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POWDER FOR BABY.
Don't buy perfumed powder for
baby's use. They are generally quite
unfit for such a tender skin. Use
fuller’'s earth or finely powdered bor-
acic acid. This last is the best and
safest toilet powder. as it is an anti-
septic and qeite innocuous to the most
tender skin. For chafing of any kind
don’t use powder at all, but boracic
ointment.
CHILDREN'S MID-DAY SLEEP.
In warm weather the little ones
should have a mid-day sleep. This is
most important for all children under
seven vears of age. Place the child
on a bed in a darkened room. after re-
moving any superfluous clothing and
shoes. Have the windows open a few
inches at the top. Draughts should
always be avoided, but fresh air is
very necessary.
scree
EW NOTIONS IN PARASOLS.
The latest innovation is the straw
handle, plaited in green and yellow,
green and red, yellow and green, ac-
cording to the color of the sunshade.
The silk parasols are the thing in every
color possible, plain and trimmed
Clever people buy the plain silk ones
and trim the edges with a little gal-
loon of multi-colored embroidery, or
sometimes white guipure. There is a
most fascinating range in purple Jap-
anese and other multi-colored trim-
mings, says the Queen. Many of the
new parasols are tucked. and some of
these are bordered with two or three
tucks sewn together.
GIRI. MINERS,
Two young girls, Miss Clare Clark,
of Butte, Mont., and Miss Isabell Lit-
tle, of Baltimore, Md., were gradu-
ated in the class of 04 from the Mon-
tana School of Mines... They, are
among the first few women of the
world to attend such an institution
and to receive diplomas certifying
that they are mining engineers. The
girls accompanied the class on all its
expeditions, wearing bloomers for un-
derground work and short skirts for
field work. There were days of sur-
veying and mapping out preliminary
railroads which necessitated wading
through streams and doing other
squeamish feats.—Chicago News.
COMMENTS BY A WOMAN.
If women would realize how much
eating and drinking between meals
encourages indigestion, they would re-
frain from indulging in these things.
Just think how your stomach is taxed
by innumerable cups of tea, coffee, ice
cream, bon-bons and cake. How can
you enjoy your home dinner after
indiscriminate eating and drinking?
If you do not indulge in the refresh-
ments at a reception you are put down
as a crank. Better to be a crank and
possess good health than to be a gen-
eral favorite and ruin your digestive
organs.
A housekeeper said recently that one
should never judge a young woman's
ability as cook by the cake she offers
you. Almost any girl, learns how to
make cake. Insist on stopping to
dinner and observe the plait boiled
potatoes.
| COMING FASHIONS IN HATS.
Peacock feathers. despite supersti-
tion, are steadily making thei way
as a trimming for street hats, turbans
and other small hats.
Coq feathers and hackle also are to
be used largely on chapeaux for street
and general wear, and will be used in
both large and small feathers.
Velvet will be the material most
fashionable for the big-plumed hats
with high crowns. These hats look
well on very tall, slender women.
Bird of paradise feathers in rich
and vivid tones will be among the
most expensive novelties, and in the
soft yellow and, deep burnt orange
iades will be favored most.
The walking hats and other cha-
peaux intended for couniry wear and
traveling are not to be so severe in
outline or so plain and mannish in their
fashioning as hitherto, and will there-
fore be more feminine and pleasing.
THE GIRL OF THE FUTURE.
Ywhat will giris be like in the future?
asks the London Graphic. One won-
ders sometimes when one sees the
young maidens at a fashionable
school, with their upright figures, their
look of strength. their well-developed
calves, their muscular arms, and their
walk, the long swing and swagger of
an athlete. Watch them swimming
with bold strokes, afraid of nothing,
or playing cricket. roughiy. like boys,
with pads on their legs, batting well,
running casily; and as they grow
older, springing up like young sap-
lings, towering above their brothers
in height and bulk. Woman's walk
nowadays is not graceful, and the
very games which seem to develop
a man’s agility and grace encourage
a girl to siouch and move awkwardly.
