Exeter Advocate, 1906-7-19, Page 711
SINFUL NAIURES
Faults Hidden From Self Are
Sources of Danger
Cleanse thou me from secret remits.—
Psalnes xix. 12. •
To know ourselves is a difficult task.
We are 'contentedwith a slight know-
ledge of our hearts and of our duties as
creatures of God, and in consequence
we have only a euperficial faith.
Wilful sins need no light, for they
are too evident to the transgressor.
It is the list of unebserved sins to
which we must attend it we wish, to be
Metter LO mankind and more acceptable
in the eyes of Him who will demand a
;reckoning for every "thought,' word and
deed." When we have come to com-
prehend the nalure of disobedience and
to realize our actual unworthiness on
aocount of imperfections we then can
ithel what is meant by the removal of
•secret faults, by pardon and by soul
ease, which otherwise are to us as
1.
meaningless words. '
• The poet, the Writer, or the man with
some commercial scheme cannot, work
tout that which he desires unless he per-
mits his mind to be impressed fully,
quietly and carefully with the subject
under consideration. He is best alone -
with his thoughts, books or figures.
,And so is it with matters of the soul,
,for God speaks to us primarily in our
hearts, which are best when searching
thoughts of
0611 NATURAL WEAKNESS.
Let us consider how plainly we see
ithe faults of others. Do we differ in
1 nature from them? If we see defects in
them of which they seem unconscious
or heedless by habit, they also see
faults in us which would -surprise us to
hear. The faults which we commit even
thoughtfully weaken and give disagree-
able color to our character's as seen by
'our fellows. How, then, do we appear
Ito God, who sees what no man on see
and who knows the stirrings of pride,
the vanity, covetousness, discontent, re-
sentment and envy which we nurture in
our hearts day after day?
It is necessary for us to be disturbed
,
about our spiritual condition. To be at
ease is to be unsafe. No one knows his
hidden weakness. Peter, not suspecting
his heart, denied his Master. David
continued faithhil to his God for years,
and yet power arid wealth weakened his
loyalty for a Lime. Hezekiab bore trouble
welt, but -prosperity misled him. It is
only by earnest examination and prayee,
that we can begin to learn of the abun-
dance of our faults, which are eitl-ier
entirely or almost entirely unlenoevn to
Hence the best men are ever most
humble, because they see somewhat of
the breadth and depth of their own sin-
ful natures.
Everybody knows that care of details
is essential ire all callings of life. Whet
possible reason can we give, therefere,
for lack of care in matters pertaining
to our spiritual perfection?
Do -we care niore for the perishable
things than for God? Perhaps we have
yielded to
THE FORCE OF HABIT
which tends to self -deceit, for by it we
forget things to be wrong which once
shocked us. We speak peace to our
souls when there is no. peace, for
"many are the. scourges of the sinner,
butmercy shall encompass him that
hopeth in, Goy." • The future prize is
worth a struggle. We die with the grave
only in body, but the spirit will live in
happiness or pain eternal. Without
self-knowledge we may persist for a
time. Our self-reliance, however, will
not be adequate unto 'salvation. In
truth, there is much danger that we
shall be "as trees of withering fruits . .
plucked up by the roots."
Even though we die in outward com-
munion with the church, let us cry out
in contrition with the psalmist, "Wash
me yet more from my iniquity and
cleanse me from_ my sin."
And let us ever be mindful that
"blessed are they whose iniquities are
forgiven and whose sins are covered."
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SOME DAINTY DISHES.
Stuffed Eggplant. ---Cut the eggplant
4klin two; scrape out all the inside and
ut it in a saucepan with a little minced
am; cover with water and boil with
atilt; draM off the water; add two
tablespoonfuls of grated crumbs, table-
tpoonful of butter, half a. minced onion,
salt, and pepper; stuff each half of the
hull with the mixture; add a small
lump of butter to each and bake fifteen
minutes.
