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The Brussels Post, 1903-3-26, Page 3• FAT NATIONAL DEB Wealthy Nations Should Help the Afflicted of Other Countries elentered according to Act oi the Var. Damian at Canada, in Om Year ewe erhousene eine Unwired and 'Inece. by Wee of amreeee, et ehe I/apartment, or Agriculture, Ottawa., A deepatelt froin Chicago says; Rev. Erank De Witt Tabeage Preach - el from the following text: Rom - ens 1, 14, "I am debtor both to the Cfreeks and to tho barbarians." A 17atIonal deliti It lo pupularly understood to be a. financial obligee Hoe wit kb a (I ovel mole has plot*" 2d 1l8011 lo nay, So met line's this Jo coutnaeted in the interest of a single ',abject, Alston, thirty years ago the English Government assum- ed a debt, of over $20,000,000 to liberate a eingle man, Onotain Cam- eron, who Inul been enjustly endun- polled by the king of Abyssinia In the rocky fortress of Magetala. It took six months for 1.110 news of the olitrage to travel to England, but in less than eleven clays afterward a British army of 10,000 men, under Gel -feral Napier, was on its way. It not only crossed the seas, but also marched a terrible journey of 400 miles under a tropical sun, until the troops reached Magdala and batter ed dowu the fortress aud rescued their incarcerated countryman. A civilized country Is usually ready to begin any undertaking, assume any financial responsibility, in order to protect Its own from the iyrannical clutches of 11. foreign foe. Sometimes an extra, financial ob- ligation is assumed by a government in linIcS of peace as well as in times of war. A government 'an owe to foreign lands more than money. Stich definitions as we have given are right as Mr as they go, but they aro too circumscribed, When the Hebrew Paul wrote, "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the bar- barians," 1 do not believe he had any idea of a financial interpreta- tion. Referring to Clreece, he leas alluding to the intellectual influence of the Athenian capital, which made itself felt throughout the world. That city swayed the scepter in the domain of letellectuality; it ruled the world of culture with the seulp- tor's chisel, the poet's pen and the Demosthenetin oratory of a patriot rousing the people to wage war against King Philip. When Paul spoke of the barbarians, 1. believe he was alluding to the strength and the virility which the world had absorb- ed from the different provinces. As n. man of lettening lie was indebted to those people to whom lie was about to present Jesus Christ. • TN THE ASTRONOMICAL WOULD we lind that stars generally travel in consteltations, oe in groups. Thus we also flnd that every great ad- vencement of the human lute°, 01' mentalln, socially or eco- nomically, is in touch with other events, though they may be seen or unseen. The sweet voiced village church hell of to -day is not entirely of American manitfacture. It was e(1s). in the hot fires of the Coventin- ter's pereecutions; it was cast anio»g the flames which wrapped their fiery tongues about the shriv- eling: bodies of John Huss and Cid- ley and Latimer ,and ern:mune it was cast among the burning logs heaped about tho dying body of Savonarolit when the Italian priest, Elijah -like, was about to go to Iva - yen in a chariot of fire; it was cast centuries baclo among the Nerodian persecutions in the days of the apos- tolic martyrdoms. Can we ever reach the clay when we shall feel that our religious lib- erty is not, a natueal outgrowth of the Chelstian heroes and heroines who dared to defy "Bloody" Alva, the persecutor of the Netherlands, or Lord Claverhouse, the persecutor of oid Scotland, or (10111011Mo Cath- erine, the fiendish fereithe instigator of the StBarthofornew inasectere, or the bloody Queen Mary of the :English throne? When that grand old man, Hugh Latimer, then over eighty, stood among the burning logs that were cremating 111111, he turned to Bishop Ridley, his fellow martyr Ilene by, and snit', "130 of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as, I trust, shall never be put out." Aye, they did; they di(1) 'They not only lighted a. gos- pel torch for England, but a torch W111011 Would blaze in America cen- turies aftet•ward. OUR AUTISTIC DEBTS. Almeria) is indebted to foreign lancls in a commercial and au artis- tic sense as well as 111 a moral arid spiritual sense. Seine political ePeakers love to boast that com- mercially we are independent of the world, They asseri it would make very little difference to tie whether or no foreigh colustries held any trade relations 1011.11 us at all, But this is not tette. 