Dancing and fencing are certainly the
most graceful exercises for women,
and Mr. Fry says that “the nimble-
ness of foot and precision of pose of
the good dancer, combined with the
suppleness and quickness of the good
fencer, are the very qualities which
more than any others go to make the
best kind of batsmen.” Yet the re-
gult up to the present is not satis-
factory, perhaps because the giris who
play cricket ave not the girls who dance
or fence well. :
MORBID CURIOSITY OF WOMEN.
The term, “the weaker sex,” applies i
to but very few of the feminine popu-
lation nowadays, and as the time ad-
rances the weak and clinging women
are less in evidence. It is rather sur-
prising and quite disheartening to
learn the number of women who are
curious seekers of morbid sights and
many of the horrible accidents which
have occurred lately have proved that
to be the case. The woman with the del-
icate feelings has been replaced by the
woman who is capable of doing nearly
everything in any sphere in which she
may be placed, and they very often go
out of their way tosee things which are
not fit for sight. The General Slocum
disaster gave these creatures great de-
light, and seeking out the dead bodies
the police were kept busy with a long
stream of women who claimed to be
looking for their loved ones, while
they were simply curious. Another
place which is frequented by women
is the animal show at the beaches. |
There several times a day trainers of
wild animals appear in the arena and
compel lions, tigers, pumas, jaguars
and many others to perform. It is a
dangerous proceeding, and a very short
time ago one well-known trainer nearly,
lost his life. After that became knowh
women crowded in to see the show.
Not infrequently do women trainers
enter the cage and put the animals
through their paces. And still women
go to witness such things. It is very
true that some women have a morbid
sense of curiosity. .
THE DESTINY OF WOMAN.
The real results of this modern wom-
an’s movements are sees, I believe,
says Dr. Lyman Abbott, 1m the World's
Work, in better wages to self-sup-
porting women: in enlarged opportuni-
ties for productive industry; in conse-
quent industrial independence for un-
married women; in resultant release
from the odious compulsion which
drove women into marriage as the
only means of livelihood open to them;
in an end to that kind of marital su-
bordination which grew out of the
fact that an educated woman is in-
ferior to an educated man; in an in
teilizent companionship in the married
life based on a comiuon understanding
of all life movements and a common
interest in them all; in the ability
of the mother to keep the intellectual
respect of her boy after he has gone
out of the home to college or to busi-
pess. and to be his trusted counsellor
and his inspirer: in woman's broader
horizon. larger life and more richly
endowed character; in the ampler ser-
vice she can render to society, to her
country, and to the worid; and in her
better equipment for the finest and
highest service of all, that which is in-
herent in motherhood. ‘It is a wom-
an's destiny,” Balzac makes one of
his characters say, ‘lo create, not!
things, but men. Our creations are |
i
not children; our children are not piec-
tures, our books and statues.” This
is the greatest career of all—greater
than that of the lawyer, the doctor,
the poet. or the artist. Law governs
life, medicine prolongs life, poetry por-
trays life, art presents a simulacrum of
life: the mother creates life. The edu-
cation of the future will recognize
motherhood as the supremest of all
destinies, and the curriculum of all
schools and colleges worthy of the
name will be fashioned to conform
to this standard and to prepare for
this service.
FASHION NOTES.
The new skirgs are full, yet very
clinging.
A touch of burnt orange distinguishes
the few eariy autumn hats displayed.
Roft, supple broadcloths of the light-
est weight are to be the autumn mode.
It is said pinking is to replace the
strapping so lot popuiar as a trim-
ming.
Mousseline solf tone are
to be immensely popular to wear with
cloth walking suits.
Novelty shades, such as onion, old
red and dahlia, are to be very much
favored for house wear.
The “costume de siyle,” cr gown of
a particular period of fashion. is to
be one of the fads of the winter.
Whether to accompany a suit of the
more elaborate, or the plainer tailored
style, the walking skirt is the co rect
thing.
Large broderie Anglaise designs are
rapidly appearing upon many things,
so the fad has lost a trifle of its ex-
clusiveness.
Jackets are mostly of the shortest
of short boleros, or the twenty-four-
inch Louis XV. coat of the most elab-
orate description.
Mauve. gray, onion, tan, pale yellow
and robin’s egg blue are the smart
tints for the colored linen walking
gown so fashionable Just now.
