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The Brussels Post, 1904-9-8, Page 6IN THE GA DEN OF EDEN Conduct of Our First Parents After They Had Sinned. Mitered emu -rung to Act et tea tare iteminnt4 conifer, in the yew ono gummed me lanceted and Veer, by wetlh lye of Toronto, at Ow Department et agriculture, ottaw Adespatch from Loa Angeles, Lan seyo; nev., Frank De Witt Talmag preachet from the following text:- Genesis.8L., 8, "And Adam ad hi wife hid themselves" "Where was the garden of Eiden?' is the theme of a never ending dis cussion, Some think its site was a elle north mile. The site of th /garden does not, however, cancer US so much as the event which tool place there. Man was put on hi trial in that garden, and he failed The consequences of his disobecliene have COMO down to us, for all hi descendants have bean deprived o the blessings which would have bee theirs had he obeyed Cod. I do no wonder that the sterile reglo around: the north pole should bay seemed a fitting scene for the calms trophe, In the course of the ages i may 'have been that ,the glory an fertility of Eden may have been transformed into a region of ice an snow. Many have tried to penetrot it and have failed. Some nhink the garden of Ede was fragrant wnli the flowers of continent which once stretched be- tween the old tvori and the new Exploring parties have gone fart and have claimed that they have to cated with their sounding lines th lost Atlantis. They assert that th islands of sthe New Hebrides are only the highest mountain peaks of that • famous continent which was sunk by tidal wave and engulfed by earth- • cmalce. Seine claim that the garden of Eden was in Persia, others that • it was watered by the ontlowings of the mighty Nile, others that it was in Ind,la and still others that it was central China. But Lore to -day, in the words of my text, we are not concerned with the site of the gar- den .of Eden, but with the conduct of 'our first parents after lhey had sinned. No sooner had Adam and his wife eaten of tho forbidden fruit than they hid themselves, as fright- ened hares hide themselves in the jungles of the forests from the bay- ing hounds. The voice of God call- ing them to confession of their sin • was a summons to judgment which they would have evaded if they had been able. Our first parents hid themselves • after they had sinned. That is al- ways the impulse of the conscious sinner. He shrinks from meeting the God whom he has offended. A famous writer once declaved, "The sins of the garden of Eden aro as old as the dawn of creation, yet, like the rising sun, each day they are ever fresh and have new applica- tions for eaeh changing hour." The theological terms supealapserianisin and infralapsarianism and sable/is/1r- 00111,m-whether ''Gods foreordina- tion started -before man or with the fall of mon"-may offer exciting themes for doctrinal discussion in a. young minister's seminary course. Theo have not, however. ally Prac- tical intereet for an audience of the present day. What we first eyelet to do is to find out is bow Adam and Eve sulked away into the edonic jungles to hide themselves after they had eaten of the fruit or the forbidden tree. Then to mils whether living men and wo- men are not now acting in the same - way in trying to conceal themselves in eimilar biding plstees. I want to ehnw them how vain are such at- tempts at cenrealment front the own nee fent eye of God and by the help of the ffely Spirit to woo them nom their retreats and lead them to bend 111 humble contrition at the foot of the cross. There, there is pardon and cleaneing for the sinner, mid there may the vileet and most rolluted he sprinkled with the blond which will make them whiter than t lin 81 V40 snow. API' LI CATION' TO TTUt3 TEXT, broken up? You were both born in: the same country Village. You grow up together. • You pinyed ball to- gether, liew Sites together, wenn fishing in the old brook together, sat side by gide behind the seiue seined e desk and ate your lunches out of s each other's baskets. You came to the city on the same train, lived in the same hoarding house and went to work at the same city store on the same day. Why are you e estranged? I, will tell you. You n both fell in love with the same c glee IA order to win that girl's e affect:ens you lied about your old , friend. You circulated evil reports O about his past life, when you knew e that no squarer, truer man ever f lived. You said his family was not respectable, when his mother used to be a second mother to you and e helped nurse you when you were e sick. You hate your old school _ friend not bemuse ho has done an e injustice to him. "What is the mat- ter with Mr. So-and-so?" I once asked my father. "Ho never comes mound the house as he used to do." e "No," seid father, "ho is my one-. rey. I loaned him some money. Ile n would not pay Me back. However, O for old times' sake I forgave bim the debt and said it was all right. But ho has never foremen me the in - h justice he has done ole.' Then my _ father said: "Frank, that is always s so in life. It a man does you a e meanness, he will always hate you for doing rt. Ah, yes, that is We. By the very reason you shun nien and women who have done you no wrong I know you have done them a wrong, "Adam and his wife hid themselves" not because God hated them. They hated God because they had disobeyed God and eaten of tho forbidden tree. Beware, 0 Man, how you nee your innocent victims! You are now shunning them in SD, tonic 'hiding places. CONCEALING Modern eppliention the first, Wo find Attain and Bye hiding away from Gird in the gavden of Eden when we see num and women shunning the face.: of those whom they have vs:tinged. We find the Satanie re- treat of the first paradise in the sulking feet and the averted gave and Inn conspicuous absence of those who. after they hatO injured a bro- ther flee his preeence even as the pro- digitson when he desired to do wrong planned to take his goods 'and leave his father's house and go into the far country where he would Ont he in the presence of hie par- ents, whose hearte the waywerd boy was breaking. It is a peculiar but incontrovertible fact that sin, no matter whether spasmodic 00 'habi- tual, produces a settee of humilia- tion anti tlegradetion In tho presence of its victims 'whom it llna deceived or injured. Tthw 1 Toted the tetrarch, although he 'Was a great Roman governor, trembled When he thought the beheaded ifohn the Baptist WitS risen from the dead, Thus Gertrude, Ifni/fiat's mother, fled from the room • in which she and her guilty peramour, King Olaudis, saw the tragedy enacted of the death of her Murdered litisbrinti. Thus the erring husband' always Wante to reek ale companionship Of any Dorset rathee titan that, 01 Me 'Wronged wire. The filesolute father feels a ceWard's hu- relliation When he / looks into the clear', honest, 18410 eyes of hie son who may not be at that, tiMe oveo fifteen Valet 'of age end who could hi ro. wity Mime hie parent if 110 Windt( WHY DO 'Wfil NOT PORGIVIII, Why is that lifetime friendship be- ' twoon you and yob,: school ehtun How does man try to conceal his first alu behind a mighty bulwtmk of mane- sins? Here is a young man who has been brought up in a coun- try home. He was raised up right. He had his first gospel lessons in- stilled into him at the family altar, in the Sunday school, cold in the church pew, where, as a little child, he used to be taken to hear the ser- vice, and 'would sleep through the long sermon, clasped in his mother's arms. Away from home he falls in- to had companionship. Ito gradual- ly gets into the habit of spending hie evenings in billiard halls, and his Sundeys on excursion trains and Picnic parties. lie drinks a little. Ile plays cards a little. Ito Messes a little better than he can afford. He runs a little in debt. One night gambling lie says to himself, "Why while seeing some of his companions cannot I make a little money that way?" He is a collector for the store. He plays and loees, Ile plays again and loses. Be feels again for money In his pocket. Now his cheeks pole and his hands trem- ble, fur hie Augers have touched the envelope which belongs to Ms em- ployer. He saye to himself: most win, I will borrow $5 and pay it back very soon." Ito playS again. and lopes; again, and loses. What is the reealt? The next day he dale not confess, so be doctors his accounts. He keeps on using other people's money until at last one night in order to conceal Ws past sins im forges. Then all the infernal regions clap their hands for Joy. At last they hove a new victim. The law places iLs heavy hancl upon that young man's shoulder, A Striped suit and a penitentiary cell and a broken hearted mother are the re- sults of the ,inner trying to coneeal his Pin behind a bulwark of many sins. RESPONSIBILITY OE SIN. baliete in ninny cases the. respon- LOVE RELC1 NED pvrat-VIVIIErin • Thus we started this sermon wit a gardem wo are going to end 1 P1111 a garden. Tho apostle Pau 8005 lil the story of our iirst hom stead a wrecked end disorganive animal and vegetable mei lebtbyolo gicel and ornithologioal and humai world. letida US 10 See how th whole creation -the birds of the all. mid the fisher; of the see, and th beasts of the forest, mid the flowers of the flelds-were influeneed through niul had their natures chneged by th sins of mon. Once love reigne everywbere. Now the law of life i dependent upon the "survival of til fittest." The eagle begins to moun higher runt higher aud higher, not t come newer to the heavens to se