Wined Sweet Potatoes.—Boil the pota-
toes and set them to cool. When cold,
peel and slice them. In a well buttered
baktng dish spread a layer of the pota-
toes, sprinkle with butler, sugar, and a
lilac salt. Then another layer of pota-
toes, butter, and the other ingredients,
arid so continue the layers until the dish
Is full, having laid on top a plentiful
supply of butter. Put a little warm wa-
ter in the dish to prevent dryness, in-
vert over the baking dish another dish
that will hold in the steam and set to
bake in a moderate oven. After the
potatoes are thoroughly heated take off
the covering dish, let steam brown a
trifle, and just before taking from the
oven pour over them a little wine of a
flavor agreeing with the potatoes.
German Potato Cakes.—This well-
known German dish has been made a
part of the cookery of our country, in-
troduced by many of our German
families. In making it grate the pota-
• toes raw, add butter to enrich it, eggs
and flour to hold the grated potato to-
gether, a little salt, and season with
sugar and cinnamon to taste. The cakes
are fried in butter on a griddle or in a
fiat saucepan till brown.
Glazed Onions.—Peel twelve medium-
sized white onions and soak them for
ene hour in cold water, changing the
water twice while they are soaking.
• Drain them on a sieve. Put two ounces
of butter he a saucepan, add one tea-
spoonful of sugar and 'half a. cup of
bof broth or stock. Arrange the onions
in the pan so they do not touch. Cook
over a slow fire until they become ten-
der and the outside is brown. Remove
the cover from the saucepan, put a
little beef extract on top of each onion.
Then place the pan in the oven for five
minutes. When the extract melts and
• a nice glaze forms on the top of the
onions they are ready to serve as a gar-
nish or vegetable. If served as a vege-
table the sauce they were cOoked in
may be poured over them.
• Spanish Tornatoes.—One can of toms,-
' toes, one can of Spanish peppers, two
medium-sized onions, two tablespoons
of butler. Chop the onions fine and fry
In butter until ti light brown. Then to
the Spanish peppers, chopped fine, add
the tomatoes. Mix all thoroughly and
Cook over a medium fire five minutes,
adding shit end '‘,vhite peper to taste.
Pour in baking dish and bake in me-
dium oven three-quarters of an hour,
English Stuffins.—DISSolve one yeast
cake, in one pint of warn water; add
one teaspoon salt. Add enough sifted
• bread flour to make a thiek drop bat-
• ter'. Stir one tablespoon melted Ritter,
- and beat hard; Set, in a warm plue and
beat light ;• then, having the griddle
moderately hot, lay on 11 rings well
greased and drop in enough batter to
half 1111 them, Do not turn until almost
• Cooked through then slip off the rings
an nd blowon the other side.
Danish Strawberry PreserVeg, —
Denmark streAvberries are preserved in
ti very 'simple and easy, way, whieh
. finikes. them equal to the German
• berries, eted they are warranted to
•\men fen „years Get thin, large berries
?men!
and stem, but do not wash them.
Weight three-quarters of a pound of
sugar to every pound. of fruit and ar-
range them in a deep porcelain kettle,
sprinkling the sugar lightly between
layers of the fruit. Cover, and let this
stand all night, or, If the weather is
very hot and damp, prepare them early
in the morning, and let them stand six
hours. Heat elowly to the boiling -point,
skimming very thoroughly, and simmer
fifteen zninutes. Take the kettle from
the fire at exactly this moment and
cover with a thin cloth 'arid stand it
away all night without moving. In the
morning heat again, very slowly, and
skim; let it simmer ten minutes and
take from the fire. Strain off the juice
from the berries without breaking them,
and boil the juice to the thickness you
wish; five minutes is the best time to
stop, since after this it loses flavor; but
if you wish a very stiff preserve you
can boil it fifteen. Add -the fruit when
you take the kettle from the fire and
put into hot glass jars with new rub-
bers and glass tops. The cans must be
sterilized by being baked half an hour,
and the rubbers should be put in very
hot water for ten minutes. If these pre-
serves are kept in a cool, dark place
they will be as good after years as at
first.
