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pr SEEK THE OLD PATHWAYS Rev. Frank De Witt TaImage Speaks of the Right Ones to Follow Thousand Nine Depa ment oi' Agriculture, Ottawi A despatch from Chicago says:-- Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preached from the following text: Jeremiah vi., 16, "Ask for the old paths." Most simple is the text's figure. Its simplicity gives it a homely beauty. It has in it the aroma of the woods. It is one of those simple similes of country life that bring back to the weary city dweller, whose feet have been long accustomed to the hard paving stones of tho city sidewalks, the memory of the footpaths over turf covered hills and the narrow lanes between the banks bejewelled with sweet wild flowers that he used to walk in his childhood The old path; forget thei we thin It v of them this i do us good if ■ning and the •emiah, among the greatest of prophets, lamenting that his n had deserted their God the impending punlsh- ttisobeyi* employs this simple figure to portray their condition. lie describes them as travelers lost upon the mountains of sin, hunting for a path which will lead them out of their moral difficulties. He represents God as telling them to "ask for the old paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your soul3. But they said, "We will not walk therein." Jeremiah points the right path leading to the throne of God by using the homely simile of the ordinary country paths or rough roadways in common use at the time, over which the eastern caravans have traveled and the cows have come home ing and over father left you tho grandest legacy a boy ever received. He left to you an untarnished name, the example of a father's life well and honestly lived. "BLAZTNG" MARKS. Then, again, I further study tho "blazing" marks along the paths which led up to tho home of our childhood. I find out that these paths were Christian paths and always led toward tho throne of God. How do I know?- Well, my friend, in going along the pathway which wav "blazed" by your mother's bread knife and knitting needle, I come upon altars everywhere. I find that there was hardly a step that she took in life but she had a place where she could stop and kneel irayer. And at every altar I indentations in tbe rocks where laid her burdens at the Saviour's feet. And, oh, my friend, what a lot of irdens she had to lay upon her aviour's breast in her journey of fe! There was that awful burden of physical sickness. I do not 'know 3W you may remember your mother, Lit most of us think of mother hen she was physically sick. She emed to be so long dying. Now was the pain in the" head; now it as the disordered nerves. Then it that long, long ired passed dail. vith they hav cal refreshment and for blessed sleep. THE PATHWAY TO THE CROSS. Like Jeremiah, I would to-day carry your thoughts back to the re-iniriisccnces of the country and from ire i of the vil- hedgerows pluck blossoms which remind you of old time associa-3 and resolves'. The greatest of iculturists is not the gardener fashions his beds in the "many is" of a Joseph's coat or a dmother's crazy quilt. It is he : floral desigi One bee! i who though it were a bit of Alphine lake thmg among the crowded -egiments of flowers. It is planted entirely With violets. It looks as simple and yet as beautiful as the June heavens colored in blue. Another bed looks like a great collection of leaping flames. It is planted only in roses. It is very simple. It is as ■es of old the heavy branches which e it arc laden with silver bells. It the path which once led up to your marriage alter. It is the path over which the fallen rice is strewn and where the merry laughter of the •idesmaids is trying to drown the yful salutations of the wedding chimes. The blossoms which line this pathway aro orange blossoms. The silver, bells are those which once played Mendelssohn's "Wedding March." Where did that path which ended at the marriage altar first lead you ? "Oh," you answer, "it led me first among the briers and over the stony grounds. My courtship days were not all sunshine. For a long time I did not know whether I could win the hand of my heart love. In the first place, I was not socially her equal. Then I was penniless and had nothing to offer my two hands and a willing heart. Then, my life was not what it ought to have been. But she had faith in me. I promised her to reform. I went to church with her. I gave up drinking, and I promised her I would surrender my heart to Christ. And, do you know, the night she gave herself to me she made '11 kneel with her and we both made !prayer that God would hoar and ihe'p me keep my vows." Ah, yes, my brother, I know just how you think of that old path