stand an hour. .Scalcl ' straw - a entart of thin 'sweet cream, make it very eseeet, ancl let eool. Press the iseeries through a fine sieve and add to the cream. Freeze, Preee into a mold, and pack ia ice and salt to ripen. , Serve in cubes with a spoon- ful of preserved strawberries on top. Strawberry Pineapple.—Most every one considers strawberries and pine- apple good enough each in its own way. But here is nt combination said to be "delectable" : Slice the pineapple very thin, leaving out the hard core. Add plenty of granulat- ed sugar and let stand several hours. Crush a quart of strawberries with st cup of su.gar and let stand an hour Arrange in alternate layers in a glass dish and serve. ; Home-made Soap, --Add e. pound box of concentrated lye to a gallon of rain water.. When dissolved let it come to a boil, then, add five or six pounds of grease—scraps, pork rinds, etc., etc, Boil ironn a quarter to half an hour. It pliould eat up the scraps and be clear like honey. Cool a little, and if it gets hard and grainy it is done; if there in too much lye put in a little more Melstecl grease. Wben oold it sliould'.7nie hard enough to cut from 'the kettle. Waffles—Weelles made with butter- milk are far superior to any others, and for those who like it buttermilk is a very healthful drink, and tastes - especially good • with waffles when eaten .ivitli maple syrup. For butter- milk waffles use one pint, of flour (two zaps), one -teaspoon of baking powder, one-third teaspoon of salt, one egg well beaten, one and one- half cups buttermilk, into which tine - half teaspoon of soda has been stirr- ed, one-half 'a tablespoon of melted butter. Sift the flour, baking pow- der and salt together. Beat the yolk and white of the egg enparately. Add the yolk, buttermilk and melted butter. Lastly the white beaten still. Baked 'Asparagus—Boil till tender in unsalted water the tender parts of two bunches asparagus cut in half incli lengths. Makea sauce by heating about two tablespoons of elour and butter. When creamy add one cup of water and one-half cup milk. Ada liquid slow- ly. .When it boils add one scant tea- spoon salt, one-half teaspoon seapri- ka. Remove from fire, add yolks of two eggs slightly beaten. Butter a baking disli, place a layer of aspara- gus', then cover with the sauce, and ;so on till material is used. Cover top with bread crumbs moistened with. sauce. Brown in oven. Frozen Strawberries. --Mash one quart steawberries, add one and one- half cups sugar; juice of one lenaon; set aside for one hour, then add one quart of water. Turn in a freezer and freeze as you would ice cream. Turn the 'dasher slowly. Serve in punch: glasses. This is a delicious way of serving strawberries. Maple Cake—The maple part of the cake is in the frosting. Any good cake recipe will do. The following is gond One cup sugar, one-half cup milk and one and one-half cups flour into which one heaping teaspoon ot baking powder has been put. 'Flav- or with one teaspoon of vanilla. Ada beaten whites—beat cake well. Bake in moderate oven, in one large layer. Frosting—Beat white of one egg stiff. Melt one-half a pound of ma- ple sugar with one-half cup of water. Cook till it forms a, soft ball .in cold water. Let it cool slightly, just so it will not cook the egg. Add slowly to white of egg, beating all the time. Beat till cold. Spread on cake. This is a fine frosting. • SALADS. Lettuce Salad—Cliop coarsely 'two heads of nice, crisp lettuce, one me- dium sized cucumber, and one small buncli of green onions. Season well with pepper, salt and vinegar. Cut hard boiled eggs in 'lags and arrange onAtiotph ioer Lettuce Salaa.