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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
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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
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. ; 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."
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