Earlier text: The Perpetuity of God’s LawTemperance in the Kitchen.
By Julia Colman
THE kitchen is very often a stronghold of the drink habit in this country, from the fact that a great many of our inherited and imported recipes give flavorings of wine or brandy, to say nothing of gin, rum, and whisky. These are often carelessly copied, even by our religious papers, and as carelessly practiced by religious people. If they have their attention called to the matter, they may say that the heat drives away the alcohol, and nothing but the taste remains, never seeming to think of the absurdity of supposing we could taste the stuff if it were not there. But this taste itself is the very thing to be feared, whether it creates in children a familiarity with the liquor used, and thus makes them in after years an easy prey to the drink habit, or whether it re-awakens in the reformed man the appetite which has done him so much mischief, and which has been with so much difficulty subdued. A pleasing instance where this was happily avoided was lately related by Mrs. Dr. Stephen Smith at a meeting in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, as follows:— "A guest, in whose welfare we were deeply interested, one day expressed to me a lively satisfaction because the mince-pie served at dinner had contained no trace of alcohol. He had feared the ordeal, for if it had tasted of brandy he would not have been able to control the awakened appetite. I had no suspicion that he had ever been addicted to drink, but he informed me that only a few years previous he had been its bond slave, and that he was obliged to watch continually against anything containing the poison. I was so thankful that my temperance principles had saved me from putting a 'stone of stumbling' in a brother's way that I determined to be more earnest than ever in calling attention to this matter; and I should be glad to get recipes recommended by any really good cook for the preparation, on a temperance basis, of various dishes which usually contain some kind of alcoholics."—Julia Colman. THOSE who have read that capital book, "Tom Brown at Rugby," will remember Tom's bravery when he kneeled down in the dormitory and said his prayers in the presence of the other boys. The Youth's Companion mentions a similar incident which occurred in a school near Boston. Two strangers who were assigned a room together spent the first day pleasantly in arranging their new quarters. When night came the younger boy modestly asked the other if he did not think it a good plan to close the day with reading the Bible and a prayer. His companion bluntly objected. Said the other, "I suppose you don't care if I pray by myself?" The older one retorted, "I don't want any praying in this room and I won't have it!" His mate rose slowly, walked to the middle of the room, and standing on a seam in the carpet, quietly remarked, "Half of this room is mine. I pay for it. You choose your half and I will take the other and pray in it, or get another room." The older boy was completely conquered by the true manliness which claimed as a right what had been boorishly denied as a privilege.—Sel. One Face to the World
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
No MAN for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.—Hawthorne. New Zealand’s Public Expenditures
Out of £86,000,000 borrowed by New Zealand she has spent £56,000,000 on railways, £20,000,000 on public works, and nearly £10,000,000 on immigration. Healthful but Not Social.
By Milton Bradley
THE bicycle has doubtless become one of the greatest promoters of healthy outdoor exercise among our young men, as well as some of the older ones—but there is necessarily nothing social in it; in fact it is the most selfish conception possible. Think of a family man buying a bicycle and starting off to ride while the wife and children are left at home on the veranda to admire the grace and ease with which their lord and master wheels off to get exhilarating whiffs of fresh country air. The economical young man mounts his wheel on a fine afternoon and whirls off to the residence of his lady love, leans his steed against the front fence and spends the summer evening on the piazza, while the young lady is no doubt thinking of her possibly old-fashioned, but more fortunate companion who has gone out on the road behind a good trotter, to breathe the refreshing evening air. The one wheel is far more economical in every way and its enthusiastic, if not fanatical admirers no doubt get much good from it, but in an article on social recreations they cannot hope for high praise for their favorite machine; it certainly is not a family invention. When Mr. Edison will invent a motor which may be hung beneath the seat of a social tricycle, with a small seat behind for the children, and by which the whole load may whirl off to the country without the danger of a runaway at the first railroad crossing, or the necessity for grooming and feeding on the return, then the family may sing the praises of the 'cycle.'—Milton Bradley, in Good Housekeeping. What Sort?
