Gingham Garden Apron.
Here is a gingham apron of a very
pretty new design that was fashioned
for a London society woman who
gardens a great deal,. and afterward
CEN
rT
DAINTY GARDEN APRON.
sent over here to be copied by our
own lady gardeners.
The apron is low-necked and V-
shaped. It is gathered upon a yoke
and is belted in at the waist line by
a girdle of the same material. The
skirt of the apron is full and long,
and is equipped with a nice big pock-
et. This apron buttons all the way
down the back and affords a complete
protection for the dress. Ribbon
raps hold it up on the shoulders.
A Striking New Costume.
A close-fitting adjustment at the
1on the shoulders.
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and silk foundation together. ‘Lhe
silk is salmon glace, made with the
deep circular flounced skirt. Over
the silk is the net, cut after the same
pattern and fastened at the seam where
the flounce sews on. Below this is a
circular flounce of the net, nearly cov-
ered with alternate rows of black rib-
bon and narrow ruffles of lace.
A Novel Treatment.
A novel treatment of a brocaded
silk evening bodice shows she pattern
in the silk cut out around the neck
and embroidered in buttonhole stitch
for a finish. Above this, coming from
underneath, isa frill of chiffon.
The Ribbon Counter Popular.
The ribbon counters are among the
popular resorts for young women, and
the number of collarettes, ties and
other neck gear made from the beau-
tiful fabrics is almost past computa-
tion.
Wide Collars of Lace.
Wide collars of lace, or plaited
mouseline de soie coming ont from a
narrower collar of velvet or silk are
one of the features of dress trimming,
One of the Season’s Marked Features.
The shirt waist is again prominent
among the summer styles, and tuck-
ing is one of the marked features of
the season. With a well-cut and
fitted percale or lawn shirt, fresh
from the laundry, there comes an ap-
pearance of style and neatness that ac-
counts for its long-continued popular-
ity. Fancy dotted percale in lavender
and white make this stylish waist, the
tucks of uniform length allowed for in
the pattern giving a desirable fullness
across the bust that is becoming.
The waist is arranged over a. fitted
lining (that can he omitted if desired),
and has a straight back yoke that
meets the frontin seams well forward
An applied box-
pleat finishes the right front, through
which the closing is effected by studs
or buttons and buttonholes. Gathers
at the waist-line blouse the front in
LADIES
BLOUSE WAIST AND SKIRT WITH CIRCULAR FLOUNCES.
lop, with a genuine flare at the bot-
om, is a special feature of the newest
skirts. The mode presented in the
large engraving by May Maaton,
shows how this new effect can be
zained without impairing the length,
and, therefore, the future usefulness
of the skirt, yet it is a matter of choice
whether the skirt shall end at the top
»f the flounce or extend underneath
10. the bottom. For wash materials
such as pique, crash, etc., or thin
goods, such as organdie, grenadine,
stc., that are usually worn over a col-
ored underskirt, we recommend the
first method, while for woolen and
silken fabrics it is better to use the
latter. The skirt is shaped with five
gores, fitted by darts at the sides, and
san be either gathered or plaited at
the back. Three yards and a half is
the width at the bottom, and the
flounce is four and a half yards in the
medium size. As here shown, it isin
pale pique, and is trimmed with
stitched bands of dark blue linen,
which makes a fashionable combina-
tion, and can be worn with blouse
tvaist of the same, or a shirtwaist of
contrasting material. :
To make this skirt for a woman of
mediam size will require six and
ieven-eighths yards of material, forty-
our inches wide, or eight and three-
quarters of 30-inch width.
Making Net Gowns Serviceable.
One difficulty in making the net
sown serviceable is obviated in one of
he new models, which fastens the net
the latest style, the back being drawn
smoothly to the waist.
The neck is finished with a collar
band, and the standing collar of white
linen is made adjustable. The cor
rect sleeves are of fashionable size,
the moderate fullness being gathered
at the tops and wrists in straight
cuffs. A: leather belt is worn at the
waist, and a bow tie of satin at the
neck.
TUCKED SHIBT WAIST.
To make this waist for a woman of
medium size four yards of material
thirty inches wide will be required.
AGRICULTURAL TOPICS,
" Best Dairy Utensils,
Other things being equal, the more
accessible the inside surface of an ar-
ticle for dairy use, the. more valuable.
