THE PULPIT. BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON THE REV. J. H. MELISH. Sibjcrt: Faith Once Dcllvcrr.?. BY Brooklyn. N. Y. The Rev. John ' Faith, tn the EMer Bro'hor makes ns I Hit fallow children: kop faith In I Ihe Father through storm and nun i shine. When a mm ses the cursed snot upon his soul oan hp remove It? "A man." said .lean, "had two sons." On went Into the far coontrv and painted hi soul hlark with loos" and unworthy deeds When his monev VII gone hp fplt his disgrace and shame Hp did not commit suicide; hp wont straight homo No soonPr Sun&at-&cfwi 1 1 L J I Religious Truths THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK Howard Mellsh. rector of thp Church i had hp reached thp road outside the of the Holy Trinity. Clinton and Mon- i gate whpn he was hallpd and his tagtie atrppts. Sunday morning i fathpr ran to mPt him. Whatever preached on "The Faith Once Pellv red." The test was from Jude I: "The faith which was once for all de livered to the saints." Mr. Mellsh aid : A Pentecost seems to he taklns place In Korea Forres, no doubt In large part political and commercial, but also supremely religious and edu cational, are bringing that Eastern nation to a new birth. Men every where are Inquiring about the "nw religion." Churches are crowded many times a day. Teacher and preachers cannot meet the need. We : thp spot may ho upon thp soul If a l man will take his disgrace and shame I to God hp will find In Him a Father. I So with social failure. Is the time short that regains? Waste It not In vain regrets over If The nast Is Irreparable, but the future Is still I one's own "Come I of ns he going." When a man dips shall he llvt I again? Knowledge gives no better i answer than In the dnva of Aristotle. I What seems to be scientific proof, when examined, turns out to be simply man's hone expressed In scion' title phrases. nut man hrj trust AUGUST 9ECOND. INTERNATIONAL lesson com. MENTS l'Oll Al'OUST 2. Subject: David Anointed at Bthle. Iiem, 1 Samuel Mtloli Golden Text, 1 Ham. 18:7 Commit Verses II, 13 Head Chapter 16. TIMK. 1063 B. C. PLACE. Bethlehem. EXPOSITION. I. The LORD hath not chosen these, 1-10. It speaks well for the generosity of Samuel that he mourned over the fall of Saul ( v. Songs of the Heart. VIII. How Can We Serve the Church? Ps. 84. (Consecration Meeting.) (race given to each. Eph. 4: 1-7. Serving In worship. Acts 2: 39 42. l)y endurance. Acts 8: 1-3. By obeying. 1 Sam. 15: 10-22. By Bhlnlng. Matt. 5: 13-10. By praise. Ps. 100. "Amiable," "lovable," must be the adjective of nil things connected with religion; If not, they are not yet con nected with religion. "The thing you long for, that you are." Test your religion by the ex tent of your desire for the church. You ure duelling In God's hotiBe If From the Writings of Great Preacher. intDB with us, o lord. from what we know of this, in his hopes and fnlth. in the testlrconv of his poets and prophets. And of all such witnesses to life that desires to be eternal stands .Testis, our Elder llrother. Before the Bate of neath He stands and holds the kpv. It Is flubf of Illm. master of life and death, that strengthens our faith In immortality, quickens o-,r hope for the (lend and casts Rbout life here and there the golden radiance which sur passes the sunset glow seem to be witnessing what lias not i worthv evidence, not In the splrl- been seen for centuries, a nation I tualistlc sense, but In the Inference turn Christian What Is of great significance In Hie religious awakening and conversion of Korea is the kind of Christian re ligion which is receiving this over whelming response. If the reports art true. If Is a religion with two Ides. Those who have received It Bnd who are Mending it among their fellow countrymen know only "The Father" and "Our Elder Brother." The names which have been ami are to multitudes of us Western Chris tians of value have no existence to those tern followers of .Tesns God and Jesus they know, but "Christ" and the doctrines of the Trinity, the Incarnation, the atonement, are not even nanus. Their religion is with out dogma. Is this a sufficient statement of the Christian fnlth T do not mean If It Is the sum total of the Christian truths. Of course. It Is not. Neither do I mean If if Is th" "Irreducible minimum." without which a man ran hard I v he called a Christian. But Is this fai'h In God as Father. In Jesus as Elder Brother, sufficient lor life and death" Can men live by this? Are tbes- the regulative Ideas of nnr religion, the fundamen tal propositions of which all other truths ate corollaries? Such questions can be answered only by the deep experiences of life. Life, the abundant life, is the teSt of truth. There are times which try men's soul? Then It Is that a man's books are opener!, his words are weighed, his traditions are tested. At inch moments the soul Is concerned not with words, but with realities. He dpnmnds real answers for real auestlonlns. Such was th experi ence of .lob when disaster befell him. "Under the fire and the whirlwind not only Job's propertv, but Job's the ology, was swept