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REV. DR. TALMAGE. \l i a ?-????. J., SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE J NOTED DIVINE. e a o Subject: "Before They Adjourn." p r c Text: "and teach his senators frtedoia,? Psalms cv.. 22. " a Senators in this text stand for law-makers, h Joseph was the lord treasurer of the Egyptian A government, and amonc: other great thins? h which ho did. according to my text, was to C teach his senators wisdom. And if any men ft vu uu^ui 10 u?^ eiiuuwtia wiia wisdom n it is senator?, whether they stand in con- E cresses, parliaments or roichstasrs or assem- st blies or legislatures. By their decisions h nations go up or ^own. Law-makers are ti sometimes so tempted by prejudices, by sec- p tional preference, by opportunity of personal L advancement, and sometimes wbat is best to a do is so doubtfulthatthe> oucrht to benrayed a for and encouraged in every Dossible way tt instead of severely criticised and blamed and in excoriated, as is much of the time the case, a; Our public men are so often the tarset to bo a< Bhot at. merely because they obtain eminence p: which othprmen wanted but could not reach, sc that more injustices are hurled at our na- si tional legislature than the people of the Uni- il ted States can possibly Imagine. The whole- u: sale belying nf our public men is simply dam- iz nable. tt Bv residence in Washington I have come 01 i to find out that many of our public men are G Deraistently misrepresented, and some of the re best of them, the purest in their lives and 01 most faithlul in the discharsreof thelrdutles, fa nr? thft worst dpfimed. Somo dnv I xrant to th preach a sermon from the text In II Peter: ti< "Thev ire not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas anpels, which are creater in fa power and might, brine not railincr accasa- ge tion against them before the Lord. But so these, as natural brute beasts, mad? to be th taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things tic that they understand not." So constantand ac l maliznant is this work of depreciation and m( BcaDdalization in resrard to our public men th that all over the land there are those who no Bupnose that the city of Washington is the UI center of all corruption, while what with its th parks, and its equestrian statuary, and its tit wide streets, and its architectural symme- he tries, and its lovely home9, It is not only the 0t most beautiful city under the sun. but has ar the hichest style of citizenship. 1 have seen lie but one intoxicated man in the more than th six months of my residence, and I do not tr think any man can give similar testimony of or anv other city on the American continent. mi The travels of our two houses of national fo letrislature will soon fall, and adjournment re of two bodies 0* men as talented, as upricht an and as patriotic as ever graced the capital re will take place. The two or three unfor<- dc tunate outbreaks which you have notice I fa. only make more conspicuous the dignity, is ' the fraternity, the eloquence, the fidelity mi which have characterized those two bodies ch during all the Ion? months of important and yc anxious deliberation. We put a halo around tu great men of the past because they were so wi rare in thoir time. Oursenate and houso of jn representatives have five such men where $ once they had one. But it will not be until fu alter they are dead that they will pet appro- lo elated. The world finds it" safer to praise bl the dead than the living, because the de- m parted, having a heavy pile of marble above Cc them, may not rise to become rivals. ar But, before the gavels of adjournment th drop and the doors of Capitol Hill shut, sa there are one or two things that oucbt to bo (t done, and let us pray God that they may be so accomplished. More forcibly than ever be- th fore, coneress has been Implored to acknowl- th edge God in our constitution. The Metho- nf dist Church, a church that is always doing si< glorious things, has in its recent Wilming- W ton conference requested our congress to nr amend the immortal document which has si< been the foundation and wall and dome of pi our United States government by inserting ns the words. "Trusting in Almighty God." If Bi that amendment i3 made, it will cot only m I please all the good people of the country, but will please the heavens. It was only an er oversight or a mental accident that the tath- ar ers who made the constitution did not insert be a divinely worshipful sentence. They all. so is far as they amounted to anything, believed vc in "God the Father Almighty, the Maker of er heaven and eartn, an;l in Jesus Christ, His pi only begotten Son." The constitution w.nld ca have been a failure bad it not been for the lh div.ne interference. The members of the II convention could agree on nothing until, in Sc response to Benjamin Franklin's request that "< the meetings be opened by prayer, the Lord pi Go 1 was called on to interfere and help, and pi then the way was cleared, and all the states an siened the document, a historical fact that gc 1 all the rat terriers of modern infidelity can- in not bark out of existence. I know that there as was an exception to the fact that the promi- pi nent men in those times wero good men. pe Tom Paine, a libertine and a sot, did not an believe in anything good until he was dying, nc and tnen he snrieked out for God's mercy, er And Ethan Allen, from one of whose pc . descendants I have received within a few ip /lays a confirmation of the incident I men- mi Honed in a recent sermon, as saying to his an dyin? f'auchter that she had better take her ar mother's Christian religion than his own in- of fidelity. The article sent me says: "The of storv has been denied by some of the Allen in fnmll,. e/NTVtA i-vf I. UUt 1XJk OUiUO VI >VJ whom were with tho dylnpr girl, affirm that en It is substantially true. In such a mattor of one confirmation is worth more than many ar denials.'' So savs the article sent me. th There is no doubt that Ethan Allen was the ar vulgarest sort of an infidel, for, sitting in a ag Presbyterian Church, his admirers say hn . struck the pew in front of him and swore out loud so as to disturb the meeting, ana no , gentloman would do that. I do not wonder A1 that some of his descendants are ashamed of . him, but of course they could not help It and ^ are not to blame. But all the decent men of the Revolution believed in God, and our American congress, now assembled, will enly ? echo the sentiments of the fathers when they r i enthrone the name of God in the constitution. We have now more reason for 'I. inserting that acknowledgement of divinity ' 'than our fathers had. Since then the con- tj tinent has been peopled and great cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific built, and all in * peace, showing that there must have been * sucernal supervlsal. Sinco then the war of ci 1812, and ours the victory! Since then great g financial prostrations, out of which we came to greater prosperity than anything that pre- th ceded. Since then sanguinary 1S62, 18G3, 1864 and 1865, and notwithstanding tho fact ?? that all the foreign despotisms were planning for our demolition, we are a united peo- a. pie." and to-morrow you will find in both houses of congress the men who foucht for the north and south, now sitting side by side, armed with no weapon except the pen. -i wVklsiK