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If evil cannot be overcome by good
wa are called to suffer for 1t.


we are called to suffer for it.
John Wesley.
As for war you may mark me for a
through Quaker. believe 1t to be ut
terly opposed to the spirit of the Cos
pei for a man In any case to draw the
sword and slay his brother-man.
Gordon Hall.
In the time of John Wesley, one OF
his preachers was pressed into the
army, but he would not fight. He
said, II shall not fight, for I cannot
bow my knees before the Lord to pray
for man, and then get up and kill
him. John Nelson.
Let us place ourselves mentally In
the very condition of the sick and SUI
fering. Joseph John Gurney.
We may make prayer and not
really pray. Edward Payson. ,
A good conscience Is continual
feast. John Illiotson.
We have no right to crafty our
selves at the expense of the happiness
of others. Francis Wayland.
We must seek of God the blessings
of peace, and do what We can to pro-
mote peace among others.
Moses Hemmenway.
We can find no joy greater than in
creasing the highest happiness of man
kind. William Ladd.
Alas if Christianity, as the church
now exhibits it. were to become uni
versal, it would leave the nations Of
the earth still in the allowed use of all
this terrible preparations for the
slaughter of each other.
Laurens P. Hickok.
tits good to be much in pious ejacu-
Iations. This with hinder no business,
therefore let no business hinder these
calculations. Matthew Henry.
Let US do like Jesus who went about
doing good. William Jay.
We have call 10 do good as often as
we have the power and opportunity.
William Penn.
If persons are much engaged in 30
cial religion and but little In the re-
ligion of the closet there Is reason to
doubt their religion.
Jonathan Edwards.
Be earth with all Its scenes Withdrawn,
Let noise and vanity be gone,
In secret silence OF the mind,
MY heaven, and there my God lind.
Isaac Watts.
War, in every shape, is entirely con-
trary to the spirit and precepts Of
Christianity. Calvin +. Stowe.
The door of grace is opened by the
kew of PRAYER. John Flavel.
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Anecdote Of John Fletcher.

John Fletcher, the pious vicar Of
Madeley, in England, on one occasion,
on ascending his pulpit with the in
tention of preaching sermon, which
he had previously prepared for the
purpose, suddenly found that he could
not remember any part of that sermon,
or even the text. He feared that he
would have to come down without say
ing anything but, gathering his mind
into calm collectedness, he remembered
the circustance of the three men Of old
who were cast into the fiery furnace,
with the divine preservation they
witnessed, and he concluded to say
something in regard to it. In doing 80
he found, as be afterward related,
"such an extraordinary assistance from
God, and such a singular enlargement
of heart" that he supposed there must
be some peculiar cause for It,. He
therefore desired that If any of the
congregation had met with anything
particular they would acquaint him
with it. Three days afterward a: lady
of his congregation called on him, and
gave him the following account:
"Mrs, X. had been for some time
much concerned about her soul. She
attended the church at all opportuni-
ties, and spent much time in private
PRAYER. At this her husband, who
was butcher, was exceedingly en-
ragged, and threatened severely what
he would do if she did not leave OH
going to John Fletcher's church-yea
if she dared to 60 to any re'igious meet
ing whatever. When she told MIN
she could not in conscience refrain
going, he grew quite outrageous, ana
swore dreadfully that If she went any
more he would cut her throat as soon
as she came home. This made her cry
nightly to the Lord to support her IN
the trying hour. She determined to go
on i'm her duty, and leave the rest TO
Him. "Last Sunday" continued the
informant, latter many struggles Win
the Devil and her own heart, she came
down ready for church. Her husband
asked her whether she was resolved to
90 thither she told him she was.
Well, then, said he, Il will not cut your
throat, but will heat the oven and
throw you into the 1t the moment you
come home.' Notwithstanding this
threat, which he enforced with many
bitter osths, she went, praying all the
way that God would strengthen her TO
suffer whatever might befall her,
While you were speaking of the three
Hebrews whom Nebuchadnezzar cast
into burning fiery furnace. she found
it all belonged to her, and God applied
every word to her Eeart. She felt her
whole soul 80 filled with His love that
she fastened home, fully determined
to give herself to whatever the Lord
pleased, nothing doubling but that He
would take her to heaven He
suffered her to be burnt to death,
or that He would in some way deliver
her, even az He did His three servants
that trusted in Him. But when she
opened the door, to her astonishment
and comfort, she found that her hus'
bands wrath had abated, and soon
had reason to believe that he was un-
der concern for the salvation OF bis
SOUL"
In a few days her husband joined
the congregation himself, and John
Fletcher adds that he now understood
why his sermon had been taken from
him.-The Watchword.
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ApplyiuS the Rule the Other Way.

