Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-12-26
October Sermons.

With the first Sunday in October the
most fashionable of city churches re-
opens its doors. The clergyman, back
from Europe or the Yosemite, found
his pews full of hearers, mere or less
attentive. Excepting the few fortu.
nate folk who own country seats, every
body is back in town again, although
the most beautiful month of the year
out-of.doors is but just begun. Ameri-
cans have NOT yet learned to love Ma
ture for Natures sake. We turn our
books on the country with an obi pre-
cipitstion as soon as the technical
season is over. We rave about
Nature like poets in August, but as
soon as its last day is licked of we be-
gin tc HE back to shop and streets
tradesmen again. One would suppose
that the trees withered and the sunset
skies were rolled up like a scroll when
the big hotels on the beach and noun.
tains shut up their bars and turned of
their gas. Unless we have had the
good luck to be born on farm, very
few Of us know anything of the glory
which the year puts on when it has
ripened to its prime; of the golden
haze in which it wraps itself as in a
garment; of the strange sense of
Astounding life and great good cheer
abroad in the following forests, in the
cold, bright winds and the hot Moons
of this month. The itful heats of
July days seem young and meagre and
acrid In comparison. The world has
done its work, now; it is mature, not
touched by old age; it is at rest, throb-
bling with lusty life, from the full vel.
low moon floating overhead to the very
stones on the roadside, out of which
MOSES drink vigor, and show them.
selves green and blood-red. Nature
has no more use for her color; the pic
ture is painted; like wasteful artist
she throws it broadcast from her pal
cite everywhere; the sea hurts the eye
with its brilliant blue; even rank poi
son berries haunt royal purple, and
the seeds of weeds are offered to us in
cups OF jewels, burning in the sun.
We are not likely to hear anything
about this great dumb out of-door life
in any of the after-vacation sermons.
Congregations are tired of country
sights and sounds, and their pastors are
much more likely to draw their sub.
jects, as usual, from the history OF the
Hebrews. The history of the Jews,
they know, has been kept for our in.
struction and profit for thousands of
years; but 80, for that matter, has this
REDEEMED seed-vessel and purpling
berry. Their sermon has been preached
millions of times without the altsra.
ton of syllable, and there surely
must be some meaning in it worth find.
ing out. People do find it out uncon-
sclously. The stupidest man, going
out of his shop in the country, is con
scious Of sudden cessation OF hurry;
these things that grow have no nerves
and no ambition; great monarch in
the forest crumbles and dies; his COM
panions miss him, but they do not i'm
pugn God in the matter, and declare
creation to be mistake, rs the small
est shopkeeper is apt to do when his
affairs are not to his liking. The
poke-weed is not unhappy because it is
not an oak; it does not rebel against
the Power that made it because it bears
poison fruit instead of wholesome corn !;
it does the work set down for it, like
the sun overhead and the worm at its
foOt-they all do their work as they
have done since the first day, without
haste and without rest. One does not
esteem the sun and the worm differ
entity; there is no social rank there,
as between the shopkeeper and the
blacksmith. Each Is perfect of its
kind. Each has its work, and the God
overhead who gave it the work-noth-
ing more. If the man watching them
could see only this work in his hands
and his God, and know his fellow-men
only as workers, what an end there
would be of heartburnings, of sham,
of vulgarity of all sorts !!
Another way in which these outdoor
teachers differ from us is that they can
afford to be cheerful as they work; the
roses in our garden ripen the seed, but
not Solomon was arrayed like one of
them; the bird matches her eggs, but
she sings all day long; simply because
beyond their work they have no re-
sponsibility or care. The Savior could
lind no higher symbol of repose in God
and its reward than these wordless
plants and birds.-N. Y. Tribune.
How TO MAKE COLOGNE WATER
To make better article of Cologne
than that which is usually bought.
thoroughly dissolve fluid drachm of
the oils of bergamot, orange and rose
mary. with half drachm of neroli and
a pint OF rectihed spirits. As good as
can be made out Of cologne itself, how.
ever, is also prepared simply by mixing
with one pint of rectitied spirits, two
fluid drachms each of the oils of ber-
gamot and lemon, one of the oil of or
ange, and half as much as that of rose
mary. together with three quarters of D
drachm of neroli and four drops each Of
the essences of ambergris and musk.
Ii this is subsequently, distilled, it
makes what may be called perfect
cologne, but it becomes exceedingly
fine by being kept tightly stopped for
two or three months to ripen and mel
low before use.-ChemiSt.
The WICKED DEACoN.-In a flour.
ishing young city of Michigan, lives a
worthy man who has had the misfortune
to be u widower three times, and is now