thaw n*rifa fA rtnn. Istituents who want to be appointed post- t masters. The man who cannot see Goa in _ our American history is as blind of soul as f he would be blind of body if he could not at 12 o'clock of an unclouded noon see the sun in the heavens. As a matter of gratitude to Almighty Qod, . gentlemen of the American congress, be t pleased to insert the four words suggested t< by the Methodist conference. Not only be- fl. cause of the kindness of God to this nation in the past should such reverential insertion be maae, bat because of the fact that we are going to .want divine interposition etill further in our national history. This gold land silver question will never be settled un- tl 'til God settles it. This question of tariff and s< free trade will never be settled until God p settles it This question between the east a and the west, which is petting hotter and fi hotter and looks toward a republic of the w Pacific, will not be settled until God settles n it. We needed God in the 120 years of our tJ past national life, and we will need Him tl etill more in the next 120 years. Lift up tl your heads, ye everlasting gates of our o glorious constitution, and let the King c of Glory come in! Make one line ol b that immortal document radiant with Cnall of loncf nna e IJUJUip' 'icuto. ?n ?vtw? uv.v. 0 kith thrones! At the beginning, or at t) the close, or in the centre, recognize Him p from whom a3 a nation we have received all c the blessings of the past and upon whom we t ire dependent for the future. Print that c jrord "God" or "Lord" or "Eternal Father" t sr "Buler of Nations" somewhere between I :he flr3t word and the last. The great ex- i pounder of the constitution sleeps at Marsh- t leld. Mass., the Atlantic ocean etill hum- 1 ujng near his pillow of du3t its prolonged t lullaby. But is there not some one now llv- c ing who in the white marble palace of the j aation on yonder hill not ten minutes away t jfiU become the irradiator of the constitution f sv causing to be a ided the most tremendous 1 fford in our English vosabulary, the name j >f that being before whom all nations must j jow or go into defeat and annihilation? t God?" i Again, before the approaotlng adjourn- i of our American eoosress, it ougt*^ i j r I e decidedly and forever settled that no ai ropriations be made to sectarian school nd that the courtship between church an tato in this country be forever broken uj 'hat question already seems temporarily se led. I wish it might be completely and fo: ver settled. All schools and all institution s well as all denominations, should stan n the same level before American law. En eror Alexander of Russia, at his Peterhc alaee, asked mo how many denominator f religion there were in America, and I r< ited their names as well as I could. The e asked me the difference between then nd their I broke down. But when I tol im that no religious denomination i .merica had any privileges above the other e could hardly understand it. The Gree -hurch first in Russia, the Lutheran Churc rst in Germany, the Episcopal Church llri England, the Catbolic Church first i lone, Mohammedanism first in Cot :antinople ? the emperor wondere owitwas possible that all tho denomin.'i ens in America could stand on the sam latform. But so it is. and so let it ever be iet there be no preference, no partiality, n ttempt to help one seat an inch higher tha nother. Washington and Jefferson, and al le early presidents, and all the great states ien of tho past, have lifted their voice jaiost any such tendencv. If a school o a institution cannot stand without th rop of national appropriation, then let tha ihool or Institution go down. On the othe j*_ ?? U A nlAntf ae 01 tue sea lue woriu uiis uau piuuij v lustration of church and state united. La 5 have none of the hypocrisy and demoral ;ation born of that relation on this side o te Atlantic. Let that denomination com< it ahead that does the mo3t for the cause o od and humanity, men, institutions am iligions getting what they achieve by theii vn right arm of usefulness and not by th< vorittsm of government. As you regarc 9 welfare and perpetuity of our institn jns, keep politics out of religion. But now that I am speaking of national af irs from a religious standpoint^ bethink my If of the fact that two other gavels wll on lift and fall, the one at St Louis and e other at Chicago, and baforo these na >nal conventions adjourn I ask that the; knowleige God in the platforms. Th' sn who construct those platforms are hen i3 morning or will read these words. Le i political party think it can do its dut; tless it acknowledges that God who bull' is continent and revealed it at the righ ne to the discoverer, and who has reare: to a prosperity which has been given to n< iier people. "Oh," says some one, ''then e people in this country who do not be >ve in a God. and it would be an insult ti em." Well, there are people in this coun y who do not believe in common decenuy common honesty, or any kind of govern snt. preferring anarchy. Your very plat rm is an insult to them. You ought not t< gard a man who does not believe in Go< iy more than you shoaid regard a man wh< fuses to believe in common decency. Youi cketbook is not safe a :momen the presence of an atheist. Got the only source of good govern ent. Why not, then, say so and let th< airman of the committee on resolutions ii iur national conventions take a pen full o k and with bold hand head the documea ith one significant "whereas," acknowledge g the goodness of God in the past and beg ng His kindness and protection for thf ture. Why, my friends, this country bo ngs to God. and we ought in every possi0 way to acknowledge it. From the mo< eat that, on an October morning in 1492 jlumbus looked over the side of che shif id saw tho carved staff which made hin ink he was near an inhabited country, anc w also a thorn and a cluster of berria v-pe of our history ever since, the pierclnt rrows and cluster of national joys), unti is hour our country has been bounded or e north, south, east and west by the good' as of God. Tho Huguenot3 took posses Dn of the Carolinas in tho name of God illiam Penn settled Philadelphia in the ime of God. Tho Hollanders tcok posses >n of New York in the name of God. Th< lgrim fathers settled New England in th< ime of God, Preceding the first gun o: inker Hill, at the voice of prayer all heads xcovered. In the war of 1312 an officer came to Genal Andrew Jackson and said: "There is 1 unusuai noise in the camp. It ought tc t stopped." General Jackson said: "What the noise?" The offloer said: "It is th( >ice of prayer and praise." Then the gen al said: "God forbid that prayer anc aise should be an unusual noise in the en .mpment. You had better go and joir em." Prayer at Valley Forge. Prayer al onmoutb. Prayer at Atlanta. Prayer al mth Mountain. Prayer at Gettysburg 3h," says some infidel -'the northern peo< e prayed on one side, the southern people ayed on the other side, and ao it did noi aount to anything!" And I have hearc lod Christian people confounded with the fldel statement, when it is as plain to m< ?v?? + Vao UiJ ilgUV UUUli. A <-Jj frw e prayed in one way, aad the south ere lople prayed in another way, and God tswered in His owd way, giving to the >rth the re-establishment of the govmnent and giving to the south larger op irtunitles, larger than she had ever antic ated?the harnessing of her rivers in greal anufacturing interests, until the Mobile id the Tallapoosa and the Chattahoochee e southern Merrima.