• Steamed Salmon.—This is a good way
to make canned salmon tasty, nice for
lunch or supper t—One can of chopped
salmon, one . cup fine brea.dcrumbs,
three eggs, one tablespoon melted but-
ter, one .tablespoon chopped parsley,
pepper, salt, and a little milk improves;
put in. a buttered dish and steam one
hour. Serve with white sauce or egg
sauce made with hard-boiled eggs chop-
ped fine and added to drawn butter.
Serge hot.
HINTS FOR THE HOME.
•Peeled vegetables should always be
put into cold water till they are wanted
for cooking, or the'color will be spoilt.
When mixing pastry use the coldest
water that you can procure, and if your,
hands are hot mix it with a knife.
A troublesome cough may often be
allayed by dissolving a small lump of
borax in the -mouth. To make it more
palatable mix a little honey with the
borax. ,
Have cisterns cleaned out and entirely
emptied about once a year, and more
particularly after the summer holidays,
when the house has been empty and the
water has been allowed to stagnate.
To • keep tinware bright wash it in-
side and out with hot water and soda.
Dry with clean cloths, scour with sand
and whiting in equal parts mixed with
water to a paste.
Permanganate of potash dissolved in
boiling water in the proportion df half
an ounce to each pint of water makes a
very good disinfectant. The same solu-
tion applied whilst hot will stain floor
boards beautifully.
To boil new potatoeg well wash them
and scrape off the skin, but never cut
them, • Put the potatoes into 1?oiling
water with salt and a good sprig of
Mint. When cooked dry for a few min-
utes, add a lump of butter, arid tosS all
loge! her.
• Coffee stains cn n woollen blouse may
be removed by the use of glycerine.
Rub it over the stain, arid then wash
-the plaee with lifke-Warrn water, and
irdn the material on the wrong side till
it is dry.
Fruit Steins on Linen,—If applied at
once powdered sterch eviil take mit
many kinds of fruit stains on linen.
This must be left on the stained part,
for a few hours so that all the disecil-
'oration is absorbed by the eterch.
On Pantry Washing Um—Collect all
glasses and jugs that have been used
for milk or custards, rinse Carefully in
cold wafer, and then plunge, into tepid,
soapy water' This makes it easier to
keep the glasses polishedand prevents
any sour curd at the bottom ef jugs,
etc,
• Warta May be removed by wetting
ono e a day with the Milky jute° that
• this die, in thoroughly. Another ranee
dy is to Moisten the finger with saliva
from the mouth every morning 04
welcMg. Apply the finger to the wart,
and allow the moisture to dry in.
To Remove Sunburn. — Tette • equel
parts Of fresh lemon -juice, rosewato,
and rectified spirit. Mix together and
then love till next day, when the elear
part should be etrained off• through
muslin. Bathe the foe night, and
morning with this lotion, and dry the
skin with a soft cloth,
Chalk may be used es a cleansing
agent in many ways. Rub it int0
grease spots on dresses, wall -papers, or
anything of •a like nature requiring to
be cleaned. When cleaning garments
with it, rub on the °Irani overnight,
hang up the garment till next day,
when it should brush clean. A tablet
of prepared chalk am be bought, cheap-
ly In any small -Lawn.
Your papieremache trays and box
should never be washed with soap and
hot water, as this treatment causes
cracks, Just wipe them with a sponge
wrung out in told water, and sprinkle
flour over the surface, Then dry and
polish with soft dusters or flannel. This
substance is much prized nowadays,
especially when inlaid with • mother-of-
pearl.
SERVING DISHES IN SUMMER-.
One of the best hot weather reminders
to housekeepers is that food intended
to be served hot should really be hot,
and should be served on warm plates
in summer, as well as in winter. Even
on a warm day meat juices, such as the
gravy of mutton chops, etc., tend to
stiffen if served on a plate that is not
sufficiently warm. The flavor of soup
is preserved better when served in quite
hot plates, and the breakfast toast -is
much more tempting ori a plate that
keeps it warm than one on which ,. it
quickly cools and toughens. The plates
in summer may be warmed qby lighting
one gas burner and turning it low under
the oven, or by letting hot water run
over them and polishing them ready
to be sent to the table. On the other
hand, the salads, and cold desserts,
needing chilled plates, can be aceom-
modated by placing the dislaes on a
shelf in the refrigerator for some lime,
taking them out a few minutebefore
they are needed that they may lose the
cold, clamminess that the delicate sense
of touch finds on china fresh from the
ice -box. It must be remembered that
fine china is injured by sudden changes,
and should not be subjoted to either
rapid heating or rapid chilling.
