Exeter Times, 1898-9-29, Page 2TI MES
VARIOUS KINN OF LIMITS
iMr. DR, TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON
THE BIBLE.
heaven, with serephier and archangel,
it is good enough to go anywhere where
Yon go or where I shall go. To purify
t•he bout, to cleanse the life, to cule
ture the taste, to expurgate all hy-
poorisy, and. falsehooae and sham, we
must have the Bible in the parlour.
eerhen Christian people coma to spend
an evening, they talk about the Vette
then and they talk about the seen
-
dal, and they talk about the(Props and
they talk about the markets; but they
do not talk about God, and Christ, and
heasea. The thing we most want to-
day iu all our parlors is tho aaMP: of
the Bible.
Still further; the Bible is the street
lamp. When night oonaes down on
the eity, orime goes forth to its worst
achieetements. Not only to show hon -
set citizens where to walk, but to
hinder the burglar, and assassin., and
highwayman, and piokpooket, we must
have artificial lights all over the city.
But there is a darkness beyond all
power of gaslight. Waal is the use
a police -station, and eImshouse, and
watetuna,n's club, if there be no mor-
al and religious influence to sanction
the low, and, to purify the .executive,
and to hang over legal enactment tbe
fear of God. and an enlighteued public
opinion. When in a olty orirae runs
rampant, and virtue is at a discount,
and jails are full and churches are
empty, and the nights are hideous with
the howl and the whoop of drunaarda,
and the saloons buil over with scum and
public offieials think more of e bribe
than they do of their own conscience,
and when great tides of wickedness
set down the streets -the first want of
such a city- as that is the street lamp
of the Bible. Did you ever stand in
a church tower and look down upon a
city at night? It is overwhelming.
But you feel that beneath all that
brilliancy of gaslight there is a surg-
ing sen of want, and suffering, and.
W08. History says that Dionysiu.s had a.
great cave built for his prieoners. He
VMS a oruel man, and he used. tago to
the tap of the cave, put his ear to the
Welting and listen, and the groans and
the sighings a the prisoners came up.
into his ear and made music for him.
God stands at the head of our world,
but for a different purpose, and with
a different heart. He puts His ear to
the dungeon, and every sigh comes up,
stirring His sympathies, and every
groan wounding His heart; and He
listeas all night long. There is but
one lamp that can throw light into ,
the dungeon where the prisoner
groans, into the hovel where the beg-
gar pines, into the cellar where the
drunkard wallows, into I he alley where
the libertine putrifies, into the mad-
house where the Maniac raves. Tra-
vellers in Africa tell us that they have
seen serpents -a vast number of them
-coiled together, and piled up in hor-
rid fold; and then they would hear
hundreds of them hissing at once, and
the sight and the sound was appalling
and unbearable. But if you should
take the wickedness of our best of
cities, and bring it all together in one
place, andpile it. up fold upon fold, it
would be a hissing horror and ghast-
liness that no human eye could look
at without being blasted, and no hu-
man ear could hear without being
stunned.
Now, how will all these scenes of
iniquity in our cities be overcome?
They will not be overcome until
the Church and the eohool, and a
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141s a tamp for the Parlour. tbe Street', the
Store, the chorea, aud the seputiebre-
• The auleuity et'Our Cities -The Great
Need era Steve earno-garnese *Ira for
the 11,11glif offline Scriptures.
despatch from. Washington says:-
Or. Talmage preacbed from the fol-
lowing text: "Thy word is a lteuelo"
1-PsaIra oxix. 105.
With lamps, and chandeliers, and
torches, and lantern% we try to drive
out the night f.rom houses and churcla-
es, and stores, and shops. He who in -
light (vents a new kind ofght invents his
own fortune and the fortune of his
ohildren. But there is a night ot sin,
and suffering., and shame, which needs
another kind of illu:mination. Ancient
philosophy ;node. a lamp, but it was a
dead failure, and the people kept oryina
out: "Give us a light I give us a
light!" After awhile prophet, and evan-
gelist, aod apostle naade a lamp. A
coal frora heaven struck it into a blaze,
end uncounted multitudes of people
• with an open Bible before them cry
out in raptare and in love: "Thy word
is a lamp."
When, a few years ago, there was
p great accident in Hartley Colliery,
England, and two hundredpersons lost
their lives, the Queen telegraphed
down to the, scene of disaster "Can we
give you any help? Will you be able
to get the men out'? How many are
lost? Give my sympathy to all the
bereft." What consolation it was to
the families who stood amid the con-
sternation and the terror, that the
throne of England throbbed. in syrolea-
thy with their disaster! But I have
to tell you to -day a more glorious
truth, and that is, irate. the throne of
God the King of heaven and earth tele-
graphs down through this Bible into
the dungeons of our sin and suffering
a message of pardon, of love, of same
patlay, of comfort, of eternal life. Like
some lighthouse on high promontory,
blessed by ships passing through dark-
ness and storm, so on the heights of,
• God's love and grace there flames forth
a. light upon the great sea of man's
wretchedness and of God's providence,
so that angels on their way earth-
ward, and ransomed spirits on their
way heavenward, and devils on their
way hellward, pass through its flash,
crying: "Thy word is a lamp."