away. Orthodoxy proved too weak to lean upon. Such, loo, was 1 lie experience of Saul of Tarsus, when he discovered that law failed to make men righteous. He was driven hi new needs to revolutionize his religion and morals. St. Augus tine. Luther. Wesley, also, were men who. face to face with new experi ences, as few questions which ortho doxy failed to answer They were, Jrlven to the fundamentals of fnlth by the facts of life. If faith In God as Father and fact that the man for whom they had In some measure nt least rejected himself turned out so poorly. "There, I told you so." he would have said. But Samuel wan of a nobler mold. as to what the other World Is like ! Bn' grief, not exultation, filled his of men he would have taken a secret I "Ur s"lrlt Js, ,hp.rp' thouh "'cKne If not an outspoken delight In the heart at the folly and ruin of his rival. But while it was commendable that he should he grieved at the sin and consequent rejection of Saul, It was not right that he should spend his time in Idle mourning. God had "rejected him from being king over Israel;" another king must he sought out and consecrated to fill his place. God does not wish us to be crushed by the sins of the world and so to spend our time In morbid and useless lamentations over them, but to rise Keep your body at homo All lowliest service for the church It glorlolis. Who would not rather wash Christ's feel than place a crowD Per all these experiences of life. In ! n1 K forward to the duties, however a.iswer to all these deep questionings faith In Cod as Father. In Jesus as Elder Brother Is sufficient. In Korea the Christian Church has learned to ask this faith of Its con verts and no more. When will the nhnrrh at home learn 'his much needed lesson? There are questions which this simple faith does not an swer. Christianity no sooner had reached the educated Greek than the niestlons came: What Is the relation letween Jesus and God? How Is the fCIder Brother related to the other brothers? What is the true idea of nearnatlcn and of atonement? Men have a right to ask these questions. That right was won long ago by Orl ien, of Alexandria. But let It be iearly understood that all such mat ters of speculation, while legitimate, are not the ."faith once delivered." The faith once delivered is related to speculative faith, as It historically has found expression In the creeds and doctrines of the church, ns the tree Is related to its leaves. The faith once delivered, trust In God ns Father, in Jesus as Elder Brother Is the tree. The creeds and doctrines are the leaves. From season to sea son they must change as new life pushes off old forms, because the tree Itself abides. I wish I could persuade men who to-day reject all creeds, and with them the faith, to sen this distinction between faith and creels. It is possi ble to reject the latter and live by the former. I wish that I could per suade men who identify faith and creeds to make this distinction. It would do much to win the thinking world to the religion of Jesus. It Is a real distinction. The faith once delivered existed manv generations before the most venerable creeds of lesus as Elder Brother Is sufficient I Christendom were born. It will con it must answer the deep questionings i tlnue to Inspire and strengthen men which spring from the deep etperi- when all our creeds shall have passed nces of life. These questions are away. The faith is once for all do- hree In number. Bahlod all nhiloso- I Itvered. phies you will find them. To answer :hem all religions have set them selves. The first question Is: Is there a God. and if there is what Is He like? It has its origin In man as a reason- I Ing and moral creature. What is the origin of what we see and feel? is ' Ibis universe self-evolved or Is it the ' expression of some power which I moves through it and presides over It? If there is such a Power, what Is It like? Has It any or the attri butes of personality, Intelligence, righteousness, love? Behind all hu man doubts and questionings is this mother of questions. Is there a Cud? The second question Is: When a man sees upon his soul the blot of a sin can it be removed? What theo logians call sir. is a universal ex perience. When Herbert Spencer came to America he was entertained t a banquet by the most learn"d company which had probably as sembled here. At the eud of the program of speeches Henry Ward Beecher was called upon. He praised science and eulogized the debt which religion owed the men who toiled so painstaKingiy to ascertain truth Subtle-it thought shall fail and learning taller, Churches change, forms perish, systems go: ; But our human needs they will not niter, Christ no after age shall er outgrow. Yen. Amen! (). changeless One, Tliou only Art Ufa's guide ami spiritual goal. I'liou, the light across trie dark vale lonely, Tliou, the eternal heaven of the soul. disagreeable, that these sins entail upon us. Saul was a king that God had provided for the people (ch. 9:16) a king according to their choice (1 Sam. 12:13); David was a king whom God had provided for Himself n man after His own heart (ch. 13:14). Little by little God dis closes His purposes to His servant Samuel. In chapter 13:14 He shows him that He has sought out and ap pointed this king. In the first verse of this chapter He tells Samuel that this king Is a son of Jesse, but not until the twelfth verse does He point out which son of Jesse. Hundreds of years before It had been prophesied that the sceptre should fall to Judah IGen. 49:10). Samuel, for all his ex cellencies of character, was human and fallible. Like so many others In the Bible (Ex. 3:11; 4:1-10; Jer. 1:5. 