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The Press and Banner. BY HUGH WILSON. Twelve Pages. Wednesday, Sept. 19, 1894. The Donkey and tbe Commandment* t^?*wnA?Arl mUK ./l/lUinna from *Rpmnrlrc on the Mistakes of Sioses," by P. L. Hastings The London costermongers told Lord Shaftesbury that their donkeys which rested one day in seven could travel thirty miles a day with their loads, while those donkeys that worked seven days in a week could only travel fifteen miles a day. So you lose seventy-five miles travel each week by working your donkey every day. and have a sick, seedy-looking donkey in the bargain; while you gain 3,900 miles of travel in a year, and have a sleek, nice-looking donkey, by running him according to the Ten Commandments. "What has a donkey to do with the Ten Commandments?" Why. don't you remember it says, "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not doany work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass,"? there's your donkey?"nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gateB ?" Deut. 5: 14. He who made both both man and donkey knew what was good forthem, and so put both man ana the donkey into the commandments. Infidelity doesn't know enough to run a donkey without killiug it; and as for man, in Paris, where there is no Sabbath, there are more suicides in proportion to the population than in any city in Christendom. He who gives his mind no rest, brings up in the mad-house or in the grave. He who gives his body no repose, breaks down beneath the strain, and dies. And a man who habitually over-works, at last comes down witn a typhoid fever, and that fever runs seven, fourteen, twenty-one, or twentyeight davs, changing every seventh day, as do other disarses i which result from physical exhaustion. Why is this? It is because man is built on that plan. His pulse changes every seventh day. He needs a weekly rest as much as an eight-day clock needs a weekly winding. He who neglects his weekly rest lays the foundation for physical and mental disaster. Man can not escape the rule of universal law, nor the eye of the one Lawgiver. This law of sevens is inwrought in our veiy nature, and holds us in health ana siokness, from life's earliest origin , to its end. Neither Jew nor Christian, sceptic nor heathen, can escape its power. And when worn-out nature frantically struggles to bring mon KaaIt <a ViooltK o rrai n ha mil at. come around upon the seventh-day or he dies. Men may scoff at Sabbaths, and mockatMoses; bul neither doctors nor infidels can make a typhoid fever turn except on the seventh day. Was Moses mistaken when he prescribed a rest day so in accordance with universal law ? Why has Israel outlived other nations? Why do Jews live a third longer than than Gentiles? Why is the annual Jewish death rate in America, seven per thousand, only half the usual rate of the oountry at large ? The Golden Rule sizes up the European situation in following burning words. Ic does seem to us that the Christians of the world are responsible lur tuio DUftir vi aucuio. jli n?*d. Men are fond of congratulating themselves nowdays on the fact that for many years there has been no great war. They speak as if the reign war were over and the reign of peace begun. The fact of the case is that within the lifetime of any young man now yf age, many great wars have been carried on, to all intents and purposes. The present armed peace of Europe ana its standing preparations for war do not need to he long continued before they virtually amonnt to a very serious war iudeed. This armed peace costs continental Europe alone $700,000,000 a year in taxes. Railways in these countries, built by the state purely for military purposes, and earning an income that gives almost no return on the investment, have cost over $5,500 000,000. State telegraph lines, mainly acquired for the purposes of war, have cost $80, 000,000, ana armaments have cost $2, 900,000,000. Does not all this amount to the cost of several gr^pt wars within the last twenty years? "But men's lives are no longer lost," it is urged, "and widows and orphans are no longei made by the thousands. Let us be thankful for that." But in saying this men forgot the millions of their fellow-beings forced from their homes at the period of life most valuable to them and to those dependent on them, and compelled to engage for three or four years In an occupation that is not only useless, but destructive of habits of industry and nobility of character ?an occupation, too, that is un-Christian, save when requiredjby the sternest necessity. Even in men's lives and in ruined homes the loss of the last twenty years from this cause has amounted to more than one great war. No; a cruel, iniquitous war has been raging in Europe for many years past, and is raging to-day. When will the natimiQ mo ha a tfaahi rvf nao/tu 9 MWI.?V4JO uiunv < vi^avjr Wi i Many of our good resolutions do not begin at the right point. We realize, perhaps, that we are not doing the good tnata Christian ought to do, that we are bringing forth but little fruit, and we resolve in the future to do better. But the first resolution that we ought to make is that we will live closer to Christ. The cause of our barrenness in the Christian life is that we do not live near enough to the Savior. We have too little spiritual life in us. Now, so long as this is true we can be fruitful Christians. We may resolve to be more earnest and diligent, but Christ has said "without me ye can do nothing." It is not by our