A red coaching parasol, with silk
stockings and kid shoes to match, are
the vivid accessories recently worn by
a society leader with a gray gown.
Rubber auto coats in pure white,
cut long and ioose, with self-turned-
op 1: 1
back cuffs, relieved by black velvet
i
collar and belt, are extreme novelties
en view in the shops.
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE
REV. W. S. RAINSFORD, D. D.
| Subject: The Love of God=—The Christian
Church is Placed in Trust by God
With the Gospel=Let Us Try to Give
It to the World.
BrooKLYN, N. Y. — The Rev. W. 8.
Rainsford, D. D., rector of St. George's P.
¥. Church, Manhattan, preached at St.
Peter’s Church, State and Bond streets,
in this borough, at the evening service Sun-
day. His subject was “The Love of God,”
and he said:
People are saying to-day that the church
does not occupy as important a place in
the thoughts of men—that it has not as in-
fluential a place in our nation or in society
as it used to have. I speak, of course, of
the whore Christian church, and one thing
is sure and that is that the church not
hold her own by simply asserting, however
loudly or persistently, the greatness of her
deeds in the past. Whatever success or
shortcomings there mav have been in an-
cient times, one thing 1s certain, and that
is that we live in an age when men almost
violently are seeking the truth; when the
keenest sort of light is turned in all direc-
tions in search of the truth. When those
who have got anything to do can do it;
when those who have got anything to say
worth saying can say it, and when those
who have got anything to be can be it, bu
there is no mercy for the sham. When, in
the future, they come to criticise our time
it will evidently be criticised as an age o
truth, and its spirit will be spoken of as
the spirit of truth; it will be criticised
from all other ages as a time when men
made great sacrifices for the truth and
when great glory was gained in discover-
ing and obeying the truth. There is no
argument among thinkers whatsoever about
this.
From this it follows that if we Chris-
tians have not got something real to give
to the world, to society, to the United
States, at this time we are really going to
lose our hold and position: and the ques-
tion that we want to ask ourselves, indi-
vidually and collectively, is this. ‘What
have I got to give to the world? What 1s
it the church has got to give to the world?
T am inclined to think, if I were allowed
to see you, one by one, and ask you to put
down what it is on paper: What you as an
individual and as a Christian have got to
give to the world, and the church as a
community? there might be a great deal of
uncertainty. That this question is one that
deserves a very clear answer there is no
doubt, and everybody ought to know what
that answer should be. There is no man-
ner of doubt what the church has got to
give to the world; what the individual
Christian has got to give to the world. 1
want to talk about that to-night.
We, the Christian Church, are placed in
trust by God with the gospel. That is
what we have got to give to the world. If
we are Christians we believe the world
cannot get on without that gospel. We
use the word gospel in a very slipshod way.
1f we are Christians we believe that not
only can not the world do without the gos-
pel, but that business and politics and the
United States demoeracy in this Western
Hemisphere cannot do without the gospel.
A great many people believe that, but
when we ask them to put it into practice,
not only by going to church, not by putting
a trifle in the plate, not by repeating a
creed or two, but to go back to their work
and see if they cannot take the gospel
with them there. They say, “Business is
one thing, and religion is another.” Men
that talk that way have got to step aside;
they are no help either to the church or the
world. They are misleading; they are the
people that tend to make the whole thing
a sham, because the world won’t tolerate,
and rightly so, a religion that can confine
itself to certain times and seasons and that
can satisfy itself by obedience to certain
consciences on Sunday, and perhaps once
a week thrown in. We have got a definite
charge for the world, and that is the gos-
pel of Jesus Christ.
That being so, let me lead you to another
question, and as I put it I shall seek to
answer it: What is the gospel of Jesus
Christ? Again I think you will agree with
me, and perhaps more than before. 1f
were to be allowed to ask the question in-
dividually, What is the gospel? and ask
for a definite reply, what a great variety
of answers would be given; and many
would hesitate. As Christians we_certain-
ly ought to be able to say what the thing
is we stand for, or we stand for nothing;
to say what we mean by the gospel, or the
world won't believe at all. In a church, if
we have one great thing in common which
we all hold, not because we are various
sects, but because we are Christians, we
have got to find out what that Christian
thing is.
