PRERTEA TW EE
DR. TALMAGE'S: SERMON:
Wonders of Disaster and Blessing.
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“1 will show wonders in the heavens and in
the carth.” Joel, 230
Dr. Cumming—great and good
man!—would have told us the exact
time of the fulfilment of this prophecy.
As 1 stepped into his study 1n London
on my arrival from Paris just after the
French had surrendered at Sedan, the
good doctor said to me: **It is just as I
told you about France: people laughed
at me because I talked about the seven
horns and vials, but I foresaw all this
from the Book of Daniel and the Book
of Revelation.” Not taking any such
responsibility in the interpretation of
the passage, 1 simply assert that there
is in It suggestions of many things in
our time,
Our eyes dilate and our hearts
quickens in its pulsation as we read of
events in the Third century, the Sixth
century, the Eighth century, the Four-
teenth century, but there are more
far-reaching events crowded into
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
than in any other, and the list quarter
bids fair to eclipse the preceeding thre»
quarters. We read in the daily news-
papers of’ events anounced in one para-
graph, and without any special empha-
sis—of events which a Herodotus, a
Josephus, a Xenophon ,a Gibbon, would
have taken whole chapters or whole
volumes to elaborate, Looking out
upon our time, we must ery out, in the
words of the text: **Wonders in the
heavens and in the earth.”
1 propose to show you that the time
in which we live 1s wonderful for dis-
aster and wonderful for blessing, for
there must be lights and shades in this
picture as in all others. Need 1
argue this day that our time Is
WONDERFUL FOR DISASTER?
Our world has had a rough time since
by the hand of God it was bowled out
into space. It is an epileptic earth;
convulsion after convulsion; frosts
pounding it with sledge-hammer of
iceberg, and fires melting it with far.
paces seven hundred times heated. It
18 a wonder to me it has lasted so long.
Meteors shooting by on this side and
grazing it, and meteors shooting by on
the other side and grazing it, none of
them slowing up for safety. Whole
fleets and navies and argosies and
fiotillas, of worlds sweeping about us,
Our earth like a fishing smack off the
banks of Newfoundland, while the
Etruria and the Germanic and the
Arizona and the City of New York
rush by. Besides that, our world has
by sin been damaged in Its internal
machinery, and ever and anon the fur-
naces have burst, and the walking-
beams of the mountains have broken,
and the islands have shipped a sea, and
the great hulk of the world has been
jarred with accidents, that ever and
anon threatened immediate
ition. But it seems to us as if our
sentury were esepcially characterized
¥
DISASTER-—VOLCANIC CYCLONI
yeeanic, epidemic. 1 say volcanic, be-
sanse an earthquake is only a volcano
aushed up. When Stromboli and
Jotopaxi and Vesuvius stop breathing,
et the foundations of the earth be-
ware!
two centuries recorded in the catalogue
»f the British Association! YU'rajan, the
gmperor, goes to ancient Antioch, and
amid the splendors of his reception is
stroys the emperor's life, Lisbon, fair
and beautiful at 1 o’clock on the lst of
November, 1755, In six minutes 60,000
have perished; and Voltaire writes of
them: ‘For that region it was the
last judgment, nothing wanting but a
trumpet!’ Europe and America feeling
the throb; 1,500 chimneys in Boston
partly or fully destroyed!
But the disasters of other centuries
In 1812 Caracas was caught in the
zrip of the earthquake: in 1822, in
OUhill, 100,000 square miles of land by
volcanic force upheaved to four and
1854 Japan felt the geological agony;
Naples shaken in 1857; Mexico In 1858;
Mendoza, the capital of the Argentine
Republic, in 1861; Manilla terrorized in
1863; the Hawalian islands by such
‘orce uplifted and let down in 1871;
Nevada shaken in 1871; Antioch in
1872; California in 1872; San Salvador
in 1873: while in 1883 what subterra-
nean excitement! Ischia, an Island of
‘he Mediterranean, 4 beautiful Italian
watering-place, vineyard clad, sur-
rounded by natural charm and
historical reminiscence; yonder, Capri,
the summer resort of the Roman emi.
perors; yonder, Naples, the paradise of
art—this beautiful island suddenly
toppled Into the trough of the earth,
3 000 merry-moakers perishing, and
some of them so far down beneath the
reach of human obsequies that it may
ve sald of many a one of them as it
was sald of Moses, **The Lord buried
3m.” Italy,
ALL EUROPE WEEPING,
all Christendom weeping where there
were hearts to sympathize and Chris.
tiaus to pray. But while the nations
were measuring that magnitude of dis-
aster, measuring it not with golden rod
like that with which the angel meas
ured heaven, but with the black rule
5f death, Java, of the Indian archi-
pelago, the most fertile island of all
the earth, 1s caught in the grip of the
sarthquake, and mountain after moun-
tain goes down, and city after city,
until that island, which produces the
healthiest beverage of all the world,
bus produced the ghastliest accident of
the , One hundred thousand
people dying, dying, dead, dead!
