THE PULPIT. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY REV. JOHN WESLEY MILL, O.D. Theme: The Workings of Providence, Text Rom. S:2S. "And we know thiit all things work together for good to them that Iov ; liod." We have here Prill's epitome ol Providence, ti Is summing up of liu- i man life nnd experience under the ; superintending hnnd of Cod. Mad he been n materialist, he would hnve lefl 1 Ood out of the question, and said, I "You are a part of a great, mercllesf machine, wound up by chance and controlled by cireutrmancca. and your sufferings are due to the Inexorable . movements of fate, against which you struggle In vain." Had he been a Stole philosopher, he would not have said. "All things work together for Rood." but. "You are In the hands ol in awful system, of which evil In an inevitable part." and his exhortation would have been, "Insist the evil with the bold front of an unflinching spirit." Had he been an Kplcurcnn, lie would have said. "Chanre has pro jected evil Into the world. Fight chance the only way in which you ran, by drowning all your en res in a Kea of sensual pleasure." Hut Paul was neither a materialist, nor n Stole, nor an Kpicurean. hut. a Christian philosopher. He believed that God's plans are eternal, that human suffer ing Is a part of the ne-.'ssary disci pline of life, that eternity alone Is the final interpretation of time, and that "all things work together for good to them that lovo God." I'nder Divine Protection. ! , Note the boldness of this Pauline declaration: "All things work to pether for good." Had Paul known nothing of the shocks and storms of life, had his caiaer been one of un- i Interrupted Inspiration and unabated 1 triumph, then it might he urged that the audacity of the pioiwitlon Is evi dence of Ignorance of the facts In volved. But Paul's life was Inter woven of sunshine and shadows; in fact, he knew much more of the storms of life than of its calms. The vision of the past was ever before him; the prisons through which he had passed, the uproar at Ephesus. the earthquake at Phllippl, violence t Jerusalem, trlalB with the churches, chains at Caesarea. shipwrecks and BtrlpeB, while before him passed scenes of anguish which were far be yond his power to describe; and yet, towering above these dark and pain ful memories, we hear him exclaim. "All things work together for good to them that love God." He thus compresses the universe ir.to this one llttl word of three l"t.ters, all! Glorious truth! We are not alone In life's vicissitudes! pod's eyo Is iiuon us, and His arms encircle us. Wo are not helpless, for the Infinite Deliverer Is ever present, even when we are unconscious of His presence, Inspiring with wisdom, imparting strength and enabling us to come oft more than conquerors over all the trials and difficulties of life, the toils and sufferings, defeats and crosses, gains and losses; all things seen and unseen, near and remote, dark nnd bright, good and evil. a:-e harnessed as swift steeds to the chariot of the divine purpose, and nothing can per manently obstruct Its progress. I Hnrmony and ' -Opcration. Again, let us notp'e the law of this , Providential process: "All things work together." Ar.d what Is tills ' but the law of co-o"ratlnn? Noth ing In the universe b"low the being of God is complete within Itself. Every thing leans upon and helps to bear up everything beyoi:d, below, above, and around Itself. Th'; dewdrop works with the sunbeam, the seed j with the rlay, the b e with the flow- ' or; the valley with the ruo-tntain, the : rivulet with the river, and the river with the ocean; the heavens lean up- j on the earth, and t'le earth reflects ; tho splendor of the heavetu from Its ; laughing valleys, Its snow-crowned j mountains and Its tver-chaugln? sea. 1 There is no (solution anywhere. The I falntast trace of matter, the most del icate, microscopic cell has Its plnea in the universal creatlep, nnd performs Its function, not only for Itself, but In behalf of all. The gases that com pose the air we breaths work togeth er with life-giving and health-sirs- , talning powr; eliminate tie oxygen, ' and this old world would be shroud rd in death; the seasons work togeth er, s-jring and summer, fall nnd win ter. In a grand procession of beauty, order and frultfulness. Ll'iht is beautiful, but light cannot form the exquisite picture. Shadows must He there, a dark background i apon which the light can pencil Its j -beauty. The sunshine and shadow; must work together. Why, God can- j not r.nlnt a rainbow until He has un- j braided a beam of lisat into Us seven ' prismatic hues, to borrow from and j lend to each other entrancing loveli ness. So also the Lord knows how to blend bright and dark things in hu man life, so as to produce the most bappy, holy and heavenly character.' Ob, my friend, you can afford to be oat lent and trustful, for God is mold ing you to a pattern brighter than angelic being, even according to the image of His Son. The blow of the I hammer and the Incision of the chisel ' idt be painful, but these are neces- ! sary to the removal of Imperfections I and to the revelation of the angel that in lurking In the hiding places