—Cleanse ono large tender hea.a of lettuce and dry well with a clotli; break the large leaves in tsvo pieces, and lay some of them in a glass dish, cut • some thin slices of cold boiled chick- en breast and lay over this. Then put another layer of leaves and next a layer of sausage, also cut thin. Then lay on the White heart, of leav- es of lettuce, surrouna with tufts of watercress, and fancy shapes cat from cooked red beets. To make the dreesing for this salad, put into a cup and mash fine, theyolk of one liard boiled egg, add one teaspoon- ful made mustard and a. dessert- spoonful of castor sugar. Stir one way, end add gradually two table-, spoonfuls of good salad oil, a gill of cream, and two spoonfuls of tar- ragon vinegar. Ornament the top of the salad with tie° white of the egg cut into rings. ,Isour the dress- ing over the salad just before serv- ing. , Cabbage Salad—Stir two beaten eggs, two teaspoonfuls of sugar, a thaepoonful of butter the size of an egg together, then add two table- spoonfuls of flour mixed in half a cup of milk. Stir this mixture into a half pint of' hoe, but not boiling vinegar. Take from the fire and add small eableepooeful of mustard mixed in a little water. Stir in one quart of Tin.ely chopped cabbage and took a little, This ie best cooked before the mustard is added. Sero wiPltanticea.tealad—Wliel three nenpfuls of cold belled potatoes sliced, mix One slited beet, one braised oeiore and four stalks of celery cut in Mall pieces: Arraitge 'on a 'dish end pour over the salad four tablespoonfuls salad oil and three of vinegar, po- nce and salt to taste. • Let it get very told before eervinge LAUNDRY naNTs„ A laundry, room apart erten the icitellezi 15 a great convenience, Every thing needed for -Wits worle should be leept there;' the wesitteg machine, wringer, tubs, clothes( Pin$, $044) starch, bintog, irons, ironing board, etc., occupying the places intended for them, There should jee nt sieve and boiler of course. A baniper for the dirty, clothes 'may occupy ono corner, and the garmeats put in it from time to time as they accumu- late. A flour barrel will enswer the purpose. Paint it on the canside and line it inside with eretonne, cal- ico or denim, securing it with taelse ;et the top. The lauedry may be used to dry the clothes in during wet or stormy weather, All garments should be neatly mended before they are svasned, as a rent usually, grows larger during the process of laundering. Stains of all kinds ,are more easily removed be- fore weshing than after. .As EL rule, fruit staine will disappear if hot wa- ter is poured through thein Almost everyone has a favorite method of washing cotton goods, but many have not learned the sec- ret of washing flannels so tbey will not elirink. line warm soft water, and dissolve enough gold dust wash- ing powder in it to make a good suds. Wash through two waters, and rinse thoroughln having all the water the same •temperaturn Do not twist between the bands, but pass through a wringer that is not screwed down very tight. Hang where a gentle breeze will blow through the garments so they will dry quickly. An baby's annels must be washed all seasons of the year, this recipe will be as helpful in the sue:Inner as in the winter. It is important that muslins, ging- hams and calicoes should be starch- ed properly,. Put the amount of dry starch requirea into the vessel used for starch -making, and pour enough cola water over it to make a thin, smooth paste. Set it on the stove and pour boiling water into in, stirring all the time to keep it from 'being lumpy. Boil three minutes and after it is taken from the stove acid a teaspoonful of kerosene to half a gallon of starch'. This will keep the irons from sticking, and gives the clothes a beautiful gloss. HINTS TO HOTJSEKEEPERS. Many people plunge tomatoesinto boiling water to loosen the 'skin se it can be easily removed. No mat- ter now quickly it is done there is always a taste of the cooked toma- to. This is a better way : Witli the flat edga of a knife rub the tomato alt over, being careful not to break the skin, and it will peel as easily as when given the hot plunge. In preparing fruit to can for pies, see that the can is almost solid with fruit, with only juice enough to fill the intestices and make the pies juicy enough. This gives ,a, rich, fruity flavor to the pies, which' they lack when the juice is abundant and is poured off for other purposes. It is said that the juice of pie - plant, ila,vored with stick cinnamon and lemon peel makes a jolly that rivals quince jelly. The most