'You are a Wealthy Man. You invite inc to your home some night to a banquet. I accept. AS 1 sit wai ling for the other guests to arrive I say: "Mr. So-and-so, this is a beautifully designed home, Where did your architect got the idea?" You reamer; "9'110 plans of this loom are not his ideas. lee 'nerdy worked them out in detail after X had described .then). Some years while I Wes in England, X came across a. beautiful country home. I then said to Memel) that if should ever :kayo money enoligh I would build a house upon that plan, Thia home is the tesult 01 eny resolve mode at that time. ' Linder rny Mot 18 0 reg or exquisite weelcmanship, Where 114W1 it made? Th the city of Damascus. It is an imported rug. When you 0 (Vi 10 0011103 in to gimlet me, seta 18 dreseeo 111 11. bealitiful costume' It came from the silkworme of France, That, diamond glittering mum your finger lees deg out of the African Mthes, „elute be/tut:Oil It0/0010110 vese n eroile mantelpiece has a. foreim) eatat stamped upon Rs base. This berm - GM tablecloth wide)) 111 /spread 11..1 30111'dinleg room came from Bel fast. Those grand pictUres upoi) s pito. walls were painted by artist who rot% to be mimeos by study- ing 10 foreign schools and sitting at the feet of the old inastere of Eu- rope, TIOIV \VP: IVTAY BENT REPAY. How, then, 10 America to cancel the national debt in a, moral and spiritual kienfie Which she owes to the modern Greeks and to the ber barlans? "Well," answere some 000, ".1 suppose the best way to repay to make 0112' goods better and obeap- the debt we owe to foreign lands is er than they can make them and the go forward and capture thei markets for our home inaustriese All, iny brother, I am not here to fritter away my thne answering these 50111512 propositions prompted by mere emnineretialism; I am hero to -day to tell you how, in the lan- guage and the spirit of tho *MOW° Paul, wo are to cancel the national debt we owe to fotteign lands; am hero to -day to tell you how best we can pay the debt as individuals as well as 0 nation. We can repay our national debt first by conveying to foreign lands the sweet message of the Calvary cross. If the religion Of Jesus Christ is tho beneficent thing that we profess to believe It, aro we Justified in 'cooping the knowledge of It to ourselves? Are we not bound as debtors to the whole world to repay our obligations by making it known far and wide? The medical profession sets its an example in the performance of this duty. No sooner does a physician cliecover a means of alleviating pby- shell suffering than he places it at the disposal o f hie profession -al brethren the world over, 'When led - wend Jenne'. demonstrated the mar- velous immunity of a, human being who was vaccinated with cowpox, did he keep his discovery from the world ? ho refuse to advocate it lest he nig•lit be persecuted by such medical authorities as Dr. In- genhousz and Dr. Pearson T Oh, no 1 As an intelligent man bo de- plored the awful destruction made by this terrible scourge of smallpox, He knew that whole countrles had been almost depopulated by the pest. Mexico was not conquered so 1)1(1011 by Cortes as it was mede helpless by the invasion of this king of horrible plagues called smallpox. When tile pilgrim fathers landed up- on the Massachusetts shores, they found that the Indian tribe which the year before bad been inhabiting that part of the counfaty had been entirely obliterated, with the exam- ception of one 0100, by the fatal ravages of smallpox, So, in the face of derision and persecution, Jenner proclaimed the gospel of vaccination. Though he might, and to a meat extottt dice destroy his private praceice, Ile kep1 crying to suffering htunanity "ITere is a remedy for this deeadful and malig- nant disease. 9'11ke It and live I Take it and live I When James Y, Simpson perfected his investigations in cbloroform, did he keep them to himself ? Did be patent Chem and say, "Yon come. to 1110 01. suffer and 3" No. He freely gave tho anaesthetic to the world. And to -day thousands upon thousands of 01011 and women who have been compelled to he upon an operaLing table have risen up to Call hiM bleSSed. Is the Gorman physician, Robert Noch, working in his laboratery for personal gain ? Oh, no. He is trying, purely on philanthropic: grounds, to cure con- sumption, which causee at least one-fourth of the total annual mor- tality among the human race. If he ever perfects a germicide for the tuberculosis bacilli, he will at ,021ce tell all he knows. He is struggling, and working and analyeing' Merely to save a dying race. Pler.eACIT THE aospraL. what a 108.800 do these illustrious benefactors of the human race teach us 1 How they study and investi- gate and labor to alleviate sulTer- ing and Increase the longevity of mankind 1 Ain't when any of them discovers ce remedy for disease or a means of