God, but ghat on account of th greater altitude he elm have a wider borizon to swoop; that with his Iceei eyo he may see the helpless dove afar orf, into which the reatherei murderer can plenge that terrible beak and rip and tear and slay. Once ehe trees as lovers stretched forth their arms of branches and with rustle and moan talked to each other until for very love thee. tremble( with delight. Then it •was affection wooing affection, and tenderness, en chanting tenderness. But now the batteries of tho storms are unlim- bered, and the thunderbolts are aim- ed at their hearts. Now the `mighty forest giants, not as lovers, but as dying warriors, groan and totter and fall, Once the lion and tho Iamb lay down side by side to sloop. But after the sin of man the caress of the shaggy brute was the prelude to a bite by which the help- less lamb wee gashed and torn and became a, meal for its foe. 08, my brother, will you not be- lieve that this call of Clod the Fath- er to his wayward children may mean EL paradisaic, Edonic and a redeemed world, glorified with love on the land, in the heavens and un- / der the seas? Will you not heed the I Father's call, which is to -day seeking you oven in your shameful hiding • 1-,"11++414+14-14-1-14-11.+14•14 11 e. 1 Ilic 1 1 , ,,,, otne T :) , e 4-44++++++4444444416444" FOIL THE (..100K. O Gooseberry Pudding. -A delicious gooselmery pudding, Whieh may be a suede either from fresh or bottled O fruit, if premed as renown: Stew and in no way enters ,into the diet- ary, Why he might bo let od partak- ing of it, but 1( 18 tar Wiser to train the allildish taste to conform to everything 'edible in the daily menu. Nearly overy child prefers trembly baked bread, It should be taken in- to considoention that bread a little stole, light and sweet and well - baked, is fur bettor for the 111,11 Rtomaeli, Americana Ore said to b leorelnate meat eaters, and as re- sult are especially nervous, as th result of toxic conditions duo to ai over -supply of the proteiri elemen in the diet. 'Men they educate th taste for too much sweets. No country user/ so intieli candy am sweet articles, or has such an alumni oils sugar trade. Cereals, coffee and tea ane marl sickening with sagas, tomatoes, let trice and cress are deluged until th natural puegent flavor is lost. 'rho we flop over to pickles. School girls litorally goremindize olives, mixed, and dill pickles; eat them betweei cl.asses, eat them at picnics and out ings. Probably no neticle tho table is used more lavishly than salt. It be- comes a fixed habit with the major Ity 01 0100 to e a dish wi salt, before tasting it to see if it needs an added salting. RadIshesI and celery are really far better with- out it, but you see the taste has beets trained to its use; it has become a fixed habit, Betio? is far more ilio fruit gently till it will pulp, then o boat it up, To every pint, of Pull) add a quarter of a pound of sugar o two woll-benten oggs, ono ounce 1 of butter, and a quarter of a pound of bread crumbs. Mix all together except the eggs, which should not be added till the znixtere is quite cool, • and then stirred in thoroughly. Put the 'Miriam into a buttered tlish and bake for half an hour. StreW a lit- tle sifted sugar over the pudding be-. rote serving. Fruit. Syrup Delicious for Cool Summer Drinks. -The following pro- cess may be applied to cherries grapes, raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries. Express the elear juice of the fruit in the ostial manner, and boil it with sugar in the proportions of one pornid of sugar to one pint of juice. Boil floe minutes; s.tir 000- s10(1111)! while cooling, and seal in glass jars or bottles. This juice is now ready for use at any time, mix with a little water and sugar. Core Chowsler.-Out a two-inch cube of frit salt pork into small piec- es and dry out; add a small onion sliced, and cook slowly for eve min- utes, stirrieg often to keep it from .browning, then strain the fat into a saucepan., Cook a pint of sliced raw potatoes for five minutes in boiling water to cever, drain and add to the fat. Add also a pint of raw sweet corn cut or seraped from the ear, half a teaspoonful of salt, a salt - spoonful or pepper, end boiling wa- ter to cover. 