same "ae = oe Neglect the Fami ly Altar and You Will Quench It. aCotercd Mecording to Act of the rar t ef Canada, in tho Nine Mundred wat of 'Toronto, at the Decercnane Agriculture, Ottawa) mn Gespstvh fron, Los Angeles, Cal., ro Witt. Talmage our present lesson, w 'or : ignif Pa ul's impreesive, sign ch" has a , row use one of diamond. It is o lurid wards which picture troughts in ¢elfors of blood. quench"' tucans to smotker, as mother wou!d extinguish the flames' consuming child by wrapping garments a heavy, wet blanket, jerk ed from off the clothesline. In ti startiin, ay all believing Christians against the sin of extinguishing the power of the Holy Spirit, which now burning. withm them as a living flame. "Quench not the Spirit' is the command to the Thessalonians. Smothler not the divine flames. A PRACTICAL QUESTION, Now comes the practical question: How do many ' open the floodgates of sin and drown out their spiritual 7 anee, econing strous of heresies in the heavenly headquarters ay your lips learn divine adi ¥ ay ly be heard by his Bad auawecedt "arectiy only by Sis loving voice. They con beceme the bolted doors ef vaputbaition, | cells. They may become redhot irons putting out the calm, decp blue eyes faith and love. By an ancient eastern Jaw no blind prince is allow- he throne of Persia. can stage of enlightenment fitting him to occupy" = & Giod' apiiritual thrones wit and prayerful study a. "Tolle, lege! Tolle, and read! Take and read !"'! was tne divine command given in vision to earn 'the Bible oo Take ~ vine command given to the Christian of the present day. My friends, a are you going to find out what is the law of God and the Will of Gon unless you read his holy word?" In Isaiab he distinctly says, "My thoughts are not your Hronghts, neither are your ways my | ays:"' Are you and I trying to find many of our new converts chill their out by studying the oe a what holy enth rjare God's thoughts to harmon- checks, wet with penitent tears, and ize our lives with his life? Are we harde again their he in sin? trying to find out what is the decp- First and foremost, by neglecting '¢T, richer moaning ef the Savieur's G i orship By name? Are we seeking to under- that they can eae is God just well at home os in the week night Spirit amd how God with the weak things of* this werki is going to Seite ae the mighty? Or are we prayer moetings. My asserting that the "communion of the saints," in a building which las been dedicated jwill save! to God as a "house of prayer, is | not essential for true spiritual life. No true convert should aver be guil-! ty of casting a slur upon the public | altar of Jesus Christ. As Ponce de Leon, the explorer, crossed the seas 8 | words which "perpe e nt we expecling to find a soring of * tual youth,'" 9 which was: differ from all other springs, +o when come to a cousecrated public ser vice filled with Christiun peoyle should - expect to find there a rich '° blessing, = diferent rom other | blessings It is hard work for a ntside work for a ian to remain , 'cuhes he ¢on- in elose contact with ians. mands to he by | around day after day ee | _ eniasines, silly, 7 ie siren peti ae h. . water, and came out to sve what Jesus will save! |wes the matter They found me jam so happy, Jesus will save!"' when |more dead than alive. 'The skin was jsome of us merely look upon the} nearly all gone from my feet to my ame of Jesus as an amulet, because tag do not know or care who Jesus is) for weeks as to read tho he has spoken for us? | Are we going to look upon the closed ; lids of the Bible in a superstitious | wor as did the pensants of Europe --- ting the dark ages. as though, they something they had no right ic) Shall we continue to be 8 ignorant of God's word as that? you going to look upon the divine take the trouble his children, which letter ought to' be carefully studied and its com- strictly. followed out? DEVELOPMENT OF CHARACTER. the commingling of te igi that the | ut," some new Convert says, "if _ prayer is produced, It is bY 'the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures sip host deattinon se srinne: ft 'g thet is essential to a truly developed spir- " -- is b ie a olhnens'* p itwal character then I am not a true a that stanoen ave as an Christian. TI practically know n Yes! And also by the foolixinca: of thing uLout the word of God except