ttftttltttfSttff If s SUNDAY SERMON : S 5 j A SohaUrly Dlaoour By JJ m Rev C. T. Russell. Providence, R. I. Pastor C. T. Run sell, of Allegheny, Pa., preached twice bere Sunday in Infantry Ilnll to targe audiences. Ills evening discourse fol low: Tlie Bible may be said to be a reve lation of Jems, who In turu Is a reve lation of the Father. Its opening page tell us of the fall of the flnt human ton of God, Adam, point to the death penalty upon him, and Indicate the need of a Saviour and Redeemer; and, more than this, inferentlally promise such a one as the teed of the woman who ultimately thai) bruise the ser pent's head crush, subdue all evil. Its intermediate pages are prophecies and types respecting Jesus and the work He would accomplish as a Re deemer, and later as a deliverer of the race. And further on It records Ills birth, Ills ministries, HI denth, resur rection, glorification, and the massages He gave to all who would become His followers, including Ills promise to come again and receive them unto Himself. The closing pages of the Bible picture In symbolical language the completion of the present age, the inanguration of the millennial age, the work that it will accomplish in the blessing and uplifting of the hu man family . .id the ultimate purging of the earth from all sin, imperfection, evil, when every voice in heaven and earth Rhall be heard praising the Lord. The teachings of higher criticism are very misleading on this subject. They would have us consider that all mira cles are impossible; that our Lord was not born of a virgin, and by the direct power of God; that He waa born as other men; that He happened to be a rather superior type of man; that He never had a prehuman existence. The Scriptures teach to the contrary of this most explicitly, that ' He left the glory which He had with the Father before the world was;" that "He who was rich for our sakes became poor," tak ing a human form for a particular, spe cific purpose "for the suffering of death," that He might be our Redeem er. (John xvli, 6; II. Cor. vlll.. 9; Hcb. li., 0). The inspired writers go further and declare. "All things were made by Him, and 'without Him was not one thing made that was made." The con text tells us that He was in the begin ning with the Father, and was the Word, or mouthpiece and nersnnnl ren. resentatlve of .the Father in all the work of the creation of all the remain der of the works of God. We should note In passing the con sistency of the Scriptures In respect to the supremacy of Jehovah God. From first to last with one voice the Scrip tures declare that there is but one su preme in the universe. How comes It then that the record Is that Jesus, our Master, in His pre human condition, waa the logos, a God with the God? Is this testimony out Of accord with the reiuainder of scrip tural testimony? We answer, No! The name Jehovah was never permitted to any but the one, the Father supreme; but the title God. which In the Hebrew Is Elohlm, and sometimes abbreviated El, signifies a mighty one, and might be applied to any mighty one in author ity and power, Jehovah Himself being superior to all Elohlm. An examination of the scriptural uses of the word Elohlm substantiates the foregoing. We find, for instance, that it has not only been applied to the Father and to the special representa tive and prime minister, the logos, the Son of God manifest in the flesh, but we find also that the word is used in respect to angels when they directly represented the Lord as His special messengers, they who are His mighty ones. We find also that this title Elo hlm was used in respect to angels when they directly represented the Lord as Ills special messengers, they who are His mighty ones. We. find also this title Elohlm was used in re spect to the first elders of Israel when God recognized them as His represen tatives in Judging tholr brethren. It will be remembered that the Jews were angry with our Lord Jesus, not because He called Himself Jehovah or Intimated any usurpation of the Fath er's place, honors or prerogatives, hut simply because He called Himself the Son of God and referred to Jehovah God as His Father. On one occasion When they were about to stone Him Jesus inquired why, and the answer was that in calling Himself the Son of God He was affecting to be superior to them and to others of mankind, and affecting a relationship with the great Jehovah, which they termed blasphe my, because they said it was affecting an equality with Jehovah; but our Lord contradicted that thought and pointed out 4o them that ihe claim to be the Son of God Wat not to put Himself on on equality with Jehovah, but that the Scriptures fully sanctioned such a title as the Son of God. The Jews never claimed the title Sons of God for themselves, nor would It have been proper for them to have done so. Not until the great sacrifice for sins was offered by the Redeemer could the Father so Justify any mem bers of the fallen race at to receive them back into the close, the dear re lationship represented by ' the word Bon, but, since the redemptive work of Jesus, spiritual