One housekeeper, who is very fond of
• flowers on the 'table • at all thnes
throughout the summer, uses them fre-
quently as , garnishes, with sometimes
rather absurd effect. There are plenty
of ways of beautifying the table with
flowers without utilizing them as gar-
nishes. • Indeed, e there are very few
kinds of blossoms that do not seem
quite out of place in the immediate
decoration of edibles. A garnish should
be something edible itself, like hard-
boiled egg, lemon, cress, parsley, can-
died fruits, with desserts, etc. The nas-
turtium has ornamental leaves with a
sharp, spicy flavor, and is not unsuit-
able for garnishing meals and salads,
if one sighs for a floral decoration at
all. A long-stemmed pink rose or two
placed at the side of a dish on which is
O jellied or frozen dessert fresh from
the mould, makes it pleasing to ihe eye.
• Sometimes a few freshly -gathered pan-
sies may be used, but lavish floral gar-
nishing is apt to suggest tiny insects
to the mind of the imaginative beholder,
and at best gives the effect .of "over-
.
doing it."
USUAL NUMBER OF, EARTHQUAKES.
Proressor Milne Says They Are Not
• More Frequent. .
A fallacy which has not yet been over-
taken is to the effect that our world, in
consequence of some general but bane-
ful influence, has of late been trembling
and quaking more frequently than Inc
been ner wont. Evidence to this effect
is not forthcoming. If we turn to facts
we find that from 1899 to 1905, inclusive,
the yearly number of world disturbing
earthquakes has been 91, 56, 43, 64, 58,
29 and 55. In the year 1905 we had,
therefore, one • large earthquake less
than the yearly average, which is 56.
Since the end of 1905 the large earth-
quakes have been seven or eight.
In july of last year, the California
eatthcplake -was' entirelreclipeed as a
World shaker by two disturbances which
originated in Central Asia. • Wandering
tribes do not write in the papers, so
these, so far as the public are con-
cerned, had no existence. On Sent. 8
Calabria was well shaken, but whether
this played any part in freeing Vesu-
vius is a matter for historical inquiry.
The Columbian earthquake shook one,
if not three, volcanoes into activity. In
March, 1,087 people lost their lives in
Formosa; but Formosans are not Euro-
peans, therefore, but little• notice was
taken of the event. • Earthquakes and
eruptions have not been more numerous
than usual, but their effects have been
brought to our doors.
GERMANY'S TOMMY ATKINS.
The pay of Germane officers is fixed
on a very low scale. Lieutenants re-
ceive from $8Q0 to $400 a year. A cap-
tain receives $500 or $600; a major $750
or $800; and a colonel not more than
$1,000 per annum. Even it the Weer
has private means he must generally
depend largely on his wife's dowry !Or
the me intenande of his household in a
slyle suitable to big social rank. If an
officer is insulted by his inferior he has
the right of chastising the offender.
Bul, the lot of the coremon sOldiee is far
less attractive. Discipline is, of course,
extremely strict. • Many non-combeis-
sioned officers consider it necessary to
educate their recruits by thraehing arol
kicking them. A non-commissioned
officer is trequently sentenced hy
court-martial to a • remarkably mild
punishment, for perpetrating many •acts
of cruelly on the cOmmon Soldiers
uncler his, command.
To Kill Viles.—Put Sarno beer Mid
molasses into vinousand ninon Ittern
010111 he roems, Change the contents
of the eaticers every third day.
IN tiff LAND OF BIG GAME
,
ALONG THE SHORES OF LAlit: NM-
• \ZAMA, EAST AFRICA.
