IR. TALMAGES SERMON,
The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday
Sermon.
Suahject ; “Power of Testimony"
TexT: “We are witnesses "Acts iil, 15.
In the days of G Stephenson, the
perfector of tho locomotive i the sol.
entists pro conclusively that a railway
train could never be driven by steam power
sucocessiuily and without peril; but the
yushing express trains from Liverpool to
Edinburgh and from Edinburgh to London,
have made all the nations witnesses of the
splendid achievement. Machinists and
navigators proved conclusively that a
steamer could never cross the Atlantic
Ocean: but no sooner had they successfully
proved the impossibility of such an under.
taking than the work was done, and the pas-
sangers on the Cunard and the Inman and
the National and the White Star lines are
‘witnesses. There went up a guffaw of wise
Isughter at Professor Morse's propostiiun to
inake the lightning of heaven errand
boy, and it was proved conclusively that the
thing could never be done; but now all the
news of the wide world, by Associated Press
ps in your hands every morning and night,
as made all nations witnesses,
So in the time of Christ it was
conclusively that it was impossible for Him to
wise from the dead. It was shown logically
that when a man was dead he was dead, and
the heart and ths liver and the | having
roved
fhg™ Or the little child came home from
school with the hot fever that stoppel not
for tha agonized prayer or for the skillful
physician, and the little child was taken. Or
the babe was lifted out of your arms by some
quick epidemic, and you stood wonderin
why God ever gave you that child at all,
so soon He was to take it way, And yet
you are not repining, you are not fretful, you
are not fighting against God.
What enabled you to stand all the
trial? Oh” you say, ‘I took the medicine
that God gave my sick soul. In my dis
tress I threw m at the feet of a sym-
Juthising God; and when 1 was too weak
pray, or to look up, He breathed into me
a peace that I think must be the foretaste
of that heaven where thero is neither a tear,
nor a farewell, nor a grave” Come, all ye
who have been out to the ve to weep
there—coms, all ye comfo souls, get up
off your knees. Is there no power in this
Gospel to soothe the heart?! Is there no
power in this religion to quiet the worst
paroxysm of grief? There cones up an an-
swer from comforted widowhood, and
and ohildlessness, saying: “Ay,
Ry. we are witnesses!"
{ When a man has trouble the world comes
fn and says: “Now get your mind off this;
out and breathe the fresh air; plunge
soper into business.” What poor advice!
Get your mind off. it! When everything is
upturned with the bereavement and every-
thing reminds you of what you have lost.
Get yous mind off it! They might as well
advise you to stop thinking. You cannot
stop thinking, and you cannot stop thinking
in that direction. Taks a walk in the fresh
alr! Why, slong that very street or that
very road she once accompanied you.
Out of that grass plat she plucked flowers
or into that show window she looked, fas-
would be ond all power of friction |
or arousal. They showed it to be an absolute |
absurdity that the dead Christ should ever
wet up alive; but no sooner had the oved |
this than the dead Christ arose, bo fy dis- |
<iples beheld Him, heard His wvolce and |
kod with Him, and they took the witness |
stand to prove that to true which the |
wiseacres of the day had proved to be im- |
possible; the record of the ex fence and of
the testimony is in tho text: “Him hath God
raised from the dead, whereof we are wit. |
messes,” i
Now let me play the skeptic for a moment. |
*“There is no God,” says the skeptic, ‘for |
I have never seen Him with my physical
eyesight. Your Bible is a pack of sentra |
dictions, There never wasa miracle. Laz |
arus was not raised from the dead, and wa- |
Ler was never turned into wine. four re- |
tigion is an imposition on the credulity of the
mages.” Thereis an aged man moving over
Jade as though he would like to respond,
dere are hundreds of people with faces a
tittle flushed at theses announcements, and
all through this assembly thers is a sup-
pressed fealing which would like to speak |
out in behalf of the truth of our glorious i
Christianity, as in the days of the text, cry. |
tag out, “Weare witnesses ™
he fact is that if this world is ever
brought to God it will not be through argu-
ment, but through testimony. You might
cover the whole earth with apologies for
Christianity and learnod treatises in defense
of religion—you would not converta soul.