Israelites are termed eons of God, at the Apostle declares, "Now are we the eons of God, though it doth not yet appear what we shall be (how great our glory and exaltation In the resurrection channel, lint va know that when He shall appear (our Lord and Master, the only begotten Son) we shall be like Him and see Him as He Is." (I. John, ill.. 2). The Scriptures clearly show that the fol lowers of Christ were accepted of the Father as tons when begotten of the Spirit at Pentecost and since. (John, 1., 12-13). The divine announcement of our Lord Jesus before His birth was, "Thou Shalt call His name Jesus. He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God Khali give unto Him the throne of Hit lather David; and He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there shall be no end." In explanation of His miraculous birth (we read, "The power of the highest shall overshadow thee (Mary); there fore also that holy thing that shall be porn of thee shall be called the Son of SUod." (Luke, 1., 81-80). I Here we have the title, the Son of plod, officially applied to the man Christ Jesus before His birth, and this Ititle He continually approved, saying: "As the Father hath tent Me, even so send I yon." "I came not into tho .world to do Mine own will, but the Lwlll of Hlra that sent Me." "The Father worketli hitherto and (now) I work." (John, 21; John, lvt., 34, ff. "). - i Let u look back and note the script Jural declaration to the effect that the Sogot, who subsequently became the pan Christ: Jeans, was the beginning LMbA creation of Cod. .IEUss ars ouj; Lord's own words and are in full ac cord with the Apostle Paul's statement that onr Lord is the Image of the invis ible God, the first-born of every creat ure (more literally, the first born of all creation), for by Him were all things createl that are In heaven and that are in earth, visible and Invisible. all things were created by Him and for Him, and He was before all things and by Him all things consist. Our Lord Himself pointed ont to us that It Is the heavenly Father's will that we should honor the Son as we honor the Father also that we should recognize Him as the Father's repre sentative, through whom He is work ing all things according to the counsel of Hit own will. The Apostle explains to us that although our Lord occupied tlie chief position next to the Father before He came into the world to be our Redeemer, yet He now occupies a still higher position. He tells us that He was obedient to the Father and humbled Himself even unto death, even the death of the cross. Although the reformers did valiant service In dispelling much of the gross darkness and in lifting the true light of God's Word, they evidently over looked the fallacy called tlie Trinity. But we have in the Bible the standard authority by which tlie reformers were guided, and it is our duty as well as our privilege to hear what the Lord God hath spoken upon this subject and to conform our faith thereto. The Scriptures do indeed teach, as we have seen, that there is an Almighty One, "The God and Father of our Iord Jesus Christ." (Romans, xv 0). They do also teach that the only begotten Son of God, highly exalted by the Father, is to be reverenced even as we reverence the Father; also that the Scriptures do teach that there is a Holy Spirit of God, which, proceeding from the Father and from tlie Son, is also to be the Spirit of the sanctified church. But some one inquires in astonish ment: Is not the doctrine of the Trin ity particularly set forth in the Bible? We answer. No. Everything as we have shown is to the contrary; the word Trinity, trlnltarian, etc.. Is not to be found, even In our common version of the Bible, which was made by those who held this as the scriptural posi tion and who would have been glnd to thus translate any Hebrew or Greek word If they had found any tuch word capable of such translation. The few of our day who would stand up in defense of the unreasonable proposition that we have three gods equal In power and glory, and yet that the three In some incomprehensible manner are one in person, would like to use the one text of 8cripture which has defended this absurdity for centu ries, but which all scholars now agree with no part of the original writings, but was added about the seventeenth century, at the time when this doctrine of the Trinity, by persecution, had forced itself Into the place of full con trol. The passage referred to Is omitted In the revised version of the Bible, al though all the members of the com mittee were professedly trlnltarlans in their views. They were too conscien tious to give further publicity to that which was recognized as a fraudulent; interpolation intended to deceive and to support the trlnltarian view. The words not in the original, added in the seventh century not found in any Scriptures of earlier date than the sev enth centuryyou should note in your Testament by striking them out, name ly, beginning with the words, "in heav en, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness In earth." If those fraudulent words be stricken out the passage reads