You have four or five Bibles in your
house -perhaps ten, perhaps twenty.
They are such common property you
do not appreciate them. • If you. had
only one Bible, and for that you. paid
five hundred dollass-the price that
was paid in olden time for a copy of
the Scriptures -then you. would raore Christian printing -press kmdle a
thoroughly appreoiate it. I was once arottn.d about as God's street lamp
a oolporteur for a few months in a of the Bible. Send the Bible down
vacation. and I came into a home of that filthy alley, if you. would have it
cleansed. Send it against those de -
destitution. I saw a woman there canters, if you. would ha.ve them
eighty-five years of age, and I said to smashed. Send it against those
her: "May- I give you a Boger "g,,, chains,. if you would have them broken.
she replied: "a Bible would be.of no Send it through all the ignorance
of the city, if you would have it Mum-
ma to me. can't see to read. ined as by a flash from heaven's
gla,ssy Indian seas; bringing wine from
lielbere and ehariot cloths from De -
den, and, gold and sPioes trorn
and emerald and agate from Syria; her
waters foam/Jug with innumerable
keels; her store -houses bursting with
the treasures of all nations -- that
queen of cities, on a throne of ivory
and ebony, under a orown of gold,
and pearl, and dittrooud, and carbuncle
and chrysoprcts ? The want a a right
kind of store lamp. If tae priociples
of t.eligion had ruled in Jaer trade, do
you suppose that dry rot would have
sank the ships, aad Lila vermin would
have eaten up her robes, o.nd that God's
mills would have ground up the agate,
and that fishermeo would dry their
nets on tb.e rocks which °nee were
agnake with the roar and. tread of a
great metropolis? 0, what thrones
have fallen, what monuments have
crumbled, what fleets have sunk, what
statues have been defaced, what bar-
laarisms have been created, what ci-
vilization retarded, what nations
damned, all for the want of the right
kind of a store lamp, Men of businessi
take your Inbles with you to -morrow
morning. Place them in your store or
shop. FDo not be ashamed if anybody
at noon finds you reading the &rip -
tures. It is safe always to do busi-
ness by its teachings. There was a
young man in a store in Boston, Mend-
ing behind the couater, selling goods.
A. gentlemen came in, and asked for
some Middlesex cloths. "0," seed the
young man, "we haven't any Middlesex
cloths, but here is something just as
good," "No," replied. the gentleman,
"I don't want them;" and. he passed
out. The head of the firm, came down
to the young man, and said; "What did
that man want?" "ale wanted Middle-
sex cloths," replied, the young man.
"Why didn't you tell him they were
Middlesex cloths?" "Because they were
not, sir." "Then you can take your
hat, and leave." The young naap took
his hat and left. Be went into mer-
chandize in Cincinnati, went on up
till he became a merchant prince, and
not more eminent for 'wealth than for
piety. God will never let a young man
suffer for doing right. Full justice
may not be done him in this world;
whether or not they were Middlesex
but in the last day, before an as-
sembled universe, it will be found out
Stilla farther; the Bible is the best
Church lamp. I care not how many
chandeliers there may be in a church
how many brilliant lights there may
be, the Word of God is the best eb.urgh
lamp. 0, is there anything more beau-
tiful than an aodlence gathered on the
Sabbath for Christian worship? There.
may be no dazzle of tbeatric assera-
bla,ge, there may be no glitter of foot-
lights, there may be no allegoria im-
ages blossoming from pit to dome; but
there is something in the place and
in the occasion that ina.kes it super-
natural. In the light of this lamp I
see your faces kindle with great joy.
Glorious church lamp, this Bible. Lu-
ther found it in the cloister at/Erfurt,
and he lifted it until the monasteries
and cathedrals of Germany and Italy,
and France and England saw its il-
lumination. It shone under the
breat-plate of sacerdotal authority,
and, in the mosques of Turkey, and
in the pagodas of India, and in the
ice huts of Greenland, and in the mud
hovels of Ad Africa, anIn the Temples of
ChineeeGod's regenerated children, in
musical Tamil, and. sweet Italian, and
nasal Chinese, and. harsh Choctaw,
cried out: "Thy Word is a lamp." It
throws its light on the pulpit, making
a bulwark of truth; on the baptismal
cup, until its waters glitter like the
crystals of heaven. It strikes peni-
tence into the prayers and gladness
into the thanksgiving. It changes into
a church john Bunyan's prison, and.
Covenanter's Cave, and Calvin's castle,
and Huss's stake, and Hugh MoKairs
scaffold of martyrdora. Zwinglus car-
ried it into Switzerland,John Wick -field
into England, and John Knox into Scot-
land, and Jehu.di Ashman into Africa.
