A WOMANLY VOCATION. A Field In Which They Can Make|*=?"=% An Honorable Living. &F aterea tor Us ygend : ease oni ae 10, "Well reported er good works * * @ if she have Heved the afBicted."' oll, indeed, may n re TMoman be re- 's in such sho ol relieved m are sore- y needod. Thero ts suffering every- where--in the rich man's palace and La can attain striped uniforms, sol- diers, to contend with fell disease. I want to present to you my con- erption what such a woman whether she stands by over of a hospital tagious diseases or sterilizes surgeon's knives just before limb { amputated. I take this epportunity to address not a class of trained 's for nurses with which my pulpit comes' into contact, he scope of be realized if the hearer is led yr the humble home of the most loved and internationally honored of all women lItving at the p time. Who is she ? I will aeareer that question by relating an inci- dent which happened about the year 1858.. Lord Stratford esol taining at a London banquet ma of the prominent military ---- of the British army, who had victory the queen's soldiers ag Crimean conflict. As a matter the nobic asked all, this question, "Who do you think, of all a par- ticipants of the late war, t the most honored and ciend by the coming generations ?"' He asked his guests write the names nounce tho the When the slips were collected, vote was unanimous. Wonderfuf state, the name which Lord Strat- ford announced was general. It belonged Woman. Her na Nightingale. by IDEAL NURSE. Who was a Nightingale ? I will tell yo She was the heroic nurse who did not want the Hritish people to rear for her a monument of cold marble, but instend she took ot th Pe an untitled was Florence my theme can best fo Florence Nightingalo's mere presence their many of them to turn their lips toward hea- We the beneficent n 'city impo oer tho a" gg eesti AaB sent patient to the grave. tarily enter intellsetually unqualified, committing a sin senger freight tracked. train crashing woman angel is hoveri in ved typhoid the life seems t over the lieves in God and prayer a who can ask peng the bro Nightingale' 8 tients was due great deal power the dying about the who was soul as made these swearing rough and influ ven with a beseeching now that of pr passeth understanding? a brave woman. shows no ter the ined nurses in the physicians fect m saved committed ery o nurse raving patient the $250,000, which was a free will ctering given by her countrymen, and with it built and endowed, only a short distance from Westminster | the famous training school which her | 1860, modern training When oa woman 5 by church and state as Florence Night ingale thinks the development of the a work so important otes to it her a and her conmoratel energies nee nke no apology for taking as our theme this morning the qualities which are needed in the ideal nurse Aree w2i nu the right arm of the physieian. not mean that the train- ed nurse is to be a mere automatic machine and that when the physi- clan pulls the string she is to move and when he sgigom gerd os is . riggs still. ore. his hands, his constant helper. What the intelligent tro d murso is able to report in tulincsce to the progress of tho patient to a groat extent de cides the Physician' 8 @ingnosis _ in- | She cam record the p ASC intelligent nurse 'is to be found what she secs, she is willing to do ; a usefulness @ enhanced by what she can oll as as by her witiingnece to A FALLACY EXPLODED. "It is*high time,"' o_o Night- ingale once wrote, '* should be exploded gingham dress and to read a ther- meter. Incompetent nursing has poohones bo loss of many a life and any agonizing pain. ones tine ago a dear friend of mine minister, had his little to s life Powe by gr ng ¢ human little bi *s stomach The father and the | to skin _ ers and chest th me ?'" red ; "I "aid Thus, Actatte Women about to become trained n , it is of vital impor- j said: go for in | time ago one re would kill tho Sled visage o alize that a | pression should be full of sunshine as touch gentle and LHer lif () e \e iow money makin, le|pose. Af taken out his bed with a knife jready to cut his throat. renmin wits such a dull knife as were you, Let me have lirious patient Then he handed it to calmly turned the open wine ck help to put youl her. ow as she ba thero. was bravery! If you your noble profession train which has been over into the quara affected with yellow fever. Th 'there are the dangers which may eke t when she Paticnt standing by portance tho value of fresh air and of proper dietetics. --jis of vital { ny you CURE SOUL AND BODY. Theo ideal nurse nine be a Chris- tian dark night, when the black wines death ng, wing and win, ~---- the white winged birth angel. risis of pneumonia o be hang thread, no intelli- gent nurse is so competent to bend bed as the one who be- nd the one for the divine blessing when sho pours out the medicine or ayer, THE IDEAL NURSE The bat- . With its storm of ail Pa perce that my it; Ik where to get a sharper one.'