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The Brussels Post, 1904-10-6, Page 6iTc The Dove Ls a Symbol of Purity, Gentleness and Love. (Enamel according to Act of the Pee- diarr,.nrat of VauoU, )1'r the year Vna byhousnnd Nino fIundred and Four, W. hail,' of icultToronto, at the Dopat'fmdiia of Agriculture,' Ottawa.) A: despatch from Los Angeles, Cal., lays :—Rev, Frank De Witt Talmage preached from erne following text : Isaiah lx, 8, "Who aro these that By as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?" An axiom is a self evident fact, "It is," the lexicographers say, "0. pro- position whose truth is so obvious at first sight that no process of reas- oning or demonstration eau make it plainer." The truth of an axiom can be put to a practical test. Sometimes, how- ever, men do not take the trouble to teat it, but give credence to state- ments apparently contradicting it, in- stead of applying the test of exper- ience. Some years ago the French savants were asked to explain how it was that a pail of water contain- ing a dead fish weighed more than one of the same size containing a live ash. Dissertation atter dissertation was written upon the subject. At last one common sensed scientist, whose brain had not been educated to the verge of imbecility, saw that the question was a misleading one. "A dead fish and a living fish ought to weigh the same," said he. "This truth is axiomatic." He put n live Rah into a pail of water and weigh- ed it. He killed the fish and put the dead body back into the same water and weighed it again. The water containing the dead fish and that containing the live flsli of course weighed tho same. All the ingenuity expended in writing the dissertations had been wasted. The writers had been trying to find reasons for a phenomenon that did not exist. CHURCH'S POWER. I.3:undrecic of men are simply doing the same thing in trying to find the reasons for tho phenomenon stat- ed by shallow observers, that the church of Jesus Christ is losing its power over mon. Long lists of reas- ons for this waning influence are cit- ed, whereas the writers have only to open their eyes to discover that the church of Jesus Christ is not losing its power over men. The church of God was never so powerful as it is to -day. More strong men and strong women are bowing before its altars than ever before. More are. the church's teachings respected by statesmen and in the homes and daily lives of our citizens than ever before. I have not time to go into argument to prove this assertion. I would not to -day do so if I had the time. Why? Because it is a self evident fact that the church of •the Lord Jesus Christ 15 the most vital and essential infiuenoe in the world to -day. It is a self evident statement. All intelligent people who have looked boldly and impartially at the facts are ready to concede that the asserion is true. Iiut though the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is growing more and more powerful day by day, yet wo believe that still greater triumphs are before it in the future. Tho victories already won are small compared with those which are yet to be won, when nations shall be born in a day. Jos- iah Strong recently wrote a book en- titled, "The Next Great Awakening." A FLIGHT OF DOVES, The selection of tho figure of a flight of doves is significant. It is, above other things, a suggestion of immense multitude. But few people realize the marvelous numbers and propagating powere of the doves of olden, times, Biberg, the ornitholo- gist, estimated that if a common pair of domesticated pigeons hatched Mee times e. year—which number of hatchings is not extraordinary for an average pair of these birds'—and if these pigeons laid two eggs at one time, and all the fledgelings which were hatched should live •and hatch in turn, that single pair of pigeons would produce in four years nearly fifteen thousand descendants, The fecundity of the dove is about as great as the reproductive powers of the English sparrow or the .lustre.• lien rabbit, The most graphic des- sceiption ever written of the innumer- able multitudes of the cloves was penned by ,Alexander Wilton. the na- turalist. list. Statements made by this Scottish American traveler were in- dorsed by John Audubon. Among the ornithological authorities there can be no better indorsement than this: "Mr. Wilson wrote that down in Itentucky, in a place which migrat- ing doves used to visit annually, their multitudes were so groat that they literally destroyed whole forest regions. In this tract about which ho wrote the branches of every tree were filled with dove nests wherever nest could be built. In many trees over one hunred nests had been ccn- strueted. Above Lha trees the mul- titudes of the pigeons' wings were so great that their- flapping