A Chinnaman, says the Christian
Advocate, applied for the position of
cook in family in one of our Western
cities. The lady of the house and
most of the family were members of q
fashionable church, and they were de-
termined to look well after the charac-
ter of the servants. So, when John
Chinaman appeared at the door he was
asked
"Do you drink whiskey?"
"No," said he, II Clistian man."
"Do you play cards ?"
"No, I Clistian man."
He was employed and gave great
satisfaction. He did his work we'll,
was honest, upright, correct and re-
apectful. After some weeks the lady
gave progressive eucher" party and
had wines at the table. John China
man was called upon to serve the party,
and did 80 with grace and acceptable
ty. But next morning he waited on
the lady and said he wished to quit
work
"Why, what is the matter9" she in
quired.
John answered:
"Clistian man I Sold you 80 before,
no heathen. No workee for Mclean
heathen ~
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Mauuers Show the Man.

American social life offers more
varied and remarkable phases than
that of any other country, because of
the chances which each citizen has OF
rising from the lowest to the highest
position, and because of the rapidity
and frequency of such changes.
A senator, for example, whose
parents had been uncultured and ig-
norant, but honest and respectable
people, and who had been himself re-
ceived in foreign courts, ate with his
knife until the day of his death, blew
his food to cool it, and embellished his
with many "Great
Scottsv'
So common is the change in social
position, that the lack of education in
gentle manners is the most embarrass-
ing difficulty which our people have
to meet. The struggle, the hard work,
the difficulties in the way OF man
who is pushing upward are more easily
met than the sharp pain OF finding
awkward, and boorish In
trivial details Of conduct, when he is
brought into ithe com panionshlp OF
those who have, from childhood, been
trained in the social graces.
A poor widow who supported her
family by doing chores in the houses
of wealthy people was surprised by
visitor lately while at dinner With
her children. -.
The table was daintily laid, and the
boys aud girls were obliged to observe
ali the forms which their mother had
seen in the houses of her employers.
"Why should they not be taught to
behave as we'll as the rich boys and
girls ?n she said, without any air Of
making an apology. "And besides,
they may be rich themselves come
day. "Who knows?"
Few poor boys in America have
mothers 30 keen sighted or 80 wise as
was this poor woman and the boys
themselves forget, in their hurry TO
acquire the money or position which
will give them distinction, the impor'
tsnce of acquiring the manners with
out which their distinction may be
made ridiculous.
A czar, or q saint, or a great poet
might travel incognito around the
world, his rank or merit undiscovered,
but man cannot eat an apple WITH
out betraying how just is his claim TO
gentle breeding.
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Kindness to.AninlRls.

