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J tppf fEEV. bR. TALMAGE. j i. THE B OKLYN DIVINE’S SUN- DAY SERMON. r •ubjert: ••The March of Christ ronifh the Centuries.” Text: “On His htad Crovcnx.' 1 —Revelations xix., 12. were many May y>ur ears be alert and your thoughts concentrated and all the powers of your soul aroused while I speak to you of “the march of Christ through the centuries." You «*•, “Give us, then, a good start in rooms uf verrnillion and on floors of mosaic and as:id corridors of porphyry and under canopies dyed in all the splendors of the settihr sun.” You can have no such start ing *lac®. At the time our Chieftain was torn there were castles on the beach of Galilee and palaces at Jerusalem and imperial bathrooms at Jericho and obelisks at Chiro and the Pantheon at Rome, with its Corinthian portico and its sixteen granite columns, and the Parthenon at Athens, with its glistening coronet of temples, and there were mountains of fine architecture in many parts of the world, but none of them was to be the starting place of the Chieftain I cele- bnte. A cow’s stall, a winter month, an atmos phere in which are the moan of camels, and the baaing of sheep, and the barbing of dogs, and tne rough banter of hostelries. He takes His first journey before He could walk. Armed desperadoes, with hands of blooa, rre ready to snatch Him down into butch- 'Cry. Rev. William H. Thompson, the vete- ‘>an ana beloved missionary, whom I saw this last month in Denver, in bis eighty- sixth year, has described, in his volumne en titled, “The Land and the Book,” Bethlehem as he saw it, W inter before last I walked up and down the gray hills of Jura limestone on which the village now rests. The fact that King David had been born there, had not during ages elevated the village into any special attention. The other fact that it was the birthplace of our Chieftian did not keep the place in after years from special dis honor. for Hadrian built there the Grove of Adonis, and for one hundred and eighty years the religion observed there was the most abhorrent debauchery the world has ever seen. Our Chieftain was considered dangerous from the start. The world had put suspicious eyes upon Him because at the time of His birth the astrologers had seen stel'ar commotions—a world out of its place and shooting down toward a caravansary. Star divination was a science. As late as the Eighteenth century it had its votaries. At the Court of Catherme do Medici it was honored. Kepler, one of the wisest philosophers that the world ever saw, declared it was a true ecier.ce. As late as the reign of Charles II. Lilly, an astrologer, was called before the House of Commons in England to give his opinion as to future events. For ages the bright appearance of Mars meant war, of Jupiter, meant power, of the Pleiades, meant storms at sea. And, as history moves in circles, I do not know but that after a while it ir.ay be found that, as the moon lifts the tides of the sea and the sun affects the growth or blasting of crops, other worlds be sides those two worlds may have something to do with the destiny of indivi ’uals and na tions In this world. I do not wonder that the commotions in the heavens excited the wise men on the mgbt our Chieftain was born. As He came from another world and after thirty-three years was again to exchange worlds, it does not seem strange to me that astronomy should have felt the effect of His coming. And instead of being unbelieving about the one star that stooped I wonder that all the worlds in the heavens did not that Christ mas night make some special demonstra- tiou. Why should they leave to one world or meteor the bearing of the news of the humanization of Christ? Where was Mars that night that it did not indicate the mighty wars that were to come between righteousness and iniquity? Where was Jupiter that night that it did not celebrate omnipotence incarnated? Where was the Pleiades that night that they did not an nounce the storms of persecution that would assail our Chieftian? In watching this march of Christ through the centuries, wo must not walk before Him am beside Him, for that would not be erential or worshipful. So we walk behind Him. We follow Him while not ye£/in His teens, up a Jerusalem terrace, to "a build ing six hundred feet Jong and sti hundred feet wide, and under the havering splen- teways, and by a ^pillar crowned {taT chiseled intu&e shape of flow- leavt'3, andr^ along by walls id masonry /and near a uar- until