f your being. God is the great, In- finite 3culptor, and you can depend i unon it He will not overlook the roughness, nor fall to smooth down ! the rebellious grain! All things work together. The lightning In Its livid rage only puri fies the atmosphere; the thunderbolt that prostrates the giant oak, beneath which many found shelter, lets the on thine upon a toot of earth that bad hitherto been full of darkness; tbe eloud that overspreads the sky Is frequently but the shadow of an ap proaching blessing. Borne flower mast be trampled upon before their fragrance la detected, and It la llke Im true that biian hearts must be broken before their wealth of sym pathy and love becomes productive. Strength and Love Through Buffering Then, again, we should remember that tblugs art not always as they ap pear. The sun appears to Was and set. but science places It In tbe centra t family of worlds; tbe stars ap pear to rove about without restraint, bat they, too, are fixed centres, fast ened to their points in space. Tbe rainbow appears Xo be a dense and permanent arch of beauty, reared gainst th solid sky, but philosophy thcreallzet both tb bow and the aky. And so In burnan experience, are deceived by appearances. It seemed cruel fate tbat tore Joseph, frem his father's arms and sold bint into slavery; but God lifted Joseph, front pit to a throne tnd made hi in lord over all Egypt. "AU these thlogs nre against me," explained" JacoB; when the ontraylngs of Providence were no longer discernible; but at that very moment the horses and chariots wore on their Way to carry him down to the land of plenty. It seemed n great calamity that turned aside n professor of natural science from bin self-appointed way, but Scot land gained through that the minis try ot Thomas Chalmers. A Divine Hand ot (lie Helm. It la hnrdly possible for us to ap preciate the force of the original verb, "work together." The thought Is that there Is n beneficent power grasping, subordinating, overruling and directing all things for the larg est measure for ,-;'iod. True, this good may not always be apparent, but It Is none the less real. We cannot measure the movements of Provi dence by the swift heating of our lit tle timet. fees. God's clock strikes once in a thousand years, It Is not a question of calendar, but of chhr- acter. The thought of the text in volves the largest good. This la the goal of the divine Intent. God Is not uhvirhed In ratifying our temporary , rvhliv.s. He will not condescend to , our petty wants, as tho Indulgent pa- 1 rent who pampers the spoiled child 1 by granting the sweetmeats for which I it cries. God's medicine is not always ' sweet. It is sometimes bitter-sweet, ; but If it Is necessary to our highest ! good Ho will not withhold it. The I statement, of the text employs n sin- i gular verb with a plural noun, denot- i lug the harmonious workings of i Providence, and we may rest assured j that this power Is working In our be- ! half every moment. Though we deny , it and resist It, the process continues, silently and savingly, subordinating all . things to our final good, yes, and ma king even the stumbling blocks of I life steps toward the throne. Oh, what a comfort there Is in this thought! There can be no wreck, I for God's hand is at tho helm; there ' can be no calamity, for His wisdom i nnd power overrule for good all that ', comes to me. The promise Is In tho ; present tens", not In some aeon of eternity these things shall result In ' good, lint here and now, amid tho changing scenes of life, poised as wo : are In a probation bounded by two eternities. It Is the believer's privi lege to look through and beyond all secondary causes and agencies to trace the footprints of God as upon the billows moving forward to the ac complishment of His beneficent pur poses, and to know that "all things work together for good to them that love God." "God Thinks of Me." ! It Is this thought that gives to me : my position in the universe. If God thinks of me, loves me. and watches over mo. It Is because I am a part of His plan. I may be but a rough peb ble, yet I have my place In the great universal, mosaic. I am essential to tho unity and perfection of the whole. I am hero but for a day. I am not a tenant, but a tourist. Eternity is my race course, nnd the universe is my home. All things are in league with me; yea, they are my servants, "working together for good." "There fore I shall not be afraid for the ter- ; ror by night, nor for the arrow that flleth by day, nor for the pestilence tbat walketh In darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at my Bide, and ten thousand at my light hand; but it shall not come nigh me." Yea, I shall not tremble when death knocks ' at the door, for he comes as the mes- 1 senger of God, bringing my passport to yonder world out of sight, still working for my eternal good. i Standing thus, strong and secure, the future flames with light, clouds , roll back, tho eternal day draws nigh. ' and although dark questions around-' me rise and the path Is not always i plain before my eyes, faith brings the distant near and enables me to sing with John Burroughs: : Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care fur wind or tide or sen; ' I rave no more 'gainst time and fate, I ror iu. my own snail come lo me. The stars come nightly to the sky, i lie lirliil wave unto the sua; Nor time nor space nor ileeu nor high Can keep my own away from inc. The Sunday School INTERNATIONAL l.nSSO COM MENTS ron February 20. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOMH STARTLING FACTS A HOOT TUB VICE OP INTEMPERANCE. Subject: The Golden Rule Temper ance Lesson. Matt. 7:1-12 Commit Verses 7, 8. Worrying About the Undone. "It Isn't the work thnt broke me down," said a certain minister who suffered from temporary collapse; "It was the work that I had to leave un done." So tho great African pro moter and Jlnuncier, Cecil Rhodes, when dying, is suld to have exclaimed over and over; "So little done; so much to do! " Piled-up work unaccomplished Is more wearisome, as evury worker knows, than any amount of work which has been turned off. Many a woman goes to bod more tired with the thought of the tasks left over thun with all that xhe has been able to do, which seems often dwarfed Into Insignificance In comparison with the thousand and one things which are waiting her hands. We really have nothing to do with the work which Is beyond the present hour and strength. "Sufficient unto the day is," not only tbe "evil there of," but also the day's tasks. More people are broken down by trying to carry to-morrow's load to-day than by the hardest kind of effort to-day. Let to-morrow alone; It Is God's, not yours. Do what you can and then leave the rest with Him who can Btay all our doing at Ills Word. There will be plenty to do when you are gone, wherefore worry about It? It Is worse than foolish; It Is wicked to waste strength for doing by worry about the undone. And tbe fruit ot It is usually collapse and premature death. Worry about the undone means tbe undoing of yourself and your work. Wellsprlng. Typhoid fever carriers Is the term given to those who may be Infected by the typhoid germ and yet themselves free from the disease. According to statistics, based on fifty-seven cases reported by various physicians, about tbree-fourths of all carriers thus far recorded are women, and with very few exceptions the carriers have been engaged lo some occupation, such as cook, baker or dairyman, which has enabled thorn to transmit the typhoid bacteria to' food products, or they were Inmates ot Insane asylums and careless In their personal bablts. Car riers bate In soma Instances had ty phoid fever but a short time previous to tbel- examination, and In others everal years before. Dr. Albert be lves that many people carry typhoid germs for a time without sickness. NO KICK COMINO. Too have a band on your bat, i tee, M. Boblnard. ' Have you suffered out misfortune!" "Oh, no. I'm a widower," Pale Mela. GOLDEN TEXT. "Therefore all lilngs whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to I them, for this Is the law and the pro ! phets." Matt. 7:12. , TIME. Midsummer A. D. 28. I PLACE. Horns of Hattln. EXPOSITION. I. The Sin nml I Tolly of .Fudging Others, 1-S. Judg- lug Is God's work, not ours (Ho. 14: 2-4, in-13; l Cor. 4:3-5; Jas. 4:11. I 12 . We nre neither called nor com ! relent to sit In judgment upon others. If we attempt It we shall reap exactly what we sow, we "shall be Judged." ; We shall be judged by God (Jas. 2: 12, 13), by other men (context) and , condemned by ourselves, In the very Judgment we visit upon others (Ro. ,2:1). Of course, It Is not meant that i we shall abstain from all estimates of ; others (see v. 6). It does not mean we 1 shall not be ready to condemn others ! even when appearances are against j them (1 Cor. 13:5, 7, R. V.); and when for purposes of deciding what j to do we must form an adverse opin : ion, even then we must not regard ; that opinion as Infallible. Irrevocable 1 or final, but leave the final and decls l ive Judgment with Him to whom It , belongs, God. The practice of Judg ; lng one another is rending the church . of Christ. If we will not Judge oth i "is we "shall not be Judged" (Luke ! :37). In our giving also, as well as '.n our judging we shall reap Just vhat wo sow (Luke 6:38). Men will ilve to us as we give to others, and so will God (Phil. 4:19; 2 Cor. 9:6). Generosity pays. When we measure out to others, we are really measuring to ourselves. Most men are sharp Elghted to see a mote In another's eye, but pass unnoticed a beam in their own. Jesus meets this strange Injustice with a startling "why?" There Is no clearer proof of our sel fishness than that we Judge others by such different standards from those by which we judge ourselves. One great reason of our harsh judgment of others Is that we fancy that It covers up or atones for our own faults to discover faults In others. It does not (Ro. 2:1, 2. 