Every cruelty inflicted on an anil
mails, in killing or just before death,
poisons to a greater or less extent its
meat.
Every cruelty inflicted upon a cow
poisons to greater or less extent its
milk.
Fish killed as soon as taken from the
water by q blow on the back of the
head will keep longer and be better
than those permitted to die slowly.
Birds destroy millions of flies,
moths, and harmful insects without
the birds we could not live on the
earth, and every little insect-eating
bird you may kill and every egg you
may take from its nest, means one
less bird to destroy insects.
A check-rein which will not permit
horse to put his head where he wants
to, when going up a hill, Is cruel
torture to the horse.
The multilation of q horse, by cut
ting off his tail, compels him to suffer
torture from flies and insects every
summer, as long as he lives.-Our
Dumb Animals.
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Velvet Cream.-F'rom quart of
milk take enough to mix smoothly,
four tablespoonfuls of cornstarch put
the milk over the fire In double
boiler, and when boiling stir in six
tablespoonfuls of sugar. The blended
cornstarch and four tablespoonfuls
of grated chocolate smoothly mixed
with q little of the boiling milk; stir
until smooth take from the fire and
beat With an egg bester for ten min
utes. Pour into small molds, and eat
cold with cream.
Hot water is the best thing that
can be used to heal sprain or bruise.
The wounded part should be placed in
water as hot as can be borne for fif-
teen or twenty minutes, and in all
ordinary cases the pain will gradually
disappear. Hot water applied 6y
means of cloths Is sovereign remedy
for neuralgia or pleurisy pains. For
burns or scalds apply cloths well satu-
rated with cool alum water, keeping
the injured parts covered from the
air.
A cheap and effective substitute for
putty TO stop cracks in woodwork is
made by soaking newspapers IN a
paste made by boiling pound OF Hour
in three quarts of water and adding a
teaspoonful of alum. The mixture
should be of about the same consist.
ency as putty, and should be forced
into the cracks with case knife. 1t
will harden like paper mache, and
when dry may be painted or stained
to match its su surroundings, when II
will be almost imperceptible.
With a small camel's hair brush or
q blunt match end, datnpened with
acetic acid, touch the wart several
times a day which you desire to re-
move. The callous flesh gradually
dries up and may be gently scraped OIL
with the finger nail.
Crab Apple Marmalade. Boil the
apples in kettle until soft, with just
enough to cover them. Mash, and
strain through a coarse sieve. Take
pound of apple to pound of sugar;
boil half an hour, and put into jars.
Water in which potatoes have been
boiled will cleanse delicate colored
woolen or W orsted goods. The dress
should be wet all over. Use no soap,
rinse in clear warm water and press
while still damp. This will not in
lure the most delicate colOrs.
Silverware may be kept bright and
clean by coating the articles (warmed)
with q solution Of collodion diluted
with alcohol.
To clean piano keys, use the finest
whiting.
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Many are Injured morally and spirit
ually through an excessive fondness
for company and pleasure. A certain
amount of diversion ia both right and
proper, but it should be we'll chosen,
wisely timed and moderately INDUCED
in. Recreation must have beneficial
purpose, having regard to the invigora.
tion of the body, the relief of the mind
and the good of the soul. When, then,
one finds his enjoyments interfering
with his physical, mental or moral
Improvement, timely notice is given
to him that he must either moderate
them or relinquish them. He is wise
who observes this rule both as respects
the kind and degree of his amuse-
ments.
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A. r. Presbyterian.)

When we come to test our Christi
anity we must close our eyes on thu
world and open them on our own soul.
In that important examination the
testimony of no created being will aiG
US in the least. No matter what goof
things any ore may say about Us II
will avail US nothing. Our neighbors
may, with one voice, pronounce ui
pious, our pastor may regard Us saint
all this will profit Us nothing. In fac1
it may lead US to an erroneous con
clusion-to conclude that we are what
we really are not. Gods Holy Spiri,
is the only being who can testify N
this case. "The spirit itself bearetl|
witness with our spirit that we are thd
children of God" AS to whether 81
am a Christian or not" is a question:
which can be decided only by the witt
ness that is in me, and not by the testiI
mony of persons or things without US
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IL She Charming.

Katy Darcy is the daughter of q
good-natured, well-meaning man and
8 gentle, modest woman but Katy
has suffered from the disadvantage
of hearing from friends and compan.
ions that she is charming girl, and
that charming girl is born to rule.
When she starts out in the morning
therefore, she arrays herself in bright
er colors and more gaudy ornaments
than are suitable to the street. She
casts furtive glances at young men
whom she meets, but with whom she
has no acquaintance, or tries with bel
eyes to express her admiration of the
taste of well.dressed ladies who pass
by. The girl is innocent of willfu
wrong-doing. She is not even flirting
Intentionally; but she is trying hel
power. If she is charming, must she
not charm?
But If you will watch her through
the day you will discover that she
"draws'the line" There are people
evidently, whom she makes no effort
to charm. Perhaps she thinks they
should be grateful to her for accepting
their favors.
She enters a street car with one OF
two companions. They hold on Dy
the straps, swinging to and fro, gig,
Cling, and obstrusive In manner anio
con Versation. An old man rises with
a bow to Katy, aud offers her his seat.
She fiumps down into his place with
out word of thanks.
Or, she Is going on the railway to
suburban town. She arrives at the
station late, crowds through the line OF
quiet, waiting passengers, marching
straight on, her head erect. casting
supercillious glances at the "common
people" around her. All plain dress.
ed men and women whom she does not
know are pariahs to this young Ameri'
can aristocrat.
Once through the gate, she hurries
into a car, All one seat before her with
her bag and shawl and dog, while she
reads a novel or nibbles candy In the
Aeat that is opposite. If any other
passen ger attempts to take one of the
seats for which she had not paid, che
glares at him as If he were doing an
impertinent act.
She speaks to traIespeople, servants
or officials, imperatively and with
rudeness, to snow what she thinks Is
her superiority to all working people.
She is happy in the belief that she
bears herself like q charming young
woman, while in fact she has only
been noticed as an extremely vulgar,
underbred girl.
Such girls may be seen in the city
shops, or in the street or steam-cars.
Foreigners sometimes call her the
typical American girl.
Can nothing be done to reform herr
There Is good material in her. Az
Matthew Arnold said Of American
buckwheat cakes, they are really not
half 30 unpleasant as they look"
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Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1894.
The Donkey and the Commandments