difficult stains to 'remove from table linen are those rand° by tea, coffee, cocoa and chocolate. It is stied patient rubbing and squeezing in milk will take out such discolora- tions. Change the milk if it be- comes dirty -looking. Even where a whole cupful has been spilled the stain may, be entirely removed by continued soaking. Three or four rose geranium leaves dropped into the boiling jelly just before it is turned into the glasses impart a flavor many people enjoy. Try a glass or two, and see whether you like the flavor well enough to adopt the practice. Keep all food from. the' table close- ly covered, when cold. A lady pro- fessor in the Massachusetts Institute of Techncaogy says she once drew the point of a, pin through the dust from the top of a, door and applied: it to some germ food, with the result that three thousand living organisms de- veloped. Food from the table may not be properly formed "germ. food," but if covered we can nevoid dust, winch: contains more or less of harm- ful microbes. When bluing compounds composed of iron and prussian blue aro brought into contact with the alkali in soap, the iron is precipitated and rust spots apear. Test prepared bluing by boiling a little with soda. If it turns the water red and dark, it con- tains prussian blue. When a, little nitric acid is added to the bluing and the mixture heated if it turns a yellowish tinge it is indigo. TOOK NO CHA:NOIn , Pleclim Casey was engaged on the ridge -pole s of Squire Pond's house when he lost his footing, and slid down to the edge of the roof. His legs went down, but Inc clutched the eaves -trough and hung on for dear life. "That's rig -ht, Phelien!" called the squire, who had seen him slip. "You hang on a minute till I eat gee a laBdduetr ouvpoutlaiesrehl" ospoke, Phelim re- laxed his hold and dropped to the grousucalO Aon as the. squive made sure that no bones were broken, and that Phelim was simply bruised here and there and shaken up, he began to be- rate the man in vigorous language. "Wily itt the world didn't you nang on, as X told you to, yoa groat stu- pid?" lie demanded, "I'd have been there in se minute." ''MaYbee You seed," said Phelim, sullenly, "but, how did X know but the eaves would give way before you got there?" 'One of the ()Riese engine -drivers on the Great Northern Railway at Don- caster, Mr, George Andreses, has just retired after 45 years' eervice. He has been a driver over /39 yeses, and has travelled osn the footplate over two million miles. Ilo has fregnent.- ey driven the psesent King, st,nd Queen •-•.1.1 times last year, and osier 30 Cities in all. It is easier to touch the aveenee mian's heart than it fa to touch his pocketbook, THE SUNDAY SCITOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON', JULY 10. Text pf• the Lesson, I. Kings 29-38, Golden. 'Text, I. John v.,21, nine Lord, the God of ierael, had just given to jeroboam the ten tribee to be his leilagdom, with the aseurance that if he would be obedi- ent and do right in the eight ot the Lord Ile svould be with bem end build him a isure house (chapter xle 29-38, and especially verso 88), but at the very beginning of his reign, as recorded into -day's leeson, he turned his back upon, God, as if there wan no God and his own hand had got hira all this. His record is summed up in the words which are repeate4 more than twelve times in the two books of Kings, "Jeroboam, thou son ot Nelsen who made Israel' to sin." el, :Kings xiv., 1(1; xv., 26, 34; xiv., 19, 26, 'ete.) Both Shechem and Penne], mention- ed in the first verse of our lesson as having been built by Jeroboam, had j•bueen,lais Jiundgepussv ins in , the 1d7aisssixo45,t1: dsus 46). At Shesatem the Lord first a,p- Peered to Abram in the land, and there .A.brans bnilt his _first altar to the Lord (Gen. xiin 6, 7), There lie the bones of Joseph awaiting the resurrection c 1 the just, and there the Lord Jesus first announced Him- self as the Messale (Josh. xxiv., 32; John iv). At Dome, the Lord wrest- ' led with Jaceb Ind broke hini down and blessed hiza as he clung to Him in conscious weakness, and changed his