Great Flock of Flamingoes and Herons
pazelles Mingling With
The modern traveller who goes by
the Uganda Railway from Mombasa to
the Vitoria Nyanza has Many wondos
in store for him. For eeveral hours at
first, as the line winds quickly upward
frOm• the coast, he may see glorious
Views of the Indian Ocean (the last for
a long time to wine) and its beautilul
hays and harbors. The belt of inembi-
Wed and cultivated country is narrow
and soon passed; palm trees and man -
gees and bananes disappear and give
ptace to queer looking euphorbias • and
yellow flowering acacias; A is a dreary
and waterless land, where little but
thorns will flourish.
For many hours he travels through
O country that reminds him of a well
stocked farm, or rather of the zoologi-
cal gardens, writes A. F. 11. Woolaston,
In the Westminster Gazette. kluge
herds of hartbeests, zebras and gazelles,
parties of wildebeests and ostrches, bus-
tards and cranes are scattered far and
wide over the plain, and if he be lucky
he may see a herd 4:rf giraffes or a rem-
• of lions. if he seems to be a
stranger in the land half a dozen dif-
ferent fellow passengers will tell him
the story of the unhappy lion hunter
who slept at his post in the railway car-
riage and was carried out of the win-
dows and eaten by the very lion he went
out to kill. More notable still is the
sight of Kilmanjaro, a huge truncated
pyramid or snow rising out of the morn-
ing mists sixty miles 'to the southward.
Kenia, too, may be seen, or more likely
great.cloud banks, where the
• • MOUNTAIN LIES HIDDEN.
After many years of toilsome climb-
ing through 'scrub and swamp and
jungle, always upward, the engine
Whistles—it sounds like a sigh of re-
lief—and of a sudden we are plunging
down from the Kikuyu Escarpment into
the Great Rift Valley. .It, looks, indeed,
like a Promised Land, and it is likely
within a few years, if not lo flow with
milk and honey, at all events to be fill-
et: with cattle and sheep. The climate
at this altitude of 6,000 feet and more
above the sea is healthy for Europeans.
Of all the beauties of the Rift Valley
there is none that can be compared
•with the lovely and mysterious Lake
Naivasha.. It Is hard to believe that this
is Africa and but a few miles from the
equator. Naivasha has been likened to
many different places; one writer was
reminded of a gloomy Irish lough—per-
haps his visit was in a wet season, or
•possibly it was ihe snipe in the swamps;
another was reminded of the Bay of
Neples and the view from Posilipoe To
my mind there -Ss something of New Zea-
land in the air and in the scene as well.
• To' the wandering naturalist, whether
his,hent be toward birds, beasts, butter -
Pies or plants, Naivasha is one of those
happy hunting ground e that he has
dreamed of but has never expected to
see. The margin of the lake is fringed
withesedges, tall reeds and papyrus.
Beyond the papyrus is a Marvel of
water lilies, red and white and blue,
but mostly blue. • Where the shallows
extend far out into the lake there must
he near 'a mile of water lilies. In the
morning, when the breeze ruilles the
water and breaks up the reflections of
the hills, the green of the transparent
upturned leaves, the blue of the flowers,
the orange of the submerged stems and
the almost amethyst of the water to-
gether make
A VERY OPAL OF COLOR.
One of the prettiest bird sights I have
ever had the good luck to see was here;
In a little bay of water lilies, standing
011 the leaves and preening their plu-
mage, was a party of long legged, black
winged stilts, winter migrants from the
north; behind them was a wall of grace-
ful bending papyrus and overhead was
a snowy Casipan fern. Among the lilies
and on the openwater beyond are a
myriad coots and grebes, ducks •and
cormorants, and further 'still huge pelt -
cans;
Overhead are circling and constantly
crying a pair .of fish eagles, sometimes
so high up that we can barely make
out two shouting • specks above us,
sometimes se near that we can clearly
so the brilliant . black and white" and
red brown of their plumage. On a
shellow, sunken mud bank is h long
tine of white, which shows a tinge of
elack and crimson, as the great flock of
flamingoes rises and flaps slowly away
Happily there are no crocodiles here,
but hippos abound, and one may often
cstch a glimpse of nose and eyes as
they lie in the shallows basking in the
sun, or at night, when they feed, )ear
them crashing through the reeds.