8101111er 'Until both po- tatoes and corn are tender. Melt a rounding tablespoonful of butter, and an equal quantity of flour and gradually a pint of milk. Let it boil a few initiates, add to the chow- der, season the mixture snore if need- ed, boil up well and servo very liot with crackers. A cupful of toma- toes, pared and sliced, may occasion- ally be cooked with the potatoes and corn to give pleasing variety, Waffles -Two oggs beaten well, yokes and whites separately. Mix one teespoonful of soda find a little snit in butternelk, which: add to one pint of flour. The batter should be as thick as strained hooey. Beat into this batter the yokes, ene de- sei spool-a:al of melted lard, and lastly the frothed whites. Have the waffle irons 'hot, grease well, and pour into them. from a pitcher the waffle mixture. They should cook quickly, shnuld be golden yellow, thin and crisp enougn to be eaten from the fingers, juse as crackers are. Proiled Clue' en. -Take Tat, broil- ing -size chickens, place in ft stove pan witli a small quantity of water, a tablespoonful of butter, two slices of haeon end pepper and salt to taste, t'over as cook slowly in a nieclitun 01 en, &feting oecosionally, unlit tender. Take out and brown on a broiling iron. Forveswith the gravy in which it was cooked poured over it scalding hot. Rock Calce.-Beat a cupful of but- ter and 0110 and a half cupfuls of light brown sugar to a cream, add thrice eggs, a teaspoonful of cinna- mon, a level teaspoonaul of soda dis- solved in two tablespoonfuls of hot water, a cupful of chopped raisins, a cupful of chopped eutmeats, prefer- ably English walcurte, and two and half cupfuls of flour. Drop by the small spoonfuls on a buttered sheet allowing ample room f or spreading. Bake in a moderate oven. The cakes soften after a few days and are re- commended not only for their excel- lence, but because they are so easily and quieltly 415(481 Pineapple and Orange Iced.- Pare half a ripe pineapple and cut into half inch slices. Then remove the core and cut the slices into dice. Peel three oranges carefully, separate the sections, rind remove every bit of membrane and the thin skim Divide each into two or three ,plecos. Mix the two fruits lightly together and place in a glass dish or salad bon]. Sprinkle with sugar Lind place on fee for two or three hours. '.Clien cover with a leyer of finely -shaped ice, and 980111511 with pitted cherries. SorVe before the ico has -time to melt. Muskmelon Proserve..--Clather tlio melons before they are fully ripe. Peel and slice. Soak four days in weak salt water, and then fresh, until the salt is removed. Pnt, in a proServing kettle end boil in clear water for a few minutes, stmin and drop them into 'a very weak alum wnter, WhiCh 1)011 1,11,0111. ter a law minutes. Make a strong ginger tea. Take the fruit. out of the alam %vo- ter, drop it into the ginger infusion. and let it boll. a few minutes. Lift the fruit out With a steatites, and place it in cold water for a row min- utes. Lift it oaf, of the water and cook until thotoughly Slone ig myrtle' made ol 'two poen& sugar te OBEYED ORDERS. A smart young officer belonging to a cavalry corpe in [riffle. was sent on sick leave to the convalescent sta- tion at Simla, and, whilst recovering his health amongst the hills there was robbed of his heart, and in re- turn captivated the charming thief. The young fellow proposed and was accepted, and with all possible dis- patch the wedding -day was fixed. But the colonel of the expectant •bride- groom's regiment was strongly op- posed to the lieutenant's marrying, and telegraphed an unwelcome "Join at once" to the amorous sub. The rbagrined soldier handed the peremptory message to his fair one. She glanced at it, and then, with a becoming blush of sweet simplicity, remarliedi- ,"'T am more than glad, deer, that your colonel so approves of your choice; but what a hurry he is in for the wadding! I don't think y can be ready quite so soon, but I'll try; for, of course, the colonel must be obey- ed." "But you don't seem to understand tho telegeam. sweetheart," said the lieutenant. "It upsets every plan we have made. You see, he says,' `Join at once.' " "Certainly he does, dear," replied the Indy, looking up with an arch smile; "but it is you who don't seem to understand it. When the colonel says 'Join onee,' what does he mean but get married immediately? 'What else, indeed, can he possibly mean?" "What else, indeed, darling?" de- lightedly exclaimed the ardent lover, rejoicing in the new reading, which he received with the -utmost alacrity. So forty-eight houes lied scarcely passed before the colonel received tho following; "Yonr orders have been carried out. Wo were joined at once." CHINESE IN SOUTH SEAS. They Are Ousting the White Nen in Australia. Notwi that ending the enforcement of a very strict Alien Immigration Restriction Act, Chinamen manage to pour into Australia., end snap theie lingers derisively at the famous "white Australia'' •policy. Angry and distracted deputations from ag- sibility of sin may he plaCed upon glieVed X1.11.0p0410. tradesinen haVe other Shotilders than upon the head been remittently beseeching State and Federal Governments to "do some- thing" to check the tide without de- lay. The' cabillet-Makers in the Victor - tan capital have elated to the Min- ister for