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AGREAT NATIONAL DEBT Wealthy Nations Should Help the Afflicted of Other Countries f A grici re, Ottawi A despatch from Chicago says: Rev. Frank De Witt Talrnage preach ed from the following text: Romans i, 14, "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians." A national debt! It is popular ly understood to be a financial obligation which a Government has pledged itself to pay. Sometimes this is contracted in the interest o" single subject. About thirty j ago the English Government ass ed a debt of over $25,000,000 to liberate a single man, Captain Cameron, who had been unjustly endun-geoned by the king of Abyssinia in the rocky fortress of Magdala. It took six months for the news of the outrage to travel to England, but in less than eleven days afterward a British army of 15,000 men. under General Napier, was on its way. It not onl.v crosised the seas, but also marched a terrible journey of 400 miles under a tropical sun, until the troops reached Magdala and battered down the fortress and rescued their incarcerated countryman. . civilized country is usually ready begin any undertaking, assume i financial responsibility, in order protect its own from the tyrannical clutches of a foreign foe. Sometimes an extra financial obligation is assumed by a government in times of peace as well as in times of war. A government ran owe tc foreign lands more than money. Such definitions as we have given are right as far as they go, but they are too circumscribed. When the Hebrew Paul wrote, "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians," I do not believe he had any idea of a financial interpretation. Referring to Greece, he was alluding to the intellectual influence of the Athenian capital, which made Itself felt throughout the world. That city swayed the scepter in the domain of intellectuality: it ruled the world of culture with the sculptor's chisel, the poet's pen and the Demosthenean oratory of a patriot rousing the people to wage war against King Philip. When Faul spoke of the barbarians, I believe he was alluding to the strength and the virility which the world had absorbed from the different provinces. "As a man of learning he was indebted to those people to whom he was about to present Jesus Christ. IN THE ASTRONOMICAL WORLD ' we find that stars generally travel in constellations, or in grcups. Thus i foreign schools and s HOW WE MAY BEST REPAY. How, then, mcement of the hum ,ugh the. i touch with other The -bo s erican manufacture. It was i the hot fires of the Covenanter's persecutions; it was cast among the flames which wrapped their fiery tongues about tho shriveling bodies of John Huss and Ridley and Latimer and Cranmer was cast among the burning heaped about the dying body Savonarola when the Italian priest, Elijah-like, was about to go to he; ven in a chariot of fire; it was cai centuries back among the Nerodie persecutions in the days of the apo tolic martyrdoms. Can we ever reach the day whe we shall feel that our religious HI erty is not a natural outgrowth ( the Christian heroes and heroin< who dared to defy "Bloody" Alvi the persecutor of the Netherlands or Lord Claverhouse, the persecutor of old Scotland, or demonaic Catherine, the fiendish female instigator of the St. Bartholomew massacre, or the bloody Queen Mary of the English throne? When that grand old man, Hugh Latimer, then over eighty, stood among the burning logs that were cremating him, he turned to Bishop Ridley, his fellow martyr near by, and said, "Be of good comfort. Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as, I trust, shall never be put out." Aye, they did; they did! They not only lighted a gospel torch for England, but a torch which would blaze in America centuries afterward. OUR ARTISTIC DEBTS. America is indebted to foreign lands in a commercial and an artistic sense as well as in a moral and spiritual sense. Some political speakers love to boast that com-merciallv we are independent of the world. They assert it would make very little difference to us whether or no foreign countries held any-trade relations with us at all. But this is not true. You are a wealthy-man. You invite me to your home some night to a banquet. I accept. As I sit waiting for the other guests debt in a m isc which she Greeks and to the i 'I suppose the best the debt we ow-e to er than they can n then go forward ami markets for our hi Ah, my brother, I a fritter away my these selfish propoi y to repay etter and cheap-foreign lands is lake them and capture their raie industries." prompted ~> tell you how, in the lan-id tho spirit of the