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You cannot possibly haw) a better Cocoa than EPPS'S A delicious drink and a sustaining food. Fragrant; nutritious and economical. This excellent Cocoa maintains the system in robust health, and enables it to resist winter's extreme cold. lives of our fellow-men | that | PSYCHINE is a genuine and certain | remedy for such casés as yours. Mr. | 1. Peer, of Belmont, Ont., says: *" Some | time ago I was in a very low condition | with | live {early times. The earliest extant coins are { pennies of the Hiberno-Danish King of Dub- {lin, Ifars, 872 A.D. The latest are pence and {halfpence of George IV. dated 1823. A sil- ver penny of Gedrge 111, was called Maundy penny. Following an old custom, which had its origin in a literal interpretation of what our Lord said whed He washed His disciples' feet, many European monarchs used to perform the {ceremony of washing the feet of old people jon Maundy Thursday (the day before Good | Friday). This ceremony was accompanied by gifts of money to those whose feet were washed, usually one penny for every year the sovereign had lived. In England special sil- yer coins were struck of the denomina- tion of one, two, three, or four pence. The footwashing has been discontinued in England since the time of James II. but the annual | distribution of the silver coins continues. | . What the font is everybody knows, but not { why it was so called, wrote Bishop Sparrow imore than a century ago. The rites of bap- | tism 'in the first times were performed in foun- Itains and rivers, because converts were many, land the early ages were unprovided with other baptistries, Hence we call our baptistries fonts, which, when religion found place were {built and consgcrated for the more reverence |and respect of the sacrament. These were set {at first at some distance from the church, lafterward in the church porch, and that, sig- nificantly, because baptism is the entrance linto the church mystical, as the purch to the {Temple. "At last they got into the church, leven to the front of the minister's reading- [desk, though the usual ancient place is near ithe entrance. Yet, wherever they stood they |were held in high veneration, | Who was Melchizedek? The name seems "righteous king." lle was the priest-king of Salem (Gen. 14: 18, 20), and is supposed to [have lived about B.C. 2080. It was foretold {that the Messiah should be a "priest after the {order of Melchizedek," and Paul (Heb. 6: 20) {cites him as a type of Christ. Without father {or mother is meant to imply that he was of obscure, or of undistinguished parentage. | His person, his office and his relation to | Christ have given rise to innumerable discus- Some early Jewish. authors held that I'he was Shem, Heb. 7: 3, simply says he was | "like unto the Son of God." Still others, with {apparent reason, hold that he was a principal person among the Canaanites, and of the pos- {terity of Noah, and distinguished for holiness jand justice. 4 What is the origin of the words, "Whep#in | Rome, do as the Romans do"? It is péfated that St. Augustine was in the habit sf dining ton Saturday, as on Sunday, but beiig puzzled with the different practices then 'prevailing | (for they fasted at Rome and #asted at Milan), Ihe consulted St. Ambrose. The latter replied: | "When I am 'here, I do not fast on Saturday; {when at Rome 1 do fast on Saturday." In {Jeremy Taylor's Ductor Dubitantium the pass- age occurs: "He that fasted on Saturday iu | Ionia or Smyrna, was a schismatic; and so was 'he that did not fast at Milan or Rome, upon 'the same day." A parallel illustration from Paul the Apostle may be found in I. Cor. 9: 20. | Respecting Old Christmas Day, Jany. 6: As early as the fourth century the Nativity was | commemorated by some branches of the church |on December 25th and by others on January (6th. But the date seems to have hinged upon | another, that of the crucifixion. It was be- |lieyed that an exact number of years was com- | pleted between the Annunciation and the death lof Christ. And His death was thought by | some to have occurred on March 25; by others {on April 6; according to these differing views | were fixed the dates of the Annunciation and | the Birth. January 6 is still observed as the | Feast of the Nativity by the Armenian Church. Does the sacred writer (in Gen. 1: 5) mean ja natural day? The best authorities hold that 'the Hebrew word "day" used in this connec- | tion, does not mean literally twenty-four hours, | but an undefined period. The first verse, ac- cording to llebrew scholarship, reads in sub- stance: "Of old, in former duration, God created the heavens and the "Day" would therefore mean a period, an age, the time of endurance of a condition. Parallel expressions (in indefiniteness) are "the day of vengeance," "our day and generation," etc | sions. earth." The Transgressor's Bell. In a German town is a church bell called "the poor sinners bell." Five hundred years' agp a hell-founder had melted his metal, and leftl a boy in charge of it for a minute or two, warning him not to meddle [ with the catch that secured the seething mass tir the cauldron. But the boy disregarded the | caution, and then, terrified on seeing the mol- {ten metal beginning to flow into the mould, [called to the bhell-founder for help. Rushing lin and sceing--what he had intended to Me his | masterpiece ruined, as he thought, angered to | madness, he slew the boy on the spot. When the metal cooled, the bell was found to be of heavenly tone. Dut, realizing his 'terrible | dead, the bell-founder gave himself up to | justice, was condemned to die, andl he went to his doom while his beautiful bell pealed an invitation to all to pray for "the poor sinner" {who had found the way of his transgression | hard to bear usually Come Out of the Past! and regret are the greatest of all and happiness. Regret | wastes our time, taking us . back over the [fields of lost pleasures, departed youth, and | missed opportunities. She { cteries and bids us sit by old tombs and weep {for those who cannot return to us here. Such fan hour may be a. means of spiritual growth if fan exceptional experience. But when lis our daily companion, and when {with us in the morning, walks Lav. retires with us and directs our dreams {at might, our enemy She lis | wasting the strength which should be given {to. spiritual and mental which will enable us ta earn immortality Remorse | enemies to success | leads us to cem- regret she rises beside us all she 1s worst t Among large geographical divisions of the world, Canada has not only thé best obser- vance of the Lord's Day but also the smallest per capitd consumption of alcoholic liquors,-- about four zallons a year, less: than one-fourth yf that consumed in the United States, which iis about half that of Britain and Germany. 'grew there: was farming or in education. to be encouraged to do so. growth--the growth | to spell it Taber. and the village grew. lors and officials were Mormons, adjoining the house. In time others besides Mormons began to come in, and when a coal company began operations on an extensive plan, it was seen that Taber was to be one of the prosperous towns of Alberta. Real estate men, business men and builders began to flock in, as well as great numbers of settlers to take up land for miles around the town. The "Gentiles" built their homes and business houses apart from the Mormons. This made the village more scattered and, roughly speaking, the railroad became the dividing line between the two classes. In the school built first a Mormon school mistress held sway. As the village dissatisfaction among the Gentiles that their children should be taught by a Mormon. So a new school was built on the other side of the track. There was con- stant friction in other matters also. By the summer of 1907, the village had grown to a sufficient size to be incorporated as a town. Nominations were held for mayor and town council. Naturally the parties were divided, but the "Gentiles" were in the ma- jority, and when the election was over, the mayor and practically the whole council were non-Mormon. When the time came for the previous council to hand over their records, to the new one, they refused. ' Surprised and startled, the new council and the magistrate of the district prepared to enforce the law, but by the time they were ready the members of the previous council had slipped quietly over the border, and 'the municipal records were nowhere to be found. Under ordinary circumstances, however, ane might live a long time among Mormops with- out such startling revelations. They seem to live like ordinary men, barring afew external traits peculiar to themselvéss" The laboring class among them is usually lazy, due partly to the class of people sho become proselytes to the Motion fais. Generally speaking, the. Mormd and good-natwsed. They remind one some- times, hows¥er, of Bret IHarte's heathen Chinee--s¢fie bland, child-like smile, but "with wayssthat are dark and with tricks that are vast.' They do not usually become success- fu] beyond a certain point, whether in business, They do not seem " The Faithful Reéthabites. A chapter of the Bible shows us a strange Upon the ancient family (or religious order, as some think it) of the Rechabites, their great foun- der, Jonadab, had laid two rules,--strict temp- They were not to drink wine, because that meant ruin of the They were not to live in houses or till the soil, because that meant the those unsettled times farmers were obliged to live in cities or Jonadab wished to establish a hardy, Nebuchadnezzar had forced them to live for safety in Jerusalem, But the into a private room of the temple in the presence of They they Then Jeremiah discloses the object of "Go," he says, turning-to the startled company, "and say to all the nation how faithfully these Rechabites have kept for these three centuries the command of sight --a prophet as a tempter! erance and the nomadic life. body and soul corruptions of the city. In towns. pure and independent tribe. but they had held to total abstinence, great propret Jeremiah invites them religious leaders and offers themswine. refuse .indignantly, as Jeremiah knew would, the strange scene. Jonadab; and see how little heed you have given to the commands of the Lord of heaven and earth! Shame on you, ye faithless Jews!" Forthwith