-s, and the unrollinj the groat southern mines of coal and iron which the world knew nothing, and open g before her opportunities of wealth wnicl ill give ninety-nine per cent, more of afflu ice than she ever possessod, and, inst- ac the blaek hands of American slaves, ther< e the more industrious black hand3 o: e coal aad iron mines of the south, whici e achieving for her fabulous vaad unlm,1ned wealth. id there are domes oft white blossomi where spread the while tents, id there are plows in the track where the war wagons went, id there are songs whero they lifted uj Rachel's lament Oh, you are a stupid man If you do no' iderstand how God answered Abrahaa Inco'.n's prayer in the White House, anc onewall Jackson's prayer in the saddle id answered all the prayers of all thi ithedrals on both sides of Mason ane ison's line! God's country all the wa; ist, God's country new! Put His name ii >ur pronuncicmentos. Put His nami i your ensigns: .rut ttis name on you ty and state and natlonaJ enterprises! Pu Is name In your hearts. We cannot sleej ell the last sleep until we are assured tha le God of our American institutions in tin ist will be thi God of our American institu ens in the day3 that ate to come. Oh hen all the rivers that empty into Atlantl id Pacific seas shall pull oa factory bands hen all the great mines of gold and silve id Iron and coal shall bo laid bare for th ition; when the last swamp shall be re aimed, and the last jungle cleared, and th st American desert Edenized, and from se ? sea the continent shall be occupied b; ,ore than 1,200,000,000 souls, may it b mnd that moral and religious Influence ere multiplied In more rapid ratio than th Dpulatlon. And then there shall be fon oxoloeies coming from north and souti ad east and we3t, four doxologies rollini iward each other and meeting midcon nent with such dash of holy joy that the lall mount to the throne: And heaven's high arch resound again With peace on earth, good will to men. I take a step farther and say that befor le gavels of our senate and house of repre jntatives and our political convention ouad adjournment there ought to be pas3e law or adopted a plank of Intelligent helt ilness for tne great foreign population rhich are coming among us. It Is too lat ow to discuss whether we had belter 1< lem come. They .ire here. They are comin Ills moment through the Narrows. Theyai tiis moment taking the first full inhalatio t the free air of America. And they wi oatinue to come as long as this country 13 tl ost place to live in. You might as well pass a law prohlbitin ummer be?*j from alighting on a field c Jossoming buckwheat; you might as we irohibit tne stag3 of the mountains froi oming down to the deer Uck. as to prohib he hunger bitten nations of Europe froi oming to this land of bread?as to prohib he people ot England, Ireland, Scotlan< taly, Norway, Sweden and Germany worl ng themselves to doath on small wages o he other side the sea?from coming to thi and where there are the largest compens; ions under the sun. Why did God sprer >ut the prairies of the Dakotas and roll tl jrecious ore into Colorado? It was that a he earth might come and plow, and con md dig. Just as long aa the centrifug orce of foreign despotisms throws them c ust so long will the centripetal force < Lmerlcan institutions draw them here. Ai hat is what is going to make this tl nightiest nation on the earth. Interma riage of nationalities, not circle intermarr ng circle and nation intermarrying natlo. ' . - ? j. But it is point: to l>0 Italian and Norwegian, | s Russian and Colt, S?>tch and French, Eng- j d lish and American. x The American of ICO years from now Is to b? j t- different from the American of to-day. Ger-i r- man brain. Irish wit, French civility, Scotch i s, firmness, English ioyality, Italian sosthetics j d packed into one man, and he an American!, i- It is this intermarriage of nationalities that; >f is troing to mate the American nation the1is greatest nation of the ages. But what are we .doing for the moral and intellectual culture n of the 500,000 foreigners who camo in one i, year, and the 000.000 who came In another d year, and the 800,000 who came In another n year, and the i,i 00,000 who are coming Into our various American ports? .What are we k doing for them? Weil, we are doing a great h deal for them. We steal their baggage as st soon as they got here. We send them up to n a boar.iinp house, where the least thev lose i- is their money. We swindle them within ten d minutes after they get ashore. We nre doing l- a great deal for them. But what are we do-; o ing to introduce them Into the duties of .. good citizenship? Many of them never, o saw a ballot box. Manv of them never heard n of the constitution of the United States, ll Many of them have no acquaintance with i- our laws. Now, I say, let the government of - fVin Tin ifiirl Rtfltac an <-nrr.mar.r1ar! Kw ?na r political party or both political parties, give o to every immigrant who land3 here a volume, in good type and well bound for long usage ?a volume containing the Declaration of Independence, the constitution of the United States ami a chapter on the spirit of our government. Let there be such a book on the shelf of every free library in America, While the American Bible society puts into the right hand of every Immigrant a copy ot the Holy Scriptures, let the government of the United States, commanded by.some political party, pul into the left hand" of every immigrant a volume instructing him in the duties of good citizenship. There are thousands of foreigners in this land who need to learn that the ballot box is not a footstool, but a throno?not something to put your foot on, but something to bow L before. .But wnetner memoers 01 me nanonai leg7 islature, or delegates to one of the national a conventions, or private olttzons, let ns culti? vate Christian patriotism. Oh, how good t God has been to us as a nation! Just open 7 the map of the continent and see how it is t shaped for immeasurable prosperities. Navt liable rivers, more in number and greater i than of any other land, rolling down on all 5 sides into the sea, prophesying large manue factories and easy commerce. Look at the - great ranges of mountains, timbered with 3 wealth on the top and sides and metalled - with wealth underneath. One hundred and , eighty thousand square miles of coall One - hundred and eighty thousand square miles - of iron! The iron to pry out the coal. The ) coal to forge and smelt the iron. The land 1 so contoured that extreme weather hardly > ever lasts more than three days?extreme r heat or extreme cold. Climate for the t most part bracing and favorable for 1 brawn and braiD. All fruits. All min erals. All harvests. Scenery displaying au* tumnal pageantry that no land on earth prei tends to rtvaL No South American earthf quakes. No Scotch mists. No English fogs, t No Egyptian plagues. The people of the . United States are happier than any people - on earth. It is the testimony every man j tnat nas traveled aoroaa. * or xne poor more . sympathy! For the industrious more opnor. tiinlty! Oh, how pood God was to our fathers . and how good God has been to us and our , children! To Hia?blessed be His glorious > name! To Him of cross and triumph be coni secrated the United States of America! 