reachitin that they are brought that 'God so loved the world = tha ast oe by week to the porson- | jhe gave his only begotten Son that paged believeth on him ould y ality of Jesus Christ. PUBLIC WORSHID ESSENTIAL Public worship is absolutely cssen- tial for the spiritual life of the av-| erage man. Some years ago a coun- boy was riding in the cais_ to-, ward Philadelphia, ting next to him was an old man. After a long conversation, in which In the seat sit- on t perish, but have everlasting life,' That is all : know. Cannot I now accept Christ as my Saviour?" Oh, yes, my ection, you cun. You are now a Christian, if you want to be. that Mi you accept and truly believe you" are much a Christian as a little code ling just hatched out of an egg the young man tolc his seat mate') bird, Ur vou acct py rice 4 spt truly ales that te as Rotng to Phladeinhe 80 your" whole. heart that profound for his. letters "Oh : a nid the truth and should die to-night, he who ie "fellow. * 'here te =. trom ing 'promised salvation to every soul who ae Seanad Here inp) one from | cleves and trusts him would take my #¢ hoolt encher Here is one fre om, Your soul into bis safe keeping. But my physician.' 'Is that all? Have if you tive you should grow and de you not one from your minister ee velop. You are saved that you may asked iis seat mate eR, have Serve him as an example ond as a 'Wel', my young jsoul w inner, and this you can never at nat nal the old man, "I wo uld fo unless you learn to know him anth advise you to present that letter to jhis teaching through the study of some church at ance. ann old his ners. Remember you are w - wen captain, and I have found out by '@ Christian only as the bird just bitter experience that it is safer jhatched out of ee is a vird. when in harbor to tie my ship up to |You are a spiritual fledgeling: yo a wharf than to anchor it out in [must cat spiritual food, That spiri- midstreain, to be. floated around = tn tual food is to be found in the Word the tides. By bitter experience I lof God. as the breath for your spiri- have also found out that no young jtual lungs is te be found in the at- Christian is safe unless he is bound up in Christian fellowship with other Christians in Sunday services and in the week night prayer meetings."' ' The old sea captain's experience has | mosphere of ; TUE FIRE: SIDE STANDARD. Ivery man's home to a certain ex- jtent is his own castle. He can lift I never saw in my life ; What Siandeards he pleases over his a church er 'av--unicas OFD fireside. He cun emphatically you could first trace his spiritual de- |S8¥., 88 did" God's servant of ~~ ott: generacy rowing absence from | Let others do as they will, but the prayer mesting and Sunday ser- {for me and my house we shail serve vices. If you want to close to {the Lord." Or he can open his own Goc must keep ote to his home to shelter and entertain -- evil praying disciples. Never neglee t, un- _less compelled, a church'service wetfare never neglect your week night prayer mecting. PRAYER IN PUBLIC. ne for true spiritual fife to pray in public. Oh, yes! But! it is st necessary to pra in | private The d thy God is © Ir jealous God."" That means in one! tense that there are times en God ts to i Heavenly Father when Jesus again be} pray. @ wants us to be alone with him in holy fellowship, as some of us have often been alone with our mathers. Blessed and tender were those hours of sweet communion with our moth- ers wh have now gone beyond. After the rest of the family in night, telling her what we wanted to do and asking her if she thought it was best-for-us-to do it. S80 God y Father, wants us at alone. He wants us to tell him all our plans. George Whiteficld would never accept. any invitation to do anything of any import' unless he had first' talked ray over with his "best friend." « In darkness of the bedroom and in tho solitary walks through the streets and in -the quiet of the oflice or in the kitchen, God wants us to frankly and freel and lovingly talk with him. e ants us to come to him with t abiding faith of a little child... Ame the aged Father, "who secth in secret, reward thee openly."" TUE ahoivin COMMAND. Our public sears usefulness to a great exttnt pendent upon the come when you will break the ltem or |r --esperinity, thouse ptations of all sorts, But wt think if he surrenders his o-evil ~practices ond --yiclds thims-lf and his home to the seduc- tions of the world that he can at the same time live a spiritual life, nor n he expect that those --_ him, tles of a He , not must, if io would li only consecrate i » but in » presence of his children he must er a petition to God for them consecrate their lives to Christ also. IN TOUCH WITH CHRIST. By coming in touch with Christ's life shall wo have the Spirit's fame leap and glow and resistlessly move on and scatter and and consume our sins and our brother's sins, even as the prairie fire makes serpent, prairie dog, horse, buflalo and deer turn and flee for their, lives. welcoming the church members to Christ's altar I have but ruggling friend, docs re \the chief definition of being a Chris- 'I tian consist? Ought you te say, want ta be a Christian to escape the evil eSects of sin?" "I want to be . Christian to be happy?" "I want © bo'a Christian in order that I rad ae yen?'" no, should want to be ao Christian, for your own "prong et -- in order that. God may be glor: In order to glorify God we nine work for him. In order to glorify God should give to him of our tem- ral substance. In order to glorify nae we Re God we should pray to We should read the Bible that. we can further ane pc how Christ n- tinue t orified. May our lives be filled with, hely -geal for the glori- fication of the blessed Saviour earth and in heaven. I congretulate you in this, the supiszme moment of your life, when you atart in the ser- vice of Jesus C stian bro- communication with the ther, give me me' thy-hand. the |Of which struck the little-boat vith The closed ae ot Ged's Bible are ea joften te extinguish a us!» FIGHT wird a sixes." Capt. 8. ¥. Seott's Ferxible Ex- into a school of blaekfish | burned dous force that-the boat was jerked ae over, a came dewn on the my was in the arms of a dovil-fsh. I knew that © water swarmed ged octopus. I knew at one had got -- There is no | mistaki the gr ve the devi.-fish's Sout powerful closes upon his prey, and he down, the bottom. With a desperate kick I freed my- from the creature below me. palis until he drags it to self m un- the devil-fish cought me ag: -. felt his grasp --. "The pain as excruciating. With every move- cncat that 1 made my flesh was lac- erated. I began to-grow week from 'loss of blood. But I never relax 'my hold of the boat: The agony must have lasted for tonly a few minutes in reality, but it seemed an etermity before I felt the clutch on legs n. I fr I think may selid boots must have injured the arms of the octo- pus and compelled him to let ge It was net wutil am h a half later thet my frieads notked that my boat was motionless on the | above that it remained black ao man's hat. For two months afterward I lived on uuilk. Altogether, IT was laid up for seven mouths us the result of my cn¢oun- | knees, ond ier imines canines A RUSSIAN DICK TURPIN. Highwayman Who ----_ : thy to Succor Po "Solomon I1., by the grace of | God, King of the Jews,' This was the way in which a very remarkable | prisoner the prison | He was a' handsome, hurd working student of the ~iet Seminary, but on finishing his ourre, writcé a corre spondent, he imine: liately provided .himeelf wi and a number of murdered highway, his victims in Kieft includ- Ing a Staff captain and a master of | the watch. At his richly furnished ! apartments in Kieff he dispensed lav- | ish hospitality to a circle of most respectable friends, who never sus pected the source of his wealth. His capture was brought about by the accidental protrusion of a revol- ver from his coat pocket while he was bargaining with a fur merchant. The latter pointed him out to a de tective, and "Solomon 11." was ar- and bound like a dangerous beast. At the preliminary exnmination he confessed to a long serics of srobber- jes, the procecds of which he uppears to have dispensed largely in succor- ing the poor and the outcast. He | denied any munNiers, however, profes : es penitence, and intimates his an- xiety to explate his inisdeeda in the prayerful scclusion of a monastery. ----------4 ------_ TAKE A LOOK AT THE WIND. wind ? Yes, you an. me day wken o gule is blowing and the atmosphere is cold, a look at the » you ray? £° out in your yard we a nice bright handsaw If the wind is blowing from the north hold the Faw with its euds eee 3 one to Tthe east the other