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The Brussels Post, 1903-2-26, Page 3THE GOSPEL IMITATION Should Be Addressed to the Sinful 1-lomes of Every Community. %altered according to Act of the Isar- you not lenow that there aro within 11802801, 01 Thetissene Nine nila :mma Three. lay win. Bally, of 'Tomato, at the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa., despatch from Chicago says: Bev. Frank De Witt Talmage preaeh- ed from the following text; John tx, 16, "There was a division among them" One day Lopaux, the great French infidel, cameto Napoleon. He said; "Your majesty, X have evolved a, new religion which I call Theophil- anthropy. I know that it is a. bet- ter gospel than Christianity, but the :remote people will not believe or ac- cept it, What, is the matter'? What shall I do?" The great Veatch Erne Peror turned and smiled, Then he raised his arm and placed his hand kindly upon his friend's shoulder as he answered: "Lepaux, there Is one trouble about stou,r new religion — you bave no witnesses. Go and open a few blinded eyes. 'Unstop some deaf ears. Straighten soles crooked limbs, Raise the dead, Ile crucified and buried, Rise again from the grave. On the third day appear unto them who put you to death, Then the people will accept your religion aeci believe in you as they believe in Jesus Christ. Le- paux, it is by your witnesses that yoer now religion mnst Will 1e5 WRY into the hearts of the people, not by your theories." Napoleon was right. The gospel or Jesus Christ Is to be carried to the farther:nest parts of tho world by the power of gospel testimony, not by theories, not by arguments, not by a brilliant collection of metaphysical or pole- mical dIssertationS. An illustration of this statement is furnished by tho scone of my text, There was great excitement in the ecclesiastical world ot Jerusalem. The pbarisees, the members of the sanhedrin and the priests had con- clusively settled it with themselves that Jestis Christ was a fraud, a charlatan, an absurd pretender. But one day these was brought into their presence; seeing, a man who had been born blind. In all prob- ability they knew him, for he had beep one of the beggars who took their stand near the temple gate. Every one who went to the temple knew him. "Who opened our eyes?" ono of tho learned doctors asked in surprise. "No mar, ever lived 130 - door, with at least tho same earn fore who, hexing been born blind, received sight on this side of the grave." When the young man an- swered "Jesus," the priests and their hirelings NV01•0 beside them- selves with rage. They threatened him. They excommunicated him. At last they entirely lost their rea- soning faculties and common sense. They practically cried aloud; "We do not believe that Jesus opened those eyes! Away with this fellow called Jesus! Away with 111011 Away with him!" But some of those learned pharisees could not be put oh by any such superficial con - delineation, Methinks I cm hem a learned doctor say to sonie of his friends: "I do not know about this, Perhaps we neay have been wrong. Perhaps this neNV teacher after all is the promised Messiah. Certainly no other human being could ever work :tech miracles," "And there was a division arnoug them." The same kind of a divi- sion which will occer among world- ly men to -day if the bombshell of consecrated Chriselan testimony can be hurled among thein, ARE RE READY TO GIVE TESTIMONY? A practical application of this principle is now facing us, one and all. Are we Christian 1000 wo- /nen ready tO give our gospel testi- mony wherever we go? Aro we ready to toll what Jesus Christ has done for us? Ready, even though It may bring upon us sneers and ridicule? Ready, though it should involve persecutions and ostracism? Ready, as the young man of old was lonely, trim stood up and witnessed before the priests and the Phari- sees, when he made a division among them? Would that tho dumb spirit, would coma Mit of tho lay members in the Christian -climates! Everywhere we hear the question being asked: "What is the matter with our chnrches?" Oh, no; the pulpit Is not losing its power. There are rnore• consecrated ministers to -day than over before, Moro brilliant and even developed heads and hearts are year- ly being trained in our theological seminaries than ever before. More eloquent sermons are being preached from the sacred desk on this Sab- bath than on any Sunday of any other generation that ever lived. What, then, is the matter?. The pulpit has not lost its old power, but the pow has abandoned its duty. The great defect of the church to-cley is that the pew has relegated to tee pulpit nearly all its public duties, of preanhing118 ,cil 0.5 pnlilie praying, as it bas de- pndcd on the choir for its stinging. The result lo that \then the pow CeaseS to Speak, tho messege of the pulpit is negletted. The pulpit of the Lord Jesus Christ ie to -clay gemming ender the weight of tho infinite load which the pew has piled upon it. No church is to -day a consoceated evangelistic ohurch 'un- less it has in its pews mon who bY life aed testimony are preaching cseangCsts as wen as gospel 11)111-' 151.0111 who stand behind the Reseed deek. 