21; 14:12). Jesus calls the one so blind to his own faults and so open-eyed to the faults of others, by no soft name, "hypocrite." That 13 Just what he Is. If. The Polly of Feeding Hogs Pearls, . There is a proper sphere for exercising our powers of discrim ination. When we give out truth we should seek to give It to those who will appreciate It, and should suit our message to our audience. A dog loves his vomit and a hog wallowing in the mire (2 Pet. 2:22). When we find men wedded to their filth. It Is both vain and dangerous to cast the pearls of God's holy truth before them. We should turn from them. But It Is well to note that verse 6 Is preceded by verses 1-5, and not to judge, too hastily that another is a dog or a hog. III. The Wisdom of Prayer, 7-12. Jesus begins Ills stirring words on prayer with three commands, each of which is accompanied with a corre sponding promlHe. Remarkably brief are the commands, remarkably ex pressive are the promises. Tbe en joyment of the promises Is condi tioned upon obedience to the com mands. Command one, "Ask." What lovo on God's part to command us to pray as If we were conferring a favor on Him by doing it. Surely if we don't obey, it is a grievous sin and in sult to Him. If we do, what then? "it shall be given you." It is the eas iest thing In the world to get things; Just "ask" for them (Jas. 4:2; ch. 21:22; Jno. 4:10; 14:13. 14; 15:7; 1 Jno. 3:22). We ought always to be at this (Luke 18:1-8). But earnest asking does not stop with asking, it also seeks und knocks, and it finds and has the door opened to it. Jesus puts the power of prayer very strong ly, "every one that asketh receiv eth." Note that He does not say that every one who asks gets everything he asks, but "every one that asketh receiveth." There is a way of asking that gets the very thing asked every time (Jno. 15:7; 1 Jtlo. 3:22; 6:14, 15; Jno. 14:13, 14), butin everyone's prayer there is power, and every real prayer effects something. And there is power iu seeking and knocking. Some men never find anything of any worth, for they do not really seek. No door of marvelous opportunity opens to some men because they have not tho faith and earnestness to knock. Jesus' argument to prove God's readiness to answer prayer is beautiful and absolutely conclusive. To sum it up in four words, God Is a Father. How the scientifiee and met aphysical and theological objections to God's answering prayer disappear before .that conception of God. Josus foundH His "Golden Rule" of life upon this conception of God. He be gins It with "therefore." Since God Is our Father and gives good things all good things, pre-eminently the Holy Spirit (Luke 11:13) to them that ask, "therefore" everything we desire men to do to us we should do to others. This sums up the whole O. T. revelation ot duty. The "Golden Rule" requires not merely that we should not do to others what we would not have others do to us, that Is negative (the Confucian Golden Rule); tbe Christian "Golden Rule" is positive and requires tbat we should do unto otb2n all tbat we de sire others to do tw u. The Forests of tbe Niger. The Insects of Africa are expert disease carriers, and they come in such numbers on the Niger tbat one hardly dares to use one's lamp or go too near a light of any sort at night. These forests on the Niger are deadly places for all their haunting attrac tion and take a big toll both ot Euro pean and native life. Yet "tbe first throe days oa the Niger, with all Its mad and Its smell and Us mangrova (Ilea and Its frogs and its crickets, are enough to give the neweoinei aa Ink ling of the drawing power, th fas cination, of what Is probably the most unhealthy country la ttu world. W. B. Thompson, la Blackwood's. A Curse to Humanity. The following Is an extract, from nn able and Interesting address, by Mr. Guy Hnyler, of England, Inter national Electoral Superintendent of the Independent Order of Good Templars: How long, how long Is the liquor traffic to go on cursing humanity and hindering the march of progress and civilization? Its evil has been proved up to the hilt over and over again; It meets us at every turn, either In city, town or country. The young are destroyed, the sober made drunken, the human race physically deterior ated, Industry paralyzed, learning de throned and Christianity shamed. John Burns declares, "The liquor trafllc Is a degrading traffic which is being used to chloroform the workers inta acquiescence In their own miser able conditions of life." Ruskin says: "Though we nre deafened by the noise of the snlnnlng wheel, hun dreds of thousands of people have no clothes: though we are black with digging fuel, numbers of people die of cold." Some have the temerity to say that all this Is caused by over production; but we declare that It Is the result ot under-consumptlon, largely the result of the money wasted In alcohol and swallowed tip by the liquor traffic. In Northumber land. England, I learned of an Iron worker earning 8 per week who, upon the death of his own child, was unable to bury It. on account of his drunken habits, and a collection was made through the works before the funeral could take place; while in Durham, a teetotal railwav worker who had never more than thirty-five shillings per week, could retire on his savings through the advantages em braced in building societies after loss than forty years' work. One con dition brought about by sheer waste, and the other by thoughtful thrift. While the wealthy merchant, the prosperous tradesman and the skilled workman have been