Earlier text: Life and HealthCanada’s Educational Controversy
The educational controversy in Canada is becoming intensified, the charge being now made that Premier Laurier has been led in the matter by Rome. An Ottawa dispatch says:— A profound impression has been produced by the discovery that Mgr. Sbaretti, the delegate of the pope in Canada, has decided the policy of the government on the school question in the Northwest. It is asserted by opponents of the government that Sir Wilfrid Laurier has negotiated with the representative of his holiness with respect to this matter. The details of the school policy were submitted to, and were accepted by, Mgr. Sbaretti before Parliament was allowed to know what they were. The subsequent changes, it is asserted, were effected after consultations between Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the representatives of the pope. . . . The ministerialists strenuously deny that the representative of the Vatican has had a hand in shaping their policy. Still the opposition assert with equal force that they are in a position to establish the charge made. The papal delegate, it is said, insisted that separate schools for Catholics should be maintained by the government in the two new provinces now being created by Parliament, as is done in Quebec; and the proposition of the government to establish such a system in the Protestant Northwest started the controversy which has since been agitating Canada. It is a part of Rome's plan to strengthen her hold on that country. The Hebrew Sabbath Recognized in Ohio
THE Northwestern Christian Advocate of March 22 notes that at Columbus, Ohio, recently, an Ohio court for the first time recognized the Hebrew sabbath as within the meaning of the statute relating to Sunday observance. The Advocate says:— Samuel Rosen, an orthodox Jew, was arrested and fined in police court for keeping his place of business open on Sunday. The case was appealed to the common pleas court, Rosen claiming he had observed the Hebrew sabbath, from starlight on Friday evening to starlight on Saturday evening, and, therefore, was within the law. The court upheld his contention, and reversed the verdict in the police court. This raises a new issue. The law creates Sunday as a legal sabbath, so that every one may be protected in securing his one day of rest in seven. If the Sunday sabbath is generally broken down, the day of rest will go with it. The Sunday law of Ohio, like that in many other States, contains an exemption clause for observers of the seventh day; but this fact did not seem to weigh in the police court, and the recognition of it by the higher court as a valid defense for one who fails to keep Sunday, is considered by this prominent Methodist journal as raising a new issue, and as tending to break down the Sunday sabbath. This shows the uncertainty of exemption clauses as a defense against those who would overlook or override them in their zeal for the sabbath of state law. IN a scheme of “practical church federation,” which has for some time been in force in Maine under the direction of the Interdenominational Commission of that State, are the following agreements, among others, by which federation is carried into effect:— No community, in which any denomination has any legitimate claim, should be entered by any other denomination through its official agencies without conference with the denomination or denominations having said claims. In case one denomination begins gospel work in a destitute community, it should be left to develop that work without other denominational interference. No one will deny the benefit to a community of the elimination of denominational discord and rivalry, and the union of religious forces to advance the work of the church; but how much opportunity does such a plan of federation leave for the proclamation of a new message of divine truth, outside of the work of the older and more popular denominations? How far could the proclamation of the third angel’s message go under an agreement by which its adherents would be shut out from any place in which another denomination had previously become established? It will be seen that this federation of the churches makes no provision at all for such a work as believers in the great reform message of present truth are carrying forward in the earth. Its whole power will be in opposition to such an enterprise. This scheme of church federation is outlined by Professor Anthony, of Cobb Divinity School, in a leading New York journal, the editor of which says that its “success in Maine is an encouragement to the meeting in this city [New York] next November of an inter-church conference for a national federation.” The Work for This Time
By Ellen G. White
I HAVE a message to bear to our people. For weeks I have not been able to sleep for more than a few hours each night. I am thinking, praying, and planning for the work in Washington. Shall the work at the capital of our nation be hindered for lack of funds? Shall the number of laborers be limited to a very few, when many should be improving the present opportunity to call the attention of the people to the truth for this time? I pray that those of our people who have means to spare will at this time place it in the Lord’s treasury, that his purpose for the advancement of his cause may be carried out. This is the Lord’s opportune time for the working of Washington and the surrounding suburbs. Night after night I am standing before the people, bearing a very positive testimony, and pleading with them to be wide-awake, and to take up the work of circulating our literature. I have seen men and women agitated in regard to present truth, and in need of some one to lead them into clearer light. Night after night I am urging our people to awake from their spiritual slumber, and do their utmost to help in this great crisis in the work in Washington. God is looking down from his throne, and is sending his angels to this earth to co-operate with those who are teaching the truth. Read the record of the experience of Philip and the eunuch. “The angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. ‘And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. “Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. “The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth; in his humiliation his judgment was taken away; and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. “And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, Of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. “And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water; and