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She and her husband possess five beautiful cars, and the Queen not only drives, but also has had lessons in the working of motor machinery, and could, at a pinch, effect repairs with her own very capable hands. — Indianapolis News. : Does Not Wear Aigrets. Queen Alexandra has issued a pub- lic statement to the effect that she does not wear aigrets, and this, of course, is intended as a rebuke to a cruel and horrible practice. The offi- cial statement means something more even than that. It means that no lady can venture into the Queen’s presence with these feathers upon her head, and it means that the aigret Js stamped as unfashionable throughout every rank in society. Royalty has! its undoubted disadvantages, but something: may be written also urca the other side of the slate. The power to make cruelty unfashionable is one to be envied, and every country would be the better for an infiuence that is no less real because it has no coercive laws to back it.—Argonaut. Inspiring and Otherwise. *Isn’t it an inspiring book?” claimed the enthusiastic woman. ‘““Oh, yes,” admitted the other, wearily. “Many things are inspiring. When I see a good play or read of heroic characters, or the organist plays something from Beethoven's mass in D, I feel that life is grand. I am filled with zeal and eager for a chance to prove my noble, elevated point of view. “Then I am called up on the tele- phone by some stranger who asks me if I will please go up to the top floor and ask Mrs. Blank to come to the telephone—Mrs. Blank being a per- son I do not know and to whom I am indebted for nothing—and the broth- erhood of ‘man suddenly takes on a pale, cold, blue tinge that doesn’t in- terest me in the least. I wonder why it is?’’—New York Press. eXx- With and Without Curves. “What’s the use,” exclaimed the tall, handsome woman, mournfully, “of having a fine figure like mine! that when I went against them I was certain to be wrong, and sometimes disastrously and fatally wrong. “Another thing I do is to lean shamelessly on any one I have found capable of supporting my weight. That, of course, has to be done with discretion, because it is painful to lean on the wrong person, but when you have found a staff that you can rely on it is foolish not to use it. The strong like to exercise their strength, and it must be pleasanter for your friends to give you the benefit of their superior wisdom than to see you come to grief. “It is also possible to avoid cir- cumstances that call for decision. TIE you can’t make up your mind quickly you don’t need to drive a motor car or steer a boat. _Leave that to other °| people, and let who will sneer at your incompetence and lack of courage.”’—- New York Tribune. Partiality Toward Sons. The partiality which mothers are supposed to show to their sons—and which some mothers certainly do show—may do little harm in the ear- lier years of family life, when the father, perhaps, balances it by a spe- cial fondness for his daughters, and when the buoyancy of youth carries such injustice lightly. But on daugh- ters of mature age it often bears very heavily, The lot of the unmarried woman on whom falls the care, and even the maintenance of a widowed and aging mother is a laborious and exacting . one. . Many such women there are, as every one acquainted with our cities knows, working hard all day and struggling to carry home evening cheer to one who makes less effort than she might to greet them brightly. There is ‘a brother who comes on a flying visit now and then, bringing a gift none too generous, but seeming large because it is received all in one sum, and on him the moth- er’s appreciation and gratitude are lavished. When he is gope, his ad- vice proffered without much knowl- edge of real conditions, is quoted and urged with an insistence discouraging to the sister, and even the contrast between his light hearted merriment | and hef seriousness is harped upon. There are sadder cases still where the money earned by a self-sacrificing daughter is persistently shared with a reckless and improvident son, and—- \ Our Cut-out Recipe © Paste in Your Serap-Bogk. le Doughnuts.