6) and out of the Bible, to whom God has said "Go," he hesitated to undertake the work for which God bad commissioned him for fear ol the consequences (t. 2). When God ays, "Go," we ought "not to reply, "How can I .'" but to start and go, and leive God to settle the "how." "If Saul hear it. he will kill me.' "The fear of man" brought "a snare' to Samuel In this Instance (Prov. 29:2,"j). And how foolish thnt fear was. How could Saul or anybody else kill a man w ho had a work to do for God? Hid the Lord hid Samuel to tell a lie to secure his safety? (vs. 2, 3). Not at all; the Lord is never put to such straits as that; and it augurs a lack of faith in God when we resort to falsehood or indirection to secure our ends. God simply 'refused to argue with Samuel the question ol his going, and again bids him go, and tells him what to say and that at. the proper time He will show him what to do. What Samuel was bidden to tell was the exact truth as far as It went. We are under obligations to tell the exact truth, even to our ene mies, if we tell anything, but we are not under obligation to tell all we know. This is the way In which God frequently guides His servants a step at a time. Notice how each step la marked out by the phrase, "the Lord said" (verses 1, 2, 7, 12). Are we also taking each step according to the word of the Lord? It Is blessed to walk this way. We, too, can go on knowing that the Lord will show the I us what we shall do day by day, hour Giving la (Jetting. by hour, and moment by moment. The old proverb-writer uttered a I Samuel was allowed no discretion great truth when ho said that there whatever in the matter (v. 3). He was a giving that tended to Increase 1 was simply to listen to the voice of and a withholding that tended to I the Lord and anoint the one He poverty. Giving and rscelving are named. David was wholly God's not two different things; the one I choice. Note the difference in the means the other. There Is, in the languuge about the anointing from divine economy, a great principle of that about the anointing of Saul (ch. sxrhange by which giving and recelv- 9:16). "Anoint unto Me," God says ing are coincident. Especially Is this about David. "Anoint to be a prince principle operative In the moral and . over My people," He says about Saul, spiritual realm. Samuel's hesitation ubout doing the The most significant thing In life Lord s will was not of long duration, ind development is hospitality. We He lays aside his fears and his regrets ipn the doors of our heart and life over Saul's disposal and goes and does to ennobling and inspiring visitors as he is bidden. Did not Samuel' We give of our capacity; but how! readiness to obey God, so often exhlb- much more do we get. God ask! ited (comp. verse 13), have some- iw to frlvu din- henrtw We iln do nnrl thine to .!,, n-ltv, , :, ., ....... i Awl .v.,. , a - ' - .. - - --. .... - e" uiai ijuvei u L)I,ler Ana then suddenly turning aside, he how mnch more we get. Jesus for which he became famous i inhn Christ asks us to give Him a place I 3:22)? "He looked on Ellab, and in our life. We give It, but the re- ! said, surely the Lord's anointed Is be suit is not a giving after all so much l fore him." But he did not act upon as it is a getting. i bis natural Judgment, but waited for Be hospitable then. Be hospitable I the voice of the Lord and that soon to all the divine Influences of life, I set him right. It matters little how men see us. It mattern evervthlnir hna Hospitality. I3e nospiiauje tu uou ; on the head of an earthly king. Suggestions. All service of men serves the true church, for her Interests are as broad as mankind. At bottom, we serve the church not by doing but by being. Let Christ choose tor you your serv Ice In the church, and accept It, whether it Is high or row In men's eyes. Service of the church. If It la gen uine, will be put first, far above the service of self. Illustration. Servants of a ho'usehold must be In the house; you cannot serve the church and stay at home. Employers like workmen who Iden tify themselves with the establish ment, nnd make Its honor theirs. So let. us Identify ourselves with church. We often long to eee Christ. Hut we can see Him In the church, which Is His body. Is a soldier only for battle? No, but for hard marches, dull camps, and monotonous drills. So a Christian must sometimes expect dull routine in bis church work. EPWDRTH LEftGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, AUGUST 2. How Jesus Masters Our Prejudices Acts 9: 10-22; Phil. 3: 1-6. This topic Is intended