the" west. luke the enw as if you ghee going to cut the air upward, and let the iceth, which are on top, tilt over itil the flat part of the saw is on an langle of 45 degrees with the hori- zon Then, if you look along the eareh ofthe saw;-you the wind pour over tke teeth as plainly as the water over a waterfall a os CURING BY FORCE. An instance of the belief matntain- d A bent almost double with age rheumatism, was handed over by her rojatives to the tender mercies of a local bonesetter to be straightened. He could think of no better way than to place her between two stout boards which were drawn clote to- gether by ao rope, liternily straight- ened her, This treatment resulted in nearly every bone in the peer wretch's body _being broken and in the: stomach being ruptured before tho victim's relatives who called his services-have been arrested. BRITAIN'S WAR FLEET. The capital value of Britain's war floct has been enormously increased by recent additions--not merely by the number of*ships built, he t the the British Meany, their total costs have peontes a os fol- lowing at 1818, 10 millions yeaa 1860, 17 to 18 millions; somewhat higher figure; 1878, about 28 mi lions; 1887, 87 millions; 1902, abot 100 =millions. Guns tion are not included. _ S the = national fleet in 187 Was put at 183 sor eerie liad and in 1998 x 474 millions--a great in- crease, but a Roms ves of growth than that of the Royal Navy, to Like lighteing came the truth. 1|*% an slant to the sctting ef OUR FRIEND THE PIG, are pigs and pigs, Pagity are fashions in Moreover, |pie perazescol have no Points. at oo Nie for be quite round, like a are solisied tained his fortune and fame through' the absorption of India eri for' generations unnumbered. other, d, many of the. points which pertain to what is called bac- on hogs o Snglish. Irish and Danish types are not at all approy- ed of by the ged Lg grower of Ameriea, who pr eat! gy. lardless -- which mainly re the so-called bacon Sr are but a votetinele sineH actor E ommon to all good pigs, mcacneaa THE BREED, A somewhat short, broad face, wide between the eyes, ter ~e Sometimes, but not always, slightly upturned muzzle, is deemed extreme ; eas grain Hf After all, the lean, leg4| and ly impertamt for what it te with further reference to the individual possestivg kk. It says te the pig's owner: 'This animal is ef a quiet ae = ge and we el eg -- . for bameaes into valuable product, small probability of was with The well-rounded aud rather pro-| minent jowl along with the short: head, suggests quick feeding quality and early maturity in the cuimal for such a purpote A medium-sized, soft, silky ear, thin and inclincd Lo treop, gees in =e breeds with, bigh quality aud light offal, as do larg), heavy curs: and tail, thick skin and coarse hair, and bone, with flabbiners and large offal; wiile the eregt, foxy, pointed sherp car, long nose and convex fave | generally 'pespeak a nervous activity | 'and perhaps viciousness., A CHEST, which is Wide between ihe four legs, indicates that he is probably of ro- bust constitution, with plenty of lung room for large tircathing; it! also signifies a hardivess that suc- | . | cmp is built | backward quite level, wichout muen his tail, not too lew down, and his thighs fleshy, fall and Jorge, firm and we! idown in tke twirt, with the meat spread thickly an well down to tho, hecks, this one a Jarge bam, and it need not be tuid that the ham is) in his carcass. consideration | highest priced meat This is an to grower and butcher. Sides of considerable length and | depth, with an cven underline, mean. a goodly weigiit of meat, which " not extremeiy fat. is wreepted every | where as a povod quality of bacon; but if very fyt. -- inuch of what is known as sice me METHOD FOR TURKEYS. Such severe losses have tained in reent years by turkey breeders, duc larcel® to lack of vit- ality in the tieeting stock, that many are beginning to practice the outdoor method of raising their tur- | ey Tke birds are given neither shelter nor roosts, even in winter although some growers provide open shed to which the birds free access in severe storma. turkeys are. "pag treo to shift them- telves, the ides icing to imitate nat- ural conditions n6 closely as aia | are fed 'iberally on as little interference as possible with | their ways of living. Instead of suf- | fering front this seeming neglect, they appear to enjoy better health, more vigorous, less subject to | disesised, and 'tiie epidemics which | kill so many flecks eeldom attack) m. This method is upplicable » farms or places where} only on large Wf pain turkeys can bave free runge. to cfoauly, he bad much better give up, turkeys and keep APPLYING G@ MANURE. the first place, eet more an quantity should be the aim of the manure maker. To this end, Just, sufficient bedding should be used very close 'quarters. 