Begone ye scoffers! Down to the low-
est pit, ye emissaries of darkness 1 for
by the throne of an omnipotent judg-
ment I declare it that all inquity shalt
fall, and all bondage be broken, and
all wounds be healed, and all darkness
be dispelled, when God's truth shall go
forth "as a lamp that burneth." We
want no saloon e or miners to level the
wall; we want no tixemen or engineers
to prepare the way; we want no glit-
tering ,steel, or booming gun, or howl-
ing Hotchkiss shell to get us the vice
tory, for the ro.ountains are full of
horses and chariots of fire. Hallelu-
jah 1 for the kingdoms of this world
are become the kingdoms of our Lord
Jesus Christ. I do not wonder that
the stranger who sat the other day be-
side me in the rail -car reading his Bi-
ble, after he had conoluded his read-
ing, closed it, and kissed it, andeput it
in his pocket. There have been times
when you did the same. When all else
failed. you, it was so bright, it was so
loving, it was so sympathetic a book
that you too kissed it.
I used. to read, but for tvrenty years---'----ogThe Bible can do it -will do
a haven't been able to read a it. Gather all the ignorance and the
wickedness, and the vice of our cities
word." Ipulled out of my satchet one
in one great pile -Alps above Alps,
of the copies of the Psalms of David Pyrenees above Pyrenees, Hima-
and. the New Testament in great, laya above Himalaya in motley array
large, round type, and. I said: "Now --and then give one little New Testa -
merit full swing against the side of
put on your spectacles and see if you
that rammtain, and down it would
can't read this." She wiped her spec- come, Alps after Alps, Pyrenees after
tacles and put them on, "0, yes" she Pryenees, Himalaya after Himalaya.
said: "Why, I can see after all. I am What a the difference between New
yes, York and Pekin? What is the differ -
very thankful to you. Why,
ence between London and Madras?
see it: "I love the Lord. because He What is the difference between Edin-
aath heard my voice and rate -0, yes, burgh and Canton? No difference, save
I can read it, I can read it." I wish that which the Bible makes. 0, city
that God to -day would make the Bible missionary; 0, philanthropist; 0, Chris -
as new and fresh to us as it was to tian, go everywhere. and kindle up
her. these gre,a,t street lamps of the Gospel;
I want to show you that the Bible and our city, purified and clean.sed,
is a lamp -a parlour lamp, a street will proclaim what the Psalmist so
lamp, a store lamp, a church lamp, a long ago declared: "Thy Word is a
sepulchral lamp. 1anap."
In parlours all aflash with gaslight, I know there are peopie who suppose
and. gleaming mirror, and blazing that the vice of our cities is going to
chandelier, and candelabra, there may conqu.er the virtue of the people. I do
be Egyptian darkness; white in some not believe it. Let error and vice
plain room, which a frugal hand has run, if you only let truth run along
spread with hospitality and refine- with them. Urged on by sceptic's
ment, this one Lamp may cast a glow shout, and transcendentalist's spur, let
that makes it a fit place for heavenly error run! God's angels of wrath are
coronations. We invoke no shadows in hot pursuit, and quicker than
to fall upon the hilarities of life. We eagle's beak clutcheth out a hawk's
would not have every song a dirge, heart, God's vengeance will tear it to
and every picture a martyrdom, and pieces. Let it run, if you only let
every step a funeral pace. God's lamp God's Word run along with it.
hung in the parlour would. chill no Still further: the MIAs a the test
joy, would rend no harmony, would store lamp. Blessed is the merchant
check no innocent laughter. On the who under its glow reads his ledger,
contrary, it would bring out brighter and transacts his business, and pockets
colours in the picture; it would. ex- his gains, and suffers his losses. It
pose new gracefulness In the curtains may he well to have a fine sky -light,
it would unroll new wreaths from the to have a magnificent glass show -win -
carpet; it would strike new music dow, by night to have bronzed brackets
from the harp; it would throw new spouting fire in 5 very palace of mer -
polish into the manners; it would, chandize; 'but if you have not this
kindle with tight borrowed from the eternal lamp you. had 'better quit keep -
very throne of God ell the refine- ing store. What is the reason so
raents of society. 0, that the Christ many who started in raerchandize,
who was born in a, barn would come with good principles, and fair prospects,
to our parlour 1 We need His hand and honouralile intentions, have be -
to sift the parlour music. We need come gamblers and defrauders, and
His taste to assort the parlour Meru- knaves, and desperadoes, and liars, and
ture. We need His voice to conduct thieves'? They did not have the right
the parlour conversation. We are apt kind of a, store lamp. Why is it, in
to think of religion as being a rude, our day, merchandize is smitten witb
blundering thing, not fit to put its uncertainty, and three-fourths of the
foot upon Axminster, or its clownish business of our great cities in only one
hands on beautifal adornments, or huge species of gambling, and soctiety
lift its voioe amid the artistie and re- is upturned by false assignments, and
fined; so, while we have (Jesus in the two -third sets ani repudiationseind im-
nursery, when we teach our children Perilled trust -funds, and fradulent cer-
to pray, and Jesus in the dining -hall tifieetes of stock, und wild sehernes in
when we ask His blessing upon our railroads without any track, and banks
food, and Jesus in the sitting -room without any capital, and cities with -
when we have family prayers, it is a out any houses, and. joint-stock atm -
simple fad that from ten thousand panies without any conscience? Ana
Christian homes in. this country why are ten thousand of our busi-
Christ is from one end of the year to nese men ridden with a night -mare en -
the other shut out of the parlour. 0, nigh to crash Heroules and Proate-
• that housekeepers understood that theta? It is the want of a right kind
the graoe of God is the greatest ac- of store lamp, What ruined the neer-
complishinent, and that no seat is too chant princes of Tyre -that great city
luxuriant for religion to sit in, and of fairs anct bazaars, and palaces; her
no arch too grand for religion to walk vessels oC trade with cedar masts and
undernand tio eirele too brilliant for emoroiclered sails, and ivory benches,
religiott to move in. If Christianity driven by fierce blasts on Northern
et last is to walk up the strots of waterS, and. then dropping down on
and the life, he that believeth in Me,
though he were dead, yet shall he UM"
0 ye bruised souls tra ye wto have
been eating yourselves among the
turnbe 1 0 ye who have been sowing
seed for the resurreotion day!.0 ye
of the broken heart 1 I come out to-
day and pat in ynur band this glor-
ious Gospel lamp, It will throw aglow
of consolation over your bereft spirit.