which led up to your marriage altar 1 When you ing hand of that I FOR™? HOME, ja Recipes for the Kitchen, ff . hygiene and Other Notes S @ for tho Housekeeper. J? • «! TREATING BAD FLOORS. nuts many took tbe young girl i promised God, ther her sake as well t live a good, One problem that a woman is what to m, .v^,. floors. The house may be well built but dating before hand wood . floors were so popular or so general, j Straw matting wears out quickly ' and the floors are made of irregular j boards with great cracks yawning ■ i here and there. It seems useless to j think of making such a floor suitable j for rugs but it may be done. In the | beginning it is well to meke up one's mind to be thorough, else it is bettor to give up tho job at the outset. ■ Being willing to take time first I plane down the boards that stick up j above the others, then fill the crack. If there are hut few they may be | filled with putty but if great opfv :ings show between the separate | boards or along next to the wall it ; is good plan to make some news-! paper paste. ^ Tear up old papers boil aud stir until it becomes a felt! Pasty mass, then add some coarse You glue dissolved or take small quairti-for; ties at a time and add homo plaster toI of Paris. Work rapidly using a knife Should all the stain not come off, wet a cloth and dip In borax and scour the spots. An exchange says the secret of making good baking-powider bislcuit is to have the oven hot and the dough very cold. A ltunp of ice dropped into tho milk just in time to dissolve before it is wanted is a good way of cooling it. For a good home-made stove polish sfhioive fine one-half bar- of good soap, add ono and a half pints of rain water, put over the lire and heat until melted. Then add 10 cents' worth of plumbago. Stir until this is dissolved, and just before taking from the Are add one tablespoon! el of terpentine. The mixture should resemble Soft soap, and when coW will bo a paste polish. Dip flannel cloth in water and nub on when Stove is cold; polLs-h with old papers. If one has a. superfluity of plums they may be cut open, sprinkled with sugar, set in a cool oven till the Sugar melts, then r- ted in tbe sun. A bright housekeeper has discovered a new system of labeling jelly and preserve glasses. She THE S. SJ.ESS0N. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT. 18. Text ol the Lesson, Ps. Ii., 1-17* Golden Text, Ps. a., 10. This also is written by the Holy Spirit, as Pavid said in some of his last words as the sweet psalmist of Israel, "Tho Spirit of the Lord I spake bv me, and His word was in " (II. Sam. i Ad , 25. If i about eight for ,-ell blessed by Him we must not only believe that all Scripture was written by the Holy Spirit, but that it was all written for our profit (II. Tim. iii., 16 17- Horn. xv„ 4). The occasion of'th-s'psalm is given to us in what we might call in our Bibles tho preface to the psalm; but which in the Hebrew psalter is part of the psalm .ic. if and numbered as verses 1 and e psalm consist of lavid whom God ap-ind a prophet, prov- i life Ha.ee had £ "How is mo-the younger children well." very well, my dec I think c the saddest and yet the most beautiful prayers mv mother used to make, in tho last year and a half of her earthly existence, was this, "Oh, God, may my children never have to physically suffer as I have suffered." Yet, for the most part. our mothers lost their physical health by living and loing^ f^rl^rrafiei) tjoABWAY. I go a little farther along this Christian path of your deat' mother. 1 find also the place where she laid feet the burdi ciej.ii for the salvi f hor • by pi< It i tuple i ; the Jaundiced look of a Malay's skin. It is only planted in golden glows. Another will be an azalea bed, » dahlia, another planted in lilies, another in geraniums, lortieulturistic genius thrives best Ln the simplicity of colors. From this sermonic bed I would pluck The ler : Jere dah the prophet I would try to lead »ver some of the old paths which four feet have trodden in the past, mid in leading I would lead you to the foot of the cross. CLEAR AWAY THE RUBBISH. But, come, let us take our axes to-day and clear away somo of that rubbish. Let us explore the old path which once led up to the old Homestead. When the first settlers littered the Michigan woods they used to "blaze" the trees. That means that with their axes they tvould chop a notch out of this tree arid that and the other tree as they wont along. Thus, if they could find the right place to settle in one direction, they would retrace their steps by these notches and start out in the woods from another direction. Well, these old paths which once led up to the homes of our childhood may not have been used for a charter