iHProup of white-haired rs and thrologians gather around hen the boy bewilders aud con- id overwhelms these scholarly ians with questions they can and under His qu ck whys and hows and whens they pull their is with embarrassment and rub ed foreheads in confusion, and, r staffs hard down on the marble arise to go, they must feel like _ i boldness that allows 1 welve e ito ask seventy-five years of age i ca ers an of bevel ble scree im, and founds ai eeptuagen not answer! whyfors an! white their wrink putting the floor as the chiding th years of a^ such puzzl Out of tf the Quarai tion, its si dens, come all t| Chieftain by forty neuce, He rocks. .is building we follow Him into tania. the mountain of tempta- ,e to this day black with robbers’ fc! Up the side of this mountain e forces of perdition to effect our capture. But although weakened ays end forty nights of absti- buThfiall Pandemonium down the festive of how He can hurl into nelplessness all our temptations. And now we climb right after Him up the tough sides of the “Mount of Beatitude?,” and on the highest pulpit of rocks/ the Valley of Hatin before Him, .9 Lake of Galilee to the right of Him :he Mediterra- neau sea to the left of Him.aud He preaches a sermon that yeg will transform the world with its applied Antiment. Now we follow Chieftain £ Lake Galilee. We must ■F for our feet are not shod our keep to the 8 P — with the supernatural, and we remember what poor work Peter made of it when he tried to walk the water. Christ our leader is on the top of the toss ing waves, and it is about half past three in the morning, and it is the darkest time just be:ore daybreak. But by the flashes of lightning we see Him putting His feet on the crest of the wave, stepping from crest to crest, walking the white surf solid as though it were frozen snow The sailors think a ^host is striding the tempest, but. He •cheers tiyrn into placidity, showing Himself to be a treat Christ for sailors. And He walks the\Atlanti$ and the Pacific and the Mediteraniiaii and. Adriatic now, and if ex hausted anAnflirigjhtei voyagers will listen for His voie\ at ha lf past three o’clock in the morning on .yiy sqa, indeed at any hour, voice of compassion and ia i •Had. they will hea\His ■encourageuiei We con tin ui here is a blind not from catar thalmia, the ey but he was born cries, and first eyeuds, and then a aoou. and then n Tell it to all the b •ueippreciate it. A *ai son, and here *ui ere is Lazarus, ciesand they live. beei households, tell i In here around Hi ’ollow our Chieftain, and by the wayside. It is f the eye or from oph- xtinguisher of the east, ‘•Be opened!’’ He a is a smarting of the wilight, and then a mid- sv\>' lt , “1 see.' I see 1” d, and they at least d here is the widow’s ,8 the expired damsel, if’Live!” our Chieftain ell it through all the among the graves, gather the deaf, tnd he dumb, and thp sick, and at His Y ord:hey turn on their, couches and blush fcotn iwful pallow of hVp*® 88 ilia® 85 to nbiend health, and thfc» swollen foot of tJ e dopsical sufferer becorpes fleet as a roe c the mountair s. The mdsic of the grove a J husehold wakens the' deaf ear. and It bfcii and maniac return into bright in- t* '.gerce, and the leper’s breath becomes as Vect as the breath of a child, and the floras roseate. Tell it to all the sick, Gu igh all the homes, through all the hos- pteA Tell it at twelve o’clock', at night; tell i a t two o’clock in the mornipg; tell it and in the last watch of esus walks the teaipsst. w our Chieftain qntil the gave Him no protection in tax, and, too poor to raise . o do.lars and seventy-five orders Peter to catch a fish tai uth ^ Roman state, which) at haf-past thr w* 3 ptht, that Stil^ we foil, govertoent t; sists ttit He pa the requite t cents, in its bright Bin (and you know that fish nai bite at tlythina bright), but it was a mi Pei y sbou Id have caught it at the Now w l follo^r our Chieftain until the nalt. ■alls Him betrayed S for fly* l dred dolla. fdr sufa of fifteen dollars Judas > his) pursuers. Tell it to all the lor ten thousand dollars, or dollars, or for one hun- lur interests were sold out, consider for how mach cheaper a sum the Lord of earth and heaven was surrendered to humiliation and death. But here, while following Him on a spring night between eleven and twelve o’clock, we saw the flash of torches and lanterns, and we bear the cry of a mob of nihilists. They are breaking in on the quietude of Gethsemane with clubs— like a mob with sticks chasing