The Donkey and the COMMANDMENTS
Extracted. with additions, from Remarks
on the Mistakes of Noses" by b.. l.. Hastings
The London costermongers told
Lord Shaftesbury that their donkeys
which rested one day in seven could
travel thirty miles q day with their
loads, while those donkeys that work
ed seven days in q week could only
travel fifteen miles a day. So you
lose seventy-five miles travel each
week by working your donkey every
day, and have q sick, seedy-looking
donkey in the bargain; while you
gain $500 miles of travel in year,
and have q sleek, nice-looklng donkey,
by running him according to the Ten
Commandments.
"What has donkey to do with the
Ten Commandments" Why. don't
you remember it says, ''The seventh
day Is the Sabbath of the Lord thy
God in it thou shalt not doany work.
thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid
servant, nor thine OK, nor thine ass, ~
there's your donkey-'nor any OF thy
cattle, nor thy stranger that is within
thy gates ?" Deut. 5: IA.
He who made both both man and
donkey knew what was good for them,
and so put both man and the donkey
into the commandments. Infidelity
doesn't know enough to run donkey
without killing it; and as for man, In
Paris, where there is no Sabbath,
there are more suicides in proportion
to the population than in any city in
Christendom.
He who gives his mind no rest,
brings up in the mad-house or in the
grave. He who gives his body no re-
pose, breaks down beneath the strain,
and dies. And q man who habitually
over-works, at last comes down with
q typhoid fever, and that fever runs
seven, fourteen, twenty-One, or twenty
eight days, changing every seventh
day, as do other disarses (which result
from physical exhaustion. Why is
this? 1t is because man Is built on
that plan. His pulse changes every
seventh day. He needs q weekly rest
as much as an eight-day clock needs a
weekly winding. He who neglects
his weekly rest lays the foundation
for physical and mental disaster. Man
can not escape the rule of, universal
law, nor the eye Of the one Lawgiver.
This law of seyens Is inwrought in our
very nature, and holds us in health
and sickness, from ufe's earliest origin
to its end. Neither Jew nor Chris
tian, sceptic nor heather, can escape
its power. And when worn-out
nature frantically struggles to bring
man back to health again; he must
come around upon the seventh-day
or he dies. Men may scoff at Sab
baths, and mock at Moses but neith-
er doctors nor infidels can make a
typhoid fever turn except on the
seventh day. Was Moses mistaken
when he prescribed rest day so In &C
c0rdance with universal law? Why
has Israel outlived other nations?
Why do Jews live third longer than
than Gentiles? Why Is the annual
Jewish death rate in America, seven
per thousand, only half the usual rate
of the country at large?
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II never forget" says "Rusticus,, 3
scene which I witnessed in my boy
hood. A Young man In our own town
had been tried for murder and condemn
ed to die. He had been slut up for
weeks In the condemned cell, with
manacles upon his anckles and wrlsts.
The govener pardoned him.
II stood with with some OF my
schoolmates near the door OF the jail
when be was brought out, the letter.
having been taken from his limbs. Az
soon as he reached the threshold ana
the taller said, you are free ne
sprang out into the bright sunshine
with the bound of a hunted deer.
He shouted at the top Of his voice.
He could not walk, but ran home cry
ing, i am free! lam free!"
And if the breaking of the prisoners
fetters gives such Joy, whatJo snSuM
there be to one who is delivered from
the bondage of sin who has bore the
charm Of passion and habit and appe,
tite; who has struggled, and toiIed ana
fallen again and again but who at last
has been made free?
Thanks be to God for the multitude
who have proved this joy! They have
gone through dark ness and sorrow,
through tears and trial, but at last
they have been made free the suare ID
broken, and they have escaped; the
chains are sundered, and the soul Ii
unfettered 4; and now, instead or the
fearful looking for of judgment and
fiery indignation, there are before them
the light and hope and joy immortal
in the kingdom Of God.
And to every soul that is today
bound in Satan's letters this glorious
liberty is offered. The Savior came In
to this world to proclaim liberty to the
captives and the opening Of prison
doors 10 them that are bound.
"He breaks the power OF cancelled sin,
He sets the prisoner free;
HIS blood can make the vilsst clean;
His blood availed for me-"
And you who have been made free
in Christ, have you not thought for
those who are still In bondage? II
you have been delivered, can you not
help deliver others? Can yOn not lif6
up your voice and proclaim deliverance
TO the captives and the opening OF prt-
son doors to them that are bound? He
who set you free waits 10 deliver them.
He who broke the chains 0f sin and
death which bound you waits to break
others chains and to bring them forth
into the light and sunshine of His pre-
sence aud His joy.
"When Jesus has found you, tell others the
story
That this loving Saviour is your Saviour,
toO."
And let your joyous testimony con.
cerning the liberty wherewitb Christ
has made you free sound In the ears
of the slaves of. sin and death like the
music of golden bells or the glad peais
of jubilee trumpets proclaimtng free
dom to all who sit in darkness, aud
leading them to know the truth, that
the truth may make them fre.-H. l..
Hastings.
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Excluded.

