The Brussels Post, 1904-8-4, Page 7v
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11 EINE
Wonderful Are the Triumphs Over Natural
Laws and Forces,
ekeiatua according t,r) Act ot the 1 or -
/lament of Canada, to the year one
Thousand Nino Hundred end Pour.
by 1Vin. tIcWy, of Toronto, at Ole
Vepurtment of Agriculture, ottaw 1 1
A. despatch from Los Angeles pays:
Bev, Prank De Witt Talmage preach-
ed front the following text: John
elv., 1 2, "(IreaLer works than these
shall he do,"
Alan increases not ihls gompel faith
Sy lowering the s tandards of the
revs's. You might es well expect,
11140 cC,. 0.A1 uplillI of 11,11 00711 tie -
cord, or violets to grow during mid-
winter lir n enowbank, or daylight
sun in the west, or the flush of
to follow after the staking of the
health to be eeea on the pale cheek
of n. corpse, 01' a htiinnhlng bird to.
voluntarily make Ilei. nest 11.1 the
:dark labyrinths like a ground 141e10,
as for a radiant faith capable a
transforming Ohmmeter to exist in
any temple unless the chief corner-
. stone of that temple is Jesus Christ.
"And 1, if I be lifted up from
RILI't11, will draw all men unto 11)0."
• !II Wild .100118 ChrINt jtiSt a short time
before his crucifixion. "X am tho
W11,(, the truth and the life. No man
conteth unto the leather but by me,"
speaks our resurrected :Redeemer to
the gospel workers of tele present
day.
Let it bo clearly understood at the
outset 1 -hot by no word or thought
'would I seek to depreciate On pow-
er and Influence of Christ's personal-
ity and work. He it Is who fills all
ereated things; he it is W110 gives
life, natural, mental, social. He is
the inspirer, the spring from which
come 1111 our triumphs. But I want
to slum you that the promise which
Ito gave to his disciples, 'Oren ter
works than these shall lie do," has
been fulfilled and that mart inspired
with his spirit has with the natural
forces at his disposal done more for
uplifting huinanity, as Christ said
he should, than did Christ himself.
Man has taken hold of the power
which Christ bestowed an(1 has ap-
plied it beyond the opportunities
which Christ had to complete the
work that he initiated. Christ fed
the multitudes: Christ opened the
blinded, eyes and stertightened (he
crooked limbs; Christ assuaged pain
cl stopped ,thc chronic insue of
Christ was a genet preacher
'multitudes about him.
against the heathenish
at "might is right."
the greatest of all work -
dors that the world had
. There was only ono
There will never be another.
i are senses, ,lateral as well
ual, in which his promise 11(10
t to his followers, and they
en enabled through the pow-
ating from hint to do works
surpass thoso he did it) his
earth. But let it never be
ton the t these "greatet
• which man bas ilono have b
ccomplished only because Jesus e
ived and Jesus' prophetic s
havo been fulfilled. In order 0
a better grasp of this theme
read to you the full verse in
tho words of my text are
"Verily, verily I say (1141.0ho tbat believeth on 1110 the
s that 1 de shall he do also,
greater works than those shall
o, because I go unto ley Fa-
/
maladies by prng ovi111111(4114' Ina
cleanser of leper spots, the opener of
blinded eyes and the only one of his
time who could send the sl 142(41511
blood of health coursing through the
withered limbs or him siek with the
palsy, Yet to -day, of, ettely
t the healer of the se le 1 sou
that the work lie did has been hekee
1,111 111s followere and its lei-
umi'lle multipliedw
. By tbe ord of
his ;never he, gave sight to a few
blind 11100, blit In 0111 day the Chris-
tian 011142(008,srgeoes, by their operations,
;ire giving Siglit to thousands. The
virtue from hie garment stopped one
issue of blood, but in our (lily the
Christ 1 an physician, w it 11 his modl-
raments, 151 slopping thousands of
18011100, ChriSt'a touch relieved a few
sufferers of 1115111, [4111. in flie hospi-
tals of out. time thousands pass
421111111534017 through suffering whice in
feriae times would ranked
them with eXer Li rioting torture.
MODERN ME 01 CINE,
But to -day are 11111"wondere of
modern surgery" any more marvelous
than the "wonders of modern medie
(enc.?" Is the power of mn med-
icineoderto cure disease any more mar-
velous to -day than the power of
modern bacteriological investigations
tQ 1110(411111. disease? You 8(43 Christ
stopping here and there to open a
blinded eye or to unstop a deaf oar
or to loosen the heavy and labored
breathing of the asthmatic eufferer.
But to -day the achievements of' the
healer include 1410(40 than here and
and there all isoiated physical cure.
