- — “FIFTY-FIRST 0ONGRESS. In the Senate, 60re Day,- Tha Vice-President ane nounced the Ap intment of Mawrs, Man- derson and Walthall as members of the Board of Visitors at the annual examination of cadets at West Point Military Acadamy, and of Messrs, Chandler and Harris in a similar capacity at the Anna Academy.... The resolution authorizing the Select Committes on Relations with Canada to continue its investiga- tions during the recess was agreed to +++ Mr. Daniel moved to amend the proviso in the Copyrigit bill requiring copyrighted books to be printed from type set within the United States or from plates therefrom by adding to it the words: “Or shall be other- wise produced in the United States from process executed in the United States.” The discussion on this amendment was inter. rupted at 3:30, when the mesasro of the Prasident announciug the death of General Sherman was laid before the Senate, After several brief eulogios the Senate adjourned. 61s Davy.—Mr. Sawyer reported an amendment to the Postoflice Approoriation bill permitting members of frank mail matter directed to Government officials... . Mr. Hale offerad a resolution, which was agreed to, directing the Secretary of the Interior to consider the expediency of the establishment of a permanent Census Bureau and to report to the Senate next Congress. ... The conference report on the Fortification bill was agreed to....An amendment to the Diplomatic bill adopted, providing for the establishment of polis Naval telegraphic communication with Hawali; | the Mexican mission to the | also one raisin first-class... Mr. Quay denied explicitly the charges against his conduct in affairs of Pennsylvania, 620 Day. ~The Diplomatic bill was passed +++. One amendment was made to the Copy. right bill. ...An adverse report on the Stan- ford Land Loan bill was presented. 63p DAY. ~The Sherman and Frye amend. ments to the Copyright bill wers adopted and the bill was xd by a vote of 396 to 14 ve..The Indian Dépredations bill was con. gldered... Mr. Higgins reported favorably the Senate bill to provide for the payment of the French spoliation claim. . . . The bill for anew Custom House in Bowling Green, Now York City, was passed. ... Some dozen persion bills were passed, including bills increasing the pensions of the widowsof General Cus ter, Admiral Wilkes and General Daniel Ull ann to $100 a month. G4rR Day. ~The Indian Depredations bill was passed. ...Senate bill setting apart a sertain tract of land in Arizona for Indian schools and other educational purposes was passed. . .. The Senate bill to increase the pan. sion of Brigadier-General W, H. Poweli to $72a month was passed. In the House, 581 DAY. —Mr. Flower asked unanimous consent for the passage of the bill for the erection of a new Castom House in New York City, but Mr. Dunnell objected... . The House then went into Committes of the Whole (Mr. Dingley, of Maine, in the chain on the Indian Appropriation bill. When about a third of the measure had been dis posed of the committee rose....The Naval Appropriation bill was sent to confarence, . The Speaker having laid before the House the message from the President announcing the death of General Sherman, it was re ferred to the Committee on Military Affaire and the House adjourned ra Dav.—The House adopted the con. ference on the Army Ap rine tion bill....On motion of Sr, hoeler Senate bill was passed providiag American registers for the steamers Montauk and Min- oeola. ... Mr. Owen 1 a bill amend ing the various acts tive to the immigra- tion and the importation of aliens under contract. ...The House then went into Come mitiee of the Whole on the Indian Appro- jon bill, but no action was taken... r. Langston introduced a bill to make National hoiidays of February 12, Abraham Lincoln's birthday, and Aprit 27, General Grant's birthday. rn Dar—In Jursuniite of a written designation by the Speaker, the House was calied to order by Mr. Payson... Mr, Thompson reported a resolution for the im. peschment of Alexander Boarman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, for high crimes and misdemeanors... The House agreed to the conference report on the Fortification Appropriation bill.... The House went Into Committees of the Whole on the Indian Appropriation bill Mr. Carter, of Montana, offered an amend ment appropriating $06,000 to carry out the agreement with the Crow Indians of Montana. Adopted. The considers tion of the bill having beer concluded, the committee recurred to the amendment for the carrying out of certain treaty agreaments with the Sisseton and Wahpeton and other Indians; and It was afresd to. Mr. Holman, of indiana © an amendment providing that the Cherokee Nation may ne te with the Secretary of the Interior for the sale of the Cherokee outlet, Adopted. No further ao tion was taken. 