a mad dog. It is a herd of Jerusalem “roughs” led or by Judas to arrest Christ and punish Hiqp for being the loveliest and best being that ever lived. But rioters are liable to assail the wrong man. How were they to be sure which oua was Jesus? “I will kiss Him,” says Judas,” “and by that signal you will know on whom to lay your hands of ar rest.” So the kiss which tbroughout the human race and for all time God intended as the most sacred demonstration of affec tion, for Paul writes to the Romans, and the Corinthians, and the Thessalbnians concerning the “holy kiss," and Peter celebrates the kiss of charity, aud with that conjunction of lips Laban met Jacob, and Joseph met his brethren, and Aaron met Mores, and Samuel met Saul, and Jona than met David, and Orpah parted from Naomi, and Paul separated from his friends at Ephesus, and the father in tha parable greeted the returning prodigal, and when the millennium shall come we are told righteousness and peace will kiss each other, and ail the world is invited to kiss Christ as inspiration cries out, “Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and ye perish from the way”—that the most sacred demon stration of reunion and affection was dese crated as the filthy lips of Judas touched the pure cheek of Christ, and the horrid smack of that kiss has its echo in the treach ery and debasement and hypocrisy or ages. As in December, IS89, I walked on the way from Bethany, and at the foot of Mount Olivet, a half mile from the wail of Jerus alem, through the Garden of Gethsemane and under the eight venerable olive trees now standing, their pomological ancestors having been witnesses of the occurrences spoken of, the scene of horror and of crime came back to me, until I shuddered with the historical reminiscence. In further following our great Chieftain’s march through the centuries, I find myself in a crowd in front of Herod’s palace in Jerusalem, and on a moveable platform placed noon a tasselated pavement. Pontius Pilate sits. And as once a year a condemned criminal is pardoned, Pilate lets the peo ple choose whether it shall be an as sassin or our Chieftian, and they all cry out for the liberation of the assassin, thus declaring they prefer a murderer to the salvation of the world. Pilate took a basin of water in front of these people and tried to wash off the blood of this murder from his hands, but he could not. They are still lifted, and I see them looming up through all the ages, eight fingers and two thumbs standing out red with the carnage. Still lollowing our Chieftain, I ascend the hill which General Gordon, the great Eng lish explorer and arbiter, made a clay model of. It is hard climbing for our Chieftain, for He has not only two heavy timbers to carry on His back, the upright aud horizon tal pieces of the cross, but He is suffering from exhaustion caused by lack of food, mountain chills, desert heats, whippings with elmwood rods and years of maltreatment. It took our party in 1S89 only fifteen minutes to climb to the top of the hill and reach that limestone rock in youder wall, which I rolled down from the apex of Mount Calvary. But I think our Chieftan must have taken a long time for the ascent, for He had all earth and all heaven and all hell on His back as He climbed from base to summit and there endured what William Cowper and John Milton and Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts and Jamas Mont gomery and all the other sacred poets have attempted to put in verse, and Angelo and Raphael and Titian and Leonardo da Vinci and all the ^reat Italian and German and Spanish and French artists have attempted to paint, and Bossuet and Masillon and George Whitefield and Thomas Chalmers have attempted to preach. Something of its overwhelming awful ness you may estimate from the fact that the sun which shines in the heavens could not endure it; the s^n which unflinchingly looked upon the deluge that drowned tar, world, which without blinking looked upon the ruins of earthquakes which swallowed Lisbon, and Caraccas, and has looked un- blanoned on the battlefields ofcArbela, Blen- ^b£im, Megiddo and Esdraelon, and all the scenes of carnage that have efer scalded ancTAV enched the earth with human gore— that s an could not look upon the s-eae. The sun dropped over its face a veil of cloud. If srithdrew. It hid itself. It said to the mid night, “I resign to thee this spectacle upon which I have no strength to gaze; thou art blind, O midnight and for that reason I com