to teach the vlls of prejudice, one of the deadll st enemies of mankind. It Beparnt.ea aces because of the color of their iktn, the place of their birth, where '.hey live, the language they speak, ind refuses to see good In anyone localise of some fancied Inferiority, t believes good of someone because )f the clothes he wears, accepts his cachings regardless of their lack of ruth. Everyone who has succeeded has ltd to do battle with this opponent. The inventor, the discoverer, me re brmer, the teacher of now truths, the nan in the front rank of progress hose know the meaning of prejudice, 'or they hav:' felt Its Btlng. "Can any tood come out of Nazareth?" "Lord, have heard of this man and his ocord Is bad." It Is bard for us to understand how Jod can save the other man, but He an and does. We see Him through luman l.mses, and Judge Him by eehle sense hul He whn has planned he whole sees the end from the be inning. He commands, we ought to bey. It Is sometimes hard for us to be leve that the man in sin has visions, et he must have, for they are the slngnboards to future goodness. God las chosen vessels in sin which we ire to rescue and direct In his ways. Christ gave us two recipes for ivercnmlng prejudice. An Invitation -"Come and see." Not argument; lust a vision. A command "Go tell vour friends what great things the lxrd hath done for you." These two were effective in Ananias' case. When he obeyed, he found a man praying nnd delivered his Master's message with wonderful results. How ur prejudice is overcome when love shines In! In fiery chariots of the west ascending, The ilnv hath passed in triumph, Lord, tc Thee! Its fallen mantle glows with twilight blend 1112 On the fnr shndnwy spares ol the sea. It is townrd evening. Oft at noontide roaming Our henrt have met with Tkee in sweet accord ; Now in the pence nnd leisure of the gloam ing, Abide w.th ui, O Lord! The ncenn like a dreamless child is sleep ing. Hushed in the hollow of Thy mighty hand . One stnr a tremble in the west is keeping lone watch on nil night's silent border land. Enter, dear Lord; our Innf is vet unbroken, Our water shnll be wine by Thee out poured ! We yearn to henr Thy "Peace be with you," spoken. Abide With us, O Lord! Low murmurs through Hip si awnrd boughs are Wafted, A breath of roses stents along the shore; More calm, more sweet, Thy loving words engrafted Tn our responsive henrts for evermore. Yet Mori we crave. Oh, tarry in our leis ure! Ani to the longing of our souls afford Thy love and jny in overflowing measure: Abide with us, O Lord! It is toward evening. Soon from out the shadows A deeper shadow on our brows must fall. So soon across the dim familinr meadows The hour will come when we must leave them nil. Ah, leave us not with Death nlone to wander. Let Thine own hand unloose (hoi silver cord ; Though toglit fall here, until the day dawn yonder. Abide with u. O Lord! Pittsburg Christian Advocate. mauo an appeal to universal experi ence. There was Dot a man there, he said, who had not done something for which he was Mfeamtd, who did not wish he had not done It, who would like to have men know it, who would not If he could ash his soul ! and let it not be a narrow erodeInk Clear of It. S-ientlst. tiliilosonher theologian, statesman In that learned to Jesus Christ. Give Them your assembly rose (othatappeal to univer- i best rooms. Let Them be your guests, sal experience. So say all men. There have been times when sin weighed o heavily upon the consciences of j men that they have sacriflcid their ' children, thrown themselves under I the car of Juggernaut, fled to mo nastic penance. His as deep an ex- ' perlence to-day as ever, but It Is ex- ' pressed cliff rently. Has my life been i of any use to others? Is the question I upon man s soul to-day. Not have I done wrong so much as have I done ' light? His the sense of failure in well-doing that weighs upon men. Sin, individual and social, Is a unl- ' versal and tragic experience. The third question Is: When a mati dies shall he live again? The sight and They will give you Themselves in return. Giving 1s getting, and the greater the Investment the greater the re- j turn. Rev. C. 8. Macfarland. in Christian Work and Evangelist. Essential to Happiness. Companionship is the one thing In the world which is absolutely essen tial to happiness. The human heart npeds fellowship more than anything cUe, fellowship which is elevated and enduring, stronger and purer than it self, and centred in that which death cannot change. All its springs are In God. Without Him life Ib a failure, of a dead face is the mother o'. all , "nd bey0Dd U a blunl.