transformed Into drunkards through the medium of the trafTlc In alcohol, the drunkard-maker has been elevated to positions of leg Islatlve power, protecting the trafllc by law and terrorizing the politicians, so that they declare It Is Impossible to adont Prohibition. "It. Is a fail ure wherever tried!" They forget, the success of Prohibition In other things, or are so blinded bv preju dice that thev will not see its pros pective benefits. From these men there is no salvation. We muBt ap peal to the people for the election of those who will place tha Interests of humanity before money, sobriety be fore license and progress before par ty. There have been, three effective "nethods of destroying the liquor traf fic, each resulting In tho prohibition of the sale of intotlcating liquor. In the Old Country we have the poyer of the landlord, by means of which such men as Sir Walter Trevelyn. Sir John Swinburne, Sir Arthur Middle ton. Baron Dowse, Lord Carlisle, Sir Wilfrid Lawson and others, have re fused to allow any one to hold a license upon their estates, with every eood result. Then we have the Local Veto of the people, a power granted to most of the United States of Ameri ca, Canada and other British posses sions. Bv this means millions of peo ple are living In prohibition areas, where crime is much lower and pros perity much greater, than In drink selling communities. The National Advocate. the TONIGHTS FpfL LI El l TTOUIX. AVHEX THE ANGELS CAME. People tell the storv yet. With the pathos of regret. How nlong the streets one day, I'linwares from far away, Angels pnssed with gifts for need, And no mortal gave them heed. They had cheer for those who weep, They had light, for shadows deep, Halm for broken hearts they bore, Rent, deep rest, a boundless store; But the people, ao they any, Went the old blind human way Fed the quack and hailed the clown When tne angels came to town. It. ha been and will be ao: Angela come and angels go, Opportunity and Light. 'Twixt the morning and the night With their menaagea divine To vour little world and mine. And we wonder why we heard Not a whisper of their word, ('audit no gliinpne of liner grace In the passing form and face; That our ears were dull an atones To the thrill of spirit tones. Ami we looked not up, but down. When the angels came to town. 1 Zion'a Herald. Raropeaa Drttsa Ileooaimended. Tbe Keun Chl-Chu (tbe War De partment) has sent In a memorial to the throne tbat orders may be given to the officials and Individuals of the Culnesworaplr to adopt tbe dreeees of foreign style by wearing abort Jackets. Tbe War nu the American Saloons. In two-thirds of all the territory of the United States the saloon hns been abolished by law. Forty years ago there were 3.500,000 people living in territory where the sale of liquor was prohibited; now there are 36,000,000 people under pr'ohobltory law. Since that time the population of the coun try has scarcely doubled, while tbe population In prohibition territory has Increased tenfold. There are 20, 000,000 people in the fourteen South ern States. 17,000,000 of whom are under prohibitory law In some form. In 1900 there were 18,000,000 under prohibition in the United States; now there are 36,000,000. In eight months State-wide prohibition has cleared the saloon from an area as great as that of France. In that area there Is a solid block of territory 300 mlleg north and south by 720 miles east nnd west, in which on the first (!.?y of January a bird could fly from the Mississippi to the Atlantic Ocean, nnd from the boundary of Tennessee to the Gulf of Mexico without looking down upon the legalized saloon. Great Britain and Ireland could be set down over this space without cov ering it; there would be 10,000 square miles of "dry" territory left as a border. American Review of Reviews. Chief of Murderers. Drink is the moral enemy of peace and order, the despoller of men and the terror of women, the cloud that shadows the face of children, the demon that has dug more graves and sent more souls unshrtved to judg ment than all pestilences that have wasted life since God sent the plaguei to Egypt and all the wars since Joshja stood before Jsrlcho. The Dearth of Conversions. The dearth of conversions Is a striking and serious fact that calls for immediate action on the part of the Church of Christ. Torpor and decay are In evidence everywhere. Revival Is a rare thing, while to many In this and other lands It has become historic. We have grieved the great Head of the Church by our stolid and wretched unbelief; and while specula tion supersedes faith whether in pew or pulpit the dearth must re main. Whltefleld once deplored tbatj "the consciences of the people wero being stroked with feathers dipped in oil," which Is the case to this day. Contrast this state of things, with the Divine application of the Word, as "a sharp threshing-instrument having teeth." This almost looks as though men were trifling with the Gospel, and jeopardizing the bouIb of those for whom Christ died. "Sure ly," said Chalmers, "It. was a sight to make angels weep, when a weak and vaporing mortal, surrounded by his fellow-sinners, and hastening to the grave and the