'Thetis Ofirist is to -day speak- ing to the eileet pews he the steno way as he spoke unto tho (holm devil of old that was cursing tho We of a yolleg C11.I1d, Ife. said =- to lthe, 'Thee dumb cmci deaf epir- it, oonto out of him and onto, no More into bine!" It is not the that, 18 dench it 18 the pow rausee to speak and there - a radius of three blocks of your house scores and scores of families who neves bear the name of Jesus sPoken their homes except in blaslehemy? Do you not know that within a MIMS of six blocks of this clumeh, every Sunday night while I am proachinge noses and scores of yolieg men and women pass in anti out of the fatal doors of tho sa- loons and places of evil resort? Some of tts Imo foolish enough to think that the haunts of Satan aro open only slx days of the week; that on the seventh clay Satan rests ttnd shidtEl up shop and says to his hiselings, "My .agents and servants, Id. us all allow God to open His Churches on the Sabbath, and we 10111 rest.'' No, The eleurehes may be opened one day of tho week, but the Satamic haunts are never shut. Night and day the busy flegers death are reaching, always roach- ing, after more victims. Like the quicksaeds of the far octet, this Sa- tanic destroyer keeps swallowing dowa tho unfortunate, and be never 5001110 1.0 have enough. Marc," more, morel" continually cry the evil spirits. "Cii•e us' more human blood to quench our unquenchable thirst!" NOW, my Christian friends, while I rejoice In foreign inissions and would not abate your interest in them I want to amk you this pertinent ques- tion : Do you think wo should allow our concern for souls 10,000 miles away to monopolize our efforts ? While We are seeking them do not let us overlook the danger or th.ose who aro living in sin by our own door. Do you think that the Sa- moans and the Australasians and the Maoris and African negroes should be any more precious in God's sight and la ours than the man or the woman about whOSO p02- 80110111)2 you never case until you see a black crape hanging upon the oppoehe door ? Oh, man, if you had the true love of Jesns Christ in your heart, you would act differently toward your unknown neighbor. You would enter his home for Jesus' sake, and with at least the same intensity as a life insurance agent hunts up men and women for his in- surance company. You would. enter the strangers' home, near to your estness as if you had to sell a few books in order to buy your babies some bread. No man can truly love his God with all his heart and soul and neincl unless at the same time 110 loves his neighbor as himself, and no Christian man can truly love his neighbor unless ho is personally in- terested in his neighbor's salvation, SAVE THE NEARBY SINNERS Would thee we might bo willing to enter the homes of our neighbors in the service of Jesus Christ. Suc}1 an effort on our part not only is es- sential to their salvation, but it affects our standing in the kingdom of Christ. Do you not remember that he said, "Every branch that beareth not fruit he taketh away ?" Yot bow intlitTerent most of es are in reference to the salvation of those sinners who are nearest our own doorstep. Soene years ago an Am- erican missionary 10115 preaching in the eLreets of Calcutta, As tho Am- erican clergyman was talking a Mo- hammedan priest stood near and began to inveigh against the incon- sistencies of the professors of the Christian religion. Then the Mo- hannnecian priest opened the Bible, and while he read he pointed to a drunken English sailor near by. ITe read out loud those beautiful and solemn words of Corinthians, which, we repeat at the holy communion, "And after the same madame also he took the cup 1011011 he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testa- ment in my blood ; this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remenlbrance 01 me." Then the Mohammedan priest sneeringly and tauntingly said :— "There is the white man's religion, There Is the white man drunk. Will ye have any such religion as that 7" Oh, my brother, wo rightly send forth our missicoaries into foreign lands to testify of Jesus Christ, Shall we not also try to carry the testhnony of Jesus to the drunken and diseipatell white men at our own doors