Wings sounded like the boomings of a tor- nado. So groat .was the noise of their flapping wings that the horses of the farmers in that region often became unmanageable and could not be driven. ngls were gently swaying Okra as'the rosebushes bonded under the touch of a summer breeze in your fatlier's garden. Over the front doorway were the four massive browse horses which Napoleon curried away to Paris after his conquest ill Italy, but which the overthrow of the Bonaparte dynasty restored to their places, With arch- ed neck and sinewy limb like crea- tures of life they seemed just ready for a battlefield charge or a run over the hills after the hounds or n lions? Do you not long for the miller-- gentle caress by mistress or chivalric Mal day when Christ's disciples shall knight. 'There, within those walls, flock through the ehurc:li's doors in the chancel and auditorium blend in innumerable:, multitudes "as the doves such perfect harmony that when. I fly to their windows?" stood before the altar's picture of MEN OF LIVING FAITH. the dying Christ I felt for the first Unto in a European cathedral that I The figure is expreesive not only of was in the presence of God and in numbers, but of spiritual qualities, the place] of Prayer. Tho church of the future is not to GOD'S FEATIItikt7ID LOVED ONI1IS have a padded roll, It is not to ho But, though I saw many places in composed of a lot of members who, the Venice cathedral that entranced as the live foolish virgins of Christ's me, after all, my greatest lesson Parable, lounged around and slept learned there was outside the cathode and had no oil for their spiritual ral walls, and not within, I learned lamps. It is not to be composed of that lesson there not from the cold men and women who. occupy their stones of a building, but from the church pews only on 'Sundae' and then warm hearts of living doves. There, when the benediction of the sermon from behind the towers and front Is given turn and shut their pew, within the recesses down from the doors and say: "Good by, religion, I roof and the four great bronze hors - must go home now. You just stay es, from pillars and vestibules, the here for e. week, and next Sunday doves gather arousal you by the hun- morning I will come back and see deeds. Thcy came as fearlesslyto you and pat you on the back for an my side as my little children might hour again while the choir sings and come. They perched on my shoulder, tho pastor prays." But in that on my hat. They fluttered over my church which Isaiah saw in prophecy head. They crowded by the hundreds not only shall there be multitudes of at my feet to eat of the food I had worahipors. These many worshipers ready for them. As they fluttered shall be men of living faith, to whom about me I sold to myself, "Would the presence of God is an abiding that God's sinful children might reality influencing them wherever here gather about these church doors they go and in every moment of their as I see my God's little feathered Uwe. As Dr. Josiah Strong wrote in loved ones." When I spoke those his opening chapter : "The supreme words involuntarily I started, I said need of the world is a real God; not to myself, "Why will not God's Bin- a great perhaps, but the great I am; tul children thus come to God's sano- not a God of yesterday or to -morrow tuaries?" Did not Isaiah in vision but of to -day; not an absentee God, see them corning? Shall they not but one who is precisely here; not a cemee Will they not come now 11 Sunday God, but as everyday God." trio Cliristian church members feed Such shall be the spiritual quality of them with the "broad of lire," as I the multitudes of worshipers seen by am reciting these birds with little Isaiah in the symbol of the flying crumbs? Yes, they will. They will, doves. if we Christina church members only NURTURED BY A DOVE. live right and offer to the outside In the beautiful mythological 10- suffering world the riglit kind of di- gend Semiramis, the queen, was said Fine sustenance. Will not you and I, in her youth to have been nurtured 0 church .members, by our examples bya dove and at death to Have bean and welcome and gospel food, matte Isaiah's -'inion a possibility now? changed into a dove. Wo find, how- Will not you and I, as followers of ever, in Christian nomenclature the Christ, br'^'(ott the sinners to hint, dove is also the symbol of purity and they will conio as doves come to and gentleness and divine love. In their windows. the Bible, the dove has the most hal- lowed of associations. It was as a IS IT WELL TO BE ILL? dove that the Holy Spirit appeared at the baptism of Jesus. It was Strung People Become Careiess of two doves that the blessed virgin Their Health. presented et the temple as an obla- tion for her purification after the From a purely