apostle are to cancel the national foreign lands; I by i to-day guage I Paul, we ai debt we ow here to-day to tell you how best can pay the debt as individuals as well as a nation. We can repay our national debt first by conveying to foreign lands the sweet message of the Calvary cross. If the religion of Jesus Christ is the beneficent thing that we profess to believe it, are we justified in keeping the knowledge of it to ourselves? Are we not bound us debtors to the whole world to repay our obligations by making known far and wide? The medical profession sets us t example in the performance of th duty. No sooner does a physicie discover a means of alleviating ph; sical suffering than he places it i the disposal of his professional brethren the world over. When Edward Jenngr demonstrated the marvelous immunity of a human being who was vaccinated with cowpo: did he keep his discovery from the world ? Did he refuse to advocate it lest he night be persecuted such medical authorities as Dr. genhousz and Dr. Pearson ? no ! As an intelligent man he plored the awful destruction made by this terrible scourge of smallpox He knew that whole countries hat been almost depopulated by thi pest. Mexico was not conquered s< much by Cortes as it was made helpless by the invasion of this king of horrible plagues called smallpox. When the pilgrim fathers landed upon the Massachusetts shores, they found that the Indian tribe which the year before had been inhabiting ,hat part of tho country had beetj tirely obliterated, with the exeep-ception of one man, by the fatal ravages of smallpox. So, in the face of derision and persecution, nner proclaimed the gospel of ccination. Though he might, and a great extent did, destroy his ivate practice, he kept crying to lering humanity : "Here is a remedy for this dreadful and malig- other claims upon us as a Chris people that must not be ignored. If we have the spirit of Christ, be unmindful of their erial He who "had passion on the multitude because they had nothing to eat" would never have closed his ears to the cry of a famine stricken nation. If we would be like him, we, too, should feed the hungry and succor the homeless, the widow and the orphan. How better can we make known the grandeur and beauty of the Christian faith than by proving to other nations its beneficent influence ? As the hand of Christian America is stretched out across the seas, bearing bread for the starving, Chri iving again Hav accepted from us the bread perishes, they will listen as we tell them of the Bread that came down from heaven, of which if a man eat he shall live forever. Were the welcoming doors of heathen India ever more widely opened for the gospel message than when the shiploads of American breadstuffs were floated across the Atlantic, through the Mediterranean, down the Red sea and over the Indian ocean until they were safely landed in the harbor of the i vful India famines of 1897 and 1900 ? I hav. seen it estimated that hundreds thousands of starving and dying natives were physically through American generosity during those two years. But no o the recording angel of heav ever be able to keep track multitudes of immortal souls who will ultimately be brought t feet of Christ through the the prayers of those ! FOR ™.E HOME . BEAN PORRIDGE HOT. has had a boiled din When vegetables hav be left closely allay of that awful famine t T ,nt dis. Take ind liv his investigatioi he keep them V patent them an< 'Mr. this is a beautifully designed home. Where did your architect get the idea?" You answer: "The plans of this house are not his ideas. He merely worked them out in detail after I had described them. Some years ago, while I was in England, I came across a beautiful country home. I then said to myself that if I should ever have money enough I would build a house upon that plan. This home is the result of my resolve made at that time." Under my feet is a rug of exquisite workmanship. Where was it made? In the city of Damascus. It is an imported rug. When your wife comes in to great me, she is dressed in a beautiful costume. It came from the silkworms of France. That diamond glittering upon your finger was dug out of the African mines. . Simpson perfected > in chloroform, did himself ? Did he say, "You come to id die ?" No. He freely gave tho anaesthetic to the world. And to-day thousands upon thousands of men and women who have been compelled to lie upon an operating table have risen up to call him blessed. Is the German physician, Robert Koch, working in his laboratory for personal gain ? Oh, no. He is trying, purely on philanthropic grounds, to cure consumption, which