as it did originally, with beautiful simplicity and clearness, "There are three that bear records, the Spirit, the water and the blood, and these three agree, in one (testimony)." The absurdity of the passage as it stands in the common version can be seen ot a glance. The interpolation would make the passage say that the Father, tlie Word and the Holy Ghost all three are one, and that they are bearing record In heaven that Jesus is the Son of God. How unreasonable to suppose that such a witnessing in heaven should be necessary. Ho not the angels know that Jesus is the Sou of God? Why, then, the statement that the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost are witnessing In heaven that Jesus is the Son of God? Every inter polation, nnd we are glad that they are few, marks itself as an absurdity, and cannot be harmonized with the In spired portions of the Word. This Is a further evidence to us that the Scrip tures as given by God are of divine in spiration, and that nothing should be added to them nor taken from them. Evidently, however, it is the duty of every child of 3od to erase from his Bible any portion, such as this one, that may be found to be an addition, not the words of the inspired apostles. This passage would not suggest to any reasonable mind that the Father and the Son are one in person were II not that this false doctrine has be clouded Judgment on the subject There are more ways of being one than merely personally one. . Our Lord's words elsewhere explain His meaning here. Praying to the Father for His followers He said, after praying fo His apostles, "Neither pray I for those alone, but for them also who will be lieve on Me through their word, that they all may be one as Thou, Father, art in Me and I In Thee, that they may be one In us." (John xvli., 20-21), Here Is the sense of oneuoss between the Father and the Son, oneness of spirit, oneuoss of purpose not oneness of person. The Jury that recently tried State Senator Emmons for bribery, at Sacra mento, Cal sat twenty-six days. Phantom Doves. A man who had been at work in a shoe factory In Maine set a ben one day. He was told that the eggs were "bantams," and be always was fond ot bautams. "It don't take scarcely noth ing to feed 'em," said he, "and I'm much obliged to you." And the young follows in the same room in the shoe factory, who gave him the eggs, smiled among themselves. The eggs hatched, and then the devoted bantam-ralber hung over the "chicks" In rapture. They were the most awful specimens of bantams, though, ho ever saw. They were the lankest and most Insignifi cant and nakedost and fuzziest birds he ever met in all his existence. "Seems to me," proffered he, the next day, as he stood at his work, "that them's mighty queer bautams. I kind of think they're soma new breed souiQthlug sort of original, you know. Such things does happen." The boy in the shop agreed, without much urg ing, to come up and see them. They cumo in ones and twos and threes and squads, and filled his hen house and docked hit premises, and after they had all got there they gave the hen fancier the bottom of tho plot. They had given blin a setting of dove' eggs. TOT For the Tnrnlp Crop. It was long ago the discovery of Eng lish farmers that bone manure, as they call lime phosphate, was good for the turnip crop. The turnips were often fed pn the land where grown, and the field' thus fertilized with the sheep droppings was afterward sown with wheat or other grain. Usually sheep, given a turnip patch to feed down, were well fed with grain, or linseed meal, which made much richer manure than would turnips. ".ell the Poor Coin, Sell the poor cows and buy no other unless you know all about them. Farmers lose more money by buying fresh cows than from any other source. They cannot Judge of the cnpnclty or disposition of tlie aiilmul until it has been tested, and disease may lie brought Into the herd unknowingly. When -.lie foundation of a herd rests iiMn breed, and the farmer patiently walls until he has secured cows of his own breeding, the road to success will then be easier. Onirics of Swine. Because hog raisers, it Is stated, do not always Interpret market reports to their full meaning, loss nnd disap pointment frequently ensues, and the Department of Agriculture prluts the following classifications: Prime heavy hogs -.'',.10 to 500 pounds. Butcher hogs ISO to 3o0 pounds. racking hogs 200 to BOO pounds. Light hogs 123 to 220 pounds. Pigs 03 to 123 pounds. Roasting pigs 15 to 30 pounds. The.e general classes are further 8ul)-cI:isslllod and also different types of butchers nnd bacon hogs described on the bs!s adopted by the markets. The obJe-.