61st DAY.—The Indian Appre bill was ..+. The Postoflice Appropriation bill was considered. 20 DAY. ~Speaker Reed having recovered from his temporary indi ition, called tie House to order... Mr. Kalley introdaced s bill to repeal that part of the National Bank ing sct that requires National bank to rchase The House then went into Committes of the Whole (Mr. Allen, of Michigan, in the chair) on the Postoffice Appropriation bill, Without dspasing of the bill the committe arose, and the House adjourned until eight ++ «+ The Immigration bill was consid ered at the night session, but without mak ing much progress, the louse adjourned, CONVIOT STATISTICS, Superintendent Porter Takes a Cen. sus of Prison Inmates, Superintendent Porter, of the Census viets in State prisons and itentiarios United States on June 1, 1500, 10 have 45.298, theo, Congress to | was | United States bonds... | | Hoge—Ldve...... i Dressed ES ——— A Mother and Four Children Povish in a Brooklyn (N. X,) Fire, A whole family lost thelr lives in a fire in the cellar of the baker-shop of Fritz Roth« fuhs, Brooklyn, N. Y. The fire had been caused by the carelessness of one of Mz, Rothfubs's journeymen, Jacob Emmorich, who was at work alone in the place at the time, and was due to the overturning a pan af bolling lard on the hot stove. The pot contained from twelve to fifteen quarts of fat. When the fat began to boil it ran over, and in attempting to remove it Emmerich overturned the lerd, The next instant the {at was in a blaze Rothfuhs, after telling Emmerich to go out nnd send in an alarm, started to arouse the occupants of the building. Emmerich was unable to find a fire-box key, and fully a half hour elapsed before the alarm reached the Fire Department. In the meantime the occupants of the house began to run from the building. All were believed to have escaped when a | ory for help was heard coming from the open window on the top floor, which was oc- cupied by Mrs. Mary Henry, a widow, with her four children. The woman could be seen by the aid of the glare of tae flames through the dense volumes ol smoke which poured | from every window in the house, The crowd below were helpless to rescue ber and her children from the terrible fate which nwaited them, They implored hor to jump to the sidewalk, but she tailed to do so, She was then soon lost sight of, and when her the Stato | charred body, with those of her children, | were found, they | threshold of the were lying around the wdroom door leading into the hall Mrs. Henry was dressed in a wrap per and in her arms nestled her young. est child, o babe a few months old. Near ber lay Woodsey, four years old; Harry, eloven years old, and Julia, nine years old. The boy Harry and girl Julia were both dressed, and Harry's right arm was locked in his sister's. They had met death while following their mother. Had the unfortunate woman attempted to mako her escape as soon as she was awakened, instead of stopping to dress her children, it is believed she would have been saved with the other families, The charred bodies of the mother and her four children were laid side by side on the floor of the old building, which has been turned into a temporary morgue. Mrs, Henry was twenty-eight years ok been a widow Jess than a year. ported herself and family by doing washing. DEATH IN A FIERY MINE. Four Men Killed in a Shaft Near Scott dale, Penn, A dispatch from Scottdale “The Moyer Mine, about three miles from A large body of Penn ., says this place, is on fire met are at work trying to subdue the flames and rescuo the imprisoned miners, “The fire was kindled by a miner acci dentally dropping a naked lamp at the bot- of the shalt, which Is 10 feet deep he lamp exploded, igniting the sccumu- lated mine gas, which exploded with a terri file report and soattersd the flames in every direction. The mine caught fire the lute shalt used for veutilating the mine was de stroyed and the interior of the mine seems to boone mass of flame. A large number of men are at work turning water in the mine Mouts Creek has beets turned from its course into the mine shaft and is pouring a large quantity of water into the seething aby “The Moyer coke plant, one of the largest in the region, employed 50 men. The men at this place had refused to join the ranks of the strikers, and the works were running full. Fifty miners were at work at the time of the explosion All escaped except four wmpers, who are known to have been killed, and six or seven men who are reported missing.” tom Two phymcisns of Havana are success. fully inoculating wew arrivals in Cuba against yellow fever, through mosquitos that bave contaminated themselves by sting- ing yellow fever patients. Fifty-two cass of mosquito inoculation have been followed up. Uf them only about eight per cent. sub- sequently