REV. DR. TALMAGE.
Sermon.
Sunjoct: “The Baptism of Fire,"
Text: “None of these things move me."
Acts xx, 24,
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D,
preached at the Brooklyn Academy of Mu.
sie, his first sermon after the destruction of
the Brooklyn Tabernacle by fire. His au-
dience was of vast size, and public interest
was extraordinary. The opening hymn was:
God moves In a mysterious way
His wonders to perform.
He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm
Dr, Talmage's subject was “The Baptism
of Mire,” sud he said:
jut, Paul, have you not enough affliction
to move you! Are you not an exile from
your native land? With the most genial and
free for missionary journeys, given yourself
to celibacy? Have you not turned away
from the magnificent worldly successes that
would have crowned your illustrious genius?
Have vou not endured the sharp and stinging
neuralgiasg, like a thorn in the flesh? Have
you not bean mobbed on the land, and ship-
wrecked on the sea: the sanhedriol against
you, the Roman Government against you, all
the world and all hell against you?
“What of that? says Paul
these things wove me!’ It was not because
he was a bard nature. Gentlest woman was
never more easily dissoived into tears. He
could not even bear to see anybody ery, for
in the midst of his sermon when he saw some
one weeping her sobs aloud, “What mean ye
to weep and to break mine heart? for Iam
ready not to be bound only, but also to die at
Jiusalemn for the name of ord Jesus.”
hat then did Paul mean when he said,
“None of these things move me?’ He meant,
“1 will not be diverted from the work to
which I have been called by any and all the
adversities and calamities.”
1 think this morning [express not only my
own feelings but that of every man, woman
and little child belonging to the Brooklyn
Tabernacle or that was converted there or
comforted there, or blessed there, when I look
toward the blackened ruins of the dear and
consecrated spot and with an aroused faith
in a loving God, cry out:
things move me.’
When I say that, I do not meau that we
have no feeling about it. Instead of stand-
ing here to-day in this brilliant auditorium,
it would be more consonant with my fleelings
to sit down among the ruins and weep at the
words of David: “If I forget thee, O Jerusa-
lem, lot my right hand forget her cunning.”
Why, let me say to the strangers here to-day
in explanation of the deep emotion of my
flock, we had there in that building sixteen
years of religious revival. I believe that a
hundred thousand souls were born there
They came from all parts of the earth and
we shall never see them again until the books
are opened. Why, sirs! our children were
there baptized, and at those altars our young
men and maidens took the marriage vow,
and out of those gates we carried our dead
When from the roof of my house last Sun-
day morning at 3 o'clock I saw our church in
flames, | said: “That is the last of the build-
ing from which we buried our De Witt on
that cold December day when it seemed
all Brooklyn wept with my household’
And it was just as hard for you to
give up your loved ones as for us to give
up ours, Why, like the beautiful vines
that still cover some of the fallen walls
our affections are clambering all
over the ruins, and I could kiss the
ashes that mark the place where it
once stood. Why, now that I think of
it, 1 cannot think of it as an inanimate
le, but as a soul, a mighty soul an
indestructible soul. I am sure that majestic
organ had a soul, for we have often heard it
speak and sing and shout and wail, and when
the soul of that organ entered heaven I think
Handel, and Haydn, and Mozart, and Men
delssohn, and Beethoven were at the gates to
welcome it. So I do not use the words of my
taxt in a heartless way, but in the sense that
we must not and will not be diverted from
our work by the appalling disasters which
have befallen us. Wo will not turn aside one
inch from our determination to do all we can
for the present and everlasting happiness of
all the people whom we may be able to meet
“None of these things move me. None of
these things move you.”