the eunuch saith, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip saith, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. “And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. “But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cæsarea.” This incident shows the care that the Lord has over every mind that is susceptible to the truth. We see how closely the ministration of heavenly angels is connected with the work of the Lord’s servants on this earth. A burden was placed upon Philip to enter new places, to break up fresh ground. Direction was given him by an angel who was watching for every opportunity to bring men into connection with their fellow men. Philip was sent “toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.” This brought him into touch with a man of wide influence, who, when converted, would communicate to others the light of truth. By the Lord’s working through Philip, the man was convinced of the truth, was converted and baptized. He was a highway hearer, a man of good standing, who would exert a strong influence in favor of the truth. To-day, as then, angels of heaven are waiting to lead men to their fellow men. An angel showed Philip where to find this man, who was so ready to receive the truth, and to-day angels of God will guide and direct the footsteps of those workers who will allow the Holy Spirit to sanctify their tongues and refine and ennoble their hearts. There is no place in America of greater importance than Washington. The recent developments in that place show that our brethren moved there none too soon. Angels of heaven directed their course in planting the standard of truth in Washington. Men of influence are being aroused to study the truth for this time. No opportunity should be left unimproved to establish the work firmly in this important place. And our efforts are not to stop there. In many cities the truth has not yet been proclaimed. Workers are to come to the front; men and women who are wise in reaching human minds are to be set at work in every place where there is an opening. Every one who is interested is to be judiciously labored for. The men in high places are to hear the message of truth. Angels of heaven will unite with the Lord’s appointed ministers and medical missionaries, aiding them to exert on the minds of the people an influence in favor of the truth. Philadelphia and other important places should be worked. Evangelists should be finding their way into all the places where the minds of men are agitated over the question of Sunday legislation and of the teaching of religion in the public schools. It is the neglect of Seventh-day Adventists to improve these providential opportunities to present the truth that burdens my heart, and keeps me awake night after night. Instruction has been given me that there is a withholding of the tithe that should be faithfully brought into the Lord’s treasury, for the support of the ministers and missionaries who are opening the Scriptures to the people, and working from house to house. These workers are to do their best, as the Lord’s light-bearers. As they walk humbly with God, angels of heaven will co-operate with them, making impressions on minds. In the past angels of God have stood beside his messengers, as they have raised the standard bearing the inscription, “The Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus.” The ministers and evangelists who are laboring in the Lord’s vineyard, must be supported. We may have a part in the work by bringing to the storehouse means for the sustenance of the Lord’s chosen ones. In the place of complaining of the officers of the General Conference because they can not respond to the multiplied calls for men and means, let our church-members bear a living testimony9 to the power of the truth by denying self, and giving liberally for the advancement of the work. Let our sisters save by refusing to put expensive trimmings on their garments. Let every unnecessary expense be cut down. Let every family bring their tithes and offerings to the Lord. Most earnest work is now to be done in proclaiming the message of present truth. Every voice is now to harmonize; every believer is to unite in urging obedience to the law proclaimed from Sinai. Let us unite with the angels of heaven in presenting to our people in every place the necessity of paying a faithful tithe and of bringing to the Lord liberal gifts and offerings. Never was there a more important time in the history of our work than at present. The message in the third chapter of Malachi comes to us, holding up before us the need of honesty in our relations to the Lord and his work. My brethren, the money that you use to buy and sell and get gain will be a curse to you if you withhold from the Lord that which is his. The means entrusted to you by the Lord for the advancement of his work should be used in sending the gospel to all parts of our world. The curse of God will surely come upon those who rob him in tithes and offerings. “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.” Shall we not, as a people, come up to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty? Shall we not with humble hearts confess our sins of neglect? Shall we not return unto the Lord his own? Then he will impart his goods to those who are faithful, that they may do still more for the advancement of his work. Thousands upon thousands are perishing in sin, and a lack of means is hindering the proclamation of the truth that is to be carried to all nations, and kindreds, and tongues, and peoples. There are men ready to go forth as the Lord’s messengers, but because of a lack of means in the treasury they can not be sent to the places where people are begging for some one to come and teach them the truth. Our heaviest burden at the present time is for the work in Washington. Angels of God are co-operating with those who are lifting the standard of God’s holy law in this important place. Will you help these faithful workers? Will you send in the means needed in order for the necessary buildings to be erected? Let the members of every church now do all in their power to raise the fund necessary for the completion of the buildings that are so much needed in Washington. The work must be quickly established at the capital of our nation. Will you not, my brethren and sisters, see that the necessary means are supplied for the accomplishment of this work? St. Helena, Cal., March 28, 1905. To-day and To-morrow
By William Brickey
“Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.”