I see Ole lights in. tbauectude of hos-
pital tvindews gleaming like the
stars in the heavens. I see the
white robed 11048041 and the doctors
coming forth as 111(1 the angels of
health who troubled the waters at
the pool of Bethesda, crying to the
sick everywhere, "Come and he cured
of your ailments!" I see thousands
real tens of thousands of strong men
and women who would have died
twenty 70111(4 younger time they are
11011, 111.1d they lived and been rack 111
tile (1(475 when Christ lived and he
had semi Went not or touched them
not. Christ as the physician of the
bOdy 1100 a wonder worker. 13ut
man to-dny as a curer or pbysical
ailments ie accomplisbing far more
thae (1(401' (11(1. Mn le not
only opening the eyes of those born
blind, but he is making by the thou-
sand and tens of thousands tbe
deaf and the dumb speak until this
ancient miracle has ceased to be a
wonder because of its commonness.
Now, study Christ from another
standpoint. What did Jesus come
down upon earth to du? Ile came to
save the world? Oh, ,t•es; he came
to save the world by drawing men
unto himself and banding them to-
gether as Christians, Thnt means
men were to become followers of
himself. Yet., after he came to
earth and was born in the manger
and lived ,it Nazateth, he literally
wain() the "despised and the reject -
d of men." .After ho had lived and
uffered, preached and worked on and
11 Until the day when he was cruci-
fied, the converts he had won «We
only a little handful of followers at
the foot of hie cross.
CHRIST NEVER VISITED INDIA.
All India was yet to give up its
Widow burnin42 and the tossing of il,s
helpless girl infants into the Ganges
to bo eaten by crocodiles and the
heathen worship of idols, but Christ
Was not, in body, able as a man to
set foot on the soil of India. William
Carey and Alexander Duff and Bish-
op Thoburn were to do that, 'Africa,
with its murder and rapine and can-
nibalistic orgiee, WaS tO build its
altars to tho worship of the "true
Cod," but Christ, ns a physical
men, was never to penetrate into
those dark missipnary Tielde. A Liv-
instone, a Taylor and a Hartzell
were to do that. Europe nt that
time shaking under the ti•eacl of the
Homan legions; North and South
America uttetey unknown to civ iti-
zation; the islands of the sett, most
i:} them unvisited -all are yet to bow
t.)
o Christ and come under the reign
of love and gentleness rind purity
and truth. these are to be won
through the instrumentality of men.
Men energized by the Holy Spirit are
to gain the (elude world for Min.
Truly, as we look at such a conquest
and compare it with 'the work that
ha aecomplislied in Palestine we see
what ha meant When ho said, "Great-
er things than these shall ye do."
Christ saw all this future conquest
of the world, but as a man lie nover
wont away front the Paleetine 111115.
Hagrew up in Nneareth, lie Jour -
(1070(1 from Nazaveth a few times to
Jerusalem. 11,1yere at the :Melillo
capital Ile Watt nt last led /le a
guilty" Criminal out to the Calvary
heights to iguain 1 n o usly die, To
his followers he . left the stupendous
task of evangelizing the wOrld,
prothising that he wollid be with
them to the end that through his
power they should be able to win
more souls than he had clone.
But though we have been praising
inan's "greater worke" we wouhl
Ilene you bear well in mind Utile ono
tretnetglous fact. No work ot man
is truly geettter than Christ'n work,
because all of 1111(1l'54 greathe works
ale the outcome of Jesuit' wark. If
you read the verse in which my text
is found you will find the whole
trend of the Ounighl in the one word
'been use, ' ' '']To shall do great er
works than these 1)15011 11111' 1 go tO
nly Pother ' Became C let is in
Goil Lind ocl 11 141 lie is the reason t
man Is able to eccomplish greeter 1
workri ellen did Chriet 01
N.) -(111y will yott not feel that you
only accompl 1811 1110 gene ter
el. C Pis( hae giten 111 you lo do I
liVillg and Workihg in C11ie,11.
, friend, Meekerl with the
AMAZED MIS GENERATION. ,
00115 Christ was the amagement
arnazements to tho people of his
y and generation as a, worker of
tural phenomena. ITo seemed to
e time stmetior to all natural
vs. When he went out to visit
is disciples in their ship, Ile did
ot Stave to use the land, as other
people had to do. He stepped upon
the crystal pavement of Lake Galie
lee as easily as an Alpine climber
might rest his foot upon solid rock,
as easily as a hind's feet miglIt glue
themselves to mountain crag. When
he spoke, the homage of obedience
was rendered to him, not alone by
men in the. synagogue, by beasts; of
the field, and the fowls bf the air,
but by the evincle and the WaVen. He
called to the Galilean tempest,
'Peace ba Still." At the glance of
is eye the "conscious water blushed
o see the face of its I.ord" tho
adding in Cana of Galilee. At a
oed from his lip the fig tree dried
p arid withered away. All ho had
to say was, "Let no fruit grow on
then henceforward forayer." At his
nail canto whole schools of fish to
be caeght by the Galilean fishermen.