All dairy utensils should be of hard
material and have smooth surfaces.
Wooden pails should never be used for
holding milk.—New England Home-
stead.
Horse Radish For Home Use.
All of the horse radish should be got
eut of the ground so sopn as the frost
ig fairly out. That for home use is
best preserved by grating finely while
fresh, putting the pulp in bottles with
"wide mouths, and corking closely to
keep out air. It is very difficult to
keep the roots in warm weather. Those
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KEYSTONE STATE NEWS CONDENSED
TO THE FRONT.
Seven Pennsylvania Regiments Ordered to
Chickamauga Last Week.
The following order reached Camp
Hastings at Mt. Gretna last Friday:
“To the Governor of Pennsxlvania:
“Seven regiments of infantry of your
State having been mustered and or-
dered to proceed to Chickamauga, it is
s desired that the State authorities fur-
kept dry will become dry and worth- .
less, Those put in-sand with any
moisture will stars to growing, and the
root will become acrid and of pobr
flavor.
Improved Dandelions For Gardens.
The dandelion is so popular an herb
for greens that it is well worth while
to cultivate it in the garden for that
use, There are special varieties which
have much larger and thicker leaves,
and these are sometimes planted in
greenhouses in winter so as to have
greens earMer for use in spring. At
this season something fresh from the
One of the advantages of the dande-
lion greens is that they have a tonic
effect on the stomach, and are very
highly regarded by many old-fashioned
people as a medicinal food,
Spraying.
The unprodyetiveness of some or-
chards is caused by the attacks of in-
sects and fungi. Such orchards may
be greatly improved by spraying with
8 combination of Bordeaux mixture
‘and Paris green. The Bordeaux stops
the growth. of the fungi (especially the
apple scab) and the Paris green kills
the larvee of the bud-moth and codling
moth.
The first spraying should be done
when the fruit buds have begun to
show their color, but before the flow-
ers expand. A second application
should be made just as the last blos-
soms fall. In some years when insects
and fungi are particularly abundant,
a third and even fourth application
may be necessary.
To insure success the spraying must
be done thoroughly. Every limb and
every leaf must be wet with the mixt-
ure. Insects do not hunt around for
the poison—it must be put where they
will be sure to get it.
Composting Fertilizing Material.
There is always a vast amount of
good fertilizing material on the farm,
material of but little value in itself,
but when combined with other mater-
ial furnishes an enriching element one
cannot ‘afford to lose. Taking the
autumn leaves as a basis, adding to
them barn ashes and then a layer of.
barnyard manure, and we have a
foundation for a compost heap on to
which can be thrown old lime or plas-
ter, soil from road ditches, muck, the
greasy water from the kitchens and
other refuse from the house .which
cannot be disposed of in any other
way. Even weeds will add to the
value of the compost heap. Add to it
at every opportunity anything which
in combination with the other mater-
ial will make plant food, using lime
in sufficient quantities to keep in sub-
jection any odor arising from a sur-
plus of greasy materials.
There is enough material which
may be gathered from time to time on
the farm to start several compost
heaps, each of which may be forked
over in the late fall and the material
applied to the soil then, or if not suffi-
ciently well rotted, the following
spring. It will cost but little to
gather them but will add many dollars
to the crops, to say nothing of added
cleanliness about the farm. If far-
mers were as careful about their waste
products as are manufacturers, they
would soon find a way of making
money by their use surprisingly easy.
Growing Potatoes Profitably.
One of the most successful potato
growers in the country is an Ohio
man who recently gave his methods
publicity before a meeting of horti-
culturists. He claimed that by turn-
ing under two or three clover sods and
thus seduring a large amountof humus
in the soil, he could grow a crop of
potatoes without the aid of a drop of
rain from planting to harvest. He
grows only medium early sorts, thus
enabling him to sow the land to wheat
after taking off a crop of potatoes.
Plantings are made four inches deep,
in drills thirty-two inches apart and
from twelve to twenty inches between
the pieoss, using from six to eight
bashels of seed per acre. It might
be well to say just here that this quan-
tity of seed wonld be much too little
unless the soil was rich and well pre-
pared such as is the Ohio man’s. Be-
fore the potatoes sre up the soil
should be worked twice with a smooth-
ing harrow to loosen the surface soil
and kill any starting weeds. As soon
as the rows can be made out a. culti-
vator should be used, the teeth being
run four inched, but later when the
tops are fonr bo six inches high the
cultivation should be shallow, not
more than two inches deep. At least
once a week, and assoon as the ground
is in coadition after a rain, a shallow
oultivation should be given up to the
time the vines oover the ground.