1 prefer clover hulls ng to anything else and al- pur- Pose writes Mr It makes a manure twice as valuable as wheat or oat straw. Leaves are ni- so preferable to straw, and if there are above helds - confine his stock too of ducks. {tt vod, rif mother |*8 to sides if there ek ord of oon in stable accumulate a few wosks at tine fe pita i pcr esate it is ed most, deatibely he fet the best roturas 'ie r the ehortest time creps. Now tter manure en land to be plow- ed under for spring creps if there is at -- the eo manure is crops, pile it up in stables on I like the plan followed by good farmers of improving the qual- ity of manure by scattering plaster or acid phosphate in stables few days. When they the manure sbourd be directly from the stablo to the field, to avoid any possibility of waste from leaching or exposure to the weather. SNEEZIEG AND SNORING WHY WE DOWT SNEEZE WHEN WE SLaaP '(Hinder a Sneeze and You Hinder a Life," Is What the Chimese Say. Woe do not sneeze in our sleep be- cause We snore the converse also holds good, age though it may appear--we do srore when h awake, because " yes Bot /snoring and sneczing are merely dif- ferent manifestations of abnormal forms of breathing. fos too, for that matter, sighing, hiccoughing, yawning, ae laughing and ; SLamunering. 'i in sneezing, a vigorous contraction | of the abdominal muscles, induced probably by some deep-seated but harinless species of nervous irritation, violently' ejects ai stream of through the mouth and nose. It is' bottled up, as it were, and explodes, jand is expelied all together, like = @ gypeze, Thereupon his followers charge of electricity from «a Leyden Sprang to their feet, and, waving ar. their arms wildly in the air, ex- But during sleep there is a of | claimed excite div: . 'Ma: the sun this reflex 'tbottling up.' The ace guard you, "May his light never 'cummulating air is then ---- in j fail you," and so on through quite penny numbers,' and wit more or less rhythmic regularity the AN EXTENDED FORMULA. isneeve is converted consrque ntly into snore. , be objected that prac- tically averybody sneezes, while, luck- ily, everybody does net knore. This is true, But the explanation given nevarthelonss; for now-snorer& arc fitted by nature with a gullet and pharynx fo constructec that what ould be a fullfedged snore in others, is, in their cases, at-, tenuated and diluted down to a gen-) ja considerable proportion of the very | te regpiratory sigh--the very ghost snore, 60-to speak, And here it may be obsorved that | isneezing has no re d for times or seaeO bait infrequently, indeed, it secigs to~tirke A MAL ICIOUS PLEASURE iin choosing the most aa tel mo- . inent for exhititing its pow In such a case the senroeiieo catas- nai, it is snid, may be averted, by pressing firmly. upon some branch of | the fifth nerve, say, in the upper 'lip been sus- close under the nose. This, however, is considered unlucky. Hinder a sneeze and you hinder a life," says; the Chinese proverb; and nearly every | race has some similar sayin The idea, however, would appear to | be, not that you are not doing good to yourself temporarily by avoiding | time being the threatened | you are intensifying | € o misfortune which is bound to hap-;t pen sooner or later. For everywhere at all times, and among all peoples, the act of sucezing has been a¢count- ed an 'ill-omend one. The Rabbis, sneezed but once, ately died. Tho patriarch, firm, Was the frst man in. the world. to die a-natural death. oezing there is no foundation Whatever for this story in the canoni- On the contrary, i whole Before puced; pate pe er treats it, not as the nignat but as a wine "of re turning life. 10 Shunamite, it will be remember- eneczed sevon times at the prayer Elisha, AND THEN "AWOKE." Sneezing is connected with the very beginning of human life. to sneeze. Doctors and nurses