1 ^There are three great reasons why you and 3 I "should do our best for this country?three j great reasons: Our fathers'craves,our cradle, 1 our children's birthright. When I say your i fathers' graves, your pulses run quiokly. . Whether they sleep in city cemetery or coun. try graveyard their dus: is very precious to . you, I think they lived well ana that they 3 died right. Never submit to have any gov ernment over their tombs other than that j government under which they lived and ) died. And then this country is our cradle, f It may havo rocked us very roughly, but it i was a good cradle to be rocked in. Oh, how much wo owe to it! Our boyhood and girl hood, tt was spent In this blessed country, i i never have any patience with a man who > talks against this country. Glorious t plac9 to be born> in and a glorious, s place to live in. It has been our - cradle. Aye! It is to bo our children's I birthright. You and I will soon bo throucrh. We will perhaps see a few more spring j blossoms, and wo will perhaps see a few t more summer harvests, and we will perhaps t gather a few more autumnal fruits, but we . are to hand this government to our children as it was handed to us?a free land, a happy ) land, a Christian land. They are not to oe t trampled by despotism. Thov are net to be I frightened by anarchists. Wo must hand i this government to them over the ballot bos, i over the school desk, over the church altar, - as we have received it and charge them i solemnly to put their life between it and any I keen stroke that would destroy it. i And Thou, Lord God Almighty, wo put, with a thousand armed prayer, into Thy pro tection this nation! Romember our fathers' - bleeding feet at Valley Forge. Itemembsr t Marion and Kosciusko. Remember the cold,' > and the hunger, and the long march, and th? > fever hospital. Remember the fearful chargo ; at Bunker Hill. Remember Lexington, and , Yorktown, and Kind's Mountain, aud Gettys burg. Remember Perry's battle on the laic?-i i and Hampton Roads, where the Cumberland - went down. Remember Washington's prayer I by the camp-fire. Remember Plymouth i Rock and the landing amid the savages. Ro[ member Independence Hall and how much i it cost our fathers to sien their names. Re_ 1 oil fhft hlrinrl nnrl t/>o_rz nf fchrAR TTRrfl ?1776. 1812, 1862. And moro than till, remember the groan that was might' ier than all other groans, and the thirst that stung worse than all oth1 er thirsts, and the death that was ghastlier than all other deaths?the mount on which } Jesus died to make all men hippy and free. For the sake of all this human and divine t sacrifice, 0 God. protect this nation! And : whosoever would blot it ou'., and whosoever ! would strike it down, and whosoever would turn his back, let him be accursed! ' Go home to-day in high hopes of the i future. The eternal Go;l Is on the side of this nation. Our brightest days are yet to J come. 3 Ho hath sounded forth tho trumpet that will f never call retreat. ' Ho is sitting out tho hearts of men before the ' judgment seat. t Be swift, my soul, to answer Him, be jubilant, b my feet! Our God is marching on! I J WORLD'S BICCEST CONVENTION HALL. r a Th? Huge Etillding in Which the Deinoi crats Will Meet. ? The building, at Chicago, in which the ? National Democratic Convention is to be ? held will be the biggest permanent conven? tion hall ever erected. It will be one-third g larger than the Capitol at Washington, its ground floor will cover more than Ave and 5 one-half acres, and with its gallery it will ? have more than seven acres of floor space. K Think of building a wall about a flve-aore field and then rooflng it in with an immense ' iron framework, so made that there are perhaps four acres In the centre unobstructed bv posts. Let this four acres be entirely free from pillars or walls, and you get some idea of the immense building which is now e being put up for the great conventions of the ). future at Chicago. The wills are al^ ready in place. The iron network has d been fastened and riveted together, ). and the roof is now being put on. ig The roof is supported by immense trusses :0 of iron, which extend from the sides of ?t the building in the shape of great arms, *g meeting in the centre 100 feet above the floor. e The span is more than 200 feet, and these n pieces of steel aro all that support the roof, n Thev look frail, but thev are really very ie strong. They have been tested by the engineers, and it is snid there is no daiiirer what^ ever of the roof fulling. The buiiding is to ,f be made of st"bI. iron and glass, with the 11 exception oi i\? floor, and it is as nearly n fireproof as irodera science can make it. Its it outer walk art* of Milwaukee brick. Theyj m are about sixteen inches thick, and the light. It comes in through immense windows, each of' which is about as large as the floor of an av?. erage parlor. The building is, you know, to ,n be used for circuses, horse shows and such [3 immense public gatherings as cannot be a- crowded into a small hall. It will be opened l(i by Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show on ie June 1. On June 15 there will be a bicvcle ;11 exhibition in it, and after this it will be put ie in thorough shape for the National Demoal cratic Convention. After the convention is ,ff over there will be another bicycle show, and of later on in the summer there will be an exid position showing the industries of the Southie ern Statea. There will be a football match j. in the building oa Thanksgiving Day, when 7. it is axpected that there will be 35 000 people a. present ' SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOl MAY 31. Lesson Text: "Destruction of Jeri: snlern Foretold," Luke xxJ., -036? Golden Text: Luke xxl., 33?Commentury 20. "Ye shall s?o Jerusalem comr.asse with armies." Ono flay as He was leavin the temple they sought to call Hi; at'entio to the great stones and gifts, but He sal that the time would come when not on stone would be left on another. They ai terward asked Him about this, and He the told them of the approaching riestr' ion c Jerusalem and of this whole age till He sha come again. 21. "Then let them which are in Judea lie to the mountains." Sometimes we are t stand ana endure and die. and sometime we are to flee. He will tell us when to stan still and when to go forward if we have ear to he.ir. Let us ever "watch the wav.'' am "watchto see what He will say" (Nah. ii.. 1 Hab. 11., 1). Ezek. xxii., 17-22, has had i fulfillment, but like many another predic tion, the great fill-full-ment Is yet to come 22. '"For these be the days of vengeance.' Such passages as Deut. xxvili.. 25, 48: Dan ix., 26, were then fulfilled, but we read else where that the days of vengeance will b associated with Israel's redemption, do with the destruction of Jerusalem. Wh^i the Lord shall appear in His glory, Hi shall build up Zion (Ts. cil., 1C). 23. "There shall be great distress in th land, and wrath upon this people." It i written concerning their being carried t< Babylon that "they mocked the messenger of God, and despised His words, and mis used His prophets, until the wrath of th Lord arose against His people, till there wo. no remedy" (II Chron. xxxvi., 16). 