physical stand - divine birth, What says the psalm point, triose who are able to boast tat in referonce to the man's redeem- that they have, never Been ill in their tion from sin and his cleansing lives are not always to be envied. through the blood of Jesus Christ? Agreeable as it is to look back on a "Though ye have lain among the period of thirty years, or more, dur- pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of ing which one lies had no need of a dove covored with silver and the a doctor's aid, yet there is Clanger feathers with yellow gold." Oh, lurking 171 this apparent strength my friends, in the beautiful vision of and immunity. the doves, the poor, the gentle, the It is not an uncommon experience loving, the innocent doves fluttering to Sind that the individual who is to their windows, cannot you see the able to make this boast goes under symbol of a future glorified and con- suddenly, Hind we wonder why it is. secreted assemblage crowding about Or he catches a cold, and it develops tho sacred altars of Jesus Christ? into pneonsonla with a rapidity that This migration of the redeemed and startles those who regarded hien as spotless multitudes of human beings a man of iron physique, while au- to Christ's churches shall not only other individual, always considered come with the purity of the dove weak and constantly ailing, will but also with the swift velocity of shake off a similar attack with ague the dove. It will not come with the ally surprising quickness. leadened feet of a man who, having The explanation lies mainly in the been born in a Christian home, takes fact that the strong person becomes ten, fifteen, twenty, perhaps thirty careless of his heath. Being strong, years, to make up his mind to be a the things wliicli would make nn- lowstiro. It will not cone with the other person feel too "seedy" to do slow process same churches have, anythingelse than lie in •bad are whereby their sessions or vestrie or boards of deacons place the applicant scarcely noticed by him; yet we Must fur church membership on probation. remember tenet wo cannot play tricks But these new accessions to the with Nature. Uniknown to himself, churches of Jesus Christ will come he is laying up trouble for himself. Isaiah describing the consecrated worshippers (looking to the millennial church could net have chosen a more expressive figure. "These that fly as a. cloud .and as doves to their win- dows." 'The readers of his time would teatime by it what countless throngs of, aeon ho saw in prophetic vision hastening into the kingdom. of God. Migrating doves of old were so many in number's that Alexander Mann said their moving wings often Verna cid a detain Palo to shut out the Tight of Lha suet and changed mid - noon into the twilight of evening, The church of Goal is now gr'eiit ` in members, do you not looit forwarli in from mimeo. These dire—watt flower holy ecstasy to the time when the gardens were so perfeelly chiseled thnusan(1C who aro worshiping Christ that it monied as if the winds, now shall be changed into the mile sa e:elefng up from tho Venetian ca» to the front rank of Christian ser- Pains and aches are Nature's wenn- vice and worship as quickly as the ings, but the strong m,an, in the name of a Saul was changed- into a, midst of bis advantages, has the dis- Paul. The new members whorl Isai- advantages of being unable to de ah saw in vision fled to Christ's al- tact the warnings. The knodk on tar as quickly as the doves, fly to that door does not resound loudly their windows. enough to be heard inside. The weak COME TO CHRIST NOW, man finds it impossible to besregaed The swiftness of flee dove's fligkt is the knocking, and he applies trio ono of the greatest inspirations to 111 ot'l,y. Certainly, it is well to be me of all of Isaiah's vision, Why ill tcasionnliy. the swiftness? Because I know that WHY SHE L . 01213'D. we can conte to Christ now, Oh, my btbther, it takes a swift wing for \%8ien trio young istress of the you in an instant of time to cross house entered the kitchen. she carried over all that far country of sin herself with great dignity. She lind which separates you from God's conte to call the cook to account. dovecote. The distance from Arlen- "Mary," she said, "I must insist na to Now Yoik or from St. Sebes- that you keep better Hours, and that tian, Spain, to Venice, where doves you have loss company in the ketclien have flown, aro not as far, Toll me, ,evenings. Last night I was kept O man, did you not start forth on awake because of the uproarious your journey of sin ten, twenty, for- laughter of ono of your women ty years ago? Why, let the recount friends." the years. You have not seen. a ••yrs, mum, T know," Mary replied, coramunian table since your mother ssess'Cully, "but silo couldn't help