3DCXXXXX)0OO0OOOOO0O000OC SATURDAY 6 XTinTIT T.STTrC 8 H By KEV. T. E. DAVISON R ft Rutland. VI. O coocoocococcoocooooooccy ALMS-GIVING AND PRAYER IN KINGDOM. International Bible Le3on for Feb. 6, 1910 (Matt. 6:1-15). Tlmro ha:; a. way been u vast amount of alms Klvlng and ir:iy or based on J , .it ono fount!. iiioi) to bo nvvn of X 4 men. in ciirii-ti lime lb pro wore 13 trU!i;j'Pt-l);iso3 In tlu tfmpli", In which Vfro ili;. posited t'.:i K.ij. tril;ul!fin'i .f ;h pr-op;... Tjpric b o :, i- ;i y p .;, - . ; V'-Vr !Mt v. ,Ji culled "irunipots" brer use t!iry v;-r. narrow at tin- top and u! ! t. t;,., lic.'.'oi'l. a:id t'ro'i!;i'd !!!:,. ;i lin.-'!, ;;o that the dishonest could not. r.P -'.r i t the coin. 'I'ho people v.l.o d.-sic, ,; ;. nih i l lisp their lK!ievo'c;it rpi I. "oo.iuded tho trumpet" bvfoo theru : c iv. Ir.c their niom .v to jirtfle cil ri:: ; as (hey threw It. In t!u c(c':i':,:;':i:i lio. That eiiHtoui no lom;er oli;.:n l ii'.cp a handful of copper makes n.,.iv tiohie than n preen!, a k. IVi-;! Ciea iKiilI.t to Iiiulio their money jl:i:;'o; l.ow they try to Inish it um i,si;o!i :u rosHlble. In other wo"ds, the ten.'h In:; of the king was that tho prin l,.!u of alms-giving In the new kin Ti!o:n va:i to be, not ostentation, :uivcTt!.,e. nit lit. display, anil to be neeii of nu-n, bet on tho ground of pure bene.o U nee. real chnrity, genuine rejic'o i:i life. KverythlnK depends on tho u.oilvj behind the Rift. Money will do Rood, whether tainted or untainted; It will buy food for the huiiKry. and cloihin;; for the naked, and medicine for the pick, but Its value In the Bight of (lod depends altogether on the spirit with which it Is given. There are clrcum idnnrcs where n certain amount of publicity la necessary for the sake of the object or cause to which gifts aro devoted, but so far as the giver is concerned the value of his gift con rlsts altogether on tho motive behind it. "To bo seen of men," that is tho error the king would uproot. The paltry and pitiful attempt at parade on the part of his dlclples, that Is the thing He condemns, "lie not as the hypocrites, who sound a trumpet before them." They have their re ward, but It Is not the reward of the I'.ither who seth lp ocrt, Hypocritical Grayer. What Is true of giving Is true ako prayer. There Is not so much dan Cor In this dlrectlon'as In the othc. The trouble now is to get people to pray at all. They neither pray in tho synogogucB, nor In the corners of tha t-treeta, nor In tho secret closet. We hire men to do our praying for us, and if we are reverential enough to bow our heads while they are doing it, we ful that we have been sufficiently de vout. In Christ's time men made a Tirade of their devotions. Thoy f-pread their prayer rug In tho market pluce, and at the street corners, and made a show of piety. In order to hear the onlookers say, "See. how loly this man is!" If men did that row, the crowd would Jeer, and say, "Here is an escaped lunatic." r'or, the fact is, the men who did tU.it In old time were frauds at heart. Their vain repetitions deceived no body. The Moslems have a proverb: "If your neighbor has made the pil Ri'iiiiuge to Mecca once, wi;teh him; if twice, avoid his society; If three times, move Into another street." In other words, look out for the man who U ostentatiously religious. Publicity Not Condemned. Mark you, there Is nothing bore (i;;-.ilnKt public prayer, or open ulms 1'ivlng. The man who takes oppor tunity from these words not to give ut ull nor to pray at all, Is Just as far wide of the mark. The whole force of these words rests on tho supposi tion "to be seen of men." If the mo live behind your benevolence or your prayers Is the good opinion of your neighbors, the speech of people, the praise of men, you are a Pharisee and a hypocrite. But if your motive is disinterested benevolence and sincere love of God you will uot full of the benediction of heaven though your name is heralded in all the newspa pers at the head of the subscription list, and you are known and read of fill men as a follower of Jesus Christ, t'hryaostom said: "If thou shouldost enter into thy closet, and, having shut h door, shouldest do it for display, the doors will do thee uo good." For display that is the idea. Do nothing for display is the law of the kingdom. It la not your attitude, it is jour heart that He looks at. Not what you say with your Hps In prayer, but what is in your heart deep down out of sight is what Ho listens to. It is not the bell up in the steeple, but tho people down in the pews that Kouuds the loudest In the ears of the Father in Heaven. It is not the money you put on the contribution Plate, but the spirit that caused you to put it there that counts up