24. "Jerusalem shall be trodden down o the gentiles until the times of the gentile be fulfilled." She is still troilden dowD Therefore we are still in the times of the gen tiles, but she is arising from her desolations Therefore the times of the gentiles are near ly fulfilled. Read with this Rom. xi., 25 and consider that in some little measure th blindness Is passing from Israel, and tnare fore the fullness of the gentiles (the churcl or body of Christ gathered from the gentiles must be approaching completion. Notic another "until" in Acts ill.. 21. 25. 2C. "The powers of heaven shall to shaken." This is the time of the great tribu lation at the end of this ago to which wi have already referred. It is mentioned ii Hng. ii., 6, 7, as follows: "Yet once it is i little while, and I will shake the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the dryland and I will shake all Nations, and the deslri of all Nations shall come." In Heb. xii., 27 we read that thealm of all this is "that thosi things which cannot be shaken may remain.' Resting on the Arm foundation of the Itoel of Ages we can say, "Therefore will not w< fear, though the earth be removed, an< though the mountains bo carried into thi midst of the sea" (Ps. xlvi., 2). 27. "And then snail ,thev see the 8on o Man coming in a cloud with power and grea glory." In Math, xxiv., 29, 30, we read tha this shall be immediately after the tribula tion of those days. Isa. xxxv., 4, says: "Be hold your God will come with vengeance even uon wuu a recompense. 28. l,Your redemption draweth nigh.' That is, the redemption of Israel as a Na tiou, for while individual Jews are not nov converted as individual gentiles by lookinj to Jesus by faith the Nation will be convert ed as a Nation only when they look upoi Him as He shall come in His glory. This L fully described in Zech. xii., 10, to xiii., 1. 29, SO. "Behold the flg tree and all th< trees." He now called their attention to na ture and to the way that they knew tha summer was nigh. Israel is God's fig tre< as well as His vine. Hoar Joel i., 7 "Hi bath laid my vine waste and barked my fl; tree." The fig tree that Jesus cursed as Hi entered the city one day, which was full o leaves, but had no fruit, was a symbol of 13 rael full of profession, but without righteous ness. The Qg leaf aprons of Adam an< Eve were very suggestive of their efforts t< regain that which they had lost, but the; had to lay them aside and accept the coat! of skins, God's provision by sacrifice, fo TtHt-h/Mif ahoHHInc nf h!nnrt nft (Heb. ix., 22; Lev. xvli., 11). 31. "Know ye that the kingdom of God ii nigh at hand." We may not know the da; or hour, but we may know from signs a! plain ns the leaves upon the trees that tb< event is approaching. Our Lord associate the redemption of Israel and the kingdom o God. Why should wo ever separate then and talk of the kingdom as being now here when there cannot be a kingdom of God oi earth anart from Israel as a center'? So lonj as the throne of David is vacant the kingdon has not come. 32. "Verily I say unto you, This gene a tion shall not pass away till1 all be fulfllle .Generation means a race or people, and th< continued existence and marvelous preserva tion of the Jews as a people is evident proo *of the fulfillment in due time of every won of God. The pronoun "this" may be andt elsewhere translated "that," so that there i a possibility that the saying means "tha generation," the generation that shall wit ness the beginning of thoso things shall tils see the end of them. S3. "Ileaven and earth shall pass away but My words shall not pass away." "Th word of our God shall stand for ever" (Isa xl., 8). "Tho word of the Lord enduretl forever" (I Pet. i., 25). "The heavens, beinj on fire, snail be dissolved (or loosed froc bondagj) and the elements shall melt wit! fervent heat Nevertheless we, according t His promise, look for new heavens and i new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness' (II Pet. ill., 12. 13). 34. "Take heed to yourselves lest that da come upon you unawares." We are to a vol all entanglements of earth lest we be ovej come and taken unawares. This life is warfare with the powers of darkness, an we need to have on the whole armor of Go< (Eph. vl., 11. 12). 85. "For as a snare shall it come on a! them that dwell on the face of the whol earth." The believer in Christ does no dwell on the earth: he is only a sojourno here day by day. He is a citizen of heaver and his tboughts and affections are there, o; things ubove, not on things on.the earth. 86. "Watch ye, therefore, and pray alwaj that ye may be accounted worthy to escap all these things." If some may escape th great tribulation, then surely the churc which is His body shall escape it. "Becaii:; thou hast kept the word of My patience, also will keep thee from the hour of tem[ tation, which shall come upon all the worl to try them that dwell upon tbo earth (Rev. ili., 10). If Jesus Himself shall pais 'hroujjh the tribulation, then His body shal but otherwise not.?L?sson Helper. HARD BLOW TO KANSAS FARMERS Bis Detroit Srtd Hoase Iteiuscs to TaJj Any More Product. Suits have been filed by farmers in lot] counties In Southwestern Kansas against th seed house of D. 31. Ferrv & Co., of Detroit alleging abrogation of contract. For fi\ years many farmers in that region l av abandonee all efforts in farming and slot * "! ri ?aii a n raising because 01 couuuucu uiuu,v? ? devoted their efforts to raising seoils ft Eastern houses. Watermelons, pumpkin squashes, cucumbers, tomatoes un.l oth< crops have been raised by the train load sin ply for seed. Seed farmers received a banc some income and the Detroit seed house stocked with enough seeds to hist It tlv years. Now it is charged that the lust year seed crop was practically worthless, 'and tt seed company has notilled the seed farmei mat it will not take this vear*3 crop As th seed farmers have a contract for the outpi each year, they have banded together an employed State Senator Milton Brown, < Garden City, to enforce the contract. Thr< weeks ago he went to Detroit and procure samples of alt kinds of seed said to be worti less. He planted them in the rich Kan?: soil and they are growing llnely. Ho wi also attach all seed now on sale in Kans: belonsine to the Detroit flrm.^ Bicycle Patents. ' The greatest activity of the past yet among tho inventors was shown in detail li ventions and necessaries to bioyoles and i machines and process for making the parti due, perhaps, in part, to the enormous a( cession of thinkers to the ranks of those wh use them. Pneumatic tires have attracte the Inventor, because of their now almos universal use on sulkies as, well as bicyclei | mat to viMeiuia'i Birxnpiace. One of the favorite runs of New York Wq clists la to the bouse where President Clevt land was born in the little nearby New Jei ) sey village. ? \ TEMPERANCE. n [j how no:;a? When God the sky and sea had made, And Eden fair with high design, His loftiest skill was then displayed. Fcr man stood lorth in form divine. A.n imago of his Maker he, For every need equipped and strong; With mental power ana spirit free, A ruler of tne obedient throng. . How soon that image was defaced! ' ^ How vast tho ruin wroupht by sin! p The frame by poison's drink debased, The soul made foul and vilo within; " How lonjr shall such unholy snares Be set to break forgotten vows? 1 0, when will earnest pleas and prayers To action careless men arouse? bow a babt cclted the dbinkiso habit. " It ha? remained for a woman in Sf. LouW to devise a simple and effective scheme for 5 getting her husband out of a barroom Id s which he had been spending too much o* his j time and all his money. She not only ln. duced him to go home, but to wish that he j had never been in a saloon. The woman who did it was Mrs. Fritz , Leught, who is not only young, but very il pretty. 