removing deformity how eagerly he makes tile discovery known that all the world may share in the beeefit 1 In our hands 100 118.00 a revelation of htflititAy greater value. Their discoveries can at the best prolong life only a few yew's, while the gospel of Jesus Christ is the gospel 'of eternal life and the remedy for the universal malady of sin. Yet there are among us Men calling thoreeelves Christiens who make no Mort to publish the knowledge of teat remedy, They say, "If the Chinese are not willing to receive our gospel missionaries, then let those ellesimmiles stay at home, Lot the Chinese hoedes grovel ifal die ! Let the human Memento or leathet lire become choked with moral vermin I It is their own lookout, not ours !" I tell yen to- day that Christian Ameriettnt re- celed 1111111 Jesus Chriet is preached tign oftlIgations 011)1never be can - ot)) all people. Whom we 11000 now one missionary the dark 001111- nente 1041 shoUld send a thoueand ; whore ive have ono gospel messen- ger now foe a hundred thousand people .100 should have so great e. number that every foreign 'Lowe and village, 111 emit 0,8 every city, elmuld be persuaded to receive the open Ilible and to Windy the Word of God. Christian Amerire, win not be free front. I•esponsibility tint11 the gospel of the Lord Jest's is preached unto all peoples. If those poredee twelve it bot, then theY, net, 100, vest beer the responsibility. The tuitions of the world have else other claim upon tei as a Chrietian people that must, not he igtuneel. 11 we have the rcpleitt of Christ, we 8111111 not be unmindful of their ma- terial \yenta Ile win) "bed com- passion en the 121 01 ti Ludo because they had nothing to eat" woul0 neve er have dowel his eare to the cry of a famine etricken naelon. If we woold be like hint, Wo, too, should feed the hungry and selector the homeless, the widow the cen peace How better Can WC 01211e known the grionteur and beauty of the Chrietian raith then by proving to other natioes its beneficent in- fluence '1 Ati the hand of °Mistiest Alllerica IS Stretched ou1 across the seas, bearing bread for (he starving, they see Christ living ngain In us met bless his dear name. Having accepted from us the bread that perlehes, they will listen as we tell them of the Bread that came down from beaver', or which if a man eat Ito shall live forevee, Were the 1001- 0011)1113' doors of heathen, ladie. ever more widely opened for the gospel message than when the shiploads of American brendste115 Were flOated acroca the Atlantic, through the Mediterranean, down the Red 'sea and over the Indian ocean until they were safely landed in the harbor of Bombay during the aevIel Indian famines of 18117 and 1900 ? I have seen it estlinoted that hundreds of thousands of starving and dying natives were physically saved titeougli American generosity during those two years, I3ut no one save the recording newel of heaven will ever be able to keep track of the multitudes of 11113310rtal souls who will ultimately be brought to the feet of Christ through the contri- butions antl the prayers of those who tried to eorne extent to allay the horrors of that awful famine plegue. 'PRE CRY Ole FINLAND. Though the religious and daily newspapers have been for weeks tilled with the accounts of Finland's sufTerings, the horrors and agonies which those sbnple people of the north aye going through will pro- bably never be fully told. Starving Finland is stretching her arms across the Atlantic. Dare we, can w0, refuse to heed the cry 1 Dare we, shall we, stop our ears to this gospel call 7 leemember that solemn queseion of the apostle, "He • that hath this world's goods and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his compaseeon from him, how dwelloth the love of God in him ?" As you love your children, think of those children that ane starvinw ; aS yOU love your evil°, think of those wives and mothers and sisters who are now tottering upon the Menet of the, grave because they have nothing to eat I May God lead you to see your duty in reference to this call which comes from across the seas I Then, to some extent at least, we may be able to cancel a part of the national debt which Christian America owes to the modern "Greeks and to tho bar - LONDON'S SWELL THIEVES. Pilfering at Court Balls and Drawing Rooms. Quantities of ornaments are lost each your at the drawing rooms or courts at Buckingham Palace, and only a yeey small proportion is re- covered. A very strange story 38 still told about a diamond necklace which Was fottlid at one of the state balls 801110 3'e01'8 ago. It happened that one of the late Queen's ladies-in- waiting picked up a diamond neck- lace from the floor, As she stood with it in her. hand a lady came quickly forward and claimed 1.1. The finder was very, firm, however, and (10010,10(1. 