But look at the disasters cyclonfc, Alb
the mouth of the Ganges are three
islands-—the Hattiah, the Sundeep and
the mid-
i
the bottom. They told us before we
retired at 9 o'clock that the barometer
nad fallen, but at 11 o'clock at night
we were awakened with the shock of
the waves. All the lights out! Crashl
went all the lifeboats, Waters rushing
through the skylights down into the
cabin, and down on the furnaces until
they hissed and smoked in the deluge.
Seven hundred people praying, blas-
pheming, shrieking. Our great ship
poised a moment on the top of a moun-
tain of phosphorescent fire, and then
plunged down, down, down, until it
seemed as 1f she never would again be
righted. Ah! you never want to see a
cyclone at sea.
But I was in Minnesota, where there
was one of those cyclones on land that
swept the city of Rochester from its
foundations, and took dwelling-houses,
barns, men, women, children, horses,
cattle, and tossed them Into indiscrimi-
nate ruin, and Lifted a rail train and
dashed it down, a mightier hand than
that of engineer on the alrbrake.
Cyclone in Kansas, cyclone In Missouri,
cyclone in Wisconsin, cyclone in 1h-
nois, cyclone in lIowal Satan, prince of
the power of the air, never made such
cyclonic disturbances as he has in our
day. And am I not right in saying
that one of the characteristics of the
time in which we live is disaster cy-
clonic?
But look at the disasters oceanic.
Shall I call the roll of the dead sh ipping?
Ye monsters of the deep. answer when
I call your names, The Ville de Havre,
the Schiller, the City of Boston, the
Melville, the President, the Cimbria,
But why should I go on calling the
roll when none of them answer, and
the roll is as long as the white scroll of
the Atlantic surf at Cape Hatteras
breakers! If the oceanic cable could
report all the scattered life and all the
bleached bones that they rub against
in the ocean, what
A MESSAGE OF PATHOS AND TRAGEDY
for both beaches! 1n one storm eighty
fishermen perished off the coast of
Newfoundland, and whole fleets of
them off the coast of England. God
help the poor fellows at sea, and give
high seats in heaven to the Grace
Darlings and the Ida Lewises and the
lifeboat men hovering around Goodwin
Sands and the Skerries! The sea,
owning three-fouths of the earth, pro-
poses to capture the other fourth, and
is bombarding the land all around the
earth. The moving of our hotels at
Brighton Beach backward oue hundred
yards backward from where they once
stood, a type of what is going on all
around the world and on every coast,
The Dead Sea rolls to-day where
ancient cities stood,
| that stood on hills, geologists now Oud
| three-quarters under the water or al-
| together submerged, The sea, haviog
| wrecked so many merchantmen and
| flotillas, wants to wreck the continents,
| and hence disasters oceanic.
Look at the disasters epidemic! 1
| century that ravaged Europe, and In
Moscow and the Neapolitan dominions
and Marseilles wrought such terror in
| the Eighteenth century, but I look at
| the yellow fevers, and the cholerae, and
{ the diphtherias, and the scarlet fevers,
and the typhoids of our own time.
| Hear
| THE WAILING OF MEMPHIS
| and Shreveport and New Orleans and
| Jacksonville of the last few decades.
| From Hurdwar, India, where every
| twelfth year three million devotees
congregate, the caravans brought the
cholera, and that one disease slew
| gighteen thousand in eighteen days in
Bossorah. Twelve thousand lu one
summer slain by it in India, and twen-
{ ty-five thousand in Egypt. Disasters
| epidemie! Some of the finest monu-
| ems in Greenwood and Laurel Hill
| and Mount Auburn are to doctors who
| lost their lives battling with Southern
| epidemic.
| Mut now I turn the leaf in my sub-
| ject, and I plant the white lilies and
the palm tree amid the night-shade and
the myrtle. This age no more charac-
wonders of blessing. Blessing of lon-
gevity; the average of human life rap-
idly Increasing, Forly years now worth
four hundred once. Now I can travel
from Manitoba to New York in three
days and three nights. In other Limes
it would have taken three months, In
other words, three days and three
| nights now are worth three months of
| other days. The average of human
life practically greater now than when
Noah lived his 950 years and Methusa-
leh lived his 969 years,
BLESSINGS OF INTELLIGENCE.