* The de- hesitated a moment. Then aid, to bed or I will Saat fo ad that Ah, It ny you ri cleanlinesss and ur patient to become -- ce - against the hu- ce just as surely as is Open the wrong switch and sends the into the side | neo her pa- to the fact that she could tell the ee ae helpless and od Phy sician, soul a knowledge of the peace that- tage grea of loss of life than ame found among a case in which the quick witted brav- the life of ao her the returned now she and threw it ee Bis 33 MORAL COURAGE NECESSARY. But the ideal trained nurse her bravery. That renimpetent physici of se3 gave this examination paper: "Sup patient, ne I ---- belies eos : If er answer the case. longer sid his "orders. nurse ha: doing so she becom malpractice. his orders. right. She would refuy for him at a cs a 2 wean Ha Why? as King Solomon wro heart doeth H Why is contagious as ere who is = those who are Pain ra depres: er seen true "haked "a well as her r true. But, outside the patient, t fingers of there is anoth there is another way mu party "A st an, n in posing t if gee obeyed In which prove is when she has 5 the moral courage to refuse to work Some the training schools you o your patient a certain medicine that act would aA the. ----_ an- you wered duty come A tra work under ony incompetent physician, By |r to his -- pins not disobey ngs never mako \igy-0 e ideal nurse should be a happy pyt Because, merry srood like a medicine.' cheor =. that neith- use to work any ined work nurses wh ng to fa cial er er's oassist- than with the radiant trying to cheer and ro ex- her duty toward reason why tke ideal nurse should te happy. © a life nae ck -- in sciousness r fellow sng It Is pot her ect a life is ore of self sacrifice. It is it a sw she is trying to help n- of she has littlé money to save. It is a life of sweet and noble self sacrifice. THE JOY OF SELF SACRIFICE. Oh, the ---- aed sacrifice ss the to enter ie he" mura 8 ag know that you have beeai to place in hand.'of Jesus, Christian for who are profession, transcendent joy of the oth- t n a pro -It is, le t ne to enter the:noble pro trained nurses, I <a lve $9 Seu Ssvemen God you. on. accomp by the earnest Chris- tien prayer of the ideal nurse. ey eee ONE OF KENTON'S ESCAPES. Was Once Bound Hand and Foot to Be Burned at the Stake. The fact that Simon Kenton, one the saving of his scalp, for a h w curiosity to were the fagots piled to roast him, "Kenton's luc w i pression among when Psi of tho hand nt font to 4 burned at the stake. . Asa og request he called for his ipe. His hands were loosed he "---- pa the flint, Bay and tin- der. aved aw who was 8 fetching them. ket ho eiteit by his aunt and Hernan ger, Was un the savages. The tobacco in the Pipe bogan to n, and clouds of smoke were soon rolling from Kenton' s mouth. adians wore ameve Never had they seen ao pipe lighted without fire. Smoking out the pipe, Kenton again mysteriously Hgkted it. One of the Indians, bolder than the oth- > ° 'bountl the prisoner's feet. 'bent over the so to do this the burning-glass was focused upon = head. There bu The tipiien to his feet, * rubbing his Meanwhile Kenton, again us- ing the ginas, set the leaves at his fire. He struggled to - his The frightened ré6 'ed t sam this derful medicince-m enton approached the heap fagots which had béen prepared for roasting him. der-horn that had been d oc > ° powder Again the burning-glass was marie to work a wonde Hoousett on the trail o }the red Fearing that worse was --_ they fled [ata not tarry, but ran throdgh nthe Ss and m s Way, unoppos- dnt to the white settlement. BRITAIN'S NAVAL PROGRAM- ME IS MENACE. Article Declares British Threats gainst Germany Rid- An article, believed to have mublished in The Grenzbote, the Ler- lin periodical in which the Imperial 'iews on "Babel and Bibel" were recently set forth is an essay on the comparative naval force Bd Great Rritain and Germany. of the most Striking passages The Emperor, if the matter rightly, anxious to make clear to mans What the shaking of Teutonic, < = ma as follows: u Ge r- really unnecessarily exasperating and provoking a state. in comparison to which our strength | is so inferior, On the other hand, t they make themselves unneces- sarily ridiculous in continuing writ-j ing talking -- threats against En which can only site 12 against a2 battleships of England, 2 against 14 armored cruisers, and 17 109 English ironclad cruis- ers, wiil never be able to formnn nn ers, will never be able