When 1 looked out through the dismal rain
from the roof of my house and saw the
church crumbling brick by brick and timber
by timber, I said to myself: '‘Does this mean
that my work in Brooklyn is ended’ Does
this terminate my association with this city,
where | have been more than twenty years
glad in all its prosperities, and sad in all its
misfortunes™ And a still small voice came
to me, a voioo that is no longer still or small
but most emphatic and commanding, through
¢ of hand, and newspaper column, snd
and letter, and contributions say-
mg “Go forward”
have made and I now make appeal to all
Christendom to help us. Wa want all Chris-
tendom to help, and I will acknowledge the
receipt of every contribution, great or small,
with my own band. We want to build
larger and better. We want it a national
church, in which people of all creeds and all
uations may find a home. The contributions
dy sept in make a small hearted church
vrever impossible. Would not I be a sorry
gpectacle for angels and men if, in a church
built by Israslites and Catholics, as well as
all the styles of people commonly called evan-
ical, 1 should, instead of the sig! the
ord God Almighty, raise a flutterin of
small sectarianism? If we had three hundred
thousand dollars we would put them all in
one great monument to the mercy of God,
People ask on all sides about what we shall
bal I answer, it all depends on the contri-
butions sent in from here and from the ends
of the earth. I say now to all the Baptists,
that we shall havein it a ba
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ore at our communion table por-
I say to the Catholics
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probably on the tower. say tot etho-
dists, we mean to sing there like the voices
of mighty thunderings. [say to all denomi-
nations, we mean to pr a religion as
wide as heaven and ns good as 4
have said we had A total loss. But there was
® that fact as typical that we are to be
in communion with sll Christendom. I be
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our Father and best Friend, and this thought
gives us confidence.
We are also reinforced by the increased
consolation that comes from fraternity of
sorrow. The people who, during the last six-
toot yours, sat on the other side of the aisle,
whose faces were familiar to you, but to
whom you had never spoken—you greeted
them this week with smiles and tears as you
wld: Well, the old place is gone.” ou
did not want to seam to ery, and so you swept
tho sleave near the corner of the eye, and
pretonded it was the sharp wind nade
{ your eyes weak. Ah! there was noth
{ing the matter with your eyes; it
| was your soul bubbling over.
| it is impossible to sit for years around the
| same church fireside and not have sympa
| thies in common, Homebow you feel that
| you would like those people on the other side
of the aisle, about whom you know but little,
{ prospered and pardoned and blessed and
| saved. You fool as if you were in the same
| boat, and you want to glide up the same har
| bor and want to disembark at the same
wharf,
conglome
last Sabbaii's fire
and finer natures, into one. It scens as if
{ we all had our hands on a wire connscted
| with an eleciric battery. and when this
whole circle, and we all felt the shock
oldest man and the youngest child
hands in this misfortune. Grandfather said:
“1 expected from those altars to be buried.”
and one of the children last Sabbath cried:
“Grandpa, that place was next to our own
hivuse y or, we are supported and
fldent in this timo by the cross of Christ
That is used to the fire
Con.
above, and the flames of hell dashed
against it from beneath
| ful, tender, blessad cross still stands. On it
down all ous
to ma
Vithin sigist
he has it hard?
bol, who can be
sins;
the rest olf om
of such a sacrifice, who can feel
In the sight of such a sym.
discouraged, waver great
the darkness that may come « 1 upon him?
Jesus lives! The loving, patient, sympathiz-
ing, mighty Jesus! It shall not be told on
earth. or in hell, or in heaven, that three He
brew children had the Bon God beside
them in the fire, and that a whole church was
forsaken by the Lord when they
through a furnace about two hundred feet
wide,
O Lord Jesus! shall take out of Thy
hand the flowers and the fruits and the
brightoess and the joys, and then turn away
because Thou dost give us one cup of bitter-
ness to drink? Oh, no, Jesus! we will drink
it dry. But how it is changed! Blessed Jo
sus, what hax Thou put into the cup to
sweeten it? Why, it has become the wine of
veaven, and our souls grow str I come
yw, and place both of my feet
into the blackensd ashes of our
church, and 1 cry out with an exhilaration
that I never felt since the day of my soul's
emancipation, ‘Victory! victory! through
our Lord Jesus Christ!”
Your harps, ve trembling saints,
Down from ihe willows take,
Loud to the pralse of Jove divine
Pid every string awake
We are also re-enforced by the
olicity that I have already referred to
are In the Academy today, not because
we have mo other place to go Last Sab
bath morning at § o'clock we had but one
church; now we have about thirty, all
ur disposal. Their pastors and their
trusteds say: “You may take our main
yt, pilgrimage
we
Cath-
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rooms, you may take our church pariors you
may baptize iu our beptisteriés and «it on
our ansions seats” Oh! if there be any
larger hearted ministers or larger hearted
where they are, that I may go and see them
before I die il
Pie keep wondering when it is coming. It
has come. The lion and the lamb lie down
together, andl the tiger eats straw like an ox
I should lke to have seen two of the
old time bigots, with their swords, fight
ing through that great fire on Scher.
merhorn street last Sablath I am
sure the swords would have melted, and they
who wielded them have learned war no more
I can never say a word against any other de
pomination of Christisnse. 1 thank God I
ever have been tempted to do it. 1 cannot
be a sectarian. I have been told |
be. and I have tried to be, but 1 have not
enough material in me to
structure. Every time I got the thing most
done, there comes a fire, or something else,
and all is gone. The angels of God =b
on this air, ‘Glory to God in the highest,
and on sarth peace, good will toward men.”