mit to thee this tragedy!” Then the night- hawk and the bat flew by, and the jackal howled m the ravines. Now we follow our Chieftain as they carry His limp and lacerated form a^tfi the flowers and trees of a garden, the gladioluses, the oleanders, the lilies, the geraniums, the mandrakes,down five or six steps to an aisle of granite, where He sleeps. But only a little while He sleeps there, for there is an earthquake in all that region, leaving the rocks to this day in their aslant and rup tured state declarative of the fact that something extraordinary there happened And we see our Chieftain arouse from His brie: slumber and wrestle down the ruffian Death, who would keep Him im prisoned in that cavern, and put botn heels on the monster, and coming forth with a cry that will not cease to be echoed until on the great resurrection day the door of the lost sepulcher snail be unhinged and Hung c !angiug into the debris of demolished ceme teries. Now we follow our Chieftaiu to the shoulder of Mount Olivet, and without wings He rises, the disciples clutching for His robes too late to reach them, and across the great gulfs of space with one bound He gains that world which for thirtv-three years had been denied His companionship, and all heaven lifted a shout of welcome as He entered, and of coronation as up the mediatorial throne He mounted. It was the greatest day heaven had ever seen. They had Him back again from tears, from wounds, from ills, from a world that never appreciated Him to a world in which He was the chief delight. In all the libretto of celestial music it was hard to find an anthem enough conjubilant to celebrate the joy saintly, seraphic, arch-angelic, deific. But still we follow our Chieftain in His march through the centuries, for invisibly He still walks the earth, and by the eye of faith we still follow Him. You can tell where He walks by the churches, and hos pitals, and reformatory institutions, and houses of mercy that spring up along the wav. I hear His tread in the sick room and in the abodes of bereavement. He marches on and the nations are gathering around Him. The islands of the sea are hearing His voice. The continents are feel ing His power. America will be H s! Europe will be His! Asia will be Hi«! Africa will be His! Australia will be His! New Zealand will be His! All the earth will be IJjs! Do you real ize that until now it was impossible for the world to be converted? Not until very re cently his the world been found. The Bible talks about “the ends of tha earth” and the “uttermost parts of the world’’ as being saved, but not until now have the “ends of the earth” been dis- coverel, and not until now have the “uttermost parts of the world” been re vealed. The navigator did bis work, the explorer did his work, the scientist did his work, and now for the first time since the world has been created has the world been known, measured off and geogra- phized. the lost, hidden and unknown tract has been mapped out, ami now the work of evangelization will ba begun with an earnestness and velocity as yet unitn- trazined. The steamships are ready; the lightning express trains are ready: the print ing presses are ready; the telegraph and tslephone are ready, millions of Christians are rearlv and now see Christ marching on through the centuries. Marching on! March ing on! One bv on a governments will fall into line and constitutions and litaratures will adore His name. More honored and worshiped is Hein this vear of 1891 than at anytime since the year one, and the day hastens when all nations will ioin one procession “follow ing the Lamb wnither soever He goeth. Marching on! Marching on! This dear ol d world whose back as been scourged, whose eyes have been blinded, whose heart has been wrung, will yet rival heaven. This planet’s torn robe o£ pain and crime and dementia win come off and the white and spotless and glittering robe of hohness and happiness will come on. The last wound will have stung for the last time; the last grief will have wiped its last tear; the last* criminal will have repented of his last crime and our world that has been a straggler among world*, a loot •. a wayward planet, a rebellious globe, • miscreant satellite, will hear the voice that uttered childish plaint in Bethlehem and agonized prayer in Gethsemane and dying groan on Golgotha, and this voice cries, “Come,” our world will return from its wan dering never again to stray. Marching on! Marching on! Then this world’s joy will be so