causes at least one-fourth of the total annual mortality among the human race. If he ever perfects a germicide for the tuberculosis bacilli, he will at once tell all he knows. He is struggling and working and analyzing purely to save a dying race. PREACH THE GOSPEL. What a lesson do these illustrious benefactors of the human race teach us ! How they study and investigate and labor to alleviate suiTer-ing and increase the longevity of mankind ! And when any of them discovers a remedy for disease or a means of removing deformity how eagerly he makes the discovery all tho world may share in the benefit ! In our hands evelation of infini greater value. Their discoveries at the best prolong life only a years, while the gospel of Jesus Christ is the gospel of eternal and the remedy for the universal malady of sin. Yet there are among us men calling themselves Christi who make no effort to publish knowledge of that remedy. They say, "If the Chinese are not willing to receive our gospel missionaries, then let those missionaries stay at Let the Chinese hordes grovel and die ! Let the human streams of heathen life become choked with moral vermin ! It is their own lookout, not ours !" I tell you today that Christian America's fo-celed until Jesus Christ is preached reign obligations can never be can-all people. Where we have now missionary in the dark conti-ts wo should send a thousand ; where we'have one gospel messen-for a hundred thousand people we should have so great a number that every foreign town and Mage, as well as every city, should be persuaded to receive the open Bible and to study the word of God. Christian America will not be free from responsibility until the gospel of the Lord Jesus is preached unto all peoples. If those peoples receive it not, then they, not we, the horrors plague. THE CRY OF FINLAND. Though the religious and newspapers have been for weeks tilled with the accounts of Finland's suii'erings, the horrors and agonies which those simple people of north are going through will probably never be fully told. Starving Finland is stretching her arms across the Atlantic. Dare we, can we, refuse to heed the cry ? Dare we, shall we, stop our ears to this gospel call ? Remember that solemn question of the apostle, "He that hath this world's goods and seeth his brother have need and shutteth up his compassion from him. how dwelleth the love of God in him ?" As you love your children, think of those children that are starving ; as you love your wife, think of those wives and mothers and sisters who are now tottering upon the bnjnk of the grave because they have nothing to eat ! May, God lead you duty in reference to this the Then, to least, we may be able to cancel a part of the national debt which Christian America < ■modern "Greeks and "oariarrs." ' ' i-1; J LONDON'S SWELL THIEVES, 'ilfering at Court Balls and Quantit ach year at the drawing room ourts at Buckingham Palace, nly a very small proportion i overed. A very strange story is still told bout a diamond necklace which -as found at one of the state balls Dine years ago. It happened that ne of the late Queen's ladies-in-'aiting picked up a diamond necklace from the floor. As she stood th it in her hand a lady came quickly forward and claimed The finder was vervjirni, however, and declared it was pl^r duty tt it in to tho lord chamberlain ice, as this was the rule with regard :o anything found lady protested in vain, but the oddest thing was that this necklace ever was claimed, and. is probably 11 at the lord chamberlain's office. The fact that it was quite a. corn-sight to see ladies stuffing their been cooked should lovered in tho kettle, Look over and put to soak ght 1 quart beans, or two-thirds beans and one-third dried split peas. In the morning skim all the fat from the top of the boiled dinner kettle ami set it over the fire with the beans added, to cook for four hours. By this time the beans should be very soft. Water should added from time to time as it Is away, to keep the kettle about full all the time. rom this point on there are sev-.1 methods which may be pursued, each one giving different results. Tho beans and the liquid can be passed through a colander, pushing all the beans, except the hulis through the openings. Small bits of meat from the boiU-d dinner of the day before are added, and the smooth, thick mass seasoned with herbs and "hot stun," and served after thinning it a little with water. In the second method the liquid is not strained; the soft beans are left in it, and the left-over cabbage, potato, and turnip from the boiled dinner are chopped coarsely and added. Small bits of boiled