Lectures on the harmony between science
and religion are beautiful mental discipline,
but have never saved a souland never will
save a soul. Puta man of the world anda
of the church against each other and the
man of the world will in all probability get
the triumph. There are a thousand
things in our religion that seem illogle |
. to the world and always wil |
seem illogical. Our weapon in this conflict
is faith, nos logic; faith, not metaphysics,
faith, not profundity; faith, not scholastic
sxplorstion. But then in order to have faith
we must have testimony, and if five hundred
men, or one thousand men, or five handraed
thousand men, or five million men get upand
tell me that they have feit the religion of
Jesus Christ 8 joy, a comfort, a help, an as
piration, I am bound as a fair minded man to
t their testimony. I want just now to
put before you three pre tioxs, the truth
of which I think this audience will atest
with overwhelming unanimity.
The first proposition is: We are witnesses
that the religion of Christ is able to con- |
vert a soul. The Gospel may have had a |
hard time to conquer us, we may have
fought it back, but we wers vanquished.
You say conversion is only an imaginary |
thing. We know better, “We are wit- |
messes.” There never was so great a change |
fn our heart and life on any other subject |
as on this. People laughed at the mission-
aries in ar because they preached
ten without ons convert; but there
are &.000 converts in Madagascar today.
P laughed at Dr. Adomram Judson,
the Baptist missio . because he kept ou
preaching in Bur five years without a
single convert: but there are 20,000 Baptists
in Burmah today. People laughed at Dr.
Morrison, in China, for preaching there
@aven years without a single conversion; but
there are 25,000 Christians in China to-day.
People lau at the missionaries for
preaching at Tahiti fifteen years without a
single conversion, and at the missionaries for
preaching in Bengal seventeen Jeon without
= single conversion; yet in all those lands
But why go so far to find evidence of the
Bospel's power to save a soul? “We are |
oritnesses. We were so proud shat no |
man could bave humbled us; we were
ward that no earthly power could have
melted us; angels of God were all around
about us; could not overcome us. But
sue day, per at a Methodist anxious
sent, or at a Presbyterian catechetical lec-
Sure, or at a burial or on horseback a
power ssizad us, and made us get down, and
wnade us Sreutbile and ads wi kneel, and
anade us ory for mercy, and we tried to
wrench ourselves away trom the , but
we could not. It flung os flat, when we |
“AIOSe We Were as m changed as Gourgis, !
the heathen, who went intos prayer ng |
“with a dagger and a to distarb the meet- |
dng and destroy it, the next day was |
found er¥ing: “Oh, my great sins! Ob, my
i t viour™
grea for eleven
preached the Gospel of Christ to his fellow,
mountain the last words qn
his dying
lips being * free
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ceased to rigid boy their offices oe limbs
Grace” Oh, it was
cinated, saying: “Coms, see the pictures.”
Go deeper into business’ Why, she was
iated with all your business ambition,’
and since she has gons you have no ambition
left,
Oh, thisis a clumsy world when ft tries to
comfort a broken heart. I can build a Cor
lear's engine, I can paint a Raphael's “Ma.
donna,” I can play a Beethoven's *“‘Eroica
Symphony” as easily as this world can com-
fort a broken heart, And yet you have been
comforted. How wasit Io Did Christ
come to you and say *‘Get your mind off
this; go out and breathe fresh air; plunge
deeper into business’ No. There was a
minute when He cams to you--perhaps in
the watch of the night perbaps in your
place of business, perhaps along the street
—and He breathed something into your soul
that gave peace, rest, infinite quiet, so that
you could take out the photograph of the
departed ons and look into the eyes and face
say: “‘Itisall right;
she is better off; I would not call her back.
Lord, I thank Thee that Thou nass comforted
my poor heart.”