Judgment along with them, finds It a dearer object to his bosom to regain his hearers with an exhibition of himself than to do in plain earnest the work of the Master, and urge on the business of re pentance and faith by the Impressive simplicities of the Gospel." Oh, for a new confidence In the sol emn splendor and trustworthiness ot the Gospel of God! Oh, for a united, intelligent, loyal presentation of it throughout the realm! The present decline, however. Is not wholly attributable to a down-grade ministry. The people must share the blame, and do something to remove the stain. Still, there are many places where the truth Is preached, where worldliness is tabooed, which are passing through a crisis and mourn ing over the paucity of spiritual re sults. How are we to account for the relative fruitfulness of an orthodox ministry? Given the eloquence ot Spurgeon, the compassion ot Mc Cheyne, the zeal ot Wesley, and the simplicity ot Moody; what then? We need the definite power ot tae Holy Ghost. "But," it may be said, "the need ot power is admitted; yet, despite our praying, it does not come." It may be that while we cry for power, the Lord is calling for purity! Let the Church, cleansed and Spirit-filled, rise en masse, with its infinite resources of prayer, ot faith, ot talent, ot wealth; let the self-life of Its members be really crucified; let the glory of God be the goal ot all our efforts, and the conversion of sinners our unquench able desire. Then we may expect "showers of blessing" that shall re fresh and keep fresh the saints in Zion, and indirectly slake tbe soul thirst of multitudes throughout the land. J. N. Goad, in London Christian. E FEBRUARY TWENTIETH Topic Intemperance and Other Sins of the Body. Rom. 8: 1-14. Drunken folly. lEfeth. 1: 10.12. Wine's weakness. 1 Kings 20: 10 21. The temple desecrated. 1 Cor. 6: -20. '. A solemn warning. Eph. 6: 3-12. An unruly member. Jas. 3: 2-12. A threefold foe. 1 John 2: 15-17. The body Is sure to die, and when It dies It puils down with it whatever Is bound to It, even the soul (v. 6). Christ In us cannot make our flesh ly body immortal, but He does far bet ter: He gives us a glorious body for tbe Immortal soul (v. 10). We owe nothing to the .created body, but we owe everything to the Creator of tbe body; and we cannot pay that debt If we live for what He has created (v. 12.) When we put to death what Is low. er we begin to live in what Is higher. This Is the only law of progress from lower to higher (v. 13). Thoughts. Whatever causes one to lose control of one's eelf is Intemperance; It may be alcohol, It may ,be a ball dress. Any Intemperance makes the next cct of Intemperance easier, and lends to perpetuate Itself. Gluttony Is a sin of the body, and we cannot tell how gluttonous we are till we try to see how simply we can live. Immodesty is a sin of the body, and fashion is no excuse for it, or cstom, or the example of others. Illustrations. Every Intemperate act mukes a groove In the mind, and at last the ruts get so deep that the wheels of thought cannot be turned out of them. Overeating is like a clog In a steam pipe, and It is sure to result In an ex plosion of the life-forces. Sloth Is a sin of the body. The slothful man is like a horse that only hauls hay enough to feed Itself. EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 The Greatness of Little Things. Have courage enough to review your own conduct, to condemn It where you detect your faults, to amend it to the best of your ability, to make good resolves for your future guidance, and to keep-them. If we could but live In constant re membrance of the great truth that to God's infinity no actions are great or small; If we could only give up striv ing to do something which the world would call great, and simply try to live a life with divinity In the small est action of it, thereby making our existence one grand anthem ot praise to our Creator in other words, if our lives could by reason of their simplicity grow more like Christ's, should we not be much happier? Scottish Reformer. A Pointed Quesllon. Given the fact that the Nation If aatlstled that tbe use of alcoholic beverages is likely to shorten the days, not to speak of weakening the powers, Intellectually 'and otherwise, of tbe Nation's Executive, has the Nation the right legally to require I that he shall become a total ab- j stalner? I Servants of Christ. Profitable or unpredtable? is what every servant ot the Lord is called to ask concerning himself. What the Lord requires is faithfulness, what. Ke rewards is fidelity. It Is not orig inally or fundamentally a question of one talent, or of five talents, or of ten talents, but of guod and efficient U3o of the p.