By Christian Neighbor
WHAT sort of morality is that which satisfies a man in the non-payment of a debt as long as his creditor refrains from "dunning"? What sort of morality is that which satisfies itself in the non-payment of a debt because it is a small amount—a trifle? What sort of morality is that which calls the attention of the creditor to an overcharge, but is silent about an undercharge? What sort of morality is that which seeks to evade meeting his creditor lest he should be more plainly reminded of his indebtedness? What sort of morality is that which satisfies itself in the non-payment of a debt because the creditor is presumed by the debtor not to need what the debt calls for? What sort of morality is that which satisfies itself in the non-payment of a debt because of a failure in farming, or other enterprise or undertaking? What sort of morality is that which gets offended when asked to pay a debt which the debtor promised to pay long before the time of dunning? What sort of morality is that which provides for his own wife and children by defrauding the wife and children of another man, dead or alive, to whom he is justly indebted for things which have been used by the debtor's family for their own enjoyment or profit? What sort of morality is that which ignores moral obligations as to a debt, and pays only when the civil law compels? What sort of morality is that which lightens the obligation to pay a just debt in proportion to the length of time since it was contracted? In short, what sort of morality is that which disregards the command, "Thou shalt not steal"? —It is reported from China that Princess Kung has been converted to Christianity. —A year ago a Miss Caldwell gave $300,000 toward founding a great Catholic university in this country. This sum has been increased to about $5,000,000, and it has been decided to locate the university in Washington, D. C. —The Methodist Church in Great Britain has 3,787 ministers, 35,961 local preachers, 16,834 chapels, and 768,624 members. In the last thirty years the increase of membership has more than kept pace with the increase of population. —The American Church Congress will meet in New Haven, October 20, and continue its session four days. It will be the greatest gathering of the kind ever held in the United States. Canon Farrar has signified his intention of being present, as have also several other prominent English divines. —The Churchman tells of an Episcopal missionary in North Carolina, who has charge of six missions, and who receives the magnificent sum of $257 per year, with which to pay his traveling expenses and support a wife and five children. The same church has men who receive their tens of thousands. —The Russian Government has issued a decree making the Greek Church the established religion of the Baltic provinces. Protestantism will only be tolerated. Children born of mixed marriages are to be trained in the Greek Church. The decree excites great discontent among the German settlers. —The Catholic Church in St. Louis boldly lays aside its mask and begins a war on free education. St. Patrick's Parish, one of the largest and wealthiest in the city, announces that children attending public schools will hereafter be barred from the celebration of the holy communion. The vicar-general supports the parish priests.—Bulletin. —A Unitarian pastor in New Hampshire has discovered a way of making the communion more "spiritual" than ever before. The bread and the wine are placed upon the table, and all the congregation look at it, none of it being consumed. By this means a much larger number of people partake of the communion than formerly. Under the circumstances, it is doubtless better as it is. —The Christian Leader (Universalist) deserves credit for uttering the following truth: "A church that has not the habit of giving regularly, as a part of its religious worship, will never be noted for munificence. Here and there a man may save up all for one magnificent offering. But it is unlikely and unnatural. Of any hundred munificent givers it will be found that ninety-nine were trained in the noble art by long previous habit." —The Zouave regiment, organized by Pius IX. in 1860, recently held its 25th anniversary meeting, called by them a "jubilee." Members were present from Holland, France, Belgium, Germany, and America. The term "jubilee" shows that they have not lost hope in their cause, and their leader expressed his confidence that the day "was not far distant," when they would "fight under the old flag for the Church and the legitimate royal rule." —Those who think Moslemism is dying out, and who have never heard of the educational facilities which the Moslem schools afford, would no doubt be somewhat surprised by a visit to one of the numerous schools of the prophets, which is held in the court of the great mosque El Azbarat. The