One of the great difficulties—one chief
difficulty—is this: That men, from the
Lord’s own day to the present, in the na-
ture of things add their program to the
gospel—tack on their programs. We are
all so made that we must have a program—
T mean our own thinkings about the gos-
el. It is right that every believing man
should have hiz own thoughts and theory
as to the why, and the how, and the when
of the gospel. But my idea of why the gos-
pel was given, my idea as to how the gos-
el is given and my idea as’ to when the
gospel will be fulfilled is all right. I should
have that right to think my own thoughts
about these three things, but if I am trying
to find light they will be unprofitable, and
it =~~uld be impossible to stand in the day-
tight and not answer the questions how,
why and when. But my how, why and
when. even if I were the most learned and
holy of men in the city of New York,
would not necessarily be the gospel of
Jesus. The point for us to agree upon is
not the how and why and when, but, What
is the gospel? What is it we have distinct-
ly in charge for men and have got to give
men, and about which it is legitimate that
we should say, how, why and when. As 1
say, the tendency is rather to tack on our
pragram, and that is where the difficulties
come in, for in the age in which we live
people are rather given to finding out what
is gospel and what is program. Kpiscopa-
lians do not believe in the gospel without a
bishop; the Presbyterians do not believe
in the gospel without the Presbytery; the
Baptists do not believe in the gospel with-
out baptism, even in the middle of winter
in frozen streets; the Methodists do not
believe without Methodism, and so on.
There is so much program that you can
scarcely see the gospel. Men say: “I do
not know which is gospel and which is
program.” It is absolutely essential that
we are to give something to the world or
we won’t amount to anything and the
world will push us aside. We must be
men and women proclaiming and trying to
live by the gospel.
What is the gospel? I am going to repeat
a verse that seems to embody the spirit of
Jesus: “God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whoso-
ever believeth in Him should not perish
but have everlasting life.” The man who
wrote the gospel of St. John (we do not
know who he was) knew the very essence
of the gospel, and I think everybody agrees
with him—the Presbyterian, the Raptist,
the Mathodist, the Episopalian—everybody
pelieves that it is the very heart of the
gospel of Jesus. That is the very essence
of the dear Lord's love and life and teach-
ing.
It is what He began to preach, went
on to preach, died to preach and rose
acain to preach.
That verse says three things. First,
“God loved the world.” You say: “I know
it.” No, vou don’t know it. It is a tre-
mendous thing to know. You say: “I be-
lieve it.” I hope so, but it is a very hard
thing to believe. “God loved, the world.”
That does not mean, God loves me; God
foves the United States (wé€ Americans act
as if that was what we profoundly be-
lieved}. “God loved the world” does not
mean the elect, “me and my wife, my son
John and ‘Jus wife; we four, no more,
amen.” Not the people we like, but the
heathen Chinee. It does not mean simply
that God made this world—that is wonder-
ful—but the gospel says the world is not
simply a law world, but it is a love world.
If any man says it is easy to believe, he
does not know much about it. 1f you lose
one whom you love better than your-
self it is not easy to believe it is a love
world. When some bitter trouble comes,
when pain racks vour body, when the one
thing vou lived for is taken away, in the
hour of trouble and toil and pain it 1s not
easy to get up and say: ” will be a man
after the heart of Jesus Christ, for I be-
Jieve that God loves the world; if is a love
world.”
1 do not believe there is one mother or
father that has had experience, who does
not know it is not easy to believe at times
that God loves the world. But it is the
gospel, the great gospel of Jesus Christ.
The second thing is this: “God so loved
the world that He gave’’—what 1s tue mes-
sage ol Jesus Clirist about God giviug? It
simply means that God does not superin-
tend the world at a distance, like the old
Greek idea of gods set up there in Olym-
pus, where the waters are cool and the air
sweet. and there is shade from the burning
sun and all that the world needs to gratify
the senses. That is the Grecian idea of
God. It is not my idea of God at all.