-Heur, mysteries. It compelled hiui tc ask whether that soul had gon). aad in Lod sues us. A pure heart Is all that counts with God. That wins Hlg favor (Matt. 5:8). Dress counts for nothing (1 Pet. 3:3, 4). Learning, worldly wisdom, power, count for nothing (1 Cor. 1:26-28), profession counts for nothing (Matt. 7:21). II. Arise, anoint him, 11-18. David, like so many others God called, was attending faithfully to hla humble work when God called him (cf. Matt. 25:23). One by one the aons of Jesse had passed by until the seven had passed, and Samuel waits patiently for God's voice and says of each, "Neither hath the Lord choten this," and at last his patience 1b re warded. The volco come. "Arise. J )) 6 ) ) )) 0 I An Ancient Scald, I During the recent visit of the King of Denmark to the Norwegian court, a most Interesting figure might have been remarked among the distin guished guests there assembled. This was an old mlnBtrel, or scald, close upon ninety years of age, with long, snow-white beard and hair, and an air of proud dignity In Bplte of his rude, coarse clothes. Had he not a right carry his head high among the other nobles, he, a de scendant of Harold Falrhalred, the first king of united Norway? That doughty Harold, who went unkempt and unshorn until he reached this high i i. -it ion, in order to fulfil a vow to his high-born ladylove, Gyda? Never before had the old scald left his home In Tiemarkon, where, true to the habits of bis very long lino of The Operations of the Spirit. Perhaps there was never a time In the history of the church when there wns a greater need for a discerning spirit. Much has been written con cerning the work of the Holy Spirit, and yet the mode of His operations nnd the variety of His manifestations are but feplilv renllzed by many. To walk in the Spirit Is to have all our activities In Him. We become the mouthpiece through which He breathes His prayer and an Instru ment through which Ho perforins His work. The many-sldodness of the Spirit's ministry Is an inexhaustible study. A. B. Simpson, commenting on the neces sary feature of the Comforter's work, says: "The Holy Spirit when He tnkes possession of a yielded heart, bo comes pre-eminently the Spirit of intercession. The newly baptized soul Is often perpleted about Its lead ings and burdens of prayer. They are not always manifested through joyful experiences, but nre often painful and perplexing burdens. Un til we come to understand His voice we are npt to sometimes think that we are under the temptation or cloud Of the ndversary'H presence. The brain will become oppressed, and the heart distressed, and we may be tempted to think that there is some cloud between us nnd our Lord. "At such times let us simply roll over our burden on Him without try ing to understand It. and simply pray for whnt He means for us to ask. As we do so we shall And our heart drawn out In Intense intercession and rest will come to the burdened soul. Sometimes particular persons or things will be suggested to us, and we shall find great liberty in pleading for them. After such seasons of waiting upon God our spirit will be come rested, refreshed and greatly quickened. "We may not always learn directly of the result of our Intercession for others, but we will know God has ac cepted our service, and often we shall find in the course of HI- providence, that some evil was averted, or some blessing bestowed through our pray er. In some other life. "As we follow on to know the Lord we shall find this spirit of Interces sion mingling with all our spiritual life and running as an undertone even In themldst of the busiest ac tivities of our hands and brain. It is possible to 'pray without ceasing' and yet be intensely occupied In the prac tical dutle's of life, carrying music In our hearts, while our busy feet the holy strain rerieat." Living Waters. TEMPERANCE BATTLE GATHERS STRENGTH EVERY DAK. The Public Hons and the Saloon Singular Aspect of the New Cam paign Against Liquor Selling Coals More Than It Comes To. Temperance and the use of alco hol have passed through many phasei mil fortunes. In China more than i thousand years ago total abstinence Became the universal rule. The He brews more than two thousand year igo studied the (ubject and estab lished habits which have made them i temperate, but not a total abstaln ng, race The Western nations have iwung back and forth, sometimes breaking out in ruinous excesses and 'hen, for a time, making of temper ance a moral Issue and setting up locial and legal restraints which have served a temporary purpose. In 1842 the Waahingtonlan temperance '-evival, started by Mr. Hawkins, of Baltimore, swept over the country Kill) effects similar to those of the treat religious revival of '57, which iffected the moral fortune of two rontlnents. The moral and religious irgumentr for temperance have al vays abounded and have never yet jeen thoroughly effective. The -rea-lon for this Is evident enough. The majority of the men, at least, and probably we may safely say the wo men In any community, do not order :heir common lives accordingly to the iighest Ideals of morality and relig ion. They are prone to accept the syllogism devised by Dr. Crothers; uamely, "I like to do right. I do what I like. Therefore I do right." Now total abstinence, the regulation jf the liquor traffic, and prohibition n any community must be measured not by local statuteB, by the stan dards of the moral leaders of the community, but by the average sen timents and purposes of the people. What the people want to do and in tend to do they