of a century, but the>y can be easily followed. Our parents "blazed" them all tho way along. As I follow these "blazings" I find they were morally straight paths. They were as straight as a die. Your father may not have had much money. In all probability you, as a farmer's boy, remember him for the most part clothed in overalls and a woolen shirt. But under that rough exterior there beat a heart as true as honesty itself. Looking back over tne long years, you remember him traveling that "straight path." father ever did which was dishonorable. People sometimes said "he was close" in reference to money. He had to be close in order to furnish bread enough for his babies' mouths. You cannot remember your father once losing his temper and uttering maledictions unless perhaps it was on the day when he found that by law, had i her Ah, clothes a pocket, but he was ter. Tho path he t. from the old homesti a "straight path, "last will and test at signed madi i left ibbed a poor v that old fa have worn ly have been ! Of -. Bibie and a gold headed ond p**liap/i a snufinox, that or their mother, ii turing her sitting and s their advent. It is a beautiful sight to see the young wife, by the evening lamp with her needle in her hand, making the little white garments for the stranger soon to como. Our mothers thought and planned for the cradle and the little wardrobe weeks before we were born. They did it so that when they should lie down upon a bed of suffering all might be well for the little one's welcome. That is a beautiful more beautiful sight to see a young wife upon her knees in prayer. To think of her praying to God that her unborn child might grow up to be a good man, a good woman. And you, my friend, sitting before me* from that moment when your mother first prayed for you until her death she never left that altar before which she was continually beseeching God for the salvation of your soul. Along that Christian pathway she first led vour tottering feet. In that Christian pathway she first taught you to utter the baby prayer, "Now I lay me down to sleep." In that, Christian path she gave you her dying benediction. Will you not seek the old path, the Christian path of your glorified and sainted mother ? It is a Dath covered with wild flowers and'fragrant with perfume. Those flowers and that pathway have been watered with your mother's tears. WALKING WITH CHRIST. If the path which you first traveled to Sunday school was along the sidewalk of a city, then in all probability you walked. You walked by the side of your father or mother, because you were the youngest. Then your new shoes would squeak at every stop. Those shoes kept for a long while, because you were only allowed to wear them on Sunday. But as you rode or walked to that Sunday school and to your first church services a great change came over your family party. One of your sisters or brothers left your side went to the church altar. One by one thoy there gave their hearts to Christ and publicly confessed him at the communion table. After awhile your turn came. You can see yourself now as you came before tho church session. You remember how the old minister wiped his glasses. He put his hand upon your shoulder and said : "My boy, why do you want to join the church ? Bo you love Jesus ? Will you promise to live for him and give your life to his service ?" Then you remember the great big lump that stuck in your throat. You remember how between your sobs you said : "The reason I want to be a Christian is because my father and mother and brothers and sisters are all Christians. I want their Saviour to be mine. As we have a united family here I want an unbroken family circle in heaven." Aged, gray haired man, that was a beautiful path over which you went to church for tho first time. That was a holy drive you took on the morning you went to take your first communion, j You did not speak much that morning, but your thoughts were very deep and very high. They were as j deep as your sins, as high as and as I great as the forgiveness of God. Oh, | why have you not always kept walking in that path ? Christ walked I with you there twenty years ago. | Jesus as guide is ready to lead you back to that path and walk with ! -ou there now. Will you seek the ,ld path--the path over which you rent for the first time to the com- [ nunion table of the Lord ? HIGHWAY OF BLOSSOMS. There is still another path which /ou once trod. This path is fragrant with Wossoms. Like the fabled willing to go to church with engaged to her? Are you helping her to set the right example before your children--your children and hers ? Remember, man, you made a promise to her and to God on the night of your wedding. Will you scok tho old path of