contracted the disease, with a mortality of less than two per cent. A IxvESTIGATION has shown that dosens of teachers inthe New York City schools bor row money of the loan sharks at enormous rates of interest. One teacher is in the tolls to the extent of $82, which represents loans of $150 made since 1588 with accumulated usury rates ranging from 120 to 200 per cent. (ET annum. - Bi —— Russias agricultural interssts are in a mont condition. The Rassian Bank of the Nobility announces for sale at public auction no fewer than S00 age aad small es tates in different provinces, the owners bav ing been unnble to meet their engagements with the bank. —— sons Tax Pullman Palace Car Company now operates 20060 sleeping and drawing room cars over 190.087 or] of railroad in this country. The company has abouts $30,000 000 invested in cars. Tax assessed valuation of New York City property this year is $1. 400,540, 045, an in | crease of $68, 550,081 over 1590, ———————— THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. Mileh Cows, com. to good... ‘salves, common to prime... Lam “hB.088888 ’S a nt 2REARBEBEES Jats No, vo ixed Western. ...... Jay Fair to Good... Straw I Rye..coonnnns pro rE EE Jutter—State Creamery , fair to good, Ww Im. Creamery Hkims Light , .o000 Egge—Stateand Penn........ sEEugsessg 21 R82 LK S64588388886 “3 | 2p aZESEEES > Tone a a2 - = Onate-No, 9, LT TT Barley~-No. 1 Cannda. BONTON, FTEARA AER RARS hE Clover, Northern. ... Bay=Palr......ccooveenvendl Biraw Good to Prime... .... Butter Firsts, ..covivorpene WATERTOWN (MASS) CATTLE MARKET, Bhecp—Lve weight....ov. 9% is ALR EA EE EE AE Sean Northern, ... covsenrs 4 £3" E£858808a2a88 sasaes Sli agged sane EE ETREEREEE 8sg! Bt reamery Thxtes waa ee wkime, iin | together with springs, flooded the bituminous mines in the | E regio the whole | . gion and { the danger to ships’ compasses from | his right log THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Moon damage has been done by floods in Pennsylvania, Evwin 8. S8rvanr (Republican) has been elected Mayor of Philadelphia, Penn, de feating Albert H. Ladner (Demoorat) by an estimated majority of 40,000, Joux Jacon Astron, the millionaire of New York, and Miss Ava Willing, of Phila- delphia, were married at the bride's home. Lg bridal presents were valued at $2,000, Terre explosions caused by water break- ing the pipes of natural gas occurred-—-two in Pittsburg, Penn, and one in Allegheny, Pann, Several persons were injured and much property wns destroyed, Mus. Juria Dovarass Hype died recent ly at Bangor, Me., aged ninety-eight years, Tur American Loan and Trust Company, of New York City, closed ita doors. The un- | expected presentation of three checks from | savings banks aggregating $380, 000 procipl- tated the collapse, there being no cash to pay them. Its affairs wero taken possession of by Superintendent Charles M. Preston, of the State Banking Department. Tue new steamer Havel, of the North German Lloyd line, ran down the bark | Mascotte in New York harbor and two boys were drowned, Tax recent heavy rains in Penusylvania, overflowing underground cast Broad Top | Robertsdale district collieries are now idle, Over 500 men are temporarily deprived of | work. Tur Carlisle (Penn) Indian School has Jus received eighteen Sioux children from ine Ridge Agency. Ten of thess are girls; one, Julla Two Elks. danghtar of the Chief American Horse, who on his visit to Washiogton objected to Fast | ern Indian schools, Sonth and West, Tue steamer Thomas Sherlock collided with a floating pler at Cincinnati, Ohio, and immediately sank. Mrs. McLean, of Pitts burg, was crushed to death and many of the crew perished. Tue szamonia tank In the ice factory in Suffolk, Va., exploded, killing ths Buperin- tendent, Thomas B. Baldwin, and fatally in- juring two colored men. Trier Rirren, of the First National Bank, Evansville, Ind, has beon arrested and held in bonds for wrisl on a charge of misappropriating 7,000, JUST as the St. Louis express was pulling out of Bald Knob Junction, Ark. a passen- or named J. W. Graster, of Vincsunes, nd. dfliberately shot Isidor Mever, a drum. mer. The murderer next turned his weapon m BE. W. Leach, the Pullman conductor Both men wers instantly killed, Gracter then threw his weapon out of the car wine dow. The shooting was wholly unprovoked, and it is quite evident the fellow is crazy, Tie Etna Coal Company, of Chattanooga, Tenn., made an assignment, Liabilites $100,000 D. Goon and Ford Johnson had a terrible cutting duel at Bluffton, Ala. Good cut Johnson's left eye out with a hatchet and put into the bones of his face several times Johnson cut Good's throat with a knife. Both were fatally injured. They were drunk aud slone, A ving in Wadesboro, N. CC. a town of 1500 inhabitants, destroyed the largest por- tion of the