will find a way to do In spite of scruples and laws. There have been numerous crusades In the name and Interest of temperance. Jften for a winter whole communi ties have been greatly exercised and keyed up to a point of self-denial and Intense reprobation of the use and -ale of alcohol. Something la left fter such period of excitement, but alwajB the tendency Ib to sink back again to the former level. In England and America the cru sade against the saloon, as we call It, and the public house as the Eng iBh call It, has now all at once taken on a new form and Is wvtged with different arguments and motives. It has now been discovered by hard-headed men of affairs that the saloon, and the evil things that cIub ter about it, costs more than It conies to. The waBte of human life and snergy, the lessening of the produc tive power of the people who patron izo these places, and the expense thrown upon the community In taxa tion and the support, of hospitals and 'loorhouses, which can distinctly be Zh& HOUSE cjx HOME I Koly Poly Pudding. Take a halt pound of ahredded uet and mix It with three cupful flour, lifted with a teatpoonful bak ing powder and a saltspoonful salt. Mix with water to a stiff paste, roll out, then sprinkle with a pound nt seeded raisin. Roll, folding In the nd neatly. Tie in a icalded and well floured cloth, plunge into boil ing water and cook steadily for two find a half hour. Serve with a plain, t sauce or cream. Inked Rhubarb Pudding. Make a suet crust with three-quarter of a pound of flour, six ounces of suet, half a teaspoonful of salt nd a little cold water. Roll It out thin. Wash and cut up in small piece two largo bundles of rhubarb. Line a buttered mold with the crust, nil It up with the rhubarb, sprinkling tugar through It or sweeten nicely, nd cover with a layer of the crust Pinch the edge well together, perfo rate the top In a neat pattern with a fork, and bake In a hot oven for ono hour. Turn out and Berve hot with cream and sugar. The Housekeeper. Almond Wafer. Beat to a cream a quarter cup of butter, then rub in one-half cupful powdered sugar. Add, drop by drop, a quarter cupful of milk, then, grad ually, seven - eighths cup of sifted flour. Flavor with a half teaspoon ful of vanilla or plstache, and spread very thinly over the bottom of an Inverted dripping pan and cut In three-inch squares. Sprinkle with chopped blanched almonds and brown delicately In a very slow oven. Take from the oven, turn the squares aver one by one with a knife and roll loosely. Take up and spread on a waxed paper to cool and dry. If the squares harden before you get them all rolled place over the fire a moment to soften. Serve with cocoa, afternoon tea, ice cream or preserves. New York Tribune. Baked Potatoes. Select oval potatoes having a smooth, unmarked skin, and of uni form size. Scrub until perfectly clean, then rinse and drain. Put la an old baking tin, kept for this pur pose, or on the clean oven grate and bake In a hot oven. Forty min utes Ib about the time required for the baking. Serve as soon as done. Sweet potatoes should be boiled until almost tender, before baking, then put in the oven to finish. To test nrhnlha. , , I . I , . . ... ...... .1.... . traced to the Influence of the public ... I u .1, i with a cloth. Cold baked potatoes house or the saloon, now cause busi ness men to decide that on buslnesa principles, and for the industrial welfare of the community, these sources of extravagance and waste must be abolished. The most singular aspect of the new campaign against the saloon Is Hie entire absence of all prejudice may be warmed up so as to be almost as fresh ones, if they are dipped in hot water, then put into the oven and allowed to remain Just long enough to get perfectly hot but not long enough to harden. Contrary to gsneral opinion, cold baked potatoes against liquors, either lei in, uted or i majr De creamed or filed quite as sat isfactorlly as the boiled ones. N York Telegram. distilled, for their own sake. The new ally of the temperance move ment la the belief of the business men that the business of the world will be more economically conducted, and with better results, If the time, the noney, and the strength wasted In the saloons can be put to use, and the capital employed and wasted In the traffic be Invested in productive enterprises. In England, where the brewerleB ! halt can of tomatoes or three amall have been source of vast wealth, as one, cut fine; on. onion, minced; Dr. Johnson said, of "wealth beyond j one email red pepper, three cloves, Creole Danube, A recipe prized by the Creole cook of New Orleans and seldom divulged by them la for a dish called danube. The materials required are four 1 pounds beat cut of round of beef, one- the dreams of avarice," and the rich brewers have always been successful candidates for the honors of knight hood, and even higher rank, the sud den revulsion of public feeling has been something aatonlBhlng, antl so ilarmlng that after the subject was brought up for discussion in Parlia ment brewery stock sbrnnk In value at the rate of one hundred million