Prov. 27:1. O BOAST not thyself of to-morrow;
Thou knowest not what it may bring:
Thy heart it may burden with sorrow,
Thy soul be unable to sing.
To-day, it is thine to win laurels
By battle with wrong for the right;
To-morrow may end all your quarrels
By turning your day into night. But fret not thyself for to-morrow,
The future will care for itself;
Much trouble is easy to borrow,
More easily borrowed than pelf.
To-day, it is yours, with its burden;
You can not escape what is here:
To-morrow may bring you the guerdon;
Your troubles may all disappear. Then fret not nor boast for to-morrow,
What good or what ill may betide;
If time bring you pleasure or sorrow,
Remember the Lord will provide.
The hairs of your head he has numbered,
He feedeth the fowls of the air;
Then why should your thoughts be encumbered
With doubts of his fatherly care? Present Tokens
By Stephen N. Haskell
“WATCHMAN, what of the night?” is the question asked by the Lord. “The Lord himself gave the answer, “The morning cometh, and also the night.” It is well for the church to ask the same question to-day. There is light for the church that would not be appreciated by those who are not governed by the principles that govern the church. It is a fact that for more than fifty years we have stood before the world as a separate people, looking for the second coming of Christ. There are certain events that cluster around his second coming that to us are tokens of that event, which others do not appreciate. About forty-five years ago, at a tent-meeting held in Lancaster, Mass., before any organization had been effected in the East, the Spirit of the Lord gave us light respecting certain things that would take place near the end. I was present at the meeting. The brethren were in trial because certain ones felt it duty to move West. So the matter was talked over. And the light given was that the Lord was moving on certain ones to move West. After the truth had gone West in the closing work, God would move on the minds of the brethren to come East, and at that time the work would go with power. It would be after organization was effected; for at that time we were unorganized. Now what have we seen? The truth has gone West, even to the islands of the sea and Australia. It has returned to the eastern portion of the United States, even at the head of the government. Shall we say it has not come with power? The judgment alone will reveal what has been accomplished recently in the city of Washington, in staying the making of an image to the beast. The States have Sunday laws, and all that is necessary to give them force is for the nation to make a law, and then the dragon will speak with authority. Who can not see the providence of the Lord in this? and also see that we are in the closing work of the message? Again: we have looked forward to the time when nearly entire churches would embrace the truth, when the sick would be healed, when God would work wonders in behalf of present truth, when his providence would be over his work in a wonderful manner. Could our eyes be opened to all parts of the world at one glance, and see as God sees, there is not a phase of present truth that we have expected to see in the closing work, but in some portions of the world it is being fulfilled at the present hour. Simply because we do not see in our immediate neighborhood all these evidences is no sign that they do not exist. God has not said that everything he has spoken in regard to the closing of the gospel would be fulfilled in every particular in each locality. The Lord has a larger work on hand than to prepare some single township for the coming of the Son of man. The world is to be prepared, and surely we are in the day of his preparation, even in the time when the nations are angry, for his wrath is come; and soon, very soon, we shall see there has not a word failed of all he has spoken concerning his work. The loud cry will come and pass, and probation will end, while the world is going on the same as in the past. And I fear that many, yes, very many, of our people will be dreaming over what they expect to see in the loud cry, and will not awaken until probation has closed. The openings and methods of labor have so increased that none can say, There is no opportunity for me. There is a place for every one, there are openings of various kinds, and it is only the narrow mind that thinks, because everything is not done in some one particular way, it can not be of the Lord. The Lord has set his hand to the work, and it will be accomplished. To every man the Lord has given his work. The important question with us is, Are we doing the work the Lord has appointed to us? The old ship Zion will enter harbor on time. Everything is working toward this one grand end. God will raise up laborers, and devise agencies that we little dream of to accomplish his purpose in the world. Nothing can be done against the truth, but for its advancement. It is the overruling providence of God that is so shaping matters that before we are aware of it, the work will be finished. May the Lord help us to realize the time in which