Again, I remark that we are witnesses of
the fact that religion has the power to give
composure in the last moment. I never shall
was led by my father's hsad, and we came to
ouse where the bereavement had
carriages but there was one carriage that es-
pecially attracted my boyish attention,
and it bad black plumes I said:
“What's that? What's that? Why
those black tassels on the top
Christian woman who three days before had
lsparted in triumph; the whole scene made
an impression I never forgot. :
in our sermons and in our lay exhortations
arriet Newell. But I want you
I want to know if you bave
ever seen anything to make you believe that |
the religion of Christ can give composure in, |
the fi hour. Now in the courts attorney,.
Knoxors Ek
say. They demand that the witness musy
ou now: and I want to know,
amination of ow,
ave seen or heard anything
“Oh, yea" you say, “I saw my father and)
mother depart. Thers was a great difference]
By the other, there
afore the one you
In the other cass you
was more tenderness.”
How
very much
“Oh, no,” you say, “no,
remember as though it were yesterday; she
had a kind word for us all, and there wers |
a few mementoes distributed among the
children, and then she told us how kind wa
must be to our father in his lonliness, and |
as calmly as a child in a cradle.” :
What made her so composed? Natural |
ne~vous; when the carriage inclined to the |
side of the road she would ery out; she was |
always rather weakly.” What, then, gave |
Was it because she did not
care much for you, and the pang of parting
“Oh,” you say, “she we. |
ered upon uss wealth of affection; no mother |
ever loved her children more © mother |
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posure in the |
Do not hide it. Be frank and let
“Ow,” you say, “it was because |
she was so good: she made the Lord her por |
last hour?
tian brother die and he triumphed.”
some one slse, “I saw a Christian sister die
and she triumphed” Some one elses will
say, “I saw a Christian deughter dis and she
trinmphed.” Coma, all who have seen
the last moments of a Christian, and give
testimony in this causs on trial. Uncover
Bible from which Way Jake 30 70nd $s
promise presence o
heaven that you will the
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od. Do you not see it trembling with all
tenderness and beaming with all hope? in
the Star of Bethlehem.
, Deep horror then my vitals froze,
| Death struck, I ceased the tide to stem,
© When suddenly a star arose —
It was the tar of Bethlehem,
Oh, hearer, get your eye on it. It is casler
ww for you a becomes a Christiam than it
is to stay away from Christ and heaven,
When Madame Sontag began her musical
bareer she was hissed off the stage at Vienna
by the friends of her rival, Amelia Steinin-
ker, who had already n to decline
through her dissipation. oars passed on,
and one day Madame Sontag, in her glory,
was riding through the streets of Berlin,
when she saw a little child leading a blind
woman, and she sald, “Come here, my little
child, come bere. Who is that Jou are lead-
ing by the hand? And the little child re-
piled, “That's my mother; that's Amelia
Htelninger. Bhe used to bea t singer,
but she lost her voles, and she cried so much
about it that she lost her groups. Hidive
my love to her,” sald Madame Sontag, “and
tall her an old acquaintance will call on her
this afternoon.”
The next week in Berlin a vast assemblage
gathered at a benefit for that poor woman,
sud it was said that Madame Sontag sang
that night as she had never sung fore,
And she took a skilled oculist, who tried in
vain to give eyesight to the Bt blind wo-
man. Until the day of Amelia Bteininger's
jeath Madame Sontag took care of her and
her daughter after her. That was what the
queen of song did for her enemy. But, oh,
near a more thrilling story still. Blind im-
mortal, poor and lost. thou who, when the
world and Christ were rivals for thy heart,
didst hiss thy Lord away-—-Christ comes now
to give thee sight, to give thee a home, to
give thee heaven. With more than aBon-
wh generosity He comes to meet your need.
th more than a Sontag’s music He comes
to plead for thy deliverance,
Some Curlous Criminals. !
In 1386 a judge at Falaise condemned
4 sow to be mutilated and nanged for
eating a child.
In 1389 a horse was solemnly tried be.
fore the magistrate and condemned to
death for having killed a man,
In 1604, during the witch persecu.
tions in New England, a dog exhibited
such strange symptoms of affliction that
he was believed to have been ridden by
a warlock, and he was accordingly
hanged.