The Salmon P. Chases and the Abra-
ham Lineoins and the Henry Wilsons
of the coming time will not be re-
quired to learn to read by pine-knot
lights, or seated on shoemaker’s bench,
nor will the Fergusons have to study
astronomy while watching the cattle.
Knowledge rolls its tides along every
poor man’s door, and his children may
go down and bathe in them. if the
philosophers of the last century were
called upon to recite in a class with
our boys at the Polytechme, or our
girls at the Packer, those old philoso.
phers would be sent down to the foot
of the class, because they failed to
answer the questions! Free libraries
in all the Snportant towns and cities of
the land. Histysical alcoves and poeti-
cal shelves and magazine tables for all
that desire to walk through them, or
sit down at them.
DBlesswngs of quick information: News.
papers falling all around us thick as
leaves in a September equinoctial.
News three days old, rancid and stale.
We see the whole world twice a day—
through the newspaper at the break-
fast table, and th the newspaper
at the tea-table, with an “extra’’ here
aud there between.
Blessings of Guspel
you not know that
slonary
one of the denominations said to me
the other day in Dakota: *‘You were
wrong when you said our denomination
averaged a new church every day of
the year; they nine in one
week, 80 you are far within the truth.”
Ac man of our denomination said:
“1 nave fust Leen out
mission stations © :
Ci IOTTA NITY 18 ON THE MARCH,
Whey taba e d7Y 08 AwiBulIng into Ime
¥ fa i ;
becility., While Infidelity Is thus
dwindling and dropping down into fm-
becility, and indecency, the wheel of
Christianity 1s making about a thous-
and revolutions in a minute. All the
copies of Shakespeare and Tennyson
and Disraeli, and of any ten of the
most popular writers of the day, less
in number than the coples of the Bible
going out from our printing-presses,
A few years ago, In six weeks, more
than two million coples of the New
Testament purchased, not given away,
but purchashed because the world will
have it,
More Christian men in high official
position to-day in Great Britain and in
the United States than ever before. Stop
that falsehood going through the news-
papers—1 have seen it 1n twenty—that
the judges of the Supreme Court of
the United States are all infidels except
one. By personal acquaintance I know
three of them to be old-fashioned
evangelical Ohristians, sitting at the
holy sacrament of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and I suppose that the majority
of them are stanch bellevers in our
Christan religion. And then hear
THE DYING WORDS OF JUDGE BLACE
a man who had been Attorney-General
of the United States, and who had
been Secretary of the United States—
no stronger lawyer of the century than
Judge Black—dying, his aged wife
kneeling by his side, and he uttering
that sublime and tender prayer: *‘O
Lord God, from whom I derived my
existence, and in whom I have always
| trusted, take my spirit to thyself, and
let thy richest blessing come down
upon my Mary.” The most popular
book to-day 18 the Bible, and the
mightiest institution is the Church,
and the greatest name among the
nations, and more honored than any, is
the name of Jesus,
Wonaers of self-sacrifice: A clergy-
man told me in the Northwest that for
six years he was a missionary at the
post office, and sometimes he slept out
of doors in winter, the thermometer
sixty and sixty-five degrees below zero,
wrapped in rabbit skins woven togeth-
er. Isald: “Is it possible? Youdo
not mean sixty and sixty-five degrees
belew zero?” He sald, “I do, and I
was happy.”’
ALL FOR CHRIST!
Where is there any other being that
will rally such enthusiasm? Mothers
sewing their fingers off to educate their
boys for the gospel ministry, For nine
years no luxury on fhe table until the
course through grammar school and
{ college and theological seminary be
completed, Poor widow pulling her
mite into the Lord’s treasury, the face
| of emperor or president impressed upon
| the coin not so conspicuous as the
{blood with which she eamed iL
| Millions of good men and women, but
{ more women than men, 0 whow
| Christ is everything. Christ first, and
| Chnst last, and Christ forever.
Why, this age is nol so characterized
| by invention and scientific exploration
as it is by gospel proclamation,
| can got no idea of it unless you can
| ring all the church belis in one chime,
| and sound all the organs in one diapa-
| son, and gather all the congregations
| of Christendom
| colsis, Mighty camp roeelings! Mighty
| Ocean Groves! Mighty Chautauguas!