-t of the above Is to Induce fanners to ship to the large markets uniform lots of hogs which conform to recognized classes. Mixed lots al ways :el! at u disadvantage. Specu lators take advantage, buying several carload lots, which they sort into var ious classes nnd resell at a profit Sim ply because they are properly graded. Indiana Fanner. Plan For a Corn Crib.. T. II. II.: I Intend to build a double corn crib to hold from two thousand to three thousand bushels. Between the cribs on the driveway I want to place my scales, and want room enough to weigh a load of hay. the roof to be high enough to let a load of hay under r.nd long enougu to keep the liny from getting wet should it rain. Have you drawings showing different capacities, or can yon direct me to some one who enn furnish mo with Information de sired ? More than one style for the purpose ro rr. tg rr i- ------. pouot.1? DQOtS FIGURE 2. desired would no doubt be satisfactory. Fig. 1 shows the upright plan of a building thirty-six feet wide and thirty leet long, with either teu or twelve leet posts. The cribs of the dimen sions shown In Fig. 2 would then be thirty feet long', ten feet wide and ten or twelve feet high. With the lower posts, with the length and width given, the bins would hold three thousand bushels. The building would, however, have a more proportional uppearauce if the posts were twelve feet high, and the space in the centre would be high er for a man If ho stood up on a load of bay. The sides can be built perpen dicular if the cornice has a two-foot projection. It will be observed that I have arranged for u door Into tho cribs from the floor. They can have drop doors also, running the whole length, through which the corn can be shov elled direct from the hauling wagons. Large double doors are provided at each end. The scales are get near tho front end, so that the horses may' be under cover and the lood upon the scales platform. I have also arranged for a set-off Into the crib for the scale beums, etc., open ing, of course, to the floor. The sensi tive part of the scales will bo pro tected from danger. The cribs will need t be floored uhovo the ground, and my personal preference would be to build the barn floor on the same level. There would then be room for the working part of the scales under tho floor and entirely above ground, saving expense, and the bearings would not rust so badly at when built lu the customary manner, underground. I have not figured on cost. Price of lumber and the general finish will largely determine. The build rs can do this better. Suffic'-nit light can be secured from the gable. II. E. Cook, In the '-.ribune Farmer. Shoeing tue Hone. The colt comes to the shop with a good foot. The slioer begins to shoe that colt. H begins by trimming the foot. Why trim the foot? One man answered: "To make the shoe fit." There is the mistake right on the start. The good Lord made feet long bafore nian mude shoes. The shape of the hoof must be understood, and the shoe must be made to conform to that shape or the result will be fallur j. Half the art of shoeing lies In trimming the hoof. Stop now; don't cut that heel. It cuts so easily; It ti to much band- FIGURE 1. I A ' I r 5 tO FT. It; fr in trr ler that unless I watch you you will ruin the foot before yon have had time to fairly inspect it. Keep your knife, off that frog. It needt no trimming. The frog is nature's own cushion. It must not be destroyed. Why Is It, I know not, but a great many men who ought to know better dig Into that frog the first thing. Let it alone. It be longs there, and when you have trimmed it down to a mere point you have ruined it and greatly Injured the foot. Let the frog alone. Nine times out of ten the toe la too long, and needs shortening To do this trim from the underside; never chop it off from the top. Trim from below every time. To be' sure you can shorten the toe by chopping from above, but you have not changed the bearing; you hnve not relieved the strain. You have done nothing to rest the tendons by outside trimming. Place a brick under the sole 'of your foot; now leave the heel upon the floor and stand that way a few minutes. It becomes tiresome, your foot aches, your ankle aches and you want relief. Well, now, take an ax nnd chop off two inches of your toe. Do you feel better? Not a bit. Well, then, chop out the heel of your shoe, but leave tho brick under your toe. Do you feel better? Not a bit. What then would you like? Tuke away the brick from under the front of the foot and etand squarely and nnturally upon your whole foot. Right you are. You want to lower the toe and raise the heel every time. You enn't do this by chopping off the toe, nor by paring the heel. In a state of nature, running wild over the plains and around the mountains, horses grind and break off their toes for themselves, but horses tied In a stall or running in soft past ures nnd in wet barnyards have no chance to do this for themselves, and it the man who has charge of them and the care of their feet does not know enough to do this for them they become cripples. Now In conclusion: Plain shoeing for me. Don't get crazy to put on a fancy shoe. Don't shoe for sliced. Don't try to imitate some one else. Don't shoe out of your class. Give the horse a healthy, strong, well balanced foot, and when the times comes the expert will do the rest. Learn the fu iid a mental principles of your art. Leave specialties until you have mas tered plain, everyday shoeing. And when you become a good all around horseshoer, then learn to drive. Get