look for it anxiously. d the surest si of complete vitality. This being so it is the more difficult so account for its well-nigh universal association with death and ill-luck. It is, doubtless, this widespread be- lief which induced the custom of at- tempting to avert the omen by some brief form of prayer. The n, true to his reputa- danger, f/ Sneeze on was inclined journey: is volthes thought thing of or is regarded as A PAVORABLE OMEN. Among certain primitive Hindu be sufficient to debar them from go- ing on any journey that day or com- mencing any undertaking. In l-ancashire, as elsewhere in _- north of England, a good deal seem: to depend upon the day of the Wook jin the matter of sneezing: Sneeze on a Monday, you sneeze for a Tuesday, you kiss a stran, Snecze on a 'Wednesday, you -- sneeze for a letter; iter; Sne@re on a Friday, you'll for sorrow morrow; Sneeze ona Sunday, your safety seek, The devil will have you the rest of the . week, Pope Gregory the Great it was who drew up a torm of prayer to be used encezing, 80 as to avert its supposed evil effect. came afterwards to be known as "Sneezing Litany,"' and consti- tuted a favorite invocation of the Spanish adventures, who, in the fif- teenth century, set forth to effect the conquest of Amer Imagine their HT when air {| 4....One_ Greek, oF S.W., is a cave which Almost. the | torch o {first thing a healthy babe does, when |' 4 }it opens its eyes for the first time, is they found a similar invocation al- lready in use amon the people ~ of the New World. Hernando de Soth was yarticularly struck with the Strangeness of the circumstance, and left a full account of how it first -came under his notice. He was one dav having on-. inter- view with the Mexican Cacique Gua- 'choya, when the latter chanced When 'the Emperor Montezuma |Sneezed everybody within hearing had 'to cease Whatever business they might have been engaged upon at the mo- ment and stand motionless and with bowed head while similar prayers were Not to conform to the usage ,Was to court instant death | It is 'impossible that this poten- tate could have been acquainted with jthe "Arabian Nights,"" but had he 'been he would have found therein a story which would, perchance, have -caused..him 1the. ais- Text of the Lesson, Mark i., peoples a sneeze in the morning will |: Sneeze ona Thursday for sotetiiing be Ww sneeze | Sneeze on a Saturday, bad luck to- th 'INTERNATIONAL LESSON, 2 34. Golden Text, Iuke iv., 49. - ee evonts of this lessen were pro- bably 'to those s filled ppergaast 4 subsequent of last This well ieee: day inciuaed His in synagogue and - im. more Christians lives are the ony religious books the world reads. Therefore there is not so powerful a sermon in the weed as a consistent Christian life. Pe ap. been cast out of Nazareth, Ca! home, car fs spoken city" (Matt, ix, 2) and there throughout all Galilee He preached th cape taught with authors. He said only what the Father told Him. His text veer baal io Jaw, the a and (Jokn Just o the Scrip on act throt Baap women uildren, and are sometimes found in church jen Sunday school to this day ey want to be let alone concer ning righteousness and temperance and judgment to conie. unto us smooth qioylote true things. about Jesus Christ as this man did or as* the woman did at. Philiopi (Acts xvi, 17) is not ne- » yet there are ----- as the Sinners there is no fife aia nal (John i, 12; I John v, 12) The tera Tesus by His word deliv ered this man from thv evil thing in him, and the man was whoic. When people talk and act like the ie let us remember that lives and He is able and willing re cast out the evil spirit and give instead His own Spirit. If we trusted . Him pen a strange morning in that syna- gogue at Capernaum, for such advantages night conceivably \fo olow a too rigid observance jceremonial etiquette of this kind. The | © anecdote, it will be remembered, oc- | 8" curs in the history of the hunchback- ed schoolmaster, who ta scholars to clap their mnie. Soman 'he sncezed, and haan "Long live jour noble maste One day he and his pupils chanced {to be walking in the dvusert and grew thirsty. A well was Teaches, but it lwas decp, and the bucket wes at the ,bottom. Nothing daunted, the wor lthy master volunteered to descend by means of a repe and fetch it up, "He laccomplished his mission so far as reaching the bucket