name to Israel (Gen. xxxii., 28,' 30, 31). jeroboam waited not for the coun- sel of God, Be condemned the coun- sel of the Most High (Ps. eve, 1/3; cvii., 11.) He took counsel, but not of God, for he desired none of God's counsel (Isa. xxx., 1; Prov.. 1, 80). He devised of his own heart this great sin (verse 83). He seemed wholly unconscious of the fact that God gave hien the kingdom and fan- cied that he must teke care of leas own life and the kingdom. too: so he said, "If they go to Jerusalem to worship they will turn back to the king of Judah and kill mo" (verses 6, 7). The thought of helping the Lord to manage His affairs by some help or advice of ours is very old. Abram. and Isaac and Rebekah and Jacob all tried it. Simon Peter also was not wanting in this line of things, and there are many who still think that without some of their, common sense and good judgment the Lord will hardly be able to ac- complish His purposes. Will the Lord's 'people never learn to obey Prey. iii., 5, 6? Jeroboam must have known the story of the golden calf in the evil-, dernoss which Aaron made and of: the thousands who fell because ot that sin, yet lee ,disobediently, de- liberately and presumptuously com- mits the same sin and proclethis the same lie (verse 28; Ex., x-xxii., 4, 8). If any 'one had reminded hien of God's judgment upon Israel and had suggested that his present conduct was both dangerous and openly wick- ed he might have replied, if he had the wisdom of seine professed de- fenders of the faith to -day/ "Oh, that was 500 years ago, and we do not know whether there was any, truth in it or not. That is an old. story and perhaps only a traditidn. Look at those idol groves and high places on Olivet which the great Solomon built for his wives, and where ho worshipped also, and yet he prospered and died peacefully." Jeroboam had the spirit of Cain, who preferred his own thoughts and ways to those of God and feared not. to disobey. When ho said to the people, "It is 'too much for y8o1u. to go up to Jerusalem" (verse 2Inc talked like the devil in the '4snardert of, Eden when he suggested to Fseve that God demanded too much of her, or' when he suggested to Jetsam that it' was too much self 'denial net to 'take that garment and gold, or when he suggested to the Lord Jesus through Simon Peter that it was too much Inc Him to think of suffering, and dy- ing at Jerusalem. Tho devil is ever talking on the (same lines. He says it is too mueli Inc you to go twice ,:to church on Sabbath ser to go so: far to oherch at all; too =eh to shut, yourself up on Sunday whom you have been slate up itt the store' or offiee all the 'week; too much tol ask you to give back to God any of: your hard earned money when you need it all, and more, for yourself, and family. Think of a golden calf at Bethel, where -the Lord Isad revealed Him- self to Jacob in the vision of the' lad d er, C on tin st ibis work of sin- ful hands with the God of Jacob midi the ministry of holy angels. What a desecrater of holy places and: things this man was who had sold' himself to do oell in the eight of the Lord! (II Kiegs xvii, 17.) • It is not enougli Inc him to 'des- pise the only true God, the God of Israel,and the Holy City and then. ternule, the only appointed place 61 sacrifice, bet he also deispises God's chosen priesthood and sets up one of his °Wit. There may be lean made priests, so called, even now, ono worship golden eagles and are in God' e sight of the lowest of the peo- ple. Let us rejoice that God takes the lowest end meet sinful and by the blood of the Lamb makes them true priests unto Himself and gives them the steel:trance that they shall yet reign. with Christ on earth (Rev. i, 9, 6; v, 9, 10). Moe n die net ordain feaste OEf priests or anything in comuntion with the tabernecle Worship. God did all. liut this men lakes the Place of God end imitates nod, maks ing us thitek oi L These, ii, 4. No- tice hi the last two verses of oily lesson Inc repeated sairase, "which he had mode" end compare in nail. iii, which lies eleg bed sest up," and let s re of se au p lei "worship tied,"