External Affairs that the heathen. Ohineo had completely cap- tured their lrade, (End had comment: - ed nialting inroads upon other bran- ches of the furniture business. There were, said deputation, 614 Chinese cabinet-makers in Victoria., and only sixty .Britighers in that trade. The small retail grocery trade of Sydney IS 41010 passing to the yel- low Man, just as in all the 'Austral- ian States laundry work and market gardening aro drifting towards the intense and industrioue Asiatic. The ritunber of Chinese grocers in 1-115 New South Wales capital alone is set down at 700, and their custom- ers at nearly 100,000 persons, Owing to the 'banishment of the Nenalta front Queenaland the China- man is extendlog his influences as a landownes in the Commonwealth. Sugar plantations are being rapid- ly taken over Tram disgtisted white plerters and cooverted into banana /iota. A banana ileld is it profitable ondertaking, bet does not lest, long unless the land Is well fed with green• matrures. Chinamar... prefers to exhaust his patch and then go elsewhere, leaving the land utter- ly impeVerisbed. Very Snon QUcerig- land may in coasequence be face to Moo With a terrilfie indestrial • Wife -"You •delibeeately deceived and evasions Wither in the presence me 1)01( inked Me to illersY true, nelcrloWletlgo you: sins, and ho YOu." Intsbancl-"T did nothing of is faithful rind (net to forgive your tbe sort." Wire-"Yeat You 'fish You 111118 and cleanso froln n11 Ito- told mo that • you WOIT ((1(114) WoU righteousness. It IS Ile who tries off." Tletelutntle-"A,,e, and so 7 wan of the 0110 50110 11E15 to suffer. But, though in. some eases ties responsi- bility of sin may he placed upon other shoulders, this WE15 1101, LIU° of edam's sin. 31 was not true of Eve'S sin. It is not true of your sin. Pt is not tree of my- sin. Cod is willing to give you and mo enough repirituttl strength to resiet any temp. tation which confronts us if WO only go to him for help, ns lie was ready to help Arlam mid Eve. And, my friends, in reference to oar OWn sins let us ltnvo the manliness to acknow- ledge them, In the courts oven it criminal earns the contempt of his fellows when, • as they say, "he pleads the baliy act." Tho way to forgiveness is by humble confession, and there is no otber ugly. If ennui will not take that way he ought to realiZe that. lot 1t1 dooming himself te destruction, that excises aro of ao avail mid that he himself and no other it responsible, Never eharge yoctr doom mum your mother, your wife, your chill, your surrouncliege, when yeti have no ohe Maine but toter sinful solf. Do not try to con- ceal sin with cowardly words such its •those Which Adarn uttered tvlien he paid, "Yes, I sinned, but tho tro- instil whom then gayest bo with me, she gave me of the treo, and 1 did eat," • Inoxproesibly conterePti- ble wns this cowardly eXeliFe, and thc woman callght tho infection, StIm would not bear the responsibility for her OW0 011E1 her hosbantre sin, but attempted to fasten the ontiee blame on the seepent, hot Exettees of the Geeat 311dge. Ile open, be to jashifyildinself hy accusing otherelltee t eras [oldish enough to imagine who Will be 'conclentued. I oottld lee better oll wall a, wife " one or fruit, Flavor this syrup will lemon cut in vory thin. slices. EliticAn NG A Ciaa,p'S 9',/1,STE„ De you ever gtop to Consider what O finicky set of people you have in vest house, from the Wee toddler up re) joie', the good man? Probably novoe in the history of the family hale ovory elegle oho eaten Of the Naille diSh, and pronotmeed it good. Noev tette tO the fact that the child in each Individual ease Was eh loWed to ent what he liked, anti to roJeet that whiell clitt net like; as if a little child IthoWs the clitteeetee between Nett and sugar, toa and milk eleekers or eels°, only its you allow- ed Mot to discriminate. Ortsided that Mee Indy be Some one food Avbieli is extroineler die - filmic:NI,' Ilan no Apooial food valno THE S. S. LESSON, 1WATERIAL IN LIFE BELT?) --. 001tIC SAPP 730 TM THE SAE, EST TO USE: - Some Substances Are of th i Mont Dangerous and Useless Character. Apparently tho terrible dleaster to 1 the General Slocum 1)081 0(1 to a gen 1 oral averlianling of life preservers al , over the couuley, says the Brooklyn 1 Eagle, Every factory in America is - flooded with okt preseryers that have boon sent In for repairs, and tho Y. '1°11111 1(cielstthoune Woofnder if there WaS a vas thousands of therie d sel in America possessed of service- able equipment. Apparently also a 0 good many vessels wore supplied with preservers so fan gone as to bo beyond hope Of repalv. , Tho very day after the accident o0. a dors began pouring into every inanu lecturing establishment in the (min - try Shipments were mada in car. 