business center of the place. Surenvison W, W. Hawspizy, of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was run over and instantly killed by a passing wwitah engine while crossing the track at New Decatur, Als. Tux k ty of the election of Rev. M. Kyle as tor for South Dakota is to be questioned, as he received any seventy-five votes, and a majority of the Legisiatare is eighty-five Fanxzr Jomssox's two little children wera burned to death and bis house consumed poar Monticello, Wis, during his absence. Parricx Ryax had his brains beaten out by Les and Stewart Nottingham in Baxter County, W. Va. One of the brothers held Ryan while the other smashed his head with » stone, JACKSOX PARK is to be the site for the World's Pair in Chicago, [Il., the lake front baving been abandoned. Joux D. Ksox & Co. investment bank pra, of Topeka, Kan, have amigned. The liabilities will reach $300, 000 A carzrens wiper in the roundhouse of the Cypress yards of the Missouri Pacific Railway in Kansas City, Kan, sot fire to a bunch of oily waste eo roundhouse and eightom engines wore destroyed. The total Joss is estimated at $175,000 Provesson Arxxaspen Wiscnsrn died | of a malady of the heart a few days ago at Ann Arbor, Mich, Hoe was one of the most eminent and progressive American geolo Kista, Dn. H. W. Roonns was installed as Presi. dent of the Northwestern University of Chi eago, HL Washington, Mancus A. Surrn, Delegate from Ari. won, Mipped and fell on the marble floor of the House and broke the small bone of Bexaton Quay, of Pennsylvania, left Washington for a trip, lasting about six weeks or two months to the east and wes! coasts of Florida. He Is In jl health, and | goes South by the advice of his Jiugibel an rooms HSreaken Rexp was confined to at his hotel by a severe cold for several days For this reason the House was | compelled to elect a Speaker pro tempore. ayson, of [linols, was selected. Tux annual Assay Commission, appointed by the President to test the coinage reserved at the mints daring the calendar [one gr completed their labors in Phi found all the coins reserved far within the limit of tolerance as to weight and fineness, and they reported the test satisfactory Tug credentials of Mr. Yao of North Carol for bis new Sena term, be : arch 4th next, were presented by | r. Ransom and placed on file. Sexaron Ivcaras, of signed formally the office of President pre tempors of the Benate which ho has held | now for almost four years. Foreign. Two wuxonen Chinese perished by of a steamer at Wahu, Chins, Buartroxprevalls in Be ifast, Ireland, to The my authori’ Tux revenun oe 000, and is the Warreraw Rum, United States Minister oof piearay is a thirteen -year-oid | | varnish, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Deposits of mica have been discovered jin the northern part of Bouth Australia. A company with $2,000,000 capital has been formed to work a nickel mine in Oregon. Lead in the United States amounted to 187,000 tons of 2000 pounds, or a little less than in 1880, Of spelter 68,000 tons were produced in the United Btates in 1890, an increase of fifteen per cent, A patent has been taken out in France for un electric furnace for the rapid in- cineration of human remains, Dr. Ludwig Schreiner, of Stuttgart, Germany, has brought forward a new | bleaching agent, which be calls ozonin. The production of copper in the United States in 1880 amounted to 278, 610,000 pounds, far exceeding any previous record. An English company is working a silver mine in Bolivia which yields more { than three hundred and sixty ounces to | the ton, while specimens of almost pure silver are met with. It has been determined that as far as magnetic leakage from the dynamo is concerned, 1t is equally the same whether the ship is double or singled wired, A brilliant black varnish for iron as well as for some other substances can be | made by stirring up ivory in The should be coated when applied. A telegraph operator in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has invented an electric ma- chine, to be applied to street cars, for indicating the numbers of business houses and the names of streets while the car is in motion. Qollais, a little village near Nismoes, France, has its streets lighted by a 1600. light dynamo driven by a small water. fall, and during the day the current is used to drive the pumps for the village water supply. abroad as 1000 furnish the most eflici of transmitting Statistics collected for short distances, CRUICS power distances, as 5000 wards far the least wastelu The Dairy Association many, has offered & prize improved method of amount of fatty matier skimmed milk and butt the use of a chemical to be as sccurate as the gravimetric process, The newly discovered deposits of pickel and chrome Franken. stein, in Silesia, are turning out to be very rick. Herr Krupp has ordered the immediate delivery of 100 tons of nickel ore, twenty tons of which have already been dispatched from the mine. He offered $400. 