great that other worlds besides heaven may be glad to rejoice with us. By the aid of powerful telescopes, year by year becoming more powerful, mountains in other stars have been discovered and chasms and volcanoes and canals, and the style of atmosphere, and this will go on, and mightier ana i FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. _ _ mightier telescopes will be invented natil I should not wonder we will be able to exchange sig nals with other planets. And as I have no doubt other worlds are inhab ited, for Goi would not have built such magnificent world houses to have them stand without tenants or occupants, in the final joy of earth’s redemption all astronomy I think will take part, we signaling other worlds and they in turn signaling their stel lar neighbors. Oh, what a day in heaven that will be when this march of Christ is finished! I know that on the cross Christ said: “It is finished.” but He meant His sac rificial work was finished. All earth and all heaven knows that evan gelization is not finished, but there will come cinnamon a day in heaven most rapturous. It may be after our world, which is thought to nave about fiftaea hundred million people shall have on its decks twice its presen* -'op- uiation, namely three thousand millir auls and all redeemed, and it v be ' after this world shall be so dam/ 1 by conflagration that no human 1 . can tread its surface and no human g can breathe its air, but most certainly the day HAM AND EGGS. After rour hainfis fried, cut it into pieces ready for serving, have a good supply of hot fat, break three or four eggs into a dish, slip carefully into a spider, then do notileave them to fry themselves, but constantly throw hot fat over them until the white is done; have the ham on a large platter, put one egg ou each piece of ham, and for some of the larger slices allow two eggs for each. Serve immediately. will come when heaven will be finished and the last of the twelve gates of the eter nal city shall have clanged shut, never to open except for the admission of some celestial embassage returning from some other world, and Christ may strike His scarred but healed baud in emphasis on the arm of the amethystine throne and say in substance, “All My ransomed ones are gath ered; the work is done; I have finished My march through the centuries.” When in 1813, after the battle of Leipsic, which decided the fate of the Nineteenth century, in some respects the most tremend- dous battle ever fought, the bridge down, the river incarnadined, the street choked with the wounded, the fields for miles around strewn with a dead soldiery from whom all traces of humanity bad been dashed out, there met in the public square of that city of Leipsic the allied con querors and kings who had gained the vic tory—the king of Prussia, the emperor of Russia, the crown prince of Sweden—fol lowed by the chiefs of their armies. With • drawn swords these monarch saluted each other and cheered for the continental vic tory they had together gained. History has made the scene memoraole. Greater and more thrilling will be the spectacle when the world is all conquered for the truth, and in front of the palace of heaven the kings and conquerors of all the allied powers of Christian usefulness shall salute each other and recount the struggles by which they gained the triumph, and then hand over their swords to Him who is the chief of the conquerors, crying* “Thine, oh, Christ, is the kingdom. Take the crown of | victory, the crown of dominion, the crown I of grace, the crown of glory.” “On rids head were manv crowns.” PEARLS OF THOUGHT. OX-TAIL SOUP. Separate at the joi|its two ox-tai!s, put on to boil with, one onion, one carrot (have them whole), with a few cloves, a blade of mace and a stick of Boil two hours; then strain the liquor into soup kettle, sep arate the tails from! the vegetables and spice andput them into the kettle; to this add one quart Of stock. Sea son with pepper and! salt; boil up once and serve.