was concerned, and the boys thereupon started t 'haul bim to the surface. But when his head wag alinost level with the op of the well wall, he chanced to sneeze, Up unconsciousix went the hands of his pulpils with the excla- Requires a Very og tes Nerve fo Explore It of the curiosities of Oakley |! we few people care to enter. It is of the usual order of stalactite and stalng- mite shapes and figures, but in order to get inside it the visitor must crouch and squeeze himself through a narrow opening and grope his way n the inky darkness for a few yards tilt he can stand erect and light a 1. As soon as he has done this, he sees, faintly, the weird shapes sumed: by the water dripping from the limestone and he hears a whirr- ing noise. Heo feels inclined to make his exit at onco, but he hears some- thing moving all round him, and pre- sently something touches hb e concludes that there are n= canny spirits about, and this seusa- tion is multiplied many times in in- tensity when, on turning to retrace his steps, he finds himself confronted by a tall, ghostly figure. If the-visitor has iu strong" nerve, or has been forewarned, which is not always the case, he recognises that the ghostly figure is a senseless -- formed by the dripping from e limestone, and that. the moving boatbewe are ba There is one part, of the cave which no man has d to explore; it is called the Blow Hole. adven- throw a stone through.' He 'did so, listening for the atone to touch' "bot- ie @ull 'sound that propa A i that there was sheer drop of 200 fect on the other: side of the Blow Hole. Blake : "When y: blow your rate gc if accept 'you, "She 'Im; Bird : possible t' I don't know just what she meant, but. 'to' Simon's-home-what-ma: | South African plateau, recen u said that you'd she didn't |G what did she say a ape ore. The power of God had" been seen, for Jesus was God manifest in the flesh. As Simon, Andrew, James and' John walked from the synagogue have their musings? Possibly the healing of the. demoniac may have. led. them' to tell Him quickly of the sick one in Simon's home. gs soon as He took the sick one by the hend, the fever was gone, and - she was able to rise and minister to them, Tis is "not the way -that-fev--- er patients generally' recover, but such recoveries are all easy to Him - whe made us. im, sickness fices before Hin ae is life and health and light ~ go (|Strength, and nothing to the oe trary can abide in His presence, Soon ' the fame of works spread at even when the sun was setting,' the Sabbath day being then passed, all mation" 'Long: live-our noble ~mas-|the-sick-and demom possessed within ter," and down ta? the oe being hg ihre ase cepa h bottom of the sixty-foot shaft ero OKs: See OMe ARDY: CAMODa ed the unfortunate pedagogue. ears ae word and laid His hand son's Weekly every onc who was sick and healed them Luke iv., 40, 41). We do not _ oH read that they.had faith to be peer ed, though their faith may possibly THE CAVE vF GHOSTS* be seen in. the -- a their ~ being sapere there. We do see two great realities --on their part a pantie and felt need and on His perk a geet and faith His fullness will be surely seen. . hat a busy Sab at untold light and joy had co to hearts and homes which only that morning had been full of ogee aed sighing! Free as the a shine and showers of venient had oe blessings come to all those hearts and omes. There is a Sabbath coming to this whole earth when there shall be no more sickness or pain or death because this sane Jesus of Nazareth shall then be King over all the earth ig of kings and Lord of lords (Rey , B, 4; xvii., 14; Isa, xxxiii., 24 . After some rest He is up at while before day and always alone with Tis Fa-- ther, for He ver by ae Bic toio ords His Father' 8 (verse 35; John vi., and bghrviae were all [ee xiv. emia ee TIN IN THE TRANSVAAL. t is reported from Johannesburg that n new and unexpected source of wealth has been discovered in the late Boer republic. ero the ansvaal, on the edge of the lofty three v ble lodes of tin ore have been found, 57). that the new colony' may prove ie be as ard kis tin and copper as it is ' wn to be in gold. A BREAKNECK RACE. A novel kind of race took. place Platform, down to earth, and back Wheol Boeee I didn't like the sound of, to the td again. Fssaredn were 700 steps to ae evant had never transpired there be : -- |