000 for these mines, Iu the history of railroads it is to be recorded that the Revere Beach & Lyon Raimond, of Massachusetts, is running a trae without a bell cord and that the mesas of between con. dasier and engineer is by s onde of signals passing ov The entire road with this signal w and the code of transmitted is only bala: those obtained by Ores Doar communication entire ly arranged p 1 tne cuoie, ligence of the conductor and engineer Every locomotive bas and 3 weight to spare when its train is in mo- start rest, Pe wer tion, but is frequeatly unable to the same train from a The difficult point is in the adhes of the wheels to the mils. To prevent the i 4 condition of wheels from slipping sand is used. but a more modern and effective method of creasing the traction is to pass a current of electricity from the driving-wheels to the rails. A Baltimore and Ohio loco- in | motive has been fitted up with apparatus | of this kind. -— ti ——— “Chaining -up” the Hudson. In 1778 a great chain was stretched | 4 across the Hudson River at West Point, N. Y., to prevent the passage of British | vessels. Lossing, in his “Field Book of the Revolution,” gives a very interes in; account of this work, of which we oan quote only the leading facts, The iron of which this chain was constructed was | wrought from ore of equal parts from the Sterling and Sterling Iron Works, in the same county, which were situated about twenty. five miles back of West Point. “It is buoyed up,” says Dr. Thacher, writing in 1780, ‘by very large logs, about six- | toon foot long, pointed at the ends, to lessen their opposition to the torce of the current at flood and ebb tides. The logs were placed at short distances from each other, the chain carried over them and made fast to esch by staples, There are also 8 number of anchors dropped at proper distacces, with cables made fast to the chain to give it greater stability.” The total weight of this chain was 180 tons. Mr. Losing visited West Point in 1848 and saw a portion of this famous chain, and he tells us that ‘there are twelve links, two cievices and a portion of a link remaining. The links, some of which are in the museum st West Point, are made of iron bars, two and a hall Inches square, and average in Jength a little over two feet and weigh about 100 pounds each." Scientific American, ————— A Mammoth Tree. There is an enormous tree in the Ocmul. gee River swamp, near Abbeville, that rivals the famous giants of the Cali. fornia forest. The tree is of the tupelo gum variety, and towors above the sur. rounding forest of immense oaks, Tt is evidently of grea vo and doubtioss was inhabited by the auliana in Sha pre. tree shellac | article to be varnished | the material is | Long mines, in Orange | County. The chain was manufactured | by Peter Townsend, of Chester, at the A— 1h 1 Sr ————' HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, REMOVING KETTLE FUR, | The fur can be eaten off the kettle | with acid, or it can be removed by tak- ing advantage of the wellknown fact { that iron expands when heated and con- | tracts when cooled. The safest way with a east iron kettle is to fill it with diluted | hydrochloric acid (spirits of salt), and | stand nside until the seid softens the fur. | Otherwise make the kettle almost red hot and tap it with a stick until it cools. The fur will most likely scale off, as it will if the hot kettle is filled with cold water. —New York Dispatch, DON'T NEGLECT THE STOCKINGS, There is no class of clothing, says Anna Barrows, in Cottage Hearth, that sufiers more from peglect than stockings. So cheaply are they manufactured at the present day that they are often worn by | busy men and women until little remains, | and they are mended by a new pair. But {there is no item in the wardrobe that s produced in greater variety of excel. { tence and mice finish, with prices to cor- | respond. Betting aside the dainty webs | of silk and ligle thread only suitable for | { the luxurious woman of wealth, who sel- | dom uses her feet outside her palatial | home, we may find substantial fabrics, A single pair of the latter material, with | proper care, will outlast many pairs of | the mean articles that | sale, EASY RULES YOR YOUNG COOKS. Here are some easy rules for voung cooks to remember: Begin your cooking | with tidy hair, clean hands and aprons. | Have in the kitchen a good fire and plenty of hot water. Use as few cook- ing utensils as possible, and keep a pan of hot water in readiness so that a dish may be rinsed occasionally and again, In breaking eggs break each into a scparate saucer to be sure that it 1s good. Separate the yolks