-wers one possesses, be they small or large. After a long time the Lord of the servants reckbneth them. The period of probation ends st last. For that final account-giving now is our time ot preparation, Temperance Notes. Whisky brings gray-headed moth ers down in shame and sorrow to their graves. Our physicians are practically unanimous In the declaration that alcohol Is really unnecessary In health or sickness. That It Is a poison per se Is now accepted. ' Intemperance will ruin your tody and mind, wreck your homo, and the liquor trafllc knows it must measure Its prosperity by tbe swiftness and certainty with which It wrecks this world. No teacher should be allowed to occupy a place In our public, schools who Is not willing to become a total abstainer. The liquor trad has not yet seen Itj worst days," declares the financial World, New York and Chicago, tho well known banking Journal. The lata Joseph Medlll, testifying before a Congressional committee of labor ard education, said: "The money thrown away on liquor by th wage workers in the last ten years would have provided each family with a borne, free of runt, thereby emanci pating them from servitude to a land lord. ", Spiritual Destiny. Each of us, alt of us, have an Im mortal spiritual destiny. The grave has never been the final goal of hu manity, and tbe tombstone has never been more than a milestone on man's journey. Harmony. There would not be so many di vorced people in America if they bad learned patiently to put up with each other's faults. Harmony is the thing that makes heaven here as well as nereatter. The Soul. The soul Is a mechanism, and Is not self -propulsive. Like a ship, it asks the winds to fill Us sail; like a car. It asks power to drive tbe wheels.- Rev. Nswell Dwlght Hlllls. Three Words WouldDo. Tatt took five thousand words to answer the question "What Is whis ky?" He might have answered U In three by adapting General Sherman's definition ot war. Philadelphia North American. j Fatigue ot the eyes aud mora or lest persistent ocular troubles are produced by the rapid and brief ex citations of the retina by the cinemat ograph. A French physician has given the nam of clnematopbthalmla to affections of this character. How To Pray Luke 11: 1-13; Mark 11: 24, 15. The rabbis gave prayer formulas to their pupils. John Baptist taught bis disciples to pray. The disciples of Je sus had been with him, had eeen him, had heard him pray. It appeared to them as though it were friend talking to friend. Surely, there Is some con nection between bis marvelous life in public and his constant habit of pray er. Would not the Master teach them Ills wonderful secret? And so they come to him. saying, "Lord, teach us, take us into your school, teach us to pray." Quick was the glad response, and "the prayer that teaches to pray" came from the Master's lips, encourag ing the definite act of prayer and sug gesting great and profoundly signtfl. cent ideas to be embodied in true prayer. Simplicity nnd brevity are taught In this first lesson, but "after eighteen centuries Christendom knows no expression of thoughts and feelings so full in so small a compass, so rich, so majestic In prayer and petition" (Gelkle). The prayer suggests, as does the passage chosen from Mark's Gospel, that the true spirit ot prayer is abso lute, undivided self-dedication to God, our Father and complete harmony with the divine will. Six petitions are used, and first in order and in import ance are those relating to God, rever ence for the divine name, the coming of the kingdom of God, and universal obedience to the will of God. The de sire for God's glory and the universal extension of His Kingdom. Then fol low the expressions of desire for per sonal blessing, for daily food, for par. don, and for divine help In spiritual struggle. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus had taught them of God's fatherless and the certainty of answers to pray-' er, and he now repeats in these verses (Luke 11: 9-13) thle teaching, espe cially emphasizing the Father's will ingness to give the Holy, Spirit to them that aek, and showing olearly our duty to ask and seek and knock. WISE WORDS. Where there Is most weal there Is most wealth. A. M. Falrbalrn. Our tears are always greater than our foes. Ram's Horn. t Wisdom is always good to learn, whose wisdom soever it may be. A. M. Falrbalrn. You must learn to deal with odd and even In life, as well as In figures. Woman's Life. If you wish for anything which be longs to another you lose that which is your own. Eplctetus. I do not know of any way so sura of making others bappy as being so i one's self. Sir Arthur Helps. Have aa aim In life, keep thinking about your aim, and you will avoid many Ills and troubles. Green's Fruit Grower. Tbe greatest thing In tbe world Is a good man, and all good flows out of the spring called a great heart. N. McGee Waters. Responsibilities gravitate to .the person who can shoulder them, and power flows to tbe man who knows how. Don't worry! Gospel Herald. The surest pleasures He within the circle ot useful occupation. Mere pleasure, sought outside ot useful ness. Is fraught with poison. Beecber. If you want to know how much a thing is worth, ask tbe people who do not possess It; If you want to know how little It Is worth, ask tbe people who have It. Woman's Life. It la not tbe merely cold or the merely emotional woman who can In fluence a man's life, but the woman with self-control, which. In Its high est torn.. Is selt-abnegatlon. Wo man's Lit. I like people who have nobis im pulses and make noble mistakes, who lovs and hats strongly, who can dis agree with you and disapprove af you, and yet who could saoriflca anything for you. Woman's Life. , , , - GOING TUB PACE. "Edgar, I have dreamt three timet tbat you bought ma a new hat." "It's fearful, you will ruin mwltb your dreams." Fllengende Blaettar, THE. 