dollars a week. Christian Register Patience CHOI'MM God. One of the grandest ways of prais ing God Is not by Blnging psalms and hymns; that Is a very sweet way of pralBlng Him. but a grander way Is by being quite calm In time of trouble, quite happy In the hour of distress; just dwelling with God, and finding all your grief assuaged In His blessed presence. How really and truly a child praise his father when he Just bear anything from Him? "It must be right for my Father doe it." And I believe that when a child of God say, "It I the Lord let Him do what seemeth Him good," he Is praising God more than he could with the cornet or the high sounding cymbal. Newness of Life. aniont him; for this is he." David i forefathers, he lived In a cave. Van. Dyke. o asking It lifted man's thought from the temporal to the eternal, the natural to the supernatural, the hu man to the divine. Before the ex perience ol death man stands ques tioning eaeer to Uuriw I . i lu-llu. - - . 1 " l .. . I . I.. J1-- I, ing, naif utiald. wonderlug whither wlBro ' u """'"s was not quallfiod for the kingship until the Spirit actually came. Neither are we qualified for service until we "receive the Holy Spirit." Wanted Cork und a Hot tie. A certain John Simmon had been put In the saving bank. It would i " Wfw aosiainer, uui leu irotn not amount to much, anyway, and i tne way of ,aC8 and worshiped the vinous gou wun an tne tervor or How to Get Poor Quirk. Do not try to save your loose change It Is too Bmall an amount lo his friend has gone and he himself will go. These are the deep questions which spring from the deep experi ence of life. How doe faith in God a Father, in Jesus a Elder Brother give lufllclent amwen? I there a God and what Is He like? "Yea," say Jesus, "there It t God. He I my Fther and yonr father." Some men there are who find It easy to believe on their own eiperlenre that Ood I Father. Other can believe only when the sun Is bright and the ca i calm. When Ihe torm break their heart faint within them. But the multitude of u men and women are glad that Jesua la part of our life. Our bright en moment of assurance get their light from Him; our darkest mo ment are not altogether black be cause He I part of life. It I by faith In His experience. uppnrted by Hi" cbracter, Hi aultv. His tr ith, Hi : dead', tori, we k.er fajth in Qod, Jut wait until you get sufficient I convert ----- - i t,' .... 1 1 worth while before you deposit it. Do not try to economize. It is an Infernal nuisance to always try to sav a few cents here and there. Be sides, you will get the reputation of being mean and stingy. You want veryuody to think you are generous. Just Hiok out for to-day. Have a gCMul tin..- as you go along. Just use yoar mon. y yourself. Don't deprive yourself fo the sake of 1 a 1 n h up something Mr u. people to fight over. Besifle you are sure of to day. You might not be alire t -9Vrc. Success Magazine. The executive council of the Na tional Trades and Labor Congress of Canada has decided to place sev eral organiser In the field. The Province of Quebec and the maritime provinces are to receive more atten tion than formerly. Feeling the neod of recuperation. he sent his boy to an adjaoent hos telry for a bottle of whisky. "But," cried the hotel keeper, "who's it for?" "For my father," said the boy. "Nonsense. Your father is a total abstainer and has been, to my knowl edge, for longer year than you've lived." "Well, at all event," he sent me tor it." "What doe he want it for?" "To let you into a secret," said the -boy, ashamed to tell the truth, "he's going fishing, and he wants the cork to ns for a float! Philadel phia Inquirer. The maddest girl In the world Is the one who ate onions because ahe was sure nobody was g.ilng to call, and then he came. It was also andent custom that the scald should amuse the king and his court with song and harp, so In an Bwer to the request of ilia majesty of Norway, the undent bard left his cave a:id appeared at court with his precious old viking lute. This lute, called in Norwegian a langlelk, Is over three, hundred years old. It Is of wood, fashioned with much artistic skill. In shape It is not unlike the lutes of later times. Six heavy strings stretched over the opening give forth a deep, full reso nance. Solemn, thrilling valces from a dim, forgotten past seem recalled to life. The scald ang many folk song old as time, and his distinguished audience listened with the deepest emotion. The Kin;; of Denmark was so Im pressed that he warmly urged the minstrel to visit him a a guest in hi palace at Copenhagen an Invitation which the old man accepted with quiet dignity. Was be not alio the deaoeudaut of a k4ug'.' Youth' Com. can Ion. Not leas thn 30,000,000 yen ittS. 000,000) is yearly spent by foreign visitors in Japan. Some estimutci (jut the amount at 40,000,000 yen. The Only Prize. I dally feel sin remaining In this corrupt nature, which was and la bo odious and detestable in tW presence of our Heavenly Father that by no other sacrifice could or might the same be purged, except by the blood and death of the only and innocent