yonder. To say prayers and to really pray are two very different things. Prayer Is the soul's sincere deslro Uttered, or unexpressed The motion of a fire. . That burns within the breattt TO WASH VEGETABLES. Placed In a Cylinder and Cleaned at Latter Revolves. How often people are heard to say that they do not oat this or that In hotels and restaurants because thoy do not know If It has been cleaned properly. In the old days, when the process of properly cleaning, this ob jection was a fair one, but now It has less ground for existence. With the advent f the numerous time and labor saving devices, the food is Just as clean in first-class restaurants and hotels as it Is at home, and one of the inventions thnt have brought about this Improvement Is the vegetable washer devised by a New Hampshire man. In appearance tho vegetable washer looks very much like the paper stands seen on store counters. It comprises n stand on which a hol low cylinder rests upon an nxls. The cylinder has an opening on one side nnd a screw top for the opening. The whole Is wnter-tlght. The vegetables are placed in the receptacle, which l.i filled with water, the top screwed on and the cylinder revolved by means of a handie. Quaint Old-Time Custom. Custom decrees that a gold coin, or, nt the very ler.st, silver, shall b.; put under tho mainmast of each new ship launched. The coin bears the date of the year when the vessel Is completed, a fact well known to collectors, who keep nn eye on ships that are likely to be the depository of numismatic prizes, says Pearson's Weekly. Thus, at Liverpool some years back, a derelict Yankee schooner, bought for a song, yielded an 1S04 dollar, the rarest and most eagerly sought after of all American coins. It sold readily for $6,000, and would be worth to-day at least double that sum, for It was In perfect preservation, having rested in Its cotton wool wad beneath the hollow "stepping" of the mast since the day It was first placed In position. Its recovery was the result of fore sight and business enterprise, com bined, of course, with special knowl edge. A man passing the worthless hulk on the day of the sale noticed the date, 1804, on her stern and right ly guessed that she might be the bear er of a dollar of that year. In the same way have been pre served and recovered many of the an cient silver Scottish pennies known as dolts which were so thin that twelve of them were barely equal In value to the penny sterling. The old Siot tlsh shipbuilders of the days when these coins were in circulation used, with characteristic national thrlfti ness, to put one of them beneath each mast they "stepped," in preference to tho more valuable groat. Guests at This Hotel Do Not Pay. Essen, Germany, has a hotel a first-class hotel at which the princi pal guests never have to pay for their accommodations. It Is owned by Frau Bertha Krupp. tho richest wom an In Germany, and owner of the great Krupp works, at Kssen. She runs It at a loss of more than $100,000 a year. This hotel was built by Frau Krupp for the entertainment of the representatives of foreign Govern ments who visit Kssen for the purpose of purchasing war material or who stay at Kssen to superintend the exe cution of orders. Emissaries from the Kmperors ol Japan and Russia, from the Klugs ol Roumanla, Bulgaria, Spain, Norway and Sweden, as well ns from the Presidents of the Central and South American republics, have been enter tained at the Krupp hotel for mouths at a time In the most princely style. Ordinary travellers sometimes can find accommodations at the Krupp hotel, but ouly when the rooms aro not required for Frau Krupp's for eign official guests. International Manners. A German lady, we perceive, has started a school wherein the art of eating is taught. Not the art of ac quiring food, but the art of dealing with it when it Is on the table. An international school of table manners would do as much as The Hague Con feience to reconcile animosities. There is really nothing, for example, In which we could not agree with the American if he would only come over to the British notion of eating an egg. Possibly the Rhodes scholars will think the matter out at Oxford. Westminster Gazette, Sitting In the 8hadow. One evening when Luther saw a little bird perched on a tree roost thero for the night, he said: "This little bird has had lyj Bupper, and now It is getting ready to go to s'eep here quite secure and content, never troubling itself what Its food will, be, or whore its lodging on the morrow. Like David, it 'abides under the shadow of the Almighty.1 It sits on Its little twig content, and lata God take care." THE COLUMBIAN. I BLOOMSBURG. PA. 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