we live, and to prepare for that glad day; for the morning cometh, and also the night of death and darkness to a sinful world. The Old Testament creed setting forth the triple requirement which God makes, puts first what too many Christians require last: “What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly?” Let that requirement be held in its right place, and our labor problems would be in a fair way of adjustment. We have just heard of a man, now in an honorable position and a working Christian, who says he was for years alienated from Christianity because his employer refused him an unquestionably just increase10 in wages, and the same day doubled his subscription to a benevolent society. We have heard employers ridicule Christianity because Christian employees did their work in a slovenly way, broke their agreements, and showed no interest in their tasks except to get the greatest pay for the least service. Each one who does his best to fulfil this threefold requirement, putting just dealing first, where it belongs, is doing much to solve labor problems—more, perhaps, than many who propose solutions on platforms and in the press.—Congregationalist. A Kind Spirit
By Wm. Covert
ONE object of life is to give happiness. It is not all of self, for much we owe to others. Duty demands kind speeches and pleasant actions toward our neighbors. We benefit the church and society by imparting joy and cultivating agreeableness. Sweet words are always acceptable, and he who uses them is in every proper place an honored and welcome guest. A kind spirit does not deal in scandal, nor encourage gossip. “Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth. As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.” “Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me.” “Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.” “He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.” “A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” “The tongue of the just is as choice silver.” “The lips of the righteous feed many.” “The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom.” Let us be in our spirits as the full-blown azalea, whose blossoms make a brilliant canopy over the whole plant, and hide every defect in foliage and stem. It would seem that this little umbrella of living beauty had been advised by Prov. 15:13, which says, “A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.” Should we not in spirit be like the summer rose, and from our lives send forth a fragrance that is sweeter than the odor of incense? Can we not smother our evil thoughts before they have fruited, and drown our evil words before they are uttered, and learn to live for the betterment of the church and the world? Securing an Interest and Co-operation in the Regions Beyond
By W. J. Stone
I HAVE been thinking about missions, and how we can best interest the rank and file of our people, and arouse in them a special interest in our work in the regions beyond, so that a constant stream will be flowing to enlarge our borders and extend the work. As I have thought upon this question, and as I have talked about it to our people, I have been fully convinced that the best way of accomplishing this result is to educate our brethren and sisters so that they shall be conversant with the different mission fields and what is being accomplished. Our brethren are liberal, and they desire to invest money where the greatest amount of good can be accomplished; and when they become acquainted with the fact that ten times as much is being accomplished with the same expenditure of means in our missionary fields as is being accomplished in our home fields, money will be forthcoming with which to carry this glorious message to the ends of the world more rapidly. But to secure these results we must interest our people, and they must become acquainted with the fields. How can this better be done than by the officers in all our conferences? Let a special effort be made by these laborers to establish in every church in the land the custom of making the second Sabbath in each month a special “missionary day.” Have a regular program, and the reading prepared for that day, and instead of one person’s reading the whole address, divide it, and have three or four persons read. It will not be so monotonous; and if each person will give his part of the reading some thought, and study the field, he may make the reading of special interest. Have a map, and point out the country where the missionaries are laboring, and in this way a deep interest may be awakened. Why not establish in all our churches a second Sabbath missionary day, and not divert it to any other use? If a minister is present on missionary day, instead of his occupying all the time, have him take part in the missionary meeting, and help to awaken a deep interest in the proclamation of the message in distant lands. Our message is to all the world, and it is to be proclaimed in this generation. Then, is it too much to devote one day each month, or twelve days during the year, to a special study of the field, and the work that is being carried