Mighty conventions of Christian work-
jersl Mighty general assemblies of the
| Presbylenan Church! Mighty confer
lences of the Methodist Churchl
| Mighty assogiations of the Baptist
{ Churchl
| Episcopal Church! I think, before
long, the best investments will not be
lin raflroad stock or Western Union,
| but in trumpets and cymbals and festal
| decorations, for we are on the eve of
| victories wide and world uplifting.
| ©O you dead churches, wake up!
| Throw back the shutters of stiff eccle-
siasticlsm,
| spring morning come inl Morning for
| the land! Morning for the seal Morn.
{log of emancipation! Morning of
{ light and love and peace! Morning
lof a day in whers there shall be no
| chains to break, no sorrows Lo assuage,
no despotism to shatler, no woes to
compassionate. © Christ, descend!
sacred temple, take the crown! Bruised
hand, take the sceptre! Wounded
toot, step on the throne! ‘‘Thine 1s
the kingdom.”
These things I say because I want
you to
BE ALERT,
I want you to be watching all these
wonders unrolling from the heavens
and the earth, God has classified them,
whether calamitous or pleasing. The
divine purposes are harvessed in traces
that cannot break, and In girths that
cannot slip, and in buckles that cannot
loosen, and are driven by reins they
must answer. 1 preach no fatalism.
A swarthy engineer at one of the
depots in Dakota said: **When will yon
get on the locomotive, and take a ride
with us?” “Well,” said, ‘now, if
that suits yon?” So I got on one side
of the locomotive, and a Methodist
minister, who was also Invited, got
on the other side, and between us
were the engineer and the stoker. The
train started. The engineer had
his hand on the agitated pulse of
the great engine. The stoker shov-
eled in th@®oal, and shut the door with
a loud clang. A vast plain shpped
under us, and the hills swept by, and
that t monster on which we rode
trem and bounded and snorted and
raged as it hurlea us on. 1 said to the
Methodist minister on the other side of
track, that iron track; that is the
decree. You see this engineer's arm?
That is free agency. How beautifully
together.
am only afraid that for our indolence
God will discharge us and get some
other stoker and some other engineer.
The train is going through with us or
without us. So, my brethren, watch
all the events that are going by. If
things seem to turn out right, give
wings to your joy. If things seem to
turn out wrong, throw out the anchor
of faith, and hold fast.
There is a house in London where
Peter the Great of Russia lived awhile
when he was moving through the land
incognito and in workman’s dress,
that he might learn the wants of the
people. A stranger was visiting at
that house recently, and saw in a dark
attic an old box, aud he sald to the
owner of the house, ‘*What's in that
box?’ The owner sald, *‘I don’t know:
that box was there when I got the
house, and it was there when my
father got it. We haven't had any
curiosity to look at 1t; I guess there’s
pothing in it, **Well,”” said the stran-
ger, “I'll give you two pounds for it,»
“Well, done.’ The Iwo pounds
paid, and recently the contents of that
| fifty thousand dollars.
private letters, and documents of value
beyond all monetary consideration.
And here are the events Lhal seem very
insigmicant and unimportant, but they
incase treasures of divine providence
ia while God will
the ages as being
value,
of stupendous
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
Buxpay Arnin 21, 1850,
The Two Great Commandments,
LESSON TEXT.
(Mark 12: 28.84. Memory verses, 30, Jl
LLESSON PLAN,
Toric or THE QUARTER:
Finishing His Work.
Jesus
GoLpeX TEXT FOR THE QUARTER!
I have glorified thee on the earth, having
accomplished the work which thou hast
given me to do.—John 17 : 4.
Lesson Toric: The Sum of the
Commandments,
(1. Taformalion Sought, v. 28,
{ 2 Informstion Ganed, v8, 20-81 ]
| 8. Information Approved, va 5234
GOLDEN Text: Love is the rulfiil-
ing of the law.—Rom. 13 : 10.
Daly HoME READINGS: {
M. Mark 12: 28.34. The
of the commandments,
T.— Matt, : 54 - 40,
parallel narrative.
W.—~Exod. 20 117.
commandments. i
Deut. 5: 1-21. The command- |
Lesson
Outline:
SUI
22 Matthew's
The ten
T.
ments repeated,
1-20.