died. You have not made one often- it. I was tolling her haw you tried est prayer far ten years. If I was to make cake yesterday morning." to -day to count over the list of your Mein:ate friends I tvoul'd find BREAKING IT GENTLY. • Chem without exception to be leen and women who have not been iu the The Temployer—"I believe, sir, that past and are net not,/ living Chris- your pride yourself upon your exces- tian lives, Oh, fay brother, my poor sive modesty, Jo you not?" sin Melt brother, you have a long dis- The I:mployei(—"Merl, ,yes; I may twice to come back to Clod, But say that I do," you can conte by divine grace. You The lensployer—"In that case it can same naw•. You can Come as occa's to me that your salary may quickly as the new converts of the not bo sufficiently modest to suit church which Isalnh saw in vision you. I beg to assure you, however, canoe to the mercy seat. You can that this nuttter will be atl,on.dod to 0011)0 with a superlative swiftness. at once, and that henceforth you Yea can come with the lightning ve- will have no rees0n to blush. on pay locity oe a flying dove, days. That is ell." ST. MARK'S O1" VENICE. r ATTAIN THEM MAJORITY. Like unto enamel history, St. A unique ecrnt. has recently been Marks is the Yellowstone pork, net 1 the Yosemite Or the Gothard pasn, celebrated in Manchester, in the coin, - among the cathedrals, It impressed ing of ago of the, triplet sons of Mr. me hat with its size so much as its Edward Buck, of illirforrl House, exquisite colorings, Its roof, Whalley Range. The three young its walls, its arcades all hlenclee a'1 men are alt assoe'iat:ed with thein the colors of a rainbow retrial in father In business in Manclioslcr. stone, The tops of its lofty col- 'Thee were horn 011 .lube 27, 1883. 0n140 we1'e mat 'hideous with grimy The earning of ngo was crleblu.t:ect tit gargoyles They were chiseled into a gathering of relatives anti friends flowot g011ens, which grow at your from Menchestei' and Carlisle, held feet 01' with, theft' leaves hug'lfnwn at W1111ian::c'e. There were eighty guests el ;tanner, and the 0Fsenrhled aunts elect mules Of the three young MN) 1X1'08(1111 ed thein cash with a gold tAu onolnetetr. rir++,144,114442,44444.444 Th Home 1. 4 SI LBCTI; D RECIPES. Substantial Omolut,—leivo eggs, 1 teacupful chopped cold veal or beef, 2 fried tomatoes, 1 small onion minced, i teaspoonful. Worcestershire sauce, 1 teaspoonful flour, cupful cream. Beat eggs, flour, cream, mimed tomatoes, and onions • well to- gether, and pour into a spillet cov- ered with hot cottolene; let cools over slow fire till the mixture commences to brown, then let fall gently over the top of the chopped moat, wliicli has in it the Worcestershire sauce. Let all cook slowly untll the neat is thoroughly heated; then fold avec' once and serve immodiatoly on a well -Heated platter. Country Omelet,—Five eggs, well Letzten, 1 tablespoonful flour, 1 tum- bler milk, cottolene size of an egg, pepper and salt. Mix the flour smooth witli the milk, add to the eggs and season, put the cottolene into a spillet, and wlien licit pour in the mixture; cook slowly, and when commeneing to brown remove from top of stove to the oven for a kw minutes for tho top to cook. Fold in half and serve the Instant it is taken from the oven, The yolks and whites of eggs must bo beaten separately. Steamed eggs. --Butter a tin plate and break in your eggs; set in a steamer, place over a kettle of boil- ing water, and steam till the whites are cooked. If broken into buttered patty -pans they look nicer by keep- ing their forms better. Or, still bet- ter, if broken into egg -cup end steamed until done, Utley are very nice. Cooked in this way there is nothing of their flavor lost. Swiss Eggs. Six eggs, e pound cheese, 1-8 cupful cream, 2 table spoonfuls butter, 1 teaspoonful mus- tard, ; teaspoonful salt, one-tenth teaspoonful of cayenne. Cut the cheese into thin shavings; butter an egg -dish or a grating -dish ;(if you have neither use a small stone -china platter , and spread the cheese in it. Upon the cheese 'distribute in small portions the remainder of the but- ter; mix the salt, cayenne, mustard, and cream. and pour Half of the mix- ture ix ture over the cheese. Ilr'ealc the eggs into the dish, and, after pour- ing over them the remaining liquid', place in an oven and cook for eight minutes. Brains Willi Brown Butter.