own earnestness and zeal that we bring forth fruit by His grace. The first thing for us to do is to get more closely united to Him and fruitfulnese will neceBarily follow. The Outlook says: "Atheleticism is shortly to achieve its crowning honor inthe re-establishmentoftheOlympian games, which are to be opeu, however, to the whole world. The young meu who have the matter in charge have not dicided whether to revive the trames on their ancient site or at Paris. All the probabilities point to the selection of Paris." Well this is the outcome of intercollegiate sports we have expected from the first. Modern culture ignoring God and deifying muscle will presently become as civilized as were the ancient, heathen Greeks. And it will by the precision of propriety establish it? Olympus at Paris, the capital of modern paganism. ^ A; * >V. - "*" ^ ? * - . . . & i" . Mmineri Show the Man. American social life offers more varied and remarkable phases than that of any other country, because of the chances which each citizen has of rising from the lowest to the highest position, and because of the rapidity and frequency of such changes. A senator, for example, whose parents had been uncultured and ignorant, but honest and respectable people, and who had been himself received in foreign courts, ate with his knife until the dav of his death, blew his food to cool it,"and embellished his conversation with many "Great Seotta!" So common is the change in social position, that the lack of education in gen lie manners is the most embarrassing difficulty which our people have to meet. The struggle, the hard work, 1 the difficulties in the way of a man who is pushing upward aremore easily met than the sharp pain of finding himself awkward, and boorish in trivial details of conduct, when be is brought into {the companionship of those who have, from childhood, been trained in the social graces. A poor widow who supported her family by doing chores in the houses of wealthy people was surprised by a visitor lately while at dinner with her children. The table was daintily laid, and the boys and girlB were obliged to observe all the forms which their mother had seen in the houses of her employers. "Why should they not be taught to behave as well as the rich boys and girls?" she said, without any air of making an apology. "And besides, they may be rich themselves eome day. "Who knows?" Few poor boys in America have mothers so keen sighted or so wise as tvoa thlo nrwnp wrtman ! and the boys themselves forget, in their hurry to acquire the money or position which will give them distinction, the impor tanceof acquiring the manners without "Vhich their distinction may be made ridiculous. A czar, or a saint, or a great poet might travel incognito around the world, his rank or merit undiscovered, but a man cannot eat an apple without betraying how just is hiB claim to gentle breeding. Excluded. "Why did you and the little Brown girls go off by yourselves this morning, and leave Susie Smith crying on the corner ?" asked a young girl of her little sister sharply the other day. "She wanted to go with you, and was almost heart-broken when you laughed at her and wouldn't let her come. She leaned her head against the fencennst and sobbed for nearly half an flour after you were out of eight. What made you treat her so? What had she done?" "She hadn't done anything," answered the little sister half-sulkily half apologetically, "only we had a secret, and she wasn't in it, and we didn't wan't her tagging around. "Tagging round !" echoed the elder, hotly, "I should like to know what harm it would do if she did tag you round, poor child ! I don't believe your precious secret was anything she couldn't have knownjust as well as the Brown children. Something about that Christmas fair, I suppose. It was cruel to shut poor little Susie out of the good time, and make her miserable. A silence followed this reproof, broken by the girl's mother speaking from the next room to ask how the new Charade Club was coming on, and who bad been elected at the last meeting. The answers to these questions turned the conversation in another direction, and the elder girl chatted gaily about the new scheme for some minutes before her mother asked if the J011& sisters had been invited to join. " * * A ? ~ XT. "The Jones girisv way, no. nobody knows them very well, and there are enough without them." "But perhaps they would like to belong." "I dare say they would ; and they're pleasant enough, and well-bred and clever and all that sort of thing, but they never have been exactly in our set, and the Club is a little bit exclusive; they really have no claim to be asked. It isn't ever very easy to explain that sort of thing, but you understand, don't you, mother? You see bow it is?" "I see exactly how it is," was the quiet reply. "They haven't done anything to deserve exclusion, and particularly fitted to belong; but you nave a club, and they shan't be in it and you don't want them tagging round. It is perfectly safe, my dear ; they are too old to enlist sympathy by crying on the corner. Big sister and little sister exchanged startled glances, and the elder nnenpri h*r mouth to SDeak. but chaue e5 ber mind and shut it again in silence; but little Susie Smith was initiated into the Christmas secret next day, and before the montb was out the Jones girls were elected to the too-exclusive Charade club, at the suggestion of that member who had been assisted to imagine their feeling? by the sight of Susie's tears bedewing