Much of the cultivation may be done
with the weeder, thus keoping the
weeds down as well as giving the ne-
cessary cultivation. If the soil is rich
in humus and a proper amount of
plant food furnished, the frequent
stirring of the surface soil will result
in a good crop even in a dry season.
It is suggested that blackboards be
abandoned for schools, that a light
colored board be substituted therefor,
and that colored chalk be used instead
of the usual white crayons.
’
nish all supplies possible in the way of
clothing, camp and garrison provisions
and all requirements for soldiers in the
ficld, including tents, which are much
needed. On arrival at Chickamauga of
the troops, with those other States,
they will be equipped and moved to the
front. This was found to be better
than equipping regiments at State ren-
dezvous. Ordnance Quartermaster and
commissary officers will report at
i-Chattanooga. . Supplies to meet the
i Indiana, $8 to $10;
et i F. Derstine,
garden or greenhouse is liked by all. | Morrell, McKees Rocks, $8; Thomas
situation. R. A. ALGER,
Secretary of War.”
This means that these regiments will
move in the order named—Fourth, Six-
teergh, Third, Fifteenth, Fifth and
Ninth. Major Thompson says it is
just possible that the order will be
changed to the extent that the Fourth
and Sixteenth regiments will go forth-
with to Tampa.
The following pensions were issued
last week: Morris Hess, Claysville, $8;
Joseph R. Ross, Waynesburg, $6; John
Bellefonte, $6; Benjamin
Graham, Pittsburg, $8; John T.
John C.
38; John
Jamison,
Harkom,
Blairsville, $6 to Hesch,
! Rochester, $10 to $12; Joseph B. Gohen,
Soldiers’ Home, Erie, $6; Lucinda J,
Van Winkle, Rome, Bradford, $3; Hen-
rietta Matson, Canton, 3radford, IS;
Michael Clark, Orbisonia, Huntingdon,
$8; Eliza M. Fleeson, mother, Alle-
gheny, $12; Edward -J. Humphreys,
Ebensburg, $6; William J. Warden,
Pittsburg, $6; Benjamin Stroble, Irwin,
$8; William H. Reardon, Shippenville,
$6; Samuel Morrow, Allegheny, $6;
George Simons, Brush Valley, $8; Alex-
ander F. Hartford, Crafton, $10; Oliver
P. Wilson, Hubersburg, $10; Emma
Edinger, St. Petersburg, $12; Mary J.
Smith, Troy Center, $8: Emma Nichol-
son, Allegheny, $8; Willlam W. Head-
ley, father, Perrysville, $12; Martha J.
Wyman, Sligo, $12; Richard D. Henry,
McDonald, $8; John H. Louderbaaugh,
Library, Allegheny, $8; James Corman,
Rebersburg, Center, $6; John Hook,
Boalsburg, Center, $6; Milton Bartley,
Polk, $6; Thomas J. Frow, Lewistown,
$6; Lemon Scruder, Penn Furnace,
Huntington, $6 to $10: Stewart Durbin,
Connellsville, $12 to $17: J. A. Small,
Nebraska, Forest, $6 to $8; Jacob W.
Qttinger, Soldiers’ Home, Erie, $8 to
$105 Elizabeth Clements, New Castle,
$12; Catharine Nearhood, Center Hall,
$8; Mary E. Jackson, Girard, Erie, $12.
Paul Meshok, a Stav miner, repulsed
an attack from three others and dealt
Joe Tenaki a deadly blow on the head
with a club at California a few days
ago. The Injured man died. Meshok,
his wife and two children were walk-
ing on the railroad near Roscoe late
Saturday night,
upon him, knocking him down and us-
ing him up badly.
struck Tenaki.
Joseph Habitsky, who shot and killed
and the ruffians fell |
He got a club and .
his brother Michael, at Alverton, last |
January, was acquitted of the charge of
murder. The defense was that the
shooting was accidental. John Hath-
azi, convicted of criminal assault, was
sent to the penitentiary for two years
and five months.