11 was her duty to give it ie to the loed chamberlain's of- fice, as tins was the rule with regard to• anything found in the palace. The lady protested in vain, but tho odd- est thing was that this necklace never was claimed, and. is probably still at the lord chamberlain's office. The ft that it was quite 0. 00121- 111011 sight to see ladies stallieg their handkerchiefs with sweets and cakes from the supPer 'tables at the court hells' may he regarded as en amiable foib1e. of dottne pa.rents; Ind, ao- cording to some, lace hatullterchiefs and jewels are wafted away in this Mahlon, and sometimes fur stoles and, lovely opera cloaks have been secured as spoil. 11.418011 to be a, saying in India at the big, viceregal balls that the first departure WaS Mire Of the best leam- Pero cluuldah. These beautiful. white - shawls are always more or less the saino SW, but the clifiterence 1)1 price iS 01101111011S, as the finest Idncl, voluminous as they seem, can easily be paesed through a, ring, and aro consequently very costly, 'while the 00500,01' ones aro proportionately cheap. NO DIFFGRENCE. Young criminal lawyer—"I have al:ranged to have the prisoner's wife and babies Sit in None of the jury and Weep all through the trial, Do you think it advisable to pia: bache- lors or married men for the 0" 01/1 criminal litwyer--"Oh, it doh't make a particle of difference I if bachelors they will sympa.thiza with the woman. and babies, and if mar- ried 211011 they will sympathize with the prisoner," 4--- roicligo was first esed es 'a dye in Feurope in 1570. Cochineal came into ueo about tho same time. New York holds the record among the woeld's great cities for 1113781.001- 0011 Last year 5130 People were absolutely missieg, Parent — "flo you say that my daughter doesn't make much pro- gress with her natsie, 011" Pectins - len — "She does not, sir; she defies all my 'Instructions aboet time and fingering, told teens the sea1e8 to soft i." Parent — "10 00013! NOW 1 folIVOSn 11001110 would be rude en, ought lo say she 18 jual, like her fa- ther in that peetialar; I'M in the eoal busineett, nee know," f441360(006e000C91,00000 ? FOR THE 110ME • 0 0 O Recipes for the Kitchen,Go 9 Hygiene and Other Notes for the Housekeeper. 114 18,3 00000 0000000000000e000 3lJal/1N l'011RIOCIE 130T. When one has had a boiled dinner the liquid 111 which the nwat and vegetables have been cooked should ho left closely covered in the kettle, tied sot away over night in a cool place, Look 001)1' and put to soak for a night 1 quart beans, 00 two- thirds beans and ono -third dried Split peas. In the morning 'skint ull the fat front the lop of the hailed dinner kettle and set it over the lire with nans added, to coole for fout hour, 11110 iiins the bean should be very soft, Witter should be added froin time to tinie as it bens ftwaY, to keep the kettle about so full all the time. Fro111 this point on there are sev- eral methods which may bo pursued, each one giving different results. The beans and tho liquid can be passed through a colander, pushieg all the beans, except the hulls through the openings, Small bite of meat from the boiled dinner o/ the day before are added, and the smooth, thick mass seasoned evIth herbs and "hot 51101," and served after thinning it a little with water. 311 the second method the liquid is not strained; the soft beans are left in it, and the left -over cabbage, po- tato, and turnip from the boiled dinner aro chopped coarsely and athl- ete Small bits of boiled meat are also added, and the savory 111058 10111011 iS a Complete dinner in itself, is flavored with herbs and seasoned to suit the individual preference of each eamily. Still a third method, and one mktoli used in some farming conmeen- es, a(1ds to the second method front 1 to 2 quarts of hulled corn Put into the pot 20 minutes before serving. Tbe liquid is then thicken- ed with corn meal or flour, ellik is sometimes added in this last me- thod, after the porridge is turned into a large 'tureen and is ready to be served at once. A fourth kind of bean porridge is made et 1 cup /eft -over baked beans, Put over the lire with 3. quart Wa- ter, a small onion, and a little beef extract, if there is any at hand, or O few ePoonfols of gravy left from a roast, a drop of tobasco, a bay leaf or clove, a little kitchen bouquet or other perferred flavoring or season- ing can be added, end when the wa- ter has belled away nearly one-half, strain the beans out of the liquid and a,de.1 3. cup canned tomato. 