to perform the role of an attacking party." The article then shows that, even shall have been completed, in 1916, "England's strategical position will by no means be worse as compared The Em- @ doe y as some Fingiish Soden imagine, a 'delenda Carthago,' but it reveals "to Jermans the futility of abusing Englan WITH CLENCHED FISTS, and it intimates to the English that, in replying to German threats, they | speak | contrary to their own knowl- ed: The writer points out that the construction British North! Sea squadron quite independent of the establishment of o new naval base on the British east coast is but pte owers.who, in the light of an excess of naval strength, must seek protection in a Englend, hav mensurate with mercial importance ak plat of England, neither oats the free navigation of the sens ficient, Canty address ourselves to England, the ecling that no sensible English Government is c impossible for the German fing float with that of the English. Ger- English side if they ar min Minister who, either in "Berlin or in London, should ve t first ignal for a conflict between the two nations, would take upon himself a grave responsibility. Such a man we do not believe wi in the present century. perhaps, unn to re that no one was further won-/| feren y a eliect upon the land. | GERMAN KAISER'S VIEW' { 1 | | Te- moved from promoting such a con flict than Bismarck," fens quickly, /lHmited time, even oo the qual- 'cow will take off her body whatever Dl tious food almost invariably terial offect point of butter. known that sawdust has Its effect "cows. or is to absorb and retain the great absorbtive pqwers. Poheg when u the Well known. nm-/and the answer is not Growing plants ular about their foo full value of the manures to return to the land. A few examples may not be amiss The cow stable "is kept sufficiently close in winter to oxclude frost com- pletely y ceptable to ~ plant take it. For contains cannot grow crops. tains seM-/ plant foods and form most accentab' When the supply of a of the foods cause, poor or worn, cannot foed ltd of plan ¥ perfectly free from any taint of oe healthy surroundin ecent experiment re the horse decomposing urine fensive ; then gyp: Was procured and used libprally in leu of the sa ust. From its power to fix nitro- e- | stop it. 'Fhe a tion was called to ms conditions; then a return was mad t Sa' After oa fow age of all was called in b Finland has advice in aeert caring for dairy epee Use only pure-bred c o the means ot secure it in the best pos sible condition. We hars little pre- ce as to the kind of wood from which the sawdust is made, provided it is dry and as fine as possible. We haphazard. can feed wi suwdust will probably decay but by our method of is ever seen in the t is drawn from our none o eny suffer. yield, and, if possible, the gr n largo quantities, Placing it in a compact pile, either ,;cow value be secured. soon By this cca | wood is w of the pine and hemlock isappears, and no one can tell the wood trom which it came. j herd book), by which termine the breeding other anim own, to crnciing in judging an Join a "bull © secure 'of sawdust whero straw cannot be obtained. The calf should against dampne very tender while you EFFECTS OF FOOD ON MILK. After having looked carefully into the effects which food has on milk, the British Dalry Farmers' Associa- tion have come to the following con- clusion cow is in full milk |?°"* ------ A SENSITIVE "Ah ! ing ood morn ity and quantity of food deficient. That when in good condition very whom he met "How "'Look -- a short day a here,"' the is deficient in food in order to give jher normal quelity of milk. TQ ly of nutritious ike me. Why is it "De a mean the evidences or why being you fat is not in any t ; if anything, the tendency rather the other way. extra supply of nutri- very slightly increases, the solids not fat of the milk, 'hat a ration poor in food in egredients has a very slight tendency to reduce the solids not fat in the milk, but _ little appreciable ef- fect on bite fa Th ith a gun ration a cow in full weleht will lose carcass weight, while on rich diet she wiil gain | weight. That although the percentage fat in a cow "Why you do not urse. Well, in the firgt p "And, in been proved that you "Well,"' said the cole wanted to know, that your reasons a sensitive man, ithout a@ cause. these variations or to account th understand, cm. That for -- periods up one month reabouts, all or- dinary quantities and qualities of foods scom to have no material ef- | | fect on the quality of the se That the only food which see: have had any material percentage of butter in ie mil an excess of brewer's grai \(To sitivation, lit. Withthe mistress roarin' time Oi can Fturroo fur ould