We
still think of God on His throne. not
dwelling down here. As Tennyson says:
“A god into wh nostrils the steam of
life hardly comes.” God is not away above
the worid; 1
not superintending the world
somewhere outside the world. but the idea
is. God is right there where His children
are. Where they suffer, God is; where
they rejoice, God is; where life is sweet,
God is: where love is, God is. “God so
loved the world that He gave.” Nothing
A mother gives her babe
iife. but it costs her much. We give our
children the best we have. We give them
our pain, the result of hours of toil; we
give and are glad to give because we love
them. I say: “What will you give for your
son?’ You say: “I am not talking about
those things; it is sacrilege; 1 will give all
for my son.” There is not a mother in
this church who would not give her life for
her daughter. There is not a decent man
in this church who would not give his last
dollar to save his boy's life or honor—he
would give his hand, his life, to make the
bov what he ought to be. “God so loved
the world that He gave’ ’— How did God
give? I do not know. How could God feel
pain? I do not know. How could He en-
dure? I do not know. But it is the gospel
of Jesus Christ: “God so loved—He gave.”
Then I can go out into the world, and 1t is
not so hard to give. do not want to suck
the world like an orange. I know every
now and then temptation says: “Get that
sweet thing. But life is giving. not tak.
ing. hat means pain, toil, disappoint:
ment—it may be, death. “God so loved—
that He gave.” Then I begin to under:
stand. - If the God and Father of Jesus
Christ is giving, cannot I give? Cannot
that boy. who is thinking only of a good
time, begin to give? I remember. long ago,
in the old study at home making up my
mind what my life was going to be.
longed to be a soldier and follow in the
footsteps of my forbears, but it flashed
upon me that 1 only wanted just to have a
good time, and 1 prayed God for grace to
Jead a useful life. We have got to make
choice between giving life and getting life—
one is the worldly life and the other is the
Christian life. The whole purpose of God
comes out in giving. God Himself is a
giver: “God so loved the world that He
costs like giving.
gave. ;
The third thought: First, the world is a
love world; second, love is not simply
something looking down, but something in-
dwelling here with us, giving His only be-
gotten Son. What is third? Love victor
jous. The love of God is not simply a beau
tiful, patient pain, a universal thing, but
an almighty thing. Back of the love of
God is all mighty, all wisdom, all resource.
God that made the world is the God that
savs, “Shall not perish.” He says whoso-
ever believeth shall not perish. Not the
hero, the great, the wise, the strong, but
the whole world of men. If there is any-
thing in me that is worth living, God will
keep my life; if nothing, I do not want to
be kept alive. I can go on working, trying
to love, trying to be patient and true, and
at last T can go to sleep, for “God so loved
the world that He gave His only begotten
whosoever believeth in Him
1 but have everlasting
Universal life. Now, that you have
got. - It is the church’s heritage for the
World. Let us try to give it, for the world
wants it to-day just as badly as it did nine-
teen hundred years ago.
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Good Home Mission Story.
A good story was told at the Bible
Christian missionary meeting held in Ton-
don. A Salvation Army lass was beating a
drum in the market piace of a certain vii-
Jaze. The vicar came out and protested.
Ara vou obliged to beat that drum? Tt
« such a horrid noise, and I do so dis-
1
ma
like
Are vou obliged to ring your church
bell on Sundays?’ asked the girl, =If
makes such a noise. and I don’t Tike it.”
“Oh. but.” he rejoined, “that’s very dif-
ferent: the bell seems to say to the people:
‘Come! Come!’ that’s why I like it.”
“Well, sir,” the Salvation lass rejoined,
“T like my drum, beeause it seems to be
saying about the people: ‘Fetch ‘em, fetch
‘em!’ Home missions, said the speaker,
mean fetching the people who might never
come.
God's Work Goes On.
Tn the most disastrous periods of the
church there have always been some (a
seven thousand, perhaps), who have mot
bowed the knee to Baal. Ministers may
have become corrupt; churches mav have
been infected with unholy leaven; tne
rich and the learned may have been unan-
imous in their rejecuon of everything ex-
cept the mere supe ialities of religion;
and vet it will be found that God, who
values the blood of His beloved Son too
highly to let it remain inoper tive, has
ed His altar in individual hearts. In
dwellings of the in solitary
s, in the recesses of valleys and moun-
he has written His name upon re-
cenerated minds; and the incense of their
Sdoration, remote from public notice, has
gone silently up to heaven.—7T. C. Upham.