8be and Leught have been married a little over a year and have one child, a * pretty, curly-haired babe. 0 For some reason, which Leught says now t he can't explain, he got into the habit of a frequenting one of the barrooms in St Louis. a He cot so enamored of it he failed to go home when through with his work in the 0 evening, preferring to pass all his leisure g time in the barroom. His wife pleaded with 5 him to keep out of it, but without avail. He g went from bad to worse and soon lost his ^ position. 0 Matters got so bad that when she wanted 9 to see her husband Mrs. Leught was obliged to go to the saloon to do so. That irade her [ desperate, and she resolved to adopt heroic g measures in an effort to bring hor husband to his senses. 'm 80 one day recently, when Leught was in a back room of the bar, a young and pretty ",A,v,n" /1t>aoau/1 onH /?orrvin<* in hPr ; arms a bundle, walked boldly Into the sa0 loon. She looked about her calmly, as if In search of some one. Thea she walked up to] ^ the bar, deposited the bundle thereon and \ started to leavo the plaae. g The barroom was full of men at the time. When the woman entered they became quiet 3 and then astonished, as she laid the bundle _ on the bar very gently. a As she started to leave the place one of the j waiters stepped forward and stopped her. x At the same time there was a movement in : | the bundle, and a baby's head peeped out of ' I the folds of cloth. The baby looked about 3 , at the parish furniture with wide, staring | eyes. As she laid the bundle on the bar the 3 ! baby began to cry. ? j The effect was electrical. All the men c orowded up and tried to quiet the child, 3 I whioh refused to be quieted. Even the bar1 ' tenders joined in the effort to amuse the 9 youngster. "The baby wanted to see his father," Mrs. f Leught explained to the crowd, "so I t brought him to the only place where his t father can be found. He can take care of . the boy now, because I've got to go to work . to make a living for myself and the child." That settled It with the crowd. Leught ' was hauled out of the back room, and al most before he knew what had happened . was walking down the street beside his wife, 7 I with the child la bis arms. ? Ho got bis former position back a few day3 ' j later, and hasn't been In the saloon since.? ! J New York Journal. NO UBE FOX IT. 3 Following on the heels of Nansen's and " Peary's emphatic declarations against the 1 | use of liquor In Arctic exploration, and that 9 of Stanley's against Its use in African exI ! ploration, and the almost unanimous opinion ^ I against it expressed by the trainers of ath? ! letic clubs In New York City, comes anothei 1 | testimony from one who has learned In the school of experience. 7 In the New York Medical Record, Major 1 ! Alfred F. Sears, civil sanitary engineer, has 5 ! an article on the "Sanitary Care of Men in P j Masses." The paper Is an interesting review 3 of over forty years' experience in army and r I snglneering corps and railroad construction 1 camps. It contains many practical sugges| tions in regard to hygienne and some good 3 ; natured slaps at army doctors. The author ? ! says that there are two kinds of physician"?, 3 | "the doctor of hygiene and the doctor of 3 [ medicine; one cares for health and the other 3 for disease, and the thing cared for always 1 ' comes out ahead." 1 I It is, however, the Major's opinion in re? I card to the use of whisky that is of especial I Interest. After describing the work of his s . company, knee deep in the mnd of a South1 I em swamp, he goes on to say: "Vnoh fnmnnnn af: 11 and In the afternoon at 4 o'clock, the men of the fatigue parties [ were entitled to a ration of whisky. The men of Company E did not get it. In lieu I I thereof, by tne cordial permission of Gen; I eral Viele, they received extra rations of ^ i tea, coffee, bread, and meat. * * And * here it seems proper to declare my uncomt promising opinion, as the result of a long experience in dealing with men, that the " time has never occurred when the regular ration of whisky is other than a danger to the health of those who receive it, and a ' menace to the good order and discipline of the camp. Thirty odd-years ago I was not u 30 sure of the fact, and there were times ? when I surrendered to the orders of the ^ surgeons and gave whisky and quinine to the l men. When some old hulk had been kept _ afloat on whisky for years, it would have a been cruel to cut off his dram, but in the i. case of young men coming under my charge from the tender care of home, I felt then, as y I do now, that to have taught them the use J of alcoholic stimulants by administering this stupid prescription of Incompetent medn Icos, would be a responsibility no rational (not to say benevolen:) man should dare as,i sume." ~ i II ERA.VDY FOB SOUP. e "Some years ago," said Paderewskl the * other day in the Chicago Post, "I dined with r an official ol the Russian army. This officer l? had in his command an officer of great 11 ability who was adicted to strong drink. It was arranged that tnis man should take din13 ner with us one day. Instead of soup the 9 first courso served to him was brandy, which e he must swallow a spootftol at a time, just " as he would have swallowed soup. After tne first spoonful he was so sick that he im1 pJored to be spared. Under cover of a drawn revolver the officia commanded him J; to swallow every spoonful in the plate. The officers never drank a drop of liquor after that. Try to drink champaign from a cup ' or liquor as that man was forced to drink tt. It will make you deathly sick." nnrwKARCS is AJKEBICA. e The Journal of Inebriety estimates th* total number of drunkards in America at 1,600,000. There being about 25.000,000 of ,r adults in this country, this means that one e person out of every fifteen drinks to excess t, and is consequently more or less of a drunkre anl. The Journal thinks that this estimate e Is a very modest one and rathej under the k mark than abovo it. d t tr the saloon versus thx hohe. 3> Everything low, vile, degrading ajjd im*r moral In the shape of filthy language has Its ?" origin in saloons. Aua yot tasnj uro mcu ** who make of those places a substitute for home. What can be expected of young men whose leisure hours are passed amid the de| grading influences ot the rumshop? ra TEMrEttANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Dean Farrar says: "Every Nation, It is ^ paid, has Its own National devil, and the devil of England is intemperance." I would ,e be perfectly willing to join any anti-English A organization that has for Its overthrow that j. same English deril which has been adopted by the American people." ill A law of Virginia which went Into offeci is May 1 provides a fine of from $25 to $S00 foi selling liquor to a minor or a student In anj _ school In the State. And a good law, too. God send the day soon when women wil! U" no longer be seen going into saloons. Thi! i- Is one of the saddest sights that meets tht a eye, In crar American cltle3, at tho presenl day. The mental agony which the child of ? j druukard endures Is