forward in all parts of the world? If five missionary meetings of this kind can be conducted in all our churches throughout the world once a month, in a short time they will be the most interesting services held, and will be looked forward to with interest by all; and then, constantly keep the need of the weekly offerings before our people to supply laborers for all these fields, and the stream will increase until there will be no lack of funds to carry this gospel of the kingdom to all the world. Another means of enlisting the interest and sympathy of all our brethren and sisters in the spread of the gospel to all nations, will be the sending of laborers from all the different conferences to these distant lands, to be supported directly from the funds of the conferences. Then when a laborer sends his report, and it is read on missionary day, a special interest will be taken in that field because of our direct connection with that laborer. My soul is stirred as I consider the importance of this work, and as I have presented these things to our people in our own field, and have seen the interest taken and the willingness to co-operate in the work by adopting the plan of weekly offerings, I have been fully convinced that the greatest need, as we endeavor to increase our offerings, is to make all our people familiar with the fields and the work that is being done. There must be something behind the giving, in order to keep up this constant supply, and what can do this more effectually than a growing knowledge of the field and its prosperity and needs? I am sure that much has been lost, and that we as laborers are largely responsible for the depleted condition of the treasury, and for the fact that fields must wait and wait, year after year, for the message, because the situation has not been kept constantly before our people, and they have not been familiar with all the needs. May the Lord help us to see the situation as it is, and realize that the demand of the hour is, not to spend the bulk of our means in our own conferences, but to assist in sending this message to the millions who are perishing in distant lands. Love
By Christina G. Rossetti
WHAT is the beginning?—Love. What
the course?—Love still.
What the goal?—The goal is Love on
the happy hill.
Is there nothing then but Love, search
we sky or earth?
There is nothing out of Love hath perpetual worth;
All things flag but only Love, all things fail or flee;
There is nothing left but Love worthy
you and me.
—Christina G. Rossetti. An Appeal
By B. K. SIMPSON
THE Lord has impressed it upon my heart that we should be more faithful in paying our tithes and offerings. I firmly believe that if all our people, beginning with May 1, would carry out the instruction given in Mal. 3:10 for three months, it would bring the latter rain and the soon coming of our Saviour. In accepting this promise I understand that it means a complete surrender of ourselves and all we have for service. Let us prove our God, and receive the blessings which he has for us. My prayer is that all will be more faithful in this matter, and thereby means may be provided for sending more laborers to needy fields. Fraudulent Foods
By L. A. S.
In an article contributed to Public Opinion, Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry at Washington, makes some interesting and instructive statements on the subject of “Fraud in Food Manufacture.” Dr. Wiley has given special attention for years to the work of discovering and testing adulterants in foods, and securing legislation for their elimination, and speaks on the subject with undisputed authority. Among commonly used food adulterants which are injurious to health, Dr. Wiley mentions artificial coloring substances, such as sulphate of copper, which is used “to preserve and intensify the natural green color of beans, peas, and other vegetables.” That this substance “is poisonous in not very large doses,” says Dr. Wiley, “is beyond dispute.” Many of these substances are known by the manufacturer to be harmful, but the latter excuses himself on the ground that he uses proportionally only a very small quantity. On this point Dr. Wiley says:— “There can be no excuse, it seems to me, to justify the use of a harmful article even in small quantities. . . . Many of the most violent poisons and also the drugs which are used to heal disease may be taken in minute quantities without producing death or disease. And yet this does not in any wise justify their indiscriminate use in food products.” The individual manufacturer who uses a minute quantity of poison in his goods, “forgets,” says Dr. Wiley, “that there are a hundred other manufacturers using many different kinds of injurious substances, and all excusing themselves for the same reason. The consumer, however, gets the benefit of all these arguments by finding in his food not one substance, but many substances acknowledged to be injurious, and yet each present only in small quantities. The total of these small quantities, however, becomes a unit which must be regarded as seriously threatening the health of the consumer.” Of the numerously