13y his touch whole ovens fun of
bread seemed to ho miraeulously cre-
ated. After the sermon upon the
mount, he fed tho multitudes by simp-
ly breaking five loaves of bread into
pieces. Ire kept on breakieg those
pieces again irk twain until at last
all were fed with bread. 11111011. 1111
they eared to Gat, Christ was a
wondet. worker in natural phenom-
ena. He could tell Peter lust where
to go and entail ti fish which 1111(1 in
its mouth the 1)feect of mencY" bY"
which the disciples should pay the
Just taxes to the lioman govern -
meet. in the hoar of his stffiering
and death the earth' trembled and
the sun Wt10 shrouded In darknese,
In him wee the ;towel, which the
peallniet asceilied to the Most nigh.
"Be leokoth upon the earth end it
tremblee; touehoth the nnd
they moke„"
Nol, 0111,y dirt Christ astonish 1,11e
people in hie day by his power over
the forere entuee; revenled his 6
(111') 10 mature by showing hie power Om
over physient diereses, 71e ivied to wo
0011'011150 the peOnle ill 11141 1111V of by
hie power OM a 11001(11. Of spiri 11110 011
ilio,•••••••••.•,....•••••
sIgne of infamy upon your lieart,
marked with the eigns of rote:110a
against Christ, will you not Owego
,vour belief to become en enthroned,
king? You beer on 3 -our soul the
marks of sio, but if you will come
40 him lie will take you Into ids em-
ploy, mid will send you forth to
111 0 01111 110111 the world. Am the
apostle bore 011 hie body (1114 marks
uf the Lord .1 08115, yon 111ily wear
the badge of Ids HerViCe and in his
name and by Ids power carry 011 the
work that he began, To you, too,
the prondee is Oven, '-'110 that be-
lieveth on me the works that f do
shalt he do nisi), and brealer works
than these shall ho do, 1300(1880 go
eau nay loather."
•
GRAZING *UNDER WATER.
.Anirnals in Australia Adapt Them-
selves to Circumstances.
While on a cattle -station in West-
ern Australia Arr, Henry Teuton had
opp00111111 1y of seeing a rema rk-
able instance of the way In which
1111 111111114 can adapt themselves to
their surroundings.
On the upper reaches of the l'iVer
there was a large pool just fordable
at most times, but in a dry season
very low. Among the horses making
their run 10 the vicinity of this pool,
au old mare and a bevy or foals and
yearlinge used to CC/nal dowa every
day in the long, diy sunning, when
the herbage was scant and meorched
into dryness. They waded into the
pool until the water nearly reached
their heads, aad utood there for
hours, diving to the bottom for a
mouthilil of succulent weeds, which
they chewed at leisure with their
dripping heads raised above. the
Water,
The first Gino , I witnessed this
strange sight was during a dry sea-
son when I was riding with the over-
seer in search of some strayed stock,
As we approached the pool, my C01.31-
pamon bade mo keep quiet if de- '
sired to see something well worth
looking at. As we rode quietly up
to the pool I saw a group of horses
standing in the water and disap-
pearing f10111 1,11110 to time as they
clucked their heads below the sur-
face. My wonder was soon at an
end when I saw one of their heads p
suddenly come out with a mouthful. s
of dripping weeds. No sooner • was t
this mouthful disposed of than the s
head disappeared in search of an- s
other. 1
The overseer told me that during a t
long dronght some five or six years 1
previous, when hardly a vestige of t
feed was left on the run, and bush °
fires had laid bare the sand -plains,
the 01(1 mare had, discovered that 11
there was plenty of luscious feed at
the bottom or the pools, which. could
be procured by diving for it; and
having Once put her discovery 11110
practice, She continued to do out of
preference what sho had been driven t
to do by necessity. 11
'The several generations or foals
which she had reared had all follow- e
ed her example, Although none of the c
full-grown horses had joined ille am- c
Phibions green. I-Terr, then, seemed c
to be a new variety of bone in eve- p
lotion which, if left undisturbed, I.
might breed and separate from the s
run, perhaps to survive through el
daroughts severe enough to oxtortnin11
-
te all others. 11
IiiieneetofiDoetneeefelitaeeeScif.a
I FOR THE HOME
•, 90,
din Recipes for tho Kitchen, 4,11
Hygiene end Other Notes It
for the tiouseiceepe(,
laeraqapoloariutoucrornocaeara
salmi; 0001) RECIPES.
Charles' Pudding. -One cup of 011. -
gar, one tablespoonful or melted but -
tor, one cup tr: sweet milk, Ono egg,
0110 and 0110-11alf tald00100011Still of
baking powder; 1111X 11.1111 011e pita Of
our; bake one-half hour, and et
with sweet sauce,
Devonshire 011,1141.-81,mM new mi
all night, then, 'without disturbin
the cream, lift It gently in the ve
eel In which It wus set, on to tt
stove, and leave it until a thick sk
forms and. 11. is just on the boil 11
3* pounde of rags will make a
square yarir wrpot, and. one 1,01111d
of chain 18 0110144h fur three yaris.
When the new (erect, mines from
the weaver, lneatilire the Carpet in
strips the length of the floor, mark-
ing the end of tetelt strip by pulling
a 1.111 in the place, '7,11,0 it fo Ihe
Mitchum 1111(1 sow iteruee the hreedilt
itvice; leave two three& of the lagn
(MO.,. 001V 1 (vice more, then eut the
wielfrt between the threeds. 'Phis
will prevent. the carpet from ravel.