—To four flour. browned on both sides; powdered sugar. cups pastry flour (once sifted) add = one and one-half teaspoons salt, one and three-fourths tea- spoons soda, one and three-fourths teaspoons cream of tartar - and one-half teaspoon grated nutmeg. > tablespoon butter, using the tips of the fingers; then add one cup sugar, one cup sour milk and one egg well beaten. Mix thoroughly, and toss on a board thickly dredged with Knead slightly, and roll to one-fourth inch in thick- ness... Shape with a doughnut cutter, fry in deep fat until Work in one-half drain on brown paper; dust with “Now, there’s Mrs. Blank, for in- stance. She is so thin and lank that all comparisons fail. Of course she looks perfectly stunning in the new hipless gowns, while I—well, it’s sim- ply impossible for me to be com-] pressed within one of them. I look a fright, to say nothing of the pun- to hide all my symmetrical curves— and then not succeeding. When prin- rage, Mrs. Blank had just as many curves as’ I have. Oh, no, my dear I don’t know where she got them. I am not Mrs. Blank’s dressmaker nor her tailor.” I only know she had them.”’—New York Press. “Backbone’’ Superfluous, -» *“The worst thing about having no backbone,” said the woman who had been born without that supposedly in- dispensable member, “is trying to'get one. It is a perfectly useless agony, too, because if nature hasn’t given you a backbone, you can’t get it by any other means. If you once recog- nize this“fact and submit to your lim- itations you’ll find: that you can get on fairly well without a backbone, and when you realize how often the thing that passes for determination is a mere disregard for or inability to comprehend other people’ s rights and feelings, you can bear up under the ‘spineless.’ . “‘A backbone is not nearly so nec- often one gets on a great deal better without it. If you haven’t any back- bone, you won't be tempted to butt vour -head against irresistible forces. ‘We are most of us helpless victims in the hands of fate, and ordinarily we might as well let ourselves drift as try to mold circumstances to our will, The drifting may be a mistake, to be sure, but pulling against the current may be a mistake equally, and the first is easier. “If I can’t decide, I do nothing, when that is possible, and let events shape themselves as they will, and if I must do something I do what I like Pest or dislike least, as the case may be. My own inclinations are the most reliable guides I have ever found, and 1 wish that I had earlier learned to rate them at their proper value. The powers that presided over my early education contrived to inoculate rhe with the idea that inclinations exist, as Herbert Spencer says, ‘not for our guidance, but solely to mislead us,’ and it took me a long time { | have gone so far to learn | A bitterest of all—it is to the perpetue ally. returning prodigalthat the warms- est affection seems to go. Habits like these can hardly be corrected, perhaps; in age. But mothers in younger life should be on their guard against forming them.—Con- gregationalist. Bouillon lace is constantly em- ployed by French dressmakers as a furbishing. The dealers are making no display of fans so far, and there are predic- tions that the fan is not to be stylish the coming ball season. The high collar has come in again on fur coats and jackets, and is often made of a different fur from the gar- ment on which it is used. Little novelty stocks, often copied from French models, are one of the most striking features of the season. They are charmingly made up of rib- bon+of almost any fur—even pointed fox and black lynx. _ This is a day when bags, little or big, ostentatiously plain or elaborate- ly decorated, are put to a hundred uses, from the shopping and automo- bile bags down to the delicate little wrist and vanity bags. “While no skirt at the present time can be called full, those designed for soft, thin materials are often made to fall in voluminous folds; but they have the top elosely laid in tucks that produce the Sheath fit. The shortened waist and straight, clinging lines of the skirt are features that strongly influence the winter modes, characterizing evening gowns, dressy coat suits for afternoon and other affairs of ceremony. In gowns having the high waist- line, the top of the skirt is often tucked, but if the gown is of chiffon or anything of this nature the gath- ered top permits the soft folds of the material to eling to the figure and fol- low the outline becomingiy. Each ore of the puffs arranged at the back of the Psyche knot is held in place by a large hairpin, and the pompadour is now held by a pin in- stead of a comb. Sor irl too, as to add 3 side of the knoll. THE PULPIT.. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON B CARDINAL GIBBONS., Subject: The Prerogatives and Re- sponsibilities of Moral Freedom. Baltimore, Md.—Sunday morning Cardinal Gibbons preached his regu- lar monthly sermon to a large audi- ence, at the cathedral. His subject was “The Prerogatives and Responsi- bilities of Moral Freedom.” The text was from St. Luke 18:31-43% “Jesus commanded the blind man to be brought to Him, and He asked him, saying: What wilt thou that I do for thee? And he said: Lord, that I may receive my sight. » The cardinal sa Is not he stone blind who is entire- ly engrossed by the dssire for earthly riches and shuts his eyes to the pearl of great price? Is not he blind who is wallowing in the mire of sin, who is leading a life of sensuality which leads to melancholy and despair? Is not he blind who is bending all his energies to the acquisition of honor and fame, and when he acquires it, it fails to satisfy the cravings of his heart? Is not he blind who looks up to heaven and contemplates the works of creation, but discerns not the existence of a Creator? Is not he blind who sees the hands moving on the clock-work of time, but fails to recognize the invisible Hand which keeps these works in motion? Is not he blind who counts the days of his years as they flow by, but does not consider the ocean of eternity that lies before him? w Now, Christ says to each of you what He said to the blind man: What is thy will? What wilt thou that I do for thee? How sublime is the faculty of free will! It is a gift which distinguishes you from the brute creation; for man is the only creature on earth that en- joys moral freedom. . It is a preroga- tive which you possess in common with the angels and which mgkes you like to God Himself. God and the angels and man are the cnly beings that have free will. ~ It is the exercise of the will that distinguishes the saint from the sin- ner, the martyr from the apostate, the hero from the coward, the tem- perate man from the drunkard, the .benevolent ruler from the capricious tyrant. If we are destined to be of the number of the elect, we shall owe our salvation under God to the right use of our freedom. If we are to in- cur the vengeance of heaven, it shall be due tc the abuse of our liberty. “Thy destruction is thine own, O Is- rael.” In a word, our liberty is a weapon with which, like Saul, we will inflict a deadly wound upon our- selves, or it is a sword with which, like Michael the archangel, we can conquer the infernal enemy and win our way to heaven. Our Saviour told the Jews that the knowledge and practice of His pre- ‘cepts would secure for them true freedom. The Jews were indignant that their freedom should be called in question: “We are the seed of Abraham,” they exclaimed, “and have never ‘been slaves to any man.” But our Lord replied that though children of Abraham, they were in bondage as long as they were in sin. “Amen, I say to you: Whosoever committeth sin is the slave of sin.” Do not Americans sometimes talk in this way? We are freeborn citi- zens and yield to no despotic power. But what will it profit us to emjoy the blessings of civil freedom, if we do not enjoy the glorious liberty of children of God, by which we are res- cued from ignorance and can trample on sin? What will it avail us to be recognized in the public walks of life as free and independent citizens, if in the circle of our family, and in the sanctuary of our hearts, we are lashed as slaves by the demon of passion; if we are slaves to a petulant temper, slaves to lust, to intemperance, pride and vainglory; slaves to public opin- ion, the most capricious of all tyrants?" 7 ! Jesus Christ is the highest ideal of Christian perfection. He is “the way and the truth and the life.” He came to teach ns by word and by ‘example. Now, if there is any +one virtue our Saviour inculcates more forcibly tha another, it is"this: That our hear and will should be -in harmony with God’s will. “I came down from heaven,” He says, “not to do My own will, but the will of Him that sent Me. My food is to do the will of Him that sent Me that I may finish His work.” In exhorting us to make the will of God the supreme rule of our actions, our Lord is echoing thé voice of His eternal Father. “My son,” says:Al- mighty God, “give Me thy heart.” He does not say: Give Me thy riches, thy lands and