—As soon as delivered drop the brains In- to a bowl of cold water, changing it as often as discolored. When they look well blanched, carefully pull off as much of the covering tissue as is possible without breaking tho neat. Place in a saucepan with a slice of onion, a Half -teaspoonful of salt, and a bit of bay loaf, add sufficient boil- ing water to cover and one tea- spoonful of vinegar. Simi: gently, but steadily, from fifteen to twenty minutes, according to size. No mat- ter how the brains are to be finally served, this preliminary cooking( Hurst always be given. In a small saucepan put two largo tablespoon- fuls of butter and stand a little to one side of the fire where the butte' will melt and gradually turn to a deep brown color; 'do not let it burns. When colored add three tablespoon- fuls of vinegar and bring to the boiling point. Lift out and drain the brains, arrange on a hot plat- ter, pour the brown sauce over them and serve at once, as they lose their piquancy if allowed 'to cool. Scrambled Brains on 'roasts—Soak and cook the brains as directed in the preceding recipe, then drain and break quite fine with a. fora.. Sea- son with salt and pepper. Add to them six well -beaten eggs and four tableilpoonfuls of cream, Have ready a number of thin slices of hot • but- tered toast. Melt.a tablespoonful of butter in a frying -pan, turn in, the prepared brains, arid shako and stir over the fire lentil thickeed' and cresm,v, Spread over the toast and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley. In place of toast, bread boxes or patty shells may bo substituted, and a spoonful or two of chopped mush- rooms ('if on linnet) lnay be added with Uhe beaten eggs. Tea Biscuit. Tliree cups sifted flour, two and one-liolf teaspoons baking powder, butter size o1 an egg (malt), one egg not beaten, one-half cap sugar, little nutmeg', one oap milk, mix together and stir into flour. Ttlulflins. Dream one -Riled cup but- ter gradually add one-fourtli cup sugar and pincli of salt. add one egg beaten light, tlireo-foulrtlis cup milk, two culls flour, four level teaspoons baking powder. Bake 25 minutes in hot buttered gem pans. Dread Rolls: -One tablespoonful lalvi, one p111t milk, half a• yeast cake. Mix thoroughly and set in a warm place till quite light. Trion knead the dough a little, make into rolls, orad place in baking pans. Af- ter they have risen `bake in quick oven. A 13USIIEL, OF CRAB APPL33I Imola a bushel of transcendent crabs T made the following delicious goodlev: 'Twenty-six glasses of jelly, 2). gals butler and five cleans pro- serves, writes Emma Clearwater. The apples were carefully looked over•, the, perfect ones being put aside for preserves. The odious were washed turd rat. in halves, the cores that were faulty were cut out a181 all bad slimes and rot. The good halves untl pieces were put, in the preserving pan 3311.11 (i centras water. When conked until the ;tpples were soft (nut ,mushy), all the ;Oleo that could bet ryas dipped out end poured lit (lib jelly bag, then the alxples Were put in the bag and hung up to " . r ti Was s not rOssecl. r 117. The d lht Mail (t p y jtiiCe Was ineitsured, and after bailing • 20 minutes and being skimmed, an equal quantity of sugar was added. This was boiled litit'd for 15 minutes then poured into glasses, The pulp was then pressed through a wiry glove, and two-thirds as much sugar as pulp was stirred In. The 1110015 was constantly stirred, and cookod for 25 or 30 minutes. Wiien at- nuns:, done, ground einnatelpn was added. As to trio amount of cinna- mon to use, one must consult indi- vidual taste. We don't 11110 much. The butter was put into jars and sealed up. This makes a very stiff butter•, almost marmalade.A thick syrup is made of sugar and enough water to prevent the sugar scorchling. :leo!. 5 qutirts of pre- serves ro-serves I used 7 pints sugar and 2 pints water, Into this syrup drop whole crabs, cook until tender, re- Move •o-move illto jars with a striminor, and so continue until all the apples are cooked. Drain out all the juice that is in the jars, cook the syrup as thick as possible without scorching pour over the crabs, and seal lip, This makes a delicious rich: prem lve. I used a muslin flour sack to strain the juice through and a Home- made wire sieve to ,press the pulp through; a sieve made of screen wire, the frame a large cheese box. Ono can make a much stronger stove Than tbo bought ones aro, and I like them bettor than colanders. The jelly is of beautiful color and 'delicious flavor. Wild crabs would make almost as 'delicious eating, but the color would not be as nice, and perhaps trio butter and jelly would be rather tart unless a larger pro- portion of sugar was added. Grano- latod sugar makes a cleare jelly and better preserves than other sugar will. The juice should be boiled and hell skimmed before adding sugar, until done. If one has juice from butter, the butter will not be so insipid. tart apples, 1 pint juice to 1 gallon as soon as possible, and boil hard then as soon as the sugar is dis- solved, skim again, bring to a boil HCUSEaoLD 7IINTS, It is said that tomatoes putt up in the manner given hors make excel- lent pies in winter. Take triose that will