#Criminal™ animals frequently ex-
pisted their offenses, like other male-
factors, on the gallows, but subsequently
they were summarily killed without trial
snd their owners maulcted in heavy
damages.
During the fourteenth century oxen
and cows might be legally killed when.
ever taken in the act of marauding, and
asses for a first offense had one ear
cropped; for a second offense the other
ear, and if after this they were asses
enough to commit a third offense their
lives became forfeit to the crown.
In the fifteenth century, cocks were
somewhat credited with the power of
laying accursed eges,from which sprang
winged serpents, Ic 1474, at Bale, a
cock was publicy accused of having laid
ons of those dreadful eggs. He was tried,
sentenced to death and, together with
his egg, was burned by the executioner in
the market place amid a great concourse
of people. — Chicago Herald.
Yoracity of a Pike.
The following story is told by a cor-
respondent of Land and Water: “1
and some friends were fishing in a
small river 1 Hertfordshire, and, sport
being poor, were watching a family of
moor-hens just hatched. One of the
fledgelings, venturing too far out, was
carried down a swift run, but managed
to paddle into an eddy. Nosooner, how-
snap, and the fledgling disappeared in
the jaws of a pike. Later on a second
yin, and very soon afterwad, in
one rescus on our parts, a third
was sacrificed. This was more than we
could stand, and a spinning minnow,
very poorly adapted for pike fishing,
was produced. At the second cast the
lure was taken, and fate, being propi-
tious, the gut escaped the pike's sharp
teeth. Result, a fish of four pounds
only. When landed, the last-taken
chick fell out of the pike’s mouth with
an expiring gasp still in it, and, on the
fish being held head downward and
shaken, the other two made their ap-
pearance.
Sicilian Poverty.
I visited the vineyards at Bronte, in
Sicily, which are 300 acres in extent, and
under a surveyor, were trenching the
ground in one long line. They were a
poor-looking lot, but appeared to use
their implements, which are more like
stick or whip plays pretty freely about
their backs, I believe, and without vigil.
ance they will not work at all. They
come from their villages on Monday
morning and return on Saturday night.
They are lodged, receive three meals, and
about sixteen cents a day. The first two
A Boy's Own Room.
One of the firmest and sweetest of
home ties to a youth is his room. Make
it pleasant and bright. Above all let
him feel that it is his, and that you re-
spect its privacy and sanctity. It is
strange how early this feeling of pride
in a room that he ean call his own will
develop with the least fostering, A ht
tle boy of seven recently had a tiny
snuggery fitted up for bim. His airs
of ownership were something comical.
An inexpensive but pretty set of china
gives him more pleasure than any toy
he has ever possessed, He never leaves
his wash-bowl half full of dirty water,
or his soap out of its dish, and is as
neat and dainty about his toilet ap-
pointments as a girl. A description of
this stand of home manufacture will
show you how simple is this room, which
nevertheless will always be a pleasant,
cheerful spot in the boy's memory when
he is no longer a boy.
A soap box twenty-six inches high
was placed on end and another one,
thirty inches long and twelve inches
pailing. The top was surmounted by a
pad covered with old muslin, and over
this a pretty cover with embroidered
ends was laid. The front and mdes
were draped with a rather full eurtain
of a pretty striped material called Bom-
bay cloth. It cost eight cents a yard
and has pink, blue, and ecru stripes on
a cream ground. Fifty inches above
the top of the stand, and directly in the
middle, was a strip of wood twelve inches
long, fastened firmly to the wall
by means of a cleat; at the end a brass
knob from a curtain pole was screwed
in. Twenty-soven inches above the top
of the stand, on either side and in a di-
ect line with the ends of it, two simi-
lar lengths of wood were fastened to
the wall. These were ends sawn from
a curtain pole too long for its window,
and were also embellished with brass
knobs, A single width of the goods
was thrown over the strip of wood at
either side, as shown in the illustration.
small mirror, whose plain
bow at either end.