—'[Detroit Free RELIGIOUS READING. HE CABKTH. What can it mean? Is it aught to Him That the nights are long and the days are dim? Can He be touched by the griefs I bear, Which sadden the heart aud whiten the hair? About His throne are eternal ealms, And strong, glad music of happy psalms, And bliss, unruffled by any strife— How can He care for my little life? And yet I want Him to care for me While I live in the world where the sorrows be. When the lights die down from the path I take. When strength is feeble and friends for sake. When love and music that once did b'ess Have left me to silence and loneliness, Aud my life song changes to sobbing pray ers. Then my heart cries out for a God who cares. bang over the whole day bowed with shame and Press. The more a man knows, the less ho believes. A judicious silenco is always better than truth spoken without charity. Knowledge unused for the good of others is more vain than unused gold. “Know thyself’ is good advice, but “know about your neighbor” is the gen eral practice. If we accustom ourselves to self-de nial, we break the force of most temptations. It is seldom that a woman gets re ligion enouJTh to Jove people who do not praise l/er baby. It is easy to borrow trouble, but hard to get pother people to take any interest whoVi you do so. * No one carl, have much confidence DEVILLED ALMONDS. To prepare tievilied almonds, blanch half a pound of Jordan almonds. We take it for granted that every one knows that almonds an) blanched by pouring boiling hot w^ter over the meats, then throwing them into ice- cold water, and afterward rubbing the almonds between thq hands to re move the skins. When the almonds are blanched throw them into a soft linen towel to absorb all moisture. For each cupful of nuts add a tea- spoonful of salad oil. Bet them stand an hour, then sprinkle them with salt in the proportion of a tablespoonful to a cupful of nuts, adding also a pinch of cayenne to the same amount of almonds. Toss the almonds thor oughly; spread them on baking tins and put them in the oven for about a quarter of au hour, till they become crisp and brown. If you wish simply salted almonds, omit the cayenne pop per. Either of these preparations of nuts served at dinner in th«? most or namcntal bon-bon dishes yPifpossOsJ. Little plates of polished silver with the rims pierced in openwork pattern are as pretty as anything else, the open rims casting, as they do, the most bewitching shadows on the table cloth under the light of the wax can dles.— [[New York Tribune. When shadows long. And my j-pirit is wrong. When I am not good, and the deeper shade Of conscious sin makes my heart afraid, And the busy world has too much to do To stay in its courses to help me through, And I long for a Saviour—can it be That the God of the universe cares for me? Oh, wonderful story ot deathless love! Each child is dear to that Heart above: He fights for me when I cannot tight. He comforfs me in the gloom of night, He lifts the burden, for He is strong, He stills the sigh ami awakes the song; The sorrow that bows me down He bears, Aud lores and pardons because he cares! Let all who are sad take heart again. We are not alone in our hours of pain; Our Father stoops Irom His throne above To soothe and quiet us with his love; He leaves us not wnen the storm is high. And we have safety, for He is nigh; < an it be trouble which He noth share? Oh, rest iu peace, for the Lord will care! his umbrella to pray for rain. When it comes to house cleaning there is only here and there a man who seems to be truly religious. It takes some people all their liv3s to learn that the man who does not make many promises does not hav° many to perform. In politics it is the barrel that taiks. Remorse of conscience doesn’t begin to gall the sinner real hard till after he has been found out. Making money' is all right in its way; but a man can’t get half as much self-satisfaction out of it as he can out of oeing shiftless and despis ing the sordid souls that seek for lucre. • Sorrow is not always transformed into good. Sometimes the sufferer succumbs to it and becomes its victim instead of its conqueror. But it is well to remember that he has iu it the capacity of benefit, and that it is in our power to draw it out. //is Little tToke. We were leaning on the stone para pet at the brink of Niagara Falls when I said to the man next to me: “How a man would shiver if some one crept softly up behind and grabbed j him as if to hurl him over!” “Yes, but let me advise you never j to try it on,” he dryly replied. “I used to be a great joker myself. I . came here one day, five years ago, : and a little, dried-up old man was j leaning over here all by himself. I thought it would be fun to scare him a J little, and I crept softly up and grab bed him and gave a yell.” “And was he scared ?” “Somewhat! He fell back in a heap in a deal faint and has been no good since. His wife sued me for Journal. \ I HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Salt rn the water when t oiling old potatoes improves them. If troubled with headache, try tiie simultaneous appiica'iou of hot water to the f^et and back of the head. The lAjhting of a room is very im portant.! The light should always come from the side; the central chan delier is^ ad. Old cajrpcts may' be made into rugs by unraveling them and weaving the raveling* on frames which come for damages and that little joke cost me t[ )e purpose, or kitting them. $7000 in the newest and handsomest greenbacks you ever saw.”