only equaled by the bit terness of heart of the sober and upright fa ther who sees a well-loved son dally slnklnj deeper into the mire of drink. A saloon may be very finely appointed f- works ot art may be upon the walls, anc > frescoing, mirrors, gilding and oarving ad( to its solendor; yet it is only a "dive," afte: all, wherein God's holy name Is continually blasphemed. . V .. . . .. V RELIGIOUS READING. LOVIXO WITH THE MIKD. It seems very easy for many people to l< i* get that we are commanded to love God not only with all the heart, but with all the mind. They imagine that they will have gained a perfect character, will have become altogether Christlike, if their heart?that is, thoir intention?is pure, if their will to do right is good,if their affections are supremely centered on God. It is a mistake which has wrought great harm, brought disrepute on an important doctrine, led people to make professions which their behavior has belied, and produced discouragement,failure and loss. The attainment of morally perfect conduct,flawless beauty of character, loveliness of life, requires much study and very considerable knowledge. Christ alone is the true standard below which we cannot rest completely content. He perfectly exemplified the virtues which, taken together, constitute Christianity. It is a very important part of our business to And out by close application of mind what these virtues include when practically applied and minutely carried out in our daily life. If we are babes in this knowledge, our lives will be far from edifying, we shall alienate those we wish to win, disgust those we desiro to attract, and be anything but true representatives of Jesus. Diligent use of our understanding on thes> problems of behavior is largely called for, that we may be less and less dh,agreeable to those around us. less and less faulty in our deportment, more and more divine in our doings. Only in this way ' will our actions increasingly conform to the unehantreahla law of the Lord, and we be increasingly useful to-man, increasingly satisfactory to God. Thus shall we more and more conform our conduct to an ever-enlarging* conception of what it means to he entirely good. Thus shall we get nearer and nearer to the ideal Christian. 60BB0W8 PUB I FY. All sorrow has a purifying purpose with it, but bereavement is meant to produce results which perhaps no other grief can bring about in the same way. When with the spirits of the departed ,we have so to speak, mounted up into the higher heaveng and looked down on the earth, as men I might look at it from the stars, we see it at j its exact worth, both in its compensations and Its disappointments: not despising it utterly, since it is the place that God his choaen for u^f yet coloring it no longer with the old false hues. Then we see ourselves as we never saw ourselves before. Just as pain, and fatigue, and sickness bring out the features of the body in a kind of ghastly sharpness, so in the hour when God is searching us as with candles, we seem able to 109k in at ourselves as persons outside look through an open window into a house. The growth of secret faults, such as covetousnees, or envy, or pride ; a multitude of little failings separately but trifling, yet together eating out our strength with the voracity of parasites ; the heSrt settling quietly down into hasty prayers; easy self-love, scanty self-denial?these things all suddenly stare at us as the lightning flashes into the darkness of a closed room; and some have felt at such times that there is something mofe woeful, more intolerable, even, than the death which has changed the current of our life; that* sin is the worst kind of sorrow; that to have grown cold towards Jesus Christ can move the stirred heart into a more bitter relenting than th$ thought of the dead face shut up in its long home, never to smile on us again.?Bishop Thorold. WORK AND aiOSEt. Whe e work wears out one, worry wears out thousands. There is less happiness among the great than among the humble, among the rich than among the poor. "But these limitations could only be removed!" ' If I did not have to work so hard!" "If I could be my best self!" "If I could have that for which I know I am fitted! Ah ! greatness of gift always implies greatness of responsibility; if cftie limitation goes, another cornet; that which seems to give freedom only increases slavery. Almost all men like birds, beat themselves against their cages, longing to get into some different world, to soar beneath some more splendid skies, ignorant of the abysses in that large world and of the storms which sweep those skies. Of the Master it was said, "Who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross." The cross preceded the joy, as the mountain climb is before the vision of the earth and sky. The Stoic said, "The way to be happy is "to cease to desire or aspire:" in other words deny yourself. Christ's message is, "The way to be happy is the way of the cross. Sacrifice yourself. Make all you possibly can; give every faculty its fullest development: be as beautiful, as cultured, as wise as circumstances will permit, not that you may be happy, but that you may use powers, faculties, gifts, as I have used mine?for humanity. In that wny^and that alone lies happiness."?Ainory H. Bradford, D. D. PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP. Frivate membership in the church must not be underestimated. They who fill its ranks walk along no "low grounds of sin and sorrow," but travel a path strewn thickly with blessed opportunities and precious privileges. A plea is herewith entered for a worthier conception of unofficial position in the church of God. The great majority of our members must always be of this class. No. battle is ever won by the general and his staff #lone. .The obedient, faithful performance of duty bv the soldiers goes far to the achievement of the victory. So, "like a mighty army moves the church of God." With the thousands of noble men and women in the humbler, but yet highly important, position of private membership in out Israel, the issue very largely rests. Our history for a hundred and fifty years gloriously shows that they could be trusted. The ark of the Lord is safe in their hands. LITTLE WE CAK SRIKO TO PilS8. It is little we can bring to pass, but out will and desire may be large; Nay, thej may grow until they lose themselves" in the infinite abyss of God. Not that we ought to think within ourselves that we wish to be this or that, like such a saint or angel, * l,n mii/ih mnrp thnn TVf* Pfln IVI WO UUjJUL IU w uiuvu ... conceive or fathom ; wherefore, our part Is to give ourselves over to God, being wholly his. And if ye cannot be entirely his as ye fain would be, be as much his lis yo,u may attain to ; but whatever ye be. be that truly and entirely ; and what ye cannot be. that be contented not to be, in* a sincere spirit oi resignation, for God's sake and in him. So shall von peradventure possess more of God in lacking-than in having.?John Tauler. TO MEET JESUS. In various places and on mAny occasions does Jesus pledge us to meet him in thjs life?at the cross, in the sacrament, in the crisis of joy and sorrow?and now once again he appoints us a meeting place. It ii the valley of the shadow.where,in the qulefcnesa and seclusion as in a lover's glade, he will expect us one day. Is there any spot on earth so common or so wild that it has not been transformed by love? Are there any places in our though so beautiful as those where we kept tryste with those that were dearer than life? So Jesus^?put a fair face on death, so that it becometh but his dark disguise as he returneth to receive us home.?John Watson. t Our highest blessedness is that we have immortal needs?needs which require eternity for their fulfillment. Eternally wc shall need to be taken deeper into the unfathomable heart of God that we may learc to lr.ve as he loves. Eternally we shall need to pray the lofty prayer of Christ, "Thy'TfiD be done."