'tIonil lots in many cases, until the ; accumulated stock %vas disposed of, and the makers are 110W renning ov- 1 ertime teeing to supply the unpre- cedented demand, As a direct result of tho Slocuin disaster, the Americau output of lifo 1100801'V008 .100 the pres- ' ent year will probably he three times OS great as it has over been before, showing that a largo isroportion ol d the life-saving apparatus on Araeri. ! speake directly, to our hearts We have ' not ;vet learned to know Him very I well. As plainly as by a voice from heaven has He said to my soul as I have red His book -John 1, 12; III 10; v, 24; x, 27-29; Tat, 1, 27; I. John ii, 12; tie 1, 2, 8; Isa. scil, 141, -18; gine 25; Oen. xxvill, 15, end . many, naany more messages which. are ongraven on my heart, and for i which 7 do heartily proise Him. ! '"Whitt doest thou here, Elijah?" is . the went question . o ow oeson ' (versen 9, 1I3), and n great question for each of us. Happy are ttiose who can say, "I 0.11:1 here, Lord, for , Thou didst send me„ and I am have at Thy bidding foe Thy pleasure." L'Ilialt could not reply thus, but he did say something about the sin of Israel, his own faithfulness and zeal, and that he was the only representa- tive the Lord had left, and his life was being. sought, and therefore he was hidingin this cave in this out of tile way place. Ho waS not seek- ing the glory of God, as on Caramel, nor was he sent of God, as when he wont to Oherith or Sarepta, but be Safety. Adam's only his own personal 1 Adani's reply to the Lord's "Where art thou?" was 0 vory sad ono (Gen. Hi, 10). Abrahani's reply to MI- meleck as Lo why he had done OS he did was anything- but honoring to God (Gen. :xx, 11), and the reply of Elijah at Horeb was not like the Elijah of Carmel. It is O great thing to bo n,ble to collative little in our own sight and to seek nlways and wily tho glory of Clod, and to give a testimony like Pant in Gal. 11, 20; I Cor. xv, 10. The re - i lay of Elijah in verses 10, 14, of our !lesson woul almost, if not wholly, indicate that, he being the only true servant of Jehovah left, it e ould / be a poor day for the Lord's 'cause if anything should happen to him. "And they seek my life to take it oway." What then would / becomo of tho Lord's cause ? i When. we allow ourselves to be thus deluded by him who would, if be could, dethrone Cod himself, it is a poor day for us, for it indicates that the Lord may not be able to use us much longer, as we shall see in this lesson. "Go forth and stand upon the moent before the Lortl" (verse 1)), is the Lord's inessege to Elijah, and , le cou t lam y ai o mete that on this very mmint God had said to Israel and to Moses, "I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house . of bozdage" (Ex. xx., 2; xx(v., 12), and as he thought of it a sense of his own nothingness mot CI od's , mightiness may have come over him, Then came the mighty wind, the earthquake and the fire, but tho Lord did not reveal himself in ei- thee of those; then the still small vojee in which tho Lord spoke to His servant, and one needs to be very still to hear a :still small. voice. God has many ways of cloalieg with people, and difierent ways at different times of dealing with the same person. Ho had spoken to Israel from this very mount in firo INTERNATIONAL LESSON', SEPT, 4. Text of the Lesson, 1. Kings 9-18, Gx7i1c1,en10%:ext, Ise,, YE Slab is notv Horeb, lodging 11 e cave, What sustemotee he fount • here toe his body WO ore not told but if he lived on locusts tuul wilt e honey, ne john the reenlist after ward cild (Matt. iii, 4), 11e probably I found suincient. However that nos _ have been, the Cod who cared lei I him, at Oherith and Sarepta 4414 ES sent an angel. to provide for him in the wilderness would not fall to car s' for him ailywliere. There is great I comfort in this, that the Lord levee Ilie people with an everlasting love , and Icnowing all about us loves 41 to the end (Joe. xxxi, IS John xill, e I.. Here In this cavu the word of s/ tlm Lord came to him as at °Gun ! tones (xv(i, 2, 8; x\ -3u, a). In Emil 13, le is written tliat the word ot , the Lord came expressly to Exekie thci priest, and unless we receive the • messages from the book as coming expressly- to es individually there is no benefit, yet there are many Vet profess to believe tile Bible who look wIth surprise upon tbose Who sae' "God has spoken to nie in 1-11 •wond:" Unless tho word of Go 11 agreeable to the taste moderately, oven sparingly salted, than to rival brine in its use. Some writers consider it criminal not to educate the children to Like everything Host mankind has proved to be desirable as food, and also how to eat. This has a liberalizing ef- fect, makes ono hearty, whole-souled, taking things us they come and lik- ing. them. It also eliminates