It is only here and there that one can
follow the water's edge; mostly' the
reeds are too thick and the ground too
swampy for any but a waterbuck • to
pass. • Along the outside, where the
re,eds meet the grass, are big flocks 1
Egyptian 'geese, which spend most of
the day in sleep, but nuke noise enough
in the evening and early morning. Here
too, are black ibises, wary as curlews,
and sacred ibises in mail parties of
two and three, always busily searching
fcr food, explOring every ineh of ground.
Pi ether and more nonlicling are the
great white hercri and the smaller buff
-
backed herein, which hardly lake the
trouble to move as one aproaches; they
Re to feed among the herds of native
cattle, often perching on the Wes of
tin beasts, as I have seen them do in
Egypt. Crowned memos, generally in
end round their necks a etring of bends
Or OMPty eartridge 000. -
• It is a pretty sight to see 4 herd Of
the greceful tittle Thomson's gazelle
Polly called Townies) mingling with
a flock of sheep and goats, and renew-
ing with the others when the boys whis-
tle, or even needing a prod with the
spear point, to make them move faster,
Whether they do it foe amusement or
for the sake of companionship or for a
beeter protection against their enemies,
the prowling lion and leopard, who
shall say?
Grant's • gazelle, a • somewhat larger
anirnalswith beautifully curved horns, is
found here, too; but he is not so tame
es She former, and goes bounding away
--bouncing is almost the word—as
thongh his body were built of springs.
A few lumbering hartbeests, •hideous
red brutes with all the ugly features of
a cow and of the donkey combined, are
seen here and there; they Oot off until
they are just out of range, than turn
around and treat us to an inane stare,
One morning we came suddenly over
O low hill and walked into the midst of
a herd of zebras. •Off they went, fifty
or mare of them, as last as they could
gellop, straight toward a newly strung
wire fence. Either they did not see it,
oe they were too much frightened • to
turn aside; not one of them swerved,
but all dashed through the fence, as
though the wires were cobwebs, and as
far as we could see not one eves dam-
aged in the least, Zebras may be seen
from the railway literally in thousands
on the AIM Plains, near Nairobi, and
again on the rolling grvs lands between
Naivasha and Naleuru.
AT THE GOVERNMENT FARM,
a few miles from Islaivasha, experi-
ments have been made in crossing ze-
bras, but hitherto no very satisfactory
hybrid' has been produced. • The pure
bred animal is difficult to tame and of
very little use as a beast of burden; but
a strong hybrid, capable of resisting the
many diseases of the country, would
solve the horse problem of East Afrio
and would go far toward insuring the
prosperity of the colony.
Near the southeastern corner of the
lake is an island, the largest in' • the
lake; where we camped for a time. The
voyage of a mile or more from the main-
land is made in the relics of a boat,
which, from its appearance, must have
Leen brought here by the iirst explorers
thirty years ago. It was never less than
Sall full of water, which kept two boys
busy baling. with buckets; and the one
and a half broken paddles threatened
every moment to be reduced to none at
all. Half way across are two smael is-
lr Is; one a favorite breeding place of
herons and ibises, which nest here in
hundreds, the other apparently a play -
m mind. for the hippos, to judge from
the trampled reeds and the crashings
end gruntings which issue from it, by
nrght. The tangle by the lake shore is
the haunt by day of many water buck,
which SWIM over from the mainland
and find here a sanctuary from their
enemies, the lions and hyenas.
As the shadows grow longer and the
sun goes down behind the Mau a troop
cf baboons in the rocks begin to
chatter before they go to bed, and there
is a Oh' among the geese beside the.
lake. • Jackals, waking from their .long
siesta, trot over the plain and creep cau-
tiously toward the camps of the natives.
Something brown appears at the edge
of the reeds; it is a water buck. At
first his head and horns alone are vis-
itle, then after a wary look about him,
he steps out from his shelter and, stop-
ping here and there to crop a tuft of
grass, strolls off to a favorite saltlick a
nine away.
Like the red deer of Exmoor, the wa-
ter .buck play havoc in any unfenced
garden or cultivated ground. They
love to pull a plant up by the roots, and
after a single bite (not always that) pass
on to another. The twilight goes quick-
ie, and in half an hour it is black night.