Jeremiah promises the Rechabites that their tribe shall endure forever. It has marvelously cropped up many times in history since, and still in Arabia there is a tribe that follows the rules of Jonadab and claims to be descended from the Rechabites of Jeremiah's time. A great modern temperance society takes its name from these Rechabites. ate WR East a Land of Prayer. Prayer pervades the East. sees thin minarets rising toward the sky. A desert city is there. this mute appeal to Allah. are no minarets--in the great waste of are laid down, and the brown pilgrims pro- strate themselves in prayer. The rich man spreads his carpet and prays. naked nomad spreads nothing; but he prays, too. believe. do not pray. dream. Uncommon Hotel Customs. The Scotch people as # class have a horror of profanity and bad language, and at a hotel in Edinburgh, patrons who swear mu¢ Several mines wert opened, The municipal couneil- and the settlement was arranged upon the Mormon plan--each family having a small tract of land s are/rather ignorant, easy-goings| mote by Far off across the sands, when travelling in the desert, one It signals its presence by And where there the dunes, in the eternal silence, the lifelessness that is not broken even by any lonely, wand- ering bird--the camels are stopped at the ap- pointed hours, the poor and even ragged robes And the- hali- The East is full of monéy-getting and full of bartering, and full of violence; but it is full of worship--of worship that disdains con- cealment, that recks not of ridicule or comment, that believes too utterly to care if others dis- There, are in the East many men who They do not laugh at the man who does, like the unpraying Christian. There is mothinz ludicrous to them in prayer. In Egypt our Nubian sailor prays in the stern of your dahabich; and your Egyptian boatman prays by the rudder of your boat; and your black donkey-boy prays behind a red fock in | St. the sand; and your camel-man prays when you are resting in the noontide, watching the far- off, quivering mirage, lost in some wayward used to summon the faithful to worship. They bad long been in use for secular purposes, and different forms of bells and gongs of early date are found all the world over, and especially in the East. Somé of the earliest records of the use of bells by the church in England refer to the handbells carried by missionaries as they went from place to place, and which they rang to at- tract the people to their preaching. Such was the bell of St. Teilo, given to him, as legend avers, by the Patriarch of Jerusdlem. To it the saint himself was likened. "For like as a bell invites men from the depth of sleep and slothfulness to church, so the great prelate Teilo, being made a preacher of Christ, by continual preaching wins them to heaven." * These handbells were of the simple shape fam- iliar in cowbells, and witness to the persistency with which the earliest types of things in com- mon use survive. - As churches arose, and the mission priests be- came parish priests, with settled places of resi- dence, the bells they had used were kept in or near the churches and were replaced by bells of a iarger size. The bell which a saint had used on his missionary journeys was often preserved as a relic, and the virtues of the saint, and his power over the souls of men and over evil spirits, began to he attributed to the bell. A cer- tain sanctity seems to have attached to bells, and the custody of them was committed to the clergy rather than the laity. Even so late as the thir- teenth century Durandus speaks of the ringing of the bells as especially a work of the priest. Their sound was supposed to have gn effect in the world of spirit, as for instance:--"I praise the true God, summon the people, gonvoke the clergy, 1 toll to burials, I break the power of lightning, 1 determine rest days, I meurn the de- parted, put pestilence to flight, and grace festi- vals." When the land began to be covered with churches, and their architecture to be developed, the hell-tower became an important feature. A special importance was attached to them in the ages when the land was overrun in the Danish invasions. The watchers on the tower announced by the church bell the coming of the dreaded foe, while in times of peace the bell called the peo- ple of the parish to the folk-mote and hundred- which the affairs of the district were settled, as well as to Mass and Office. So neces- sary was the function of the bell and its tower that a royal enaciment of the tenth century, pro- vided for the building of a bell-tower on every thane's estate. In the monastic houses which, from the time of the first coming of the Benedictines, gradually spread over the whole country, the bell played a most important function. By day and by night it rang the community to the services, the opus Dei or work of God which it was the chief pur- pose of the religious community to maintain, that God might be continually praised. It sent the brothers forth to their work in the fields, it called them home again to their simple meals. And those in the world without were glad to hear the monastery bell, and to be reminded that there were those who by work and