the front fence. Applying the Rale the Other Way. A Chinnaman, says the Christian Advocate, applied for the position of cook in a family in one of our Western cities. The lady of the house and most of the family were members of a fashionable church, and they were determined to look well after the character of the servants. So, when John Chinaman appeared at the door he was asked : "Do you drink whiskey?" "No," said he, "I Clistian man." "Do you play cards ?" "No, I Clistian man." He was employed and gave great satisfaction. He did hiB work well, was honest, upright, correct and respectful. After some weeks the lady gave a "progressive eucher" party ana nad wines at the table. John China man was cauea upon 10 serve me pariy, and did so with grace and acceptability. But next morning he waited on the lady and said he wished to quit work ! "Why, what is the matter?" she inquired. John answered: "Clistian man ; I told you so before, no heathen. No workee for Melican heathen !" ? A soul which Bincerely longs after God never considers whether a thing be'small or great; it is enoug to know that He for whom it is done is infinitely great, that it is His due to have all creation solely devoted to His glory which can only be by fulfilling His will.?Fenelon. How many lay up ricbes which they never enjoy to provide' for exigencies that never happen, to prevent troubles that never come, sacrificing present comfort and enjoyment in guarding against the wants of a period they may never live to Bee. Anecdote of John Fletcher. John Fletcher, the pious vicar of Madeley, in England, on one occasion, on ascending his pulpit with the intention of preaching a sermon, which he had previously prepared for the purpose, suddenly found that he could not remember any part of that sermon, or even the text. He feared that he would have to comedown without saying anything ; but, gathering his mind into calm collectedness,he remembered the circustance of the three men of old who were cast iuto the fiery furnace, with the divine preservation they witnessed, and be concluded to say something in regard to it. Iu doing so he found, as be afterward related, "such an extraodinary assistance from God, and such a singular enlargement "Hioorf t> Mint, hfi nnnnofled there must be some peculiar cause for it. He therefore desired that if any of the congregation had met with anything particular they would acquaint him with it. Three days afterward a; lady of his congregation called on him, and gave him the following account: "Mrs. K. had been for some time much concerned about her soul. She attended the church at all opportunities, and spent much time in private prayer. At this her husband, who was a butcher, was exceedingly enraged, and threatened severely what he would do if she did not leave off Koing to John Fletcher's church?yea if sbe dared to go to any religious meeting whatever. When she told him she could not in conscience refrain going, he grew quite outrageous, and swore dreadfully that if she went any more he would cut her throat as soon as she came home. This made her cry mightily to the Lord to support her in the trying hour. She detemined to go on in her duty, and leave the rest to Him. "Last Sunday, " continued the informant, "after many struggles with the Devil and her own heart, she came down ready for church. Her husband asked her whether she was resolved to go thither; she told him she was. Well, then,'said he, 'I will not cut your throat, but will heat the oven and throw you Into the it the moment you come home.' Notwithstanding this threat, which he euforced with many bitter oaths, she went, praying all the way that God would strengthen her to suffer whatever might befall her, While you were speatting of the three Hebrews whom Nebuchadnezzar cast into burning fiery furnace, she found it ail belonged to her, and Go<j applied every word to her heart. She felt her whole soul so filled with His love that she hastened home, fully determined to cive herself to whatever the Lord pleased, nothing doubting but that He would take her to heaven if He suffered her to be burnt to death, or that He would in some way deliver her, even as He did His three servants that trusted in Him. But when she opened the door, to her astonishment - - ?it-*, i? K..?_ and com tort, sue tounu mat um uu?band's wrath had abated, and soon bad reason to believe that he was under concern for the salvation of his soul." In a few days her husband joined the congregation himself, and John Fletcher adds that he now uuderetood , why his sermon had beeu laken from him.?The Watchword. Christina Work. One of the most beautif ul and help ' ful charities in this country is a Babies' Home, in one of our large cities, where children under six years of age,whose parents are not abfe or not willing to care for them properly, are tenderly nursed and tended. The peculiar feature of this institution is that, on the first of each month, children whose lot iu life has been happier than that of the little waifs are brought by their mothers to the home. Each one cbctoees a baby to "ftrinnt.