thy possessions, for these belong to Him already. “The earth is the 'Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and ‘all that dwell therein.” He does not say: My son, give the service of thy body, for that also belongs to Him. “Thy hands,” says’ the prophet, “have made and fashioned me.” And besides we read- ily bestow the service of _our.brain. and hands on one who has already gained our affections. But He says: Give Me thy heart and the affections’ J His deiense. arrested in the garden before His crucifixion, -Peter draws a.sword in Our Lord thus rebukes him: Sut. thy sword into its scab=- bard. he chaliceswhich My Father hath given Me, shall 1 not drink it?” He does not say: ‘The chalice which Judas and Caiaphas and Herod and the Jews have given Me. No. He regards them all as the unconscious instruments of God in the work of man’s redemption. God used these vile instruments for the sacrifice and glorification of His Son, just as a father uses a scourge to chastise his child and then throws it into the fire. “Do you not know,” says Pilate to Christ, “that'I have the power of life and death over you?” “You would have no power over Me,” replies our Lord, “if it were not given thee from above.” Blessed is the man who in every occurrence of life preservég=in his heart an unsligrables adhesion to God's ‘will, through honor and dis- honor, through evil report and good report, in sickness and in ‘health; in prosperity and adversity. Blessed is he who hears the paternal voice of God in- the thunder of tribulations that resound over his head. Happy is he who has this short bit compre= hensive prayer often in his heart and on his lips: “Thy will, O Lord, be done!” Thrice happy are they who can say with the confidence of the apostle: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ,” .and a loyal at= tachment to His will. “Shall tribu=- lation or distress, or danger or perse- cution or the sword? I am sure that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor might ncr any other crea- ture shall be able to separate us from the charity of God.” HOPING AGAINST HOPE. ~~ By the REV. P. A. HALPIN, St. Angela’s College, New Rochelle, N.Y. Who against hope believed in hope, —Romans 4:18. The most wretched of his species is the man without hope. He is more than wretched, he is inexcusably criminal,*because an offender against a divine law which the apostle em- phasized in his masterly appeal to the Romans. To hope.and to hope always is a eom- mand so stringent that against hope we must believe in hope. The words of St. Paul suggest a picture in which hope is portrayed supine and gasping, while ministering faith bends over it and arouses it into life and strength and commanding beauty. A miracle truly this, but within the power of religion and attested by reason and experience. That such marvel may be per- formed—nay, that it is not beyond the reach of any soul—is solace un- speakable. It means that any one may bar forever against himself the gates of despair. 1It.is a trumpet call for highest courage and achevement. It implies a command which if une uttered by the Creator would pass by unheeded. But God wills it, thera- fore it can be ‘oteyed.” Though it calls for a fight of hope against itself, it is not a contradiction nor a paras dox, but carried to’its ultimate conse= quences it means-triumph, it is uni- versal in its applieation, bars no man from its sway-and eliminates no com- bination of circumstances. It enjoins upon one absolute refusal to surren- der save to the inevitable doom of us all. Moreover, it finds a response in man’s heart. “Never say die!” is a cry as cld as the race. All the myth- ologies reflect it. Christianity con- secrates it. The Old World felt its truth; to the New it was given to understand it. On sea and land, on every battle field since the dawn of history, has it been heard. There hfs never been a mandate to despair. No matter what the en- vironment, how dark the outlook, over and above all is the inspiration of hope. What man’s voice prevails against the utterance of faith? When a man says there is no hope, where is his guarantee? The physician says: “The man will die with the dawn”— the man lives yet. A man is in the clutches of adversity; he has lost his all; 10! on the fragments of his for- tune he builds a colossal independ- ence. History has not chronicled évery hopeful deed. Ships a-meny de- snaired of have come