and comb,
satin, joined with erazy stitches of yel-
low silk, was made a piece eight inches
jong sud seven wide. This was edged
with & bit of white lace two inches wide
on the ends, closed in thé form of a
long roll, stuffed with batting thickly
sprinkled with sachet powder, tied shut
and suspended by the same from a nail
at the side of his stand where it
same time,
on this stood s handkerchief box of a
ful and commodious withal. Take an
ordinary box, such as letier-paper
comes ip, eight inches long, five wide
and three deep, or, indeed, a box of
any dimensions that you may happen
to have. Line the bottom with a thin
over the ontside of the box; line the
cover in the same way. Haise the cov-
er on the outside by wadding it to re.
semble the top of a pincushion; cover
with plush snd conceal the stitches
row of tinsel braad. The body of the
box outside is to be covered with plush
The
It can be ornamented with a
bow of ribbon on the top. Any scraps
of silk, velvet, plush, and lace can be
combined to make this pretty and use
ful article.
Asa boy grows older, give him a
larger room, if posmble, one in which
he can have a fire. A boy who is sto
diously inclined ean make much bet
ter progress if allowed to study in pri-
vacy than he can with the family about
him. Emerson says the best part of a
college education to a young man is his
room with fire. Don't keep any room
shut up as a “spare room” while your
boy sleeps with his younger brother,
Marriage Customs In India.
Marriage customs and marriage
mantras differ in some respects in dif-
ferent parts of the country. Thus at
the marriage of His Highness the
Maharajah of Mysore, the following
pretty recitation formed a portion of
the ritnal uttered by the bridegroom in
musical Sanscrit:
“The bridegroom replies ‘Well be it,’
and recites the follo wing
“ ‘Who gave her?
To whom did he give Aer?
Y von gave her
To love he gave Aer,
LOVE Was Lue aul,
Love was the taker.
Love! may this be thine,
With love may I enjoy Aer!
Love has pervaded tne ocean.
With love I acoept her!
Love! may this be thine.” "
Soon after this the bride and the
bridegroom proceed one or two steps
forward, and the bride is thus
by the bridegroom: i
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1890,
Taking up the Cross,
LESSON TEXT.
(Luke 14 : 25.35. Memory verses. 27-30.)
LESSON PLAN.
Toric or THE (QUARTER:
Saviour of Men,
Gorpex Texr ron THE
He is alle to save to the
Heb. 7 : 25.
Jesus the
(QUARTER :
uttermost, —
Liessox Toric: Frpounding the Terms
of Discipleship.
{1 Terms of Discipleship,
“
LESSON OUTLINE]
| a Kavor of Discipleship,
{ vs. 3, 85.
Gornoex Texr: Whosoever doth not
bear his eross, and come after me, cans
not be my disciple.—Yuke 14 : 27.
Dairy Home READINGS ©
M.—-Luke 14 : 25.85.
of discipleship.
T.—2 Tim, 8
hand,
—J hn
hand.
T.—John 15:1
world,
F.— Matt.
position,
Ss. - Exod.
evil.
8. —~Dent. 13
work for God.
The
terms
1-12. Perils at
Ww 16 1-16, Perils at
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Wri,
Hated of the
10 ;: 16-39. Braving op-
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32 : 7-29,
Extirpating
1-18, Thorough
LESSON ANALYSIS.
I. TERMS OF DISCIPLESHIP,
I. Hate the Earthly:
If any hateth not
wife, life, he cannot be |
O ve that love the Lord, hate evil Psa,
97 : 104.
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate
thee? (Pea. 133 : 21).
! The fear of the Lord is to
{Prov. =~ 13
1f any man love the world, the love of
the he Father is not in him (1 John
2:15).
| 11,
id
id iy
hate evil
Bear the Cross:
Whosoever doth not
| Cross, cannot be (27).
Let him deny himself, snd take up his
{ cross (Matt, 16 : 24).
| Bimon they compelled to go,
that might bear his cross (Matt. 2
3d.
{ Let him
bear his own
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fake
Lake 9 : 23),
He went out, bearing the cross for him-
{John 19 ;
{ 111. Follow the Lord:
Whosoever doth not
me, cannot be (27).