"Weeping may 'endu.re for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning," "They
that sow in tears will reap in
Rabbi Mier went off from home to be
gpne for a few days, and left two beau'..
Una boys. While he was gone the two
lads died. Rabbi Mier returned, not
knowing that anything bappened. His
Christian wife knew he would be over-
come with grief, and. she met him at
the door and said to him: "114 hus-
band, I one had two beautiful jewels
loaned to rae. T had them for a little
while. Wad do you know while you
were gone tbe owner came for them
Ought 1 to have given them?" "0
comae," said Rabbi Mier, "you ougat
to have given them up, you say they
were only loaned." Then she celled her
husband to the side -room and remov-
ed. the cloth that covered the dead
children. After Rabbi Mier had for a
few moments given way to his grief,
he rose up and ' said: "Now I anew
what you meant by the borrowed jew-
els. "The -Lord gave and the Lord.
hath taken away, Blessed. be the name
af, the Lord." And so Rabbi Mier was
comforted. Let this sepulchral light
gild all the graves of your dead, May
this lamp of the text be set in all
year parlours, in all your streets, in
all your stores, in all your ohurches,
in ail your sepulchres! Amen,
Still further the Bible is a sepul-
chral lamp. You know that the an-
cient Egyptians used to keep lights
learning in the torahs of their dead.
These lights were kept up for scores,
even hundreds of years. Friends would
corne from generation to generation
and put all in the lamps, and it was
considered a disaster if those lamps
went out. You and. I will some day go
down into the house of the dead. Some
have looked upon it as an unknown
land and when they have thought of
it, their knees have knooked together
and their hearts fainted. There were
whole generations of men that had no
comfort about death, no view of the
eternal world, and whenever they
brought their friends and put them
away into the dust, they said, with-
out any alleviation: " This is horrid,
this is horrid." And it was. The grave
is the deepest, ghastliest pit that a.
man ever looks in, unless the lamp of
God's word. flashes into it. For whole
ages men thought that the sepulchre
was a den where a great monster gorg-
ed himself on human carcasses. Twill
put an end to that," said Jesus of Naz-
areth: "1 with mine own voice go
down and make darkness flee;" and
as He stepped out from the gate of
heaven, all the graveyards of earth
efleal "Came I Come!' And Ile came
cloWneabringing a great many beauti-
ful light% and above this babe's grave
Fle hung a light; and over this Moth-
er's tomb He hung a light, and. over
this wife's grave He hung a light, and.
over all the sleeping -places of the
Christian dead IIe hung a light. Then
ITe ut Lena His voice, and it ran along
under the ground from city to city,
ana 'Hoag under the sea from oon€[m-
ent to continent, until mausoleum, and.
sarcophagns, and sepulchre throbbed
with the joy, -"1 am the reeurreetion
London's Big Cooking School.
A fortune with her frying pan is
what Mrs. A. B. Marshall, a young
English woman, can boast of having
TH1B SUNDAY SCHOOL,
%F.r...s-
INTBRNA.TIONAL LESSON, OCT. 2‘
"Reformation Ender asa." e Citron. ea
IOU, (Odom 'text, e einem. Ia. 11.
PRACTICAL NOTES,
Verse 2, Asa did that which was
good and right in the eyes of the
Lord. He studied carefully the will of
aebovel as le hed been expressed by
Lawmakers and prophets, and zealous-
ly sought to conform. his life to it.
There is no safe test of integrity but
the approbation of tbe Lord. Public!,
opinion often goes astray, and ofteil
our own hearts coodemn us; but God
ia greater than our hearts, If in his
eyes our motives are right, all is well.
His God. Two sorts of idolaters are
recognized by the historians of judah
and Israel -those who ."sinned acoord-
ing to the sin of Jeroboam the son of
Nebate" that is, those who had the
true God end the correet theology,
but whose worship was either 'degrad-
ed in deference to political plans or
insincere; and tlaose who sinned like
Ahala-that is, worshiped'false gods.