to port; from many “last ditches” have been un- furled flags of victory. The hope that Paul speaks of is not supine but active. It puts heart in a man as nothing else does. It is the mother of resurrection. God the au- thor and finisher of hope be praised! For from Him comes the confidence which-gayvs: “There is a way out; if cannot find it I will make it.” = This hope, heaven descended, ap- proved by reason and sanctioned by experiénce, cannot be bafiied. . To hope against hope is the basis of char- ‘acter. «The truest test of a man is to hope against ‘hope and to pluck suc- cess out of the very heart of failure. The Divine Aid. Elisha on the mountain top, with an army in wait for him, seemed in a perilous position. His servant lost heart at 'cnce:: He @onld not’ under- stand his master’s calmness, still less of thy. will, for this is all that YOu: can call your own; this is the onlyy free, unmortgaged property you can, offer Him. - You should discern the hand of God in the daily occurrences of life. You should regard all the events hap- pening to you, such as poverty and wealth; sickness and health, life and death, even the afflictions and perse:' : cutions arising from the malice of: men; you should regard all these, I say, not as accidents and real evils, but as visitations controlled and di- rected by an overruling Providence. They are links in the chain of yeur immortal destiny; they are so maany gems in the diadem of your glory. This is the teaching of the apostle, who says that “to them that love God all things work together unto gocd.” It consider the recognition of this truth the highest Christian philos- ophy and the practice of it the only substanlial basis of genuine: peace. You will never enjoy solid tranauillity till you accept with composuze and equanimity all the visitations svhieh come from His loving hand. Our Saviour insinuates the sgme comforting doctrine. When He is his strange ‘reply; ‘They that be with us, ‘are more than they that be avith ‘them.’ Only eyes divinely opened ' s2e tae invisible hosts arrayed on the side of right and against the forces of wrong. ig ‘courage of the good in times of diffieulty or danger is not as inex slcable as it sometimes seems, for in such extremity God’s servants feel” the pearfiess of unseen helpers, tnd now ; that divine strength is Bitter Lessons. When God would educate a man, He compels him to learn bitter les- sons. Fe sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that by knowing all suffering he may know also the eternal consolation. re Celia Burleigh. Human Progress. The motive of human progress has ever been a belief in spiritual reality. Whenever that motive has been superseded, progress has ceased, dis- integi on has set in, whether in the ee SAE : | Stirday- School rsa ms INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- MENTS FOR JANUARY 10. Subject: The Descent of the Holy Spirit," Acts 2:1-21 — Golden Text, John 14:16, 17—Commit Verses 2-4—Exposition of Lesson. TIME.—Sunday, May 28, A. D. 30, 9 a.m. PLACE.—An upper, room in Jerusalem. 3 EXPOSITION I. The Disciples Filled With the ‘Holy Spirit, 1-4. The disciples had been bidden not to de- part from- Jerusalem, but to wait for ‘the promise of the Father, the bap- tism with the Holy Spirit (ch. 1:4, 5). They had faithfully obeyed this command. After the ascension of Jesus they had returned at once to Jerusalem (1:12) to wait God’s time and God’s blessing. The following days had ‘been spent largely in pray- er (1:14). Those were not wasted days. More was accomplished in the ultimate outcome than if they had spent those days inpreaching. Though “they continued steadfastly’ in pray- er (1:14, R. V.) the entire time was not spent in prayer (ch. 1:15-26; Luke 24;53). There was absolute unity in their prayer, it was ‘‘with one accord.” Their minds were all united in one thing, ‘‘the promise of the Father,” the baptism with the Holy Spirit (Lu. 11:13; Ac. 4:31; 8: 16-17). They did not regard the pos- itive promise of Christ (1:5) as re- lieving them from the necessity of prayer, but as an incentive to and a foundation for prayer. The women were- there as well as the men (ch. 1:14). Ten days passed without an answer. The day of Pentecost, the day of “first fruits,” the gathering of the church (Lev. 23:15-21) came at last. Not till that day could the Holy Spirit be given. Now that Pen- tecost has come no one needs wait ten days for