13 in taking up sprinkle Huger on noel) slice, lit all cases the better the Hee consider the 23P.11,10.0 a dlli!CPHH. 04111)(i the better the Well resulting from its use. Ile NTS 'PO 1101 leK FIE PE It S A enapstone griddle should be heated slowly and be allowed to get very hot. Before usleg, rub tbor- oughly with dry fait, then wipe. Never greeset It. The advantage of a soapstone griddle is Hutt the cakes aro baked (01 lie hooped of be- ing fried in fut, as on the ()military 11.011 ono. Salt meats and wbile meate—veal and pink—should be very thorough- ly cooked, in France there is a laW regelating the cooking of pork, and cinch a thing tue untlerdone epareribic 10 110111 114 1101'171' Seen, Veal 18 es- pecially unhealthful Indess well done, It is said that sheepelcin rugs may . be witehed at home with 114,1111 trim. s ble when one knows how, The skin side should not lie wet at all, and to prevent this the rug' should be tacked around a barrel. Choose a sunny day, and with clean scrubbing brush and plenty of hot suds in which a good washing powder has been dissolved, scrub the nag thor- oughly. Afterwarkl spray well with dear water, using a hoze with show- er nozzie, If poseible, so arc to Ileve strong, penetrating stream. Lel, the rug dry on the barrel in the sun, combing it out now and then with 0 clean curry -comb to prevent matting of the wool. It should Come out beautifully white and fluffy after this treatment. A spoon should be 'used to test whether a custard is baked or cook- ed siuMciently. A properly boiled custard will coat the handle of the spoon, and one baked to perfection w111 leave it quite cleon, A. FEW SOITP SECRETS. Not everyone that eooks knows bow to make soup. conTinced of that, after partaking of some of the liquid attempts well meaning in- dividuals will SeTWO ill the name 01 cookery, says a writer. To be &Inv there aro a few little tricks about soup making. The first is realizing what will combine Well; but most any kind of vegetables, flesh and grains will unite accepta- bly if rational proportions are used, and attention given to the fact that solne are of notch stronger flavor than others. Next is the cooking telways so slowly for meat soups, so AS to cook out all of the nointiehment and keep it dissolved. Why, when soup is boiled it's about like elite/ming; It tosses the liquid around so that the little particles begin to adbere to one another and grow Into granulat- ed bits, leaviug the water between them — something like muds and whey. Of course for meat soup cold wa- ter meet be used. That helps the dissolving process. Hot water seals op the little cells on the outside of the meet and holds in the juices. Then there's the seasoning, where reai art may 1)0 developed to a, high degree; for there are cosy number of nondescript savoey results obtaina- ble. It's a good plan to keep an ever-increasing stock of .seasoning material on hand, But It requires some real study and obserVation to become skillful in their use. Whon- ever hearing or an unfamiliar . posy - der or liquid ;lust get some. After O while it will he a delightful sur- prise to note the pungont variety which has ac,ceenulatecl; ancl then be- sides, they can be used for gravies, croquettes and all sorts of things. Like most any othee foods, theee's o diversity Of 013101011 1113011 soup eating — but then, there are many 119u110. To my mied one (the ap- petizing, elite -Woes kind) 1)1111(e8 a good meal without auything else, DOMESTIC RECIPES. Clernlan Coffee Cakes.—Take a pint of bread dough after it has risen for the sccond time. Into it work a ctup of butter that has been rubbed to a cream With a half van of sagas.; then two well beaten egg's, a. half ionspoonful each of cinnamon and grated nutmeg, and a scant tea- spoonful of socia dissolved ilt two tablespoonfuls of milk, Knead for a, few moments till the ingredients aro well blended, then make into two long loaves tuld set irt a warm place to rise. Cover the top of each with /algae and bake in a steady oven., ementch on Tottst.—Boil half a pock or spinach in salted water till tender, drain and ohop 1100, In a 80,11C0111111 nilt a tablespoonful or but- ter, to whiell, after it has molted add an even tableepooneul of flour, :Rub Smooth, then stir in a cup of milk anti let it boil anti thicken be- fore mixing with the spinach. Servo very bot on squints or toast, Pried Apples.