Oircland lend ae - That some foods ex in raising al. Visit oni gee in order and to show comparo and get association" the Bervices of a bull at a reasonable cost. ts percen: ercibe a ee SOILS BECOME POOR. + Saet that cultivated soils lose flity, becomi: crouaniee small crops, is only But how this fertility occurs is not so well known ng poor easy to are very partic- The: m not » it wilk nstance, a soil no at trogen, even though it contains every other plant food, A soil that con- only nitrogen, combined organic inatter and provided le exhausted, the soil is called which means that growing t food in most solls is 8s often small, plants other, SOME DAIRY ADVICE. The department of Agriculture of given out the following to breedin e. Do not cross different. 'bresting at Do not _ more stock than you Pair animals of similar character w the kind of ect. r tho anitondh of such families as give plenty and rich milk, so the progeny will produce plenty and rich Do not pair too young animals-- that makes both barents and prog- ake a memorandum of tho its test. thus can a positive knowledge of the Ceep a record of the breeding (a may value of imals. ng. The calf should have the milk get tho full benefit of the milk. The calf should havp new. milk ex- clusively the first fourteen to twenty MAN. " said a known gentieman, addressing o man P in the st are you, colonel ?°* first speaker, pacae, continued, I discover additional auntes of the fact that you do reet. wig you gd hy I do not li like mi Ince, you such an outrageous liar.' "Yes the sccond place, it has are a thief.' ie Tt merely nel, a me to think that anyone -- m gia have expressed yourself 80 cleariy." --4+--_--_ y (to new servant)--"You quite Hridget, oe . shall be Wedne Bridget--"¥is, --_-- soul, if iver a woman had a hivenly it's yersilf has only at home ect on the fur two Tan ivery wake,, phwat a k av it. have England leads his wife to an insane asylum t Over here they generally drive 'em there f, ma- the melting | ~°=+ loss on a soil lacking in one en ae to be lacking oth. to see 50. be protected s and draft--it <a of the Lesson, I Cor. xx., 20, 21, 50-58, Golden Text, t Cor: xv. Pr 20. But now is Christ risen from price and become the first fruits ° em 'that slept aud We have ee with by which we are saved d emding with the complete sub- jugation of all things unto Him who died for was buried and of find. to the Scriptures (verses 3, writer of this epistle, with wo havo recently crucified, Christ risen and Christ returning to gn. It would be well if there Were many like him. In this er that |h in with isen body so shall we be » 21; I John iii, 2). i m all die, even 50 in Christ shall ail | be made alive. By one man sin entered | into world, and deat d any it dicnce many were mado sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made Pig eau Rom. v, 1 All are in Ada without exception, and thercfore all and have accepted i oe are _ in Christ, and Ho 8 om, ia Ng and lifo eternal who ig 4 receive Him (I Cor. h 12 to all i, 30; sI say, brethren, that ood cannot inherit the of Go d $ acer ha cor- { God will be that rs on earth when t of God shall be done on ae as = is done in a (Matt. 10), 8 in verse 28 of our chapter, pA the Son, having (dur- ing thousand ars Rev. xx) subdued aH things unto Himself and cast Satan ll his followers into the lake of fire, God shal all in all. In order to enjoy that kingdom and its glory, these present mortal bodies of flesh and blood like pro- iE bones (Luke xxiv, as real and tangible as rection body, but no longer s' to and circumstances our wortal bodies --_ xxiv, 31; John xx, 19). 2. Beh you a no all seop, ali be changed i milk Only de- the mystery. but we shall moment. In I Thess, i 16-18, this is more fully set forth and so simply and parcial that a, -- who do not see it. Our Lord _Himsott retnuved "to i it in those your gooa | vetteveth °, yet shall be live, end ihedth and belicvet Me shall never dic" (John xi, 26). natural man can never see nor inherit .the kingdom of God unless he is chengtt he whosoever is again, belong to the kingdom must in one of two ways obtain a body fit for the kingdom--the body must. die and rise from the dead at His coming be in a eient changed without dying, as were the bodies of Enoch and Eli 58, 54. hall be Drought to ass the saying that is written. Death is swallowed up in victory. Corruptible and mortal are terms referrin t bodies; in- pine: and immortal describe the bodies that shall be ours at His g, when we shall be like Him, XXV, y at when the kingdom tho glorified church is well- 9 e, of are where is thy n But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. In Hos, xiii, of thi death, I w grave, I will be thy demeactind. pentance shall he hid from mine eyes."' Thinking of these words, eften say I am ne that God hates ceath and the grave ond will A wil, nes alist While in the revo of 14, from which part from got very far re ways abounding Lord, for as mw your lahor is Lord, ich as ye oO not in vain in the The -- of the resurrection, the kingdom, the new earth, concerning il 'Paul -" Rom, viii, 17, 18 II Cor. iv, , 18, and many such Sands. 