the baptism with the Holy Spirit. There is no record of any wait- ing since Pentecost (see ch. 4:31; 8: 15-174 9:17-22; 10:44; 19:1-6). The baptism with the Spirit is every be- liever’s birthright through the crue cified, risen and ascended Christ (vs. 33, 39), and the moment the ccndi- tions are fulfilled this blessing will be ours. If we have to wait, the dif- ficulty is with us, and not with God. It is because we have not met the conditions. The disciples seemed to have been expecting the promise that very day, they were ‘‘together in one place” (R. V.). Ii was at or before 9 in the morning (v. 15). They were of one accord -(cf. 1:13, 14; 2:46; 4:24, 32; 5:12). This unity doubt- less had much to do with the bestow- al of the gift, and the absence of this unity has much to do with the failure of many churches to-day to receive it. The blessing came ‘suddenly’ at the last (ef. ch, 16:25, 26; Mal. 3:1; Luke 2:13). There was not a mo- ment’s warning. There was a roar as of a hurricane. Emphasis is laid upon the fact that this sound came from heaven. It is wind “from heav- en’ we need. We have too much wind of another sort. On another occasion the place where they even gathered together ° was shaken (ch. 4:31). This sound ‘‘filled all the house.” The disciples were ‘‘sitting,’”” not kneeling in prayer as they are so often repre- sented. There was not only “wind” from heaven, but fire as well (cf. Matt. 3:11; Is. 4:4; Jer. 23:29). The fire was in the form of tongues, the new power was to manifest itself in a tongue of fire granted to them (v. 4). The tongues parted asunder (R. V.) or portioned themselves out to “each one of them.” Peter only is made prominent in the story that fol- lows, but each one of them received a ‘tongue of fire. The tongues of fire rested upon the women as well as upon the men (cf. also vs. 17, 18). The blessing was not to the church as a body, but to “each one of them” as individuals. ‘They were all filled with the Spirit.” This is a fulfillment of ch. 1:5. So the expressions “filled with the Spirit” and ‘baptized with the Spirit’” are practically synony=- mous. The expression used here brings out the thought that the Holy Spirit takes complete possession of the faculties. The immediate result was they ‘began to speak with other tongues’ (cf. ch. 10:46; 19:6). II. The Multitude Amazed, 5-11, The noise of the wind from heaven was heard by the multitudes without (v. 6, R. V.). They rushed together to find out what it meant. The multi- tudes always gather when the Spirit comes upon God’s people. The disci- ples began to speak to them of the mighty works of God. Each one heard thém speaking in his own lan- guage. The effects were startling and various. They were ‘‘confounded,” “amazed,” they “‘marveled’’ and “were perplexed.” .Some thought the disciples were drunk. Others ‘“‘gladly received the word,” and were bap- tized. = The’ conversions were very numerous and very thorough (vs. 6, 7, 12,13, 37, 41, 42, 44, 45). Simi- lar. and equally varied effects follow to-day when men and women are filled with the Holy Spirit and speak as the Spirit gives them utterance. These Spirit-filled men and women did. not talk much about themselves, but about ‘‘the ‘mighty works of God” (v. 11). The mighty work of God that ‘they especially emphasized was His raising Jesus Christ from the dead (vs. 24, 32). ‘The Spirit-filled man is quite likely to be much occu- pied with the resurrection of Christ (cf. ch. 8;15; 4:8, 10, 31, 33). That pome attributed the state of the disci- ples to intoxication is not strange, for the effect of both wine and of the Spirit is to stimulate, one unnature ally, the other supernaturally. He—If I should kiss you what would you do? She (startled)—I—I never measure an emergency until it arises. He—If this emergency arqse now, bow would you meet it? She (courageously)-—Face to face. God-Made Men. nation or in the individual. “Self-made” men exist only on earth. All who enter Heaven must be God-made—*“born of the Spirit.”"— Keen. (EPWORTH LEAGUE LESSORS. SUNDAY, JANUARY 10. For Us Who Are Lost—Matt. 1: Eph. 1: 7; Acts 4: 12. Matt. 1. 21. The name “Jesus” means “Savior.” It is a Greek form. The word “Joshua” was the Hebrew word hav- ing the same meaning, and we think of Joshua, in leading the Is- raelitish people into the Promised Land, as a type of the Christ who was 21; to come. The name ‘‘Christ,” as gen- erally given to our Lord, means “anointed,”” and is especially appro- priate to him as Son of David. “Christ” is his title as Prophet, Priest and King, for all these were anointed on entering upon their office. But “Jesus” js the precious name by which he comes to us personally. He is our Savior. Eph. 1. 