?Lucy l a com. Now a Uorselesa Hear*?. ^A (a AArtn fA Vinvn n twit fit 10 lUVUNlLLUf VU1U| JO ^VU IV fc?i? . V ? ? ? -? ^horseless hearse. A oarrlage worker con' eelved the idea, and the new vehicle is fast ! nearing completion. It is a handsome affair, fitted with pneumatic tires and noiseless run1 nlng gear. It will be pro pe led by an electric motor, fed from ft storage battery. The backi ere of the project predict that in a few years - the solemn black funeral horee will b? oust &d from his time honorod place. f ?.i>uuiFT(eitinK Batter. . The revenue returns show that the proJ ductlqa of counterfeit butter is decreasing. I The low price of the genuine article and the r necessity in most States to sell the product * for Wkat It Is. is beglnaioz to telL i ! ' ' , ' fa JBOUSEflOLD JIATTEBS. " THE HALL IX THE StJMMEB HOME. The hall in the summer home should be next in its invitiDg appearanoe to the broad piazza, which is in reality L 1 1--A i - r t,nnaa MAC uiuot iLupurinuL part ui uuc? uwuwv. If there is not rcom for a parlor and large hall, combine the two in one aa the living room; it will be found much more enjoyable, giving a greater sense of spaciousness, better air, and lending itself readily to picturesque effects in furnishing. The multitude of small , v. details, collections of vtuious sorts, 't4 rare bric-a-brac, choice porcelains, etc., which have in recent year? turned town houses into museums, should be studiously avoided; for not only in it a weariness to the fle?h to take care of these things, but it is actually a strain upon mind and eyes to be confronted at every turn with ? multiplicity of objects. Therefore a wise restraint should be exercised In the selection of everything of a'ptff&l^p-? decorative charaoter. Every piece of furniture should be for use and comfort; you want no stiff, spindle-legged chairs, which invite one only to perch lest they fall beneath one's weight, nor stiff, upholstered chairs and tetoa-tetes which proclaim their oeremonious purpose. ; The great, roomy hall should invite to restful ease', and there should be couches, divans and lounging chairs, with plenty of soft cushions wherever they can be placed, as well as low wil low chairs by work and tea tables. It there can be but one open grate in the house let it be, by all means, in the the hall, where a cheery fire on cool mornings will be enjoyed, and whence the genial warmth will most easily pervade the whole house and dispel itadampneas. ?Demoresl's Magazine. WHOLE WHEAT BREAD. The fad among 6ome cooking teach> ers at the moment is whole wheat 1 bread. Mrs. Korer is one of those who advocates it with a zeal and continuity. In point of faot, whole wheat "bread is intolerable to many persons. They cannot eat it any more than they can eat oatmeal porridge, which is the food of foods in the eyes of half the diet expounders. The regulation breakfast, indeed, of menu suggesters, consisting of a fruit, a cereal, with sugar and cream following, and so on, ,is digestive death to very many pereons. The combination of the acid of the fruit with tho cream and sugar is most disastrous. Where whole wheat bread can be eaten with relish aDd without after discomfort it is undoubtedly a valuable food, but it ia folly to insist that everybody can eat it. The old saw that one man's meat is another man's poison has plenty of salt in it yet. . Mrs. Borer's dictum that next to whole wheat bread French bread is the most wholesome will find plenty of accepters. The sweet, crusty bread, with practically no unbaked middle part, is delioious and wholesome. Everybody, too, will certainly join with all the cooking teachers in their jcrusade against the soft, spongy bread that is served at most tables. "Freeh home-made bread" is the shibboleth of story writers who wish to describe a tempting country supper, and, though their standard is wrong, their universality is right. Fresh homemade bread is at the bottom of more than half the digestive ills of this country?ills sufficiently National and widespread through the land to have earned for us the unfortunate distinc> tion of being a race of dyspeptics. The pulled bread of which Mrs. Rorer spoke in one of her lectures last week is of well-known dietetic value and holds an honored place in many households. It is easily prepared, and if done regularly is little trouble. Trim 'the crust from a loaf of French or Vienna bread and divide the loaf lengthwise into halves first, then quarters. and eighths. The bread should be pulled apart rather thau cut, though a bread knifo may be > used to start each length. Lay the pieces on a piece of brown paper and dry out in the warming oven for several hours; then brown slightly in a warmer oven. If greater haste is required, the bread may be put at 'once, after being pulled, in a moderately hot oven, where with a little i patching the drying and browning !proceas will be much quicker accomplished.?New York Times. RECIPES. Wheatall?To one quart boiling water add half-teas poonful salt, the? stir in one-half teacupful wheatall, let* ting it run through the fingers slowly to i prevent lumps; stir well; cook two minnte9. Popovers?Two eggs, two cups milk, two cups flour, a pinch of salt, onehalf teaspoonful sugar, onetpblespoonful melted butter; stir all together; do . not beat, and bake in mnifin irons in a slow oven; bake about thirty minutes. This rule makes one dozen popovers. Rhnharb Pie?Lino pie tin with good paste, glace with whites of eggs. fill with thin slices of rhubarb, turning half cap sugar when half full, sprink; ling well at edges, theu the rest ou top, with a heaping teaspoon of floor. 1 wet edge of crust and press togethe* | closely. Bake iu moderate oven. Parsley Omelet?Six eggs, one tea1 spoonful salt, one tablespoonful batter, ono-half tencupful ohopped parsley; beat whites and yolka of eggs separately; add salt to yolks; throwtogether quickly; add parsley; 1 pat into frying pan, in which the but| ter is bubbling; brown on odo side, roll up and serve; garnish with purs* ley. Virginia Biscuits?One quart sifted flour, one teaspoon suit, two tabies spoons butter, water to moisten, put ' flour in bowl, add salt,. rub butter in I floor, add water until a dough ch:i be i mnrlp knaad nntil smooth und elastic. then pat on strong board or block and pound until full of bubbles, roll out thin as a wafer, prick with a fork,bake in quick oven. Kedgeree?One pint picked-up fresh fleh, one-half pint boiled rice, one tablespoonfr.l butter, small teacuplul cream, two eggs, halfteaiipoonful salt, cayenne pepper to taste; pick bones and skin from any fre?h fish already broiled or boiled (left over from the day before); mix together, except the eggs, and heat. When hot add tho beaten eggs; cook c moment and servo. This ia especially easy to preparo in chafing dish. A