—[New York World. The Medical Record utters a timely protest against the enormously preva lent and very injurious habit of smok ing cigarettBS and inhaling the smoke. “The seriousness lies not alone in the fact that it involves a steady absorp- Jf you! wish to cool the air of a sick room and fear draughts from open lour or window, bring in a dish of ice, and the rapid evaporation cools die air. The soap-saver is a useful little utensil. It is a box of wire net witli a long handle attached. TLo soap is placed iu i', and if shaken Hi a pan of tion of poison but in the utter hope lessnessof the habit and the entire in- i dish-water will produce a strong suds ability of the indulger to give it up. In this respect it resembles with pain ful similarity the opium habit. Such Is the experience of the writer, corrob orated by the testimony of other physicians.” Any such drug habit which exercises a power of progressive paralysis upon the will, should never be begu u. That is the only safety. without the slightest waste. If a poison has been accidentally swallowed, instantly drink a pint of warm water in which h .s been stirred a teaspoonful of salt and one or two of mustard. A half-glass of sweet oil will render many poisons harm- less. IN 1118 NAME. Whv do Christians so commonly ask, “for Jesus’ sake?” Where in His Word are we taught to use this common formula? Why not retain the phrase that Jesus Him self gave us? The devout soul loves the language of the Lord, and denied the original words, insists all the more strongly upon the integrity of the thought. Thus: “Whatever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in My name, I will doit.” (John xiv. 13.14.) “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name,” (John xvi., 24.) “Wha soever ye shall ask of the Father, He will give to you iu My name,” (John xvi., 23.) “In that day ye shall ask in My name,” (John xvi., 2G.) Can we doubt Christ’s cor rect choice of words with which to express His meaning? Begin today to ask “in His name” and experience the smile of blessing which your careful love will quickly receive. — fHorace Waters, in the Voice. BEEF TEA KOK INVALID^. Here is a good reeeipe for beef tea for invalids. Beef tea is what you call it, though it will suffer from thb name if confounded with most of the beef teas palmed off on sick people.A It is in realitvxbeef vur<* and a most effectual medium for re building a broken-down, worn out, exhausted system. Take a half-pound of chopped lean, rftw beef, put it iu an earthen pint bow), aud a hint of pep per and salt for seasoning, and two in the pi-e:u-inVr-Wih. | ?-»i'j^Ls out without j tablespoonfuls of cold water. Over f the~!top oTThe bowr-paste or tie closely a colvering of thick, brown wrapping paper. Set in a hot oven for fifteen minutes; it will require five minutes additional iu a slow oven. While cooking beat the cup it is to be served You will need when the time up to press out the juice, whatever you use to do this [with must be hot. The patent pota ;o-smasher or fruit-presser is good. The reason everything con nected with the operation must be hot is because the juice is not to be re- heatew on the range. It will lose its redness and curdle or coagulate if j'ou do thb. This may be served with angular bits of toast, and should be served two or three times a day, using half al pound each time. This is not a cook-pook recipe, but comes straight from iau eminent physician, so devoted to hii work that he investigated the beef-tlea question, and finding the broths) so served a complete failure many times, lie invented the foregoing method for getting the best good from the beef. He says that six dogs fed on a certain beef tea sold at the stores died quicker than six dogs who were starved meanwhile.