meat are also added, and the savory mass which is a complete dinner in itself, is flavored with herbs and seasoned to suit the individual preference of each family. Still a third method, and one mluoh used in some farming communities, adds to the second method from 1 to 2 quarts of hulled put into the pot 20 minutes before serving. The liquid is then thickened with corn meal or flour. Milk is sometimes added in this last method, after the porridge is turned into a large tureen and is ready to in taking up sprinkle sugar on each slice. In all cases the better the ties consider the service a success, apple the bettor the dish resulting HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. A soapstone griddle should be heated slowly and be allowed to get very hot. Before using, rub thoroughly with dry salt, then wipe. Never greas--' it. The advantage of a soapstone griddle is that the cakes are baked on it, "instead of being fried in fat, as on the ordinary-Salt meats and white meats--veal and pork--should be very thoroughly cooked. In France there is a law regulating the cooking of pork, and such a thing as underdone spareribs pecially unheallhful unless well done. It is said that sheepskin rugs may be washed at home with little trouble when one knows how. The s .in side should not be wet at all, and. to prevent this the rug should be tacked around a barrel. Choose a sunny day, and with clean scrub: nv brush and plenty of hot suds in which a good washing powder has been dissolved, scrub the rug tl or-oughly. Afterward spray well with clear water, using a hoze with show-penetrating THE S. S. LESSON. Lesson I.--Paul i Philippi (Acts xvi, Text, Acts xvi. 31, Lord Jesus Christ, be saved." The pri this lesson are the apostles and the st jailer and his house ii the suffer->eing saved the ug dry l tho barrel i to bo full of But remember of all the epis- the i ; beartin after thi: A spoon should be used to test whether a custard is baked or cooked sufficiently. A properly boiled custard will coat the handle of the spoon, and one baked to perfect on will leave it quite clean. THE HOME DOCTOR. Brown sugar stops the bleeding of fresh wound. For indigestion try the beatrx . ..hite of an egg in a wineglassful oi i cold water directly after meals. A mixture of equal parts of sweet, oil and tincture of iodine is said, to relieve corns and bunions. Headache, toothache, backacf.* or almost any joint ache will be relie^-rd by heating the feet thoroughly with A fourth kind of bean porridge is ■ the shoes on- J „ made of 1 cup left-over bu ed beans. ; Mucilage has been found to be put over the fire with 1 quart small onion, and a little beef 18) i -yiony proclain only Saviour Lesson IN.-Thessalonians (I Thess, Golden Text, I Thess. v, 21, 'Hold fast that which is good." The -Paul's ■nth the f there is any at hand, w spoonfuls of gravy left iron it, a drop of tabasco, a bay leaf love, a little kitchen bouquet or other perferred flavoring or season-be added, and when the water has boiled away nearly one-half, the beans out of the liquid and add 1 cup canned tomato. he bail- how to m J of that, a ftdividruals A FEW SOUP SECRETS. Not everyone that cooks knows make soup. I'm convinced after partaking of some of " ^attempts well mealing in- okery, says a writer. To be sure there are a few little tricks about soup making. The first realizing what will combine well; uut most any kind of vegetables, sl I flesh and grains will unite accepta-°^ bly if rational proportions are used, i and cakes handkerchiefs -s fur handkerchiefs wi from the supper balls may be regarded as an amiable foible of doting pare ' cording to some, lace and jewels are wafted and, lovely opera cloaks have been It used to be a saying in India at the big. viceregal balls that tho first departure was sure of the best Ram-pore chuddah. These beautiful white-shawls are always more or less the same size, but the difference in price is enormous, as the finest kind, voluminous as they seem, can easily be passed through a ring, and are consequently very costly, while the coarser ones are proportionately NO DIFFGRENCE. Young criminal lawyer--"I have arranged to have the prisoner's wife and babies sit in front of the jury and weep all through the trial. Do you think it advisable to pick bachelors or married men for the jury ?" Old criminal lawyer--"Oh, it don't make a particle of difference ; if bachelors they will sympathize with the woman and babies, and if married men they will sympathize with the prisoner." ->- Indigo was first used as a dye in FJurope in 1570. Cochineal came into use about the same time. New York holds the record among