1 do not know but [ see on the horizon the
firsi gleam of the morning which shall unite
all denominations in ons organisation, dis
tinguished only by the locality as in apostolic
| times. It was then the Church of Thyatira,
| and the Church of Thoesslonica, and the
Church of Antioch, and the Chureh of Laodi-
een. So I do not know but that in the future
history, and not {ar off either, it may be sim-
ply a distinetion of locality, and not of creed,
as the Church of New York, the Church of
Brooklyn, the Church of Boston, the Church
America
| My dear brethren, we cannot afford to be
severely divided. Standing in front of the
great
want to put on the whols armor of God and
march down in solid column, shoulder to
shoulder ! one commander ! one triumph!
The trumpet gives a martial strain
© larael’ gird thee from Use Nght]
Arise, the combat 16 malin iain;
Arise, and put thy foes to Sight
| We also feel reinforced by the thought
| that we are on the way to a heaven that can
| never burn down.
| other cities—but [ am glad to know that the
| New Jerusalem is fireproof. There will be
| no engines rushing through those streets;
| thers will be no temples consumed in that
city Poming to the doors of that Church,
we will find open, resonent with songs,
and not cries of fire.
and sister! if this short lane of life
comes up so soon to that blessed place, what
is the use of our wo ? I have felt a
many times this last week like Father
aylor, the sailor preacher. He
| long sentence while he was preaching one
| day, and lost himself, and 1 not find his
way oat of the sentence. He stopped and
said: ‘Brethren, I have lost the nominative
of this sentence, and hinge are fonerally
mixed up, but 1 am bound for the kingdom
amy
nd during this last week, when I saw the
rushing to and fro and the excitement, I said
to myself: “I do not know just where we
shall start again but I am bound for the
¥ingdom anyhow.” [ do not want to
§ yet 1 want to be pastor of this
until I am about eighty nine Joana age,
bat I have sometimes thought that there are
such glories ahead that I may be persuaded
# little sarlior—for instance, at Sghty
think that, it we
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bave #et that light there in the window.” No:
guess again, Jesus set it there; and Hoe
will keep it burning until the
day we put our fluger on the
latch of the door and go In to be at
home forever. Oh! when my sight gets black
in death, put on my eyelids that sweet oint-
ment. When in the last weariness I cannot
take another step, {on help me put my foot
on that doorsill,. When my ear pod no
more the voices of wife and chiid, let me go
right in, to have my deafness cured by the
ie anthems of the freo,
Hedven never burns down! The fires of
the last day, that are already kindled in the
fires will after a while break through the
crust, and the plains, and the mountains and
the seas will be consumed, and the flames
will fling their long arms into the skies; but
all the terrors of a burning world will do no
more harm to that heavenly temple than the
fires of the setting sun which kindle up the
Oh, blessed land! But 1 do not want 0 go
there until I ses the Brooklyn Tabernacle re-
built. You say, “Will it be?” You might
as well ask me if the sun will rise to-morrow
its head,
lands on You and I may not do
two legs
nor on a thousand legs
How did the Israelites got through the Red
I suppose somebody may have come
and said There is no need of trying; you
will get your feet wet, you will spoil your
Jothes: vou will drown yourselves, Who
How
Did they
K to the right?
the loft? No
the strength «
did
go
they
back?
get
No
Did
wont
through
Did they
No they go to
They forward in
of the Lord Almighty; and that
“0
Hea,
“lt
By going forward. But
we should build a large:
RYE SOE One
church, would
» fill it” Why,
out for the last
ur voloe t
I have been wearing myself
sixtosn years in tr gto
Give me room wh i
of Christ and the
keep my voics in.
can preach the glories
grandsurs of heaven
Forward! We have to march on, breaking
down all bridges behind us, making
impossible. Thr away your kn
impedes your march. Keep your sword arm
free. Strike for rist and | kingdom
while you may {0 people ever had a better
mission than you are sent on Prove your-
retreat
spsack if it
selves worthy i 1 not fit wu
be your leader, set me aside
on earth that i
& country parsonage amidst the
Bat I am not afraid to lead
a dollars; they are at your
wd physical health; it is
Ita sta. 1 have enthusiasm
[ will not keep it back from your
have some faith in God, and 1
toward the rebuilding of our
} then.