and for all kinds of delicate cakes or for any- thing that is to light, Never use ‘‘cooking butter” unless it is good g IL . whites De very as otherwise it will In making to a cresm, and then | 3 t, then the yolks of taint everything it butter it the sugar with touches. cake rub the egus a w hites {ter you { have beaten them. “di of the n alternately witl Boda goes in the last thing, excep r it is put in shou Pail 1s fn Hour , And whatey baked immediately. used thing excepti Tins to fore should not be you can help after the cake 1s in, yint of vegetables mashed or sliced, or KH most « very BE eiy or pre- bak: cake in should be using, snd the oven door opened any oftener than One WOT es, heated be ne pint of small whole wegetables, re- | quire one tablespoonful of butter, one- half teaspoonful of salt and one-half salt- | In boiling eges, if you desire the whites soft and jelly-like | spoonful of pepper. | sud the yolks soft but pot liquid, you will put them in a saucepan, cover with boiling water and let them stand from fix to ten minutes where the water will keep hot but not boil Or if the white s preferred hardened, while the yolk re- the ¢ wingt minutes mains soft, cook boiling water three gus in . RECIPES, Chicken Soup—Cut a well-dressed hicken into small pieces and place it in « stew pan; add one onion, one tomato, sne-half cup of rice, and water enough o cover well; salt and pepper to suit the taste. The onion may be left out and | sther vegetables used it desired. Persian Sausages—One pound son and snd one-half pounds of outton chopped fine; season with salt, pepper and a little mixed herbs; divide ato suitable sized portions. These may | be baked, dipped in flour and fried or | wrapped in buttered papers and broiled pver a slow fire, Meat Pie—-Cold scrapes of mest cut in | §ttie bits, add col? gravy and water mough to cover, slice ia it two or three one ill dove, thicken it, line the sides of a san with biscuit dough, and after the in. | gredients are put in cover the tops with | the dough; then bake till done; serve | hot, Veal Loaf-—Oze teacupful of chopped real, one cupful of mashed potatoes, two ws, one-half cupful ittle cold gravy improves it, salt and t to make in a loaf, lay in a pie-pan, fll t half full of boiling water, lay pieces dice when cold for supper. ‘wo tablespoonfuls softened butter and ‘our of milk, beat all well together, add « cup of flour in which has been mixed me teaspoonful of cream tartar and one- all temspoonful of soda, and bake in a wall dripping When cake is cold, have ready a pint of sweet cream, whip 10 a stiff froth, sweeten to taste, flavor, and pile on the cake. The cream will whip easier if set on ice first, Eat ‘resh. Chicken Pattios—Take the breast of & large, boiled chicken, cut fine, put half apiot of the water in which it was boiled in a sauce-pan, with a thin slice of lean ham chopped fine, lot simmer; melt a tablespoonful each of flour and butter together; stir hall a teacup of milk into the broth asd pour over the melted butter; when smooth and thick, add the chicken, let boil five minutes: take from the fire and stir in the beaten yolks of two eggs. Have ready little patty shells, and 611 with the mixture. Marhroom Pie a la Ruvse—Trim and eut in two a quantity of good sized mushrooms and fry in a little butter for a few moments; remove them from the "SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON MARCH 1, Lesson Text: “The Shunammite's son” 2 Kings iv, 25.87 Golden Text: John v,, 21 ~Lommentary, Yor After the dividing of the Jordan to allow Elisha to recross it and the healing of the waters of Jericho, both of which events were in last week's lesson, another miracle in con. nection with water Is recorded in chapter ii. In the beginning of chapter iv, we have the record of a miracle in connection with oll; and these three miracles of the spring healed, the ditches filled and the oil mults- led were all wrought by God through Zisha on behalf of the perishing, the troubled and the needy. The God of Fiisha is our God, and of Him it is written, “My God shall supply all your need” (Phil. iv,, 19) 25. "So she went and came unto the man of God to Mount Carmel.” Our lesson bee | gins in the midst of the story of this woman who dwelt at Shunem, a village a Tew miles south of Mount Tabor and southeast from find 50 ready a | used | New York News. | hw potatoes, salt and pepper, let boil | of sweet milk, | pepper, roll bread or cracker crumbs in | of butter on the top, let cook until dry, | Cream Cake-—-One cup sugar, two eggr, | Mount Carmel, Bhe is ealled a great woman | (ve, 8), and she had prepared a room in her bouse for Elisha where he might rest and feel at home when passing that way, She had no children, but God gave her a son for her kindness to His servant. One day, when the child had