the world's great cities for mysterious disappearances. Last year 580 people were absolutely missing. Parent --- "So you say that my daughter doesn't make much progress with her music, eh?" Professor -- "She does not, sir; she defies all my instructions about time and fingering, and runs the scales to suit herself." Parent -- "Indeed! Now I suppose people would be rude enough to say she is just like her father in that particular; I'm in the coal business, you know." ion giv^ i to the fact tha flavc than othei Next is the cooking -- always so slowly for meat soups, so as to cook out all of the nourishment and keep it dissolved. Why, when soup is boiled it's about like churning; it tosses the liquid around so that the little particles begin to adhere to one another and glow into granulated bits, leaving the water between them -- something like curds and Of course for meat soup cold water must be used. That helps the dissolving process. Hot water seals up the little cells on the outside of the meat and holds in the juices. Then there's the seasoning, where real art may be developed to a high degree; for there are any number of nondescript savory results obtainable. It's a good plan to keep an ever-increasing stock of Seasoning material on hand. But it reqruii real study and observation excellent remedy for burns. Apply it to the bum and lay any sol*, blank paper. The mucilage soothes the pain, while the paper excludes the air. For a stiff neck, pains in the chest, etc., warm some sweet oil and rub on thoroughly with the hands, then cover with sheet wadding, the shiny-side out. Wear it until you feel comfortable. A treatment highly recommended by a scientific magazine for poisoning from ivy is to wet a slice of bread with water, dust it. with c< n-mon washing soda ar*d apply to eruption, keeping the bread wet from the Half THE BIGGEST TUNNEL. ed are all for Christ, and the new will ever pray and rejoice and give thanks, controlled by the Spirit, but if the Spirit is quenched and His word rejected there must be proportionate failure. Lesson V.--Paul at Athens (Acts xvii 22-34). Golden Text, Acts xvii, 18. "lie pi-ei.ebed into them Jesus and the resurrection." Meii are prone to worship, to bow down to anything and ay one but the living God, and this has been the case since the serpent turned Adam and Eve away from God to believe his lie. Lesson VI.--The church at Corinth founded (Acts xviii, 1-11). Golden Text, I Cor. ii foundation can no re that is laid, which is t Some believing and some opposing is the record, everywhere, but all whom the Father hath given to Christ shall come to Him, and His elect church shall be gathered and presented to Himself a glorious .1, "Other lay than s Christ." I VII.--Christian self control .viii, 4-13). Golden Text, 7 for Goi The Simplon Will Be Fourteen ' Miles Long. The Simplon tunnel, when pleted, will be the largest in world. It will bo fourteen long, or twice the length of miles longer I De The cost of and 1..... ! also living before rx-ople being able to read the heart, Gothard. The cost of alone will be $13,500, Lverage of nearly $1,000,000 Rom. xiv, 19, follow after the thi: for peace." In the seeking to live who: manifest the life of Christ ii mortal bodies, we are living r ly before God, who reads our misjudges us, but v 000, i The work is progressing rapidly in the tunnel on both s des of the Alps; about 4,000 workmen are employed in the construction, and no fewer than 6,000 on tho Italian section of the railway. It is not practically hat the road will be completed within the estimated time -- that is to say, by July 1, 1905 -- as nearly two-thirds of the tunnel was finished July 1, 1902, and the worst obstacles have already been id mastered. The greatest of the the ( become skillful in their ever hearing of an unfamiliar powder or liquid just get some. After a while it will be a delightful surprise to note the pungent variety which has accumulated; anxi then besides, they can be used for gravies, croquettes and all sorts of things. Like most any other foods, there's diversity of opinion upon soup iting -- but then, there are many soups. To my mind one (the appetizing, nutritious kind) makes 8 good meal without anything else. creasing heat in the tunnel, caused by the growing volume of water which, although it starts at the summit of the mountain, 6,000 feet above the line of the railway after j percolating through beds of lime- > 140 DOMESTIC KECIP1 irman Coffee Calces.