¥.—Rom, &: None justified
the law,
end of the law,
| the last two months?
| God! God! He looketh upen the
| mountains, and they tremble. He
| toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
| God! od! I must be at peace with
Him.
this God is mine and He 1s yours. 1
tine at the crucifixion, against all the
down rockings of the centuries. This
of eternity.
| ‘Those of us who are In mid life may
| well thank God that we have seen 80
MANY WONDROUS THINGS
but there are people here to-day who
| may have to see the shimmering veil
| between the material and the spiritual
| world lifted. Magnetism, a word with
which to cover up our ignorance, will
yet be an explored realm. Electricity,
| the flercy courser of the sky, that Ben-
LESSON ANALYSIS
I. INFORMATION
A Skillful Questioner:
One of the came,
asked him (28).
{ One of them, a
question (Matt, 22 :
| The Pharisees .... began
with him,....templing
8:11)
They saw....the scribes
with them (Mark 9 : 14).
A certain lawyer stood up
him (Luke 10 : 25).
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to question |
him (Mark |
questioning |
and tempted |
Answerer:
had answered them well (28
» was able to answer him a
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111. A Momentous Question:
| and Edison have tried to control, will
| become compieiely sanageable, and
locomotion will be swiftened, and a
world of practical knowledge thrown
| in upon the race. Whether we depart
| in this century, or whether we ses Lhe
| open gates of a more wonderful cen-
| tury, we will see these things, It does
not make much difference where we
| stand, but the higher the standpoint
| the larger the prospect. We
them from heaven If wa do not see
| them from earth.
1 was at Fire Island, Long Island,
‘and I went up in the cupola from
| come Into port.
telescope through that opening and
| he went up and looked out.
| “wwe are expecting the
night.’” 1 sald: “ls it
| He sald: “Yes, I pever make a mis
| take; before 1 see the hulls, I often
| know them by the masts; [ know them
all, 1 have watched them so long.”
| Oh, what a grand thing it 1s to have
| ships telegraphed and heralded long
| before they come to port, that friends
| may come down to the wharf and wel-
| come their long-absent loved ones! So
| to-day we take our stand in Lhe watch.
| tower, and we look off, and through
i the glass of inspiration we look off
| andl see a whole tiest of
SHIPS COMING IN.
| That is the stip of Peace, flag with one
| star of Bethlehem floating above the
| top-gallants. That is the ship of the
{ Church, mark of salt wave high up on
| the smoke-stack, showing she has had
rough weather, but the Captain of sal-
| with her. The stup of Heaven, might.
| jost craft ever launched, millions of
| passengers waiting for millions more,
| prophets and apostles and martyrs in
| the cabin, conquerors at the foot
| of the mast, while from the rigging
hands are waving this way as
i they knew us, and we Wave
| back again, for they are ours; Lhey
‘went from our own households,
Ours! Halll Hall! Put of the
black, and put on the white. Stop
tolling the funeral bell and ring the
wedding anthem. Shut up the hearse
and take the chariot. Now, the ship
comes around the great headland. Soon
she will strike the wharf and we will
go aboard ber, Tears for ships going
out. Laughter for ships coming in.
Now she touches the wharf. Throw
on the planks, Block up that gang-
way with embracing ' Jost friends,
for you will have eternity of reunion.
Stand back and give way until other
millions come onl Farewell to sin!
Farewell to struggle! Farewell to
sickness! Farewell to death! All
aboard for Heaven!
A Young Woman with Gall
The daughters of Heonry W.
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Assured Knowledge
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“What commandment ish
1} The commande
{2} The iments relatively
som mandimse
uts essentially.
(1. INFGRMATION GAINED
| LL. The One God:
The Lord our God. the Lord is one
1 (29).
| Hear, O 1srael:the Lord our God is one
| Lord (Deut, 6: 4).
There is none
12 : 32).
They should know thee the only true
God {John 17 a
To us there is one God, the Father 1
Cor. 5:06.
iL The Supreme Love:
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart (30).
Love the Lord thy God with all thine
heart (Deut. 6 : 5).
other but he [Mark
thee, but,
10 : 12).
Love the Lord....with all thy heart,
...soul,....mind (Matt. 22 : 37).
...10 love him? (Deut.
God (2 Tim. 3: 4).
111. Love to Man:
self (31),
Thou shalt love thy neighbour
self (Lev. 19: 1B).
Love worketh no ill to his neigl
(Rom. 13 :10),
The whole law is fulfilled in one Wor
.... Love thy neighbor (Gal. 5 : 14).
The royal law, .... Love thy neighbour
(Jas, 2:8)
“Ie Lord our God, the Lord isone.”