"Why did you and the little Brown
girls 90 off by yourselves this MORN
Inc. and leave Susie Smith crying on
the corner ?" asked q young girl OF
her little sister sharply the other day.
"She wanted to 60 with you, and was
almost heart-broken when you laugh
ed at her and wouldn't let her come.
She leaned her head against the fence
post and sobbed for nearly half an
hour after you were out of sight.
What made you treat her 80? what
had she done?"
"She hadn't done anything" an
swered the little sister half-sulkily half
apologetically, "only we had a secret.
and she wasn't in It, and we didn't
want her tagging around.
"Tapging round !" echoed the elder,
hotly. II should like to know what
harm 1t would do If she did tag you
round. poor child I don't believe
YOUR precious secret was anything she
couldn't have known just as we'll as
the Brown children. Something about
that Christmas fair, suppose. 1t was
cruel to shut poor little Susie out OF
the good time, and make her mis-
cradle.
A silence followed this reproof,
broken by the girls mother speak
ing from the next room to ask how
the new Charade Club was coming on,
and who had been elected at the last
meeting. The answers to these ques-
tions turned the conversation In an
other direction, and the elder girl
chatted gaily about the new scheme
for some minutes before her mother
asked If the Jones sisters had been
invited tojoin.
1.-THE Jones girls: Why, no. No
BODY knows them very well, and there
are enough without them"
"But perhaps they would like to
belong"
"I dare say they would and they're
pleasant enough, and well.bred and
clever and all that sort of thing, but
they never have been exactly IN our
set, and the Club Is little bit exciu-
sive; they really have no claim to be
asked. It isn't ever very easy to ex-
plain that sort of thing, but you
understand, don't you, mother? You
see how it ?" :,
II see exactly how 1t is," was the
quiet reply. "They haven't done
anything to deserve exclusion, and
particularly fitted to belong; but you
have a club, and they shan't be in it
and you don't want them tagging
round. It is perfectly safe, my dear !;
they are too old to enlist sympathy by
crying on the corner.
Big sister and little sister exchang-
ed startled glances, and the elder
opened her mouth to speak, but chang
ed her mind and shut it again in
silence; but little Susie Smith was
initiated into the Christmas secret
next day, and before the month was
out the Jones girls were elected to the
too-exclusive Charade club, at the sug-
gestion of that member who had been
assisted to imagine their feelings by the
sight of Susie's tears bedewing the
front fence.