that they may be living witnesses of the power cif tho gospel and not a reproach to it, Shall We not also carry the gospel to our neighbors, to those who may be living farther away front Christ than the caueibals Or the Esicimos ? Shall we not be willing to kneel in prayer in our neighbors' parlors as well as send Missionaries to preach standing upon the muddy banks Of the Ganges Would that the clurnb lips of Chris - then testimony Might be opened in the store and cm tho street, in the factory and by the cashier's desk ; opened when you aro tying up a btledle ; opened when you tire tak- ing doWn tho goods Prom off the shelf ; opened when you aro bidding the little 00011g101 good night ; open- ed When yott 010 giving the lett in- structions to yout foremast ; opened in the same way as Were the lips ofe a poor old one armed black roan 18110, While lie cleaned 111y shoes on Pennsylvania ELV011110, ill ellty nae tional capital, taught 1110 one of the neightiest lessons of trust and faith in God T ever lemma I TELL ABOUT THE HEALERS, Furthermore, you should een, hest - tate to teetify for Christ in your place of liesiness, becceuse yet; wou'd not have dumb lips In reference 1 any physical cure which you rawer about, 0.5 you now are silent In 0')' (110000 In the diVine ettra or sill, 8111aPOSO that te-dsty ono or the employeem of your ;dove wan nfilicts years ago you host been cured from the same disease by a certain 100(11' 01110 of a certain doctor, Woulki not not immediately go and tell him about the wonderful cure 11 110008- 8210)2, would you pot take thie pity - 51011111 to the sick inen's house and theist that ho try this eure which had cured you ? You would do that yet among the blood curdling eine and the blasphemies of your store you do not think it is your bounden duty to tell about the Olivia who 01e:w15ed you from all sins, Do you, meare to tell me that you have 0, right to keep your lips dumb and not invite those sinful: einidoYees to your church ancl prayer meeting, where they eon 11000 the sweet mes- sage of divine love ? GIVE TESTLMONY AT HOME, Would 1.1101. 1110 dumb lips of Chris - thin testimony might be unloosed by our own firesides 0111011g Our loved ones, as well atnOng the strangers dwelling outside the four walls of oar home. r place this spell:nal ob- ligation upon my own heart and life a$ well as upon yours. There is many a minister who is so anxious about the souls of his congregation that eomethnes he overlooks the souls' destinies of his own children ancl brothers and sisters and par- ents, My friends, members of Jeflerson Park church, X hero and now conse- crate nay life to a now work, I am going back to the days and life which I used to livo whee X first en- tered the ministry. In those old clays I did not seek so much to com- fort and please tho members of my church cis to win souls, Aly only de- sire was to reach out for those who were outside of the church and, who 1100e1' had confessed the name of J0SIIS. Before I entered my pulpit X would get down on my knees and say, "011, (loci, let me speak the right word tor that young man and woman whom I may never see again until I meet them at thy throne 1" Such is my purpose now ; such is the purpose of nly INOW assistant, Brothers and sisters, we have 130011 too long dwelling together in selfish fellowship. Wo have enjoyed each other's society well. But to be hap- py together is not enough. Will you here and 11010 clasp my hand in a holy purpose ? Will you here and 11010 111080 forward with me to seek out the strayed lamb which is lost upon the mountain of sin 2 Will you go forth with mo out into the storm, perhaps to battle against de- rision and sneers ? Will you go in the name of Jesus Christ ? Will you promise here and now to carry the gospel message to tho great un- churched and to the shied 111011 and 100111011 who aro living under the shadows of our own doors ? THROW FEW SNOWBALLS. Reasons Why the Boys NOV' Do So Little at It. Snowballing has gone out of style. Why this is the case nobody is able to say, hut, that it is true is apparent to anybody who hap- pens to think 0 the subject. It ratty be that because tho mild winters of the last ton years and the scarcity of snow the pretent generation has never learned the joys of snowbal- ling. Or it may be that the grow- ing tendency to regard a boy who threw a snowball in the same cate- gory with tho person who threw a brick or any other kind of a missile has had a tendency to throw the sport into disfavor. It is more then probable, howev- er, that tee nest reason is the true onein former years, when winter meantsa carpet of white over the earth from December to March, snowballing was one of tho recogniz- ed sports