grown, he went out to the fleld | to his father, was taken ill, carried home 10 | his mother, sat on her knees till noon and | then died. She lald him on the prophet’s bed and made haste to reach che prophet with the tidings. Notice the title given to Elisha eight times in this story; seven times “Man of God” and once “Holy Man of God.” | It is also applied to Elijah, and in 1 Kings | xiii. is used at least fourteen times of another prophet. We are either men and women of | God or of the world. What says our dally | life? 26. “Run now, | pray thee, to meet her; | and say unto her, Is it well with thee” The man of God saw ber afar off and thus com- manded his servant to meet her and make | Inquiry for the health of herself, her hus- band and her child “And she answered, It swell” The soul in which the Prince of Peace rules shall have peace at all times, even in tribuistion (Isa 8 7: xxvii, 8; Jer. xxix. 11; John xvi, 27. “And when she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught him by the fect™ Bo did the women to Jesus on the morning of His resurrection (Matt. xxviii. 9. Anoth- er woman one day washed His feet with ber tears, wiped them with her ha kissed them and anointed them with ointment (Luke vil, ax “Let her alone 1 is vexed with in her, and the Lord ba hid Gebazi would bave thrust her the disciples of many a time xiv, 15: xv. 28; xix. 18; Gehazi had » tle of the spirit of his master, the disciples so little of the Spiritof Christ. And whas shall wesay of ourselves? 28. “Then she said Did I desire a son of my lord? Did I not say, Do not deceive me?” Her words to Elisha when he promised her a son are found in verse 16. Her words now soemn to say, better for me never to have had this child than to have received him for only | these few years, Although she said “It is peace.” her soul was evidently bitter within her 28. “Then be said to Gebazi, Gird up thy Joing, and take my staff in thine bh and go thy way, and lay my staff upon the face of the child.” The prophet seems to under stand that the child aed, and with these words be sends bis servant. Better if be had stonoe dope as Elijah did in a similar case (I Kings xvii, 21). If the disciples of Jesus could not cast out the demon from the boy (Matt xvii, 19 20), much less could Gebhazl with the prophet’s staff do anything for this dead child, Gebazi could obey strictly his master’s orders, but be had not enough of the spirit of his master 10 do his master's work. 3. “And the mother of the child the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, 1 will not Jes ve the Thus did Elisha say to Eli- | jab three different times, and he is now re minded of his own sarnest desire to obtain a blessing. God says, “Ye shall seek Me and find Me when ve shall search for Me with all your heart Jer. xxix, 12 { our praying is too formal to obtain soything from God, who regards the heart and the beart's desire rather than the words which we iw 21. “And Gebhazi passed on before them, and inid the staff upon the face of the child, but thers was neither voice nor hearing.” It is one thing 10 bold the truth and quite an- other to be beld by it. The prophet’s staff in the hand of Gehazi was very unlike the pres ence of the prophet himself 22. “And when Elisha was come into the bouse, bebold the child was dead and laid upon his bed.” The child was in the prophet's bed (ve, 21)—a use of it that the woman pever Greamed of when she prepared it for Elisha. When wa are blessing others we are often unconsciously preparing a resting place for our own sorrows, a comfort for ourselves in time of trouble. The child was dead. We must believe that all who are npt born from above are dead in sins, and that nothing but the voice of God can give them life (E fi.5; John v, 25 | #3. He went in therefore, and shut the | door upon them twain, and prayed unto the Lord” It is no formal servaut and business now, but hand to hand and heart to | heart work with the dead child and the liv- ing God. Now he does as Elijah did. He soos and realizes that the child i» dead and he prepares to take hold of God with as much earnestness as when he sought the double | portion of Elijah's spirit. Nothing under the sun is before him now but this dead child. He has but one aim, ane object; one desire; and that is that the child shall live. MM. “And be went up, and ay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, | and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands.” The child in the prophet's bed may that the children must be in warmest sympathies of our for her sou Jesus ber that “In due season we faint not” (Gal vi, B, sneenad seven times, and his eyes.” No wo must not very manifest life. We dren with our i - it i 3 rr i £ g fe g 3 ii | iit if I : LE! iii Ha g
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