There is a croaking chorus of frogs by
THE SUNDAY iHOR
iNTEIINAT,IONAL LESSON,
JULY 22,
Lesson IV. • Jesus TeeigKep flow
• Pray. Golden Text: Luke U. i.
THE Ln0N WORD STUDIES,
Note. --The text, of the Revised Version
is used as a basit fax etrese Word
Studies.
The Lard's Prayer.—The prayer coni.
moray known as the Lord's • Prayer
appears from the gospel narratives to
have been given by Jesus to his disciples
an at least two separate occasions. In its
fuller and more formal form it appeam
in the Serrnon on the Mount (Matt. 6. 8-
/3). Now, that is, at the time of the
events of our present lesson, the same
prayer in substance is given to the dis-
ciples in response to their definite re-
quest that Jesus teach them to pray.
Stress' is here laid on the subject mat-
ter, the order arid eie proportion of all
prayer, and the lesson of the old model
prayer itself is emphasized by further
parabolic teaching of Jesus on the sub-
jeot. If now we examine more carefully
the prayer itself we note the following
characteristics ; 1. Its humility—ac-
knowledging the utter dependence of
the petitioner upon God; • 2. Its rever-
ence; 3. Its simplicity .and modesty—
asking only for the needs of the pre-
sent day ; 4. Its brevity—omitting all
vain repetitions; 5. Its tone of confl-
dence—uttered in the spirit of expecta-
tion; 6. Its ,spirituality ---asking only
the simplest earthly boon while empha-
sizing strongly the spiritual needs.
• Verse I. And it came to pase—Severat
important events intervened between
those of our last lesson and those about
to be mentioned. Among them axe the
visit of Jesus to Martha. and Mary (Luke
10. 88-42); the healing of the man bora
blind; the discourse of Jesus on the •
Good Shepherd; and the events con-
nected with the visit of Jesus to the
Feast of Dedication (john 0. 1-10, 42).
' In a certain place—We remember
that, Jesus with his disciples was now'
on his journey southward from Galilee
to Jerusalem. The exact, place referred
to, however, is not known.
Even as John also taught his disciples
—In this John followed the custom. of
•Jewish rabbis generally in giving to his
adherents or disciples a definite formu-
la for prayer.
2. Father—the rendering of. the Au-
thorized Version, Our Father who art
in Heaven has the support of many,
though no't a majority of the hest
ancient manuscripts of the gospel. The
same is true of the petition, Thy will
be done, as in heaven, so in earth, in-
serted in the Authorized Version.
B. Day by day—Greek, Our bread for -
the comine day, or our needful bread.
4. Sins -literally, shortcomings, from.
• the' Greek word meaning to miss the.
mark; in the New Testament used only,
of moral shortcomings, hence trans-
lated sins.
Is indebted—The verb here used is
not the same as the verb above trans-
lated sins. •
Into temptation—Trial, testing, temp-
tation, proving, are all different ren-
derings of the same Greek verb in the
New Testament. 'The context in each
case determines the rendering, which
here is as it' should be, tenaptations.
The clause, But deliver us from evil, as
found in the A.uthorized Version, like
the phrases above referred to, has the
support of many Greek manuscripts.
the lake and the "konk" of herons over- 5. At midnight —Because of the op -
head flying to their fishing. As we preesive heat of the day, Orientals often
move toward the camp our steps are travelled at night,
perhaps a little quickened when we hear 7. The door is now shut --The Oriental
thc unearthly -howl of hyenas and the manner of shutting the door for me
discontented grunt of a lion. night often included barring and bar -
The Inmates Awoke to Find Th
mown CAR WRECKS COTTAGE
emseives rinicga.ding it on the inside, quite a Cum-
bersome operation in some • cases ;
hence the occupants of a house closed
be forced to open the door before morn -
for •the night found it inconvenient to
Two moterists connected with the
8. Importunity—Literally, shameless -
in Debris.