—[Courier- RESIGNING THE Kl’DDKR. It was a prayer of George Herbert's that he might wholly be led to resign the rudder of his life to the sacred will of God, to be moved “as Thy love shall sway.” How much fretting, how much worry it would spare us all if we asked our heavenly Father that He would cause us to lean utterly, in perfect faith, in cheerful, unquestioning obedience, upon His will and wisdom, whether in life’s trivial concerns or in those shades of darkness from which we re coil in fear? We can ask Him nothing be yond His power. Some of us know the feeling, “In all but this I could say ‘thy will be done,’” but if we only tell the story at His feet, pouring out our hearts before Him, we shall be able to trust our Father, even to rejoice in Him, through every changeful pathway. Not long ago a Christian visitor called upon a poor woman who hnd just been told by the matron of the hospital of the incura e nature of her complaint. The poor sufferer tearfully declared she accepted God’s will patiently,so far as her own pain and death were con- cerned. but she could not, bear the thought or her'motherless' children. Nobody could induce her, she said, as concerning the chil dren. to feel patient and resigned. It was a painful scene. The visitor could not re monstrate with her upon her spirit of impatience and mumuring, but felt as though she must weep with her, as she sasd: “Yours is untold sorrow, beyond my understanding even, but Got! knows all about it; God understands. AVill you not tell Him just how you feel; te’l Him what jou have told me, all your pain, anxiety,and dread of leaving your little ones alone? I am going now to teli the leader of our pray er-meeting about you; tomorrow.from three to half-past, prayers will arise on your be half. Will you not at the same time be on your knees before God and tell Him all?” The sufferer promised. Next day, relates the visitor, earnest, pleading supplications laid her case before God. and what was the result? The next in terview found that woman as calm as she had been impatient. She had poured out her own heart in prayer, and others had prayed for her, and she told the visitor: “I am just leaving everything with God: not only whether I live or die, but each of my little children. Everything is safe with Him. I feel it, I know it.” Verily our God is the same now as in past ages, prayer-hearing, prayer-answering.— [The Qurver. apatient shut up In a He said to him, “No KEEP YOURSELVES. A physician found a damp, chilly room, wonder that vou are sick in such a place. You don’t need medicire, but fresh air. sun shine, and exercise.” He took that hypo chondriac out of doors. He made him walk and ride about. Soon be was well again, and the doctor left him. But in a little while he was sent for. His morbid and per verse patient was lying in the close, damp chamber as before, shivering and moaning. “Oh, doctor,” he cried, “that sure cure of yours has failed, and I am just as bad as ever!” “Did you keep yourself in the sun shine?’’ “No, I thought that I had taken enough of it, not only to make me well, but to keep me so, and then J camJ back to bed again.” Just like this imaginary invalid are many (alas, how many!) »{ the patients of the Great Physician. They read of His won drous love; they believe it: they rejoice in it. It kindles in their soils a hope that is full of glory. But, having "tasted the good word of God and the powers of the wot Id to come.” they return to the weak and beggar ly elements of this world. Hence they lose that blessed hope. They become cold and sad, and then they wonder why God does not “keep them in perfect pence.” Alas! they forget that God cannot make evil good and good evil. He has created an atmos phere of love. He offers it freely to all who will live in it. But if we fail to do so—if we shut our.»e!ves up in the caves or cellars of selfishness, refusing to enjoy what God has provided for sustaining the new life—can we wonder that we are weak and sickly? But how should we keep ourselves in the love of God? By study, by meditation, by C'hris'ian communion, and. above all, by prayer. We don’t read the Bible enough; we don’t think enough about what we read in it: we don’t talk ciionuh with each other about our heavenly Father, our Eider Brother, and our ce’estial home; we don’t work enough for Christ t<» k* ep our heart in ag'ow; we don’t c-.mmune enough with God. Our reading, thinking, toiling, talking and praying will not create the atmosphere that onr spirits need, but they will keep us in it. They will enable us to climb up out of the dampness and gloom of unbelief. They will help us to ascend the mount of faitli. 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