school is crowded by many thousands of students, sitting in Turkish style on the pavement, drinking in these lessons, which, as priests, sheiks, professors, they in turn will themselves proclaim to the faithful. These students come from thousands of miles up the Nile—from beyond the great deserts of Africa—from the holy cities of Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and Damascus—from Turkey, Persia, India, and China. The professors do not receive a farthing of salary, and the scholars do not pay a piaster for tuition. All are supported by the pittance they can earn elsewhere and the charities of the faithful. The students live on the coarsest of food, wear the poorest of clothing, and at night sleep on the pavement of the mosque. When the course of duty is complete, they go out as missionaries, Koran in hand, preaching the Moslem faith to the uttermost parts of the Mohammedan world. And there is not a year that does not witness to the erection of Mohammedan fanes and temples in Europe.—Christian at Work. —The public debt was decreased about $12,000,000 during September. —It is estimated that the corn crop this year will be 1,979,636,000 bushels. —The miners and cattlemen of Arizona are offering fifty dollars apiece for Apache scalps. —The death of the Earl of Shaftsbury a few days since will be lamented by all true-hearted people. —A fire broke out in the principal square at Iquique, Peru, and destroyed about $2,000,000 of property. —The flood recently at False Point, near Calcutta, wrecked many vessels and destroyed about 300 persons. —A battery of boilers in Clark & Co's. Solar Iron Works exploded October 2, injuring seventeen persons, three fatally. —Turkish brigands have captured the niece of Archbishop Verias, and another lady. They demand the sum of £3,000 for the ransom of the prisoners. —A mass of lead in an elevated furnace in Paris was completely dissipated recently by a stroke of lightning, no traces of metal being found afterward. —Another instance where one of two parties out hunting mistakes the other for an animal and shoots him, happened near Santa Rosa, Cal., the other day. —Notices have been posted about the streets of Seattle, Washington Territory, warning the firemen not to interfere should fires break out in Chinatown. —At a mass-meeting recently held in Chicago in the interest of the Irish under Parnell, 10,000 people were present and subscribed $5,000 for the object. —A flood, said to be a tidal wave, recently swept over False Point in British India, near Calcutta, destroying much property and killing about three hundred persons. —At Montreal, where the small-pox has been doing its deadly work for some time past, a riot of Sept. 28, caused by compulsory vaccination, resulted in a good deal of damage to property. —George H. Procter, a noted criminal, who is serving a sentence of ten years in the Eastern penitentiary, Pa., has confessed to having participated in robbing the Erie Railroad office at Susquehanna of $40,000. —The N. Y. Tribune has printed an interview with Ben Butler in which he says, "I have grandchildren who will live to see the Vanderbilts and Goulds taken out to the nearest lamp-post and hanged." Perhaps. —An attempt was recently made to wreck the southern bound train near Delta, Shasta Co., Cal. The would-be wrecker was arrested and sentenced within twenty-four hours thereafter, to four years in the State's prison. —A serious collision occurred Sept. 11, between the British bark Gulnare and the American ship Paramatta, while in a storm on the high seas. The captain of the Gulnare narrowly escaped being killed, but fortunately no lives were lost. —It is reported that the postmaster-general decided, September 30, to discontinue sending the U. S. mail for China, Japan, and Australia, by the way of Europe and the Suez Canal and restore it to the route via San Francisco and Australia. —At the reception given Mme. Nilsson at Stockholm recently, 40,000 people assembled. In moving away down the street, where there was a rough place in the sidewalk a panic occurred, some tumbled down and the crowd trampled them to death. Eighteen were killed and many more wounded. —Frank M. Dwight, of San Francisco, was taken sick on the 18th and died on the 19th ult. The doctors were unable to diagnose the case. After death an autopsy was held on the body, revealing the fact that death was caused by a jagged lemon seed lodged in the intestines. —The trouble in Roumelia, a province in the northeastern part of Turkey, is difficult of solution. It seems that when Aleko's term of office expired last year, England, Turkey, and Russia each put forward a candidate for governor of East Roumelia. Russia's candidate, M. Crestovitch, a Bulgarian devoted to Russian interests, was appointed. It was this governor whom the people of Roumelia "sent to the right-about" about two weeks ago. The Turks are trying to put down this disturbance, while the great powers of Europe are divided in their sympathies between the Roumelians and the Turkish Government. The Record of Life