consecrated love, which wouifd through the days of your courtship and ended on the night vou took vour heart love as a bride from her' father's home ? THE WAY TO HAPPINESS. But how are you going 1 handy. Plaster makes a good filler. is formed use it quickly before it harden there a e stains on the floor paper or oven a. piece of glees ONE'S VOCABULARY, v- Many Words Do You Use i He did not in God, for God knew hi before Ho called him; as the only human J i thoroughly nit inasmuch aterial God 3 sinful, He nd magnifies "He - guistic ne '! perfectly as you an 'perfectly do "you < 1, mother tongue ? | In point of vocal ' | nrated that Shake Some of a the stained i res Steel shav- at large paint stores, shall she color the floor"; the stains bought . the t sinfulness and His nmazir ! and love. The Holy Spir s forth all that is in man wit! i-espoct of persons. Nothing ■ed or made light of; but ma ; fully exposed, is shown ho ay be cleansed from all his s ,j,0s i • iel'y eller to be The Some of you have been these paths for many j are lost, completely lost er rind your wa; 1 the t end until the light, c i blac somber face \ hid herself in total darknes groped our way along, shudde the fiendish yell of a .screech c the glittering eyes that mig those of a prowling panther. I! commended. Shake the can lc ?jand well before opening, then stir 11 until there is no sediment in the ■ i bottom of the can else you will have -j clear oil for part a»*l a coloring -'mutter like thick mud for the rest ■ ' cf tho floor. You cantnot hurry this t of the work. Apply the stain I in a thin coating'and rub with a ■I piece of flannel; you will think that ' i "you are rubbing off all the color hut ■■ j keep at it for the more you rub the ■ I stain into the wood the more last-1 j ing and satisfactory the job will be. 1 I The oil-stained, in fact any stain- ■ ed floor, should not be washed up 1 i with soap suds but should be freed i j from duet and wiped with a damp ■j cloth. The common floor stains 1 should bo apl>lied in thin coats and ; 1 then if used for a border only they j wi 1 be improved by l|000 words. C ! have used as ' j polis Journal mates of the v ecfeucated and i all the way frc or 400 words, figures^from^ar be able define ( ■arly t .0,000 i ve mental ability, tes'ot this kinc take We struggled k at t.hfljh-.Sa the i 'ere safe becai guide, directed us on. To-lost and wearied sinners, C ready to be your guide, lead you out of the sin. He will lead you to the ' paths which are all converging i: the one Christian path that lei to the foot of the heavenly thro Will you let him lead you ? Will j let him pardon vou ? Will you Jesus save you ? If GRAINS OF GOLD, i would create something you something. To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.--Jeremy Taylor. Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.--La-Prosperity's right hand is industry, Pleasure is the flower that fades; remembrance is the lasting perfume. --Bouflers. The higher the character of rank, the less the pretence, because there is IeToto.--Bulw. mind the best per- truth is on the ' Bishop Latimer. ART OF BREATHING. Breathing is an art. People ii sedentary occupations might considerably counterbalance the evils duo to want of exercise by increasing the rate of breathing during one or two hours a day, thus adding to the oxygen entering the lungs. Crabbe : "To-day for the first time I was really delighted to hear Miss Nexdore's piano going." Asoum : "Something worth listening to, eh?" Crabbe : "Rather. I heard the hire-system man ta,king it away." "Poor Wakeley leads a dog's life." "Indeed ?" "Yes; his wife spends all her time waiting on him arid calling him pet names." Wife : "You know, dear, you told me to invest that money so that I'd have something for a rainy day?" Husband : "Yes." Wife : "Well, hero's the investment. Did you ever see a lovelier rainy day skirt in your "Oh, xclaimed little El-seeing a calf for the first 'that must be one of the lit-s that give condensed milk!" 3 he interest himself in '" "No," sniffed Mrs. New-my husband has clerks to do ■mish. The tJ.ii po THE SAVORY APPLE. Apple Patties.--Line round patty pens' with paste and in each place. half of a pared a/nd cored apple with \ the hollow Fide dowi spoon i vague way three . 3 and 4, and his cry for cleansing and restoration in the gr.-.a.'.ei part of the rest of the psalm. The majority of people do not seem* to dunk that they need forgiveness*. sonso of guilt before God, no conscious need of a Saviour. A deep conviction of sin is a great blessing, for only thus can we appreciate our Saviour and His great salvation. in verse 7 David doubtless has reference to the ceremonial cleansing of the leper (Lev. xiv., 4-9), tho hyssop being used to_ sprinkle the blood. "Whiter than" nd a of nut rind e . .... e un1 il the ajyjile Is Apple Pandowdy.