of childhood. In those days flomiehed the snow fort, with ramparts and outworks, and ninny and fierce wero the battles that rag- ed between the (1eeders of tho fort and the attacking part)', and the ammenition always coesisted of snowballs. But during the last de- cade the scarcity of 811010 has made such a thing ELS ft snow fort an im- possibility. It WEIS 111 the training to defend or attac,k tiee fort that the boys of other clays became proficient in the use of the snowball, When they wee° not actually engaged la battle they would do target practice on silk hats, eats, dogs, or anybody who happened to pass by. But 11022' While /It times during the winter there. Is plenty of snow for the fash- iotting of suowballs. the present day boy is not trained in the sport, Ho never saw a fierce snowball battle that prevailed in the days 1811011 his father was a boy, and 110 has wino to fool that throwing a enowbell at a passerby is about as bad as throwing anything' 018e. Staid old people rejoice exceeding- ly well as Marvel that they can pass by a school house at 000085 thee when tho onow is thick on the round need not be greeted by a well directed volley of snowballs. It used to be considered absolutely fatal for a man to wear a silk hat on a, day When the 511010 101I5 of the proper consistency to (cushion into a pro- jectile, Now a silk hat con be WOrn with ale:ohne impunity any clay in the xvintor. Snowballing teas '0)100 the time honored and well establioh- ed prerogative of the boy, Bet the pendulum has Swung the other waen it. IS 110 longer considered bright or cute for a boy to IM11 a wet spher- old of :mow into the left oar of e se- date person walking quietly down the streets And the sedate person Is not oriel that bide is so. e LOOKING BACK. Ho—"Do you remeneber the night X proposed to you?" Sho—"Yes, dear." "We sat for one hour aud you 21,00 - es opened your mouth." "Ves, I remember dear," '"Ilelieve me, that: was the bap- piest hour of 121y fore hot Iost Its power to listen, NI with the drooled tlisonee of calls • My brother 11eing in Chicago, do coe Supposing that ft stimple 01 1 A TUSTMONTAL, Lady (onengleg a mai(1) -- "Was our mistress satisfied with 'our Maid — "Well, 11121111, she said she MS Very pleaSed when I lett,"! 404/leaelS10130044,00,0113010*024 0 9 4,04, FOR 111 1101VIE o 6, 0 * Reelpes for the Kitchen. 011 end Other Notea for the Houeekeeper15, lOoff11001110*(9e10egefS*800*00 CITOIcE nitcarT]s. Tioneycooth Gingerbread. — Six ounces of butter, golden syrup, ton ounces, brown sugar ton ounces, half a, pound of flour, ground ginger, quarter of an ounce. Rub the butter Into the flour, warm the weep, mix altogether, drop the mixtuee on to a buttered tin in small lumps, bake in rather a slow Mr011, take elf the tin and bank over a thick etick, when they will curl and go crisp. These are excellent. Pig's Foot jelly—l?erhaps Fenno of the housekeepers will like to try this recipe for pork jelly. Promo° the pig's legs the sante as stewing or pickling. Gook until the meat drops Nom the bone. Chop fine, sea- son well with salt, poPPer and hots (or garlic If preferred). Re- move all grettee from the licptor in which the meat was boiled, and which should be boiled (1011111 to about. 1 qt. Add to it the chopped meat. Mix well and pour into moths, basins, or deep small, pa)1s, and set away to cool, When cold, turn out on a platter and cut in slices, Tins is delicious for sandwiches. Walnut Cake—Affx carefully toge- ther six tablespoonItes of finely sifted flour, five ounces creamed but- ter, ono tableepponful castor sugar, ono tablespoonful of freshly ground almend meal, two tablespoonfuls of blanched and pounded walnuts, and the yolks of two eggs, working it all to a paste with a very little water. Pour the mixture Into a "sandwich pan" or a round flour tin, and bake in ft moderate oven till of tt light golden brown. Mean- while heat in a stewpo,n half -a -gill of cream, half -a -gin of milk, the beaten yolks of three eggs, and about three tablespoonfuls of castor sugar ; let this thicken over the fire, being eere- ful not to let it boll, then stir in, off the Ore, the whites of the eggs and tour tablespoonfuls of chopped walnuts ; cover the cake smoothly with this mixture, and place it in the oven to set. Angel ledce—Sift together very ccerefully one teaspoonful of crea20 of tartar into two ounces of flour, and sift well six ounces of fine easter sugar ; add a pinch of salt to the whites of six eggs, and whip these to a very still froth, working in lightly at the last the castor sugar, then the flour, and, lastly, the flavoring (vanilla, lemon, etc„ to taste). Do not stop beating once the mixing begins, and keep it all very light. . Bake