Secret of Her Power.
f such a one’s
was the
What had s
Ram's n, but rad
ing good humor, the tact of
divining what every one felt and every one
wanted, told that she had got out of self
and learned to think of others, so that at
one time it showed itself by sweet words,
at another by smoothing an invalid’s pil-
low, at another soothing a sobbing child.
None but she saw those things. None but
a loving heart could see them. That was
the secret of her heavenly power.
What
power?
nothing,
smiles, be
Level Best an Unworthy Aim.
Only by getting above our usual level can
we make the progress we ought. The man
who merely maintains the level to which
his life has hitherto risen is, at the best,
standing still—and that means falling be-
hind, says the Sunday-School Times. “1
did my level best,” 1s mot high enough.
Our average ought to be considerably high-
or. and an average is never raised by being
merely equalled. Only by beating cur av-
erage can Wwe raise our average. “Better
than my best” is a worthier standard than
“my level best.
True Happiness.
increases on the path of life
advancing toward the perfect
nsas Methodist.
2? Absolutely !
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FCR OCTOBER 2.
Subject: Elisha Succeeds Elijah, II
Kings, ii, 12-22—Golden Text, 11
Kings, ii., 9=Memory Verses, 12-14
Commentary on the Day’s Lesson.
I. The vision (v. 12). Lesson 11 of the
-d quarter should now be reveiwed. 12.
ha saw it.” That is, the ascension of
ah. Elisha saw this, however, not with
his natural eyes, for it was a scene belong-
ing to the spiritual world, and to behold
it he must, like the young man mentioned
in chapter 6:17, have his inner senses un-
veiled. This sight was a special divine fa-
vor and was made by Elijah the condi-
tional sign of Elisha’s obtaining a double
portion of his spirit (v. 10). “My father.”
This title of affection was given by the
vounger prophets to an elder. Elijah had
been a father to him in his care and train-
ing, in love and legacy. These words
should be understood as an exclamation of
wonder and amazement. Elisha sees his
spiritual father depart, and he sees the
chariot and the celestial steeds, and he
after them all. Some think that
alls
Elisha desired to convey the impression
that Elijah was more to Israel by his coun-
sels, reproofs and prayers than chariots
and horses. “Rent them.” This was a
rommon mode of expressing grief. Klisha
looked upon Elijah’s departure as a per-
sonal bereavement. He had lost the guide
of his youth; loneliness came over
him and he acted like a heartbroken
mourner.
II. Dividing the Jordan (vs. 13, 14). 13.
The mantle. This was the same mantle
with which he had been called by Elijah to
the prophetic office, and by which Elijah
divided Jordan. Having the mantle was a
proof that he was invested with the au-
thority of his master. “Stood by the
pank.” He was the same man and yet not
the same; like many another who has
zone to the gate of heaven with a depart-
‘ng saint. He could no more lean on Eli-
{ah, but he found that he had received as
the prophet’s dying legacy, 1. Elijah's
mantle. 2... .Elijah’s Ged. 3. Eljah’s
spirit. 4. Elijah’s office.
14. “Smote.” Elisha’s first miracle was
identical with Elijah’s last one. He acts
1pon the faith that he would receive from
God the power which he had desired.
“Where is,” etc. This question does not
mply doubt of God’s presence, but is an
mtreaty for His power to show itself, and
five a foretaste, of
which had been promised.
JL Searching for Eiijah (vs. 15-18) 15.
Sons of the prophets. The fifty who had
one to a height to watch Elijah and
[lisha as they went across the Jordan (v.
1), and were waiting for his return. “They
aid,” ete. When they saw the miracle
srought hy Elisha they were confirmed in
the belief that he was the divinely ap-
»ointed successor of Ehjah. “Bowed
themselves.” Thus showing that they ac-
fnowledged him as their head. These
men were trained up in the schools of the
prophets.