the fin- icny habits, and snakes it so much easier for the housesvffe. There is as meth true pleasure Si smelling food as in eating it. An orange tastes much better when peeled and eaten from the hands, than when eaten with a spoon. Pinemiples and cu- cumbers, have the same aroma. The very hungrer man stuffs ancT crams down his food, whereas the epicure eats slowly, relishes each dish and enjoys bis meal, lingering over the flavors and aromas that stimulate his sense 01 enjoyment. We aro too apt to Imee Mrs. O'Reagans "ban - ante thirst" when it mines to eating what we like, and like her, feteh up at the "sodn man's" for a "tin cint anthertlote." Ca,11 VOSSOIS Was WOrtilleSS, DEPENDS ON MATERIAL. It depends upon the material usod, the inethon crrinanufacture and ths care taken after they have " been ploced in rvice, whether tho se. called life poeservers are suell in fact, or whether they are death war- rants. 'Dead men tell no tales, and for *this reason no ono will ever know how inany have trusted therm saves to the life belt, only to find thee instead of buoying them up to safety and the chance of rescue, It was di -amino them down to et watery grave A 'drowning man clutching at a straw has long been a figure ol speech descripteve of utter despair. Better clutch vainly at a straw than eber:arsa.gged to the bottom of the sea by an incubus of rotten reeds and n Three entirely different matcadals have been authorized by the United States Clovernment animals for the manufacture of ure preserves, ka- pok, tele and cork. Of these corli Is the oldest, the most common and incomparably the best.; and kapok Is the most. recent and the worst. "Tho kapok life preservers," says an authority, "should be consigned In tho bottomless pit where they belong. The use of this material was authorized by the United ,States authorities only about a year ago, but already it has been placed oe hendreds of vessels. It Is made of the fibres of the kapok -a Species Ot sillc cotton tree, botanically related to the ordinary cotton plants. It grows in the East and West Indies, the Philippines and many other trop- ical countries. From Ceylon it lS exported in large quantities, MITI 11104)11 of the kapok life preservers now on tho =tricot are made from the Ceylonese. ilber. Tho production of the fibre is one of the infant indus- tries of Me Philippines evhich the Clovernment is anxious to encourage and Annulate. It is useful 511 am manufacture or Mattreesee, cushions and for similar purposes, as well as in its letest application to the mak- ing of life preservers. In appear- ance the fibres closely vegetable raw eotton, excepting for their shiny, glistening character and their com- parative lack of flexibility, They are almost ampeemeable to water and possess very great buoyancy. Am latently these properties alone weril considered by the authorities when they authorized the use of this ma- terial. ruEL FOR THE IPLAMF.,S, 'Moe -ever, it is as lellammable 0.8 gun cotton, and llie preservers made col it, would spread a fire on ship- board almost as quickly as a train of powder. It IS ineredthle that the alithorities were aware Of this fact when they legalized its use. It was an oversight, aml they owe it to themselves and to the public to ackn o wledge the blonder and see that the sale is stopped, Already, some scores, or perhaps hundsocis of vessels on tho Atlantic, the Paci- fic and the Gulf coasts and on our inland lakes and rivoes aro equipped with thoge dangerous articles. It their continued (15(1 is permitted, the disaster to the Cl/meted Slocein may Mut many paralkIri, an(1 is very like- ly to be eclipsed in horror. The or- dinary method of stowing the pro - servers just under the decks, where they call readily be SI,170C1 111 CRSO emergency, gives every facility 101 the spread of aro by thole means when an inflenenable material is (ed. A blaze starting ia the for- % 1 1 a USEFUL IIINTS. A hot-water bath in which: has been dissolved abotit two ounces of coarse sale will cure tired, swollon feet. Tender feet should be Tubbed with spirits of camphor after being wash- ed in warm water and thoroughly IFor moist hands put three. grains ot alum in a pint of elder -flower wa- ter and after drying anoint the pal ins. , TI50 Mass of liot water taken for !laxative purposes should he drunk twenty or thirty minutes before the meal. When bathing and drying the face, always rub and. 01a150 the strokes up- ward, as the muscles of the •race re- lax clowntvard. Hands that perspise too freely should be dusted with the following powder: Preelpitated chalk, Tom ounces; powdered starch, two ounces; iris powder, two minces. Wash the hands in water %rat haS had a piece of borax added, and after dryaes, dllst with 1180 . ITo develop the chest, breathing ex- ercises should be taken mornino and evening. Stand straight and clog the hands at the back of the neck, ,elbows touching in front. 