Mg. Illuct the ends with tape.
SALADS.
Ileet S'alud-Cook half a dozen
L young beets until very tender, and
51100 thin, Line a dish with erlep,
Ithite 101(1101) leaves, tine place. the
beete in a pile in the centre, efay-
g onnalse dressing may lei poured Over
,11-0 it, or Nerved 111 a pitcher whit the
;'„ sulaci.
Bean Salad -Take void beans and
111010 11, It, slam( in a cool place tuzt
!text morning, then skim.
Yorkehire pudding IS made 1)
mixing half a pound of flout. wit
two eggs, and by degrees, one pin
of milk, Grease a flat Yorkshii
pudding tin thoroughly, pour in th
batter, and bake under the Inca
The dripping from beef makes thi
very good. Three-quarters of a
cold potatoes, emelt parts, one or
11 two onions, a little slowed cabbage,
Chop all line, Benson with peppy
Y and salt and a little vinegar, a
spoonful or two of home-made mus-
t tad. Alix together and set•ve.
Salad -Peel and cut the tur-
nips into small pieces, boil about
tell 111111111 PH ill salted Water, drain
runt keep in cold water until wanted,
nc an an ante, 1(41 Ili remoulade
8111100.
Ca rro t Salad-Veash and scrape
hour in a, good hot (Wen Will b
found sufficient timo to allow.
For lemon buns, take ono pound
flour, Iwo teaspoonfuls of bakin
powder, six ounces of butter ttn
lard, the grated rind and juice (
one lemon, and six ounces ot caste
Sligo/. Rub the butter into th
flour, mid tile other legredlents, 1(11
with an egg and a little milk. Mak
into small buns, and bake in a quick
oven for a quarter of 011 hour.
CreamSpongo Calte,-Sit(4 together
a 0111) of sugar and a cup of flour.
one rounding teaspoon of cream of
tartar, half level tettepoon of sod
and one-half saltspoon of salt. Brea]
into a cup two eggs and heat til
light, 1111 the cup with thick man
and add one teaspoon of orange ex
tract. Turn into dry mixture and
fold carefully and thoroughly togeth
or. Bake the scene aS "'von, e 1(4.10(4.
Swedish Broad -Mix in a sieve am
then run throngh it 1 qt. muerte(
flour, 3 heaping teaspoons baking
owder, 8 tablespoons sugar, 1.0(1"
4200)1 salt. nub 2 tablespoons bet-
el.. into tlie mixture and wet with 1
cant pt. cold 2111110. Stir quickly 111
hape of a ball. Sprinkle broad
mard with flour and roll ball to the
hickness of 1-8 of an inch, Sprinkle
11 dough 8 tablespoons sugar, a lit -
le nutmeg and 1 cup of currants
Yee all. Roll up the dough and
lice an inch thick, Bake 20 min-
tes.
A Delicious Potato Cake. -The
rime of this cake is perhaps rather
nattractive and suggestive of tho
ying pan, but the cake its -elf is
eally delicious and worthy of being
ervcd with dainties concocted by
lie Aid of the more aristocratic:
hating dish. Crean1 1 cup butter
Mt 2 cups sugar. Add 4 well tomt-
it eggs, 3. eup milk, e cup melted
hocolate, 1 teaspoon each vanilla,
bitumen, cloves, nutmeg, end 1
U1) mashed potatoes, seasoued and
rcparod •al for the table. Beat
horoughly and into this mixture
tit. cups Dour 113 Lo which has been
fted 2 teaspoons baking powder,
nd 1 cup English W111111115 chOnped
10. Bake in a moderate oven
about 4B minutes. ,
Tomatoes Baked with Nuts. -For
318 dish, take 1 dozen blanched al-
onds, 2 dozen chestnuts and 4 cup
ieiled peanuts; grind or pound the
its line (the cheetnuts must be
oiled first), mix. 1. cup stale or dried
oad crumbs with the prepared nuts
id add * teaspoon powdered sugar,
tertsPoon minced onion and a little
11; and popper. Ilub 1 qt, cooked
nuttoes through tt SieVe; 00115011
taS1:0 and set aside. Butter a
eking dish, sprinkle the bottom with
ain bread crumbs, put in some of
the tomato, then a, layer of the pro -
Pared crumbs and a few bits or but-
ter; now another layer of tomato
rind so on. Have the last layer
crumbs. Last of all, add 1 pint
water, cover the dish and bake 45
minutes in a modernte oven,
some rich colored carrots. Put Into
g•
o ng water, and cook until tentler,
ct
cut into thin 0110e0, sprinkle with
if
1, sugar, add ilia juice of one largo
(mum, and a wineglass of tine 011V0
011. Garnish with thin sliced onions
xe and crisp lettuce leaves,
11.0T wEATTIER irrsTs.