16. “Seek thy master.” It cannot be
supposed after what they had said before
io Elisha that the Lord would take away
his master on that day, that they expected
io find Elisha somewhere alive. No doubt
Clisha had at once told them how Elijah
had departed, but evidently they could
aot fully believe that he had gone bodily
to heaven. Their search to find him, how-
sver, was as fruitless and idle as the at-
iempt of some moderns to explain away
the idea of a bodily ascension into heaven.
“Ye shall not.” Elisha was absolutely
sertain that the body could not be
found.
17. “Ashamed.” To refuse longer to
rant their request. He saw that they
would not be satisfied until they had made
ihe search. The best way to solve doubts
ind questionings about religion is by a
personal investization. Dr. Nelson, in his
pook on infidelity, says that he never
new an infidel who fairly investigated the
rlaims of the gospel to remain an infidel.
18. “Did I not say?’ The search only
sonfirmed the words of Elisha. Those
shat would find Elijah, let them aspire to
‘he heavenly paradise. Let them follow
the high steps of his sincere faithfulness,
trong patience, undaunted courage, fer-
vent zeal and constant obedience.
IV. Healing the waters (vs. 19-22). 19.
pi
“Men of the city.” Prominent citizens of
the place. Perhaps they were the elders of
the city who thus applied to Elisha, and
their action shows that he had their confi-
dence. he had now attained the high-
sst eminence in the prophetic office, pos
bly they expected that he might be able to
rid the city of its plague. ‘Is pleasant.”
The situation of Jericho, near the passage
pf ‘the Jordan, was such as to attract a
ronsiderable “population after it was re-
built; and for the sake of the prosperity
which came to them in other ways they
were content to dwell in such an unwhole-
some place. Now, however, they saw a
tors of benefit and with this thought they
tame to Elisha. Jericho was a part of that
country which, in Gen. 13:10, is compared
“to the garden of the Lord.” “Is naught.”
Is bad, harmful; the word “naught’” was
formeriv used in this sense. “Ground bars
ren.” See R. V. “Casteth her fruit.” R.
V., margin. The evil effect was clearly in
consequence of the hurtful water, for the
healing of the spring is to bring a remedy
for the other evils. It scems therefore
that the water was such as cansed the trees
to shed their fruit prematurely.
20. “A new cruse.” A new cup or dish,
one “never used in any common or unholy
service. The purity of the vessel was to
typify the purification wrought upon the
spring.” “Salt therein.” “Elisha in work.
ing this miracle would seem to make use
of means just as Jesus did when He put
spittle on the blind man’s eyes” (John
9-6). The injurious property and effect
was not taken from the water by the salt
poured in. for even if the salt actually
sed this power, a whole spring conid
ba corrected by a single dish of salt,
even for one day, much less for a longer
time, or forever.
21. “Unto the .’ The fountain
ts forth at the eastern foot of a high
sund, or group of mounds, situ-
or more in front of the mount-
nia, and about thirty-five
1 the modern village of Jeri-
cho. It is a large and beautiful fountain
of sweet and pleasant water; not, indeed,
cold, but also not warm. It is the only
one near Jericho, and there is every reasor
to regard it as tl ene of Eli ’s mir-
acle. “Lord—healed.” Not Elisha, nor
the salt, but God wrought the change in
the fountain. This miracle was typical of
the work done by the Lord after the as-
cension of Christ, by means of the apostles
and their successors casting the salt of
Christian doctrine from the mew cruse of
the gospel into the unhealthful waters of
the Jericho of this world, and healing
them. Compare this miracle with that of
the healing of the poisonous pottage (chap.
4:3841) and the waters of Marah (Exod.
15:25).
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Insensible to Pain.
No red Indians were ever more
callous to pain than the aborigines of
Australia. Old Australian settlers
are fond of telling a famous story of
a tribal chief who walked 60 miles
with a spear sticking clear through
his body before he could get help to
pull it oul.
London has a school for
gardeners.
women
the spirit of Elijah’
a scientist. demonstrated that the hair
of albinos contains less iron than that
of normally constituted individuals.
A Swiss scientist has made a discov-
ery of prehistoric remains in the Jura
Mountains, which is so important that
extensive excavations are being made.
India has, perhaps, a greater variety
of plauts than any other country in
tire world, having 15,000 native species,
while the flora of the entire continent
of Europe only embraces about 10,600.