not ripen before frost, pare them and to each eight pounds allow three pounds of sugar and half a pint of molasses. Boil slowly three or four Hours, then put away in jars. When wanted for use, bake between two crusts, adding a few slices of le- mon to the tomato. If pears seem hard and dry, it is better to steam them till a forte will penetrate then easily before making them into sweet pickle. Small cakes require a quick oven when first pact in, to make them rise but the heat should not be increased after they begin to bake. The quality of broad depends a good deal upon the yeast. When yeast has a strong, sour smell and a watery appearance on top, with sedi- ment below, it is too old for use. Too much yeast gives beater an ❑n - pleasant, "yeasty" taste. Ono roast cake equals in "rising" ability, one cup of liquid yeast. V,lliat use to make of 1031 -ver cere- als is often a pprrie to the economi- cal housekeeper. A good way is to press it into a mold, let it get per- fectly cold, then slice and fry it and servo with syrup. Thus prepared, it makes a good breakfast or supper dish. Or it may be beaten into pancake batter. Ilow often does ono hear tiio vexed question asked, "How can I prevent mold appearing on my preserves?" Mich a state is most aggravating af- ter all one's labor and expense of ob- taining sugar, fruit, etc. Many things have been tried, some women tying down trio preserve while hot, others say that if you dip paper 1n brandy and place on top of preserve before covering it will keep for years. Better than these plans is a very good and sure way of prevent- ing mold practiced by an old Scotch woman who knows what alio is about. Simply pour a little good glycerine on tiie snrfaca anti mold will be a thing of the past, JUMPING AT CONCLUSIONS. Roberti— "I say, Henry, what oto you make of this? Thee was a donkey tied to a rope, and the rope was 4 feet long; 12 feet away there was a butidlo of h'ay, and the donkey wonted to get to the Stay, because 11e was very hungry. - How did he do it?" Henry (triumpliantly)•—`Oli, I've heard that before. You want me to say 'I give it up,'' and team you would say', `So did the otlier don- key.' " Itobert-"Not at a11, my dear ratan, Work it out; it's quite simple." Henry (after a pause)--,"We1 1, 3 don't know how he (lid it." Ttobertb-"Hb just walked up to the liay and ate it." Ilenry—"But you said he was tied to a rope." Roberti—"Yes; but the rope was not tied to anything. You mlustn't jump at conclusions like that, you, know." M,tNATUll a1AXThisi, Don't worry, Don't hurry. ":1.'00 swift arrives as tardily as too slow." Sinplifyl SinplifyI Sim.plittyl Dont overeat, Don't starve "Let your m,oderatioit be known t0 all (nen." Coot ttie keels air day and night. Oh, if you renew What was in the al•.1 :;sleep and rest abundantly. Sleep is Natan'e's benediction, Spend less nervous energy each day than you make. Be eliee'ful. "A light !heart lives long" Think only 110altliftal thoughts, "As a man thinketh in bis Heart,so is 110." Aeel d p05511111 and )1)11111)01101(t, A momenta: anger may Ire fatal, A350011118 with 11011131137 people, ' ;alenith is nrsntaiaielus as woll as 'las naso." THE S. S. LESSON XNTEIL'NATIONAL LESSON, OCT. 9. Text of the Lesson, XI, Kings iv., 1-7. Golden Text, Psalms xxxvii., 3. Chapter 3 is a record of alt alliance of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, with Johorawn, son of Abab, king of Is- rael, end the king of Edom against the king of Moab, who in the days of Ahab paid him heavy tribute, but at Ahab's dontli rebelled. Thee three kings unite to subdue him• but after seven days' ,journey they Sind tholnselves in trouble because of lack of water, from which they aro 'delivered by, a miracle wrought by God through El.isha for tho sake of Jehoshaphat. The many alliances of Jehoshaphat with the ungodly suggest our proneness in the sante direction The many, deliverances wrought by God for Johoshaphat, notwithstanding his failures, sot forth the great grace of God, who' works wonders for His people for His great name's sake in spite of (hate unworthiness. Tho lesson to -day, is the record of another great deliverance wrought through I:lisha, but this time it is for one of the poorest of Itis poo le and not for a king. We, saw in a recent lesson that the same miracle, the dividing of the Jordan, was wrought; for two men and afterward for ono elan, 0s well as for tho mil- lions of Israel, God is no respector of persons or of n.unrbors•. As Asa cried, "Lord. it is nothing, with to help, whether with many or with them that have no power" (II Chrott. xiv, 11). We kava before us a pool will lw with two sons, and because of debt the creditor is about to take her Lwo sons for the debt. In her dis- tress she calls upon Elisha to deliv- er and save her sons. Hers