8. Ile Look away the altars of the
strange gods. "Strange gods" mean
"stranger" gods, foreign gods. High
plaoes, Especially the high places
consecrated to these false gods. From
2 Chron. 15. 17 we find that the high
places consecrated tb Jehovah were
not yet removed. Altars were usual-
ly built on hilltops, and often ehapels
or sanred tents were erected with them,
Brake down the images. The pillars,
memorial stones, or posts ereotea to
earned. Her fortune is as large and Baal. Cut down Ine groves. Revised
solid as the most ambitious could
Vereion, Asherim. This phrase, like
hope to win in the Klondike, and. her
"image's," refers to pillars, only that
establishment is one 01 the raost ins- theee were wooden, and dedicated tot
portant in all London. ,A number of the goddess Ashtaroth. The worship
of the Lase god, and t
years ago she laid the foundations of he false goddess
e were naturally entwined about each
her present prosperity by opening
modest but very practical school of
cookery, At first there were small
classes, which gathered under Mrs.
Marshall's personal instruction in a
other. The rttes were picturesque and
exceedingly degrading, as indeed. they
could not, but be, for the deities them-
selves were personified vices.
4. Commanded Judah. Issued. a. pro-
clamation throughout his little king -
couple of little rooms, yet so ably did dom. To seek the Lord God of their
she teach the pupils that her fame fathers. To worehip Jehovah as the
spread, and women wishing for erne only God of Israel. Froni the story
ployment as cooks came to her for elsewhere we learn how trena.endously
in earnest Asa was in all this reforma-
training. tion. He deposed Queen Maachah, his
This development of her calling mother (1 Kings 15. 10,) or his grand -
gave her the idea. of opening an es- mother, according to 1 Kings 15. 2, and
tablishment 18 London, where every her idols were openly destroyed. To
e do the law. dy arid
detail of kitchen need, • supply and religious ordeTor ostuthe f the natcivilion. Cora -
comfort would be carefully and soien- mandm.ent. The thought here 'is that
tifically considered. To this day the of obedience. The "commandment" is
business goes under the title of "Mar- the precept which enjsins the practioe
s
shall's School of Cookery," but anyone Cf the "law tudied,
" which they
Iu.denthe high places and; the images.
5
6. He took away out of all the cities
who visits tate t;stablishment an Mor- cad. -
timer street vitalizes that this wo- the sun. statues, altars, and emblems
man has done something more th alai at Baal, the, SUll god. Judging by mod-
ern Hindu imag some of these wer
carry on a see
hoot. • The department of in the shape of a lau.man head, sur -
instruction is maintained as vigorous-: rounded by a halo, and others prob-
ly, as ever, and everyone, frora duch-: ably of thelmman form thus surround-
esses to .draernian's wives,in need of ed. A.sa was a beneficent despot; he
f did not .consult with anyone, but did
kitchen lore, oporaes to these classes' what was right, and bis nation was the
for training, :but- the , business has .a I better for it. The kingdom was quiet
dozen equally as valuable branches.' before him. Literally, ":under his eye."
He looked on. every hand about his
One of th,e mast important is the in-
telligence. office, to which househo1 ld- ' of /plotting- within no
little kinadom and
could see no sign
e of invasion with-
ers resort when in. search of cooked. out. It is true that the kingdom of
and to which cooks come in quest of Israel and tint of Judah were not at
this time in friendship, but it is prob-
employment. Clergymen's wives in '
able that EL hostile feeling rather than
from the country and countesses la actual hostilities are referred. to in 1
their carriages patronize this intelli- Kings 15. 16. That a people,. some of
gems office, where the cooks register- whom doubtless were sincere in their
ed are all trained and vouched for by
worship of false gods, and others of
tis,- Arra
whom were financially interested in
. that heathen worship, should so
cooking sehool, she gets a diplorna
When a woman graduates from the readily obey his commandsdiploma., shows
which is a high recommenhat tae moral poison had dation et completely corrupted the spirinot
tual
i'fe of the nation. The ten years o
P8008 which A.sa enjoyed were made
good use of. Ha 'built fenced cities in
Judah, thus following the example of
ing to pay for skilled his 'grandfather Rehoboam. 'The cue -
the intelligence department covers service. But terns of the Hebrews gave to their
more than one requirement for done- kings huge revenues, and the royal
estic help in the kitchen. There is wealth wee tncreased by each success-
alwaysucampaign; but the "good" kings
in the office a corps of emer- always emphasized the theeereey, end
gency cooks capable of commanding in regarded God as the real king and
and directing a, hotel or castle kitch- themselves as. seicagerents - stewards
of the great Householder. Thar in-
come therefore was not -regarded as
"private," but was lavishly spent for
the defence of the nation. "Fenced
cities" were fortresses, some of them
most massive. The invasion by the
Egyptians in Rehoboam's day and the
extensive wars which A.bija.h suffered
made this renewal of the fortresses by
Asa. a necessity. The land had rest.