--Line tbe bot-j r dirfl a hour and i ,f bread that hove buttered, fill tho dish slices of apple and thei little nutmeg over tbe any other seasoning preb: pending on the quality c add a little hot water, with another layer ot bre plate over the dish and bak< pandowdy slowly for ha'f. Servo hot with ore; Apple Cake in a Loaf.-- cups of flour, three level of baking powder and a pinch of salt together. Add two tablespoons of nel! eel butter arid one beaten egg. with a cun of milk, adding the last of it carefully, as the dough must be as soft as can be, and roll out. Lay the sheet of dough in the butter'..; pan arid cover the top with mildly acid apples pared and cut in eighths. Stick the sharp edges of the apple into the dough, then sprinkle over the top a level tablespoon of cinnamon and two rounding tablespoons of sugar that haie been mixed togeth ■ I eith ler m.s »i pudding. Hot Apple Oak«.--Sift two cups of pastry flour with four l«vel teaspoons of basing powder and rub in one-quarter cup of butter. Mix with one and one-half cups of milk. Butter a pudding dish and cover with the batter, then cover this with sliced apples; make another layer of hatter arid apples one] a top layer of hatter. Bake until the apples are cooked, which will take about an hour. Servo with n sauce made from two cups of boi'ing water, „ne cup of sugar, two slightly rownBing tablespoons of butter. When cooked smooth and clear, which should tn.ke five minutes, add a tenraioon of HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. It is easy enough to make own lemon e dicap and pu larger than vocabulary. But does a derstand the fine, such as stick, tery of the mother to friend's fac better refer dards of " linguistic s. ■ (Jo ■ 10). ;h David asked for • ight be blotted out, verses 1 and 19, we are assured of in Isa. xliii., 25; xliv., 22; I. John 1-0. What a wonderful redemption it is that blots out all sin arid makes the sinner to appear before God as if he had never sinned, and tho helpless sinner's only part is to receive what God has (provided. As one has said in 'John iii., 16, God does all the Sieving arid all the giving, and man does the receiving. When a child ol ! God commits sin he does not cease | to be a child of God any more than i v. hen a child in a family, being dis- t fa ily, but the broken, and David does not pr ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Notes of Interest From the World i Over. Spain is to spend about $25,000,-| i 1881. Public exhibitions by hypnotists', have now been made illegal in Prus- . sia, through the renewal of a de- ] cree published in 1881. f employs ; j That God has rebellie irely do for clean hear nd fellow- ily God , 24-28, k the \ ami n . 15,000 Germany manufactures at about $200,000,000 worth of goods yearly, giving employir its cotton industries of all ki o\er 1,000,000 workmen. In a recent after-dinner speech the Chancellor of German Knrpiie said that next year 750 years will have elapsed since the first mention of the Von Bulow family. No other family, he. said, had contributed more officers, but they were also proud of the men of into lect among their he fam-1780 : "Being I tli effish enjoymci lg that somel lontrast Pavi :he joy ' "\ '■ .nsgressors n mig loft to Elm (13-15}. H There are many whe as did the hypocrites 11 God's favor can be wo 'or so called sacrifice; standing that God hai onlv and all cmlitit nt ets found his pr "for ?" said he to ; by. "Ob, that's stopped "What's 3rate the yellow i.art' of the'rind of the lemons, put it into a wide-mouthed bottle, and caver with good alcohol. Let stand thk-ee weeks, then draw the alcohol off. and pour it over freshly grated peel. Let stand three weeks and it. will be ready for use For those unpleasant afflictions known as styes use witch hazel (hamamelis) as soon as symptoms aiwar. If too strong for the eves weaken with a little water. Weak eyes are strengthened by the nppli": born of promptly make any o Nor does money sufl great deeds are done, courtesy ennoble man Tho temperance mov ly made great headwe land. Mahuta, the 1 of the Maori kings, w nouncod his sovereign | ed a seat in the upp< ! publicly taken the pie In the d - does ililenia n. io i if will be found c rit eli : the Cale-ucrcial capital of the colony, i ares cf public houses have'; o exist as such through the | n of the local option poll I ompanied the recent general j body and thus provided rod " for every sinner, for all Isr ; for all nati...^ (18, 10). Oi fices are only the love of Chi straining us to show our g to Dim who has redeemed uf 1 our souls cry, "O Lord, irili 'Th. ith (15