1 will Is
Come on, yo aged men, n
Give us onem
s¢ vet panenav aver
lift before you go
re
harness all your bu
is Ww = i 3 1
crate their porsuasiveness and persistence
this causs, and they wil
dictions for their dving b
rewards: and if Satan really
Tabarnacie down, as som
he will find it the poorest
w
took
Good-by, old Tabernacle i
to my hips and throw
church In the last
ment the so
there offered
Good-by, old
a kiss
day, may we be able
and the sermons there preached
HAR where
falt the Gospel peace, and heard the
last message ers they flad away into the skies
Good-by, Brookivn Tabernacle of 1873!
walcomne our new chur i t as plain
as though it
gatos wider, ¥
your ingather:
of the ashes an
furst on our
resurrection’ By vour a 'tars m
pared for the hour when the fire
SYery mar work of what sort it ©»
some, Brooklyn Taberna cie of 1500
others
wae
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soul
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——
THINGS WORTH KNOWING,
Banana Culture,
The ¢ dible banan
Andaman
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4 ¢
the
may be, is universally grown from
stickers Itivation in the West
Indies has vastly FCT eas d daring the
past fifteen years, owing to the demands
of the United States for
wholesome and luscious fruit.
400 or 500 trees are planted to the acre,
and the plantations are called “banana
walks.”
ia
cane-fisld, where the ground was most
easily prepared for the new crop.
experience and competition have
anting, and the best place for a
Fmana alk is now considered a valley
The
nd the expense
of bananas, delivered at the sea cost,
need have cost its owner no more than
four or five cents, while it may be sold
for four times as much. There are
risks attending banana cultivation,
however, for the thievish negroes often
As soon as
sun in its youth; and when the bananas
cease to be profitable, which is at the
end of three or four years, almon trees
or other frui} trees are often set in their
places, while a new “‘walk” is laid out
elsewhere.
Women's Life Insurance.
1 wonder how many people know that
it is only within a short time, compara-
tively speaking, that it has been pos-
sible for any woman to have her life
insured. And even now there are many
companies who refuse to insure them,
while other companies charge them a
much higher roentage than they
charge men. This seems strange, in
view of the fact that the average age of
women is longer than that of men.
Statistics have proved this, so there can
be no doubt of it. Men run more risks
too than women. They are constantly
going about on trains, travelling over
the country, so that they are liable to
all kinds of accidents, while a woman
lives more quietly, runs fewer risks,
and, in spite of her more delicate or
ganization, lives longer. There is in
this city a life insurance company com-
posed entirely of women, which was or-
ganized by women, for women, in order
that they might obtain the same bene-
fits that men do. Most women who
work have some one dent npon
them, and surely they feel the need of
insuring their lives quite as much as
men do. An insurance agent says it is
quite a common th for
women to have their lives insured. He
attributes it to their increasing intelli-
qengm
Household Art.
WRITTEN BY MARGARET PERCY,
There is very little excuse in these
days for bare and cheerless roomsin the
homes of those who are above the con-
dition of penury and wont. We shonld
make our homes as attractive as our
means will reasonably permit. The
refining influence of an attractive home
in beyond estimating. If more atten-
tion was paid to this matter, there would
be less of desire on the part of the boys
and girls in many families to seek en-
joymentand recreation away from home.
There is an innate sense of the beauti-
ful in the human breast, The humblest
and even the most barbarian classes of
mankind, are not insensible to the charm
which attaches to beautiful objects
Some ornamentation is needed to give
an air of cosiness and cheeriness such
as is seen and felt ina true home.