Joshua W. Landis, a fire insurance
agent of Berlin, fell from a buggy in
or
55
which he was returning from Meyers- !
dale to his home the other
and broke his neck. Landis was 50
years of age and leaves a wife and a
number of children.
The Washington county commission-
ers awarded to William Miller & Sons,
of Pittsburg, for $379,900 the contract
to erect the new court house and jail.
Sandstone is to be used. An amended
contract calis for granite for the court
house only at $346,300.
William Wertz, aged 18, had
back broken by a stone blasted from
the Juniata stone quarry and died
Thursday in the Altoona hospital
With companions he was playing
poker near the quarry when hurt.
David Ramsey, member of Company
I, One Hundred and Third Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers in the civil war, fell
his
morning
dead in his garden at New Castle re- !
cently while planting potatoes.
was 73 years old.
William E. Lloyd of West Middlesex,
is back from the Klondike. He has
paying claims and will return. He
reached Chilkoot pass after the aval-
anche and found 67 dead bodies there.
Centre County grangers have set the
date for the mid-summer encampment
at Centre IIall on September 12-17.
Leonard Rhone is chairman of the
Committee of Arrangements.
Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold, who was shot
by her son-in-law, Albert Daub, on
April 27, at Lebanon, died Monday, and
the wife of Daub, who was also wound-
ed, is not expected to live,
John W. Irwin, a traveling salesman,
was found dead in his room at the
Commercial hotel in Franklin a few
days ago. He was 55 years of age, and
resided at Slippery Rock.
Governor Hastings granted’ a re-
spite to Walter E. Goodwin, of Wells-
boro, to have been hanged Wednesday
for the murder of his wife, until June
He
Mrs. Michael "Tott and a 6-year-old
daughter of John Pollish burned to
death in a fire that destroyed three
dwellings at Minersville, near Potts-
ville last week.
After dressing in his best clothes,
William Gruver went to the barn on
his farm, near Allentown, the other
day and hanged himself from a rafter.
Herbert Griffith, engineer of the steel
mills, of Bristol, scaled the big smoke-
stack, 130 feet high, and flung to the
breeze an American flag.
While walking on the Belefonte
Central railroad, near State College.
Crawford Switzer was killed by a train
the other day.
Cyrus Zeeger, a veteran of the civil
war, met death under the wheels of a
Shamokin & Mount Carmel trolley car
last week. :
Four prisoners got out of Sunbury
jail recently by means of a rope ladder.
Danlel McKinley, a travelling sales-
man for a Philadelphia drug house,
was found dead in his chair at his
room in a Lima hotel a few days ago.
His son is a Catholic priest in Ger-
mantown, Pa.
The mansion of Major IB. Stein-
bacher, at Akron, was damaged by
ire and the loss will reach $8,600, fully
covered by insurance.
Mrs. Christina Fisher, the oicest
resident of Steubenvilie, celebrated her
102d birthday anniversary last weck.
While out fishing John Never, a
45 ycars, fell into the water ard
drowned at Akron a few days avo.
Freé Mosely, convicted of Killing
James Zilson of Irondale, got two
years to the penitentiary.
was
SERMONS BY EMINENT DIVINES.
The Choice of a Wife—From a Rustic
Bible Scene is Drawn a Practical and
Inspiring Lesson For All Classes of
People—The Calling For Special Work.
the flock ol
the priest of
TExT: “Now Moses kept
Jethro, his father-in-law,
Midian.”—Exodus {ii., 1.
in the southeastern part of Arabia a man
is sitting by a well. Ft is the arid eountry
and water is scarce, so that a well is of
great value, and flocks and herds are
driven vast distances to have their thirst
slacked. . Jethro, a Midianite sheik and
priest, was so fortunate as to have seven
daughters, and tly are practical girls,
and yonder they ¢ome, driving the sheep
and cattle and camels of their father tc
the watering. They Jower the buckets
and then pull them up, the water plashing
on the stones and chilling their feet, and
the troughsare filled. Who is that man
out there, sitting unconserned and looking
on? Why does he not come and help the
women in this hard work of drawing water:
But no sooner have the dry lips and pant;
ing nostrils of the flocks begun to cool a
little in the brimming trough of the wel
than some rough Bedouin shepherds break
in upon the scene. and with clubs anc
shouts drive back the animals that were
drinking and affright these girls until they
fly in retreat, and the flocks or these ill.