Not only was "the kingdom quiet under
his eye," not only did the statesmen
and generals recognize the prevail-
ing conditions of peace, but the people
;themselves were at rest, each one sit-
ting under his own vine and fig tree,
with none to make him afraid, and the
signs of prosperity and security made
the popular lite wholesome and hap-
py. "Rest and quiet," as Dr. Turn-
bull weightily says, "som.etimes go to-
gether; but sometimes rest is aocom-
panied by strife and struggle." We
read that in Asees reign his land was
quiet ten years, but when barbaric
invasion shattered the national quiet
Asa was still able .to' say to thei teord,
'We rest on thee." This is our privil-
ege -to have rest alike when there is
quiet and whe,n there is warfare; and d,
to well with delight at alttimes on
the thought that there remaineth a
rest' to the people of God.
7. Therefore. "Because the Lord hacl.
given him rest." He said unto Suclah.
Probably by a series of proclamations.
Let us build these oities. No cities are
named, but Gabe, and Mizpeh, 2 Chron.
10. 6, were two of ,these. Make about
them walls and towers, gates and bars.
The "walls" were of stone and were
an abundant defense against any wea-
ponsthat in that age could be brought
against them, Explosives, were almost
unknown, and battering-rams were
guarded agrunst by backing the walls
by solid earth. " Towers " were built
at intervals, so as to give tbe defend-
ers adventege over the assailants, The
besieging army often on its part built
wooden towers high enough to reach
these towers on the walls. The "gates"
were covered with plates of brass or
VERY DIIPPERENT, iron and. the " bars inereased their
3)Idn't you tell nee that new gown strength. While the lend is yet be -
of yours cost: $409 fore us. 'This was the reason of Asa's
No, TtOhert; I told you it coati 489.98,1 "la titne of peace prepare'
wherever she may apply. As a usual
thing the graduates prefer to pass in-
to the intelligence office, and then in-
to good berths in the households of
those who are eager to have and will -
en, cooks who go out on the job, who
will engage only to prepare special
meals or speoial dishes, and cooks who
are trained only for invalids and for
hospitals.
In the school itself every method of
preparing food; from a baby's break-
fast to a state dinner, is taught, and
the classes are carefully divided.
From 10 to 4 every day the white-
aproned instructors in the great
rooms fitted as kitchens are drilling
aristocratic pupils or laying down the
law of roasting and 13oiling to a corps
of women who are called apprentices,
and spend several years in receiving
their education.
Across the hall from the intelli-
gence office, is the supply bureau,
from which customers may buy goods
-e,anned, boxed and bottled -and
such fancy groceries as Mrs. Marshall
herself refines and prepares. Next to
this is the editor's office, fax the firm
publishes its own series of recipe
books, and an attractive little month-
ly budget of kitchen news, contain-
ing advice to cooks, recipes, etc. On
leaving this department ono passes in-
to the shop where kitchen utensils are
sold. Here the latest improvements
in coal, charcoal, gas and electric
stoves are exhibited, with the most
recent inventions in wood, cozier, tin,
Iron ancl aluminum utensils.
In addition to all these departments
is the exhibition hall. In spring and
autumn the graduating classes are
examined and show their prowess
here, and the patrons of the house are
invited in to taste of the new dishes
of Mrs. Marshall's invention and to
see her cooks at work. The hall is
then filled with long tables, set lux-
uriously as for dinners, luncheons,
slippers or breakfasts. The most re-
cent patterns in menus, floral, and
fruit deeorations, the arrangement of
roses and the lighting of tables are
displayed, and the whole exhibition is
accompanied by a series of letPtureti on
the military art.
for war," is a alexia,. wiach, while of-
ten Misusee, has sonie wisdom. tender -
t
neath it,
8. Asa, had, an array. Not, howev-
er, a regular army, in the inodero
sense of that pieces% Ile had provided
with weepone all citizens on whom. lie
felt jestified itt calling in time of War.
Targets, Long Welds, Spears. The
most readily used weapons of anoient
warfare. Bare shields and drew bows.
The ebields were of the lighter,. round
sort, and the bows were evidently very
strong which is shown by the word
"drew," literally "trod," whielz in-
dicates that the foot had to be used
18 plaoing arrow in position, so
stiff was the spring,) The armor of
the left-handed Benjanaites was evi-
dently lighter than that of the troops
from Judah.
9. There came out against them Zer-
ah the Ethiopian. Most of the facts
concerning Asa are given in Kings as
well as in Chronicles, but this invasion
is only mentioned here. 1 Who Zeeali
was is not bertainly known. Most late
authorities Incline to believe that he
was a king of :Egypt, though it is not
easy to uncleratand how an Egyptian
could be celled an Irthiopian. It is
conjectured by some that Zereh was
Oserkon 11, and. was really an Ethiop-
ian prima who ruled over Egypt
on adeount of his marriage
with the daughter of the Egyptian
king. If he in any way represented
the Egyptian throne, the reason of his
inerasion may have been that Asa re-
fused to continue the tribute which
Shishele had imposed upon Rehoboam.