Son of God. John Knox. TIM Spirit of War. The crying shame of Christendom Is in the continuance of the war spirit I and Its lncreasug armament, even I while professing loudly it allegiance to a prince of peace and it loyalty I to a God of love. Rabbi Charles F'eiseher, Boston. "We Need the Money." "We need the money, but so fnr as I am concerned, we don't need It bad enough to hold up that poor fel low and say be shall furnish It. We need the money, but we don't need It bad enough to snatch the bread from the women and elilldren of the poor fellow who is so unfortunate aa to have the drink habit. We need the money, but we don't need It bad enough to send the poor woman over the steaming washtub, to wash dirty clothes to buy food for her children. We need the money, but we don't need It bad enough to takt the shoeB off the feet of children born In drunk ards' home. I want to say that you must take Into consideration when you say 'we need the monoy' yon three peppercorns, one tablespoonful lard. Score the meat top and bot tom and dredge with flour. Malt the lard in pot In which meat is to be cooked and brown the meat to it. Cover the top of moat with tomatoes and "onions. Add the spices, cover closely and cook slowly on back of range four hours, turning meat at end of two hour. Strain the liquor, thicken with browned flour and serve the danube with gravy poured over it. This makes a delicious dish of heap cut of meat. Now York World. vfio uselKele. pe fl. A rug that twists can be flattened by damping the edge and pressing it on the floor with a hot iron. Men's worn linen collars, cut Into narrow strip, furnish convenient JWll DT I.' '-11 111'. IIHM1UV YUM - - must take Into consideration where j "ubt,tute e W taper, used the money come from." The Rev. I 'n lighter. Grant A. Robblni, Marysvllle, Mo. A Liquor Lamentation. All praise to the Governor of Colo rado and the women of that State. A report for a leading liquor Journal say: "The Legislature ha passed a local option law, permitting any voting district or preelnct to vote upon and decide the liquor question. We (the liquor lntereitB) tried our best to defeat this measure, but were handicapped by having a Methodist preacher for Governor, backed up by woman suffrage." Rest of Sermons. That is the best of all sermon which lead a man to say to himself, a he leaves the church, Now 1 see how 1 can be a better man. THB WILY AfJBNT. "How do you succeed In Insuring many people?" "1 look them over, and then 1 look doubtful, and offer to bet them u dol lar that in their present atate theit application for insurance would h r lecied." Houston Poet. A SPORTING EVENT. Mrs. Peck "Henry, do you sei anything in the paper about BUnkr running over his mother-ii law?" Mr. Pack "Not yet. I haven't some to the sporting news." Puck. Temperance Notes. You can lead a dog to whisky, but you cannot make him drink. Yet when you find a man there, it's hard to make him think. In Vermont, only twenty-six cities and towns have taken advantage of the local option law, and the rest of the State Is as dry aa Sahara. The sale and manufacture of ab sinthe ha recently been prohibited in Switzerland ny a vote of the na- A bit of raw onion will remove flf specks from gliding. White spot! I on a varnished surface will disappear if a hot flatlron is held over the plact for a minute. 1 The globe on gas fixture and lamps should not be screwed on too tightly, as the heat, when the light is burning, will expand the glass, for which sufficient allowance ahould t made. i rtl a . . -.. mm i in save continual stooping ro iu' down rug corner sew a piece of stlC canvas, buckram or haircloth to th ! under aide. Thee pieces may go ' Just across the corners or can b lev. i ,i entirely across the end. i It ia well to have hanging close b ide the refrigerator a long, ilendtf rod, on which is fastened a gponl Mr rag. This can be run down th ! drain pipe every two or three ! und is of great assistance in keepiaf It clean. According to a dealer most of tb fashionable country houses have ten tlonul council, which acted In i,.,. mony with a popular initiative of majority of deeping room done 1 1D3.UUU C111ZUI1S. cretonne, and the leaning this ' ton i toward gay color, the wll'i sorraapondlng in thl respect with th j furniture. To clean braaa pans, rub them wtU j powdered bath brick moistened ' j ticket for anything." Wahlugtoj , i , Tkitiu Herald i wnen ary pouen wun a iim . l-on a leather or soft cloth. I NOT UP TO DATE. Paratoy can be kept for winter u "Wasn't their divorce u shocking ta OQl nl aauoea by phinfiw . . . . . I Sk a. k t - M MA. dl A. u .i.ilu dtUI THB SPRING DELUGE. "I had a delightful talk with tut Governor of the State." "Enjoyed It, eh?" "Yes; he didn't want to ell me I treah bunchu of It into lightly Ml boiling water and boiling for tbrej BmarUett. "They both had the mo. htlnute. At the and of that twur .fashionable lawyers thv could tV)nld be removed and dried quhis" affair?" said Mr. Feathergllt inexcusable," answered f.lra i Had." Philadelphia Pros. by the fire.
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