mannered shepherds are driven to the
troughs, taking the places of the other
flocks,
Now that man sitting by the well begins
to color up, and his eve flushes with indig
nation, and all the gallantry of his nature
is aroused. . It is Moses who naturally had
a quick temper, anyhow, as he demon:
strated on one oceasion when he saw ar
Egyptian oppressing an Israelite and gave
the Egyptian a sudden clip and buried him
in the sand, and as he showed afterward
when he broke ali the Ten Commandments
at once by shattering the two granite slabs
on which the Jaw was written. ~ But the in-
justice of this treatment of the seven girls
gets him on fire with wrath, and he takes
this shepherd by the throat, and pushes
back another shepherd till he falls over the
trough, and aims a stunning blow between
the eyes of another, as he cries, “Begone
vou villains!” and he hoots and roars at
the sheep and cattle and camels of these
invaders and drives them back; and hav- |
ing cleared the place of the desperadoes
he told the seven girls of this Midianite
sheik to gather their flocks together and
bring them again to the watering.
The fact that it took the seven daughters
to drive the flocks to the well implies that
they were immense flocks, and that her
father was & man of wealth. What was
the use of Zipporah's bemeaning herself
with wark when she might have reclined
on the hillside near her father’s tent, and
plucked buttercups, and dreamed out ro-
mances, and sighed idly to the winds, and
wept over Imaginary songs to the brooks.
No, she knew that work was honorable
and that every girl ought to have some-
thing to do, and so she starts with the
bleating and lowing and bellowing and
neighing droves to the well forthe watering.
Around every home there are flocks and
droves of cares and anxieties. and every
daughter of the family, though there be
seven, ought to be doing her part to take
care of the flocks. In many households,
not only is Zipporah, but all her sisters,
without practical and useful employments,
Many of them are waiting for fortunate
some lounger like themselves
along, and after counting®the large num-
ber of father Jethro’s sheep and camels
will make proposal that will be accepted:
and neither of them having done anything
more practical than to chew chocolate
caramels, the two nothings will start on
and more a failure. That daughter of the
Midianitish sheik will never find her Moses,
rmother ought to ask thedaughter at preak-
fast or tea table, and that all the daugh-
ters of the wealthy sheik ought to ask each
other: “What would you do if the family
fortune should. fall, if sickness should
prostrate the breadwinner, if the flocks of
Jethro should be destroyed by a sudden ex-
cursion of wolves and bears and hyenas |
from the mountain? What would you do
for a living? Could you support yourself?
Can you take care of an invalid mother or
brother or sister as well as yourself?” Yea,
bring it down to what any day might come |
to a prosperous family. ‘Can you ccok a
for higher wages and leave that morning?”
There needs to be peaceful, yet radical
homes of America, by whieh the elegant
do-nothings may betransformed into prac-
tical do-somethings. Let useless women
20 to work and gather the flocks. Come,
Zipporah, let me introduce you to Moses,
See in this call of Moses that God has a
great memory. Four hundred years before
He had promised the deliverance of the op-
pressed Israelites of Egypt. The clock of
time has struck the hour, and now Moses
is called to the work of rescue. Four hun-
dred years is a very long time, but you see
God ean remember a promise four hundred
years as well as you can remember four
hundred minutes,
No one realizes how great he is for good
or for evil, There are branchings out and
rebounds, and reverberations, and clab-
orations of influence that can not he esti-
mated. )
our earthly stay is only a small part of our
sphere. The flap of the wing of the dea
stroving angel that smote the Egyptian
oppressors, the wash of the Red Sea over
tho heads of the drowned Egyptians, were
all fulfillments of promises four centuries
old. And things occur in your life and in
mine that we can not account for. They
may be the echoos of what was promised
in the sixteenth or seventeenth century.
Oh, the prolongation of the divine memory!
Notice, also that Moses was eighty vears
of age when he got this eall to become the
Israclitish deliverer.. Forty years he had
lived in palaces as a prince, another forty
vears he had lived in the wilderness of
Arabia. Nevertheless, he undertook the
work, and if we want to know whether he
succeeded. ask the abandoned brick-kilns
of Egyptian taskmasters, and the splint-
cred ehariot wheels strewn on the beach of
the Red Sea, and the timbrels which Mirlam
clapped for the Israelites passed over and
the Egyptians gone under.