If the Lord be God, follow him
IR: 21).
| If any man would come after me, let
{ him follow me (Matt. 16 : 24.
| The sheep follow him (John 10 : 4).
up
i wel! 175.
..come after
(Rev. 14 : 4).
titudes.”
attraction; (2) Mankind a circle of
dependence.
2. “If any man cometh unto me, and
hateth not,... he cannot be
disciple.” (1) The sacred hate; (2)
The sure success.
(8) “Whosoever doth not bear his
own oross, and come after me, can-
not be my disciple.” The way to
discipleship; (1) Cross-bearing; (2)
Christ-following.
Ii COST OF DISCIPLESHIP.
{. Counted by the Wise :
Which. .. .doth not first sit down and
count the cost? (28).
If it seem evil... .to serve the Lord,
choose you this day (Josh, 24 : 15).
What profit should we have, if we pray
unto him? (Job 21 : 15).
Prepare thy work;. .. afterwards build
thine house (Prov. 24 : 27).
What things were gain to me, these
have I counted loss (Phil. 8 : 7).
ii. Disregarded by the Foolish :
This man began to build, and was not
able to finish (30).
My people doth not consider (Isa. 1:3).
My people have changed their glory
for that which doth not profit (Jer.
2 : 11 i
They made light of it (Matt. 22 : 5).
When I have a convenient season, 1
will call thee (Acts 24 : 25),
111. Defined by the Lord:
Whosoever. .. .renounceth not all,
.. .cannot be my disciple (33).
He that loseth his life for my sake shall
find it (Matt, 10: 39),
No man... Jooking back, is fit for the
kingdom (Luke 9 : 62).
Sell all that thou hast. . . .and come fol.
low me (Luke 18 : 22),
For whom 1 suffered the loss of all
things (Phil. 3 : 8),
1. **“Which of you. .. doth not first
....o0ount the cost?” (1) Great
undertakings: (2) Commendable
foresight ; (I) Careful considera.
tion.
2. “This man began to build, and was
not able to finish.” Effort without
preparation; (2) Progress without
completion,
8 “Whosoever. . . .renounceth not all
that he hath, he cannot be my dis
ciple.” (1) Discipleship desirable;
(2) Renunciation essential,
111 SAVOR OF DISCIPLESHIP,
1. Disciples as Sait:
Salt therefore is good (34),
Ye Ale the salt of the earth (Matt
: 18).
Balt is good. Have walt tn yourselves
(Mark 9 : 50.
Let be... seasoned with
Col. 4: 8).
fost us
Joe stvour of his knowledge (2 Cor.
II. Hopeless Without Savor:
If oven the malt have lost its savour,
Wherewith shall t be sated, (Matt. § :
k shall be burned,
111. Useless Without Savor:
Men cast it out (35).
It is thenceforth good for nothing (Matt,
5:18).
Apart from me ye can do nothing (John
15 : B).
We are not as the many, corrupting the
word of God (2Cor. 2 : 17).
Holding a form of godliness, but having
denied the power (2 Pim. 8 : 5.
1. “Salt therefore is good.” (1) Salt
as a condiment in domestic use; (2)
Salt us a symbol of Christian lLiv-
ing.
2. “If even the salt have lost its ea-
your, wherewith shall it be sea-
soned?’ (1) A vital loss; (2) A
hopeless case,
8. “He that hath ears to hear, let
him hear.” (1) Capacity to bear;
(2) Obligation to hear.
LESSON BIBLE READING.
BEARING THE CROSS,
Demanded (Matt. 10 : 88 ; Luke 14%
27).
Its accompaniments (Matt.
Mark 8 : 34; 10 : 21; Luke 9
Nlustrated by Simon (Malt.
Mark 15 : 21 ; Luke 23 ; 26).
Hiustrated by the Lord (John '9 : 17).
Preliminary to crucifixion (Phil. 2 : 5 ;
Heb. 12 : 2).
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LESSON SURROUNDINGS.