so you can handle the reins prop erly and as a gentleman should. Then, when you have learned how to drive and how to guit n horse, you can study uction and learn how to shoe for speed. Right here Is the proper place to suy to Mr. Farmer: "Watch you colts; watch their feet; every three or four months take them to the shop and have their toes trimmed and their feet bal anced up. Have It done right, and pay for having it done. Be particular how it Is done. Tell the farrier what the old doctor snys about it, and tell hlin the old doctor says you want a' good Job and thut you are willing to pay for It." Richard II. Wood, In the Tribune Farmer. Feeding Hay and Fodder. When all has been done that enm readily be done to supplement a 6hort hay crop by growing substitutes on the farm, something may also be ac complished by exercising good Judg ment in feeding the hay. Many have the impression that milch stock should be fed all the coarse fodder they will eat. " This we believe to be unneces sary, and contrary to the teaching of, some of the more recent experimental work done by the experiment station. The more palpable and the more easi ly digested the ration of the milch cow is the better. To obtain the best re sults, about one-half of the dry matter of the ration should come from the grain feeds. This means that grain feeds should constitute a large part of the total feed of the cow. If a consid erable part of the coarse fodder of the ration comes from the silage, only a small part need be provided in the form of hay. The cheuper dry fodders, such as corn stover or ont straw, may be fed In connection with liberal silage and grain feeding, and good results will follow. Recent experimental inquiry has shown that the value of a feed de pends quite lurgely upon the easo with which it is digested. It was formerly supposed thut a pound of digestible dry matter from one source was Just as valuable as a pound from another, but this supposition has been over thrown by recent experimenting. The energy or labor required in digesting a certain feed must come from the food eateu. If the food euten is largely course, dry fodders, more energy will be required In the work of digestion, und less will be left for building up valuuble products. C. S. Phelps, In American Cultivator. HaTlnt Wut Vegetable. On most farms there is enough lu the way -f small and unsalable vege tables goes to waste each fall to carry a good sized flock of poultry through the winter in the matter of that very essential part of their ration, green food. Take the cabbages which are too small to cut, the small potatoes which are unsalable, and the other tinull root crops; gather them all and store them away in pits out of doors, bringing them in to feed during the curly days of winter at the time when the poultry sadly miss tho green food. It ia not hard to save the cabbage for a long time lu the winter. In prepar ing the vegetables for the tuble during the winter save the refuse portion for the fowls instead of sending it to the swine. True, hogs thrive on this sort of stuff, but it will pay a larger prof It if fed to the poultry. It doesn't make much difference what this is; carrot or potato peelings, cab bage leaves, apple skins, almost any thing that Is green wltl do a world of good to the poultry. If there Is any considerable quantity of unsalable po tatoes this fall, don't save them for seed or use them on the tabje, but div ide them among the stock, giving, all of them a portion. The Increased .val ue ot the stock and Its return to you In milk, weight or eggs will make the feeding prolltabie.-Incliauuuollt Newi THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR DECEMBER 31 Review or tha LoMont For "the T.art Quarter or the Tear Kead Psalm rrl Golden Tet, Pfa. !., 11 Baintnarlee. Lesson 1. Topic: Divine judgment against sin. Place: Babylon. Belshaz tur, only sixteen or seventeen years old, was the ruling king in the city ot Babylon. In his drunken folly and wickedness ho called for the golden and silver vessels which had been tak en from the temple at Jerusalem that he might drink from them as a to ken that his gods had given victory over the God of the Jews. During this profane revelry a hand appeared and wrote upon the wall. Thlt filled the king with fears, and he declared that the wise man who should Interpret the meaning should bo clothed with scar let and have a chain of gold nnd be third ruler In the kingdom. When all had failed, the queen, mother of Bel shnzzar, came In and persunded her son to send for Daniel, to whom, when he enme, the king repented his promise made to the wise men. II. Topic: Divine deliverance of the righteous. Place: Babylon. Daniel's enemies knew that he was accustomed to prny to his God, nnd they were as sured that no decree and no danger could stop him, and by foul nienns they could secure hit sentence to be thrown in the den of lions. His char acter was a constant reproof. They persuaded the king to make a decree that no one should ask a favor of God or of man except of the king himself for a month, on penalty of being cast among the