7. In Jesus we have “redemption.” He gains for wus our release from sin — from its awful stain ‘upon our lives, and from the thraldom in which it holds us. Sin is a slavery. We know what suffering and struggle, what martyrdoms and wars, have been necessary to release men from human slavery systems. But we cannot ful- ly know what it meant to the Son of God, our Savior, to take upon him- self-all the suffering and sorrow for a sinning world and, alone, to bear them on his cross. “We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sin, according to the riches of his grace.” Acts 4. 12. The preacher here is Peter. The fisherman dis- ciple has been restored to his loving Christ on the shores of Galilee, and has become a man of power, Spirit-filled at Péntecost. In- spired of the Holy Ghost, Peter ut- ters now the clear, unconfused truth which from that day to this has been the sufficient answer to all the “isms,” theories, ‘“sciences,”” and moralities which would pretend to save from sin except through faith in the redeeming blood of Christ. “Neither is there any other name under heaven.” For the salvation of us who are lost it must be Jesus—only Jesus! CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES JANUARY TENTH. Living for the Day Or for Eternity. Heb: 7: 15, 16; Matt. 16: 24-27. Live the eternal life. Matt. 19; 16-26. A man that lived for self. Luke 12: 16-21 How Jesus lived. Heb. 12: 1-5. The life of faith. Matt. 5: 19, 20, 25-34. Looking beyond. 2 Cor. 4: 16-18. The abiding life. 1 Cor. 13: 1-13. Life for the day is to be given the day’s thought, but life for eternity is to be given all days’ thought (Heb. 7: 16.) The endless life is not inert; it is active, it has power, it is your best assistant (Heb. 7: 16.) Life in itself is not worth saving, but only what life stands for; so all is lost if that is lost (Matt. 16: 25.) How foolish to look forward eagerly to the coming of the postman, of our employer, our friend, but not to the sure coming of Christ! (Matt. 16: 27.) Suggestions. Eternity is not a vital thought un- less we live it We live for eternity if in all our work we are conscious of it and. re late our work to it. Are you fonely? There are friends in eternity. Weary? Rest is there. A failure? ° Success is there. Living for eternity is the only way to live for today. Ilustrations. Life on earth is lilree a day-book; all entries are to be transferred; but how little we shall want to carry over into the ledger of heaven! If the innumerable deeds of a life- time should be written on the leaf of a tree, and all leaves of all trees could be so coverel, the whole would be only a single sentence in the his- tory of eternity. Men that live for temporalities are like a young fellow who was to be crowned king in a few minutes, but was found on the floor playing jack stones. It was an interesting point which Dr. Brander Matthews made in his Lowell Institute lecture that while he has no better chronological order fcr Shapespeare’s plays to suggest than the generally accepted one, he doubts very much if that is correct, and he bases this surmise on the chrcnology of Moliere’s plays. If the development of his mind and his skill as a playwright were to be regarded as establishing tendencies which would reveal themselves in his pro- ductions, discernible from interval evidence, Moliere’s plays would have been turned out in an altogether dif- ferent order. The same, Dr. Mat- thews implied. might conceivably be the case with Shakespeare. In other words, comments the Boston Tran- script, itis never safe to guess un- less one knows. The hardest les- sons are not always reserved for the senior class. The best fruits of life's work do not always come at the period of highest intellectual develop- ment. MUSHROOM STEW. To stew mushrooms properly do not add water, but put the tops and the stems, broken into pieces, into a dish, sprinkle them with salt and pepper and let them stand for half an hour or so until the juice is part- ly extracted. Cook them in this juice. At the last g2ason with but- ter and cream.—New York Sun. There
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