Much may be done with simple means,
and that, which there may be no money
to buy, the hands of love can make,
A bracket, however pretty, 14 render
ed much prettier by a dainty scarf
One may be made from a square
China or pongee silk or from a silk
handkerchief of a pretty pattern. Bew
small silk tassels or balls across
erent lengths
a bow of ribbon, and drape the scarf
over one corner of your bracket. This
A very d id pretty cov
ushion consists of a small
silk, which is first
sroidered witha desig
i gn of primroses
d buttercups, 3 in
of soft, creamy pink
Ty
i
linen erash which
neLuarter of
ply and Kn
end,
each
Gost AS UC As «
and vet you will
ne vervh
}
ba abl
i at
A handsome box for holding OOdie
is made thus, Take a round
as gentlemen's collars come in,
blue
line with silk of a pale yellow tint,
placing a layer of perfumed cotton un-
lining, Cover and line
A box for
cuffs to match may be made in the same
way, sclecting 8 somewhat deeper box
than is nsed for the collars
A novel and pretty catchall may be
made of celluloid; cut a piece twelve
inches square and line with pale pink
surah silk. Now turn three corners to-
edges together with pink silk cord
through holes pierced for the purpose.
som or a head of pink clover,
suspending the eatchall.
A very pretty ornament is made of
pine cones,
ent lengths,
with a bow of broad ribbon making one
long loop on which sew a thermometer.
Hang in the hall.
A palette, neatly covered with plush
or velvet and hung to the wall with
large bows of ribbon, is useful for dis-
playing small photos and little orna-
ments,
A handsome sofa cushion made of
eretonne with a large flowered design.
Outline the largest leaves and flowers
with gola tinsel cord, and work the
centers in French knots
A very useful article is a receptacle
for soiled clothes. One may be made
trom a common wooden pail, with a
cover. Paint it white, blue or any
color desired, and gild the ears, hoops
and bail.
Soap-Bubbles That Will Last.
To make soap-bubbles that will last
for several hours is easy enongh if the
following liquid be used:
Dissolve one pant by woight of Mar-
seilles soap, cnt into thin slices, in fort
parts of distilled water, and filter. Call
the filtered liquid A, and mix two
of pure glycerine with one part of the
solution A, in a temperature of sixty-
six” Fahr., and, after shaking them to-
gether long and violently, leave them
to rest for some days. A clear liquid
will settle, with a turbid one above.
The lower to be sucked out from be-
neath the upper with a siphon, taking
the utmost oare not to carry down aly
of the latter to mix with the clear flu
¢ A bubble blown wh his
or several even
Or the mixed liquid, after
twenty-four hours, may be filtered.
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
BumpAy NOVEMBER 3, 1333,
David's Rebellious Son.
© Sam. 15: 1-12. Memory verses, 4, 6.3
LESB( IN PLAN.
Toric or THE QUARTER ;
and Adversily.
Prosperity
Gores Text vor Tue Quarter: As
long as he sought the Lord, God made
him to prosper.—2 Chron, 26: b.
T.essox Toric The DBasenecss of
Filial Ingratitude.
1. ft Exalt@ Self, vs
1.8
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LEssos OUTLINE: Z * Fosters‘ Deception,
Parents,
Gorpes Text: Honor thy father and
thy mother: that thy days may Le long
Exod. 20 : 12.
Dany Home READINGS |
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of filial ingratitude,
T.—2 Sam. 14 }-20,
Absalom in exile,
Ww. 14
for Absalom
T..2 Sam. 15 : 1B
flicht before Absalom
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28am. 15: 1-12
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1 DOWRY
1. IT POSTERS DECEPTION.
i. A Hypocoritical Request
Let and pay my wi
Hebron (7 :
He ATOR aid 1 (3 Hebe n
Absalom sen 2 Sam
me go
yw in
Bat
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15; 9,
10
¥ me, vi hy
Hebron (2 Sam. 15
Why tempt
(Matt, 22
By their and fair speech
beguile (Rom. 16: 18)
11. A Spurious Piety:
Then 1 will serve the Lord (8).
Absalom sent for Aluthopel
offered the sacrilices
With their mouth and with their
do honour me { 29: 13).
With their mouth they shew much love
(Ezek. 35: 3
¥ pocrites?
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smooth
they
(2 Sam. 19
ravening wolves { Matt. 7: 15).
111. A Deceived Father:
The king said unto him, Go in peace
s0 he blessed
him (Gen. 27: 23)
Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces
(Gen 87: 38).