*" this babv's expenses are paid By the mother for her child, who is taught to thick of it as of a little brother in trouble, to share its toys and clothes with it, to visit ana play with it, and to pray for it as it does for its mother aud brothers. A visitor describes these children, with their "adopted brother," playing hide-and-seek in the garden of the Home, poor and rich together, but i all clean, rosy and happy. No sermon i in after life could teach them brotherly i love as this childish play. < At a recent convention of workingwomen itf New York, the daughters ot millionares aud of laborers uoited i heartily in devising practical schemes to widen and elevate the lives of women who are obliged to earn their living outside of their homes. < These and many other such move- < ments show how powerfula hold practl- < cal Christianity has taken upon the heart# and lives of English-speaking people of the present day. r^nrist'a life was never so closelv imitated by His followers as it is now, in its direct effort to help the poor, tue i ignorant and the criminal. Kludnettit loiAnininli. Every cruelty inflicted on an anl- i mals, in killing or just before death, < poisons to a greater or less extent its meat. i Every cruelty inflicted upon a cow I poisons to a greater or less extent its ' milk. Fish killed as soon as taken from tbe i water by a blow on the back of the head will keep longer and be better than those permitted to die slowly. Birds destroy millions of flies, moths, and harmful insects ; without i the birds we could not live on the 1 earth, and every little insect-eating ' bird you may kill and every egg you may take from its nest, means one less bird to destroy insects. A check-rein which will not permit i a horse to put his head where he wants i 10, wnen gome up a uiw, is a uruei j torture to the horse. The multilation of a horse, by cut- ! ting off his tail, compels him to suffer < torture from flies and insects every summer, as long as he live?.?Our I Dumb Animals*. I Protect tbe Oriole. On a tree close by the chamber win- j dow of a friend of ours in Brighton ap- i peared the other day a large nest of J caterpillars, which as soon as the | weather cleared must be destroyed. , Early the next morning a jubilant bird song was heard by our friend ' near her chamber window, and look iug out she found an oriole (golden , robin) eating caterpillars and singing i its song of thanksgiving. The oriole rendered a better service in destroying that nest of caterpillars than it could have renndered on a ' lady's hat. 1 It is said that if all the birds were j destroyed the increase of insects would ' become so great that every form of human and animal life would perish | from the earth. f A thousand times better to be lied about than to be lying about others. j The smallest as well as the meanest man on earth is he who lives for himself alone. ' la She Charming. Katy Darcy is the daughter of a good-natured, well-meaning man end a gentle, modest woman ; but Katy has suffered from the disadvantage of hearing from friends and companions that she is a charming girl, and that a charming girl is born to rule. When she starts out in the morning, therefore, she arravs herself in bright er colors and more gaudy ornaments than are suitable to the street. She casts furtive glances at young men whom she meets, but with whom she has no acquaintance, or tries with her eyes to express her admiration of the taste of well-dressed ladies who pass by. The girl is innocent of willful wrong-doing. She Is noteven flirting, intentionally; but she is trying her power. If she Is charming, must she not charm ? But it you will watch her through the day you will discover that she "draws the line." There are people, evidently, whom she makes no effort to charm. Perhaps she thinks they should be grateful to her for accepting their favors. She enters a street car with one or two companions. They hold on by the straps, swingii g to and fro, giggling, and obstrusive in manner and convematiou. An old man rises with a bow to Katy, aud offers her his seat. She flumps down into his place without a word of thanks. Or, she is going on the railway to a Hurburban town. She arrives at the station late, crowds through the line of quiet, waiting passengers, marching straight on, her bead erect, casting superclllious glances at the "common people" around her. All plain dressed men and women whom she does not know are pariahs to this young American aristocrat. Once through the gate, she hurries into a car, fill one seat before her with her bag and sliawi aua aog, wune ?ue reads a novel or Dibbles candy in the seat that ia opposite. If any other passenger attempts to take one of the seats for which she had not paid, she glares at him as if he were doing an impertinent act. She speaks to tradespeople, servants or officials, imperatively and with rudeness, to snow what she thinks is her superiority to all working people. She is happy in the beliet that she bears herself like a charming young woman, while in fact she has only been noticed as an extremely vulgar, underbred girl. Such girls may be seen in the city shops, or in the street or steam-cars. Foreigners sometimes call her the typical American girl. Can nothing be done to reform her? There is good material in her. As Matthew Arnold said of American buckwheat cakes, they are really not half so unpleasant as they look." ? Intercourse with the Young Should be conducted with great care. We should never forgot, though we sometimes do, that the young are very observant. It is a common saying that "little pitchers have big earsit is just as true that children and young people have keen and observant eyes. An indelicate remark may stain the heart of the young and be the beginning of ?vils of unimagined magnitude. Slovenliuess of speech may seem to inatifv ihi? hop of thflcoane exoreasiona of tbe Hcbool of "slang rough and censorious speech of tbe abaeut may lay tbe foundation of a rude and bitter manner which may be tbe bane of a life. The young tbink it manly to do wbat men do :? man should, therefore, always set an example worthly of imitation. A principle of conduct perhaps seldom becomes a controlling law of the life till it Is seen illustrated in some living examples. We should adopt right principles for the government of our lives and should illustrate these, and these only, in our daily conversation. Another remark deserves to be made, In our iutercouree witb the young we should be careful to utter no word and to do nothiug which would wound the susceptible heart of child or youth. We sometime* act towards the young as we would not towards those our equals in age, and under tbe mistaken impres il.. .U!U ...