--T of bread dough after it ha the second time. Into it work a cup of butter that has been rubbed . cream with a half cup of sugar; then two well beaten eggs, a half teaspoonful each of cinnamon and grated nutmeg, and a scant tea-spoonful of soda dissolved in two tabiespoonfuls of milk. Knead for " iw moments till the ingredients well blended, then make into two long loe.ves and set in a warm place ise. Cover the top of each with sugar and bake In a steady ovsn. Spinach on Toast.--Boil half a peck of spinach in salted water til) tender, drain and chop fine. In a lepan put a tablespoonful of but-to which, after it has melted an even tablespoonful of flour. Rub smooth, then stir in a cup of lk and let it boil and thicken before mixing with the spinach. Serve very hot on^squares of toast. Fried Apples.--Fried apples are a good breakfast dish. Tho Arkansas way is to pare, core and cut the apple into eighths, then fry in hot lard and serve with boiled breakfast bacon, laid on the edges of the dish. Another way is to slice the fruit about a third of an inch thick, through core and skin, sprinkle with sugar, fry in a little hot butter and When-i stone, becomes almost boiling ' and flows into the tunnel at a perature of from 112 degrees tt degrees Fahrenheit, rendering only work but life impossible without artificial means of refrigeration. The engineer, by turning cold air on hot air and cold water on hot water, has reduced the temperature of the tunnel from 140 degrees to 70 degrees Fahrenheit. The volume of water flowing out of the stout end of the tunnel is over 15,000 gallons per minute, and furnishes motive power sufficient not only to work the refrigerating apparatus, but to compress the air by which the drills are operated. A SUNKEN FLEET. The treasures that lie at the bottom of the sea are now more easily obtainable by the invention of an instrument known as the hydros-cope. This contrivance is shortly to be put into operation in order to find the lost fleet of Xerxes, which has reclined on the sea's bed undisturbed for about 2,300 years. Search is also to be made for the ship chartered by Pompey to carry Roman art treasures to Athens and wrecked in the Archipelago 1,950 years ago. THIRSTY TREES. It has been computed that if the leaves of an elm tree sixty feet hif^i were spread out on the grovnd, edge to edge, they would cover five acres of land. These leaves, averaging 7,000,000 to a full-grown tree, will transpire water to the amcunt of seven tons during the normal day. Were it not for the ing by the stomata during eUns would soon As i i the jvery - fro tarket y very apt to misjudt s and stumble Lesson VIII.--Christian love (I Cor. xiii, 3-13). Golden Text, I Cor. xiii, 13, "Now abideth faith, hope, love, * * * but the greatest of these is love." It is still the contrast between what I myself may do and that which Christ will do in me. However much I may do that seems good, it will count for noth-' I that do it, but God, who i Chrisl believ love ind has , desir riifest i the id that v Lesson IX.--Paul aud Apollos (Acts xviii, 24, to xix, 6). Golden Text, Luke, xi, 13, "If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father , give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?" A man mighty in the Scriptures may be instructed more perfeztly by very humble people, and how-ever much people may believe there is a very great lack until they are filled with the Spirit. Lesson X.-- Paul at Ephcsus (Acts xix, 13-20). Golden Text, Acts xix, 17, "The name of the Lord Jesus was magnified." The name of tho Lord Jesus, that worthy name (Jas. ii, 7), that glorious and fearful name, the Lord thy God (Deut. xxviii, 58), is not to be trifled with or mocked or despised, for the Lord can use the devil himself to chasten such, and He will overrule even the mockery and blasphemy of the wicked to promote His glory. Lesson XL--The riot at Ephesus (Acts xix, 20-40). Golden Text, Ps. xxxi, 23, "Tho Lord preserveth the faithful." When the preaching of the gospel takes away money from the pockets of the ungodly, will \ 5 i thei 2 of u r gos- :old shot it this same thing i seen among those who name of Christ, and the der has been turned upon ary lest he might want an offering from the people. We seem to know nothing of the love of Christ, who gave Himself. Lesson XII.--Paul's message to the Ephesians (Eph. ii, 1-10). Golden Text, Eph. ii, 8, "By grace are ye ed through faith." That is the i thing we fail to understand --■ the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who became poor for us (II Cor. iii, 9), and therefore, while glad to e saved by Him, so few are willing 0 be used by Him, to let Him have 11 that He has bought with His recious blood, to let Him work out 1 us and through us the good works Ie has prepared for us. Lay to