either in a paper lined or a bright, unbuttered cake - tin; ono with e, pipe in the centre is bestleak° twenty to thirty min- utes in a moderate oven. Bo careSul not to move or jar it whilst cooking; do not lot it color much, and test it well with a clean splinter before moving it. Leave it in the pan for a few minutes • after taking it from the 01,011, then loosen it at the sides and lot it slide out of itself. It is, in fact, a peculiarly delicate form of sponge cake. Do not uso a, knife to It, or it will sodden. IIOW TO WASH BLANKETS. There is no bed covering that is so satisfactory as woollen blankets, and they have, to a groat extent, taken the place of quilts and com- forts. They are lighter, and can be Weaned -as often as necessary, and the prices asked for them place them within reach of moderate purses, Wo have Seen blankets that became harsh and fulled up after washing a few times, while others were soft and fleecy until worn out. This was not caused by any difference in the quality of the articles, but becaese of the Way in which they Wert Wash- ed, for there is nothieg that is ruined. so quickly by careless wash- ing as 0 woollen blanket. Shake the blenkets to remove tho dust, an(1 wash the greasy os badly sollecl spots in gasoline before put- ting thent in the water, Have plenty of hot water ready, and wash one blanket at a time, for the quicker they are washed ancl dried, the bet- ter. Shave a bar of soap thin, put it in a pan or kettle, cover with water, and set it on the stove to melt, If you have a good washing machine—prefesably a boxed ono with plenty of room—you will find it a great help. Fin it half full of water that is almost boiling hot, add bell a pound of poweered borax and half the melted soapstir vigorously until it forms a strong suds, put 0 blanket in, stir it about meth wot through, then close the ninehine tend la it soak five minutes. Work the machine vigor- ously five os telt minutes, put on the wringer, and press the blanket lengthwise theough it, Empty and refill the machine with water 1)r00 1)111e01 just as the first was. except Gent you will not 120e1! ciente so much soap, When washed in this, pass throtigh the wringer into a tub containing clear hot meter, tend rinse thoroeghly. If one rime Wa- ter is not enough to even:etc every trace of soap use a second, other- wise they will feel sticky and dis- a.greeable. Every water used should be of the same tempo:Metre, for sud- den clumges will make a blanket sheink. The addition of borax to the Water in Which ney weollon goods met washed makes the work easy and keeps it he good condition, Never rub soap dieectly upon a blanket, but melt it and put it in the water, When it is letken flout the last Water haeg upon the tine whore tt good brow.° will :strike it, nod pull and etroteh it in shape. Al- low it to remain 0111.11 thorouelily are, then fold sillonthly and leave ender a 'heavy Weight 11, dny or tWo, When It Will be ready for nee, MAKING COPPER Black Coffec—Powdered coffee is preferred by many people fer the altos-din:en infverage. Where a pot with EL tin Or Wire etrainer is weed, much of tee line powder goes through and the coffee Is not always clear. A second straining through fin Oath is sometimes necessary. Cs from one to two tableepoons of flue coffee for 00011 half -cup of boiling water. Isilter it In a regular biggin os common pot, EIS 1110st COnveniellt.: 11 desired stronger, pour the ligeici through ttvice or even throe times. ft should be served very hot, and after the lust witter is poured through set the pot where ft will just come to the bulling point, im- mediately before serving. Or, if the coffee is to he oerved at the tuble or in the parlor, a pretty way is to Pour the made coffee into a kettle and heat, it over an alcohol lamp, serving it front the kettle just as It boils. It Is customary to offer erearn and block sugar with after- dinner coffee, but those who aro con- versant with the physiological rea- son for taking it without meant, and if their reason is stronger than their taete, without sugar, also. Coffee for Fairs — A. new or pre- sumably well cleaned connium boiler usually has to be called into re- quisition cm such occasions, for not every community can command the stoma apparatus which is oftee sent ont from large coffee houees or caterers. On account of the diffi- culty in straining such a large quantity, the grateful coffee is usually Pieced In bags, not mere then a. pound in each, and put into the boiler with cold water. Then, cov- ered closely; heated slowly and al- lowed to boil about 10 minutes. It should then be kept hot, but not boil, and clipped out into hoe pitele- ors as desired, Ily allowing one-half ounce, or