(II Biou tUBi euuer iuu uuuu win uut uu i tice or soou forget the rough word or deed. But there are men aud women of to-day who remember the rough treatment received in childhood, and wiio have never ceased to discount the character of the person who was cappable of the unkindneess. For every idle word we must account, and this whether tbe person to whom it was spoken was mature or of tbe tender age of childhood. Be gentle! Be courteous !?Episcopal Methodist. Many are Injured morally and spiritually through an excessive fondness for company and pleasure. A certain amount of diversion is both right and proper, but it should be well chosen, wisely timed and moderately indulged in. Recreation must have a beneficial purpose, having regard to the invigoration of tbe body, tbe relief of the mind and the good of the soul. When, then, one flnas his enjoyments interfering 1 manfol Al? mAI?01 miu UIO pujroiuai, lucumti vi ujviwi Improvement, timely notice is given to him that lie must either moderate them or relinquish them. He is wise who observes this rule both as respects the kind and degree of his amusements. The Census Bureau, with all the rest of its work, has been attempting to ascertain the value of the carp which have been introduced into American waters. A writer in the Boston Transcript says: One man, to whom a schedule was submitted, replied that the carp in bis pond had been worth a thousand dollars to him in the past six months. His wife bad been sick, and he had red her exclusively upon carp, to which iiet he aitributed her recovery. She was worth a thousand dollars, at least, and therefore he estimated his gain on his investment at that sum. A schoolboy iu Galveston, Texa*, t)it into a doughnut which he had just bought in a baker's shop. As his teeth sank in a butterfly fluttered out. It was gaudily colored, with yellow wings. The baker said the butterfly bad evidently entered the oven to get warm, and got inside the doughnut to jet something to eat. The moment you give the devil your jyes you will have to follow him with pour feet. By using a bit that hurts you will ?ach a colt to dread the bit and shrink from it. This should never be. He ihould be taught to drive well up on :be bit and yield a quick obedience to it. In training a colt the safest rule is to :each him one thing at a time, and be sure that it is learned thoroughly before attempting something else. In case of fire in stables, put a sadile on your horse, and you can lead 1 jim out without difficulty. Be lovely, be loving. See how much juushine you can produce. . ' ' .v.-' ^ On Altar Appeals. (Dr. Baokley la N. Y. Advocate.) Question 4. Where io Scripture or theology is it taught that a sinner, in order to be saved, must rise for prayer or come farward to the communion rail? and where is the authority in Scripture for the officiating minister to declare that those persons who fail to comply with these directions grieve God's Spirit, reject Christ, and pecU their hope of salvation ? Answer. There is no authority in the Scriptures for the declaration that a sinner, in order to be saved, must rise for prayers, or come forword to the communion rail. There was no communion rail in Scripture times. No minister has authority to declare that a person who refuses to rise for prayers or come forward to the communion rail grieves God's Spirit, rejects Christ, or perils his hope of salvation. Many expressions that fall from the lips of some ministers and some evangelists are little short of blasphemy, such as this scene (a minister standing with watch in his hand :) "We shall close this meeting in one minute in which to give your heart to I minnto in nrhlnh to rpiefit VlUUj UUC Uiiuuvw ?? ...WM _ v Him." Then, failing: to secure the rising of any, as he turned away, he uttered these wores: "Without doubt some have lost their la9t chance of salvation." But every minister has authoritv to declare that "Whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when He shall come In His own glory, and in His Father'e, and of the holy angels." And again: "With the heart man belleveth unfo righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Different churches and different ministers adopt different methods to make the act of committal as easy as possible without destroying its signifies ance, many carryiug it too far. Prior to about 18<>9 such a thing as inviting persons forward to the altar was unknown in Methodism. All its early triumphs took place without it. A wise minister win navt* uu uumuui method; and especially should he never be guilty of the unpardonable conceit of threatening persons with damnation for refusing his invitations, or not being led to Christ by his, possibly imperfect, presentations of the Gospel. We have known preachers