By John B. Gough
"It is a great thing to be a young man, to have your whole life before you, and to be able to make a clean record if you will. I cannot; my record is behind, and although I would give anything to erase parts of it, it is impossible. You are all like authors, in that you are daily composing something to be inscribed in the book of your lives. But you differ from authors in that while they can revise their works, you cannot. In after life, to look back upon it will either be your greatest pleasure, or else a pain and anguish which you would give worlds to be able to throw off."—John B. Gough. CHRISTIAN men, above all others, should be consistent in their lives, and practice what they teach, and carefully avoid what they condemn. This is the way to demonstrate their sincerity, and acquire an influence for good over others. But men who preach one thing and practice another, manifest a lack of moral integrity, and not only destroy their influence for good, but exert a positive influence for evil. "Happy," says the apostle, "is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth." But how many men of fair professions and high pretensions are condemned by their own acts! This is what is cursing the church and bringing a reproach on religion; there are so many professed Christians who say, and do not; who profess, but do not perform. In consequence of this, the world is led to doubt not only their sincerity, but also the truth of the religion which they profess. Christian men should be consistent; they should let their light shine before others; they should be living epistles known and read of all men; they should demonstrate in their lives the truth and saving power of the religion that they profess. This is what is needed to make Christianity a mighty power in the world. Let men live their religion, and then they will exert a saving influence over others.—Sel. "I HAVE a little story to tell you, boys," the old doctor said to the young people the other evening. "One day—a long, hot day it had been, too—I met my father on the road into town. "I wish you could take this package to the village for me, Jim," he said, hesitating. "Now I was a boy of twelve, not fond of work, and was just out of the hay-field, where I had been at work since daybreak. I was tired, dusty, and hungry. It was two miles into town. I wanted to get my supper, and to wash and dress for singing-school. "My first impulse was to refuse, and to do it harshly, for I was vexed that he should ask me after my long day's work. If I did refuse, he would go himself. He was a gentle, patient old man. But something stopped me: one of God's good angels, I think. "Of course, father, I'll take it,' I said, heartily, giving my scythe to one of the men. He gave me the package. "'Thank you, Jim,' he said, 'I was going myself, but somehow I don't feel very strong to-day.' "He walked with me to the road that turned off to the town, and as he left put his hand on my arm, saying again, 'Thank you, my son, you've always been a good boy to me, Jim.' "I hurried into town and back again. When I came near the house I saw a crowd of the farm-hands at the door. One of them came to me, the tears rolling down his face. "'Your father!' he said. 'He fell dead just as he reached the house. The last words he spoke were to you.' "I'm an old man now, but I have thanked God over and again in all the years that have passed since that hour, that those last words were, 'You've always been a good boy to me.'" No human being ever yet was sorry for love or kindness shown to others. But there is no pang of remorse so keen as the bitterness with which we remember neglect or coldness which we have shown to loved ones who are dead. Do not begrudge loving deeds and kind words, especially to those who gather with you about the same hearth. In many families a habit of nagging, crossness, or ill-natured gibing, gradually covers the real feeling of love that lies deep beneath. And after all, it is such a little way that we can go together.—Sel. This school is located in the village of South Lancaster, Mass., on the Worcester and Nashua Railroad, about sixteen miles from Worcester and thirty from Boston. It is conducted upon the most approved method of teaching, the aim of the managers being to combine the practical with the theological in such a manner that each student in going to the school shall be prepared for some position of usefulness. Successful preachers, colporters, teachers, and canvassers have already entered the field from this school and, at the present time are laboring in at least eight of the Eastern States. 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