—Pried applee aim a good bron.kfast dish. The Arkansas way is to pare, core end cut the aPPie into eighthe, thee fry in hot lard end serve with boiled breakfast baeon, laid en the edges 01 (1110 digit. Another Way is to slice the fruit about a third of an Melt thick, through Core and Ain, sprielde with eligter, fry In tr. little hot butter and THE HOME DOCTOR. Brown sugar stops the bleeding of a fresh wound. For indigestion try the beaten white of an egg in a wineglassfol of cold water directly after meals. A mixture of equal parts of sweet oil and tincture of iodine is said to relieve comm and bunions. Headache, toothache, backache or almost any joint 'Who will be relieved by heating the feet thoroughly with the shoes on. Mucilage has been found to be an .excellent remedy for Maas, Apply it to the burn and lay any soft blank paper. The mucilage soothes the pain, whiM the paper excludes the air. Por a stiff neck, pains in the chest, etc., warm 501130 sweet oil and rub on thoroughly with the hands, then cover with sheet wadding, the shiny side out. Wear it until you feel comfortable. A. treatmept highly recommended by a scientific magaeine for poison- ing from ivy is to wet a slice of bread with water, dust it with com- mon washing soda and apply to eruption, keeping the bread wet frora the outside. Half an hour of this treatment is said to be a sure cure, TETE BIGGEST TUNNEL. The Simplon Will Be Fourteen Miles Long. The Simplon tonnel, when com- pleted, w111 be the largest in the world, It will be fourteen Milos long, or twice the length of the Mount Cents, and five miles longer than the St. Clothard. The cost of the tunnel alone will be 518,500,- 000, an average of nearly $1,000,000 per mile. The work is progressing rapidly in the tunnel on both sides of the Alps; about- 4,000 workmen are employed in the construction, and no fewer then 6,000 on the Hellen section of the railway., It is not practically certain that the road will be com- pleted within. the estimated time — that is to say, by Jely 3, 1905 — as nearly two-thirds of the tunnel was finished ,Thly 1, 1903, and the worst obstacles have already lmen met and mastered. The greatest of the impediments was the ever-in- creasing heat in the tunnel, caused by the growing V01111110 of water which, although it starts at the eummit of the mountain, 6,000 feet above the line of tho railway after percolating through beds of lime- stone, becomes almost boilieg hot and flows into the tunnel at a tem- pera.ture of from 112 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit, rendering not only work but lifo nnpossible 'with- out artificial moans of refeigeration, The engineer, by torning cold air on hot air and cold water on hot water, has reduced the temperature of the tunnel from 140 degrees to 70 degrees Faarenheit. The volume of water flowing out of the stout 011t1 of the tunnel is over 15,000 gallone per minatte, and furnishes motive power sufficient not oely to work the infeigerating ap- paeatue, !tut to compress the air by which the drills aro operated, A SUNKEN FLEET. The treasures that liu at the bot- tom of the sea are now' more easily obtainable by the invention of an instrument lenown as the hydros - e03)0, This contrivance is shortly I:0 be put into operation in order to And the lost fleet of Xerxes, 101-1101) - 1)11)4 reclieed on the seaes bed 1.001)et1 for about 2,800 years, Search is also to be made for the ship char- tered by I'ompey to carry Roman art treasures to Athems awl wrecked in the Archipelago 1,050 yeara ago. THIRSTY TRIeleel. It has been emnputed that if the leaves of an elm tree sixty feet high were spread out on the grouted, edge to edge, they would coeter five acres of laud. These leaves, averag- ing 7,000,000 to a fullegroten tree, will transpire Water to the amount of weal 10118 cluelug the normal summer day. Were it not for the imeathering by the Amato, dinettg the night a few cline wetted 80011 dreW off all the Water frOM it dis- trict. AS le is every market grower knows what elms aro like near feeit to' market gardens. THE S. S. LESSON INTEENATIONAL LESSON, mAacra 89. Text of the Lesson, Quarterly a view. Golden Text, Xatt. Lesson 1. --Paul und hiltts a Philippi (Acts xvi, Genie Text, Aete xvi, :13, "Believe cm th Lord Jehnis Christ, aml thou shal be saved." The principal Mete e this leacon are the 511fierio3's of th apostlee awl the salvation of th jailer and his househonl. There i no indention apart from the gullet loge of Christ, and, being saved by Ills sufferings in our stead, We lung!: 1(0 willing to 10111)')'Ivith Hini as Ills witnesses in bearing the goeled to thers (1 Pet. 11, 24; 111, 18 ; John, net, 83; Phil -I, 29 ; 111, 30. Lessen IL—Christine living (Phil, iv, 1-1 31. ()olden Text, Phil, iv, 4, "Rejoice in the Lord always," Two great feisturee of the life of a Christian are joy mei peace, and these should be very manifest (Rom. xiv, 17; xv, 3), but in the many trials and marrows of this life it seems impossible to be full of either joy or peace. But remember that this most joyful of all the epis- tles Was written from a, prison, and the aim of Paul may be ours (1-20). See also I Cor. 1, 9; I These, 0, 24, Lesson IIL—Paul 01 Thessalonica and. Berea (Acts xvii, 1-12). Golden Text, Ps. exix, 105, "Thy word is lanai) unto my feet." Christians are expected to be filled With the word and the Spirit (Col. ill, 16; keel, v, 18) and by their lives and testi- mony proclaim Jesus Christ as the only Saviour of sinners. Lesson IN.