that might have harangued us until they or we dropped dead, and they could not have led us to Christ. The writor thought he was Gospelhardened because these men could not move him, but in one case he subsequently discovered that he had spiritual insight, even in an unregenerate condition, to discern the sounding brass and tinkling cymbal character of the performance, or to feel it if he did not see it. Though a man be sincere and pure, it does not follow from God's word or from human reason that he is qualified to manifest Christ with equal clearness to everyone. The only thing a minister can say with the authority of God's word is in substance this: While the Gospel is being presented to you.while the spirit' is plainly striving with the people,' 11 J frtf Willie me oevum- mr p.?j.i,s you and for your conversion ;?if at such a time you who have voluntarily come here to this meeting, and placed yourselves under tbese appeals, resist! these spiritual influences, you take an awful responsibility; you are hardening your heart. Even indecision in such a case is decision. If on the other band you have no feeling, and your heart is unmoved, as though you were hearing a lecture upon some ordiDary! theme, this should alarm you into feeling, for you are listening to God's j truth. Your course here may soon make you past feeling. These things can be said and implied. The sinner is grieving the] Spirit and periling bis hope of salvation every day he remains estranged from God ; but whether in any particular case of refusal to rise he is doing so is a matter that no preacher can be sure of, and therefore no preacher can affirm without irreverence. Having distinguished this point, according to the light giveu unto us, we wish to add that the man who refuses capriciously to comply with any earnI est minister's efforts to save him take* I a responsibility of a serious nature, and the one who says, "I will not do what you propose"?unless what is I propoaea is m nis eouscieuijouo upuiuu wrong?will fiod it impossible to become a Christian until he become? willing to do that thing;?for an essential element of finding God is the subordination of self, a prerequisite to the exerciee of saving faith. Velvet Cream.?From a quart of milk take enough to mix smoothly, four tableupoonfuTs of cornstarch ; put the milk over the fire in a double boiler, and when boiling stir in six tabiespoonfuls of sugar. The blended cornstarch and four tabiespoonfuls of grated chocolate smoothly mixed with a little of the boiling milk; stir until smooth; take torn the fire and beat with an egg beater for ten minutes. Pour into small molds, and eat cold with cream. Hot water ia the best thing that can be used to heal a sprain or bruise. The wounded part should be placed in water as hot as can be borne for fif?r twant.v minutes, and in all ordinary cases the pain will gradually disappear. Hot water applied by means of cloths is a sovereign remedy for neuralgia or pleurisy pains. For burns or scalds auply cloths well saturated with cool alum water, keepiug the injured parts covered from the air. A cheap and effective substitute for putty to stop cracks in woodwork is made by soakiug newspapers in a paste made by boiling a pound of flour in three quartsof water and adding a teaspoonful of alum. The mixture should be of about the same consistency as putty, and should be forced into the cracks with a case knife. It will harden like paper muche, and when dry may be painted or stained to match its surroundings, when it Will be almost imperceptible. With a small camel's hair brush or abluiit match end, dampened with acetic acid, touch the wart several times a day which you desire to remove. The callous flesh gradually dries up and may be gently scraped ofl with the linger nail. Crab Apple Marmalade. ? Boil the apples in a kettle uutil soft, with just enough to cover them. Mush, and strain through a coarse sieve. Take a Kundof apple to a pouud of sugar; il half an hour, and put iuto jar*. Water in which potatoes have been boiled will cleanse delicate colored woolen or worsted goods. Tbe dress should be wet all over. Use no soap, rinse in clear warm water and press i while still damp. This will not injure the most delicate colors. Silverware may be kept bright and clean by coating the articles (warmed) with a solution of collodion diluted with alcohol. To clean plauo key9, use tbe finest Whiting. (Central Methodist.) It was one of the sayings of Rev. James Stalker, D. D., that religion should be to every mau "not a merely a creed, hut an experience ; not a restraint, out an inspiration ; not an insurance for the next world, but a proVisimma fnr th? nrenpilt World." I Quit? too many poeple think of tbe religious life with reference to the future, leaving the present to take care of itsel', which shows a clear misapprehension of the Bible teaching at this point. If a man's religion does not make him better in all tbe relations of life and all about him better by reason of his influence and Christian labors, his profession in a sham, his religion vain, and iu the end will profit him nothing. (St Lou Is Advocate.) The younj? men of the church will do well to take a more decided interest in political matters. Tbe young men of the saloons are not deburred by nny consideration of modesty from participating in the operations of practical politics, and so the saloons possess a contingent of energetic youthful helpers who contribute very decidedly to the success of measures that the saloon keepers wish to