Turpentine win rii,notve the sticky
mass of tanglefoot fly paper.
l•Iy switches made from flour sacks
cut inte strips end hastened to sticks
are tough enough to last the whole
1
season.
A. cup of hot tea Is often more re-
- fleshing thau anything iced or fro-
zen. It need net be strong, and if :3
- one's taste demands strong tea it
1 can be trained down ' to accepting
it Very weak,
If you feel the heat, but take cold
easily, wear short -sleeved undovests,
A few inches of knit, gauze on the
arm does not. add to one's discom-
fort, and in case of 0, sudden change
of temperature the armpits aro cov-
ered. At that point the blood 'ves-
sels are barge and lie close to the
skin, feeling a chill very quickly.
This fact should especially be re-
membered in dressing yottng child-
ren.
ILIE S. S. LESSON(
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
AVG. 7.
Text of the Lesson, Rings
'evil., 1-16. Golden Text,
Pet. v., 7.
Wu an. noW rodlicen lu and
13 Speltd t!.LY 1Veeks with Elijah,
Tislibite, who was of the inhabit
of Gilead. The first; record m:
confider, all that. we kilOW of
11plure and parentage, Like
claizedek, he rtatels before us tat
pages of Seripture without any
cord of father or mother or an
try, and he appears 1,9 suddenly.
is spoken of by some tnie of
grandest arid most rourantie tha
tyre that Israel ever III% duc...1.
name signifies "Aly Cod Is .1,,1
uli," and bo(on) .101101,4h 11,,
and mho llin, litetl. The firet
(ended sentenee from Ills lips,
Lord Ova of I eratil 1 1 Vot h, bef
hwiheLn((.1reliret304/(1140.14:1 11(1.vi4tClth:7 1 '111(3'1 e
his life eats to please Clod, not
ing the feown nor seeking the fa
of mortal man, Ills opening wo
RUSSIA'S WEAKEST SPOT
OFFICERS ARE INCOMPETENT
AND CORRUPT,
Ballroom. :Knights Leading Bravo
Soldiers Against the
japs.
81)01811 ciatte41 intittitt•jemlbseit4.1.41) jr.tuquseinatifInetrulk ft:
Itimmian army than is 0, .111. iluttoa
'1',Instittierieral tired in Russia front
of Baltimore, who ae Amerivan Vice- •
$ 808 to 1882 and has since kept in
1111 cloSe toUch with Russian afra108. 110
„•111,b 11”.11 1110 blame for 1 1.1108ia'0 111111111 17,
' 11111 I21"5(4 Lain the corruption in her
1", servjee on the oft:leers alone.
Mr. 1111tton 1,11111.104 the daughter
cog-• of the lute Theinas who
110' With MB 0 1)1'01 110r, Wi 1 liana
(Ito; Winans, equipped and intllIklged the
rex- Nichulai Railroad lietwee
-Ws burg and Moscow, and built up a
ov-!grettlA fortttne the undertaking. Ile
eel, is himeelf the master of Alexitudreff-
re- ' sky, moet picturesque of the estates
1711." in Baltimore.
ere! "I lived nearly fourteen years in
Ilussia," said Mr. Hutton to -day,
ef "and have quite a nember of friends
among Russians. They are all good
waitron, kind-hearl Oti, and, I might
rd,;: even add, generous people; but as a
1,1„1, ;me, the educated classes are unre.-
111,„. Heide and superficial. The peaeants
ei I are the backbone of the empire. They
1140 ci..1 blase, and can he generally re.
10: lied upon. They cannot help 11''-
1
that •way.' They ettain the
bL,' mg. but as a R,1.10,071an3 telnexiel11121 or raoi
ar- •
o put 11. 10 .,";1`). obedience, and therefore, they make
"ae wonderfully good soldiers whea led
by men in whom
THEY IIAVE CONFIDENCE.
"Flowever, obedience is not all
that is required, when pitted against
0.„. such intelligence as is poseessed by
"-(0- the Japanese. In regard to the
obedience of the Ilussinn soldier, one
of England's feremost Generals was
tf- once invited to watch the army raan-
;'`; oeuvres near St. Petersburg. On
.;" his return from the inspection, a
Lo Russian of rank asked his opinion of
what he had seen. Ilis reply was
that 'Wore he Iemperor of Russia. and
lost a battle, he would hang all the
commanding officers on the. nearest
tt;oe"tetcld.' undertake to march to hell
'With such men,' he said, 'I
and know that if I failed I would
myself be to blame."
"That is the rank and file of the
arin3-. 'But the rank and Ale have
a to be led. There is where 010 Rus-
sian army is weak, not to use a
stronger term. The Russian officer
14) is a. knight of the ballroom. and
1' drawing room. Ire is too much
is
10 bent on catering to his own pleas -
are repeated In 7 5. arid m
us think of Chtbriere words in L
1., 411, "I am Gabriel that stand
the presence of tioti.'!. They 0
earny us bath to the Lord's word
Abram in Gen. xvil., 1, "Walk
fore me and be thou perfect tin
gins upright, sincere). This is
only wuy for those who would be
Lord's messengers,
Cwieerning his message to Ahab.