A host of a thou.sand thousand, and
three hundred ohariots. This horde
probably was made up of mercenaries,
Arab nomads, always ready for a fight,
and. now swept northward by the Ethi-
opian army, eaoh tribe hoping to have
a share of the expected plu.nder. The
number of ' chariots is small, due,
doubtless, to the fact that it was next
to impossible for chariots to be used
effectively in juda,b.. The approach
from Egypt was especially difficult for
them. Maxeshah. "Summit." This
town had been fortified by Rehoboana
and it lay on the edge of the desert,
about teventy-five miles southwest of
Jerusalem. From it the road rose
rapidly and roughly. It was the first
great Jewish fortress to which Zerah's
army came.
10. Then Ase went out against him..
As soon as, the news of the invasion
rearehed him. The valley of Zephathah.
Of this valley nothing is certainly
knOwn.
11. Asa cried unto the Lord his
God. He took every precaution for safe-
ty and advantage of his army, but was
at the earne time conscious, of his
own ability to meet the foe, and re-
lied entirely on God. Lord, it is noth-
ing with thee to help, "No one is able
like thee to help." Whether with
many, or with them that have no pow-
er. God is as ready to take the side
of the weak as the side of the strong.
The giving forth of God's power is
nothing to him, but it is great deal
to his children. Help as, 0 Lard God,
(Exod..14. 10; 1 Chlron. 5. 20; 2 Chron.
18. 14; Psalm 18. 6; 50. 1:5; Acts 12:21.)
We rest on thee. Caere comes the sec-
ond, and by far the most impressive,
view of the reit of gout which Asa:en-
joyed. In thy name. Trusting to
thy help. We go again.st this multi-
tude. When e, man stands for the
Lord and moves forward. as the Lord's
representative he is invincible. Let
not man prevail against thee. "No
man can ever hold out against thee."
12. So. Therefore. The Lord smote
the Ethiopians 'before Asa. Not Asa
smote the Ethiopians before the Lord.
The result % of all human efforts are,
in the last analysis, divine.
LIFE IN SIAM,
r...••••••
Oresi and. Owelluags of an Always ink
tai; People,
,whila Siam, is an independent mei
state governed by its own king, its e
pie have aooepted, enough Europil
ideas to present 0. Strange martins
barbarism. and civilization. eg Ban
!role, the capital, one sees Buddhist
pies, two -horse buses, Chinesollanterts
and electric lights, buffalo eats and
bioyoles, Chinese coolies riding in ate.'
trio oars and, sueb, incongruitae.
Tate offieial garment of the Buldhl8t
priests is yellow, and as there are lo
000 of these priests. In Bangkok aid
over 100,000 in Siam, yellow is a donee.,
ant color in the kingdom. Ae ()yore
men Is bound to be. a priest for
three months in some period, of els
112e, the yellow robe is one of the most
coninion sights.
The people of Siam. at° ranch addiated
to living either on houseboats or le
houses built on piles to keep them
taiboonv: intbeltheevweel tofsetahsoenalinnTnaliel °tate;
early learn to swine, and if they. fall
into the. water it does not matter. Like
their elders, they are happy, lazy folk,
but very good-natured. Siantese chil-
dren, especially the little girls, are'
exceedingly pretty, rivaling, if not exs
c,eeding, all tbe other beautiesof the
east, japan incladed. They ata very
merry, continuously cootented, easila
pleased and most unselfish in their,
dealings with one another. Their al.
most absolute lack of selfishness is one
of the most pleasing features in theie
very lovable character.
The ordinary dwelling-bome in Siam
consists of three TOUMS-the kitchen,
the drawing-rooni and the bedroom,
The rooms are but poorly furnished.
There is no chimney to the kitchen,
and, the .walls being but framework
sereens, the stnoke permeates anddirt
accumulates everywhere. But they
take things easily in Siam, where every
ra.ember of the household knows how to
cook. If the mother is noL at home
the father c,an easily take her place,
for he knows quite well how long rice
should. be boiled or bananas stewed.
The little children can fry fish or make
the carry, and so are independeat of
their parents in this respect. ever
-
ever the voice of hunger makes itself
heard its appeal is promptly responded
to, and consequently great irregularity
prevails in the times of meals. But
as a general rule there are two fixed
meals eaoh day, one at about 7 o'clock
in the morning and the other about
5.30 in the afternoon. The chief ar-
tiole of food is rice. an the cooklog
of this grain the people hove no rivals,
ENGLISH LITERARY LIONS.
GOWNS OF MEN AND WOMEN.
In the long ago our Saxon ancestors,
equally with their women -folk, wore
gowns, says an English writer. The
early Saxon called this garment a Gun-
n% while his Welsh contemporary
spoke of it as Gwn. A little later
there crept into our language the
word cote, although a eoat as we un-
derstand costume did. not make its ad-.
vent in the realms of fashion until the
second half of the seventeenth century.