lions. III. Topic: Gracious life providences. Places: Babylon and Jerusalem. When the Jews from Jerusalem were led cap tive by Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon was the world kingdom. In the year B. C. G38 the Medo-Perslan kingdom nrose under Cyrus and conquered Babylo nia. Things went better with the cap tives. But a change of government was not the only help, for tlie prophets warned and entreated the people. Eze klel, who himself was taken captive in the second siege against Jerusalem, preached to the people upon the need of a new henrt nnd changed life. Dan iel's example and Influence helped to turn the hearts of his people to God. Isaiah's prophecies gave insptratlou and hope. IV. Topic: Building the house of God. Place: Jerusalem. After a long, hard march from Babylon, a distance of 000 to 700 miles, the exiles reached Jerusalem, where they found the city in ruins as it bad lain since its destruc tion by Nebuchadnezzar. Their first step was to rebuild the altar of sac rifice. V. Topic: A study of the Holy Spirit. Place: Jerusalem. Zerubbobel was building the second temple at Jerusa lem amid difficulties and discourage ments. At this time God gave the pro phet Zecharlub a series of visions, that he might encourage the people. He spoke to Zerubbabel of the golden can dlestick and tlie olive trees. He as sured him that ho should finish -the temple. VI. Topic: Fidelity to duty. Place: Shushan. The history contained in the book of Esther belongs in the time be' tween the dedication of the second temple and the coming of Ezra to Ju dea. Tho great danger of the Jews, the opportunity Esther had to protect them, and the defeat of a wicked ene my all go to moke up a thrilling his tory showing God's great lovo and care of His children. VII. Topic: Vital principles In life's Journeys. Places: Jerusalem and Baby lonia. In this lesson we have Ezra's account of his mission to Jerusalem. By prayer and fasting he prepared for the Journey. He set apart priests to have charge of the valuable vessels and money. The Journey was muda under God's guidance. VIII. Topic: A study of prayer. Pluee: Shushun. Nehemlah was a no ble example of Christian patriotism. He was a uiau of profound piety, con necting everything, great and small, with the will of God. His prudence was equally marked, and there is no better example of constant dependence oil God uulted with practical fore thought He was unselfish. IX. Topic: Self-sacrlflce for the good of others. Place: Ephesus. The church lu Corinth was founded in A. D. 52, 53. by Paul while on his second missionary Journey. The church was a little band In a city of 400,000 inhabitants; a gem In a city of Iniquity. The early train ing, the former habits, the surrounding Influences of a city which, even in the Gentile world, was famous for drunk enness, made It difficult to live a true Christian life. X. Topic: Important principles In life's battle. Place: Jerusalem. Nehe mlah had the cause of his people at heart. He had left his position of trust to go with the despised and persecuted Jews who were struggling to protect their city by a secure wall. He estab lished prayer among the laborers, and thus kept the work going on regardless of opposition. XI. Topic: How to study the Bible, riaee: Jerusulem. When the city was enclosed by a wall, though It had been built under great dltficulties, the people turned their attention to God's word. XII. Topic: The coming Messiah. Place: Jerusalem. The history of the Jewish nation shows how often they were allured into sin. Severe chastise ments were sent upon them. They were reduced as a nation. XIII. Topic: Vision of Christ the Messiah. Place: Jerusalem. The peo ple of .Tudnh were at this time under a two-fold darkness: 1. The darkness of outwurd trouble. 2. They were la moral darkness. But the prophet saw Into the future when Christ should rouie and His gospel should be preached Uud all nations be blest. Sex of Angels. Referring to the discussion In New York over the sex of angels, the Lon don Standar'iremarks: "In old Eng lish painting and stained glass, In the work; ot Orcagna, and in the en graving by Albrecht Durer, the an pe leg are depleted as robust mascu line figures, magnificent In their sturdy strength, Irresistible power and unspeakable solemnity." Cromwell's Autograph. This page from a parish register shows the great protector wrote more legibly 'than most of his contempor aries. ' , - - , EFiVOHTH LEAGUE LESSONS UN DAY, DECEMBER 31. What Have I Learned This Year? Deut. 8. 