'may welt encourage us to be etceadfast in the faith, unmoved = by the false doctrine and gladly walking in the goo works whic ce has ge parec Te wants to prevent to Him our bodies, which is truly a reasonnble thing, since He Fis gout v rrae ts shornd toward rs 4Eph, 16; Rom, xii, 1, 2; T Cor. vi, 19, on Ii Thess. 1, 11,,12; IL Cor, ix, ). ------ 4 -- > -- BATHS AND MEALS. 58 the largest sebouttastin in the world, which has accommodation .870-children, Tn the basement cagl 100 bathrooms, where tke' chikiren bathe if their not tau tearing think they its of cleanliness is furnished to day, according | he made ¢ | The bonfires of pagan rites gave way be attire, attends a EASTER SUNDAY OF JOY. tara, the personification of Pog morn- ing, = this opening of the year or rine: The policy of the church gave Christian significanc h rites as could for the heathen, to the great times weighing 300 pounds, were a Hahted in the churches which Easter eggs are symbolical of the suviving life in spring, and were pro- sented as gifts by the Persian fire These eggs were colored and stained with dye woo and sometimes were kept as amulets and sometimes were caten. Various games of egg rolling and egg knocking were play- ed. LOOKING FOR EGGS. nh some moorland districts of Scotland the abroad early o searched for wild to find them following Easter dawn find them filled with spotted nd gaily stained The Christian world adorns the & gorgeous bonnets and garments new and =, for has not springtide arriv- rid carnival of linen, tions when she ped e@mergo from he: wing and contriv- fashionable woman cither fices south- ward, or, piously garbed In sombro daily service, a m luncheon or listen to expositions of the deeper po i A BLESSED BIRTHRIGHT. Occasion: nects a family that --s traditio: oes and su stitio and celebrates all ho both peor pecete have inherited a blessed birth- right. ey have an interest in the assin year not dependent = change of fashion, on rumors o or on stock bonds. To watch with 7 the signs of the year, the events the . ven to 82 "Nberbs and tree buds from and warn the spar untimely nesting--all this adds spice to the variety of life. It is a happiness to think that as we celebrate Easter, sv, from times far distant, before the Christian era, the peoples celebrated the return of the sun and the awakening of spring, and that gratitude toaml the source of light and heat turned the altars of pagan temples toward "® east bowed the see fire worshipper in adoration, while the gladsome doc- trines of Christianity have found be place for the aspirations of the tions that walked in spiritual dark- ness anfl have turned the run wor- ship into love and faith in the Son of Righteousness EASTER SEX HOLIDAYS. aster Monday by long. prescrip- a right to play tricks on each other interchangeably. 'Thus in some parts of England men 'bind" the women on Faster y, and'women = th inding consists in stretching @ rope across the highways and catching in the toils wayfarers of opposite sex, who were not re- eased until they had given some small om to bay laid out in rivelry rin pious us "Lifti ting." cooee ver, Is more com- mg than binding. In imitation of ho sun, supposed to rise on Easter Monday in three leaps, the men ift" the women o Pa and the women retur pliment on Easter Tuesday, ths vic-) tin being lifted then either kissed by means ! the lifters joining their hands at the wrist, so as improvise a seat, upon which tho- person to be lifted is placed, and at other times less decorously by thef lifters ---- hold of the victim's! arms In ancient times' ieande had a right to beat their wives on Monday, and the latter ro- taliated on Tuesday. That all theso practices had thete root in some common custom i that similar rites ore f in Germany, Thus in many villages the boys go gel fogging the girls on Faster eturn for which the boys an give yp fish and potatoes on EFester Tuesday and provide the music for a gencral dance. ------ FROM MANY QUARTERS. Herr Krupp's income, 'the largest ever known in Germany, was $4,- 760,000 a. fed The St. James district of London, nths rolled in the in consequence of res Se ae them, © the number is 'omen yee many of employment hitherto thought clusively masculine. ere are shown in the last United States cen- Y 26 women plumbers, 45 lince oe painters, and 645 carpenteis. .