"There shall not be dew 3101' ruin
these years but according to My
word, we must consider Jas. 'V.,
1.7, where it is written that he pr
ed. earnestly that It might not ra
and also Pout. xi., 47, where
have the enthority for such a, Prt
or, the Lad having threatened
hut up the heavens und withho
ein if they turned from Him
'worship idols. That the beavens
were thus shut up 111 the days of
Elijah is confirmed by our Lord 10
Luke iv., 211, I3elleving prayer must
be based upon some plain assurance
in the word of God or some clear re-
velation from God concerning Ins
win, George Muller has called the
former the grace of faith and the
latter the gift of faith. In one way
or the other God will guide us.
Verses 2 to 6 give us the story
the brook Cherith and the ravens al
all 'nes according to the word of tl
Lord, which both Elijah and il
ravens obeyed. The first time th
title or ex,presslon, "The AVOnd of tl
Lord, is used Is in Gen. xv., 1. It
may mean a message from God or it
nemy mean the Son of God, who is
ailed "The Word" (John i., 1: 11111.
xix., 142). Either way it, is Cod con-
trolling, and our part 1.0 "willing
and obedient" i., 39), The
prophet. is now told to hide himself;
he has delivered his message, and
that. is ail that is required of him
at present,.
tl
MEALS BEFORE LESSON%
London School May Provide Chil-
dren With Food,
The London, England, County br
Council. has more than the filling of at
the empty heads of the pupils in its 1.
schools to look after. Islington is sa
demanding thnt the locel authorities to
should be given power to feed under- to
fed children. Something of the kind ‘1,
1101,0 been urged by certain municipal 11
bodies before but not directly inter-
ested as they are now in the manage-
ment of the schools, little etas come
of their representations.
An old School Board member, now
on the London County Couneil, the
Bev, A. Jephrion, sahle-"It is use-
less attempting to thaern underfed
children. I am not greatly concern-
ed ne to how it should be done, but
it is essential that you should first
feed the chile, I don't care if the
parents aro thriftless or drunken: the
chile meet have food before we have
any right to teatth it. I say, feed
the child, even though you have to
proeoeute the parents afterwards. I
have always advocated prosecuting
those parents who tem give their
children food, hut don't; I have cis-
eistrel in such prosecutions: but in
the meantime you must feed the
child. Whatever changes of method
are introduced, we 111051 Lake care
thnt hungry children are fed before
being taught, So fa there has not
been any serious difficulty in rnising
the necessary funds by voluntary
agencies, 'The neWspaper feints are
vary helpful, Of cease, if voluntary
agencies fail, then I see no objection
to taking the moues out of the rater;
at; proposted by the Islington Borough
Council
WAVES. OF ORME.
On the tvhole, (Wring the last twen-
ty yenre, there has been a teduction
in crime of What is termed the grav-
er sort: but Very 41019 and then, at
lately regular intervals, there is a
wave of serious crime which twine-
timeri certencis over half a, year, and
sometimes eighteen months. The year,
1902 wee one of these years of crinio
waves. In 19011 the total number
of persone tried hi Groat, Britain
Was (301,607; while in 1902 the fig-
ures were 787,676. This increase
WW1 chiefly in crintos against proper-
ty, All published statiseics show
that neither penal servitude nor int-
prieonment tee'Ves to deter the babi-
tent offender from reverting to -creme,
he • most. ineorrigible of all behig
vellum, Of the gravel' crimes which
how ft nierked inert:tun: aro minifers
md borglaries. rt 110t a pleasant,
thought lo the British taxpayer that
10 hes to pay,110arly $6,000,000 a
'ear for the suppression of erilne,
ind over $12,000,000 for poor relief
RAC CARPETS,
In a family where there are sever -
children, there Is ale-eys a quan-
tity of faded and worn-out clothing,
W00 sheets And pillow eases that are
no longer useful in that capacity.
Very pretty and servicenble capets
rimy bo made of them,
When the weekly washing WaS
done every soilee garment was put
in. Those intended for the carpet
did not need ironing, bUt W010 sort-
ed out, all the buttons cut off and
saved for future use. All seams and
other thick places were (5211 OU 14 as
they would make rough places tho
carpet, the white and light-colored
ones put in one box, anti the dark
onus in another; both boxes have
close fitting lids which keep out all
the duet.
My carpet is composed of wide or
miss stripes of dark. legs alternat-
ing with the bright stripes. V you
wish to Make carpet of that kind
Sivee the dark rags until you lltIVO
the amount required, then ettt or
tear them in nart•ow strips, Thin
'goods must be wider than thick, so
they will make a thread of the Wine
size when beaten up, and the tex-
Imre will bo uniform. When you
have, enough for your carpet, inlx
them thoroughly, so all the stelpes
Will be alike, and begin sewing, The
white or very, light rage meet bo
colored for the bright stripes, and
diamond dyes for eaten are excel-
lent foe that papoet. Red, yel-
low, blue lied green brighten a car-
pet wonderfully. Do not leave the
arrangement of tho colors eetirely to
the weaver, Wind the :drips that
you wish eopled tt bonrd, being
careful to have the amount of each
color used correspond with the
111110111A Of that 00101 y011 have ort lo
band, A little sandy will (entitle to
nny Mu) of the fair judgment to cle(11
-
clile what colors should go together AN1
141
111
011
011t 11101.. It Is easy to estimete 111
the quantity of nieterial needed, for I)
DAILY THOUGHTS.