'Inhale, 'force elbows mit and bach, 1 bring elbows fOrWard mrtil they nmet. This is nn excellent exorcise for chest and Ding expansion and to strengthen the muscles of the back. Never use soap on oilcloth. Wash oilcloth with a sponge and cold water and polish with a flannel. To ,improve the color and repolisli when dim, beeswax and turpentine mixed and well rubbed in, very eparingly, will bo found to greatly improve and reetore both coloring and smotliness of surface. HER OPPORTUNITY. "Miss Harliraway," said 1)olliner, "7 suppose you havo seen the statement that we are eugaged to be. married?" "Yes," said she; "7 saw it." "Well, I wish you to know that had nothing, to do with that an- nosneeinent, and 7 have written this letter of danial." ir011, I wouldn't send it," said she, naively. -What is 1110 use?" snBut it isn't true!" "That Is so; but Is isn't: impossi- ble. Do yott know that paper con- tains a great many valuable hints?" 1 And so she roped him in, and the wedding -cards will be ont, goon, • and eartimanker He had just recent- ly spoken to the people 'through Elle jah by fire on Cerniel, bat row it is by the Mill tonall yoke, Some one may be looking for Et flee or earth - (maim experience becatise rule else has had it or beccese they themselves have had it in former times, bet now God is speaking in a still small voice and they 'do ziot hear because they want the Aimee 1 eeptelence, Lot us bow head and heart ,and say, "$.ipeak, Lord; as .1 ileriseth Theo, for Thy servant bear- elli." Not methods nor expeeiences, rut Himself alone, can satisfy the PIGEONS IN WAIL Tlio pigeon post is largely usod by both the naval and military forcee of Japan, A movable loft Is attached to tho headquarteve, S'conts are fur - Melted with a, knapsack cepable of holding four birds; when they wish to communicate with headquarters they welt° out the messoge told place it, in a tube, Which is attached to a bird'e log. The pigeon is then liber- ated and flies to tho movnble loft, where, its megoage is read. These birds fly at a voleeity of oVor a mile per minute, " A WOMAN OF WEIGHT, Tho biggest woman in llelernen has Inst flied at St. Peter's Hospital, t ilreesels, Sho was fifty yearet of I ago, Weer t3 ft, in height, and Weigh -(1 ed 824 1b, The woman was born at 11 to Cormitrelt, 'in Mindere, nod people le 1401(1 alt oOe1 tho 00 11 ry tune in the habit of eisiting plate to See heart. And the Lord 4101(1 unto 111141, Go, 1'0(u111 011(1 anoint a king over Zyria, a king over Israel, and Ensile to be prophet 10 thy Poem (vorgeg 15, 1(3) Thie is what we said a little before, Hint when a man thinke that the work cannot get along without him t is tone to appoint this euccessioze No ono IS ('5501111141 to God or to 11(4 Week, but Ito IN 54'00105151y ploaeod to Into 150)10.81410 wining to cont. the 0 1 i ttl e in thei ttei osight and let Clod be glorified in them, Wo Must learn to 111058811)! tho 7,01e1 Jesus as tre magnified the rather, "Yet linve T loft (114150.01111 theiusand in Israel witteli have hot bowed unto Baal" (Verso 19), How utterly fool- ish lo think that We are the only ward part of a vessel would be eer- ier' back to the 510011 through a line of kopek me M08000018 alinoSt With the.rapidity of a. flash. of Belittling iy the breeze created by the vessel's 11011011,NVITATION TO 1)1SSTRUCTION, 'A flee that might otherwise be welly chocked could never bo got ender control should it once leach a, ilace where large 911011114.108 of these miecalled proget.Veee were stored. Cork will burn readily enough to ven- dee objectionable, (001(1any other inaterial of equal 11110)41500)!110 ob. • deed of less combostible qualities; nit thro, oCan be no possible excleci • etibstituting nuttorial it. hue - Mod times' more (1111011144(01110. A. parts toetthing flates 119 into an incontrollable !doze 01(1)0511 in en nstant. A 11r0044e14 fa the most well foul the Most Mended of elm teen's petite. • Tf those preservers 1,0 used (80 danger trill be 111811 t]jil 1' ton -fold. Let the kapok life pro- erver therefore he consigned to the intim of departed miisences and or - lend roisinkre ee befosome great cal - nifty, ((011)11115unnetessittey 1085 life end thettructiott of property, wakens tho public to a realizel Ion the feet 111141,01110101 eaft•plords • 10010t11)1()1 but, (110(144(050148810- 4414444 ones who know the Lord or too real- 0 • 114(040)4(1)4(1 111 Nis cause. TTn al- ft vays haR 0W0, lumtvn P011 to 3 Ilin if not to others, and wo least oft Mdge lest We mieludge, Judge t °thing borere the Hine, 'The S.•ord 0 nowotti them that are alis. 0 1)0/1.1, 01 111k 1)1114)1(80 a Itrin WW1, sin jell that he is helloed,