'Ng v2 EPICURE'S CORNER Mixed Fruits. In arranging a bowl ot fruit It Is sot necessary to limit one's self to bananas, sweet oranges, grapes and grapefruit. Put In a few kumquata and mandarins, also two or three Japanese persimmons and fresh figs, with a mango or two, If possible, and ubo red bananas instead of the yellow because they have a finer flavor. New York Tribune. v Tomato Soup With Cheese, A clear tomato soup Is Improved In both flavor and nutritive value by the use of cheese. 'Pass a small saucer containing grated Parmesan cheese around with the soup, or, if preferred, small squares of ordinnry yellow rheese can be used Instead of croutons or some of the other familiar gar nishes. The serving of cheese with soup is quite common in some foreign countries. New York Tribune Strawberry Coupe. Fill sherbet glasses with vanilla Ice cream to within a fourth of .the dis tance from the top. Then cover the cream with a spoonful ot strawberry preserve and one or two of whipped cream. The coupe may be prepared at the table by the housewife herself, the vanilla cream being placed before her on a small platter with the whipped cream and the preserve in two glass bowls beside It. New York Tribune. Cherry Cobbler. Use pitted cherries mixed with suf ficient sugar to sweeten. Make a paste ot one pound ot whole wheat flour and three ounces of olive oil, or butter may be used instead; add a little salt and rub together. Moisten Into dough of medium thickness with cold water; roll paste rather thin; line a pan with it. Pick the crust all over with a fork to prevent blister ing, and bake in the oven. Place .the cherries on the fire; bring to a boll and thicken a little with cornstarch; when the crust is done, remove from the oven and pour the cherries in. A top crust may be put over and baked If desired. Boston Post. Asparagus and Cauliflower. This is a delicious combination. Cook together In very little water so that when .the vegetables are tendei there will remain less than a cup of the liquid. Put in a large tablespoon of butter as soon as the water begins to boil, so the seasoning will be ab sorbed. When done remove carefully and thicken tbe remaining liquid with cornstarch. It only a few spoonful of water remain, milk added to make a sauce improves the dish still more. If there are tough ends on the aspara gus, cut them off, simmer them next day in a little water, put through a sieve thicken and serve aa soup.' Boston Post. Chicken a la Marengo. Cut up a chicken as for frlcasse. Put a gill of olive oil in a saucepan. Let H become very hot. Then put the pieces of chicken in It, being careful that they do not overlap. Fry in tho same pan with the chicken a clove of garlic and two small Bhallots or a tiny onion, a bay leaf, a sprig ot thyme and a bunch of parsley. When the chicken Is well fried remove it carefully to a hot platter. Stir a tablespoontul ot flour . .into the oil that remains in the pan. Then add a pint of broth and let the sauce boil tor five minutes. Add more seasonings, it necessary, and strain the sauce over the chicken. A few mushrooms, when obtainable, should be cooked in tbe sauce and served around the chicken as i garnish. New Yorlr Tribune. HINTS j Croutons for soup brown better it the bread Is buttered on both sides before putting in the oven. Steamed bread and puddings can be cooked . in coffee cans. Fill the cans three-fourths full to allow for rising. If you wish the top moist, cover the can. Almond meal In the water removes the protecting cream with its accumu lation ot dirt after a dusty rids much better than soap, and leaves tba skin soft and smooth. Delicious sandwiches for afternoon tea are made of raisins and nuts chopped together very fine, moistened with a little whipped cream and sea soned with a little salt. For a refreshing dessert partly fill sherbet glasses with vanilla ice cream. Put over each service a spoonful of very sweet currant jam and cover Tlth a pyramid of whipped creat. Instead ot pouring hot water over the frozen faucet fill tbe hot water bag with hot water, insert the faucet in it and fasten securely. The beat will soon open the faucet If It Is not too badly froxen. Milk Jars in which tba milk has soared can be most quickly cleaned by putting first under the cold water spigot, then filling with hot water in whlch has been dissolved a HUaral amount of washing soda. ' Before using plates, pis dishes, etc., for cooking purposes, It is a very wise plan to put them In a pan ot cold water. Place over the firs and let tbe water corns to the boll. By so doing you wlir find the heat ot tbe ovea will not crack the dishes so easily. An old-fashioned rule for preserved currants Is the following: Pick over and wash seven pounds ot red cur rants. Add three pints of currant Jules, a pound of raisins and sevea pounds of sugar. Cook the. whole, stirring frequently, for ten mlnwtes, and seal.
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