{1} Une God; (2) Qur God." —{1}
God's titles; (2) God's oneness; (3)
God's worshippers,
8 «With all thy heart,....soul,....
mind, ....strength.” (1) The su-
preme object of love; (2) The com-
prehensive sweep of love; (3) The
imperative need of love.
3. ““T'hou shalt love thy neighbour as
thyself.” (1) The duty of love to
others; (2) The measure of love to
others; (3) The manifestations of
love to others,
{iL INFORMATION APPROV ED,
1. For its Source:
Of a truth, Master, thou hast well
said (32).
The giveth the word (Psa. 68 : 11).
Thou art a teacher come from God
John 3 : 2). “
1f 1 had not. . . .spoken unto them, they
had not had sin (John 15 : 22).
God, . .. hath. .. .spoken unto us in his
sdh (Heb. 1: 1,2).
iL For its Substance.
To love him....is much more than
all... .sacrifices (33).
The law of the Lord is perfect (Psa.
10:7).
The “ of the Lord are right (Psa,
Te Se they which bear witness of
mo (John 5 : 89).
Thy word is truth (John 17 ¢ 17),
the kingdom of
as thy-
bout
3,
Thou art not far from
Bad (UN
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His delight is in the law of the
(Pea, 1:2).
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet (Pea,
119 : 105),
The sacred writings. . . .are able to make
thee wise (2 Tim. 3: 13),
Every scripture inspired of God is alse
profitable (2 Tim, 3 : 16).
1. (*Master, thou hast well said.” (1)
The Master's sayings; (2) The
scholar’s applause, —(1) The Teach-
er. (2) The pupil; (3) The lessons.
9. Much more than all whole burnt
offerings and sacrifices.” (1) Raeri-
ficial requirements instituted; (2
Sacrificial requirements transcend
ed,
“Thou art not far from the king
dom of God.” Nearness to God's
kingdom: (1) 1ts bless=dness; (2) 1s
evidences,
Lord
2
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rem———
LESSON BIBLE READING.
THE TWOFOLD LOVE,
Love to God:
Comman
ded
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS.
The parable of the wicked husband.
men was followed unmediately by an-
other, which is reported by Matthew
only (Matt, 22 : 1-14); namely, that of
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must be carefully distinguished from a
in Perea (Luke
14 : 16-24).
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narrate two
Pharisees and Herodians
12 : 13-17; Luke
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How to Carve.
It is considered an accomplishment
w to carve well
It is not proper
stand in carving. The carving knife
should be sharp and thin.
To carve fowls—which should always
xd with the breast uppermost—
to
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off the wings and legs without turning
the fowl: then cut out the “merry
| thought,” cut slices from the breast,
take the collar bone, cut off the
side pleces, and then cut 1 CATrCass in
two. Divide the joints in the leg of a
{ turkey.
In carving a sirloin, cut thin slices
| from the side next to you, (it must be
put on the dish with the tenderloin un-
derpeath.) then turn it, and cut from
| the tenderloin. Help the guests to both
| Kinds,
In carving a leg of mutton, or a ham,
| begin by cutting across the middle 0
the bone. Cut a longue ACross, and
not lengthwise, and help from the mid-
dle part.
In carving a pig, it is customary to
| divide it and take off the bead before it
comes to the table, as to many persons
the head is revolting. Cut off the
| limbs and divide the ribs.
| To carve a fillit of veal, begin at the
| top, and help to the filling with each
| glice. In a breast of veal, separate the
| breast and brisket, and then cut them
| up, asking which part is preferred.
| ror a saddle of venison, cut from the
i tail toward the other end, or other side,
| in thin slices. Warm plates are very
necessary with venison and mulion,
and in winter are desirable for all
| meats,
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Nort Lear Year.—The year of our
| Lord nineteen hundred will not be
| counted among leap-years, The year is
| three hundred and sixy-five days five
hours and forty-nine minutes long;
eleven minutes are taken every year to
| make the year three hundred and sixty-
| five and a quarter days long, and every
| fourth year we have an extra day.
| This was Julius Ciesar’s arrangement.
And where do these eleven minutes
come from? They come from the
future, and are paid by omitting leap
year every hundred years. But if leap
year is omitted regularly every hun-
dredth year, in the course of four hun-
dred years it is found that the eleven
minutes taken each year well not only
have been paid back, but that a whole
day will have been given up.
Gregory XIII, who improved on
Caesar's calendar in 1582, decreed that
every centurial vear divisible b] Jous
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