A German scientist has succeeded,
by treating cleansed vegetable fibres of
peat moss with the waste molasses of
beet sugar manufacture, in producing
a compound that serves acceptably as
food for domestic animals.
A message to an English science
journal from Copenhagen states that
the Danish scientific expedition to
Greenland has arrived in the Danish
colony, of west Greenland, and reports
that the Gjoea expedition, which start-
ed in August of last year, was found
at Dayrymple Rock. All the members
of both expeditions are well.
A recent statement in the Scientific
American says that M. Chevalier, the
noted Frencli explorer, has just re-
turned from a prolonged trip through
Central Africa, where he secured a val
uable collection of interesting docu-
ments and photographs of the country
and its people. A phonograph which
he took with him was the medium for
obtaining records of the languages of
the various natives in the regions
witich he explored. In a course of lec-
tures which M. Chevalier is to deliver
Lhe intends to reproduce these records.
Magnetizable alloys from practical-
I¥ non-magnetic elements is the inter-
esting and surprising report of T.
Heusler. An alloy of copper with 26.5
per cent, of manganese and 14.6 per
cent,y of aluminum gave the best re-
sults and showed strong susceptibility
to magnetization, which was increased
by boiling in toluol for two days. With
the aluminum reduced to 3.6 per cent.
the alloy ceased to be magnetic. Tin
in place of the aluminum nad a similar
effect, and arsenic, antimony, bismuth
and boron also yielded magnetizable
alloys,
Nagle and Shakespeare.
The Central Emergency Hospital had
a curiosity yesterday in an intoxicated
and unkempt laborer who knew his
Shakespeare “from end to end,” as he
expressed it, and who proved it to the
entire satisfaction of a skeptical audi-
ence. T. J. Nagle is the man’s name,
and his occupation that of a marble
cutter. He had fallen down a stair-
way at Eighth and Mission streets,
and a cut over one eye had been the
While Dr. Kusich was spong-
ine the man's face he began to talk
about the Bard of Avon. Nagle made
the assertion about his intimate knowli-
odge of Shakespeare, and when he was
asked to furnish proof, he arose, in-
toxicated as he was, collarless, and with
his clothing streaked with marble
dust. and recited correctly long sec-
tions of “Hamlet.” “Richard the Third”
and other plays.—San Francisco Chron-
icle.
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resuit.
odd Clocks.
At a recent wedding one of the most
valued presents received was a clock,
an exact copy of one invented by Con-
greve a hundred years ago. A mere
description would convey but little
iden of its originality; however, a small
steel ball performs a. zig-zag course
over an inclined plane,.and is perpet-
ually rolling to mark the time, tak-
ing a half minute to perform the whole
distance, the time being registered on
the circle above, which takes the place
of the usual clock face.
Another quaint clock is the “Fan,”
which commences to open out at day-
break. in twelve hours opening to its
widest limit. each division of the fan
representing an hour of the clock.
New Britain’s Policeman.
The sudden death of Bosworth in
New Britain has naturally called at-
tention to the remarkable fact that
that hustling city, with its 30,000 per-
two policemen at work
in the daytime—and only one when the
1 eats his luncheon. It
vs to speak volumes for
sons, has only
C seems to
the orderly
disposition of the New Britain people
that this has been the condition for so
long, and events have only just called
attention to it. It will probably be
some time before another gambler is
killed there, and, therefore, there is
some foundation for the plea that no
addition to the force is needed. —Hart-
ford Courant.
Against the Silk Hat.
The London Medical Press thus is-
sues a call for heroes: “The top hat is
ugly, unhygienic and embarrassing.
Its sole claim to support is the appear-
ance of respectability it gives. If only
a few medical baronets would drive
to their consultations in Panamas and
cloth caps they would break the ty-
ranny of habit over health and come-
liness, and at the same time earn the
undying gratitude of their humbler
confreres.”
Decapitation an Insult.
The following is quecied by the Gau-
lois from a French Government report:
“To cut off his head is the most seri-
ous insult that can be shown to a Cam-
bodian: happily, this prejudice is not
shared by the other people of Indo-
China.