one rounded tablespeon. for emit half pint cup of water, and ono cup for eaclt person, ono can easily compute the amount required for any number of people. At thls rate, one pound df coffee, or 32 half ounces, would make 132 half pint cups, or eight quarts, and would be sufficient for about 20 persons, ELEVEN GOOD HINTS. When matting is soiled wash it in a strong solution of salt and warm water, a.nd it will look like new. Besides the thorough airing that beds and bedding should daily have, rnatifesses, bolsters and pillows should be beaten and shaken three times a week. The making of the bed should be the last duty in putting a room in rights. Pillows may be cleaned by putting 1110111 out upon the grass in a drenching rain. After being well soaked they should be squeezed and hung in a shady place to dry, To restore an eiderdown quilt to its original 'fluffy lightness hang it out of doors in the sumbine for S01'441'121 hours. Old newspapers are an excellent protection agaiust the cold, and serve ia place of blankets, if put between the quilt and counterpane. A tbin paste made of whiting and cold tea is a splendid mixture with which to clean mirrors. Salt is excellent in removing dirt Iran) marble -top furniture, A. copper cent rubbed on the win- dow pane will rid it of paint or plaster specks. Hot, sharp vinegar will remove paint spots. LITTLE -THOUGHTS. There is always a little water left in the sponge. Bad luck gets the blame for a, lot of poor judgment. Don't cry over spilled 1111111 — be glad it is not cream, Great actions, like great men, ap- pear only at intervals. A. Pessimist is v. man who is al- ways looking for worms in chest- nuts, The touch of kindness that makes the whole world kin is seldom ap- plied. It is a great deal ensier to be a good critic thaa to be even a, passa- ble performer, "Truth is stionger teats fiction," with sonic persons shoulcl be ron- devecl, 'Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.'' The man 10110 iS a fugitive from in- justic0 must, often rem faster thun would be necessary if mere justice were on his trial, repeat that all power is a trust, and that we nee accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist, QUITE A MISTAKE. • While shopping a little while ago, a lady absontnetededly walked away with another customer's umbrella: "Excuse me," said the latter, hurryin(1 after her, you've got my umbrella." "Why, so I have," wes 1110 cress - fallen reply, "I am really awfully, dreadfully sorry. Accept my hum - Meet apologies." . Slee apologies were accepted ; but this incident reminded lady No. 1. that she wished to purchase somo eimbrollas for herself and daughters, 80 a little while later she took her seat in the train laden with three of these useful articles. Opposite her sat the lad,y she had encountered earlier, "X see," remarked the latter sweetly, "that Mier n11, you have had a most stexessful Morning," A (11TY OP PADLOCKS, Irkutsk, In Siberia, is 00111 te he a veritable city of padlocks, There are more pecilocka on the 'shutters /MEI doors of an Irkutsk shop than ran be found In en Ifingliah city of 200,000, There are as many as three pedlocks en some shop dome, and every loteer-storey shutter beare from ono to fives THE S. S. LESS% INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH L Text of the Lesson, Acta xviiie 24, to xix,, 6, Golden Text, Luke xi., 13, 24. And a certein Jeav named Apollos, born at Alexandria, 21x1 eloquent man and mighty in the Sceeptures, came to Ephesus. After Paul's eighteen mont110 at Corinth he started for Syria, taking Priscilla and Aquila with ifi10 as far as Ephesus, where he lef1 them anti went 011 to Jerusalem via. Caesarea' and thence to Antioch. After scene time he started on his third MisSiOn- ary tour vies through Galatta arid Pimento., strengthening the dis- ciplee, and in due time, as eve shall see, came again to Ephesus. The one great thing said of Apollos, whone acquaintance we make in this verse, is that he was "mighty in the Scriptures," and if it coul(1 have been. added "filled with the Spirit," there could be nothing greater said. 25. This man was Instructed in the way of the Lord, and, being fervent in the Spirit, he spoke and taught diligently the things of the Lord, 1011010121(1 only the baptism of John He was filled with what he knew and did the best Ile could with what he had, urging people to repent and turn to God and bring forth fruits worthy of repentance (Luke ii, 3, 8). It was all good and real as far as it *went, and such an earnest, faithful worker is sure of more light, for his heart 11E115 whole towerd God, and on behalf of such God will surely show Himself strong (II Chron. sevi, 0). 