Calthorpe Manufacturing Company, ness, though the original word has no
Birniingham, Englanir4 who were on evil sense. We note, also, that the 110 -
their way to compete in the Scottish portunity of this man was not selfish
motor trials at Glasgow, had a nafrow but in behalf of a friend in need.
escape from death near Porith early plication Of the parable which follows
9. And I say unto yeu—For this cip-
A mile north of Penrith the'road di- and its teaching compare Matt. 7. 7-11;
the other morning.
vides, arid at Ibis spot stands a cottage, 21, 22; Mark 1. 24 ; and John /6. 23.
which is probably an old toll house. 11. Loaf—The customary loaf was in
On approaching the corner the driver reality a round, flat cake, and so rc-scui-
of the car turned to the left instead of bled somewhat a flat round stone.
the right Beane/leg his error, he en- 11, 12. Fish . . . serpent—These two
deavored to swing round, but the car, words may best be taken in connection
with the word egg and scorpion in the
which was travelling at a high rate of following verse. In the suggestion at
speed, skidded and crashed with great giving a stone for a loaf it was the
force into the front, of the cottage. cruel deception of the parent which was
The porch was demolished, the door emphasized; in the suggestion of sub
smashed, and much brickwork broken slituting a serpent for a fish, it was
down. The falling. debris severely cut rather the diabolical intention of giving
one of the passengers, and the other something extremely harmful in the
suffered from shock. place of something wholesome; and in
The inhabitantS of the cottage, which, the suggestion of giving a scorpion in
is a familiar landmark known as Mile- place of, an egg both the deception and
stone House, were asleep in bed at the the more wicked Intent of inflicting
time. They were awakened by the harm which are brought out. The feree
crash, and rushed to the door, but of the argument 'of Jesus lies, in part
could not get but owing to the wrecked at least, in this.elimacteric arrange -
car. mcnt of his threefold suggestion. It
Fortunately, some, motorists from may be n,ecessary to note that the
Nottingham, who nre taking part irf coiled -up scorpion is somewhat like an.
the trial, appeared on the scene. They egg in appearano.
assisted the four tenants to climb out 18. If ye then, being evil—Lit., being
of the col legs end conveyed the injured evil from the first, or evil already.
men back to Penrith.
How much more shalt your heavenly.
• Father—The Ontrast is between thn
pairs, stride conceitedly about wit hin.i for' IN THE PACI(ING HOUSE, perfect gift of the pellett Heavenly,
Father, munely, the lioly Spirite end the
dozeneYards of us. evidently conscious TThoe gift of an impeefect human,
THE DIFFERENCE,
of the lew that protects them. '
Of big game, though there is plenty
In the district, one does not see very
much on ltm eastern side Of the lake,
Here on the wide gressy flats and on
the lower elopes of the 111118 inimerise
flocke of sheep and goats lind pristiire,
M the time of our visit there were clriv-
ce every eveling to the home near Our
cemp Close npon
20,000 BLEATING ANIMALS,
0, the ancoMpaniment af mich 1x ill
whistling front ate boys who lend theiri.
Hefty sevngi,s DPP, these Mesei Igoe
clothed in little Tess than tt long spear,
the materiel, sir, neves nothing left
us but 'patience. •
The BossesWell, utilize elutle to.
A BAD SHOWING,
"That man hes •a very shady record."
"Dear me! What does he do?"
"Pets up =pings,"
eneet, ntghi George, you told me you
loved me More thnn tongue evert Mil,
and. ob, Genege, thol ween't truer "Why
darling, wfoll do you amen?" " "i mean
that it ween t more than my tittle two -
111001 tongue eatild- ten,. Ile heard it icy.
alit" Pat — Priat, did ho dcil avt
Jibbs : "Birk -ins tells me Tie Is only an .
aniatenr politician, but if anybody cart
tell ,re the differenee between an amp,.
tour arid the professional, ral treat."
Nibbs ; "All right, treat me. The clif-
ferenee is that, the amateur puts monk?,
into polities and the professional 'takes
money t .
• A NATURAL INQUIRY.
Mike• Well, Ilooligen 's sele teed'
woxrying rthout hie life luserance pole