—Paul's counsel to the Thesealonians (1 These, v, 14-28). Golden Text, I These. v, 21, "Hold fast that wbich is good." The truth is here emphasized that the spirit, soul and body of the redeem- ed are all for Christ, and the noW man in us, if allowed to control, wel ever pray and rejoice and give thanke, controlled by the Spirit, bet if the Spirit is quenched and His word rejected there must be pro- portionate failure. Lesson V.—Paul at Athens (Acts xvii. 22-84). Golden Text, Acts xvii, 38, "He preached into them Jesus and the resurrection." Men aro prone to worship, V) bow down to anything and any one hut the living God, and this has been the case since the serpent turned Adam and Eve away from God to believe his lie, Lesson VL—The church at Cor- inth founded (Acts xviii, ()olden Text, I Coe. iii, 11, "Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." Some believing and some opposing is the record everywhere, bet all Whom the Father bath given to Christ shall come to Him, and His elect church shall be gathered and presented to Ilbuself a glorious church. Lessem VIL—Christian self control (I Car, viii, 4-13). Golden Text, Rom. xiv, 19, "Let us, therefore, follow after the thing's which make for peace." In the daily life, while seeking to live wholly for God and manifest; the life of Christ in our mortal bodies, we are living not on- ly before God, who reads oar hearts and never misjudges us, but we axe also living before people who, not being able to read the heart, aro vevy apt to misjudge tts and stumble over us. Lesson VIII.—Christian love (I Cor. xiii, 1-18). Golden Text, 3 Cor. xiii, /3, "Now abideth faith, hope, love, 8 * * bu1 the greatest of these is love," It is still the con- trast between what I myself may do and that widen Christ will do in me. However much I may do that $eems good, it will count for noth- ing if it is 1 that do it, but Cod, who is love and Was manifest. In Christ and has come to live in the believer, desires to work in arid through us, and that will stand, Lesson IX,—Paul ond Apollos (Arts xViii, 24, to xix, 6). Golden Text, Luke, xi, 18, "If ye, then, be- ing evil, know how to give good gifes unto your children, how 11111011 more shall your Heavenly leather give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Mill'?" A. man mighty in the Scriptures may be instettctecl more perfewtly by very humble people, and however much people may beliere there is a Very great Tack until they are filled with the Spirit. Lesson X.—Paul at Ephesus (Acts xix, 111-20), Golden Text, Acts xix, 17, "The 001210 of the Lord Jesus WaS magnified." The name of tho Lord Jesus, that worthy 110100 ('ies. ii, 7), that glorious and fearhtl name, the Lord thy and (Dent. =vile 58), is not to be trifled with or mocked or despised, foe the Lord can use tho devil himself to chasten such, and Ite will overrule even the umekery and biaephemy of the wick- ed to promote His glory, -Lesson XL—'nhe riot at. linenteeus (Arts xix, 20-40), Golclen Text, Ps. xxxi, 1311, "The :Lord preserveth the faith When tee preach ing of tho gospel takes away money item the pockets of the ungodly, we shall quickly hear front them, aed they will went no 010re of um or our gos- pel. But this sante thiug is atm seen among those who beer the name of Christ, and the cold 5)1001- 0r has been turned 'Upon a m1s0lon- ary lost lie might went an offering 'from the people. We seem to know nothing 0( 1.1111 love of Christ, who gave Iliniseir. Lesson X1X...--Paul's triesaago to the lephesions (Mph. 11, 1-10), Golden Text, Valle 11, 8, "Ely grace are ye Saved 01'014411 faith." That is thtt one thing we, to understand — the grave of oUr Lord :Teams Christ, who became Poor for ulf at Cole P viit, 9), anti therefore, while glad to sl be SaVed by Him, so few are willieg 14 to 110 mid by 111))), to let Him have 11 n11 that He has bought with ITie 11 preelons Wean, to let. IThtt work out el 111 1151 and through tis the good works a Ila lute prepared fen* us. 'Lay to tei heart, The, 1, 18, 1 0, TXTINGS 'YOU SPCO1JL1( Items of Laformation Which W133 - 33e Pound Interesting. The Belgianfe are the greatest poe tato eaters i0 the world, and the Seise come second. 