Monclay.--Be charitable, if only hi
thought.
Tuesclity.-Cultivate riot only the
cornfields of your mind. hut the
pleasure -grounds alse.-Whately,
Wednesday -Recollect always that
to clo the simple, right thing which
lies at our feet is better than to
have ascended into the third heaven.
-0, Kingsley.
ThUrSnay.-There is 110 man that
imparteth his joys to his friend, but
he joyeth the more; and no man that
inverted Ills griefs to his friends,
but he grievellt tho less,-Bncon.
Peiday.-}Tundreds of advertise-
ments nowadays promise a cure for
wrinkles, so that wrinkles must be
pretty genern.1, There is only one
cure for them, and I give it to you
with my love : "Don't worryl"-.11,
Lubert.
Saturday. -Think not so much of
what thou hest not as of what thou
hest; but of the thin.gs which thou
haat select the best, and then reflect
how eagerly they would have been
sought if thou liadst them not -Mar-
cus Aurelius,
Sunday -Is it not the chief dis-
grace in the world 1101 to be en unit
-not to be reckoned one character -
not to yield that peculiar fruit. which
each man WaS emitted to bear; but
to be reckoned nt the gross, in the
hundred, or the thousencl, of the
party, the section, to which wo be-
long; and our opinion predicted geo-
graphically as tho north or the
south? Not so, brothers and friends.
Please Clod, ours shall not be sol
We will Avail; on o1.11 OW11 feet; we
will work with our OWn lianels; We
Will Speak Oar 011,11 ntinds.-Eincr-
son.
ROCKEFELLEIT. ON MODESTY,
Mr. John D, Rockefeller lies, like
'Andrew Carnegie, Bunsen Sage, Pier -
pont Morgan. and tunny other multi-
ntilli071arieS, been worried to give
((dyke. to young men starting la life,
until lle has been compelled to suc-
cumb. Here are 50111e vine from
Mr. tiockefeller's erotth :
.A luau possessed of genuine worth,
dignity, and self-respect alweys
speaks of hilneelf Moderately, if ho
(monks at all. Self -praise usually
markt; a serious defect in character.
Self -commendation 18 wrong. when.
it springs from personal vanity, and
when It exalts itself at the expense
of others or oven comparison tvilh
them.
Heil of the people in the world to.
day are on the wrong scent in pur-
suit. of happiness. They teem to
think it 00110.1515 of hotting and gett-
ing and of being served by others.
That is a mistake» idea.' It eon-
sists of giving end 001,1111g others,
Solf-erierilice ror others always 111118
abundant applause. It is becalm°
self-sacrifice, while tiniversally ad-
mired in othees, conflicts with the
ruling passion. of selfishness in 1110
11111110 11 heert that it. is so rarely
pro ct teed ,
All the Ships of the thlited States
1.1,7 are being 111111111 11311 with. steel
rniture, lexperiments carried on
sol..0111 1 11111411.11i( have proved that
most all the essential furniture of
Yrshipir lie made of steel. Ser.
us damage uns done during the
)0111111 War re the flirnittire 01
ips v111011111; ilre, 1111' 01111801' 11011 1-
(110 1111 Ving suffered severely in the
uttle of Meniltt,
to produce harmonions effects.
(let 1 he beet foto. or ilve-ply Weep,
as it in usually the warp (bet weave
May the life of every child of God
be summed up in this; "Striving ac-
cording to Els working, wheel work-
eth in Me mightily" (Col. i., 29), for
unless 1( 18 God working in us it can-
not stand. But when we thus Reek first
the kingdom of God and His right-
ea:RIOS We llnly be sure that ail
temporal things shrill be adcled, even
though ravens feed us or poor wid-
OWS minister to ue. • In these day
of unbelief and scoffing, if any shout
hone it said that Arabs, not birds
fed Elijah, just ask what kind of at
Arnb flew out. of Noah's ark, for tho
wad "raven" in our lesson is the
same in the. Hebrew as the wad.
"raven" in CM 7. By what-
ever instrumentality the Lord may
minister to us, while truly grateful
to Hint and to Nis ministering ser-
vants, we mute, bo stayer( 1111011 131111 -
self ulone, lest somo Cheritli dry up
and wo thereby grow discouraged.