Still further, watch this spectacle of
genuine courage. No wonder when Moses
scattered the rude shepherds, be won Zip-
porah’s heart. What mattered it to Moses
whether the cattle of the seven daughters
of Jethro were driven from the troughs by
the rude herdsmen? Sense of justice flred
his courage; and the world wants more of
the spirit that will dare almost anything to
sea others righted. All the time at wells
of comfort, at wells of joy, at wells of re-
ligion, and at wells of literature there are
outrages practiced, the wrong herds get-
ting the first water. Those who have the
previous right eome in last, if they eome
in at all. Thank God, we have here and
thers a strong man to set things right! I
um so giad that whea God has an especial
work tc do, He has some one ready to ac-
complish it.
Still another, see in this call of Moses
that if {fod has any especial work for you
todo He will help vou. There were Egypt
and Arabia and the Palestine with their
crowded population, but the man the Lord
wanted was at the southern point of the
triangle of Arabia, and He picks him right
out. the shepherd who kept the flock of
Jethrs, his father-in-law, the priest and
sheig. So God will not find it hard to take
vou out from the sixteen hundred millions
of the human race if [Ie wants you for sny-
thing especial.
O what a fascinatine and inspiring char-
acter this Moses!” How tame all other
stories compared with the biograpby of
Doses!
{ without pressing this I
: } | when Me was on
dinner if the servants should make a strike |
: | would hare ministered unto
revolution among most of the prosperous |
| on the lel:
| cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for
| the devil and bis angels.”
The fifty or one hundred years of |
(HE SHBBATH-SCHOOL LESSON,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR MAY 22,
Lesson Text: “The Day of Judgment,”
Matthew xxv. 31-46 — Golden Text)
Matthew xvi., 27=Commentary on the
Lesson of the Day by Rev. D.M, Stearns
31. “When the Son of Man shall come in
His glory and all the holy angels with Him,
then shall He sit upon the throne of His
glory.” Concerning the coming of the Son
of Man in glorygsee also Math. xvi., 27;
xxiv., 80, and compare Zech. xiv., 5, 9;
Jude xiv., 15. We must keep in mind that
up to this time in our Lord’s ministry there
was no command to go to every creature,
but only to Israel, and that the beginning
and end of the story of the church, which
is His body, is found chiefly in the Acts,
the epistles and Revelation. The church,
or called out company from all nations, be-
ing His body, we would expect to find Him
in His body when He sits upon His throne,
and these are the assurances given us in
Col. {ii., 4, and Rev. iii., 21, where we are
told that when Christ our life shall appear
we shall appear with Him in glory and sit
with Him on His throne. We are also told
in I Cor. vi, 2, that we shall judge the
world, and this is in aceozd with Ps. cxlix.,
6-9. That the Son of Man shall come in
glory is as certain as that He once came in
humiliation.
32. '‘And before Him shall be gathered
all nations, and He shall separate them
one from another, as a shepherd divideth
sheep from the goats,” In the context of
the passages quoted concerning His com-
ing in glory we cannot but notice that the
Spirit always speaks of deliverance for
Israel and judgment upon her enemies
and blessing for her friends, and that is
just the story here, in perfect accord with
the testimony of the prophets, ‘Surely
the Lord God will do nothing, but Ho re-
vealeth His secret unto His servants,’ the
prophets” (Amos ili, 7). Therefore if we
would know His purposes we must go to
those to whom Ro has told them. We
therefore inquire, ‘Have the prophets said
anything about His judging the nations
or about sheep and goats?” As we cannot
understand the first verse in the New Tes-
tament without a considerable knowledge
of the Old, sc there are many other things
In the New Testament which require the
light of the Old Testament, and this judg-
ment of the nations is one of them. Any
one familiar with Joel ili.,, Zeph. iif. and
Ezek. xxxiv. will foel almost at home -in
our lesson and will not confound this
judgment of living nations either with the
judgment seat of Ohrist or that of the
great white throne (Rom. xiw., 10; II Cor.
v., 10; Rev. xx., 12), the former for be-
lievers enly and the latter for the rest
of the dead, who take no part in the first
resurrection, at the end of the thousand
years.