advertised “pre-digested” foods, Dr. Wiley remarks that the demand for the same “can only be based upon forgetfulness of the fact that abolition of the process of digestion by the use of predigested foods must necessarily lead to weakness, atrophy, and physiological inefficiency of the organs of digestion.” There is, however, he says, a great deal of fraud in the claims made for such foods. There is very little predigestion about the most of them. “Of course,” he observes, “it is possible before the ingestion of a food to convert the starch largely or entirely into sugar, which is one of the steps of natural digestion. There seems to be, however, but little possibility of predigesting the fats or the proteids of the foods in any successful way. Far better, especially in a state of health, to trust to nature’s methods, and each one do his own chewing and his own digesting.” Dr. Wiley gives “a somewhat incomplete list of the articles commonly used as foods which are very often presented in a deceptive way.” Among those in which an imitation is often palmed off on the purchaser for the real article, he mentions “butter, honey, cane sirup, maple sirup and sugar, jams, jellies, marmalades, preserves, spices of all kinds, and olive-oil.” Among those which often contain chemical preservatives he enumerates “meat, canned vegetables, canned fruits, and catchup.” Among foods that are often artificially colored he names “butter, jams, jellies, marmalades, preserves, canned green vegetables, sausages, hams, ices, candies, and cakes.” There can be no doubt that a considerable degree of caution in the use of the prepared foods here enumerated is essential to the preservation of health, to say nothing of guarding against imposition. Dr. Wiley’s statements constitute a good argument in favor of a diet of foods which are prepared in one’s own home. A Song of the Hills
By Clinton Scollard
The green hills, the clean hills, without a stain upon them,
When little vernal whispers breathe,
and woodsy attars pass—
When all the glory of the spring's rekindled life is on them,
The beauty of the bourgeoned boughs, the glamour of the grass! The fair hills, the rare hills, what sight hath blither seeming
Than they reveal when summertide sets seal upon the earth!
The meads below them gleaming, the sky above them dreaming,
And not a tune save those that throb with melody and mirth! The old hills, the gold hills, with orient autumn o'er them—
The autumn with her wonder-loom whereto she turns her hand,
And, lo, straightway upon them and about them and before them
A web no mortal skill may match, not e'en in Samarcand! The white hills, the bright hills, with winter skies above them,
The north wind roaring round their crests—how sagalike its song!
Although the wild storm compass them,
O heart o' mine, we love them—
The cold hills, the calm hills, the stanch hills, the strong! The glad hills, the sad hills—how joy and sorrow blended
Engirdle evermore the paths where boyhood's feet have clomb!
Ah, how affection clings to them, and will till life is ended,
The grand hills, the free hills, the dear hills of home! — Clinton Scollard, in Housekeeper. Canning Sweet Corn
By L. K. MORGAN
I HAVE just taken dinner with Brother and Sister ——, members of our little company of Sabbath-keepers of Morrow, Ohio, where meetings were held last fall. Home-canned corn was provided on the menu, which was so much better than the ordinary canned corn that I procured the recipe, and now write it for the benefit of all who are preparing gardens. A good time to get ready for corn canning is at the time of planting. In this part of Ohio, where so much corn is put up for market, the factories always try to provide fresh corn each day. First, have your (glass or tin) cans thoroughly scalded and cleaned. Second, fill them with the raw corn cut from the cob, and press into can with spoon or other utensil (not by hand) until completely full. The fresher the corn, the better it will be. Third, screw down the cover loosely with thumb and finger, that the air may be permitted to escape while the corn is cooking. Fourth, provide a boiler with a false bottom, which may be done by using the grate from the oven or some pieces of wood. This will remove the glass from the direct heat of the fire. Fifth, set the cans of corn in the boiler on the false bottom, and fill with cold water to bulge or neck of jar. Place on stove, and boil from two to four hours, keeping the boiling water up to neck of jar. The time of boiling for one-half gallon glass jars is four hours; one quart glass, three hours; one pint glass, two hours. Sixth, remove from stove, and as soon as cans can be handled, tighten down covers and place to cool. Keep in a cool, dark place, the same as other canned goods. In using tin cans solder the little lid on, leaving open the small punch hole while the corn is boiling. After removing from the boiler solder the small hole. High temperature is essential, therefore keep the lid on the boiler while cooking. Food’s Effect on the Eater
JUDGE a food not by the label put on it, but by the label it puts on the eater.