2 20. Our last lesson for the year is a sol emn review on the part of Moses of the merciful dealings of Jehovah with the poople of Israel. It Is a splendid thing to be brought up standing be fore our life and forced to "count our blessings." To take an Inventory of tha events, actions, and purposes of a whole year is advantageous. Busi ness men do this In tuklng account of stock. So the Chrlstlun ought. This lesson recognizes that there is a peril In prosperity, and not always safety In success. There was clangor to these Israelites in getting to their goal In the Promised Land. There U danger lo us In temporal prosperity. We sometimes lose tpirituuilv when we are gaining temporally. How has the past year been to us spiritually as well as in a wordly sense? "Looking backward" may not al ways be a healthy nor profitable em ployment. But ut tlM end of a year, as a roiew of the results of 'a life, It may lead to new resolves, new ef forts, nnd new departures. It is nat ural that wa should do this at the New Yeur. The business man bal ances his ledger; the employee often begins a new engagement; the affairs 5f men are at this time adjusted to aew conditions. Our successes should teach us to expect great things in the future, from God. It should be a matter of great sncouragemont to count up the vic ;orles of the past twelvemonth. Our Souls were high as started out in 1905. We have realized soma of them. Wc have had success in tho Christian life. We stand ut tho end of the year with new courage and new nope to begin another year. Let us learn the lessons of courage, hope, trust and faith which they should teach us. Our failures should be warnings '.hat will be valuable to us In future vears. Wrong methods, wrong plans, jnd even fairly good ones should be ihandoned for bettor and more effec tive ones. Learn tho lesson, and then resolve upon new plans which will succeed. Surely it has been a year ot bless ing to you and to yours; to the church and the League; to the com munity and the nation. Count up your blessings. Iet them teach you greater love, more ardent zeal, a new consecration, a better service. Re cognize, as our Scripture teaches us, that here are dangers in success, and a constant peril in our forgetting God. Redouble your diligence, and become more frequent and earnest In prayer. CHRISTIAN 09BEAVQR NOTES DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST. Looking Backward What Have Learned This Year? Deut. 8: 8-20. If God's loading of our lives Is not worth our grateful remembering, It is not worth His faithful perform ing Many of the blessings God has sent us during the past year we have recognized, but how many mora have heen "manna which we know not," blessings In disguise, whose blessed ness will be understood some day! God lias chastened us this past, yaar, but never In anger, always In grief and love, "as a man chasteneth his son." We cannot see the year that lies before us, but we know it la "a good land,' because Christ has gone ahead of us, "preparing a place for us." It we have learned nothing this year, it has not been worth our living through it. If we are not more sure ot God's goodness thau we were at the begin ning of the year, it is not because we have not received more of God's goodness lo assure us. Are you more confident of your self than you were a year ago? Then the yeur has not been a thoughtful one. Are you more confident ot God? Then you have grown wiser. Carry over Into the next year your successes but only to better them your failures but only to avoid repeating them. . Experience without meditation Is life at simple interest; with medita tion, it is life at compound interest. A lesson is not well learned until It Is reviewed, nor Is a year well lived until you are ready for an ex amination on it. The waters of a mineral spring build up a stony structure simply by their flow. It is thus with the flood of years they erect their own me morial. Heaping up hooks does not make one learned, and henplng up experience does not give one experience. Judging from the past year, what mistakes am I likely to make the coming year? What have I gained this year In the spiritual life? What definite purposes of Improve ment have I for the coming year? 8he Preferred Horse Power. Modern Inventions had no charm for Miss Boggs. "The old way Is good enough for me," she said on all oc casions when her attention was call ed to the march of science in any direction. When the young physician who had succeeded to Dr. Lane's practice) bought an automobile. Miss Boggs ex pressed her opinion In no measured terms. "If he wi;nts to ride around Injur ing folks s'j's to increase his business, and there's no law ot the land can stop htm, well and good," said Miss Boggs to her niece, "but when my end comes don't you dare to have him to me, no matter If I've lost con sciousness," "What doctor shall I send for?" ask ed the niece, who was accustomed tc live In the shadow of constant refer ences to this event, although as yet Miss Boggs had never, been 111. "The ono from Portorvllle or the one from Cranston or that old one over rto Marshby, any of 'em will do," said Miss Boggs, grimly. "But mind jou get me a horso doctor, matter If I'm too far gone to know It. No automobile doctors for me." Youth's Companion, frflattcr Cnatarrhed Mm. The Trench have a way of making even an inferior quality of table linen look well without the aid of starch. When the napkins are washed and ready to be Ironed they are dipped Into boiling water and partially wrung out between cloths. They are then rapidly ironed with at hot a flatlron as possi ble without burning them. The IHth Map. A dish mop is n great convenience in washing tumblers, cups