33, 34 “Come, yo blessed of My Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from
the feundation of the world,” It seems to
me that our Lord must have had the words
in Ezek. .xxxiv. in His mind, for there wo
read of sheep and goats, and of theill
treatment of the diseased and the sick, and
of blessing that shall come to other nations
through Israel because they were ¥srael’s
friends. The blessings of the churchin her
oneness with Christ are spoken of as pre-
pared *‘Before the foundation of the warld”?
(John xvii., 24; I Pet. i., 20; Eph, i., 4),
| while ths blessings of other nations through
Israel seem to be “From the foundation of
the world” (Rev. xiii, 8; xvil.,, 8. But
only ask that you
" ] | distinguish between the millennial kingdom
and prosperous matrimonial alliance, but |
will come |
of blessing to nations through Israel and
the kingdom of God the Pather to follow
it. :
35, 36. There are good works prepared
| for all bellevers at all times, and there are
always plenty of opportunities for such as
| are rendy, Even Job testifled that he deliv-
| ered the poor and the fatherless and such
the road of life together, every step more | gs had nono to help.
37-89. We do not need to keep count of
There is a question that every father and | Hi the ioines we go for sim, Yo only nod
to hold ourselves ready for any manner of
i service, wholly at His commandment, and
just as occasion serve us, as the moments
come and go, believing that He prepares
every occasion and notices whether we are
watching His way and ready for Hig every
call,
40. “An! the King shall answer and say
unto them, Verily say unto you, Inas-
| mueh as ye have done it unto one of the
| least of these, My brethren, ye have done
it unto Me.” Some of us think that we
would have been very glad to have minis-
tered unto Him personally if we had lived
the earth. We would
have followed Him like the true disciples
and have hung upon His words. We
Him like
those women, and kept onsen house for
Him, like 1Tartha and Mary. Let ug learn
from His own lips in the words of this
verse that whatever is done to one of His
for love's wake is the same as if done to
Himself.
41. “Then ehall He say also unto them
hand, Depart from Me, yo
He tells what
He Himself will say, for Ho is the King,
and there oan bo no mistake about #t, and
whosoever would teach that there is no
i devil and no everlasting fire is in partner-
| ship with the father of lies himself, for he
| is a liar and’ the father of it (John viii.,
44), and began his work by questioning the
| word of God and making God a liar. Notice
i that this awtul plage was not prepared for
man, buat for the devil, for God willeth not
tho death of a sinner.
42-45, “Inasmuch as ye did it not to one
of the least of these, ye did it not to Me.”
While we are reading, as wo believe, of a
judgment of living nations with reference
to their good or bad treatment of Israel,
yet thore are principles here whieh are
always the samo. At all times it is true
that whateveris dono or not dons to achild
of God is looked upon as done or not done
to Christ Himssll, The only way to show
| love to God 18 to show love to people for
| Christ's sake,
The oaly way to prove our
submission to God 18 by submission to eir-
cumstances and to people—not only to the
good and gentle, but also to tho foxward
(I Pet. il., 18).
46. "And these shall go away into ever-
lasting punishment, but the righte into
lite eternal.” The words eternal and ever-
lasting in this verse are tho same, teaching
that as is the life fordnration so is the tor-
ment. Why should we criticise and find
fault with what we cannot understand? It
i is ours to believe God, to accept His dear
Son, to receive gladly what He so freely
offers and to rejoice in Him evermore, hav-
ing perfect conildence in theloye that Sarge
from heaven to save us and gladly yieldidg
our whole being to Him as 5 thank offer-
ing. As to many of His ways which are to
us 4 great deep, ean wo not trust Him?
“Shall not the Judge of all the eanth do
tight?” (Ofen. xvii. 25.) Whoarews that
should dare to sit in judgment on Ome who
loved us that Hoe gave Himself for us?’—
Lesson Helper.
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Music For Duellists.
The French musician, Mailhol, was
fond of practical jokes. Some years
ago he composed a march which he
considered the proper thing to be plkay-
ed at duels, and he sought in vain an
dpportunity of having it performed.
Finally he stirred up a quarrel be-
tween two singers, and succeeded in
getting a duel arranged. Hardly bad
the two adversaries crossed swords
when to their intense astonishment
they heard a concealed orchestra
strike up Mailhol’'s march. Realizing
that they were the victims of the face-
tious composer, but being Gascons
themselves, and consequently fond of
a joke, the two duelists laughed, began
to fence in time to the music, and,
naturally, the whole affair finished in
a good-tempered way. =y
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