prayer served not themselves only, but the whole church. As the number of bells in the towers grew larger, elaborate rules began to be formulated in cathe- dral and monastic churches, so that each office or work might have assigned to it a definite sound, of a single bell or a peal, so that men might know to what they were summoned. hs In the thirteenth century bell-founding came to be a craft -of great importance. By that time the design of the bell had been carefully thought out, and the methods of casting brought 'to a system, while the proportions of the metals used had beendsettled by rough experiment. The bells were usually cast where they were to be used, for when roads were few and bad, carriage from a distance, except by water, was a costly matter, But even then famous foundries were arising, as, for example, at King's Lynn. When a bell was to be cast, the founder came from a distance; metal, fuel, and all that he needed. were found for him, and the parish or the monastery contri- buted such labor as he might require. As the dignity of bells increased, and also as the ceremonial of the Middle Ages developed, the dedication of a bell became an elaborate rite. Bells were dedicated in the names of anges or saints, whose names were cast in the inscriptions; they were solemnly blessed- with a ceremony which included affusion of holy water. Hence tlie ceremony gained the popular name of baptism, most unfortunately. There was some reason for fhe mistake when the bell was seen to be sprink- led, anointed, censed, named with the imposi- tion of the hands of the priest and of the "god parents" of the bell, and it is hardly too much to say, with one liturgiologist, that the ceremonies reached the limits of decency. Benediction of a bell was often performed by a bishop, but it is clear from the rubric of the Sarum Manual that at any rate in the country priests were permitted, and even without special license, to perform the ceremony. Among dedications, that to Gabriel was com- mon. It was natural, for the bell which was used to call the people to commemorate the mys- tery' of the Incarnation, in the ringing of the "Angelus, might well receive the name of Angel of the Incarnation. So too the bell which was used to toll for the dying or the dead might bear the name of St. Michael, guardian of departing spirits. Raphael is less common. Among deédi- cations to the saints, St. Mary is the most fre- quent. Many bells are dedicated to St. Peter. Local saints have their share. St. Katharine is common, for the wheel of the bell suggested dedication to the saint whose symbol is a wheel Jarbara also has many dedications, for she was invoked for 'the stilling of storms. The donors of bells probably procured their dedica- tion, in many instances, to their own patron saints. Besides the great bells of the ring, there are found in some steeples smaller bells for special purposes. Such a bell hangs in the steeple at Frindsbury, in a little opening on the side look- ing to the village. 'This was, perhaps, one of place a penny in a box kept for this purpose, and a those knawn as "pudding-bells," rung at the end grossly hotel Until hotel in profane person cannot stay at recently the keeper" of Warwickshire was lord and his guests were absent. Visitors to an hotel in Aberdeenshire who must not forget to keep 1f they do wear brown boots them in their room over night. not do so, the boots will be blacked, regardless of their original color, this an old-time in the habit of inviting all his guests to go with him and his wife to the parish church on Sunday morn- | at the junction of nave and chancel. ings, and the hotel was closed while the land- of "service to warn housewives that chuechgoers might soon be expected home to dinner. Of the smaller bells, by far the greater number were Sacring or Sanctus bells. | These were usually hung in a little bell-cote above 'the chancel arch, They were 'rung at the Elevation, to notify those without that the mystery of the sacrifice was accomplished, so that those who were not able to be present might join their prayers with those offered before the altar. They were hung apart from the other bells as a matter of conveniénce, that the clerk or someone near the altar might easily sound them though all memory of their original purpose has been lost by those who ring. Conservative clerks and sextons ring at certain times, for no other reason than that their predecessors have so rpg from time beyond memory. In many) parishes a bell is rung at eight.or nine in the evening. It is almost always called the Curfew, but in some cases it is a survival of the Compline bell. In other places a bell is rung early Sunday morning, in accordance with immemorial custom. It is a survival of the Mass bell. The bell rung after the peal is ended, immediately before ser- vice, is called in some places the calling-in bell, in others the sermon bell, and old folk will tell you that if there were going to be no sermon the single bell would not be rung. The passing bell, now usually rung to notify death rather than to bid prayer for a departing soul, is of very an- cient usage. After the Reformation bell inscriptions, which had