But just as we of to -day use indiffer-
ently the terms frock, dress, costume,
gown, so the Anglo-Saxon and Norman
Danes spoke of their cotes, surcotes,
and robes. When the Normans came
over and polished our manners, and -
as an attendant sequence -our cos-
tumes, they found. the Roma,nized Bri-
tish female wearing two tunics, the
upper one shorter than the lower. A
bishop of Winchester describes a pres-
ent he sends as "a short guano sewed
in our manner."
Female costume in the tenth cen-
tury was classical um its simplicity. The
women wore long, loose„ flowing skirts
reaching to the feet, and a draped cote
or upper garment. Chaucer, who
died in .1.400, when Henry IV. was
Ring, frequently used the word cote.
In the "Canterbury Tales" he depicts
the sergeant -at -law as wearing "a med-
ley cote," which no doubt means a coat
of many colors; while the miller lie de-
scribes as wearing "a, whyte cote." It
was in the fourteenth century that the
word "gown" first came into use. An
anonymous author in no mild words
findli fault with the fashion of his
days. He writes that "the commons
were besotted in excess of apparel, in
wide sumo:301s reaching to their loyns;
some in a -garment reaching to their
heels, close before and strowting out
on the side, so that on the back they
make men seem women, and these they
call by a, ridiculous name -gown." As
early as the twelfth century women's
.cotes were made with trains, and in
the first quarter of the thirteenth cen-
tury a bishop sadly moralizes on their
vanity for wearing trained cotes, some
of which oontaineds"seven ells and a
hal f."
Richard II. came to the throne in
1877, and the citizens of London ap-
peared before him "in 'white and red
gowns," the King's livery colors. Up
to the time of Henry IV. women wore
their gowns high up to the neck, the
collard fitting closely around the
throat, tut when Henry V. became
Xing, 1418, the mode slightly changed
and turnover collars and very short
waists were favored by fashionable
CLUB TAMA
Wasn't the teasing ef lovely summer
make your heart sad'?
Well, it 'would, but the milliner win-
dows cast such an exquisite glamour
over autumn,
Traits and chesee—teristies of the Greet
Novelists Of the ,Day.
There is an interesting group of no-
velists in London whose society is
sought by men end women of fashion.
They are Made much of wherever theo
gliaaali (tat are petted. and flattered. wit
sh
Rudyard Kipling is one of the least
ananageable of the literary tons.
has the restless energy of Inman who
has been travelling and. working
many lands. He dislikes compliments,
shuns society, and prefers to live quiet-
ly end to see only a few intimate
friends.
Thomas Hardy is a great favorilg in
London, but is seldom seen there.alle
lives in the country, and is one of theoc"
most mod.est among literary, -inen...-W
rarely talks about his own work, and
seems surprised when strangers meet
and greet him as a great literary ar-
tist.
Rall Caine, like Thorned; Hardy, pre -
fere "the country to the town, but he
is more intense in his manner and
more self-centred in conversation. Be
talks well and is a dramatic story -tel-
ler. When his attention le fixed upon
his own work and personality he is
least interesting, and. is wholly at hie
best when some keen mind diverts.atrn-
from himself and Interests hien in
vvhat is going on in the world of ideas.
J. M. Barra is a shy and retiring
MEM, who has boen drawn into social.
life against his will. His conversa-
tion is bright and pleasing, but it must
always be foroed out by those who are
with him. He is modest and reeerved,
and coatent to remain In the back-
ground if any one else wishes to talk.
Dr. Conan Doyle is as tall and stal-
wart as Mr. Barrie is short and. in-
significant in appearance. He is ; a
sinewy, vigorous giant, with a blulg,
hearty manner and a strong voice, He
feels at home among men, takes an in-
terest in cricket and field sports, and
carries himself like a man of the world
who is conscious of his ability to hol(1
his ground.
Sir Walter Besent Is also a burly
Englishman, with a loud voice; but he
cares less for society than Doctor Doyle
and is more of a student, His favor-
ite topic is London, whieh he knows
more intimately iri all its steeled as-
soehetions than perhaps any other Eng -
George Meredith is ths most intellec-
tual of all the English novelists. He
is Sappiest in his own library in the,
country with an old. friend who can
talk intelligently about Frenc/a and
German literature.
The most accomplished man of the
world among, English novelists is An-
thony Hope Hawkins, who revels in
dinner -parties and receptions, and
a great favorite in social life. 1E8 manAk
ners are most agreeable, and he has '.
o ready wit and a bOyish flow of
4spirits.
Novelists like artists are as differ-
, t • ,
ent in manner and eastes as they are
in their methods and ideals. Their
strong individuality makes them in-
teresting people to meet. So persis-
tently are they sought and. lionimed
that they findlittle time for serious
work, in so great a social centre as
London, and are compelled to live out-
side in the, country.
A Possible Sequel -If you sbottid buy
d13 goods for $2, began the professor,
who was explaining an obscure gent,
in political scononly- Say 1$1.99, tnur-
n urea Miss Vessel", -or, say $1„99-
118 transaetion will be conattlete when
the good e ere paid for, trtiess, •,,ug -
1 niL.' is VaS8Eire 1 Should brink).
Han buck: to 18 exchanzed for aortae -
thing