IntERVENING Evesrs It
ally agreed that none are
The interval between this
the last must have been brief,
ferent views of the entire
already been given.
Prace,—8tiil in Perma, probably on
the way to the Jordan.
Tiwe.—Accord nz to Robinson, in
March, 783 A. U. C.; that is, A. D. 30.
According to Andrews, the time was a
few months before this, —in December,
782: that is, A. D. 29.
Prusoxs. —Our Lord,
great multitudes.
Incipexrs.—The multitudes follow
our Lord; he turns and tells them that
his followers must bear the cross, warns
them about counting the cost. and in-
troduces two illustrations, —from build.
ing a tower, and from waging war. The
figure of salt losing its savor is again
introduced.
There 18 no parallel passage, though
similar sayings occur elsewhere in the
Gospel narratives. There is no objec-
tion to supposing they were repeated
on this occasion.
is geneys
recorded.
CHRON and
The dif-
| AskaTe LAYS
followed by
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For the Housewife.
Fio Caxn—Wkite part: Two enps of
flour, one cup of corn starch, one cup
of milk, one cup of butter, one cup of
sugar, the whites of six eggs, three
teaspoonfuls of baking yowder. Black
part: Two cups of flour, one cup of
corn s'arch, one cup of cold water, two
| cups of sugar, one cup of butter, two
| cups of chopped raisins, the yolks of
i four eggs, one dozen and a half of
| chopped figs, half a teaspoonful of
i cloves, and one teaspoonful of cinne-
{ mon, three teasspoonfuls of baking pow-
ider. Use large jelly pans. Put into
| each pan a layer of white and dark bat-
alternately, with a layer of the
chopped (or sliced) figs. Make thelay-
{ ers thick, and when done put them to.
gether with the icing.
Dericiovs Sroxae Cake. — Heat a tes-
milk warm. Add to
| it three-quarters of a pound of sugar.
| Beat in the yolks of five eges and half
a pound of well-sifted flour, light weight.
{ Then add the whites of the eggs, beaten
1 stiff.
Cor Caxe.—Butter, one onp; milk,
| one cup; sugar, two cups; flour, four
cups; eggs, four; two dessert spoonfuls
of Royal baking powder,
How ro Wasa Sumssr Duusses, —
Summer washing dresses rank among
those that take first place for pretii-
ness and grace, and, rightly enough,
are much favored, seeing thst besides
these attractive qualities, moderation
in price may be added. There is just
one point to be alleged against them,
and that is, that they soil very quickly,
and if not care ally washed, lose all
their dainty coloring. The safest way,
especially with flowered sateens and
patterned zephyrs, 18s to have them
cleaned by the dry cleaning process.
But as that is rather costly, when we
consider that these materials require
such frequent cleansing, above all mn
town, we give here a few recipes, which
are best earried out at home by a oare-
ful washer. For either of these fabrics
prepare a tub of water as follows:
Scrape yellow soap into boiling water,
in the vroportion of a pound of soap to
two gallons of water, and whea it has
quite melted put it into a large tub and
ll with lokewarm water. Wash the
dress (or dresses) in this by rubbing
gently and turning it about, so that the
water and rubbing are applied to all
parts. Squeeze it as tightly 88 possi.
ble, and plunge it into a tab of luke.
warm water with which a quart of bran
has been mixed, rab and turn about in
this, and then rinse thoroughly in cold
water. Dry quickly, in the open air
if convenient, then starch the dress,
and dry again, pam it through clear
cold water and dry it. Be'ore ironing
it should be sprinkled with water and
rolled tightly in a cloth. The most de-
lieate colors may be treated successfully
in this way.
Bisck washing dresses require care-
ful treatment in order to retain their
color; they should be washed in Lran
water mixed with a little ox gall
Starching will be uane essary, and
they should be ironed on the wr
side with cool irons. A little ox gal
mixed with the water in which any arti-
cle made of black cotton or thread is to
be washed will set the color, aud sugar
of lead answers the same purpose with
black or colors. With black washing
dresses having patsanne of white, starch.
ing will not
washed in bran or
{ ter,
| cup of water tall