26. Whom when Aquila and Pris- cilla had heard they took bini unto them and expounded unto hi ra the way of Cod more perfectly. They had doubtless been greatly helped by Paul at Corinth, and now they are able to help Apollos from Alexandria, So Alexandria in Egypt and Corinth, or, rather, Italy, come together at Ephesus on tho Lord's business, and thus He works, send- ing His messengers hither and thither and causing lives to meet and touch for mutual beneat in Ills service. It is a great and comforting truth that His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself is over being wrought out after the counsel of His own will (Eph. 1, 0, 11), and there is perfect peace to all who ebide in that will. May we be as ready to help others as Were Priscilla and A.quila and al teachable as Apollos. 27, 28. IVho, wIlea he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace, for he mfghtily con- vinced the Jews, and that publicly, showing by the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ. With letters fro20 the brethren st Ephesus Apollos passed on to Cor- inth and was greatly used of God there. Being mighty in the Scrip- Ettres when he come to Ephesus, he was more mighty when he CE0110 to Corinth because of the increased light received through Priscilla and Aquila. He became a prominent teacher and after ward a great. friend of Paul. See I Cos. 5, 12; iii, 4, 5, (i, 22; iv, 6; xvi, 12; Tit, 13. But both he and Vele woulcl have us un- derstand that 1121100801' the teacher might be, Cod alone could do the work to be done. "X have planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase" (I Cor. iii, 0-9). xix, 1, 2. Have ye received the Holy Ghost since yo believed? And they said unto Him. We hay° not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost, Compare ii, 4; iv, 81; x, 44, 40, and mate all through this book the Spirit's place in the church; how all is accomplished by Hine in the name of the Lord ,7e1018 and nothieg with- out Hine There can be no hind- rance on God's part to ally believer being filled with the bIpirit, for He is more willing to give the Spirit to those who ask Pim than parenie aro to give good things to their child- ren (Luke el, 111), The hindrance nest bo in us, that we in some way 141 E21111118 01' do not ask le faith ens, iv, 3; i, 6) or do not sock ith the whole heart (Joe. eetx, 1/3) r are not willing to be filled bo- nnet; not willing to hew ITis will relight in us. Let, 118 pray honest - Y Pn, exxxix, 28, 24, 1111(1 110' wilt ot fail to 8110W NIS the difTietllty, Ho 1120 will make 118 His willing people 11 trSle AU Of Ws power (Ps, ex, il)t 'We do net; read of ane reeult from Paul's testimony at Ephesus or his way east except that they wished him to tarry longer (chapter .x)'ill, 19, 20); lellt 71010 through the preaching of Apollos and doubtless by the help of Priscilla and Aquila he finds on his return to Ephesns that some leave believed, but they have not been taught anout the Holy Spirit, and they evould there- fore be lacking power in their lives. There are many believers now who manifest tile same great lace, for while every believer has become a temple of the Holy Ghost (I Cor. vi, 19, 20), it is a different thing to be filled with the Spirit, as the tree from root to topmost twig is filled with sap or as the whole body is filled with blood to the tips of fin- gers and toes, 3, 4, And ho said unto them; Unto what were ye then baptized? end they said, Unto John's baptism. The Holy Spirit testifies of Christ and glorifies Christ (John xv, 26; xvi, 14); but probably these discip- les were like many church members in oar own day with whom the Holy Spirit seems to accomplish little or nothing, beceuse the word of God does not dwell in theist richly (Col, ill, 16), and. they soon never to haVe heard much, if anything, about tho Holy Spirit, All will acknowledge that it is a sitt to be drunken With Wine, but not many count it Et, sin not to be ft110d With the Spirit, yet see Eph. v, 18. 5-7, When Paul had laid his hands uPon thorns 1.110 1101)2 Ghost, came en them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied. 11 11 10 1 11 ft VILLIWAUS AND POGOBIP3 TPHil MANY PTO:WANT) STOB,NS OF THE vvoxa,D. The Terrible sIbi—Beariratt.11." of Central Asia and the 11Purga" et In mountainous countrie$, Stich ma Scotland, a fog usually forms at the lop of a hill end works dowmeardes The cold mourrteen top cooling' a warm current or wet air, readers its moisture visible, encl this cold log, being of lower temperature than the air below, ana therefore beariere drops gradually to the valley, easte P0008011'8 Weekly. Colorado, however, can show fill eXeeptiOn to this generai 02110. There in winter the frost on the low ground iS so intense that a fog often forms in the valleys and works 010112- ly Up the mountain side. Thls is known by the India11 name of "pogonip," Peru has hundreds of square miles along its coast of raleless countse.