hitherto been pious, 4f' occasionally super stitious, became too often secular and frivolous. They commemorated not an angel or a saint, but a donor, a rector, or a founder. Not a few per- petuate sorry -jests, in the dreariest doggerel One at Combe glorifies the bell, and its founder's skill, with vain boasting : My sound is good, my shape is neat, "Twas Bayley made me so complete Others are simply vulgar: All you of Bath'that hear me sound Thank Lady Hopton's hundred pound. Squire Arundel the great my expense did, raise, Nor shall our tongue abate to celeljrate his praise. Patriotism and loyalty to "our happy establish- ment in. Church and State" are often inculcated: Ye people all who hear us ring Be faithful to your God and King. A number of inscriptions still continue to pre- sent sentiments of a religious character: I to the church the living call And to the grave do summon all. A vast number of bells disappeared, first from the monastic belfries during the spoliation under Henry VIIL, and then from the towers of the parish churches when they were looted under Edward. The bells were melted down for the metal they contained. In the ages of desolation the churchwardens of many a parish where no one took an interest in the ringing did not scruple to sell the bells to effect repairs, to fill their own pockets, a case of selling the horse to pay for the stable, an expedient which shows little wit. With the lessening of revere post-refor- mation days came the custom ¢f ringing on all occasions of political and socfal interest. May 20 and November 5 were especially celebrated. And the wingers were willing to give their ser- vices when the payment was made in ale and dis- posed of in the belfry. Fines enacted for breach of the laws and customs of the belfry: were spent in ale; a man who came in with his hat on, or who overthrew a bell-and broke the stay, was penalized for the benefit of the thirsty ringers. "Ringers' jugs," with inscriptions which indicate their use, are still found in some places, even in belfries, though most of them have found their way to public or private collections, In old ves- try books are many entries of money expended for ringers' ale, betraying neither remark nor shame. Change-ringing is a peculiarly English pastime. Among enthusiasts it is known as "the exercise." Carillons, so popular on the continent, have never found much favor in England. And there is surely little cause for regret. The scale of a carillon is usually an offence to the musical ear. The function of bells is to summon to worship or to work, and to remind of the passage of time. And since in the crowded streets beneath the dn | belfries of large towns there must always be some to whom their sound is distracting, and whom perhaps it hinders from rest or recovery, they must in these days be used with charitable dis- cretion. Better no bell at all than the harsh note often heard. Better a short ring of a minute or two than the long clanging by which some sex- tons consider it necessary to announce a service in a place where people are rarely out of sight of a clock and~"where everyone carries a watch. In the country there is less need of restraint, and there the music of old and mellow bells is usually as welcome as it is sweet. For those who hear and mark they have their message. Adult Bible Class Movement. It is scarcely a year since the general move- ment for gathering adults into organized Bible classes, in connection with the regular Sunday school, was begun. The development has been so great, side by side with the Laymen's Mis- sionary Movement, that they are close rivals in effective work. A potent factor in bringing growth was the conference of workers in Toronto, January, 1908. Encouraged by this a joint organization, con- sisting of Adult Bible Class committees of the provincial and city Sunday-school associations and the denominational Sunday school secretaries resident in Toronto, has been formed for a second conference. The dates, January 28-29, have been fixed to secure W. C. Pearce, Inter- national Adult Bible Class Superintendent. Other speakers promised are Rev. E. A. Pearson, Peterboro; Judge Deroche, Belleville; Rev. D. H. Wing, Hamilton§ Rev. W. J. McKay, and Rev J. A. Macdonald, Toronto and several experts in "Organized" Adult Bible class work. A new feature will be two concurrent meetings. In one attention will be given exclusively to "women's classes," in thg other to men's classes. The gathering promises to be one of unusual interest to ministers, superintendents and class workers Additional information may be had from J. A Jackson, General' Secretary, Ontario Sunday School Association, Confederation Life Build- ing, Toronto. Woman's Ancient Status. Rév. J. Campbell Morgan, London: In Christ there is neither male or female. There can be no' doubt that women were definitely appointed to Christian service. Their official position lasted till the end of the second cent ury. All writings show; it, and when it passed it only passed, because it became merged into that sad system of monasticism which cast its blighting shadow over the whole of Christen- dom. 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