is a earn of real need, a need is felt, and her utter helplessness is also 8017 real, When it is so with trs, and the in our conscious helpltossuess call upon God, then He delights to work. We in our fancied wisdom and strength try to deliver ourselves, but it is not until all our wisdom is swallowed up that God can worts (Ps, evil., 27, 28, margim). Whether in the matter of salvation, or work- ing out that salvation in our daily life, it is a real necessity on our part that we see and realize our utter helplessness. IIo came to save sinners, to seek and save the lost; He does not help us to save our- selves, but He Himself saves us wholly and freely, and, having saved us, Ile also must work all our works in us and through us (2 Tini, i, 16; Luke xis, 10; ELM. ii, 10; Phil. ii, 13). When God would work through us ,He sometimes talus just what we have end graciously multiplies and uses it, as with the lad's loaves and fishes when he multiplied them and fed the five thousand, but all we have must be wholly banded over to trim that He only may 'work and be glorified. A pot of oil is the sole possession of this poor widow. She is to borrow not a few empty vessels from her neighbors, shut the door upon herself and iter sons and pour from her vessel into the empty vessels. Site did so, and the oil continued to flow till every vessel was filled, and she said to her sons, "Bring me yet a vessel," but there were no more vessels to bring, and the oil stayed. There is never any limitation on the part of God; He delights to bless and to 1111. All the limitations come from our silo and because of our little faith, "Call unto Mc, and I will answer tiled and show thee groat and mighty things which thou knowost not," "If ye shall ask anything in my name I will do it"' (Jes•, xxxiii„ 3; Jo.n xiv., 14). If we would have God give in- crease to what wo have it must len in the pouring forth. There cannot be increase while kept only la our vessel, and only •God can give the, increase that will abide All other increase is vain (I. Cor, iti., 6, 7). As to being willing to 'be poured out, "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die it ahidetli alone, but if It die it bringeth'forth mush fruit (John xii., 21•). There is a great deal la learning how to shut the door (compare Matt, vi„ 6). We must learn to live in trio secret or His presence and halve personal deal- ings with. Iiiirn and know the power of Ps. lrii., 5, "71>' sold, wait thou only upon God, for my expectation 1•, from. Brim." Our great difficulty is in allowing people and circureetances to come between us and Cott The widow's debt was paid, and there was something over to live type on. God always sttppl•ies abundant- ly. Ile gives life and life more abund- ant. Tie saves us by His g'raco and ma1ee gram to abound toward us (Joliet x., 10; 13pli. i i , 8, i); 11„ Cote. ix.,8),We think of Patti in his letter to Philemon not only saying concerning Onesirnus, "Receive flim as myself," but also adding, "11 Its oweth thee aught, put that to mine account" (Phil, ix., 17, 18). Such is the grace of our Lord ;Testis Christ for ward us. But all the redeemed are in debt to Irina who is our great creditor (Rom.. 1,, 14), and lie wants us lead our sons and daughters to be His willing bond slaves to give the glad tidings of Nis grace to those who never hawed it. We aro as helpers to it() it as was the poor widow to Pay her debt, but Tie has given us Itis 'Rely Spirit, of "whom oil is ono of the symbols and if we. 011137 are Willing the Holy Spirit will 1111 us and use us to the glory of God. Mahe, sloes not appear in this miracle beyond tallhtg the Widow to shut herself up with. God, told then in telling her what to do with the result—Vis., t0 pay the debt and to. li'ue. 7To who pews 0131' deiat is our life, anti 71e desires to live in us (Gal, 11. 203 It. Col', iv„ 10, 11). W1ien n. man bets with a 31111411 110 p,iwirys loses whether he wins or not. The sumaner girl was probably born With an ice cream spoon in her Meath, SEA PIRATES 0]? TO -DAY PPIVATEERS WEO STILL SCOU'P, TEE SEAS. tin British a- Fishing Fleets xt sh W tors Are the Principal Sufferers., Copor, ahoy 1 People imagine that pirates no 1011'scour the seas. A live Win,- utes801talk with an old salt woolcl pro- duce some revelations, Evert In our home waters many kinds of pirates are to be encountered, and rarely a night passes among the fishing fleets without tho coper being hailed, Por- tunatoly, this vessel Is being driven alt the ocean by the ships of tho var- ious excellent missionary, societies. Copet', ahoyl When that cry rings through the might, it 1s the sign that a beer -ves- sel flying tho Dutch flag has hove in sight, She comes bearing spirits and other intoxicating liquors, and aany other undesirable things. She