Ilab. ill, 17, 18, is a lino word to"
appropriate, for whoever or what-
aer 331ay fan as We eon alwnys truly
say, "Then, 0 Lord, remainest for-
ever" (Lam. V, 12; Mb, 1, 11).
ures to study his profession. Tho
Russians aro not students and they
despise work. The consequence ie
the Yalu, Ninetieth Nanshan Hill
and the numerous naval catastroph-
les.atta Il'yoorrtscArtthlittunr.
the incompetency
of its officers is the corruption
among them. 4. was in Russia, dur-
ing the Russo-Turkish 1(441 042(1 well
remember the horrible corruption un-
earthed then. Thousands of pairs
of boots were supplied to the troops
witli the soles glued on or with
paeleboard soles, with a thin piece of
leather stuck on toP for the sake of
appearances. Contractors egreed to
furnish, say 100,000 blankets, and
delivered 50,000, but were always
able to produce a receipt
FOR THE FULL AMOUNT.
"There aro not on record more
s flagrant instances of 'graft' in the
d country, and I notice that this sort
, of thing is no better to -day than it
1 Nt'115 i nly time. Take, for instance
the case at Harbin, where the Rus-
sian officers were selling poe der out
of the Government stock to tho Chin-
ese merchants, and, as if that was
not rascality enougn rn iteelf, .elteat-
ing the merchants by filling the box-
es more than threc-quartres full of
sand and sprinkling a little powder
on top. With such dishonesty run-
ning through the supply departments
can it be wondered at that the brave
soldiers are short of food and have
not the stamina to withstand tho
scientifically delivered shock of the
Japanese army?
"There is one man in Russia 1V110
is sincerely to be pitted. 'That is
a the Emperor, Ha is a man of the
gentlest na thee, cultured, lovable,
kindly, and in the highest degree a.
nobleman. But can nny one imagine,
O 1111111 More unlit to be the autocra-
tic ruler of a people like the upper
classes of the Russinns them a mon-
arch of such a gentle iinture ris his?"
Alexandreffsky'the 13altitnore home
of Mr. Hutton, is one of the eweioei-
ties of Baltimore, Tt takes Ito
1111.1110 front It village in Russia. where
Thomas Winans established his man-
ufacturing plant during the construc-
tion of the NIcholai rathentd, and
writ? built by the late Mr. Winene
after his return to this country. The
site covers about three city blocks.
The mansion ie tilled with art treas-
ures, and the grounds aro Mid club
in elaborate fashion.
It was not for Elijah to think out
1101110 7101' place to go to, for th
Lord who sent bitu to Cherith and
hid and sustained him there had his
eye upon him (II. C111011. X(41, 0),
and saw all the cireumstanees, and
doubtless Elijah talked with Him
:about it. Well; at the right time,
not too soon nor too late, the same
worcl of the Lord who sent him to
Cherith commands him to go to a
widow woman at Zarephath, or ac-
cording to Luke iv, 7111, Sample, and
there is our Lord's confirmation of
this Tart al the story also. Zane-
phath signifies a place of refining,
and, while at Oherith 110 14205 CUt Off
from all Minuet help, 110 is now to
be refined still more by inost unlikely
human ministration, Snfely he
iourneye, for the Lord can hide us
while Abiding, and when lie arriVOS at
the gate of the city the 111111111 is
there gathering a few sticks to make
a cake, for herself and her son, of
the last lumelfol of meal itt the houeo
and after thot they exPret to die.
What, a. boarding house) What a
welcome for a weary travolerl And
yet it is the Lord's wny.
Listen to Elijah ; `1115ear riot; go
and do as thou host said, but make
nte a little cake first" (verse 413).
thia been all, the Woman might
hate' thought hint Nome Cragy tralnp.
lila 118104) yet : "After that make
for thee and for thy son, for thus
sem; the Lord God of Theriot the
bertel 01 meal retail not wash), neith-
er shall the cruse or oil fail until"
* Aed no it, came to 311155 11.0 -
Carding to the word of the Lord, and
the ment end oil were ntuatiplied for
a full year (verses 1 0-1 6 mut margin
of 342). Tbis 13001' WitlOW gave all
to the Lord; the widow .who hod
two mites gave all; tho lad with the
five loaves gave ell. When we as
tinreservedly give ell, we shall see
the increase. "There IS that
son t toroth sad yet 111010110.0th"
I(1, at), The rest of the verso tell54.
why maily nre poor who ittioft 1)61
rich.
4
TOM'S ANSWER,
lartglish general, in reviewing
a corps of cavalry, suddenly stopped
bofoi' 0 splendid -looking; fAlow and
asked, abrupti,ve-
"Which is tho beS(2 horse in the
regigniae.n4t?6": air.,,
"What makes you think ho is the(
brst horse?"
"Ile walks, trots and gallops welt;
isa good ienVer; heft no vire, lie
blemish; earriee his head well; is 113
his prime."
"And who is tho best soldier in
the regiment?"
"Tom Jenee, sir."
'Because he ie en honorable /111111,
10 obedient, is tidy, takes good (e)e
ist 11154 afluilmtent and his horse, and
doe:it his dray '
"And telm is the best rider bf the
best horse?"
"Tom .Tortea, sir,"
"And who iS 'ront ,lo
"I am, sir,"