nnd light, clean dishes In very hot water. It la especially handy for washing deep dishes or those having narrow necks. A dish mop may be bought for a trifling sum. or one ebn.be manufactured at home by tyinff a quaHity ot common cord or twine to the end of a stick from eight to twelve inches long. The Booty mcits To destroy the sooty smell sometlmea noticed in a room where nn open fire place or grate has been closed for the mniiner, make a tire of packed news papers and ground coffee-. The coffee cliould be freely nprlnkled among and over the newspapers before they are lighted. The heat extracts the aroma nnd disinfecting qualities of the coffee, which purifies tho room, while tha warmth engendered is very fleeting. Many people cling to sponges, al though they are not supposed to be as sanitary as rough wash cloths, because the sponges cannot be boiled. If prop erly cared for, sponges are really quite snnltury. Only ous person should use one sponge, and the sponge when not In use should be kept hanging in the air. An authority advises washing a sticky ,ponge in milk, which process wonderfully renews it. Clranluc Fluid. One of the annoyances of cleaning fluids Is t'leir Invariable habit of leav ing a ring around the cleaned spot. An authority says that the proper way to avoid tiiis is to draw a ring around the spot with the gasoline before rub bing the spot Itself. There are several good cleaning fluids en the market which are said to oe non-explosive. If gasoline is preferred, let it never be used but by the most responsible and cure taking persou in the house-. ftendy For Loose Plotore Nail- As soon as a nail driven Ik the wall rets loose and the plaster begins to break around it,. It can be made solid and firm by the following process: Saturate a bit of wadding with thick glue, wrap- ot much of it around the nail as possible and reinsert the latter in the hole, pressing it home as strong ly as possible. Remove the- excess of glue, wiping It cleanly oft with a rag dipped in water, then leave to dry, says Woman's Life. The nail will thus be firmly fastened ia its pluce.. Rnsslan Salad A salad that Is easy to prepare when one has a garden is a mixture of several kinds of cooked vegetables string henns, peas, carrots and flowerets of cauliflower mixed with mayonnaise into which a heaping teaspoouful of dissolved gelatine has been stirred, the whole put into small individnal molds, and turned out when cold on lettuce which has had Frencli dressing put over li. Salmon Cream Soup rour a quart ot milk in a double boiler, and while heat ing drop a good sized piece of butter into a frying pan and turn it into the contents of a can ot salmon steak after removing tlie bones, skin and liquor. It Is also better to shred the salmon as finely as possible. When butter and fish are thoroughly mixed turn Into the boiling milk. Thicken with a table spoonful of flour made smooth with a little milk, season -vlth salt and pepper and a dash of cayenne and serve. . Preserved Peaches Take ripe but not soft peaches and pour boiling water over to take off the skins; TTelgh equal quantities of fruit and. sugar and put them together in an earthen pan over night. In the morn ing pour on the syrup and boil it a few; minutes, take off the scum and put back in kettle. When the syrup bolla up drop lu the peaches. Boil them slow ly three-quarters of an hour and thea take out and place in preserving jars Boil the syrup fifteen minutes longer and pour over the fruit. Layer Cake One cup butter (not a large one), two cups granulated sugar, three cups flour, three teaspoontuls baking powder, one cup milk (not a large one), three or four eggs (better when four are used), one teaspoonful vanilla. Mix butter and sugar .until very creamy. Then add the beaten yokes and whites of the eggs (the whites having been well beaten be fore), next the milk, then the flour, into which the baking powder has been put. Stir well and buke In three tiui. (This is for a three story cake.) Apple Jelly Use twelve pounds of apples, six quarts of water and sugar. Wash, wipe and cut tho apples Into halves, then into quarters and remove the cores. Slice them thin, put them into a porcelain lined kettle, add the cold water, cover the kettle, bring to boiling point and boll gently for twen ty minutes. Dralu carefully 'over u'lght; do not squeeze or press the bag. Next morning strain this syrup, put it into a porcelain lined kettle, brln? quickly lo a boiling point, boll rapidly for five minutes and aud one pound of sugar to each pint of Juice; stir until the sugar is dissolved. Boll quickly and begin to "try." As soou au it begins to form a Jelly take it from the fire and pour it at once into perfectly clean tumblers. To "try," dip a teaspoonful Into a saucer. apd stand the suueer in cold water or .on' a piece of Ice. In a moment scrape the spoon through It, and it It is brittle, like jelly, it has been boiled long enough. Add. O seeds of two vanilla beans and povr i , once into tumblers. There la i : danger lu overboillrj t' '". .' 1 btflllui', i
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