carry out. The way to down the saloon is to enlist the hrf.ter pIrhh of voune men against it, and when they undertake the work io earnest they will do it well. (Methodist Protestant.) Thousands of people think more of the pageants of a day among men than an eternity of the displays of divine grandeur. They will spend more money, endure more hardships, make more sacrifices, take more risks of limb and life for its enjoyment, a thousand to one, than for a stand in the arena of heaven for a review of the angels and blood-washed throng following the leadership of Jesus. (N. Y. Advocate.) Auarchist attempts at assassination spring from the same old depravity of human nature which has shown Itself in every clime and among every people from Cain's fratricide until today. They used poison, bludgeons, swords, and ropes when they had nothing else. Guy Fawkes's plot to blow up Parliament was to be carried out by means of gunpowder. Nowdynamites supersedes gunpowder. (Exchange.) A Methodist Conference moves like a heavy train on an up-grade till toward the close, and then the downgrade comes with its increasing velocity; the brake* can't hold ; it goes at break-neck speed. There is really bu little conferring in a Methodist Con ference; routine and hurry are the features. ? If evil cannot be overcome by good we are called to suffer for it. John Wesley. As for war you may mark me for a through Quaker. 1 believe it to be utterly opposed to the spirit of the gospel for a man in any case to draw the sword and slay his brother-man. Gordon Hall. In the time of John Wesley, one of his preachers was pressed ioto the army, but he would not fight. Hfc said, "I shall not fight, for I cannot bow my kuees before the Lord to pray for a man, and then get up and kill him." John Nelson. Let us place ourselves mentally In the very condition of the sicfc ana suifering. Joseph John Gurney. We may make a prayer and not really pray. Edward Payson. A good conscience is a continual feast. John Tillotson. We have no right to gratify ourselves at the expense of the happiness of others. Francis Waylaud. We must seek of Ood the blessings of peace, and do what we can to pro| mote peace among others. Moses Hem men way. We can And no joy greater than increasing the highest happiness of mankind. William Ladd. Alas ! if Christianity, as the church now exhibits it, were to become universal, it would leave the nations of the earth still in the allowed use of all this .terrible preparations for the slaughter of each other. Laurens P. Hickok. It is good to be much in pious ejaculations. This with hinder no business, therefore let no business hinder these ejaculations. Matthew Henry. Let us do like Jesus who went about doing good. William Jay. We have a call to do good as often as we have the power and opportunity. William Peun. If persons are much engnged in so Cial religion and but little In the religion of the closet there is reason to doubt their religion. Jonathan Edwards. Be earth with all Its scenes withdrawn, Let noise and vanity be gone, In secret silence of tbe mind, My heaven,and there my God I find. Isaac Watts. War, in every shape, is entirely contrary to the spirit and precepts of Christianity. Calvin E. Stowe. The door of grace is opened by the key of prayer. John Flavel. Nothing but sin makes a man get mad when tbe truth hits him. There is nothing we ought to do that we may not expect God to help us to 'do. There is no place in tbe Bible where God has promised to make a loafer happy. Most Christians are wil'ing to do great things for God, while but few are willing to sutler. Unless a Christian's walk corre* ? A?II. iU.k IA?u ItA kuu ?/. sponds WHO Ills iam iuc ics; iic iian tv say tbe better. No Christian ever bas an anxious tbougbt while be is believing tbat God is always good. Don't think that God has forsaken you, just because things do not appear to be going right. Beware of indulgence in deception. The babit is destructive of tbe very power, to be truthful. Difficulties may discourage, but they can not overcome the uian who trust* in God. It is important to think right, more important to feel right, still more important to do right, but to be right is most important of all. There are men who go to a gymnasium for esercise while their wives are sawing the wood. - VI I "I never forget," says "Rusticus," "a | scene which I witnessed in my boy hood. A young man in our own town 1 bad been tried for murder and coudemn- B ed to die. He had been shut up for 9 weeks in the condemned cell, with E manacles upon his auckles and wrists. I The govener pardoned him. B "I stood with with some of my schoolmates near the door of the jail when he was brought out, the fettero having been taken from hi* limbs. Ad I soon as he reached the threshold and the jailer said, 'You are free,' he I spraug out into the bright sunshine with the bound of a hunted deer. He shouted at ibe top of his voice. He could not walk, but ran home cry ing, 'I am free! I am free!' " I And if ihe breaking of the prisoner's fetters gives such toy, what joy should there be to one who is delivered from H the bondage of sin ; n ho bus bore the I charm of passion and habit and *ppe- I Cite; wlio lioa struggiea,anu ujh?u?uu fallen again and again but who at last has been made free? Thanks be to God for the multitude who have prove<l tbia joy ! Tbeyhave gone through darkne#H and cor row, thruugh tear# and trial, but at last they have beeu made free; thesuarels broken, and tbey have escaped ; the chains are sundered, and