• In this tract rain is never 31110100 10 fell from one century's end to an- other. Yet the region is not entirely barren of vegetation. Some parts of it, indeed, are comparatively fer- tile. This is duo to the extraordin- ary fogs known as "garuas." They prevail every night from May to October, after a summer that is sul- tr,v, and extend up to it level of 1,2110 feet above the sea. Above 1,- 200 feet rain falls, The "canine" of Spain is a fog we may be grateful that we do not have in Britain, though it is not to be compared with the true London variety. It is a dry, yellow mist whicli sometimes hides the sun for clays 012 a. time over vast tracts of country, and makes the sky look as though covered with leaden gauze. Another peculiar freak of weather we must be thankful to escape is the "williwau," This form of storm is confined to that far-off island, Terre del Fuego, The coast is indented with deep fiords, crowned with high. mountains. Down from their gorges drops the "williwau." A low, hoarse muttering is heard in the dis- tance. Suddenly, without the least preliminary puff, a fearful blast of wind drops upon the sea. The water Is not raised into waves, but driven into fine dust. Fortunately the shock lasts but TEN 011 TWELVE SECONDS, and calm follows at one, for AO vessel could stand such a wind for even half a minute. During the coming and going of a "williwau"- the barometer may be watched to drop a tenth of an inch or more and rise again at once. Similar ill name if not in nature is the "willy-willy" with which Kal- goorlie gold-diggers are acepseintel to their cost. "Dust devils," some people call them. Half a dozen may be seen dancing harmlessly along over the desert, when suddenly one will dive into the city, and fill all the shop windows in Hannan street with dust and sand, blinding every passer-by. Tho "willy-evilly" is 0 thief of the worst kind. It will steal the washing from si line, or the roof from a shecl. In some teuts of the country wire ropes aro anthore1 over the roofs of huts to save them from the attacks of these odd little whirlwinds. Most people have heard of the "Men" tvind of Switzerland, that warm, dry gale which comes over the mountains and ill spring will melt two feet of snow hi a. day. Its 00.1180 10 111001. peculiar. The "101111" Miles from tho south. As it strikes the Alps it is wet like most gales which have crossed the sea. But the south face of the mountains receives its rain, and as it crosses the sum - :nits it is dry. The moving air cur- rent 15 0,180 compressed and, there- fore, dynamically heated. As it falls into the northern valleys is a. cataract of air'it gaits heat at tho rate of half ce, degree for everY 100 feet of descent. It usually blows for two or three days, causing great suffering by its dry heat and op- pression. While it lasts the teMpera- tare is about thirty degrees above the average. The "chinook" of British Columbia and the evestern side of the 'MUNI States is very SIMILAR TO THE "FOITN," I-Iere, in Britain, we have adosee.pted the American word "blizzard" for a gale with snow. Ilut the blizzard Is a far worse storm than anything ever experienced in this country. Even it, however, must Yield to the ferocious "buran" of the Central Steppes of Aide, anti the "purge" of Northern Siberia.. Te bo caught la gales sucle as these imams death in a, •ely few minutes, however warmly clad, for the very air bec011les un- breathable, so filled is it with spikes of ice -drift. "lehamsin" is the hot wind from the desert which blows out of the Sahera. upon Egypt. The Word. notes "fifty" from the idea that it, antn for tuts? days, The "Icharnsin" s terribly hot and dry, and eomee times brengs pestilence with it. It is not, however, so land all the desert wind of Kansas,. which blowe n narrow streaks sometimes ouly 00 yards tvide, but so hot and dry hat the corn crepe aro blasted, and he green leaves of the trees wither rid fall to powder. :Red snow We iltll'e all heard of, t caused by a microscopic in- usorial growth, and only occurs 111 now that hae lain unmelted for. a 00g tittle. in repitebergen reeently met unow 11118 been noted tinted by intliar organisms. "Gold tiust" 811018 hos often been me but only in spring. At ono 11110 it Wns myeLery how the 0111, me of the new 11111011 STEOW enme io O strewn with a ehlning rposit, No, it is known to be tie to the pollen of pine treoe We all know that ft le Mere bless - d to give than 1 retail*: but sone: 115 3111010 it maly from heersa$,