David said Lot us flee; for else none
of us shail escape (2 Sam 15: 14).
Deliver my soul, O Lord from a de-
1. “I pray thee, let me go and pay my
vow.” (1) Absalom's appeal; (2)
Absalom’s intent.—(1) The treach-
erous son; (2) The indulgent father;
(3) The hypocritical pretext.
9 “Then I will serve the Lord.” (1)
The service promised; (2) The eon-
dition fixed.—(1) Absalom’s prop-
osition; (2) Jehovah's clemency; (3)
Absalom’s deceit.
8 “Go in peace.”
confidence; (2) The father's assent;
(8) The father’s betrayal.
111. IT DISHONORS PARENTS.
1. Seizing His Father's Throne:
Ye shall say, Absalom is king in Heb-
ron (10).
The Lord forbid .. seeing be is the
Lorn’s annointed (1 Sam. 24: 6).
Hushai said unto Absalom, God save the
king (2 Sam. 16: 16).
Touch not mine annointed ones (1
Chron. 16: 22).
Honour the king (1 Pet, 2: 17).
11. Misleading His Father's Subjects:
With Absalom went two hundred men
11).
hon shalt not follow a multitude to do
ovil (Exod. 23: 2).
1f sinners entice thee, consent thou not
(Prov. 1: 10) :
Walk not in the way of evil men (Prov.
4: 14).
1f the ind guide the bli both shall
fall into a pit (Matt. 15: 14).
ii. Perverting Hig Rather's Counay~
Absalom sent for Ahithophel....
pt {TT !
Sos oa se Set AN Tf
Ahithophel 1s smong the conspirators
with Absalom (2 Bam. 15; 81).
O Lord... .turn the counsel of Ahitho-
phel into foolishness (28am. 15: 31).
Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not
followed (2 Sam. 17: 25).
Mine own familiar friend
up his heel { Pana. 41; 93,
1. “Absalom is king of Hebron.” (1)
The newly-chosen capital; (2) The
newly-proclaimed king; The
newly-developed tresson.-A wicked
son: (2) A scheming politician;
an ungodly usurper; (4) A doomed
man,
2. “They were invited, and went in
their simplicity.” (1) Allurement;
(2) Bimplieity; (3) Transgression
a. “The conspiracy Whe strong. {1
Against the Lord's sunointed: (2)
For the base usurper; (3) With the
pliant crowd.
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OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
The Way to Pour Tea.
There 3s to be learned about
pouring tea and coffee than most peo-
ple are willing to believe. If those de-
made at the table, which is
far the best way, they require experi
ence, judgment and exactness. If they
are brought on the table ready made, it
still requires judgment so to apportion
them that they shall prove suflicient in
quantity for the family, and that the
older members shall have the stronger
cups. Often persons pour out tea, who,
not being at all aware that the
grows stronger as they proceed, bestow
the poorest cup upon the greatest
stranger, and give the stronger to a
very young member of the family, who
wonld be better without any. Where
several cups of equal strength are want.
ed, you shonld pour a little into each,
and then go back, inverting the order
as you fill them, and the strength will
be apportioned properly.
An earthen pot is by far the best for
brewing: the tea may then be poured in-
ton silver pot, if desired. Heat the
pot and pour the water out before put-
ting in the tea required, filling up at
once with boiling water; set from the
more
coctions are
ten
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The Feast of Roses.
It is almost impossible fitly to de-
scribe the beauty and splendor of the
Princess of Wales appearance at the
Feast of Roses in Regent's Park. Her
victorin was covered, body, wheels,
spokes, and tires, with yellow roses and
yellow Marguerites. eo whip was a
wand of yellow, and yellow Marguer-
ites outlined every Arapof the harness,
Both footman and man wore buft
liveries with yellow aster cockades in
their hats. Princess's dress was ot
fawn-colored corded silk, bordered with
velvet of n and gold, and ber bon.
net was of golden gauge with a decors
tion of suricula bloom. Behind her was
a tambril of York and Lancaster roses,
whieh 1n turn was followed by a go-cart
of pink carnations drawn by two golden
op batdes, and a rose boat on
wheels with daisy oars manhed Dy Yny
sailors with blouses covered with rag.
ged sailor blossoms.
Turner is no more n vie
tude in this Whig og Th to
flatter another,