the bouI is unfettered; and now, instead of tbe fearful looking for of judgment and tiery iudignation, there are before them tbe light and hope and joy immortal in the kingdom of God. And to every soul that Is today bound in Satan's fetters this glorious liberty is offered. The Savior came into this world to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of prison dooru to them that are bound. "He breaks tbe power of canceled aln. He sets tbe prisoner free; m HIh blood can make tbe vilest clean; B HIb blood availed (or me." w And you who have been made free H in Christ, have you not a thought for H those who are still in bondage? If H you have been delivered, can you uot H help deliver others? Can you not lift H up your voice and proclaim deliverance H to the captives and tbe openiugof pri son doors to them that are bound ? He H who set you free waits to deliver them. H He who broke the chains of sin and H death which bound you waits to break others' chains and to bring them forth H - 1 ^ J *-# _i Ul? into me iigni auu buuhuiub ui hid pic- ? sence and His joy. "When Jeaut has loaod yoa, tell others the H story 10 That this loving Saviour is your Saviour, too." B And let your joyous testimony cou- H eerning the liberty wherewith Christ H has made you free sound in the ears of the slaves of.sin and death like the H music of golden bells or the glad peals of jubilee trumpets proclaiming free- H dom to all who ait in darkness, and leading them to know the truth, that H the truth may make them fre.?H. L. Hastings. ra Consider the Poor. H| "Consider the poor." In one sense, H we do this thing if we give our tooney, HJ our ailver, our gold?or, it may be, our H banknotes?for the relief of thedi?-H tress which is rising everywhere like a H seething black tide about us. But the H giviDg of money, important as it is, is H not enough, if it stand alone?provided, H .1.^4 !i 1.. |M or course, iaai it is iu um punn wguv ? something more than money. It hard- H ly amounts to the "considering" of IB which tbe psalmist speaks. In that Eg very practical epistle?the Epistle of HI St. James?a portrait is drawn of the K religion?that is, the "worship"--which is acceptable to God, which is "pure H| and undefiied before God the Father," H[ and in the portrait I find that theM most prominent apd feature is the vtal- HE ting the fatherle-s and the widow in their afflictiou. "Visiting," mark tbe H word. According to St, James, weH are not to shrink from bringing our-Hj selves into personal contact with hu- H[ man digress and sorrow, if it is popsi-BB bie for us to do ho. It is not money alone that is wauled in such cases, hut with money the kindly inquiry, thd^H sympathy, the tenderness, the recognl-^H tion of a common humanity, and, in HQ many cases, of brotherhood in Jesus^H Christ, the tones of tbe voice, tbeglance^H of the eye, tbe grasp of tbe hand, the HE word of loving cumulation?all this? H| which does so much in tbe direction ofH| assuaging the smart of alHictiou andH| lightening its load.?Gordon Calthrop. Farm and warden Koim. H Remember to keen the driuklng^R vessels supplied with water. While poultry manure is a good fer-^H tilizcr for grapes it should not Coiue in^P contact with the roots. M Feed little com to the hens these^| hot days. Wheat or middlings make^H the best foundation for eggs. OV The seed of the white turnip may^H be sown any time during August.^! The quantity is one pound to the^H acre. 9n Some people who supply customera^H regularly with fresh eggs use a rubbei^H stamp to mark on each egg the date ouHfl which it was laid. HH ? SS9B Husks prevents a rapid drying olH the corn cub and should be reinoved^H from late planted corn when the corn^H is gathered f ur bousing. Hj When shipping poultry long dis-^H tances supply the coops with com ant^H water. Do not mix a lot of meal audBS compel the eating of sour stuff. Late corn grown on low land shoul^^H be carefully selected, and all decayed^H and worm ei.ten and otherwise daraflfl aged graius removed before being let^H to horses. Many Colorado poultry fanciers ar^^f using extract of logwood as a preven-^H tiveof cholera. Put enough in tht^^H drinking water, once a week to red-^^J den it the least bit. BH Not even the ruminaut cow wil^H| 4 owuino luithnllf UIgtSL W UUIO gianio *? '??? ? The horse does worse, because he doerflU not rem&sticate. There is sound rea^H^ sou iu giviug chopped mixed feeds. 9H Wheu the grouud is worked to a fintflfl condition the roots penetrate the soi^H more easily, secure a greater share o^^f plane food and grow more rapidlj^Ho than when but slight cultivation ii^H given the soil. 9B A. K. Preaby terian.) B^fl I When we come to test our Christi^^S anity we must close our eyes on th^H| world and open them on our own soul^^f fu that important examination thi^^H testimony of uo created being will ai(^^| us in the least. No matter what gooiHH things any one may say about U4 i^^| will avail us nothing. Our neighbori^^H may, with one voice, pronounce ui^^f pious, our pastor may regard us a saintHfl all tbis will profit us nothing. In fac^^| it may lead us to an erroneous conHH elusion?to conclude that we are wha^^l we really are not. God's Holy Spirl^H istheouly being who can testify it^^B this case. "The spirit itself bearetl^^fl witness with our spirit that we are th^BH children of God." As to whether "HS am a Christiau or not" is a questiotflB which can be decided only by the wit-^^H ness that is in me, and not by the testl^^H mony of persons or things without ua^^B