0, ealularis3 71,11alit eiillItilcutliotfansetzsbLipondfoo; 0110 f01. l'aCh 2,000. t At the London general post olllee 11 an [mirage of 1,800,000 loiters are t, handled per dav, t A lock 0( 1111) Duke of Wellingtons n Inter brought 425 at a London raw - tion the othor they. e San Fraticiseo has a dredger, the }Anita of which ean pick up twenty- five tons at 011e scoop, Tbe Cathedral of Genoa boasts the possession of a 'rase eut from a single emerald, 11 is 5t inches ln j)eitleitt; `lare now no fewer than 23,- 000,000 sclioiars cool teachers in 1110 Sunday schoolof the world. The jawbone of the average whale is 25 feet in length, 'Phe tongue of such a monster will yield a ton of 01'.11;110 police of Berlin carry revolv- ers wheel fire seven shots In flee sec- onds and kill at a distance of 660 yards. Only 24 per cent, of doctors attain the age of seventy years. About 42 per cent, of clergymen reach that ugiet' is said that there 18 O. woman in Mitechester, England, Who has eyes which magnify objects fifty times their natural size, Denmark's educational system is so perfect and popular that through- out the entire country there is not one illiterate family. According to the monks of the hospice of St, Bernard, their famous dogs save on an average twenty lives every year on the mountain. In Hungary the parents of rail- way employes aro entitled to travel at half price, and superannuated emp/oyes travel free over all the iin Tehse. pearl -shelling industry is a very valuable product in Queens- land, where 025,000,000 bas been secured during the last twenty-Rve years for pearl shell. In every 1,000 marriages la Great 13ritain twenty-one are solemnized between first cousins. Among the nobility the rate is much higher, amounting to forty-fivo in 1,000. A. new use for paper has been re- cently discovered in France. It is found that the substance makes ex- cellent sails for yachts, fishing boats and the smaller craft generally, Many churches In the central dis- tricts of London, each occupying ground worth 51,250,000, have con- gregations on Sunday mornings of not more than a dozen persons. By a new process hailing from Hol- land it Ss claimed that a moist hide can be turned into leather ready for the saddler's and shoemaker's use in front one to three days. More than. 40 per cent, of the peo- ple of Great Britain could not write their names when Queen Victoria as- cended the throne. Non' only 7 per cent. are i31 that condition. Grey hairs at an early age aro hereditary in certain families, rt is thought to be the result of mon with dark hair marrying women with dark hair through several genera- tinsiima, Sing Hem, said to be the smallest person in Ole work:, has died suddenly at Beaumont, Texas. She was twenty-two years old, weighed 15 pounds, and stood 28 • incIsu iesalicigrhi Aosity of the recent Ger- man census it is recorded that Hie returns showed the village of Reu- tonbourg contained 444 inhabitants, 222 being of the male and 222 of thTehfeet pli eanl ea sex. 0020213' the Hottentots for widows 10110 marry again is a, somewhat severe one. It is the ride among these people that, before so marrying, a widow must out off the joint of a finger and present it to her husband on the wedding da BTIPPET OARS IN JAPAN. Waitresses at Eigh- teen Son a Day f or Service. The Sanuki Railway, has ar- ranged to have its refreshment cars SerVeci by waitresses, says the Japan Times. Each train includes one such car, and each 110.14 a. wait- ress es attendant. This arrangement 1005 started a few months since. and the alas were selected from about thirty applicants as haying the fol- lowing qualifications 1 First, a pass- able personal appearance ; second, education; third, good health, fourth good conduct, and, fifth, an abso- lutely respectable past, The waitresses rank as officials of the railway, and are under the fol. lowing regulations : First, hair to be dreseed in the agemald style—re- sembling a Greek helmet: second, costume to consist of a kimono of an improved style ; third, the girls to rest morning or afternoon by turns mid every sixth day; fourth, the wages to be 18 son per day ; 11 fth, the girls on duty to believe withmilitary discipline, to take no "HIM," to refrain from chattel' with the passengers, and when passengers eye in the earriago to stand in the coener of the carriage. Among the girls who have entered lhe service aro many from respect- able relates, and they have behaved well ale! clecenely, Tho company had apprehended that passemeers might behave vulgarly toward them, bet, happily, et'Ory 1.0811001 has been paid to them, and the railtelty authori- Hoe consider the service a success, 14 V0I0lee.3 MADE TO 011171311, Actual operations lueee cloanoestrat- d that the larynx or vecal box eau o successfully removed, and the Went may not only survive the lock, but recover, In order to re - tore sitevel) to the patient nn 5(1111 Memo( ansi vocal nords ere rovided. The voice artificially 1000- 01)e31 is incapnble 01 boom:too; bat 11 1)0)1)411 it is monotone, the eel. is perfectly able to earry on e onversn t on,