comes up close to the fishing fleet, and stands by them until the morning. Dorgie, One that ce she is boarded by, sailors, who indulge in a drunkea HOW PIRATE CREWS worm, Work is at a standstill, and when tho crew return to the vessel, tout, my and quarrels invariably follow: But there is an even marc terrible side of tli0 system, for it is part of the methods of the less scrupulous copers to rob their patrons during their stay on the boat. Then they make haste to get their victims back to tho trawler, and themselves set sail with all speed for some obscure port in Holland. A carefully planned system of pir- acy has been carried out for some time by Finnish seamen, and four cases have already been heard in the English police -courts. -^ gang of men go together to a captain who is mak- ing up his crew, and secure employ- ment. They aro excellent seamen,, and all goes well until the veva is on Lha high sons. Then one night they, brealc into the captain's room, and snake demands which it is quite Impossible for him to accept. At once there is mutiny, and the ship is plundered, an taken to a point wnero they have plotted to meet a schooner sailed by their accomplices. The cargo is shifted, and till vessel deserted, the captain and his couple or three Englisli hands only b.-ing loft on beard. SCOURGE OP THE HEB'RIDES, A. shipmaster, who told the terri- ble errible story of a similar piracy recently, in a Lc,ndon court, said that it was his fourth experience of these brutal thieves. He shipped at Hamburg a Polish crew, and when three days out of port they all refused to oboy, orders, and announced that they in- tended to seize the cargo. He at- tempted to secure order, but they, chopped pieces of wood from the ship, and pelted hint with thein. Then they drank brandy and played cards, and afterwards thrashed the English captain and the cook. They, took all they wanted from the ves- sul and left Hem going away is the ship's boat, A few year's ago a pirate ship haunted the lonely Hebrides. She was called the "Deeka," and caused terror among the fishers, who depend on their "catches" for their living, One little vessel and her crew had a thrilling experience. She was boarded by the eery of the "Doeke, during a heavy fog, and a struggle ensued. The islanders—six all told— fought gamely withknives and blocks. Their captain fell, stunned. anda little lad was killed, After more than an hour's terri- ble fighting there wore only two left, standing. Tho others were lying shockingly, wounded on the deck, The pirates took the little vessel in tow, and sailed for an uninhabited island to the north, whore SHE WAS RUN AGROUND. The haul of fish was taken off, and poor fellows left on the trawler re- mained then .three days before being sighted by, a passing steamer. Even on the West Coast of Africa, the scene of the most thrilling ex- ploits in pursuit of Slave -traders, pirate ships are still occasionally, mot with, A British vessel bound for that coast fell in with one about three years ago, and was left strand- ed near Lagos. They were about eighty miles from their destination, when a schooner flying the Belgian flag pursued them, and gave warning of their sfnis'tcr iu.tontions by a vol- ley from a gun., The Britisher was seriously hand- icapped, but the captain thought it better to show fight, They took, in sail, and awaited the coming of the pirate. She drew on rapidly, arse was grappled to the trader, whilst the shouting, raving crow sprang on board their victim. It was a caso.of forty-two to nineteen, but for nearly three hours tho Englishmen fought hard and bravely. At last only the Cook and seconcl mato were left standing, and the desperadoes towed (heir capttu'e to a, cavo froquontod by them, whore, after plundering rho vessel, they left her end the wounded crew to their 'tate Two of the men were kaled, ,but the rernahuler even- tnitlly readied, Lagos, fralm whence they wore sent home to England by the colrrs1. BALING TZIIEVES, 'Alleang the .Whaling fleet o.nd the•• see.lcrs pirates 'still Carry' on theirr'vesporato work, and a gunboat is •frequently called to protect the ves• MTS. 'These robbers sail in vosseis built exactly on the lines of the ships among Which they go, so that the traders cannot tell whether it is a frienily vessel of the whaling and sealing fleet 01" a.pirate which is ap- proaehing them, The platt00 watch the catches of a certeilt ship, and wait until she is bound on tier bottle ward jeer toy, Then the mid 10 made, and the predate/ cargo eaoften. tort; Ila) though the pirate 1s sill oc- eas1onally met with on the high seas 111s pilwot• for ill is severely reetrlcl- ed; while in British waters he has 811c1Y a "hot tine" with our `tars" tltatt he finds it ur1p1•afitable to visit 13,0 :toe Often,."-LoiYdoh 4 *it t's.,